THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth.....Editor and Manager
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BOON FOR THE COAST.
The coming of the Pacific fleet is
hailed with pleasure throughout the
coast as the harbinger of many
changes, economic and otherwise.
The decision of the United States
navy department to maintain two
equal fleets means that approximate
ly 200 vessels of all sizes will com
pose the Pacific fleet, with a per
sonnel of 25.000 men.
While no accurate figures are ob
tainable, it is pointed out that the
money spent at Pacific ports for the
maintenance of these ships and men
will amount to millions a week, and
the resultant return to the various
industries which will contribute to
this maintenance will be no incon
siderable sum. Scarcely any kind
of a selling concern will be over
looked, from the coal yard to the
fruiter.
Further than this, thousands of
sailors will be on liberty practically
at all times while the ships are in
port, and this means that the small
shop-keepers will participate in thou
sands of dollars spent in necessi
ties, as well as in the many little
luxuries that are the delight of the
sailor.
Aside from the personnel of the
navy, many of the families of both
officers and men undoubtedly will
move to the Pacific coast, so as to
be near their sons, husbands, and
fathers, and this means the addi
tion of many more persons who will
have to be catered to.
BELGIAN COLORS.
Belgian patriotic societies are
forming to take action to prevent
the German republic from adopting
the Belgian national colors—black,
yellow, and red—for its flag. In
tense indignation is manifested, and
this is a bit heightened by the
plea that the colors in the new
German emblem will be disposed
horizontally instead of vertically.
It is generally supposed that the
Belgian colors of today were chosen
by the patriots of 1830, but the
revolutionists of that year merely
took for themselves the black, yel
low, and red which had been leg
endary in Flanders and the Brabant
since the Middle Ages.
The princes of Flanders bore on
their arms a black lion on a field
of gold, and those of Brabant a
golden lion on a field of black. The
trappings of both were red. From
the thirteenth century', therefore,
the Belgian colors have been black,
yellow, and red.
An argument against the use of
the colors by the Germans is that
the Belgians have actually employed
the black, yellow, and red hori
zontally in their emblems—notably
in their mercantile flags—so they
consider they still have a priority
en that disposition of the colors
as well as the vertical use. The
horizontal bars were adopted by the
patriots who overthrew the Austri
ans in 1789. In 1830, the first flag
to fly from the Hotel de Ville in
Brussels was the horizontal-barred
black, ydllow, and red.
The Belgians scorn the plea of
the Germans that they have the
right to use the colors because of
their use by the ancient Germanic
empire, of which Austria was the
center. They assert that the con
fusion resulting from the employ
ment by Germany as well as Bel
gium of the black, yellow, and red,
would be embarrassing to the na
tion which had fought four years
to keep its colors unsullied.
IDEALS AND COMPROMISE.
Like other people, politicians are
liable to see things, not as they
are. but as the politicians would
like them to be. It is impossible to
convince a majority of the senate
that the public is “overwhelmingly"
—this is the customary word—op
posed to the League of Nations
plan* It is equally hard to make
the President believe that a “%-ast
majority” of the people does not
demand the adoption of his project.
The truth, remarks the editor of
Collier's, probably is that both sides
have overestimated the intensity of
public feeling. If we can judge
anything from surface signs, a de- i
gree of apathy exists that is not
suspected at Washington or Paris.
Those who are in favor of a league
'are not as much in favor of it as
I the President thinks thev are; those
who are opposed to it are not en
thusiastic enough to fight for their
opinion. No bugle notes are heard
'on either side. The tedium and
tawdriness of the proceedings at
Paris have made the world yawn.
All the heroics have been taken out
iof the scene bv the constant pos
I
1 ing, the false pretense of “open
| covenants openly arrived at,” the
| display of national selfishness, the
; land-grabbing in China, the quarrel
‘over Fiume.
1 Most people believe in evolution,
but hope for miracles. They do
business with 1 ega 1 tender, but se
cretly wish for fiat money. They
are bored bv the thankless task of
making over humanity. But those
who saw through the war before
they began to see it through are
not put out. They know how much
has been accomplished and how
much remains to be done. The
gesture of Versailles may be noble
or petty, but it is bound to be in
effectual when seen before the heavy
curtain of time. And the actors are
only playing in the prologue to an
unpublished play of which they
know no more than the opening
lines. The making or unmaking of
a real league of peace will be in
! the hands of the Americans of the
j future. It will be their needs and
ideals and the intelligent interpreta
tion of both that will determine
whether such a society can be per
manent.
STEAMSHIP SUBSIDY.
'
j Alaskans will ask Congress to
authorize the postmaster-general to
pay the same subsidies to American
ships carrying mail to noncontiguous
territory of the United States as
may be paid to boats engaged in
foreign trade.
The Shipping Board is urging the
payment of liberal mail subsidies to
boats engaged in foreign trade and
is willing to include steamships on j
the Alaska runs in their program.
But the postoffice department will:
only carry out a congressional or-!
*der, increasing mail subsidies, for
the department, says the Douglas
Island News, is obsessed by the
■ idea of saving money and is com
Iplacently viewing a showing that
Alaska mails now are being carried
for half the cost of last year. In
the meantime, much of Alaska is
not served by mail steamships and
! a general complaint is made of the
| service.
j Maurice D. Leehy of Seattle, who
! is now in Washington represent
ing the Alaska Shipping Commission
to obtain better boat and mail ser
vice, has found the senate commit
tee on foreign commerce anxious to
amplify the law giving mail sub
sidies to foreign lines.
Leehy believes the committee will
include Alaska in its program, and
pending adoption of a more liberal
subsidy system, he hopes to get the
benefit of the present law for Alas
i ka.
Mil REPORT
SHOWS GAINS ON
! There were additional gains in the
! number of employes on the payrolls
of the Alaskan Engineering Com
mission in this division during the
past week, according to figures con
tained in the weekly force report
Tor the week ended July 26. A total
■of 10 were added to the regular
forces during the period under re
view. bringing the total to 615. And
| in addition to the regular forces,
there were 220 stationmen at work
during the week, and 55 station
men’s laborers. Sixty-one head of
! livestock were in use and 3 idle,
jwith 16 wagons working and 5 idle.
The distribution of labor was as
: follows:
Camp 1. general .
Camp 1, electric .
Camp 1, corral
Camp 1, construction
Camp 1, store .
Hospital .
Townsite .
Section 1 .
Sections 2 and 3 -
Section 4 .
Section 5 .
^Surfacing No. 1 .
Surfacing No. 2 .
Camp 415 .
Track No. 2 .
Camp 423 .
Camp 432 .
Camp 440 .
Camp 449 .
Camp 454 .
Location party No. 5
58
11
6
62
24
10
2
Q
13
10
9
94
93
26
40
20
15
13
27
12
9
Total .563
Fairbanks office .
IT. V. R. R. .... 39
Grand total
615
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Washburn, up Holy Cross for
jDikeman, midnight 31st.
Relief, up Holy Cross, 2:30 p. m..
31st.
Jacobs, up Birches. 8:30 p. m., 1st.
! Seattle No. 3 and Davis, at St.
Michael.
Julia B, up Holy Cross, 7 p. m.,
30th.
Casca, down Big Salmon, 8:30 p.
m., 31st.
Selkirk, up Selkirk, 6 a.% m., 31st.
i Dawson, up Dawson, 11 a. m.,
31st.
Xasutlin, up Selkirk, 1:30 a. m.,
31st.
Tanana, at Fairbanks.
Reliance, up Fairbanks for Tan
ana Crossing. 10:30 p. m., 1st.
Benchley, at Melozi.
Sibilla and Kelly, at Gibbon.
Yukon, up Rampart, 8:30 p. m,
31st.
Kotlik, down Louden, 5 a. m.
Alaska, up Hot Springs, 3 a. m.
WANT ADS
IF YOU WANT YOUR SHOES re
paired, bring- them to B and 4th
Sts. Ladies' Shoes a specialty.
J. McLean.
FIFTEEN MEN WANTED to cut
wood. Five dollars per cord:
good timber. A. G. Vachon, Tan
ana. k8-lG
FOR SALE—My entire holdings,
consisting of Lot 6, Block 10,
three-room log house, finely fin
ished and partially furnished, to
gether with provisions and wood.
Also my half interest in Nenana
i Steam Laundry. A bargain, ’f
I taken before August first. Must
go Outside on urgent business is
reason for sacrifice. Mrs. Clara
Allred. Nenana, Alaska. k7-23
FOR SALE — Showcase, 5 *-> fee*
long. Practically new. Cheap.
Inquire Mrs. Herman Rosburg.
GRACE (Presbyterian) CHURCH
11:45—The children's hour.
The evening subject will be:
“Immortality.”
Special music
Music begins at 7:15 Lecture 7:30
Everybody Welcome
^ REV. ROBT.
P , JOSEPH DIVEN
D. D.
'•rj MINISTER
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
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.
Subject. “Love.”
JAPANESE PRINCE AND
PRINCESS BETROTHED
—
TOKIO.—Announcement has been
made of the betrothal of Crown
Prince Hirohito with Princess Naga
ko, the eldest daughter of Prince
and Princess Kuni. Princess N’aga
ko is 16 years old and a student
at the Peers’ school. It is expected
that the imperial wedding will not
take place before several years.
Calling Cards printed to order op
sho~t notice at the News Office.
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Dr. R. R. MYERS
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SOMETIME IN JULY
Date will be announced later
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
FOURTH AND B STREETS
On Second i*d Fourth Tuesdays
At S P. M.
ALEX FOWLER M V. TYLER,
Secretary Dictator.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers leaving on the train
for any point on the line sooth sf
town are required to purchase
tickets before entering the train.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office i*
in the employment office, on the
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 foet of
•A street on Wednesdays and Satur
days at 8 p. m.
On and after july loth 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 7 a. m.. until further
notice.
Dr, J. R. BOWEN
DENTIST ‘
Prices Most Reasonable
THE BOWEN BUILDING
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