THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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H. G. STEEL
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1919.
TOUCHING UNCLE SAM
Is Uncle Sam, getting to be the
easy mark around the world’s office?
In every group of men there Is al
ways one who cannot resist a well
worded touch for funds. He is too
good natured to repel, even when he
knows that the vision he has of his
dollar as it slips into a needy pocket
is the last glimpse he will ever have.
Uncle Sam now seems to have been
elected as the easy mark among the
nations. He alone is flush. Among
them all he is the only one who is
not out of change before payday.
Hence the old gentleman can scarcely
turn a corner but that he finds some
deprecatory nation awaiting him with
outstretched hand.
Uncle Sam has now granted ac
commodation to his pals in the world
to the extent of $8,857,157,000. Among
individuals it is always said that to
lend a friend a dollar is to lose a
friend. If Uncle Sam’s loans work
out in that way he will indeed be
lonely in the wide, wide world, for he
is now the creditor to about every
race on the globe. And, in addition
to be lonely, the old gentleman would
have a hard time making his books
balance if the debtors fail to repay.
Of the debtor nations Great Britain
stands first with a total debt of $4,
124,481,000. The United Kingdom, of
course, has lent a lot to other friends
and hopes to pay back when they pay
back. Then France has had the bene
fit of $2,517,477,000 of Uncle Sam’s
money and Italy comes third with
$1,421,500,000, being the most recent
to make a successful touch—an ad
vance of $16,500,000 having been
granted this month.
The only pleasant offset in the
whole matter is that little Liberia,
having coaxed her easy uncle to agree
to a $5,000,000 loan, has so far been
prevented by economic conditions
from cashing in on more than $12,000
of the total.
NOT SO SMALL
Just how big are the islands of
Cuba and Santo Domingo? Class In
geography, have a care! Cuba looks,
on the map, about as big as a fish.
Santo Domingo is somewhat smaller.
One might say that either would fit
into Chicago’s city limits with great
comfort. Chicago’s limits include
about 200 square miles of territory —
and of other things. The limits are
quite celebrated for size. On second
thoughts you say, Santo Domingo,
being the smaller of the two islands,
would probably rattle around quite
a bit in Chicago boundaries.
But when we get out the geo
graphical tape measure what do we
find? Why, we find very much to our
surprise that that fish of a Cuba is so
long that, laid out on dry land on the
map of the United States, it would
considerably more than fill the Chi
cago city limits. It would, in fact
reach from New York harbor to the
city of Indianapolis, and would cover
a strip as wide as the state of New
Jersey. That tropical fish of a Cuba
out there where the Gulf stream is
manufactured, is 780 miles long and
10C miles wide at Its widest point, and
has an area of 45,000 square miles.
Well, anyhow, you say, Santo Do
mingo (where is Santo Domingo any
• way?)—Santo Domingo wouldn’t be
much too big for Chicago’s limits. But
you are wrong again. Santo Domingo,
though it looks so small on the map
of North America, is in reality 500
miles long and 175 miles wide and
has an area of 30,000 square miles.
It is as large almost as the state of
Maine, larger by one-fourth than the
states of Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhole Island and Connecticut com
bined, two times as big as Denmark,
three times the size of Belgium and
only a lltle smaller than Ireland. And
all without counting in 600 square
miles of smaller islands that lie off its
coast and belong to it.
WORLD’S STORE HOUSE
It is quite a business what Uncle
Sam has got now. The United
States occupies only seven per cent
of the earth’s surface and claims no
more than six per cent of its popu
lation. Yet, to mention but a few of
his activities, Uncle Sam now furn
ishes the following percentages of
the world’s total supplies of these im
portant commodities:
Copper . ®® Per cent
Zinc .50 per Mnt
Lead .40 per cent
Aluminum .®0 P®r cent
OH .66 per cent
Com .76 per cent
Cotton .60 per cent
Silver .40 percent
Coal . 52 per cent
Iron and Steel .40 per cent
Gold .20 Per cent
Automobiles .85 per cent
Wheat .25 per cent
Sears Roebuck & Co. has nothing
whatever on Uncle Sam as a general
merchandiser.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
Juneau reports that Grigsby will be
nominated by the democratic conven
tion for delegate. He will at least
have the advantage of being familiar
with Wickersham’s method of war
fare. Fight the devil with fire, etc.—
Fairbanks Citizen.
The current issue of Popular Me
chanics has another motor sled de
vised to displace the malamute and
dog-driver of the present period. The
owner of a good team of sled dogs
should not be in a hurry to sell them.
These contrivances perform perfectly
on the asphalt boulevards of the
States but somehow or another when
they get to Alaska they work just
long enough to show they are im
practicable.—Valdez Miner.
Skagway is now flu-less and people
of that town, like the rest of the folks
in the territory, can now start all
their conversations with the phrase,
“When I had the flu-.’’—Douglas
News.
The cordial feeling that has existed
between Juneau and Douglas Island
for the past couple of years has been
remarkable. Since America entered
the war two communities have con
centrated all their energies on the
task of defeating Germany. The war
is over now and the baseball season
will soon open, so we may look for
the reopening of hostilities on both
sides of the channel.—Douglas News.
Gold mining has many advantages.
Gold is always marketable. The
tighter money becomes in Wall street
or Lombard street the more desired
everywhere is the virgin gold. The
premier product of the territory nev
er wants for a purchaser. Wheat and
other crops may find no buyers but
the gold producer never faces a mar
ket so glutted that he cannot got
whatever he desires in exchange for
his commodity. Hence the tendency
to invest in mines or prospect new
gold regions when real estate, land
and industrial booms collapse. — The
Dawson News.
CLEAN-UP NOTICE
If you have not cleaned up your
premises you had better do so at
once. Prosecutions will be started
immediately against those who have
failed to do so.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
W. H. Chase, Health Officer.
Best coffee in town at the City
Bakery. 2-6t
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
WANTED — Finnish woman wants
work by day or hour. Address A.
L., postofflce.
FOR SALE—Edison Diamond Disc
Phonograph, with 55 records; all
for $70. Inquire C. H. Phillips, care
Blum, O’Neill Co., furniture depart
ment. 7-4t
FOR RENT—Rooms over Bank of
Alaska, formerly occupied by North
land Club. Will be altered to suit
satisfactory tenants. Apply Bank of
Alaska. 3-tf
WANTED — Woman for general
housework. Apply to Mrs. Geo.
Dooley. 16-tf
WANTED — Woman baker. Apply
Northland Bakery. 29-tf
FOR BALE—McCarthy Greenhouse.
Everything modern and up-to-date;
doing fine business; will sell cheap
if sold right away. Owner must
leave for states. Wire or write Mr.
Norman A. Erickson, Box 388, Mc
Carthy, Alaska.
FOR RENT—Furnished eablns. See
Dooley. Sl-tf
WANTED—A marble slab. Inquire
Times office.
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Joseph (“Yellow Kid") Weil Says Barnum Was Right
JOLIET, ILL.—“Take It from me-” It’s Joseph Well, the one and only
“Yellow Kid,” the erstwhile millionaire slicker, the sartorially select nim
ble-wit, the man who made wire-tapping famous, in short, the world’s greatest
“con man” talking. In the old days
It was “Take it from them.” Now it
is “Take it from me.” A whiskerless,
morose convict—No. 6162 at Joliet
penitentiary—Kid Weil was giving out
an interview.
“Take it from me,” he said, mean
ing advice, of course. “If Chicago was
to be sold for a ten-doilar note to
night I couldn’t buy a decrepit fac
tory whistle. I’m down and out. I
haven’t even got my, my—whiskers.
“If it were not for the separation
from my wife and daughter and the disgrace, I would be as’contented as the
proverbial cow,” he continued. “I am well treated here and I like the work—
but I am a ruined man.”
“Have you any advice to give—any word to say about the slicker busi
ness?” he was asked.
“Only this—confidence games, or high finance as I prefer to term it,
would not be possible were It not for the aid of business men who grasp for
riches over night. They are willing helpers in the fleecing game. Go to
the average business man with a scheme for skinning some one else, offer to
take the consequences of the law on your own hend and promise him big
returns and he won’t let you out of his office until you are willing to take
his money.
“No honest man enters a wire-tapping game and no honest man expects
to get rich over night. To mimlmize confidence gumes, I suggest that the
‘sucker’ should be made equally culpable with the ‘con man’ when he expects
to beat someone else out of the money.
“But”—Kid Weil hesitated and Jerked out one of‘the old-time laughs—
“Barnum was right.”
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