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.
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OUR WAR PROGRAM
The money we pay out aui what
we get for it, says a Treasury De
partment statement, is a fair state- j
ment of our war program ar.d of
our national achievement so far, and
indicates definitely the magnitude;
of our undertaking, the giant scale ■
of preparation and the standard we!
have set for ourselves in this grim i
struggle to preserve our national j
life and the civilization of the
world. What we have done so far!
points to what is before us—what:
we must do week by week and.
month bv month till the war is won. :
i
In normal times—in peace times j
—it costs about a billion dollars a
year to run the government. I f r
the fiscal year ended June 30, lb 18,
Congress appropriated in round
numbers, including deficiences, $18,
882,000,000. For 1019, Congress:
has appropriated in round numbers
at the present session, including de
ficiences and appropriation bids
pending, $24,330,000,000.
The mind is often confused over
“appropriations” and “expenditures”
Congressional appropriations fix the
limit of what may be used. Then
the governmental departments and
bureaus spend what is necessary, and
at the end of the year the appro
priation lapses. Official figures
show that for the fiscal year 1918
the government spent $12,696,702,
471.14, and in addition during the |
war months of 1917 disbursed $885,
000,000 for loans to Allies.
Up to the very day w'e entered
the war Germany believed that vic
tory for the Central Powers lay just
ahead. A strong factor in this cal
culation was their belief that the
Entente powers were financially
exhausted.
Germany had spent fifty years
for a war of conquest. She knew
that from its very start she must
wage it from within the circle com
posed of herself and her allies, that
she must produce from within this
circle her raw stuffs and manu
factured material, and by doing this,
though the war has continued far
beyond the eighteen months that
Germany set for its winning—if
there was to be a winning—she has
kept her money at home, used it
over and over again, as the same
water often turns the wheels of
many mills.
Our Allies, on the other hand, ow
ing chiefly to their lack of pre
paration, had to come into the
markets of the United States for
most of their war necessaries, and in
the years of our neutrality their
account with us totaled approxi
mately $9,453,524,547.
A nation and an individual are
alike when they want to buy any
thing—they must have money or
credit, which is based on money.
Our allies were short on both and
we supplied their need. We ad
vanced them money and credit, and
we called the transaction a loan.
In the fiscal years 1917 and 1918
we loaned them $5,623,000,000.
Their securities and governmental
undertakings to repay lie in the
vaults of the treasury of the United
States. _
What our allies did with that
credit or money is of vast import
ance to us. They looked to us to
supply them with wheat and corn
and cotton from our fields, coal
and ore from our mines, and fin
ished products from our factories
and foundries, otherwise they could
not remain at war, so they brought
this credit that we had lent them j
into our markets and spent it over
our counters.
During the fiscal year 1918 our
exports amounted to $6,000,000,000.
Six billion is six thousand million!
Most of these went to our Allies,;
and was turned immediately and
eagerly into fighting stuff for win
ning their war—our war.
You will be interested in knowing
some of the things our allies really
did with the sums we lent them.
First they used over $150,000,000
for relief in Belgium and Servia.
The people in Belgium call it
“blessed money.” Besides the en
ormous expenditures embraced in
the term "munitions of war,” they
have spent $800,000,000 for cereals,
$800,000,000 for meat and other.
foods and $600,000,000 for cotton.
AERIAL EFFICIENCY
The increasing destructiveness of
Allied air raids is attested to by Ger
man prisoners, declares an Associated
Press correspondent, writing from
London. While statements of this
kind must generally be treated with
reserve, there is evidence that this
particular information s very near
the truth.
Valenciennes station, which is now
in the hands of the Allies, »vas
heavily bombed by British airmen
recently. A prisoner subsequently
stated that for a number of days
following the raids rains were un
able to pass through Valenciennes
as a big engineer dump had been
hit and barrels of oil and explosives
were burning and blowing up.
A raid was made upon an ammu
nition dump near Marais Wood, and
several photographs taken during
the raid showed the explosion. A
party of prisoners captured later
volunteered the information that
the dump blew up and 'hat the
moral effect was enormous.
A prisoner is responsible for the
statement that not long ago an am
munition train was hit and blew up
in Valenciennes, a fact which fully
confirms the British official report
that direct hits were obtained upon
a moving train at Valenciennes on
the night of May 51. •
Still another report by a recently
captured German prisoner records
that a saw-mill at Somain managed
by a German and employing 150
workmen was completely destroyed,
as the result of an air raid. Somain
was bombed by British airmen.
AFTER THE BOLSHEVIKI
General Horvath, leader of one of
the anti-Bolsheviki factions in Si
beria, announced to the newspapers
on a recent visit to Vladivostock that
his first effort wo^ild be directed
toward clearing away from Siberia
and afterwards from Russia of the
Bolsheviki and their co-adjutors, the
Germans and Hungarians. He con-1
tinued:
“I do not desire to limit the free- i
dom which the people have won'
by the revolution, but it is possible
that the circumstances of the times
may render some abridgement ex- j
pedient necessary. My attitude to-1
wards the Siberian government is!
conciliatory. I shall not take any |
decisive action against it, but shall!
endeavor to realize my program as
if it did not exist, and the people
shall themselves judge which side
to take. The Siberian government
here wrongly considers the Western
Siberian army theirs.”
SUPPLY DEPOIS
CARRY BIG LOT
OF ARMY STORES
TOURS, Central France.—The
supply of clothing for American
soldiers in France is maintained
here on a prodigious scale, for sol
dier service is hard on clothes and
shoes and besides the million outfits
always on hand there is the com
tinual renewal and up-keep. This
up-keep for a single month for the
American force now in France is
300.000 service coats, 400,000 pairs
of trousers, 200,000 over-seas caps,
340.000 pairs of puttees, 1,200,000
pairs of socks, and 340,000 pairs
of field shoes, or about three million
articles monthly of these six essen
tials, with a long list of lesser
articles.
“More is coming all the time,”
said one of the officers of the quar
termaster’s department, “but if noth
ing more was sent we would be in
good shape to look after all require
ments for the next three months.”
“A considerable part of the big
reserve stock must be kept at the
hospital, where the calls come sud
denly and cannot wait. The wound
ed come in with clothing blood
soaked and muddy and mu'lt of it
has to be renewed. So that at a
10,000-bed hospital there are 10,000
complete outfits, besides a reserve
of 10,000 more.
Sizes and weights also greatly in
crease the requirements. There are
some 70 sizes of army shoes carried.
One soldier called for a 13 V2 A A,
which was so beyond anything in the
millions of shoes on hand that he
had to be sent to an orthopedic hos
pital. It is estimated that about
four pairs of shoes per man are re
quired for a year, which for an army
of a million men means 4,000,000
pairs of shoes.
In underclothes, wool and cotton,
light and heavy are carried, but the
soldiers seem to prefer wool even in
summertime.
Looking ahead to the winter, it
is calculated that 55,000 stoves will
be needed to keep the troops warm
through the four or five months of
cold weather, and some 20,000 wood
cutters will be required to produce
the wood for heat ing. '1 nere are
already 15,000 foresters at work,
but as their product is being used
largely for buildings, more will be
put on for the wood-cutting and
the total enlisted foresters may
reach -15,000.
Wood is the chief dependence for
warming, as the 175,000 tons of
coal brought in from England every
month is used chiefly by the rail
roads and constructive works.
French forests are proving the mair,
source of supply, but Spain and
Switzerland are also furnishing large
supplies of timber.
Every day a table is made up to
show the exact state of all the sup
plies required by this big army.
This table is a sort of barometer
which gives warning of any shortage.
But there is no shortage, and on the
contrary all the articles considerably
over-run the provision for three
months’ stock always ahead. Flour,
for instance, is on hand much be
yond the three months limit, and
so are beans and tobacco.
It is known each day, too, whether
the advance zone has its required
minimum of fifteen days of reserve
stores, the intermediate zone thirty
lays, and the base ports forty-five
lays—in all three months of reserve
supplies constantly on hand and con
stantly moving forward as they come
from America on the way to the
fighting front.
SUGAR MUST BE
A teaspoonful mat
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heaping teaspoomM
saved. each meal for
1.0 days lor each of the
ioo.ooo.ooo persons
an. the United States
mokes a pile asb^asthd
V-bobcrth bu3dinC»cn£ni$i
to supply tlv* entire firmed
CsroiS c£ th£ nation.
GW KIWI
AX AERODROME, Somewhere In
England.—In giant hangars ranged
I along the side of this aerodrome
I are to be found a squadron of the
j super-dreadnoughts of the British
| air navy. Many pictures of these
| great bombing machines have been
■ published along with some details
I of their great size and weight, but
J it is safe to say that few people
i even in England, have any clear
! idea as it what these machines are
like, says an Associated Press cor
’ respondent.
To be able to examine one at
, close quarters is naturally not a
privilege open to many people, and
i yet it is only by such close inspec
tion that one can grasp what a
mighty thing this giant airplaine is
which has accomplished such feats
as flights to Constantinoople and
j Egypt and has taken more than 20
: people to a height of 7,000 feet
| with the greatest ease.
The Associated Press correspond
I ent reached the aerodrome just as
i one of the big machines was pre
paring for a trial flight. At rest
it suggested nothing so much as
an enormous black grasshopper. It
was impressive and yet almost un-1
canny, merely by reason of its big-1
ness.
Seated in the nose of the machine
the pilot looked extraordinary small
and insignificant, and it was hard
to believe that he could control the
great planes and machinery behind:
him. At his side sat a mechanic and !
around him in the cockpit were the j
many instruments for control and |
bomb-dropping.
To reach the front seats, the ]
passenger climbs up a ladder under!
the body of the machines and then ]
scrambles through a trap-door. There .
is plenty of room to move' about |
inside, although much space is taken j
up with the store of bombs, all of i
which are securely fastened inside.
the machine. By keeping the bombs;
inside the body, no extra wind re- j
ristance is offered during flight, and ;
this is said to be a notable advant- j
age in a machine of this size and
speed.
Behind the bomb cases is a space '
which might be called a cabin, and i
here there is accommodation for!
several gunners and their guns. To j
convert this space in peace-time into |
a passenger saloon, seating a dozen ,
persons would be a simple task.
Kach engine has a little ‘'house” |
to itself on either side of the main !
body, and the gasoline is pumped to
the engines from two huge tanks
fixed above the bomb cases. Search-;
lights are fixed on the tips of the!
wings and under the pilot’s seat for
night flying.
The whole craft is so large that
to move it on the ground without
the help of its own engines it is j
necessary to employ a special tractor'
automobile. Yet in the air this
giant airplane is very easy to fly;
and no special knowledge of aero-!
nautics is required to see that it has
a wonderful future before it. The!
present model has, of course, been ;
designed expressly for war pur- j
poses, but >t has enormous possi-1
bilities for peace uses.
There is work for every person
to do in this war—food is ammuni
tion, are you wasting it?
V. S. rou.1 Aiiuilui.-'truiica.
Jist ez do buckwheat cake net
f ;> over on his face, 1'r'er Itaccu
r;n' dance ’roun’ en say, eezee:—
“One good* tn'n desarves en nuth
er." sezee.—-Moanin’ dat ef do
sojer boys go en do de fiphtin’ for
j us, de lead we alls Pin do is ter
j sen’ ’em all de wheat—en eat
buckwheat instid. C'o’n meal, rye
I e*i barley flour fey us will he’p a
AIRPLANES MORE SAFE
Behind the British Lines In France
—The absolutely fool-proof airplane
has not yet been invented, but in
the opinion of American pilots, who
are working in a British airdrome,
the newest British machines have
very nearly solved the problem.
Left to themselves, these latest
type of heavier than air machines
will make their way safely to earth,
except for slight damages which may
follow^ a landing. The machines
are so balanced and the wines so
arranged, that when the engine stops
they glide gradually and easily to
earth.
The following test, shows how
stable these airplanes are: A pilot
climbed to a sufficient height, and
then stopped his engine and took
his hands off the controls, merely
keeping his feet on the rudder bar.
He steered for an aerodrome 20
miles away and except for keeping
her straight he let the airplane do
w'hat she liked. She travelled the
whole 20 miles as steadily as a
bicycle coasting down a long, straight
and gentle hill. Of course, the
pilot had to take hold of the control
stick to land the machine in the
aerodrome, but except for that, and
the steering, the airplane made the
whole journey by herself.
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