THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska
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JAPAN AND AMERICA
Japan has the same ideals as
those to which America is dedi
cated, declared Tsunjiro Miyaoka,
of Yokohama, in an address de
livered recently before the annual
meeting of the American Bar Asso
ciation. “We stand for the rights
of humanity,” he added. Mr. Mi
yaoka ‘formerly was charge d’affairs
and counsellor of the Japanese em
bassy in Washington and is regarded
as one of the prominent lawyers
of Japan.
“In this great war,” continued
Mr. Miyaoka, as quoted by the
Associated Press, “ it is whispered
here and there whether Japan has
not misplaced herself in siding wfith
the Allies against the Central Em
pires of Europe. When President
Wilson declared that this was a
war of democracy versus autocracy,
manifestly he did not mean that this
was a war of republicanism versus
monarchism. The people of the
United States are the last people on
earth to deny to another people the
right to choose for themselves that
form of government which the latter
thinks is best adapted to themselves.
Is not Germany’s denial to some
of the unfortunate people under her
sway of the right to choose their
own soveriegnty, one of the crimes
which we hold her responsible? The
United States wrent into the war
because the German warfare against
commerce was a challenge to all
mankind. It is for the vindication
of human right that this nation is
stirred to the core.
“When it is suggested that Japan
is misplaced in this war because
this is a war of democracy against
monarchy, I see the subtle working
of German propaganda. Germany
is determined that Japan and the
United States shall not be friends
Germany today is sowing the seeds
of mistrust between us with the
same insistance that has marked her
activity in that direction ever since
Japan has become a factor to be
considered in W’orld politics. ’ If
you will recall with what punctilious
observance of the rules of civilized
warfare Japan fought her wrars of
1894-5 and 1904-5, and if you will
consider the manner in which we
safeguard the civil liberty of our
people at home, you will percieve
that we place justice and right over
material prosperity and military
efficiency or achievements in science
-
and in art.”
Mr. Miyaoka explained the pro
i visions of the Japanese constitutor
i and legal procedure in Japan ant
i asserted, “we do things in Japar
| much in the same way as you do ir
i this country.
“Japan has the same ideals tc
i which you are dedicaed. We stanc
for the rights of humanity. If ir
this brief address I have made clear
to you some of the fundamenta
principles on which our legislation is
| based, if I have shown that the Jap
anese people are not the kind oi
; people to quietly submit to the in
| vasion of their rights or the cur
I tailment of personal liberty, I may
j congratulate myself on having con
| tributed something towards the bet
i ter understanding between our two
j countries.”
EYE TEETH
“Julius Dennis, a stockman for
the Treadwell company at Juneau,”
. says a coast exchange, “recently
suffered a badly lacerated hand by
sticking it in a calf’s mouth while
attempting to learn the animal to
drink He was forced to call a
physician his hand was so badly
mangled.”
—
“Stormy d.ays” after the war were
predicted by Sir Alfred Booth, in
a talk made recently at the annual
meeting of the Cunard Line, held at
Liverpool. The principal dangers he
forsaw were:
Difficulty of deflating currency
i and credit without destroying con
fidence.
The tendency to maintain govern
ment control, which he said would
produce a deadening effect on en
terprise.
International attempt to divide up
the raw materials of the world
among competing industries, making
politics, instead of price the determ
ining factor of distribution. “The
international jealousies engendered
by such a system,” said Sir Alfred,
“would be sufficient to kill any
League of Nations where we might
have to form.”
Labor unrest due to false hopes
of a new heaven and a new earth.
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WHEAT
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ALL THE LATEST
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ALL THE LATEST POPULAR SONG HITS
SIMSON’S
AMERICAN ARMADA;
FIRST DAY IN CAMP
The Third Instalment
> American Port, Western France.
Long lines of khaki-clad men just
[i debarked from American transports
and now on the way to their first
i camp, packed the streets from curb
1 to curb and stretched away for
1 miles. It was four miles and up
[ hill most of the way—through city,
suburbs and country lanes, from
I the sea-front to the great reception
• camp located outside the town, one
' of the largest camps in the world
| and capable of caring for the popu
lation of a metropolitan city. Hour
■ after hour from 6 this morning un
til late this afternoon the steady
: tramp of marching thousands hid
been going on, for this steady stream
■ is the army of 36,000 just arrived
i on thirteeen transports, making the
II record debarkment from ship to
j camp within twelve hours.
With Major X, the engineer offi
cer of the camp, we skirted along
side this moving stream, from the
landing to the camp, and had an
| opportunity of seeing each stage in
the huge development up to the time
the tired marchers pitched their
shelter tents on the soaked grounds
| and crawled inside to sleep. Stir
■ **ing as it was to see these men
j come to swell the million men in
j the American ranks, yet there was
a grimness and grayness to the
scene suggesting the stern reality
of war.
A steady downpour swept across
the ranks and the men were drip
ping as they trudged through the
rain-soaked mud. They were at
| route step, without the regularity
■ of parading troops and each man
j carried, beside his rifle, all his be
! longings on his back, 20 pounds
j of tent, blankets, clothing, shoes,
and all the miscellaneous equipment
l°f a soldier headed for the front
, Their last camn
| equipped cantonments in the Unite
I States, where they slept on cots an
' had a semblance of modern comfori
]Now they were on the war-swep
isoil of France and had seen th
last of cots and comforts. It wa
their first glimpse of real war cor
ditions, and anyone who says it
cheerful shuts his eyes to the grim
j ness of war.
“There are more troops arriving,
said the major as he led the waj
“than the total strength of th
i United States army a short tim
|ago. And with such an influx w
I have to provide a very elastic camr
■capable of immediate expansio:
from a thousand up to a hundrei
thousand men.”
The major was well qualified fc
explain the magnitude of the work
for he had been chief constructs
engineer of the New York subwa;
system, had planned and builtvl
good part of the system, and ha,
made the population figures 01
which subway construction wa
I based.
To get an idea of the camp”
he said, “compare it with Centra
Park. We have 2,500 acres here
Central Park has 800 acres. Why
the entire area of New York Cit;
on Manhattan Island is only 41,00(
acres.” ^
On both sides of the road, foi
.mile after mile as we sped alonf
,in an army car, a city of tents wa:
j rising and there was the hum ant
bustle of camp activity on a vasi
scale. This morning all the grount
had been stubble-field from newly
cut wheat and barley. But now
every available foot was being l^c
off by the army engineers .working
with tripods and instruments like s
party of surveyors. Tented streets
and avenues, headquarters tents,
mess, kitchen and hospital tents, and
vast parks for supplies and artillery
and horses, were rising in the fields
and spreading for forty square miles
over this huge enclosure.
We never take a field growing
grain,” said the major, “but as fast
as the grain is cut we take over the
fields, and with harvest time well
advanced this entire farming section
will soon be turned into an Ameri
can camp.”
In one of the fields where we
| stopped to see the men, two bat
i talions of 800 men each, just march
I ed in and were preparing to pitch
, their tentts. - The great stretch of
! ploughed ground, just cleared of
I grain, was rain-soaked, and the
storm had set in for the night. The
j men stood ready, each with a half
shelter tent, to drive the stakes
| and lash it against the elements,
and then crawl in. It seemed an
endless wait for all the formalities
; of laying out the camp with engin- j
| eering exactness, yet all of this I
was essential to the smooth running ]
of such a large concern. At last
the stakes were driven and soon j
the great field was dotted with j
1 thousands of little khaki moulds,;
, about as high as a man's waist,!
| called “pup tents” by the soldiers
j probably because they looked like
dog houses. Under the tent there
is just room for two lying down,
and if the ground is soaked as it is
tonight, the rubber pauncho keeps
out some of the water and kindly
nature and the iron of youth must;
do the rest.
This was only one typical camp of '
the hudreds lining the roads for
miles in this vast reception camp.
Field kitchens and water carts were
wheeling up to all the camps as
the tents went up. Filtered water |
is brought in hogsheads and each
command has its apportioned lot of
hogsheads. Later on there will be
a splendid system of water mains
for the whole camp. But here are
the men, and a water system is not
installed in a day. So instead of
waiting for 12-inch mains, the prim
itive hogshead is filling the gap.
Each man carries his emergency
ration for three days. Some of them
were nibbling it before climbing
into their pup tents, but most of
1 ' kitchen to pet into action with its
1 cooks, serving out hot coffe and
. hot soup and meat. The item of
t feeding an army with precision is in
e ! itself a gigantic task,
s “We served 1,800,000 meals last
- month,” said Major X,” or 600,000
s army rations of three meals to the
- ration.”
And besides all the feeding and
watering and sanitation there is
■ : the immense “paper work” of such
~ I an organization. There are 128
-: separate organizations in the 36,000
? | men just arrived. Each of the
• j 128 must be sorted out and brought
1 i togther, and every individual soldier
1 1 of the 36,000 must be identified
j and acounted for, so as to guard
t
> against losses, and then each organi
. j zation and man must have his detail
• to one c/f the sectors of the fighting
71 front. This “paper work”, as it
i is called, is prodigious, and like
l everything military it must be done
with absolute precision. And the
paper work calls for paper, which
is very hard to get.
“When headquarters called for a
map of the camp the other day,”
said the major, “they got it all ^
right, on the only paper which could
be found, which was brown wrap
ping paper- But it was a good map,
and the wrapping paper maps of the
big American camp will go into the
archives.”
When taps sounded tonight every
, man of this 36,000 was under can
vas, although this morning every
man had been afloat. It was the
record accomplishment in landing,
for while one body of arrivals had
been large, 42,000. the landing had
taken the best part of two days,
whereas this huge transfer was in
daylight hours of the first day.
“And right on top of it,” said
the general tonight,” one ship is ar
| riving with 12,000 more men, and
then another flotilla of transports
and then another.”
This this gigantic influx of armed
men goes on steadily and unceas
ingly on record time, wifh little or
no confusion, each man and organi
zation being cared for and account
| ed for as they move forward to the
| front, and all of the huge enterprise
j of docking, landing transporting and
camping, with all their infinite de
tails, created out of practically noth
ing within the last ten months.
SEATTLE.—One of the largest
transactions recorded in local news
paper circles in recent years became
known this afternoon, when the sale
of the Post-Intelligencer, Seattle’s
big morning publication, was an
nounced, the purchaser being Clark
H. Nettleton, prominent engineer,
contractor and former newspaper
man. It is riynored that James A.
Wood, veteran local newspaperman,
will be associated with Nettleton in
the management of the P-I.
If you believe in peace you will
fight to get it.
MAKE YOUR WANES KNOWN
through the
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hired, let us hear from you.
Employers will please state nature
of positions vacant and
wages paid.
Those desiring positions will give
qualifications and nature of
work wanted.
E. J. WHITE,
Chief of Bureau.
By order of the Governor.
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MRS. BRAKKE
WANT ADS
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LOST—A pair of gold-rimmed spec
tacles in a common black case,
on Wednesday night. Finder
please return to News office.
W'ANTED—Carpenters to build ad
j dition to warehouse. Simson’s.
| FOR SALE—Steamer trunks, trav
j elinp baps, suit cases. A large
variety to choose from. Simson’s.
ip OR SALE CHEAP—Business lot at
Third and Market; also shot pun
; Inquire Mrs. Lavin. i)-12
jFOR SALE. CHEAP—Large ^nk
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
pood as new; also sink. Inquire
Simsotv’s.
I FOR SALE.—Mrs. W. F. Lyons is
leavinp for the Outside soon and
offers shop, fixtures and business
in cleaninp and pressinp clothes,
| for sale. No reasonable offer re
fused- Shop is on A street, near
blacksmith shop.
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FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN^Sew
inp machine, phonopraph, launch
Bunny, with 2 h. p. Ferro en
gine, shot pun, rifle, etc. Inquire
of J. A. Slippern.
FOR SALE—Beaver Board, in plain
and oak finish. Doors and win
dows, sash stock and mouldings'.
Inquire Simson’s.
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
FOR SALE CHEAP—Cook stove in
pood condition. Inquire News
office.
CHAIRS FOR SALE—Several rock
ers and dining chairs; also rug.
Inquire News office.
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