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, 18 <9.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
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Company, at First and B .Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth.Editor and Manager
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REACTION IN THE STATES
Reaction from war time economy
is apparent in reports to various
government agencies since the sign
ing of the armistice. War savings
committees in all parts of the coun
try have submitted statements tend
ing to show that persons who ab
stained from buying unnecessary
clothes during the war rushed to
shops and bought according to pre
war standards, immediately follow
ing the welcome announcement that
hostilities had been suspended.
Retail businesses report stimula
tion of business by peace news, re-!
ports the Washington correspondent:
of the Associated Press. In some:
cases, the response was immediate,
business showing a big jump within j
a day or two after November 11.
This reaction seems most marked;
among the wealthier classes.
Reports gathered by the Federal
Reserve Board also show activity
among wholesale houses to meet
the demand of retailers. The whole
sale business, however. Is somewhat
restricted by the desire of retail)
merchants to let their stocks run
low, while waiting for prices to come
down. Thousands of retailers
quickly arranged special sales of
their stocks at lower prices, in view
of the uncertainties of the future
course of prices.
Building operations have taken a
sudden start after the long en
forced period of sluggishness during
the war, and building materials are
now beginning to flow away from
former war enterprises toward peace
time building projects Private build
ing seems to be holding back, how
ever. Municipalities and states have
turned their thoughts to building
roads and bridges, held up during
the war by shortage of materials,
and within the next month officials
look for a multitude of advertise
ments for bids for these projects.
At least eight billions of dollars
must be raised in the tJnited States
next year from war bonds or war
Don’t Leave
ALASKA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only
come back “Buited” in the spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER.
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouche and j
Kennecott.
ALASKA PUBLICITY
B'JREAU
Juneau Alaska. |
savings. Officials argue that float-1
ing of these loans without corres
ponding saving in money and ma
terials merely serves to inflate
credit, and the practical result of
this inflation is a general rise inj
prices.
The treasury is now seeking to
develop means of continuing thrift
propaganda throughout the next few
years, to educate the public to the
duty "of paying off indebtedness be- i
fore relaxing war time economy.
In fdbt, studeifts of economy in the
treasury declare that unless the
American people learn lessons of
thrift which populations of England,
France, Germany and other warring
nations have learned during the
past four years, the country will be
in position during reconstruction of
absorbing much more than its share
of the world’s available stock of
food, materials and labor, needed
for the physical rebuilding of de
vastated portions of Europe.
Treasury agencies studying banks’
conditions in industrial communities,
particularly where war materials
were manufatcured find that sav
ings and checking accounts main
tained by workmen do not have
balances proportionate to their ad
vances in wages during the war
SHEEP FOR ALASKA
A. L. Mackintosh and W. B. Rider,
two Portland gentlemen of means,
were passengers on a recent steamer
enroute to Unalaska and the islands
to the far west, says the Valdez
Miner, with a view of investigating
the possibilities of the islands as a
grazing range for sheep. In case
thecountry comes up to their expect
i ations a large number of sheep will
• be imported from the States and
■ mutton will be grown for market
i in the Far North.
Both men declare they have been
: studying the territory for some
: time as a stock-raising country, and
state that if the climate to the
west is as equable as tated, that it
will make ideal range for sheep.
The newcomers both believe that
Unalaska would be the site selected
as the future coaling station for
vessels plying to Siberia and the
Orient, and believed that a good
market would be secured with cheap
transportation for all mutton raised.
IRELAND IS BIDDING
FOR AMERICAN TRADE
LONDON—Lord Morris^ in advo
cating the establishment of a port
of call for Atlantic liners on the
west coast of Ireland, told a parlia
mentary committee it would facili
tate trade between Ireland and Can~
ada by way of New Foundland, as
under existing conditions this trade
had to pass through Liverpool or
Glasgow, which necessitated delay.
He also urged the movement on
the ground that it would affect pass
enger traffic, since passengers in
variably preferred the shortest possi
ble sea route.
HYLAND’S CIGAR STORE
C/GARS POOL, TOBACCOS
Soft Drinks Candies Fresh Fruit
Warm Comfortable Rooms
Berber Shop in Connection
Mike Hyland, Prop.
BURLESON TRYING
TO RETAIN WIRES
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Telephone
and telegraph lines of the country
now under government control, j
should become government owned
at the conclusion of peace and the
expiration of the provisions of the
act under which the utilities are
now controlled, Postmaster Burle
son declares in his annual report
made public recently- The war has
shown that government ownership
of telephones and telegraphs “is
not only sound but practicable,”
the postmaster general says, in re
peating the recommendation which
he made in previous reports, but
which he makes for the first time
as head of the government agency
controlling the land communication
lines.
“The experiences as a result of
the present war have fully demon
strated that the principle of gov
ernment ownership of the telephones j
and telegraphs is not only sound ■
but practical," Mr. Burleson says. !
“It has been necessary as a war ‘
measure for Congress to consider
legislation authorizing the President |
to assume control of the telegraph1
and telephone systems of the coun-;
try. While such control is temporary ;
and will exist only until the ratifi- j
cation of the treaty of peace, yet
the best results can be obtained!
only when these systems are owned
by the government, made a part of
the postal establishment, and oper
ated solely with a view to serving
the public and not making profits or
guaranteeing returns on the invest
ment. Government ownership of
the telegraphs and telephones should
not longer be delayed, and the ac- j
tion of Congress in this matter is
urgently recommended.”
Operations of the postoffice de
partment for the fiscal year end
ing last June 30 resulted in a sur
plus of receipts over expenses of
$19,979,798, according to the re
port. Approximately $44,500,000
additional was paid over to the
treasury from the increased postal
charges imposed for war revenue.
Total revenues of the department
from all sources during the year are
given as $388,975,962, against $329,
726,115 for the 1917 fiscal year.
Total expenditures and increased
postal rates effective November 2,
under the war tax bill, the actual
increase in postal service business
during the year is placed at 4.47
per cent, while expenditures in
creased 1.56 per cent.
Mr. Burleson for the first time
officially reports upon the use of
airplanes for transmisison of mail,
and government-owned trucks for
the operation of rural parcels post
, routes disclosing plans for wide
extension of both facilities. He also
renews his previously made recom
mendation that postmasters now ap
pointed by the President should be
selected under competitive civil serv
ice examinations, and that the four
assistant postmasters general and
the purchasing agent should be like*
wise selected.
The volume of mail carried dur
ing the year was greater than ever i
before, says the report, in com-!
menting upon the surplus earned,!
which it places at more than double
the greatest profit ever found by
the department previously. War
activity in private business not alone
grew, but the government itself put
a tremendous burden of matter into
the mails from the new efforts
which it built up. Postmasters and
postoffice facilities alike were used
for war servce that ranged from
the registration of aliens to the
sale of Thrift stamps and govern
ment bonds.
Among new facilities the report
asks is an appropriation of $1,500,
000 for the construction of a subway
between the Grand Central station
in New York and the Pennsylvania
Terminal office, replacing the dis
carded system of pneumatic tubes,
and devised to relieve congestion.
Authority is also asked for the es
tablishment of a guaranty fund
within the department, with which
to bond employes handling money
and valuables. This is advocated to
relieve premium charges which are
said by the report to be excessive,.
and also to eliminate delay and diffi
culty.
Dealings with complaint of de-;
lays in mail for soldiers in France,;
both before and after the mail serv
ice was taken over by the army, j
Mr. Burleson’s report says that much
of it was due to the handling of;
mail by orderlies in military service.
"Perhaps the most serious of these
delavs arose from the attitude of
the miltary authorities,” it says,!
“who declined to reveal to a civi
lian postal organization the where
abouts of military units, in many
cases until their location had been
discovered by the enemy. There
was also a good deal of trouble in
obtaining motor transport, and at
one time the military authorities
undertook to take from the postal
stations the small details of enlisted
men who were assisting in the work
on the ground that they were needed
for purely military service.”
In the United States, 123 branch
postoffices were established at
camps and cantonments to deliver
mail to the troops. Censorship \
boards were established at nearly j
all ports of exit from the United
States, in connection with military
operations, and 1600 employes were
engaged in censoring approximately
125,00 pieces of mail daily during
most of the period covered by the
report.
A very wide extension of the
aerial mail service has been plan
ned, the report indicates and out-1
lines are given for four routes, two
of which extend outside the United
States.
The trunk line and feeders de
cided upon for the aerial mail, the
postmaster general says, after de
scribing experimental operation be
tween Washington, New York, and
Philadelphia, “under the present
program are:
1. “New York to San Francisco,
With feeders from (a) Chicago to
St. Louis and Kansas City, (b)
Chicago to St. Paul and Minne
apolis. (c) Cleveland to Pittsburg.
2. “Boston to Key West, with
feeders from (a) Philadelphia to
Pittsbudg. (b) Washington to Cin
cinnati. (c) Atlanta to New Or
leans.
' 3. “Key West, via Havana to
Panama.
| 4. “Key West, via the West In
dies, to South America ”
“The postoffice department only
awaits the day when the aircraft
production of this country can more
than supply the needs of our own
army and those of our allies to make
| effective the program for aerial
! mail that I have directed to be put
into operation as speedily as the war
.conditions will permit,” Mr. Burle
son continues. He points out that
1 planes for the overseas service de
1 cided upon must be powerful, fitted
1 with wireless, and of special con
j struction, and declares that the eom
! mercial advantage resulting from
j the expected reduction in the time
1m • * • « • n ii
ot communication between bouth
and Central America will justify the
expense.
Discussing the rural truck lines,
and the expected acquirement by the;
department of many hundreds of;
war trucks, the report says that the ■
commerical and economic advantage j
; of the service are evident, and its j
1 extension desirable. The trans
! mission of food products from farms
j to urban cities is particularly facili
tated by the motorized parcels post
lines.
Due to enlistments and high'
wages in outside service, 9,078
postal employes left government
employment during the year, the re
port says, necessitating extra ef
forts in training substitutes. Of
; the number leaving the service 4,898
resigned for other employment, or
: 12.4 per cent of the entire force,
i but the report says that increased
! pay, and overtime allowances made
under new laws will guarantee the
maintenance of an efficient force.
Postal savings bank deposits in
creased $16,516,803 during the
year, raising the total of these de
posits to $148,471,499.
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LOSS OF WHEAT PUT
CRIMP IN HUN MACHINE
NEW YORK.—-More than 137,000
acres of wheat were recovered from
German occupied territory in France
by the British and French armies
in the {Treat offensive that ended
the war, says the New York Federal
Food Board. This is believed by
the food officials to have materially
contributed to the food crisis which
helped to bring Germany to her
knees. This wheat was harvested
chiefly by the French. The work
of nearly 17,000 men was required
in the harvesting. The binding ma
chines and threshing machines were
supplied by the French office of
Agricultural Reconstruction and
when the harvesting was completed
the machines were sold at reduced
prices to farmers or groups of farm
ers who had been victims of the
war.
GERMANS TRIED HARD
TO HOLD BULGAR RILE
NEW YORK—German newspapers
were shaking the “mailed fist” at
Bulgaria only a month before the
Germans were compelled to sign the
armistice on the Western front.
“The Bulgarians and their king
might have stuck it out for the Ger
man fist is still hard and knows how
to protect friends and smash ene
mies,” was the threat of the Cologne
; Gazette.
! Germany’s losses in campaigns
I with Bulgaria in Serbia, Macedonia
i and Dobrudja were given by the
; Berlin Lokal Anzeiger as <51,700,
j including 9,837 killed.
Skof House
CLEAN WARM ROOMS
Mrs Norman Campbell
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—Frame cabin, one room
12x15, partly furnished, in alley
back of Rust House: $135. Ap
ply Ed Dowling, at Fowler &
Morris.
FOUND—Three keys on chain.
Owner can have same by applying
at News office, and paying for ad.
LOST—A Grey Husky Dog, about
Nov. 27th; has collar on neck
Finder return to Coghill's store.
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY—North j
Star-—Mike’s Place. For rent,
ready for business—on most reas
onable terms. Apply R. S. Mc
Donald
FOR RENT.—Small one room cabin
on First and B streets. Apply
at News office.
A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
The Southern
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