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company, held in Anchorage last
evening, the board of directors who
will guide the destinies of the com
pany for the ensuing year were elect
ed. They are J. B. Gottstein, chair
man of the board; A. A. Shonbeck,
president; A. J. Hewitt, treasurer; !
W. M. Peltier, secretary; and Oscar'
Anderson, vice president. All are
heavy investors in this section of
the territory, and vitally interested
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COOLIDGE DEFENDS ECONOMY
PROGRAM
President Coolidge takes the posi
tion that so far as his economy pro
gram is concerned, by its fruits we
should know it. “If,” he said this
week in an address, “the practice of
economy is not apparent, the results
of it are viewed with tremendous sat
isfaction. Let those who are inclined
to scoff at it, those who are inclined
to refer to it as cheeseparing, look at
the result it has accomplished.” The
answer, he asserted, is “complete and
overwhelming.”
The president pointed out that the
government’s expenditures of the fis
cal year 1921 were $5,538,000,000, while
those of the present fiscal year proba
bly will be kept within $3,534,000,000,
a reduction of $2,004,000,000 in four
years. In the same four years the
public debt has been cut $3,198,000,
000, thus eliminating $134,000,000 a
year in interest on the debt.
The “results” in figures are that the
people have gained tax reductions of
$2,000,000,000 a year. Moreover:
“Our nation is prosperous. Its pros
perity is due largely to the economy
which has been effected in the cost
of government. It is this economy that
has encouraged business, abolished
unemployment, made wages high and
work plentiful. We are evidently en
tering upon an era of increasing busi
ness activity and material prosperity.
With increasing business we can sure
ly depend upon increasing revenues.
I have heretofore indicated my pur
pose that growing revenues shall not
be absorbed in unwarranted increases
in federal expenditures.”
The president prophesied a surplus
of more than $373,000,000 for 1926,
adding that any increase in receipts
or decrease in expeditures would
increase this surplus for the benefit
of the taxpayer.
The kind of “continuing policy” to
which the president has committed
himself may be “cheeseparing” but it
makes a hit with the average citizen.
WAR DEBTS AND PEACE
William Jennings Bryan advises
cancellation of the $4,000,000,000
French war debt. Secretary Mellon,
head of the treasury department,
sees nothing in the arguments at
home or abroad in favor of wiping
out the debt as a contribution to the
“common cause.” Bryan’s view is
that the debt should be canceled in
the interests of world peace, and
Mellon's is that should be paid in
the interests of national good faith
and honesty.
The issues of war debts has been
so thoroughly discussed that argu
ments for and against are stock ar
guments. A member of the French
chamber of deputies recently made
the most impassioned argument that
has been presented in favor of what
virtually amounted to default. He
pointed to France’s tremendous sac
rifices and declared that the poilus
were holding back the foe while Am
erica was preparing, and in a frenzy
of oratory demanded to know wheth
er the value of gold was to be set
higher than the value of human life.
His colleagues cheered him to the
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echo, showing where their real sen
timents were, although a day or two
later the chamber of deputies, by a
rather narrow margin, voted down a
proposal to “post” his speech, thus
failing to set the seal of approval
upon it. The French thus favor re
pudiation, but hesitate to vote open
ly for repudiation.
Mr. Bryan does not question the
justness of the debt, from the Amer
ican standpoint, but does question the
propriety of collecting it, saying that
the war debts never will be paid any
how', that the United States may be
dragged as an innocent party into an
other European war, and that to tear
up the $4,000,000,000 in I. O. U.’s
would be a gracious act on the part
of the American people and constitute
a peace gesture worth S4,000,000,000.
We are dealing with tine points of
responsibility when we go into the
question as $o whether France saved
the United States from the “common
foe” or whether the United States
saved France, yet it will hardly be
contradicted that the victory of Ger
many would have been infinitely
worse for France than for this coun
try had the United States stayed out
of the war. France would he in worse
plight than Germany is today, while
the United States would have remain
ed a great w'orld power. But apart
from all that, the really important
thing is that France made its borrow
ings from the American people with
the implied understanding—according
to the highest code of international
morality—that the money would be
repaid. France made great sacrifices,
but also France received great materi
al returns, such as Alsace-Lorraine
and valuable other German assets,
while the United States got nothing.
France, with the allies, removed the
standing menace of German militar
ism, a real peril, and not only reduced
a powerful competitor but immediate
ly rose to a commanding position of
leadership on the continent. France
wras a martyr, but to pose as a mar
tyr and attempt to capitalize martyr
dom only invites the raising of inter
national eyebrows.
The real trouble with France is that
it politicians have refused to tell their
people the truth, so that whether
there is ability to pay or not, there
is not the w'ill to pay. Great Britain
had the wrill as w'ell as the ability to
pay, for it was realized only by li
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quidating the war debts could British
money be restored to par. The Brit
ish have made far greater financial
sacrifices since the war than the
French. Their taxes are much high
er, despite the fact that they face a
constant problem incident to the un
employment of more than 1,000,000
men. But the world at large has
greater admiration for the Spartan po
licy of the British than for the vacil
lating attitude of the French.
It is time for the French politicians
to tell their people what everybody
else knows—that only by honoring
their debts can they maintain a place
in the good opinion of the world and,
what may be equally important to
them, preserve their credit abroad.
Recently the 200th anniversary of
the death of the noted Dutch physi*
cian, Boerhaave, recalled his famous
advice, left by him in a sealed book,
called "The Deeper Secrets of Medi
cine.” When opened, the bool: was
foundto contain only these fourteen
words: ‘‘Keep your head cool and
your feet warm; then you wull defy
all doctors.”
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When bandits forced George Taylor,
bank cashier at Bristow, Okla, to help
scoop money into bags, he saved a
bundle containing. $5,000 in bills by
brushing it into the waste paper bas
ket.
Carey Whittington of Philadelphia
teaches canaries to sing by allowing
them to listen to flute solos on a
phonograph.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office.
Anchorage, Alaska, Jan. 7, 1925.
Notice is hereby given that Charles
Miller, together with his witnesses,
Edward Slavin, and John Rodin Crit
tenden, all of Seldovia, Alaska, ha^
submitted final proof on his home >4
stead entry, Serial 04056 for lands de
scribed as the SE 1-4 SE 1-4, Section
2, E 1-2 NE 1-4, and Lot 1, Section 11.
T. 6 S, R. 13 W. S. M. and is now on
file in the local land office, at Anchor
age, Alaska. If no protest is filed in
the local land office, at Anchorage,
within the period of publication, or
thirty days thereafter, said final proof
will be accepted, and final certificate
issued.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Register. *
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