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SOME, ALASKA SATUItDAV, APISH, 12, l!)ll).
The tension between Italy an<l
Jugoslavia cannot become more se
vere it actual war is to be averted.
Italy claims territory claimed by the
Jugoslavs and is seeking ot secure it
by pressure open and secret. Feeling
on both sides runs high. Thruout
Italy a campaign of abuse is directed
against the despised “Croats” and on
the other side of the Adriatic indig
nant Jugoslavs are being taught to
regard Italy as their implacable
enemy, bent on the conquest of Slavic
lands and the domination of Slavic
peoples. Between France and Italy
*Iso there are signs of irritation
France is no very ardent advocate
of an Italian Adriatic, and French
diplomacy therefore supports Jugo
slav claims. It was through no ac
cident that the Paris ovation to the
Italian King lacked some of the
warmth that marked the reception
of President Wilson and, earlier, of
King George.
A conflict between the Slav and
Italian is no new thing but the pres
ent crisis dates back no further than
-April 26, 11)15. On that day a
treaty was patched up between Italy
on the one hand and England, France
and the Russia of Nicholas II. The
treaty was not an "open covenant
openly arrived at” but a very secret
agreement by which Italy, after hav
ing encouraged and received rival
bids from Austria sold her aid in the
war to the Allies in return for ter
ritory to which she had no just c'aim
and England, France and Russia on
their part solemnly agreed Tut lit cue
territories should be given Italy out
of lands claimed by Serbia, their war
associate, without Serbia's know
ledge. No wonder the treaty was
secret! In due course, however, the
truth leaked, and the liberals of Eu
rope were astounded to learn of
Italy's immoderation and of the vi
carious generosity of the statesmen
vjf Great Britain. France and Russia.
’Italy for her intervention, was to re
ceive, according to the summary of
the New Europe, “not merely South
ern tirol to the Brenner, Gorlzla
] the line of the Julian Alps to
Aiear Fiume, and the whole of Istria
tvith the islands of Russia and Cher
's A , but also the whole of Northern
I DdKMatia, including Zara .Sebenico
| and'Oe r hinterland, and even the
I southern 'islands or Rlssa, Resina,
I Curzola mid Meleda. This involves
* the annexation of nearly three-quar
f ters >t a million Slovenes and Croats.
| living in compact masses and with a
jkeenly developed national conscious
ness.”
’ The bargain was, of course, im
moral and 111 flagrant violation ot all
the high principles for which pie
signatory states pretended to stand.
t was also impolite. From the be
ginning the treaty created a rift be
tween Italians and Jugoslavs, which
rendered all effective cooperation im
possible. No solution of the Balkan
l-oblem in the interest of the Allies
ould be attained so long as Italy's
laims crodwed in on Serbia and thus
(prevented Serbia making concea
ls to Bulgaria. The demands of
.talian Imperialists had a further un
[oward effect; they tended to unite
he Austro-Hungarian Empire and
hus prolong the war. Because of
talian ambitions Jugoslavs fought
nthusiaBticaUy against Italy in the
Carso while their brothers were risk
ing their lives in the Serbian army
Since the am i.-tice and the resulting
elimination o“. Austria, the conflici
between Italhn and Jugoslav ha:
f, own much worse. The Jugoslav;
resent the fact that the armistice
terms tor Austria-Hungary wert
d»awn with special reference to the
boundary l'lie contt-ded to Italy bj
ibc London secret Peaty and the.
point out t(dit the Italian troops hav.
passed even beyond this advancet
line and have occupied territory ti
which they have no justifiabh
claim. On the other hand the accep
tance by the Jugoslav Revolutionar:
Committee of the Austro-Hungariai
lleet arouses the deepest indignatioi
among Italian imperialists. On botl
sides there have been warnings am
threats which in other circumstance
would lead to war. So far have mat
ters gone that Premier Orlando de
Clares that the Italian army cannot hi
disbanded because of the new dan
gers threatening Italy.
The case against Italy, by whicl
we mean official, imperialist Italy, i
strong. It cannot be doubted, and i
no longer even denied, that in enter
ing upon the war she surrenderei
to her imperialists and drove thi
hardest bargain possible. Not onl;
did she bargain for lands to whicl
she had no just claim, lands in whic!
the Italic element is extremely smal
but she also accepted libilities o
future conquests, for, as all the his
lory of the region shows, Dalmati;
ar.not ha held unless the hlnterlam
which is irredeemably Slavic, is alsi
occupied. At the same time the Ital
ian imperialist is not without his re
tort. There are, he insists, imper
ialists in other countries also. It i
all very well for France to assai
Italy's political usury, but Ftranc
also knew that the treaty was im
moral when she signed it, as dii
Great Britain. Can England am
France after going to war to upholi
I ho sacredness of treaties now declar
that the deliberate or secret pact o
London is “a scrap of paper"? Ital;
has paid the price; she has sacrificei
her men, has spent her wealth ha
seen her lands ravaged. Is this ;
iime for her Allies to declare high
mindedly that they will not pay thei
share because it was all a thieves
bargain? The Italian imperialist in
sists that not to keep such a treaty
not to fulfill its terms to the last par
agraph, would be an act of unpara
Holed political baseness.
Agan, retorts the Italian imperial
ists, what am i doing that others ar
not doing? Admitting that Dalmati:
is more Slav than Italian, is not th
loft Bank pf the Rhine, which Frencl
imperialists demand, more Gerniai
than French? Roland has seizei
Dantzig, a typically German city; i
Dalmatia less Italian than Dantzi;
is Polish? It is well enough to ap
ply the principle of self-determina
lion to the territories promised t>
Italy by the secret Trtaty if Londoi
hut is the same principle to be ap
plied to Lemberg, which the Pole
have just taken from the Ukranian
Matter a bloody battle? Is it to b
appbed to German speaking Boheml:
j or to the Hungarian and Gerniai
; parts of Transylvania, or the variou
! sections of the former Turkish Em
pire or to Macedonia or even to A1
sace-Lorraine. Italy protests against!
a dual standard of political ethics; !
3he does not wish to be made more {
moral and self-abnegating than her
censors. We must control ti^e* Ad
riatic she says, or have t coni'*'led
against ns by our future enerffffes in
ihc. Eeast aided perhaps by other
enemies elsewhere. You ask us to
lrave the Adriatic alone and trust L j i
'vcrid disarmament, leagues of na
tions, and freedom of the seas? but
who else is trusting solely to these
safeguards? The British imperial
ists, whatever else their attitude to
wards future guaranties of peace, in
sist upon an immediate and over
whelming British naval supremacy,
the French upon French military
power, and almost all the nations
are striving for special position
strategic strangle holds, just as tho
the millennium were not at hand.
Why should Italy he virtuous beyond
the virtue of other nations? Finally
if France and Britain are now re
luctant to give to Italy Serbia's right
ful territory after having wrongfully
promised it, why may they not sub
stitute territory of their own, Tunis,
Malta or somethng else equally ac
ceptable?
\ retort is not an argument and all
this wrangling leads to no permanent
results. Italy’s defense of her claims
is no true defense but merely an at
tack, in the main justifiable, upon
the claims of her rivals and critics. If
the governors of the nations that
were fighting for democracy cannot
rise above this level of chaffering, if
they throw aside all pretensions of
morality as soon as pretensions are
no longer of value, then nothing will
have been gained by the war and the
situation of the world will be worse
than five years ago. Unless better
counsels prevail, the Peace Confer
ence of Versailles will produce a new
and terrible harvest of wars and will
prove to be not as bad but infinitely
worse than the Congress of Vienna
of unsavory memory. The German
menace will have disappeared—at
least temporarily, but what of the
tension between Italy and Jugoslavia,
Poland and the Ukraine, Poland and
Germany and smaller conflicts in
all parts of Europe, to say nothing
of Russia. Unless extravagant na
tionalistic aggrandisement be repress
ed, the giound will be prepared tor
new and irum biiter national strug
gles and the war which has just end
ed will pr/ve to have been not the
whole war but merely the first battle.
We shall have sat thru only the first
act of a long, harrowing and infinitely
texlious tragedy.
Italy should come to her sences.
shove aside her Sonninos and Or
landos and follow the lead of her true
patriots. She should come to an
agreement with Jugoslavia, perhaps
along the lines of the Torre-Trumbic
agreement of March 1918. But if
Italy withdraws her extreme claims
she has a right to demand that
France. Poland and other nations re
cede from their extreme positions.
If she surrenders her demand for
"ontrol of the Adriatic, ‘our Adriatic’
(which, unfortunately, she shows no
signs of doing), she has the right
to demand such a revision of all the
claims of the Allies and such a policy
of reconstruction in Europe as will
ACHIEVES RESULTS
IN COAL FIELDS
By W. A. Ryan.
0))ponents to the policy of Govern
ment development of Alaska's re
sources should visit the Government’s i
coal mines at Eska and Chickaloon.
, If their prejudices were not so
, fixed and unalterable to preclude a
change of opinion, it seems certain
, that they must be convinced of the
, wisdom of that policy.
What the United States is d°i*;K
, at these two mines is in ‘he nature
I of experimental work in an unknown
. field. Superficial indications in the|
Matanuska and Chickaloon . fields
promise that the coal measures to be
, revealed by mining operations would
be of unlimited extend and unrivaled
economy of operation. That the pro
t mise of the surface has not been real
5 ized is but a confirmation of mining
.. experience in many regions.
The Government has here under
I taken the pioneer work that must
. eventually reveal not only the loca
, tion and character of the best work
, able deposits, but the best methods
, of operation. The result of these
1 operations must be to acquire the re
f quisite information to enable private
. capital to proceed in the most or
t derly and economical fashion with
I the development of that region.
> Geological knowledge of these coal
- workings, is practically limited to
. surface conditions. The revelations
- made by government mining opera
i tlons has almost completely upset the
1 conclusions based on surface indica
> tions. No aggregation of private eapi
- tal would undertake the development
I work the government is doing unless
1 it were assured or government sup
1 port. Transportation and market
> conditions would not justify the pri
f vate investor in taking the risk in
r volved. The government, on the
l other hand, hav'ng a market for the |
i fuel produced in the development of:
i the mine, is not concerned so much;
- wth profit of operation as with the i
• acquirement of exact and scientific
’ data concerning the character, ex
- tent and continuity of workable beds|
, of coal,
-! This, it is reasonable to expect, will '
- be evolved by the operations at Eoka,
and Chickaloon. Upon the results of i
- these operations private capital may.
} safely proceed with other projects.
i The data acquired bv the Government
s will be open to all. The Governmont’s |
i experience will be free to all who
i may wish to avail themselves there-.
I of.
? If the pioneer work were left to
; private capital the data the exper
- ience gained would be carefully |
- guarded business secrets, held invio-j
) late to prevent the growth of com-j
i petition. And tiuch knowledge would |
- be gained slowly and at enormous j
* cost. The history of coal develop-1
i ment in the Cascade Mountains, in j
5 Pierce and King Counties, Waching
i ton, is an illustration of the truth of
i these observations. How many coal
II mines failed of propar development
-1 and how great the consequent loss
- to investors may nevor be exactly
known, but even so rich and powerful
a corporation as the Northern Pacific
Railroad failed proporly to develop a
profitable mine in those fields. Per
haps if the knowledge and experience
of other operators had been avail
able that failure might have been
avoided.
The development of a government
coal mine (or any other activity by
the government) should not be con
sidered in the light of an adventure
for profit. The Government is not
in the business of competing with its
citizens in industrial enterprises. It
is in the business as a way-shower,
as a pioneer. It is concerned in the
acquirement of knowledge, in the
development of better, safer more
economical business and industrial
methods, a more complete utilization
of natural resources the conservation
of life and property the prevention
of waste.
It is in this light that the experi
ments at E-ska and Chckaloon must
be regarded. The Government is
there undertaking a work that no
combination of private capital would
be justified in undertaking and yet
from the results of these operations
of the Government will inevitably fol
low whatever of successful mining
operations may come to this district.
Perhaps the Government will never
undertake to put the product of its
mine on the market in competition
with other mines in the same field.
Its own operations may never show
a balance on the credit side of the
financial ledger, yet in that ledger
the book wherein the sum of bene
fices conferred upon its people by
this Government shall be written, the
credit balance will be larger than the
total investment.
But after visiting these Govern
ment mines the writer is impressed
by the fact that oven from the sordid
standpoint of monetary gains the
Ecka and Chckaloon mines are cer
tain to prove themselves good invest
ments. Certainly, if for no other
purpose than as a source of fuel sup
ply for the Alaska Railroad, they
justify their existence, and until such
time as private enterprise may de
velop new sources at less cost their
continued operations is a necessity.
The Government coal mines is,
however, chiefly valuable as a dem
onstration of the practical and pro
fitable character of Alaska’s coa!
deposits,
oitable her to make this sacrifice
wthout danger to herself.—The New
Pepublic.
TELEGRAPHIC
NEWS
TO CARE FOR CRIPPLES
WASHINGTON. April 7—The War
Department has announced that ex
:ensive plans have been perfected
;o care for the disabled American
soldiers in Hospitals after their dis
jharge from military service. All
such sokJJers will be attended by
skilled physicians and everything
science can suggest will be applied to
make their lot an easy one.
MAKES MONEY FAST
WASHINGTON, April 7—A re
port issued by the Department of
Commerce (^iscjo-ses an interesting
instance of government profiteering.
The report states that seal bones
gathered with considerable labor by
the natives of St Paul and St George
Islands in Bering sea last season
were sold to the Bureau of Educa
tion for $1,119, being later resold
to a Seattle firm for fertilizer pur
poses at a net profit of $2,785.
BOLSHEVIKS Ml'TIXY
COPENHAGEN, April 7—Reports
received from Russia state that a
mutiny has broken out in the Bolshe
vik army in Northern Lithuania.
The meager reports do not indicate
the cause for this alleged dissen
sion among the Bolshevik forces.
STRIKERS AM) COPS EIGHT
LAWRENCE, Mass, April 7—Se
vere fighting took place when mem
bers of the local police force endec.r
ored to disperse a crowd of striking
workers. Guns, clubs and bricks
were freely used. A number of shots
were fired. An auto carrying city
marshal O'Brien was hit by several
bullets but none of the occupants of
the car were hit.
A house in which a wake was be
ing held was blown up by a bomb
during the fight but none of the
mourners were injured as far as
could be learned.
Twenty of the ringleaders have
been arrested, the police finally suc
ceeding in clearing the streets and
restoring orde.r.
TO RECALL MAYOR
TACOMA, April 7—Petitions to
recall the Mayor and City Council of
this city are being circulated by
members of organized labor.
This recall movement has the
backing of the local unions who have
become incensed over the stand taken
by the City fathers in the Soldiers
and Sailors tag day sales.
The unwarrented and unjustifiable
arrest of eighteen soldiers and sail
tags for a worthy cause has aroused
much indignation here.
Unon officials are confident that
enough signatures will be procured
to recall the Mayor and the City
council.
RAKEIi SAILS
NEW YORK, April 7—Secretary
of War, Baker, accompanied by of
ficers of the General Staff sailed for
France today on the transport
Leviathan, fomerly the “Vaterland”
of the Gerhtan American line to in
spect the American army abroad and
to confer with President Wilson on
i military affairs.
FALLS TWO THOUSAND FEET
HOLLIS. N. Y. April 7—Gilbert
j Budweig aerial mail pilot had a re
! markable escape from instant death
when hs machine owing to motor
trouble crashed to earth from a
height of approximately 2,000 feet.
Some fanners who had seen his
; meteorlike descent, rushed to his as
sistance and .found Budweig covered
with the wreckage of his plane,
timly smoking, having been only
I slightly injured.
_
TORNADO RAGES
—
OMAHA, Neb. April 7—The west
i em residence section of this city was
! f wept by a violent tornado destroy
ing considerable property.
Mrs George Denz. living in Elm
wood, a suburb of this city, had a
| most remarkable escape from death.
While out walking, carrying her
baby in her arms she was overtaken
j by the tornado, blown to a heigth of
about two hundred feet, but safely
deposited in a nearby brushheap.
Neither Mrs Danz nor her baby were
injured.
HAYE TO PAY
SEATTLE, April 8—No more free
street car rides for cops and firemen
in this city. The city Council has
ruled that they must pay regular fare
the same as civilians fum now on.
STARTS TO BRAZIL
PARIS, April S—Lieutenant Fon
tan, French aviator started today to
Villa Coublay to begin the first leg of
his trans Atlantic flight to Brazil. His
first stop wil be made at Casa Blan
co in Morrocca.
DRUMMER GOES BY AEROPLANE
DETROIT, Apil 8—Irine a com
mercial traveller arrived here from
Syracuse New York by airplane tak
ng orders enroute and in Michigan
:owns.
DECLARE INTENSIFIED SIEGE
BERLIN, April 8—Reports receiv
;d here from Munich, Bavaria state
that an intensified state of sie»e
has been proclaimed in Munich and
that the founders of the Bavarian
Soviet government are quarrelling
among themselves.
MILLIONAIRE DIES
NEW YORK, April 8—Frank W.
Woolworth, owner of the Woolworth
building the highest building in the
world died very suddenly this morn
ing.
Woolworth ammassed a great fortune
from the 5 and 10 cent stores he es
tablished thruout the U. S. A new
conception in the merchantile busi
ness which was highly ridiculed with
the prediction that it would be a fail
by other merchants.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the I’robate Court of Koyuk Pre
cinct, Second Division, Territory of
Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of ERIC
JACKSON, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been duly appointed
Administrator of the estate of Eric
Jackson, deceased: Nofice is further
given that all persons having claims
against the estate of said deceased,
are required to present them, with
proper vouchers, within six months
from the date of this notice, to the
undersigned Administrator, at his of
fice at Dime Landing, Koyuk River,
in said Precinct, Territory of Alaska
Dated, March 22, 1919.
JOHN LAMONTAGNE
Administrator of the estate of EtlJ
Jackson, deceased.
Pub.—Mar.22, 29. Apr. 5, 12, 19.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Felix Brown, your heirs, legal
representatives, or assigns:
You are hereby notified that I have
expended in labor and improvements
during each of the years of 1906 1907,
1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913,
1914, 1915 and 1916 the sum of oma
hundred dollars ($100) on Placer
claim No. 1 above on Newton Gulch
No. 1 a tributary to Dry Creek in the
Cape Nome Recording Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska; notice of location of
which is recorded in volume 105 page
379 of the records of said Recording
Precinct. Said labor and improve
ments having been done on said claim
for the purpose ol holding same under
the provisiousKjf Section 2324 Revised
Statutes of the United States.
You are hereby required to con
tribute your proportion of said ex
penditure, as co-owner to the under
signed within ninety days from the
final publication of this notice or your
interest in said mining claim will be
forfeited and become the property of
the undersigned, your co-owner, as
provided by said section of the Re
vised Statutes.
Dated at Nome, Alaska. February
15, 1919.
AUGUST IlOMBURGER
' Co-owner.
Published—Feb. 22. -Mar. 1, S, 12,
22, 29^ Apr. 5, 12, 19, 26. May. 3, 1#,
17, 24, 1919.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Joseph Kramer, Herman Piper,
I John Brennan Max Anger, C. N.
Brown and D. M. Brogan, your heirs,
legal representatives, or assigns: '
You and each of you are hereby no
tified that I have expended in labor
and mprovements during each of the
years of 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910,
1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, and
1916 the sum of one hundred dollars
($100) on the St Anthony Associa
tion Placer Mining Claim, situated
on the left limit of Newton Gulch No.
1 a tributary to Dry Creek in the
Cape Nome Recording Precinct, Ter
| ritory of Alaska; notice of location of
which is recorded in volume 111 page
408 of the records of said Recording
Trecinct. Said labor and improve
ments having been done on said claim
for the purpose of holding same under
♦ he provisions of Section 2324 Revised
Statutes of the United States.
You and each of you are hereby
required to contribute your propci
tion of said expenditure as co-owner
to the undersigned within ninety
days from the final publication of
this notice or your interest n said
mining claim will be forfeited and be
come the property of the under* gned.
your co-owner, as provided by said
section of the Revised Statutes.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, February
15, 1919.
AUGUST HOMBURGER
Co-owner.
Published—Feb. IS, 22. Mar. 1, 8, 18,
22, 29. Apr. 5, 12. 19, 26. May, 3,-19,
17, 1919.