Arizona state miner. [volume], December 26, 1919, Image 6

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Estimate for Annual Budget of League of Nations
WASHINGTON. —Senator Spencer of Missouri read into the Congressional
Record recently an estimate of the annual budget of the League of
Nations, prepared by F. A. Dolph of Washington at the request of the
American Agricultural association. Mr.
Dolph says in part:
“I concede that I have no data or
Information as to the cost of commis
sions to return with proper pomp and
ceremonial to his Britannic majesty
the skull of the sultan of Mikwawa,
nor to return to his majesty the king
Df the Hejaz the Koran of the caliph
of Othman, nor the return of the
leaves of the triptych of the mystic
lamb.
“I have, however, with some pa
tience and industry, listed the 170 tribunals and commissions that are ac
tually named and created by the League of Nations by the joint treaty of
peace with Germany, and have made what I consider a fair estimate in each
case of the employees needed to function those tribunals and commissions
and attach appropriate schedules giving the detail data upon which 1 base
the following general estimate. Salaries and pay roll: First class, 0,505 per
sons, at SIO,OOO, $65,050,000; second class, 12,352 persons, at $5,000, $61,760,-
000; third class, 166,310 persons, at $2,000, $332,620,000. Traveling ex
penses: One-third of these employees at $3,000 each $185,167,000; office
rent, heat and light: $31,478,390; wear and tear, furniture and office equip
ment, $18,516,700; miscellaneous: Printing, exclusive of labor, plants, furni
ture, office equipment, attendance, witnesses at hearings, etc., $500,000,000;
total, $1,194,591,000.”
Two Decades of American Progress in Porto Rico
TREMENDOUS progress has marked the first 20 years of American adminis
tration in Porto Rico, in the opinion of Gov. Arthur Yager. He says:
“These two decades of progress made by Porto Rico under the American flag
development of the system of pul Me education.
Against the public debt of $10,056,000 there have been expenditures for
permanent public improvements amounting to $15,626,386 —or more than $1.50
In permanent improvements for each $1 of debt. This includes expenditures
of $6,490,982 for roads and bridges, $4,218,404 for public buildings and $4,-
017,000 for an irrigation system.
There has been created in Porto Rico a modern democratic school sys
tem, offering free education to the children of the island. As a result, the
percentage of adult illiteracy has been reduced from 79.9 in 1899 to less than
60 per cent in 1919. In 1899 there were 21,873 children attending schools as
compared with 160,794 children in 1919.
The immense increase in industrial business can in part be indicated by
the increase in foreign business, which has risen from $17,502,103 in 1901 to
$141,896,400 in 1919.
Almost Forgotten Incident in Our Early History
IN THE house debate over the bill (S. 2775) to promote the mining of coal,
phosphate, oil, gas and sodium on the public domain Representative
Ap’i tsk* of Nebraska, after referring to suggestions to the effect that these
western lands really belonged to the
13 original states, which might call for
the rentals, gave a list of the deposits
made with the various states by the
treasury under the act of June 23,
1836, as follows:
Maine, $955,838.25; New Hamp
shire, $669,086.79; Massachusetts, sl,-
338,173.58; Vermont, $669,086.79; Con
necticut, $764,670.60; Rhode Island,
$332,335.30; New York, $4,014,520.71; «
New Jersey, $764,670.60; Pennsyl
vania, $2,867,514.78; Delaware, $286,-
751.49; Maryland, $955,838.25; Virginia, $2,198,427.99; North Carolina, sl,-
433,757.39; South Carolina, $1,051,422.09; Georgia, $1,051,422.09; Alabama,
$669,086.79; Louisiana, $477,019.14; Mississippi, $382,335.30; Tennessee, sl,-
433,757.39; Kentucky, $1,433,757.39; Ohio, $2,007,260.34; Missouri, $382,335.30;
Indiana, $860,254.44; Illinois, $477,919.14; Michigan, $286,751.49; Arkansas,
$286,751.49. Total, $28,101,644.91.
He said that at 4 per cent the principal and interest amount to $121,000,-
000. He suggested a joint resolution calling upon the states for the return of
the money, under the terms of the act.
Mr. Andrews was a trifle sarcastic. There are 26 debtor states having 52
senators and 314 house members.
Uncle Sam’s War on Automobile Thieves Is Now On
WILL the new federal law curb the automobile thieves? At any rate the
new law is now in active operation nnd federal prosecutions all over the
country have been authorized from Washington. By providing heavy punish-
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cars stolen in 1918, according to gov
ernment figures, and was second hardest hit of cities in the country. A to
tal of 1,954 Chicago cars were recovered, the report adds, and Detroit alone
stands above Chicago in the year’s losses. The middle West lost more than
22,000 cars by theft, and organized bands are operating in the shipment of
stolen goods.
Chicago got authority early to take up federal prosecutions under the
new law. District Attorney Clyne opened the campaign by holding three
men accused of the interstate transportation of stolen cars and recommend
ing that bills of sale accompany every auto purchase, showing legal title to
the car by every owner, whether the car be new or a veteran of the second
hand markets.
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taken all together constitute a record,
which, I believe, cannot be equaled by
any people anywhere in the world in
the same length of time. It is a record
creditable alike to the Porto Ricans
themselves and to the great free re
public to which they owe allegiance.”
Almost every sphere of human life
and work, the governor says, has been
completely metamorphosed, and prob
ably the most striking evidence of
these changes is shown in the public
improvements of the island and the
use T«'
ment for interstate traffic in stolen
cars, it will doubtless check local
f - thieving by cutting down the market;
. It also makes the business of the
l “fences” exceedingly dangerous.
• The new law is likely to make a
lot of business for United States dis
trict attorneys. The department of
justice estimates that 6,500,000 cars
are in use today, totaling an expendi
> ture of $7,800,000,000.
Chicago suffered the loss of 2,611
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Herr Hohenzollern, once emperor of the Germans, moved into his recently bought residence in Holland, the
house of Doom, the other day. Some of the vans containing his belongings are here seen about to unload.
MAKING THEM AMERICANS THROUGH GOOD MUSIC
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A novel idea in Americanization methods, sponsored by some of the leading figures in the American music
world, is that of teaching aliens the love of their adopted country by means of proper music. At Greenwich house,
14 Barrow street, New York City, no less than fifteen different notionalities sing in a “melting pot.”
LARGEST OF SHIPBUILDING CRANES
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The largest shipbuilding crane in the world, recently completed at the
Philadelphia navy yard, is of the stationary pintle cantilever construction
and has a working capacity of 350 gross tons. It is electrically operated.
NEW YORK'S WATER GOING TO WASTE
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For the first time in 14 years, or since the dam was completed, water is
flowing over the spillway of the huge Cornell dam, Croton, N. Y., which forms
Croton lake, a part of the New York water supply system. With five inches
of water going over the spillway, it is estimated that the city is losing about
2,000,000,000 gallons of water every 24 hours, or enough to supply Manhattan
And tbs Bronx for a week.
HERR HOHENZOLLERN MOVES INTO HIS NEW HOME
HERE IS A REAL HERO
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Henry G. Maas, third officer of the
American steamship Sutherland, who
dived overboard and rescued two long
shoremen who had fallen into the wa
ter. One man slipped from a near-by
dock and the other in an effort to
catch him os he fell was dragged over
board. Maas jumped into the icy wa
ter, held one man up with one hand
and swam to the other whom he push
ed against piling and held there until
aid arrived. Maas, who weighs only
125 pounds, now has a record of live
lives saved.
Music's Great Power.
“Those who think that music is one
of the trifles of existence,” said Glad
stone, “are in grievous error, since
from the earliest times it has been
one of the most potent factors for
molding and forming character.”
We Fancy They'd Like It.
Lawn Tennis Report—“ Because the
play was not spectacular, the brilliant
skill was not appreciated by the ma
jority of the spectators—it was as
caviar before swine.” —Boston Tran
script.