The Cordova daily times. [volume], November 03, 1917, Page 2, Image 2

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The Cordova Daily Times
Entered at the Postoffice at Cordova, Alaska, as second-class matter.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, SATU RDAY, NOVEMBER 3,1«H7
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TIMES AWARDS PRIZES
The subscription contest which the
Daily Times conducted during the
past month has been brought to a
close and was a success in every par
ticular. Through the efforts of a
corps of capable and energetic young
ladies our circulation has been prac
tically doubled and in return for the
service the Daily Times is distribu
ting prizes worth $700, or their equiv
alent in cash. The race was a close
and exciting one from start to finish
and our only regret is that all of the
contestants could not receive the
Ford automobile or the $500 in gold.
The second and third winners were
awarded a cabinet Victrola each and
the fourth a ladies wrist watch.
The votes were canvassed today
by competant and impartial judges
and the result of the final count and
the names of tile winners are publish
ed in our local columns. The cam
paign throughout was managed in a
fair ^ind impartial manner and the
only regret or complaint that any of
the unsuccessful contestants can have
is that they failed to secure as many
votes as the winner of that particular
prize.
THE GREATEST OF ALL WARS.
War has its compensation no less
than peace, and in the eternal fitness
of things on earth it plays an incalcu
lable part in the shaping of the desti
nies of the peoples of all climes. When
the crisis comes, when the fate of bat
tle hangs in the balance, when the
sacrifices of blood and treasure are
heaped on the altars as high as the
heavens, when suffering and uncer
tainty fill the days and nights with
heartaches and anguish and strange
forebodings; then does it seem that
war is indeed a calamity, for which
the future holds no possible relief or
reparation. Bu^ there is another side
to war — war waged in righteous
cause — that burnishes the brain and
brawn of men and women, strengthens
their souls and glorifies a people for
all time to come. In a war such as
this the salvage more than compen
sates for all the suffering and sacri
fice.
in inis respect, a distinguished con
temporary reminds us that "war is
like religion, in that it creates in men
an ecstasy, a mystical and spiritual
exhaltation that enables them to
achieve and endure far more than they
ever previously in times of peace Were
able to achieve and endure.” Con
tinuing the thought, this writer as
sures us that men remember this stir
ring experience afterward, and that all
their lives they are able to meet ex
treme crises with supreme courage.
They say themselves: "We bore this
once — we can do it and bear it
again.”
This thought is pleasant to contem
plate and we particularly recommend
it to those timid citizens who are dis
posed to look on the seamy side of
war — shorn of all sentiment and sol
emn obligations — and count the cost
of war without taking into consider
ation the ultimate compensation it
promises. There is a sordid side to
every war, it is true, which at first
blush seems to challenge the under
standing ot sober-thinking men and by
its very brutality appears to violate
every rule of reason. But, in a larger
end finer sense, tlicr« is a glorious
side to every war, a side that fires
the souls of men, that draws them out
of the shells of a smaller existence
into the realm of larger things and
summons them to almost superhuman
achievements. These are the sacred
attributes of war—inspired by the Al
mighty himself — that time and.again
have accomplished the salvation of
humanity when it was staggering un
der the weight of its own humdrum
existence.
We need only to scan the pages of
American history to convince our
selves of this great truth. Out of the
crucible of the revolution came a chas
tened people. The founders of the
great republic were of an inspired or
der. No race of men ever walked the
earth with higher or holier purposes
than they, and no mortals ever as
sumed such solemn obligations, com
tuning as they did the highest profes
sions and practices of civilization,
Christianity and citizenship. The in
spiration that came out of-that mighty
struggle strengthened them in their
new faith, and when the great conti
nental powers and the African pirates
sought to prey upon their commerce
and threatened their national integrity
j they struck with the swiftness and
force of the lightnihg and maintained
! their supremacy against seemingly
overwhelming opposition.
The Civil war — most cruel of all in
(hat it arrayed brother against bro
ther and father against son in the
bloodiest conflict of the ages — im
posed its own peculiar test upon the
American people. The story is still
fresh in our memories. We readily re
call how men were stupefied when
the first crash came, how they fe:
fused to believe their own senses for
a time, and how they hesitated to take
up arms against those of their own
blood. But the God of Battles was di
recting their destinies, their consci
ence finally swept aside all doubts and
misgivings, and they responded to the
call of the country with a spirit that
astounded the world and set the high
water mark for sacrifice in righteous
warfare. Out of that, struggle came
a chastened and reunited people,
strengthened in their common sacri
fice and working out their manifest
destiny from the wreckage of war in
a manner that both astonished and
claimed the admiration of the whole
world. Looking back over the match
less achievements of the past fifty
years, who would say that the moral
and material salvage realized from
that war was not well worth the sac
rifice?
Now we are engaged in the greatest
of all wars — a war with a complica
tion of causes insofar as other coun
tries may be concerned, but with an
issue as clear as the noonday sun in
its bearing upon the Immediate safety
and ultimate supremacy of America. In
the confusion of the moment It is only
natural that we should stumble for
a time and wonder why we should be
drhwn into the awful conflict. We
hesitate to take the plunge; the sacri
fices imposed seem out of all propor
tion to jour interests involved. But
gradually our senses are returning,
our sanity is being restored, and in
a short while we w ill all buckle on the
armor, determined to face the crisis
in characteristic American fashion.
When we come to realize as a people
that this war was inevitable and that
fate had decreed that Americans
should once again take the field in
defense of the honor and integrity of
the republic, then will be gladly bear
incomparable sacrifices to the com
mon altar and fight as our fathers
fought for the cause of freemen every
where. Nor will we stop to count the
cost, for we know that we will realize
a recompense from this war, as from
all the others. And the compensation
will come to us in a thousand different
ways—in direct proportion to the char
acter of the conflict we wage and the
sentiment that inspires the sacrifice.
THE FOOD DRIVE
The greatest food drive of tlje war
is now on. . There have been many
big drives—the first Liberty Loan, (he
Red Cross, the second Liberty Loan.
The American people have respond
ed as only the American people can.
Money to wage war and money to
care for the victims of war has been
given.
I he present drive is larger and
more far-reaching in importance than
all the others. The two Liberty loans
and the money given the Red Cross
will be useless and vain if (he results
of this drive are not equally encourag
ing.
T his drive is the Hoover drive. It
is the beginning of the campaign of
the food administration against the
greatest foe of the nation—Waste, and
its ally, Want. The individual house
wife is given an opportunity to show
what she can do. According to the
amount of food she can save, days
be deducted from the length of the
war. Save wheat, save meat, save
butter, save sugar. Use vegetables;
use them in quantities, and your pa
triotic duty will be done.
During the present week, a house
to-house canvass is to be made In an ef
fort to get the American housewife
to pledge herself to help win the war.
The school children, the ministers, the
Boy scouts, the Home Guards and
women's clubs have been enlisted to
work to that end.
PRO-GERMANS OBJECTIONABLE.
From many sources in Fanrbanks
come reports that pro-Germans, par
tlcularly among the foregin element
are becoming objectionable in their ut
terances regarding the war and thf
conduct of the United States. These
outbursts are increasing with tolera
tion by Americans until they are be
coming very annoying to patriotic citl
zens.
I While the United States was neutral
Americans generally tried to observe
the proclamation to avoid utterances
that would injure the feelings of citi
zens of the warring nations who hap
pened to be in America. Now 110- i 1
sympathy with Germany are not show
ing common decency enough to refrain
from blatting their opinions in places
where they can be overheard by patri
otic Americans. They 'are careful not
to overstep enough so that they may
be arrested for sedition but they touch
the border of sedition and treason, and
while they may not he handled by law,
other methods may tie adopted, ac
cording to threats of loyal offended
Americans,
I nner tHese- cfr< umstances and to
check sedition, the federal authorities
are anxious to have all cases reported
to them when anyone makes remarks
detrimental to uncle Sam or his
leaders.
It is probable also that, cases of this
kind will be given the widest publicity,
so that everyone may know just who
the people are who have to be
watched.—Fairbanks News.
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Napoleon would have made a great
success had he set up in business as
a reader of the stars. When in exile
at St. Helena, he said: "I made the
mistake of my career tvhen I had the
opportunity that I did not remove the
Hohenzollerns from the throne of
Prussia. As long as this house reigns
and until the red cap of liberty is
erected in Germany, there will be no
peace in Europe.”
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The wife of an army officer promi
nent in the Presidio Social Circles
had a vision of her husband, whom
she hao sued for divorce, charging
across No Man’s Land at the head of
his company and the next morning ahe
instructed her attorney to have set
aside the final decree of divorce. Thus
war proves to be a peace maker.
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What an awful mix-up awaits the
Atkinson triplets, born on a Rock Is
land train in motion. Two are natives
of Kansas; the third a Coloradan.
One was born at Ruleton, another at
Kanorado and the third at Peconic.
They will have a lively time as they
grow older making inquisitive per
sons understand that, notwithstand
ing they are triplets, each has a birth
place of his own.
SOLDIERS MAKE
MS
(By United Press)
LONDON, Nov. 3. — Many strange
human documents in the form of wills
and last testaments are made in the
trenches. Before going into battle
Tommy sometimes scrawls a few
words on a scrap of paper, disposing of
his chattels in case he gets "done up."
Almost anything that indicates the
will of the dead man is accepted as a
legal will, and the war office deciphers
them as best they can and puts them
into effect. A North countryman left
the following:
"Whoever first sets eyes on this gets
everything I leave,
For my kith and kin are dead and gone j
and I’ve not a friend to grieve;
Theresa a tidy bit in the bank, you’ll
tind, and my army pay, though
small,
So, stranger, breathe one sigh for me
and you’re welcome to it all.”
Curiously the young sergeant who
found the body and first "set eyes on"
the will was awarded the property
and found a tidy sum in the bunk.
Some of the wills are found to be
fictions. The Tommy enjoys willing
to. his riends vast estates, automobiles
and yachts that he doesn’t possess —
and causing the war office a lot of
trouble.
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$1,000,000.00
And More In Resources Is Now Possessed
by the Bank of Alaska System
A Young Institution to be sure but conservative handling of
Funds and Considerate Treatment of Patrons is f
’ producing what it’s organizers intended,
“An Institution of Strength
and Character.”
1 ank of Alaska
ll Looking ahead to November 15th, 1942, can see the thrifty
citizens, children who now possess Liberty Bonds, arranging f
redemption of their Bonds and receiving the accumulated
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