THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1920
WE FIDDLE AND FIDDLE WHILE
ROME BURNS
“The world is hungry for the things
we eat, wear and use. Stark hungry!
The cupboard is bare as a bone. Prices
mount to staggerinig figures and the
cry of our worker is—more pay,
shorter hours—and then a shortage
shoots the prices of things up another
notch; another cry—more pay; less
hoars.
“Ye gods! Must the vicious circle
continue? Shall we never see that it
is more hours we need, that to reduce
the cost of the things we use, we must
produce not less but more?
“I just received a cablegram from
my brother in London, reading: ‘Mar
ket bare, prices awful, hopeless, sail
ing home. Oh, if Americans would
grasp the opportunity!’
“Prices had gotten so high in this
country and merchandise so scarce
we sent two of our firm abroad, hoping
to find what we need and at lower
prices. The cable message is the an
swer! Merchandise is even shorter
on the other side than here. They
have nothing to sell and their shelves
are bare. They want to buy—to buy
from America—to buy the things that
Americans make and the answer of our
workers is—reduce our hours—44
hours a week instead of 60—a cut in
production of 25 per cent.
“The writer sympathizes with those
who work. He understands what hard
work, privation and the struggle for
life is—he has lived it. He has
walked eight miles a day to earn 50
cents, carrying water for workers
who built the town of Pullman. He
has gotten out of bed at 3 o’clock to
milk fifteen cows on a winter’s morn
ing. He has put in fifteen hours a
day in a store. He is not a natural
born plutocrat; rather he is the son
of a steel worker. He feels that he
knows the needs of those who strug
gle, but anyone would be indeed fool
ish who failed to see that the waste
of time by carpenter, plumber or
other worker in turn raised the price
of rent, raised the price of the very
clothes that he himself wore, and
everything used by him and his fellow
worker.
“Short hours in the city has made
the farm'worker restless; he, too,
wants short hours and increased pay.
May kind Providence preserve us if
farm workers ever insist on 44 hours
per week, or an eight-hour day. You
and I, my friend, will go hungry. I
farm 800 acres and I know'what short
soars in the city is doing for the farm.
“We may keep high wages, we may
keep our present scale, and still re
duce the cost of ivlign by a simple
remedy—work—good. hard, honest,
faithful servicer—not eight hours,
rather ten, and then some.* Let us
for one year, at least, resolve to work
like h—!”—Ex.
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VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
We have one consolation here on
Douglas island. It is the fact that
while the bottom might fall out from
under us, nothinig can possibly slide
on top of us.—Douglas News.
It is to be regretted that Senator L.
Y. Ray of Seward will not consent to
become a candidate for delegate on
the Republican ticket. Senator Ray
is a staunch Republican, well known
professionally and politically, and
would give any candidate a hard race
for the office of representative of
Alaskans in congress.—Seward Gate
way.
London has tired of jazz. It make
most people tired.
The cost of living is out of sight, bu
never out of mind.
The agitator thinks that one goo<
strike deserves another.
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The road to the millennium is pave<
with unintentional inaccuracies.
Italy is hoping to get some America]
coal, and so are a lot of Americans.
It is no wonder the public tempe
is getting soured the way sugar i:
soaring.
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Patches are not now so much j
badge of poverty as of economy ant
discretion.
It takes a good deal of tasting tc
tell whether sweet cider is still with
in the law.
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A man with a package of sugar P
under as much suspicion as a mar
with a flask.
People generally will have to pro
duce more necessaries and spend less
for unnecessaries.^
It is the long hours and short pay
that niii^e the average country youtfi
down on the farm.
The higher wages are the more anxi
ous some persons seem to get some
thing for nothing.
Whatever became of the old-fash
ioned fellow who took two spoonfuls
of sugar in his coffee?
Who takes charge when a poet
leader is struck by an idea right in the
midst of his revolution?
An autumn farmerette is entitled to
more genuine admiration than the most
charming of summer girls.
Oatmeal has gone up in price in
London, but that doesn’t do the small
boy in this country any good.
One form of profiteering which
might help is Hint of extracting profit
! from tlic lessons of the war.
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A soviet government looks, at a dis
tance, like an effort to do business
with everybody talking at once.
The war between the Spanish and
Raisuli in Morocco has been post
poned on account of wet grounds. (
At any rate, Americans can thank
Turkey for one thing—it furnished the
name for their national festal bird.
There probably isn’t a bit of douht
about the increased price of raisins
being due to the law of supply and de
mand.
We are beginning to hear, as usual,
from scientists who have a sure cure
for the flu. They are a part of the
plague.
Next to increased production and
lower prices the best news to the coal
consumer these days Is “Fair and
warmer.”
Sir “Tommy” Lipton hasn’t been
whipped sailing a boat for'such a long
time he’s keener than ever for the
next one.
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Baseball is usurping the place of
bullfighting in Mexican sports. But
what a brave man it must take to be
the umpire!
The average person is not so much
interested in the war on cats for the
protection of birds as for the proton
tion of sleepers.
Paris savants suggest that the fiu
is akin to animal epizootic. That’s
what till our oldest inhabitants told
us a year ago.
Some one can win undying fame by
gliding the slowest instead of the
quickest way of doing something re
garded as dangerous.
Calico hop, January 24.
Job printing at Daily Times office.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
FOR SALE—Speed boat. Apply Gus
Cozokas. 19-tf
FOR R ENT—Furnished apartment.
Call 104. 17-tf
FOR RENT—An apartment. Apply to
C. J. Goodall. ‘ 15-tf
WANTED—To buy or rent one female
canary for breeding. Call 29-2. 10-tf
WANTED—Leather couch, in good
condition. Apply Times office. 8-tf
FOR SALE—L. C. Smith typewriter;
first-class condition, $40. See Cor
dova Adjustment Co. 27tf
LOST—A monogram watch fob, with
two small diamonds in setting. Re
turn to Times office and receive re
ward. 8-tf
FOR RENT—Furnished cabins. See
Dooley.
WANTED—Two tiemakers; good tim
ber; 40 to -45c; ties to be put in
bunches not less than three in a
bunch; parties will batch. Apply
Harry Christie, Mile 19.
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I OUR SEMI-ANNUAL CLEARING SALE I
|| Be sure to make our store your shopping headquarters during this great § | ►
II ClearinS Sale. No one advertisement would hold all there is to tell, nor
I wou^ y°u have the time to read it. Come to the store and let us show you. 11
STARTS TOMORROW, JAN- II
LASTS TEN DAYS ONLY 11
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I I us say, first, that every article in the store I %
IS REDUCED 15 PER CENT II
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I | d hen we have manay special reductions which will | |j
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READ READ II,
EVERY HAT IN STOCK AT 11
HALF PRICE 11
| | If you want the best of the best stock in the North, I I
iji; * come in early. They’re all Gage & Phipps’. That | fj
| | tells the whole story. You’ll have many months’ I I
1 I wear yet out of your Winter Hats. Buy them now I 1>
I | at half. | 1
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iji; Women s Warm Woolen Unions, $8.00 val
ues, selling at $5.00
WOMEN’S WOOLEN HOSIERY
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jij: $1.50 values, both black and white, at..$1.25
& $1.25 values, both black and white, at 1.00
| $ 1.00 values, both black and white, at.. .75
§ All other Hosiery reduced 15 per cent, in
| eluding Silk, Art Silk, Fiber Silk,, Lisle and
1 Cotton'
| REMEMBER
| That our entire stock is reduced. Every arti
| cle in the stor.e is a bargain that you’ll need
| shortly, if you don’t need it now.
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CLEARING OF SHOES
Our entire stock of P ootwear for W omen
and Children is offered in this sale at prices |
which we can t duplicate at wholesale under i*
present conditions. %
Frankly, we advise your buying at least two §
pairs. You 11 need them, and if you don’t
buy them now you’ll pay more. |
ALL SHOES REDUCED 15 PER CENT 1
Our regular stock is priced from $4.50 to $15 I *
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Make your own reductions and I
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Scarborough Pictures that please at
prices that are right. Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
Congoleum Rugs, suitable for every
room in your house, can be found at
the Northwestern Hardware Co.
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Fresh Ever-Ready Flashlight Bat
: teries, all sizes. Blum-O’Neill Co. 3-tf
Job printing at Daily Times office.
ROSSWOG
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THE FINEST AS
SORTMENT
OF
CANIY
ON '
SALE
AT
C. M. ROSSWOG
STATIONER, NEWSDEALER,
NOTIONS,
TOBACCOS, CONFECTIONERY.
POOL
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TOURNAMENT
IS NOW ON
TONIGHT
AT 7:30
Charles Brown
vs.
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Slim Taylor
THREE PRIZES
FIRST—SUIT OF CLOTHES
SECOND—PAIR OF SHOES
THIRD—STETSON HAT
The Club
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A New Shipment of
FRIESHER’S
BLACK
KNITTING
YARN
Just Received at
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Aunty Keating’s
Wee Shop
Socks, Sweaters and Caps Made
to Order
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PEYSER
THE TAILOR
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Opposite Kenny
Holden's
Phone 188
SHOE REPAIRING
DIMON NICKALQFF
Currier Building,
C Street. P. O. Box 986.
Keist Furniture
Company
Is the Place to Buy
New and Second-Hand
Household Goods
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT
We Sell Goods on Commission
ft.
Next door to Alaska S. S. Office
launches
PIONEER AND SWAN
Wm. J. Crooker, Owner and Master
REGULAR TRIPS TO KATALLA
FREIGHTING AND TOWING
To All Parts of the Sound
Phone 57—2 Rings
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TRY THE
WINDSOR
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For Rooms that are %
Comfortable
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JUST RECEIVED
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LIVE CffiCKENSl
Good Roasters
JOE FREY '
Phone 22