THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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WAR GARDENS
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The nation is confronted by a
confronted by a conditions which i
challenges the best efforts of each j
loyal American, we are reminded
by the Alaska School Bulletin. Sev- [
eral millions of our able bodied men
have been called from the pursuits
of peace into lines of activity which ;
are called into being as a result of!
the world conflict in which we are t
engaged. This condition exists not,
only in the United States, but also'
in the British Empire, France, Italy, i
and among our other allies. As a
result, the output of certain indus- J
tries which are very essential to na-;
tional existence has been curtailed i
and this curtailment will increase |
unless very great efforts are put
forth by those citizens who are not’
being used directly in the production
and transportation of munitions of
war.
Never in the history of the world j
has there been such a universal i
shortage of food material. While j
this shortage is much more serious,
in Europe thain in America, its ef- j
fects are nevertheless felt here, due '
to the fact that we must supply our
allies with food and thus make it j
possible for them to hold out until j
a victorious peace comes to our
arms. America is in truth the bread
basket of the world.
War gardens were very much in j
vogue during the year 1917 and
will, from all indications, be doubly
needed during the present year. -
While the agricultural possibilities,
of some sections of Alaska are
somewhat undeveloped, it is felt ]
that certain vegetables and garden j
products can be raised in most com
munities, while the soil and climate.
of certain parts provide excellent
opportunities for the growing of
many varieties of agricultural pro-!
ducts The individual who main-!
tain a war garden in Alaska during)
the present summer is trebly patri-1
otic in that his savings in money:
will permit him to invest in war
il
eats while fresh or preserved by
drying or canning will release an
equivalent amount for our boys over
there and for the civilian population !
of our European allies, and lastly he ]
will be conserving shipping facilities
and making available more tonnage
and rolling stock for the transporta
tion of the vital necessities of war
by his “raised in my own garden
policy.”
It is felt that the boys and girls
of Alaska will respond to an appeal
for the planting of war gardens if
the the same is enthusiastically pre
sented by the teachers of the terri
tory and it is the purpose of this
article to request and. urge that this
matter be taken up actively in every
school.
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OVERSUBSCRIBED.
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The issue of $500,000,000 United
States treasury certificates, subscrip
tions for which closed March 5, was
oversubscribed. The subscriptions
in every district except Philadelphia
equaled or exceeded the tentative
quota. It was necessary to repect
late subscriptions in several dis
tricts.
Larger subscriptions of the New
York banks, which were called upon
to take so much more than their
share of the preceding issue, were
scaled in order to enable allotment
in full to be made to other sub
scribers. The tentative New York
quota of $194,000,000 was largely
in excess of its quota on the basis
of the resources of the New York
district, and it is a source of grati
fication that the subscriptions in
other districts have shown such sub
stantial improvement. This means
a healthy distribution of the certi
ficates which will strengthen th«
whole financial position.
WHAT THE UNITED STATES
FOOD ADMINISTRATION IS
DOING.
A thought the United Stetes food
administration would like to implant
firmly and clearly in the public
mind is that the work of the food
administration is not merely na
tional, but international. It is the
largest relief work the world has
ever known.
Our first duty is to see that the
armies fighting the battles for world
democracy in the trenches are prop
erly supplied with wholesome food,
Perhaps second in importance is
the necessity for keeping ever be
fore the people of the nations asso
ciated with us in the war assurance
that their food requirements are tc
be met in sufficient degree to sus
tain life so there will be no food
panics in those countries, based up
on a fear that this nation will not
live up to the obligations now placed
upon it by destiny. The importance
of this phase of the food question
is deeply impressed upon the minds
of all who have a basic understand
ing of European conditions.
The fact that food, America’s con
tribution to the war. is as essential
as either men or munitions, has
been so often stated as to make
repetition seem needless, but it
remains nevertheless true all the
time. It is true that food will win
the war. It is equally true that
lack of food food can bring defeat.
This is so true that if the people
of this country could but under
stand how vitally essential is the
success of the food program pro
posed by the food administration,
much of the difficulty of all prob
lems of food conservation would
disappear, because the call of hu
manity and patriotism would lead
all Americans to meet the require
ments asked of them. The import
ance, therefore, of intelligent edu
cation along conservation lines can
not be overestimated.
A NEW VALDEZ.
A new era has dawned for Valdez
declares the Valdez Miner. From a
mediocre body of officials the cit>
council has stepped into the 'lime
light as trail blazers to a biggei
and better Valdez. They are aftei
industries and are willing to demon
strate that industries can be sue
cessfully conducted in the Port oi
Valdez. They have unanimouslj
agreed that this year will be th<
dawn of an industrial day for Val
dez. Many persons said a cannerj
would fail here. Supt. John Erne
demonstrated that a cannery was i
big money-maker at this point. Thi
Valdez Packing company led thi
list in output for one-line plant
last year. They are enlarging thi
year to two lines. Why wait unti
some man garners the persimmon
to wish that you had taken th
chance. The natural resources ar
1 here. Keep them for home folks
The council has beaten down th
barriers of indifference and wit
your help will fringe our tideflat
with payrolls. Let us show them w
appreciate their action by boostin
with them.
ORIGIN OF PUNCTUATION
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The present system of punctuatioi
now used in all modern languagt
with but insignificant variations, wti
introduced in the first half of th
fifteenth century by a Venetia
printed named Aldus Manutius. H
is the real father of puncuatio
marks, of the full stop, comma, sem
colon, colon, question and exclaim
tion marks, apostrophe and invert*
commas. Manutius’ system wi
adopted later by all printers uni
it finally established itself thoroug1
out Europe.
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CANNON FIRE DOESN’T
at at CAUSE RAIN at at
By Garret P. Servi*s
The French Academy of Sciences I
has been considering the popular be- 1
lief that the tremendous cannonad- 1
ing on the Western front is respon-;;
sible for the heavy rains frequently ' i
experienced there, as well as for (
more wide-spread atmospheric dis- ]
turbances, and the conclusion reach- <
ed is in practical accord with what
I have several times stated in replies j i
to correspondents in this country {:
who questioned whether the violent
and continual shocking of the air :
in Western Europe might not upset ■
the weather as far away as this! i
side of the ocean. I;
As Mr. Hildebranson reminded the j
Academy, the principal and ordinary ,
cause of rain is the cooling of a cur- j
rent of ascending air which is charged
with more moisture than it can re
tain in the form of vapor when the
temperature falls, as it almost in
variably does, with increase of ele
vation.
But the present in the air of an
abundance of minute particles of
dust promotes the formation of rain
by offering nuclei aronud which the
moisture may condense in drops, and
this action is, no doubt, aided by i
electric charges carried by the dust j
particles. Thus rain may be in
duced in a dust-laden atmosphere
when it would not occur if the air
were entirely free from impurities.
By furnishing great quantities of
minute particles floating at a high
elevation and capable of condensing
moisture about them, a heavy and
long-continued cannonade might
bring about a local fall of rain. But
it would not extend to any great dis
tance, and would not occure at all
if the atmosphere were not already
surcharged with watery vapor and,
consequently, in a state calculated to
produce rain at the place where the
battle clouds were formed.
The cannonading could have no
ierceptible influence in increasing
he quantity of watery vapor in the
tir, and the gases released by the dis
harges would not themselves con
lense into rain, although they would
jerhaps be absorbed to a greater
>r less extent by the falling drops.
The shocking of the air by the
lischarges of giant guns is a pheno
nenon well calculated to impress the
magination with the notion that rain
night so to speak, be shaken out
>f the atmosphere by the violent un
lultations, as dust is shaken out of
i carpet, but, in fact, aerial vibra
:ions have no part in the formation
)f raindrops.
The experiment was thoroughly
.ried out in this country in 1892, and
;he negative results obtained at that
:ime have not been contradicted
since.
If long-continued cannonading, or
jreat battles, were with practical
unanimity followed by rain, or any
ither distinctive weather phenomena,
:hen a priori case might be made out
for the theory in question, but the
liistoric evidence, as far as it goes,
seems rather to point to the oppo
site direction.
An examination of the weather
records on the battlefront in France
and Flanders, or along the Russian
)T Balkan front, if extended over the
intire period of the war, will show
that the rains and floods have come
it about their normal annual periods
snd if they have seemed to be extra
irdinary heavy it is only because of
:he attention centered upon them and
:he unwonted circumstances that
lave made them conspicuous. Rains
:hat the peasant farmers would never
lave talked of become disasters for
struggling armies and are thus men
;ally magnified into unparalled out
ireaks of nature’s forces.
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DRAFTED MEN
TO BE TRIED
AS MECHANICS
A war-emgency course to train
conscripted men for machine-shop
occupations, blaeksmithing, sheet
metal working, and pipe-fitting has
been prepared by the Federal Board
for Vocational Education and will I .
be distributed to the schools through- \
out the country as soon as it can j
be printed. It is known as Bulletin .
No. 8.
“There is a critical and constantly
growing need for many thousands!
I of mechanics and technicians for
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Army occupations carried on in and;
behind the lines of the United States >
army,” declares the Board for Vo
cational Education. “Many of these1
workers, already experienced in simi
lar occupations in civil life, will be
secured through the draft and pos
sibly through voluntary enlistment. j
It is recognized by those in a posi- i
tion to know that the quotas thus1
obtained will not be sufficient, and j
that it will be necessary to give spe- j
cial training to many thousands ofi
men for various occupations and in j
various ways. The war department |
has taken definite steps to provide j
for this training systematically thru j
army schools and in some instances;
at cantonments, but largely at the |
industrial, trade, and engineering1
schools of the country.”
The Federal Board of Vocational j
Education is acting for the war de- j
partment in preparing these courses
of study and in dealing with the
state authorities in charge of the
school work. Men who take these
courses, it is declared, “should not
be led to believe that they are learn
ing a trade. They are serving their
country by learning to do a special
job well, though to some extent this
training may be beneficial to them
in after life."
When a man is polite to his wife
it does not encessarily follow that he
is afraid of her—he may be only
absent-minded.—The Periscope.
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rhree Day* Will Be Devoted
Tests, While- Lower Grades
Enjoy Vacation.
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The eighth graders of the Frank
in K. Lane school began their final
xaminations this morning, and will
e kept at the work steadily during j c
he remainder of the week. Miss |
Cobe is devoting her entire time to j 1
he class, having excused the lower | s
grades until Monday, in order that j r
;he examinations might not be inter-! r
•upted.
The five pupils constituting the j
Eighth grade are working diligently | ^
;o make a good showing, and if i f
dose application to the work in 'c
land will get them by, all may be : ^
:onfident of passing with high 11
lonors 8
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The members of the Friendly
society were entertained yesterday
ifternoon by Mrs. Oscar Rothen
burg, at her home on Second street.
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TOM BURNS AT GRACE 1
CHURCH THURSDAY EVE i
A treat is in store for all who j
like to listen to talk which is full
of information. Mr. Tom Burns,
who has spoken many times before
the public, will speak in Grace
church Thursday evening at 7:30. t
Music begins at 7:15. Everybody :
welcome.
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ommission Inaugurate* New System
of Collecting Money From
Users.
No more will the Commission j
ectrie current collector make his
onthly rounds among the business
juses and homes of Nenana. Com
iencing today, all bills owing that
i-partment of the Commission, are
ayable at the office, in the Tele
hone Exchange building, and the
loney must be paid on or before
te tenth of the month to insure a
antinuation of service.
The above information is con
lined in notices, sent to all con
jmers, with their bills, and the
ew regulation is now effective. The
otice reads as follows:
NOTICE.
Commencing May, 1, 1918, all
ills for electric current and tele-1
hone service will be payable at the ;
ffice of the Electric Power and
'elephone department in the Tele
hone Exchange building, located
t corner of First and Main Sts., ;
pposite the hospital.
If not paid on or before the 10th
f the month, succeeding the month
or which service was rendered, such
ervice will be discontinued and 10
ier cent added monthly until settle
nent is made. . All bills are payable
n cash only.
(Signed) J. T. RON AN,
Approved: General Foreman
R. B. WARD,
Acting Division Engineer.
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'ou let her think you think she won’t
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r. s. McDonald
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