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.
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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
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ABSURD.
The attempt of the First division
to secede from the Territory of
Alaska and become a separate ter
ritory, while occasioning no surprise
to the residents of the Second, Third
and Fourth divisions, is so frivolous
as to be absurd, remarks the Valdez
Miner. The claim by the residents
of that division, as enunciated by
the citizens of Ketchikan, that the
First division produces practically
all the money to maintain the ter
itory, and therefore the First di
vision should have the bulk of the
moneys appropriated, is another bit
of bunk which will tickle the risi
bilities of residents of the territory,
who will view the attempt of the
tail to wag the dog with much mer
riment. If the citizens of the First
division are attempting to perpe
trate a joke, we are willing to
laugh with the bunch; but if in
earnest, we would suggest that it
take a look-see at the figures before
cutting off from the territorial pay
roll. We know not what meat our
Ceasar has fed on to grow’ so gTeat.
WASTE AND TAXES.
Of course there was extravagance
in the conduct of the war, declares
the editor of Collier’s. The very
idea of war is extravagant. The
waste of human life, the price in
human agony, the pouring out of
treasure, the cost of the stoppage
of industry or its diversion from
the production of the good .things of
life to the creation of the evil
things of death are extravagances
which seem beyond the conception
of sane minds. These, however, are
the legitimate extravagances of war.
There are such jusJ: as by common,
if not highly ethical, consent there
is “honest graft.” But there are
also illegitimate extravagances. Just
now the Washington air is full of
chatter about these. People are
wondering why the army of war
workers is demobilized so much more
slowly than the army of soldiers.
No Leviathan steams grandly down
the Potomac at stated intervals car
rying, ten or fifteen thousand govern
ment employes to home and industry
dissevered from the national payroll.
The war department is eloquent in
eulogy of its own efficiency, bring
ing the troops home and mustering
the doughboys out. Has anyone
seen a war department bulletin
reading: “It is confidently assented
by the secretary of war that the
last of the additional employes called
for war service will be dismissed
by August 1”? Or any proclama
tion of that nature? If the dura
tion of war-time prohibition were
dependent upon the demobilization
of the departments, it would be a
sorry outlook for the “wets.” Get
ting the boys out of the trenches by
Christmas was a simple job com
pared to getting office-holders off
the government payroll at any time.
Congress grows restless. The
house has a committee organized
to consider expenditures in the war
department. It is, naturally, over
whelmingly a partisan committee
two to one Republican—and so its
findings will be to some degree dis
credited in advance. It is ur.fortu
nate that there seems but little hope
that any of the promised investiga
tions at Washington will east partis
anship to the winds, or seek any
thing except merely destructive in
formation. Of course, it is well t >
know if the government is still buy
ing ground for colossal camps while
disbanding the army that occupies
camps; or duplicating artillery and .
rifle ranges at heavy cost when the !
! need for even the ones we have.
^already paid for is lessening daily:;
or paying exorbitant rents to fa-!
vored Washington landlords while!
; temporary buildings put up at heavy j
!cost remain untenanted. It is more
; important, however, that the bear- j
i ing of these and innumerable other j
extravagances upon the average cit-j
izen’s tax bill and cost of living be
made clear. Only when this is done j
will the evil of extravagance and!
waste be abated.
The Congress which proposes a ;
series of searching investigations j
came to Washington a few weeks1
[ago promising reduction of taxa-j
! tion. The luxury taxes, bearing j
! heavily on things which are not at
all luxuries, were certain to be
abated. The income tax and the
excess-profits taxes were to be tem
pered to the shorn taxpayer. A '
few weeks have dispelled this bright i
but illusive promise. There is no
more talk of immediate reduction of
taxation. The average citizens, the
men of the professional occupations,
the salaried employes, are the ones
who suffer most from governmental i
extravagance and the resultant \
heavy taxation. They are also the
most numerous class and the most |
powerful politically if they will but j
use their power unitedly. This fact :
is one worth the attention of states-1
men considering federal extrava- ■
gance.
It is the purpose of Collier s to !
watch, to encourage, and to share
to some extent in these investiga-1
tions into official waste and extrava- j
gance. But we confess to having!
only the slightest interest in them'
; either as parts of a partisan cam-I
paign or devices for exploiting po
litical scandal. If out of them can'
come some plan for husbanding the j
public resources, for reducing the'
public expenditures, for achieving ;n j
a measure that economy of which
all politicians talk but few advance,
and for taking the crushing burden j
of taxation from the shoulders of
! the people, these inquisitions will
have value. Otherwise they will be
themselves only another and espe
cially irritating form of official
!
: waste.
WHAT PRICE?
What price has been paid for the
League of Xaitions covenant? asks
the Washington Post. No one is
! permitted to know. The dealers in '
i I
national rights do not tell what’
promises or guarantees they have!
made. The public knows that the i
I
1 allied nations have^ made the best ]
bargain they could for the sake of
fastening an effective peace upon j
' Germany, and that they have failed
thus far to accomplish the object
for which the war was fought. Ger
many is still arrogant, still talking
: of a peace on equal terms, and
I with undeniable logic is demanding
immediate membership in the League
of Nations. If the Allies should
make the blunder of exchanging
views with 1iie Germans, the enemy
will get the better of the argument,
for peace is peace, not enmity, and
any world league of peace must
necessarily include Germany.
The league cookea up In Pans is
a poorly constructed alliance against
Germany so long as it conspicuous
ly excludes Germany as unfit to be
a member. Germany is unfit to as
sociate with free nations, and there
fore there should be no pretense
teat the league is anything but an
alliance against her. It is the per
sistent misrepresentation of the
league that makes for trouble. It
is pictured to be what it is not.
It is credited with powers that it
does not possess unless they are
usurped, and it is described as a
i preventive of war when it is really
ian enemy of peace.
1 The reassuring feature of the
i present situation is the firm deter- '
mination of the European leaders to
bind Germany fast, in spite of the
dangerous complications that have
been caused by injecting the League
of Naitions scheme into the proceed
ings. With Germany bound to com
ply with rigid peace terms, the world
can brush aside the rubbish of the
unworkable “covenant” and main
tain human liberty by the open,
voluntary association of free na
tions, each absolutely untrammeled
in its own sovereign sphere.
ARGENTINE STYLE.
Because of censorship the world
was prevented from learning the
details of the revolutionary out
breaks in Argentina early in the
year. Ostensibly advertised as labor
troubles, they amounted to an effort
to overthrow the government, says
the Cincinnati Enquirer. Now it is
known that 3,000 people lost their:
lives in the fighting in and about
Buenos Aires, and that because of
the five months’ paralysis of the
port facilities that dread disease, the
bubonic plague, came ashore and is j
slowly spreading in the poorer quar
ters.
Appalled, as well as angered by
these misfortunes, the authorities of
the Argentine government are mov
ing in a decisive manner to punish
those responsible for them and to
prevent a recurrence of the rioting.
There have been arrested and im
mured about 800 agitators, country
men and compatriots of Lenine and
Trotsky, and, as soon as the ships
can be secured, they are to be taken
back to Russia and thrown ashore
with the warning that if they at
tempt to return to Buenos Aires
they will be hanged.
For this remedial process it can
be said that, even if it is drastic
and contrary to high ideals, it is
at least efficacious during critical
times. Authority to apply it in this
country might be considered by Con
gress as a part of the reconstruc
tion program. Russia should not be
allowed to languish for the society
of these, her children, at a time
when there is a demand for a spread
of the doctrine of untrammeled free
dom in that reeking laboratory of
social experiment.
FAIRBANKSAN INVENTS
IMPROVED PHONOGRAPH
G. M. Landerkin, well-known old
timer of the Fairbanks district, who
is now in the employ of the govern
ment at the bureau of mines station,
has perfected a talking machine
which is said to be a great improve
ment over the phonographs now in
general use. The improvement is in
the reproducer, which is capable of
increasing the volume of sound
much more than the ordinary repro
ducer.
A public demonstration will be
given at Fairbanks tonight at the
Presbyterian church.
Miss Eunice Thrift has succeeded
to the position in the accounting
office of the A. E. C. recently va
cated by Mrs. Ed Lund. Miss Thrift
took over her new duties some time
ago.
WANT ADS
FIFTEEN MEN WANTED to cut
wood. Five dollars per cord;
good timber. A. G. Vachon, Tan
ana. k8-16
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
Steam Laundry. A bargain, if
taken before August first. Must [
go Outside on urgent business is
reason for sacrifice. Mrs. Clara
Allred, Nenana, Alaska. k7-28
FOR SALE — Showcase. 514 feet
long. Practically new. Ch'eap.
Inquire Mrs. Herman Rosburg. t
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Fort Gibbon this summer for the
benefit of the soldiers stationed at j
the army post, and which probably I
will be ready for occupancy before
the end of September, will involve
an expenditure of approximately!
$10,000, according to Mr. T. B.
Ferguson, who is a down-bound pass
enger on the steamer Yukon, en-;
route to the army town to get the
work started. Mr. Ferguson is Al- j
aska representative of the Knights 1
of Columbus and will be located
permanently at Juneau, from w-hich
point he will exercise general super- 1
vision over the three Alaska huts,
at Gibbon, Haines, and Nome.
The Gibbon hut will include a
movie show, reading apd writing
rooms, and a library, with player
piano and phonograph for music, all
of which may be enjoyd by the sol
diers without cost to them.
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