Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1923, Page 5

Great Alaskan Problem Myth, | Says President, Outlining Needs Protection of Natural Resources From Exploiters and Aid to Home-Makers Will Insure Bright Future, He Believes. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., July 28.—Presi- dent Harding returned from his Alaskan trip yesterday and in an ad- dress delivered here reported to the American people that he had found nothing wrong with their great northern territory; that there is no “broad problem of Alaska” and that Alaska is “all right and is doing well.” “I do not belleve Alaska can be forced, or that It should be” he Raded. “There is no need of government-; wanaged, federally-paid-for, hot- house development. There must be 20 reokiess sacrificing of resources, Wwhich ought to be held permanent in order to turn them into immediate profits. * ¢ ¢ Where there is possi- bility ‘of betterment in the federal machinery of administration improve- ments should and will be effected. But there is no need for sweeping reorganization.” Pledges Protection. The President enumerated a num- ber of wavs in which the develop- ment of the territory should be alded. * He declared against ruinous exploi- tation of natural resources and urged a development of Alaska for Alas- kans” He recommended more ri striction on salmon fishing, the terri- tory’s greatest industry, and prom- ised that if Congress was unable to agree on a problem of helpful legis- lation, he. by executive order, would extend the present reservations and their regulations. Restrictions with respect to utiliza- tion of the forests. he said, might well be lightened. Development of Alaska's coal mincs must awalt time and the normal urging of economic condi- *tions, he submitted, but the govern- ment should do whatever is necessary to encourage leasing and development ©of oil lands. Sees Statchood Soon. Other conclusions presented by Mr. Harding were that generous appro- riation should be made for road building; that the federal government should be more liberal in encouraging the technical, scientific and demon- stration work of the agricultural agencies, and that the government should retain ownership and opera- tion of the Alaskan railroad. “Alaska is designed for ultimate the President told his au- n a very few years we can well set off the panhandle and a large block of the connecting southeastern part as a state. This region now con- tains easily 90 per cent of the white . populations and of the developed re- sources. It would be the greatest single impetus we could possibly give to the right kind of development. As to the remainder of the territor: 1 would leave the Alaskans of the fu- ture to decide.” Praises Scenle Beauty. The Chief Executive began his ad- dress with praise for the scenic beau- ties of Alaska. “There can be none to dispute to Alaska pre-eminence as the empire of scenic wonder: he asserted. “Since the water journey by the in- side route is very little less wonder- ful and impressive than the vast do- main of Alaska itself, it would seem that we need only to have our people und pensations, on the one hand, and de- velop hotel facilities for entertain- ment, on the other, to make Alaska a favored destination in summer travel. There is no_sea trip in the world to equal It. There is no lure of mountain, stream, valley and plain L #urpass it anywhere. There is atnple development of the transporta- tion service essential to travel and there is comfortable accommodation now, which demands will make luxu- rlous whenever it is expressea.” Fraise was bestowed on the people of Alaska the President “as the finest, most hospitable people in all the world.” Future Lies in Women. “There is no finer citizenship in all the United States; no more promising & childhood anywhere,” he added. ndeed, in this citizenship and in this vigorous childhood, both devoted to Alaska as the land of their homes, lies the solution of the problem. In them is the assurance of Alaska's ultimate and adequate development. No maglc wand made from Federal Treasury gold may be waved to_effect the grand transfor- mation. The process of development and establishment of permanent and | ample civilization lies In a citizen- ship with homes in Alaska, not in | investors who are seeking Alaskan wealth to enrich homes elsewhere.’ “Let me say that I shall undertake no more than a preliminary report at this time,” he continued. “He who undertakes to forecast the future of Alaska and formulate a program for its realization, on the strength of such a fleeting glimpse as has been permitted to us, will be a wiser and a far bolder man than I. We have seen much, but it is only a little of the stupendous whole. * * * More than all, we have enormously strengthened our faith in the future of Alaska as the home of a great state in the American commonwealth. A brave, hardy, enterprising, uncom- Pplaining people are building for Alas- ka's tomorrow precisely as our fore- fathers hullt for ours today In the older communities, and I am sure that they will in their time bring a great state into the Unlon. Sees Desire for Exploitation. “There has been a disposition in many yvears, to assume that Alaska has been lately experiencing a serious backset. This seems to be based on a loss of rather less than 15 per cent in population from 1910 to 1920, and on some curtallment of the territory’s production of wealth. Judgments ad- verse to Alaska will not be based on such adventitous conditions, save by *the unintelligent or by those who would deliberately cry down the coun- try’s availability as a land of homes in"the hope of getting it turned over to wholesale exploitation on a scale that would ruin it for all the future. l Against a program of ruinous ex- ploitation we must stand firmly. Our adopted program must be a develop- ment of Alaska for Alaskans. To plan_ for wise, well rounded develop- ment into a permanent community of homes, families, schools and an illuminated soclal scheme we must give all encouragement. From sim- ilar areas in the world present such natural invitations to make a state of widely varled industries and per- manent character * * % True, it} lost 15 per cent in population in the! +decade wherein the great war de- moralized the entire world. But one province lost 88 per cent and, an- other 60 per cent, respectively. Qites Population Losses. Alaska s once more gaining in e'uryl.hh? which testifies prosper- ity, but from the agricultural prov- inces of western Canada comes re- port of & still continuing exodus. Some of our foremost states lost notably in_population between 1910 and 1920. The other day I read that 717,600 colored and 29,900 white peo- ple had left Georgla farms. There are like reports from all over the south, and the farming sections of the Wi are not far behind. Aus- tralia and South Africa are offer- ing dfrect money inducements to im- migration, and failing to get it. If we would take down our immigra- tion bars there would be a tidal wave of emigration fromall * ¢ o central, southern and southeastern Europe. Evidently Alaska is not alone In feeling the effects of the war on her population. Anyhow we ‘have come in these later days to appraise population by its quality rl&lor than quantity, and Alaska will log big in any quality test. ut, we are told, gold production and its fascinations and com- | Alaskan | in Alaska has fallen off discouraging- ly. Let us see about that. In 1915 Alaska turned out $16,000,000 of gold, and 1921, $8,000,000. That is a loss of one-half. " But the United States as a whole fell off in gold takings by almost the same percentage: From $101,000,000 in 1915 to $50,000,000 in 1921. The world never needed new gold supplies more than now to re- habllitate ruined financial systems. Yet from 1908 to 1920 Australasia lost over two-thirds of its gold pro- duction; and since the war began in Europe the world as a whole has lost just about one-fourth. We all know perfectly well that this has been the result of worldwide economic condi- tions. Gold is worth just about one- half as much in buying power as be- fore the war. The wonder is not that Alaska’s gold production has fallen oft, but that it has fallen relatively s0'little. There Is every reason to bolieve-that its gold crop will be re- stored just as sobn as the world re- sumes & normal economical balance. Follows Path of All “Precisely the same story is. told by the figures on copper. * * * The shrink in copper prices was a dis- couraging fact, it is true, but Alaska’s copper did not lose in price S0 much as Minnesota's wheat or Iowa's corn. Look at it as you will, | Alaska is simply going through the wash along with the remainder of the world. It will come out with the rest, and then, able to realize its natural riches, will be ¥ as well as ilater, that there is no panacea for Alaska; largely because Alaska needs none, but also because Alaskan troubles flow from the same general causes which make troubles else- where. The world has burned up so much of its capital that there is not enough to go around. When the stocks of liquid capital are restored Alaska will come in for a better share than ever before has fallen to its lot, simply because our country, if it clings to stable ways, will be the greatest capital nation. It im- poses no strain on credulity to be- lieve that when that time comes Alaska will go forward at such a rate that the ground recently lost will soon be more than regained. 4 Urges Check on Fishing. “The gredtest Alaskan industry stands in entirely different relation than either gold or copper. I refer to the fisheries, which in present wealth-producing potency far exceed the mines. In fact the fisheries prod- uct is now in value more than double that of all metals and minerals. It is too great for the gooad of the terri- itory, for 1f it shall continue without imore general and effective regula- tion than is now imposed it will presently exhaust the fish and leave no_basis for the indust i “It is vastly more easy to declare for protection and conservation of such a resoutce than to formulate |a practicable and equitable program. | Fish hatcheriex have been estab- |lished to restock streams, but the results are still conjectural and con- troversfal. Argument is advanced for the abolition of one method of fishing In one spot, the condemna- tion of another type in another, and 50 on, until there is a confusion of local controversies which no specific and exclusive prohibition will solve, |* * * But there is encouragement in the almost unanimous agreement in Alaska that regulation must and shall be enforced, and we must apply a practical wisdom to the varied situations as the salvage of the in- dustry demands. * * Reserves Have Helped. By the establishment of reserves along sections of the coast we have already accomplished much. More restrictlon is necessary and urgent. The conservation must be effected, If Congress cannot agree upon a iprogram of helpful legislation the reservations and their regulations will be further extended by executive oifier. * ' m “I must confess 1 journeyed to Alaska with the impression that our forest conservation was too drastic, heard on every side. Frankly, I had a wrong Impression. Alaska favors no miserly hoarding, but her people, Alaskan people, find little to grieve about in the restrictive policies of the federal government. There is not unanimity of opinion, but the vast majority is of one mind. The Alaskan people "do not wish their natural wealth sacrificed in a vain attempt to defeat the laws of economics which are everlasting and unchanging. 1 fear the chief opponents of the for- estry policy have never seen Alaska and their concern for speedy Alaskan development is not inspired by Alas- kan interests. Urges Pulpwood Production. “I have alluded to the threatened destruction of the fisheries, due to admitted lack of regulation and pro- tection. We have begun on the safe plan with the forests, even though we may have erred in excessive restric- tions. With the lesson of forest de- struction painfully learned, with the nation-wide call’ for reforestation throughout the states, which will re- quire generations and vast painstak- ing, it has been sought to provide for the utilization of the Alaskan forests and at the same time provide their perpetuation through reproduction.” The President detalled the govern- ment plan for encouraging production of pulpwood and added: “A cord of wood produces about three-fourths of a ton of paper; that is, the manufacturer pays about 53 cents for wood and waterpower rights to make a ton of paper worth about $70. Can it be charged that three- fourths of 1 per cent for these two raw materials is so heavy a tax as to paralyze the industry? T reply that it 1s not, and that no such charge is seriously made by intelligent and sin- cere people. Praises Contracts, “But there is another proviso which the critics protest. We reserve the right, in each fifth year, to revise the cordage price. It may be raised, but not beyond the price which has been pald for other timber of like quality, and in like circumstances, during the preceding year. We adjust to the pre- valling market. Does that seem un- reasonable? If the same manufac- turer had taken his contract on_ the Canadian crown lands he would be subject to an advance of his price at any time, and without such a limita- tion; or, if he had bought outright the necessary timber lands to operate a mill for a long period, he would have had to carry a comparatively large initial investment. I venture, with some knowledge of conditions in va- rious paper-making countries, to state that no better contract, indeed, none 2o good, can be secured in any of them. + “But there is also protest that the red tape of departmental regulation and interference makes it impossible to enlist enterprise which the gov- ernment in any wise supervises. At this point the answer is easy. This very type of contract is made by the government with the timbering in- terests in the national forests in both Alaska and the states, and the man- ufacturers have been working under it for more than a decade with entire satisfaction. * ¢ ¢ Tellf of Coal Stores. “In substance, the same considera- tions explain the slower development of the lumber industry. But the time, is at hand for forest product develop- ment in Alask: * Frankly, I do not look for a rapid development in Alaska. It could only be had at the cost of sacrificing a few imme- diately available resources and then abandoning the rest. That we do not desire and will not knowingly permit. “We have been told many times that Alasks contains some of the greatest coal measures !(%gwn and I THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, found myselt asking why coal is nnt‘ mined, sold and used * ¢ * Com: i8 being mined, sold and used. It is being mined, satisfactorily and profitably, under the terms of the complained against coal land leasing system. Perhaps the contracts do need slight modification. If Alaska possesses all the coal which the ex- tremists belleve all the agents of greed ever heard of would be insuf- ficient to grab control. ““The truth is we do not know the actual extent of avallable deposits because nature has tossed the coal strata in all directions and large op- erations remain unproven. The Navy experiment where we ventured upon, building a modern town before we proved the accessibility of the coal was a notable flasco, with a deserted new town as a monument to folly. Coal Boom to Come. “Alaska might well be supplying coal for our own industrial and do- mestic needs, but participation in a big way in the world fuel supply must await big capital in develop- ment and aids In reduced transporta- tion costs which present day condi- tions are slow to promise. The gov ernment has its own railroad in Alas- ka and we have our own ships which may be assigned to operate in_con- nection with the rallroad, but I can| see no more reason for defying the immutable laws of economica in pro- viding transportation at the exces- sive government cost than there is to sacrifice Alaskan resources to the same unfrultful end. Time and the normal urging of economic conditions will bring Alaskan coal into its ulti- mate own. “There is petroleum in the terri- tory. A small production is already affording a profitable return, refined In Alaska for Alaskan consumption. There are developments now in proc- ess by some of the larger commercial oll interests and there are dreams of measureless oil resources in the most northerly sections which are ex- pressed in terms which sound more tabulous than real. Large Capital Needed. “Here is a discovery and a devel- opment demanding excessively large investment and a venture on the part of capital which the ordinarily justi- flable restrictions utterly forbid. It is no project of hundreds of thou- sands of capital; it is the quest of the tens of milllons. Long distances to ports, the making of available ports if the deposits are proven, de- mand that grants or leases be ade- quate to fair return for the big ad- venture. No native, no individual e terprise, is to be hoped for. To un- cover the suspected riches there will need be the lure of adequate return. We shall have to do whatever is nec- essary to encourage leasing and de- velopment or hold the vast treasure uncovered and futile. “I have left agriculture to the last in this consideration of Alaska's leading resources and possibilities. That is because of the conviction that an examination of the others was necessary to understand the agricul- and that Alaskan protest would be | tural problem. Our policy agriculture must depend largely on the attitude we shall adopt toward these other resources. If we are to turn Alaska over to the exploiters, to have one after another of fts re- sources wrenched out of it by the ruthless means of mass efficiency we will never create or need a real agri- alture there. Pictures Exploitation. “If, for example, we shall go on decimating the fisheries year by year until they have been ruined; and if, then, because a raise in the price of paper shall have made it profitable we shall turn over the forests for a like exploitation and a like destruc- tion; if, in short, we are to loot Alas- ka as the possibility of profit arises now in one direction, now In another, then we shall never have a state or states in Alaska, we shall never have a community of stabilized society and Lome people. “If that is to be the Alaska policy we need not concern ourselves about agriculture. The adventurers and asual laborers, the masters of ex- ploitation and agents of privilége will | be satisfied to live on canned vege- tables and cold-storage meat during the brief periods of their temporary stays. The slow processes and mod- | est returns of agriculture will not appeal to them. Urges Agricultural Ald. “But if, on the other hand, we are to thake a great, powerful, ‘wealthy and permanent community of Alaska, | if we are to place its star in our flag, to shine for a land of hope and homes and opportunity for the average man, then we must commit ourselves to a program of moderation, of control, of rounded and uniform development. ! We must encourage the present tend- ency to make homes; to bring wives and raise families; to regard life in lovely, wonderful Alaska as an end not a means. We must, if this is our aim, give especial attention to en- { couraging a type of agricuiture suit- ed to climate and circumstances. “We will learn many lessons by studying the methods of older coun- tries with like conditions. ® * * The federal government has done something, but all too little, along this line; we may well be generous in encouragement to the technical, scientific and demonstration work of the agricultural -agencies. We will need to help the Alaskan farmers to help themselves. The Alaskan farm- ers are making fine progress, but In this one direction I would urge gov- ernment interests and aid on a scale which is much more liberal. Transportation Needs Vital. “In another direction there is justi- fication for a most liberal disposi- tion—that of road and trail building. Much of Alaska which will in an- other generation be rich and pro- ductive is yet unexplored, to say nothing of being mapped and equip- ped with highways. There should be | an organization capable of the read- lest response to demands for roads and trails. No discovery of riches should be kept from rational devel- | opment for want of access to it. *| * * Roads constitute a prime need in every new country, and our long national experience in pushing our highways ahead of the enrolling wave of settlement ought to con- vince us that the broadest liberality toward roads in Alaska will be cer- tain to bring manifold returns. “Aside from all this there is the ne- cessity to provide feeders for the rail- road which the government has built and is now operating. More than $56,000,000 has been spent on this 500 miles of raflroad. It was not bullt in the expectation of immediate or even early profit; rather, it stands in much the same relation to Alaska that the Unlon Pacific did to our widely sepa- rated ocean fronts, east and west, when it was constructed far in ad- vance of economic justifications. It Police Give Up Exciting Chase As‘Bear’Grunts By the Awsociated Press. . DETROIT, Mich., July 28.—Four stalwart patrolmen sallled forth armed to the teeth and loaded for bear, but found only pork. A telephone call to police sta- tion carried the disconcerting in formation that a grizzly bear was roaming about Highland Park, a suburb. The officers, armed with rifles and_numbering one police- man who had once seen a bear in its natural habitat, responded. After diligent search they learned the creature was penned in a garage. They opened the door and prepared for the worst. A husky porker that had escaped from a farmer's wagon greeted them with a friendly grunt. These are the bear facts. ———mnes MAY SEEK PROSECUTION OF DRY AGENT’S SLAYERS Officials Discuss Possible Acuon{ After Shooting, Blamed l on Error. i | i By the Assoclated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., July 28.—Fred D. Dismuke, director of federal prohi- | bition forces in Georgia, held a con- | ference with United States District | Attorney Clint W. Hager here, relu-! tive to possible government action against one or more of three West ! Point, Ga. youths who figurcd in! the gun battle Tuesday night, in! which two prohibition agents were shot, one fatally, and one of the youths slightly ~wounded. It was ! understood that prosecution would be pushed on charges of “interfering ! and impeding revenue officers in pur- suit of duty. The shooting occurred when Agent | Grady Cobb and Special Deputy J.! Gordon Andrews of La Grange, Ga., attempted to stop the automobile in which A. S. Hamby, Frank Jones and Roy Williams were returning from a church soclal in the belief that the | car carried liquor. According to the | assertion of the youths, they believed | the officers were highwaymen and sped past when commanded to stop. The officers gave chase and a gun | battle ensued. In the exchange of ! shots Agent Andrews received | wounds from which he dled yester- day. Special Deputy Cobb was shot in the hand and Hamby recelved a | scalp wound. The _automobile, contained no liquor. MAY EXHUME BODY OF WOMAN SUICIDE Police Have Clue to Identity of Un- known Who Took Her Life in Detroit Hotel. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, July for an order to exhume the body of | a woman who ended her life in = local hotel July 7 is to be made today | by officlals of the coroner's office | here in the belief that the woman, buried in a local cemetery, may have been the wife of George E. Cook. Indianapolis business man, who is missing. ! Announcement that the order | would be asked was made after a ' clerk at the hotel where the woman | took her life declared a photograph of the missing Indionapolis woman | corresponded in appearance with that | of the woman who died here. | The woman, who before her death removed every possible mark of identification from her clothing, reached here the night of July 7. Mrs. Cook left Indianapolis that morning. The woman who came here was ill, and Mrs. Cook Is also known to have been ill when she disappeared. The woman who died here wore watch bearing the initials of the business man's wife. —_—— 148 ILL ON PRISON DIET. ' Ptomaine Blamed for Conditions at Putnamville, Ind. ! By the Associated Press. | PUTNAMVILLE, Ind., July 25.—One hundred and forty eight inmates of the | state penal institution here became sud- denly ill after cating breakfast. Doc- tors who examined the prisoners, forty of whom are sald to be In a serious condition, expressed belief they were | suffering’ from ptomaine poisoning. | Doctors from Greencastle were called in ' to assist local physicians in caring for ' the prisoners. | Officials of the state board of health at Indianapolls were notifled, and after taking samples of the food consumed by the men returned to Indianapolis to make an analysis. After a cursory ex- ' amination here, the officials expressed the belief that milk served the men | was Impure. officers reported, | 28.—Application —_— Washington. Somehow in Alaska one does not hear much of it, or feel acutely conscious of its existence. In [Alaska one gets the feeling that the sturdy, vigorous and highly gent people of the territory, under the leadership of our old friend, Manifest Destiny, will solve the prob lem. * * '+ Alaska is our one twentieth century frontier, but it will | not continue such to the half-way ! point of the century. | “There has been much misunder- | standing, no little misrepresentation ! and some disposition ‘to hysteria at times about Alaska. It long since | passed beyond the wild west mining | camp stage, and Is as sobered, set- | tled, normal a country as would be! found anywhere. But the rich and | picturesque literature of its earlier| epoch has carried a mistaken impres- sion down even into our _times. ‘Soapy’ Smith and Whitehorse Rapids, | the looting of Nome, and the burden | of the far northern winters give col- | or to Alaska’s picture in minds that! have not been impressed by the pres- : ent community of homes and schools and churches, of railroads and roads intelli- | is a pledge, a testimony of faith, a declaration 'of firm confidence in the tuture of all Alaska. It is but a be- ginning, as the present road system is but a beginning; and I am willing to be charged with a purpose of some- thing like prodigality in my wish to serve Alaska generously, an ore, in this matter of road building Sees Future as Resort. Mr. Harding paid a high tribute to the men who built the Alaska rail- road “for the skill, wisdom and pa- tience with which, through all dis- couragements and multiplied ob- stacles, they persevered to the finish.” “They have given us a splendid rail- road: and as they have bullt it miracu- lously, it is our determination to retain it and to operate it wisely, with a view to the broadest public intéerest and the sincerest concern for the territory’s future,” he added. “Unless I am and motor cars, of law and order. | The summertime of unending day- | light and glorious luxuriance in all | the realm of things that grow is en- titled to be placed alongside the pic- | ture of winters no more severe than ; many people in the northern states have experienced.” H Cost Many Times Repaid. Mr. Harding, before concluding his address, declared: “Alaska is weil on the way to an enormous expansfon in its fur product ! and, what is far more significant, to making this product as permanent a | source of wealth as are the cotton of the south or the corn of the middle west,” and said he doubted whether, “if anywhere an aboriginal people | had been so fast assimilated to civ- ilization, industry, intelligence and education, as have the Alaska In- dians * ¢ ¢ greatly mistaken, this gorgeously scenic route of 500 miles through a rlotous excess of nature's beauties and wonders, is destined to act travelers from all the world soon as report of its attractions is com- monly circulated. In that connection, I think our policy, in co-operation with the hospitable people of Alaska should be to invite and encourage travelers to this new domain. We can afford to make provision ahead of their coming, for I pledge you they are certain to come, and in numbers we do not now dare predict. They will carry their descriptions to every quarter of the globe and will send others to view and marvel. Thus will be accomplished the greatest work for bullding the Alaska of tomorrow. Some of the visitors will love it and remain; others will believe in it, and send of their means to develop it None, having seen it, will ever again question its place among the wonder- lands of earth. “‘The problem of Alaska’ has been dinned into our ears a great deal at “The federal government's proc- esses have not paralyzed, but rath- er have promoted the right sort of Alas] development,” he con- cluded. “The territory needs their continuance; some of them, as already indicated on a more generous scale than in the past. We have been paid back many times for every dollar spent on Alaska; and_the dividends have only begun. We ought to shorten the line of cumminication as much as possible between Alaska and ‘Washington, and to bring about the closest co-operation and understand- ing between the national agencies which operate there, and the splen- PRESS MISQUOTES HARVEY IN DISCUSSING JOHNSON Ambassador Declares Comment on Presidency Related to Henry Ford, Not to Californian. NEW YORK, June 28.—Senator Hiram W. Johnson and Col. George Harvey are agreed that the ambas- sador to the Court of 8t. James had been misquoted when certain morn- ing papers made him gay that the Californian had predicted a landslide for himself in the 1924 campaign if he got the republican nomination for the presidency. Johnson, who planned tonight to leave for Washington, awoke thiy morning to find in the public prints a statement by Mr. Harvey in Long SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1923 Branch, N. J. ,to the effect that Mr. Johnson was a bit previous in his pre- diction, which the arcicle sald had been made in a conversation last Wednesday night, when Mr. Johnson made his first public address since re- turning from Europe. In a formal statement Mr. Johnson promptly de- nied that he had made any such pre- diction, and when newspaper men got in touch with Mr. Harvey at his New Jersey summer home he promptly de- nied it, too. He said he was talking about ' Henry Ford's presidential chances, concerning which he ex- pressed himself in pessimistic tones. —_— Between Girls. From the Boston Transeript, Edith—Dear Jack is so forgettul. Betty—Yes; it keeps me busy re- minding him that you are the girl he is engaged to. REITERATES PERIL OF U. S. REVOLUTION Magnus Johnson Declares Only Change of Conditions Can Avoid Disaster. By the Associated Press. ST. 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And that’s what Woodward & Lothrop offers you—low prices, real savings, Fashion Furs—in this Midsummer Sale. Quality Furs only—furs made from the choicest pelts; the thick, glossy, winter skins; the skins of richness, warmth and beauty. The coats of animals are always at their best in winter, that’s why these furs are the choicest. Low prices have a greater meaning than ever, when borne by such furs. Woodward & Lothrop Furs are Dependable Furs —the woman who invests her money in Furs wants to know whether or not they are worthy—and the woman who knows Woodward & Lothrop has every assurance as to ours. Whether your knowl- edge of Furs is limited or extensive, you may select furs here with every confidence and absolute safety. didly efficient territorial government which, under Gov. Bone, has de- served tln;l‘ holdsl the fullest confi- dence of the people. “Mine is pride and faith in Alaska. ‘With our rational helpfulness, with our justifiable generosity, her people will work out the destiny of the en- chanting empire, and turn a wonder- Iand of riches and incomparable fas- cination to added power and new glory to our great republic.” v A particularl; in a rich, " design. beautiful coat, ustrous brown, with huge shawl collar—the skins worked in contrasting Greater Savings Midsummer Sale Fashion Futs Platinum Caracul Jacquette, $495 An ultra-smart jacquette, collared and cuffed with Jux- urious platinum fox. It fastens on one side with a chic buckle. Natural Muskrat Sports Coat, $135 Not only a very smart coat, but a very excep- tional value at this price. It shows a smart contrast in working the skins. Woodward & Lothrop Mole Furs are Scotch Mole, the best. Woodward & Lothrop Hudson al Furs are selected dyed muskrat, the best. Woodward & Lothrop Squirrel Furs are Siberian blue pelts, the best. Fur Fashions in the Sale are Right Fashions—the eight fur coats sketched show you the longer lengths that give incredible slenderness; magnifi- cent effects achieved by a contrast of fur or color; the smartness of the jacquette—the chic air of sports coats. Every right Fur-Fashion is exem- plified in this Sale of Fashion-Furs. A Deposit of 259, Reserves Your Selection in our Cold Storage Vaults on the premises until Decem- ber 1st. All furs purchased will be stored free of charge until that time, if desired. Caracul Coat, $595 This distinctive and very lovely wrap of black caracul shows an unusual contrast of trimming of squirrel, dyed Kolinsky color; 50 inches long. Fur Sect! Raccoon Coat, $250 The quality of the skins and the matching -of colors at once mark this coat as un« usual. Notice the effectively striped border. 45 inches long. Third floor. Golden Beaver Coat $595 ‘This magnificent coat relies upon the smartness and slen- derness of line and the rich beauty of the fur for its dis-= tinctiveness.