THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1919
GET OFF THE SUCKER LIST!
Are you on the sucker list?
If you are it is probably because
you are not a sucker but a patriotic
citizen who has known the Liberty
Bond to be a good thing.
Get-rich-quick swindles have been
the great American sport for years.
The sharpers who sell fake stocks
saw their game endangered when
Uncle Sam started his great Liberty
Loan campaigns.
But they are smart—these gentle
men who live by their wits.
Instead of complaining they jump in
and put themselves and all their em
ployes to work trading their fake stuff
tor Liberty Bonds.
, if you have a Liberty Bond or a
book of War Savings Stamps you are
a “prospect” for fake stock. Your
name is probably on the sucker list
of the oily-tongued sharper because
over twenty million patriots bought
Liberty Bonds.
You are not to blame for being on
the sucker list, but it is up to you to
get off—Away off—that list at your
first opportunity.
The American people are paying out
some half billion dollars a year to
the support of worthless stock
schemes. The people reap therefrom
$500,000,000 worth of—thin air.
That is not a wild guess. It is the
estimate given by the capital issues
committee of the U. S. treasury. And,
the committee assures us that it is
conservative.
Moreover, the half billion represents
just the cold cash that is turned in
every year by otherwise level-headed
Americans seeking a milk-and-honey
path to quick wealth by the fake stock
certificate route. It does not take
into account the vast economic loss
incident to broken fortunes, impaired
effort of discouraged investors and to
the diversion from legitimate business
enterprise of new productive capital.
The capital issues committee,
charged with keeping the nation’s in
vestment dollars on a work-or-fight
basis during the war has made a
searching inquiry into the devious by
ways of fraudulent stock promotion.
Its conclusion is that never perhaps
in the history of the country has wild
cat promotion been so flagrant—from
doast to coast—as today.
As a result ot tne government s
great war loan campaigns, there are
now hundreds ot‘ thousands of Ameri
cans converted to the idea of saving
and investing. With a very great pro
portion, their investment experience
is limited to the good, rock-bottom
government war bond.
The fakir is after them. Thousands
of “salesmen” carefully drilled in the
gentle art of "selling on the first
call” and getting out of town, are
abroad.
They will tell you you were a
patriot, a real citizen, to have bought
Liberty Bonds. However, you’ve made
your sacrifice, the war’s over now—
and really 4^4 per cent is no return
at all in peace times—let us exchange
your bonds for this exceptional offer
ing, positively guaranteed to bring in
anywhere from 10 to 500 per cent in
dividends before the year’s out—as
soon as the oil well is sunk, or the
mine shaft completed, or the property
developed, or the like.
That is the brand of the stock
swindler today: that he Is "willing”—
as an accommodation to you, you
understand—to "accept” your good
Liberty Bonds in "exchange” for his
worthless stud.
Happily there Is a government
agency today on the trail of the stock
■.sharp. It is the federal trade com
mission, empowered by congress to
prevent unfair methods of competition
in interstate commission. The com
mission may well be expected to look
upon the fleecing of Americans of
their Liberty Bonds as decidedly
“unfair.”
If you own a Liberty Bond you’ll
doubtless have an early call from one
of the pleasant representatives of the
sharper outfit. When you do, just
drop a postal to the federal trade com
mission at Washington and tell them
about that visit and send them the
attractive literature that i3 handed
you, together with the name and honle
address of the “salesman.” Or, send
it in 4o this paper and we will forward
it to Uncle Sam’s men.
It would be interesting to know how
much of the $500,000,000 a year filters
out of Cordova to the detriment of
our banks, our merchants and our
legitimate business development. Al
so, how many of us are on the Sucker
List. /
Let’s keep our loose change at
home!
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VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
The city council of Cordova with a
callousness which is amazing in men
who were once boys themselves have
ordered ashes scattered on the hills of
that city to prevent youngsters from
coasting. All the “reg’laveilers” seem
to be absent from the Cordova coun
cil.—Ketchikan Miner.
And still they come. Every boat
bound for the North is loaded to the
guards with returning old-time Alask
ans. The States are all right for a
time, hut the call of the North is one
that cannot be denied.—Douglas
News.
It is a shame to see Wickersham
wasting his energies butting his head
against a stone wall, when* with the
proper disposition and faculty of
making friends he could have reached
the highest pinnacle in politics. That
a man should be cursed with unlimited
ability and a warped disposition has
been a great misfortune to the terri
tory which might have been benefited
greatly by his influence if exerted for
the right. It must be hell to have to
wear pads on your legs to keep from
biting yourself.—Valdez Miner.
The mouthpiece of the town of
Seward—the Gateway—is all worked
up over the failure of the passage of
the sundry civil bill, which carries an
appropriation of some $4,000,000 for
the Alaska railway. Well, wrho de
cayed the passage of this bill, by his
pernicious attacks on the engineering
commission? None other than one
John E. Ballaine, founder of the Sew
ard townsite. If this trouble-maker
did not have the active support of the
Gateway, he at feast had the passive
support. This agitation, largely orig
inating in Seward, undoubtedly de
layed the passage of the sundry civil
bill, when it 'was before the house
committee on appropriations and
when the Alaska railway item in the
dill was under consideration—Anchor
age Times.
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BIG LIBERTY
SWEEPSTAKE
HELD IN MAY
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INDIANAPOLIS, April 2.—Earl
Cooper has entered the 500-mile Lib
erty sweepstake to be run at the In
dianapolis speedway, May 31. Cooper
iias advised the management that he
is anxious to be the first Californian
:o win the classic and expects to carry
the trophies back to the western coast
this year.' A purse of $50,000 will be
divided among the contestants.
So far officials have been unable to
elicit a definite statement from Cap
tain Eddie Rickenbacher, American
ice, as to whether he will enter the
race.
EAST LANSING, Mich., April 2.—
An ambitious fdotball program for the
coming fall has been arranged by the
ithletic authorities at Michigan Agri
cultural college. Among the big
games booked will be one with the
University of South Dakota at East
Lansing, November 8. Others in
clude the annual contest with the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor;
Purdue at Lafayette and Depauw at
Bast Lansing.
The schedule follows:
October 4—Albion at East Lansing.
October 11—Western State Normal
it East Lansing.
October 18—University of. Michigan
it Ann Arbor.
October 26.—Depauw at East Lan
sing.
November 1—Purdue at Lafayette.
November 8—South Dakota at East
Lansing.
November 16—Notre Dame at South
Bend.
November 22—Open.
ST. LOUIS April 2.—Eugene Rob
ertson a 19-year-old semi-pro, whose
brilliant work as a short-stop stampec
him as a “find" will be given a trla
with the St. Louis Americans thii
season. Robertson is a former higl
school star. He 4eclinec* an offe;
from the Kansas City club of the
American Association.
KANSAS CITY, April 2.—In orde;
to keep within the salary limit a
$4,000 a month for the teams in tn
American association, George Muehl
bach, president of the Kansas Cit:
Club, has decided to start the seksoi
with fifteen instead of sixteen player
allowed by the rules of the associa
tion. What the sixteenth man wouli
cost will be divided among the fiftee:
players.
Further than to say that several o
his prospects had signed since h
had decided to reduce his player limi
with corresponding increase in paj
President Muehlebach declined t
give much information as to the pei
sonnel of the club for this year.
The Blues will train at home, am
reported nine days earlier than th
date originally set, to prepare fo
some exhibition games played here
Among those scheduled are: Cincir
nati, April 12 and 13; Chicago Natior
als, April 19 and 20. A trip througl
the northern half of the Wester:
league circuit is planned, but the onl;
dates made are for those at Tulsa
April 5 and 6.
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has been located in Cordova since
January 1, does not teach classic,
stage or jazz, but does teach the
American Dancing Masters’ Associa
tion perfect ballroom dances. Refer
ences given of our fifty pupils, in
private lessons. Inquire at the Ameri
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
j NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
ACCOUNT
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court, Cordova Precinct, Territory
of Alaska (In Probate).
In the Matter of the Estate of Gun
nard Johnson, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that V. G.
Vance, administrator of the estate of
Gunnard Johnson, deceased, has ren
dered and presented for settlement to,
and filed in the probate court of said
Cordova precinct, his final account as
such administrator, and that Tuesday,
the 16th day of April, 1919, at 10
o’clock a. m„ at the court room of our
said probate court at Cordova, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by the pro
bate court for the settlement of the
final account, at which time and place
any person Interested in said estate
may appear and file his exceptions in
writing to the said final account and
contest the same.
Witness the Hon.
(Seal) A. J. ADAMS,
Judge of the said Probate Court, and
the seal of said Court affixed, this
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1 LOGGERS’ SHOES AND SHOE FINDINGS
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