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THE COBT IN" MONEY
Aa Frank Simouds reminds us,
the war Jute new settled dowu to a
war of exhaustion. The nation or
nations whicU can hold oa the long
est will win. U is now a matter
of money, financial resources, quite
aa muck as of men and munitions.
And on the side of the Allies, tho
chief burden rests on Great Britain.
But even her seemingly exhaust
ive wealth will be drain**! tremen
dously by the needs of the coming
months. Her expenditures for the
year 1J16 a?re fixed at $'J,000,000,
000. .Nine billion dollars! Seven
hundred and fifty million dollars
every month! Twenty-five million
dollars every day! More than a
million dollars every hour!
No wonder the leading bankers of
Britain xwarn their fellow country
men that "only by all classes add
ing to aud carefully husbanding j
their income, by Belling foreign se- j
curlti*s, by creating foregu credits
will i* be possible to provide the 1
vut sum needed by the nation and
Its allies."—St. Paul Pioneer Press.
VAST PREHISTORIC SKA
A prehistoric sea, er ^rm of the'
ocean, which extended from the ;
Gulf of Mexico far up into New '
York state, together with the early
animal life of this sea, is described
1b an interesting manner 1>J" the Un
ited States Geological survey in
report'u^ to a correspondent on a
rock sample:
"The rock was formed very long
ego, many million years "go. In
what geologists call the Devonian
period. At that time a large part
of the eastern Unitgd States was
occupied by an arm of the sea
which extended northedtv.-;ird from
the Gulf of Mexico regicn into New
York state. The eusuvn shore of
the sea was not Mr i-ast of the
present line of the Blue Ridge and
the Highlands of New Jersey and
southeastern New York, and still
farther east lay a great continent
which extended an unknown distant
Into the area now occupied by the
North Atlantic. The northern shore
of the sea was somewhere near a
line drawn from Albany through
Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo.
The present site of the Catskills
was thus near the northeast end or
bead of this se or gulf, with land
not far away on the east and north.
"The sea teemed with life, al
most whoJly invertebrate animals
aod marine plants, and the larger
psrta of the life appears to have
inhabited the sea bottom. Brach
l:»poda, though rare now, were very
abundant then, and many other
forms of animals cra-wled about or
grew upon the sea floor. As the
■trearns washed in sand and mud
from ihe neighboring lands the
se* gradually filled uo and the
•hells o( many hrachiopods and
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other rhell-bearing animals were
thus luried in. the sand and their
forms preserved till how. By slow
upward movement of the earth's
crust tbe sea was drained from the
region and the beds ol sand and
mud (hat had been and ha'rdetned in
to sandstone and shale, and lifted
thousands of feet above Bea level
to form a great new laj*i. The
Catskill mountains have sinoQ been
carved from this uplifted mass of
rock through the cutting of valleys
by the streams.
•"As a Tule none of the original
material of the shells is preserved,
having been dissolved away long
ago. The sand being closely com
pacted about the shells, their forms
were preserved, however, as molds
lu the sandstone. Some of the
molds have since been filled by
calcite (cajicum carbonate) which
has cr>stalized from water that
soak€d through the rock, and thus
casts were formed having the same
shape as the original shells and
consisting of similar material. The
fact that few. If any, whole shells
were preserved in this particular
rock showB that, after the death
of the animals that they belonged
to, the shells were washed about by
waves and currents and more or
less broken up before being buried
in the sand."
COMPULSORY DRILL UPHELD
BY FACULTY OF UNIVERSITY
Seattle, Jan. 13 — Compulsory
military drill for all male students
during their first two years of resi
dence at the University of Washing
ton will continue indefinitely as a
par' of the curriculum. The fac
ulty, acting for the firs\, time on
the matter after a deliberation of
several weeks, expressed- its will
at tho January meeting, voting 68
to 27 in favor of the report of the
committee which recommended con
tinuing -he work of the cadet corps
as at pretent organized. Many of
those voting agalns*. the report were
not opposed to drill, in itself, but
disliked compulsion.
Twice the Btato legislature im
posed compulsory military training
upon the university by attacking a
rider to the appropriations bill. At
the last session, however, no men
tion was made of drill, and the
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1897 1916
Established 18 Years
PHIL ABRAHAMS
INSURANCE
REALTY
COLLECTIONS
G-EN'L AGENT
NOTARY Public
in office
4th Avenue. Skagway
authorities ai the university; deemed |
themselves iroe to consider and de- 1
cide tUe qustion of abolition which, j
had been raised by interested j
parties within and without the in
stitution.
A committee of seven members
of the faculty held sessions ex
tending over a period of eight
weeks, and received the representa
tions of various societies, individu
als and political parties who ranged
themselves for and against com
pulsory drill, in the end the mem
bers of the committee issued their
report, five favoring retention of
drill, one urging abolition and one
believing the stuuent should be
free to decide whether ho would
take the course.
The majority of the committee
felt sure that compulsory drill is
not a factor iu encouraging mili
tarism. In fact, it quoted figures
'o show that military training in
universities tends, in some degree,
to reduce the number of college men
'enlisting for sen-Ice in the army.
; This was attributed to an awakened
' sense of the seriousnes of warfare,
jit was held, however, that. the
training tends to make the college
man aa efficient unit in the BChome
' of preparedness, and capable of
rendering able service in the event
1 uality of war. They believe the
disciplinary value of the training
j high, and argued that Improved
posture, habits of promptness and
neatness would result from drill.
Members of the faculty who were
opposed to the committee's Teport
held that .the university should, if
it chose to aid in preparing the na
tion for times of peril, give in
struction in such subjects as mili
tary engineering, military chemistry
and the study of defense .rather
than in infantry tactics. Drill,
they asserted, was of little value
as an exercise; of doub'ful discip
linary virtue; expensive for the stu
dent, bi th as to time and Imoney
iuvested in equipment; and ineffici
ent frciu a military standpoint.
President Jienry tsuzzauo waa
gratified at what he termed the
university's recognition of "its
obhga'icn to the country in niakin
a contribution to the national de
fense." He declared he had 110
fear that a militaristic ideal would
be developed, pointing out that "the
courses in history, ethics, philoso
phy anu social science will fix the
dseire t'ov peace in the hearts of
educated men."
"M luary training," he said, "will
merely • rovide that willingness and
competency in the defense of the
Anieritsr nation which are so nec
essary that the high ideals for
which the country stands may en
dure against the aggressions of oth
er nations less coniderato of hu
man kind.
' The vote of the faculty Is a
•pled*;*; of the university's, belief in
the importance of trained men for
co-operative patriotism and service,
as well as for high individual ef
ficiency. '■ I
CRESi EXT OIL WELL
PROPEP.TY FOltECliOSED
; Oljn-pia, Jan. 13—A mechanic'^
lieu for So57 against the Crescent
Oil company, the company which
caused an oil boom in the Pugel
Scuiu.l cities last spring, in which
hunJ.eds of investors lost greater
cr i<:-s amounts,. w:s loreclosed in
the sui>ciior court tcdaj by H. J
Carter, of Olynipia, and the per
sonal orepcrty and leases of the
compel y will bo 3 >hl to satisfy the
judgment. The drilling equipment
and !e.'.scs of tho company will
bring ..bout $1,500, and after de
ducting the judgmsi't tie remainder
of 'lie l-roteeds will be turned over
to the court, to do dispcted of as
i. sees fit.
COKWIN" SAILS OX LAST
TRIP OUT OF SEATTLE
With the sailing recently of the I
steamer Corwin for San Francisco,'
the Seattle water front probably had
its last felimpse of the little vessel
which has done ouch valiant service
in Alaska waters. Capt. R. J. Healey
was at the wheel when the Corwin
sailed for the south, where she will
l>e turned over to her new owner,
the Southwestern Steamship com
pany, of Los Angeles. She will
hereafter rily between San Francis
co, and Pedro and Mavatian or
Guaymas, Mexico.
For twelve years the Corwin has
been *he ice-breaker for vessels in
the Sea'tie-Alaska trade. She has
been the first vessel into Nome
and 'joints in the North every year.
Defore entering the commercial rou
tine the Corwin was a United States
revenue cutter, and as such, partici
pated in many raids on poachers In j
Alaska waters. She also aided in i
rescuing numerous whaling expedi- j
tions, and her abearance at ports
on Kotzebuu Sound and at Port
MRS. GEORGE MARYE.
■ ■
Wife of the American Am
baiendor »t_- Petrogred.
Photo by American Press Association.
Barrow in the spring of each year
was always a sight for rejoicing at
those places.
Last year she was outfitted for
a walrus hunt and went far into
the waters of the Arctic in, search
of the animals.—Seattle P. I.
BK1T1SU ALLOW UNIVERSITY
10 IMPORT NEEDED SUPPLIES
Seattle, Ja.n. 13—Over $3,500
worth of chemicals, scientific glass
ware una other laboratory supplies
ordered by the University of Wash
ington from Germany a year ago,
but held up at Rotterdam to the
embarrassment of the camous sciontn
ists, will shortly reach this coun
ty. The British embassy has advised
government officials that importa
tion will not be prevented any
longer.
Comptroller Herbert T. Condon
presented the case to Senator Wes
ley L. Jones, during the latter's re
cent vieit to the campus, and
through his good offices the release
of the shipment was brought about.
The supplies should have reached
the uuiversity In midsummer of
1915, and their delay has necessitat
ed the payment of high prices for
domest'c goods in some cases and
tho postponement of work in oth
ers.
On fhe advice of Charlee A.
Holder, foreign trade advisor at
Washinpton, comptroller Condon
has cabled the shipping agents to
forward the shipment of 74 cases of J
supplies.
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frictional points, making tl;em work ;
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