THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska
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WHY LAEOR IS FOR THE
LEAGUE.
Why organized labor ■ ~ lor the
League of Nations is forcibly ami
succinctly set forth in a monograph
by John II. Walker, formerly presi
dent of the Illinois State Federation
of Labor and of the Illinois district
of the United Mine Workers, points
ou! the San Francisco Bulletin.
This article, explaining the attitude
bor at its recent convention in At-i
iantic City, N. J., amplifies the rea-|
.sons advanced at the meeting in the |
resolutions adopted.
Mr. Walker, who is the accredited '
spokesman for the Federation, de-1
elares labor is for the League of i
Nations because every normal-mind-1
ed person is opposed to war, par
ticularly so the thinker >f all class j
es. Continuing, he says:
“And it is because they believe j
that a competent, impartial tribunal, j
selected from the ablest men in the !
world, cannot pass judgment on |
questions involving luujianitjf with-!
out making progress from condi- j
lions obtaining today, that they are j
strongly in favor of a League of
Nations—a tribunal through which, [
by peaceful means, disputes between j
nations can be settled without re-1
sort to wars such as we have just 1
gone through. Every mother’s heart |
has been wrung; every father’s i
heart has ached with pain: millions
of children have been made father-j
less and motherless, billions of prop
erty has been destroyed and a bur-;
den of taxation has been levied on
the human race under which it will
stagger for generations.”
Labor makes a point in the next
declaration in which it calls atten
tion to the fact that every person j
in our own country who openly or
sec re 1 ly supported the Central Pow-'
ers in the recent w»ar opposes the
plan; that every enemy this Govern
men had during the war, who was
obstructing and hindering the Gov
ernmen in its efforts to win, and
who tried to harass t’he President,
is against it; that every profiteer
who got rich by betraying the na
tion and exploiting the dependents
of the men who fought the battles
is against it; that every employing
corporation refusing recognition to
unions is against it. Labor charges
that these men believe in war and
want further opportunities to ex
ploit the national resources far their
own benefit.
While admitting that there may
be defects in the covenant, labor
insists that they are not of suffi
cient gravity to warrant wrecking
the plan and that corrections will
be made as time progresses; that
the covenant does not take away
any of the rights we now have, as
is contended, and finally that it is
the only means by which wars in
future may be averted.
Mr. Walker’s monograph is one
of the most convincing arguments
yet advanced in favor of the League
of Nations, and statesmen opposing
it will do well to heed its reason
ing, because labor proposes to make
itself heard in the determination of
this question, and men who do not
heed will find themselves relegated
to private life. Organized labor is
determined that war—from which
no one profits except those who do
not need profit, and no one loses
[except those who cannot afford to
.lose—must cease. And in this posi
tion organized labor is right.
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DON’T CHANCE THEM.
Efforts to change a left-handed
child into a right-handed child often
result in a stammering child, accord
yarded as an international authority
on “handedness” and dean-elect of
the school of education of the Uni
versity of Southern California.
“If your child is left-handed,”
says Dr. Jones, “don’t try to make
it right-handed. It was born with
a major arm and in transferring
the use of the hands you may dis
connect the ‘wires' and stammering
may result.
“Ninety-six percent of the race
are born right-handed and the re
maining four percent left-handed.
“One-half of the people who
stammer have transferred the-pse of
their hands.
"One-third of all left-to-right
transfers are stammerers.
“One-sixth of all right-to-left
transfers are stammerers.
“Less than one percent of ‘pure’
handed individuals are stammerers.
“The fundamental fact of hand
edness, so far as we can yet un
ravel it, is the fact of congenital
cerebral asymmetry. The present
day known of brain psychology is
very incomplete, but a speculative
treatment of our problem in terms
of the best theory that physiological
psychology has to offer, will at least
be better than no attempt at all at
explanation.
“We may take as our starting
point the prevailing physicological
theory that there are four highly
specialized cortical centers involved
in the speech of the normal adult;
namely, two sensory—the auditory
and the visual—and two motor—the
vocal and the writing (graphic
word) centers; that all four ot
these centers are normally located
in one (hence the superior) hemi
sphere of the brain; namely, the left
hemisphere in the BORN right
handed individual, and the right
hemisphere in the BORN left-hand
ed person; and that though the
muscles of the vocal organs are ana
tomieally connected with each hemi
sphere, they are functionally con
nected with only one; and, in so fai
as the hand is an organ of speech
at last, it shares the same asym
metry.
“When we come to speculate or
the fact that stammering commonly
begins before the age of eight
years, we may assume that, since
this is the period when the lan
guage centers are being developed
it is also the time when the func
tional unity of these centers is the
least stable. The transfers are the
probable stammerers, probably foi
the reason that the unity of the
language centers is so likely to be
disturbed.”
According to Dr. Jones, nagging
exasperating, threatening, hand-ty
ing, mitten-wearing and othei
“home-made devices” to stop left
handedness in children superinduce
morbid sensitivity and nervous in
stability.
AMERICAN EAGLE
BOATS OPERATE IN
RUSSIAN WATERS
i
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i ABOARD U. S. EAGLE BOAT
I NO. 3, IN WHITE SEA.—American
! eagle boats now are operating on
dispatch service in North Russian
waters.
Eagle boats Nos. 1, 2, and 3, the
first built of this type for the Am
jerican government, arrived in Arch
angel after a 6,200-mile run under
their own steam from the Atlantic
seaboard, and, according to theii
j officers, have more than made good.
| Crews of the larger naval vessels
are inclined to chaff the eagle boat
men and call these craft the “tin
| lizzies” of the navy, but the officers
of the eagle boats are proud of
their seaworthiness and efficiency.
The Associated Press correspond
ent has just made a trip from Arch
angel to Kem, across the White sea,
aboard the flagship of the little
flotilla, and in this 16-hour run, in
stormy weather, the flagship and the
No. I had ample opportunity t» |
show their seaworthiness.
In Archangel, at this season of ;
! the year, the weather has been ai
most tropical, and the American of
ficers, who had expected to find the i
j Arctic frigid even in the eternal
I daylight days of June, were con
| fronted, instead, with temperature
land sunshine that made white duck I
the prescribed uniform.
Two hours out of Archangel, how j
ever, at the entrance to the White
|sea, the eagle boats ran into a cold ,
j gale and snowstorm which set the
j light craft tossing and rolling and :
j forced the crews quickly into their!
I woolens and oilskins. However, the
I eagle boats kept plowing along on i
their course, and arrived in Kem '
! harbor none the worse for one of i
, the worst batterings they have yet j
received.
With their two four-inch guns, one
three-inch anti-aircraft gun, and J
| machine-gun anti-airplane battery,
the eagle boats may be expected to
give a good account of themselves,!
say the officers, against submarines
I
j or any above the water craft of any- j
thing near their size.
The three boats operating in the |
White sea are under the command j
;of Lieutenant Commander Norman!
Scott, U. S. N., whose home is in
.Indianapolis.
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Dawson, scheduled to leave White
horse, 25th.
; Cascas, up Selkirk, 4 p. m„ 24th.
i Selkirk, at Dawson.
Nasutlin, up Dawson for Mayo,
25th.
i
Yukon, down Eagle, 9:1)0 a. m.,
25th, last report.
| Sibilla, up Tolovana, 8:30 p. m.,
25th.
| Kotlik, at St. Michael,
j Seattle No. 3, up Koyukuk, 9 p.
m., 25th.
j Kelly, at Chena.
Carl White and Tanana, at Fair
; banks.
! Reliance, leaves Fairbanks 3 p. m.
! Jacobs, up Chena, 3 p. m., 24th,
for McCarthy.
I Washburn, up Holy Cross for
|Dikeman, 22d.
j Davis and Julia B, at St. Michael,
t Benchley, at Louden.
Pelican, at Gibbon.
! Alaska, up Rampart, 5:30 p. m.,
i last report.
J Government Employment Agent:
Have you had any experience of ag
riculture?
Applicant: Only theoretical, sir. I
understand, for instance, that one
should make hay while the sun
shines.
WANT ADS
EIGHTY CHICKEN'S FOR SALE,
also hog weighing 400 pounds,
and two shoats. Inquire Mrs. Carl
Bernhardt. k-27
BUNCH OF KEYS found. Owner
can recover by calling at News
office and paving for this adver
|
! tisement.
WANTED—Pair of. 8-power field
; glasses. Inquire Pete Jensen, at
| Johnson’s Store.
(lost —CHILD’S NUGGET NECK
CHAIN. Reward for return to
I George Sarantis at The Terminal.
i FOR SALE — Showcase, 5% feet
long. Practically new. Cheap.
Inquire Mrs. Herman Rosburg.
Greek Meets Greek.
j “What’s coming off out in front
there?” asked the proprietor of the
Tote Fair store in Tumlinville, Ark.
“A couple of fellers from Strad
dle Ridge swapped mules,” replied
I the clerk, “and now each is accus
ing the other of skinning him.”
“Well, then, why don’t they trade
| back?”
“I reckon they are both afraid of
[getting skinned again.” — Kansas
|City Star.
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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 general 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.
On and after july 15th the freight
on the North side of the river at
Camp 415 dock will be shipped out
Tuesday and Friday of each week,
leaving at 7 a. m., until further
i notice.
Dr. J. R, BOWEN
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