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rangement for its purchase was made. The price paid was not much ifrany in excess of one-Quarter of what it cost to build. That there have been encountered in the construction of the road engineering difficulties it not to be denied, and possibly the Hoop may have been the greatest of these, but this particular Hoop" is not nearly so formidable as the famous loops on the Canadian Pacific railroad, from which the idea of the loop" on the Alaska railroad was taken. Then, had the writer taken into consideration that the railroad al which he directs his criticism has just been completed and is probably just as good, just as free from defects, and possibly more so than the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and other now famous roads were at the same period of their existence, he might no: have been SC hostile to Alaska's new means of trans portation
 That the presidents train was cut in two and left, part of it standing in tue middle of high trestle for some time. is unfortunate, and was without doubt due to a mistake somewhere, for, with the secondhand engines with which the road is equipped, this is not an infreQuent occurrence. It is not pleasant to sit for any length of time in the middle of that trestle the writer talks about, but this could have been easily obviated by attaching another engine at Mile g, as is done on practically all of the Western roads in taking trains over the summite
 We will not go so far as to positive ly assert that Wall Street interests did not sell the Alaska Central rail- road, running out of Seward, to the government, but to the best of our knowledge and belief, that line was owned by Canadian interests. It is cer- tain that the Morgans and Guggen- helms did not own the road, which absolves them from the charge that they unloaded it on the government for the purpose of making the govern ment enterprise as difficult as possible and perhaps bring about it abandon ment."
 The statement that had this deal not been made the government would probably have chosen Cordova, where the Guggenheim railroad now is, and that they did not desire a competitor, is but another proof of the ignorance of the writer, for at the time negotia- tions were in progress for purchase of the line from Seward, the Morgan Guggenheim interests offered the Cop per River and Northwestern Railroad to the government for a price consid- erably less than it cost to build, and urged its purchase. It is also untrue that the line out of Seward was use less and had to be scrapped and re- built before it could be of any use to the government. The line had been idle for some years, and, necessarily, was not in the best of repair, and re- pairs were made, but no such amount was spent in this work as would have built even quarter of the line The statement that this repair work cost many times the four millions it would have cost to build the Portage route
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ALASKA RAILROAD SCHEDULE

Time Table in Effect May 7, 1923 Throuqh Service Seward to Fairbanks Train Leaves Seward Mondays and
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NOTICE OF FIRE MEETING

The fire meeting of the Seward Volunteer Fire Department will be held at p. m. Friday, Aug. 10, 1923. A full attendance is requested.
 J. A. WALKER, kSat Fire Chief.
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DRUG STORE BE CLOSED

The Seward Drug Company will be closed Friday from 10 a. m. until 6 p. m. 2t
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-08-23

It is not the equation of one single
individual but of several individuals
and mechanical devices. Finally, the
locomotive runs on rails and has a
fixed course.
Every care is taken to avoid the
risk of accidents with railroad trains
whose orbit of operation is fixed by
the rails and controlled by ingenious
mechanical devices. On the other
hand any fool may take high power
ed automobile, youth without train
ing or judgment, turn it loose on the
highways and run it 40, so and so
miles an hour. The day is not far
distant when in Wisconsin and every
other state where traffic has become
congested, there will be most rigid
rules and regulations and officers to
enforce them.--Good Roads.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-08-23
SAFETY FOR HIGHWAY TRAFFIC

SAFETY FOR HIGHWAY TRAFFIC
We now have registered in Amer
lea about 100000 motor vehicles.
Last year $4,000 lives were lost in
motor vehicle accidents. This is
largely due to the fact that 80 per
cent of this motor vehicle traffic is
congested on 10 per cent of our high
ways. The time is coming when laws
must be adopted and arrangements
made for their enforcement, to wipe
out the mounting loss of life due to
traffic accidents. 1t is almost amaz-
ing to think that any Drained
idiot is empowered to drive on our
highways with vehicles which can run
so to 60 miles an hour without any
test of his capacity or ability to han
die dangerous vehicle of this char
acter.
A locomotive engineer goes through
years of training If you look at the
average engineer in the summer
months with his head stuck out of
the cab, he is usually a gray haired
man. He not only has undergone
years of training and reached the age
Of balanced maturity, but his train
is operated under control of train
dispatcher and block signal system
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-08-23
Our Vast Forest Resources

-o@o@o~)o~~o~~o@O~
/ west Trees six feet in diameter and
200 feet high are common Long tim
bers for ship and car construction,
and highly finished boards for inter-
ior uses of many kinds are obtained
from these mammoth trees. The prod
ucts of the Douglas fir forests are
shipped by rail and water to many
parts of this country and of the world.
The other principal varieties of saw
timber are the western yellow pine,
of which there are about 100 billion
feet, and the western white pine, of
which there are 20 billion feet.
Western yellow pine sometimes
known in the lumber trade as western
pine-is found throughout the Pacific
Northwest but the heaviest stands are
in central and eastern Oregon and in
parts of Montana and Idaho 1t has
long been a wood of recognized value
for all sorts of uses. 1t completes now
in the markets of the central states,
and to less degree in the eastern
states, with the yellow pines from the
southern region.
The largest forest of western white
pine in the world is found in Northern
Idaho and tapping over somewhat into
western Montana. 1t contains 20 bill
lion eet-three-fourths of the white
pine in the United States. 1t is the
occurrence of this species that is re-
sponsible for the building up of the
lumber industry there. From the
standpoint of general utility as well
as value, there are few substitutes
for white pine.
Western larch, however, is the distinc
tive tree of western Montana, and with
western yellow pine and Douglas fir
it makes up the principal commercial
forests there. Larch is used principal
ly as a heavy construction timber. On
the east side of the Continental Divide
in Montana and Wyoming the species
are Douglas fir, lodgepole pine, yellow
pine, and some species of less impor-
lance. Lodgepole pine occasionally
grows large enough for saw logs but
usually it is best suited for railroad
ties and mine timbers. 1t is largely
used for these purposes. The chief for
EST industry of Wyoming is in the
utilization of lodgepole pine for rail-
road ties.
Full two-thirds Of the great forests
of the Pacific Northwest are owned
privately, while one-third are owned
by the Federal Government. The Ma
tional Forests were set aside to insure
the permanent production of timber,
to protect the watersheds of nayigable
streams, and to preserve water sup
plies for cities and for irrigation and
powers Sales Of timber from these for
ests on long time leases are made by
the government to private concerns.
The Manufacturer
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-08-23

The timber resources of the Pacific
Northwest have just been described il
a booklet issued by the Chicago Bur
lington & Quincy Railroad, Great
Northern Railway and Northern Pacii
ic Railway.
Hundreds of logging camps are
pushing back the forest frontier
Cities with a permanent economic
support in lumber are springing up
One hundred and fifty thousand men
in camps and mills already are pro
ducing nearly one-third the nations
lumber cut. BY trainloads and ship
loads the great forest crop, worth $3.50
100000 a year, moves eastward
throughout our own country and to
foreign lands
The world demands more Of it to
build and grow. The Pacific North
west can supply it. On the slopes of
the Cascades, the Coast Range and
theOlympics of Oregon and Washing
ton, in the Occur d'Alenes, the Bit
terroots and Rockies of Idaho, Mon
:ana and Wyoming is half the timber
in the United States. Here is Ameri-
cas- great forest reserve. A vast store
house of natural wealth measuring
$40 billion hoard feet! If these great
forests should now stop growing, and
cutting should proceed at the present
rate, they would yield 10 billion feet
worth $S5O,OOO,OOO every year for 100
years. But growth continues at rate
that adds to the supply more than
half the amount annually cut. And
cutting must shortly increase to two
or three times the present amount,
in the opinion of the United States
Forest Service. Experts agree that
within the next fifteen years the bur-
den of supplying the bulk of the coun
try's needs for lumber will rest upon
the Pacific Northwest.
America has an amazing appetite
for wood We use two-fifths of the
total wood consumption. Our annual
ration is 40 billion feet of lumber, 81
million railroad ties, 515 million cords
of pulp wood, and ITO million cords
of fuel We have $4,000, 100000 invest
ed in plants that make lumber, wood
products and paper. These $4,000 es-
adjustments employ 1,35O,OOO work
ers. Nor is that all. Every industry,
no matter what is dependent in part
on the forest
Let US look fer a moment at these
vast areas of timber wealth, the most
magnificent forests in the world.
First, the most wonderful forest of a
single type the giant Douglas frs of
western Oregon and western Wash
ington. In this almost unbroken stand
$50 miles long and 100 miles wide, is
more than half the timber of the Pac-
ific Northwest-55 billion feet. These
are the big trees of the Pacific North
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-08-23
Not In the Books

Fond Mother Ito son returning from
the first day of school Well, son,
what did my little pet learn at school
today?
Little Pet; | learned two kids not
to call me sissy-by soaking 'em in
the nose.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-21

who have never touched and never
will touch a grain of morphine,
heroin or cocaine.
Yes?
The drug pedlers have many
ways of increasing their trade and
the easiest way, they have found
is to snare the virtuous who are
protected" from dope by ignorance
Of it.
There is brief history by way
of illustration.
In Clarksburg, w. Va, there prac-
tised one 7. L. Nutter, physician.
who is now in Atlanta penitentiary
sentenced for violation of the mar
,cotic laws. Dr. Nutter floated to
prosperity on the crest of a wave
of epidemic vice which spread a
disease among the youth of the
town.
Eventually the town sobered.
Wistfully, DR.. Nutter saw his, secret
practise shrink. But DR. NItter
had more than one string to his
bow, and more than one poison
barbed bolt to shoot from it.
He went to distant Chicago,
recruited ten underworld women,
established business connections
with a drug pedler, and returned
to Clarksburg, prepared to be busy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-21

through the first policeman's heart,
and feels much better.
Tommy is in the death cell of
Cook county Jail waiting for the
hangman's day, when the little
tune comes back. So he raises
lightly on the wings of cocaine's
song, rips his way out of jail, COM
handlers an automobile, and drives
merrily out of the State. He feels
much better.
Tommy is still at large and prob
ably will be until he gets cooked
up" again and ensnares himself
in legal difficulties about another
corpse.
Luther Boldly, the young Harlem
negro lately electrocuted in Sing
Sing, lay in his Harlem garnet lis
tening to the little voices which
spoke to him out of the tiny orifice
of his cocaine needle. They COM
mand, and Luther obeys. He arises.
his shrunken muscles full of the
might of the drug, and hurls him
self down the stairs into the street.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-21

and are not to be listened to until
they have settled their Latin quar-
rel among themselves.
Nor can we give ear to the l.w-
makers and enforcers. For by one
law Philadelphia throws the addict
in Jail; by another New York incar-
eerates him in. sort of prison
hospital, and by still another, Nash
vile pats him on the check AMI
gives him dose Of dope.
Nor do the sociologlste agree.
Half consider the addict Il patho-
logical case. The other nalf cen.
slider him purely se1f.indulgent and
vicious.
Humanity enough, but not help
fully, the doctors agree that the
addict is a medical problem, The
law enforcers agree he is a Grim
inai problem and the sociologists
clamor that he is their meat.
Study of the drug addiction dis
ease has not advanced even to
agreement on symptoms and eff
fects, so that you have DR.. Garlic
ton. Simon, of New York, demon
strating that drugs make men Grim
inals and his opponents demonstrate
ing that it is crime that makes men
drug addicts. Quite overlooking
it's obvious concomitants Of plain
filth and degradation las If these
were not disease enoughD, the med
ical profession ais a whole is be-
wildering itself and the rest Of us
with copious dispute about the
drug users metabolism and the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-21
Doctor Fails


With him vice returned, spread
ing the tinseparable disease more
widely than on the first visit. But
DIR. Nutter was not to be deceived
a second time by fraudulent signals
of prosperity. He planned to make
his profits more durable.
When a1yain, the fast young men
of the town came back to the doc
tors discreet anteroom to talk Sc
crets, he had incorporated a new
medicine" into his cure. He did
not name it.
The Government named it NOR
phine when, few months later, a
clever Federal agent presented m
self as a patient and walked out OF
DIR. Nutter's office with a cube of
the stuff in his pocket.
1t was established that the worthy
man of science had deliberately
added drug addiction to the other
affliction of his helpless patients.
When the second visitation of
Clarksburg's vice~~had spent itself
it had with the Doctors help. left
a more durable one in its stead. Z
The honorable doctors scheme to
boost science in sClarksbuEg is not
an isolated instance of the drug
trafficker reaching out for and
creating. addiction. where there was
nome before.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-21
Common Symptom

The result Of that is that the
local practitioner cannot obtain the
slightest knowledge about the ma
ture and cure of this disease. There
fore your neighborhood doctor can
better give you a haircut than any
efficacious treatment of addiction.
The open minded laynan gets a
better knowledge. He sees one
symptom common to all cases of
drug-addition This is the social
decline ending in social extinction.
The addict first loses his courage,
then his honor, finally, hideously,
his heart. More concretely, he
loses his job, then his credit and
finally all his contracts with, and
his affections for, his fellow man.
None of the physical effects of
addiction is quite so horrible as
this one inevitable moral effect
the final relinquishing of all human
decencies.
Mabel Mcfarland. student nurse
of the. Mendoza State Hospital in
Wisconsin. meets and marries Da-
vid Foy, a drug addict. Like all
addiets, he makes no effort to earn
q penny more than the price of his
daily deck Of morphine. The
girl must work to support herself.
Later she must work to pay for
his drugs. Still later u she must
work to pay his way out of jail.
She. was gathered in by the vice
squad and clapped into Duluth City
jail to teach her better.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-21
Women Wanted

"Of course they want women.
They wanted Dixie Dixon and they
used her until they killed her. They
wanted Cissy LOTUS and they used
her until they let her slip out Of
stage stardom into London nieht
court. They wanted me, and they
had me until I fled from them
down here.
They want women because they
are useful to create more addicts.
I cannot quote figures, but ]
know that most women, once they
become addicted to drugs, and how
ever well financed they start, are
soon in the streets. | myself have
heard the dope pedler give his ul.
timatum to them thus:
"'You get your "shot" when you
bring a new customer
"And out of their dens, out of
their .unamenable adventures, out
of the cleaner world, they bring
them in"
In a nutshell, then, here is t e
use of the dope trader for victim
woman:
Addiction, degradation, contagion.
Now, what is this thing drug
addiction? 1t cannot be assumed
that the reader knows, for the
doctors of the country are hOpelessly
at variance over the matter, sDatter
it ridiculously with disagreement
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-21
Milwaukee Tells

We might let Milwaukee tel.
from its city Jail, the story of Mona
Riyard, whose first encounter with
life after she leaves New Orleans
convent school is an affair of the
heart with Harry McDill, clerk in
a New Orleans drug store and ned
Ter on the side, who tries 10 more
usual means of beguiling guileless
maids without success but triumphs
when he calls TO his assistance his
ally, an hypodermic full of cocaine.
Estimate the value of that one
corrupt gesture to the Illicit, drug
traffic. Mona Rivard, in ten years,
has surely paid as many thousand
dollars for her drugs.
Should we discover and invcsti-
gate every trap of this kind set by
drug-traffickers for new game, we
should find most of them baited for
girls. For one DIR. Nutter who con-
tributes young American men to
his grateful drug, ring we find ten
McDills scouting for young Ameri-
can women. The. slogan If Dope
& Co. is:
Girls Wanted"
Let Evelyn Nesbit, who knows
well of these things speak from
her hospital bed in Atlantic City,
where she can fight pneunon4s he
cause she, one in q, million, faced
her addiction and fought it $off. =
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Girl of Naples

Somewhere Mr.. Foy is much dis
tfessed He doesn't know where
he will get the price Of tomor-
rows dope.
Into the office OF Ralph Oyler,
Federal narcotic agent in charge OF
New York, came a frowsy Italian
female and told tale.
She was that laughing zgirl from
Naples when it starts, and she
married a nice boy, younger of two
brothers. The elder. lower East
Side New York, gang-buIly and
opium-smoker, graced the wedding
with his overbearing presence. His
glance approved his brothers choice.
He. assembled his gang, beat the
brother senseless. carried him over
to New Jersey and dumped him
there. with orders not to come back
if he wanted to live. He took his
brothers small savings, which ne
turned into opium; he took the
brothers home, which he turned
into an opium den, and he took his
brothers. wife. The woman came
to Oyler because the big brother
had admonished her that, should
the opium den bes discovered by
the law, she must admit ownership
and take in his stead the year and
a day of penitentiary sentence
which such ownership entails.
Addiction, you see, becomes a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-21
switchman's Story

And add, perhaps your own sur
Geon, to the steadiness OF VIII: Sc
hand you are about to recommend
your health, your life.
Place at the head, if you will, Of
the army OF lost children of tie
sWeaEsnop little Yvonne <Proulx, OF
Montreal, who starts her drug habit
Saturday night in cafe where a
woman gave me some cocaine to
keep me up and ends il in a
Jail where she pays good years Of
her life Tor killing a man.
II you read this paper IN q train,
imagine. If you care to, the case of
the New York. New Haven e Hart
whose nightly preparation for duty
was injection into his left arm of
q powerful shot of heroin, which
clears the brain beautifully when
its effects first is felt, but befogs it
disastrously when later the effect
wears off.
And IN the switchman.ss company
place the taxi driver who .srtifies
himself against the task Of con-
Quoting your wife on her shopping
tour with a few shifts OF cocaine,
that he may take the corners faster.
Include. officers and members Of
the crews Of the steamships King
Alexander, Empire State, Marking,
Tenyo Maru and the host Of liners,
Japanese, English and American
Shipping Board which have mixed
and viii continue to mix the. f1ys-
terical business Of smuggling dope
with the sober one OF getting the
travelling American safely from port
to port.
But we can abandon this encyclo-
pledic listing OF the patrons of the
poison needle, which leads simply
TO registry of every kind and con-
6ition Of American citizen. There
is today no class uncontaminated
by dope.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-21
Official Attitude

IF you want to keep out Of
trouble, let dope Alone" is summary
Of official attitude.
The wrong people are letting dope
alone. The Federal law inforcers
must content themselves with spo-
radio raids made in the interests of
an obscure branch of the Treasury
and feeding into it a few fines, and,
into the penitentiaries, negligible
percent Of the criminal horde of
american dope pedlers. The police
of the cities are content TO make
mastery arrests of unbalanced drug
fiends after they have done some
cocaine inspired butchery.
The right people are not letting
dope alone. Dope is not let Slone
either by lawyer, business man,
housewife, high school girl. or thief
II you thought that the use OF
drugs was restricted to the last
or the criminal element in general
land therefore very little your con-
cernl-you are wrong.
IL ,yeu do not believe, here, at
random, are types:
Add TO the twenty addict doctors
ct the. aforementioned American
Medical Association report the
Maine surg son, who, arriving to
find q northwoods farTn-wife in the
condition which necessitates the
perilous Caesarean operation, could
not grip the saving scapel until a
messenger on snowshoes had run
ten miles and returned with his
nerve-steadyinE dose Of dope.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-21

are faint The Hall-Mills case will
probably remain unsolved.
The adventure of dope is endless,
its thrill is inexhaustible. Dope
produces not one drama, but a
thousand dramas.
And we fear that, telling them,
we shall somewhere bury the fact
that all this drama is tragedy.
The reader, then, will be fascinated,
perhaps, but not warned.
If this occurs we fail. For, as
we relate, we indict.
Indict whom?
Not the Indian poppy, an inno-
cent vegetable.
Not the manufacturer, whose de-
Tense is that he makes drugs for
the doctor.
Not the doctor, whose defense is
that he uses drugs to cure.
Not the addict. whom we must
defend as a victim.
And not only the pedlers. They,
too, in a measure. know not what
they do.
You and neighbor must shoulder
responsibility here. Like war, dope
is too great an evil to be faced by
anything less than whole popula'
tions.
The force that can lick dope is
you.
II there are a hundred million
others like you.
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