EUROPE IS NOIN
ORGANIZING
FDR TRADE
Washington, Jan. is. — When
Cadmus, in the Greek legend, sowed
the dragon’s teeth they sprang ur
from the ground as armed men. When
Hercules smote off one of the heads
of the fabled hydra, three others im
mediately came in Its place.
The value of these myths, and the
reason why they have been perpetu
ated, is that they contain the germs
°f unchanging truths.
Out of the sowing of the dragon’s
teeht in Europe has come more than
embattled armies on the fields of war.
There have also sprung into existence
innumerable armies of a character
hitherto unknown even in the coun
tries where the industrial occupations
have not been entirely resrved for
the male workers.
Germany’s Greater Industrial Average
The compulsory labor bill introduced
into the reichstag by the German
chancellor will bring all able-bodied
civilians between the ages of 16 and
60 into the industrial army in Ger
many. This, it has been estimated,
will add not less than 3,000,000 per
sons to the number now engaged in
making the German nation not only
self-sustaining, but skilfully produc
tive in peace manufactures for the
world's trade later on.
That the principle or the fact will
be limited to Germany proper is not
to be expected. Already the expatri
ation of the Belgians has the indus
trial situation as its basis. Poland
and other conquered Russian pro
vinces will likewise experience the
same governmental regulation of their
labor forces, and Roumania may look
for lige introduction to the German
efficiency methods.
France and England Getting Ready.
In Prance the industrial forces are
already being organized along national
lines, both men outside of the enlist
ment age and women of all ages hav
ing been swept into the ranks that
will go to the increasing of the produc
tive powers of the republic.
There has just been called to the^
head of the British government the
man who converted its plans for prac
tical preparedness from chaos into
'fKffe, Llo^d George has done more
He has converted the la
t in England to his point of
.e munitions factories are
day and night. There is no
fsSjKht of an eight hour law or of
i^,8ny time limitations to their labors.
«U1 want work and are finding it. So
^■universal has become employment
that it is said to have automati
®P cally solved the problem with which
England coped unsuccessfully in times
of peace; namely, the slums of Lon
don. With work for every hand, the
slums have disappeared.
Mobilizing the “Woman Power."
How far the plans look into the fu
ture may be gathered from the follow
ing statement made by an American
business man recently returned from
London:
“There has been a board appointed
in England to consider the mobilizing
of the woman power' of the country.
The women are being classified as to
professions, ages, etc., and will re
place men fit for military service who
are now serving in the postoffices and
munition factories. This month a fur
ther call for ‘man power’ is to be
made for the army, which will include
men in Cl, 02 and 03 who had been
previously rejected as being unfit for
military service.”
i nus we nave portrayed successive
systems of unified and organized in
dustry in practically all of the nations
at war; inded, in all that have figured
as consequential rivals of this coun
try In the world trade. And after the
war there will he added to this tralnod
body so enormously strengthened by
drafts from hitherto unemployed
sources, the millions released from
the armies. As a result there will be
industrial and commercial competi
tion for the world's markets under
national systems far more efficient
than any the world has yet known.
How Will This Affect the U. 8.
What will be the effect of this con
dition upon our home markets? How
can our products, lacking protection
hope to compete? What chance wit
there remain for an eight hour daj
and a high wage for the Americat
worker?
Let it be remembered that this al
Iteration in the industrial methods o
Rurope has come to stay. There i>
no thought in the minds of the con
lestants to meet the exiglenctes o
the moment and destined to fall ti
pieces when the Immediate need ha
passed. The permanent facts of th
allied enemies extends far beyond th
present time. Defensive in their Of
erations in so far as their mutual!
related Interests are concerned, the
are frankly offensive as regards a!
others, and there Is not a term !
• 1‘ejj1 t"udr uMiuuCCS "U olnjo/J otsojns
those with which they are now ei
gaged in military strife that Is no
equally applicable to the neutrali
among which stands the Unite
Hiates as the one marked out for pai
tlcular and peculiar consideration.
What hope of success under the fre
trade system has this country of con
petlng with the Ruropean nations wit
their cartels and combinations an
subsidies? Take the dyestuff indus
try, for instance. The bureau of for
eign and domestic commerce of the
United ‘ States has recently issued a
“dyestuff census,” designed to ac
quaint American dyestuff manufac
turers, actual and prospective, with
the conditions of that industry. This
census enumerates the various kinds
of dyes manufactured and gives the
amount of each consumed in the nor
mal demands of this country. One
large eastern dye maker, the report
claims, was saved a million dollars
in useless experiments by being per
mitted to see the report in proof.
Advice Without Protection.
If advice could build up the dye
stuffs industry in America and afford
it protection afterward, then the dye
stuff census of the bureau of foreign
and Domestic commerce has met all
requirements. Unfortunately, it fails
to disclose the character of competi
tion which the industry, once estab
lished here, will be called upon to
meet. This, however, is furnished in
measure by a report from the secre
tary of the commercial attache of this
government at London.
Not so many months have elapsed
since Great Britain took the first
steps toward securing deliverance
from the domination of Germany in
dyestuff manufacture. How far the
British government has progressed
may be gathered from the report last
mentioned, which states that all of
the capital stock for “British Dyes,
Ltd." has now' been subscribed. It is
further stated that in making the sub
scriptions necessary in “British Dyes"
the British government has advanced
£1 against every Rimiiar amount sub
scribed by the general public. The in
terest to be returned on the invest
ment will be four per cent for the gov
ernment and six per cent for the pri
vate shareholders, these rifles to re
main the maximum as long as any
part of the public loan continues in
the concern.
Viewing the entire field, these are a
few of the conditions with which Am
erican industries are confronted. The
conclusion is unavoidable that advice
without protection will prove inade
quate to the situation.
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STORY DOUBLE
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A somewhat sensational account of
the disappearance at two men who
were journeying on the lower Innoko
in a rowboat appears in the Nome
Nugget. The school teacher who re
lated the story, it would appear to
the ordinary reader, should not have
allowed “a year or bo” to elapse with
out reporting the matter to the
authoriies, and it might appear to be
worthy of little credence were the
circumstances not given so minutely.
So far as known no one in this vi
cinity has any knowledge of the sus
pected crime. The marshal's office
in this city never has been notified of
such an occurrence, and Sleggard
Wlgg, who makes frequent journeys
to the localities described, says he
has never heard anything of the
strange story related. But he does
say that there are some “bad” natives
In that section, and it would not be
surprising if there were some truth
in the story. The school teacher re
ferred to may be Roy Fuller, now
United States commissioner at For
tuna Ledge, who some years ago was
the government teacher at Shageluk,
and later filled a similar position at
Russian Mission.
The Nugget article is as follows:
“A recent arrival from the Yukon
states that the simple and guileless
Indian, in spite of missionaries and
government schools, has at last learn
ed the capital crime of the white man,
namely, killing for plunder. He says:
“‘The Yukon Indians have learned
many things of the whites, some good,
some bad. They have learned to
speak English, with many swear words
thrown in; to plant a garden, but not
to care for It; to work on steamboats
and squander their money on useless
geegaws; to cut wood industriously
and then loaf until their last bit of
flour is gone; to charge all the traffic
will bear for their fish and their
curios, and to He glibly. They have
learned to drink and gamble. It has
’ taken time for them to learn ail these
i things, and now at last they have
. learned to murder white men for their
t outfits and money. I met one man
, who wanted to go trapping on the up
s per Kuskokwim this winter, but he
, isn't going, because he says he is
, afraid the Indians would kill him, as
. they have so many other white men
r In the past few years. He says that
, It is well known in that section that
1 the Indians have been killing pros
, pectors and trappers, but that it is
i very hard to prove it. Hnw«««r .
. school teacher on the lower Yukon
t told me of a case on Shageluk slough
i where the murder seenm pretty well
i established. It happened a year or sc
.. ago. Two men coming down the In
noko in a rowboat with over $3,00<
B in their possession, were known tc
i. have passed in turn Dementi, Holika
l! chek and Shageluk. They were bound
[1 for Holy Cross to take the steamboat
and they did not reach that place •
Their boat in now at Anvik, or was
when the teacher related the story
to me, and the Indian possessor of
it says that he found it in the slough.
Now comes the evidence of a crime.
A Shageluk Indian who was worthless,
who never had had $20 at one time,
returned to Shageluk from a trip and
fasted three days and nights. His
fast was respected by the other na
tives, who knew that it meant he had
killed somebody. The following fall
this cultus native gave a big potlatch
at a lower village, and to provide the
stuff for his feast he paid the trader
at the village the sum of $1,700. Con
sidering the fact that this particular
savage never caught a dozen furs in
one season, never chopped more than
two or three cords of w'ood at one
time, and never was known to have
any money, is not this sudden acquisi
tion of $1,700, along with his three
day fast, conclusive evidence that he
was one of the parties, at least, to the
murder of the two w'hlte miners. The
school teacher thought so, and so do
I, and it seems to me that Indians
should not be allowed to go any fur
ther along this road. I dont know
whose duty it is to investigate this
matter, but as it is in the Fourth di
vision, I presume it would be some
official up there. And for my part
I dont know why the government
school teacher who was there and
knew all the facts did not start the
wheels of the law. It seems to me
more important to teach the Indians
to be good people than It is to teach
them to spell. As to that, though, that
section up there is the land of the
sacred Siwash, and the principle
seems to me to be all wrong.’ ”—Idit
arod Pioneer.
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The government will erect a large
concrete building in Valdez this stun
ner, to be used by the road commis
sion and postoffice.
Arrangements are being made In
3eward and Anchorage to pull off
i sweepstakes dog race in the near
future between Anchorage and Sew
trd and return.
Fur farmers are reaping a harvest
this year. Fred Liljigren, of Naked
islands, recently sent bunch of fine
blue fox skins to fur buyers at Valdez,
for which he received a good price.
There are numerous islands in Prince
William Sound that are ideal for fur
farming. Plenty of wood, good water
and lots of fish and birds for the
foxes.
Frank Mathison. one of the first
men to take a contract with the Alas
ka engineering commission on the new
government raii-oad, died at the hos
pital at Anchorage recently from a
complication of heart trouble and
pneumonia.
The Scandinavian Society at An
chorage, with a membership of 250,
gave a Christmas celebration to its
members December 26. Old folk
dances, native country’ games and a
Christmas three and a musical pro
gram were the features of the enter
tainment.
A Weymouth, Mass., promoter
wishes to arrange with the residents
of Fairbanks to hold a pageant there
next July in celebration of the 50th
anniversary of the purchase of Alas
ka. He only wants $5,000 for his ser
vices in promoting and directing the
affair.
The quartz mines at Ester Dome,
near Fairbanks, are reported to be
likely to become the largest in the
world. They hace been taken over
by parties purported to be represent
ing the Kennecott people, and are
showing up well under development.
The ore is said to run from $£ to $10
per ton, and the vein is reported to
be 70 feet in width.
BILLS PAID BY TOWN COUNCIL
AT REGULAR MEETING HELD
JANUARY 15. 1917.
W. H. Bogue. hauling.$ 2.00
J. B. Howard, carpenter work. 28.60
B. W. Elliott, plumbing and
supplies. 41,60
Alaska S. S. Co., indigent ticket 47.50
Cordova Power Co., Dec. bill 248.00
Blum, O’Neill Co., supplies .... 9.40
bowman & Hanford, assess
ment books . 24.00
EDWARD E. MEDLEY,
Town Clerk.
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TOWN OF CORDOVA.
ItHMMIVI j#«l T «A««.
Town taxes are now due and pay
able to the town treasurer, H. I
O'Neill, at his office.
Bald taxes will be delinquent on
the second Monday in February, 1917,
at the hour of 6 o'clock p. in. Upon
all unpaid taxes after that time a pen
alty of five per cent will ve collected.
H. I. O'NEILL,
Town Treasurer.
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fore presented their claims to m.
Brock, at the Blum, O’Neill store, are
requested to do so at once.
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