THE NENANA DAILY 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 AND RIVER MEET”
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. South worth. .Editor and Manager
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PLAY SQUARE WITH ALASKA
President Wilson and various
members of his cabinet have pledged
their support to the pioneers of
Alaska in their efforts to develop
the country. It is recognized at
Washington that our territory has a
big future before it and that one
of the principal needs is improved
transportation facilities. The ad
ministration has even a more inti
mate knowledge of Northern con
dtions. It recognizes that the con
struction of the railroad under the
direction of the Alaskan Engineer
ing commission, giving employment
to sourdoughs and fostering local
industries as the work progresses,
is helping Northerners to tide over
a period of such unusual depresssion
that comparatively few of the old
timers would have remained in
Alaska under less favorable con
ditions of construction
It was intended, when the con
struction of the railroad was begun,
that the project should give imme
diate relief to those districts in dire
need of assistance. Were this not
true, no attempt would have been
made to lay rails in the Interior in
advance of the completion of the
coast end of the road; money would
not have been expended to develop
coal mines along the right of way, j
and assistance rendered to other en-1
terprises promising future tonnage■!
And Alaskans would not have been]
encouraged to acquire property in i
government towns and to invest
large sums in business enterprises, :
All of these helps, which re
ceived the favorable consideration
of the administration at the time
railroad constructon was commenced
are still necessary to the develop
ment of Alaska. A less considerate
policy would result in forcing people
to leave the territory instead of at
tracting newcomers to the North
land. It would bring development
to a full stop and the territory
would receive a setback from which
it could not possibly recover until
long after the completion of th*
railroad.
Knowing that the administration
realizes all these things and all
along has shown a disposition to
make sledding easier for Northern
ers, it is not possible now to believe
that it is the intention of the in
teror department to turn the work
of railroad building over to private
contractors, as suggested in dis
patches received this week from
Seattle. Nevertheless we believe the
Commercial club has followed a
wise course in giving its endorse
ment to the Alaskan Engineering
commission and to the work already
accomplshed- The Seattle report
encourages the belief that agitators
are at work, in an effort to em
barrass the Commission and to dis
credit the government enterprise,
and it is as well that administration
officials be made aware of the real
attitude of those most concerned
with the future of Alaska before
real harm has been done by agita
tors.
Every resident of the Interior
country has been benefitted, in one
way or another, by the helpful atti
tude of the Alaskan Engineering
commission and it is a duty we owe
ourselves and our several districts
to strive to the very utmost to pre
vent a curtailment of government
activities at this time. The Commis
sion has done all of the dead work
and experimenting necessary to an
cnterprize of magnitude in a new
country, and it would not be fair
to the men who have directed the
work, or to Alaskans who have be
come a part of the working organi
zation, to turn the job over now to
Outsiders, who have no interest in
Alaska beyond the possible profits
of a large contract. Such a radical
change of policy would be a dis
honorable act on the part of the
administration, and we believe we
can depend upon Secretary Lane to
do the square thing.
Some day, when the Government
railroad between Seward and Fair
banks is completed, Deadhorse .will
be a station on the line where trains
will stop to give passengers time to
alight and view Mount McKinley,
the highest mountain on the contin
ent The big peak juts its white tip
over 20,000 feet skyward south
west of here. It is said one of the
best views along the railway can be
had of the mountain from that place
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PARIS.—Fifty-three dollars, col
lected by a small group of engin
eers employed by a copper company
at Valparaiso, Chile, for wounded
American boys, came all the way to
headquarters of the Y. M. C. A.
in Paris the other day, and this is
what happened to it. E. C. Carter,
chief of the Y. M. C. A overseas
activities, gave the money to his
secretary, telling her to spend every
cent of it on boys in a certain hos
pital who needed some extra com
forts.
The secretary and two other girls,
all in the uniform of the Y. M. C. A.
collected a lot of the latest news
papers and magavi.as fiom home,
bought up cigarettes, chew.ng gum
chocolate, jam and a basket full of
fresh white grapes, and then, laden
way beyond the limit of their an
cient hack, drove to the big base
hospital on the world-famous race
track at Auteuil, just outside Pari---,
once the home of sport and now the
home of a thousand or more wound
ed American soldiers.
Cigarettes were given to every
man in four wards, also a box of
matches. Then the three girls went
into the gas ward, where boys are
not allowed tobacco in any form
until the gas is entirely out of their
systems. Each of these boys was
given chewing gum, and some of
them were so glad to get it that
they actually cried. Others were
not so far down with the ravages
of the attack and sang out glad
“Hurrays”, but there wasn't a man
in that ward whose day was not
made easier by that package of gum. '
The grapes were taken into the
medical ward, where fever patients!
with parched throats were relieved
by the cooling fruits. The jam was
given to various nurses, for there ’
was none too much of it and not;
nearly enough for all the boys. ;
The nurses take these little extras
and hide them under lock and key i
in their medicine chests. And now j
and then it is given to bed-ridden i
patients whose appetites, as well as j
their tired bodies, need nursing.
QUAKER CITY IS |
10 HAVE JUBilEE
PHILADELPHIA.—Plans are un-i
der way for holding a big peace
celebration in the city and for the
erecting of a memorial to the men
of Philadelphia who gave their serv
ices in the war against Germany.
It is proposed to have the celebra
tion exceel in magnitude the Peace
.lubilee of 1898, after the Spanish
American war ended.
The memorial may take the form
of a monument, an obelisk or an
arch to be erected on the great new
parkway the city is now completing.
Mayor Smith in his appeal for
funds with which to build the memo
rial says: The memorial is to com
memorate for all time the bravery
of our soldiers, sailors and marine?
over sea, and the patriotic self-sae
rifeing ,soul-inspiring services of tht
women of Philadelphia."
The suggestion has been madt
that the city rename some of its
principal streets for noted military
leaders of the Allies' forces. Name:
of Pershing, Foch, doff re, Haig
Allenby and Diaz have been sub
mitted.
D. C. Fairman, the clever pianisi
who visited Nenana with the fea
ture films “Birth of a Nation” anc
“Intolerance”, has been engaged bj
Captain A. E. Lathrop, Cordovs
movie magnate. Fairman and his
family will settle in Cordova.
The use of sugar permits, be
tween retailers and wholesalers ir
Alaska, was discontinued by ordei
of the territorial food administrat
or on December 9.
Nonana, Alaaka’e Interior Fuel Depot
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READJUSTMENT
OP INDUSTRIES
EASYJN WEST
CHICAGO.—The Middle West’s
economic readjustment from a war
to a peace basis will be relatively
simple compared with that of East
ern states, according to officers of
the Chicago Association of Com
merce, who have just completed
a survey of business conditions. Re
ports from large employers indicate
that virtually all returning soldiers
will be given their old jobs and
in Chicago little difficulty is ex
pected in absorbing the excess vol
ume of labor.
Many Eastern states manufac
turers went into the munition busi
ness on a large scale in 1914, re
ceiving heavy orders from the
Allies. .New plants were created
and old ones converted. As a result
when the United States entered the
war, the Eastern firms were pre
pared and during the first year re
ceived 85 per cent of the govern
ment war contracts, officials of the
Chicago Association of Commerce
said.
They added that after the Eastern
concerns were loaded to capacity,
the government turned to the mid
dle west for assistance. Chicago
manufacturers with few exceptions
did not expend large sums in new
plants and machinery to carry out
war orders. In a majority of in
stances they continued their regu
lar lines on a minimum production
basis and made a side line of the
government work by putting on an
additional force of labor and work
ing day and night.
Because of this policy, most of
the Chicago firms found it com
paratively easy to readjust business
affairs, in many cases the change
being accomplished in a few days
with the same organization and
labor forces.
Large numbers of women who
were pressed into service are grad
ually being dismissed to make room
for the soldiers as they return.
ALLAN SAYS DOGS I
ARE VERY SCARCE
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SEATTLE—Not until more money
and fast dogs are imported from1
Siberia will dog racing over Alaska’s •
winter trails be back in its old
prominent place, according to A. A. I
(“Scotty”) Allan, of Nome, Alaska,'
i three times winner of the Seward ! ^
■Peninsula All Alaska Sweepstakes!
| Race. Allan, who is a member of j
the Alaska legislature, is spending;
the winter here.
“Most of Alaska’s fast dogs went;
| to the war," Allan said recently. I
"We called out the best and sent!
them overseas for the French gov-.
eminent- Some of these doogs have j
;done notable work. To take their;
places in the races we could import;
I flogs from Siberia. It is said there A
■are many fast racing flogs in the!
I territory laying across the Bering'
Sea from Alaska.
“At present there are not enough '
! people left at Nome to subscribe a
I big purse. If things settle down,
we can work up a big trade with our
neighbors, the Siberians, and thus
bring enough people and money to
Nome to make it possible to stage
the old races again.” ;
The attenton of the mayor of
Cordova has been directed to the
fact that bootlegging is being prac
ticed there to a considerable ex
tent.
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FOUGHT THE FLU
DENVER.—The Women’s Motor
Corps of the Red Cross did heroic
work in fighting the epidemic of
Spanish influenza in Denver, many
members often giving assistance to
victims of the malady up to the
moment they were stricken them
selves.
One of the self-imposed duties of
the corps was the distribution of
gallons of soup made by the National
League for Women’s Service. In
many instances members of the
corps have gone into sick rooms to
serve patients. Cases of dire need
have been discovered by them. In
instances where they found entire
families ill and often without suffi
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these articles from their own homes
and from friends.
Members of the corps also used
their cars in carrying patients to
hospitals.
WANT ADS
DOG FISH—8c a pound. Johnson’s
Store. 13
LOST—A Grey Husky Dog, about
Nov. 27th; has collar on neck.
Finder return to Coghill’s store.
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