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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28. 1920
ALASKA’S ANSWER TO NATION’S CALL
Alaska's record as a contributor to the government loan calls, as re
vealed In the report of thp IJborty loan orwinliatlon of the 12th Federal
lleserve district. Is one of which the Alaskan may feel justly proud. Not
only did the territory excoll every state in the district In the pro lata con
trlbution of its people but also led all states in the pet
scription to all five loans. The total of the Territory
shows an oversubscription amounting to 88,50 per cent,
than .was registered by the next highest state, Arizona, nr
cent over such states as California and Idaho. •
Alaska's total subscription for the five loans aim
as against a collective quota of $3,943,100.
In the first campaign the Alaska contribution, aid
amounted to 514,500. The smallness of the amount in ibis instance was
partly due to the slight effort made by the government to enlist the interest
of Alaskans and to the fact tha no quota was designated. This view is
confirmed by the fact that in till succeeding loans, the Territorial returns
were from 74 to over 100 times greater than in the initial campaign. In
response to the second loan call the territory returned $1,070,000 against a
quota of $930,972. The contribution to the third loan totaled $1,737,250,
more than double the allotted quota of $687,828. The response to the fourth
call amounted to $3,180,950—again more than double the quota, which in this
instance amounted to $1,309,400. The contribution to the firth, or Victory
Loan call totaled $1,428,850 against a quota of $945,900, making the grand total
of $7,432,150 as compared to an aggregate quota of $3,943,100.
The percentage of subscription to the Victory Loan
cent;. 5,431 subscribers contributing. This over subscription
nt, 5,431 subscribers contributing. This over subscription
Alaska’A ne«rest lafffyfctftor, t’alir.frrfia, hf h returned
amounting to 108.40 per .cent.
PRICE REGULATION A FARCE
The announcement of the Department of L?ibor that food costs of the
average family increased two per cent during the month of January again
reveals the complete futility of the government’s alleged efforts to deal with
the high cost. «f living proldem. The admission discloses that the so
called price regulation legislation of congress and also the widely press
a gen ted campaign against the profiteers launched hy Attorney General Pal
mer three months or so ago have been utterly ineffective in checking ih< up
ward trend of food prices. Judged by the standard of results obtained, both
together have had no more effect on prices than the torrent of wind loosed by
congress over the peace treaty.
As far as the congressional efforts at price regulation are concerned, it
were doubtless idle to expect any other result, in view of congressional re
lations with Dig Business. Lawmakers who for the most part are them
selves of the class which profits by conditions such as prevail at present
can scarcely he expected to monkey with the shining flow of dividends pour
ing into the pockets of the industrial lords. The obvious disinclination of
congress toward tackling the living problem was in Itself a conclusive demon
stration that the public could expect little relief from high prices from that
quarter of our governmental menage. There was, however, some slight
reason to hope that with all the powerful forces at the command of the De
partment of Justice at work with the avowed intention of rounding up the
food extortionist’s, whom even the president himself has agreed are largely
responsible for'the high price Inflations, something might be done by the ad
ministration to spare the public at least a trifle of the gouging to which it
has been so lonj^ subject. It was not expected that much would bo accom
plished toward reducing prices for a while, but with all the majestic forces
of law’ as represented by the judiciary department at work on the problem
of routing out the holdup crowd, the deluded public really believed that liv
ing costs would at least be prevented from continuing their untrammelled up
ward course. That even this meager hope was utterly vain is well illus
trated In the admission of the Department of Labor, showing as it docs that
not only has nothing material been accomplished in the way of Checking
prices but also that the governmental efforts have not even curtailed the
.average upward trend of price increases. In fact an increase of two per
cent in food cost% in one month is slightly more than the average monthly
increase in the prices of food commodities throughout the war period.
The government displays remarkable efficiency at rounding up the
1. \V* find other whose principal offense is a penchant for openly de
nouncing such obvious neglect of the people's welfare as Is indicated in the
governmental attitude towrnrd the living question, but when it comes to
catching the festive profiteer it seems to be pretty much of a failure. The
only food law violators It seems to have caught were a few farmers and
milkmen and an occasional egg dealer hero and there. Beyond those ar
rests of a few of the smaller commercial fly, the results of both the adminis
trative and congressional efforts at price regulation hav© been practically
nil. We might add in the Interest of good measure that a ftw bluffs have
also been thrown at the big packers and Mr Palmer has politely a^ked a few
of them to please keep their hands off other Industries than the packing
business for a little while. \
The wholo effort at price control and price reduction has been little
>hort of a farce from beginning to end. The plain truth of the m*atter is
that neither congress or the administration has a real desire to go to the
bottom of the living situation and neither the one or the other will do so as
long os they dan dodge the issue. They will act only when confronted by
a Remand of the people so Insistent as to permit of no evasion or delay.
AMERICA’S PART IN THE GREAT WAR
THE PROBLEM OF EQUIPMENT
In the apring otf 1917 there were in the United State* iome 4 .rnilHon
yonnK men Who, Although they, little-suapeoted the fact, were about to become
soldier* Before they entered the army, aa well’ a* after they were In it,
theae men consumed auch ordinary neeesaltlaa of life aa food, coat*. trouser*,
bocks, biiocs ami biunkcqs. These simple i.H-ts lead in tiu; greatly mistaken
cuiidus.ua ihai the piuolem ul supplying tnc necessita s of 1 if• ■ lor the sol
diers m the army was tin: comparatively simple one *»£ diverting into the
camps substantially the same amounts ot food and clothing as these young
men would have used in their homes if there had been no war. These inen
constituted about one twenty-llfth of the population of tne country and un
doubtedly consumed before the war more than one twenty-tilth of the food
and clothing used in the United States. ISut after every possible allowance
has been made for the requirements of youth and the wastclulness of war, the
tigures of the army purchases still present man., surprising contrasts with
those of civilian us*- in normal times. For instance, the purchases of blankets
for the army in mix were -Vi times as great ..s the entire American pro
duction in that line of commodity in the ycat mil. To put it in another way,
'the blankets bought in one year for the use ot tin.- army would have been
sulllcient to supply the actual normal consumption of blankets by 100 million
American civilians for -U years.
The reason for the enormous figures ol army purchases are not far,
to seek. In the first place, men wh<> went o. camp received complete
equipment of new articles, whereas production in peace time goes mainly, to
replace articles that have been worn out. in tin- second place, the supplies
required for an army increase in proportion to the distance that separates
the army from its home base. In the third place, the consumption in action
is three anti four times the pear.- rate. The stre; m of supplies going forward
lo an army may be likened to the water delivered o» a fire by an old fash
ioned bucket brigade. For every pailful thrown on the fire there must he
many that have been taken from the source of supply and are on the way.
As the distance from the source increases lids supply in transit constantly
grows. Thus when an army is :! or 4 thousand miles from its source of I
supply the amounts of supplie m reserve and In transit are enormous as ‘
compared to the quantities actually consumed each month.
The rule followed in supplying th> American army with clothes was I
that there should lie for each man at the front .. 3 month's reserve in France,
another 2 or 3 month's reserve in the United Stales, and a 3 months' supply!
continuously in transit. Wool coats for example, last about 3 months In ;
active service. Hence for every coat op a man's back at the front there had \
to be a coat, in reserve in France, a coat in transit, and a coat in reserve in
the United States. For every man at the front I coats were needed as
soon us lie wont overseas. Two million men overseas required X million
coats, .ml required them immediately. The same was also true for other
supplies and munitions. In supplying food and clothing and other articles
which are matters of common commercial pioduetion. the problem of supply
ing the army was not so difficult us with ordnance, but tie large needs for initial
equipment placed an enormous strain on the industries concerned. A list
of the total deliveries during the war of some of the common articles show
the gigantic size of the task. The following table shows the quantities
of clothing delivered to the army from April 0.1917 to May 31. 1918.
Wool stockings, pair . . .131,800,000 Undershirts.85,000,000
Umlerdrawors. 83.600,000 Shoes, pairs . 30,700,000
Blankets . 21.700,000
Wool coats .13.900.000
MONDAY
ENGLAND AND ITALY
TO RESUME TRADE
RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA
London. Feb. 23—Premier Lloyd
Oeorgo and Nitti, the Italian premier,
have reached an understanding where
by Loth Fngland and Italy will resume
complete commercial relations with
Russia but will have no diplomatic
dealings with the Soviet government.
The resumption of trade relations
will lift the long standing Allied
blockade of Soviet Russia and permit
the Russians to import food and other
much needed commodities.
MATERLINK SUFFERS INJURY
IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
San Diego, Feb, 23—Maurice Mater
link, the noted author was compelled
to cancel Ids speaking engagement
h'-re today owing to an injury to one
eye resulting from 'the entry of
cinder while traveling on the train
from I,os Angeles. Materlink is Re
ported suffering severely and is undi-r
WOMAN SUICIDES ON
BOARD S S PRESIDENT
San Francisco; Feb. 23—Mrs Her
bert R. Ruby, the twenty two year old
wife of Herbert Baby, a Bellingham
automobile dealer, killed herself today
by shooting on hoard the Admiral
Line steamer President while enroute
from ixis Angeles to San Francisco.
The suicide is said to have occurred
following a quarrel between Mrs Baby
and her husband while on the stcarn
MICHiGAN IRON
COUNTY REBELS
AGAINST PROHIBITION
Chicago, Fob. 233 "A rebellion
against prohibition has broken out in
Iron County, Michigan and the county,
led by its prosecuting attorney, is in
open revolt against federal authority."
This was the notification sent today!
to the authorities at Washington by I
Major \ L. I Jelrymple, Federal pro-I
hihitiou director for the central states. I
Major Dalryniple has been advised j
that the citizens of Iron Futility arej
openly refusing !•> obey the national I
prohibition act and declare they have I
no intention of doing so. Speculation!
Is rife hero regarding the possible ae-J
lion of the federal government toward
cedent in the history of the country.
It is said that practically the entire
populace of Iron Founty Is opposed
to prohibition.
PALMER THREATENS PACKERS
WITH PROSECUTION
A-sl. Campbell Soup', 7 can-' (1.00
Chicago, Fel>. 23 As a result of
the Federal Trade Commission revela
tions concerning the alleged profiteer
ing and food cornering activities oi'
the big packing hours firms, Attor
ney Oneral Palmer has servi-d no
tice on the packers here that unless
a country-wide reduction in the price
of meats tak'-s pi,ice Immediately the.
will be compelled by the i-deral gov
eminent to submit their books to fed
eral agents for Inspect.on. This is
the first definite steps taken by tie
federal government to force . reduc
tion in meat pilces rind is believed to
be the prelude t<> .. \ unrous campaign
VICE PRESIDENT DISrUSSES
ALIEN IMMIGRATION
Now York, Feb. 23- Allens who
this country . pernament home, but
expecting to return to the land of their
I'nited States," was the outstanding
irnnrigration question here today.
The vice president added that
by the citizens of foreign lands for
its opportunities, but should be loved
for its institutions as well.” Th. ad
dress was made before a local society
interested in the uplifting of the alien
immigrants.
NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR WILL
FIGHT FOR ANTI PROHIBITION
PLANK AT CONVENTION
Atlantic City. N. J. Feb. 23- Hov
el nor Kdwards of New Jersey an
nounced today that hi' intends carry
ing the tight of the people of New
Jersey against prohibition to th** Nu -
(Jovernor l‘Mwards, who was elect
ed on his promise to tight, against
national prohibition, said he intends
to go lo San Francisco to fight for an
anti-prohibition plank in the Demo
era tie platform. New Jersey has al
ready repudiated tile action of the
legislature iu endorsing the prohild
lion amendment, thereby creating a
situation which may require the is
suance »'f a new proclamation of the
ratification of the amendment, with
the name of some other state endors
ing the amendment substituted. Kd
wards was elected on his pledge to
regime.
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