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THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1918
NEW SLASH AT RED TAPE
I
Beginning yesterday, a revolution
occurred in American freight rail
railroading.
A car of goods can be shipped from
New York to San Francisco or from
Cleveland to New Orleans, trans
ferred from railroad to railroad and
from terminal to terminal, all on one
way bill.
For years railroad men have
dreamed of this, just as they dreamed
of standardized freight cars and en
gines. And just as it took govern
ment control and Director General
McAdoo to bring about the latter, so
again it has taken McAdoo to put
through this way bill improvement.
In the past, when a car was shipped
irom New York to San Francisco, it
might be handled by foyr different
railroads. That would mean four dif
ferent way bills. Each way bill held
good until the car reached the freight
terminal point of that particular road.
Then the car was shunted around the
terminal yards until the clerks made
out a new way bill and delivered it
-to the yardmaster. The latter then
set his forces to work picking out
this ear and delivering it to the next
• road that was to handle it. So on
along the route.
MeAdoo and his experts have in
vented a universal inter-line way bill,
and a standard form is to be used
by all roads under government con
trol. The way bill is made out in
full practically once for all and trav
els right with the conductor handling
Jhe car. The only additions-to it are
stamps placed upon it by junction
agents. — 1
Freight handling is thus simplified,
the cost of printing many way bills
is abolished, and considerable clerical
forces in the various freight terminal
yards can be done away with.
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VALUE OF PRAISING WORKERSi
Charles M. Schwab, who has shown
his ability to do big things, has be
come the director general of the emer
gency fleet corporation. He is going
to speed up ship construction, and
everyone else in the fleet-building or
ganization will take orders from this
master organizer.
Mr. Schwab, in taking his office,
said that he expected to gft ships off
their ways faster by appealing to the
workers in the shipyards.
"1 never saw a man able to work
at his best except under the stimulus
of praise and enthusiasm, fired with
the confidence that he has the ap
proval of the people for whom he Is'
working,” he said.
There is valuable free advice to
all employers of men in that sentence.
The difference between good work'
and poor work by a man may be only
the absence of a few words of praise.)
When men do well they like to know j
it. and far too many employers have )
never found that out or are afraid to
praise their men for fear they will
set too high a value on themselves.
If you have men working for you,
try eommeifding them once in a while.
You will discover that Mr. Schwab is
right. Their enthusiasm for their
work will mount. Nearly every man
! wants to please his employer, and he
! desires to know that he achieves his
I aim.
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MAN FOR MAN, ALLIES ARE BEST
"
On the western front at present
the German and the allied soldiers are
showing the branches of war that
each is most proficient in.
The Germans are succeeding to
some extent in the north because gen
erations of training have made a ma
chine out of the German fighter. He
will do anything that his officers or
der.
A German soldier is no braver—in
fact less brave—than some of his ene
mies. But he has been taught to func
tion as a cog in a machine, and he
does it wonderfully.
The German does best when he is
fighting en masse. He goes to certain
death simply because his officers com
mand it. He does not stop to reason
how or why.
To the south the Germans are fight
ing against the Americans. And the
Yankee boys have thus far shown
themselves to be the equals of twice
their numbers in Huns in trench raids
and types of warfare where individual
prowess counts.
Two hundred Americans recently
met 400 Germans: When the Ger
mans fled they left sixty-four dead in
No-Man s Land in addition to eleven
prisoners and many wounded.
One Yankee took out after eight
Germans, killed one of them, captured
two and brought them to the trenches,
and then went out and brought back
another prisoner.
It is not a boast to say that man
tor man the American, British and
French soldiers are far superior to
the made-in-Germany, all one pattern,
machine-like Hun fighter. That super
iority will have a chance to win in I
the end.
NOTICE.
United States of America, Territory of
Alaska. 88. to A. F. Stowe:
You are hereby notified that we j
have expended during the year 1916 '
three hundred dollars in labor and im- i
provements upon the "Big 4," “Mof
fett and "Crow’s Nest” lode mining
claims, known as the Big Four group,
which are contiguous and in one
group, situate on right limit of Chitti
stone river, about eight miles from the
mouth thereof, in Nizina mining dis
trict, Chitina recording precinct, Al
aska, the location certificates of which
are found of record in book 9, pages
142, 1*3 and 144 in the office of the
recorder of Chitina recording precinct,
at McCarthy, Alaska, in order to hold
said claims under the provisions of
section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of
the United States, and the amend
ments thereto, approved January 22nd,
1880, concerning annual labor «upon
mining claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said lodes for the period
[ ending on the 31st day of Dec. 1916
And if within ninety days from the
personal service of this notice, or
wdthin ninety days after the publica
tion thereof, you fail or refuse to con
tribute your proportion of such ex
penditure as a co-owner, -which
amounts to seventy-five dollars, your
interest in -said claims will become
the property of the subscribers, your
co-owners, who have made the requir
ed expenditures, by the terms of said
section.
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PAID ADVERTISEMENT
CHAS. A. SULZER
Candidate for Re-election
As
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
From Alaska
“In deciding to enter tfte primaries as a candidate for Delegate to Congress
from Alaska, I feel impelled to make a brief statement to the people of the
territory. It is now nearly a year since I was seated in the House as Alaska’s
representative to congress. During the most of this time the United States
has been engaged in a world war, and every resource of the nation, including
money and man power, is being devoted to the single purpose of winning this
great war. Every member of congress in considering legislation for the na
tion has placed the country’s war needs above all needs and requirements and
has subordinated his desires to the military establishment of the United States
“Alaska has responded nobly to the nation's call. She has given her share
willingly and unstintingly. When the Democratic party went before the peo
ple of Alaska in November, 1916, it stood for a certain constructive
program which embodied as its principal elements a wider measure of
home rule for the territory, and a sane and rational policy in the develop
ment of natural resources and every possible aid to the pioneers of the coun
try.
“I have introduced among others the following bills in congress which I
am pressing for passage as opportunity affords:
“Granting Alaska full territorial form of government with home rule the
dominating principle.
“Regulating the fisheries of Alaska along lines that will be fair to all, and
the protection of the salmon supply from depletion.
“Making changes in the homestead laws by abolishing the eighty rod
reservation. , «
“Authorizing free surveys of homesteads in isolated sections.
“Changing the game laws so as to give the people a better opportunity to
use the game of the country without its being slaughtered.
“Extending the federal farm loan act to Alaska.
“Providing for the care of Alaska’s insane within the territory.
“At all times I have endeavored to keep constantly in mind the needs of
the territory and the people of the territory. In spite of the war some meas
ure of progress has been achieved. I have assisted in passing a law which
helped the prospector by suspending assessment work on claims during the
years 1917 and 1918. The extension of the wireless and cable system in "Alas
ka has been accomplished with bright prospects for a further extension.
“Recognition has been forced for Alaska in the matter of appointments to
the second series of training camps for officers. Contracts which prevented
the farmers of the interior from supplying army posts V^ith iheir vegetables
are canceled.
* “Suggestions and requests that I again go before the people of Alaska have
come to me from Alaskans all over the territory. Reiterating my desire to
serve the best interests of Alaska I am submittihg my name as a candidate
for the democratic nomination for Delegate to Congress.”
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