THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enrry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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OUTLOOK BRIGHT FOR ALASKA.
The news from Washington lately
has been of a more encouraging
nature, as far as Alaska is con
cerned, than has been the case fori
years, says the Cordova Times, re- j
ferring to the encouraging attitude'
of the navy department toward A1-!
aska coal. It proves that admin
istration and congressional circles
are waking up to the fact that
Alaska has infinite possibilities for
contributing to the future welfare
and greatness of the nation, and
that a sincere and practical effort
is being made to make available her
resources.
Dispatches for the second time
have mentioned a somewhat mys
terious report made by a r.ava! com
mission which visited Alaska a short
time ago. The report is supposed
to be “confidential” as yet, but we j
are not inclined to be to inquisitive !
as to how the correspondent ob
tained his information. It is suf
ficient to know that the commission
seems to have rendered an intelli
gent account of what they saw, and
have shown a more than customary
degree 'of intelligence in making
recommendation for the utilization
of the knowledge they obtained dur
ing their stay in the North. It has j
rot always been the case that these j
Government commissions have had j
the vision and practical sense ihat ■
these naval men have shown.
A fact the significance of which ;
has been known to mariners and to
commercial organizations and indi
viduals on this coast for many years
is just beginning to be understood
by the navy authorities at Washing
ton, and by them, in course of time,
no doubt it will be transmitted to
other influential quarters in the Gov
ernment and commercial circles of
the country. That fact is that Alas
ka lies on the direct line of travel
from the United States to the Ori
ent. In other words, the shortest
route between Puget Sound and
Yokohama, Hongkong, Shanghai and
other Asiatic ports runs but a few
miles off the Alaska coast. Sailing
due west from Cape Flattery, a
vessel would touch at the Aleutian
islands on her way to Asiatic ports,
and in this manner save several
hundred miles as between San Fran
cisco and the same ports. This is
what is known as the great circle
route. The significance of this to
Alaska is apparent.
With the opening of Alaska’s im
mense coal and oil fields, instead of
shipping these fuel products Outside
and necessitating their being again
carried back past the point of pro
duction in the bunkers and tanks
of ocean carriers enroute to the
Orient, it is within the range of
possibility that immense fuel de
pots will be established at points
along the Alaska coast for the use
of merchantmen, just as it is now
proposed to do for the use of the
navy. The Oriental trade is bound
to increase enormously within the
next few years. Commerce has been
disrupted by the war, and when it
is resumed in normal volume new
wants will be created and new fields
opened. Alaska will be in position
to benefit greatly thereby.
Cordova, in common with Seward .
and Anchorage, as the coming great I
shipping point for fuel, both coal
and oil, will be greatly benefited
by the new order of things. It is
not at all unlikely that in a few
| years Cordova will be a city of
great importance, with a well-de
| fined place in the shipping trade
| between the United States and the
j Orient.
Altogether the outlook for Alaska
is more encouraging than it has
been for years. The ephemeral pros
perity of Interior Alaska, resulting
from the exploiting of its surface
gold deposits, is on the wane, but
the more substantial wealth of min
eral, of coal, of oil, is yet to be
given to the world, and with this
development an Alaska will arise
which within a comparatively short
time will be demanding a place
among the sisterhood of states of
the Union, with a prosperous and
enlightened citizenship second to
none.
YUKON CANNERY
LOST MONEY ON
SUMMON
(By H. M. d’Orsay.)
j The fail run of salmon on the
i lower Yukon was a complete failure
in so far as the Carlisle cannery at
the mouth of Qwiguk slough was
concerned, according to late arrivals
in Xenana from the mouth of the
river. Officials of the cannery, it
is reported, claim a loss of fully
£ 100,000 as a result of the failure
, of the fall pack, the silvers being
so scarce that it was impossible to
; put up more than sixty cases some
days, and many of the employes,
who were under contract for the
season, spent the greater part of
the fall loafing around the plant.
Had the cannery been closed after
the early summer run, the profits
for the season would have been very
substantial, and those in charge of
the outfit are now lamenting the
fact that tl^ey did not quit while
the quitting was good. But they
had visions of another big cleanup
during the fall, and risked the spring
profits waiting for the silver salmon
which did not come. When it final
ly became apparent to the manage
ment that there would be no fall
run of fish, the cannery outfit was
shut down and towed into winter
quarters at Andreafsky. The sea
son’s pack aggregated about 57,000
cases, practically all of which rep
resented the early summer canning.
' While it is generally agreed that
the operation of the cannery worked
a great hardship on native and white
settlements along the lower Yukon
and its tributaries by causing a
shortage of fish along the streams,
reports indicate that considerable
' numbers of fish were caught higher
I up on the rivers. For instance, it
is stated that salmon were much
more plentiful near Dawson than
along the lower Y’ukon. This is ac
counted for by the explanation that
| the fish swim deep on the long jour
ney up stream, coming closer to
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SCHOOLS AND THE WAR
By L. D. HENDERSON
Commissioner of Education, Terri
tory of Alaska.
This is my first visit to Nenana
since the completion of the Frank
lin K. Lane school. The building
compares favorably with the best in
! the Territory. The equipment is
! excellent and the provision for the
j comfort, safety and full develop
ment of the pupils all that can be
reasonably expected, especially when
the size of the school is considered.
Since the Nenana school district
was first established the members
of the school board have shown
themselves to be broad-minded, pub
lic-spirited, progressive and deeply
interested in everything that per
tains to the advancement of the
i interest of the children of the com
munity. Nenana is to be congratu
lated on her excellent school and
ion the record which the pupils have
made in the support of every war
j activity in which the Government
'has asked aid of the schools during
ithe past two years.
Alaska generally prides herself
Jon four things: First of all, she
yields second place to no state in
J the Union in the war record of her
'schools. In War-Gardens, War-Sav
;ings. Red Cross work, and Food
'Conservation, in relief activities of
!every description and in active sup
port of every “win-the-war mea
| sure” there were few' laggards in
The whole Territory. Alaska fur
ther prides herself on the training
and experience of the teachers in
!her public schools. More than two
thirds of the teachers in Alaska are
graduates of normal schools or col
leges, and a large percentage of
| this number have had advanced
training in addition to graduation.
| The average experience of Alaska
! teachers during the school year
11917-18 was seven and one-half
| years. When these figures are com
j pared with those of any state in
the Union, or with those of the na
tion as a whole, Alaska is found to
be far in the lead, a circumstance
i which contributes, without doubt, to
a third cause for pride, namely, the
! superiority of the pupils in her
i schools as indicated by a series of
standard tests which have been giv
en during the past two school years.
A fourth cause for pride is to be
found in the generous financial sup
port which the residents of Alaska
give to their schools and in their
readiness to provide still greater
funds as the necessity presents
itself.
The high cost of lmng is now an
issue in every walk of life. Per
capita school costs will now be
larger than in the past. The mat
ter of teachers’ salaries in the
schools of nearly every community
needs adjustment upward. Alaska
has been able to secure highly
trained and experienced teachers
largely because she has been paying
more adequate salaries than the
average state. Teachers’ salaries
throughout the United States have
advanced materially during the past
year. There is, in addition, a scarci
ty of teachers throughout the na
tion, the shortage last year being
estimated at fifty thousand. If we
are to secure thoroughly competent
teachers in the future, we must
spend more money on the item of
, teachers’ salaries.
A period of material, moral, and
spiritual reconstruction now faces
the nation. It is frankly admitted
by all that the schools are essen
tial to the proper carrying out of
a reconstruction program. Without
the active co-operation of teachers
and pupils the Nation would fail in
its endeavor. The Great War has
done one thing for the public
schools. It has brought them di
rectly to the attention of the Gov
ernment and of each individual in
this country in a way that has
never before been possible. Here
tofore, the schools were an accepted
institution as were babies, day,
night, and the movies. Then came
the war, and the Nation for the
first time realized the tremendous
power which the army of 22,000,000
, school children and 600,000 school
teachers represented. ,
I The Government said to this
army: “If the war is to be won,
■you must help. Starvation threat
ens to defeat struggling England,
France, Belgium, and Italy. You
must practice food-saving and teach
the Nation to save. We need bill
ions. You must practice thrift and
teach the Nation thrift. There is
intense suffering throughout the
world. The agency which we have
chosen for the alleviation of this
condition is the American Red Cross.
If the Red Cross is to be a suc
cess, you must get behind it.”
These are but a few of the many
calls which were made upon our
public schools. To each cal! there
was a response which was mighty
in its effect. For the first time this
Nation began to realize the power
which lies in the public school. The
lesson learned will not soon be for
gotten.
It is not possible to account for
Chateau-Thierry. for Belleau Wood,
for Cantigny, for St. Mihiel. for
the Argonne. for Sedan by enumer
ating the number of men engaged,
by counting the cannon, the ma
chine guns, and the munitions and
instruments of destruction. These
victories cannot be explained on a
basis of mere physical force. The
men engaged were the embodiment
of the spirit of a free and inde
pendent people and went forth in
support of an ideal taught in the
public schools. Some one has well
said that the final victory was won
because it had been preceded by a
battle of books, by the silent tri
umphs of an army of teachers in
the schoolrooms and on the play
grounds. That the war in the final
analysis was a war between two
systems of education. Between that
of Germany on the one hand, with
its disciplines and doctrines, its sup
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