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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-14
'.RENOUNCE RIGHT TO STRIKE

The American Federation of Teach CTS was organized without consulting the American Federation of Labor said Mir. Smith. The American Fed eration of Labor indorsed our national body. If the Coal Operators Associa- tion of Alabama will make Us the same statement we will accept it in the same spirit. By joining the federation we renounce the right to strike. The teacher who refuses to federate, by that act reserves the right to strike.
 The history of non-federated teach CTS is that they have on several occa- sions struck. while members of the federation have never been known to strike. On January II, 400 non-fed- erated teachers In Lebanon. III, walked out for higher salaries and left their pupils behind.
 If the Rotary Club, the Kiwanis Club. the Civic Association. the Cham Der of Commerce or any other civic body or club says to us We indorse you then we will accept it with the same degree of utilization We would accept the same indorsement should it come from the Birmingham Trades Council.
 We have not affiliated with the To- cal labor unions and won't until the majority of teachers favor it. but we wtnt permanent organization. have teen asked by some teachers why temporary organization. to function during the tax election campaign only,
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-14
BIRMINGHAM TRUST REFLECTS

FIRST NATIONAL MEETING The stockholders of the First National banl, held their meeting yesterday after noon and reelected the following direc- tors. E. F Moore, Robert Jemison. F. M. Tutwllei, Erskine Ramsay. w. II. Has
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The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-15
MEMORIAL PLANNED.

On the thirtieth of May, our na- tion will pause in thoughtful and loving remembrance of the dead. On that date, or as soon thereafter as the way is clear for a general public assembly, memorial service will be held in Nenana in remem- brance of all who have passed away during the present distressing cpl demic. It is Dr. Diven's wish that the general public will bear this an- nouncement in mind, that when the time arrives we may as a communi- ty unite in fitting public memorial, and strew with flowers the graves of all whose bodies now lie in our little cemetery. May the consola- tions of divine grace be the portion
 of those who now mourn; may grace and wisdom be given those who still
 wait upon the sick" .:@....
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-15
A SEAMAN'S VIEW.

Andrew Furuseth, president Of the International Seamen's union, is believer in the. private ownership and operation of ships. His testi- mony given before the senate com mittee which conducted the hearings on United States Shipping board legislation would indicate that he is not friendly to the principle of gov ernment conduct of business.
 The following is taken from the record of the hearings:
 Senator Chamberlain: Do you pre- fer private ownership to government ownership? ...-
 MT. Furuseth: I prefer private ownership, for this reason: 1 have found that government ownership of material or appliances usually means government ownership of men "
 Senator Nelson: Yes. .
 Mir. Furuseth And it carries with it then a semi-slavery, which 1 do not believe in. If we can get con- ditions in employment where you do not need that, and where that does not need to be the case, that is a different proposition. But I do not know much about anything else ex- cert the sea. And so far as seamen are concerned, I think it is better for the nation and better for the ship owner, and better for the sea men and better for the future to make the ship owner free, to make the seamen free, to put them under certain obligations and enforce those obligations against either of them. but to make them free.
 Senator Nelson: You would have the Government continue to operate the ships?
 MT. Furuseth: I say get the Gov ernment out of the business as soon as you consistently can.
 Chairman Jones: Would you have our ships disposed of with the idea of getting them ultimately into pri- vate hand?
 MT. Furuseth: Exactly.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-15
POTATO MYSTERY.

Last time we inquired, says the editor of the Douglas Island News, spuds were quoted at about $11.5O a sack. Thus has the lowly risen. Potatoes have now become more valuable than nuggets. Dinner in- vitations of the future will have printed in the bottom left-hand cor ner, Please bring your own spuds. " We remember the time when you could not only buy a sack of spuds for eleven and a half, but the farmeS that sold you the spuds would throw in the whole ranch for the same money. Just why pota- toes, which can be raised by any one, anywhere, should reach such a price is a mystery similar to many iof the other mysteries of these strange times.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-15
Department of the Interior Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE

faSsehgers are required to pur- chase tickets before entering trains Tickets can be purchased from the station agent, whose office is in the employment office, on the ground floor of the General Office Building. Alaskan Engineering Commission. or lat Camp 4l5 North Nenana).
 Tickets will be on sale at ..ny time during office hours, and can be purchased in sufficient time before the departure of the trains.
 Regular trains for the south leave the foot of A street on Wednesdays and Saturdays at a. m., and from Camp 415 (North Nenana), for Fairbanks, Tuesdays and Fridays. at p. m.
 The following is the schedule be- tween North Nenana and Fairbanks, subject to change without notice:
 Leave Fairbanks at FOO a. m; arrive North Nenana, II 80 a. m.
 Leave North Nenana l 1:OG D. m; arrive Fairbanks, 80 p. m. .~...=
 No tickets will be sold crossing the river. Those intending to tray el to Fairbanks must make tRe;r own arrangements for reaching North Nenana.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-15

FOR RENT-Cascade laundry. Fully equipped and with established in come. No cash required Inquire at Arctic.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-15
JUNEAU PAINTER HAS
 PATENTED MOTOR.SLED

Letters patent were received at Juneau recently by Adolph Rundall for a motor-sled that he has in- vented. Besides having received a patent from the United States pat tent office. MT. Rundall has also filed his patent in Canada
 Mir. Rundall, who is Juneau painter, has been working on an idea of a motor-sled that would travel in any kind of snow, and after three years of endeavor claims to have solved the problem in the invention that he has now patented.
 The inventor does not claim that his sled will perform miracles, but that it will be practical motor sled capable at all times of travelling where ordinary motor-cars would not be able to go.
 At the present time, Mr. Rundall is not ready to give the details of the principle upon which his inven- tion operates, but will immediately construct a machine for demonstra- tion purposes and give it thorough trial. h. .@ ..... F.. "."... ....---
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-15

are being mulcted all along the line, without any prospect of an improve ment in conditions so long as for ieign interests control the situation. The wholesalers, jobbers, retailers and candy manufacturers of the United States do not regard the present state of affairs with any marked degree of pleasure.
 The minimizing public is blaming them even now for the jump in prices, although they are equally victims of conditions over which they have no control.
 Should sugar go to 25 cents a pound or more, all handlers of this material and all manufacturers em- picying it in the production of com modition will have less reason for satisfaction. Not only will their sales diminish, but indignant. though short-sighted, consumers will rap them the harder.
 The Cuban crop has not measur- ed up quite to early predictions. High though prices were previously, island growers have taken advantage of this situation to jack up their quotations a few notches more.
 Naturally, this means more costly sugar in the United States, unless all get together to fight the Cuban combine.
 A movement of this kind, backed by the sugar handling concerns, the candy manufacturers and the house. wives of America, would put a crimp in the profteering program of the Cuban spectators.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-15

BUNCH OF SEVEN KEYS found
 Owner can recover by calling at News office and paying for adv
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-15

look upon them as idential obliga. tions of the Government which are
 to be maintained at par
 j Alarms are being sounded because 1 Liberty Bonds are selling for less
 than the amount paid for them, and
 Congress and the secretary of the treasury are called upon forthwith
 to take action stabilizing their price,
 to the end that the confidence of
 the people in the Government may
 not be shaken.
 For some reason they refuse to
 recognize the description of a bond
 as promissory note payable at a distant date. It does not differ in the slightest degree from an indi- vidual citizens promissory note ex- cept as to the security. That it should be looked upon as currency 1 is absurd. If Congress should take action to maintain the demanded parity the result would be perfect witches festival of imitation. Money would ride high upon broomsticks. The bonds are selling below par because the investor today can get seven, eight and even a higher per cent for his money, with substantial collateral protecting his investment. The same is true of private paper bearing a rate of interest lower than that prevailing in the money mar kets. Owners of these securities have no legal or moral right to de- mand their face value before ma turity. It is not so nominated in the bonds. If holders of them choose to sell under the economic condi- tions of the hour, theirs is the re- sponsibility and not the Govern ment's. As matter of fact. the treasury department is serving the public by going into the financial centers and buying these bonds at the under par rates for retirement purposes, thus reducing the national debt.
 These critical persons, instead of complaining of government securi- ties, will do we'll to turn their liquid capital into this form of investment, the safest in all the world. It is the easiest way of making money that has presented itself for decades.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-15

P. G. Barnett, who has been prominent in Juneau labor circles and who recently returned to the territorial capital from a trip thru the country west of the Mississippi river, says that he is glad to get back home and that Juneau is a far better place for working man and a better place in which to live than any place he visited. He says rest lessness among the people of all classes is the rule Outside and there is far more content in Alaska. Mir. Barnett advised all the people he talked to to come to Alaska, where
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-15
ALASKA OIL.

The enlightened policy outlined b,
 Secretary Payne should go long way toward stimulating the search for and the production of oil in Alaska, believes the Seattle Times. The secretary's purpose, explains the Seattle paper, is to remove some of the restrictions which have discouraged prospectors, while, at the same time, retaining a govern ment equity in production where the amount obtained is sufficient to reg ister substantial profit to the op- orator.
 Conditions in Alaska are, in many ways, comparable with those obtain ing in Pennsylvania at the time of the initial prospecting and success ful drilling in that state.
 The early operators there were frightfully handicapped by bad roads - a difficulty, by the way, which is being encountered as we'll by persons owning wells in the new Texas fields. 4 barrel of oil that might be bought for S1 in the fields nearest tidewater would cost S1O by the time it had been transported to the seaboard. -.. ...:..
 Should oil be discovered in paying quantities in Interior Alaska, trans portation and other costs will be eptionally heavy. There are few roads and only limited number of trails, while pipe lines are an unknown quantity and will remain so unless or until the Northern fields develop production on a big scale.
 The Payne regulations recognize these circumstances and do not re- quire a royalty from wells on gov ernment land producing less than 100 barrels day. More productive wells will pay five percent royalty after five years, and 10 percent after ten years.
 Moreover, the successful prospec- tor always will be allowed to use one-fourth of the land he leases royalty free, no matter how much oil he obtains.
 The new rules appear just and reasonable. Only by the application of wisely generous regulations of this nature will it be possible to develop not only the oil, but all the other resources in the Territory.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-15
CLIMBING THE WRONG TREE.

Pitiful ignorance of the funda- mentals of finance is being display ed, says the Cincinnati Enquirer, by the pseudo-publicists, whose plan it is to criticize first and investigate the facts later. With hay notions of systems of currency they con- found postage stamps, treasury notes, bank notes and bonds, and
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-15
SUGAR "HOLDUP."

It may be necessary for whole. salers, jobbers, retailers, candy manufacturers and the consuming public to cooperate in smashing the foreign "corner" in sugar, points out the Seattle Times.
 As things stand now, Americans
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-15

Over-the-Ice Eggs-l5 days from Seattle-at Johnson's Store-$l. 50 per dozen. k20
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

loss Of time when time is rightly limited, as the
work of taking the census must be finished within
a fixed period This tracing could be easily and
quickly accomplished by the committee which by
dividing the city into small districts. could check
resident who ought to be counted
The greatest assistance Of the committee would
be in awakening popular interest in the city in
the taking OF the People would be inspired
assist in making good showing possible
and many would make it a point furnish the
with information which otherwise they
would be obliged to hunt themselves. 1t
would be the business of the committee let the
people know that a census is in progress.
II is notorious that the results of censuses never
quite come 10 popular expectation. That is partly
because expectation is usually high invariably
becauses censuses not and humanity be
made complete by of the ordinary, unaided
machinery. however efficient it may be.
1t is desirable pad the That
paid city that tried it and many have tried
$ wish committee any
person who ought to be counted but make
it easier for the enumerators TO list every
and child in Phoenix who ought o be counted
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09
RUSSIA IN 1918
EDITORS NOTE

After drinking tea with Reinstein till
pretty late, ! went home, burrowed into
Il mountain of all sorts of clothes, and
slept 4 little.
In the morning / succeeded in getting
a room at the National Hotel. | wasted
a lot of time getting my stuff across.
Transport from one hotel to the other,
though the distance is not hundred
yards. cost 40 roubles.
Ny room was perfectly clean. The
chambermaid who came in to tidy up.
quite evidently took Il pride in doing
her work properly. and protested
against my throwing matches on the
floor. She said she had been in the
hotel since it was opened. I asked her
how she liked the new regime. She
replied that there was not enough to
eat, but that she felt freer.
] went downstairs to the main
kitchens of the hotel. where there is
a permanent supply of hot water One
enormous kitchen is set apart ror the
use of people living in the hotel Here
/ found a crowd of people. all using
different parts of the huge stove.
There was an old gray haired Cossack.
with Il scarlet tunic under his black,
wide skirted, narrow WASTED coat.
decorated in the Gossacl1 fashion with
ornamental cartridges. He was warm
ing his soup side by side with little
Jewess making potato cakes. a spec
tacIed elderly member of the executive
committee was busy doing something
with a little bit of meat. Two little
girls were boiling potatoes in old tin
cans. In another room set apart for
washing a sturdy little long haired
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09
Why Hapgood Quit

resignation of Norman IIapgood AS minister
Denmark viii have a tendency TO lower
greater depths Of our diplomatic service
The tact of Mr.. Hapgocd the
of the bull which pussy footed through
china shop.
resigned he says. to come to this coun-
to meet at closer his deadly enemy, Colonel
Harvey whose Haryey's Weekly has been pouring
hot shot into the president appointing a o.
IIapgoods tendencies to amy post which requires
the functioning of a representative Americansn
The real for his resignation is believed
the recent announcement Senator Lodge that in
circumstances would the appointment of Hapgood
be confirmed. The minister Denmark by resigna-
evades
The accusation made by IIarvey's Weekly was
that before Hapgood sailed for Copenhagen he in
vited group New York financiers to through
him with the Moscow boshevist government
end in view of establishing mutually beneficial reIa-
tons. Hapgood denies this but at the same time
he utters plea bolshevists by reiterating
his firm conviction allied blockade OF
boshevist T;ussia is mistake. This
the accusation Colonel Harvey who. beside would
hardly have made such a charge without foundation
and charge which it would have been so easy TO
confirm disprove.
The record Hapgood radical long before
the assumption by radicalism the dangerous form
it now presents, IS also against any rate
q majority of the believes an unfit
person to represent America abroad: that he is of
and personal, whom the president has selected to
make study of bolshevism who went across
primed with sympathy with it
TINS is not the first time Eapgocd and
Colonel Harvey have come into contact The
latter until years go fSono the be-
ginning of the century the editor Harpers Weekly
the ablest since the time Curtis during
his incumbency that Colonel Harvey dragged Wood
row Wilson out Of his clustered life and made him
governor OF New Jersey, and then launched name
in connection with the presidency. The governor
turned against him later because believed that
the conservative interests with which name o
Harper's had always been by the masses
would endanser his popularity. When Colonel Harvey
recovered from the shock became critical of the
governor and his criticism has continued and be-
come much caustic this day. Two years
later Colonel Harvey quit Harper's and devoted him
self to the North American Review with which he
had been associated for fifteen years. was sue
ceeded by Hapgood whose radcalsm quickly per-
meated that ancient journal expired in q little
more than a year under the experiments IIapgood
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

as the war ends. and we can use our
transport for peaceful purposes.
There can be no question about the
starvation of Moscow. on the third
day after my arrival in Moscow I saw
a man driving a sledEe laden with, l
think, horseflesh, mostly bones. prob
ably dead sledge horses. As he drove
a black crowd of crows followed the
sledge and perched on it. tearing
greedily at the meat. He beat at them
continually with his whip. but they
We're so famished that they took no
notice whatever. The starving crows
used even to force their way through
the small ventilators of the windows III
my hotel 10 pick UP any scraps they
could find inside
Nor can there be any question about
the cold. I resented my own suffer
ings less when / found that the state
departments were no better off than
other folk. Even in. the Kremlin
found the keeper of the archives sit
ting at work in an old sheepskin coat
and felt boots. rising now and then to
beat vitality into his freezing hands
like a London cabman of ola times.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

did not raise oranges in Massachusetts.
And let me explain that this SpaniarO
was not q fool, bur as wise a man "a
[ ever knew. He told me that far UP
on q certain high mountain in Spain
at whose summit the snow sometimes
lies all summer. there is a monastery
which is occupied by a most patient
order of monks. For centuries these
monks. each generation taking up the
task when the one before it had laid
il down carried the growth of the
orange higher and higher up the noun
tain, until at last, acclimated, the trees
grew and throVe and produced their
sweet fruit in the monastery garden:
ard no bitter winter wind can longer
Wither them. why do you not then.
do the same2" asked my Spanish
friend.
If we were like the monks of Mont
serrat. or like Coburn of Kansas, per
haps we might eventually have oranges
growing in Berkshire and Westchester
orchards If there is now some en-
1husiast who is seeking TO cover the
barren slopes of the Catskills with
orange groves, 1 shall at least associate
myself with him in spirit.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09
TELLING THE BOSS
BY Edmund Vance Cooke

The linen was clean and the china bright,
The waiter was cheerful and all polite;
He served my ORDER exactly right
And treated me most like l white,
So / told his boss about it.
The janitor served me long and well
And treated not n Doctor Fell
He gave heat in the wintry spell
And never once wished me a suphurous cell,
So ! told his boss about it,
The drummer worked hard. but he did no, try
To induce me TO order over-suppy.
He knew his stock, but he knew that
Might possible know what wanted buy,
So told his boss about it.
When a worker does well, hold it true
He should 50. what's coming from YOU
Let's try to see that he gets his due;
Let's sweeten his pot with a chip two,
Let's tell his boss about il.
For BATTLE some chaps malignant fate
We battle against the gods of hate,
When praise the good we appreciate;
SO whenever | make good, go straight
And 7 tell my boss about it.