A FAC SIMILE LETTER FROM A TELEGRAPH OPERATOR.
E. S. Hewitt & Company, Chitina, Alaska, Nov. 11, 191(1.
Juneau, Alaska.
Pear Sirs:
Enclosed find check for $44.50 for balance due on my new “Silent Smith.”
I am well pleased with the machine. Find it to be just what you represented and better
than that, I have learned to like it and find it faster than the Underwood. I gave it a very good
test during the election. Took seventy-seven bulletins and all commercial work besides. I
will always have a good word for the L. C. Smith hereafter. Very respectfully,
F. W. S.
Call at our office and inspect this high-grade typewriter and satisfy yourself that it is the best.
E. S. HEWITT AND COMPANY
Phone 78-R “The House That Gives You Service.” 511 Fourth Ave.
Have You Had This Letter?
If a business man wrote to you on a scrap of paper and
never used a letter head, you would conclude he wasn’t
much of a success—wouldn’t you? A man who does not
use modern business methods cannot possibly compete with
the man who does. A man who pays all his bills by cash
and never by check does not impress people with being a
successful man.
If you pay your bills by cheeks on your Bank Account here
you are writing upon the Letter Head of Success.
Our books now show nearly 1500 accounts. Is your name there?
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SWEDEN IS
SUFFERING
FROM THE 1R
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 16.—(By Mail)
—Sweden is perhaps the most divided
country in the universe over the war.
One could not say with truth that
Sweden is pro-ally or pro-German.
There are many factions and each
looks at the great conflagration in its
own way.
Most everybody is anti-Russian. A
great many are anti-British, a small
circle are pro-German, but everybody
is pro-French, even the pro-Germans.
A strange paradox, but a true one.
Still Sweden as a nation is neither
pro-ally nor pro-Prussia.
The Russian antipathy is historic.
Sweden used to be on both sides of the
Baltic. Russia took Finland and for
generations Sweden has feared Russia
some day would try to go further west,
blazing a way to open ports of the At
lantic. German propaganda has help
ed this feeling along.
France, one and all say, has been
the ideal country in this war, from the
first gun till the last. She has fought
like a lion and unselfishly fought
strictly according to Hoyle. Her atti
tude has been nobility itself and not
even the pro-Germans seem to hope
for her defeat.
However, in this pro-German crowd,
one heais ‘hat England is using
France for her own selfish purposes.
According to them England is aiming
at world-domination and that if the
allies win and Germany is crushed,
England will have her hand on the
world’s windpipe and can throttle it at
leisure, commercially and otherwise.
And as proof of what England will
do they point to the English blockade.
Even now. they claim, Sweden is be
ing sorely pinched economically by the
action of England’s fleet. The cost of
living has gone up from 40 to 100
per cent, they assert, and certain com
modities arc not to be had at all.
Should England become all-powerful,
as she would in the event of a crushed
Germany, what then would happen to
Sweden.
I asked President Carl Frisk of the
Stockholm Handels bank, one of the
most powerful financiers in all Scan
dinavia and one of the best informed
men in such matters in Sweden, about
the effect of the British blockade and
if it hal affected the cost of living to
any great extent. He did not seem to
think it had. Hiving was higher, he
said, but on the average not much
more than 25 or 30 per cent. Sweden
is exceedingly prosperous and there is
plenty of money in the land.
Perhaps the greatest authority on
the cost of living in Sweden is Alex
Robert Bildt, director of Transito, ltd.,
formed to handle freight “in transit”
from foreign countries, throughout
Sweden, to Russia. This concern was
recognized by the British government
and goods consigned to it were allowed
free passage through the blockade be
cause England had guarantees that
such goods would not be diverted to
Germany, once in Sweden, as form
erly had been the case very often.
The pro-German press of Sweden
fought Transito mercilessly, claiming
that through it England was trying to
get a strangle hold on the economic
life of Sweden, controlling every
mouthful of food and all other sup
plies coming into the country.
“This assertion was utterly without
foundation,” Director Hildt told me.
“We handle only ‘in transit’ goods.
These, now arriving in large <iuunti
ties from America and other countries,
are let through the blockade without
delay. It is not true that England
thus controls all Sweden’s imports.
We simply are surety to England that
such goods consigned to us go to their
proper destination instead of to the
central powers."
“Has the cost of living gone up
very much since the war?” he was
asked.
“Not more than in the United
States, Argentine and other neutral
countries, I should say,” he replied.
“At the start we had in Sweden abun
dant supplies of everything, but Swed
ish dealers could not withstand the
temptation to sell and disposed of
this surplus, principally to Germany
at war prices. Now we are short and j
prices have risen in consequence some
30 per cent on an average.
"England has tried to arrange with j
Sweden to allow Sweden to restock on
the ante-bellum basis. But the pro
German element refuses to agree to
this.”
So relations between the two coun
tries continue to be somewhat strain
ed. England refused to allow certain
things to pass the blockade and enter
Sweden. Sweden retaliated by laying
an embargo on certain articles—wood
pulp, for example. Now the wood
pulp dealers, who formerly exported
300,000 to 300,000 tons per year, have
no market for their pulp and are not
happy.
“I am sure,” Director Bildt said,
“that at present our government
would like to go back on its action. An
agreement with England would benefit
us much.”
TRAINING ON
EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 23.—About
l.r>0,000 years is being added to the ag
gregate life of the population of the
United States by the Mexican “situa
tion.” Instead of spreading death
and disablement the campaign in Mex
ico and the mobilization of the Na
tional guard is adding from a few
months to years to the life of every
civilian soldier, army physicians de
clare. Statisticians have figured that
the average added to the life of each
guardsman will be nearly a year.
After four to six months of training
like an athlete, working in the open
air, sleeping in a tent and eating sim
ple food a hundred thousand guards
men will go back to civil life with a
new lease of life.
Major James F. Edwards of the
medical corps of the Pennsylvania mi
litia has been making a close study
of the general effects of the intensive
training upon these men drawn from
office, farm and factory. In civil life
he is director of public health of the
city of Pittsburg.
“Nearly every man on the border
will be benefited immeasureably by
the training he is undergoing,” said
Major Edwards. “In most cases the
instruction in personal hygiene and in
right living will influence the militia
man for years.
“Even now the difference in the
health of our men can be noticed. Sev
eral months of daily exercise in the
open air and sleeping in a tent cannot
but benefit. It is worth a dozen vaca
tions rolled into one.
“But most important is the effect of
the army diet. Most civilians eat too
much. And intemperance in eating is
more dangerous than any other form
of intemperance. For four months
our men have been eating the simple
palatable army ration. They don’t
eat too much and the food value of
what they get is computed scientific
ally. This regime with plenty of ex
ercise cannot fail to add something to
the lives of our citizen soldiers.”
But there is no pleasing everybody.
To the man undergoing this training
it sometimes loses the vacation-physi
cal training tinge and becomes just
hard labor.
“Huh," said one guardsman driling
in the sun. when told he was adding
one year to his life, “fzzat so, well,
I’ll give three off the other end of my
life to go home now.”
I’hone 4.'i-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
Nugget souvenir jewelry. Lord,
Jeweler. 103
Taxidermist
W. D. WANDLING
5th Ave. Bet. C and D
Anchorage :: Alaska.
Union Laundry
and Bath House
Eourth Are., Between H and I,
Anchorage
OUR WORK IS GUARANTIED
—and—
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COAL AND WOOD
OFFICE LATHROP BLDG.
ALFRED BENSON, Prop.
City Drug Store
Corner 5th and C.
The Rexall Store. DR. K. A. KYVIG, Prop.
Our Christmas goods are now unpacked. Our Pyrolin
Ivory, the best obtainable. French and domestic Per
fumes, Soaps and Toilet articles, Military Sets, Mirrors,
Manicure Sets, Pocket Hooks, Stationery, Rubber Goods,
all of most handsome designs and of the very best quality.
REMEMBER—OUR PRICES ARE REASONABLE
A Victrola for a Christmas present would cheer the
whole family.
We keep $15.00, $25.00 and $50.00 machines in stock
and sell these on time.
THE BON MARCHE
Opp. Postoffice
Don’t Buy a Lot of Trash!!
BUT BUY A USEFUL AND SENSIBLE
GIFT SUCH AS
F-U-R-S-!
WE ARE OVERSTOCKED WITH A LOT OF LADIES’ FUR COATS, FUR
MUFFS, FUR SETS.
INSTEAD OF CARRYING OVER WE WILL OFFER THESE AT A SACRI
FICE.
TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT OFF ON ALL OUR FURS AND FUR COATS,
PLUSH COATS AND CLOTH COATS.
YOU HAD BETTER HURRY AND MAKE YOUR SELECTIONS.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO PAY FOR THEM NOW, BUT LET US LAY THEM
ASIDE FOR YOU AND GET THEM WHEN YOU WANT THEM.
The BON MARCHE
Opp. Postoffice