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K
SHERLEY FOR BUDGET SYSTEM
Is there need now, as in the days
of peace, for a reform budgetary sys
tem of national finance for the United
Stntes government? Representative
Swagar Sherley of Kentucky snys yes.
He Is the chairman of the house com
mittee on appropriations, one of the
big finance experts of congress, and he
has been a budget advocate during the
greater part of the 1(1 years he has
been a member of the national legisla
ture.
“I am not blind to the fact,” he i
said the other day in the course of an
interview, “that there must be and
should be a wide distinction between
the spending policy of the nation In
time of peace and Its policy in time of
war. Under normal conditions we
should consider every expenditure with
reference to whether it is worth the
burden it puts upon the people. In
time of war there is only one side to
that vital question. In time of war we.
as mo representatives ot the people, must spend to the last or an unit tne
people have, if necessary, to save the people themselves.
“But, granting all that, there Is as much* need now as tle .e ever was for
a reform in our system of appropriating the money of the people for expend- ;
iture by the executive officers of the government. There is more need now for
such reform because of the very magnitude of the war finances. And the |
principles of the budget system apply ns well to the allotment of the huge
sums of today as they do to the smaller sums of the normal period.”
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FIRST-CLASS BARBER SHOP
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ANCHORAGE. May 28.—Shortage
of labor, a condition the world war;
has ’mposed on almost every indus
try in the territory, is experienced
by the Alaska Engineering Commis- j
sion in its construction of the Gov-,
ernment Railroad between the coast
towns of Sewr.rd and Anchorage and
the interior town of Fairbanks.
In the Seward and Anchorage div
isions, where about 1,500 men have'
been employed during the winter and !
spring, there is immediate need of j
additional workers. Fred Lilyman,
superintendent of the employment j
bureau of the commssion, with head
quarters in Anchorage, says he can
not now fill the comparatively small
orders of the various departments
for common labor.
“Throughout the summer and in
the early fall," he declares, “(lie de-j
mand for workers will exceed the
supply in Seward and in Anchorage.” |
In the construction season last yoar
about 550 men were employed in
the two divisions. This year, it is
unlikely that any such large number
will be required, but even double
the present force, or a total of about
3,000, will be difficult, if not impos
sible to obtain.
“There will be work for every man!
that wants it,” says William Gerig.
engineer in charge of the Anchorage
division.
Calls to the military service and op
portunities for employment in the
states last winter when little employ
ment could lie offered in railroad
construction in the north, took away
from Seward and Anchorage the
great majority of laborers, and dur
ing the continuance of the war in Eur
ope and the active labor market in
the states they will not come back.
Last season, employes and sup-,
plies for the government railroad
were carried between Anchorage and
Seattle by the United States Army
Transport Crook.. Now the vessel is
in the war service. If laborers can be
hired in the states for the govern
ment railroad, the commission has
arranged with the steamship com
panies that are operating in nor
thern waters that such workers, in
parties of ten or more, may obtain
passage for 75 per cent of the reg
ular fare.
The wage paid by the commission
for common labor is $4.00 a day.
The charge for board and sleeping
quarters is $1.25 a day.
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TOKIO, May 4.—Submitting writ
ten answers to the interpellations in
the House of Representatives, just
before the recent adjournment of that
body, Viscount Montono, then Japan’s
foreign minister, but who afterward
resigned, said that the Japanese gov
ernment had no intention of repeal
ing tue “gentlemen’s agreement” be
tween the United States and Japan at
the present time.
The interpellator, Mr. Hayami,
thought that the time had come to
send more Japanese laborers to the
United States because the war had
increased the demand of labor in
America. He believed that the time
had arrived to solve tho immigration
question and thought the “gentle
men’s agreement” should be abol-!
ished.
Mr. Hayami continued by recom-*
mending that the government open,
the way for a supply of Japanese la
bor to the United States. To this
\ iscouut Montono replied that the
government did not think the present
circumstances allowed of such an ar
rangement.
Commenting on Mr. Hayami’s de
sire that the general granting of pass- j
ports to Japanese emigrants be expe-j
dited and simplified in procedure, j
Viscount Montono answered that the
government would try to meet the
interpollator’s wishes as far as pos-;
sible. He added that the government
will give duo consideration to the
matter of giving preparatory educa
tion to the emigrants.
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money with Sfp yof
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Do e0ur yo“
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snare every T ,
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y' Merchants!
1 hrift Stamps With Every $5.00 Purchase.
$50.00 Liberty Bond for the Most Stamps
Turned in on July 31.
Gage and Fiske
Ranging from .$2.75 up
llats for the kiddies. 1.40 up
20percent off
Suits, Goats,
Dresses and Skirts
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NEW WAISTS
Gossard Corsets CrePc de Chine and Georgette Wash Waists,
Insist Upon the Original Voiles and Mull
Gossard Corsets are the or- From .$1.75 to $5.50
lgmal trout-lacing corsets and
are the perfect expression of -- -
tlie front lacing principle.
$2.75 to $10.00 Messaline Camisoles
Lace and ribbon trimmed.$1.50
FRIJDAY
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Cordova
Sheet Metal Works
J. A. COHRS.. Prop.
Phones
Shop, 143 Res., 160—2-R.
General Sheet Metal Work,
Smokestacks, Boats and other
Tanks, all sizes; Boat Flywheel
Pans, Garbage and Ash Cans.
REPAIR WORK DONE
The Red Dragon
CORDOVA. ALASKA
Headquarters of Cordova
Chapter American Red Cross.
Club House founded in 1908
by Episcopal church. Open
from 1 p. m. to 10 p. m.
REV E. P. ZIEGLER
Supt.
Aunty
Keating's
"tiff”
S’lfUp
NOTICE
By order of the town council, all
| ownerless and vicious dogs will be
removed from the street.
FRED BROTHERSON,
Chief of Police.
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‘Use less wheat ana meat. Buy local
foods. Serve just enough. Use what
Second-hand linoleum at Rawson's
| Bargain store. 7-tf
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Madame bydia, the paiMlst, will be
found in the Currier <fc Mickelson
building on C. street. 16-tf
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Go to the American Bakery for cof
fee and.
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