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COKDOVA, ALASKA, FKI1) AY, JANUARY 18, msT
CONGRESSIONAL EFFI.
CIENCY
The record of congress made
during the last session shows
that this body, when not play
ing handball with a helpless
constituency like Alaska, can
really get down to business and
show a few of the qualifica
tions that must be possessed by
other organizations that expect
to survive the acid test of effi
ciency. Nothing illustrates this
more clearly than the handling
of the copper situation. When
they had firmly grasped the
fact that in order to win the
war it was absolutely necessary
tha there should be an uninter
rupted production of this metal
they took speedy and effective
steps toward that end. They
set a price for copper that they
felt the government could af
ford to pay and yet leave a
good margin of profit, and they
gave the producer clearly to
understand that labor must be
kept placated and the standard
of wages maintained. They
then appointed committee
headed by Joseph Clendenin,
manager of the American
Smelting & Refining Co.’s cop
per sales department, with in
structions to see that the intent
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'I uiu (Ui waa uuiru-u Olll,
There must be a close working
arrangement between the com
mittee and the producers, and
the latter must furnish com
plete information covering pro
duction, costs, etc. The com
mittee apportions whatever
residin' there may be after the
necessities of tile government
and its allies are fulfilled
among the different manufac
turers according to their rela
tive importance to the domestic
fabric. Apart from the fact
that this arrangement may pos
sibly have interfered with the
benevolent intention of a few
producers to pile up colossal
fortunes at the expense of the
taxpayers, and to tin* embar
rassment of the government
during a time of stress, it seems
to have worked to the compara
tive satisfaction of all. We are
glad to know that the great ma
jority of the copper producers
appear to have met the de
mands of the government more
than half way. Why not in
troduce a little more of this
system into other lines of in
dustry and make the strike
during a time when the very
existence of our country is pos
sibly at stake, not only unnec
essary but impossible?—Ex
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READJUSTING WEALTH
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While men of wealth are not
necessarily a menace to the na
tion. men of dire provertv are.
Mi Hi onaires who use their
brains and their money aright
do great good- Large aggrega
tions of capital are necessary
and the man who builds indus
tries has no superior as a pub
lic benefactor.
Rut the poor must be given a
boost from time to time so that
they may arise out of squalor
and unhappiness and be able to
give their children a chance to
be real American citizens.
If there are many poor peo
ple there are many Hboys and
girls who will not bo raised to
good citizenship.
The banishment of poverty
in the world is one of the ways
in which civilization can ad
vance tself. The question of
poverty, associated as it is with
questions of education, health,
industrialism and good govern
ment, ever has .and ever will
occupy the attention of states
men.
A fairer distribution of the
wealth of the nation has been
the object of many laws in the
past Anti-trust laws, income
and corporation taxes, and
taxes on inheritances have had
as their object the reduction
of great fortunes as -.veil as the
collection of revenue.
That there is room for fur
ther work in the same direction
is proved by the report of the
collector of internal revenue
for the year 1917. Last year
11,085 men and women in the
nation reported incomes in ex
cess of $50,000. Tn 1916 the
i number with incomes above
j this high figure was 7,509.
BURLESON WAKES UP
Because postal clerks in the
| nation, asking for more pay, in
some cases are organizing to
| forward their demands, Post
| master General Burleson has
j declared that unions are a
menace to the governmental
1 service
I his shows that the postmas
ter general has at last taken
notice of the workers in his de
| part men t. He has heard their
| united complaint, whereas
their separate requests seemed
never to find a sympathetic
ear. This is more or less of a
reach and grab world. Unless
a man edges in and gets what
lie can there are plenty of peo
ple to take his portion.
rl lie postal clerks have long
been underpaid. Since the re
cent exceptional rise in the cost
of living they have not been
granted wage increases.
Postmaster General Burle
son says that government em
ployes will get a square deal.
Tn the meantime the employes
want to see the increases that
are beginning to be vaguely
mentioned in Washington.
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A MEASURE OF KULTUR
There have been many
proofs that the Prussian idea
j has gone mad, but an Asso
ciated Press dispatch recently
printed shows to what deprav
ity Kultur has descended.
Forgetting all ideals of the
home, of womanly virtue and
ot monogamous marriage, Dr.
| Engel, Berlin town councillor,
glories in the fact that 200,000
illegitmate children are born in
Prussia each year.
He believes that this is an
‘‘evidence of the moral healthi
ness of the German race,” and
that ‘‘it represents a measure
of the morality of our people.”
Yes, it is a gauge of moral
ity, iudeed—a horrible measure
that few will be unable to read
in the right way.
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So far as treaties are concerned,
one signed by Trotzky is just as good
as one of the kaiser’s.—New York
Morning Telegraph.
Testimony in Washington!
says ttie Germans have warmer'
clothes than the American sol
diers. Anyway, the Yanks are
going to make it so hot for the
Huns that they won’t need any
clothes at all.
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A domestic science expert
tells how to provide a meal for
three on an expenditure of 18c.
She didn’t say thre<* what, so
we conclude it is three can
aries.
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When the matter is sifted
down it is found that the man
who invented camouflage isi
the one who first fitted a boil
er works whistle to his Ford
car.
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