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The New York herald., 1922-09-03

shipwrecked mariners from the Ameri-
can schooner Gertrude, wrecked at
Emma town on the south side of East
Cape, with view to giving them
transportation to Nome" etc.
"At I'LL p. NJ. of July II got under
way with the Maud in tow and pro-
ceeded to the eastward and through
Bering Straits to tne southwark until
morning of 18th, when the Maud was
cast off and given her position by in
ternational code signal. Orders direct
ing the Maud to proceed under sail to
Dutch Harbor, where it was expected
a relief vessel would be sent to her as
sistance from Seattle, had previously
been signalled to the Maud after hav-
Ing been received by radio from the
agents Of Captain Amundsen at
Seattle"
The reason the Maud had TO be
towed through Bering Straits was
that there is a strong northward cur
rent al that season of the year through
the straits, and with her propeller out
of use. she could make no headway to
the south with only her sails. Once
Niil Oh6H htit ditS sire tOdlu SdAi w
Dutch Harbor without further as
sistance.
After the rescue OF Amundsen's ship,
the Bear sailed back northward again
and. passing through Bering, Strait.
Went on her usual cruise eastward to
Point Barrow. But on that occasion
she continued farther to the eastward
than any Government ship had been
for many years. reaching the boundary
line between Alaska and the Dominion
OF Canada. Her log every here and
there contains references to heavy ice.
No story Of the Bear should overlook
the remarkable exploit of three OF her
officers in the winter of 1S97-9S al
ready mentioned at the beginning CT
this article. Capt Francis Tuttle, the
commanding officer of the Bear on
that occasion and the man who issued
the orders for the expedition and fl
nally picked up the intrepid men who
The New York herald., 1922-09-03

those imports with paper money. She
must buy great quantities OF food
and fuel. She can do so only at .
ruinous price.
Intellectually she is already shut up
in cage. Her professors. writer's and
students cannot buy foreign books.
Even newspapers cannot afford TO pay
for news IL it means keeping foreign
correspondents abroad. IL is impos-
sible for her to pay the reparations
unless the mark rises I'm international
value. 1t is impossible for her 10
pay her wage bill--which will be vastly
increased, because workmen viii de-
mand new scale to meet new prices
during the next few weeks-without
another vast issue OF paper money,
which viii instantly fling the mark
further TO the depths.
/ saw what happened in Austria.
The Germans are going the same v-xs.
IL she goes all the way. IL is not only
Germany ruined, but the greater part
OF Europe. What can she do 10 save
herself? Only one thing. and that IL
very dangerous. She must stop print
ing money and gradually deflate her
currency. other nations which have
done so. like Czecho-Slovakia. Switzcr-
land, Holland. Italy and England. have
steadily improved their rate or cx-
change. BY reducing the circulation
of notes by 20 per cent, Czccho-
Slovakia improved her exchange value
by so per cent. That is a tremendous
lesson to Germany.
But the risks also are trc-
mendous Directly Germany cuts
down her note issues hcr people will
find It hard to get enough paper
money. Wages will have to 20 down
before prices 80 down. Industrial
activity will be restricted for lack Of
capital There win bc suffering. But
though the remedy is severe and full
81 peril for the social state Of Ger
many II Is better than certain ruin
which otherwise will ovcrtake her. A
dangerous adventure is better than In
evitable death to the nation as well
as individuals. That Is Germany's
alternative.
Copyright, = 1922, by the Mcclure Newspapss
Syndicate.
The New York herald., 1922-09-03

THE following calendar OF bank
and public holidays which will
be celebrated in September in
the States and countries and on the
dates enumerated below is furnished
by the Guaranty Trust Company OF
New York:
Monday, September Persia (Elev-
enth Day Of Moharrem). In the United
States: Every State in the Union and
the District OF Columbia; also in
Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico Labor
Day..
Tuesday, September 5-Brazil Estate
Of Amazonas: commemorating notable
event in State or municipal history.
In the United States: Nevada (pri-
mary election day. and Yukon Ter
ritory Labor Day..
Wednesday, September 6-Dominion
OF Newfoundland Labor Day).
Thursday, September Brazil TN
dependence Day..
Friday. September S-Austria, Bo-
livia. Brazil, Canary Islands, Fernando
Po, Lithuania and Spain (half holi-
day: Nativity.
Saturday, September 9-Caiifornia
(Admission Day).
Monday, September li-Queensland
(partial; Friendly Societies Day). In
tho United States: Maine ELECTION
Day..
Tuesday. September 12--Maryland
Defenders Day.
Thursday. September 14--Nicaragua
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\RESIDENT T. E. MITTEN OF the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com

Philadeiphla Rapid transit COM
pany, in speech to the EN-
ployees last Wednesday evening, had
this to say of the cooperative plan
In force for ten years past and OF the
industrial outlook:
Men and management have ben
Gifted largely by saving their money
during wartime wages. Home own
ers and taxpayers now, with nearly
S2,O00,000 In saving fund securities
and $4,000 shares OF s per cent. p.
R. T. capital stock. par value $4,000,
600. reposing in the beneficial and CO.
operative wage fund, we are well on
our way TO an industrial independence
that will have been honestly earned
and paid for by the sweat OF our brow.
Ten thousand men and women. their
families and believing friends, are all
set to go. with settled purpose
founded on deep set belief i'm the
fairness OF man and a determination
TO return to the America OF our fore
fathers He continues:
America is in the throes OF acute
Industrial Indigestion. following war
tiiht cNt' "NHS"H'tS dla AHc iIIiuN OF
too many foreign malcontents. This
makes for the present unrest, which
calls for the loyalty and broad minded
patriotism Of 2 Washington. with tho
force OF a Roosevelt
America has hold open tho door to
immigration. unchecked, until too
many troubiemakers from abroad have
come here and combined to destroy
the American Government. with which.
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A Financial Jazz
With Paper Money

With Paper Money
Again note issues multiplied. 1t
became mad dance, financial jazz.
round and round like a dog chasing
its tail. Then the reality Of economic
laws challenged sanity. Germany has
had to buy 3S per cent. of its grain
supplies from abroad. She has had to
buy from foreign countries raw mate
rial for clothing her people. She is
buying 100000 tons of coal weekly
from England. She is buying meat
from America. She cannot pay for
these things in false paper money.
Foreign exchanges reduce her marks
TO their true value, now standing as
write at about fourteen hundred to
the dollar. nearly six thousand to the
OF great magnitude.
So far this may be seen at Berlin
There are few signs OF poverty APP
parent, there is pleasure even in the
restaurants, cafes, theaters and public
places. The masses and middle class
folk have this paper money to spend,
and spend II with prodigal hands. IL
would be foolish to be thrifty. for what
is the use Of saving marks when from
one day to another. even from one
hour to another, their value drops
like stones humping down hill? 1t
is better to spend quickly. TO buy fast.
before prices rise.
reached Cologne one night when
marks had fallen heavily in exchange
rates The railway station was
crowded with humble folk, who had
come back from country markets laden
with foodstuffs, which they had
bought before prices rose. Women,
girls and young boys staggered down
tho platforms under heavy burdens OF
potatoes. meat. cheese. pots. pans
wood and stuff for fires. In Berlin
there was wild rush to the big stores
before prices were marked up again
They were marked up quickly. For
eigncrs. who swarm Berlin, are inter-
national vultures who prey on the
diseased body Of the European ma
The New York herald., 1922-09-03
Fifteen Below Zero
and a Blizzard Blowing

January 17-There was still no
change in the weather. but bundling
up as well as possible, and taking
extra precautions for the protection OF
our faces. we started soon after day
light. Fifteen degrees below was al
most more than one could stand in
such a blizzard, but time was too
precious, 10 lose any more of 1t, and
as we had come into the country TO
travel, felt we must get along some
how 1t was all the deer could do to
keep going ahead, and it required all
our efforts to keep them from turning
tail to the wind and going out to sea.
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Stone Planted in 1896
Marked Limit of Voyage

THE vessel performed well during
the cruise, the machinery particularly
so, and nothing was found TO indicate
that TIE vessel is unseaworthy or in
rTSpsbYe of performing her usual duties
in connection with the arctic cruise"
TO any old sea dog of the northern
oceans that speaks wonders.
The officers and crew OF the Bear
have never hesitated TO try anything
in the line OF duty. and they always
carry on to the end. They did so in
The New York herald., 1922-09-03
Built Forty-eight Years Ago,
She Began Her Career
as a Dundee Whaler
but Has Been a
Revenue Cutter
Since 1885

and we had 70 dig ourselves out in the
morning. Our sicds this morning we're
completely buried, and dos harness.
shovels. axes and the IKE had "a b.
dug out OF the drifts. In cainping
one must be careful OF the few b.
longings and camp tools. for anything
left outside al night is sure 10 ~ Cow
cred over in the morning irst i blow
ing, and anything that has % b. left
out must be stuck up In the snow o.
packed in the sieds IL you want 70 see
II again.
by the time the fire was started In
the stove the dogs were embarrassed
and the sleds put beyond their reach.
This would all take from one-half -
three-quarters OF an hour. and in thst
time the tent would be good and warm
and we could go inside and change
our clothes.
After supper and n smoke IL was
time to feed the dogs. The frozen
pieces, and Nekowrah and myself,
armed with clubs. would undertake 10
see that oil the dogs Jared alike. II
was task, for / know of nothing 50
ravenous as hard worked Eskimo
dog. and with a pack OF fifteen or
twenty animals it took all OF our time
and attention to see that the larger
dogs did not monopolize all the food
II piece Of meat was too large for a
dog to swallow Immediately another
dog would have it out OF his mouth
and a general fight ensue. and then
liberal use of the clubs ws1ld be nec-
essary to produce harmony In the
pack.
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successfully carried 1t through and the
marooned mariners whose lives they
had saved is living in retirement near
Seattle. The men who made the almost
impossible overland journey, which is
still talked about by old-timers in
Alaska. are all dead-F:rst Lieutenant
d. j. Jarvis, Commander of the Over
land Relief Expedition; Second Lieut..
e p Bertholf. afterward commandant
Of the Coast Guard in Washington and
later known well in New York as one
OF the vice-presidents of the American
Bureau of Shipping; and Surgeon s.
J. Call
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good. went yesterday to Wannsee,
beautiful lake eight miles from
Berlin. 1t cost me. second class. four
cents. American ladies in Berlin are
buying fur coats art treasures. trim
kets of all kinds at half and third
The New York herald., 1922-09-03
Beaver Culture a Means Of
Fur and Forest Production

Although the practicabiIitv OF beaver
farming has not been fuily demon
strated. the United States Department
OF Agriculture believes that tho busi-
ness OF raising beavers for their FUR
may develop. under proper control
measures, into profitable branch OF
fur farming.
The New York herald., 1922-09-03

tons; rich tourists from America find
Berlin a happy hunting ground. In
creased prices. which hit Germans
hard, mean nothing to them, for even
IL doubled and trebled they are still
ridiculous in foreign exchange.
The New York herald., 1922-09-03

The other night ! gave a dinner
party at a good hotel to five friends.
We had soup. fish, meat. ices. coffee
and two bottles of Rhine wine. The
little affair cost two dollars, with
handsome tip to the waiter Taxi
The New York herald., 1922-09-03

drivers multiply the figures on their
clocks fifty times in few days. 1t
will be eighty times, but even then
one can drive a mile for fifty cents.
Railway travelling costs next to
nothing for foreigners whose money is
The New York herald., 1922-09-03

the price in New York, although they
are charged three times as much as
Germans.
But what about these prices for the
Germans themselves? They are
enormous. in spite OF the rapid print
ing of paper money. A small roll of
bread, ten marks; a cheap suit OF
clothes. 5000 or 10000 marks.
The workingman now gets an average
wage OF 1900 to 1000 marks weekly.
How is he going to buy milk for his
children, clothes for himself and fam
ily? II is not easy arithmetic, but
somehow or other he works 1t out
and leaves himself margin for amuse-
ment Middle class folk these summer
days are out in a swarm in the pleasure
gardens like the Tiergarten in Berlin
or the woods and lakes at Potsdam,
Grunewald and Wannsee. The women
are pretty and neatly dressed, the
children are beautiful to see; they are
certainly we'll fed and happy.
There is also visible wealth in Ger
many. The streets are crowded with
splendid automobiles. The new rich
are yachting. as l saw them yesterday
in a chain OF lakes upon whose banks
they have rural villas and lovely
flower gardens. What poverty exists
In Germany is hidden. People liv-
ing on dividends and small fortunes
before the war are now ruined because
of the downfall OF the mark. Young
professionals. intellectuals. and writer's
of all kinds have to stint and scrape
went home with one yesterday; he
told me his class Is stricken. That no
doubt is true, but broadly speaking. I
believe there In less distress at the
moment in Germany than In England.
The New York herald., 1922-09-03
Her Latest Errand of Ad
venture Was to Find
the Lost Stone Which
Marked Limit of the
Blossoms Cruise
IN 1926
By DONALD A. CRAIG.

the most famous OF all their exploits,
the Overland Alaskan Expedition in
the long remembered winter of 1897
9s. Several hundred starving men
from wrecked whaling vessels thought
they We're seeing ghosts when three
officers of the Bear walked into their
camp with succor after fifteen hum
dred mile trip across the ice fields and
snow covered mountains.
| The quest which this year has been
occupying the attention of the officers
and crew of the Bear is not so perilous.
but it required careful and skillful
searching. Nearly 100 years ago
in the autumn of 1926, to be exact
the British ship Blossom was engaged
in making charts of the coast line and
ocean bottom in this part OF the Arc
tic Ocean, and she placed q stone
somewhere near Point Barrow to mark
the northernmost point in Alaska
which she reached. The stone has
been lost. The British Government
asked our State Department to find
the stone, set it up in conspicuous
place and suitably inscribe 1t. The
| State Department turned the job over
| 10 the coast N1udTu.
! Officers OF the Bear took friendly
and personal interest in the effort be-
cause the British charts made in those
faraway days are still the best charts
of those regions and are being used by
American vessels every yearA
The Bear can spend only a few
weeks each summer in the vicinity
of Point Barrow. To get there she
must wait for the ice fields to break
mp in June and July and she must
hurry away to keep from being frozen
in for nine or ten months. She spends
her winters on the California coast.
basing usually at San Diego, and her
summers cruising in Alaskan waters
attending to the business of the Gov
ernment. She is a floating court and
post office. She enforces revenue,
criminal and civil laws, acts as a COM
mon carrier for Government officers
and shipwrecked mariners, miners and
oil prospectors; guardian and adviser
of the native Eskimo population; pro-
tector Of seals; supply boat to Gov
ernment school stations and reindeer
camps. In fact, she performs through
her officers every function of Gov
ernment that is necessary on the
mainland and the islands of northern
Alaska: acts as a refuge for every
one in need and policeman toward
every wrongdoer.
Through the kindness OF Commodore
William Z. Reynolds, commandant OF
the Coast Guard, and Commander An
drew ]. Henderson. chief of the divi-
sion of inspection, both of whom know
from experience the work Of the Bear
in the Arctic Ocean. / have been al
lowed to read the official transcripts
OF the log OF the Bear and the re-
ports.
The New York herald., 1922-09-03
Ruin Draws Close
And Ground Is Slipping

Nevertheless ruin stares Germany In
the eyes and draws close. The ground
is slipping beneath the highly organ
lied and complicated industrial state.
When the crash comes 1t will be CO.
lossal. For Germany Is not sclf-sup-
porting and cannot be. She must i'm
port raw material in order to export
manufactured goods, and the time has
already come when she cannot buy
The New York herald., 1922-09-03
Rescued Amundsen's Ship
From Peril in the Ice

The Bear last June rescued Capt.
Roald Amundsen's, ship the Maud af-
ter she had been frozen in the ice and
broken her propeller during a cruise
of the noted arctic explorer In the
waters north OF Bering Strait. On June
II, 1921. the Bear spoke the American
gas schooner Herman with Capt.
Amundsen on board who reported the
Maud Ito quote from the account OF
Commander Cochran of the Bear)
fast in the ice at Cape Serdze, Siberia,
and that assistance was required in
view Of the fact that her propeller had
been broken by the ice.v Several
weeks later in Commander Cochrans
report we read:
Sailed from this point (reindeer
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Ships Leaking Badly I,
From Pressure Of Ffcsn'


July 2l.--Mr. Thomas, first msss
OF the Newport. arrived At the stations
having made his way in a boat frou3
his ship 20 the head OF Elson Bay. He
reported that on the 18th instant the
Newport and Fearless had been able
TO work free of the Ice that had held
them. and two days later came an far
west as Point Tangent. then gradually
TO Cooper Island. but could get No
further. The Newport was leaking
badly, but later on was taken into
Elson Bay and the leak stopped. Their
provisions were getting so low that Z
sent them 800 pounds OF salt meat. AZ
the fresh meat would not keep In the
On the lSth the Jesnie came I'm sight
and worked TO within three miles OF
the other vessels but as yet there had
been no communication between them.
learned later that the Jeanie's stern
was in bad shape and that she also
WIS leaking badly. Both vessels were
in such condition that IL was necessary
that theyNgo 10 some port for repairs
as soon as possible.
During the first half OF July the
wind blew from the southwest ana
kept the pack hard I'm with no sign OF
Improvement. but on the t4th IL shifted
to northeast and blew from that direc-
tion almost steadily until after the
Bears arrival. 1t was several days
before any effect was visible on the
ice. but gradually small lead began
to show outside the ridge. and IL kept
spreading until the 26th instant. when
the pack was out Of sight from the
land. During these days the men IN
camp were very uneasy and excited
over the prospect OF near relief from
their long Imprisonment.
TN detailing the work Of the ex-
petition / have not dwelt upon the
personal part OF the travel with any
intention TO magnify the dangers or
trials. but simply to show some OF the
difficulties we encountered. and which
all people travelling in that country
have to contend against. That we
overcame them was due TO the en-
thusiastic labor of all in the effort to
carry out your orders: and TO the help
we received from those living in the
country and from the natives. The
help of the natives to us and 10 the
people at Point Barrow is deserving
of some substantial reward"
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present there we're s~venty-sight m
the eld house mentioned. and the
morning after we arrived Surgeon Call
and myself inspected the place and
the condition ~ the men They were
all IN q horrible state.
-Aii the cooking. except baking the
bread. WAS dcn@ on tho one small
stove. u was only boiling meat and
enough walter for tea o. coffee. but
the steam generated gathered In frost,
overhead and on the sides. and tho
drippings from this kept The floors and
wallis continually Wet Lower down ory
the walls ice rad formed three or fouA
inches thick. and the drippingw and
meltinRs ran down over this into th8
berths. and even what little bedclothaS
the mon had never were dry. In the
endcavor 70 keep warm some Of thk
men had boxed in their berths. ana IN
these boxes kept improvised seal cia
lamps burning. The soot and snsoka !
from those lamps covered eyeryfhfnxs
their clothes and bodies. with a black
greasy coating, 80 that they worv
scarcely recognizable as white marv,
Some hardly left their berfhs az an
and all were IN xich low demoraiix<1
conditions that only the cold wesfh~ys
prevented a serious outbreak Of sichs
ness.
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camp known as Sevunga, near North
Cape. st. Lawrence Island) the same
day July 81 for Whalen (Ungelen),
East Cape. Siberia. with view TO rem
dering assistance TO Capt. Roaid
Arnundsen's schooner Maud"
And here is the entry in the log
which tells the end of the journey:
$500 p. M. TO Mid: Moderate to
strong fresh S. L. gale. Overcast and
raining to clearing last part Rough
to moderate sea, 500 (602) course
"a; $3.50 t62.7) course $50 degrees
900 (67.6) course 342 degrees 9:25
(6s.S) course 500 degrees; 9:40 (71.S)
course 270 degrees: alp. S. c. work
ing around East Cape $50 in log
(73.3). 1885 came off Whalen. ST.
IBERIA. in II fathoms water to so
fathoms starboard chain. East Cape
bearing 124 degrees and most westerly
building OF village bearing 191, both
true. American schooner Herman and
Norwegian schooner Maud at anchor
off the village"
With Propeller Broken,
Maud Had to Be Towed
The story Is continued by Com
mander Cochran as follows: 1T was
not practicable until Monday, July II,
for Capt. j. r. Watkins of the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey to
land for the purpose of making his
observations. In the meantime con-
suited with the Master of the Maud
(about ice conditions. etc.) and made
arrangements for taking her in tow.
There were received on board at this
time c. K Larson and Sam Malsegon,
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more was needed to buy the same
amount OF goods or service.
The Washington times., 1922-03-17
ADvRRTISENfENT. A

any strength and you are losing
your vitality. Your memory IL fast
returning to things which happen.
ed years ago and Ii not attentive.
You do not enjoy company, but
prefer to be alone. You are losing
weight. and 1t is harder every day
for you to do your work. for life IL
becoming a burden to you.
These are facts and well you
know it, SO you should prepare
yourself to meet the conditions Of
life as nature intended. Do not
allow yourself to become a medicine
fiend by taking into your system
medicine which contains an exces-
sivea amount of Alcohol and which
just stimulates you and deadens
your nervous system, nor medicines
which contain acids and minerals to
eradicate diseases and leave your
stomach In a most deplorable condi-
ton. Know what you are taking
into your system. just the same as
you would the food you eat
Tonall contains the elements nec-
essary to restore your health and
Is purely vegetable as analysis
proves.
TONALL Is sold at all of Peoples
Drug Stores. The TonaIl represen-
tative is explaining merits of Tonall
to the people daily at Peoples Drug
Store, 7th and E SITS. N. W.,
Washington, d. c.