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HAL B. SELBY
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FACTS ABOUT THE RUHR.
From Popular Magazine.
Over and above the avowed reason \
for the French occupation of the great j
German industrial district in the Ruhr1
valley—to wit, the foreclosure oi
the French mortgage on her enemy’s!
note for war damages—all sorts of ul
terior motives have been ascribed by j
the wiseacres of international politics.!
For ourserves we are content to let |
the wiseacres wrangle and hazard bad 1
guesses.
What interests us about the Ruhr is
—the Ruhr. For a long time we have;
been wondering what made the Ruhr;
so desirable. We sought facts, not
evasive formulae. At last we found,
what we sought. The prosaic figures j
that follow, are to our notion, a far j
better description of what France got j
-when she took the Ruhr than any irn- j
posing array of glittering generalities, j
They are taken from a recent address j
by Senator Lucien Hubert in the Up- j
per House of the French chamber.
The exploited portion of the Ruhr
is a veritable rabbit warren of human
ity. It is barely -twelve hundred miles
in extent and within this restricted
area no 'less than four million work
ers and their families dwell, largely in
cities and agglomerations ranging in
population from two hundred thousand
to half a million souls.
The Ruhr ports of Duisburg and Ru
hrort, on the Rhine, do a shipping bus
iness greater than the total that is
handled throughout France. In nor
mal times the overland freight traffic
in and out of the Ruhr demands
23,000 cars of the European ten-ton
type daily.
Jn 3S21 the coal production of the
Ruhr mines amounted to 160,000 tons
daily. In 1913 the Ruhr’s output of coal
for the year reached 113,000,000 tons,
and it has fallen off only slightly
.since the war, averaging in recent
years 100,000,000 tons yearly, while
the output of all the rest of Germany
is but 20,000,000 tons. In 1916 the
weekly production of coke in the fur
naees of the Ruhr v*es equal tn the
output of France for an entire year.
Colossal establishments, comparable
only to the great steel cities of Amer
ica, control the activity ot the indus
trial heart of Germany. The vast Ha
niel plant, for instance, employs over
50,000 workmen and maintains a rail
way system of 115 miles oi standard
gauge track and 31 yard engines. Over
one hundred river tugs tly the tlag ot
the Haniei concern—quite a, respect
able merchant marine. The neighbor
ing Phoenix works operate on a simi
lar scale with 42,000 workers, eighty
miles- of standard g^uge* tracks and
| 44 miles of narrow gauge, and 93 lo
| comotives.
These are ouly the most notable
; pair of factors in the gigantic ipdus
i trial organization taken by France as
! security on the promised war repara
j tions. The Ruhr valley is crowded
with mills, mines and factories of
scarcely less imposing magnitude.
Whether France will be able to re
alize on the unimagined wealth ol
! Germany’s industrial treasure house in
a question for soldiers, engineers :•)
economists to answer. What seems
perfectly clear, however, is that Ger
many cannot get very far in the pro
cess of reconstruction so long as the
door to her national vault is barred
by French bayonets. We have heard
more than once the query, “Did France
| really get anything when she took the
| Ruhr?” Without examining into the
; political potentialities of her act or
rthe ethics involved, we’ll say she cer
tainly did. The figures show it. But
ndws- dispatches do not say whether
,the industrial elephant she captured
is white or not.
The Gateway wants to be sure the
proposed tax on salmon and apparatus
will not hurt the small home canner
ies before taking issue for' or against
| the proposition. One thing is certain,
: the Territory must have more reve
nues, and unless this revenue comes
from outside, firms doing business in
Alaska, it must come from those re
j siding here. Taxes already are near
ly prohibitive. Some way must be
found to lessen them.
FROM THE GROUND UP
Tom Moore gives an excellent ex
hibition of both bad and good horse
manship in his latest Goldwyn picture
‘‘From the Ground Up,” which will be
shown at the Liberty theatre for two
days beginning tonight. When he re
ceives his first lesson he bumps up
and down like the novice he is sup
posed to be. Shortly afterward Mr.
Moore is seen taking hurdles and ca
reening about like a veteran jockey.
The scenes were taken at the private
track on the estate of Will Rogers.
Liberty
Theatre
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WEDNESDAY
It’s the Voice with the
Smile that Wins
Terence Giluley, a bit of old Ireland trans
planted in America, sprang up like a mush
room, from a hole in the ground, starting
out as valet to a steamshovel he rose to the
position of contractor having his own office.
Tom Moore
in
From the
Ground Up
Toonerville Comedy—2 Reels
Pathe News
JAPAN RATIFIES AGREEMENT
TOKYO, Apr. 11.—The privy coun
cil today ratified the proposed abro
gation of the Lansing-Isbii agreement !
with the United States.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed proposals for constructing
the Sev. ard-K.enai Lake Sec. 3 Nation
al Forest Road project located within
or partly within the Chugach National
Forest, Territory of Alaska, will be're
ceived by the District Engineer, Bu
reau of Public Roads, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, at Juneau, Alas
ka, until 10 o’clock a. m. on the first
day of May, 1923, at which time and
place they -vyill be publicly opefied'and
read. The right is reserved to reject
any and all bids, and none will be
considered except those from contrac
tors ascertained to be experienced and
responsible. The length of the pro
ject to be constructed or improved is
approximately 4.34 miles, and the prin
| cipal items of work are approximately
as follows: 21.03 acres clearing; 10.5
acres grubbing; 11611 cu. yards rock
excavation, 9054 cubic yards common
excavation; 626 lineal feet culverts;
422 sq. feet log cribbing: 4881 cubic
yards surfacing. The work embraced
in this contract shali be completed
within 125 weather working days, fol
lowing the execution of the contract
by the Secretary of Agriculture. The
contract form and the maps, plans,
specifications and estimates of quan
tities may be examined by responsible
contractors at the following address
es: Room 316, Post Office Building,
Pont land, Oregon, and at the office of
the Bureau of Public Roads, Juneau,
Alaska, and Brown & Hawkins, Sew
ard, Alaska. All proposals must be
made on forms and in accordance with
instructions, forming a part of the
specifications above referred to, and
must be accompanied by a proposal
guaranty in an amount at least equal
! to five (5) per cent of the total
amount of the proposal.
C. W. CHEATHAM,
Acting District Engineer.
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