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THE NOME TRI WEEKLY NUGGET. FRIDAY JULY 11, 1919
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» PEACE ASSURED.
Although tli*- situation *>f Hermany is such that refusal of ihe pcru-e
terms by the national parliament was extremely. unlikely the final ratification
of the treaty will doubtless arouse a feeling of deep relief throughout the
world. 9
Hermanv is no longer the formidable war antagonist she was o*-fore
lier desire for lustful <-onqiiest. led her to throw down the gauntlet i.ut she
is still powerful enough to cause on Immense amount of misery in 'he vorld
if she had'forced the Allies fo continue the war to the point ..f .-•.mplete
subjugation.
It Is axiomatic among military rnen that guerilla warfare is the hardest
kind of resistance to overcome. Take, for instance, the difficulties encoun
tered by the British in their efforts to bring into subjection the smalt handful
of Boers in the Transvaal var. Had the Hermans chosen to resist the peace
demands of the Allies if would have :equired weeks nd months of military
campaigning to bring them Into forcible subjection. - Had they possessed
flic intense fighting spirit of »lie- Boers it might possibly have required several
v<ars ia for<- the nation could be brought into a state of complete docility.
\nd every da* of fighting would have involved added bloodshed and suffering
nd vast expenditures of money by ourselves and th<- .\flies.
The ratification of the peace treaty removes the last prospect »,f this
undesirable possibility an insures that unless an entirely new trauf of events
develops in Berrnany. she is not likely to again become a disturbing factor
iri world affairs for a long time b« come.
THE AGGREGATE WAP DEBT.
Secretary of War N’ewton l>. Biker is authority for tvtn in, r I ■ • r
the actual cost <<f the war to all uatioffs Involved has been ilJT tMi i.-.oo miO.
This, however. do.* not represent all ..f the debts laid up by llu* n. f,,r
future liquidation as it .lots not Include the hug.- stun Henna ny will im
pelled to pay to France and Belgium by way of reparation f >r the damage
done during the Herman invasion.
It represents nothing but tie- actual costs of the conduct ..r the war
to the various participants. *
As a result of the announcement the st^iHsticans have become very
busy figuring out Just what $197,000,000,000 means in understandable values.
As most of the war delfts are payable in gold, the mind naturally turns to the
question of Just how much gold is represented in such a colossal sum.
How much will one hundred and ninety seven trillion dollars In gold
weigh, or what sized file would it make if reduced to its least quantitive
proportion* 7
That such an amount would represent a considerable bulk and weight Is*1
apparent if one recalls that Hie stacks of gold coin piled up behind the grat
ing of the average bank, although doubtless appearing to Is- a lot of money to
Hie majority of people. In reality, represent only a few thousand dollars in
value. Very few banks have more than fifteen or twenty thousand in gold
on display at any time. All of the gold that most of n« have ever seen if
plied In fine heap -would scarcely represent a million dollars in aggregate
value.
Bcalizing tills, one naturally suspects thn! the gold represented In the
war debts of the nations would make a rather large heap If piled in one tom
paet mass. It Is probable, however, that few could conceive a definite Idea of
how hig it would be. Kven a reckless guesser would hardly conceive the
true dlmcnsi' ns. Hardly one In a thousand would guess that It could be
measured in terms of yards and would weigh in the hundreds of thousands of
Vet here is what the aggregate war debts would inenrf. The figures
arc given bv no less an authority than the superlntendant of-the V. M. Mint
at Washington. According to Ids calculations, two billion dollars built as
a cube of gold would make a block measuring seventeen feet and four inches
each way. Knlnrging on this basis, a cube of gold representing the one
hundred and ninety seven billions of the war debt would measure eighty one
feet and eight inches In each dimension. in other words It. would he larger.,
than the average two Atory business block found In the smaller towns. The
'.•eight of this vast mass of go Id would be 326,690- tons or 653.3HO.OOO pounds.
According to one of the Federal Ileserve Bank directors, who bases his
deductions on Mr. Baker's statement, the aggregate war debt can be paid
«*nl.v through the savings of three generations of thirty three years each.
A CHECKERED CAREER.
A man made a hot with hi* wife—which was Indiscreet.
the* wife* won—which was foreordained.
11*0 tnun wrote the wife a check for $5 In payment of th* !w-l 'Which
was mid.
the wife dish'd the check at the grocery, hut forgot ta indora* It—
wlikh was natural.
'Hie grocer, respite the .••<k of indorsement paid It to n parsing house
e dlector—which was citveim
Th* parking house «(doctor juined it In—which w.i. all Ir a doy?/i
work. , \ •
The packing house office man dlscovored the look of Indorsement—.
which was good work. ^
He handed It hack to tW driver and docked the driver!*faplary—*
wliloh was system. ,'{ W*
The driver placed the check in Iris white duck coat and sent It to the
laundry—which was unwise. . *
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EBERT SICKS BILL
RATIFYING TREATY
Sport*} to the Nugget By the Associated Preen.
RERUN. July Ufr—Accord!fig to an article published in the newspaper
Vfoerwarta today, the final art of the peace treaty ratification has been ac
complished 'by the affixing -*f the signature -.f President Ebert to the bill
tpuiseri by the German National Assembly mtif'. ing the treaty.
■Vbf-rwarts says Ebert has signed the l»ill of ratification and has
for w.a Med a ropy of the document to the German representatives at Versailles.
Th« final ratification of the treaty provoked little stir in Berlin, st
majority of the people assuming the view that such action was inevitable in
view of Germany's present situation. The newspaper comment wn* con
fined to brief generalizations betraying the same hint of inevitability.
DIRIGIBLE ON RETURN
TRIPJO ENGLAND
3p<- ai to the Nugget By the Associated Press.
* v>HTN|iT • July A—The Yu Department announced this
morning ’.<it the British dirigible R St departed on the return journey'to Eng
land via Spain^it midnight iasg night.
Reports from 'he airship reaching -r.e -f the naval radio stations at
: :a today ..-sorted that the dirlgti -- was making good progress and had
< nvered miles wince leaving The Amen* an . oust.
The airship i> expected t*> i: : - m S;>..in by Sunday if weather con
ditions :.r° favorable to flight.
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