THE KUSKO TIMES
A. X. Grant. Publisher, Sole
Owner and Editor.
Twice a Week:
Wednesday anti Saturday
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Address all Cornmnaications
Kusko Times, McGrath, Alaska.
McGRATH, ALASKA, APR. 6, 1021
The Business Outlook.
That the-great automobile - plants at.
Detroit are to resume operations was
art announcement in yesterday's dis
patches.
As at Detroit, so it will be in the
rest of the country. Nor is there an
industry to more clearly presage the
future as to business.
The building of automobiles has
probably become the most highly ae
eentuated industry in America. It has
risen to third place in the realm of
manufacture. It employs the most
highly skilled experts. In it are men
trained- and keen in forecasting the
buslnees outlook1, ano their fingers are
constantly on the business pulse of the
nation-.
There is not, nor has there been, rea
son for countrywide stagnation, that
numerous men in the business world
have feared. All who earned did not
spend all their money in the recent un
paralleled and long-continued pros
perity. Savings deposits are enormous
ly increased in "number and volume.
There is more* wealth in individual
bands than there ever was before in
tilfr or arny other country.
The balance of trade has for several
years been so huge that it staggers the
human mind in any attempt to compre
hend the figures. The holiday in con
struction of things needed in peace has
continued from the beginning of the
war up to the present, and an era of
building must soon begin. Among the
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immediate requirements, for example,
*8 a. million homes to shelter people
who are homeless in America.
To them must be added construction
of public and private works laid aside
by prohibitive war prices for labor and
material. In the inexorable logic of
the situation, idle men will presently
find employment and silent wheels will
begin to whirr.
None denies that there is a present
strain. It had to come because war
prices could not go on forever, and any
economic change like a great price
slump produces strain and stress. Out
of that strain and stress came a wide
spread psychology of forebodings based
on experience in an era when the coun
try was on & rotten financial system
that was itself a breeder of panics. It
was not a psychology based on facts or
on a broad grasp of the real situation,
but on a wiidlv imaginative state of the
public and ptivate mind.
The automobile makers are prepar
ing for a successful year in business.
Why should there be forefcodibgs in in
dustries and commercial lines engaged
in production and distribution of things
that are more in the nature of necessi
ties?—Oregon Journal.
May Revolutionize Telegraphy.
Norwegian papers tell of a demon
stration lately made in Norway, of an
important improvement in telegraphy.
Instead of ticking off the words letter
by letter, as with the Morse code, this
invention sends a whole page of “copy”
at once reproducing it faithfully at the
other end of the wire, handwriting and
all. Drawings and photographs can be
sent in the same way.
One predicted result of the invention
is that a large proportion of telegraph
operators can be dispensed with, for
the new device is almost automatic.
One operator can do the present work
of eight.
An enthusiastic newspaper man who
saw the demonstration in Norway says
that a column can be clipped from a
London newspaper and sent to New
York—typography and all—in less than
ten minutes.
It is predicted that this invention
will make the Morse code obsolete and
revolutionize telegraphy. A letter in
one’s own handwriting, or a check
bearing one*s own signature, can be
sent by telegraph more easily than a
ten word telegram can be sent now.
The wave of crime that is sweeping
over the country shows no abatement.
Never was anything like it known in
America.
Most of the State Legislatures met
this month, and in almost every case
petitions showered upon them for se
verer laws to repress crimes, especially
robbery with violence or threats. In
some State3 the Legislatures were
asked to provide the death penalty for
those who with arms-or threats commit
robberies, even if the arms are not
used and the threats not carried out
In other cases life sentences were
asked for such crimes. Milder measures
look to doubling the terms of imprison
ment now provided.
Even under present laws judges are
giving severer sentences, the highway
robber now generally getting the law’s
limit. In New York last week John
Willis was sentenced to Sing Sing
prison for forty years for taking part
in an automobile holdup. An accom
plice who pleaded guilty got fifteen
years. These are but examples of the
’new severity of judges.—Ex.
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