SHIPPING MUNITION METALS TO THE ALLIES
A steamer being loaded at an Atlantic port with Iron and steel burs consigned to government munition plants in
France and England. The United States is of Invaluable service to its European allies in supplying the tre
mendous demand for metals used In the manufacture of war materials.
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People complain about war time
prices. They complain because they
are asked to reduce their consumption
of meats, wheat, sugar and fats. They
complain because some of the substi
tutes cost more than the food they are
asked to save for their associates on
the other side of the ocean.
All right, suppose that we grant
their complaint about prices. But then
let us look at the thing from another
angle. Prices are high. There is no
way to get around that. War time
prices have always been high. They,
will always be high. But if we ate I
only the things we liked fully well as ^
the things we must save, and if we
ate only the substitutes that were
cheaper, how much of a sacrifice
would we be making in order to help
win this war?
Suppose that the men who are sup
plying our ammunition said it was dis
graceful to pay high prices for steel
when wood was so much cheaper. And
then just suppose that they used the
wood to make our guns and our shells
—it's much cheaper and could be paint
ed and smoothed down to look about
steel.
How long do you think our armies
could stay in the trenches with wooden
guns and wooden shells? They could
Hay just about as long as they could
if we made prices the excuse for tak
ing food out of their mouth «.
Prices or no prices, we must eat to
win this war. Those people need beef,
pork and mutton, wheat, sugar and
fats. If we fail to save in order that
they may have them, we could just as
■well close down our steel plants and
send them shells made of wood.
Where there is war, food cannot be
produced. A steel plow helps pro
duction, but steel is not a good culti
vator when it breaks the land in the
form of a shell. That has been shown
in France, Italy and Belgium and all
of the other countries shattered by bat
tle. But a nation can be at war and
still maintain production, if the battle
lines do not encroach on Ihe farms.
That has been shown in Germany and
is being shown in the United States.
We have been charged with the tre
mendous task of feeding our associates
in this war, of maintaining production
on a scale that will meet our auctual
needs and still leave enough to fill the
gap between Europe’s production and
consumption. The only solution is to
reduce our own use of the foods most
needed abroad. We must employ sub
stitutes for beef, pork, and mutton,
wheat, sugar and fats. This war is as
much ours at it is Europe’s and there
is no reason why we should ask Eur
ope to bear all of the sacrifices and de
privations.
Did you ever stop to wonder why
food prices are high in war time? Or
have you just complained about the
fact that they are high, and then won
dered why in the world the govern
ment hasn’t stepped in and brought
them back to the ante-bellum level?
The next time you complain about
prices, stop to think of the farmer who
grew the things you are buying. Do
you know that he is paying $2 or $2.50
a day for labor he could get before the
war for $1 or $1.25—and that he is hav
ing a mighty hard time getting any
body at all. Do you know that every
railroad in the country is congested
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and that it is much more difficult tc
get farm products to market than ii
was a year ago? Do you know that the
man who buys food from the farmers
and then distributes it to the whole
sale dealers, has to pay much more foi
his labor than he did before the war
And do you know that all of his neces
sary expenses have been on the as
Cendant? Do you know that the
wholesale dealer is paying wages and
salaries that he could scarcely have
dreamed of a few years ago —and thal
the same thing is true of the retailers!
And then, on the other hand, when
you wonder why the government has
not taken a hand, have you stopped tc
consider that prices have risen on a
much lower scale than has ruled ir
other wars?
Have you thought when you payed
nine or ten cents for sugar, with the
country going through an actual sugai
famine, that it would have gone much
higher had not the government
through the United States food ad
ministration, taken measures to stabil
ize the market? Have you stopped t<
wonder why the wholesale price o
flour is less than $11 a barrel, whei
it went as high as $15 last summe
and threatened to keep mounting
Have you remembered that the farme
is getting more money out of $10 o
$11 flour today than he got out of $1
or $15 flour six months ago?
No you haven’t thought of thes
things. You just know that prices an
high, and you wonder why “somebod;
doesn’t do something about it.” If yoi
stopped to think, maybe your ton
would change from complaint to won
der. Prices are high, but the wonde
is that they are not higher, when yoi
come to think of it.
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The Following Food Facts Shouli
Appeal to You.
Now is the time for every good eate
to come to the aid of his country.
In the matter of food do not mistaki
substitution for starvation. The Unitei
States food administration asks yoi
for the former in order to guari
against the latter.
Remember that being a slave to you
eating habits is one way of helpini
the kaiser.
The proper study of mankind (jus
now) is the food question. Meatles
days and wheatless days are sure step
towards fightless days.
Practice food conservation for th
sake of your stomach, for the sake o
iyour pocketbook, for the sake of you
country or for any other reason unde
the sun, but BE SURE YOU DO IT.
The 1917 wheat crop in France wa
dess than half of normal, using th
crop of 1913 as a basis for compar
sons. There was a shortage of 176
000,000 bushels, or 53.3 per cent. Th
potato crop was only within one-thir
of normal. The sugar beet crop shov
ed a deficit of 67.9 per cent. Her mea
herds in the early fall showed a shor
age of 10,800,000 animals. Those ar
a few of the reasons America mus
feed her associates in the war. The
j are no longer able to feed themselvei
and unless we come to the rescue ar
face to face with starvation. And star
vation means defeat in the war.
So closely is the world linked todhy
that the war has been brought into
every American household. The armies
are fighting today 3,000 miles ahead of i
their food base, a thing which would j
have been impossible in any other j
wajs. 3 here is a food hase in every
kitchen in this country. The efficiency
with which the housekeeper adminis
ters her important command will mea
sure the amount of food that can be
sent to the front. If the supply stops,
the war stops—and we are defeated.
Twenty per cent of the world’s ship
ping has been destroyed by U-boats or
is interned in neutral harbors, There
is not enough left to transport all of
the food Europe must have unless It
is in concentrated form. The concen
trated foods, those containing the
greatest nourishment in the least ship
ping space, are beef, pork and mutton,
wheat, sugar and fats.
“We want more meat,” some in
America may say. “We get tired: of
beans and other substitutes.” Maybe
we do, but do you think we get as
tired of substitutes as Europe does of
lack of meat without any substitutes?
UNCLE m HINTS
EIGHTEEN BILLION
(Bv United Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—The great
est financial drive in this country’s
history is under way today to obtain
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over eighteen billion dollars for gov
' | ernment expenses this year.
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According to the estimates of the
treasury department, the United States
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JI will spend over $53,000,000 every day
{during 1918, the greatest portion to be
!spent to run the war.
1 It is expected that the third Liberty
loan will net the government far above
four billion dollars.
* Internal revenue returns for 1918
will show $3,400,000,000 as compared |
r with the $809,393,640 collected during!
1917 according to the treasury depart
ment estimates.
s The total internal revenue returns
l for 1918 will equal one-third of the to
i tal revenue of the entire world two
l years ago.
Excess profits will bring in $1,200,
000,000 The next largest amount,
r $650,000,000 will come from the per
; sonal income tax. The pennies that
are paid with nickels and dimes for ad
mission to movies and from dues paid
t to club treasuriers will net $50,000,000.
3 The picturesque Virgin islands, lately
3 volunteer in the famous French For
revenue—$20,000.
Out of this vast sum to be raised by
3 internal revenue only $750,000,000 rep
f resents the revenue of the commod
r ities taxed under the old law. The re
r mainder, will be the tangible results of
the revenue act of October 3, 1917.
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s! Seward is discussing the subject
a pro and con of controlling Lowell
-j creek, which overflowed last fall and
•| caused so much damage to the town.
a j J. J. Finnigan, who is now in Wash
I ington, D. C., stated in a letter that
-1 there w'ould probably be an appropri
II ation of $25,000 for part of the work
> on the creek. He states that there
e was probably no method for a direct
t appropriation, and suggested that the i
y citizens make a move toward asking
i. congress for a bond issue for the city’s
s i share in making the improvement.
thousands of priests
SERVE IN ITALY’S ARMY
At t%e present time there are no
less than eighteen thousand priests
serving in the Ttalian army, of whom
seventeen thousand are combatants,
and the remaining thousand chaplains,
appointed to the various regiments
andi the wa/rskips.
The chaplain in chief is Mgr. Bar
tolomasi. field Bishop, who holds the
rank of brigadier general, and has un-'
der him three coioneisv an the other
chaplains ranking as captains Of the
thousand chaplains, twenty-six hare
fallen on the field of honor, three hun
dred have been wounded, and seventy
have received the medal for military
valor.
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There are now 230 workers in the
coal mines located at Eska creek. Lit
tle Susitna rtrer, Moose creek and
Chickaloon. Much development work.
Js being done
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William Springer was recently
found guilty nt assault in the commis
sioner’s court at Juneau and fined $35
and costs.
'Smmammi ■" m I HI IIIIIIIIHM MIHWIMJ
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Will You Lend
Your Country
25 Cents?
If that’s all you can spare, today, to help Uncle Sam win the
war.
There’s a way for you to give it, today, so that Uncle Sam will
get IMMEDIATE USE of it.
At the post office or local banks, buy a Thrift Stamp for 25
cents. With it you will get a Thrift Card, with spaces on.
which to paste 16 Thrift Stamps.
When your card is filled with Stamps ($4.00 worth), you can
exchange it, with a few cents in cash, for a War Saving*
Stamp, which bears interest, and will increase steadily in
value. On Jan. 1, 1922L Uncle Sam will pay you $5 in cash
for it.
Every War Saving Stamp is an interest-bearing government
security. Every Thrift Stamp is a step toward the ownership/
of a War Savings Stamp. * P
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