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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-13
AN ASTONISHING BANK RECORD

The comptroller of the currency has prepared three charts
showing the astonishing growth of the national banks during
the period from January, 1914, to June, 1919, both inclusive
i've and one-half calendar years. The graphic method tells a
story at a glance and it is an impressive chapter in the nation
banking annals that is pictured by these charts.
The national bank system had been in existence half a
century at The beginning Of the period, and it is necessary to
cite the aggregate record of forty years in order to make a
close comparison. The increase in resources was actually some
what larger during these five and one-half years than during the
whole period from 1874 to 1914. On the thirtieth of June last
they amounted to $50, 99,a5OO0O, with capital, surplus and
undivided profits al "a new high level. So, also, net earnings
for the five fiscal years embraced in the period increased more
than in the entire forty years preceding.
Even more gratifying is the increasing immunity from
failures. National bank receiverships have usually been an
exceptional experience and those that occasion loss to depostors
more so. Better than ever before is the record now established.
With more than ZOO banks in operation last year there was
only a single receivership; the annual average for the five cal
endar years up to the first of January last was four; and TO the
first of October, this year, not one failure had been reported
On the tenth of October The national bank system had 1881
institutions.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-13
AN IMPUDENT PROTEST

That protest of Ludwig Martens against deportation
OF the Reds who have been violating our laws, to any part OF
that il would be equivalent to a sentence of death was unworthy
of a minutes consideration. The immediate answer TO the
impudent Martens, who claims TO be a soviet ambassador,
should have been the deportation. of the undesIrahles without
regard to their preference as to a landing place. The thing
to do is to get them out of the country at once; what may nap
zen to them in Russia is no concern of ours, and If Martens
himself is included with the bolshevlsts who nave Deeh abusing
American hospitality so much the better. Give them a taste
of what they were trying to propose for us and OF what their
kind have been giving to the people of Russia
The fear expressed by Martens that his precious associates
NAV not be popular in Russia gave reason for satisfaction with
The original arrangements for deportation. If these Reds upon
being landed were obliged to dodge brickbats or run for their
lives so much the better, for an unfriendly reception would DC
an indication of a return to sanity in Russia. Anyway, they
have done so much mischief in the United States that they will
get no sympathy if subjected to the treatment they had planned
for Americans.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-13
FOREIGN INVESTMENTS

Apart from the billions loaned by the government a.
washington To the allies from the proceeds of Liberty honos'
there has developed since the war ended an active market III 'e
United States for the long-term securities OF foreign countries,
and among the various bond issues te Huh'ipa IHnsaI
severcl French cities r conspicuous in the list. Invest
nients of this class were virtually unknown before the war; D'
a recent estimate is that more than half a billion American .
lars heve gene into them this year, .ncludlhg suDscIP'O"' "
|Ganadas Victory loan.
The new form of investment is interesting and II seems 10
be especially profitable because a great part OF the funds ioaheo
is expended for supplies produced in this country Ne"lounu,
land, Switzerland. Sweden and China, as well as Canada ana
Great Britain, are among the countries that nave ailotteu q
portion of their recent loans to us, and Bordeaux, Lyons,
settles, Copenhagen and Rio de Janelro are among me oie,5"
cities whose securities to an aggregate amount OF nearly el8hiy
millions have been purchased this year by American investors
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-13
FRANCE TRIUMPHANT

France is addressing herselfto after-the-War problems with
a solid front. The triumph of sound citizenship IN the elec-
lions is illustrated i'm the statement that not since the Third
republic was founded, in 1874, has there been such a conserva-
tive body in control Of the government as will be represented
by the incoming national assembly.
# appears that the group of parties which under Clemen-
ceaus leadership has carried on the government since the
middle period of the war will have more than five hundred of
the six hundred and twenty-six seats in the next chamber OF
.deDuties, In the language of one Paris editor, the French
people cast "a vote of national vitality The despalrlng COM
ment of a socialist organ is equally convincing: '"Clemenceau
is terribly and appallingly victorious
The oyerthroW of the forces of bolshevism is complete.
The French people have cast them all out, including the lnsld-
ious "parlorn species. The war hurled international socialism
back where it sprang from, into Germany. France as Q
smashed socialism within her frontiers. AS a political 1orce II
has no immediate future. The French people, in the. American
phrase, meant business when they went to. the polls.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-13
RELUCTANT

I'm Montreal the Star, which is somewhat radical IL 10 en-
sational. has for years been an advocate OF government opera
ton of public utilities. 1t has been one of those who nave
believed that the people through the officeholders can do all
things well and wisely. and that all that would be necessary
for the millennium would be to invest the politicians with power
to run all things. But it has reached a different conclusion out
of its observations during the past few years and it now prints
the following confession:
Years ago many people in Great Britain, the United
States and Canada were in favor of government
owned railways. The Montreal Star was amongst
those who advocated this policy. Today there is a com
plete revulsion. What has produced the change? IL
has been brought about by the overwhelming evidence
in Britain, the United States and Germany that gov
eminent operation of railways produces ineficiency, {
wastefulness, lack of enterprise and initiative, dangers
to the travelling public and high rates for traffic
These reasons cover the ground and are unanswerable.
That is a good conclusion to reach and many who have ad-
vocated such ownership have reached it in this country A
railroad man who has worked under both company and govern
mani operation with one of the larger systems of the country,
told the writer recently that he would be glad when the public
period is over-he has never been so discouraged and disguised
with himself or with his own. work as he has been under the
existing rule. He says that incompetence is rife and at a pre-
MUM.
Many of the younger men who have been received in the
service don't care a tinkers dam about what they do or how
they do it, and the discipline that used to make railroading a
matter of pride. has mostly Disappeared He stated, but did it
in confidence, that the men who have known the better days OF.
.railroading, the days of mutual pride and industry, and attend
ton to details of duty are, in his opinion, all tired of what they
have now.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-13
LET'S WORRY ABOUT OURSELVES

After all Europe may not be as shaky as reported ana there
is no real evidence that the heart of that continent is literally
breaking. unless it is in parts like Russia where they are doing
8 great deal of all kinds of breaking. Italy boasts that 1T has not
a single strike in progress at the present umes ana none III
prospect and in Belgium they are turning out more sugar IMAM
they did before the war. Belgium also has been almost strike
less. Instead of worrying so much about Europe there is more
need for lis to be greatly concerned about our own nousriai
health. Here we have profiteers and strikers and the two are
Jointly responsible for the high prices and for the fact that we
are being put out of commission as an industrial nation. we
are industrialy almost at a standstlll' producing now haf"s
enough of manufactured goods to supply our own wants.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-13
A TIMELY WARNING

The current issue of Golfers. Just out. sounds a yer
sensible. a very timely and a very emphatic warming to certai
elements of our population in relation to the rather tense laDo
situation. Under a caption of 1.-THE Costly Jeer, the edito
says:
The rank and file of us may have to issue a clear,
sharp warning to the reactionaries in politics ana
among employers. Good citizenship will frown down
any growing over the results of the English railway
strike. the Boston police extravaganza and any failure
of steel and coal strikes which might tie up the-country.
Nothing could be more vicious than to have reactlonary
employers celebrating in public any real or supposed
victory over labor. If there has been any victory, IL
was not theirs and it has come in spite OF the great
stupidity of many of them, and i'll spite OF a widespread
delinquency in attention to the humane problem Ill
industry. Ifihere has been any victory, the pubic ana
lis opinion has more claim to it than any unrestralned
and bitter-ender opponents of labor. II there mas Deeh
any victory over labor, the first claim to this victory
belongs in large part to labor itself-to the restraint,
patriotism and the good sense of the American work
ingman, who is unwilling to stand back of any anti
American acticn, even when public opinion rather than
his own belief draws the issue. Reactionaries, who
think there is cause for celebration and an Inspiration
TO hard shell policies are just as dangerous to us just
now as any other agitators. We have a long, hard ROAD
ahead to reach the square deal and no bralhs ought TO
be wasted in misnterpreting the nature oil thls recent
water that has gone over the dam. The labor problem
will not be worked out in America by the extremists;
il will be worked out by those who can touch hands.
The touching of hands is never more needed than
when one element or the other has the load of a fool
minority growing and Cabling. COnfound the poor
snort who cheers his own side because a player on the
other team has muffed a ball when the dust was In ms
eyes.
Under present conditions who is entitled to the create
credit, the man who helped regardless of the gibes and sneel
Of solHe of his former associates. and possibly risk OF vlOlent
or personal injury, to keep the mills open and others empoye
or The man who never saw or tried to see any but the employer
side of the labor question? Who kept open the mills that al
open? Who is doing the most to keep open the mines that al
open? And if public opinion is doing the big part it is believe
to be doing in the present crisis. how long will that publ
opinion sustain an effort to humiliate those who are asked
resume production? Not very long. These troubles that al
disturbing production are going to be settled but they are M
going to be settled by the "roughnecks' on the one hand nor til
mailed fist on the other. And the public will tolerate a jet
from one side with no more patience than from the other sid
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-13
WHERE WE ARE LOSING OUT

And this coal situation is upon us at the very time the
Latin Americans are beginning to turn to us for coal' They can
not get it in France now for the mines there have been plugged
up by the Germans and they cannot get it in England for the
British have not enough to supply much more than their own
wants and what surplus they have is going to- the European
continent. One of the men who has been securing South
Anierica for openings for coal recently made the following
statement: 1891
"The Latin-American coal trade is ours for sew
eral years to come. The first factor to be taken into
account is the French mines. In my opinion, these are
absolutely ruined and cannot be made to yield for many
years. The next factor is British coal production. Be-
fore the war it amounted to 2S0,OOOOO0 tons a year. of
which 100000 tons We're used at home and $780,
100000 tons exported. Great Britain today is mining
only l75O00OOO to 2OO,OOOOOO tons, and so is in posi-
ton to export only from 25OOOOOOto 100000 tons.
There can be no great British coal exports this year,
because the industry is upset by labor troubles. and
even should strife cease it will take years to bring
production back to normal. For the British coal mines
were robbed for military purposes during the war,
and can only be brought back into production by costly
development. France will need all the export coal that
Great Britain can supply for several years. The state
of the British coal industry is really pitiable and indi-
Gates that Latin-America must look to us for her fuel
supplies"
But it is to be feared that all such hopes will now go glim-
mering. We will have no coal to export and the government
will of course have to prohibit exports. We are losing reavily
by it for we could do what England did years ago, build up a
South American trade by using coal as a basis. With the coal
exports in our hands we could keep ship lines running between
this country and southern ports direct.
AT a time when we might have fastened to us the trade
of the world, in many and almost in all lines, we are SHINING
the whole opportunity away. We are literally committing
industrial suicide in this country and it is being committed bX.
These strikes may be at the behest of German propagandist4
who, there are many reasons to believe, have been financing
some of the strike agitators. We are making a nice mess and
muss of things. The strikers may think that thew are hitting
themselves much harder. The fellows higher p NAV be able
to get along better than the rest Of us.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-13

What purports to be an answer to a question that was
continually cropping up during the debate on the treaty-the
cost of maintaining the organization of the league of nations
is accredited to expert accountants" who figure that the annual
EXPENSE will be a billion dollars. The experts base their esti-
mates on the presumption of efficient management, but it might
be well to make an allowance Of a billion more for red tape
and other factors incidental to government methods.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-13

The most pitiful, contemplate thing that has come out
of Europe recently is that if the Germans return to France and
Belgium the OOOO mich COWS stipulated in the peace treaty
tho. bahes and weakened children of Germany will starve for
want of milk. Did the. Germans think of that III 1917
when they stole those COWS from Belgian and French pastures
contrary to the rules and laws of war-contrary to their own
pledge at The Hague? Did they think then of the babies that
were affected? OF course not, some brutes almost carried
babies on their bayonets as Indians carried scalp locks. The
cows they are asked to return to those from wnom .nev stoie
them. or other COWS, are only a small part OF all that they Grove
into Germany out of the conquered regions, in which they dd
not permit a milk giving animal to remain. In those days the
United States had to organize milk fellef stations 0 ne
afflicted. And above all else, what law is there against the
return of stolen property? What thief when he has been prop
crlv caughtis permitted to retain what he has stolen?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-13

In Kansas the governor has been calling for volunteers to
work the coal mines and hundreds of them are responding.
Several thousand volunteers, from all walks of life are already
at work. They have in that state what they call stripped mines,
that is, steam shovels strip off the dirt and then the coal can
be picked up. Novices ought to be able to work such mines.
The strikers say that they will treat all volunteers as "scabs"
that is their name for men who are willing to pitch in and see
to it that millions ara not frozen to death. If it is to 'scab' to
do that then the name ought to be one not without honor.
Life is still worth something and suffering is still something TO
call for succor. And the Tribune will predict now that before
suffering becomes acute there will be volunteers from Gold
field and from every county in Nevada to help keep the mines
open and to keep the home fires burning" If a democracy
lis HELPLESS against any class or element in its population,
then some other form of government will take its place. And
that form will not be imported from Russia.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-13

One of these days, may it be hoped, Woodrow wilson VIII
have time to cogitate upon the relationship between the appoint
,uent of Lincoln Steffens, the eX-Rev, ex-prof. George u. her
ron. W.. C. Bullit. Frederic c. Howe, Louis f. Post, John ID.
Densmore, and other. parlor bolshevists, and the recently I'M
covered plots to overthrow the United States government. IN
view of these appointments could the alien doubt that ol
shevism was respectable in America?
The Washington times., 1919-04-20

Juan de Ia CierVs has been sworn
in as minister OF dnance for Spain
and Gen. Luis Santiago has assumed
his duties as minister OF war. the
State Department has been advised
The Washington times., 1919-04-20
Plan to Train College
Men For Officers in
Coast Artillery Corps

Formation OF reserve officers train
ing corps units in the leading colleges
throughout the United states has
been begun by the coast artillery
corps. 1t il hoped 10 have all units
under way when the next school year
begins in September.
Officials Of the corps hope FOR a
future who will be ready 10 serve the
coast artillery in the event OF an
other war. invitations have been
sent to eighty-ninR schools in forty
three States and in Hawaii to form
units.
During the war the coast arJilleEy
developed from purely coast defense
corps into d huge organization that
formed an important part or the mo-
bile rmy. manning the railway artiI-
Iery, heavy tractor-CI-awn army artil-
Iery. anUi-aircraft ARTILLERY and heavy
trench artillery.
FOresaw UEe Of Big Gums.
From the German attack on the Bel
gian roris at the beginning OF the
was- coast defense experts fOresaw
future use OF heavy mobile guns and
hOwitzers and antI-aircTaIl artillery,
whereas formerly coast artillery work
had involved only use Of fXed-mount
guns.
A. IL was found thai most officer
material IRON such higniy technical
arms a. The coast ARTILLERY cam" from
colleges. formation oj reserve for
future use was begun
Five schools already nave accepted
offers To form reserve unIts-M Massa-
chuSeJJs institute Of Technology
Vanderbilt University. Mississippi A
and NJ. College. University Of Wash
.Ington and Universit! of Virginia
Fourteen others have Expressed a
desire for such units G,ah AgricuI-
turai College. Univ@rsIr, OF Cincin-
The Washington times., 1919-04-20
C. v. j: TOOBSERVE
WALT WHITMAN DAl

George Washington University wR
be the center OF the National Capital
centennial celebration OF the Firth .
Walt Whitman. according tc plan
now being formulated at tne s1ggss
tiOn OF the Federal school Club.
The celebration will be held on Saa
urday. May II. The place has no
yet been selected. DR.. william Nile
Collier. president OF the uniVeFs -
is arranging for a program includm
addresses by persons OF national prom
inence
Among those who are intensely IN
terested in plans for the local cele
bratiOn and who are lending thel
assistance are Prof Cdbb. Of th
English department at the Nava
Academy al Annapolis: Or. Willia1
Allen Wilbur. dean OF Columbian Col
lege and head OF the English depart
ment at George Washington UniveF
sity. and Prof. Dewitt c. CroissRnf
OF the univeTsity's English depart
ment
Walt whitman. "ths good gra
poet" was born At West Kills. Lonl
Island. May 81. 1879. n was the 50,
OF a carpenter builder He lived h
many places. travelling through Tn
United .Sates and Canada and work
ing at many trades. At differeu
periods in his life he was office boy
teacher in country schools. typeseb
ter. newspaper reporter, caFpents
and writer.
During tn civil war be was a.
army nurse and exposed himself .
such an extent that a stroke OF paI
alysis resulted in 1873, while he We
in Washington.
from 1885 until 1873 and is remem
beTed by many OF the older resident
Of the city. He was q picturesQW
hgure in his odd dress. his uncob
ventional ways. and his queer 70
marks. In those days he was genen
ally regarded as a nut He fre,
quentIy walked the streets bare
headed. While in Washington NJ
was a Government clerk. and herr
ia was that he did his most IN
pOrtant writing
Whitman is best known BY hh
volume OF poems entitled Leaves %
Grass" which ran through its nintl
edition in his lifetime. Captain. on
my Captain" is considered his bes
poem. This was written followinl
the assassination.
Perhaps no American poet has bees
the center or such heated liteFaF!
contT tToversy. BY some he has bees
lauded as Americas greatest ahf
most original poet. BY others he ha:
been denounced as a worthless. tai
entles. massacrer OF poetry.
The Washington times., 1919-04-20

natl Northwestern University, Uni
versity OF Kansas. Kansas state
Agricultural College Case School Of
Applied Science. University OF Pitts
burgh. Washington University, st.
Louis; Columbia University. Rhode
Island state College. Virginia A. and
NJ. Polytechnic Institute. Louisiana
State University. Michigan Agricul-
tural College and University Of Ala
bama
Coordinate With studies.
Plans for the reserve units have
Keen worked out 90 that there is mini
mum interference with regular school
courses Except where schools pre-
fer practical military instruction.
there will be no dFill or uniforms dur
ing the school year. General practical
Instruction will be given AT two sum-
mer camps OF six weeks duration
each.
Advantage will be taken Of the fact
thar much Of the theoretical part OF
coast artillery work j. handled as a
EarI OF all school courses. and nearly
all theoretical training viii be given
by the regular college instructors.
Exceptions are made in cases or
Gunnery and military orientatiOn and
frst-yesT instruction IN basic military
subjects. such as morale military
courtesy. organization and hygiene.
The Washington times., 1919-04-20
NAMED DEPUTY
REVENUE CHIEF

Announcement was made yesterday
Of the appointment of H. NJ. Gaylord
as deputy commissioner OF internal
revenue TO succeed B. &. Keith, re-
signed.
NJ. Gaylord came 10 Washington
from Bristol. Conn. In 1905 he was
appointed q clerk al 5000 a year in
the claims division of the Bureau Of
Internal Revenue and later was pro-
NOTED successfully to assistant chief
Of the claims division. assistant TO
the commissioner OF internal revenue,
head or the estate tax and capital
stock tax division. supervisor OF
claims, and assistant deputy commits
sioneT.
The new deputy commissioner viii
have supervision OF the collection OF
taxes on distilled spirits. tobacco.
oIeomargarine. adulterated butter.
mixed -four. and opium and other
narcotics.
He is a graduate OF Colgate Univer-
sity.