THE ANCHORAGE DAILY TIMES
AND COOK INLET PIONEER.
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY *J1, 1917.
WORRIES THE BALLAINEITES.
Every time harbor work is mentioned in connection with
Anchorage, the Ballaine publication in the Ballaine townsite on
Resurrection bay throws a cat fit. No opportunity is neglected
to publish adverse reports on this matter. .Just recently, the
Ballaine publication publishes an alleged interview with one
Munro, a traveling parson or something of the sort, who says
that while going about his “duties in the Cook inlet country,
be heart a rumor, or had a dream, that the harbor expert who
investigated the harbor situation at this point, proposed to
make an adverse report, or at least, would advise against the
expenditure of any considerable amount of money for such
purposes at Anchorage.”
Now,as a matter of fact,tins parson did not get the informa
tion which he peddles so freely, from any reliable or credible
source whatever. He got notliing out of Mr. Gerig, the harbor
engineer who made the investigation, because Gerig is a man
who knows liis business, and lie knows enough to make report
only to his superiors. The Times tackled him for some in
formation on this subject and was politely referred to the com
missioner as being the one to give out information concerning
this matter, when it was ripe for publication. And this very
fact is what makes The Times repose confidence in his ability.
Capable, high-class men are about as talkative about their af
fairs as clams. They give out nothing for publication, either
to newspapers or parsons.
Anchorage is not worrying about the harbor improve
ments at this point. They will come along in due course.
For the information of the parson, we commend to his
careful consideration one of the ten commandments, which sets
forth the unqualified dictum, that “Thou Shalt Not Bear False
Witness Against Thy Neighbor.” And we beg to make the
further suggestion that there is a wide field for his religious
duties in the Ballaine town. We know, because we have been
there. t
NO TIME FOR BUSINESS RETRENCHMENT.
(Seattle Times.)
John Wanamaker, the New York merchant, recently voic
ed through the advertising columns of the press in that city the
following timely appeal for sanity in American business during
the early days of the war:
Keep business going for our country’s sake.
Our country prosperous can pay the war costs, as they
come, and have enough left over to aid our allies.
Our country unprosperous, with business halting, money
hoarded through fear or false economy, will be hard pressed
to keep food on the table and clothing on the back.
Keep business going is a patriotic slogan. Keep money in
circulation. Keep employment for everybody. Keep wages
good. Keep on making money that we may have money to
spend for war sacrifices.
The worst thing that could happen to the world these days
would be business depression in our United States.
War in itself does not cause business depression.
The billions of money to be exepneded in war preparations
will be put in circulation in our own country, and this in itself
will create new wealth for use in the world-struggle for human
ity.
The one thing that might halt business now is an un
patriotic psychological feeling of panic and a false idea of pat
riotic economy.
Patriotic economy means the elimination of waste and ex
travagance. It means the conservation of our food products,
our natural wealth, our health, our energies, our labor, our very
lives. It means putting more efficiency in everything we do, so
that each unit of money, energy and intelligence may accom
plish the utmost.
Patriotic economy does not mean the lowering of Amer
ica’s standard of living, which would make us less efficient
physically and mentally, nationaly and individually, and would
kill the spirit and the will to do the truly self-sacrificing things
to be done.
Pities and communities must go on with their civic im
provements. Road building and public works must proceed.
Railroads must renew their equipment. Factories must be kept
going to their full capacity. Labor must be employed. Homes
must be kept up. Merchandise must be produced, distributed
and used.
War duties and war expenditures must be in addition to
peace duties and peace expenditures. The more we do the
more we can do. The more money we spend the more we will
have in our pockets to spend. Money creates money.
In a word: The natural life of the coutnry must proceed
as though we were not at war, in order that we may have
the necessary prosperity to promote the war to a quick and
successful conelusiour.
President Wilson sounds the keynote in this sentence: “It
is evident to every thinking man that our industries, on the
farm, in the shipyards, in the mines, in the factories, must be
made more prolific and more efficient.”
Our industries can be made more nrolific nnlv if the nenrde
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ufacturing slackens when business slackens. Manufacturing
grows in a prolific way when business grows. And business can
grow and remain healthful only when the people buy and keep
money in circulation.
Business is going—in the East, the West, the North, the
South. The country is prosperous. Last month’s increase in
I business was very large. Banks may wait in their operations
until the government bonds are assimilated. People may pause
; temporarily in their outfitting to arange to meet the new condi
tions. But the unloosing of billions of dollars will unloose a
How of prosperity absolutely necessary to sustain the world’s
burden.
Governments set the pace in their expenditures,
individuals must not lag behind. Seven billions of dollars
to pay is only $7U per capita in the United States. Let seven
, billions of dollars, put to work at <i per cent—a fair estimate of
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Keep business going—for our country’s sake. War can
not be waged and won without the sinews of war.
Every statement made by Mr. Wanamaker in the above ar
ticle is true. War will not depress business, but, on the contrary
will assure prosperity by putting into circulation billions of
dollars, that will create opportunities for employment at high
wages for multitudes of our citizens.
Eor the Pacific coast, it will mean the laying down of
scores, perhaps hundreds, of wooden-hull and steel ships. For
the east, it will mean contracts for all manner of manufactured
products. For the middle west, it will mean a larger market for
agricultural products. For the south, it will mean a heavier de
mand for cotton. In point of fact, there is not a section of the
country that will not benefit from the expenditure of the bil
lions already appropriated or to be appropriated later on by
congress.
Idealizing tlies facts, The Times on several ocasions has
expressed itself as opposed to business policies entailing a
violent curtailment of output or of working forces. This paper
sees no' excuse for such drastic economies and it subscribes
heartily to all the statements made by Mr. Wanamaker.
LES DARCY, AUSTRALIAN FIGHTER,
SERIOUSLY ILL WITH PNEUMONIA
MEMPHIS, May 21.—Les Darcy, the Australian pugilist,
who has recently taken out his first papers in this country, is
seriously ill in this city, suffering from an attack of pneumania
and other complications. Fred Gilmore, Darcy’s manager, said
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INCREASE ARMY TO 150,000 MEN
WASHINGTON, May 21.—The senate and the house have
approved the bill increasing the number of enlisted men in the
United States navy to 150,000, as recommended by Secretary
of the Navy Daniels. The bill also cofhprehends increasing the
number of U. S. marines to 20.000.
RINTELEN, GERMAN OFFICER, AND
OTHER CONSPIRATORS, FOUND GUILTY
Nh\\ \ ORK, May 21.—Captain Rintekn, an officer in the
German army; David Lamar, a Wall street broker, and Henry
Martin, were found guilty in the federal court, Judge CustSnan
presiding, on the charge of conspiring to disrupt munitions
traffic for the entente allies in the United States. Former Con
gressmen Fowler and Buchanan of Illinois, tried on the same
charge at the same time, were found not guilty.
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