IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEER8 OP
ALA8KA
^Meets every Second and Fourth FrT
nights in Odd Fellows Hall; F. B.
Motnre, President; C. M. Brosius, Sec
retaiy.
CEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
\moi;th in Odd Fellows’
I Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
_ come; Dorothy Urbach,
W. M.; E. L. Sweek, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A.
< I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Hilma Peter
son, N. G., SIgrid E. Merritt, sec’y.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
Meets every first
and third Tues
day eaoh month
at 8 p. m., at
Odd Fellows
Hall. All visit
i n g members
welcome.
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER. Secretary.
jEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. A A. M.
' JL Stated communications first
^«MFand third Wednesdays of each
/yr\months visiting brethren wel
come, H. V. Hoben, W. M.; Elwyn
Swetmann, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
, Meets every Thursday at
C^*^»8:00 p. m. In Odd Fellows'
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Ludvig Larsson,
N. G., Charles Lechner, secretary.
The Alaska Railroad
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ONLY PARTIAL EXECUTION OF
PLANS OF DEFENSE MAPPED
OUT IN 1920
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. (JP) A
warning against “blindly deluding
ourselves” on the subject of national
defense was sounded by Secretary
Davis of the War Department in his
annual report.
There has been only partial execu
tion of the plans of defense mapped
out in 1920, he said, and even then
maintenance of the army on its pres
ent basis “requires the appropriation
of more funds each year.”
“With the exception of a slight
restoration of the supply of ammuni
tion at the expense of a reduction in
personnel, and the inauguration of
the so-called housing problem,” he
continued, “conditions have changed
but little since the rendition of my
last annual report.”
The secretary discussed at great
length the peacetime uses of the
army, ranging from the running of
barge lines to teaching enlisted men
professions and trades into which
they go on completing their “hitch”
in the army. Even the air corps
came in for treatment for its com
mercial rather than its combat acts.
Reviewing the civil side of the
work of the army engineer corps,
Mr. Davis flatfootedly disapproved
proposals to transfer these duties
out of the army.
“In the long run the preesnt sys
tem of administering our rivers and
harbors activities is the most econ
omical,” he said. “We, in this case,
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A huge Christmas tree, gleaming
with tinsel and ornaments during the
day and twinkling colored lights by
night, at the street intersection of
Adams and Fourth avenue, visible
from the wharf and depot alike, is the
suggestion put forward today by
Mayor L. C. Ray, and from expres
sions from a large number of busi
ness men, the idea has made a bulls
eye in meeting with popular approval.
As fras pointed out by Mr. Ray and
others the cost would be almost nill
but would reflect much to the city’s
benefit in that there will be numer
ous visitors in Seward over Christ
mas. Among these will be the Alaska
College basketball teams, residents
from the Interior, southbound, and
steamer arrivals from the South.
The city would present a beautiful
sight with all the display windows, ex
terior of buildings and the streets
dressed in Yuletide attire and it would
be safe to predict the suggestion, if
carried out, would tend to add much
to the gayety which each year the
citizens of the city plunge into the
joyful and favorite holiday o f the
year.
achieve the end so often urged ol
making our peace time army more
fully ‘pay its way.’ ”
As an additional consideration Mr.
Davis pointed out that the fact that
army engineers “are officers of the
army, whose normal promotion and
pay cannot be advanced or retarded
by political influences, leaves them
unaffected by such consideration in
their actions.”
In discussing waterway and harbor
developments, the Secretary of War
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laid down the principle that new pro
jects should be held in abeyance un
til completion of those on which
large expenditures already have been
made. It would take $225,000,000 and
at least five years to round out the
principal developments now in pro
gress, he said, “even if it were prac
ticable to make such amounts avail
able.” He used as an example the
Ohio river development, approxi
mately 85 per cent complete, but
“capable of only about 15 per cent
of the service which may be expect
ed from the completed project.”
Inland waterways now carry about
200,000,000 tons of cargo annually,
said the secretary, at an economic
saving of at “least $150,000,000 a
year.” He described flood control
conditions on many rivers as “cha
otic.”
The Muscle Shoals plant was said
by the secretary to be, as a whole,
93 per cent complete. He made no
suggestion as to its ultimate dispo
sition.
Turning to. the Inland Waterways
Corporation, he described it as a
“temporary expedient,” to be con
tinued “only until private capital is
prepared to assume this service
which is so vital to national devel
opment.”
Mr. Davis recalled his previous
remarks on the necessity of remov
ing army personnel from “dilapidated
barracks and quarters of wartime
construction.”’
“Suffice it to say that conditions
are, naturally, worse than wras the
case a year ago,” he said.
About $7,000,000 has become avail
able for building purposes from sale
of surplus property, but a total of
sold or transferred to other govern
ment departments.
The Secretary of War put his foot
down on the return to duty of of
ficers who resigned to seek civilian
employment.
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