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NOME, ALASKA, JUNE 17, 1915.
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The enormous costs of maintaining
the great war in Europe have frequent
ly been referred to by statisticians and
tite monumental totals piled up for
examination are apt to strike the be
holder with awe but. according to
itie testimony of Prof. James Paiten
of the University of Pennsylvania, the
majority of such estimates are not
nearly representative of the actual
costs to which the struggling nations
are being subjected Professor Patten
points out that the statisticians have
devoted their attentions largely to the
maintainance of the armies in the field,
and have made no effort to go beyond
the business of computing the direct
costs to the nation, leaving aside the
equally enormous cost entailed in the
loss of trade and the destruction of
property. The professor sacs that the
estimates based on the costs of main
taining the great armies are fairly cor
rect but that they represent less than
half of the costs which must be charg
ed to the war. It is admittedly impos
sible to arrive at anything near the
actual figures hut the professor us
serts that the property losses in the
war area in Poland and Belgium for
the first year will total at least nine
billion dollars
Added to this must be a loss due to
the disturbance of commerce and in
dustry which will total somewhere in
the neighborhood of six billion more,
bringing the gross loss aside from the
'•■at of maintaining the giant armies,
up to fifteen billion dollars at least.
While agreeing generally with the
figures offered by others, the professor
insists that the computation of costs
attending the maintainenoe of the
armies are based solely on the cost of
maintaining an individual soldier in the
field and take no account of the costs
of hospital attendance and other inci
dental features of war. These raise the
total of expenditures not a little, it is
pointed out, and the statistician there
fore includes them in his total. The
total property loss added to the costs
of army maintainenoe brings the col
lective cost for the first year up to the
tremendous total of over thirty billion
dollars, and these figures, it is admit
ted, are but approximations, the actual
losses being far in eseess of these
figures but include losses impossible to
compute. It Is further estimated that
if these losses fell equally upon all the
nations involved they would represent
a ten per cent reduction in the total
wealth, which is estimated at three
hundred billion
A Mrs. Mary French Sheldon, who
has gained considerable fame as a
writer and lecturer, comes forward
with the statement that she is used to
taking "a large scientific view of life"
and therefore insists that, “polygamy
open, legulh recognized polygamy—
is the only means by which Europe
can be repopulated at the end of the
war." The writer further asserts that
millions of superfluous women will
have to do their duty by the depleted
races of Europe and the only way in
which this can be accomplished is by
recourse to plural marriage." Now we
utterly fail to understand why there is
any necessity for the “depleted races”
to rush to the task of bringing the
[population up pprmat proportions sib
at once, unless It be for the purpose
of supplying more tools for the im
perial masters to lead to slaughter
again. Heaven knows that, aside from
the supposed needs for gigantic arm -
ies, there is no necessity for a great
population neither in Europe or else
where. The world is crowded enough
as it is and the ever growing problem
of existence is daily becoming a great
er burden to the poor who compose
the larger portion of every nation.
Aside from the direct incitement to
immorality Involved In the statement of
the lady it seems utterly absurd. Be
fore the war Europe was so crowded,
and the difficulties of existence were
so great that tens of thousand were
only to glad to get to utrnie place'
where the burden of existence and the
fear of the future were not so heavily
pressed through the crowding up of
humanity In the confined areas of the
European countries Hardly an mi
grant who lands on our shores but will
Insist that the hard struggle for exist- j
once in his own land was due solely to !
the over-crowded conditions, which
statement is amply confirmed by the
economists and the statisticians What
then is the need of a prostituting wo
man kind, even under some guise of
j law and respectibllitjr, In order to re
produce conditions which cannot he
designated as other than inhibitive to
the well being of the individual Such
j ideas are only fit for suppression. That
i women should he turned into mere
body producers under the press of any
necessity is bad enough, but that they
can be doing a duty by either the na
tion or themselves In prostituting their
bodies for the mere need of replen
ishing the population, seems utterly
abhorrent.
ALASKA
NOTES
t From our Exchange* >
Alaska* population ia said to have
increased S.OoO last year. A still great
er increase Is expected in 1915.
Even residents of Alaska show some
lUXcrest in the European war Gut t
Cordova a Greek and a Scandinavian
made a bet on the outsome of the War
saw campaign, by the terms of which
the loser is to walk down to the end of
tlie dock amt jump in the sea
Robert Isaacson, of McCarthy, who
recently visited Dr. Goddard's sani
tarium near Sitka, said to a Cordova
paper: “I was amazed at the accommo
dations and the reasonable prices, as
well as the curative powers of the
springs In time the place is bound to
become famous ”
William J. Graves, erstwhile bar
lender. skating rink magnate and pro
moter of amateur entertainments and
general all-around self aggrandizer in
this place, is now professor of “Bail
Room Dancing and Deportment in
Eos Angeles. It is hoped he will make
his enterprise remunerative to such an
extent that he will stay right there.—
: Whitehorse Star.
The Shamrock mine, at Hogan s bay.
Knight's island, is to he developed on
a large scale, according to M. N. Mast
sno and Gauvoran. who have just re
turned from the property. The former
is a wealthy Japanese of Sesttte. who
has acquired a $10,900 interest in the
Shammosk Mining Company, of Hogan
bay. Mr. Gauvoran is a well known
Seattle attorney, who is aiso interested
In the property—Cordova Times
M. Dempsey, a Cherokee Indiaii. who
has lived in Alaaka for sixteen years
recently returned from a visit to his
old home in Oklahoma When inter
viewed at Seattle he said: “Oklahoma
is all right, but I prefer Alaska. I left
the country primarily in search of
health and found it in th« north. Also
I found other things which keep me
interested there, and I don't believe
that I would ever care to go back to
the monotonous life of a farmer. The
north suits me and has treated me
well, and I intend to stay there.”
The new W. P. & Y. dock at skag
way, to take the pluce of the one re
cently destroyed by Are. will soon be
ready for boats to tie up. The new
wharf will have a straight front 610
feet long with a rsilrosfl track running
down the face for a distance of 526
feet. This track will leave the bluff
just hebind the small warehouse on the
approach and cross the tourist plat
form and approach, reaching the face
of the duck where the old office used
to stand. It will he used for unloading
coal, machinery, hay, and oats direct
from boat to cars, and tourist trains
will run down there directly opposite
boats
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George Franklin, foreman tor the
Tim Vogel logging camp at Tanaka*,
| was caught hy a rolling log tho fore
i part of the week and suffered a com
! pound fracture of the lower right leg.
; He was taken to the VVeyerhorst hos
pital at Douglas for treatment.- Skag
way Alaskan.
Mrs. W. H. Chase was severely bit
ten recently by her dog "Dodo,"
receiving several wounds about the
face, a laceration of the lip, which re
quired several stritches to close, and
suffered the loss of two teeth. Mrs.
Chase was playing with the animal
when he suddenly attacked her, biting
her severely through the cheek, and
tearing her Up so that the doctor was
compelled to take several stitches in It
to close the wound. The dog also
knocked out two of her teeth and
otherwise bruised her about the face.
The dog has been extremely friendly
and no cause can he assigned for his
sudden attack upon his mistress.—Cor
dova Times
That a tough class of citizens have
come to Ketchikan is evident from the
following Item found in the Progres
sive: “It Is about time that a general
cleanup be made. If we want to he
reasonably safe to venture outdoors
The class of men doing the slashing
and holdups in the eitv should he at
tended to without gloves. In the event
that the federal, together with the city
authorities cannot handle the situation,
it would be well for them to call on
a few business men and proceed to do
a general cleanup. Everybody Is ex
posed to attack: but such exposures
can be minimized by a general round
up of those whose presence In the city
is a menace to our peace"
The Valdez Commoner, in speaking
of the Indian question, says: There is
no bigger farce on the statute books of
Alaska than the law governing the sab'
of liquor to natives It is the means
by which the most glaring graft Is
carried on in the territory. It is a
humbug from beginning to end and is
coating more anuuallv than we have
appropriated for wagon roads in Alas
ka Some of the very men who have
been appointed to see that the law is
enforced, sit around at out of the wav
places so drunk thev cannot attend to
husiness even if they were so Inclined,
and then come in with an expense ac
count that would keep the members of
a good sized Indian camp for half the
winter
The Fairbanks Times pats Judge
Chas. E. Bunnell on the back because
he refused to fire the courthouse
. rowd The position of the Times is
not taken hy the many aspirants for
jobs.
Tha t James Wickersham, delegate
from Alaska, will probably spend the
coming summer In Fairbanks, is the
word contained in a letter from the
delegate to his brother, E Wicker
sham
Mrs Fannie McKenzie, of Kantishns,
claims to he the champion huntress of
interior Alaska. During the open hunt
ing season Mrs. McKenzie killed two
big hull moose, one caribou and a black
hear, in addition to a lot of other game.
Judge Bunnell has signed an order
giving permission to Receiver Noyes to
accept $15,060 for what is known as the
Washington-Alaska tank property.
Wade H. .Toslin. formerly station
agent of the Tnnana Valley railroad at
Fairbanks has been appointed man
ager of the road to succeed Chas W.
Joint, who is now in the states.
According to the Knik News the man
who committed suicide at Cache creek
was Frank Turner. He tl w out his
brains with a 45-caliber
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