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NOME, ALASKA, SEPT. 6, 1916.
The reply of the Post • Ullce Depart
ment to the Chamber of Commerce
communication, relative to the mail, no
doubt furnishes a most satisfactory
explanation of why we do not receive
the mail except at intervals of several
weeks apart, but at the same time it is
anything but satisfactory to the person
who has to do the waiting. The com
munication indicates clearly that the
department is not to blame for the mail
being held up for such lengthy periods
during the open season, and in addition
is making every effort to give us as
good a service as is possible under the
circumstances. Apparently no one is tt
blame for the unfortunate state of af
fairs; not even the steamship com
panies, although one may be inclined
to feel that by tempering their de
mands, the companies could in some
degree help to better conditions. The
demand that the government pay the
full price of service regardless of
whether a vessel carries mail or not
appears remarkably like an attempt to
hold somebody up but at the same time
this conclusion is hardly justified a3
the steamship companies alone are
qualified to judge as to the value of the
services rendered under a mail con
tract. The whole trouble apparently
lies in the steamships maintaining
schedules closely corresponding in the
dates of sailing. While we may de
plore this unfortunate fact, it is dif
ficult to see wherein the service would
l)o benefitted to any particular degree
by dispatching the mail on every ves
sel. Some slight gains in time might
be made is all outgoing vesels were
mall carriers but this would have no
particular effect on the inbound con
signments. Throughout the season the
Victoria and Senator l>6th leave Seattle
at intervals seldom more than a day or
two seperated and as long as this con
dition exists it is clear that the service
cannot be benefitted in any particular
degree. Although this is unfortunate
for us it is so and cannot be helped in
any manner to be seen at present. The
■ government cannot force the steamship
companies to change their dates of sail
ing to accommodate the needs of the
mail service and so we must content
| ourselves with things as they are. It
is a deplorable state of affairs but ap
parently there is no relief. It Is sub
mitted, however, that the winter mall
service, good as it is, could receive some
benefit by increasing the weight limit
for Uits section. At the present time
five hundred pounds of mall per trip is
the llmt required by the contract ,
Within this limit must be carried the
mall for every section of Seward Pen -1
insula. The result s the delay of a i
considerable quantity of mall matter
and accounts largely for the non-ar
rival of newspapers, magazines and
other weighty mall until late In the;
spring. To many people such matter Is '
just as valuable ee letter mail and they 1
are as justly entitled to receive their
books and magazines as are those re
ceiving letters. Under existing condi
tions the prompt delivery of mall mat
ter of this character is almost impos
sible owing to the first class mail
usurping the preference and occupying
practically the entire weight limit re
' quired under the contract. There Is ap
parently nothing that can be done In
the matter of the summer mall at pre
t sent but there ts room for a conslder
i able lmprovemnt in the winter service
■ which can probably be brought abou
p by a little action on the part of the
Chamber of Commerce and other local
organizations.
Perhaps the most useful lesson in the
present war, to America, has been In
the enormous effectiveness of organi
zation and the utilization of every ele
ment of national resource to the whole-;
seme service of the nation and its
people. In spite of our great construc
tive accomplishments we are a happy
'go-lucky, care-free and careless people.
; In this new world, where nature has
j been so bountiful in its gifts, the neces
sities of existence have come to us
without the need of intensive pursuit
But all this Is changing with the in
crease tn our population, and we are
gradually coming to the old world ne
cesity of conserving and utilizing our
energies In productive channels The
example of Germany tn th# present
war has a wholesome effect upon this
country. Handicapped by superior
forces In the nations opposed to it. the
nation has by effective organization
made a tremendously strong showing
and the organization is not only along
military lines, but pervades every
phase of the national life from the In
dividual and the community to the head
of government. The principle of the
intensive cultivation of the fields—
nothing wasted—th* making of every
element in the equation of existence
count—has extended through the whole
structure of German life and multiplied
by many times the power and produc
tiveness of the people. What Amerisa
could accomplish If it concluded to “ex
tend” itself is shown by the German
example. Bike many men, this na
tion will not realize its full advantages
until the spur of necessity is applied
Germany is showing us our weaknesses
and our possibilities. Already the in
ventive genius of America has been
summoned to common counsel on ways
and means. War’s demands have stim
ulated our production in many depart
ments. and we are being gradually
taught the necessity of utilizing to the
/till the resources and opportunities
that lie in our hands—P. I.
IB SHIPPING LOSSES
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(>ne of the most striking features of !
I the tabulation of the war’s effects on
; merchant vessels Is the losses sustained 1
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by neutral nations.
When the war began Britain's ton
nage was 20,431.643 tons, so that th* ‘
loss of 600,934 tons represents a de- '
crease of about S per cent., leaving out
of account normal increase* through
building and the acquisition of German
Prizes. Germany started the war with
a tonnage of 6,082,061 of which she has
certainly lost a groat deal more than
the 102,062 tons credited to her as
having bet'll sunk outright. There were
no less than eighty German vessels in
terned in Italian ports alone when
Italy declared war.
The exact figures of losses sustained
by tile different nations, both belliger
ents and neutrals, are contained in the
following table:
No. of Gross
Nation tihips lost tone
England .327 609,934
Germany. 34 102,062
Norway. 30 47,771
France. 24 42,283
Denmark. 17 26,621
Sweden. 22 22,903
Holland.13 18,132
Russia. 17 16,024
It; ly, Greece, Persia and
Spain. 7 11.879
United States. 5 9,601
Austria.. 5 6.691
Turkey. 9 2,706
Total.511 915,461
.Vow. turning to the United States
we find that the bureau of navigation
of the Department of Commerce offi
cially listed in the fiscal year termi
nating June 30. 1.22G new merchant
vessels, built in American shipyards
with a gross tonnage of 245,771. This
was quite a little smaller than the fig
ures for 1914, which wrere 1.291 vessels
with a tonnage of 311,678. But during
the ten months the war has lasted, the
American merchant marine was swelled
considerably hy the transfer to Ameri
can registry of 147 foreign-built ves
sels, totaling 528.907 gross tonnage
which brings the increase of our mer
chant marine for the war year up to
1,373 vessels of 744.618, making, as has
been said, the largest annual Increase
in the American merchant marine. Tht
i ther lnrge Increases were those of
1908,, 718.682 gross tons: 1907. 596.708
gross tons, and 1856,*586,102 gross tons
The losses to the merchant fleet have
not all heen reyiorted yet, but so far
the records show 1.062 vessels, with a
total tonnage of 195.052 gross.—New
York Post.
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Interesting than any previous editions
and will contain many subjects other
than mining—in fact a magazine de
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year and there will probably be enough
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Our now catalogue of samples has
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1915 and 1916. The best tailor made
suits to order from $18 up.
We have over three hundred of the
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THE VALUE OF “MANNERS."
We told much of utilities, hut ’tis our
managers that associates us. In hours
of business we go to him who knows
or has. or docs this or that which we
want, and we do not let our taste or
feeling stand In the way. But this ac
tivity over, we return to the Indolent
state and wish for those We can be at
<Ntsa with; those who will go where we
go, whose munners do not offend us.
whose social tone chimes with ours.
When we reflect upon their persuasive
and cheering force; how the recom
ment, prepare and draw people togeth
er; how, in all clubs, manners make the
members; how manners make the for
tune of the ambitious youth; that, for
: tie most part, his manners marry him;
and, for most part, he marries man
ners; when we think what key they
are. and to what secrets; what high
lessons and Inspiring tokens of charac
ters they convey, and what divination
;s required in us for the reading of this
hue telegraph—we see what range the
rabjact has, and what relations to con
ver'enee, power and beauty.—Emerson
“ ’TWAS 8AID”
'Twos said "When roll of drum and
battle's roar
Shall eease upon the earth, oh, then no
more
The deed, the race, the heroes In the
land.”
But scarce that word was breathed
when one small hand
Lifted victorious o'er a giant wrong,
That had its victims crushed through
ages long;
Some woman set her pale and quiver
ing face
Firm as a rock against a man's dis
grace:
Some quiet scholar flung his gauntlet
down.
And risked In Truth’s great name the
Synod’s frown:
A civic hero, in calm realm of laws.
Did that which sudenly drew a world’s
applause;
And one to the pest his lithe young
body gave.
That he a thousand lives might save.
—Richard Watson Glider
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