Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 28, 1920, Page 3

SALE OF SHIPS "~ UP TO CONGRESS L3 mitted Is that the whole country—the farmer, the manufacturer, ‘the pro- ducers of all sections—must enter equally with the shipping'men into the boosting of the merchant marine, it we are to keep it golng. " ¢ It is pointed out that between three and four billions are invested in these ships, and that under proper conditions H shipping securities should be attrac- i tive Investments to the people at large, ; whereas now they are rarely thought i of. ! ; f As to ways and means of agcomplish- i ing the desired end, the testimony of | practical shipowners has been sought ! by the senators. These views have ! been placed before the committee In ;Connhn Told How English Competi-| o col:lcengnted form of a statement { tion Can Be Overcome and Our |from the American Steamship Owners’ | r i i H H i TRIBE IS HIT HARD Almost Wiped Out by Dance and . Feast. - Famine Follows Fete Among Alaskan Indians—Forty-Two Are Dead. {Business Meh Will Take Over “Farmers’ -Delivery Wagons™ of Merchant Fleet. TO SCALE DOWN WAR COST. Cordova, Alaska.—A play, a dance and a feast, winding up a season of plenty. was responsible for the near- natives last winter and spring, ac- cording to John. H. Kilbuck, superin- tendent of schools for the Kuskokwim river district. . The famine following the feast, Mr. Kflbuck said in his annual report to the bureau of education, caused the deaths of at least 42 of the natives, and would have wiped out the entire clan had not missionaries come to the rescue with a supply of food. The tribe, Mr. Kilbuck sald, stored up great quantities of fish during the summer and fall seasons. In celebration of their good for-' tune they invited other tribes to at- tend a “kuvgagyagagg,” featured by a play; a-“white man's dance” and the giving away of food. \Vhen it was all over the guests were millionaires in the currency of the section, while the hosts were paupers. It will be years, Mr. Kilbuck de- clared, before the Quigillingoks recover from the effects of their generosity. SHOWS “PROFS” UNDERPAID Wives of Instructors at Northwestern University Are Forced to Do Their Own Work. Flag Keépt on the — - Assoclation, an organization including § virtually all the American firms own- r, : Sea. s ing- seagoing ships, a few being large companies, but the great majority. be- ing small. Members of the assoclation own ships aggregating 2,600,000 tons, and. operate 4,000,000 tons more for the government, a total six times greater than the country’s deep-water tonnage before the war. Yo Charge Off High War Costs. The views of. these shipowners, whose vessels sail from évery port in the country, were presented by the president of their association, H. H. Raymond of New York. Mr. Raymond told the senators that as a first step to keeping the flag on the seas, the gov- ernment must charge off the extra war cost of the new ships, as it has charged off costs on war camps and supplies, aeroplanes and naval vessels, and sell them at a price that will allow them to be operated on an investment, ton t By WINFIELD M. THOMPSON, 3Edlur The Marine Journal, New York, ‘Washington, D. C—"Ships are the rmers’ delivery wagons, “We must interest the whole people ships. “The Inland states are ag much.in- ijterested in the merchant marine as ithose on the seaboard,’ . “In these times our manufacturers lcannot profitably do business with the irest of the world without ships upder ithe American flag to carry their goods ito the world’s markets.” i These are a few of the expressions jheard at the hearings on a merchant imarine policy for the country, now be- iing conducicd before the Senate Com- ‘mittee on Commerce, which is shaping ' (ol Chicago.—A questionnaire among the faculty members of the college of ty -was responded to by fifty-two and’ showed, mmong many interesting things, that among professors and in- structors whose salaries are less than $1,500 the modern “hired girl” is un- known. “If the instructor marries, his wife must do all. the housework for some time,” the faculty report, recently sub- mitted to the trustees of the universi-- ty, says. But worst of all, even when the in- structor has worked his way up the ladder to the position of associate or assistant professor “we find him;” the report continues, “still unable to spend much of anything for domestic service. Not even In the group of men receiving the salaries of full profes- sors do we find an average expendi- ture sufficient to pay a maid’s wages for one year.” At Northwestern the full professor, 80 called. receives from $3,000 to $4.000 yearly. The questionpaire also ellcited other information which the Northwestern “y” teacher claims entitles him to something more than the 25 per cent increase of salary recently announccd by Campaign Chairman Dyche. ARCH FOR 100-YEAR PEACE Memorial Urged for Friendly Rela- tions Between Canada and United States. Blaine, Wash.—Erection of a huge memorial arch on the international boundary - here to commemorate the century of peace between Canada and “Farmers’ delivery wagons” of the new carry from 12,000 to 14,000 tons of i A modern freighter, One of the {Merchant Marine. This vessel will :gwhent in a single cargo. . for ton, approaching that of shipown- ers under other flags. The unit of value in a ship is the deadweight ton ; that 18, a ship is worth 80 much. for every ton it will carry. 1 jg& War Cost of the merchant .| fleet is bélleved: to be less than $200 a.| “but 4the United States Shipping .has charge of the vessels, has®been trying to get more than {hat for them, with very few sales. <.Mr. Raymond told the senators a fair price was $100 a ton, and the differ- ence should be charged off as part-of our expense in winning the. war and making the ‘continuance of American prosperity possible. Competing With the English, It is only by putting some such valu- ation on the ships that they cam be operated at a profit against the Eng- lish merchant marine, the representa- tive of the shipowners said. To .at- tempt competition on trade routes of the world with England’s formidi- ble fleet, sald Mr. Raymond, on a war- cost basis for American ships, would prove disastrous. To prove his point the witness submitted figures covering the chargey against capital invested in two ships of 10,000 tons capacity each, one under the Englisi flag, valued at $100 a tom, the other under the Ameri- can flag, for sale by the Shipping Board at $220 a ton. These figures showed: Annual Interest charges at 5 per cent on capital invested, English’ $50,000, American $110,000; ‘annual' deprecia- tion, at 5 per : cent;:-English '$50,000, American $110,000; insurance, Engi!'sh $30,000, American $66,000 ; totals, Eng- lish annual ‘cliarges $180,000, American $286,000; difference in favor of the English vessel, 156,000. To Keep Up:American Wages, ' Wages on an American ship of the size noted, said the witness, amount to between $12,000 and $15,000 a year more than on the British ship. There is no disposition to scale down Ameri- can wages; but to meet the added charge the shipowners believe they should be allowed to charge off 10 per cent annually as depreclation on their ships before paying their income tax. To encourage & continuance of ship- building in American yards, the ship- owners proposed this plan to the sen- ators: That ships bought® from the government and kept under the Ameri- ean flag in foreign commerce be ex- empted from federal excess - profit taxes, on condition that amount equivalent to such exempt vested by the owner of the' ships in additional vessels, to be built in Amer- ican yards. X4 In response to a question from a senator if this was government aid to shipping, Mr. Raymond made this reply: i . 4 “Of all our great national industries, American shipowning and shipbuilding for overseas commerce have been left without aid and encouragement from | the government—other industries, as we all know, having long been protect- ed in some degree by our national tariff laws. We submit that it must be ac- knowledged that ocean shipbuilding and navigation are as much entitled as any other industries to some form of national ald against foreign competl-| | “legl'slitlon for the disposal and opera- ition' of the vast fieet of cargo-carrying iships that has come out under our flag {as a result of the shipbuilding program upon which -the /country—ertered ' to. commission, in the near future, there ‘will be available for sale a total fleet .of about 1,500 vessels, with a total car- rying capacity of 10,500,000 tons at one time. i @enators Wrestie With Problem. ! Nineteen senators on the Commerce Committee are wrestling with the prob- . lem of what to do with these ships. In- cluded in the nineteen are five from Middle Western states—statesmen who understand the needs both of the pro- ducers of the great graln and manu- Afacturlig states, and also.the prici- ‘ples on which ships must be managed iff they are to show a profit and keep /the seas In competition with the ves- sels of other natlons. ‘These midwest senators are Sher- man of Illinois, Nelson of Minnesota. {Reed.of Missourl, Harding of Ohio, and Lenroot of Wisconsin. i "The gravest question before these senators is how to get the government iout of the business of managing these ships into which it got during the war. !!t is taken for granted by Congress that the ‘government should now get lout of the ‘shipping- business, just as fit 1s getting out of the railroad busi- mess, now that peace is here. !" The main business before the sena- itors 18 to provide means for selling the government-owned tonnage of the' vast mew merchant fleet to American busi- mess-men, and to pass legislation un- {@er which the ships can overcome the Fomi!etlflnn of England and other Eu- ropean nations that are straining every merve to drive the new Amerlcan com- smerce fleets from the ocean. | “Now Is the Accepted Time.” The view of the senators on the pro- 1 to sell the ships was very well xpressed the other day by Senator {Knute Nelson of Minnesota, who at the ‘end of a long session on the subject of ithe sale remarked : X . “In the language of holy writ, ‘Now is -the accepted time’—to sell the ahips.” 3 ! The witness then before the commit- tee, a shipping man from New York, echoed the thought in somewhat more modern language by replying: i “Qo to it while the golng is good.” i It being agreed in principle that the ships shall be sold by the government ‘—the House of Representatives has al- ‘ready passed favorably on the proposi- ‘tion now, before the senate by a vote. of 240 to 8—the main questions are the .price at which they shall be sold and ‘the conditions under which they can > be operated-by their buyers. Views of Shipping Men. . The senators have heard the views of a wide variety of witnesses, includ- ‘Bng bankers, farmers, manufacturers, /fRwyers, Insurance men and others, b subatance of the testiniony_ sub- good ‘roads men of Washington and British Columbia. Tentative plans call for the eréction of ‘the arch in a big park to be estab- lished ‘on the Pacific highway on both sides of the boundary. The city of Blaine is willing to purchase the American share of the park if the British Columbia parliament will buy the Canadian side. Samuel Hill of Seattle, president of the Pacific Highway association, is leading the movement. Premier Joha Oliver of British Columbia has prom- ised to-consider the matter. @roveee } Lumber Jacks to Tramp . Over John Brown’s Grave. Troy, N. Y.—The grave of John Brown, the. abolitionist, at North Eiba, In the. Adirondacks,. is fncluded in’the sale of 1,200 acres of timbér “land" in Essex county near Lake Placid, which has just been bought by James Hurley, Lake DPlacid, for $60, 000. Lumbering operations will be carried on.-When Brown was executed in 1859 his body was taken to North Elba, where he had founded a refuge for fugi- tive slaves.” Several years ago a monument was placed over the grave. _ e gesuine box has a_Red top with Mr, Hill's picture. 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