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RESTRICTING THE PACKERS
The effects of the recent ngredmont between the Attorney General ami
the biir pecking concerns, whereby the latter are to refrain from handling
products other than those directly connected with the meat Industry will bo
watched with interest.
In a recent statement to the public, I,. I«\ Swift, president of Swift
and Co., declares that instead of representing a menace to the country, the
centralization produced by the packers in the handling of a wide range of
food products In connection with the meat business was a benefit because of
their possession of vast distributive machinery for getting the products from
the producer to the consumer in the most direct and economical manner.
The same thing is claimed with re»|>c*;t to the stock yards business
Mr Swift asserts that the principal reason for the packers being interested in
stock yards was to improve their facilities for the proper and economical
handling of livo styx’k: and also declares* that ownership in such yards jva*
not In any sense u$ed sis. a •means of manipulating prices or of obtaining-un
fair profits’ hut wefrer, on the contrary, aimed at producing greeter efficiency
and economy in meat handling and resultantly lower prices.
If these contentions are true it would appear that the inevitable effect
of the agreement between the packers and the government would he to add
to the prices of products formerly handled by the packers in connection with
the meat industry, as well as to the price of meats.
On the other hand we find it claimed t|iat the centralization of facilities
for collecting and marketing food products places in the hands of the packers
the most effective means that could be found of manipulating prices to their
own advantage. In fact the Kenyon-Anderson bill, recently before Con
gress, was aimed directly at the decentralization of the ]>acking business.
The sponsors for this measure claimed that the high state of centralization
achieved by the packers results in a vast amount of wuste time and effort
which must be paid for by the ultimate consumer, together with the com
missions and perquisites of a large number of commission merchants and
middlemen. The wnste referred to is represented in the hauling of food
live stock from ail parts of the country, frequently a thousand miles or more,
to Chicago and Kansas City and then shipping the dressed meat directly
back to or beyond the points from which the live cattle were obtained. The
cost of this expensive process is manifest and its elimination would seemingly
result In a considerable decrease in the cost of the finished product. It is
also claimed to entaJI added expense by including in the distribution a long
string of commission agents and middlemen
To eliminate these factors it is necessary to convort the packing
business from a highly centralized business into one in which the local center
of production will be the local centre of distribution. However, if it is
profitable to decentralize the packing business, it is a matter for wonder
that tha packers themselves have not found it out long ago.
GOLD EXCISE TAX
Under the excise tax plan of the American Mining Congress to in*
crease fold production, there is little.prospect that tl?e scheme will Involve any
expense to the government, according to a report of the proposal issued by
the Mining Congress Bureau at Washington.
Basing the statement on the estimated production of new gold and
the domestic consumption of gpld In the trades for 1919, the levying of an
vxetae tax of It cents per penny weight <910.00 per ounce) on the use for manu
facture or sole of gold for other than coinage purposes will produce a revenue
of $11,000,000, to meet an estimated premium demand for new mined gold
amounting to $20,000,000. thus leaving a balance in favor of income amounting
to $4,000,000.
In the view of its promulgators, if the proposal were adopted the
manufacturer of gold would have the advantage of knowing he would be
rupphed with gold sufficient to meet his requirements at a definite and fixed
cost to him on the manufactured product, while the producer would also
know deflnltely what he was to receive for netwly produced gold, which would
be the only gold on Wtylch a premium would be paid, thus stabalizing both in*
The propoeal provides the most certain and rapid protection for the
national reserve by Increasing the production of new gold to meet anticipated
trade requirement*. It also removes the entire subject from monetary
entanglements and considerations, since it deals directly with it as a com*
nsodtty. It treats domestic and'forelgn manufacturers alike and is uniform
in Ita application to big and small manufoctuiers. Furthermore, it makes
no dideronoe whence the gold comes as a basis of manufacture. If the excise
were placed on gold bullion sold by the mint to the trades or a certificate of
sale lamed to the buyers of gold at $10 un ounce in addition to the monetary
Price,’it would provoke a speculative market in old gold, and coins would be
destroyed wholesale. Since the excise Is imposed only upon the manufactured
product, this will not take place and in addition, manufacturers will And no
incentive U> hoard the metal in anticipation of the tax. The excise and pre
mium proposal merely creates machinery by which the consumer of gold in
the arts and trades may properly pay the cost of producing his raw .material*.
TOO MANY TECHNICIANS
There la n ganaml $m promt on that ,tho technical professions are very
twB gild end many itmemial young men are striving by every means in
their power to fit Hitnihilm to beeeans mechanical, civil, and electrical
engineers, draftsmen, etc. One can hardly pick up a magazine without
encountering dozens of flamboyant advertisements telling of the big wages
and exceptional opportunities to be found in acquiring a technical education
in such and such correspondence school ot “'institute."
Time was that a technical education in those fields was indeed a highly
remunerative possession hut there are now so many young technical grad
uates in the field that they cannot obtain adequate pay. In New York, for
instance, this educated proletariat lias found itself so underpaid by profiteering
employers ;.-at they have organized a trades union and are demanding si.ary
increases of $500 a year. The numiber included In this union is over 3.000
and comprises junior engineers, engineers’ assistants, architects, chemists
[and a half dozen other professions.
The saime condition which impelled these young men t<> organize are
I probably duplicated in equal or less degree in every large center although in
other places they seeni to lack the good sense shown by the New Yorkers in
breaking the old college traditions and lining themselves up with the real
‘“working" people, instead of maintaining that state of so celled “exclusive
ness" which maker, the average ‘“educated” worker the poorest paid laborer in
the country.
A glance ut the salary list of the educated workers nowadays indi
cates that the value of a. col lego education is greatly overestimated.
The laundry wagon driver, the ice man. the truck driver, etc . receive
better returns for their labor than the average educated worker. The
possession of an education, the acquisition of which involves three or four
jears of effort and an expenditure of several thousand dollars, no longer
guarantees a good income and freedom from hard work.
If young men realized how poorly paid the technical professions
really are, especially for the young man who Is just starting out. far leas of
them would go to college.
CENSUS OF ALASKA
SCHOOL CHILDREN
More than half of the white school
children of Alaska were horn in that
territory, according: to a census re
port just received by the Alaska Din
11*011, Seattle Chamber of Commerce,
I from L. D. Henderson, superintendent
.of public schools In Alaska. Super
intendent Henderson bases his state
ment on reports received from forty
j eight of the sixty-three public
[schools in the territory, says the Seat
tle Daily Times.
Of the 2,290 children enrolled in
these forty-eight Alaskan schools 1,300
iare boys, 1.152 are girls. More than
SUMMONS No 2837
| IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR
TUB TERRITORY OF ALASKA,
SECOND DIVISION.
AOCJIH MORIARITY. Plaintiff.
dan MORIARITY. Defendant
The I‘resident of the United States
G R E K T 1 N Q :
You are hereby required to appear
ami answer the eomplaint of the
plaintiff filed aga’.nst you in tin* above
entitled cause, within thirty days from
the completion of the publication here
of for six consecutive weeks. The
date of the first publication being the
1st day of May 1920. and the date of
the last publication being the 12th
day of June 1920;; and if you fail to
appear and answer within said time
the complaint filed within, for want
thereof the plaintiff herein will ap
ply to the Court for a decree against
you as prayed for In said complaint,
to-wit; for a decree dissolving tin*
contract of marriage now existing be
tween said plaintiff and said de
fendant .
The date «»f the order of the ser
vice of the summons in said cause
by publication is the 30th day of
April 1920.
WITNESS, the Honorable WILLIAM
A. HOLZHEIMER, Judge of the
District Court for the Territory of
Alaska, Second Division and the
seal thereof at Nome in said Ter
ritory of Ala.<*kn, the 30th day
of April 1920.
( SEAL ) THOS. McGANN
Clerk of the Ddstrict Court
for the Territory of Alaska.
Second Division.
By W. C. McCSUIRK
Deputy Clerk
Publish—May 1. 8. 15. 22. 29, June 5.
12, 1920.
NOTICE OF SCHOOL TAX
Notice is Itcrsby given (hat pur*
|Suant to an act of the Legislature of
the Territory of Alaska* approved May
1st, 1919 Entitled—‘An Act to im
pose a tax upon male persons in the
Territory of Alaska for 8chool purposes
ote.,” them was imposed and levied
upon eaoh male person In the Territory
ef Alaska* excepting Soldiers, Sailors
in the United States Navy or Revenue
Cutter Service, Volunteer Firemen*
Pauper* Insane Persona, or Territorial
charge* within the Territory of Alaska
or the waters thereof, over the age of
twenty one ycafs and under the age of
fifty years, an annual tax of five (99.00)
That said tax is new due and the
same will become delinquent on Aug
gust 4th All persons subject te said
tax are hereby warned to pay the
dam* and that In case ef failure to
pay said act wiD be Imposed
School Tax Collector for Nome and
four miles froir. all School Houses ia
orgaaixed School Districts of the'
Second Division.
JOHN HANCOCK,
Box ISVNoai* Ali*a.
School Tax Collector
Poo Spisnd Judicial District.
Dated Nemo, Alaska, ApHI 24, 1S20
l,30o of the number were burn in Al
aska These figures do not include
Indian boys and girls who attend the
At the present time, as emphasized
by Superintendent Henderson, no fed.
i era I aid is being extended to the ed
ucation of white children in Alaska.
At the same time the territory Is bear
ing a considerable part of the expense
of the education of the Indian .children
due to the fact that a great many
children of pure blood as well as those
of mixed blood are. attending territorial
schools established for whites.
Next to Alaska. Washington state
has contributed more children to Al
askan schools than any other section
of the country, although more than
forty one states are represented. In
addition to this large representation
of states, native horn sons and daugh
ters of twenty-one foreign countries
are being educated in the Public
schools of Alaska.
Superintendent Henderson estimates
that approximately 1.000 more pupils
are in the schools which have not yet
submitted their reports.
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MONDAY
$115,000 AVAILABLE
FOR NOME HARBOR
Seattle*. April 26—Notification that
$115,000 is available to improve the
Nome harbor during tin* earning sum
mer was received by the Alaskan Bu
reau of the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce from IA. Col. Woodruff of the
The money will be spent to con
struct the west Jetty on Snake River
and complete the dredging of the inner
harbor basin.
The money was made available tlirn
an allotment of $100,000 by the War
Department Engineer's office in Wash
ington combined with $15,000 left ov< r
from last year’s appropriation. Tim
Engineering Corps will push the work
with all pOHsible speed during i'the
summer and hopes to have the harbor
fully completed this year. Lieutenant
E. L. Carpenter, junior engineer, will
leave for Nome on the first boat to
take charge of the construction work
SUPREME COURT
JUSTICE SUICIDES
St Louis, April 25—Justice Henry
A. Melvin of the state Supreme Court
suicided today by drowning himself in
a bath tub. It is believed the rash act
was eonsuntfmated during a fit of in
sanity, as Melvin has shown signs of
being in mental distress at times.
SUPREME COUNCIL AWARDS
TURKISH MANDATES
S;m ItCino, Itjily April 21! - Tim Su
premo Council has awarded mandate**
for Mespotamin and Palestine to Orea*.
Britain.
The mandate for Syria was pi von
MEXICAN REVOLT SPREADS TO
MANZANILLO REGION
Kugita Prleta. Mex. Aj»i iI 26- Man
zanillo. in the stale of I'olinia. is men
aced 1»y a strong revolutionary force
today, according to an ofTlcial liulletin
issued hy the- Sonora military official -
SACRAMENTO POPULATION
SHOWS BIG INCREASE
Washington, April 26—Census fig
ure's announced hy the Treasury l>e
partment today disclose an increase
of more than 30 percent in the popula
tin' figures give Sacramento a popula
tion of 65,857. an increase <>f 21.161.
SIBERIAN ALLIED R R BOARD
PROTEST ACTS JAPS
Vladivostok. April 26— A formal
protest to the Allied powers against
recent actions of the Japanese military
forces in Siberia has been drafted by
the Inter-Allied Kailway Board.
U. S Wars! ip Ordered To Proceed
To Vladivostok
Manilla, April 26—The I'nited
States cruiser New Orleans lias been
given orders to proceed to Vladivostok
Siberia immediately.
SUGAR REACHES 31 CENTS
Des Moines la. April .26—Sugar is
retailing here at 31 cents per pound
CAPPER DENOUNCES SUGAR
GAMBLERS IN SENATE
Washington, April 2 —Senator
Capper, of Kansas, in a forcible speech
in the senate today, declared that the
present speculation in sugar is "piracy,
colonsal and criminal”, and denounc
• those who are responsible for the
inflation in sugar price* in terms of
the .strongest denunciation.
“At tills moment/’ he said "the most
brazen challenge Uie government h is
ever hail, comes from the gamblers in
BUTTE RIOT VICTIM
DIES OF WOUNDS
Hutto. April 26—The strike situa
tion Is puiet with the federal troops in
control. Thor Manning?, who was
wounded in the strike rioting on the
Anaconda road near the Vever Swe.it
mine on \Vtcdnesila>, last week. ■ Ii«■ I
in the hospital today.
INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE AT
LAREDO DESTROYED
l-ai-do, Tex. April 26 l-'ire today
destroyed the international font bridge
connecting the Halted States and Mex
ico. A suspicion of incendiarism at
taches to the incident.
GERMAN REQUEST FOR
BIGGER ARMY REFUSED
i Haris. April 26—A Joint French,
British. Italian and Belgian .statement
‘request "f fjenrnany that she t*,- allow -
led t*. retain an army of 200.000 in
stead of the 100,00*1 provided by th
IRISH POLITICAL PRISONERS
GO ON STRIKE
l»ndon, April 20 Among the hun
dred and fifty Irish prisoners it
Wormwood Scrubbs prison, a large
number have been on a hunger strike
sine- Wednesday, according t<> infor
DEMPSEY NOT MARRIED
AS SUPPOSED
San Francisco, April 2G- Federal
otlieials who have been engaged in
the investigation of the war record of
•lack Deiniwev. the world's champion
pugalist; who is accused of draft dodg
ing. have unearthed facts which are
said to prove conclusively that Maxine
Dempsey, Dempsey's supposed wife,
was never the legal wife of the eliam
REPORTED FRENCH FORCE IN
MESPOTAMIA WIPED OUT
Constantinople. April, 20 Five hun
dred French troops who were sent to
acoupy I'rfa, in the northwestern part
of Mespotamia. following tin- Turkish
surrender, are reported to have been
wiped out by tlo* Turks after ev.acua
broughl to Constantinople by a party
of American relief workers, among
them Mrs Richard Mansfield, which
U S TENDERED
ARMENIAN MANDATE
Washington. April -The State
Department announced today that the
Supreme Council of the Allies has
formally tendered the I'nited States a
mandate over Armenia.
The acceptance of the mandate is
considered improbable in official eir
NAVAL SHIP LEAVES
FOR ALASKA
Seattle, April 28—1The navy ship
Saturn sailed today for Alaskan waters
to begin eonstructlon and repair work
on the various government radio sta
tions in Alaska.
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