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.
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proclamation
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“Territory of Alaska, Juneau,
May 11, 1918.
“Alaska has exceeded her quota
of enlistemnts in the military ser
vice.
“Alaska has exceeded her quota
of purchase of Liberty bond
‘‘Alaska stands among the first, if
not the first, in the purchase of war
savings and thrift star.mps.
“Alaska has always responded
nobly to every war call sounded.
The people of Alaska are generous
and true Americans, irrespective of
the nationality of their birth.
“We are proud to be called Alas
kans.
“We are called upon once more to
give to that greatest of all chara
ties, the American Red Cross.
“We are called upon to give that
our boys over Alaska, boys in
France, now in the future may be
looked after tenderly and efficiently
in sickness and in health, that in the
field they may have those comforts
not provided by military authority,
that when wounded or ill they may
have devoted to them the highest
surgical skill obtainable in hospitals
modern in all their appliances, that
the dying hours of dear ones who
gladly give up their lives for you
and for me, for your children and
my children, may be quieted and
comfortable, and that for those who
are captured there may be supplied
sustenance and methods of com
munication ith their families and
loved ones.
“That the families of soldiers and
sailors may receive a helping hand
in case of sickness or need.
“That the hearts of the poor
peasants of France, Belgium. Italy
and Servia may be gladdened by
timely assistance in the revolting
homes devastated by contending
armies.
“That the crippled may be helped
to useful life.
“That the little children, left in
the wake of kultur, abandoned, tor
tured, maimed and disfigured, may
be mended, cared for and finally
returned to their country to become
helpful citizens.
“That our flag may continue to
stand for right, for facts, for hope,
for charity.
“Therefore, I, Thomas Riggs, Jr.
Governor of the Territory of Alaska,
do hereby proclaim a week, begin
ning on Monday, May 20, as Red
Cross week, and Saturday, May 25,
as Alaska Red Cross Day, and do
hereby call on all loyal men, women
and children in the territory of
Alaska to make every effort toward
raising funds for the American Red
Cross, and more particularly on
Alaska’s Red Cross Day do I call
upon our citizens as far as possible
to observe the day as a territorial
holiday, wherein the efforts of all
shall be directed towards raising
our proportion of the national sub
scription of one hundred millior
dollars.
“I call upon all organizations
throughout the territory, commer
cial, political, and social, the Boj
Scouts, the churches, the lodges, th«
home guards, to bend every effori
in this direction; more particularly
I call the women, for to them be
longs primarily the honor of th<
Red Cross.
“The sum of forty thousand dol
lars is fixed r.s the amount to b<
raised in the territory. Chapters am
subchapters of the Red Cross whicl
exceed their allotment of one dolla
per capita for all the inhabitant
within their , • isdiction will bi
placed on the honor roll of the ter
• ritory, to be kept in the historical
1 library and museum at Juneau, and
a certified copy will be sent to the
, president of the society, the secre
I tary of the interior, and the presi
dent of the United States,
j “Given under my hand and the
seal of the Territory of Alaska, in
Juneau, the capital, this tenth day
! of May, in the year of our Lord
• one thousand nine hundred and
| eighteen, and of the independence of
; the United States the one hundred
and forty-second.
(Signed)
Attest:
“THOMAS RIGGS. Jr.
“Governor.” j
CHARLES E. DAVIDSON,
i Ex-officio Secretary of Alaska.
WHAT THE UNITED STATES
FOOD ADMINISTRATION
IS DOING.
A thought the United States Food
Administration would like to im
plant firmly and clearly in the pub
lie mind is that the work of the
Food Administration is not merely
national, 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 wo/. 1
democracy in the trenches are prop
erly supplied with wholesome f jod.
Perhaps second in importance is
the necessity for keeping ever be
for the nations associated with us
in the war assurance that their food
requirements are to be met in suf fi
cient degree to sustain life so there
will be no food panics in those
countries, based upon a fear that
this nation will not live up to the
obligations now piaced 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 understanding of Euro
pean 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 repeti
tion 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
can bring defeat. This is so true
that if the people of this country
could but understand how vitally es
sential is the success of the Food
program proposed by the Food Ad
! ministration, much of the difficulty
of all problems of food conservation
ouid disappear, because the call of
humanity and patriotism would lead
all Americans to meet the requiie
ments asked of them. The import
i ance, therefore, of intelligent edu
; cation long conservation lines can
l not be overestimated
Department of the Interior
Washington.
“To the Chiefs of Bureaus, Interior
Department:
“I would like to do our boys who
are injured in France the honor of
posting their names in the Depart
ment as soon as we can know of
their injuries, and as there is no
vay of getting such a list from the
war department, I wish you would
notify each division chief and agent
■ in the field that we would like to
have a notice at once sent to the
• chief of each bureau when eveh word
! is received that a man from his de
1 partment has been killed or injured
i in the military or naval service, so
■ that we may keep their names on
i a special Roll of Honor.
;; “Cordially yours,
-! (Signed) “FRANKLIN K. LANE”
OUR DEBT OF GRATITUDE AND
FRIENDSHIP FOR FRANCE
By Geo. W. Pennington
We very frequently hear some
friend or neighbor contend that the
American people are making a griev
ous. even dangerous blunder, in send
ing the flower of our young man
hood across the ocean to engage in
ar on the European continent.
In reply to that statement, let me
remind you that there is no duty
in this life that we respom? !o or
perform with greater joy and pride
than to pay our debts of honor and
gratitude,. and it is my wish tonight
to take a backward glance with you
over a short period of our Colonial
history, and sum up the debt of
gratitude and loyal friendship- that
we owe to France. Remmember,
this is not the first time we have
had a desperate encounter with the
same “Prussian Autocracy” that is
cursing the world today. It was
this self-same tyranny that we
fought during our Revolutionary war
—our war of independence— and
had it not been for the timely aid
and loyal friendship of beloved
France, we never s'nouid have been
able to bring that long and weary
struggle to a successful issue.
If you will glance at any modern
history, it will take but a moment to
learn, that for a great many years,
the English nation was governed by
the German house of Hanover.
George I and George II were both,
in their time, “electors of Hanover,” j
and they entertained a very light;
regard for their English subpects i
They were each born in the German '
principality of Hanover, and when '
they came to London neither of
them could speak the English lan-!
guage, and they never did learn to'
speak it fluently, or even moder
ately well.
George III, it is true, was born
in London, but his wife, the queen, j
was German. His most intimate
friends and courtiers were of the
same nationality, and he thought far ’
more of the Electoraly of Hanover ■
than of his English dominions. The \
soldiers that he admired the most,
and in whom he placed the greatest
dependence, were the same bar
barians that the American patriot?
called the “Hessian Devils,” and the
services of these bribed mercenaries
were paid for out of the blood
money wrung from our Colonial
forefathers.
Most of us can recall the fact,
than in 1781, the cause of the
of the American colonies had sunk
to the very lowest ebb. We had
been fighting a 1/sing game, most
of the time, for seven long, weary
year. Sir Henry Clinton held New
York with twelve thousand regulars
and German Hessians. They were
at that time the best equipped and
most thoroughly trained army in the
world; while Washington, in despera
tion, clung to the Hudson river
heights with a half-naked and shift
ing company of American patriots,
defeated in many battles, discour
arge and hungry; and now at this
crisis reduced to their last cup of
chicory and their last round of
ammunition.
Believe me, my friends, it was
! indeed a desperate situation; and
when we review our Colonial history
at this late day, we marvel at the
! fortitude and stubborn courage of
i the Colonial troops. Washington
j was on the verge of despair. In
I writing to Col. John Laurens, who,
■ at that time, was our agent at the
Court of France, he said: “If France
fails to come to our aid at this criti
cal time, it will be forever too late
to attempt it hereafter, for the need
I of food, ammunition and clothing
j will very soon bring us to disaster
, and overwhelming defeat.”
But France did not fail. Her
brave men came, and came on time,
j It is true at this particular time,
i we were not entirely destitute of
aid, but the difficult problem was to
| co-ordinate our forces and render
' them effective. At Newport, Rhode
I Island, General Count de Rocham
; beau was encamped with five thous
| and French troops, well supplied with
' all the requirements of war. Down
I in the West Indies, Admiral de
i Grasse was cruising around with a
i very considerable squadron of
j French warships, but the difficult
thing was to reach him with des
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patches. We did reach him, how
ever, and in less than two weeks
he sailed into Hampton Roads with
his naval forces, three thousand
French Dragoons and a strong con
tingent of artillery, including siege
guns, and a full equipment of am- ,
munition and supplies. And now j
came the crucial moment that mark- j
ed the beginning of the end, and the j
situation for a few brief hours I
looked dark for the American col
onies; for just at this critical junc
ture. Sir Samual Hood appeared off
the Chesapeake Capes with nineteen j
heavily armed Briti.-h ships of war, j
and the French were apparently j
bottled up in Hampton Roads. Of j
course they had to fight. And about j
five o’clock one October afternoon i
these two flying squadrons swept out |
past the Chesapeake Capes before j
the west wind, in grim parallel lines, |
their decks stripped for action, and I
cutting loose at each other in full j
fury.
It was a terrific naval engage- j
ment; but when the moon and stars j
came out it was a drawn battle, j
One British ship had gone to the i
bottom, and several others were
severely damaged. But the French j
were crippled too, and deemed it
expedient to put back into Hamp- i
ton Roads; and Sir Samual Hood,!
believing himself overmatched, sailed j
away, leaving Lord Cornwallis at j
Yorktown, to his own resources.
Meantime, General Washington j
had been making the supreme effort t
of his life to effect a junction with (
the French force at Newport- At j
his earnest solicitations, five thous- j
and French soldiers at that point 1
filed out upon the highways of *
Rhode Island and Connecticut, mak- j
ing a forced march of two hundred i
miles in ten days, an average of
more than twenty miles per day,
with all their artillery and equip
ment without losing a man.
The joined Washington at North
Castle, and then came that great
march of five hundred miles, down j
through Pennsylvania and Maryland,
to the outskirts of Yorktown, where
they were joyfully hailed by the
three thousand Dragoons that had
disembarked from de Grasse’s squad- j
ron.
The two famous fighting corps—
the American Light Infantry and the j
French Grenadiers, were then placed !
under the command of Alexander |
Hamilton, and while Washington j
locked on with encouraging iporoval, j
these determined fighters swept over j
the last enemy trenches—carrying j
everything before them at the point j
of the bayonet—capturing My Lord
Cornwallis and six thousand troops
with all their ammunition and sup-j
plies.
This engagement practically ended j
the Revolutionary war, and when we
foot up the two columns of the led
ger, the account shows a beautiful
balance in favor of France.
She had helped us in a great number
of W'ays prior to this time. She
had loaned us vast sums of money
when we were bankrupt, without de- j
manding collateral, and refused to
accept interest on such loans. But
now her aid in this last desperate
moment was of a far more splendid j
character than ever before. To fight |
the winning battle of our independ
ence she had placed at our disposal
an army of seven thousand picked
troops—just twice as large an army
as we had in the field at that time—
and had equipped our force, and her
own as well, with all the ammuni
tion and other supplies that were re
quired.
My friends, it was a golden piece
of friendship, and in that fateful
hour of victory we were placed
under an obligation that we can
never fully repay. Rough1;/ speak
ing we owe France today twenty
billions of dollars, and we have the
money. We owe France today seven
million men, and army just twice
the size of her own; and we have
the men. And we should offer her
all of them, and more if need bo.,
And when the last bayonet is fixed,
and the last field piece ha; been
fired in this war, wc should hasten
to her relief with ever;, resource
we have. Figuratively speaking, we
should take her in our arms as we
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ler back to national health again.
Until we do these things, our
debts of honor and gratitude will
remain unpaid.
The above is the text of a lecture
lelivered by Mr. Geo. W. Pennington,
lirector of Xenana’s Four Minute
Men, to a crowed house at the Coli
seum theater last night.
Jake Hepfinger, proprietor of the
Crystal Baths tonsorial parlor at
Valdez, and a former resident of
Fairbanks, has tendered his services j
to the government as anambulance
driver for the Red Cross, and has
successfully passed the physical
ixamination.
VV. H. Rodger, mediator and con
rilator, representing Secretary W. B.
IVilson of the department of labor, j
recently succeeding in adjusting the 1
rontroversy between the Copper
River and Northwestern Railway and j
some of the emloyees and then re- ;
turned to the States. The men re- i
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"WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
ISSUED SY THS
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT
The habit that
makes men rich
Saving is a habit
men rich.
-the habit that makes
While the Government needs the money
that will be invested in the War Savings
Stamps, there are other, and simpler meth
ods that could be used to raise this two bil
lion dollars.
The greater purpose of War Savings Stamps
is to give every man, woman and child a
personal part in financing the war for free
dom and to teach the most beneficial habit
in life—the habit of thrift. So that when
the war is over the people will have saved,
out of the high wages of these days, some
part of their income, as a provision for the
future.
Look out for your personal future. Make
certain of it by buying War Savings Stamps
now, while you can. They pay 4 per cent
interest, compounded quarterly, and are
backed by the strongest treasury in the
world.
THEY EARN MONEY
THEY SAVE LIFE AT THE
FRONT, BY HELPING UNCLE
SAM WIN THE WAR.
BUV THEM AT THE
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