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The Cordova daily times., 1920-08-31
HAYNES IS NOT ENTHUSIASTIC
 FOR MERCER

''In regard to consolida ting the two Alaska steamship companies, I told Secretary Payne, in Washington, D. c. that we were willing to either buy or sell if satisfactory terms could be ar ranged" stated A. F. Haines, vice president and general manager of the Admiral Line, who has just returned from a six weeks trip east on busi- ness in connection with the shipping board and who is a round trip pas senger on the Spokane, sizing up the transportation situation in the terri tory, according to the Alaska Daily Dispatch.
 'I don't think that consolidation will work out practically and to the satisfaction of the public as it would mean less steamers on the run," be continued.
 Five new vessels have just been
 
 the first one, the Wenatchee is due to arrive on the Pacific coast in De- cember,' said the official. They will be used in the trans-Pacific trade with the Orient These ships are 535 feet long, are 12,500 tons capacity and carry 570 first class A ont md ling 19 steamers in the Oriental trade"
 Shipping is seriously affected by the fuel oil situation, according to MT. Haines. No oil company will promise any oil for their steamers after this year when present con- tracts expire, and if oil could be ob- tained it would cost S1,00 a barrel more, which means an additional fuel expense of one and a half million dol lars, which must be borne by the pub lie if the steamship companies are to operate, he stated.
 Under present conditions, while the Soili pesiilCo dppSo1 to Ut uO11lS d l1Oul- ishing business, he said, it requires all the money taken in to operate under the present high cost of labor and SUD- plies. Recommendations have been made to change from oil back to coal but this is regarded as impossible with some of the vessels which were built to burn oil.
 MT. Haines is accompanied by Mrs
The Cordova daily times., 1920-08-31
CORD0VA RADIO MAN INSPECTING STATIONS
 IN THE SOUTHWEST

Lieutenant Mack, chief of commun- ication of the United States radio ser vice of this district with headquarters at Cordova, arrived in Juneau from Ketchikan on the steamship Jefferson and left on the Estebeth for Sitka.
 Lieutenant Mack has been inspect ing the radio stations at Ketchikan and will inspect the station at Sitka where new construction is under way. Lieutenant Mack will go over the plant there before returning to Cor dova.-Juneau Capital.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-08-31
PERSONAL AND LOCAL

c. Collier and wife and Louis Hel bourg, of Seattle, are town visitors.
 The steamship Alaska is due from Seattle tomorrow morning at 8:O( o'clock.
 D. c. Sargent, who has mining in. terests in the Nabesna district, re turned from the interior this after noon.
 A. R. Rensing, Mrs. A. L. Rensing and H. B. Houston, of Akron, Ohio who are touring Alaska, came to Cor dova from Fairbanks today.
 The Ladies' Aid Society of the Presbyterian church will meet at the home of Mrs. J. E. Currier on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
 Prof Allan M. Bateman returned on todays train from a trip of investi- gation at the Kennecott- mines and will leave on the Alaska for La touche
 Miss Susan Minor, of New York, and Miss Aileen Birmingham, of San Francisco, are here on their way to the states, after having made the trip to Fairbanks and out over the trail
 The Cordova Rifle Club has ship ment of 1109 pounds of freight due here on one of the next boats. Rifles, ammunition, and other supplies Those that have not paid in their initiation fee should do so at once before they are entitled to shoot
 Advertise ill the Daily Times.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-08-31
MEXICO TO PROSECUTE
 B0L PR0PACANDISTS

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 31 (by Associ- ated Press).-The public prosecutor has asked for federal court warrants for the arrest of three persons, includ- ing a German, who came from the United States The prosecutor says they have been disseminating Bolshe- wiki propaganda which has been dis tributed in barracks and factories, urg- ing movement for dictatorship by the proletariat.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-08-31
BOY SCOUT MEETING

There will be a meeting of the troop committee of the boy scouts of Amer ica, troop i, Cordova, tomorrow even ing. September 1st, at 500 o'clock, at the scout masters home. & Troop committeeman and parents of boy scouts are requested to be present as matters of importance concerning the local troops are to be discussed.
 31-2t
The Cordova daily times., 1920-08-31

Haines and four of his daughters. After visiting Skagway and Sitka MT. Haines will return to Seattle.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-08-31

Cordova Jazz Orchestra Dance at Eagle Hall on "Wednesday and satur' day nights. Music by the RagtIme Trio,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02
Replanting Garden With Shakespeare's Flowers

at any certain conclusion, though 1t
was probably originally connected
with the work of the garden-per-
haps gardenmidden. Not far off
is brick we'll, twenty-four feet
deep and about two and a half feet
across, in which fresh spring water
rises to height of eight feet. This,
which was discovered some few
years ago, is certainly Of Shake
speare's time and doubtless served
for watering his garden. To this
purpose it Is now to be devoted
once more
Apart from this receptacle, not so
much OF interest as might have been
expected has been brought to light
by the excavations-probably owing
to the fact that the soil, for depth
Of two or three feet, is all made
ground, dating from a not very re-
mote period. Neither the oyster
shells nor the chicken bones which
have been unearthed can reasonably
be ascribed to the retired dramatist's
table, nor the @curiously shaped clay
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02

tobacco pipes. Indeed, Shakespeare
never mentions tobacco, and was
probably not a smoker of it.
There was discovered, however. a
few days ago, the complete skeleton
of a medium sized animal, which
some imaginative Shakespearean
when it was first uncovered, was dis
posed to identify az that of the
deer said to have been poached bv
Shakespeare, when a youth, from
the neighboring park of Sir Thomas
Lucy of Charlecote. The skeleton.
however. when brought forth and
carefully examined turned out to be
nothing more romantic or interest
ing than the bones of pig, and a
late eighteenth century or even a
mere early nineteenth century pig
at that! Arch@ologists, however
are on the alert, and strict orders
have been given to the gardeners
carefully to examine every bit Of
soil turned up for the smallest frag-
ments Of anything unusual. Shake
speare. we know from many ain.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02

sions in his plays, had thorough
knowledge and experience Of the
practical side Of gardening - of
pruning especially. Should, there
fore, any old pruning knife or other
gardening tool Of the Elizabethan
period be unearthed we may rest
assured it will be treasured.
In the mean while the stocking of
the garden with old English plants
and flowers proceeds apace. Be-
sides the gifts from the King, Queen
Mary, Dowager Queen Alexandra
and the Prince of Wales, consign-
ments from every part of the coun-
try have been and are being re-
celved from the owners of every
sort of garden, historic and mod
ern, great and small. From Kew
Gardens, also, where Shakespeare's
garden Is regarded as matter of
national concern, both valuable
counsel and large contributions Of
plants have been received. There
have also been subscriptions in
money. Miss Marie Corelli heading
the list with a gift of $50.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02

ally to widening the breach between
the British and the French, between
the nations, not merely the men who
represent the nations.
And at bottom both the British
and the French views rest upon a
hypothesis impossible now to estab-
fish beyond question. The British
assume that the application of their
policy will infallibly result not mere
ly in the economic but in the moral
regeneration of Germany. They in
sist that the German, if he be now
dealt with generously and consider
ately, will presently prove himself
to be a good European; that he
will turn adrift all his old leaders,
Scrap all his old ambitions and
aspirations, discharge his swash-
buckling generals, voluntarily dis
rhiss his armies and proceed to repay
the world such debts as are not for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02

paid Saturday, and this is blue
Monday with us. Well be back at
work tomorrow
and" said the Governor, "thev
were.
"Our law went into effect in Jan
uary," continued Governor Allen.
'In the next three months the mines
of the state turned out more coal
than in any previous five and half
months.
"The miners themselves were
quick to take advantage Of the law
Within a short time after it became
operative seven hundred men ap.
peared before it and asked for the
adjustment Of grievances. And
these grievances were adjusted in a
manner satisfactory to them and in
way the operators admitted was
just.
But as result of this action on
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02

Howat for the previous three wears
been maintained.
ION the other hand, the miners
have already reaped substantial
benefits under the new law. In the
matter of powder alone thew are
materially better off. You know. a
miner gets SO much day and must
pay for his own explosives for use
IN mining coal. For a year or so
the miners have had cause to com
plain because the operators, from
whom they buy the powder, would
not fix irregular price for it. The
court took the matter up, fixed n
price satisfactory to the miners and
it was accepted by the operators.
"This court might we'll be called
the court Of the penniless man.
A miner may take his case before
the court, and if he is not satisfied
with the decision he may take it to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02

Ing the last invasion, they require
no proof. Now. either the German
will change his character or he
won't, and the French assert the
German is immutable. But if he
doesn't change it will be France
that will have to pay the costs.
Nor is it merely the costs Of the
future; for the policy which the Brit
lsh advocate demands Of the French
the immediate resignation of certain
things assigned to France in the
Treaty of Versailles and represent
ing no more than part compensation
for German devastations in France.
Thus from the French point of view
the British purpose in retaining for
themselves all the fruits of the COM
mon victory-that is, the British
share-that France shall surrender
a portion Of her share and, in the
bargain, run risks for the future
the gravity Of which may be gath
cred from the history Of recent
years.
This France will not do. The oc
cupation Of Frankfort the other dav
was not merely notice served upon
the Germans, but upon the British,
that beyond certain limits France
would reassert her own freedom of
action; that neither British refusal
to cooperate nor open British oppo
sition would lead France to accept
the British estimate Of what was
proper French action in matter in
which the safety Of France was at
stake and in which the British had
no greater interest than that which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02

the Supreme Court Of the state,
which latter court will give such
cases priority. And it will not cost
the seeker for justice one cent. It
is not even necessary for him to
have a lawyer.
Here is case in point. A
poor old hunchback miner came
into the court asking for relief
from an abuse that has gone on for
years. Now, I'm not striving for
dramatic effect when I call him an
old hunchback miner 1t just hap
pens to have been the case.
You must understand that the
miners are paid every two weeks.
When a man has been working a
week he often wants to draw the
money for that weeks work because
he needs it for his family expenses.
The company allowed him TO do this.
but charged him 10 per cent for .he
privilege, For example, il the case
OF the miner who made the com
plant, he had $2S due him. and the
company charged him $3.50 for nav
ing HIM what he had already earned.
The court pointed out to the
operators that if this was kept up
throughout the year a man would
pay 5l2 per cent interest, and il is
sued an order that hereafter a miner
might draw his money at any time
1t was due him, but allowing the
company to charge Is cents each
time to pay for the extra book
keeping involved
"But the operators had been 90
ing along for years charging the
men that 10 per cent interest. and
the unions had never thought Of pro-
testing"
DO you believe, Governor, that
the country is in the frame of mind
for law of this kind?"
Well, there We're seven votes
against the measure in the lower
house of our legislature and two in
the Senate. Labor controls forty of
the legislative districts of the state
but 1t could swing only seven of
these votes against the bill. That
seems TO indicate Mt least the frame
Of mind Kansas is in, doesn't it?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02
n THE trenching operations
necessary to the laying out Of
an old-fashioned Elizabethan

"Knott-Garden" at New Place,
Stratford-on-Avon, the walls Of a
chamber or receptacle, 10 feet long
by six feet broad, have lately been
discovered about two and one-half
feet below the present level Of the
ground. That the walls are, partly
at any rate, of Shakespeare's time
seems evident from the lower part
Of the brickwork exhibiting the
characteristics Of Tudor times; that
is, bricks of the size, shape and
quality Of those days, laid in the old
English bond of alternate lines of
headers" and "stretchers," with
wide mortar joints, declares a
writer in "The London Times" But
dividing the chamber into two is a
more modern wall, possibly as re-
cent as the end of the eighteenth
century.
AS to what purpose this recep-
tacle served it is tf1cult to arrive
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02

state and will be decided within the
next few weeks.
But let's consider for moment
the benefits to labor gained under
our new court and those accruing
through the leadership Of Howat. In
three years Howat ordered 4O8
strikes in Kansas.
'"These strikes cost the miners
more than 100000 in wages.
"They netted the strikers less
than $1,000 gain in wages.
"And in the mean time the miners
paid out of their pockets Cor the
support of Howat's organization
$4,000.
"In the three months that the law
has been in operation, in which
time more coal was mined than in
any previous five and half months
there would have been forty-two
strikes had the average set by
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gagged in the operation Of any
such industry, employment, util-
ity or common carrier wilfullv
to limit or cease operations for
the purpose of limiting produc-
ton or transportation or to affect
prices, for the purpose of avoid
ing any of the provisions Of this
act; but any person, firm or cor
poratlon so engaged may apply to
said Court of Industrial Relations
for authority to limit or cease
operations, stating the reasons
therefor, and said Court of In
dustrial Relations shall hear said
application promptly, and if said
application shall be found to be
in good faith and meritorious au-
thority to limit or cease opera
tons shall be granted by order of
said court"
Penalties Of fines and imprison
ment for violations Of the law arc
prescribed FOR both capital and la
Dor.
After getting all this weighty In
formation about the new court
there followed, Of course, the
natural question:
Glow does it work."
Governor Allen was silent a mo-
ment before he answered, and In the
moments pause one sensed the
doubts that may have risen while he
was waiting for time to give him the
answer to that query. Possibly
there was just hint of pride in his
voice when he answered, speaking
slowly:
A Protest Strike
THE law went into effect on a
Saturday. The following Monday
several hundred miners went out on
a protest strike. Immediately sent
my Attorney General into the dis
trict. He called the leaders before
him and told them about the law.
When he was through the miners
said:
"'You 60 back and tell the Gov
srnor we're not striking. We got
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02

the part of these union men Alex
ander Howat, head OF the Kansas
miners, put through rule that any
miner who appealed to the court
should be fined $50 and any union
that made such an appeal should be
fined $4,000. Howat did this be-
cause he does not recognize the
court and holds it is illegal
Leaders Sent to Jail
"Howat himself, when summoned
by the court to give testimony in
another matter, refused 20 appear
and was promptly sent to Jail by a
court of competent jurisdiction to
which the Court Of Industrial Rela-
tons appealed. Howat's contention
that the Court of Industrial Rela-
tons is unconstitutional is now be-
fore the Supreme Court of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02
The French Viewpoint

Obviously, If it were possible to
prove in advance that this would be
the fact the French would be out
of court; but it isn't Meantime the
French retort that the German has
done certain things for many CEN
turies, most reprehensible of which
has been invading France, an
achievement four times repeated in
the last century, each time with the
result that French territory was
ravaged and certain frontier dis
tricts temporarily or permanently
stolen. AS to German deeds dur
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02
Why Great Britain and France Differ on a German Pol

covered commercial and moral con
siderations.
OF course, French insistence upon
the line indicated in the Frankfort
action spells the ruin of the whole
British conception. There can be no
moral or economic regeneration of
Germany, and particularly no indus
trial renaissance, if French armies
progressively occupy the border re
glons, take over the coal districts
OF the Ruhr and control the railway
lines which unite north and south
Germany. Obviously, France will not
obtain her PREPARATIONS, since Ger
many will not be able to earn5 but,
by contrast, the British notion of a
restored Germany, restored to health
and trade, will go glimmering.
More than this, beyond all ques-
ton the economic paralysis which
even now affects all of Central Eu-
rope will be intensified. Unrest will
Increase and spread Reaction or
Bolshevism, the White peril or the
Red, and, for that matter, both in
turn, will arrive and bring in their
wake new conflicts, new miseries,
new perils. Thus the very loud and
fnslstent denunciation of French
policy in certain quarters in Eng
land, where the British view is most
ardently professed, resulted from
recognition of the fact that French
policy, backed by French action,
means the utter failure of all at
tempts to apply this British policy
Now the primary fact of the
Anglo-French dispute is quite clear.
Just as long as the British decline
to meet French demands in the mat
ter of security there is not the small
est hope of persuading France to
accept any fraction Of the British
economic policy with respect to
Germany. In point of fact, while
the British hold the Treaty Of Yer
sailles unreasonably harsh the
French regard it as hopeIessly
soft" and would not have accepted
it in the first instance had it not
been accompanied by the Anglo
American treaty of alliance. Since
the course of the United States Sen
ate has eliminated this detail the
French feel themselves left in the
lurch, having at best an unsatisfac-
tory return for their great sacrifices,
and feel quite strongly that, in view
Of the collapse of the Anglo-Amer
lean treaty, neither the British nor
the Americans have the smallest
right to ask further concessions from
France. That these concessions are
asked arouses an INDIGNATION not
difficult to explain.
Germany's Real Purpose
For France the beginning of
real understanding with the British
over the application Of the Treaty
of Versailles must be the recognition
by the British of the French views
as to what constitutes securitv for
France. In this regard the French
point out with certain justice that
they, and not the British, have been
correct in the still recent past in
discovering Germany's real purpose.
They point to the fact that in July.
1914, the British government and
the British people were totally mis-
taken as to the actual state of the
case. Had Great Britain taken
French warnings any time in the
decade which preceded the World
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02

example Of the sort of under
standing which admits of no cues
tloning on either side. The formal
pledge Of the British to support
france, with all arms, in case of a
new German attack would in a
measure answer the same descrip-
ton. But this would have to be
reinforced by an agreement to keep
an adequate number Of troops un-
der arms in Britain to make the
pledge of real value, for France
does not want again to be faced by
Germany in arms and find with her
at the moment of the first shock
only 10000 British, as was the case
IN 1914.
Failing such categorical COM
mitment, the French will not, can
not, accept any British advice or
opinion in the matter of dealing with
Germany. If the British agree to
accept the French view in the mat
ter OF the disarmament of Germany.
in the matter Of safeguarding the
French future, the way is open to
urge the French to accept the Brit
ish view in the matter of the appli-
cation-not the revision-of the eco
non1ic details of the Treaty of Yer
sailles.
In No Mood for Arms
But Britain is in no mood now
to take on new military responsible
ties, to maintain an army Of, say,
quarter of million, exclusive of all
forces marked for colonial service.
which will be ready to move to the
Continent if Germany strikes at
France again. On the contrary, the
driving motive of the present Brit
lsh policy, the underlying explana-
ton of the prevailing British view,
is the notion that If the British idea
prevails, if the economic phases of
the treaty are revised, there will be
an end Of any danger from Ger
many, while, if the French view pre-
walls, then there will be measurable
necessity for new military establish
ments.
Thus Lloyd George, in accepting
the British view, is impelled against
Millerand, who is convinced of the
accuracy of the French Judgment. If
Lloyd George proposes modification
OF the economic phases Of the treaty
all France is filled with the convic
ton that Britain is seeking selfishly
to abandon France If Millerand is
driven by French opinion to seek to
enforce the treaty, to counter Ger
man violations, which are gross and
unmistakable, by occupying German
cities, the charge is widely spread
through Britain that French mill
tarlsm is rampant again. The result
is chaos, chaos which encourages
the Germans to new defiances and
holds out to the "old gang" in Ger
many the hope that the treaty can
be evaded and the old order in Ger
many restored.
I have dwelt upon these unpleas
ant circumstances solely because I
desire to put my readers on their
guard against too ready belief in the
essential accuracy Of the statements
which come from San Reno and
elsewhere that everything has been
arranged, Arrangements are not
impossible, but recent crises have
been very acute, and, fact worth
recalling, each crisis of the Paris
Conference has contributed materi-