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NOME, ALASKA, OCT. 27, 1916. j
A Berlin dispatch remark* that I
Krupps, the great German gunmakers,
have subscribed the sum of forty mil
lion mark* to the last war loan asked
by the government, and the huge size
of the loan is pointed to in language
touched In a somewhat laudatory vein
as though the act were a most com
mendable evidence of patriotism.
Whatever may be the accepted view In
ueimany as to the merit of the ac
tion, it seems to be nothing more than
should be expected from the one firm
more than any other that is reaping
the greatest profit from the maelstrom
of death now sucking the life blood of
Germany. The subscription Is certain
ly logical In every way for the Krupps
are reaping a tremendous harvest from
the Fatherland’s unprecedented ex
penditures of guns and gun food and
they should therefore, willingly expend
a part, if no^ the whole, of their
profits in the government paper. Nor
is the case any different with the firms
that are supplying the guns and am
munition to the French, British and
Russians. They are the ones that are
drawing the greatest benefit* and
should therefore be willing to bear
their share of the burden of keeping
tho government supplied with funds
through the period of war stress.
The masSes of the belligerent people
must stint and scrape to provide the
sinews of war, regardless of how heavy
the burden may be or whether they like
it or not. To them the watsmeans lit
tle or nothing save that it strains the j
very fibers of their being no matter j
what may be the results. There is no j
profit in It for them under any condl- '
Hons. On the other hand the arma
ment makers “play on velvet" so to i
speak and grow dally richer from the j
length of the game. ! |
In ante bellum days it was frequent- \
ly suggested that private armament I
works be abolished and this view was !
dally gaining greater strength through i
e disclosures that which seemed to i
prove that such establishments were
ii ling millions yearly to foster mill
j <;i ism in the rival countries. Whether
' his was so or not has never been
proven but it may be reasonably ac
cepted that where there is so much
moke there must be some tire. The
hounds of selfishness are almost be
>ond limitation. Armies have been lost
through the greed of contractors un
patriotic enough to furnish bad sup
plies und faulty axnmuntion.
"Embalmed beef became the syn
onym for graft during our brief clash
with Spain some years ago. The arm
jies of today are grown so huge that
tlie task of properly inspecting supplies
I is practically Impossible. This is not
[to say that all army contractors are
inclined to take advantage of the gov
ernment in tills respect but experience
teaches that many of them are not
satisfied with the ordinary profits their
activities exact even during a period
when the country is driven to ex
tremes in providing for a costly war.
Napoleon, we are told, used to hang
crooked contractors basing his Justifi
cation for such action on the fact that
the national existence was more im
portant than any private life. The
remedy seems ,a most excellent one
and no better has yet been found to
curb a fatal greed. The present war
would doubtless have come had there
been neither Krupps, Creusots or Arra
strong-Whitworth’s for race hatreds
and race jealousies had long sown the
seeds which would surely germinate
into the tares of w'ar. Yet, it is plain
ly manifest that the present crop was
forced to maturity by careful fertiliza
tion carried on by skillful hands, in
cluding the so-called "armament press"
which has magnified and distorted
every situation or untoward incident
of politics or diplomacy.
That all this would be in a great
degree abolished were the war muni
tion plants government owned there is
little doubt, and it is equally reason
able to believe that the chances for
war would also be greatly lessened be
hf the absence of the element
that would necessarily draw the great
est profit from the conditions attend
ing conflict. It is human nature to
t»y to get more and it may therefore
be assumed with reasonable justice
that Arms purveying to the needs of
war will do all that they can to bring
about the conditions most agreeable to
their activities. Krupps may or may
not have had a hand in shaping the
"tents which led to the great conflict
which is making them enormously rich
through drawing a profit from the
bleeding German nation probably
greater than that of any business Arm
in the world but, as they are the ones
who are drawing the greates benefit,
they can do no less than give the na
ion all the monetary aid that lies
within (heir power. That they do so,
n any degree, is in no respect more
than their duty and the act contains
nothing for commendation, regardless
of how extensive such aid might be.
ALASKA
NOTES
There is considerable building ac- J
tivity around McCarthy. The local !
contractor. Mr. Ivorson, has half a
cozen buildings to construct.
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By ordinance the Ketchikan council
has declared that saloons, bowling al
leys and pool rooms shall hereafter
close at midnight and remain closed
until six o'clock the following morning.
C. E. Keene, of Fairbanks, has se
cured a Keysteno drill with which to
prospect his placer ground on the up
per portion of Liivingood creek, Tolo
. ana.
Charles E. Herron, of Sunrise, was
i business caller at Anchorage one day
this week. Mr. Herron is now employ
ing about sixty men on his various
mining and other projects In the Sun
rise district. He reports conditions
very satisfactory and the outlook for
jthat region exceptionally bright, Fio
^ neer.
Captain Greely, at the authorization
of th0 war department, recently visited
Wrangell to make un investigation ol'
tlie propoesd survey und dredging of
the Dry Straits.
The divers who huve been trying to
locate the wreck of the steamer Isl
ander, have given up the attempt, al
though they believed for a time that
they had located the wreck with its
treasures.
The Fairbanks city council has pass
ed an ordinance prohibiting the main
tenance of fox, dog or pig ranches with
in the city limits where more than
two animals of the kind are to be kept.
The story comes from the Koyukuk
uf the death of C. S. Dickhurst, a pros
pector, who subsisted on beans straight
for three weeks, und then ate two
hearty meals within two hours. Dick
hurst was born at Quincy, 111., and was
about 41 years of age.
The Marconi wireless plant at
Ketchikan has been completed and is
now doing a regular commercial busi
ness. A down town office has been
established for the convenience of pa
trons and receives and sends messages
every hour during the day or night.
The bureau of fisheries has refused
to stock a number uf lakes in the
Fairbanks district with black bass and
allied species of fish. The bureau be
lieves that the inland waters of Alaska
should be stocked with salmon and
brook trout for the preservation of the
present fish resources.
Secretary of the Interior Franklin K.
Lane, has declared himself in favor of
a liberal appropriation for railroad
construction in Alaska. To this end he
wil lask the next congress for an ap
propriation of from eight to ten million
dollars, so that the work of construe- |
tion can be rushed during 1916.
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A count of business structures com- j
pleted or under construction in the .
new townslte of Anchorage this week 1
—the sixth week after erection of the
first one—shows a total of 145, of which
103 are substantial wooden ones and
42 are part canvas and part wood to
be replaced in the near future by perm
anent buildings.—Pioneer.
Dawson News—The' handsome new j
stone monument, with bronze tablet l
attached, erected In the Dawson bar- |
I racks grounds in honor of Inspector F.
j.l. Fitzgerald and his three compan
ions of the Royal Northwest Mounted
Police, was tint oiled with due ceremony
this morning. The affair was under the
direction of the F. J. Fitzgerald Chap
ter of the Daughters of the Empire,
and was one of the prettiest and most
impressive ceremonies ever held In the
open air in the Yukon.
Falcon Joslin, the railroad magnate
of the Tanana, who recertly Installed
a wireless plant In the Tolovana and
has a wireless plant in operation in
the Iditarod region, wants to secure
a lease of the Alaska military cable
and telegraph lines and operate them.
Joslin Insist that if the government
will turn the lines over to him he can
cut the rates in half and maintain a
better service. He asks for the sup
port of the people of the territory if
he renews his application to lease the j
lines.
The Ketchikan Miner says: The lit
tle steamer Edith, which Capt. Crosby
has been operating in his wrecking
ventures at the westward, was in port
recently dlling her bunkers for the run
down to the sound. Since leaving this
port a couple of months ago, Capt.
Crosby has been at work on the wreck
of the steamer Olympia at DaTouche
isla .dnndacantoWDhaukehi oclvcBR
island and succeeded in salving ma- j
chinery and fittings worth in the
neighborhood of thirty-five thousand |
dollars. The Olympic was operated by j
the Alaska Steamship Company.
An interesting relic o£ privateering |
days In the civil war when the Shenan
doah of the confederate navy wept the
northern seas of American shipping,
was brought to Seward today by H.
Warner, third officer of the Santa Ana.
It is a shell of the first type, when
tound cannon balls were still in use,
and weighs nearly 60 pounds. The shell
was found on the beach at Udadta head
by a native who was hunting wood,
and carried to the trader at L'nalaska.
It was still alive, the Inside containing
a charge of black powder, but the fuse
had been worn away by the sea, leaving
only the plug, which bears the marking
Ur. 1664. Ord. D.”—Alaska Evening i
Post
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In a communication from the sec
ond assistant postmaster general,
Postmaster T. H. Deal is informed that
the department has taken his sugges
tion of naming the now town in the
Tolovana after Dr. Alfred H. Brooks,
head of the geological survey. Lust
April Postmaster Deal wrote the de
partment, fts follows:
"1 would suggest that the name of
this new town be called ‘Brooks,’ after
Dr. Alfred H. Brooks, the great geo
logist of Alaska, who suggested to the
people that gold might be found
there."
No one In Alaska is a greater ad
orer of Dr. Brooks than the post
master and he says it gave him great
pleasure to suggest to the officials in
Washington that they name the town
after the geologist.
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