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MCGRATH, ALASKA, JUNE 15. Ib21
MILLIONS IN THE SEA.
The old battleship Texas is at the
bottom of the ocean. She was sent
there, not by enemy shells, bnt by the
huge and costly explosives fired from
huge and costly Americah guns.
The Kearsarge, expensive and proud
old ship that she was, is to be convert
eJ into a lighter, a servant to the ships
of today. Sue was sent out of commis
sion without ever firing a gun at an
eeemy target.
The Oregon, the pride of- the fleet,
has gone to the naval scrap heap. She
east millions, but is laid away in a har
bor to rot.
And now comes the Iowa, to be
jsed as a target for bombs. She
cost nearly *56,000,900. Bother life in
the navy has long since been spent.
That is the way of all battleships, j
They come at great cost, are main
tained at great cost, and pass on, per
haps without firing a shot at an enetnv.
And their lives are short.
In days past battleships cost $5,000,
000. Then the price mounted to $8,000,•
000. Now it is $18,000,000 and above,
and we hear talk of $50,000,000 battle - j
ships. . *
The new ships,* the 320,000,000'ves
sels, like-the-old, will come aad go.
They may only incur expense. But
they come and are paid for. Then they
are lighters or targets, or they lie in
the water to rot.
It costs thousands of dollars a day to
maintain a ship id commission. It
costs thousands to fire a gun. It costs
thousands for fuel, thousands for food,
and thousands for ammunition.
It is true that the United States navy
has guns that will fire through the
armor of any vessel afloat. But we
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spend thousands in equipping our ships
with heavy armor plate.
America has planned a huge building
program. We have heard that the
American fleet is to equal any in the
world.
With our program will come a sim
ilar program in Japan, a program cal
culated to keep that nation in the same '
naval class with us. Great Britain,
dependent on her commerce for her
life, cannot cease building with giant
navies reared on every side. And so
the future looms.
There is a way out of it all. It is
through common agreement to disarm.
That way was open in the League of |
Nations. It is still open. Call it what
vou may—league, association, union, or
confederation, it is the plain duty of
America to enter. It is our duty for
the sake of the children in Japan, in
England, in France, in Italy, in China,
in Armenia and in the United States,
that they may eat and that they may
live.—Oregon Journal.
In the effort to get Congress to put a
protective tax on imported peanuts,
some interesting testimony was recent
ly given as to the value of that much
beloved product. »
Prof. George W. Carver, of Tuskegee
Institute, appeared before the Ways
and Means Committee at Washington
and told of the surprising things he
had found in peanuts. This son of
slave parents was the first witness at
the tariff hearings to get applause. He
is an A. B. and an A. M., and is now
the head of the Station for Research
and Experiment at Tuskegee. For
merly he was in the Department of Ag
riculture. Here are some of the things
he said he had obtained from peanuts,
and he exhibited them to prove it:
Ten different kinds of milk; flavoring
extracts, lemon, orange, cherry, plum
and blackberry; several new and un
named flavors; two kinds of flour and
two of meal; five kinds of breakfast
foods: nine wood stains, including mala
chite green and fumed oak; face pow
ders and cold creams; Worcestershire
sauce: a good black ink: several kinds
of oil; four kinds of food for cattle, in
cluding hay from the 7ines; besides the
commoniy well known salted peanuts,
chocolate-coated peanuts, sugar-coated
peanuts and peanut butter.
One might think that with all this
wealth of by-products peanuts could be
made to pay without any assistance
from a tariff, but that was not the idea
at the hearing.—Ex.
‘•Quakers never quarrel, never fight
and never scratch,” wrote a Western
schoolboy in his essay on Quakers. He
added: “Pa is a Quaker, but kinda
; think ma isn’t.1’
Following a tour of Alaska towns
with an eye open for business oppor
tunities, “Ragtime” Kelly, the vaude
ville king, has finally landed in An
chorage, where he has leased the lio
barts pool hall and billiard rooms for
one year. Associated with Kelly will
be another old pioneer Alaskan in the
person of Jacob Koski.
ATTORNEYS
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Practice'jn alljthefiG’ourts.
Seattle Law Office: L. C. Smith Bldg.
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Rough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
INMOKO LUMBER CO,
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The Best the Market Affords
Prompt Service
Henry Durant :: Frank Keenan
PIONEER POOL ROOM
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Dave E. Clough - - Prop.
Who Said Freighting
That’s our/business and that’s where we shine;
in other words where satisfactory service is al
ways given. Freighting between all points—
McGrath, Tacotna, Ophir, Iditarod, Cripple,,
even.as far as. Ruby..
W. H. Jones - Freighter
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COMPANY
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On the Kuskokwim.
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