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SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1915.
WICKERSHAM PROPOSAL NOT
GOOD.
The provision in Delegate Wicker
sham’s road bill that on and after J uly
1. 1916, the proceeds from the occu
pation or license tax collected by the
federal government outside of the in
corporated towns in Alaska shall be
turned into the territorial treasury,
and applied by the Alaska legislature
in certain manner therein set forth,
should be defeated. There is only
one excuse for the continuation of
the Alaska license tax system. That
is its encouragement to congress to
appropriate money from the federal
treasury to go with the proceeds from
the tax toward aiding in the construc
tion of Alaska roads. If that excuse
is to be removed, the whole system
should be abolished.
The taxation of the people of Alas
ka, except insofar as they are taxed
under the general revenue producing
laws of the whole nation, is of right
a matter that concerns only the peo
ple of this territory. The people of
Alaska, through their legislature,
should levy all the taxes that are im
posed upon themselves, and provide
for the expenditure. If the people of
the territory are not capable of this
they are not capable of any manner
of self-government.
The people of Alaska have recog
nized the iniquity of the federal li
cense tax law for many years, but
as it has been a means toward secur
ing appropriations from the federal
government, for Alaska road purpos
es they have refrained from attack
ing it earnestly.
Delegate Wickersham’s bill, if pass
ed as it was introduced would destroy
the sole excuse for the system. It
should be abolished entirely or it
should remain as it is.—Juneau Em
pire.
SAVINGS BANKS
AS BAROMETERS
More than 11,000.000 persons of
small means are vitally interested in
the solvency of the big corporations
of the country. They are depositors
in the savings banks. The precise
number as disclosed in the report of
the comptroller of the currency is 11
109,499, and they have on deposit $4,
936,591,849, or an average of nearly
$450 apiece. The number of deposit
ors is nearly 350,000 greater than last
year, and the total deposits about
$210,000,000 greater. These accumu
lations of the wage-earners, who lay
by a dollar at a time, are invested
in bonds of corporations as well as
in real estate mortgages. Every bur
den placed by the government on such
securities bears heavily upon these
depositors. The banks formerly paid
4 per cent, interest, and some more;
the rate at Philadelphia is 3.65; but
most of them find it difficult to earn
enough to pay over 3 per cent.
The business depression of the year
has been felt by the humbler savers,
as their hoardings gained $70,000,000
less in 1914 than In 1913, and the
number of depositors was increased
by less than half as many this year
as last. Idle workingmen have not
been able to lay by money, and many
have been forced to withdraw what
savings they had already accumulat
ed. It is to be hoped that? all this
will change in 1915.—Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
Church of the Epiphany.
Rev. Edward H. Molony, pastor.'
Services 8:30 a. m., 11 a. m„ 7:30 p.
m. Sunday school at 12 noon. All
welcome.
Catholic Church.
Sunday services:
Confession and holy communion,
8:30 a. m.
Mass and sermon, 10:30 a. m.
Sunday school, 2 p. ra.
Rosary, Instruction and benediction,
7:30 p. m.
FATHER VAN der POL, 8. J.
Best Yakima netted gem spuds 20
lbs. for 50c at the Yakima Fruit Co.
GERMANY HAS
FOOD A PLENTY
_
!
It Is Impossible for Her Enemies
To Starve Her, Says German
Scientist.
Dr. Otto Appel, who is an authority
'on agricultural matters in Germany,
is a privy counciler and a member
of the Prussian Biological Innstitute,
is now in New York for his govern
ment and states that Germany can
never be starved out by her enenres
because the imperial government long
ago adopted the most advanced scien
tific and economic methods to in
sure "food preparedness” in the event
of a crisis.
"We exported 1,500,000 tons of rye,
5.000. 000 tons of wheat, and imported
3.000. 000 tons of rye and 2,000,000 tons
of wheat last year,” said Dr. Appel.
“The difference between our exports
and imports can be made up by the
utilization of potatoes. The German
potato production in recent years was
normal, about fifteen tons per hec
tar, one hectar equaling 2.471 acre3,
or three times more than American
crops from the same area. Potato
crops can be used in different ways;
25 per cent, for table use, 40 per
cent, for feeding cattle, 10 per cent,
for sowing, the rest for alcohol and
starch.
“By scientific methods we have
made the potato crop independent of
seasons. During winter, by means
of a drying process, a larger supply
is obtained. The potatoes are dried
in evaporators, as are also the peel
ings. At the beginning of the war
300 such evaporators were existing in
Germany, and since then 300 more
have been placed on farms all over
Germany.
“In baking bread, wheat and rye
can be mixed with additions of pota
to flour. Bread of this kind will re
main fresh for a long period of time.
It was produced in Germany before
the war, and is most nourishing.
“Germany also is feeding its own
population as far as meat is concern
ed. For years it has planned means
to increase its cattle production, and
as a result only 4 per cent, of the
meat needed is imported from for
eign countries. A law has also been
passed prohibiting the killing of young
cattle, a factor important in meat
consumption.
“In the course of forty years Ger
many by the most advanced scientific
methods, such, for example, as the
rotation of crops, use of nitrate, and
numerous other means, has doubled
its crops, and is therefore well pre
pared, with the other*reasons I have
given, to feed its population for any
length of fime.”
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(Continued from page 1.)
countries from the Dardanelles.
In Albania the revolution is said to
be spreading, and the Italians, who
occupied the seaport of Avlona, have
sent a battleship to Durazzo to pro
tect Italian interests at that Alban
ian port.
The Athens correspondent of Reu
ter’s Telegram Company says:
“The situation in Albania is much
worse. The insurgents are said tc
have occupied Berat and to be march
ing on Dibra.
“The authorities at the Dardanelles
have expelled all the consuls of neu
tral countries and also those of Aus
tri-Hungary."
JUNEAU PROHIBS TO
MAKE A CAMPAIGN
That a campaign for prohibition is
under way in Juneau is indicated.
Prohibition literature used in the
states during the recent elections has
reached the local headquarters of the
Women’s Christian Temperance Un
ion and five or six billboards in the
city have been, rented for the display
of the matter. The prohibition move
ment is headed by the Rev. J. B.
Stevens, pastor of the First Presby
terian church, and the W. C. T. U.
is going to make an active fight for
the presentation of a wet and dry Is
sue to the voters, it is asserted.
This is a good time to return that
book you’ve read to the library at
Everyman’s Club. Library hours:
1 to 2 p. m. every day, Monday, Wed
days and Fridays 7:30 to 9:30 p. m.
The Prospector office for Job work.
FIXED IT IN THE DEED.
A Real Estate Agent’s Kindness to One
of Hm Customers.
J. Cooper Props, formerly a real es
tate agent In Eaton, Ind., a few years
ugo had practically concluded a snleol
a residence in that town to a farmer
who desired to retire, when the cus
tomer suddenly discovered that there
was no cellar beneath the dwelling.
The house suited him perfectly, and
his wife also was highly pleased with
it, but both of them demanded a cellar
before taking it, even though they pre
viously had gone as far as to tell Mr.
Props to draw up the deed.
“Well, I’ll tell you what I’ll do," said
Props. “Of course there’s no cellar un
der there now, but I’ll fix it In the
deed—write it all out and everything,
so there can’t be any mistake—so that
you have the privilege of excavating
for the cellar at any time you please
and without interference from any
source.”
Mr. and Mrs. Farmer said they
"guessed” that would be all right, so
after their right to construct their own
cellar had been carefully safeguarded
In the deed by elaborate phrases they
paid over their money and took posses
sion. But to this day. Props says, they
look at him in a dazed and puzzled
way every time they meet him.—In
dianapolis News.
OLD TIME HARVARD LAWS.
When Students Had to Get the Presi
dent’s Permission to Smoke.
Imagine a twentieth century Har
vard undergraduate asking the presi
dent of the university for permission
to smoke or buy a drink. Yet permis
sion was necessary in the eighteenth
century, according to the history of
Harvard before 1750. One college rule
read:
“No scholar shall take tobacco unless
permitted by ye president with ye con
sent of his parents or guardian and on
good reason first given by a physician
and then, in a sober and private man
ner.’’
Further, "No scholar shall unneces
sarily frequent any tavern or victual
ing house in Cambridge to eat or drink
there without leave from ye president
or one of ye tutors.”
Another regulation read:
“If any scholar be guilty of drunken
ness he shall be tilled 5 shillings and
make a public coufesson. No under
graduate shall keep by him distilled
spirituous liquors, nor shall he use any
such drinks as punch or flip.”
Saturday evenings all students were
required to retire to their chambers at
sunset and not unnecessarily leave
them.—New York World.
The Chief Justice.
"There are very few people who
know the proper designation of the
man who presides over the supreme
court," said the secretary of the sen
ate.
“Generally he Is referred to as the
chief justice of the United States su
preme court In fact, he is the chief
justice. That’s his official title. Most
of our presidents in nominating men
for.this office have fallen into the er
ror of giving him the long title. When
George Washington nominated Oliver
Ellsworth of Connecticut for this post
he described it as chief justice of the
supreme court of the United States
Andrew Jackson made the same error
In nominating Roger B. Taney So
did Abraham Lincoln when he appoint
ed Salmon P. Cliu.se. Grover Cleve
land was the first president to give the
correct designation. When he appoint
ed Melville W. Fuller he nominated
him to be chief justice and nothing
else.”—Washington Star.
Size of an Atom.
•‘Radium emauatious,” said Profes
sor William Crookes in a lecture iu Lon
don, "are due to the breaking down of
the atom of radium, and electricians
are constantly flying off with about
two-thirds the speed of light (182,00U
miles per second!. These electrons are
now looked upon as beiug absolute
units of negative electricity. To try
to Illustrate their size is difficult im
agine one drop of water magntfled to
the slze<of the earth (8,000 miles In dl
ameter). An atom would then be about
the size of a walnut or a cricket ball.
Now magnify the cricket ball or atom
to a cube of about 100 feet each side
The electron would be about the size
of this dot (.)—one one-hundredth of an
Inch in diameter. The mind cannot
conceive such figures.”
Pais It Along.
Pew of us have been so exceptional
ly unfortunate as not to find. In our
own age, some experienced friend who
has helped os by precious counsel nev
er to be forgotten. We cannot render
It in kind; but, perhaps. In the fullness
of time it may become our noblest duty
to aid another as we ourselves have
been aided and to transmit to him an
Invaluable treasure. — Philip Gilbert
Hnmerton.
Fiction and Fact.
"Charlie got bis ideas of married life
from the comic papers."
“Well?”
"He says after be got married he was
agreeably surprised to find that bis
wife could get a satisfactory bat for
$5.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
An Unlucky Ring.
Cynlcus—I once knew a fellow who
gave a girl an engagement ring of
opals. SilUcus—Gracious! Wasn’t it
unlucky? Cynlcus—You bet It was!
She married him.—Judge.
Success is sweet; the sweeter If long
delayed and attained tbrongb manifold
struggles and defeats.—A. Bronson AJ
cott
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A Time For Everything.
Patient (convalescing after operation)
-Can't I have appendicitis again?”
Nurse—Of course, dear. When you
earn more money.—Chicago News.
Rough on Cholly.
JWh*»«v I
Cholly—You usually go walking with
an object, don't you?
Kitty—Sometimes, but—er—really yon
will have to excuse me this morning.—
St Louis Globe-Democrat
A Money Saver.
“It’s a good idea when angry to
count ten before you speak.”
‘‘True! Also when ‘touched’ to count
1,000 before you Send.’’—Cincinnati
Commercial-Tribune.
A remnant of the volcanic dubt
from the eruption of Mount Katmal,
Alaska, In 1912, suspended In the up
per air exceeding a year later, is te
iported in the current Astrophysical
Journal by the Observatory of the
Smithsonian Institution at Washing
| ton.
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed I I Foot Keystone Ave
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Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OF'
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa and S. S. Alameda sail from Seattle
the 1st, 8th, 16th and 24th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south—7th, 15th, 23rd and 30th for Cordova,
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Juneau. Sheep creek Treadwell. Douglas
Cordova. Ellamar. Valdez and I.atouehe. Explosives. S S Seward. S S Seward. 5th'
S S Latouchc. 15th: S S Cordova. 25th of each month—Right reserved to change this
schedule without notice.
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WEATHER BULLETIN.
Valdez, Alaska, Jan. 23, 1915.
STATION Above Below, Snow In. WEATHER CONDITIONS
Pazson’s . 20 12 Clear, calm, trail good.
Hogan . 22 12 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Oulkana . 9 14 Clear, calm, trail good.
Copper Center .... 0 10 Clear, calm, trail good.
Tonslna . 5 24 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Telkhell . 10 24 Cloudy, calm, trail open.
Beaver Dam. 33 36 Cloudy, calm, trail open.
flmwmHt . 40 40 Cloudy, calm, trail drifted.
Wortman’s . 31 40 Cloudy, calm, trail drifted.