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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 21, 1920
•LET NATURE TAKE HER COURSE’
The Ix>s Angeles Times ofTers the following pithy suggestion lor deal
ing with the I. W . W., and other radicals whose alleged activities in South
eastern Alaska are creating’ considerable hysteria in that section.
"Alutskuns have organised to drive out the I. W. W • Why not take
their clothes away and let nature take her course?’
ANOTHER HINT ON INOEPEOENCE
For the further enlightment of a number of whilom critics whose er,
unsophistication—to use a charitable term—needs both moral and mental im
provement. we will advise that of the twenty odd Alaska newspapers 4 uTe Ke
publlcan. 4 Democratic, 3 Independent Democratic, 1 Independent Itepubllcan
and 10 tire straight Independent, But we don't sco any of them refraining
from politics In the manner approved by our critical friends. There is nol
the faintest sign of political emasculation about any of them when politics are
toward. They are what they claim to be, ‘independent” newspapers—not fish
REGRETTABLE FAILURE
The folly of the Allied failure to march straight to Berlin and dictate
peace and Its attendant obligations In the enemy capital is clearly exampliflei
in the crisis arising over the Allied extradition demands. Had the Alltel
fthowed less regard for Hun feelings and sent their armies to the German cap
ital, as the German* WouUr’tiiMilfodly'' havt don* had'the situation been re
versed, there would have been neither occasion or opportunity for their demand
for the persons of the German war criminals being refused. With an arms
in Berlin there would have been no need for extraditing the men wanted. 11
would simply have been a case of holding possession of the chief sent of German
cussedness until they were handed over.
As things stand at present'there is little likelihood that the German!
will give them up unless compelled to do so by force of arm*—a process thi
Allies are scarcely liable to adopt. We don't blame the Germans in the
least for their attitude. To their view, the demand of the Allies Is not foi
the punishment of malefactors, but for revenge on enemies. Hence *it la
practically certain they will not consent to their extradition. The fault, it
fault there be, lies solely with the Allies and is a direct result of their failure
to Impress upon the Germans that they were the conquerors by sending an
army into Germany. The allids are but reaping the reward of their own
folly. And we are willing to predict that as time progresses they will have
still further occasion to regret their failure to take the Huns by the hair and
kick them into subjection when they had them in hand.
ANOTHER INDICTMENT
The dissatisfaction of the American public over the congression;i 1 at
titude toward profiteering and the higher cost of living will hardly be rendered
less scute by the announcement of an American investigator that England,
despite four yearn of war which shook the nation to its foundations and in the
face of the still more important fact that practically three fifths of everything
used by her people is brought from overseas sources, has, nevertheless, managed
to keep* living prices approximately twenty five percent lower thanthey
in America. ) _ _
Writing from the firitiah capital in November to the New York “Even
ing Sun", this authority declared that since his arrival In London a few days
lief ore he "had been able to find only one thing where New York charges less
than London," and that was for transportation on busses and in the •tubes”, or
subways. “And even there," he adds, "when you ride only u short distance
you pay less than you do la New York.”
The writer's comparison* are based entirely on the relative differences
between the prices of New York and London and nlso fall to take Into account
such Mams as the relative wage levels and the pre-war oost of living, all of
which would have some bearing on the price situation. Yet they leave little
doubt that England as a whole, despite the turmoil and exhaustion of war
and of the economic situation which compels her to import over vast distances
the bulk of everything she needs. stUI manages her business in such a way that
her people can live for approximately one quarter less than the people of
America, which produces two and three times the products necessary to sup
port its inhabitants and was moreover comparatively unscratched by the war.
“Rents are lower in London.” the writer says, "So are clothes. So are
shoes. So are ipeals and shaves and hotels and tips ••••••••. So are
collars and socks and gloves . The prices for apartments, make an Ameri
can open hie eyes In omaeement. Furnished flats, 'good ones’, may be had
for a couple of guineas ($10) per week up. Single rooms are obtainable al
Sgo res far below the New York standard •••••••••• Even mare wel
come to recent arrivals from America are the charges in the London restau
rants. All over the city you can get excellent table’d hote lunches—in
rwtlly high class eating places—for 2 shillings or two and six” (SO to «0 cento),
"You can dine in magnificent palaces watched over by flunkies really appalln*
in their array of gold braid and long tailed coats and get a dinner from $1.60—
a table d’ hole dinner, as a mle, with one more course than to served now a
days In New York—and find correspondingly low prices if ypu order a la carte."
By these and a dosen other examples, the writer depicts a difference
in flvtiy* conditions in America end England which is toy no means entirely
accounted for toy the difference in wages or other dl verge nteconomfc factors..
Considered m the light of the vast difference in Ehgiand's economic
situation as'compared to our own. the fact that there exists such a market
difference between living pfcoes to a glaring indictment of our government's
failure to protect its clttoens from the overweening commercialism which en
mlous producers and dcnlers to plunder them without let —
hindrance ef tew.
to able to do it. whr not America?
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AMERICA’S PART IN THE GREAT WAR
SENDING OUR TROOPS OVERSEAS
Of the 2 million troops carried to France <lurlnB the 19 months of ..in
participation in the war, half a million wont over in the first 13 months and
IV* million in the lust-ti months. Tho troop movements were not rapid at first,
we had only a few American and British troop ships chartered directly from
their owners. Rut, during; the winter the former German liners confiscated
in our ports when we declared war came Into service and embarkations in
ceased to a rate ot nearly GO,000 per month, and by the end of 1917 had rear-hot
a total of 194,000. The highest troop carrying records were those of July
1918, when 306,000 soldiers were carried to Europe, arid May 1919, when 330.000
were brought home to America,
Most of the troops who sailed fur France left from New York. Half
of them landed in England and the other half in Fiance. Among every 100
Americans who went over, 49 went in British ships. 45 in American ships. 3
in Italian, 2 in French and 1 in Russian shipping under English control, due
cargo ships averaged one complete trip every 70 days and our troop ships
one complete trip in 35 days. The cargo fleet was almost exclusively Ameri
can. It reached the size of 2,600,000 deadweight tons and carried to Europe
about 7,500,000 tons of cargo. The greatest troop carrier among the ships
was tho Leviathan, formerly the Vaterland, which landed 12,000 men, or the
equivalent of a German army division in France every month. The fastest
transports were tho former Pacific coast liners Great Northern and Northern
Pacific, both of which made complete turnarounds, taken on now troop^ and
started back in 19 days.
No such troop movement as that of the last summer had ever been con
templated and no movement of any such number of persons b\ water for
such a distance and such a time had ever previously occnie.l. Tlu* record has
been excelled only by the achievement in bringing the same men back to the
United States. The necessity for creating a great transport fleet came just
at the time when the world was experiencing its most acute shortage of ships
tonnage. The start was made by chartering a few American merchant
steamers. By the 1st of July 1917 there were in servi. < 7 troop ships and 6
cargo ships with a total deadweight capacity of 94,000 tons. Early in 19J8
negotiations were entered into with Great Britain by which 3 of its big liners
and four of its smaller troop ships were definitely assigned to the service of
the army. Tho first great increment was the seized German vessels in the
fall of 1917. The taking over of Dutch steamers in the spring of 1918 and the
chartering of Scandinavian and Japanese tonnage soon accounted for great in
creases in the cargo fleot. While this great fleet was being built up. an
other great American transport fleet, of which little has been said in the public
press, was created with almost equally striking rapidity. This was our Cross
Channel fleet which carried cargo and men from England to France.
Beginning with 7,000 tons in October IftIT. this fleet consisted of more
tl an a third of a million tons by the t‘nd of 1918. About one quarter of the
vessels were Swedish or Norwegian. The rest were American. This ser
vice employed large numbers of small wood and steel vessels built by the
Emergency Fleet Corporation at the yards on the Great Lakes and along the
CARGO MOVEMENT
The cargo carried overseas by the transport fleet consisted of thous
ands of different articles of the most varied sort. Nearly one half consisted
of quartermaster corps materials, largely composed of food and clothing.
•The next largest elements were engineering and ordnance supplies. The cargo
shipments included 1,791 ono hundred ton locomotives. Of those 650 were
shipped on their own wheels so they could be unloaded on the tracks in France
and run off in a few hours under their own steam. The army shipped 26,
994 standard guage freight cars. Motor trucks to the number of 47.01s were
sent over and were being forwarded at the- rate of 10,00 a month when lighting
ceased. Rails and fittings totaled 423.000 tons. The army also shipped
68,694 horses and mules and was shipping them at the rate of 20,000 :i month
when hostilities ended. During the whole period of hostilities the army lost
at sea only 200,000 deadweight tons of transports. Of this loss 142.000 tons
were sunk by torpedoes. No American troop transport was lost on the
eastward voyage
To bo continued
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MONDAY
.ALLIES CHANGE FRONT
ON KAISER QUESTION
The Hague. Holland, Feb. 16 The
latest Allied note to Holland regarding
the extradition nf«tlic former flemian
kaiser reverses th- original demand
for his siirrendet mi l only asks for
his internment. The not** suggests that
the former monarch • sent to one of
the Dutch islands m the Fast Indies.
DELEGATE PLANNING
t LIMITED PROHIBITION
OF SALMON FISHING
Washington. Feb. 16- -Alaska Del. -
Rate Grigshv will shortly introduce a
bill approved hv Governor Riggs
which will prohibit salmon fishing at
varying points in various Alaska
SIX KILLED IN SEATTLE
BOILER EXPLASION
Sam’l M\.‘r, George o. Bunnell, David
H. J* col is ,|| mechanics, died today
"f injuries received in a boiler explo
sion which occurred Saturday noon
id the Post Stroo plant of the Puget
Sound Traction. Light ami Power
Company.
DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE
SUPPORTERS WIN IN
MISSOURI ELECTION
Hvcelsior Springs, Mo. Feb. 16—
The elect ion of Papt J. 1. Milligan,
democratic candidate and Fragile of
republican league opponent, as rep
resentative to congress from the Third
District is ooneceded. Milligan dis
tanced his opponent by sixteen Imn
WILSON THREATENS
I WITHDRAWAL FROM
EUROPEAN CONCERT
Paris. Feb. 16 American Ambas
sador Wallace today delivered to the
French Foreign office a memoranda
from President Wilson regarding the
(proposed Adriatic settlement which,
acording to the Paris journal Le
Tenips, which publishes the story,
amounts to a practical ultimatum that
the Failed States will not consent to
the <iuestion Isdng settled without
American participation. The Temps
says Mr Wilson said he could not ap
prove of I he settlement of the Adria
tic question proposed by Lloyd George
and also allowed it to !»• understood
that the I'nlted States would find it!
impossible to continue in the peace)
/conference if. \h»* Allies Krjftle Ithc
Adriatic. dispute* without ronsulfing
Hm views <-f America.
REDS AND REGULARS
TO BATTLE AT SEATTLE
PRIMARIES TOMORROW
Seattle Feb. 16—The local primaries
Will be held tomorrow and are ex
pected to develop a bitter fight be
tween the two candidates for mayor,
one of which is supported by the
radical labor element. There is als .
expected a hard field over the conn
> il vacancies, for which five candi
orR-an. are snpportine Fitzgerald for
mayor '•ridwell Duncan, Fit/Jer
ald's oposer, is running .as :• i re
sent.dive Of the S. called Tripl ■ Al
liance of anarchist.-. socialist.- and the
radical clrtuents ot organized i:bor.
can has an outsit;, is chance «>f a-m
SENATE REPORTS DELAY
IN SHIP SALES
Washington. Feb. 16—The Ship
ping Hoard was i.-iiuested tod... by f'■■■
senate to defer tin- contempiated sale
of thirty former Herman -mips, for
whiclf bids have been submitted, until
subject by congress.
PROFESSIONAL TERRORISTS
CAPTURED IN PATTERSON
Patterson, N'. J. Feb. It:---Twenty
nine .if th* most dangerous terrorists
mtt.n ions I,i t i N'ouva group, whose
creed is assassination 1>\ individuals
without waiting for mass action were
captured here today by a. hundred
picked agents of live Department of
Justice in • raids tin anarchist gather
ing places The group were rounded
til* at the home of Andre (Iranzine, a
•noted anarchist. The officers alsu
found all the official records of the
I. W. W. f.u- the entire district east
of Chicago in the (Iranzine place.
AMERICAN STUDENT DIES
OF EXPOSURE ON
MOUNTAIN CLIMB
Dublin. New Hampshire. Feb. 16
Chas McYeagh Jr. graduate student
of Princton and son of ('has McVc.igh.
council fin the I'nitcd States Steel
Corporation, dierl from the effects ..f
exposure on Mount Monadnoek near
here today. Young MoVongli was at
tempting to snow'shoe to the summit of
the peak • with Carleton Reynolds. i
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GREATER OUTPUT ALASKA COAL
The production of coal in Alaska
in 1918 was 75,60(1 tons, valued at!
$411,850, according: to the U. s. Geo-1
logical Survey, Department of the In
terior. This may be compared with
63,955 tons, valued at $265,317, in 1917.
The production for 1918 was by far
the largest 4n tho history of coal
mining in Alaska, being 40 percent
larger than the output for 1917, which
was also greater than that of any
previous year. It is believed that a
substantial coal-mining Industry has
at last started in Alaska. The larger
part of the output In 1918 came from
the Msfthnuska field, which yielded
63,092 tons. The remainder tamo
from eight or ten small mines in dif
ferent parts of the Territory. All
these mines, except those in the
Matanuska and Bering River fields
and at l’ort Graham, produced coal for
local use under free-use permits.
About 12 mines were operated, em
ploying 239 men for an average per
iod of 254 days.
In the Matanuska fields the Esk-t
Creek mines were operated regularly
throughout the year by the Alaskan
Engineering Commission, to supply i
fuel for railroad and other Government
use. At the Chickaloon mine, also
operated by the Alaskan Engineering
Commission, the work has consisted |
primarily of exploration and develop-1
ment, and only a small amount of
coal, won incidentally, has been pro-1
duced. In 1918 for the fjrst time'
Matanuska coal was shipped beyond
Anchorage. Private operations pre-'
paratory to mining were continued by '
two lessees in the Matanuska field and
some coal was mined by one of them, j
but their mines are not yet reguleriv
productive.
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