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The Alaska daily empire., 1919-05-23

price for gold, vastly extensive gold mines of lower grade ores than heretofore utilizable could then be worked at good profit, and it is from the large low-grade gold mines that the great bulk of gold is to be pro- duced in the future. Untold mil lions of tons of old gold-ore dumps gold ores already mined-could then
 be milled at profit, which are of a grade heretofore non-available. Prac- tically all of the thousands of low grade gold mines heretofore discov- cred and merely opened, or opened and worked to a small extent, and abandoned because too low grade would then be opened and operated at good profit. The prospectors who have now entirely ceased to pros pect for gold would thereby be en- couraged and heartened to again en- ter the field in redoubled numbers to discover new gold mines and new gold mining districts and the in dustry of gold mining woud then flourish as never before and the ne cessary gold would be speedily forth coming in ample volume.
 An Objection.
 The trite objection to readjust ment of the gold standard interposed by the man on the street, and the objection which to the casual think CT seems most insurmountable, is that before demobilization is com plete and the battle fields all mop ped up," there will have been is sued by our Government between s30, 100000 and $40,000,0 900 of war-obligations with prin- cipal payable and interest payable in gold coin of the present standard value, and therefore the Government cannot now change the standard"
 But let us see about that. It is surely important if true. Is it true, that our Government cannot do what the people of this country wish it to do? Is it true, that our Con- gress cannot take the requisite steps to save our people disgrace from i'm pending financial disaster and its endless train of unnecessary misery? Is it true. that if our servants at Washington, under stress and ex- citement of war, exercise erroneous judgment, this great nation cannot rectify or modify the blunder-at least, in as far as our own interests are concerned? If their foresight had been as good as their hindsight our servants would have written war-obligations payable in gold of the standard value operative by law at the times of payments of war-ob- legations. But how long the war would last, and how great burden of indebtedness it would be necessary for us to incur, it was not given at that time to human intelligence to forecast.
 Moreover, it is plain that the conscientious objector" to now ad- iusting the gold standard upward, has not weighed we'll nor even con sidered the following pertinent facts and conditions which render such adjustment absolutely imperative: For example, of paramount i'm portance to all is the fact, that un- less such adjustment is made, pay
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-05-23

For a long time preceding and up to the present worldwar our money was so good that no one entertained a thought as to what kind of money 1t was, or where and how it origin ated, or how much of it there was in existence.
 And therefore it now comes to pass that when a man objects off hand to readjustment of the gold standard, there is every reason to be- lieve that man does not know, or at least does not realize to the full, what he is talking about.
 Practically the whole world was on a gold basis, having adopted by common consent substantially the gold standard fixed by English Par liament about two centuries ago, such standard being approximately s2O.67 per fine ounce of gold. This standard value was set at that fig ure for the reason that gold was sell ing at that price in the open market at that time.
 Manifestly, and for the very na-
 
 ture of things, the actual value of gold for all the uses of mankind can never be established by law with mathematic or scientific exactitude; but notwithstanding that fact, for uniformity and convenience's sake and to avoid intolerable confusion, and to maintain its stability and usefulness as the worlds standard medium of exchange and the basis for other mediums of exchange, we must give to it certain named stan- dard value by law or common con sent, and quite naturally, too, this standard must be adjusted from time to time in conformity with widely changing condition. Complete fixity of value is unattainable, but the nearest approximation that can be secured is certainly desirable.
 sE Must Have Gold.
 It must also be plain to the most casual observer that to maintain a gold standard there must be enough
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-05-23

Editors Note-Chester T. Ken nan is a mining geologist and engi- neer of note, who has taken a great interest in the inadequacy of the gold supply and the decrease in produc- tion, and has written a good deal on the subject for Idaho and Spo- kane papers He has strongly urged a change in the value standard of gold as against the proposal of allow ing a bonus fer gold production as a remedy for the situation which confronts the world. Col. kennan is a personal friend of F. w. Brad ley, president of the Treadwell and AIaska-Juneau companies, and this article was sent to MT. Bradley by the author, and printed through his courtesy.-Editor.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-05-23

old papers for sale, 25c per bum dle. The Empire.
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Phone 1t to The Empire. No. s74.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-06-07
"We Gave You the Diadem of American
Citizenship-and Then Left You
BY U. S. JUDGE CHARLES F. AMlDoN. North D.io,.

I'm sentencing Dakota preacher onUicted of dsly
You received final citizen in 1898 By the oath
took adured all allegiance Ger
the Germany and that would bear
faith allegiance to the United States What did that mean
That would set about earnestly American soul and put
soul That what oath of allegiance meant
done that? do not think have You have cherished
everything German and sfed everything American You have preached
German German Every thought
your mind and every emotion of your heart through all these
body America your life has
Germany. If Prussia today you would be
in harmony with your environment
There have been good Germans before the last month
They have lived in this country like yourself twenty thirty forty
give through interpreter There
written all every of hem "NIade in Germany"
blame you and these alone blame country We
welcomed opportny gave
upon the dadem of American citizenship
and then left you
The Colorado statesman., 1919-06-07
War Hero to Wed.

Knoxville, Tenn.-Sergeant Alvin G.
York, credited with being the war; 3
greatest hero, is going to marry the
girl he left behind when he went to
France, at his home in Pail Mall. The
girl is 17-year-old Grace Williams. She
Mall after receiving ovations in New
York, Washington and other eastern
cities. The tall mountaineer said he
had declined big offer from vaude-
vile firm to appear in song and
dance act with thirty-five girls.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-06-07
Premier Lloyd George VS.. NorthcEfe,
With Forecast of the Future
ByJL. GARvIN, Editor London Observer

The chief significance of the minister's declaration in the
that marks him out not only the nations leader of
progress after Amagddn but probably the worlds
we'll We remember what Incompatible advantage Brit
political conditions give the long any who achieves
personal supremacy.
Long be president of the United States
Cemenceau to be French Lloyd George all likelihood will
only play the he does but will be and
recognized as the strongest statesman of his time.
league nations be living and working reality if the
saved from before the lapse of another decade Lloyd
other statesman
the league and calamity in democratic affairs
about certain anything the future be that If North
controversy personal lines such controversy would
Northce proprietor of syndcated
Legislation putting multiple
propreoshp of the opinionmaking powers of the
The Colorado statesman., 1919-06-07
'It Is Hard to Find Words to Paint
German Portrait Black Enough"
BY JOHN BURROUGHS

fighting turned out the world
before had The tread of their seemed to make the world
lacking moral force lacking worthy bent only
and pag void of enthusiasm for human veal and
human rights they had sustaining and went pieces the
break the rocks
empire what behold The vuure devours its
vias.
hard find words paint the German portrait black enough
mnded cooheaded sit down and try dspaonate
think of the deeds they have been guilty in this and ne
grow hotter and hotter the longer he thinks
7oOOOOOO Germans all unrepentant In few gen.
will be them and they will not have changed
good Their porcne popene and unscupulou
They the earth earthly They walow
they ceased produce literature music
philosophy; they all to materam for the two three
generations and expect radical change them to expect
serpent to walk upright forget to use its fangs
The Colorado statesman., 1919-06-07
IS KILLED IN
TUNNEL BLAST
CAR OF BLACK POWDER is
ExPLoDER BY LIVE
WIRE.
SCORES ARE BURNED
MANY BROUGHT TO SURFACE
WITH CLOTHES STILL
BURNING.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Wilkes Barre, Pa, June 6.-Seventy-
eight men were killed and forty others
were injured, some severely, when
car of black powder was exploded in
the Baltimore No. tunnel of the Del
aware & Hudson Company mine at
East End, this city.
The accident happened shortly be-
fore Z O'Clock, while the men were be-
ing taken to their places of employ
ment A train of empty cars was pro
vided to convey them down by an
electric motor.
Into these cars the workmen were
crowded and with the train was car
of black powder. When 200 feet in
the tunnel the electric trolley wire
fell. Sparks from it ignited the pow
der and the explosion that followed
blew the men in all directions.
More men died from the effects of
flames and suffocation than from the
explosion itself.
The force of the explosion was ter
rifle. 1t was felt in all parts of the
city and was heard for miles around.
When rescuers got into the tunnel,
dead men were found everywhere.
Some had been slightly burned and
sought to get to safety but were suf-
focated. Others were burned almost
to a crisp. Here and there were 9th
ers moaning and crying.
Within an hour and half after
wards, most of the injured had been
removed The dead were taken to the
surface and placed in tiers along the
green. Calls went out for ambulances,
doctors and nurses and because of the
early hour it was difficult to get
big force at once. The hospitals be-
gan TO crowd. MOrgues were filled.
Identification of the dead is almost
impossible. Many of the bodies taken
to the morgues are so badly charred
that the scores of relatives who wend-
ed their way among the rows of bod
les were unable to identify fathers,
husbands, brothers and sons.
Many of the injured died after be-
ing taken from the tunnel and the
death list is being increased hourly.
AS the injured We're being taken from
the tunnel to ambulances they were
placed near the pile of bodies.
Fire following the explosion lasted
only short time. But the men were
caught in the full force of fire and
explosion. Arms were blown from the
bodies of men. Heads of men were
blown off. Legs of others were found
among the wreckage of human life
and property. The fire was intense
while it lasted. Sulphur fumes and
the flames added to the misery and
men dropped like flies along the tun-
mel.
There were terrible scenes in the
various morgues. Hundreds of women,
men and children gathered about the
tunnel. Shrleking and crying, they
lifted'the blankets from the men. Wom-
en- tainted men lost their nerve and
children ran away in fright.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-06-07
To Make Investigations.

Washington.-Five separate investi.
cations of War Department expendf-
lures are to be made by House Com
mittees, each composed of two Repub-
licans and one Democrat, according to
plans disclosed before the House Rules
Committee today by Republican lead
ers. The inquiries would center about
aviation, ordnance, camps and canton
ments, quartermaster's corps and e1-
penditures in foreign countries.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-06-07
Germany Lost 1913 Subs.

Basel.-Germany lost 1913 submarines
during the war, according to statistics
or this branch of the German naval
service published in the Berlin Vos-
siche Zeitung. This number included
seven submarines interned in foreign
ports and fourteen destroyed by their
own crews. More than 5000 sailors
lost their lives in the submarine sink
ings, the statistics show, while several
thousand others lost their reason and
had to be committed to lunatic asy-
lums.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-06-07
American Navy Needs $4,000 Sailors
Effectively to Man Its Ships
BY CAPT. w. A. MoFFETT, U. s. s. Mississippi

The American navy has accomplished marvellous
things since the armistice. 1t has been
vering constantly and training its men, and it is in
such high state of efficiency that it could go into
battle tomorrow or any day easily you 1 could
go to tea party
Nevertheless this great ocean machine is in dan
ger. The reservists getting out. The enlisted
strength on many vessels has been reduced Impor-
tant units will have to be tied up at the dock unless
there is some relef-and the relief rests in congress
The Colorado statesman., 1919-06-07
Returned to Private Owners.

Washington. = Postmaster General
Burleson has just issued an order re-
turning the telephone and telegraph
systems of the country to private own
ership, effective Immediately.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-06-07

The authorized strength of the regular navy 900 The
estimate of its be effective with lesser
number But the last adjourned without giving the autho
zaon for this number
The navy not be handicapped is all the spent for
Liberty bonds and all the that will be pledged to the Victory loan
will naugh The United States have navy back its
ideals Peace must not dsmant the And this is the problem
Chicago and the middle West must solve.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-07-11

Miss Leah Rosethal, who served
during the war as a nurse with the
Australian Light Horse, has been
awarded the Royal Red Cross for
gallantry under shell fire.
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THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD


are not raised for constructive relief
the problem will be "a perpetual one,
in the opinion of Mr.. Billikopf
Boris Bogen, member of the
American Jewish Relief Committee,
is due here in about month with a
complete program on which he has
been working for long time. 1t is
expected that the beginning of the
drive for constructive relief will date
from the return of DR.. Bogen, who
has gone over the ground thorough
ly and who will bring back with him
a comprehensive plan Of operation.
Just before he left the Jewish Re-
lief Committee had set up milk sta
tons where 10000 glasses of milk
were distributed daily. The soup
kitchens are feeding about the same
number. In the food lines Mr. Bill
kopf saw from 1000 to 1900 men
and women who before the war were
self-respecting persons who did not
know the meaning of dire poverty.
Mothers in the milk line carried ba-
bies who seemed to be a year or
two old and who were really four or
five years old, but unable to walk
because of starvation. All the or
phanages are Overcrowded. Thou
sands of children are being sent to
the country every week in connec-
ton with the fresh air work of the
organization.
Motoring out to the Polish-Bol-
shcvist front, Mr. Billikopf said
that he found between the two lines
of the armies several thousand wo-
men and children unable to reach
either territory The women were
living on soup prepared from grass.
Nurses and food were sent to their
aid just before he left.
In an orphanage at Wilma, he said
that he saw group of sixty or sew
enty children squirting and blinking
their eyes. The physicians informed
him that they were suffering from
what the Germans had called "huh-
ner krankheit" or chen sickness"
He explained that lack of food re-
suited in partial blindness for the
children, that they were hardly able
to see during the daytime, but were
able to see to greater extent at
night. The physicians hope that
proper diet will restore the children
to normal condition. The equip
ment of the hospitals in Poland is
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The Acknowledgement for Ireland
has appointed Mr.. Lionel H. Ros-
enthal, K c., to be senior crown
prosecutor for the county Of Wex-
ford.
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TELLS OF POLAND'S NEED

TELLS OF POLAND'S NEED
OF RELIEF.
Jacob Billikopf, Investigator for
American Committee Returns.
!. Jacob Billikopf, who returned
from Poland recently as personal
investigator for Felix M. Warburg
and other members of the American
Jewish relief committees and asso-
ciated bodies, stated that feeding the
100000 starving Jews in Poland,
though essential, will not go far to-
ward restoring them to their normal
condition until measures are taken
to return these people to their for
mer occupations in SO far as that is
possible.
"American Jews who desire to aid
their co-religionists in Poland must
do more than feed them" he said
1--WE are spending S1,O0O,O00 a
month to feed them, but that is not
enough. 1t is only deepening their
problem OF poverty. The American
people must assist them in estab-
fishing loan agencies, in supplying
them with building materials and
shops, in fact, to give them another
start in the world"
In an interview at the headquar-
tiers Of the American Jewish Relief
Committee, Is East Fortieth Street,
Mr.. Billikopf told story of the
suffering of the Jews in Poland,
where he spent six weeks. He Wis
tied Warsaw, Lublin, Lemberg,
.Cracow, Wilma and large number
of the smaller communities and OBJ
tanned an idea of the urban and sub
urban conditions. Speaking of the
conditions in Wilma, he said they
were typical of conditions in the
other sections. Wilma had been tax
en- by the Germans, later occupied
by the Bolsheviki and then retaken
by the Poles.
During the war, he said, the Jew-
ish population of $4,000 in Wilma
was reduced to $4,000 Some of the
people left before the German oc-
cupation, but the depletion was in
large measure due to deaths
caused from typhus and starvation.
In preparing budget as to the
needs of the $4,000 Jews, he said the
starting point was made from the
conditions as they existed. The
figures showed that 10000 inhabi-
tants were receiving relief that is
diva
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March Fl, 1919.
EDl TORlAL
SOUELCHED.

It was very unpleasant surprise
that awaited us on our return home.
We turned to the EDITORIAL page of
the American Israelite for Our week.
ly inspiration, and behold, in the
very center of it we found ourselves
reading a neat little rebuke admin
istered to our worthless self, re-
buke for an offense that we cannot
but consider heinous, now that our
eyes have been opened to our in
iquity. 1t is unnecessary to add that
we have since been filled with the
most bitter remorse and contrition,
for one cannot remain unaffected by
a febuke that comes from such UNI
! improbable quarters.
To make sure that the cast cation
would have the desired effect, the
editor of the American Israelite did
not fail to impress upon us our in
Significance in the sphere in which
he is the luminous orb by speaking
fof "a little paper called the Ameri-
lean Jewish World" and referring
Ito us IS the rabbi of a Jewish con-
Egregation, tho its name does not
appear in the membership list of the
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March Fl, 1919

way. The sanity, editor of the
American Israelite has pointed it out
to us, and we are filled with contri-
ton. But we don't know how long
this feeling of remorse will last. We
fear that our nature is altogether too
wicked not to lapse into the same
errors, and the same mischievous
course, should congressman or an
editor or even a rabbi indulge in the
same antics as did Mr.. Julius Kahn.
Unfortunately for us and our wicked
heart the readers of this little paper
are precisely the kind of which the
editor of the Israelite says (note the
English and the wit thereof): eff
the readers of that paper will stand
for this sort of journalism they
well, they would be apt to be readers
of that kind of paper"
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EDITORIAL FAIRNESS.

Since the editor of the American
Israelite quoted everything we said
about Congressman Kahn, without
reference to those statements of Mr..
Kahn on which Our opinion was
based evidently for lack of space)
we think it only fair to quote once
more from Mr.. Kahn's interview
that the American Israelite had dis
played on it's front page:
Zone of the great dangers of Zion
ism, is the fact that the non-Jew will
begin to look upon the American
Jew as having lurking desire al
ways to return to the socalled Jew
ish homeland, ETC." "There are to-
day and have been in all days ire
concilable differences of factional
character among the Jews" he said.
Jacobs twelve sons could not agree
among themselves and Joseph was
sold into slavery because of the jeal-
ousy of his brothers. When Moses
led the Jews out of Egypt he had to
reprove them constantly for disobe-
dience to Gods injunctions, as enun-
ciated by him. Judea had been in
existence only short time when the
people began to quarrel, resulting in
the division into the states by Judea
and Israel. Later on the Babylon
ian conquered both states and took
the Jews into captivity to Babylon.
Later on they divided into two
camps-the Sephardim and Ash
kaneism, the former Spanish or Por-
tuguese Jews, the latter German
Jews, and between them there is in
tense bitterness with differences I'm
reconciled In Our own country the
same feeling has continued between
the socalled German Jews and the
Polish or Russian Jews"
Speaking of Russian and Rouman-
ian Jews, he continues: ut is con-
tended by most Zionists that these
two classes ought to be removed to
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THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

cations" Oh, how keenly we feel
the humiliation of it all How fer
vently we now wish we could edit
big paper like the American Israel
lite with column upon column
of world-stirring news from Pa
ducah and Kankakee, and Ypsi-
lanti, and with column upon col
umn of lists of donations to
benevolent INSTITUTIONAL SO much
per line and still have many col
umns left for sermons from our ia
vorite rabbis! And to think that we
must be the rabbi of Jewish con-
gregation If we could only be for
a little while the rabbi of a Metho-
dist or Episcopalian Congregation!
And to be the rabbi of a Jewish con-
gregation that does not appear in the
membership list Of the Union! This
is the deadliest cut of all. With
everything unionized nowadays, to
be the rabbi of an "openshop" con-
gregation that does not belong to the
Union! And to think that we, the
insignificant editor and rabbi, should
have committed the outrage of Civ
ing our honest opinion of Congress-
man julius Kahn who cabled to Pres.
Wilson, urging him not to endorse
the demands of the Zionists at the
Peace Congress and displayed such
wonderful wisdom and learning by
explaining in the public press his OBJ
jections to Zionism We should have
known that a congressman is an in
fallible source of wisdom, an unfail-
ing fountain of justice, that a con-
gresham, like king, can do no
wrong, and that his name therefore
is inviolable. We were misled by
our observation that certain wilful
congressman who after Americas
entry into the war were still trying
to hamper the nations program for
a speedy and successful conclusion
of the war were branded by their
fellow-citizens with the hot iron of
wrathful indignation, and that most
Of them have had their political ca
reers cut short as result. We erred
in thinking that a Jew, even tho
congressman, who sought to frus-
trate the hopes and wishes of ma
jority of his brethren by appealing
to the non. ewish world to refuse
to countenance them, should be
treated as his insolence deserved, es-
pecially if such a Jew has all along
had so little to do with his fellow