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A MILLIONAIRE’S “PHILANTHROPY’’
A private enterprise has probably never before in the history of
this country received so much free advertising as has the l ord Motor
Company of Detroit. With seeming magnanimity, the head of that
concern some months ago put into effect a “profit-sharing ’ plan, and
announced that not even the humblest of his thousands of workmen
should receive less than $3 per day. The announcement was looked
upon askance by men of experience in industrial matters, who had
been taught to “beware of the Greeks bearing gifts.”
Immediately the.works of this shrewd company were besieged by
men looking for employment under such favorable conditions, and of
course there was keen competition by those already employed to hold
onto their jobs. The result has been that late dispatches from Detroit
chronicle the laying off of 6,000 men on account of overproduction.
Not only this, but the author of "profit-sharing” undertook to regulate
the habits and environments of his employes. He forbade them the
use of tobacco in a certain form, and discharged men for not “living
up to their improved circumstances. In fact, he assumed a patri
archal authority over them by reason of paying them a reasonable
wage, which he publicly stated they fully earned. An Eastern paper
has the following interesting comment on Mr. Ford and his methods:
“Now w'e know why Henry Ford, motor car manufacturer, was
forced to divide several millions of dollars of Ins extraordinarily large
profits to his employes. He couldn’t get them to stay otherwise. The
deadly monotony of the work caused them to rebel. They quit. It
cost Mr. Ford much money to train new workers to such a high point
of efficiency that they would maintain or surpass the record for giving
the final twist to some specific nut—-not Mr. Ford—or to chip a piece
of steel in the most rapid and effective manner for 300 days every year.
So, to keep them at work—to prevent them from straying off into
other motor car manufacturing fields, where they might have sufficient
diversity of employment to maintain their mental equilibrium, Mr.
Ford is trying the expedient of higher wages. Condemned to a mo
notonous, colorless mechanical existence, the employes must be paid
commensurately. All this is gathered from an analysis of the Ford
idea made by Dr. Graham Taylor in the Chicago Daily News. Mr. Tay
lor went to Mr. Ford's factory at Detroit to find out about it. Reading
between the lines, one finds the real reason for the Ford dispensation
of coin. It wasn’t altogether philanthropy. Something had to be done
to keep the men at work at the high speed which makes it possible to
turn out motor cars at the rate of one every two minutes or two every
one minute—we never can remember which—and preserve the enor
mous profits of the demon automobile manufacturer. What deadly
monotony, due to the utter lack of variety in the Ford plant, does,
may be gathered from the fact that in one month during 1912 no
fewer than 3,594 transient men stayed at work only five days, 286
others quit, 776 were discharged, and to make good all these losses,
5,678 new men were hired. To hire a man and place him in the de
partment where he belongs was found to cost about two hours and
ten minutes of another man’s time. At 30 cents an hour this meant
an expenditure of $3,250 a month, or nearly $40,000 a year, merely
lo introduce new men into the works.”
The Ford company maintains an assembling plant in Seattle, and
the Sun of that city describes a detail of the system in vogue there as
follows:
"The local plant has increased the speed of the work by putting
the service boys on roller skates. The mechanics do not leave their
places, but call out what parts they want through annunciators. The
service boys glide around on roller skates, and quickly bring the nia
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This hotel has been remodeled and repapered throughout, and
now the most convenient, comfortable and up-to-date house
the city.
ELEGANT ROOMS GOOD BUNKS
Second and Willow Streets _
terials. The saving in time accomplished by the skates favorably af
fects the daily output.”
Nature’s means of locomotion are altogether too slow for a con
cern engaged in “profit-sharing.”
George F. Baer, president of the Philadelphia & Reading rail
road, long the master spirit of the anthracite industry of Pennsylvania,
who, during the great coal strike about a dozen years ago, gained the
title of “Divine Right” Baer, because of an utterance alleged to have
been made by him “that the right of owning, protecting and increas
ing one’s property is of divine origin," died at his home in Philadelphia
recently. His biographer says of him: "Although labor unions were
his aversion, he enjoyed the reputation of being willing to give to the
miners as individuals a fair hearing.” In other words, he did business
on the same principle employed by the sure-thing gambler—only on
condition that he held p “cinch hand.” The aggregations of capital
over which he presided would not deal with combinations of working
men, but to “miners as individuals" they would give a "fair hearing.”
The folly of senseless booming of Alaska is being illustrated by
the number of impecunious men looking for work wno are being
dumped into the seaports of Alaska, lured by the enthusiastic but mis
guided predictions of the results to the territory of the building of the
government railroad. When it is realized that actual construction will
probably not be commenced for two years, the wickedness of this
booming is apparent. A statement credited to the governor of Alaska
in Seattle recently, that Alaska in twenty-five years “would have a
population of 10,000,000 people,” is somewhat iurid, to say the least.
The Eastern newspapers and magazines are publishing an elegant
naif-tone illustration of a Fairbanks home, surrounded by beds of beau
tiful flowers. There is no reason why iditarod homes should not all be
similarly beautified. The soil, sunshine and moisture are provided in
bountiful quantities by nature, and The Pioneer lias seeds to give away.
The Fourth of July celebration in Iditarod this year promises to
be a grand success. The patriotism of the people of this section will
be given free rein, and everybody is expected to join in and make the
celebration what it should be—a day of merry-making.
A news item in the Cordova Alaskan intimates that the newly
appointed assistant district attorney for this district, Mr. Gardner, is
to succeed Mr. Crossley as district attorney as soon as some of the
pending business of the office is disposed of.
A SUSPICIOUS COMBINATION
A rumor is persistently going the rounds
that there is a certain class of men through
out Alaska that are trying to organize what
is called a “combination" to defeat our
delegate to congress at the coming election.
Presumably in appreciation of his work.
The dog biting the hand that feeds him.
What can that “combination"—or any
body else for that matter—have against
Wickersham, is more than a man with only
an average intelligence can fathom. Even
the men who have always opposed him
freely concede that he has done remarkably
well for Alaska. Then why be grouchy?
Surely it cannot be only party line that
is objectionable, for why need we be so
particular about party lines when we are
not even allowed to govern ourselves?
We Alaskans ought to be content to have
the best man represent us in congress, be
he Democrat, Republican, Progressive or
anything else. President Wilson has un
equivocally approved every action of the
delegate. That is, or should be, sufficient
evidence that our representative is satis
factory to the administration. When men
ignore all these facts and connive to defeat
such leaders as Wilson and Wickersham,
their motive may well be questioned.
There are men who are in politics for
what there is in it and not for the good
of the country. They don’t give a whoop
whether the country is developed or not
so long as they hold offices, or the power
to distribute them.
A glance over the situation leads us to
believe that the so-called “combination” is
composed of just such men as that. Fortu
nately, the workingmen have been “wised
up" to the game that only a “tried and
true Democrat” is eligible for the nomina
tion of delegate to congress under this ad
ministration. They cannot fool the voters
at the next election. They are onto the
combination.- Petersburg Progressive.
“TO SERVE MANKIND”
(New York World)
How mean and petty much of the criti
cism of the President’s Mexican policy seems i
in the light of the noble address that he '
made at the Brooklyn navy yard in paying j
his tribute of honor to the sailors and ma
rines who died at Vera Cruz!
“We have gone down to Mexico,” said
Mr Wilson, “to serve mankind, if we can
find the way,” and we doubt if there is a
single human being in the United States
j who honestly believes that the President
has any other purpose.
It would be so easy to play politics with
! such a situation. It would be so easy to
! lead the nation into a war of aggression,
even though, as the President says, “a war
of aggression is not a war in which it is a
1 proud thing to die.” It would be so easy
to play the demagogue and the blatherskite,
so easy to inflame popular sentiment, so
easy to create a state of public opinion in
which war would be inevitable. War ad
ministrations are rarely unpopular. War
administrations are seldom denied a verdict
of approval at the polls. That is human
nature.
Charles Estmere arrived Wednesday
morning from his three months’ prospecting
trip at Canyon creek, in the Kuskokwim.
He says he did not see anything there good
enough to induce him to remain. He re
ports that the two boats, Bender Bros, and
Ruby, arrived at Bethel, each with a cargo
from the Outside. Passengers on the Bender
Bros, were Danny Brice and Mr. Golder,
manager of the Northern Commercial Com
pany at St. Michael. The N. C. Co. hav
ing abandoned its stores at Kolmakoffsky
and Georgetown.. “Kid” Fisher. Wienaup
and Meyers have shipped in a stock of mer
chandise and intend to open up a store at
Kolmakoffsky.
The committee who have had charge of
the remodeling of the new Moose hail have
been doing great work. A new roof and
floor have been built, and the hall is being
papered. Everything will be finished in time
for the big Moose ball on the Fourth of
July.
Jerry Ford has been laid up the past week
with a broken rib, which he received last
Saturday. While coming to town on horse
back his saddle slipped and he was thrown
to the ground.
United States Marshal L. T. Erwin re
cently appointed Mrs. B. H. Moran as ma
tron at the Fairbanks federal jail. Mrs.
Betsy Milum, who formerly resided in this
city, was made assistant matron.
ALASKA WAS RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE MONROE DOCTRINE
Congressman Albert C. Johnson of Wash
ington, during a speech in the house of
representatives on January 28 last, on the
Alaska railroad bill, delivered the following
very interesting historical review:
When in June, 1823, John Quincy Adams,
secretary of state, informed Baron de Tuyll,
the Russian minister at Washington, that
the American continents “are henceforth
not to be considered as subjects for future
colonization by any European powers” and
■‘that wo should consider any attempt on
their part to extend their system to any
portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to
our peace and safety,” the Eastern states
were notified that there was a Pacific coast
over which we must stand guard, and what
was vaguely called the “Oregon country”
began to be an issue in American politics.
The warning carried by Secretary Adams’
words in the summer of 1823 was directed
primarily against Russia, as that country
had taken possession of what was then
known as Russian America, the Alaska of a
later day, which we purchased from her in
1867, and she was extending her settlements
southward along the Pacific coast. This
was the germ of the Monroe doctrine, as
enunciated at greater length and more cir
cumstantially in that President’s message
to congress half a year later, but Secretary
Adams was its real author, so fur as any one
man deserved that name, for the principle
was proclaimed by Washington in his fare
well address of 1796 and found expression
in some of Jefferson’s later state papers
also.
A Shadowy Title
Thus, almost before it was a local habi
tation or a name, the so-called “Oregon
country” let the rest of the world know
that it was a locality to be reckoned with,
.-pain renounced all pretensions to it in the
treaty of 1819, by which it gave up Florida
to us, and we promised that we would not
to attempt to assail any claims which Spain
might assert to the region west of the
Sabine, the Texas of a later time. After
Secretary Adams’ prompting to Tuyll. Rus
sia in 1SIM surrendered her shadowy title to
“Oregon,” leaving England and the United
States as the only contestants for ascend
ancy there. Between these two countries
the dispute was left open for twenty years
longer, by which time colonization had gone
to the rescue of the United States, and in
1846 England withdrew from all the terri
tory south of the forty ninth parallel. Per
haps the United States ought to have re
tained the whole “Oregon country” up to
54 degrees 40 minutes, or Alaska, but as
we were about to engage in war with Mex
ico, in which we gained territory which was
more immediately valuable, many persons
at the time thought we made a fairly good
bargain.
Necessity for Monroe Doctrine
Here we see that what is now Alaska
really provoked the Monroe doctrine of
December 3. 1823. Part of the declaration
was incited by the purpose of the Holy Al
liance. the leading spirit in which was Czar
Alexander I of Baron de Tuyll’s country,
which had for its object the overthrow of
the independent governments set up by
Mexico, Peru. Chile*. Bolivia and the other
Latin-American nations which had broken
away from Spain in the two or three pro
\ ions years. These reactionary countries
were Russia, Prussia, Austria and the
France of the restored Bourbons. Under the
direction of the allies. France had already
invaded Spain in the summer of 1823 for
the purpose of upsetting the constitutional
government which the Spanish people had
created, and some of the allies, France
among them, were to send armies over to
Lie western side of the Atlantic and assail
Mexico and her partners south of the Rio
Grande.
This was an audacious scheme, and might
have succeede i had not the United States
c-T.ed a halt in the conspiracy. The I ..un
American countries were poor and feeble,
and were wrangling among themselves. But
the government at Washington had the
sympathy of England in this matter, which
wanted to retain the profitable trade which
it had gained with the new nations. The
United Stales promptly sent out its note
of warning, the plot was defeated on D^
cember 23, 1823. and hands off the Ameri
can continent became henceforth a cardi
nal principle in United States diplomacy.
But after the purchase of Florida we did
not own what is now the United States.
Texas and the country through to and in
clining all of California were still outside.
Texas came into the Union of her own ac
cord. followed by war and by boundary
troubles, which were settled by the United
States going to the Rio Grande. That did
not secure California to us, but John C. Fre
mont, the pathfinder, was out that way and
promptly claimed that country for us. Mex
ico then sold California and New Mexico
to us for $15,000,000 and shouldered onto
us debts amounting to $3,000,000. A little
later we completed the Gadsden purchase,
to settle the Mexican boundary question,
and paid $10,000,000 for a tract of land but
45,000.000 square miles in extent.
All Were Great Problems
All of these bargains did not go through
without great dissension and discussion in
congress. Many men of great prominence
were doubtful. How simple all of these
steps seem now when we read them as re
corded in the plain paragraphs of a gram
mar school history. California in a few
years found enough gold to pay the whole
bill, while in the Gadsden purchase has
been mined a very large part of the ore
of the United States.
In my opinion the next step in the chain
of progress was the opening of Japan by
Commodore Perry in 1854. That was the
magic touch that aroused old Mother Asia
from the slumber of centuries and quick
ened force that should cause us to be ever
alert.
Next comes the purchase of Alaska itself,
in 1867, from Russia, for $7,200,000. How
Seward was abused! What bitter speeches
were made on this floor! Had Russia held
Alaska I am inclined to believe that today
the situation on the Pacific would be dif
ferent from what it is now, and very differ
ent from what it will be 20 years hence.
Next were the opening of the land-grant
railroads and the development of home
steads. Every tsep added to the resources
and the prosperity of the nation.
We annexed Hawaii in 1898. Then Porto
Rico and the Philippines were ceded to us.
One at the eastern approach of the canal,
the other to the west. Was a Divine Provi
dence guiding us?
Next the Alaska boundary problem was
settled by arbitration, the new line follow
ing the mountain crests ten leagues back
from the ocean, instead of crossing the leads
of inlets, as the Canadians asked. This step
was just as important as all which had
preceded it.
Then came the discovery of great beds
of coal in Alaska. And then attempt of
great capital to control and develop these
finds. Next the withdrawal of these, bring
ing to an end forever the development of
new and pioneer territory by aggregations
of capital.
Final Necessary Step
And since development cannot be without
great capital, what is the next step It is a
government railroad, built as a pioneer line,
which does not and cannot mean an enter
ing wedge for the general government own
ership of all railroads in continental United
States. Not a bit of it. This railroad means
that Alaska, unlocked, shall be opened,
peopled and made prosperous, to take its
place as our sentinel and our key to the
new Pacific.
GLEAE CASE
OF SUICIDE
A letter to Deputy United States Marshal
Percy Charles from Harry Sheppard, deputy
marshal at Ophir, received last Wednesday,
tells of the investigation made into the
death of the man the finding of whose body
was recently reported to the authorities,
and who was supposed to have been the
victim of foul play. Deputy Sheppard and
Oonjmissioner Vinal left Ophir on June 20,
and at McGrath subpoenaed six men to
accompany them and act as a coroner’s
jury, and proceeded to the place where the
body was found near a slough of the Kus
kokwim just above the mouth of the Tokli
wiksak, about 150 miles from McGrath.
A man named Becker, who was the closest
neighbor of the dead man. and who dis
covered the body and sent word by Indians
to Commissioner Ed Stier several weeks ago.
was taken along as a witness. On arrival at
the cabin the officials found the body of the
dead man in a sitting position on the floor.
He had taken his rifle between his knees,
made a couple of half hitches around the
stock with a rope, passed the rope through
the trigger guard and around the back of
the butt of the gun, placed the muzzle of ,
the weapon in his mouth and pulled the i
rope. His mouth had been badly burned, !
and one side of his head was blown oil. j
The evidence tended to show that the act i
was committed on the 7th or 8th of April
last. His stock of grub and furs was found
intact.
The evidence was conclusive that it was
a case of suicide, there being not the slight
est grounds for suspicion of foul play, and
the jury found a verdict accordingly.
Although no papers of any description !
were found by the officials, it was learned j
that the men was a native of Sweden named |
John Parson. Nothing whatever could be (
learned as to his antecedents.
The investigation by the commissioner j
and (iej uty marshal set at rest the rumors |
that have been in circulation of the finding \
of another body in the same region under j
circumstances indicating murder, as it is
evident that the rumors all related to the ]
same case.
—
Miss Helen Grant, the Discovery school
teacher, was in the city Tuesday.
Charley Worden returned to the city on
Wednesday last.
Jim Haley was in town Wednesday from
' Discovery, where he is employed on the
R:l»y A Marston dri ige.
Dave Edwards and wife, of Ophir, ar
rived here on Sunday last on the Flyer,
i They left down the river on the same vessel
| Wednesday evening. Mrs. Edwards is on
I her way Outside.
j Duncan Michie is in town on hi> way
to Ruby. He will leave on the first boat.
W. H. Brooks returned from the Outside
Thursday.
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E. M. STANTON,
Attorney at Law
Office Second St., Iditarod, Alaska
Next to Iditarod Hotel
J. C. MOODY,
Attorney at Law
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Office: Second Avenue
W. F. HARRISON,
Attorney at Law
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Second Avenue, Near Marshal'! Office
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THE HOWARD WATCH
•rr he world's record For speed on the
ot water is held by a motor teat
45.22 miles an hour. A mea.-mcwl
tii milt- m les- than one minute and
twenty seii.ml5— Howard Time.
Forget for a moment that speed-boat
racing is a sport. donsider its practical
results. At anv given price, compare the
motor boat of‘today with that of a few
rears back.
in everv American industry you will
;rall progress to bard-beaded ef
i :i- to beat the record for efficient use
of time.
Wln-n vo11 see a concern forging ahead
of rniupeut on. stamping its individuality
• n the trade—there you will tmd the
HOWARD type of man putting tin thing
a«T"Ss.
The HOWARD Watch owner may be the
titular head of the concern, the superin
tendent or department manager. It is Just
as likeiv to be some inspired youngster,
who would probably disclaim any part in
in "Hiding t lie career of the business. As
if he could help exerting the power he
does!
A HOWARD Watch is always worth what
you pay for it.
The price or each watch is fixed at the
faatory and a printed ticket attached
from the 17-Jewel (double roller) in a
i; re seen t Fvtra or Boss Extra gold-filled
case at $4n, to the 23-jewel at $150—and
the Edward Howard model at $3 50.
J. L. SALE
IDITAROD
LEADING JEWELER OF THE NORTH
Order
I In the District Court for the Territory or
Alaska, Fourth Judicial Division In
the Matter of a Special Term of Court
at Iditarod, Alaska.
It satisfactorily appearing that It Is nec
essarv Tor the public welfare, and for the
despatch of the business of this court, that
a special term or said court he held at
Iditarod, In Otter precinct, commencing at
It a. m. July G, lull, and the judge or
said court now’ deeming it expedient to
liold such term:
It Is ordered: That a special term or
this court be held at said town or Iditarod.
commencing It a. in. July 6, 1914, and
that the clerk or this court cause due
notice to be given thereof.
Dated at Fairbanks, Alaska, this IStta
day fo May, A. D. 1914.
!■'. E. FULLEI1, District Judge.
Notice of Forfeiture
To A. Arndt, Theresa Arndt and Jos. Mlkuta,
their heirs and assigns, and to all
persons claiming by, through or under
them and each of them:
You and each of you are hereby notified
that the undersigned, co-owner, has ex
pended one hundred dollars during the
vear 10 13 In labor and Improvements upon
that certain placer mining claim
known and described as the “Wild
Cat” Association Placer Mining Claim,
situate three tulles below lower dts
covery on Bear creek, a tributary of the
Tuliksak river, in the Kuskokwim mining
and recording precinct. Territory or Alaska,
Said claim was located on the 2 5th day or
February, 10 12, and recorded In Vo!. 7 or
Locations, at page 33, or the jeeords of
the recorder of the said Kuskokwtm re
cording precinct.
Such labor was performed and Improve
ments made for the purpose of holding
said claim, and constituted the 'Annual as
sessment work for tha year ending Decem
ber 31, 1913.
You and each or you are hereby further
notified that unless you pay your propor
tlon of said expenditures, together with the
cost of this advertisement, to the under
signed within ninety (90) days after the
date of -the last publication of this notice,
your Interest in said claim will become the
property of the undersigned co-owner, un
der Section 2324, Revised Statutes of the
United States. DOMINICK SORAC1,
Co-Owue/.
First publication, May !, 19 14.
Last publication, Aug. 1, 1911. , j