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GEORGE ADE OFFERS A GAME
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George Ade once penned these
biting observations:
“Do you ever play the new
game of solitaire called ‘Looking
Backward?” You go over all
your expenditures of the year
previous and ask yourself ‘Why?’
If you find the answer, you win.
“Maybe, after a while you will
project yourself into the wiser
realms of the future. Before
signing a check or committing
yourself to a venture, you will
And it possible to see the trans
action, as it will appear two
years away, on the road behind.”
Too often his our City Coun
cil in the past two years, “gone
into things” fooling themselves
by believing what it hopes will
happen, whereas sound judg
ment tells them the chances are
against success.
GETTING THINGS DONE
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If the City would have an ac
cumulation of money, it should
start saving NOW With the
completion of the assessment
roll it is definitely known that
we will have a tax income of
§30,000, aside from any other
source of revenue A budget
to cover all necessary expenses
—necessary o n 1 y—should b e
now made and strictly adhered
to Then only by adhering to
said budget and starting to save
some will the city accumulcate
any finances.
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“SALE OF UTILITIES IS
FINANCIAL NECESSITY”
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“While the potentialities of
Petersburg’s municipally owned
public utilities may be compared
to the product of the fabled
goose that layed eggs of pure
gold, the cost of maintaining
the goose is greater than the
eggs it produces. * * *
“These utilities have earned
an excellent income on the capi
tal investment, the waterworks
in particular. Where has .the
money gone and why has no
sinking fund ever been started
as is done by all well-managed
enterprises; because the money
had to be spent for other pur
poses such as building and re
pairing streets, extending the
water mains, building additions
to the schoolhouse and other
projects. And there are other
projects facing the city that are
which no money, practically, is
just as urgently needed and for
in sight to accomplish.”
REDUCTIO AD ARSURDUM
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Petersburg public utilities is
like the fabled goose with its
golden eggs and more foolish
owner who killed his bird to get
the cash—and to get it quick.
The utilties have paid, accord
ing to Pewee “an xcellent in
come in invested capital BUT
being a paying institution it has
paid for street and school re
pairs. It has been a money
maker bu because other projects
need immediate funds, sell the
paying utilities NOW. Sell the
utilities—the money MUST come
somewhere, somehow—to heck
with the future.
WHAT YO MIGHT AND MIGHT
NOT GET
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“Sale of the utilities will, or
rather MIGHT provide the
city with possibly $78,000 to ac
complish the projects on sched
ule for the next few years and
to effect permanent reduction
on taxes.”
There's a Heap of Difference
Between “will” and “might”
when talking about returns from
the sale of the utilities. $78,00b
is a heap of money to talk about
in a vague and indefinite man
ner.
It is a lead pipe cinhc that the
bond holders will NOT let go of
their bonds unless they get a
good premium. If they do let
go just to get their money back
they may be cataloged as a new
species of the investment birds.
Might even be called philan
thropists.
Outstanding bonds with hy
dro plant as security is approx
imately $115,000. Interest by
date of maturity will be around
$80,000, or a total of $195,000, in
principal and accrued interest.
Leaving the town with a net
profit of $5,000 with which to
take care of “other scheduled
projects” for the future.
The water works is thrown in
to the Power Trust for good
measure to get rid of “the only
revenue producing utilities” in
town.”
THE MEN OF THE ALASKA
AERIAL SURVEY
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A finer group of young men
than the crew comprising the
Alaska Aerial Survey, we have
yet to meet. Young in appear
ance they average, we venture
to say around the thirties. Yet
comparing this group with thxt
of civilians of younger average,
the advantage would be in favor
of the sailors and aviators.
Said a woman of them: They
look awful young, almost like
kids but when you take a se
cond and closer look they show
maturity of thought and judg
ment. And in the language of
the navy There is not a booze
hound or liberty breaker in the
bunch. They represent the
cream of their departments of
the navy and every citizen may
well be proud of them.
THE CHINAMAN
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Rev. Sam G. Davis, of Kasaan,
tells the story of an old China
man who had two wives, a
young one and an old one.
While the older one went away,
the young one got the old
Chinaman to pull out all his
gray hair. But when the older
wife returned, she said,, “What
have you been doing? Now pull
out all your black hair.” And so
the Chinaman had no hair.
And thus it will be so long as
the people are divided.
THE “GENEROSITY” OF
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
The Hartford Electric Light
Company seems to be standing
amazed at its own generosity—
and wants everyone else to do
the same. It has d eclared a
“customers’ dividend.” Business
has been so good (and the Fed
eral Trade Commission so per
niciously active) that the com
pany has returned to each con
sumer 60 per cent of his October
bill. Writers of high school
textbooks which expect the ap
proval of the Power Trust will;
please list this incident promi
nently under “Benefits of Pri
vate Enterprise.”
Suppose we compare it with
public enterprise, as exemplified
by Ontario’s Hydro.
In 1926—the last year for
which figures are ready for both
places—the average householder
of Hartford used a little over 30
kilowatt hours per month, 386
during the year, to be exact,
and for this he paid $27.80.
In the same year, the average
householder of Windsor used 177
kilowatt hours per month, 2,
124 during the year; and for this
he paid $35.28.
The Canadian consumer bought
for $1.27, 5.5 times as much cur
cent as the American consumer
bought for $1. }
Hartford rates have been lew- j
ered somewhat since 1926, but 1
'■hey are still three times as high
as those of Windsor. The “gen
erosity” of private enterprise is
expensive—to those who receive
it.—LABOR, Washington, D. C.
SLANDERS A WOMAN
Emery Valentine, “gentleman”
of Juneau recently wrote a com -
munication to Stroller’s Weekly
which was published by that
gentleman of the south. The
story follows:
“My first acquaintance with
the missionary element was at
Fort Wrangell, during the eight
ies. A certain female kept a
mission there and had quite a
congregation of girls under her
care. At this time the placer
mines on the Stikine River were
booming and much gold was
brought to Wrangell and much ,
gambling, dancing and drinking;
were indulged in by the success- j
ful miners, during the winter
months. Early in the spring Mrs.
j McFarland who kept the mis
sion, always sent a lot of her
Indian maidens up there with
the miners with instructions,
“Now girls bring back plenty of
money,” which of course they
did. Old Mrs. McFarland was
not too chaste herself, so it de
veloped, and one of the Indian
Maidens gave her away and
told of her debauchery. Mvs.
McFarland thereupon took the
girl to task and demanded that
she make a retraction of her
statements which the girl re
fused to do. so the old lady lock
ed the girl up as prisoner and
kept her confined until finally
the girl set fire to the mission
building and it was burned to
the ground and Mrs. McFarland
departed for other fields and
never returned to Alaska.”
THEY CALL HIM A SHORT
AND UGLY NAME
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There are several women to
rt ay living in Wrangell and Pe
tersburg, who were under the
care of Mrs. McFarland. One of
them has been a missionary for
fifty years in Alaska. When this
slander of a dead woman was
told her she said, “Not one word
of it is true. Mrs. McFarland
was a clean woman and she nev
er sent us to the miners. She
fought the miners to keep them
away from the girls for which
they hated her. They were like
wild beasts without any sense
of decency and if Mr. Valentine
was there, no doubt he was not
any higher type than the other
beasts. There were decent men
there too but they were not low
contemptible creatures who
would lie about dead women.
Where are the decent “southern
gentlemen of Juneau who would
defame the name of a dead
woman? Gentlemen? Worse
cowardly curs.”
JONAH SWALLOWED THE
WHALE
The swallowing of Jonah by a
whale-has been a much mooted
subject and held to no little ri- |
dicule. Comes now Rev. Mr. Wil- ;
son of Cheltanham, England, "
maintaining the story to be true.
He declares the story of Jonah
[and the whale not only to be
true but cites two other cases of
more recent times. His attention
has been called by corres
pondents to additional cases, all
of which he is investigating. He j
is also looking up confirmatory
facts relative to the two cases
mentioned.
“I wouldn’t advise anyone else
to try to book passage on a!
whale,’ Mr. Wilson said. “He !
would find the mammal’s stom
ache a pretty hot place. The
heat within the whale has been
estimated 104 degrees Fahren
heit.
When James Bartley, one of
the crew of the whaler “Star of
the East,’ was swallowed by a
whale in 3 891, near Falkland Is
lands, he emerged the next day,.
after his shipmates had captur
ed the whale, with his hands,
face and neck permanently
bieachea a sickly w.Yfe. This ;
was caused by the whale’s gas- .
trie juices. Bartley said, more- !
over, that the terrific heat in j
the whale’s belly seemed to de- 1
price him of vitality.”
The second instance upon
which the Rev. Mr. Wilson re
lies is that of Marshall Jenkins,
related by the Boston Post in
1771. Jenkins was swallowed by
a sperm whale and shortly af
terwards thrown out upon the
wreckage of his boat. He was
bruised, but not seriously in
jured.
There are some readers who
rely absolutely and entirely up
on their favorite newspaper for ,
facts which they quote. Such
being the case, they should be
lieve the veracity of above state- !
ment which is taken from the !
news broadcasted by the Asso- j
ciated Press.
WASTE IN DISTRIBUTION
Eight billion dollars a year is
thrown away in the United!
States in wasteful methods of;
distribution, and 75 per cent!
more salesmen are calling on |
dealers than are actually re- j
quired to give necessary service, j
All expense of which is borne by '
the ultimate consumer. A re
cent incorporation of a large j
concern, combined thirty-five
makers and distributers of va- !
rious kind of industrial equip- ,
ment, eliminating sales dupli
cation and effort.
The possibilities of such an
j organization are very broad and j
i will lead the reader into maify j
fangles of the subject.
Glen Bartlett, popular hotel
man formerly connected with
the Frye Hotel staff, Seattle, is
now with the Claremont Apart
ment Hotel. Glen was manager
the Revilla Hotel at Ketchikan.
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