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TIIK I". S. SHII'I'IXG
This is one of the live topicj for Alaskans. While there may be no Im
mediate prospect of (he Shipping Hoard coining into the Alaskan trade, this
may eteitnlljr be done. Prom rather complete tigures given in the N. Y.
Tribune it is shown that the total cost to the Shipping Board for running
a 6.000 gross ton freighter is $3.357..10. the same ship can be run for a
■uon:h by private interest for $3.1)60 ai.d by Uritish firms for $2,150, One
readily asks, can the American merchant marine be maintained? Thero Is
but one way: that is by the government paying the difference. Some say
It will not be done, other are quite as positive that it will, and they add
that it should be done. Further, it was done by Britain and by Germany
for the very same reason that »ve would do it, namely, to carry our own
t.oods in otir own ships The people, ti.ru those governments, paid the bill,
and why should not we? Tiie receut rate war betweeu South America and
New York was won by the Shipping Board. The lessou of that experience
» II go far to prevent another war of a like kind in another section. Grant
ed. we now have a 30'. handicap, it does not follow that this will always
be our handicap Recognition on the part of shipping interests that the
merchant marine is here to stay will make for an understanding, as pre
ferential routes and other features which will cut the present ratio very
materially, and keep our Mag and our ships on all the high seas. We need
them, it will be worth much to the uation to have them, we can afford to
for the present pay to I "ep them.
CHARLKS GARKIKI.H IN SKATTI.F.—Whatever may be said for or
egainst the new appointment o. Charles Garfield to the secretaryship of the
Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Ctiuuiber of Commerce, this can at least be
said that he knows enough about Alaskan affairs, having live here twenty
years to give Alaska a squart deal in Seattle. Knowing Alaska It is hop
ed that many of the <nmplaims wh.cli have been lodged against Seattle
will now turn to praise of that city ill her treatment of Alaskans and Al
askan trade.
ARK Vol FLIRTING WITH l>KATH.—Far he it from its to seek to usurp
the functions Mid prerogatives of t..o pulpit, but the lesson to be drawn
from tin- recent cont'essu-n . i .1 Saline county "shiner to Prohibition Direc
tor Kowder that he was so tearful of t! e product of his own still that he
sot his own "jags" from e ;r..'-'s and janiica ginger rather than from
moonshiue. is so plain and so emphatic that we cannot forego calling at
tention to it in these columns.
This shiner, taken with his plant, consisting of a sixty-gallon iron oil
barrel for a "pot" and a coil lead pipe for a "worm," admitted he had
manufactured and sold in I.iitle Itnck. Hot Springs and £1 Dorado, during
period of eighteen months. .1 total of 1.400 gallons of whiskey, of which
l.e was so afraid that he never during all that time, drank a single drop,
satisfying his own t.isie for int \.rat.ng beverages with concoctions bought
at the drug stores and groceries.
Doesn't this emphasize the great risk which the drinker is taking witii
current offerings in the liqu.ir market? Doesn't it point a warning finger
that ought to be heeded? Are juu tlirling with death?—Arkansas Demo
crat.
IT ItK Sll.VKK?—Contrary to outside expectations, silver produc
tion under the Pittman act has not utade the anticipated iucrease. West
erners know tiiat m.neral production cannot be made to respond quickly to
an increased demand. .Much of tide and money are required to reopeu an
abandoned mine. The short time promise under l..e Pittman act has not
justit.ed the expense of opening mines. except where very early production
was possible. Operations looking to future output are not justified in the
face of apparent drifting away from the use of silver as money. Some Eu
ropean countries are now making subsidiary coins from bronze and otl.er
metallic substances. The silver coinage of Great Britain has beeu debased
from 925 fine to 500 tine, tnus releasing about fifty million ounces of sil
ver from its circulating medium.
Notwithstanding tiiese presently discouraging symptoms, the future of
Silver ^ives great promise if iutelligeiuly directed. The growing civiliza
tion of the vast populations of 11 e Far Knst will develop an enormous de
mand for some metallic medium of exchange. Shall it be silver? Every ar
gument supports an affirmative answer. And yet. a diiferent result may
obtain unless this country shall utilize us great financial power in assistiug
Europe to balauce its budgets and stabil.ze its currencies.
The whole civilized world is interested in a solution of these problems,
but silver producers have a double interest and therefore may be naturally
expected to lead in discussing the subject. No western problem is of great
er importance, and it is hoped that the Denver conference may inauguar
ate some definite plan of actiou.—Mining Congress Journal.
Don't let a blaze from your match start a blaze in the forest:
Only a man in a forest green
Only a match that was dropped unseen
Only a flare—some leaves and wood.
And only a waste where the forest stood.
Sometimes the suit for breach of
promise Is the only promise connected
with that attempt to marry.
When one listens to grand opera by
wireless one's eyes Rre not injured by
the singers' jewelry display.
So much Is happening mat nowadays
very few persons get heated over the
Darwinian theory.
Germany's flouting d«*ht of 226,KOO,
OflO.tlOO marks Is hlg enough to swamp
aliiioot aui loouyj'.
Lucky 1> tile man who's got some
body to help hlra cheat the gallowa.
Japan denies that the core of
Corea's trouble it a corps of Japanese.
It Is a mistake to say girls are act
ing terribly these days. They are not
acting.
It is an utter waste to give food for
thought to those who chew uothlng
but the rag.
A fellow who brags about his fur
nuce may merely have an uuusualiy
capable wife.
An old offender In crime may be
said to have the courage of his con
victions.
To drive nations together the pinch
of necessity Is more effective than the
pull of Idealism.
Saddest of all, a great deal of the
free verse would make rather fetch
ing prose if allowed to.
Many men are convinced that It Is
easier to raise taxes that\ It Is to raise
the money to pay them.
Marconi cannot decipher the mes
sage he got from Mars, Ail shot up,
maybe, by mall robbers.
The man who wrote about "the
beautiful snow" probably rati a store
where goloshes were sold.
Rents, It Is claimed, are going down,
doubtless because tbe public bus
learned to swallow anything.
I By a singular coincidence, every
| large city In the United States reports
I Its healthiest year. In statistics.
No one can fool all of the peopl*
all the time, but tbnt does uot pre
vent some politicians from trying.
There Is considered something very
mysterious these times about the day
that doesn't bring forth a new mys
tery.
I While waging war on bee diseases.
| those beekeepers might also endeavor
I to obtain a reduction In stlag arrna
I ment.
There Is a type of financier now
who was a profiteer until he grabbed
off so much that b« could afford to be
honest.
I Comment Is made upon the difficulty
' of pronouncing Doctor S/.e's name.
1 That Is easy. It Is prououuced as
spelled.
j How can those people who are now
| seeing "the Brat robin of spring" be
certain It Is not the last robin of
autumn?
Another little obstacle In the way
' of that KVench proposal to build all
| those ships Is the $500,000,000 they
I would cost.
I A doctor claims to have discovered
the secret of happy marriages. If
[that doesn't get him a big practice
nothing will.
l'erhaps tbe time Is approaching
when submarines will be used ex
clusively for soul-harrowing escapes by
cinematograph.
Some of America's most prominent
anarchists are learning the moral that
lies In the famous tale,' "The Man
Without a Country."
What a pity that the world cannot
leave Its international problems to Its
movie heroes, who manage to get out
of difficulties so cleverly I
While ths world Is swearing off It
should take effective steps to stop the
restoration of poppy dreams to China
by unscrupulous outside Interests.
It may be hard for a young English
man to think hlmselt out of Oxford,
but one has Just done It by printing
an article advocating communism.
There has been a meeting of potato
growers. Not very good news, prob
ably. for the heud of the family who
1ms been trying to pare the budget.
Now comes a German physician
with the announcement that talking
about one's ills Is a sure cure. May
be—but It's pretty hard on the oilier I
fellow.
Baron liosen, Russian ambassador In
the good old days of Nicholas II. find* !
New York motorcars more dangerous
than revolutionists. Uue got him fur
a touchdown.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that
a plan to overthrow the Peking govern- |
tneut is under way. but one govern- j
ment more or less In China will make (
no great difference.
It Is reported from London that
Marconi still think* he got message*
from Mars and even If he did not the
world certainly heard from the god
of war recently.
Announcement of a closed season j
for frogs In France Indicates that
the people over there are getting i
jumpy over the stock in haud of one
of their favorite foods.
The old-fashioned woman who could J
never hit the head of a nail with a
hammer has a granddaughter who can
put a bullet between a man's eyes at
SO paces four times out of five.
HORRORS OF WOOD ALCOHOL
By Dr. Monas S. Gregory, director
of Psychopathic and Alcoholic Serv
ice, Bellevue hospital. New York, in
an interview with Edward M. Thier
i ry:
"I have seen men die of wood al
cohol poisoning. It is a frightful
death.
| "Even when it i* diluted as an
I Ingredient—mistaken for grain al
cohol—in liquids sold as whiskey.
! wood alcohol is a very terrible poi
| 8(111.
| "A drink of wood alcohol brings
| internal hemorrhage, blindness, con
I vulsions. delirium—and usually
death.
I "Hemorrhages occur in the brain
1 and in other parts of the body,
j Wood alcohol acts on the blood ves
sels, especially the small ones. The
capillaries burst.
"That's what causes blindness. The
tiny arteries of the retina are rup
! tured, destroying the sight.
"Very few recover from wood al
cohol poisoning. It does not de
pend so much on the amount taken,
for one person may be able to stand
more than another, as it does on
| whether the poison acts on blood
| vessels in fatal spi ts.
"Action of the poison, however,
depends on the amount taken. I's
' ually symptoms appear within four
I or five hours.
"When the victim comes out of
j his coma and stupor he has violent
> convulsions. In hli delirium he ac
quires prodigious strength and to
| prevent injury to himself or others
| he frequently has to be tied down.
| "Delirium tremo-js is an entierly
t different thing—a mild thing cora
| pared to the convulsions and dilir
iura of wood alcohol poisoning. The
victim is too sick tJ have hallucina
I tiollS.
"A man blinded *jv wood alcohol
' poisoning does no'. usually recover
| liis sight even if lit. a fortunate ex
ception, does not die. Sometimes
1 the brain is affected permanently."
PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA RESIGNS
Rerkelev, May IT.—Dr. Dirid
Prescott Barrows, president of the
fniveraity of California, has tender
ed his resignation.
MONTANA I'NH KRSITY HEAD
GOES TO PERDt'R
Lafayette, Ind.. V.ay 17.—Edward
Charles Elliott, the Chancellor of the
University of Monti na. has been sel
ected for the presi iency of Perdue
University.
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\V. R. STOCT
Attorney >t Law
IVartloe In all courts
In Territory of Alaska
HAINES ALASKA I
• DR. L. S. KELLKR
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Trunks, Baggage or anything else
Call up the John Williams. O. S
Transfer Co. Also wood, IS lncn
delivered 14 50. and coal, per ton
delivered. $16.50. Phone 56.
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Make This Your 1922 Slogan
" Try The Home Market First"
As a Northerner, a Pioneer, an Ppbuilder of Alaska. too are
peeved every time you hear of the appointment of a "carpetbagger"
to fill one of the political office* of the territory, because yos know
that there are capable and efficient men lirlng !n the territory who
could fill the offices with perfect satisfaction, who are helping to
build up the territory and make It a worth while place In which to
live.
Is Is a parallel case when Northerners tend their money ont
Eide for supplies that may be bought right here at home and give
better satisfaction than the "carpetbagger" s'uff Imported from the
States. i . j
Is It not a fact that we are all working to-bulld op the North
to make it a worth-while place in which to liTe, and by "trying your
home market first" you are strengthening the foundation tor that
building? ^
Here's A Suggestion For A Starter
TRY THE ALASKAN'S JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT FIRST. IT IS EQOPPKD
WITH MODERN* MACHINERY AND MATERIAL, AND EFFICIENT
ARTISANS ARE IN CHARGE OF THE WORK