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SEN. PITTMAN ASKS AID FOR MINING INDUSTRY
(Denver Mining Record)
With the worthy objective of aiding in the development
of promising mining properties that at this time cannot com
ply with the conditions required for a loan from the Recon
struction Finance Corporation, Senator Key Pittman of
Nevada, has introduced in the United States senate an
amendment to the national recovery legislation authorizing
loans to mining companies.
With the amendment sponsored by Senator Pittman,
section 14 of the Act in question would read, in part, as
follows: K ,
“The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized
and empowered to make loans upon sufficient security to
recognized and established corporations, individuals and
partnerships engaged in the business of mining, milling and
smelting of ores.
— “The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized
and empowered also to make loans to corporations, individ
uals and partnerships engaged in the development of a
quartz ledge, or vein, or other ore body or placer deposit
containing gold or silver, or gold and silver, when in the
opinion of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation there is
sufficient reason to believe that through the use of such
loan in the development of a lode, ledge or vein, or mineral
deposit, there will be sufficient value to pay a profit upon
mining operations.”
It is also provided that such development loans shall
not exceed $10,000 in any single) instance, and the total sum
made available for this class of government aid to mining
shall not exceed $10,000,000.00.
There has been considerable complaint recently that
the mining industry has not received its fair share of federal
aid for recovery. The Pittman amendment should do away
with much of this cause for complaint. It would provide
government help for the smaller mining properties and
assist in the development of promising prospects without
restricting in any manner the loaning of larger sums for the
equipping of mines with profitable ore bodies already ex
tensively opened up, looking to increased production.
ALASKA’S NEW PUBLICITY
Alaska recently has become a very definite object of
study for the militarists of the world. Hardly a day goes by
without some reference to the problematic position Alaska
will play in the event of war. Vilhjalrqur Stephansson, fam
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ous explorer, looks to Alaska as the United States’ most eff
ective military base in case of war with an Asiatic power. Sen
ator Steiwar of Oregon has given his approval to an added
militarization of the Territory.
Then we read where Russia is pushing her “red doct
rine to the coast of Alaska”. Not that the Russians have any
immediate intention of extending their system across the
Bering Sea to Alaska, but it is of interest to know that they
already havg compiled considerable literature containing
the results of numerous investigations into the resources
and possibilities of the lands bordering on the Asiatic side
of the strait and lands both south and north. Five scientific
expeditions were sent out last year by the Russians.
Then again we have the news that President Roosevelt
will “take the profit out of war”. That profits amounting
to 800 percent were made by firms manufacturing the nec
essities of war. That while these huge earnings were being
pyramided the government was advancing finances for the
production of these highly-profitable enterprises.«
In view of the deadly propaganda against profits of war,
it would seem that Alaska finds itself in a seemingly incon
gruous position. For whole the profits of war may mean
little, the profits of preparation for war may be handsome.
At least, mention of Alaska has become almost synonymous
with war talk during the past year. But regardless of the
occasion, it will unquestionably mean a more concrete and
understandable picture of the Territory for the benefit of a
large percentage of Americans.—Anchorage Times.
FINLAND STANDS ALONE
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Much—but NOT nearly enough—has been said about
the Republic of Finland.
To the people of the United States, its name is a synon
ym for all that a self-respecting nation should strive to be.
The Finnish people are safe people to DEAL with.
It is safe to LEND MONEY to Finland. She repays
loans. It is safe to enter into contracts with Finland. She
respects contracts and performs them.
It is safe to befriend Finland. She is grateful for help,
prompt to requite it, and does not return evil for good—like
France and Great Britain. '
The world is better because of Finland. She stands—
even if she must stand alone—for faith among nations, for
good faith in the performance of pledges and the redemption
of obligations.
Alone of all the war debtors of the United States, they
have paid their debt to us as and when it fell due, and in ac
cordance with their contract.
NO OTHER NATION HAS DONE THIS!
Not England with her vaunted respect for the plighted
word.
Not France with all her empty boasts of enlightenment
and civilization. ~
Not Italy with her “heritage of ancient Rome.”
Not Belgium nor Russia, whose civil populations the
people of the United States saved from starvation.
FINLAND STANDS ALONE!
And the people of the United States appreciate and ac
claim her. We want to show our appreciation. We want
to show that Finland’s example is not wasted on a world
that is sadly fallen away. We want to do something defin
ite and unmistakable.
If suitable measures should be introduced into the next
Congress to provide special favors to Finland, and passed
by Congress, the action will have the emphatic approval of
the American people.
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