CHE KIJSKO TIMES
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Kusko Times, McGrath, Alaska.
MCGRATH, ALASKA, JUNE 11,1921
THE SHIPPING BOARD.
Of all the Government bureaus and
d£ partments, perhaps none has been
mbrs maligned than the Shipping
Board. That body has been accused of
inefficiency, waste, graft, mismanage
mfent and about everything else short
of treason.
Perhaps there have been irregulari
ties in ttie conduct of the Shipping
Board. Perhaps there have been in
stances of inefficiency. Perhaps, in
some way or another, a few dollars
could have been saved.
But America has a merchant marine.
For the people of this country, the
Shipping Board today holds and con
irolS 14,000,000 tons of ships. It oper
ate more than 2r000> vessels. They are
carrying American goods to foreign
20 atries and returning with foreign
goods for American consumption.’
The Shipping Board has spent
$3,750,000,000. The ships under its
edntrol are now valued at $2.000,000,.
300. The ships were built, not now,
but during war time, in an emergency,
when America and the world needed
ships as badly as they needed guns and
ammunition and men. Materials cost
more than they had ever cost before.
Men had to be obtained. They had to
be obtained from other lines of en
sdavor. And to obtain them the Gov
ern'd ent had to pay for them, pay more
than the same men had ever received
before. Th.at the ships cost more then,
when speed was an all-important essen
tial,'when prices were at their apex,
and when men had to be.secured at any
cdst, than they can now be sold for, is
nbt at all unusual.
And what would be the shipping
rates t? foreign countries were in con
trol of the merchant fleet now? Just
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Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
I
i Furs Bought and
Sold
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
T
Steamer Service On the Inoka
River,
' Ask the People of Ophir about us. '
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STATION
Fairview, Innoko River
how would America, with her money,
fare, if she imported and exported her
goods entirely in foreign bottoms? And
what if other governments desired, if |
they controlled the carrying trade, to '
give foreign exporters rates that would
be ruinous- to American exporters?
How would America fare?
If dishonesty and graft have seeped
into the operations of the Shipping
Hoard, it is well that they be brought
to light. But while searching for the
molehill, let the mountain not be for
gotten. The United States Shipping
Board has done more, much more, than
spend the people's money. It provided
ships for America and for the Allies
when civilization hung in the balance,
and civilization has-been saved.—Ore
gou.Jcurnal.
Charles Paddock Sets £
Record for 220 Dash
Stanford University, Cal.—Charles
Paddock, of the University of South
ern California, yesterday tied the
world’s 100-yard dash record in nine
and three fifths seconds for th§ second
time this week, having made the same
time against the University of Califor
nia Saturday.
Paddock made the 220-vards in 21
seconds. Clipping a fifth of a second
iff the world's record Saturday, he ran
t in twenty and four-fifths seconds.
110 Cases of Whisky.
3 Seattle.—The Canadian fishing boat,
Sight Owl. carrying 110 cases of
whisky, was run ashore today in
Smith |Cove when hard pressed bythei
police harbor patrol boat, which seized
;he cargo and vessels, the smugglers
escaping just a few minutes before the
jffieralc landed.
Fred Swanson Takes a Bride.
All the way from Yonkers, N. Y., to
Anchorage, a distance of nearly 8,000
niles. came Miss Elsie Gertrude H'acr
?ock, who last night became the bride
Fred Swanson The ceremony Was
solemnised at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Vinal, witnessed by only a
few intimate friends. Rev. Marple, of
uhe Presbyterian church, officiated.
The wedding comes as the delightful
climax of years of acquaintanceship
back in New York before the groom
embarked to try bis fortunes in the
North Mr. Swanson is well known in
the interior, where he engaged in the
mining and mercantile business, as a
young man of sterling qualities. The
bride is the daughter of the well known
mining engineer, W. S. Hancock. She
is rapidly winning friends-among the
new acquaintances formed in Anchor
age. The couple expect to make An
chorage their home. Following the
ceremony a dainty luncheon was served.
—Anchorage Times.
Mr Swanson was formerly connected
with the K. C Co. at Tacotna, and
later engaged in mining pursuits in the
Ophir section and on Long and Spruce
creeks, in the Ruby district.
ATTORNEYS
Albrecht & Taylor
Geo. W. Albrecht, Iditarod, Alaska.
Chas. E. Taylor, Seattle, Wash.
PracticeMn all^the Courts.
Seattle Law Office: L. C. Smith Bldg.
Elliott 1(542.
:
Rough and Dressed Lum
her of All Kinds
INNOKO LUMBER CO.
Flat’s Quality Restaurant
i
The Best the Market Affords
Prompt Service
Henry Durant :: Frank Keenan
PIONEER POOL ROOM
McGrath’s Popular Resort
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
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, (Manager.
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