THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Xenana, Alaska,
for emry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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A CHANGE NEEDED.
The territorial law providing for
the election of trustees in towns
along the Government railroad is on
a par with most of the laws en
acted by our terrtorial legislators.
It is so worded as to create doubt
in the minds of voters as to its
meaning, several points being some
what obscure, as the result of the
use of words which may have much
or little meaning.
If it was the intention of the
framers of the act to restrict voting
to those residing within the limits
of the townsite, as decided yester
day by the judges of election, that i
part of the law, at least, should be
altered before another election is
held. Our community is too small
to be divided, as the law apparently
seeks to divide us. The News is
of the opinion that no distinction [
should be made between residents j
of the town and residents of the ]
Commission reserve, in so far as'
voting is concerned. We are one
big family, all of us living in much j
the same way, devoted to the up- j
building of the community in which |
we reside, and dependent, directly j
or indirectly, upon one source of j
revenue. j
The News is in favor of so I
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amending the law as to prevent a'
decurrence of yesterday's division, j
We are for one town, one vote, and ;
one purpose.
CHEMICAL PROGRESS.
Delegates from England, France,
Spain, Mexico and other countries,
including industrial leaders and the
keenest experimenters in the chem
ical world, are expected to partici
pate in the fifth National Exposition
of Chemical Industries, which will
be held in Chicago in connection
with four important meetings of
chemical societies, September 22-27.
The societies are the American In
stitute of Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers; the American Ceramic
society; the American Electro-Chem
ical society, and the Technical As
sociation of the Pulp and Paper In
dustry.
Three hundred and thirty exhibits,
^representative of forty different in
dustries, will be shown to prove that
Germany has been surpassed in her
own field and that America now
easily leads the world in the chem
ical arts. Through the exhibits and
the papers to be read at the meet
ings of the various societies, the
world, it is said, wrill learn authori
tatively just what America accom
plished in the laboratory during the
war.
Much of this war development, it
is declared, will be equally valuable
in peace. Experiences with poison
gas, for example, resulted in the in
vention of masks and other devices
to protect workers in industry from
noxious fumes. Substitutes have
been found for the drugs and dyes
formerly imported from Germany; a
potash industry valued at $31,961,
626 has been built up, and new
processes have been found for
hardening steel, bronze, and other
metals.
Among the exhibits promised at
the exposition are acid and alkali
proof bronze of such hardness and
strength that it is made into in
struments to cut the hardest steels.
The Technical Association of the
Pulp and Paper Industry plans to
show all the stages of paper-making
j from the tree to the finished prod
juct, and the United States bureau of
mines will show safety appliances
and paraphernalia for guarding the
workers in mines and industrial
plants.
A committee composed of the
foremost industrial chemists of the
country is in charge of the exposi
tion. It is headed by Dr. Charles
H. Herty, of New York, and in
cludes Raymond F. Bacon, director;
of the Mellon Institute; L.H. Baeke-j
land, member of the Naval Consult- j
ing Board; W. D. Bancroft, presi- j
dent of the American Electro-Chem- j
ical Society; Henry B. Faber, of the i
Industrial Filtration Corporation:!
Ellwood Hendrick, president of the I
Chemists' Club; Bernard C. Hesse,!
of the General Chemical Company;]
W. H. Nichols, president of the j
American Chemical Society; R. P. !
Perry, president of the Barrett Com- i
pany; G. W. Thompson, president of j
the American Institute of Chemical j
Engineers; T. B. Wagner, U. S. ]
Food Products Corporation; M. C. j
Whitaker, president of the U. S. j
Industrial Chemical Company; A. D. I
Little, and H. C. Parmalee.
ORPHANS IN SIBERIA.
How to care for 1,100 children
from Petrograd, who became wards
of the American Red Cross, is a
question which Dr. Doremus Scud
der, head of the refugee work of
that organization, is trying to solve
as a benevolent foster father.
The youngsters were sent to Si
beria last summer by the Bolshevik
government, because of the food
shortage in Russia, and were cut off
from any possible communication
with their parents by the outbreak
of hostilities betwen the Czechs and
the Bolsheviki. They arrived in a
body at Miass, 60 miles west of
Cheliabinsk, in charge of teachers,
and thereafter scattered in groups
to Cheliabinsk, Troitsk, Ekaterin
burg. Tiumen, and other towns.
Their teachers deserted them and
they were left to charity.
The desperate plight of 300 of
the waifs at Miasa tame to the at
tention of Y. M. C. A. Secretary
Compton, who came through from
Samara. After doing what he could
for them and enlisting the aid of
his friends among the Czechs,
Compton appealed to the Red Cross
to look after them.
The result has been that the Red
; Cross has colonized this group of
children at Turgayak, a mountain
resort 15 miles from Miass, after'
much negotiation with the owners
of some 25 “datchas” or summer
cottages, and is planning to con
solidate with them various other
groups to the number of 300 to
1500 more. In addition, there are
500 colonized at Tiumen.
The actual work of organizing
the Turgayak colony has been done
.by Gregory Welch, of the British
; Society of Friends. Alfred J. Swan
and Mrs. Swan, also Britishers, are
looking after educational work
among the children, and Miss Lillian
, Welch, an American, is devoting her
time t» encouraging agriculture and
to teaching English,
j Miss Welch, who went to Omsk
■ to try to enlist more help, describ
ling her work in the colony, said:
“The children are very anxious to
learn English and are eager to hear
all about America. A group of girls
have been in the scout movement,
and when they learned that I had
been an organizer in Honolulu, they
j begged me to come and live with
jthem and teach them. Every Am
jerican who visits the camp is be
sieged with questions.”
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! HAVANA, Cuba.—WTith the re
Icent sudden outbreak of cannibal
istic practices by Voodoo worship
ers, which rave resulted in the
deaths of at least three innocent *
children and a half-dozen of the j
Voodooists, the latter by the ap- ’
plication of “lynch” law for the
first time in this country’s history,
fathers and mothers are living in
constant fear that their little ones |
may be spirited away by the super
stitious negroes to be offered up in
sacrifice to “Chango,” the god of
the “Brujos,” as they are called
in the Castilian language.
The Voodooists are divided in
various sects, each with its separate j
god. The latter include "Baba
gueye,” god of sickness; “Elecua,” i
god of injury; “Olorrun,” god of
misery, and “Chango,” the terrible
god, to whom human sacrifices are !
made.
“Chango,” according to the Voo- j
doo belief, was the son of Olorrun
and Anaragua. He was slain by
j Eiecua, the “god of injury," and
jascended into heaven from a Ceiba,
jor god-tree, in the month of May. ;
j It is in the month of May, there- j
jfore, that the “Brujos” observe!
|their holy week, when Chango is
(expected to make a visit to the
j earth, descending by the Ceiba, his
j sacred tree, always on Monday.
The followers of Eiecua do not
directlv offer human sacrifices, al
i
; though their healers sacrifice the
'lives of some patients, by giving
I them poisonous concoctions, suppos- j
iedlv a mysterious cure for some
bailment, in order to restore to
i health some other patient, Eiecua.
; being the “god of injury,” his fol
, lowers believe that good can come
to one person only through injury
I to another.
j Voodooism is not practiced by
the negroes alone. Manx white per
jsons also are said to secretly take
:part in their religious meetings, and
jaccusions have been heard in vari
1 ous quarters of the difficulties en
countered by officers seeking to
: break up their temples because of
'obstacles placed in their way by
persons of influence.
An active campaign by the au
thorities in Havana and other part?
of the island has resulted in the
capture of numerous “Brujos” and
The seizure of many curious and
j weird objects used by them.
Too Much Speed.
j This speed mania is getting to be
jan awful thing. Everybody is rush
| ing and hurrying—can’t go fast
i enough. You would not think that
ja fire department could develop too
I much speed, but they can. Too much
| is more than enough. The other
j morning the fire chief was going so
,fast in his “red devil” that he ran a
mile and a half past the fire before
he could stop.—Butler (Mo.) Demo
crat.
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A Mere Trifle.
“Oh, Charley, have you half a
(minute to spare?”
“Yes. But only half a minute, my
dear.”
“Well, I only want you to ex
plain to me exactly what is meant
by the Covenant of the League of
Nations.”—The Passing Show.
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—Lady’s pony fur coat
and muff. Apply Mrs. R. S. Mc
; Donald.
FOR SALE—Furnished house, four
rooms, with summer kitchen, at
tic, large basement and winter
cellar for vegetables. Heated by
furnace. Winter supply of veg
etables. Full corner lot. One of
the most desirable parts of town.
Inquire at News office.
BUNCH OF KEYS found. Owner
can recover by calling at News
office and paying for this adver
tisement.
FOR SALE — Showcase, 5% feet
long. Practically new. Cheap.
Inquire Mrs. Herman Rosburg.
Equal*.
: He: Yur cousin refused to recog
nize me at the jazz last night; thinks
I’m not his equal. I suppose.
She: Ridiculous! Of course you
are; why, he’s nothing but a con
ceited idiot.—Blighty (London).
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On Second a“d Fourth Tuesdays
At 8 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER,
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Department of the Interior
Alaelcan Engineering Commission
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 general office
Duilding, 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 foet of
: A street on Wednesdays and Satur
days at 8 a. m.
On and after july 15th the freight
i on the North side of the river at
l Camp 415 dock will be shipped out
Tuesday and Friday of each week,
; leaving at 8 a. m.. until further
: notice.
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