THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,'
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YANKEE WAR COSTS
Why does it cost the United States
so much more tfc make war than
it costs any of its belligerents?
What is being done with the tens
of billions being raised from Liberty
Bonds and taxation? One often
hears these uestions.
The answer is not difficult.
It is, simply, that it costs an
American more to ’o anything than
it costs anyone else in the world.
The American army is composed
of workingmen. The American
workingman demands a higher
standard of everything than any
other working man in the world.
When he becomes a soldier he car
ries that standard with him, and,
comparatively, gets it.
Napoleon said, and everybody ever
since has repeated, that an army
travels on its stomach. So naturally
the subsistance of the American
soldiers comes first in the long bill
which is rapidly running to $50,000
000 a day.
The regular ration list of the
American army calls for forty-nine
different items of food It includes
many things which are luxuries to
the soldiers of the foreign armies.
At that, it only costs 32 cents a day
to feed a soldier. The figure is
low because the government has the
advantage of dealing in bilions and
tons, where the individual deals in
dollars and pounds. Even so, the
army has felt the increased cost of
living because it cost only 12.81
cents a day to feed a soldier during
the Spanish war.
Take into account the almost stag
gering sums the government has
spent for food alone since the war
began: $37,000,000 worth of flour;
$14,000,000 worth of sugar; $43,
000,000 worth of bacon; $12,000,000
worth of beans; $9,000,000 worth of
canned tomatoes; $3,000,000 worth
of rice. It sounds almost like a
food bill for a nation.
Without any disparagement what
ever of the rationing system of the
co-belligerents it may be said that
while the food of the British sol
dier compares favorably with that
< f his American cousin, the French
ration is less acceptable to the
American and that of the Italians
would get a very cold reception.
The equipment of the American
soldier is no less up to standard
than his food. Since the beginning
of the w»ar the government has
spent $126,000,000 for shpes. Only
^ recently a contract was let which
' is intended to keep every soldier
with two pairs—one for marching:'
: and one for general wear. The
j price in quantity of millions was
| well over $5 a pair. Old soldiers
; of the regular army can remember
j when the government issued “bro-;
gans” far removed in quality from
the army shoes of today.
The American soldier's clothing
so far cost a round $500,000,000.
For his blankets the government
has spent $150,000,000- Every
thing else is in proportion for in
every particular of his equipment
the government has supplied the sol
dier with the same relative high
standard he was accustomed to at
home in civil life. The extra cost
of maintaining an army on foreign
; soil has entered into the huge bill
! because it has been found that it
costs $423.27 to equip and maintain
a soldier a year abroad, as against
$327.78 at home. Of this sum
$251.85 goes for food. The ration
ing expenses at home is $189.80.
The high standard has been car
ried to the soldier’s pay. For all
| practical purposes of estimate the
! American soldier is the highest paid
i fighting man in the world. He ac
! tually gets more than the average
; German officer. To the $33 a moniii
' a private receives from the govern
i ment is added a sum for his depend
ents, depending upon their condi
tion and number. Canada and the
other British colonies more nearly
approximate the pay of the Ameri
: can soldier than any others of the
j co-belligerents,
Taking into consideration all these
: items it is not strange that America’s
war bill is greatest.
FAMOUS AFFINITIES
Ham and eggs,
i Salt and Pepper
Liver and Onions.
! Corned Beef and Cabbage,
i Bread and Butter.
' Pen and Ink.
Rock and Rye.
Tom and Jerry.
Pork and Beans.
Oil and Gas.
'■ Pool and Billiards,
j Kids and Candy.
I Cheese and Crackers.
Funerals and Flowers.
Soap and Water.
1,185,000 tons of sugar will be
saved the first year if each of us
uses one ounce less each day. This
I will keep sugar plentiful and cheap.
REMEM8ER THE FOLKS AT HOME
Wish Them a Merry Christmas
and A Happy New Year
We Have a Ffne Line of
CHRISTMAS CARDS
NEW YEAR CARDS
THANKSGIVING CARDS
INVITATION CARDS
PLACE CARDS
Cards Suitable for All Occasions
5c to 25c Each
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AMERICAN ARMY
ABROAD RECEIVES
CLOSEJTIENTION
Headquarters American Expedi-j
tionary Forces.—General Pershing’s
order, issued during the early stages
of the war, forbidding the use of all
alcoholic beverages except light
wines and beers by soldiers and in
stituting various forms of athletic
and wholesome amusements to pre
vent immorality has brought him ‘
much gratifying and favorable com- i
ment from American and Allied i
sources which have been striving for i
the betterment of the men in the
field. His admonition of “prompt (
disciplinary action” is having a
salutary effect.
Efforts' have been made to keep
every American soldier occupied1
with instruction on various useful
subjects, work, drill, baseball, foot- •
ball, wrestling, boxing, foot racing
and other forms of sport, athletic j
games, theatrical entertainments and
clean motion picture shows.
The determination of the Ameri
can commander to secure a rigid i
enforcement of his anti-drunkenness j
and anti-immorality regulation was
indicated in a letter written by Gen-:
eral Pershing appointing representa-.
tives to a British-Ameriean con
ference on the subject, in which he
said:
“The gravest responsibility rests |
on those to whom the parents of our j
soldiers have entrusted their sons
to the battle and we fail if we ne
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gleet any effort to safeguard them.
in every way. We have the com- j
mon ground of humanity; we have)
the well considered conclusions of i
the best scientific minds on our side, |
and from the fact that, in this war |
of nations in arms the soldier is ■
merely a citizen on war service, we
have all the elements which will!
force co-operation between military;
and civilian authorities.”
Leniency by courts martial in deal-j
ing with cases arising from non-ob
servance of the order. General Persh- j
ing stated, would not be tolerated
“and to insure this”, he said, “the
records of all sentences will be care
fully examined and compared and
all courts and officers held strictly
accountable.”
SCIENCE MEETING
WELLATTENDED
At the former office of the U. S.
commisioner opposite the postoffice,
a large number of Christian Scien
tists met last night for the purpose
of organizing. There were thirty
Scientists present.
Mr. W A. Ryan presided and ex
plained the purpose of the meeting,
a committee was appointed to look
over, approve and take measures for
the adoption of a set of by-laws,
which were drawn up by Mr. Ryan
to conform to the regulations of
the mother church at Boston, Mass.
This business was duly accomplished.
It was the unanimous wish of
those present that a Sunday school
be established and that services j
be held on Wednesday evenings, and
accordingly meetings will be held
on Wednesday nights, commencing
at 8 p. m., and arrangements for the
opening of the Sunday school will
be taken in hand immediately.
The rearrangement of the interior
of the Burns building so that a larger
congregation may be accommodated
was left in the hands of a com
mittee, who commenced operations
immediately after they were named,
and had everything in readiness
against the next meeting.
The meeting was concluded at
about ten o’clock.
Alaska’s output of copper ore and
fish this year has been enormous.
The canneries all made big packs,
but are said to be suffering from
lack of sufficient transportation fa
cilities. In the Interior everyone is
satisfied with conditions as they
are. People are sitting tight and 1
doing all that they can to help end j
the war
E MEMORIAL TO BE
ERECTED FOR PROFESSOR
PITTSBURG.—A monument of
snakes, probably the most unique
ever raised, is being made at the
Carnegie Museum here, and when
complete, the memorial will occupy
a glass case in the Gallery of Ser
ptots, a tribu e to the memory of
Augustus Link, who several years
ago gave up his life in the pursuit
of science.
Just before his death, Mr. Link
was lecturing on the topic of ser
pents before a class of Carnegie
Institute of Technology students.
He held in his hand a rattle-snake.
At the close of the lecture Mr. Link
replaced the snake in a glass case
and a few moments later a student
called his attention to a spot of
blood on the end of one of his
fingers. Early the next morning
Mr. Link died.
Carnegie Museum, by which he
was employed, has brought from the
Isle of Fines a tree in the branches
of which a boa constrictor will be
twined, with iguanas, the common
lizards of tropical America, as com
panions.
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NEW NAMES ARE NEEDED
FOR NEW ARCTIC LANDS
VANCOUVER, B. C.—New names
for Arctic lands and seas probably
will soon be wanted in Ottawa as
a result of the discoveries of Vil- :
hyalmur Stefansson, the returned jl
Canadian Arctic explorer. A board U
of geologists in Ottawa directs the |
giving of names to all of Canada’s l
new’ found possessions. ft
Suggestions have been made that
“Stefansson’s Land” should be the ft
name of the group of islands found j|
by the explorer northwest of Prince ft
Patrick land. Stefansson, however, [|
says new lands are never named 2
after the men who find them. j
Another name will be needed for
what has long been called Prince *
Gustav Adolph Sea, thought to be
an arm of the Arctic Ocean. Stef
ansson found that the sea wasn’t
a soa at all, but contained the new
land he discovered I
A FATHER’S SACRIFICE (
TOKIO.—So that his soldier son.
who had been ordered to Vladivos
tok, might be freed of worry on i
his behalf and able to devote all his
attention to his duties, an aged
Japanese, ill and dependent upon the i
lad for support, recently committed
suicide, according to an announce
ment by the war office. i
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YAKIMA.—Swauk valley in the
Kittitas county, recently has been j
visited by a vast storm of butter
flies. The swarm was described by
valley residents as from three to J
four miles in width and fifteen
miles long.
The butterflies are believed to j
be the product of the caterpillar pest
which last summer destroyed vege
tation over a large area in the i
vicinity of Bumping Lake. A simi
lar swarm was observed recently
in the Tampico region. {
A bargain in mining ventures in
| Atlin, whereby Frank H. Mabley,
(M. L. A. for Atlin, some time ago
I purchased under the sheriff’s ham
mer at Prince Rupert, 52 gold placer
claims, a number of mineral claims,
a lake dam, ditches, a water system,
a blacksmith shop and machine shop.
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Don’t Leave
ALASKA
Men wahting employment can
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latoucbe.
If you go out you will only
come back “Butsed" in the spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER.
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one Hundred
and fifty at Latoucbe and
Kennecott.
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