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NOME, ALASKA SATURDAY, JANUARY, 18, 1919.
FUTURE VIEW
UF THE WAR
The bin Tilings about the war that
we can not see.
We who are close to the event see
only the blood, the tears and the
wastefulness of it all. It is interest
ing to reflect that the aspects of the
war that so much occupy our atten
tion are precisely the aspects which
succeeding generations will almost
ignore.
This war has been so great that a
hundred years from now. only, will
its dimensions be preceived clearly
by man. The names of all the grea
actors in the struggle will be known
—Wilson, William II, Foch, Pe-sh
ing, von Hindenburg, Haig, von Tir
pitz and others—will go down in his
tory. But our remote posterity will
no more be able to recall the suffering
and misery of this war than we recall
the suffering and misery of the wars
of Napoleon Bonoparte.
It seems likely that this war will
stand out in history as the period that
marked certain great beginnings am
other groat endings. Posteriy will
note that a great many things that
went into tb,? wa did not come out,
while a good many things came out
that did not go ia.
We may be sure that human wja
dom can forsee but a few of the
changes that are destined to occur,
as we may he certain that some of
these changes will be to our detri
ment. The bad will come along with
the good. That will give our well
disposed descendants something to do
We who now live can only see the
broad outlines of the picture. We
feel tolerably sure, for instance, that
the day of the royal autocrat is about
over, along wih the whiskey business
and the business of prohibiting wo
men from voting. We probably have
yet, however, not even a suspicion of
other changes in human life that will
profoundly effect life on this planet.
We talk much about the destruc
tiveness of war and think little of
the constructiveness of human be
ings. The world has now been at war
four years, yet there has been no
starvation as a direct result of a lack
of food in the world. Whatever star
vation there has been has come as a
result of a shortage of food in a given
place at a given time. Twenty mil
lions of men have been put into the
field and hundreds of millions of hu
man beings at home have been press
ed into war industries, yet those who
-are not engaged in war industries
have supported, not only themselves,
t»ut the rest of the world.
What if all the world, all the time,
were engaged in useful, productive
work? What a world we could make
of it! What couid we not do in the
creation of useful things, the Im
provement and extension of agricul
ture, the building of railroads,
schools, colleges and homes. With
simplified tastes and increased pro
duction, we should hardly be able to
keep a it eight hours a day lest we
clutter up the country with goods
we could not use. Perhaps a good
many would find it enjoyable to spend
some of their leisure traveling about
the country at a cost of a cent a mile.
Perhaps after the war we shall
wonder why It is that prosperity is
the normal condition of war-time.
Now everybody is at work. We read
that the prosperity in Canada in par
ticular is enormous. Everybody is
said to have more money than he
ever had bsfore. And here in the
United States we know there is no
such thing a:, avoidable idleness, and
that however high the cost of living
is, wages are high enough to cover it
We all know that war is a caiam
Ity—sometimes inevitable but alway
a calamity. Why should a calamity
bring prosperity? Why should peace
so often bring adversity? Something
s wrong somewhere. Perhaps the
war will cause us to think about these
things..
The war policy of non-essentials in
industry may well be carried into
times of peace. So should the laws
against loafing. So long as millions
>f people in times of peace are hard
y able to get the necessities of life,
the manufacture of luxuries should
be prohibited. If plain thinking goes
with high thinking, let’s give every
body a chance to think again. It is
entirely possible to produce a reason
able amount of luxuries for every
body—the kind of luxuries that are
beneficial, or at any rate not harm
?ul. Nothing is more wonderful than
the productivity of the modern man.
We have perfected civilization so
much that it is almost impossible to
live. We want so many worthless
things that almost nobody, what
ever his income, can get everything
he wants. Nobody in particular is to
blame. If the war has taught us to
be more sensible in our wrants it has
performed a distinct service.
| Now that the war is over and there
I is no longer so much need of saving
j perhaps we have sense enough to con
tinue some of the things we were
| forced to do. And if wa use a little
1 common sense we may be able to
establish a new standard of living.
Why should half of the world al
; ways be armed against the oth^r
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half? Every state in the Union would
have to be armed against every other
state if there were not a government
at Washington that looks after all
while permitting each state to deter
mine its own domestic affairs. Why
should there not be a government
somewhere to look after the whole
world while permitting each people
to regulate their own domestic af
fairs?
What a sublime speetaele it would
! lie to see the world at last mastering
' itself and submitting peacefully to a
' world-government instituted for the
benefit of the world!
, Men are now talking about this
1 more and more and what men talk
| about oftentimes comes into being.
Perhaps the greatest single fact that
will come out of the world war will
! be world-government. Evolution
( points that way. First each individ
ual was for himself. Then came the
family, the tribe, the city, the state.
! the nation, and latterly the group of
nations acting in concert for warlike
purposes.
The next step is all the nations
working together for peaceful pur
poses. That is what world-govern
ment would mean. Some day it will
come. Of this there can be no doubt.
Maybe we shall see it.
Oh. this is a hard time to live, but
It has its compensations. Never be
fore did the world hold forth such
.Interesting possibilities. Who knows
what kind of a world w« may be liv
ing ni tomorrow. All we know is
that it will be a better world than we
lived in yesterday.
•AFTER WAR
A report mad# public by the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
is the first of & Aries issuel on this
subject and is devoted to the plans
under consideration by other coun
tries, especially aavthey bear on fu
ture trade developments.
“The outstanding fact under ob
servation,” states the report, "Is the
recognition in every land Mid by all
statesmen of the problem called ‘eco
nnm'ic reconstruction.’ But of more
immediate importance is the fact
that England, France, Italy, Germany
and Austria are making preparations
to resume their peaceful economic
life, with improved facilities for
foreign trade, with a national super
vision of the use of natural resources
for the benefit of their own citizens,
and with assistance from the state.”
Attention is called to the achieve
ment of our own government in pre
paring for afer-war conditions, such
as the building and organization of
a huge merchant navy backed by
large and efficient shipyards and
docks, the Webb-Pomerene export
trade act authorizing exporters to
combine for export trade, and the lee
way in foreign-trade banking now
possessed by the Federal Reserve
Board and banking system. All told
there has been a very considerable
amount of effective work done look
ing toward the future but much re
mains undone and the Bureau is Is
suing this analysis of European ten
dencies as a guide, although calling
attention to the fact that each coun
try has its own peculiar problem that
it must work out for itself.
“In England,” says Mr Cutler,
Chief of the Bureau, In his introduc
tion, “judging from the present com
ments on the work of the Committee
on Commercial and Industrial Policy
after the war, any present attempt
to lay down complete and binding
policies regarding the future is now
recognized as a waste of effort. What
is more important is the assembling
of facts, taking the basic step to im
prove our educational, research, and
promotive organizatons and contrib
uting to clear thinking as to ques
tions involved. Sooner or later we
must have a definite program in
which work and plans for the future
based on known condition affecting
our future may be co-ordinated. I
personally feel that the time is now
ripe for some more centralized, con
certed work to that end.”
THEliBURDEN
OF LABOR
(By Robert Hunter)
Sometimes one sees a great build
ing supported by columns fashioned
like the giant figures of human forms.
And across the massive shoulders
of these men is an entablature on
which rests the structure.
In Greek these men were called
Atlantes. which is merely the plural
for Atlas, who was one of the older
family of gods and bore up the pillars
of heaven.
It used to be very common in form
al architecture to place these two
giant figures at each side tif^a great
doorway.
It is not easy to learn now all that
the ancients meant to tell by those
figures.
Nearly everything they did was
symboic and it is possible they meant
to typify by these figures labor bear
ing thp ubrden of the world.
And indeed when we think of what
labor has done for the world is seems
incrediable that it should be so de
spised.
It seems beyond belief that thope
who produce food, clothing and shel
ter for the entire world—for theiri
s.elves and for all others—should be
still condemned to poverty and inse
curity.
It seems impossible that a great
class, numbering a vast majority of
the population, toiling day and night
to produce a" necessaries and all
the luxuries of the world should yet
themselves live from day to day a
dread uncertain existence.
Is it only a nightmare that these
men who solve the problems of our
material existence should today be
the problem of philanthropists and
alms givers?
Can anything be more weird than
that men of fashion, of wealth and of
leisure should form their boards,
committees and charities to solve the
problems of these poor?
Is it no strange that in the midst
of a vast wealth, of great estates, pal
aces. cathedrals, sky scrapers and
marble shops, of silk, satins, jewels
and laces which these Atlantes have
produced that the great mass of
these working giants should be ever
on the verge of misery?
They take trains across continents
every day and night.
They cut the ties, lay the rails.
build the Pullmans, dig the coal and
i then see to it that the trains run.
They plow the field plant the seed
grow the harvest, make the grain
into flour and into dough and into
bread and they take it from the oven
and bring it to the door.
They herd sheep on the lonely hill
sides. They cut and wesh the wool
and comb it and spin it and weava it
into cloth. They then cut it and sew
it and bind it and bring it to the door.
And these millions of Atlantes
bear all the burdens of the world, run
thru all dangers, risk their lives in
mines, stand before flaring furnaces
and produce all the coal, the iron
and the steel.
These men quarry the stone, cut
the forests, take the wood and stone
and iron and fashion out of them c
pklaces. And what have they at the
end? Need we ask?
Even the kindergartens and nurs
eries for the babies are a problem to
the rich.
The rich form boards to study how
to clean the streets, to make sanitary
the houses and to light rooms in
which the workers live.
To care for their hungry babies and
to provide for their old age is a prob
lem to the rich.
The idle, the fashionable and the
learned busy themselves with char
ities. trouble themselves with boards
to provide for the weak and helpless
dependents of the working class.
Sometimes when one thinks of the
burdens borne by the workers, even
the burdens of the idlers that pretend
to help them and then the misery
that is theirs all this alms giving and
charity and philanthropy arouses
only bitterness and resentment.
For the poor ont only provide the
idlers with rent, interest and profit
they even send their sons ami daugh
ters in the homes of those idlers to
prepare their baths, to shave them to
brush their clothes, to wash their
hair, to cook their food and to clean
away their dirt.
Yet these very ones, who are cared
for like babies by cooks, butlers, foot
men, valets and waiting maids, are
looked upon as philanthropists and
rush off to their boards and commit
tees in the mad belief that they are
trying to solve the problems of the
poor.—Toledo Union Leader.
THE WORLD
DOES MOVE
It seems that the war has had a
more far reaching effect upon the
masses than many would have held
possible. It seems to have awakened
the heretofore utterly conservaive
American Federation of Labor out of
its somnolency and is startling the
people with a reconstruction program
which fairly reeks with Bolsheviktsm.
and which must have given some of
our honored senators the willies ow
ing to its radicalism.
What is the matter with dear old
safe and sane Sammy Gompers, Is
j he unable to control the radical ele
! ment in the A. F. of L any longer,
I or is the whole reconsruction program
I only caraaou&age?
! The program carries a provision
among others'for higher income tax
es and horror upon horror
[ for the right to override any decision
rtf the U. S. Supreme Court by repass
| ing any legislation which has been
I declared unconstitutional. Why the
heavens would surely fall for some
of our venerable Supreme Court
Judges who are still living, and judg
ing for a coach-day age if that would
be done.
It might do no harm to try and
get along without the Supreme Court
for once, just to see what would hap
pen. The European countries seem
to be perfectly able to get along with
out this brake, but then they might
not hare Mains enough to perceire :
what a glorious institution it is and
what they consequently lack
The Federation of Labor also de
mands the eradication of mlitarism
In the United States. What is mili
tarism* anyhow. This word militar
ism seems to have a rather elastic
meaning. What is considered military
ism in one country might be consid
ered a highly proper state of affairs
in another and absolutely necessary
to the national welfare.
The whole program is quite com
prehensible and it seems that the
American Federation of Labor acted
on the bbical injunction “Ask and
Thou shalt receive.” But we are
sure that they are going to be sadly
disappointed unless they are willing
to fight for it. and if so, they will have
a mighty big scrap on their hands to
carry their reconstruction program to
success.
LOOK FORWARD
FOR CARGOES
Edward N. Hurley, Chairman of the
Shipping Hoard, Shows What Must
Be Done to Utilize V'eessels.
Within two years there will be
25,000,000 tone of merchant shipping
to be employed, and Edward N. Hur
ley, Chairman of the United States
Shipping Board, announces that it is
not too early to look around for car
goes, not only in this country but
abroad.
“Twenty-five million tons is a lot
of shipping,” says Mr Hurley. “In
one voyage these ships would carry
all the live stock, dressed meats,
packing-house products, poultry,
game, fish, wool, hides, and leather
oarried on your railroads in one year.
In less than five trips they would
carry our whole, railroad haul of
grain, flour, cotton, hay, fruit, vege
tables, and other farm products. In
three and one half trips all lumber;
in seven trips all our manufactured
goods; in sixteen trips all our coal
and coke. The total tonnage hauled
on our railroads is about 1,200,000,
000 tons.
“So amid all this splendid effort in
producing equipment to win the war,
the American manufacturer must be
asked to take thought for tomorrow
and think in terms of shipping and
foreign trade. This might appear
like a distraction now, something
which will take the attention from
the supreme duty of winning the war.
But far from being a distraction, it
fits in with war production and war
psychology. While our factories and
factory employees are building war
material today, they are also buildng
foreign trade, if we con only see
things as a whole and make one fac
tor work with another.
“When the business man turns his
attention to export trade he looks
abroad and thinks of his foreign cus
tomer. But foreign trade actually
begins in his own factory. He looks
abroad and studies such factors as
ocean freights, foreign exchange, ex
port packing, and foreign salesman
ship.
“If he would look into his own fac
tory first, and study factors close at
hand, such as labor turnover, wages,
manufacturing costs, and efficiency,
he would be laying a solid foundation
for export trade."
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Tn the United States Commissioner’s
Court for the Precinct of Cape
Nome, Second Division, Territory
of Alaska, in Probate.
In the matter of the estate of
FRED LARSEN, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been appointed admin
istrator of the estate of Fred Larsen,
deceased, by the above entitled court.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to present
them, with the proper vouchers, with
in six months from the date of this
notice, to the undersigned administra
tor, at Nome, Alaska.
J. C. WIDSTEAD
Administrator of the estate of Fred
Larsen, deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court for the Precinct of Cape
Nome. Second Division, Territory
of Alaska. In probate.
In the matter of the estate of Christen
Anderson, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been appointed admin
istrator of the estate of Christen An
deron, deceased, by the above named
court.
All persons having claims against
said estate *re regaested to present
them. with the proper Touchers, with'
la six months from the date bt this
notice, to the undersigned adminis
trator, at Nome, Alaska.
JOHN A. WILSON,
Administrator of the estate of Chris
ten Anderson, deceased.
PUB—Nov 30. Dec 7, 14, El, 28.
NOTICE OP APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
M. A. No. 0339
M. S. NO. 1215
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OF-v
FICE AT NOME, ALASKA.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
Archie McDonald, a citizen of the
United States, residing at Nome,
Alaska, and whose post office address
is Nome, Alaska, has made applica
tioh before the United States Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, lor a United
States Patent for the PLUTUS AS
SOCIATION PLACER mining claim
situate on the left limit of Dry Creek,
between the heads of Peluk Qyeek and
Franklin Gulch, about 2 % niilSs N. E.
of the Town of Nome, in the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording District,
Alaska, Second Division, being Min
ral Survey No. 1315; said claim being
more particularly described in the
field notes and plat of the official sur
vey thereof now on file in said Land
Office, at Nome, Alaska, as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical
with Cor. No. 3, Sur. No. 1209, Mead
ow Associaton Placer, a fir post 4 ins.
sq., 2 ft. above ground, in earth
mound, scribed M.-3-1209 and 1-1215
P. whence U. S. L. M. No. 19 bears
N. 78 deg. 34 min. E. 4822.4 ft;
thence S. 22 deg. 43 min. W. (Var.
18 deg. 03 min. E.) 1473.60 ft. to Cor.
No. 2, a fir post 4 ft. long, 4 ins. sq.
in earth mound scribed 2-1216 P;
thence N. 63 deg. 05 min. W. (Var.
18 deg. 10 min. E.) 1218.10 ft. to
Cor. No. 3, identical with Cor. No. 2,
Sur. No. 1209, Osiris Placed; thence
N. 17 deg. 51 min. E. (Var. 18 deg.
03 min. E.) 1226.70 ft. to Cor. No. 4,
identical with Cor. No. 1, Sur. No.
1209, Osiris Placer; thence S. 74 deg.
16 min. E. (Var. 18 deg. 03 min. E.)
1329.30 ft. to Cor. No. 1 and place of
beginning; containing an area of 39.
253 acres. Total area applied for be
ing 38.401 acres.
That said claim is in conflict with
and overlapped by Survey No. 1209,
Meadow Association Placer to the ex
tent of 0.589 acres, and by Survey No.
1209, Myrtle Claim Placer to the ex
tent of 0.263 acres, all as shown by
the official plat and field notes of sur
vey thereof, but that said areas so in
conflict with the Plutus Association
Placer are hereby excluded from this
application and patent for same is not
hereby or hereunder applied for.
That said claim is situated on un
surveyed ground on the left limit of
Dry Creek, between the heads of
Peluk Creek and Franklin Gulch,
about 2% miles N. E., of the Town
of Nome. U. S. L. M. No. 19, to which
this claim is tied, is a fir post, painted
white, 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground,
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 19. in earth
mound, situated on the right limit of
Otter Creek, about 50 ft. from the
railroad and 2 Vi miles North of Bar
ing Sea, in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min.
North, Longitude 165 deg. 17 min. W.
That the original notice of location
of said claim is recorded in Volume
190, page 5 of the records of the
Cape Nome Recording District
Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North, Survey No. 1209, Mrytle Claim
Placer and Meadow Association
Placer, Eskimo Gold Dredging Co.,
Claimant; on the East 40 Acre Tract
Association, unsurveyed; on the
South claims unsurveyed and claim
ant unknown; on the West, Sur. No.
1209, Osiris Placer, Eskimo Gold
Dredging Co., claimant.
THOS McGANN
Register.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To J. N. Flack, Nome Kougarok Con
solidated Mines Company and Jacob
Zeman, your heirs, executors, admin
istrators and .assigns:
You and each of you, are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars dur
ing each of the years of 1914, 1916,
1916. and 1917, upon the following
described placer mining claim, situate,
lying and being in the Kougarok Re
cording District, Territory of Alaska,
to-wit: The upper one half ( %) af
Creek Claim Number Three on Dahl
Creek in the Kougarok Mining Dis
trict.
You are further notified that If
within ninety (90) days after the
publication of this notice you fail or
neglect to contribute your proportion
of such expenditure, your interest la
said mining claim if any, will become
the property of the undersigned, year
co-owner, under section 2S24 of tho
Revised Statutes of the United States.
AL CAREY
Co-owner.
Published—Nov. 23, 30. Dec. 7, 14,
21, 28. Jan. 4, 11, 18, 26. Feb.l, 8, If.