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UNPARALLELED WEATHER
The present spell of weather is said to be the coldest
in years, by passengers arriving from the interior. With
the mercury 72 below at Haggard, and 63 at Fairbanks,
it is ineoncivable to one on the coast. Seventy degees is
so cold that one within a few feet of a hot stove cannot
keep warm, and to stick one’s head out of doors means
to have one’s lungs badly frosted. At one time several
winters ago, the mercury reached 84 below at Birches,
and continued this cold for a day or so. We believe this
to be the record in the Territory.
At the present time The Gateway is working under
difficulties, the cable being down, the light and power
service cut oil', and depending qn a small horse and a
half gas engine for its auxiliary. And yet there are
those of us who like Alaska so well we put up with any
discomforts and inconveniences to live here.
KEEPING 01 II PROMISES
The recent controversy over the sinking by the Navy i
department of the uncompleted battleship Washington j
on which $.‘>0,000,000 had been spent when the agreement!
to scrap eleven super-dreadnaugkts was reached at the
international arms limitation conference called by Presi
dent Harding in 1922, merely raises the already settled
question of the advisability of our uniting with other
powers in support of a naval holiday.
I\<5 new phase of the question which was thoroughly!
threshed out at the Washington conference is raised. It
is simply a recrudence of the old.
The controversy was given prominence because a na- !
vai expert at Washington, D. C., who does not believe the |
United States should reduce its navy, attempted through
court action to prevent the scrapping of the hull of the!
Washington. The attempt of course, was futile, for the
policy of the ship was in pursuance of its execution as
evidence of our good faith in standing by our agreement
with other powers to reduce naval armaments under in
ternational agreement. For the government to break!
its compact would be a national blot on our good faith
and our willingness to abide by our solemn treaties.
The Washington is one of 11 new warships piicked for|
destruction. The others are the dreadnaughts South:
Dakota, Indiana, Iowa and Massachusetts, and the bat- j
tie cruisers Constitution, Constellation, United States |
and Ranger. The aggregate tonnage is 465,000 tons, and ;
the estimated cost of the ships if they had been com-;
pleted was set at $4300,000,000. The actual cost up to!
the time work was suspended was about $200,000,000.
All these ships have been scrapped and the Secretary
of the Navy is now asking for a large appropriation to
build others in order to “biing the navy up to a point
where it would empare wih that of other natons.” If
this was desired why not leave the ships to be completed ?
Scrapping of the superdreadnaughs netted the navy
only $529,719.05, although siixteen old battleships have
been sold for a net sum of $954,307. The estimated cost
of scrapping the capital ships was $28,000,000 on the
basis of amounts already paid, including the cost of
cancellation of contracts. The total amount received
from the scrapping of the 28 capital ships, old and new,
is somewhat less than $1,500,000, after the necessary ex
penses are deducted. The navy department has dis
closed these figures to show how relatively liittle money
can be salvaged in disposing of the vessels as junk and
in support of its decision to use the hulls for target prac
tice instead of selling them for junk.
The financial side of the picture obviously is not a
bright one. But when the limitation treaty was negotiat
ed it was understood that heavy losses would have to be
written off by this country as well as by Great Britain
and Japan, which also were required to scrap many
vessels although at a small loss than that sustained by
the United States. The compensating benefit was in the
fact that billions would be saved through this treaty in
calling a halt to a building program in a naval race
that would threaten the powers with bankruptcy.
We have made the pledge on the theory that our tax
payers and the world at large \ o; Id be the gainers
thereby.
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