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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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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.
Hub of Alaska —_Where Rails and Rivers Meet
Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by the Nenans Printing
Company, a» First and B Streets. Xenana, Alaska.
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HAGGLING
Assistant Secretary of the trea
sury Wadsworth has been in Paris
for several weeks conferring with
representatives of the allies on the
terms of payment of the expenses
of the American army of occupation
on the Rhine. The negotiations have
been termed a “horse trade”, each
side struggling for the better terms.
The fact that the matter was per
mitted to be discussed at all is
enough to cast discredit on the
allied governments and their con
ception of the sanctity of treaties.
The Versailles pact contained the
specific provision that the payment
of all the armies of occupation
would constitute a first lein on
reparations received from Germany.
All of those receipts have been ap
propriated thus far by the allies,
with no portion of them being set
off for the American account. It is
understood that the expenses of
the allied armies have been fully
paid, while not a dollar has been
received to reimburse the United
States. The allies have never signi
fied a readiness to permit that por
tion of the Versailles treaty, so far
as the United States is concerned,
to be observed, and are quibbling
and bickering now in their effort to
save every dollar possible from the
American demands.
COST OF GOVERNMENT
People who are demanding, and
rightly, a reduction in public ex
penditures and a lowering of taxe.-,
ought not, in their meditations, to
overlook one very important truth,
and that is that the more govern
ment they have the greater the cost
says the Cordova Times. The great
expansion of government activities
began about a quarter of a century
ago, and it has gone steadily for
ward. until today our governments,
national, state ar.d municipal, are
performing tasks which no one
would in the beginning ever dream '
of assigning to them. Public pairolls
have grown enormously, arid they
are still growing. A few days ago
Representative Rainey said, in an
address before a farmers’ meeting
in Illinois, that “every two persons;
in the United States engaged in
productive labor have on their
shoulders at least one person who
is supported entirely by taxes.” We
have multiplied inspectors, super
visors, special agents, divisions and
bureaus to an alarming—and a very
burdensome—extent.
The people might as -well make
up their minds that they can not
nave a paternal, benevolent, phil
anthropic, interfering, meddling, re
gulating government which shall at
all the same time be economical.
We could save hundreds of millions
of dollars simply by taking the
Government out of business which
it should never have entered. If
the people could be made to realize
all this, the so-called reformers and
progressives who now besiege Con
gress and the State Legislatures de
manding new measures of regula
tion and control would find the
going much harder than it now is.
There could be no greater reform
than the restoration of our Govern
ment to something iike normalcy.
The result would be good in every
way. There would follow a lessen
ing of cost, a reduction of taxes,
an increased efficiency, and a much
more self-reliant spirit in the people
No reform that is suggested today
begins to compare in value and im
portance with the reform that would
bring such things to pass. I: used to
be an axiom that the government
which governs least governs best.
Xow the idea seems to be that the
more a government does, and the
more it costs, the beter it is.
AMERICAN RELIEF
More than $100,000,000 has been
given by the American people and
government for the relief of exiled
subject races in the Near East re
lief since the armistice. Upward of
5,000,000 persons have been bene
ficiaries of this Aemerican charity.
At least 250,000 children are alive
and safe today because they are
under the protection of Americans.
In almost every corner of Turkey,
the Causasus, Southern Russia.
Greece and the Aegean Islands the
Stars and stripes float over relief
stations where food, medicines and
clothing from America’s generous
families are dispensed to the des
titute and sick.
Most of Europe’s sufferings end
ed with the armistice of 1918, but
those of the N’ear East set in dur
ing the intervening period. It is
for this reason that organizations
like the American Red Cross, Amer
ican Near East Relief, American
Relief Administration and the Y.
M. C. A. decided to continue their
activities in this sorelv-tried part
of the world until peace should
restore the normal processes of
life.
GERMAN LABOR COSTS
The correspondent of a New York
trade paper sends in from Berlin
an entertaining story on prices and
wages in Germany. He says at the
conclusion of his article:
“Naturally, wages, which follow'
the cost of living, remain low. In
January the average weekly wage!
of a skilled married workman in the
metal trades was 25,212 marks,1
which was $3 at the exchange of
early January and only 60 cents j
at the exchange of the end of the
month.”
This suggests one reason why the
Fordney-McCumber traiff law. enact- '
ed September 22,1922. has practical
ly no effect on imports of German
manufacture. During the first
month’s operation of that law we
imported 71 per cent more goods
from Germany than we did in Octo
ber, 1921, when the Democratic
revenue-only duty was in effect. The
protective rates could not touch the
German low production costs.
It will be recalled that a powerful
combination of importers was at
work while the Fordney-MeCumber
bill was under debate, striving with
might and main to defeat that mea
sure. Two months ago any member
of that combination desiring to pur
chase a consignment of metal man
jfactures in Germany could take
me American dollar and go to a
German factory and with 60 cents
purchase the equivalent of one-man
power output for one week, and still
lave 40 cents with which to meet
>ther production costs, that of la
>or being the largest.
This was, of course, fine pick
] in^s for the importers who multi
; plied that dollar by several millions
exchanged for marks and spent in
I Germany. So avid were they for
i profits that they balked at paying
I the small additional costs which the
| protective duties embraced.
It will also be recalled that about
the middle of 1922 the Secretary
! of the Treasury had an investigation
made of the landed cost, duty paid,
I of a large number of imported ar
I tides, a great many of which ori
'' ginated in Germany, and the prices
of those same goods to the Ameri
can purchaser over the counters
of the member’s of this importers’
i combine. The figures were startling.
! both to the American consumers,
I who did not dream of the extent to
which they were being squeezed,
j and to the importers’ combine, which
was wholly unprepared for such an
; expose. Those figures showed profits
| ranging all the way from 180 to
, 2300 per cent, after all costs had
been paid and the goods had been
i finally disposed of to the retail
purchasers.
As the Treasury Department
! truthfully said in summing up its
conclusions of this investigation:
I "The importer can easily pay the
I tariff duties without increasing the
retail selling price. In other words,
the spread between the foreign pur
chasing price and the selling price
by the importer is sufficient to
absorb the tariff duty many times
over without any increase of the
selling price of any of these im
ported products."
This same importers' combine is
still actively engaged in trying to
effect the repeal of the new tariff
law by putting the Democratic party
into power in 1924. It has instituted
a campaign among the faimers try
ing to show them they are losers
on the tariff. They do not deal in
farm products themselves. They do
not want to contribute to the Trea
sury Department by way of addi
tional customs duties. They spend
their money abroad for foreign laces
perfumes, dresses, hosiery, clocks,
etc. The farmer who accepts their
statements is doing an injury to
himself and his country, and helping
a class that cares little for either.
FORMER ALASKA GIRL IS
HONORED BY SPIRIT CITY
The Seattle Chamber of Com
merce honored a former Alaskan
when Miss Florence Rogers was
chosen to represent “Miss Charmed
Land,” special ambassador of the
Chamber to invite Californians and
others to visit the Northwest. Miss
Rogers was sent away from Seattle
amongst public festivities and she
will carry with her literature for
distribution and will appear in pub
lic where she thinks she can do
good missionary work for Wash
ington and Alaska. Miss Rogers was
given an official reception at Los
Angeles and otherwise honored
there and in other California towns.
Miss Rogers spent many of her
early years at Skagway, where for
father, the late J. P. Rogers, was
superintendent of the White Pas=
Railway, and was one of the most
popular men of that section.
JUNEAU ORDINANCE HOLDS
The validity of the Juneau city
ordinance establishing rates for el
ectric current for all uses in the
city of Juneau was upheld by
Judge T. M. Reed of the United
States District Court, in a decision
handed down recently in the case
instituted last October by the Alas
ka Electric Light & Powrer Company
against the city. The suit was insti
tuted by the company in an effort
to set aside a schedule of rates, fix
ed by the Council on September
25, 1922, after a controversy with
the company over the latter’s estab
lishment of new rates, higher than
those in effect for several years
past.
Joel F. Warren, former Seattle
chief of police at Nome, both as a
federal and a municipal official, is
now, living permanently in Seattle \
where he has established a private
detective agency.
JUNEAU MERCHANT VISITS
NEW COLD BAY DISTRICT
The Standard and Associated oil
companies expect to strike oil in
the Cold Bay fields, by the end
of June, according to Marion Gold
stein of Goldstein’s Emporium, who
returned to Juneau recently from
a visit to that district. The Associ
ated Oil Company is drilling: with
two rigs and have sunk 300 feet
while the Standard Oil Company,
drilling with one rig, and having
started later, has sunk 190 feet.
Indications are very good, he said.
There are 200 people at Kanatak
at the present time. Mr. Goldstein
said. Five business houses are op
erating and building is being car
ried on rapidly.
“I was very much surprised at
the rapid growth and business ac
tivity at Kanatak,” said Mr. Gold
stein to a representative of the
Empire. “The steamer Starr makes
aspecial trip nearly every month,
in addition to the regular trip, on
account of there being more sup
plies for the place than can be
handled by the regular schedule.
“Carl Armstrong of Kodiak is op
erating an efficient lighterage serv
ice at Kanatak, whch is capable of
handling 350 tons a day.”
The cannery companies operating
at the Westward, have their crews
at the plants and are actively en
gaged in preparing for the run.
which will start about June 15.
Makes Address
The weather in the Bristol Bay
country and along the Peninsula
was clear and warm '-.nd there was
no snow when Mr. Goldstein was
there. Flowers were in bloom in
Andrew Groswold’s ga-'i'ens at Sand
Point.
Mr. Goldtsein was an honor guest
at a luncheon given by the Seward
Chamber of Commerce when he wa*
in that town on his return to
Juneau. He gave a talk before the
organization in which he advocated
the formation of a Territoral Cham
ber of Commerce and said that the
results would be beneficial to all1
Chambers in that action would be
concentrated, whereas now each
Chamber was pulling for itself, "e
told of business conditions in Ju
neau and that vicinity stating that
they are more prospering at the
present time than they have been
for years.
Miss Ruth Studdert, at the Uni
versity of Washington, is the only
woman student of fisheries in the
United States. She is at present
a sophomore in the ichthyology de
partment of the fisheries school.
Miss Studdert is the daughter and
sister of fishermen and was reared
in a fishing village on the Columbia
River. She spent last summer in Al
aska in the United States bureau of
fisheries work. She expects to en
ter this field when she graduates:
from the University.
William Moses, Indian, 23 years
of age, was instantly killed recently
at Juneau when he fell about 60 [
feet down an ore chute in the Al
aska Juneau mine. Moses was just:
starting on his first shift in the
mine, having been away from the
work for some time.
COMING SOON: Mary Pickferd i
in “Ltllte Lord Fauntleroy.”
ORDER YOUR
COAL
BY PHONE
Healy River
Coal
Corporation
.PHONE YOUR ORDERS
.. TO THE
RAILROAD CIGAR STORE
Alaska Steamship Co.
SAFET} SPEED SERVICE
VESSEL
Lv. Seattle Lv. Seward
ALAMEDA .Mch. 17
NORTHWESTERN .Mar. 28
ALAMEDA . Apr. 7
NORTHWESTERN .-Apr. 18
VICTORIA . Apr. 28
ALAMEDA . May 5
Mch. 26
Apr. 4
Apr. 13
Apr. 25
May 5
May 11
Lv. Ancta.
Mch. 25
Apr. 14
May 12
FOR RATES AND RESERVATIONS APPLY TO
J. H. FLICKINGER, A. H. McDONALD.
Agent, Seward, Ala.lca Agent, Anchorage
A. A. SMONBECK
ANCHORAGE
LIME, PLASTER, CEMENT, FIRE BRICK, FIRE CLAY
Explosives and Blasting Supplies
COAL OIL GASOLINE LUBRICATING OILS GREASES
MAY and GRAIN
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Frank Kappelman. former Daw
son and Nome printer, now has a j
soft drink emporium in Yakima.
Washington, and has built up a
fine business. I:
WANT ADS
LOST—Posketbook containing $61. I
Reward for return to Emerick Nel- 1
son. at Cooney Hotel.
FOUND-—Pioneer charm. Finder:
can recover same by calling at the ,
Terminal and proving ownership. !
FOR SALE—Old Town canoe in ]
goo 1 condition. Inquire Ne vs Office. <
FOR SALE—One 8-disc cultivator 1
one improved post hole digger; one 1
V-bar barrow; price $75, f. o. b. '
Healy. Inquire News.
FOR SALE—1 bed complete.
I brass bed complete.
1 Three quarter bed spring.
1 Writing desk.
1 Dining table
4 dining chairs, leather seats .
1 Cupboard, glass doors.
1 Cole air tight heater. ]
3 50 gallon hardwood barrels. i
Screen doors, kitchen tables and
other furniture. j j
1 Road house 8 miles south of
Healy with equipment.
1 Log cabin and lot.
Cheap to settle estate.
Inquire E. T. Sullivan. B st. be
tween 1st. and 2nd.
HERMAN ANDERSON’S
MODERN RESIDENCE
FOR SALE
Has the following rooms:
1 Entrance Vestibule.
1 Large Living room, 16X26.
3 Berrooms (each has clothes clo
set.)
1 Large Kitchen, wnite enamel,
with breakfast nook, seating six
persons. ”
1 Bathroom, finished in white e
namel, with bath tub, wash basin ;
and lavatory.
1 Good well, with clear water all I
the year.
1 Edison Gold Medal Phonograph.
A houseful of A 1 oak furniture.
1 Dustproof warehouse, 45X45.
The basement of the house can be
used for warm storage. Capacity ov
er 50 tons.
For further information see Her
man Anderson. .
Trappers T raders
SHIP TO
GEORGE R. GOSHAW, INC.
Dealer in Raw Furs
SEATTLE
Alaska Buildinf
NEW YORK
127 W. 27th Street
R. C. Barthel, former resident of
•airbanks, is now running a the
itre equipment concern in Seattle
tnd has worked up a good busi
less in this line.
I am back again at the Skof
fouse with the best washing powd
t known to science. It will wash
•our clothes snow white without rub
>ing and will not hurt your hands
>r the finest fabrics. It will save
rou labor and, in an economical
vav, repay you for the cost.
FRED HOELER
NOTICE
T. W. Buchholz, of Nenana, has
>een named authorized represent^
ive of the Fairbanks Clothing Co.
n Nenana and vicinity and is em
>owered to receive money due the
ompany on old and new acounfcs
J R. FOWLE
local train schedule
rHE ALASKA RAILROAD
["rains leave and arrive Nenana as
follows:
i:00 p. m., Tuesday and Friday for
Seward and intermediate points.
Returning arrives Nenana 6:45 a.
m., same days.
:30 p. m., Tuesday and Friday for
Dunbar, Fairbanks and Chatanika
Arrives Nenana 12:30 p. m., Tues
day and Friday.
hillman sleeper charges: Lower
berth, $4.50; upper berth, $3.50
Tickets entitle holders to privi
leges Observation car.
Pioneers of Alaska
Nenana Igloo No. 17
MEETS AT UNION HALL
FIRST AND THIRD MONDAY
AT 8:00 P. M.
Visiting Members Always
Welcome.
Alfred J. Ghezzi R. C. Morri*.
Secretary. President.
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D. H. WILLIAMS
Undertaking Parlors
Licenced Embalmer
Funeral Director
Anchorage — Nenana — Seward
CHAS. E. BERGMAN
Nenana Manager