THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enuy 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.
Owned and Edited by
R. G. SOUTHWORTH ARTHUR G. BELL
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POST-WAR DUTIES.
No nation, during the great war,
surpassed the American people in
spirit of devotion and self-sacrifice.
But with the signing of the armis
tice, points out the Alaska (Ju
neau) Daily Empire, a relaxation
and a desire to live under condi
tions even more prosperous than
obtained before the war became ap
parent. This change has transform
ed an enthusiastic into a discontent
ed nation, utterly forgetful of the
fact that the winning of the war
entailed the further duty of re
cuperating from the losses of the
war.
When the crew have worked he
roically and manfully in a storm
and the elements are subdued, the
battered ship cannot continue on
its voyage until the damage has beer,
repaired to make the vessel sea
worthy. This is precisely the case
with the nation. Great losses are I
the after effects of the war, and life
under normal conditions cannot be
taken up again until at least to
some extent they have- been re
paired. If this is neglected the
ship of our Union will not be as
strong as it was before, even con
siderably weaker.
From this arise the public duties
after the war, and, being of finan
cial nature, patriotism first of all
must manifest itself by forbearing
all claims and demands that have
the effect of weakening the Govern
ment in its most vital part, which is
its financial standing, and positive
help also must be extended by as
sisting the Government in canceling
its obligations, all of which calls for
economy.
If this were practical, it would
alleviate the most serious cause of
trouble—ths insistend demands for
shorter working hours and higher
wages. If this is persisted in, the
after effects of the great struggle
for freedom and safety will not dis-'
appear in generations, while, with
due moderation in the demands of
life, perfect recovery will be estab-1
lished in a comparatively short time.
What now is attempted is to bleed a '
patient exhausted from loss of blood.
BELGIUM RECOVERING.
Belgium has made rapid progress
toward industrial recovery since the
armistice, largely owing to the fact
that our country has had no seri
ous strikes, said M. Jasper, minister
of economic affairs, recently to a
representative of The Associated
Press. He estimates that the na
tion’s industrial output has now at
tained perhaps 70 percent of its pre
war record and that its mines are
producing as much coal as in the
year before the war.
“About 70 percent of onr ma
terial which was taken out by the
Germans has been returned to us,”
added M. Jasper. “The money tak
en by the Germans from the Bel
gian treasury has been returned, but
Belgium has thus far received no
indemnity from Germany.
"At the beginning of the armis
tice, 800,000 of our people were
without work. Our recovery has
been made in spite of the fact that
more than one-half of the Belgians I
who hail to flee before the Germans '
are still in France, unable to return '
l because they have no homes here." j
i Belgian villages destroyed in the;
war are being rebuilt, said M. Jas- ]
per. In the district of Ypres 18 i
j villages have been restored to such j
j an extent that local administration!
jhas been resumed. “If the United!
j States would do for Belgium What!
j she has just done for Poland, estab-j
| lish a credit for her, most of our
| problems would be solved,” declared
j the minister of economics.
THE HOUSING PROBLEM.
Important industrial corporations'
in the Pittsburgh district are fin-!<
anting home building operations by
their employes to relieve the house
shortage in mill and mining com- ‘
munities. For the general public, i
trust companies have adopted sim- ;
iiar plans, and are now accepting ]
what they term “installment mort- \
gages” to encourage house erect'on.
The most ambitious program of
the lot is that of the United States '
Steel corporation. Under this plan, 1
an employe who is willing to make
an initial investment of ten percent
of the total cost is permitted to
select from a large number of plans *
the kind of house that will suit his 1
family. He then picks out a lot, j
usually near his place of employ-!*
ment, and the corporation’s archi- j*
tects and builders do the rest. When j
the house is completed it is turned j1
over to the employe,' who pledges
himself to pay for it in monthly
installments covering a period of
ten years, the total cost being just
what the cost has been to the cor
poration. Although the plan is
scarcely a month old, the bureau
in charge of building is already
swamped with appliactions.
The Westinghouse Electric &
Manufacturing company also has a
building plan, and has just complet
ed and sold to employes SO houses
at cost. They too are to be paid
for on the installment plan. An
other and much larger program is
in preparation.
The merit of these plans, build
ers say, is that materials can be
purchased in large quantities, and
the saving passed on to the work
man buyer, who thus gets a much
better home for less money than if
he had bought the material and
erected the house as an individual.
Hents have advanced steadily
during the past two years, until
now they are from 25 to 100 per
cent higher than in the early days
of the war. A renters’ league has
been formed for the purpose of
fighting the legal battles of persons
who may be evicted because of their
inability to pay the increases which
became operative May 1. The
league has opened offices, retained
counsel, and is asking the public to
send in its complaints. Leaders in
the union labor movement are prom
inent in the league.
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Awnings, Tarps and Nets made to
order. Suits cleaned and pressed, at
D’ORSAY’S TAILOR SHOP
Third and A Streets.
Vsnaaa, Alaska's Interior Fast Depot
FORMER HOMES
LONDON. — Large numbers of
German and other undesirables who
were deported from England during
the war have managed to make
their way back to London, but have
encountered warm receptions when
their identity has been discovered.
They manatred to cross from the
continent by working their way as
sailors on tramp steamers to North
ern English and Scottish ports.
Those Germans who have come
back to England to take up business
again find it a hard row to hoe,
says the Evening Standard. One
German business man gave it up
and returned to his fatherland after
being refused admission to fi\e Lon
don hotels. He found rooms in a
Bloomsbury lodging house, hut two
da/s later the other boarders dis
covered him. and notified the man
ager that they could not live under
the same roof with a Gorman, and I
he was turned out
A German butcher in a London 1
suburb was prevented by his neigh- [
bors from reopening his o.d store j
recently, although lie had lived in !
England for 40 years, and there!
ivy many similar cases.
Neither captain nor crew of the
-te'mer Spied, the 3rst German
algo ship to enter the Firth of;
forth since August, li’ll were al-1
caved ashore at Methil .arid, in def- '
irence to local feeling, the vessel :
lid not display the Gtrma.i dag. j
On the other hand, a revival of
‘ I'un.ibauser” at CovoAt Garden
ipera house recently drew a large
iid of i reciati"e audience of society |
a oj le. The cast, however, was I
/holly English.
OVER-THE-ICE EGCS, $1.50 peri
lozen, at Fowler & Morrii.
RISHMEN DENOUNCE
NEW HOME RULE BILL
GLASGOW. — The government’s
iome rule bill for Ireland was de
louneed by Joseph Devlin as a
humbug to throw dust in the eyes
f the people of America and else
where,” in a speech he delivered
lere recently. Mr. Devlin declared
hat it was not a bill for home rule
tor a plan to settle the Irish ques
ion, but for the permanent division
f Ireland into two sections. The
>est thing the government could do.
ie said, was to drop the bill, resign
flice and “let the enlightened judg
nent of the British electorate give
reland what she wanted.”
T. P. O’Connor called the mea
ure “an outrage and an Insult” and
aid that “a more impudent, arro
ant, insulting, lying proposal was
ever made by any body of men In
he world.” He characterized the
ction., of the government in sug
esting a repeal of the Home Rule
ict of 1914 as a “more perfidious
reach of treaty than the Germans’
reach of treaty with Belgium.”
tRITISH TAKE STEPS
TO RESTRICT SPIES
LONDON. — The British govern
ment is taking steps to restrict the
perations in England of spies from
oreign countries. The house of
ommons has just adopted anti-spy
egulations at the request of Sir j
Ernest Pollock, the solicitor gen
ral, who told the members of the
louse that information was now be
ng collected here for foreign gov
rnments and that this ought to be
topped for the sake of the coun
ry’s safety.
“Spies are as active in this coun
ry as ever,” said Brigadier-Gen
ral Coekerill, director of special in
elligence at the war office.
’RESIDENT’S DAUGHTER
ADOPTS TWO ORPHANS
NEW YORK. — Miss Margaret
Vilson, eldest daughter of the Presi
irhose father was killed in battle
lent, has “adopted" two Serbian
WANT ADS
GOOD COOK WANTED for camp
out of town. Good wages. For
further particulars call at News
office.
BARN FOR RENT—Cheap Inquire
News office.
ll.OST—-Nugget brooch. Suitable re
ward for return to Dr. M. E. Smith. 1
BARN FOR
! Three double stalls. Pump in
barn. Inquire at News.
BUNoT^6Fs^vEiTT<EYi^7^X;
Owner can recover by calling at j
News office and paying for adv. I
THE DWTER^HOME^FoF^SALE^ :
Terms reasonable. tf !
FOR RENT—Suite of three rooms,!
suitable for light housekeeping, 1
with heat and light and hot and j
cold water in connection. Also'
office rooms, at The Arctic.
^ ^ ^ —I.
FOR SALE—-Two-room house, part-:
ly furnished, with lot. Desirable,
locality. Inquire News office. tf .
FOR RENT—-Cascade laundrv. Ful’y
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equipped and with established in -v
come. No cash required. Inquire .
at Arctic.
war orphans, a boy and a girl. •!
in 1914. according to lime. Slavko ;.j
Grouitch. wife of the .lugo-Slav !
minister at Washington, and direc-1
tor of the Serbian id fund. The |(
children will continue, however, it !
was said, to live with their mother!
at Negotin, Siberia, which is near!
the Rumanian border, lime. Grou- j
itc'h is now seeking other godmothers
and aid for Serbian children in a !
tour of Texas and Oklahoma. !
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nvners of Southern Illinois have I
formed a cooperative organization [
for the purchase of publishing ma-1
terials.
The publishers assert such an or-1
ranization is necessary to assure'
hem of a sufficient supply of White !
paper.
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NENANA LODGE No. 1193
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flEETS AT MOOSE HALL
Fourth and B Streets
second and Fourth Mondays
At 8:00 P. M.
iLEX FOWLER, ALF EKELAND,
Secretary Dictator.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
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NOTICE
Passengers are required to pur
chase tickets before entering trains
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 Commission, or
I at Camp 415 (North Nenana).
! Tickets will be on sale at -.ny
time during office hours, and can be
purchased in sufficient time before
the departure of the trains.
Regular trains for the south leave
i the foot of A street on Wednesdays
land Saturdays at 8 a. m., and from
[Camp 415 (North Nenana), for
j Fairbanks, Tuesdays and Fridays, at
l p. m.
The following is the schedule be
tween North Nenana and Fairbanks,
subject to change without notice:
Leave Fairbanks at 7:0(i a. m.;
I arrive North Nenana, 11:30 a. m.
Leave North Nenana 1:00 p. m :
j arrive Fairbanks, 5:30 p. m.
| No tickets will be sold crossing
i the river. Those intending to trav
el to Fairbanks must make their
own arrangements for reaching
North Nenana.
Trappers and Traders of Alaska
SELL YOUR FURS TO A HOME INDUSTRY. WE GUARANTEE
• YOU HIGHER PRICES THAN OUTSIDE
CONCERNS WILL PAY.
During the last season we conducted an advertising campaign
throughout the North and are prepared to send you the names of
people in all sections of Alaska and the Yukon who will verify our
statements.
Our excellent Eastern connections, and the tremendous amount
of mall order business we are receiving from all parts of the
States for furs made to order enables us to turn our stock quickly
at a reasonable profit, but we must have fur, for which we guar
antee top prices.
Make us a trial shipment. If our price does not suit you, the
goods will be returned charges prepaid.
WE MAKE FURS TO ORDER
at more reasonable rates than can be obtained Outside. At present
we are working three operators, and need others. If you are an
operator and finisher, and want a good year-around job, com
municate with us.
CHAS. GOLDSTEIN & CO.
JUNEAU, ALASKA |