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THE NOME TRI WEEKLY NUGGET, MONDAY SEPTEMBER 15. 1919.
"INFLATED CURRENCY" AND THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.
currency in circulation has something t.- do with the high prices, and it must
be admitted that there are at least surfac. facts to justify the suspicion that
Common experience tells us that money was never so plentiful as it is today.
money he has won’t buy him what he wants, says a "recent editorial »f the
Seattle Cost Intelligencer concerning the .Myers proposal to assist the solution
of the living problem by reducing the quantity of currency by some
methods. The articles, which contains considerable food for the rellectively
issued perhaps seventy billions of dollars’ worth of currency, in the shape of
bonds. We know that in the I'nited States liberty bonds are used as money.
"We take liberty bonds" is a common phrase in advertisements, and to the
extent that liberty Inmds are used in this fashion they are currency with
nothing behind them except the credit of the I'nited States. And good as
his credit is. in the last analysis it is only credit.
The five years of war was a period of money production and of wealth
wealth, hui for the purpose of destroying wealth. During the war existing
wealth and accumulated stocks of wealth were Mown up in smoke and heavy
'bafts were made on the ftituie. There is no means or knowing what the
destruction of wealth was during the war. Statisticians say that England1
mortgaged -»<* per cent of her wealth. France even more, and while the i'nited
States mortgage is not considered to he above 8 per cent., the destruction of
wealth in the central empires will keep the average high.
If the world was engaged for y. rs in destroying it wealth and at the
same time increasing its money, it is fairly obvious that the. relation of
money to wealth, which is prices, cannot be the same now as when there
was more wealth and less money. If there is half the wealth there was before
the war and half again as much money, the value or the wealth, wheat, wool,
iron, meat, etc., must be greater in terms of money. In other words, prices
It is not probable that this, or anv other one factor, will explain high
prices in their entirety. There is the human equation in its various and
intricate manifestations, such as the feeling of wealth engendered by the
mere possession of tokens of wealth which stimulates buying, which is com
petition among the consumers. We see this frenzied buying all around us.
The shoe manufacturers meeting in New York the other day. according to an
Associated Press dispatch, predicted the short supply, to the European buy
ing and "the prosperity of the American people.1.The prosperity of the
what they can get. but it is also a declaration «.f confidence that the people
have the money to pay the prices. Here we have the quantity of money
theory operating as a practical fact.
be the real or fictitious sufferings of the present, repudiation is simple and
money and wealth. Hut this means more and harder work, and that is
the one thing the world will not tolerate. It is much easier to rfroduco mqye
money.
There has been a theosophist in town. We were too busy to attend,
I ut we studied one winter twenty years ago a book called ‘‘Forgotten Truth"
on reincarnation, and the author set forth that after great calamities such as
the I.ondnn plague, where thousands of people passed from this “vale of tears"
there was a vastly increased number of twin and triple births. We would
like to know if it is to be understood, granting the story is. true, that in the
face of the millions who have fallen in the recent unpleasantness, will in
crease twin and triple births ? If the theory holds good there will sure be
3ome busy M. D’s and nurses in Europe for the next few years.—Juneau Oleam
PEN POINTS OF THE PRESS
A geologist, says a scientific paper, thinks nothing of a thousand years.
He’d be a bad one to lend money to.
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MOSQUITO EXPERT
VISITS DAWSON
Harrison <1. Dyar. A M,. l»h. D..
of the Pnited States National Mu
ties In the world on mosquitoes re
cently visited Dawson to study the
northern mosquito. He has devoted
years to the study of the mosquito In
time ago. to study the pest and spent
gathered specimens at all points en
ras spent at Prince Rupert, and also
and secured 1,000 of them there. The
duccd if not exterminated there by
proper drainage Wild treatment of tlie
was made there of trying to kill them
with kerosene, hut it is reported the oil
was applied in the wrong way. and
ed as it should have been, and de
malaria carrying class, and none of
carriers, which explains in one way
try in the summer.
While in Dawson, the doctor could
or the sun-lit night with his mosquito
traps. He caught the little fellows
with bottles. The bottle . is placed
over the specimen when it is at rest.
When Mr Mosquito is in the bottle
Rater the professor places several of
the mosquitoes on a pin and thus
them. The mosquito dries s.> that he
is preserved intact.
larvae.' He could l>e seen industriously'
delving into the pools and old ditches
il.out Dawson with a little wire dipper
and strainer, etching bucketfuls of
the wrigglers. The skin <»f th< wrig
gler is preserved after drying. Dr
Dyar will seed a share <>f the speci
mens he gathers on the trip to the
take the others to Washington to
«tiuly in course of his research work.
found there, and hopes to come hack
next year and go the whole length of
the Yukon, anti do the entire Alaska
coast and Interior in time, lie sees a
great service £^jihc work, and is con
vinced that the fnosqulto can he driv
en out of almost any country l>y prop
er methods, such as were used at
Panama and'Wfuba by the American
government, when it eliminated yellow
fever in those zones. The doctor made
this trip at his own Initiative and at
personal cost, but hopes the govern
ment will be able to send out a
mosquito expedition to the North
hereafter, and lie believes it will pay
and get results. For years I)r Dyar
also studied butterflies, and made
wonderful collections, but he thinks it
more necessary to camp on the trail
of the common enemy—the mosquito,
and so is making a life fight against
the Huns of the winged world.
The Yukon mosquito was found by
Dr Dyar to be an Innocent fellow com
pared to the big burly ruffian and
outlaw which bothered the New Jersey
millionaires and proletariat for years,
and wild at last has been nearly wiped
out there by scientific and systematic
warfare. Tireless campaigns were
carried on against the flyltig anarchists
Ir- the swampy homes.
ALASKA NOTES.
Tlie Gold Nugget Mine, located near
Ketchikan. Marti/t Hugge, Ketchikan
owner, lias been re-opened, with a
small force of workers.
M. J. < >'C'nnnor, many times Mayor
of Douglas, and for many years a
merchant in the town, has purchased
the .Sweet Grocery Co,, at Bellingham.
Gus Rorgen. of Seward, has purch
ased the stock of the Seward Comnvr
cial Company and will operate under
the name "Gus Rorgen, General
Merchandise.”
The Surf Packing Co,.- recently Or
ganized by Alvin Hemrich and George
Palmer, is preparing to construct .1
clam canning plant and salmon can
nery at Snug Harbor, Cooks Inlet.
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