CHE KUSKO TIMES
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MCGRATH, ALASKA, JUNE 22.1921
Dealing directly with the League of
Nations on the subject of mandates,
tnfe State Department, under President
"Wilson, addressed-a note to the League
CduBCilv sai»to be identical with that
sent to the British Government last
’aW, wherein a protest of the San ISemo
conference was lodged.
It is brought out in the note that the
1 dited States not only demands equal
ity for all peoples, regardless of mem
bership in the League, but that a pro
test was made against the a'ward'of the
isle of Yap, in the Pacific, to Japan,
without consulting the wishes of the
L nited States, an important factor in
the war, in the matter. The able man
ner in which Secretary Colby framed
the note received wide-spread com
mendation ■ inv this country from all
statesmen, irrespective of party.
The treaty makers, in their mad
grab for territory, appear to have ac
cepted literally the statement of Presi
dent Wilson that the United States ex
pected nothing from the war. But this
statement was made at a time when
Great Britain was vehemently attest
ing that she wanted not one foot of ter
ritory from the war, and Prance- was
reiterating the remarks of her '“big:
brother.’5 Since that time Great Brit -
ain in one shape or another- has
grabbed ovcb-bne hundred billion dol
lars’ worth of the choicest German pos
sessions. And the other nations- have
not been backward in securing their
hite. until new Uncle-Sam sees nothing
left but the core. Ih fact, the Allies
went a step farther, and gave Japan
possession of the isle of Yap, a mere
dot in the Pacific, but of the utmost
importance to this country as a cable
base. Tt lies between- the American
possessions of Guam and the' PHilippine
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Max Simel
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The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
| Sold
Miners’, /Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service Oh the Inoka
River.
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(Ask the People of Ophir about us.
STATION <
Fairview, Innoko River
islands and, in Japanese hands, would
constitute a menace Sb the possessions
of this nation.
It is said that President Wilson at
Paris orally objected to the cession of
| \ ap to Japan. Apparently bis protest
was taken as perfunctory, for the con
ference confirmed Japan’s claim to the
strategic island.—Valdez Miner.
--—
in our coastal cities there is a highly
developed taste for sea food, but, like
the ethics of Confucius, it is based on
the worship of ancestors. When the
first settles came to these shores a few
centuries ago they were used to eating
cod and haddock and mackerel and a
few other kinds, and-they went on eat
ing them. Their descendants are eat
ing them still. And the worst' of it*
they won’t eat anything else in the
way of fish. The Bureau of Fisheries
has again and again published impres
sive lists of the valuable food fishes
which swim in our coastal waters, ■ but
which the fishermen must throw -away
because there is no market for them.
As you go inland the problem be
comes still more embarrassing. Even
such staple fish as the haddock and the
whiting; low prices, and in surplusage
on the coast, are unknown and unused
for lack of organized distribution and
advertising. A Nebraskan, for ex
ample. will generally pass over that
part of the menu which treats of fish
without a glance. He goes straight for
the meats. He was raised on beef, and
he has not the habit of eating fish at
all. Yet this man can be taught to eat
fish. It has been done in other coun
tries.—The Nation’s Business.
Has prohibition saved the country a
billion dollars in its first year? * That/
is the clainf made by the Anti-Salooc'
League.
In its announcement the League says
that figure is a “conservative esti
mate.” The amount of whisky legally
taken out of bond for consumption has
been reduced from 89,642,000 gallons in
1917 to 5.500,000 in 1920. Beer con
sumption dropped from 61.000,000 bar
rels to 9,000,000 barrels.
The League admits that millions of
gallons of liquor were made and sold
j unlawfully, of which- there is no record.
D. S. Foreign Trade
Breaks All Records
Washington.—American foreign trade
for 1920-was the largest ever known,
the Department of Commerce an*
nounced today. Exports for 1920 UP
taled $8,228,000,000. compared with
$7,920,000,000 for 1919.- The 1920 fig
ures were more than three times as
large as those for 1913, a pre-war year.
Imports for 1920 totalad $5,279,000,
000, compared with $3,904,000,000 for
1919. The 1920' imports were almost
three times as large as in 1913.
* Chile’s idea of a national dry law is
to forbid the planting of any more
vineyards the grapea from which are
intended to be used for the making of
wine.
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