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Comer 6th & K Sts.
Private Rooms and Wards, Sani
tary and Thoroughly Equipped.
When you are sick it’s CARE
you want.
Fred Carlquist who is a graduate
optician from San Francisco is perma
nently established with George Os
born the C St. Jeweler, and will ex
amine eyes free. 260
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BRIMM
STILL RULES
TRE IVES
LONDON, Dec. 26.—John Bull
spent a goodly portion of this year
in applying the lessons he learned last
year.
The mistakes of 1916 were rather
distressing at the time, but they
proved excellent teachers. Being a
backward pupil, as always, John Bull
had to be driven, and the process was
necessarily painful.
From the Dardanelles to Mesopo
tamia, from Neuve Chappelle to Loos,
from Sofia to Athens, he blundered
along, but, as subsequent history has
demonstrated, all the time acquiring
merit. Out of every strategic failure,
every unfulfilled expectation both mil
itary and political, he managed to
learn something—and the lessons
stuck.
First of all the lesson of centralized
power in the direction of war, of in
ternal government, of domestic econ
omy and of efficiency, thoroughly
learned, led him to put the man who
above all others has done most for
England—David Lloyd-George — into
a practical dictatorship over all those
branches of British activity.
The Asquith cabinet, with its “mud
dling along,” bell because British pub
lic opinion, almost solidly aligned be
hind “the little Welshman,” demand
ed supreme efficiency in England’s
fight for life. It was characteristic
of Lloyd-George, the breaker of pre
cedent, that he should sweep away
nearly all the old ministerial machin
ery and substitute for the loosely
knit slow-moving, over-officered cabi
net a small, compact war council of
five members—and take this step with
the eager acquiescence of John Bull.
And John Bull, who usually has to be
driven, and who usually hates new
fangled things, showed the transfor
mation in his character which the war
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has brought by standing behind
Lloyd-George.
By reason of his early unsuccessful
adventures in the near east he gath
ered invaluable knowledge in the
matter of organization and equipment
which he has this year applied in
other quarters. As a result of the
failure of his troops in the west in
the spring and fall of 1915 to attain
their desired objective he made cer
tain changes in personnel, vastly im
proved his organization behind the
lines and above all learned that the
only way seriously to dent the Ger
man front was with a preponderating
supply of shot and shell.
In the field of diplomacy wherein
ihe Germans at first cut circles a!1
around him he is steadily improving
He lost Bulgaria to the allied cause,
but the experience he acquired in that
process enabled him to gather in fiou
mania. Just now, by the fortunes of
war Roumania appears to be a doubt
ful military asset,, if not a liability,
but at the time unquestionably the en
listment of this country with the al
lies was a diplomatic stroke of first
imDortance.
It was entirely characteristic of
John that although he knew Fritz had
a 40-years’ start of him in this mili
tary game he ignored Fritz’ methods
until they were forced upon him.
But now, thanks to the hard knocks
of 1915, there is very little more that
Fritz can teach him.
Early in 1916 he adopted con
scription. Had it been introduced a
year before the war might have been
over today. Englishmen have re
sponded in unprecedented fashion to
their king and country’s call under
the voluntary system, but ifpwas on
ly the certainty of ultimate conscrip
tion that finally brought the enroll
ment up to five million men. The
molding of this huge lump of human
raw material into an efficient military
machine has been a gigantic task,
but its proper equipment has been
a greater.
Little less than miraculous has been
the development of the munitions in
dustry in this country during the last
year. From the start Britain hat
been the treasury of the allies; now it
has become their armory. When
Lloyd-George began turning Eng
land’s factories into arsenals the
Germans were manufacturing and
shooting about ten shells to the al
lies’ one. There was a time when on
certain sections of the battle line Brit
ish gunners were limited to four
rounds per day. Upon America and
Japan Britain was depending for the
most part for its supplies of machine
guns, heavy artillery and high explo
sives. Now these conditions are all
reversed. More than 4,000 private
firms in England, 95 per cent of
whom before the war had never pro
duced a gun, a shell, or a cartridge,
now are turning out munitions of one
sort or another.
Just after the munitions act was
passed Lloyd-George startled the
country by announcing that 11 new
government arsenals had been pro
vided for. Today there are more than
S*0. most of them producing big guns,
howitzers, or high explosives. The
weekly output of .303 cartridges is
now greater by millions than Eng
land’s entire annual output before the
war. A new type of machine-gun is
being turned out by the hundred in
one week in a factory built in the
last year. The general output of hea
vy artillery has increased by several
hundred per cent. The total number
of war workers has increased to near
ly four million, of whom half a mil
lion are women.
Practically the whole of England's
vast industrial resources, except those
necessary for the supply of the civil
population, have been mobilized for
war purposes. Every factory in the
land, if called upon, is required to de
vote at least part of its activities to
turning out war material. The pro
portion of munitions now furnished by
America and Japan has become al
most negligible.
Moreover England is not merely
supplying her own big armies. She
has had to help out Russia, France
and Italy, especially the first-named.
It has been largely due to English
guns and English shells that the
Russians have been able to put the
Germans on the defensive. Large
quantities of English munitions were
sent also to Roumania, and the Serb
ian army would doubtless still be
fighting for Monastir had it not
been thoroughly re-equipped by Great
Britain.
But this is not all. The munitions
industry in this country is constantly
growing. If the war should continue
so long next year’s figures will
doubtless dw’arf those of 1916 as
these do last year’s.
Giving all due credit to the allied
strategy in general and to Haig’s
military genius in particular, as well
as to the admitted improvement of
Tommy as a fighting propositon, and
the present superiority of the British
air service, there is after all only one
answer for the recent successes along
the Somme and the Ancre—munitions.
The lessons of Ypres, Neuve Chapelle,
and Loos have been well learned.
In the latter days of 1916 Britain
has been applying another lesson—al
so learned from the Germans—how to
provide against the possible day of
want, and how to curb the greed of
a few unpatriotic citizens who have
taken advantage of war’s conditions
to line tneir own pocxets. in tnis en
terprise, as in others, Britain gives
signs of improving on German meth
ods. At any rate it will be able to
avoid some of the mistakes made by
the German food conservation' de
partment, with which it is fully con
versant. Before Runciman launched
his epochal scheme in Commons last
month he had at hand the fullest and
most comprehensive reports gathered
by the government’s intelligence bu
reaus of the operations of the Ger
man system.
There is one realm in which Britain
didn’t have to take any lessons. As
a banker John Bull is not merely com
fortably well-heeled; he is an expert.
The British government, despite its
average expenditure of $25,000,000 a
day since the war began, besides the
tremendous contributions made to its
friends, has had no difficulty at all
in raising successive loans both at
home and in America and at reason
able rates.
Finances and the navy are the least
of Britain s troubles in this war, but
recently the naval administration
long under considerable fire, has ex
perienced a shakeup. Arthur J. Bal
four, whose regime as first admiralty
lord was criticized, is now foreign
secretary in the reorganized cabinet.
The man who with him stood the
brunt of complaint from the public
for responsibility for the recnt Ger
man channel raid and for lack of sup
pression of the Zeppelin menace, Ad
miral Jackson, was transferred from
his post of first sea lord to the admi
ral board.
Admirals Jellicoe and Beatty, to
whom the British public gives credit
for the glorious victory off the Jut
land coast, advanced by this transfer.
Jellicoe became first sea lord and
Beatty commander of the grand fleet
—the youngest man ever to hold that
great post.
Britannia still rules the waves!
The new Masonic building on the
corner of 4th avenue and F street
will soon be ready for occupancy but
will not be entirely completed until
spring when the stucco and cornices
will be added, making this building
one of the most attractive in Anchor
age.
The building is 60 by 60 feet and
when finished will cost in the neigh
borhood of $12,000.00, which includes
plumbing, electric wiring and all mod
ern equipment.
E. M. Huff has acted in the capacity
of building manager and Eser Wik
holm was the architect who drew the
plans and designed the building. The
building contract was let to Fred
Hood; Price and Bennett got the
plumbing and fitting contract; J. E.
Chovin the electric wiring and Mr.
Shuholm the plaster contract. The
ground floor will be divided into three
store rooms, with the Style Shop in
the northeast corner; Sidney Laur
ence will occupy the center space that
has been especially fitted for his stu
dio, and Eser Wikholm has selected
the northwest corner space.
Mr. Wikholm intends to have the
most modern and best equipped archi
tect office in Anchorage and is mak
ing special plans to make his place at
tractive.
The second and third floors have
been divided into five office rooms,
each fronting on 4th avenue, but do
not run the length of the building.
The back space will be utilized by the
Masonic order for lodge rooms. Extra
pains have been taken to make the
lodge rooms attractive, with paneled
ceilings, hard wood floors and up-to
date fixtures. A stairway leads from
the northwest corner of the building
to the second floor, opening into the
lobby and ante room adjoining the
lodge room proper. A balcony sur
rounds the west end of the lodge room
over the lobby and is an added attrac
tion to the well appointed rooms. The
building is modern and equipped with
all conveniences throughout and is a
credit to the city.
Wood—Phone 40-R.
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FRATERNAL ORDERS.
MASONS
Anchorage Masonic Club
meets first and third Monday in
month. G. C. HAMMOND, Sec.
L. O. O. M. 1534
Regular meeting every Wed
nesday night at 8 o’clock,
Moose hall. Initiations twice
each month.
BILL’S CLUB.
J. T. WESTERMANN, Secy.
Meets at Club Rooms every
Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
EAGLES CLUB
Meets every Thursday night
at the Anchor club, Lathrop
Block.
Alaska Banking Laws
Are largely designed to protect the depositors.
This Bank lias always complied strictly with
both the letter and the spirit of those laws. We
feel that the closer we adhere to the Law the
better it will be for our depositors. We make
an appeal to careful and conservative people.
You always have the assurance of supreme
safety when you carry an account with us.
NOW is the time to start an account,
welcome both large and small.
BANK OF ALASKA
Skagway
ANCHORAGE
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BON MARCHE
Opp. Postoffice
Just Arrived!!
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A FINE LOT OF MEN’S HEAVY
WOOLEN PANTS
Made by the Oregon City Woolen Mills
And Sov Woolen Mills
AT $5.00 A PAIR.
LADIES’ AND CHILDREN’S
MOCCASINS, FUR CAPS
AND PARKAS.
Opp. Postoffice
ROBERT SIMPSON
Olaisai Fitted.
Graduate Los Angeles School of
Opthaltnology and Optometry. Li
censed by examination Regents of (
California.
Permanent office Juneau, where a I
well-equipped shop for the mannfar- i
ture of all lenses Is maintained. ■
Yearly trips to Anchorage.
Kor a short time at Anchorage |
Hotel.
Prices reasonable for first-class !
service.
ANCHORAGE CABINET
WORKS.
Furniture and Fixtures
Repaired and Made New.
Carpenter Work of A11 Kinds.
EXPERT TOOL GRINDING
AND SAW FILING.
5th Avenue, Between C and D.
TRY A “WANT” AD. IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS.