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The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
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to demonstrate it's ability to sell the people better service at lower cost than private oper ation can supply The Street Railway Commis- sioners, serving without salary are Griffith Ogden Ellis, publisher and editor-in-chief of 'The American Boy," William Benson Mayo, chief engineer of the Ford Company and build CT of the River Rouge plant, and Horace E. Esselstyn, the eng gineer who built the war plant at Hog Island. The general manager is ill., his substitute is the former secretary to Mayor, now Senator, Couzens. And MT. Cou- zens himself led in the honest and able man. agement of the enterprise. His political op- ponents examined the records with micro scopes and X-rays and discovered no evidence either of patronage or graft.
 Whatever management could do would seem to have been done. Yet the voters remembered last November what Mayor Couzens had told them many times-that if the city acquired the street car system the citizens would not be asked to furnish any funds for extensions or
 improvement for many years, and they turned down the program for a bond issue. It will be interesting to see how they vote next month.
 Joy rides cost money. Somebody has to pay. Sooner or later budgets have to be balanced. Municipal operation cannot sell car rides be- low cost and escape a deficit for tax payers to make up Detroit may continue on an M. O. basis-but it is quite another thing to make good on the predictions of giving the people more for less than private operation could furnish
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
RAILWAY EFFICIENCY DIFFICULTIES

Recently the Pennsylvania Railroad rased ifs purchase o1 engines within six months to 600. at cost of $40.00O,000. There could not be a stronger impression of the conviction that increased traffic lies ahead There have been times when railway rates were more 'n- ,,or1ant than service Today service IS moro innortant than rates. When there IS loss on business done lower rates may reduce t1e loss When there are profits to be real'zed the failure of service costs profits manifold any lower rates.
 Gentlemen at Washington who are pro nosing to make the railways more efficient bv reducing their resources should notice that the railways are criticised for inefflclency at time when they are breaking records for efficiency. For the week ending February third the American Railway Association re- norts that loaded cars numbered 117,7oO more than in 1922 For the year to that date the cars loaded numbered 4,245,971, against g. 533,O114 last year. And yet the country's fair demand for service was not satisfied.
 It is the duty of the railways to challenge the propaganda of mistruths against the rall-
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
EXHIBITION OF RARE BIBLES

There is an exhibit of Bibles at the New York Public Library which is proving of un- usual interest. According to Victor Hugo Paltsits, who is in charge, a similar collection could not be gathered anywhere in the world as many of the individual pieces are undupli cated There is a manuscript written in pure gold purple background, that dates from the ninth century, giving the Gospels in Latin. The Greek New Testament, from which Luther made his translation and which Tindale used in making his English translation in 1852, also lis shown. The Gutenberg Bible, the first printed Bible and the first real book printed from movable type, is in the exhibit, dating from about 1453. Two volumes, for one of which Pope Sixtus V. read the copy personal fly, printed on press set up in the Vatican in 1890, also are on display. There is also the first American Bible, printed in Philadelphia in 1782 and an earlier New Testament Bible in the language of the Algonquin In .dians, written by the Rev. John Eliot, the Indian missionary, and printed at Cambridge, Mass, in 1861, is also shown. There are other Bibles in the dialects of the Mohawk, Chip pewa, Chactaw and Cherokee Indians, for some of which special alphabets were invented to express the Indian sounds
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

accused, with the result that his cause is weakened and his arguments discredted. This is no way to correct obvious wrongs, any more than Delegate Sutherland's attack on the per sonnel of the Fisheries Bureau is the way to settle the fisheries question. Hysterical de- nunciations and understandable charges do not get at the root of the matter Alaskan problems have too long served as political footballs.
 Somewhere between the two extremes of corporate and public interest there is just and proper basis on which these questions can be settled. The on y way to reach that basis is to put aside political considerations and personal grievances, interests and prelu- dces, and get down to facts. The sooner the bic corporations doing business in the Terri tory realize that the good will of its residents and the welfare of the country are to their interest. and the sooner the residents of Alas ka appreciate the fact that the Territory cannot develop without corporate concerns, the sooner will both sides come to common basis of agreement The truth is that one IS dependent on the other. And the sooner each admits this fact and ceases to call the other names. the sooner will the two sides get to- gether and the problems be solved. But With charges and counter charges, accusations and recriminations, penalties, impositons, exag- eeratons and freak legislation we'll never get anywhere.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS

With all this fuss about restrictions fishing, who wants to go fishing anyhow, put the hip pocket restriction on? Ketchikan Chronicle
 There progressive in the southern section of division Ketchikan is have a S10OoOO school house while Petersburg has started construction a similar building to cost $39OOo Juneau Capital
 Some one has been sufficiently cruel to suggest that certain members the Legislature leary about passing Leracy bill for the that it's provisions might disqualify them from further votng- Srollers Weekly, Juneau.
 If Alaska is not divided Congress should advance election date in the Territory from early November until early October prayed for in the Raelson moral However, that would require action by Congress- and the contingency should operate prevent the Legislature from changing the date of the Alaska primary election until August-Juneau Empire.
 Anchorage is promised permanent Army Post with companies of troops; another motion picture show, and headquarters for the new radio company The town is working indefatgaby to secure the Signal Corps and the Court House. It might be we'll for the Territory be rolled up in bundle and presented to the enterpring muncipaly.-Seward Gateway.
 We had the pleasure writing letter millonaire and telling him few things his millions have never made him rich enough absorb He's that feller "Who has hobbies-business and Alaska" The feller who proposes to in July endless chain which will take each year 300 good boys and teach them about by keeping them in Canada for several weeks and not allowing them to step foot in Alaska save from the boat the train at Skagway All the boyhood friends had were Michigan boys, ana we are not going stand idly by and them started wrong If that millionaire is the square, the White Pass Route will love simply to death for the straight goods we hand him will result in 300 cancellations of reservations to White Pass seryice-Fairbanks News Miner
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
Medicine for a sick busi- ness is Advertising. tworks wonders while you sleep.

ways ln the manner of the rebuke which the President of the St. Paul gave the Governor of South Dakota He stated that the Inter. state Commerce Commission valued that rail ways at $18,9OO,OOO,0O0 and that the rail ways wanted dividends on that sum, inflated to the present price level. As matter of fact, the Interstate valuation is on prewar basis and ought to be doubled to be correct Whatever the valuation, the railways have never paid interest and dividends on the total, and in 1921 they paid dividends on only 43 per cent of their stock. If the rail ways not allowed to earn enough to buy engines and cars, how can the farmers expect their service to be maintained at the maximum records reported daily? Why not give the railways a chance to earn their living? It will be time enough to raid their resources and break sticks over their backs when they approach the profits thought reasonable in other sorts of business.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
PAYING FOR THE JOYRIDE

The city of Detroit took over its electnc street car lines May 15, last. The clt1zens voted for the purchase with understanding that service was to be bettered and sold at lower rates. The bill as rendered to the tax payers called for $40,0OO,OOO.
 At the election last November the cltlzens intimated pretty clearly that experience had taueht them that "All is not gold that gilt ters.n Under what Detroit calls "M. O.,' meaning municipal ownership, the promised benefits did not accrue When Mayor Cou- zens asked the voters by referendum these questions "Shall we issue bonds for So,ooo,ooo additional for extending the system?' 'Shafl we release the system from the obligation to pave between the rails and beside the tracks ~ and sShall we exclude interurban cars from Detroit streets?'' the voters by big ma ioritv said ''No' to all three. The bond issue question will go on the ballot agaln th1s month, and "M O. is again the outstanding subject of debate Detroit is confronted With necessity of finding ways to finance costly publicly owned transportation system. and at the same time the city has reached the limit of its bonding power and must go to the Legislature for its removal.
 I'M. O." was to yield dividends to every body who rode in the electrics. Fares would he cheaper. Fares after ten months are still five-cents with a one-cent transfer charge There is no prospect of their being reduced. There is a prospect of their being increased.
 Service was to be improved. When the city took the D. U. R. the road had l'3o9 ears. It hardly has more now, for. while It has purchased 200, and half these have been delivered, it has more than 100 under repalrs week bv week. One route shows decrease ot 27 cars.
 Efficiency has not increased. Congestion is as bad as when outcry loudest aganst d;soraceful crowding under the old reg1me Tho Board of Commerce is distributing hter- ature to show the why's and wherefores or conoestion all of which merely proves that
 ub]ic ownership does not instantly disslpate o11 the difficulties with which private oper- aton has to deal. A mower shortage is imminent. The Public Tipht Commission is figuring on building a new plant to provide power at cost or more than $12OOO, ,OOO-to be paid by taxation.
 The people expected the lines to pay then own wav at fare less than private owner ship charged Statements showed "surpl us v averaeing about $93, ,999 month. But-there was no allowance for depreciation! Nor has there been any provision for extensions and |;,onrovements That was "paper surplus v Significantly the I'M. o. slogan has changed. When the purchase was made the slogan was 'Iower fares" Today it is "Ser- vice without profit" That prepares the way for higher fares.
 There is good foundation for the argument that public operation has had fair chance
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10

Thus far in the pistol battles between bootleggers and Government officials the bootleggers have won most of the victories and the officials have filled most of the graves Sad, but true.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-10-12
CHAPTER ~
War and a Debut


Momentous things happened in the
winter before the opening of the Civil
war, and Ann Byrne, then in. her six
teenth year, spent thrilling six
months hearing them discussed.
Sympathy for. the cause of the South
centered in New York, for a good pro-
portion of the newspapers in town de-
Tended the doctrine of secession, and
feeling ran high.
From the time she first heard of
him Ann had been champion of Abra-
ham Lincoln, although she could not
have said why. Certainly she got none
of her enthusiasm from the people
about her, for even Mr.. Cortlandt had
New Workers. distrust for a leader
from the rural West.
When the news of Mr.. LincoIn's NOM
nation reached New York, Ann was
the sole member of gathering at her
guardians house who did not regret
his success. "My ward" Mr.. Cort-
landt had said, smiling somewhat wry-
ly, sis great admirer of the rail
splitter. She has never agreed with
the rest of US In our belief that Mr..
Seward is the man to save the situa-
tion." Ann was somewhat embar-
raised, but she was>proud OF herself.
too, and of her capacity to pick win
ner.
The election of Abraham Lincoln
was the signal for greater defiance OF
the part Of the South, and much un-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-10-12
NURSE FINDSA
PERFECT REMEDY

"From my long experience as nurse
do not hesitate to say that I cons
slider Tanlac Natures most perfect
remedy" recently declared Mrs. L A.
Borden, 425 Pontius Ave-, Seattle.
Wash. Mrs. Borden Is a graduate of
the National Temperance Hospital,
Chicago, and her wide experience in
caring for the sick lends particular
emphasis TO her statement.
II have used Tanlac exclusively for
seven year, in the treatment of my
charity patients continued Mrs. Bor-
den, "and my experience has been that,
for keeping the stomach, liver. kidneys
and bowels functioning properly and
for toning up the system In general,
Tanlac has no equal. Recently had
a woman patient who could pot even
keep water on her stomach for fifteen
minutes. Six bottles of Tanlac fixed
her up so she could eat absolutely any,
thing. Another patient, man, seemed
unable to digest any food at all. Three
bottles Of Tanlac put him in such fine
shape he went back to work. These
two cases are typical. My confidence
In Tanlac is unlimited"
Tanlac is sold by all good druggists.
Take no substitute. Over 40 million
bottles ld-Advertisement.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-10-12
HousehoIders Are Told by Experts
How Many Troubles May Be
Obviated Simply.

Many of the householder's troubles
with ill-itting doors can be remedied
or prevented by proper painting, &C
cordlng to engineers ar the forest
products laboratory, Madison. Wis.
Although considerable difficulty is ex
narienced with inside doors due to sag
a;no or shifting of the building frame,
a condition hard to deal with. this fact
sbould not discourage attempts to cor
root the many cases of misfit due to
moisture changes in the door itself.
The vulnerable spot, the Achilles
bea of most doors is the top or bot
tom edge. Seldom painted, because 1t
doesn't show" this is point at which
rho wood may take on or lose moisture
ranidly and swell or shrink. AS the
end grain of wood absorbs moisture
more rapidly than side grain, the ends
op the stiles (the outside uprights)
ore most liable to absorb moisture.
These take moisture for some distance
into their length. swell iaterally. and
st,ck on a side edge near top or bot
tom If the door has been closely fitted.
The top and bottom edges In new
doors should be given several coats of
naint or varnish after all planning down
necessary to hanging is finished. and
tho raw surfaces of old doors should
also be painted or vanished at once,
when planning has been resorted to to
stop sticking. This will greatly retard
temporary moisture changes with the
/ ANTIQUITIES that result
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-10-12

New York that Fort Sumter, flying the
American flag, had been fred upon, 1t
lighted the city like torch. Sympathy
with the secessionists was forgotten,
or discreetly silenced, and indignation
arose shrilly from all quarters of the
town.
The general impression was. how
ever, that the defenders Of the post
could easily subdue the attacking par
ty. The papers were full of vainglori-
GUS tributes to northern arms and
northern courage. and the fashion OF
the hour was TO scott at this foolhardy
attempt of the Confederates.
Therefore, in spite of the fact that
the bombardment continued, and that
Major Anderson was slow in crushing
the forces attacking him. the prepara-
tons for AIMS party went on. and.
| notwithstanding the troubled times. on
fhe evening of April 13 the line Of
family carriages reached all the way
| from Mr.. Cortlandt's door to Fifth
avenue; even there it turned, like a
| column of artillery, and stretched
away up that aristocrltic street al
most to the respondent portals of the
Brevoort hotel.
Ann stood beside her guardian. and
in his opinion she was the loveliest
thing in all New York, in that budding
April weather. Mrs. Renneslyer re-
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ceived with her brother on the i'm
portant occasion, and in spite Of her
instructive antipathy to Ain, she was
forced to confess that the girl did her
guardian credit. She said very sweet
ly to Mr.. Cortlandt, that she was
extraordinarily lovely. She had writ
ten to young Hendricks to come over
from Harvard for his uncle's reception,
and she wondered what effect AIMS
sudden transformation hight have on
him. She rather suspected soft ten
dency toward love surprisingly i'm
planted in her son-somehow she had
counted upon his inheriting her metal
lie quality, rather than his fathers
well-known warmheartedness- she
wondered if, after all, this impression
ability might not be turned to ad-
vantage. The debutante heard of his
expected arrival with careless atten-
ton.
1t was almost midnight when Fanny
Cortlandt told her aunt, with little
gasp of relief, that young Hendricks
had arrived, and almost Immediately
he appeared in the doorway. He had
grown somewhat taller. and his
clothes were artfully cut, so that he
did not appear frankly fat; his round
face was filled with open dismay.
"Why-what has happened?" his
mother said anxiously.
The boy looked about him dazedly,
as though for moment he could not
adjust himself to the fact that dane
ing and gaiety were going on. you
haven't heard, sir, have your he said
to his uncle, solemnly. Fort Sumter
has surrendered"
"Ohr" cried Mrs Renneslyer shrilly.
''That means war!" Her pretty face
blanched at the thought.
Mr.. Cortlandt stood for a moment,
staggered; then he advanced into the
middle of the room and made an i'm
perative gesture that silenced the
musicians.
my friends" he said, and his cold
| formal voice shook, 1--WE have had
enough of dancing Fort Sumter has
fallen"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-10-12

ton. Mrs. Cortlandt shed few gen.
tie tears and prettily besought her
brother-in-law to be kind to his charge,
but Ann only hung desperately about
her mothers neck, dry-eyed and silent
In looking back on the leave-taking II
always seemed to her that In the mo-
ment before the gangplank was with.
drawn, she grew appreciably older
She never forgot the feel of her moth.
er's cool fresh cheek against her own
or the last lovely glimpse of her
young, agitated and charming, as she
leaned out over the stern, between the
churning side-paddles. crying and
smiling together, and waving and kiss
ing both her hands to the old man and
the child on the dtek.
Her mother had been gone only q
fortnight when. one snowy afternoon
Mr.. Cortlandt returned home earlier
than was his custom. Ann knew al
once. as soon as she had run to meet
him, that something terrible had nap
pened, because he was so sorry for her
The compassion in his eyes awakened
all the bravery in her soul. The worst
had happened; there had been a col
lision at sea, and a scattered few pas
sengers, picked up by another ship
had returned to tell the tragic tale Of
the doomed Arctic. which had sunk of
the banks, while only two days ou
from New York. For time Mr.. Cort
landt refused to give up hope, ant
every day he went to the Offices of tn,
Collins line; but as time went on hi
was forced to abandon any expecta
ton of the rescue of his brother anl
his bride.
Back in America, President Pierc,
! then cast about among his supporter.
for another minister to Switzerland
and in Washington square Mr.. Cort
landt devoted himself to comforting
passionately rebellious child. Her sor
row, he knew. would pass. and fo
himself he felt a curiously poignan
regret at the sudden end of his Lowell,
and foolish young sister-in-law-,
deeper regret, possibly, than if she hat
been less lovely and more wise.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-10-12

would have climbed into the back seat.
had his uncle not restrained him.
I'm front. Hendricks. II you please.
with Tom. Ann rides with me-"
With quick clean spring the coun-
try child was established. and Mr..
Cortlandt followed her with a some
what malicious smile. AS he tucked
the fur robe about her he knew that
with so simple an effort he had done
much to establish Ann as his favorite.
Behind them the relations. in the
Theodore Renneslyer's smart sleigh.
were dismally discussing her. 1--WE are
fools to allow 1T" Mrs. Renneslyer
said angrily. IF the girl had looks
declare | should be convinced of the
necessity of our taking steps!"
Yes" agreed Mrs. William. "but
what steps, Clarissa?" And for once
her sister-in-law had no answer ready.
Mr.. Renneslyer swung around to
Join In the conversation. "She's got
spirit. by CAD. No wonder Hendricks
likes that! And I'm not so sure.
Clarissa, that you are right about her
looks. Those queer big eyes of hers! !
Give her time to grow up to em. and
then see I"
The ladies laughed. for here they
were on sure ground. Don't be more
ridiculous than you can help. Theo."
his wife said briefly. You are getting
to be silly old man-you see beauty
in anything feminine!"
Even Fanny tossed her meek head.
Ann pretty?" she echoed. "Oh. Uncle
Theo, what an idea
You'll have to find some better
reason than that for Hendricks infatu-
ation.'
well. by CAD. she's fond of the old
boy, you know. | suppose,
really, Hendricks Is a human being.
underneath all his formality. Ann
thinks he is, have no doubt. and I'll
take odds he likes It."
The women looked at each other un-
comfortably; there was more in this
conjecture of Theodore Renneslyer
than they liked to admit.
When Hendricks came home for din
ner he confided to his mother that Mr.
COrtlandt expected Ann to call him
uncle. "Just like Fanny and me-" he
added arrogantly. "Some day he'll be
sorry, you'll see."
Hendricks" she said crispiy. sit is
much more likely to be you who Is
sorry"
After supper in Washington square,
when Mr.. Cortlandt would have set
tied down to his book, Ann stood stub
bOrnly before him. He looked up
ironically inquiring.
why don't those people like me?"
she demanded defensively.
What people?"
"Oh, those Renneslyers-that fat
boy and his mother-and Fanny's
mother, too"
Possibly they think that l am
growing too fond of you"
Ann shot a sidelong glance at Mr.
Cortlandt; no, he was not smiling. "If
that is the reason, don't mind" she
declared happily. Il don't want any
one to like me-only your
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"Why not, you are the pretti-
est girl ! know!"
Making Doors Operate Easily
CTO BE CONTINUED,

In view of the liability to damage
through dampness. it is well not to in
stall or store doors in new house I'M
til all plastering and cement work has
dried out.
In the case of garage and other out
side doors, thorough painting is even
more necessary than with inside doors,
as moisture variation Is the most fire.
quent cause Of trouble with this type
of door.
1t is well to store a new garage door
in an unheated building for several
weeks before hanging to allow it to
reach moisture content in equilibrium
with that of the outside air. After all
planning down is finished the foor
should be painted on both sides and all
four edges, particular attention being
given TO the top and bottom edges as
in the case of inside DOORS Thorough
painting will retard the excessive mois-
ture changes which may cause swelling
at an edge or warping Of the door as q
whole.