THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
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THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
The Democratic Juneau Empire
believes the Republican party of
Alaska* should be reorganized. It!
believes that the welfare of the j
territory demands it, and that it is
the duty of those Republicans whose
first interest is the progressive de-1
velopment of the territory rather j
than personal preferment or profit
to do the organizing.
The rightful office of political or-;
ganizations is to work for good
government and sane development
of the country. Both of. the politi-!
cal parties of Alaska should be or
ganized with that end in view.
There is no reason in the world why ’
both the Democratic and the Re
publican parties of this territory
should not be working for similar
ends. Both should be striving to
advance the best interests of Alaska. I
But the Republicans - cannot be ,
organized into a useful party in this
territory by politicians, wrarns the
Juneau paper, whose highest con
ception of their obligations, as or
ganization men, is to try to obstruct
the government and to make those
charged with governmental responsi
bility unpopular. The Republican
party ought to be organized so that
in the event of a change in the po
litical complexion of the administra
tion in the nation it could aid it in
its work in Alaska. But that will
not be the case if it is organized
by those who deliberately attempt
to deceive the people by misrepre
sentayon, by those who would use
legislatures and other organizations
for the. purpose of creating a dis
trust and contempt for those who
are striving with might and main
for the public welfare. It cannot
be made a party that will serve the
people by those whose sole aim is
success at the ‘-game” of personal
politics. It cannot be made useful
by those who have been seeking per
sonal advantage or revenge for
fancied grievances through discred
iting honest and capable officials in
stead of co-operating with them for'
the public welfare. It cannot be'
done by renegades, Wickites and
discarded Democrats.
If the Republican party is to be:
made into a worthy and useful or
ganization, the rank and file of the
party, those who think more of the •
development of Alaska and her pub
lic welfare than they do of personal
political advantage, must take hold
of it. The politicians who have
nothing else to do than to scheme
and trade and jockey for place and
power must be thrust aside.
Such successes as the Democratic
organization in Alaska has achieved
have been deserved. They have
come because the organization has
sought' to be o£ substantial public
service. In the things it has stood
for it has represented the best sen
timent and aspirations of the people
of Alaska. And, incidentally and
equally important, it has given the
people good, clean and progressive
government. It made mistakes in
the election of the personnel of the
public service, but it has corrected
the mistakes when they were dis
covered—and it has not counted the
temporary cost to the functioning
of the organization which necessari
ly resulted from the shock of the
corrective operations. It has con-!
sidered only the public good to be
served by its actions.
The Empire would like to see the
same class of citizens as have co-;
operated in the Democratic organ- j
ization take charge of the Republi- j
can party and make of it a strong,
purposeful, public-spirited organiza-!
tion for the public good. It would
like to see them redeem it from the \
hands of the politicians who are '
playing the “game” of persona! pol
itics.
WAR EXPENSES.
The work of the house committee j
investigating the enormous expendi- i
tures made by the war department
during the last two years should be !
of incalculable value to future gen
erations, says the Tacoma Ledger.
The activities of the committee will
i
be followed with considerable inter
est and should be exhaustive. The
magnitude of the expenditures, the ,
great variety of projects upon which
money was spent, and the pressure !
of the war. ail lead to the suspi- \
cion that some of the money was
wasted.
What constitutes wastage in war
will probably cause the committee
more trouble than cases of palpable
waste. Opinion is still divided on 1
whether the airplane investigation
during the war showed anything
more than our unpreparedness to
wage war on modem lines.
However this may be, the coun
try is now interested in being told
in a general way about how its !
money was spent. If there is evi
dence of gross misapplication of
government funds, it is the duty of
the committee to ignore charges of
political bias and let the facts speak
for themselves. Any corruption
there was in war expenditures is, of
course, a matter for criminal in
vestigation, and the congressional -
committee may serve a useful pur
pose in collecting some data for
the department of justice.
In any event it is a situation in i
which the main purpose should be •
to hew to the line and let the chips
fall where they may.
LOS ANGELES STORES
CLOSE ON SATURDAYS
LOS ANGELES. — One of - the:
largest department stores in Los1
Angeles announced recently that it!
would give all employes two days j
off each week during July and Au
gust, by closing Friday night to:
remain closed until Monday morn-,
ing. Heretofore it has closed at
noon on Saturdays of these two!
months. Fifteen hundred employes!
will benefit by th^ new ruling.
The managements of several other j
large stores here are considering
similar action.
VCTORY TAKES FIVE
ON FAIRBANKS TRIP
The Douse launch Victory sailed |
for Fairbanks at 9 o’clock this mom- j
ing with mail, express and five pass
engers. The passengers were: Fath
er Monroe, feert Heminger, William
Farrell, James R. Menzies and one
other. The Victory probably will
return tomorrow.
PRE-WAR TRADE
ROME, Italy. — Already German
influence is exercising itself- in Italy
in an endeavor to win back its pre
war trade, which annually amounted
to nearly two hundred million dol
lars—exports and imports.
Interviews have recently been pub
lished in Italian papers which en
deavor to establish the idea in the
Italian mind that had Germany been
consulted in the matter of Italian
claims at the peace conference, Italy
would have secured all that had
been asked. This has been inter
preted by many prominent Italians
as purely a subtle bid for Italian
patronage, anticipating the resuscita
tion of friendly commercial relations
between Italy and Germany.
Chief among the interviews ap
pearing in Italy were those of Prince
ron Buelow and Count von Berns
torff. The former was married to
in Italian and maintains in Italy
one of the most celebrated villas.
Italians contend that it was his ob
ject to solicit Italian favor when
le said:
“Fiume is an Italian town and
must go to Italy. All its inhab
tants are Italian except a small
nioritv. Everything in Fiume ;s
Italian. In fact, most Hungarians
iving in Fiume are more favorable
:o Italian than to Jugo-Slav rule.”
Count von Bernstorff seeks in his
interview intended for the Italian
people to forgive Italy for allying
lerself with Germany’s enemies. He
idmits that had the ancient German
iespotic rule won, Italy would have
lever been forgiven, but that the
lew Germany is ready to forget the
past and start over again.
His interview given to the Gior
ia!e d'ltalia recently has been treat
ed in the same light as that of
Prince von Buelow, while Italians
ire saying of it, “We prefer to
:rust in victory than alternatives.”
Count von Bernstorff failed to
mouse any great enthusiasm among
:he Italians for the proffered for
giveness.
But the Germans have not been
asleep in Italy. Already German
goods are finding their way into the
Italian markets. A Milan newspaper
recently announced that a large
shipment of German jewelry had
been received at the frontier, des
tined for all parts of Italy. Ger
man printing products, tourist guide
books and stationery have been on
display in shop windows for weeks.
Some of them were pre-war stock,
but by far the greater part is new.
GRAPHIC STORY
OF 1 BATTLE
TOLO BY GUNNER
LOS ANGELES, Cal.—A graphic
story of the last fight of Quentin
Roosevelt and his plunge to death
on the banks of the Ourcq, ir.
France, was brought to Los An
geles by Harry C. Weber of Phila
delphia, former machine gunner,
who saw the entire battle. Weber,
who visited his uncle here, wrote
the account in a memorandum book
on the day of the fight. It reads:
“Someone cried, ‘Look!’ and point
ed skyward. Quickly turning my
eyes in the direction indicate^. I
saw them come together, a mighty
crash and some smoke. There was
a moment of suspense. Then both
turned their noses towards the
earth.
“The black one sped downward
like a bullet. It was a German.
The other, silver colored, seemed to
wilt and fall. It was American.
A long, long way and then the
clouds—they could not be seen for
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a few seconds. Then out they
came, the Boche far ahead. It
seemed as if the Yankee machine
would right itself. It kept turning 1
round and round, the tail always
pointing upward. Sometimes it
dipped until it was almost hori-1
zontal. I felt my whole body sway!
with it. I knew it was the last
struggle of an intrepid aviator, but
it was all in vain. My face grew |
hot and feverish, my fist clenched,
as against the golden clouds of a
beautiful sunset, I saw his machine
crash headlong to earth for the last 1
time..”
The battle took place over the i
German lines and it was two days j
before Weber knew he had wit-1
nessed the death of Quentin Roose- '
velt.
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“No, I think it should be har
vested.”—Boston Transcript.
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