THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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H. G. STEEL
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TUESDAY, April 8, 1919
BOLSHEVIK BESTIALITY
We suggest that those dilettante tol
erants of Bolshevism, such as Mr.
Edward Perkins Clarke—it is unfor
tunately necessary to mention this
gentleman’s name because he holds
public office under the state of Con
necticut and it is well to have It
understood where our public officials
stand—who praised the present Rus
sian government as a “splendid ex
periment in industrial democracy,”
and those representatives of the Na
tional Woman’s Party who applaud
ed Mr. Clarke’s praise, may with profit
study the subject of their admiration
somewhat more closely.
The London Times makes public an
official proclamation published by the
Soviet at Saratoff, in East Russia, and
also at Ekaterinburg. It is too appal
ling to be published in completeness,
but there is reason for considering,
ugly as they are, these specimen
clauses:
1— From March 1 the right to pos
sess women of the ages of 17 to’32 is
abolished. - /
2— The age of women shall be de
termined by birth certificates or pass
ports, or by testimony of withessos,
and, on failure to produce documents,
their age shall be determined by the
committee, who shall judge them ac
cording to appearance.
3— This decree does not affect
women having five children.
* 4—The former owners may retain
the right of using their wives without
waiting their turns.
5— In case of resistance of the hus
band he shall forfeit the right under
the former paragraph.
6— All women according to this de
cree are exempted from private own
ership, and are proclaimed to bo the
property of the whole nation. * * *
t—Men citizens have the right to
use one woman not oftener than three
times; a week for three hours, obseir
nig me rules specmeu oeiow.
10—Each man wishing to use a
piece of public property should be a
bearer of a certificate from the fac
tories committee, the professiona'
union, or workmen’s, soldiers’ and
peasants’ council certifying that he
belongs to the working family class
This terrible thing represents a
reversion to oriental bestiality per
haps exceptional even in modern Rus- _
sia. But it is none the less an ex
ample of the brutishness which mod
ern Russia produces and which mod
ern Russia tolerates. Mob govern
ment is mob government, whether
conducted under the attempted guid
ance of anarchical counsel or pure
democracy or as worship of Hie god
dess of reason, which it figured in the
reign of terror.
In a nation of established order,
such as this, the more violent Bolshe
vist soon commits some infraction of
law which brings about his restraint;
perhaps, happily, his elimination. The
parlor Bolshevist, personally well con
ducted, remains at large as an en
couragement and an inspiration to the
malcontent of more physical vigor.—
Hartford, Conn., Times.
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THE SHINING SWORD AND OTHER
WEAPONS
The mills of God do not always
grind so slowly. Retribution grim
and bloody has been swift to overtake
Germany. There is savage irony in
her predicament. Having endeavored
with aatenlc. ingenuity and persistence
to instigate strife and discord among
other nations, she herself is now torn
asunder with internal strife and dis
cord. Having Judas-like plotted the
betrayal of democracy Germany is
now in peril of crucifixion at the hands
of her own mobs, Is bleeding in her
own Golgotha. ,She is convulsed with
the agony that she but lately was
meting out to other peoples. The
shining sword was a boomerang.
What the developments of the next
few months will be in Germany can
only be conjured. The Germans as a
whole are not yet awake to the con
sciousness that they are not only
beaten but a discredited people. And
there is ground for the belief that
when they fully realize that they
must accept a peace treaty that strips
them for years to come of military
significance and reduces their terri
tory by 30,000 square miles, they will
promptly adjust their internal differ
ences, and in self-preservation set
about orderly reconstruction. Ger
many is not Russia. The German peo
ple are on a far higher plane of intel
ligence and enlightenment than are
the Russian masses. Bolshevism is
not indigenous to Germany and under
normal conditions no where less likely
to thrive. And notwithstanding the
uproar, destruction and bloodshed
now going on in Berlin and other Ger
man cities the most reasonable predic
tion would seem to be that the im
pending peace treaty would speedily
react on the German consciousness
toward national unity, in a supreme
determination to save what they can
from the nation’s wreckage and to win
Sack as they can of what they have
lost.
Such developments in Germany s
internal affairs may reasonably be ex
pected. The Germans themselves
must soon see that their very exist
ence as a nation is in the balance.
They will speedily realize that their
destiny depends upon their ability
without delay to set their affairs in
order and get down to the serious
business of the day’s work. There is
no such thing as their escaping the
penalty they have incurred. Their
colossal war debt will have to be met.
Otherwise their inevitable destiny is
national bankruptcy and ruin. It will
never come to that. The Germans
though a misled and perverted people
are not decadent. From the ashes of
the self-destruction of the old Ger
many, a new, chastened, purified and
morally rehabilitated Germany will in
process of time take her place among
the honorable, peaceable and coven
ant-keeping nations of the world.
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FOR FISHERMEN ONLY
It is a little early to begin thinkingg
about trout, but these recent days in
evitably suggest the time not far away
when fishermen will find it almost
impossible to stay at home. Just
think of it: the stream running clear,
just water enough and not a bit too
much, a kind, soft, southerly wind,
clouds which encourage hope that they
will keep just as they are, the leaves
coining out on the bushes along the
bank, and hope springing eternal in
the heart of the fisherman. What
can be finer? All this and much more
will be here in a few weeks; one can
almost say days, but that putting it
in that way makes the time of wait
ing seem longer. Well, it is near at
hand anyway, *and when it comes it
will be “paradise enow."
There are drawbacks, to be sure.
Absolute happiness is not given us
in our earthly course, but one of the
near approaches to it is a day on a
good familliar stream, if possible one
we have known for years, where we
can judge pretty well from the
weather and the water what to ex
pect and feel that we can meet the
trout on something like equal terms,
our experience of the ways of the fish
and the ways of the water, how much
and what the stage of the stream
jnean in some familiar holes or rap
ids, how small changes in the weather
conditions make great differ
ences in the policy of the angler and
the temper of the trout, and how at
the best there is almost always con
siderable uncertainty as to the final
outcome o? the contest between the
craft of man and. the craft of trout.
If we can feel at any time that we
stand on a fair equality with the beau
tiful and crafty denizens of the stream
we may reasonably begin to take
some pride in ourselves.
It is all good to look forward to, but
what is the imagination to the real
ity that may come so soon? The
word “may” is • used advisedly; the
more experienced the fisherman, the
more likely he is to have an enormous
respect for the little! creatures he
goes out to overcome. And that Is
one of the many things which make
trout fishing the intense delight it is
to those who know most about It, and
feel the most profound respect for
the craft and resource of the brook
trout, whether he be large or small.
In almost any case he is a worthy op
ponent, and he wins more often than
some fishermen like to admit.,
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Commenting upon the terrible Bol
shevik proclamation tor the national
ization of women, which we reprint
elsewhere, the London Spectator re
oalls that Peter the Great dreaded the
development of the oriental phase in
the Russian character. And thiB is
orientalism in its most terrific forln.
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This year, Lent is to be immediately
succeeded by “Lend."
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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle thinks
that the hatchet buried by democrats
and republicans has grown up as a
hammer. ^
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As the Atlanta Constitution under
stands it, the dollar doesn’t go as far
as formerly because it can’t possibly
get by the profiteers.
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Our congratulations ton the man who
constructed the 1040A income tax
blank for his success in producing,
with the limited material at his dis
posal, an effective Chinese puzzle.
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If one is to believe the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, after a person has cor
rectly filed his income tax return, he
is qualified for a position as expert ac
countant, statistician or interpreter
of cryptograms.
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No wonder our government officials
display no haste in accepting the Ger
man shipping held in Chilean waters.
Don’t they remember their experience
in repairing the German shipping
taken in their own harbors?
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The sleeping sickness has recently
developed in England and is said to
be making its way into this country.
It is announced that it is not the ter- '
rible African sleeping sickness, but
near enough to it in general character
to cause apprehension. The symptoms
are said to be dizziness, aching and
drooping of the eyelids, drowsiness,
sore throat and loss of strength.
MONTENEGRO
NOW FACING
STARVATION
NEW YORK, April 8.—Prompt re-!
lief for the people of Montenegro who
are officially reported to be dying
from starvation is urged in a letter
written by Alexander Devine, an Eng
lish friend of Montenegro, to Herbert
C. Hoover, the food administrator, in
Paris, a copy of which has been re
ceived here. In his letter Mr. DevVpe
charged that there had been “very
gross unfairness to Montenegro in the
endless delays and obstacles which
had been placed in my way” in ef
forts to obtain relief for the Monte
negrins.
Mr. Devine wrote that he first ap
pealed to the British authorities in be- '
half of the Montenegrins in 1916, but
that up to the signing of the armis
tice "not as much as a grain of rice
ever was permitted to enter Monte
negro.” After the armistice he re
newed his efforts, and finally was re
ferred to Mr. Hoover in Paris, but 1
for two months was unable to obtain
a passport to go to Paris and see him
and Colonel Anderson of the American
Red Cross. Finally, Mr. Devine 4vrote. '
he had arrived in Paris to find Mr. i
Hoover absent. Meanwhile, he de
'elared, American relief ships had ar
rived at Cattaro, but “the relief fell
into the hands of the Serbians and ;
aided them in their political purposes
against king and coountry.” These
delays and obstacles, Mr. Devine told .
Mr. Hoover, demonstrated unfairness .
to Montenegro, and, he added, “I have .
no sense of having obtained justice .
during these long, weary months of
waiting.”
Since Mr. Devine’s letter was writ
f cm o nommioainn o □ Kocm emit *
Montenegro by the American peace '
delegation in France and has reported '
that the situation In Montenegro is j
desperate and the people actually dy
ing from starvation. The American
Red Crosp has been trying to supply
them with food.
FOOD CONTROLLER
BOON TO GROCERS
LONDON, April 8.—According to
Arthur J Oiled, secretary of the Brit
ish Grocers’ federation, profits of the'
British grocery trade increased about
$46,000,000 a year during the war.
"The food controller,” Mr. Giles
said, “has been the grocers' real
friend for the last four or five years,
in enabling them to dispose of all their
surplus stock, .much of which the pub
lic would not lodfe at prior to the war.
“That is one of the good things the
war had accomplished. It has been a
veritable spring cleaning for the
grocers.
“A further great asset was the reg- j
lstratlon of customers, which Insured
the grocer trade without his having
to work it up by his own personality.”
BILLS ORDERED PAID
The following bills were ordered
laid by the Town Council of Cordova
>n April 7, 1919:
.Vm. Tiernan .$ 3.00
fames Kennedy . 5.00
Uaska Public Utilities. 257.75
)r. W. H. Chase. 200.00
Uaska S. S. Co. 16.75
Uaska Transfer Co. 15.75
Hum, O’Neill Co. 1.75
(. N. Steffgen .:. 8.00
:. M. Rosswog . 3.50
Uoyd J. Smith . 5.00
lorace Leach . 5.00
I. H. Lamphrey . 5.00
J. A. Mosser ... 5.00
'. .L. Murphy . 5.00
N. GRllENE, Town Clerk.
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More than 1,000 people attended the
ichooi_fair at Bayview last month.
unong the speakers pre'sent were
Ion. Chas. A. Sulzer, and W. T. Lopp,
md many prominent educators and
latives. Exhibits of school work from
ill the towns of Southeastern Alaska .
iere held at the school house. The
air was pronounced the most success
ul ever held in Alaska and it is
■laimed that great good will come of
t for the natives.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE OF SALE
Jnlted States’ of America, Territory
of Alaska, ss. "
Notice Is hereby giv^n that I have
his day levied upon that certain one
itory frame dwelling house known as
he McVae house, same being situated ’
lpon government land of the United
States of America adjacent to station
grounds of the Copper River & North
western Railway Company, near the
town of Cordova. Alaska, under and
jy virtue of a certain chattel mort
gage given by Dan McVae to the
First Bank of Cordova, at Cordova,
Alaska; and by said bank assigned to
john Muller; said mortgage being
Foreclosed and said property fold un
ler Section 749 of the Compiled Laws
3f Alaska. And I hereby give notice
by virtue Of the authority vested In
me that I will sell said house and
he whole thereof to the highest bid
ler for cash to make the sum of 9600
with Interest thereon at the rate of
12 per cent per annum from the 24th
lay of August, 1918, together with
sosts and increased costs of sale. Said
isle to take place on the premises
>n the 12th day of April, 1919, at the
lour of 2 p. m. ■
Dated this 2d day Of April, 1919.
P. R. BRENNEMAN, l
U. S. Marshal. I
By WM. L. PURSMAN, Deputy. '
TRAPPERS ATTENTION TRADERS
SHIP TO
GEORGE R. GOSHAW, Inc.
DEALER IN
RAW FURS
Seattle— New York—
Alaska Building 127 W. 27th Street
We do business direct with you and solicit all Raw Furs. Your ship
ments are handled by expert graders and New York market prices are
paid on correct grading the day received. If desired, your shipments will
be kept separate in order that our prices may be approved by you. Pro
viding that our valuation does not prove satisfactory, flie furs will be
returned to you, transportation charges prepaid. Ship by insured parcel
post or express. Ship in a dry condition. Always inclose an itemized
list of contents, with name and address. Also attach duplicate list to
the outside of bundle. Special instructions, if any, must accompany ship
ments. Payments are made by check^on the Seattle National Bank, or
in any other manner desired. Ship now.
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| NOTICE
I have sold my stock of second-hand goods to Mr. Keist
| and from now on will devote my entire energy to the
| workmen’s trade. Come in'and look my stock over, see
I the quality of goods and get the prices.
| Here Are a Few of the
| Articles I Carry I
1 GENERAL LINE UNDERWEAR AND TOP SHIRTS I
1 BLANKETS AND QUILTS 1
1 LOGGERS’ SHOES AND SHOE FINDINGS
I RAIN GOODS 1
| MATTRESSES AND SPRINGS
TENTS AND A LINE OF CANVAS GOODS
KITCHENWARE, STOVES |
I CLAM DIGGERS’ SHOVELS AND SUPPLIES
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| My Store’s Name Has Been Changed to |
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i GENERAL FURNISHINGS
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| We are with the Cash Store, in the Northern Block
| Everything Delivered Together
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