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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PROTEST.
If it is the object of Representa
tive Raker, of California, to pro
long the exemption period for the
performance of annual labor on
mining claims in Alaska, as would
seem to be indicated by telegraphic
advices received from the national
capital this week, there should be
vigorous protest on the part of
Alaskans in every section of the
territory. Nothing that we know
of retards development in this coun
try more than the suspension of the
law requiring assessment work, and
there is not a single reasonable ar
gument that can be advanced in
favor of such a suspension. The
dispatches would have us believe
that it is intended to benefit claim
owners still in the service, but it
will be difficult to convince Alas
kans that it is not a scheme to
relieve influential claim-holders of
the necessity of representing prop
erly the thousands of acres of valu
able ground which they are with
holding from development for specu
lative purposes.
The excuse given for the intro
duction of the Raker resolution, that
it w-iil protect the claims of the
mining men who are still in the
service overseas, is about as rea
sonable as w'ould be a proposal to
furnish free food to Alaskans be
cause there happened to be a few
hungry Northerners in Europe. The
action that would be taken in such
an emergency would be the prompt
despatch of supplies to those in need
of them. And that is the way the
assessment suspension proposition
should be handled. Protect the
claims of those who are not in a
position, through service in the army,
to conform to the requirements of
the law-, but compel all others to
continue to represent the property
which they desire to hold. Other
wise there will be no development
of such holdings while the annual
labor clause is in suspension.
We were not in favor of the
suspension, when Congress was pre
vailed upon by the late Delegate
Sulzer to set the law. aside. There
w-as less excuse for the action taken
bv Delegate Wickersham during the
last session of Congress, and there
is still less reason for a suspensior
beyond the limit prescribed by the
Wickersham law. The Raker resolu
tion is a potlatch to claim monopo
lists, presented to Congress in the
unsuspecting form of a relief mea
sure for the benfit of soldier claim
owrners.
TO BE TAKEN WHOLE.
When first the constitution for the
League of Nations was made pub
lic, and people remarked upon some
of its crudities and vagueness, they
' were assured that it was merely a
tentative draft, presented as a basis
for .consideration, which was ex
pected to be considerably remod
eled.- But now the President in
sists that, with merely verbal emen
dation in a single passage, it must
be accepted precisely as -it stands
verbatim et literatim et punctatim
That means that the senate must
ratify it without the least modifies
tion or amendment or else reject i1
altogether, and, of course, if it re
jects it, the peace treaty must alsc
be rejected, since they are to b<
inseparably united, and we sha!
have to remain at war with Ger
;many. The success of so extraor
dinary a demand would be tanta
mount to making the President tn:
sole treaty making power, and would
i practically eliminate the senate from
, its constitutional role of adviser to
the President. There have been
presidents of the United States who
in such a case would have kept in
close touch with Congress all
through the negotiations, as Mr. Wil
son promised to do but did not do,
and who would have ascertained the
judgment of the senate upon such a
matter as this before positively com
mitting himself to it. But such
presidents did not consider them
: selves as occupying the “real throne
of administration."—Harvey’s Week
ly.
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COAST OFFICIALS
: QUIT THEIR JOBS
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ANCHORAGE.—Three officials
i holding important places with the
i Alaskan Engineering Commission
: have resigned their postions. They
| are Harry G. Locke, head of the
marine ways department; G. C. !
1 Hammond, chief disbursing officer,
and John H. Dunn in charge of the
1 property department.
Mr. Locke has been with the
| Commission since 1915. He left the
classified service of the coast and
geodetic survey to superintend the
handling of the commission’s water
equipment. He will return to the
| survey this month His duties wi’l
j require him to make his head
quarters in Washington, D. C.
Mr( Hammond is in the classified
; service of the treasury department
land joined the commission when the
disbursing office was established
for it in Anchorage in 1915 by the
department. Mr. Hammond has
be ensealled to Washington city by
the department. He expects to be
; transferred in the near future to
Los Angeles, Cal.
Mr. Dunn recently was elected by
the Anchorage board of education
principal of the Anchoarge school.
He will assume his school duties
next fall. Mr. Dunn, before coming
to Alaska, was superintendent of
schools in Pennsylvania. He was in
Nome about twelve years ago, and
served a term as clerk of the United
States district court there. He has
been with the commission since 1916.
I The Fairbanks Presbyterian Sun
' day school will stage a picnic on
Tuesday, the plan being to give the
youngsters an outing at Clear
! creek, where there is good fishing
! and a splendid grove for picnicking,
i The trip will be made in autos
I donated for the day by the N. C.
I Co., Independent Lumber Co., and,
Lavery & Bailey, and it is expected
that several private autos also will
be available.
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ENGLISH PRINCE LEARNS
THINGS FOR HIMSELF
LONDON—Since the return of the
prince of Wales from the army in
France, he has been unusually
active in acquiring first-hand in
, formation on many subjects, and in
royal circles he is referred to as
“the prince who learns things for
I himself.”
He is said to have brought back
from France the unconventional
manner he acquired in his asso
ciation with the troops of all ranks.
The prince rises at 7 o’clock each
day, and when there are no public
engagements on his program, he
plays racquets, of which is exceed
ingly fond.
PARIS.—The famous Latin Qvnr
ter of Taris, home of the denizens
of the #world of art, is for the 1 Hu
being, at least, a thing of the past,
k;lled unwittingly by an invasion
of American officers statloied m :he
capital. So many of the soldier
boys have taken up their abode in
this section so that they might get
a sight of “real life’’ that the long
time habitues have been forced to
withdraw because of lack of room
and high prices. The spirit of Bo
hemia frightened by the influx from
overseas, has spread its wings and
drifted away to a more tranquil
spot.
It is not dislike erf the Yankees
that has forced the long-haired artist
to fold up his easel and steal sadly
away to find himself a new home.
Far from that. But even a long
haired artist who, theoretically, can
live in a hole in the wall, must have
at least some room to turn around
in, and moreover his pocketbook is
not so long as that of his friends
from across the ocean. So the Latin
Quarter is Americanized, and ap
parently will remain so until Uncle
Sam calls his boys home again, when
probably the dreamer of dreams will
find his way back to his old haunts.
There are at present perhaps three
hundred American officers and sol
diers living in the Latin Quarter,
most of them being students at the
Sorbonne, where special courses have
the artists who lived there before
the war had given up their studies
and answered the call of the flag
Consequently there were numerous
apartments to be obtained by the
Americans. The artist, upon being
recently demobilized, came back to
the Quarter to learn that there was
no place for him, at least at a price
within his means, for the Americans
pay well.
Artists who had remained in the
Quarter were little less fortunate,
for they found that their purses
would no longer support them in tjje
old style in their cafes. Then, too,
there undoubtedly was the question
of a change of the atmosphere so
dear to the artist. His privacy was
a thing of the past.
Take the Cafe du Dome, for ex
ample. This used to be a famous
resort for wielders of the brush and
chisel. The tables of an evening
were filled with Bohemians at their
games and drinks, and the two
billiard tables were the battle grounds
for large forces of artist combat
ants. The conversation centered on
things esthetic.
Now every table is surrounded by
bulging khaki, the American cue ex
pert is practicing fancy shots on
the greencloth, and the favorite chair
of the painter is occupied by a Yan
kee captain. The conversation eddies
about Christy Mathewson and the
chances of the Giants.
Occasionally an artist pokes his
head in at the door timidly, and
then takes himself off hastily in a
fright at the unusual sight. There
simply isn’t room for him there
any more.
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Genuine Buhach at Fowler &
Morris.
NEW STATUE TO TAKE
PLACE OF LIKENESS
OF FORMER KAISER
METZ, France.—In the porch of
Metz cathedral stands a statue of
Daniel the Prophet, to which a
sculptor had given a marked facial
likeness to former Emperor Wil
liam. When the French took pos
session of the city, they put a pair
of handcuffs on the emperor-pro
phet’s wrists, from which hung a
placard inscribed “Sic transit gloria
mundi.”
Now the statue is to be taken
away altogether and a new one sub
stituted by a local artist. A fund
for this purpose has been opened
here.
POLITICAL WRITERS
BOOST OBREGON FOR
MEXICAN PRESIDENT
_
MEXICO CITY.—Political writers
of the capital press persist, in the
absence of official announcements,
in mentioning the name of General
j Alvara Obregon as candidate to be
named by the convention of the
Liberal Constitutionalist party, which
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and in pood working order, price,
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WANTED — Camp cook, man oi
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REV. ROBT.
JOSEPH DIVEN
D. D.
MINISTER
12:00 noon—The children’s hour.
Evening subject, “Tottering Walls"
Music begins at 7:15 Lecture 7:30
Everybody Welcome
^hristiapTscience
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,
The subject will be: “God the Only
Cause and Creator.”
they say, will hold a convention in
this city in July, after inviting all
other political factions in sympathy
with their program to participate
Campaign committees for every stats
capital in the republic have beer
named by the leaders of this party
it is asserted.
The town of Valdez is building
a $2,500 dock for the accommoda
tion of the mosquito fleet whict
has grown too large for the presen'
dock.
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NOTICE
Passengers leaving on the train
for any point on the line south of
town are required to purchase
tickets before entering the train.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is
in the employment office, on the
ground floor of the genera! 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 foot of
A street on Wednesdays and Satur
days at 8 p. m.
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
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FOURTH AND B STREETS
On Second and Fourth Tuesday*
At 8 P. M.
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M. V. TYLER.
Dictator.
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