GREAT COST OF THE WAR IS
EXPLAINED RY AN EXPERT
It *vi ■ be a colossal repair bill wh‘h
the thrifty people of the earth must
pay after this war is ended.
A French expert, M. Yves Guyot,
says that <t costs the warring nations
$2.60 a day to maintain each soldier.
There are or soon will be in the field
some 7.000,000 allies and 6,000.000
against them, a total of 12,000.000. re
quiring $30,000,000 of capital a day to
maintain them.
In six months the maintenance bill
will amount to $6,400,000,000, in a year
to $10,800,000,000. But this is only a
part of the bill. This expert says that
the people of France under normal
conditions save $800,000,000 a year and
the English $1.000,000,000—a total of
$3,000,000,000, or the cost of four
months’ warfare.
There is more to he added to the
hill. What of the loss of productive
power of these 12,000.000 fighting men
M Ouyot says that this item will
come to $8,000,000,000 a year.
It that all? No, wait to hear just
one more item the Irreparable dam
age to human machinery involving a
subtraction from capital account of
$3,600,000,000 every year the war goes
on.
I>o your results tally with mine a
total years bill of $26,000,000,0007 If
we Americans could sell at par all the
railroad stock issued against the
250,000 miles, of track and equipment
and could get face value for all the
bonds issued against them we would
full short about $6,500,000,000 of meet
ing'the change for cute year of war-!
fare on this stupendous scale!
Yes, the bill will be paid in time
War costs must he met. We in the.
I’nited States will have to advance’
a very great part of the sum. Not
perhaps while the fighting i cuing ut
we shall nut rare to finance the war
ring nations while they are at grips
but as soon as the peace settlements
are concluded v\e shall be asked t*i
lend our savings for the work of re
pairing war’s waste.
We shall respond to the limit of our
lesources; and what will the limit be
Tim answer must depend largely
upon lu»w thrift\ we manage our of
fairs from this day on. t’hieago News.
Watch the pillows grow in Polet’s
window. O. E. S. Bazaar May 8th.
ALASKA NOTES
(From our Exchanges.)
Indian says: "White man no good,
blows hot and cold same month.” We
dropped into Smith's drug store a few
days ago and saw an electric fan go
ing full tilt. Of course, we asked Mr.
Smith the purpose, and he replied
that it was to warm the room. When
we looked doubtful he explained that
the fan operated as a circulator and
dislodged the hank of warm air near
the ceiling, driving it to the floor.
"It's a great fuel saver," said Mr.
Smith “It drives the warm air down
where you can enjoy it.” Now who
says there is nothing new under the
sun? It appears that electric fans
liave come into use guile recently
for this purpose, and that its work is
demonstrated by careful thermometer
tests.—Douglas island News.
The War Department lias decided
not to abandon diet elegraph stations
at Rampart and Gienn on the Yukon
river.
Ed. E. Chisholm, of Seward, was
killed recently when a log fell on his
head while he was working near the
sawmill.
James Fisher, carpenter working on
the new Kkagwav dock, fell and re
ceived serious injuries by striking on
sharp rocks.
At Yakutat three Indians, having
built a smokehouse on the govern
ment domain, now seek to obtain ti
tle to 480 acres of land.
The steamer Humboldt, operating in
• Southeastern Alaska, is back on her
run again after making a trip to San
Francisco and being converted into
an oil burner.
The remains of Romnna, who was
lost two years ago in the Matanuska
country, were found and buried at
Kliik. according to Deputy Game Wal -
den Erickson.
Chief John of tlio C.akona Indians,
thwarted an attempt of Chief Henry
of the Slachaket tribe to steal two
of his wives recently and now the
chiefs are not on spearkins terms.
Fred iluuey, steamboat inun, return
ed to Fairbanks from tlie liealy river,
staled that a pay streak had been un
covered more Ilian seventy feel wide
which yielded between $1.50 and $2.00
to the foot.
"Jim" Beasley, noted Alaskan 'o
mancer, whose name lias furnished
much copy for the scribes un the New
Vork papers during the past live
years, is now righting witli lb« allies,
according to reports.
Teddy Slephanovich, who left Daw
son for the outside without paying
his debts, was captured at White
horse and taken back to the T ukon,
where the judge said that ninety days
at hard labor would be about right.
It sometimes pays to be honest.
The appropriation fur additional
hatcheries in Alaska, as recommend
ed by Dr. K. Fester Jones, deputy
commissioner of fisheries, having
failed to pass congress, the prospect
of having a hatchery established on
Kyak lake, has gone glimmering for
this summer.
Delegute Wiekersham writes Presi
dent Sutherland, of the Alaska senate,
that Commissioner lliggs informed
him there are now Hi,000 applications
for positions on the government rail
road oil file in his office, over six
thousand endorsed by senators or
other members of congress
Secretary of State Bryan wired to
close the American consulate at Daw
son and ship the seals, records and
papers to the consul general at Van
couver. The business hereafter will
likely be handled entirely through a
vice-consul, the same as at White
horse.
Word lias been received in Fair
banks that the circuit court of ap
peals lias affirmed the decision of the
Fnited States court in favor of the
plaintiff in the case of the Tananaj
Trading Company vs the .Vort 1, Amer
ican Trading & Transportation Com
pany. It involves money- for sale of
boats.
ODDITIES
IN THE
WAR NEWS
With the applause punctuated by
artillery fire, the Scots Guards held a
boxing tournament in a barn nlong
the battln front. Twenty-five bouts
were pulled off in a ring made of
biscuit boxes and tarpaulin.
Sometimes in secret and sometimes
in the guise of dancing lessons, the
tango has reappeared in certain Paris
resorts despite the police order against
music in restaurants. A password is
necessary to gain admission.
At the Hotel Astoria, Paris, where
the Kaiser had Intended to take lunch
on Aug. 11 last, the Japanese Red
Cross nurses are now lodged.
In a speech pleading for the widest
recognition of acts of bravery, former
Premier Briand of France said: "It
must be remembered this will bo the
last war. There will not ho another
for a hundred years.”
Oon. Sir Arthur Paget, entitled to a
field command but never forgiven by
ihc British military authorities for his
alleged part in the plot against Ulster,
lias been given the ornamental job of
taking decorations around t<> distin
guished allies.
American surgeons caring for sick
and wounded Austrian soldiers have
complained in Vienna they arc openly
insulted because they speak English,
and have asked Austrians to remem
ber that about one hundred mill! in
Americans are speaking English
GERMANY STILL HOPES
TO HOLD OLYMPIC GAMES
NEW YORK.—The war is not pre
venting the development of a Ger
man Olympic track team, and Ger
many still hopes to be able to hold the
Olympic games in Berlin in 1916, ac
cording to information contained in a
letter from Carl Diem of the German
Olympic commission to John ,T. Mc
Hugh, inspector of athletics of the
pupllc school athletic league.
Diem told of his experiences in the
hospital, where he is recovering from
wounds received In the fighting in
northern France.
Diem visited this country two years
ogo, when lie took back with him
Alvin Kraenzlein, formerly of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, to coach the
German Olympic team. Kraenzlein
returned to America at the outbreak
of the war.
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SMOOTHED PATH OF LOVE
The ''floating court'’ i* an institu
tion founded by the t’nited States
government for administering judgment
in the far North. An interesting ex
ample of the unusual problems that
confronted Capt A. J. Henderson, one
of the first judges of the court, is told
by Mr Walter Noble Burns in the
Wide World Magazine:
One day. at Point Hope, there ap
peared before the court held on the
Thetis, Captain Henderson’s ship an
old Eskimo and bis wife Thev were
accompanied by their pretty daughter
and two stalwart young men, who
were suitors for her band In choicest
Eskimo that sounded like a series of
explosion* of vocal dynamite, the ven
erable father poured a voluble tale
into the ears of the interpreter
“This man, he say," began the in
terpreter. 'these two fellows want this
gal for wife. One fella r he offer a
rifle, ten pound whalebone, six walrus
tusk, a dog team and sled The other
feller, he give kayak, two reindeer, i
bearskin and six fox skin. This go I
the old man's only daughter He old
and he want good trade Rut he not
know which he best take lie say
maybe you tell him "
Captain Henderson is no Cupid
I'.e stands six feet two and weighs 250
pounds—nut he determined to essay
the role of Cupid’s first assistant.
“You love this girl. ' he asked one
uitor
"Yes.” replied the interpreter, “he
love her"
"And do you love her7" the capt 'ill
asked the other.
“Yes ho love her too."
The captain looked at the girl, who
was a. pretty little thing, something
over four feet high, with coal-blnek
hair plastered down over her temples
and shoe-black, roguish eyes. Let no
one doubt the vital beauty of Eskimo
maids iu the flush of youth and lira ill.
"Here,” said the captain to the girl,
"which one of these men do you wan' "
The interpreter put the question.
The maiden’s eyes grew brighter. L i
cheek a reder crimson, and a env
smile wreathed her lips. She stepped
over to one of the young men unhesi
tatingly and touched him on the arm.
"This one,” she said, and there was
no need for tho interpreter to trans
late.
“All right," said tho captain, with a
roar of laughter, "take him.”
And he married them on the "d.
Straight from the ship back t" the vil
lage the newly wedded eopttle paddled,
to set m* housekeeping to live happily,
no doubt, ever afterward. Tho bride’s
father touched off a few more explo
sions or vocal dynamite in to the inti -
preter’s ear.
‘Ho says,” declared the interpreter
to Captain Henderson, "lie satisfied
Douglas Island News.
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