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(' ONC1L1ATIO X
Secrotary Uivis says that it is the business of the Department of
Labor “to sell the country President Harding's idea of stopping labor
troubles before they begin." How the Secretary would do this is outlined
in a statement which he has made to a representative of the Industrial In
formation Service, according to the Boston Transcript. The plan con
templates the creation of a body of picked men, each especially qualified
to act as a conciliator in a designated group of industries. These ex
perts would not spend their time in Washington, waiting for disputes to
arise. Instead they would be out in the field, studying conditions in dif
ferent sections of the country, and ready to act without loss of time when
need arose. They would supplement the activities of the existing Bureau
of Conciliation, which, since Secretary Davis assumer ofi^ce, has quietly
settled no less than seventy-five industrial deadlocks.
It is proposed, for'the purpose of putting the new scheme into opera
tion. to divide the industries of the country into fifteen divisions, or groups.
These would include mining, steel and iron, petroleum, lumber, packing
house, leather, textile, building, metals, needle, publishing and miscella
neous trades, together with public untilities. water, transportation and
wholesale and retail merchandising. It is the purpose of Secretary Davis
to have as conciliator in a given group a man who knows the industries
Jucluded "down to the ground and on all sides." However, the mere pos
session of that knowledge is not to be the only requirement. The con
ciliator must be a man capable of engaging effectively in educational work
with a view to bringing about a better understanding of the conditions and
the purpose which should govern enlightened industrial relations.
Secretary Davis sees in his plan a weapon against radical propa
ganda. "These Red disturbers.” he says, "are no myth. Their litera
ture is widely distributed and it is dangerous—dangerous most of all in
the clever way in which it is spread. They see to it that their stuff gets
into the hands of the women first of all. They tell wild tales of the enor
mous sums of money made by thjs or that concern. This comes to the
eye of a tired wife. -She talks it over at night with a husband tired after
his day’s work at the mill. Both are in the right fraane of mind to fall
for such nonsense. It's going on all the time. And for that purpose
alone—to combat that vicious thing—we need men. the best we can get.
out in the field, talking American sense."
Without discussing in detail the plan thus outlined, it may be said
of Mr. Davis' view or the functions of his department that he sees in it
something very different from a mere auxiliary of organized labor. The
new Secretary believes that it is a department intended to promote the
rights and interests of employers and the public in general as well as of em
ployees. It is not surprising, therefore, to find hfm devising plans "to
sell the country President Harding’s idea of stopping labor troubles be
fore they begin. ”
T H K X K T C O ST OF Ci O V E It X M E X T
Every business man knows that there is a difference between gross
expenditures and net expenses. But when it comes to considering the
cos| of government, even business men are apt to forget this distinction
and to judge the “burden of government” by the size of the appropriation
bills alone. That this is a false basis for estimates is apparent on a mo
ment's reflection. Appropriation bills do not show the earnings or cred
its to bureaus and departments, and hence do not give data on which the
net can be figured. Dr. Edward B. Rosa of the Bureau of Standards
has recently pointed out in an exhaustive analysis that in some cases rhe
whole cost, and in others a large part of the cost, is covered by fees or earn
ings. He cites as examples the Consular Service, the Patent Office, the
7^and Office, the Reclamation Service, the Bureau of Navigation, the Forest
Service, the Federal Reserve Board, and, of course, t.he Post Office Depart
“A ‘billion dollar Congress.’ ” he declares, “was a familiar phrase in
pre-war days, and this was generally supposed to mean that the national
Government cost the taxpayers a billion dollars a year. This, however,
was not the case. It meant merely that the total appropriations by Con
gress, that Is. the authorized gross annual disbursements of the Govern-,
inent. including the entire business of the Post Office Department, amount
ed to a billion dollars per annum. In no single year prior to our entry
into the Great War were the net expenses of the Government payable from
taxation as much as seven hundred millions of. dollars. The important
distinction between gross disbursements and net expenses should be em
phasized. for it is often overlooked.”
To illustrate more concretely: From 1910 to 1919, the total of
the post office surplus amounted, in round numbers, to $26,000,000. and
the total of the deficiencies was $31,000,000, leaving therefire a net deficit
of approximately $5,000,000. for the ten yea rperiod. During this period
the total volume of business was nearly $3,000,000,000. The deficit was
thus less than two-tenths of one per cent of the whole Reclamation Ser
vice, which has annual appropriations of about $9,000,000. The law pro
vides that this service cannot expend any more money than it receives each
year through the sale of public lands, by collections from tattlers. ar.d for
water supplied by Irrigation. Thus the $9.4)00.000 appropriation, in Dr.
Roea’s words,' “is only an authorization to use the money which they an
nually collect, or which has been turned into the Treasury by the land of
fice, and hence the Reclamation Service costs the taxpayer very little.”1
Every dollar expended by the Treasury Dpartraent for its large force of
national bank examiners Is obtained by assessments on the banks. Two
thirds of the $33,000,000 of “expenditures” for Indian affairs i£ the In
dians’ own money, handled by the Government as trusteest. 'And so on.
Much has been said, and more, perhaps, has been guessed, as to the
cost of the war. If we judge by the common method of adding up all the
appropriations and omitting the revenues o fthe Federal Government, the
cost is staggering. But Dr. Rosa gives comfort In his analysis. Ex
cluding loans to European governments and all domestic loans as well, the
excess of the expenditures in the four jpkrs 1917-1920 over estimated nor
mal expenditures on a pre-war basis 'totalled $2,982,723,219. Revenues
lncrased as well as expenditures. This exaess, similarly figured, was
fill,818,699,300. “The ratio of the second total to.the first Is 45.5 per
cent. In other-words. In these four years we have paid over and above
(the estimated normal expenses of the Government 45.5 per cent of the cost
of the war, leaving 54.5 per cent to be paid in the future, in addition to all
tk (indirect and continuing costs not included in the above. This as
sumes that loans to European governments will be paid, principal
und interest, as well as domestic loans, and leavea out of account the fur
tber expenses of the Railroad Administration, the permanent increased
costs of the Army and Navy, pensions and war risk insurance. Shipping
Hoard, etc., as well as the permanent increases in the cost of all civil ac
tivities of the Government.” The hill for the future is high enough, but
it is not as high as the fact of the supply measures now befor--* Congress
leads up to suppose.
The important but simple principle emphasized above it is well to
bear in mind in scanning the appropriations proposed to anti by Congress.
In many instances a large appropriation does not mean a large expense at
all. In some cases a reduced appropriation pteans a corresponding or
even a greater curtailment in revenues. The thing that counts, as I)r.
Rosa points out. is the net cost of government, not the paper sum of ex
penditures .
MANY PRILLING OUTFITS
GOING TO OIL FIELDS
Edmonton,— Some fifteen drilling
rigs for work in the Mackenzie oil
fields are already on the way north
are in transit to Edmonton, and it is
expected that the greater number of
them will be in actual operation this
season Several now devolopmont
companies, in addition to the Imper
ial Oil Company, the pioneers in the
field, will be at work and have or
ganized prospecting and drilling ex
peditions on a scale that is taken to
mean business.
The Imperial Oil Company will
have three new drills in addition to
the two already in the field. These
will be located in the vicinity of its
No. 1 well below Fort Norman, with
one likely on the opposite side of the
river. T. A. Link, the company's
geologist, is now selecting new drill
ing sites and carrying on a further
prospecting program. The Imperial
well at Windy Point, on Great Slave
Lake, will also be drilled to greater
A close second to the Imperial
Company, if its plans work out will
be the Northwestern Oil Company, of
Montreal, which has sent drilling
equipment and casing sufficient for
for five wells. Of these four will ]»->
in the Great Slave Lake field and one
at Fort Norman. The company,
which is headed by W. W. Bltuer.
of the Canadian Car and Foundry
Company, and Senator N. Curry, has
11.000 acres of claims in the two
fields and purposes to carry on active
development at several different
points. Major H. J. McCrimmon is
in charge of the field operations.
The Mackenzie River Oil Company,
of which.C. .Miller, of Toronto, is
president, is sending three rigs into
the Fort Norman field, and A. 11
Low has already gone in with a well
equipped party to do the necessary
geological work before the wells can
be sunk. He will stay in the North
all through the next winter, and an
even larger program is proposed for
the following year. K. W. Backus,
the pulp and paper king, and R. J,
Fleming, of the Toronto Street Rail
way Company, are directors, of the
Mackenzie River Company.
Drilling equipment for the Fort
Norman Oil Company, ol' Toronto,
has also gone forward, and two wells
will be sunk this summer, in the
near vicinity of the initial Imperial
well. This is the company of which
Joseph M. Aitken. of London, is
president, and it has been financed
in part, it is understood, with Brit
ish capital. It has 3,268 acres of oil
leases in the Fort Norman and Great
Slave Lake fields, but will concen
trate for this year’s operations on its
further north holdings.
Several other smaller development
enterprises are on the list, with one
or two drilling outfits each, and it
is expected that some of these will
'Kef into action <iurine: the summer.
; It is significant that all the drill
j ing operations will he on leases se
j cured under the old regulations, be
I fore the government imposed the re
| strictions and reservations that now
j make it unlikely, it is claimed, for
further leasing to he ventured on
j any extensive scale. Enough terri
| torv is included within the areas
j covered by the several companies
above named, however, to prove the
region fairly well, and its operation
will he under the original terms,
which are considerably more gener
ous than thosf now in force.
Investments of both American and
British capital in the northern oil
game are looked for in increasing
measure as the work of proving the
field progresses. A. 0. M. Anderson,
of the Anderson-Brown Consolidated
Company, of Edmonton, has returned
from a trip to England, where he has
been talking oil possibilities to some
of the most likely investors, and re
ports not only much interest in the
Mackenzie prospects, but ihe definite
assurance that British money will in
due course he coming over for in
vestment . The financial market in
the oil country, however, is at pres
ent so badly involved that it is not
thought that many of the likely in
vestors there will be in a position
to take a hand in the northern oil
industry this year .-—Exchange.
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j The editor looked over the mo
I reporter's shoulder as the latter .
writing his first assignment, descrih
! inrr the rescue of a voutig lady from
a watery grave. The cub's typewrit
er tapped out the words: “Her limp
form lay prone upon the deck and
her short pants-—
“Here—cut out that rough stuff!"
roared the editor
The cuh turned upon his boss «>
weary look and continued: ' her
short pants for breath supplied the
only evidence that the spark of life
still flickered . ”
Notice—If the gentleman who
keeps the shoe store with a red head
will return the umbrella of a young
lady with whalebone ribs and an
Ivory handle to the slate-roofed groc
er’s store, he will hear something to
his advantage, as the same is the
gift of a deceased mother, now no
more, with the name engraved upo"
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To F. II. K i ng. .1.
\ Olunif F'‘) .i t p;:L
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al!> •luring •
hundred dollars in
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E E POWELL
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT
OF FINAL ACCOUNT
(TIAS." \V THoVlAS. deonsed
Notice is hereby given, that ih •
undersigned administrator with the
will annexed of the estate of Ch :
\V Thomas, deceased, has li!*-d in
final account as such administrator
in the above entitled Court and the
Court by its order has set Monday
the 28 day of November 1:»21 at the
lht» afternoon at
< ommissioner
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this 17th
day of September. 1^21
\dminis*r::for with w : -*r,>,t „f
estate of (.'tins. \V Thomas. d-^nsed.
Publish—Sept. 17 21. ()<;i . i. s.
United States Land Office
Nome, Alaska
September 2, Hi21
NOTICK IS HEREBY GIVEN,
That the PIONEER MINING AND &
DITCH COMPANY, a corporation,
organized. and existing under th<*
Laws (if the State of Nevada, with
its place of business and post office
address Underwood Building. San
Francisco, California, has. through
its authorized agent. Chas. L.
Johnson, whose post office address
is Nome. Alaska, made application
before the United States Land Of
fice at Nome. Alaska, for a Uniied
States Patent for the mining claim
known as the TOOTHPICK FRAC
TION. situated on the L. L. of
Little Creek, about three and three
quarters miles north of the Town of
Nome, in the Cape Nome Mining and
Recording District: Territory of Al
aska. and designated by the United
States Surveyor General of Alaska
as .Mineral Sur. No. 130:!. the ex
terior boundaries of which, accord
ing to the plat and field no*, s of said
survey now on file in sail} land office.
• with a variation of front Is dec.
I'eginning at Cor. No. 1.
a fir post I ins. sq jn earth
mound, from whence r s. L
M No. 2 bears N. 27 dec. :’a
min . W.. 3 468.4 ft . : thence s
3 deg S min. W\. 1081.3 ft.
deg. W.. 7‘*.7 ft. to Cor No
3; thence N 1 deg. 2i> min
thence N 4 4 deg. 1 •! min. E
199.4 ft to Cor No. 1. and
place of beginning. containing
The adjoining • la ini are: on the
N Sur. No 32*i. \<. 1 Al»ov.* Dis
Itench placer: on the \Y.. Sur No
•“.25. Portland Bench placer: all
claimed by the applicant for patent
C S L M No. 2 is a limestone
block chiselled U.S L.M. No.
situated at the foot of Anvil Moun
tain. about 200 feet east of the Sew
ard Peninsula Railway. Latitude
»; J deg. ! : miu N Longitude K.5
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