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miMHiVA, ALASKA. SAT! I,’DAY. MARCH Is. 1916.
THE CHIEFEST NEED IN PREPAREDNESS.
The fearful battle flint lias been raging around Verdun for
some time past no doubt lias received close study on the part of
those who are making out a plan for preparedness for this
country. Those works, built of steel and backed’ by cement,
and supposed to be impregnable, have been reduced to atoms
bv the Herman cannon.
That fact vindicates what General Sheridan said when
he was first in command of the I'nitod States army in the
eighties, lie recommended earth works where possible for
seacoast defences, lie admitted that he got that idea from the
defences planned by our frontiersmen, who had no money, to
repel the attacks of Indians.
After our great war. Admiral Farragot made a visit to
Great Britain and the continent. When he was ready to re
turn home lie was obliged to board a ship anchored in the bay
of Southampton. The British authorities sent a life boat
manned by young officers to take him from the pier out to the
steamer. A great many ironclad’s were swimming on their
chains in the harbor. Through these the boat with the admiral
had to make its way. Pointing to these armored ships, the
admiral said: “Young gentlemen, those are very splendid, but
if will not be long until they will be but sera]) iron, for a gun
will surely be invented which will make mere egg shells out
of them.”
If present events in Furope teach any lesson it is that after
all, the only thing in war not liable to soon become obsolete is
the trained soldier. The chief preparedness w hich our country
needs is to train every school boy over fifteen years of age in
tin' elementary duties of a soldier.
CHEMISTRY AND ELECTRICITY.
In the wa\ of preparedm ■-s we sincerely hope that the an •
thorities arc turning their attention particularly t<» chemistry
and the possibilities that still slumber in electricity. Wars
will stop only when some men ns of dost ruction is created before
which human endurance is helpless and of no avail.
Advanced' scientists believe that God’s great working'
force is electricity, and that force does its work through the
invisible atoms that make the ether that pervades the uni
verse everywhere. The majesty and terror which accompanies
a mighty electric storm, and which the wisest could not ana
lyze or comprehend only a few brief years ago, is in truth mere
ly a way which nature has of clearing the air, even as the white
wings clear tin* streets.
This generation of men have learned that what had been
a terror throughout all the ages is really a power which through
those ages was patiently waiting to become man’s most willing
servant, even as it has been the servant of Omnipotence from
the beginning.
But of the possibilities that are as yet hidden in that mys
terious force who can tell? We believe they are sufficient to
stop all wars when they shall be discovered and utilized'. We
believe their discovery and how to control them are very near;
that even now they are latent in the wireless; that Mr. Edison,
when he left his laboratory to go to Europe as an evangel of
peace, made a mistake; that one more discovery in his chosen
field is all that is lacking to compel peace through all civiliza
tion. Imagine it possible for a man with a simple apparatus
to stand, say, at tin* Presidio, outside San Francisco, and by
touching a button annihilate a battleship off the heads beyond
Ihe Golden Gate! That would be no more wonderful than it is
for an operator to stand there and receive in perfect form a
message that through the viewless air has found its way
across a continent or ocean.
If young Hammond from his station <>n shore can send a
viewless force that can compel a boat in the harbor to leave
its station, go out to sea, turn around and return to its moor
ings, does it not seem possible that with the discovery of one]
more secret he could in the same way destroy that boat if it I
had on board an explosive?
Again, we read how, long ago, a great army, “terrible with j
banners” and all the panoply of war, laid' down to sleep one
night and never awakened. It is told us that tho host was
smitten “by the arm of the Lord.” If that is true, what agent
did the Lord employ? When the mountain in the island of
"Martinique was rent by an earthquake, four or five years ago,
the people in the streets of St. Pierre, three or four miles away,
suddenly sank down dead. A great volume of carbonic acid
gas was released', and, being heavier than atmospheric air,
flowed down, not rising from the earth, and smote those people.
Poes not that carry an idea that might be utilized in war?
Again, in the present war the Germans have with some
success used a poisonous gas against the allies. With that im
proved upon, can it not be able to repeat what happened to
Senacba rib’s host?
It is all right to build airships, submarines and dread
noughts, and to study to make them all more formidable than
they are at present, but certainly in chemistry and'electricity
are more terrible agents of destruction than war has yet
employed.
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ANCHORAGE, vie IN8IOE PASSAGE.
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Regular freight eervlce for Ketcnikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
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ADMIRAL WATSON.February 18
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Katalla, Cordova, Valdez. Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
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Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice.
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Copper River &
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Effective October 4th, 1915. Ig \
Two trains every six days between Cordova and If
■ Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making gl
connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving ;3
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g Trains leave Cordova depot, at foot of Second Avenue, If
Mondays and Thursdays. ig
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3 Leave Chitina for Cordova, Tuesdays and Fridays. 3:
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