Ill NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918. at the postoffice at Nenana. Alaska,
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OUR FOOD ADMINISTRATION
The idea of the Food Administra
tion from the start has been that
no one class shall bear a dispropor
tionate burden. For the food ad
ministrator to conceive such a course
in such a crisis was possible. But
to realize that conception, to meet
the entirely disproportionate food
need on the other side of the world,
without preparation or time to pre
pare. and to do it without upset
ting the whole machinery of com
merce and business—that might well
seem impossible. Yet it has been
done. That it has been accomplished
is largely due to the voluntary co
operation of the American people.
One could imagine an inhabitant
of France or Belgium or England
expressing the belief that the United
States Food Administration had been
organized for his protection against
the world-shortage and speculation:
and one could imagine an American
citizen declaring the same thing.
Yet. with a world-shortage, the dis
turbances of war. it has actually
come about that we have fed Europe
and yet the consumers of this coun
try have fared better in food than
they would have done if we had
not undertaken to feed Europe, an
nulling speculation in ord/r to do
it. It has this meeting of one
"situation" without creating another
that has been the marvel of the
whole program.
Here, breifly stated, are a few
results of food administration in
the pas: year, as they affected us:
At the time Hoover was appoint
ed. that :s on May 15. 1917. the
price of flour per barrel at Minne
apolis was $16.75. while on May -i.
191$. it was $9 $0. a decrease of
41 per cent. On the former date
the difference between whaj the
farmer got for his wheat and the
wholesale price of flour was equiva
lent to $5.6$ a barrel, while on the
latter date this difference amounted
to only 64 cents.
Producers' prices fcr March 191$
when weighed with the relative
value of the product for the nutri
tion of tne nation show a marked
increase over August. 1917; but for
all this, consumers' prices on the |
same basis, have decreased, though
not to so great an extent.
-1; for sugar, the wholesale price
of the refined article at the end of
-^pril 19i$. was ..3 cents a pound,
while a year go it was $.33 cents a
pound, a decrease of 12 per cent.
At the same time the margin be
tween the price of raw and refined
sugar had be^n reduced from 2.1^
to 1.3 cents per pound. And this
m spite of the fact that sugar, as
we" as wheat, offered unprecedent
ed opportunities for speculation.
During the Civil War. sugar went
up to 30 cents a pound, with no real
sugar shortage in the world. Re
finers have declared that had not
the Food Administration controlled
the price and distribution of sugar,
it would have gone as high as 35
cents a pound <for we faced an ab
solute shortage, which was not the
case during the Civil War.) A rise
of one cent on a pound of sugar
costs the American public 480,000,
000 in the course of a year, so what
a two or three hundred per cent
Tise would have cost had better be
left to the imagination .
So much for us. What food ad
ministration in the United States
has meant to the Allies is indicated
by the following:
From July 1, 1917. to March 31
1919, we have exported to our
allies. 80,000.000 bushels of wheat
and flour or 124 per cent of the
amount available for export on July
1. while a year ago during the same
period we exported to the Allies
only 51 per cent of the amount
available for export July 1.
The exports of pork products for
March 1918 were over 50 per cent
larger than for any previous month
in the past seven years and almost
three times as great as the highest
amount exported in any month in
the four years before 1915.
Exports of beef products for
March 1918 were over 20 per cent
larger than for any previous montix
in the past seven years and more
than twice as great as the highest
amount exported in any month in
the four years before 1915.
Exports of rye and rye flour from
the beginning of the fiscal year
July 1. 1917 through March 1918.
are 32 per cent larger than last
year: of barley 55 per cent larger:
of oats and oatmeal 34 per cent
larger.
These figures are not just figures,
telling the more-or-lessness of those
vague things called exports. "Trans
lated into human terms they mean
strentgh to win a war. life for little
children, comfort for mothers, aid
to patient toilers and desperate re
fugees: they mean the defeat of
the conquest-mad. the victory of
free men. and hope of the world.
And yet one thing remains to add
in the record of what food admini
stration in the United States has
done for the American people. Or
of our noted men has said that no
nation can put forth its maximum
war effort until it has what he
calls the sacrificial consciousness
And the one way to attain that is
to make voluntary daily sacrifice a
part of every life.
Even if the Food Administration
had done nothing else—even if it
had not lightened the burden of
mansind—it would have forever
blessed the American people. For
in asking daily thought and care
regarding food, it called forth their
souls from the chambers of materia!
prosperity where they were hidden
out into the cleansing sunshine of
unselfishness, and set them once
agajn on the clean steep paths to
ward the high ideals of our fore
fathers.
GERMANS TOLD LANDING
OF AMERICANS IS JOKE
AMSTERDAM.—Every eff
being made in Germany to delude
the people about the size and im
portance of the American army. A
“joke” printed by the Munich Ju
gend, is part of the official propa
ganda. It is entitled “Homeopathic
Doses” and consists of the following
bit of dialogue at a French port:
“General Pershing—‘Well another
fleet of American troop transports
has just arrived.’
“LaBelle France—‘Suberbl Shall
I arrange for billets?’
“General Pershing—‘Sure! Two
rooms and three beds.’ ”
Organization is being perfected at
Juneau fear the operation of a co
operative trading store. The direct
ors are Messrs. Valentine. Polly. Le
fevre, Kennedy and Barnett.
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HELPS TRAVELERS
ran tie
ANCHORAGE.—From seven days to
nine hours is the reduction made m
the time of travel between Anchor
age and Talkeetna. a distance <-f
113 miles, as a result of the opera
tion of the coast division of the
Government railroad project.
Trains run on the railroad be
tween Anchorage and Montana, a
distance of PI miles. Montana is
on the Susitna river and 18 miles
farther up the river is Talkeetna.
Power boats are operated between
Montana and Talkeetna.
The traveler from Anchorage can
go in a train to Montana in six
hours and in a power boat from
Montana to Talkeetna in three hours.
Before the advent of the Govern
ment railroad, seven days were re
garded as constituting fast time
over the tortuous trail and by way
of the river between Anchorage
and Talkeetna.
Talkeetna is the headquarters* this
season for railroad construction
workers.
Power boats are also operating from
the end of ~teel. Montana, to Indian
river, which flows into the Susitna
river 57 miles north of Montana, or
3P miles north of Talkeetna. The
boats also navigate up Indian river
for a considerable distance above
its mouth. These boats take sup
plies destined to the engineering
party that is locating the route of
the Government railroad through the
Broad Pass country and to the United
States geological survey party that
is working in the Indian river coun
try. The supplies, after they are,
unloaded from the boats, are packed
on horses to the camps of the locat
ing and surveying parties.
NOW WITH HUN
LONDON—The activity of E^itish
airmen in connection with recent air
raids on London indicates that they
are learning rapidly the art of f.ght
ing the Gotha in the dark. L ntil
a few months ago then, was little
air fighting at night, even in France,
and raiding craft e;.joyed a marked
advantage because their object was
solely to avoid attach whiie dropping
their bombs.
It is eveidenc that they .are aile
no longer to avoid attack. For one
thing, the Briti-n pilots have lean ed
to see in the dark as a result of
numerous night flights in search
of enemy machines. Now they are
able to spot Gtlhas at distances
which would have been considered
impossible in the e..riy stages of
; night raids.
They have learned also hew to
take the jest positions for combat
ting the enemy, and how to keep
those positoins. The Gotha, being
an extremely heavy machine, is adept
at slipping away. By a sudden
plunge in front of the attacking
scout it can create a ‘'backwash"
and leave the attacker struggling
to right his machine.
The British pilots now know how
to cope with that trick and to keep
within thirty or forty yards of the
raider all the time.
There are many perilous positions
round the Gotha, whose two gunners
can fire in almost any direction.
, Only highly skilled handling of the
attacking machine enables the pilot
to maintain a place in which he can
continue the fight until he hits the
raider in a vital spot.
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Better feed the Allied soldiers now
than the kaiser’s later on.
JAM FOR SOLDIERS
! LONDON.—An order has been
I issued that the whole gooseberry
; crop in England and Wales shall
j be used for army jam.
SOUTH AMERsCA
MEAT HOPE NOW
OF THE ALLIES
WASHINGTON.—With the popu
lation of the world increasing faster
than the growth of the meat supply,
government experts foresee a serious
problem to be solved in the not far
distant future.
The situation in the United States
has reached an interesting stage.
Withn the last ten years, the popu
laton has increased about 18 per
cent while the herds of the nation
which brought the meat industry to
its present high development have de
clined 20 per cent. In Europe, the
condition is even more serious be
cause of the depletion due to the
war. Australia and New Zealand
continue to produce great quanti
ties of meat, but the distance to the
congested centers of population adds
much to the expense of marketing.
South America’s vast fields and
splendid •herbage, therefore, are be
ing looked to as the source of supply
now as well as after the war.
Argentina is today the most im
portant beef producing country in
the world, according to a review of
meat packing in South America by
the Latin-American Division of the
Bureau *of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce. Uruguay also is becom
ing a center of the industry in Bra
zil Paraguay. Colombia and Vene
zuela to a less extent. Out of a total
of 915,641 tons of beef, mutton and
lamb produced in 1916. Argentina
produced 436.405 tons. New Zea
land and Australia 262.176 tons,
the United States 80.522 tons. Uru
guay 43,895 tons. Brazil 33.571
tons, Canada 21.732 tons and other
countries the remainder.
Development of cattle breeding
in South America has been a direct
result of the discovery of refriger
ation. Until the practice of freez
ing meat was introduced. South
American commerce in meat was
negligible, being confined to the
shipment of low grade or salted beef,
for which there was no sale. When
American and British capital estab
lished plants in Argentina and Uru
guay. and later in other countries
for freezing or chilling meat so that
it could be shipped fresh across the
ocean, commanding high prices and
beng in great demand, native ranch
men began to improve their stock by
the introduction of thoroughbreds.
As a result, millionaire ranchmen
in Aregntina and Uruguay are al
most as plentiful as millionairs oil
men in Oklahoma. Frozen meat is
being used extensively by the Allied
armies and the flow of gold in the
world’s commerce has been showing
an increasing trend toward South
America.
Meat packing in Argentina has
been so successful because it was
spared the hardships which a new
industry usually encounters. Profil
ing by American experience, the
plants were established along mod
ern lines without costly experiment.
A market already had been created
in Europe by the shipment of frozen
meat from the United States. Ar
gentina is now seeking to increase
her herds to keep pace with the
capacities of the packing houses,
while Brazil is endeavoring to aug
ment the number of packing houses
to handle the plentiful supply of
stock. The Brazilian government is
giving every encouragement to breed
ers to improve their strain of cattle.
Colombia has offered a subsidy
of lb 10-000 to the first packing
house established in that country
Columbia has approximately 1,000,
000 head of cattle which can be ex
ported now only on the hoof. Amer
ican. British and Swedish firms are
reported to be investigating the sub
sidy offer.
The taxpayers and citizens of
Eska creek have prepared a petition
praying for the establishment of a
school in the district and have for
. warded it to Distrcit Clerk Lang at
I Valdez.
Nothing is as usual, why eat as
usual. A good citizen is known by
the food he eats..
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barn and two lots. Also milk
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POSITIONS WANTED—There are
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looking for positions as camp
cooks; also one man cook. All
highly recommended. Address
Nenana News office
WANTED TO BUY—About 40 tons
of native hay. Will take delivery
where cut. Apply to Knute
Koland, Nenana.
FOR SALE—Beaver Board, in plain
and oak finish. Doors and win
dows. sash stock and mouldings
Inquire Simson’s.
PIANOS—For sale or rent. Inquire
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