THE NENANA DAIL Y 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.
“WHERE RAIL AMD RIVER MEET”
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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
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QUESTION FOR THOUGHT.
There is hardly any need to call
attention to the fact that the Unit
ed States senate has had a high and
important duty thrust upon it by
the agreement of President Wood
row Wilson with the French and
British governments to present to
it the proposal to enter a compact
to come to the assistance of France
in the event of her invasion by the
German army.
Under the cohstitution, the Presi
dent, quite wisely, cannot bind the
United States to any such alliance,
points out the Cincinnati Enquirer.
When he has transmitted the mess
age to the senators, his connection
with the affair ends and the decision
mast be made by the representa
tives of the people sitting in the
lawmaking branch of the govern
ment.
The country will welcome from
these men the acceptance of this
mighty responsibility and a delibera
tive action upon it. For the first
time we stand confronted by the
definite matter of entering into an
alliance with a foreign nation, the
thing against which Washington ad
vised, and because of which policy
a number of senators sharply criti
cized the chief executive. It differs,
as the reading will show, from the
genera] peace treaty which creates
the League of Nations, and is what
it purports to be on its face—pure
ly a military alliance against Ger
many in the interest of France.
Warning will not be amiss against
hasty action, of which there has
been a painful oversupply during the
Paris negotiations. If ever there
was a time in our history when the
senate needed the counsel of the
people, it is now.
There exists no occasion for sum
mary action upon the submitted
question. Meanwhile the public
mind should be devoted to a serious
and solemn consideration of the
problem whether the departure, long
feared, of taking part in European
affairs shall be entered upon. The
test of community statesmanship is
about to be applied to us as a
nation.
SEND THEM HOME AGAIN.
Hard, indeed, is it to have pa
tience with those once badly dis
guised enemies to the existing order
who clamor that anarchistic speech
is free and that deportation of
aiiens is an unconstitutional punish
ment proceeding from autocratic
tyranny. Every school child knows,
or should know, sags the Juneau
Daily Empire, that while speech is
free in the United States, the char
ter granting it distinctly provides
that responsibility attaches to those
exercising this freedom.
As for deportation, the late Theo
dore Roosevelt crisply made it clear
that this country is inhabited by a
Nation, and is not a polyglot board
ing-house. Through self-determina
tion, exercised 143 years ago, the
American people set up a govern
ment here and have sought in th«i
prescribed orderly way to improve
and refine it to meet changing con
ditions, only once resorting to arms.
International law does not reign
in these States and the alien so
j.iourner has no rights above the
President citizen. We are not a col
lection of lubberly fools to be ex
ploited. put upon and flouted by the
brazen bands from across the two
i oceans. If the legislative arm of
government, the executive consent
ing, enacts laws forbidding further
immigration and authorizing deport
ation of the undesirable agitators
and destructionists, none is author
ized to object and demand a staying
!of our collective hand.
Let not these impudent foreign
ers and their silly supporters, the
so-called intellectual Bolsheviki, de
lude themselves by taking too liter
ally this talk of world citizenship.
Americans dare maintain their
rights. England and France early
learned this truth, and when they
forgot it reminders were sent to
Napoleon III, wormed into Mexico,
and to Salisbury by Cleveland when
his nation tried the game of land
grabbing in South America. Mis
taken states, attempting arbitrarily
to override the Constitution in or
der that doomed slavery might be
maintained, found the same sword
confronting them.
Please God it will remain un
sheathed until this modem menace
is ended. American citizenship is
not a right; it is a privilege, and
residence in America rests upon the
consent of the community which is
devloping and defending it.
COAST TOWNS TO SEE
HORSE AND DOG SHOW
The C. P. R. steamer Otter was
:
recently chartered by Robert K.
Buller to transport his dog and
pony show on a tour of the coast
towns of Alaska. The steamer will
tow a special barge, for the accom
modation of much of the equipment
of the outfit, and stops will be made
wherever there is a chance to stage
the show profitably.
The animals were trained on the
Buller farm on San Juan island.
NATIVES CALL STRIKE;
STOP WHITE EMPLOYES
The United States sub-chaser 300
was recently despatched from Ju
neau to restore order among the
native fishermen at Yakutat. The
reports received at the capita! stat
ed that the natives had gone on a
strike and attempted to make the
white fishermen quit their jobs also.
Whereupon the commissioner at
Yakutat wired to Governor Riggs
for assistance to hold the strikers
within bounds.
NOTED SONG COMPOSER
MEMBER OF EXCURSION
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Amor!; the Midnight Sun excur
sionists who recently visited Interior \
Alaska was Mrs. Carrie Jacobs- j
Bond, composer of “A Perfect Day” j
and other delightful melodies that
are world known. Her songs were :
very popular during the war, both j
in the trenches and in the hospitals, |
where their simplicity and charm
,had great appeal. Many of them
were sung by the “Shrapnel Quar
tet.” each of whom had been blinded
during the war, and who had each
lost an arm or a leg, but not their
voices.
V
TRAVELER 1FFLS
OF SUFFERING OF
RUSSIAN PEOPLE
OMSK. Siberia.—Horse meat sold
at 30 rifles a pound, dog meat at
12 rubles, rye flour at 22 rubles,
and potatoes at 7 rubles a pound
in Moscow this spring, according to
an American. Mr. Dillon, who has
arrived here from that city.
A box of matches, if obtainable
at all, cost 15 rubles in Moscow, he
said. A ruble before the war was
normally worth 50 cents.* Its value
now is problematical, owing to the
vast amount of paper money which
has been printed by the Bolshevik
government.
Bolshevik workmen in Moscow who
can find employment receive 650 to
1.500 rubles a month, and, Mr.
Dillon said, are barely able to live,
though receiving special concessions
in foodstuff prices in Bolshevik
stores. \or.-Bolsheviki, who cannot
buy in such stores at any price, are
in desperate straits. There have
been many cases of starvation and
many suicides. There is much sick
ness, resulting from malnutrition
and unsanitary conditions. Glanders
is common and results from eating
infected horse meat.
The city was full of unemployed
workmen when Mr. Dillon left.
i
There were 75,000 idle metal work
ers and a great number of idle
textile workers. People were burn
ing furniture to heat their rooms,
because of a shortage of firewood.
Moscow, according to Mr. Dillon,
was half deserted. All signboards
of formerly prosperous business
houses had been removed after the
places had been “nationalized."
Drunkenness was prohibited under
penalty of death.
There was an endless Bolshevik
propaganda and proselyting was car
ried on feverishly among returning
Russian war prisoners from Ger
many. Strikes in other countries
were hailed with delight and a
world-wide resolution was represent
ed as being in progress.
Insurrections among workmen
were cn the increase. The peasants
were desperate over the merciless
requisitioning of their property.
Forty per cent of the winter cron
remained unpianted for lack of
horses and seed. The annual parti
tion of land among the peasants
did not take place, and little prepa
ration was made for spring plant
ing. Railroads were without fuel,
except such supplies as were brought
from day to day green from the
forests. All reserve supplies had
been exhausted.
Church services were being sup
pressed. Factories had closed owing
to lack of fuel. This was true even
of munitions and arms factories, and
there was a noticeable shortage of
rifles and ammunition. Discipline
in the arm}- was maintained by ter
roristic methods, but even so, mu
tinies constantly occurred and de
sertions were frequent.
In the opinion of the narrator, all
that was necessary to cause the
early collapse of Bolshevism was a
vigorous offensive by the Siberian
army.
The Alaska Pacific Fisheries com
pany was recently fined $5,000 by
Judge Jennings, of the First divi
sion, on the charge of illegal fish
ing.
STRAY DOGS.
Three stray dogs have come to
my place, two miles below town,
within the last few days—two on
July 2 and one on July 3—and are
being cared for by me pending the
appearance of their owners, who can
recover the dogs by paying for their
board. One is a small white bobtail
dog, one a black dog with long tail,
and the other a bobtail maiamute,
with gray and white spots.
-\ELS STOL,
Fish Camp, Two Miles Below Town.
WANT ADS
FIFTEEN MEN WANTED to cut
wood. Five dollars per cord;
pood timber. A. G. Vachon, Tolo
vana. k25
BEST BUY in town. Three-room
house, with or without furniture.
Inquire News office.
A SNAP—Upright piano, practically
new. for sale, with music and
rack. Inquire News office.
FOR SALE—My entire holdings,
consisting of Lot 6, Block 10.
three-room log house, finely fin
ished and partially furnished, to
gether with provisions and wood.
Also my half interest in N'enana
Steam Laundry. A bargain, if
taken before August first. Must
go Outside on urgent business is
reason for sacrifice. Mrs. Clara
Allred. Nenana, Alaska. k7-2d
FOR SALE — Showcase, 5*2 feet
long. Practically new. Cheap.
Inquire Mrs. Herman Rosburg.
BRACE (Presbyterian) CHURCH
REV. ROBT.
JOSEPH DIVEN
D. D.
MINISTER
11:45—The children's hour.
The evening subject will be:
“Mysteries of Faith.”
Special music
Music begins at 7:15 Lecture 7:30
Everybody Welcome
CHRISTIAN SCIENCeT
Sunday school will be held in
the old commissioner’s office build
ing, opposite the postoffice, Sunday
at 1 p. m.
The regular sendee will be held
at the same place at two o’clock.
Subject: “Sacrament.”
Two autos, one a Dodge ambu
lance and the other a Ford patrol
wagon, were sent to Fort Liscum
some time ago by the war depart
ment. As there are no roads there,
the autos were sent to Valdez, where
they will be used by the motor
transportation department on the
Valdez trail.
George Kinney, formerly of Fair
banks, is now playing in Fatty Ar
buckle's moving pictures in Califor
nia.
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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.
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NENANA LODGE No. 1193
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MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
FOURTH AND B STREETS
On Second a“d Fou-th Tueadays
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At 8 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER.
Secretary Dictator.
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