PROPERTY LOSS
GREAT RESULT
(Bv Associated Press.)
HOWE, Feb. 6. — "The remedy for
the high cost of food in the United
States is the adoption by the national
government of a scientific plan for
disposing of farm products," according
the David Uubtn, the American repre
sentative to the International Insti
tute of Agriculture here and himself
the originator of the plan of found
ing that institution.
"The remedy was worked out by
Germany many years ago, and all we
iaii to do !■ to adopt this remedy,”
he said. "The trouble with our pre
sent farming conditions is that the
middleman and the speculator rather
than the farmer get the biggest profit
front the sale of farm products. This
is shown by the fact that soon nearly
fifty per cent of the farms of our coun
try will he mortgaged or merely oc
on pied on lease by the soil’s cultivat
ors.
"Kight here in Home a long while
ago we had a striking example of what
poverty means to the farmer. In the
time of Emperor Tiberius Gracchus,
Home began to buy her food from Af
rica instead of encouraging her farm
ers. The land rapidly passed then
from the hands of the cultivator of
the soil to others ownership, and the
small farmer's ruin entailed that of
the nation.
"America won't solve the high cost
of food problem by putting the specu
lators in jail. We must make it im
possible for the speculator to operate
by strengthening the farmer. The
Germans saw this many years ago,
and they worked out a welfare plan
for the farmer, and thereby for the
nation, which resulted in placing 86
per cent of the farms in the hands of
the cultivator.
“The key to the plan of the Ger
mans, known as the I-andwirthschaft
rat, is that of keeping the farmer in
formed regarding the needs of the cit
ies, of the market, so that his distri
bution system is good, so that he
knows what his products e i worth,
so that he knows how to sell and so
that he knows how to plant his crops.
"All of Germany is divided by pro
vinces, and each province is kept in
formed of the other's doings through
a central office. Suppose there were
too many potatoes in the province of
A, with the result that prices were
low, the farmers in this province
would make inquiries of the farmer's
organization in a neighboring pro
vince, say of B, how its supply stood,
and so on through several provinces
until the whole potato proposition was
gone over, and the potatoes shipped
to the point where the supply was the
least. In the United States at pres
ent, given the condition of the pro
vince of A, the growers there merely
continue to sell their potatoes to the
big city buyers at whatever prices
they choose to offer, the farmers in
Kentucky, say, being unaware of con
ditions in Ohio, or at least inexactly
"The German plan is valuable be
cause it is a farmer's affair. All the
business of information is carried on
through their own agents, and not by
outsiders. The organization is recog
nized by the government. All legis
lation affecting agriculture must by
law first be submitted to a standing
central committee of the farmers. The
organization is entirely independent
of the department of agriculture, as
It should he, since no such department
can ever co-operate directly on mat
ters affecting prices and business.
"Congress has already passed the
rural credits act, and this .winter con
gress will also be called upon to con
sider the German remedy for the high
cost of food. The rural credits act
by Itself will not vastly benefit the
farmer unless he is further aided to
get equitable prices for bis products
by the adoption of the other and com
plimentary act. By this creation of
na official farmer’s organization the
farmer will be turned into an effi
cient merchant, and the people In
California will, say, should they be
lacking in a food plentiful In New
York state, be able to buy that food
at prices helpful to the New York
farmer and not prohibitive to them."
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The various fire companies of
Douglas having failed to agree upon
a candidate for chief of the depart
mentfi the city council has named City
Marshal W. A. Shaffer for the posi
tion.
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Announcement has been made by
Superintendent Wyland, of the Tread
well properties that the company will
shortly increase their crews until the
mines and mills are working at full
capacity.
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A Juneau attorney recently drew
upon himself a most scathing rebuke
from the court, wheii he asked a pros
pective juryman if it was not s fact
that he was wbat is known in the
community as a company man. Tkt
court declared the question was nol
only an insult to the juror, but to the
court as well.
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H. Vandenabelle, a Treadwell min
er, was made happy recently by the
arrival of hts wife and child, who had
come all the way from war stricken
Belgium. _
Valuation Placed Mexican Land
(By C. M. Holland. Civil Engineer.)
Above all pasBions, above all the ap
parently personal struggles, above all
j the problems so difficult to explain to
I the American people, rises from the
! Mexican revolution, an ideal which Is
I daily more clearly defined, a strong
tendency towards the conquest of the
! economic welfare of that people, In
; terpretlng the necessity of establlsh
! Ing an Intimate communion between
1 the laborer and the soil, of doing away
j with the unjust manner In which the
' people have lived under the feudal tax
system, and the imperative need to
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Members of Commission Appointed to Adjust Mexican Land Differences. I
give HU opportunity to tne masses to
educate themselves and to rid them
of fanalictism. These are great ideals
which have arisen above the ocean of
blood spilled, which has served to
purify them and to crystalize I hem
into tangible facts In the several
points of the republic where peace is
already cemented. This is especially
true of the Btate of Yucatan, where
General Alvarado has had, for a period
I embracing more than two years, the
occasion to develop his administrative
labors with perfect tranquility.
The great problem of the land was
attacked there with surprising energy,
and the author of this article was ap
pointed to organize the agrarian com
mission and that of the property cen
sus, in order to distribute land among
the Indians and to carry out the re
valuation of the properties in the
state, so as to impose a just tax.
An advanced law was passed rela
tive to lands, under which the men who
are so desirous, can easily and me
thodlcally go towards tho bounties of
nature. At the same time, the rural
credit is being organized, a step abso
lutely necessary in order to redeem
field laborer from the power of usury.
Formerly the owners of lands in
the state of Yucatan did not pay any
taxes, or if they paid any, it was an
irrisor.v sum; the total collected
throughout the state amounted to $5fl,
000—on urban and rural property.
The whole properties were appraised
J at $32,000,000. After carrying Into ef
fect a rough appraisement, the valua
tion amounted to $231,000,000, and at
present the state of Yucatan Is receiv
ing about $3,000,000 revenue. This
means that it has been possible to
raise from the shoulders of the needy
a large part of the load burden under
which they were staggering, which al
most crushed them and which merely
permitted them to starve.
A similar occurrence has taken
place at present throughout Mexico
in almost all the states. The earnest
wish or Constitutionalism is to place
the republic on a new basis, so that
the expenses of the government fall
on the rich and not on the destitute;
and the efforts made towards this end
will soon show results of immense so
cial transcendence, for that people,
sunk until a short time ago, in the
(largest feudalism, will raise its head
and Idcss forever the memory of the
heroes fallen in the struggle.
INTERESTING DECISION OF
NE WPROHIBITIOJJ LAW.
In considering the prohibition bill
introduced in congress by Delegate
Wlckersham, it is interesting to note
that Judge Henry McGinn, of Port
land, Oregon, a brother of John I,.
McGinn, of Fairbanks, recently ren
dered a decision in which he held that
a similar provision in the Oregon law
was unconstitutional. If this decision
is upheld by a higher court, it will
mean that the similar provision in
the Wlckersham bill, which has been
passed by congress, will be unconsti
tutional.
In section 1 of the Wickersliam bill
it provides in lineB 8 and 9 that it
shall be unlawful for anyone “to have
in his possession • • • any in
toxicating liquor or alcohol." The Ore
gon law hud the same provision prac
tically, and when the test case was
brought before Judge McGinn he held
that it was depriving the individual
of his constitutional rights and privi
leges.
Under these circumstances the fin
al outcome of the Oregon case will
be witched with interest.
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FORMER CORDOVA LAD GETS
YEAR AT ANCHORAGE.
"Kastus," of ebony hue, got his yes
terday, when Judge Leopold David
sentenced him to six months in the
federal jail and added a fine of 600
bones, not the kind that Kastus hus
been accustomed to, but real money.
This is the equivalent to one year in
jail. Kastus has been an eyesore to
the people for several months, and
has been a nuisance in many ways.
He overstepped himself yesterday and
while the charged filed against him
was assault, it is understood that the
offense was much more serious and
the judge was amply justified in giv
ing him the severe sentence. At least
it will keep him from panhandling on
Fourth avenue for quite a spell. —
Anchorage Times.
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Mrs. Lena Morrow Lewis recently
opened her schooy for teaching for
eigners the English language at An
chorage, with an enrollment of six
teen pupils, and the promise of a
number of others.
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While cutting wood the other day
L. (’. Bates, of Seward, made a mis
stroke and cut off the end of his
thumb on the left hand, making a nice
clean Job of tt.
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NOTICE.
We have sold our store to Finkel
stein & Sapiro. We will pay all bills
and collect all accounts contracted
previous to January 1, 1917.
All accounts due on that date should
be settled at once at our office in
the Co-operative store.
CORDOVA CO-OPERATIVE TRAD
ING COMPANY.
Dated January 27, 1917.
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