THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enzry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First ar.J B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. SouthwortH.Editor and Manager
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ALASKA CAN PAY
The project of a central power
plant at the Lignite coal field has
received remarkable impetus thru
the efforts of the Fairbanks Chapter
of the American Mining Congress.
That body has appointed a com
mittee of mining and electrical ex
perts to draft a business proposi
tion, supported by data of undis
puted accuracy, to show that such
a project is not only necessary to
the welfare of the Interior of
Alaska, but that the future of gold
mining here is literally dependent
upon it.
The Fairbanks Commercial club
has avowed its determination to get
behind the movement with all of its
resources and to join with the Min
ing Congress in bearing the expense
of sending representatives to Wash
ington to work for the accomplish
ment of these plans.
The American Mining Congress
also plans to secure from Congress
if possible, some measure that will
revivify prospecting in the Interior.
This is the basis of all mining in
dustry. The prospector is the most
essential factor for the development
of the mineral resources of a coun
try. Without the prospector there
might as well be no minerals in our
mountains. Therefore it is “up to"
all the organizations of this, and of
every other Alaskan community to
get behind the Mining Congress in
its efforts to secure government aid
for prospectors. Once this is ac
complished, Alaska will find her
hills overrun with seekers after
nature’s treasures.
Properly developed, Alaska’s re
sources would produce sufficient ad
ditional wealth during the next two
generations- to enable the govern
ment, through its income tax col
lections, to discharge the national
debt. It has been proposed there
fore that an appropriate slogan for
all Alaska would be “Alaska Can
Pay the Nation’s War Debt ”
This slogan, if flung abroad to the
world as the Measure of Alaska’s
Ambition, would attract more at
tention to Alaska and do more to
advertise her possibilities and to de
velop her potential wealth than any
thing we could otherwise do.
The News is glad, therefore, to
adopt as its slogan “Alaska Can Pay
the Nation’s War Debt.”
AMERICANIZATION
The Americanization of aliens of
the Rocky Mountain region is the ob
jective of an undertaking begun a
short time ago under the direction
of Paul Armstrong, chief naturaliza
tion examiner of the district.
The work will be carried on in
Colorado, New Mexico- Idaho, Utah,
and Wyoming, states in the district,
the examiner und his staff having
charge of the movement in the five
states. It is part of a nation-wide
movement to bring the subject of
Amerieii.iism clearly before resident
aliens.
The woikors will go to factories
and sh^ps e mploying aliens and make
arrar gements ith officials to have
them informed of their desire that
th make application for citizen
shi; • I making application aliens
in tn ; p..„t soi..etimes had to go to
better educated countrymen for help.
The workers will relieve them of
this necessity.
A ">th,r fact that has been de
terr it to many aliens becoming
cuiz.ns is t.-at they had to lose a
| (lay’s wages to file their “first
papers”, as filing could be made
only in daytime. To overcome this
the clerk of the federal district court
will open his office in the evening
I to receive these papers.
CLUB LAYS PLANS
FOR KAMA ROAD
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; and striking by all the members
present.
W. A. Ryan' who was chairman
of the committee appointed to ar
range for the getting out of a spe
cial edition of the Nenana News,
stated that as he was leaving Ne
nana on Sunday morning, he wished
to be relieved of his duties on the
committee, and J. C. VanOrsdel was
appointed in his stead. The chair
expressed the club’s appreciation of
the help and advice given it by Mr.
Ryan and as it was the unanimous
wish of those present, he was elected
an honorary member.
The question of finding employ
ment for Alasekan soldiers who re
sponded to the country’s call was
discussed at length. The members
all realized that something should be
done at once in the way of offering
inducements to returning soldiers
who intend to settle in the North,
and a committee was appointed to
go very thoruoghly into the matter
iand report at the next meeting
i of the club, when steps will be
| taken and a definte plan of action
organized. Work on the railroad
was not very alluring, as an induce
ment to returning soldiers, on ac
count of the low wages paid, and
action will be taken to remedy this,
if possible.
The committee in charge of the
smoker reported that everything was
in readiness for the affair, which is
j Scheduled to take place tonight after
the show. There being no further
business to come before the meeting
it was adjourned on Mr. Penning
ton's motion.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
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Sunday school will be held in
the old commissioner’s office build
ing, opposite the postoffice, Sunday
at. 1 p. m.
The regular service will be held
at the same place at two o’clock.
The subject will be “Sacrament”.
GRACE (Presbyterian) CHURCH
REV. ROBT.
JOSEPH DIVEN
D. D.
MINISTER
at 12:00
Service.7:30 p. m.
Evening Topic, by Request—“Joan,
the Woman.”.7:30 p. m.
'Music begins at 7:15 Lecture 7:30
Everybody Welcome
A recently invented motor oper
ates a floor finishing roller which
can be covered with, sandpaper for
! its finer work or carpet for pol
^ ishing.
POST DECLARES
i LABOR PROBLEM
IS M SERIOUS
| WASHINGTON, D. C.—“If we
put ourselves down to “winning
the peace” by drives as we have
to winning the war, the problems
of labor and industry in the after
the-war period will be easily and
instantly settled,” says Louis F.
Post, assistant secertary of labor.
Mr. Post declares he does not an
ticipate any particular problems in
the readjustment period. “We
changed quickly from peace to war
1 production,” he said- “and it seems
to me that there should be no reason
why our factories and our work
men should not be able to change
back from the war basis to the peace
basis as quickly, making due allow
ance for such lack of raw materials
as may exist, due to seasonal con
ditions. But, given the raw ma
terials, plants which were manu
facturing articles for peace trade
before the war should be able to
reassemble their machinery and
change their processes back to the
basis of peace production without
so much confusion and delay as
many people anticipate.”
There is bound to be certain shift
ing of labor from plants at present
solely designed for war work back
to plants that were the big pro
ducers in peace times, Mr. Post be
lieves; but he regards the employ
ment service of the department of
labor as a suitable agency for hand
ling the problems that might arise
from such shifting and believes that
it will be able to provide workers
with jobs as well as to provide
workmen for employers.
There is an element in the wage
question whch may produce indust
rial unrest and in that only does the
country face danger from the recon
struction necessities, thinks Mr. Post.
Even this may be avoided by in
telligent agreement and conference
between labor and employers. How
ever, Post declares, “if employers
are to be guided by the type of
men who have figured all through
history as the ‘privileged class’, who
think it their religious duty to re
fuse to deal with organized men, we
will have trouble. If so much dis
position will be shown by employers
to adjust industry and its problems
as the men they hire, the possibility
of trouble will be reduced to a mini
mum.
“The worker who in peace times
was able to earn $30 a week' has
under war wages and war overtime,
frequently been enabled to go home
on pay night with $100 in his pock
et, representing his week’s wages.
The man who has experienced this is
not going to be willing to stand, a
material reduction in it. It is true,
of course that he will be willing
to forget the overtime work he has
been putting in, but even should
there be a reduction in the cost of
living, which seems unlikely, the
worker is not going to accept a re
duction of his wages to his pre-war
basis. That, however, is a matter
of the individual, rather than the
union.
“Collective bargaining will solve
much of that. I feel that there
should be continued existence of the
agency represented through the Na
tional War Labor Board. The de
cisions of that board, providing for
a review of the wage awards every
six months on the basis of changes
in the cost of living, and more par
ticularly the awarding of the right
of collective bargaining- if entered
into thoroughly and in harmonious
spirit by workers and employers
alike, will do much to solve the
problem through the operation of
i the shop committees.
I “I do not anticipate any lack of
jobs- People forget that we have
been practicing abstention from w^at
we need and that there is much
production to be caught up with
and much essential work to be done
that has been neglected or postponed
during the war period.”
A French company has been form
ed for the manufacture in Algeria
of paper pulp from alfalfa of which
an almost unlimited quantity can
be obtained.
FAIRBANKS HOSPITAL
MAY HAVE TO CLOSE
According to a telephone message
received from Fairbanks this after
1 noon, it is reported that owing to
a lack of funds for its proper up
^ keep, St. Joseph’s hospital may be
1 closed temporarily.
SOUTHERN BARBER SHOP
NOW IN NEW HANDS
L. C. Isabel, well known through
out the Fairbanks and Tolovana
districts, who for the past few
months has been at the Ball &
Thomas barbershop, has now bought
out Roy Jamieson, of the Southern
barber shop and will henceforth be
found at his new location during
shop hours, with that old familiar
call, “who’s next.”
Mr. Isabel’s shop in the Southern
Hotel building is situated next door
to the Portland cigar store and the
neat little establishment is replete
with all the necessary implements
and supplies necessary for one to
doll up.
Eye glasses for which a British
, patent has been granted can be
folded when idle to resemble a lock
et and worn on a chain as an orna
ment.
Membership List
Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred, Mrs. Clara
Browne, F. D.
Bresnahan, E. D.
Blankfield, D.
Bowen, J. R.
Blair, Roy
Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J. F.
Ball, I. B.
Brown, Erie
Burns, R. E.
Calderhead, R. W.
Campbell, N. J.
j.Coghill, W. A.
Cood%y, M. J.
Doner, Frank
Diven, R- J.
Douse, Fred
Davis, Harry
Ekeland, Alf
Fisher, Joe
Flower, J. H.
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Wm.
ftaslem, H. G.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W.
Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
.Gray, E. B.
Gilcher, W. H.
Hyland, Mike
Jones, Frank
Jacobsen, J. C.
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B.
Roland, Knut
Ketooroky, John A.
Laughlin, E. L.
Lund, E. E.
Lehr, Q. F.
Myers, R R.
' Moore, Frank B.
Miles, J. H.
McDonald, R. S.
' Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. C.
Nash, Martin
I O’Keefe, Larry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington, G. W.
Palfy, Paul
Packer, W. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm.
Slippern, j. A.
Simson, Lipman
' Scott, J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
Stone, A. J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, Chas.
/ Southworth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Thompson, Theodore
Toussaint, J G. K
'tyler, M. V.
Taylor, Wm. J.
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Williams, E. A.
Waechter, R. I.
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We Carry the Best Grade of
MACKINAW SHIRTS. COATS and PANTS 8
Finest assortment of Men’s Socks, Daniel
Green Felt Shoes and Slippers, Moccasins,
Wool Blankets and Comforters
A Full Line of Miner*s and Trapper*s Supples
FOWLER & MORRIS
GROCERS
A species of fruit has been dis-1
covered in Mexico, 25 per cent of
the contents of which consists of an :
oil having great lubricating value- j
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There are more than 200,000
stammerers in the United States.
L. C. ISABEL
BARBER
Shop in Portland Building
Now Open for Business with
Full Line of Requisites
r.s. McDonald
Public Stenography Typewriting
Bookkeeping Conveyancing
REAL ESTATE RENTALS
LOANS
LIFE INSURANCE
(New York Life)
FIRE INSURANCE
Only the molt reliable companies
SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES
FOR RENT
Slieldon-Bllison Stage Line
Carrying U. S. Mails
For CHITINA and WA POINTS
Every Tuesday Morning
Special Auto for parties of four
or more any time.
C. Ha»ry Woodws.rd, agent
Fairbanks
RUST HOUSE
Mrs. Ed. Williams, Prop.
A and FIFTH STREETS
ROOMS AND BOARD
ROOMS 7Sc and $1.00
Coffee and Doughnuts 25c
DOG KENNELS
WANT ADS
LOST—The first week in January
by mistake in laundry delivery,
blue and white silk waist, size 44.
Tlease notify Mrs. D’Orsay, Third
and A street. 18
DOG FISH—8c a pound. Johnson’s
Store. 13
LOST—A Grey Husky Dog, about
Nov. 27th; has collar on neck.
Finder return to Coghill’s store.
FOR RENT.—Small one room cabin
on First and B streets. Apply
at News office.
Gentlemen’s Suits cleaned and
pressed, Fur Coats lined and reno
vated; Ladies’s Suits and Dresses
-enovated at the Tailor Shop on
Upper A street, near Third.
FOR SALE.—A kitchen cabinet and
a Smith-Premier typewriter. Ap
ply at Mrs. Carter’s.
NICELY HOUSE
With Belmont In Connection
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POOL CAND(ES CIGARS
AND TOBACCOS
WARM COMFORTABLE ROOMS
PRICES REASONABLE
Rates By the Week or Month
MRS. NICELY, Proprietress
Dr. R. R. MYERS
DENTIST
ARCTIC HOTEL
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AT
THE NEWS OFFICE
A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
Tom Smith, Prop.
COLES AIR TIGHT
HEATERS
RANGES
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
Yukon Stoves and Drums
Air Tight Heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
ing or Heating Line
Tatiana Sheet Metal Works