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The Alaska Weekly Post
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Elmer A. Friend, Editor
Harry V. Hoben, President Frsnk L. Ballaine, Sec.
Katarad •• mcond-claM matter Sapt.iubar 1. 1915. at tha Post Offlca at Seward. Alaaka.
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COST TO THE CONSUMER OF A POUND LOAF OF AD
(Explanationof ( hart)
Since 1913 fanners have been receiving for theii
wheat a gradually increasing proportion of the price par
by the consumer for bread. T ie amount received by the
wheat grower for his contribution to the average pound
has increased from less than l-1 j cents per loaf in 1913 to
more than 3-* cents early this year. The proportion to tlv
whole } rice is shown l»y the relative length of the lilac1
columns of the chart.
The middle portion of each colum shows what ti c
miller received for his milling costs and profit. 1 his hr.:
been a somewhat variable factor, hut is now at the mini
mum (per cent). In this (5 per cent, however, is include:
the cost of the containers (bags, sacks etc.) shown as dot:
ed area which has increased very nearly in proportion to
the price of bread itself. Bags now cost about 50 per cen
more than in 1913 and 1914.
The shaded portion of the column represents the ex
I tense of distributing the flour, making it into bread and
getting the loaf to the consumer.
The chart shows that the farmer is now receiving;
much larger share of the final price for his product than
in the past, and that a consit era hie amount of “spread"
has been taken out of other expenses. *
WASHINGTON STATE PRIMARIES.
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SEATTLE. Sept., ib— The following results of the
primaries held last week, Tuesday, are Miller was renomi
nated in the first congressional district by the republic
ans, J. .\I. Hawthorne, receiving the democratic nominat
ion: in the fourth La Eollette was badly beaten by John
W. Summers of W alla Walla, Dill was renominated in the
fifth, J. Stanley Webster winning the republican contest;
Albert Johnson was renominated in the third by an over
whelming majority.
Sheriff Stringer, of King county was renominated,
defeating Bob Hodge.
A telegram received here from Washington states
that Congressman Johnson is contemplating accepting a
captaincy in the flame corps, in which event he will he un
able to continue his service in the house.
TO BUILD EIGHT SHIPS EVERY MONTH.
PORTLAND. ORE., Sept., - Eight wooden steam
ers per month hereafter will he delivered to the govern
ment, ready for sea service, from the Portland and Col
umbia river district, according to the program mapped out
by J. B. Morris, chief of machinery and installation for
the Emergency Fleet corporation here.
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The White House, Washington.
One year ago, in compliance with resolutions passed
by the Senate and by the House of Representatives, I ap
pointed da\s upon which the people of the United States
might make such contributions as they felt disposed foi
the aid of the stricken Armenian and Syrian peoples.
American diplomats and consular representatives
and other American residents recently returned from
Western Asia, assure me that many thousand lives were
>aved fi om starvation by the gifts of the American people
last winter. They also bring full assurances of the contin
ued el f.. -ive distribution ol’ relief and report that the suf
fering and death from exposure and starvation will in
evitably be very much greater this winter than last un
■ less the survivors can be helped by further contributions
from America.
Reports indicate that of orphans alone there are more
than 100,000, besides women and other dependent children,
reaching a total of more than 2,000,000 destitute surviv
al s. The situation is so distressing as to make a special ap
peal to the sympathies of all.
In view of the urgent need I call again upon Un
people of the United States to make further contributions
as they feel disposed, in their sympathy and generosity
for aid of these suffering peoples. Contributions may be
made through the American Red Crorss, Washington, D.
C„ or direct to the American Committee for Armenian
I and Syrian Relief, Cleveland H. Dodge, treasurer, One
Madison Avenue, New Yory City.
Seward has been asked to raise $600 for the Armen
ian relief fund. The quota of .$600 was designated by Gov.
Riggs after the subscription Alaska was to make was an
nounced.
Although the relief fund campaign has only been
started in Seward several days, and several have contri
i bated, the quota of $600 is far from secured.
Any amount from 25 cents up is acceptable. Some can
give .$5 or .$10 better than others can give 25 cents or fifty
cents. The amount of one’s subscription is left solely to
each citizen, boy or girl, man or woman.
Yesterday a telegram was received from Cleveland H.
Doge, asking when Seward’s quota would he forth coming.
The answer was “coming up."
The subscriptions to noon today were as follows:—
Allan McIntosh. $5.06
\. Rossness $5.00
George Clark. $10.06
Who will be the next to donate? Remember if you
cannot give, .$5, .$3, $2, or .$1, seventy five cents, fifty
cents or twenty five cents will help. The money all goes to
save a life. None of the fund is spent for expenses as ali
concerned give their labor without charge.
FRENCH GIRLS FALL FOR AMERICANS.
PARIS, Sept., 16— “Let me give you a little advice,"
says a writer in the Intransicean, addressing himself to
the maidens of France. “There are many Americans in
France and you know very well how charming they find
you. They find our women more disposed to be work
ers with them than those of other countries, they appre
ciate you highly, but my dear little French girls, you must
not be frivolous. Americans are grownup children, some
what ingenous, a trifle puritan, and quite ready to marry
you, and an American husband and a French wife make
an excellent married couple. So do not waste the chance of
that marked purity which is so seldom found among the
men of ancient Europe.”
Another writer, in the Petit Journal, welcomes the re
port that American-French marriages are becoming very
common,as excellent from the idylic and sentimental point
of view also for the fusion of the two races, but expresses
some anxiety as to its effect on the repopulation of Fran
ce. He fears that when the war is over, the American hus
i bands will carry away their French wives across the At
lantic and France will lose that many households, a loss
that tile country it is in no condition to stand.
The writer quotes a letter that he has received from a
French girl, engaged to an American, in which she says
that she had laid down no conditions in accepting the pro
posal but had made her-fiance understand that after the
war there would be work for every one in France and so
he had promised to remain in France and if children came
i they should be French citizens.
“There’s a good example,” comments the article, “Let
i all French girls follow it. America will not be perceptibly
poorer and France will be enriched. It is one more kind
act that we can beg from our allies and one they are not
likely to refuse.”
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ALASKA, Sept., 16th.
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