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THURSDAY, MARCH 6. 1919.
McADOO IN THE MOVIES.
So Mr. McAdoo has gone into the
movies! That is all right. He
couldn't raise a family on what the
government paid him'and he got out
while the going was good. Some say
his political friends told him that he
had nothing to gain and possibly
much to lose by forcing bonds upon
an unresponsive public and piling up
railroad deficits for the people to
meet. We should call that sound
judgment, viewed from any angle.
Kvon though his father-in-law should
hpcome the first President of the
World, the prestige thus acquired by
the family will hardly suffice to over
come all of the obstacles which con
front Mr. McAdoo as a candidate lor
President of the United States. There
are both lions and Democrats in his
path and. as he himself is wont to ob
serve, Mr. McAdoo is no politician.
Moreover, despite his excellent work
as Secretary of the Treasury, he is
not regarded universally as a states
man of the first order. Nevertheless
our perspicacious neighbor the Her
ald is already picking bis prospective
cabinet, to wit:
Secretary of State. .Charles Chaplain
Secretary of Treasury. .Mary Pickford
Secretary of War.W. S. Hart
Secretary of Navy.
.“Fatty" (Roseoe) Arbuckle
Secretary of Interior... .Bessie Love
Secretary of Agriculture.
.Douglas Fairbanks
It is not had that is, as compared
with the present aggregation. The
elements of popularity are there at
any rate, and varied abilities not to
be sneezed at. The principals have no
occasion to borrow money; they
simply reach out and take it at never
less than $100,000 per; and Mr. Mc
Adoo goes in at par. That he will be
a valuable acquisition there can he
no particle of doubt. He is both ver
satile and speedy and has a reputa
tion.
Alt ough no announcement to that
effect has yet appeared in the Official
Bulletin, we gather from the public
prints of the far West that Mr. Fair
banks is to assume charge of the poli
tical department under the general
supervision of Secretary Tumulty and
Mr. Wilson -not the Mr. Wilson, but
Mi. Frank R. Wilson, pictorial direc
tor of Liberty loan publicity. So at
least we read in a Los Angeles paper,
i.rUw li ui.ee
Douglas Fairbanks is going to be
lhe government’s “official fool killer”
and defend the United States in the
movies, lie has been asked to take
this role by Joseph Tumulty, secretary
to the President, and Frank R. Wil
son national director of Liberty Loan
publicity.
Douglas has consented to appear in
a film to be used as propaganda to
stem the tide of popular criticism
which Tumulty and Wilson admit
amounts to a storm of attack against
the national administration.
In a telegram to Fairbanks, Wilson
says in part: “There are possibilities
of a short picture in which you would
start out some morning as the official
fool killer, and as you hear complaints
uttered by various individuals, you
turn upon them, giving them a lecture
on real Americanism and then wallop
them as .you did the Kaiser.”
Assuming that Mr. Tumulty and Mr.
McAdoo are co-operating in this de
termined effort to “defend the United
States,” we have to anticipate dire
distress for the Republican party and
much exploitation of the candidates
of the movies as opposed to all others
even of Democratic persuasion. It
impresses us offhand as an exception
ally clever plan. The films will con
tinue to be under government control
until the President jiroclaims peace,
and Heaven only knows when that
will be at the rate they are now back
ing and filling in Paris.
In any event, Mr. McAdoo gets his
hundred thousand a year and a look-in
for the nomination under auspices
far more favorable than could have
been devised in Washington -surely
no meager reward for disinterested
toil in the service of his country, etc.
A happy outcome we call it.—Harvey’s
Weekly.
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LOVE OF LOMAX
The Hartford, Conn., Courant pub
lishes the following editorial in ref
erence to the gigantic scheme of a
'former well-known resident of Cor
dova :
William T. Love lives in Lomax,
j Lomax is in Illinois. Lomax, Illinois,
shelters in the person of Love of
Lomax a man who litis “a concrete
plan and program capable of getting
for till the people the best after-the
war results possible." He confides
his possession of litis “concrete plan
and program" to a few whom he char
acterizes as "the leading citizens of
tin' United States." He included us
in this category. Did ho take in you?
Love of Lomax will not trust the
full details of his “concrete plan and
program” to the printer and Mr. Burle
son's mails. He is, however, willing
to attend a conference of “the leading
citizens" in Washington. Meanwhile
he will only tell us that he proposes
“the greatest revolution of all time,”
and that his remedy is “a very won
derful and forceful one. Like a great
invention in mechanics it is made up
of a combination of many features,
most of which have already, some
where or other, been tested and found
wonderfully successful.”
From all this you might think the
“concrete plan and program" of Love
of Lomax was a new patent medicine
or plan for extending the prohibition
amendment to the constitution to in
clude cigarettes and chewing gum,
hut it isn't. It is merely a “remedy
capable of solving fundamentally and
adequately till our great social prob
lems to get for the world a new and
right civilization satisfying to all man
kind!”
Love of Lomax! Love of Mike!
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APRIL 6 GOOD
DAY TO PLANT
ARMYGARDEN
CHICAGO. March G.—“A Sixth of
April Garden I)ay”as a new national
holiday with the “millions oL' soldiers
of the soil marching to the furrows
of freedom” every year was advocated
here today by Charles Lathrop Pack,
president of the national war garden
commission in a speech before the
School Garden Association of America
in session in connection with the Na
tional Superintendents’ Association.
“Could there be anything more in
spiring,” said Mr. Pack, “than to have
a day set aside in the spring on which
all of us slpill get out of doors and
into the sunshine for the first garden
planting of the year? On the last
Sunday in March we will have an
extra hour of daylight, which will
mean millions of dollars in increased
home food production. Think what it
would mean every year if on the first
Wednesday in April or on April G, the
day we declared war, the millions of
members of the garden army marched
out into the furrows of freedom in the
war for food?
"In the great garden army there is
the making of the better arid healthier
citizen—the creation of a longing for
a bit of land for the individual—the
creation of the desire for a home.
With that spirit implanted in those
who will come after us we will have
to set this nation upon a rock that
none can shake—the great American
home. By all means let us mark this
continued building for better citizen
ship with a national holiday as a sign
to the world that the frontiers of free
dom will be maintained.”
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CHILD WELFARE
LAWS DRAFTED
IN MISSOURI
JEFFERSON CITY. Ylo., March 6.—
Warfare organizations in this ant
other countries .and state and govern
mcnt officials are closely watching
the progress of the "Missouri Child
ren's Code," now before the stale
legislature.
The code of fifty-one child welfare
laws drawn up by a commission ap
pointed by Governor Gardner, is said
to be the most complete ever offered
for legislative action. Proponents ex
press confidence of its enactment.
Enactment of somewhat similai
codes repealing old laws, revising
others, and containing new regula
tions is being sought in many states
by the national commirju.' of stand
ardizing children's laws, which has
the support of the national child lahoi
committee. But nothing has been at
tempted on so broad a scale and the
outcome in Missouri is awaited a;
somewhat of a test case, according tc
Lucille B. Lowenstein of the Missouri
The code provides for the support
of children born out of wedlock; raises
the age of consent to l'ffyears; estab
lishes the marriage age at 15; abol
ishes common law marriages; pro
vides for extradition of child desert
ers; provides for punishment of adults
responsible for child delinquency; es
tablishes a state home for dependent
children; establishes a bureau foi
mental defectives at the University
of Missouri to serve courts, schools
and institutions in examination of de
fectives, and provides special classes
in public schools for fceMe minded,
deaf, blind and crippled children. Mar
riage of feeble mined and epileptics
would be prohibited.
The code’s labor section prohibits
employment of children under 14 irt
any occupation unless an employment
certificate has been obtained, except
during vacation periods. Boys over
12 years old and girls past IS could
engage in street trades if licensed and
supplied with badges after special
examinations. Children under 16
not to be employed more than eight
hours a day or forty-eight hours a
week, and children under 21 could
not work as night messengers. Spe
cial permits would he required for
children under 16 working under
ground, on power machinery, or on
the stage.
Completion of the eighth grade
would he necessary before employ
ment certificates were issued, and the
compulsory school attendance age
would be raised to 16, unless the child
had finished the eighth grade. Pov
erty of parents would not be grounds
for school exemption.
The state board of health would
have charge of a division of child
f —:
hygiene anti would regulate conditions
and provide physical examination.
School authorities would hi' required
to open schools for public meetings or
community purposes.
q’he county superintendent of pub
lic welfare would be charged with ad
ministration of the laws and, with his
assistants, would act as probation, at
tendance and parole officer lor chil
dren.
Canadian social service leagues, uni
versities throughout America, direc
tors of state welfare commissions,
army officers, uplift associations in
Hawaii and Buenos Aires, public li
brary associations and various gov
ernment bureaus have requested spe
cial information as to the details of
the code. The proposed laws will he
debated from all angles by special
committees of the two houses before
being brought up for adtion.
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BUREAU OF PUBLICITY
SEEKS EMPLOYMENT
FOR ALASKA HELP
The Alaska Bureau of Publicity is
urging the fisheries interests of Alas
ka to give preference to home people
in the employment of helpers in the
Alaskan fisheries business. Repre
sentative' E. .f. White, chief of the bu
reau. has addressed a self-explanatory
letter to the “Canners, Salters, and
Hackers of Fish Operating in Alassa,"
which is self-explanatory:
Mr. Whirc’s letter says:
“There are several hundred deserv
ing persons in Alaska, including wo
men, young girls and boys who are de
sirous of obtaining positions in con
nection with fishing industries the
coming season and the object of this
letter is to request that you communi
cate with us, the Alaska Bureau of
Publicity, ai Juneau, and file with us
lists of the number of persons you will
require, departments to which they
will be. assigned and any other in
formation you can give. We believe
you, the canners, salters and packers
of fish in ATaska, will agree with us
that home labor, in so far as it is ef
ficient and can be obtained, should be
given preference over that imported
from the Outside and that you will co
operate with this bureau in its efforts
to provide Alaskans with honest em
ployment.
“Please forward to this office a list
of persons desired, when wanted and
nature of work to which they will be
assigned and we, in turn, will keep
you informed as to the number we
can supply,’*
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age arrived on this boat. Blum,
O’Neill Co.
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MACHINE WORKS
E. R. GARNES. Prop.
Residence 8hoP
Phone 101-3. Ph°ne 182
Machine W»U ot all Kinds.
Blackemlthlng, General Repair
ing, Horse Shoeing, Oxy-Acety
lene Welding and Cutting.
AUTOMOBILES '
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Office and Shop: City Dock
Cordova, Alaska.
Out of Town Joba Given Strict
Attention.
Smith and
McConaghy
Plumbers and
Steamfitters
COR. FRONT and B 8T8.
The Burkhardt
Hand Laundry
and Bath
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Burkhardt Flats
Neatly Pitted up with Large
Porcelain Tubs. Everything
Clean and Sanitary. Open All
Night. Phone 61—three rings.
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are trying to make reverence for law the polit
ical religion of the nations.” i
i Ponder oil this utterance and lcf if be a guide to your
action in (lie reforms that should resolve from the pres
ent social unrest.
The variety of our industries insures a wonderful
future for us, but without a bank account you will be
handicapped.
Don’t be afraid to come in and talk your affairs
over, so that you can open an account now with the
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Mark C. Thompson
at his new hotel in the heart of the city between
Powell and Mason Streets.
The Dale-Tallac Hotel
140 ELLIS STREET
Special Rates and Headquarters for Alaskans.
Manhattan Hotel
E. W. FERRELL, Prop.
Electric Lighted. Hot Water. Turkish and Tub
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PHONE 99
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DETMER’S new Spring Samples of the n
latest patterns in light and heavy
weights for ladies’ and men's Suits,'
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A LINE OF SHIRTS, PANTS, WOOL BLANKETS
QUILTS, ETC. FROM F. A. PATRICK AND CO.
We also handle the Hirsch-Weis and Co. “Rose City”
brand of Mackinaws, Loggers’ Shiits, Rainset and Au
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Black Bear brand of union made Overalls and Jackets.
A complete line of Wool and Cotton Blankets, Quilts of all kinds,
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Parkees, Gloves and Mittens, Shoe Pacs and Rubber Overshoes.
Tents, Bed Sheets, Pack Sacks and Clothes Bags.
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