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, 18*9.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET"
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. South worth...Editor and Manager
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OUR OPPOSITION
Notwithstanding the fact that
privately owned railroads and steam
ship companies operating in Alaska
have exacted for many years and
are still exacting oppressively heavy
tolls from Northerners in the form
of exorbitant freight and passenger
charges, there are those in the terri
tory who refuse to concede that
government control and operation
of rail and water transportation
will lessen the burdens of Alaska
shippers and travelers. There is,
in fact, a well organized opposition
to federal control of public utilities
in the North and everything possible
has been and is being done, in and
out cf Cogress. to render difficult
tiffe work of Secretary Lane and
those of his assistants who are en
gaged in building the government’s
railroad in Alaska. The department
of the interior has been seriously
handicapped in its efforts to pro
vide Interior Alaska with all-year
rail connection with the coast, and
to render possible the development
of promising but inaccessible min
ing districts by bridging distances
and providing adequate means of
transportation at greatly reduced
cost. And much of the delay and
inerased cost of construction, so
noisly complained of by our former
delegate to Congress, can be traced
directly to the doors of those en
gaged in the effort to prevent the
government from making a success
of the Alaska railroad enterprise..
The great majority of Alaskans, j
however, and nearly all of the news
papers of Alaska, are in hearty
accord with the railway plans of the
interior department; and all of
them recognize in Secretary Lane
one of the best friends the territory
has ever had. Very few papers thus.
far have questioned the ability of
the'government to make good in the
operation of the railroad now under,
costruction. The Valdez Miner, j
which is one of the few, would have
its readers believe that present con
dition? of transportation in Alaska
arc satisfactory and that the gov- j
ernment is incapable of improving
thorn. In a recent issue the Valdez
paper presented its views in the fol
lowing editorial:
“The Nenana News and many
other Interior Alaskan papers are
advocating the government taking
over the steamship lines, or start
ing an independent government ves
sel, for the purpose of competing
with the companies now in the field.
Those of us who have had a taste
of government ownership do not
look for any material relief from
this method. There is no instance
on record where government owner
ship has cheapened prices, but on
the contrary has raised them Take
the railroads now controlled by the
government. Notwithstanding a
large increase in freight and pass
enger rates, a deficit of over $150,
OOO.OOO exists. And service is
rotten. Take the telephone system:
’’’he government upon securing con
trol promptly raised the rates over
25 per cent, and refused to install
a phone unless a deposit of $10
was made by the subscriber. And
so it goes on down the line Poor
service and higher rates character
ize government ownership up to the
resent time. Had the companies
controlling these utilities been al
lowed to place the figures at govern
ment figures the corporations would
vcve given better service and left
no deficit to be paid by the people.
It is true that freight and pass
enger rates are abnormally high, but
what necessity or utility can be
secured at a low figure today. When
one considers the price of staples
it is a source of mystery how a
person can be hauled from Valdez
-1 S.-attle for the price. The pass
enger receives at least 21 meals,
his laundry bill is no small sum
which must be paid by the steam
ship companies; his service and
transportation, all cause the cost to
mount skyward. The companies
make very little on a passenger
ii >ou will figure up the cost care
: ally and with an unbiased mind.
Remember that the railways, which
charge three cents per mile, fur
nish no meals nor beds with their
•insportation, unless at a greatly
advanced cost. At the same price
that railways carry passengers, the
cost from Valdez to Seattle would
be 84S The meals, berths and
service are thrown in for 88, in
cluding a heavy war tax.
“It lakes about twenty men to
run a steamship to one on the rail
way. and their experience must be
much greater in proportion to the
risk. A locomotive cannot go astray
'n a fog, nor does it have to nose
through heavy gales to find a cer
tain spot a thousand miles off. It
follows the rails and needs no pilots.
The interior of a ship is a mass of
machinery, compared to which a
locomotive is as simple as a meat
axe.
-We hold no brief for the steam
ship companies, but prefer to en
sure the ills we have rather than
•urn to tnose of government owner- j
V- The local companies have
given us as good or better service
than conditions warrant, and after'
pr,ces co">v again will probably'
moderate their charges. The laws of
supply and demand necessarily hit
companies as hard as they do!
the rest of us."
large forest areas
awaiting development
' LADIVOSTOCK—Three forest.!
tne lower Amur. Khabarovsk,
lower Amursko and Nikolaevsk
regions. comprise nearly 90,000,000
acres of forest ground, says Vladi
vostok Primorskaya .Ttzn. which
adds that without exhausting their
wealth, these forests can produce
more than 24,000,000 cubic feet of
lumber annually.
Nikolaevsk, the port from which
it would be exported, needs only
some improvements to make it avail
able, says the newspaper. To pre
pare this wood for shipping to the
international market it would be
necessary to overcome needless
formalities and to attract popular
savings for the exploitation of these
sleeping riches.
“The New Native” is the name
of a r.ew paper at Hydaburg, pub
lished by the class of journalism of
the government school there. Boyd
Nakathla is advertising manager.
The circulation department is in
charge of Gideon Duncan. The
paper is under the general super
vision of Marius Handsome, school
principal. The name “New Native”
was chosen for .the paper because
the natives of Hydaburg have for
saken the did ways and embraced
the customs of civilization.
DU Sift
EAS1
1 OF FRANCE
PARIS.—The “rights" of France
to guide the destines of Syria, Le
banon and Armenia-Minor were ex
pounded to the Associated Press re
cently by M. Gout, director for
Asia in the French foreign office.
M. Gout asserted that it had long
been the role of France to protect
the helpless peoples of the Orient
and recalled interventions by France
in Syria and Lebanon to defend
the Christians and that France had
played a great part in the defense
of the Armenians in 1895 and 1896.
“France." he said, “worked not
only to protect Christians, but she
also sent missionaries into all parts
of Turkey, not for the purpose of
proselyting, but for teaching and
charitable work. Before the war
there were French schools in all
sections of Turkey, and in the
great towns there were French hos
pitals for the care of the poor. In
Syria the number of French schools
was considerable. In Beirut we
had a large university, and I must
add that the Americans also had
one. working for the civilization of
the Syrian people. A great number
of physicians were bred in the
French universities.
M. Gout called attention to the
fact that French capital and in
dustry had created three of the four
ports of Asia Minor, and pointed
to the great railways built and con
trolled by the French. The first
road opened between Damascus and
the coast, the Damasc-us-Beirut line,
was French, he said. It was also
a French society which before the
war undertook the repair of roads
in many parts of the Ottoman em
pire. and a French company had a
concession for a big railway in
Armenia The important silk in
dustry of Syria, he added, had been
fostered and developed by France.
“We may point out also the gTeat
share of France in the pblic debt
r,f Turkey, which is nearly sixty
per cent.” he continued. “The
share pf England before the war
was ten or twelve per cent, that of
Italy nearly five per cent, and Ger
many had all the rest.
“There is another important
phase of the question. You know
about the great number of monast
eries and religious institutions in
Jerusalem. For our French Catho
lic Jerusalem is a second Rome and
they always have sent money and j
mssionaries to promote the Catholic
influence in this holy town. ii
"This sums up a large part of
the claims of France in Asia Minor,!
nd I believe that M. Pichon (French!
foreign minister) was entitled to
speak of our rights there. He was >
i’-e more entitled to do so in view i
of the abominations committed
3gainst the Armenians and Syrians
by Turkish Unionists early in the
wa;."
Referring to the treaty signed by
France and England while the war i
was in progress under which France
“os to have supervision of Syria, \
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Alik G. Hanaeff
•John A. Ketooroky
Geo. Tilts
Andrew Smith
John Sablak
AJik Medoff
Paul Popovich
Alik Adoff
Goss Gussoff
Bill Timoff
Sam Batagoff
Geo. Malkievich
Geo. Zelik
Alik Kalisoff
Tom Saroff
Dan Hanoff
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Alik Azoff
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Lebanon and Armenia-Minor, M.
Gout added:
“At that time France and Eng
land thought it necessary after the
•war to give to all these populations
a certain future and autonomy.
But we were obliged to note that in
these countries there are a large
number of races and religions.
Great differences exist between
these religions and races It is not
possible to give these countries un
controlled independence. Their best
people also agree that it is neces
sary to have, not a master, but a
sort of arbitrator and guide to
civilization."
Bob Griffins. veteran Alaska
roushor. left Seward recently for his
return trip to the t Iditarod Grif
fins had 1G dogs and two sleds
tandem. Twelve cases of eggs, two
cases of lemops, two cases of
oranges and oOO pounds of latest
magazines and Sunday papers con
stituted the shipment. He is trav
eling alone.
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NENANA TO TALKEETNA
DISTANCE TABLE
Talkeetna is the end of steel on
the coast division.
From Xenana to
N'o. Miles
Xenana Crossing (by raill
Lignite
Riley Creek
Jack River .
Broad Pass Summit
Sullivan’s
Indian River
Dead Horse
Talkeetna
43
52 ;
.70
90
110
128
162
182
202
The distances giver are approxi
mate.
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obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latoucbe.
If you go out you will only
come back “Butted” in the spring
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WINTER.
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Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latoueh- and
Kennecott.
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Membership List
Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred. Mrs. Clara
Bergman, Charles
Brown, Jess
Berggren, Ernst
Browne, F. D.
Bresnahan, E. D.
Blankfield, D.
Bowen, J. R.
Blair, Roy
Brooker, Ed
Bennett. J F.
Ball, I. b.
Brown. Erie
Burns, R. £
Coutts, W T.
Calderhead, R. \v
C'ampbell, X. j
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney. M. J.
Doner, Frank
Diven. R J
Douse. Fred
Davis, Harry
Ekeland, Alf
Bunk, A B.
Finlayson. K A.
Fisher. Joe
Flower, J. ff.
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Wm.
Ghezzi, Alfred
Head. E. A.
Haslem, H. G.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W
Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
Gray. E. B.
Gilcher, VV. H.
Hyland, Mike
Isabel, L. C. ■—
Irvine, A. J. y *
Johnson, A. G.
Jones, Frank * “
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. E
Koland, Knut
Ketooroky, John A
Laughlin. E. L.
Lund, E. E.
Lehr, Q. F.
Markus, George
Mortensen, Peter
Myers. R R
Moore, Frank B
Miles, J, H.
McDonald, R. S
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. c. " :
Mash, Martin
Owen, Harry
O’Keefe, Larry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington. G. W
Palfy, Paul
Packer. W. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm.
Sborgia, William
Shaw, Harry X.
Stol, Nels
Schmidt, Car!
Schaeffer, M. A. r
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Scott, J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
■ Stone, A J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, Chas.
Smith, George A.
Southworth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Taylor, Frank
Tunison, B.
Thompson, Theodore
Toussaint, J G. K
Tyler, M. V.
Taylor, Wm. J.
Verhaeghe, Cyriele
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Woods, Geo. W.
Williams, E A.
Waechter, R. I.