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FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1918
LOOKING PAST THE HARD LUCK
It Is great to be an optimist.
Ever tried it?
Hard at first to train yourself that
way, but it pays in the end.
Be bigger than the trifles of every
day annoyance.
You have hard luck; you can’t help
it; forget it.
Don’t forget the lesson involved,
but forget to mourn over it.
Look ahead and see brightness in
the future.
Banish regret and useless remorse.
It is misfortunes or mistakes which
have started most men on the road
to real achievement.
In future you may look back to your
lost profits, lost position, lost friends,
as stepping stones to ultimate success.
. A land of opportunity lies before
you
Have faith in your ability to grasp
some of it.
You cannot be a down-and.outer if
you have confidence in yourself.
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STICKING TO THE LITTLE HOME
TOWN
Yc -rg man, if you have good pros
pects in the little town, STICK.
: If you can look ahead and see your
self on the way to old-age comfort
and affluence, you are foolish to con
sider going to a city which your day
dreams picture to you as the seat of
great success.
Opportunities abound, possibly, but
how about the expenses?
Will you be able to save more?—
that is the great question.
You think you might go to the city
add try it; and*if you fail, return to
the home town and pick up your work
again, with more experience.
True, you might: but few men do
return until they are too old to be
ver£ aggressively useful in any place.
Thousands are struggling on, year
in and year out, trying to make good
in the city, in all cities, but they be
come worn out, worked out machines,
practically worthless in modern-day
activities.
If your prospects are good, stay
where you are and build them up. The
outlook for Cordova never looked
brighter.
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“Food will win the war,” but will it
win for us or Germany?—that is the
question for the American people.
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A very comendable effort is being
made * by the city council to make
Cordova an attractive and sanitary
place to live.
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L^t the Fourth of July program be
arranged along the plans outlined so
that a day of real pleasure will be
provided for the little folks.
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We are nearing the first of July
and Old Man Hindenburg and his war
machine are not near enough to Pari3
to telephone in for quick tire service.
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After sizing up a number of west
ern cities, the editor of this paper,
who returned some few days ago, ar
rived at the conclusion that, to an
alarming extent, the wealth of the na
tion is being rapidly invested in auto
mobiles and their accessories; that
many of the residents of the oustide
who can not afford underclothes are
owners of cars and that many fam
ilies are living mostly on the nour
isbment incident to fresh air and lots
of it.—Douglas News.
OIL LEASING BILL HELD UP
The Anchorage Times has received
advices from the national capital to
the effect that the proposed oil land
leasing bill, which has been passed
i by the senate and has been favorably
| reported by the house committee on
public lands, is being held up at the
instance of Secretary of the Navy
Daniels, and there is slight hope for
the passage of the bill at this session
of congress. The navy secretary, it
appears, objects to that portion of the
bill that applies to certain government
oil lands in the state of CalifQrnia,
which have been reserved for the use
of the navy.
These government oil lands in the
state of California have long been
the stumbling block in the way of the
passage of a bill permitting the open
ing and development of the oil lands
of Alaska. Since the year 1906, this
territory’s oil lands have been with
drawn from the public domain and
remained undeveloped, and the fact is
due, primarily, to the situation in Cal
ifornia. Bill after bill has been in
troduced in congress covering the
period from 1906 until the present
time, and all of them have met the
fate that awaits the present measure.
It seems absurd that a controversy
about the oil lands in California should
be employed to tie up all the unlocated
oil lands in the United States and its
possessions. We, in Alaska, for the
most part, have to import the fuel
necessary for our use, when we have
plenty of the product right at home,!
if we ■were allowed to develop oil
wells.
It is just another instance of the
total indifference to Alaska, so far as
most members of congress are con
cerned. One would suppose that in
times like these, when there is such
an enormous demand for fuel oil, that
the oil-bearing lands would quickly be
thrown open to development, under
some form of regulation that might
be imposed. But it is perhaps too
much to expect such relief. Our gov
ernment will save fuel oil by limiting
its use, thus inconveniencing many
people, rather than adopt a sane
course with respect to oil develop
ment.
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Hoover has summed up the situa
tion in these words: “The time has
come for sacrifice.” Can we refuse
to see the truth much longer?
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Those stories you hear on the street
' —are they given on good authority?
At least a dozen dangerous pro-G'er
man propaganda stories have sprang
up against the food administration in
a few months.
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Come now, let us get down to busi
ness. You say you are not a slacker?
Well, at last we have arrived at the'
spot where we can tell whether you
are or not. Let us see: How many
Liberty Bonds have ^ou bought? How
many War Savings Stamps have you .
bought? Are you Hooverizing? Are
you encouraging others to become real
patriots? You can class yourself by
conscientiously answering these ques
tions which tell whether you are a
real American; or an indifferent Amer
ican or a slacker.
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WASHINGTON, June 20.—Ar a cli
max to the atrocities in Belgium, the
German military despots now have
gone so far as to interfere with the
religious liberties of the civilian popu
lation of the occupied territories.
A letter written to Pope Benedict
by the bishop of Tournai, made pub
lic here by the Belgian'legation, tells
how Bavarian soldiers summarily
halted religious services throughout
one-third of the bishop’s diocese on
November 14 of last year.
"I am fulfilling a painful duty,"
wrote the bishop, “in informing your
holiness of the profanations commit
ted in my churches on November 14
last by the Bavarian army. Through
out the depot zone, that is to say,
throughout one-third of my diocese,
the soldiers came to the churches and !
convents at 8 o’clock in the morning.!
They stopped the services, emptied j
the churches, and in some of them
obliged the priest at the altar to in
terrupt holy mass.”
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ITILV FULL) HI ;
TO MEET n HUS
HEADQUARTERS ITALIAN ARNffY,
June 21.—General Crozier of the
American ordnance department and a
member of the advisory war board has' m
spent a week of observation along
the Italian front and at the various
large centers whore artillery and mu
nitions are produced.
Besides seeing General Diaz and the
Duke of Aosta he visited a number
of the corps and division1 commanders
along the mountain and Plave fronts,
going into the trenches among the
men, discussing the many questions of
equipment and supplies and specially
observing the resources iii guns. {His
impressions on the general condition
of affairs were entirely favorable]
The production of artillery in Italy
has been greatly intensified wittiin
recent months and the present equip
ment of light, field and heavy sms
is probably as good or better than
it was before the reverse of lhst fall.
The great Industrial plants of Genoa
and Sfdan have doubled and quad
rupled their output in guns, trench
nortars, rifles, machine guns, the pro
duction of mortars increasing seven
'old during the year.
Similar extensive development has
Seen going on ins the production of
nines antf armor dor naval cons true- _
:ion and in the output of airplanes,
linety establishments being now
-quipped to turn out complete air_ 1
planes.
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Quality talks. Smoke an El Rd Tan
Cigar and be convit»ye«», they are
nild. I*
Avena Sativa Can Be Employed to
Reduce Expenses of Household
By O. L. HALL. Chicago
A little camouflage* is required to make oats an al$-day food, and this
camouflage is being prepared. Wearing a thin disguise, bat scorning the
refuge of anonymity, an alias, or the use of its handsome scientific name
of Avena Sativa, the humble oat is in- a fair way of associating itself with
wheat and getting baked into the same war loaf.
What Americans are learning or are to learn in war will remain part of
the knowledge of living when the war is no more. That is what the
prophets say, and that’s why, peering into the afterwhile, they predict a
future increased reliance on the food grains.
The government is endeavoring, to regulate, through countless eom
mittces of experts, the flow of food from its source to the consumer.
One of these assisting organizations is the corn milling committee, ap
pointed by Food Administrator Hoover to organize mills and affiliated in
dustries in the service of food conservation.
The extremely high prices bf com—it has run a mad race with wheat
_have discouraged in a degree the milling of- this plentiful grain.
Some of the larger millers engaging in a country-wide business and
owning valuable trade-marks are said to have been selling package corn
meal at a loss, merely to hold their trade and keep up competition. But
they expect the new crop of corn to reach them at $1.40 to $1.50 a bushel,
which will enable them to get back on a more comfortable basis.
The estimate that 100,000,000 bushels of corn goes into food annual
ly in this country does not tell the whole story.
It doesn’t figure on the old ash barrels which stand behind thousands
of cabins and farmhouses and drip the lye which converts maize into home
made hominy. But it'does take into account what passes through the
mills.
And there are n^B" enough in this country to grind additional hun
dreds of millions of bushels. Few if any of them are running on a 24-hour
schedule. The r"iB'ng committee will be able to have ground all the com
*11 the pone bakers and johnnycake makers in America can use.
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A Group of Prominent Bankers and Capitalists Conceived the Idea of
and Financed the
BANK OF ALASKA
With tne Aim that Its Growth Will Give
the Name Full Significance
Practically all the territorial banks In Alaska had their origin In
a mercantile business, and were the outgrowth of a condition. The
BANK OF ALASKA was launched purely as a bank, and without the
support of other interests than the business that comes te It In the
regular channels.
The trend of American banking legislation Is toward branch bank
ing systems. The pioneer in this territory Is the BANK OF ALASKA,
which is the first and so far the only branch system.
Complying with the laws and regulations governing the Institu
tion, from the combined paid-in capital there Is apportioned to each
branch sufficient capita! to cover the legal requlremnt of an Inde
pendent bank. Each branch makes full Individual report to the bank
ing" board. Each must show how It is progressing Individually.
In the final analysis the strength and justification of the system Is
apparent, for each branch has the full strength of the entire system
. back of it.
The system is backed by very able men, and furnishes all the ad
vantages of a metropolitan bank, having the facilities of checking ac
counts, certificates of deposit, savings accounts, travelers' checks and l
safe deposit boxes. Your account is solicited.
Bank of Alaska
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