THE NENANA DAIL Y NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enu*y as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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SAVING A CURE.
Total sales of War Savings
Stamps throughout the United States
for the first seven months of 1919
amounted to nearly $100,000,000,
according to a report made by the
Savings Division of the Treasury j
Department. The exact figure is j
95,400,470.21. This makes a per
capita investment of about 90 cents,
whereas the Government at the be
ginning of the year asked a per
capita purchase of $10 worth of
War Stamps in order to meet war
debts.
“The saving of nearly one hun
dred million dollars in seven months
is concrete proof that the Govern
men’s thrift campaign is checking j
extravagant expenditures,” the re- !
port says. “Checking of extravagant '
buying is the only remedy for high j
prices. Saving one hundred million ;
t
dollars simply means cutting down
demand by that amount and turning
the money to much-needed produc
tion of necessities."
Leading economists of the coun
try have said there is no hope of
lower prices until the people un- J
derstand generally that they must j
stop buying things that are not j
necessary, and they have endorsed i
the United States Government War J
Savings Stamps campaign as the j
most effective remedy to that end.
INDUSTRIALISM AND ECONOMIC
EQUALITY.
Three or four hundred years ago
the bulk of the population of the
world was accustomed to live in
greater danger of violence, disease,
and starvation than the population
of Europe now suffers as a result
of the war, we are informed by an
editorial in the World's Work. Ami
at that time, it is pointed out, Eu
rope was able to support only a
comparatively meagre population in
that squalid and disease-ridden pov
erty. At that time also the distri
bution of wealth was even more un
equal than now. There has been a
fairly general upward trend in the
conditions of life of the mass of
the population since then. The
most rapid advance has been during
the last hundred years or during
the period of modern steam and
electrical industry. The modern in
dustrial system, despite all its obvi
ous social defects, supports a far
larger population in greater com
fort and well being than has ever
been on earth before.
Modern industrialism, therefore,
is not to blame for the inequalities
of fortune. They existed before in
dustrialism came and they still exist
and their cure means gradually
evolving means to cure a much
more fundamental thing than our
modern industrial organization—the
variations in human abilities and op.
portunities.
But modern industry has to its
credit that it has made possible
sufficient production of the things
we live by to enable a very largely
increased population to live on a
greatly improved plane.
To greatly improve our present
conditions, therefore, we must work
constructively along two lines—the
first, greater use of machinery or
greater industrialization in order to
insure a total production sufficient
to make all comfortable, and second,
a continuance of the effort to equal
ize the distribution, not of wealth,
but the ability to make it. To re
distribute wealth would only be a
temporary palliation. To equalize ■
the ability and opportunity to make j
it without impairing the total nec- j
essary production is, indeed, the \
needed line of progress.
In this country the war has had j
something of that effect. We suf-;
fered so little damage in the war)
that our ability to produce has not1
been impaired. An increased world j
market has forced on us improved
industrial methods by which we pro
duce more per capita than formerly.
And while this is going on a redis
tribution in wealth and in oppor-1
tunit yhas gone on. The man who I
owned a million dollar in 1912!
could get about twice a' much for j
it then as now. In other words, his j
wealth has about been cut in half, j
On the other hand, the man who'
sells either head or hand work gets •
more for his work then then, not '
only more in money, but in most
cases more in real value. A kind
of redistriubtion of which the men- j
tion used to frighten us badly, has1
taken place and few people recog- j
nize “the menace” even after it is 1
all over and they are going on |
cheerfully with their affairs, uncon •
scious that the worst has happened.
But the relative money reward
of different services and kinds of
ability is still glaringly uneven and
disproportionate. Seemingly only
by a slow and gradual evolution
can ws improve this condition much.
The graduated income tax helps re
duce the evidence of disproportion
ate income, but it does not remedy
the evil at the source. As a palli
ative it is useful, and useful only
to bring to the minds of the richer
men their greater debt to the coun
try. And in some ways what are
known as excess profit taxes may
be doing the same. In other ways,
however, they are encouraging busi
nesses to make all kinds of prod
igal expenditures on the theory that
all speculative ventures conducted
out of the profits of the business
are not expensive because if they
were not tried, the Government
would get most of the money any
way. This is an incidental but seri
ous result of the logical idea that
the people who make abnormal
profits are better able to pay the
extra taxes than anyone else.
The twin problems of increasing
the production per capita so that
there may be enough for everyone
and making a better distribution so
that everyone may have enough are
still present, as they have been for
hundreds of years. We are better
off now than at any previous time,
but the public conscience also is
far keener and demands more rapid
progress than it used to. The direc
tion of the progress is greater abili
ty in industrialism and the greater
participation of the industrial work
ers in the profits of industry.
Unconsciously Ludicyous.
The cases are quite numerous,
As well as quite mysterious,
When men appeared most humorous
When trying to be serious.
—Washington Star.
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WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES ■
IN GERMANY.—An entirely new!
scheme for establishing a reserve ;
army in Germany in anticipation of ;
some future opportunity to estab- |
lish German military power is seen j
by some German newspapers in a j
plan they have just discovered and
exposed.
While the scheme is confined to
eniy one regiment, and so probably
has no sanction from the war min
iitrj, it is an indention, in the,
opinion of American army officers
who for eight months have been
stuping demobilization of the Ger
man forces, of hew hard I’russian
militarism dies.
The Lightsehlag corps in West
phalia. now the (J2d Reighweh'
• National Army) regiment of the
31st Reichswehr brigade, has sent
out circulars to all men who have
served in this volunteer unit since
the armistice, urging them to sign
a pledge to ansaver a call to the
colors in the event of general dis
order or a new revolution. The
Freiheit, the Independent Socialist
organ in Berlin, suggests that the
men responsible for the scheme real
ly have in mind something more
than suppression of disorders, the
paper then quoting from the circu
lar as follows:
“Soon the time will come when i
the Fatherland will have need of
every resolute and proven arm.”
The circular, according to the j
newspapers, says that the corps is
organizing a “reserve” from among
the best of its released soldiers, this !
reserve to be called into the serv
ice of the corps in time of need.
Details are then given of the method
of issuing such a call. The Frei
heit. in a recent issue, demanded 1
to know- who had given the corps
the right to establish such a reserve
and to promise regular Reichswehr!
or National Army pay to these “re- j
servists” whenever called.
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FOR SALE—Piano and complete
household furniture; also set of
mink furs. Inquire of Mrs.
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FOR SALE—Small Lang; range, with
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NOTICE.
To whom it may concern: Notice!
is hereby given that I will not be
responsible for any debts contracted
by my wife after this date, Oc- j
tober 14.
(Signed! OLIVER LEE.
Dated at Nenana, Alaska, October
14, 1919. 11-14
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Nenana. Alaska'* Interior Tael Depot
Engineer in Charge Fred'k D.
Browne returned to Nenana from
Fairbanks yesterday, after an ab- :
sence of several days in the upper!
town.
Mrs. John Kestly and little son ■
Jerry arrived in town from the end
of steel south this afternoon.
Ernest Peterson came down from
Fairbanks yesterday.
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MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
Fourth and B Streets
Seeond and Fourth Tuesdays
At 8:00 P. M.
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Secrotary Dictator.
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Department of the Interior
AltskiD Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers leaving on the train
for any point on the line sooth of ”
town are required to purchas^
tickets before entering the train.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose offic# is
in the employment office, on the (i
ground floor of the general office
building, Alaskan Engineering com
mission.
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and can
be purchased in sufficient time be
fore the departure of the trains.
Regular trains leave the foot of
A street on Wednesdays and Satur
days at 8 a. m.
On and after july 15th the freight
on the North side of the river at
Camp 415 dock will be shipped out
Tuesday and Friday of each week,
leaving at 8 a. m., until further
notice.
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