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.
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth..Editor and Manager
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NOT SO BAD.
In view of the many reports of
tampering with food by agents of
the German government, which have
been given wide publicity through
out the country since the United
States entered the war, it is grati
fying to learn from a reliable source
that at least one of the evil prac
tices recounted has been greatly ex
aggerated. Ground glass, for in
stance, which we have been led to
suspect might be encountered in al
most any article of food manu
factured during the past twelve
months, exists chiefly in the minds
of super-imaginative persons.
The frequent and widespread pub
lication of statements concerning the
presence of ground glass in food
stuffs led the committee on public
information to inquire into the au
thenticity of these reports, with the
result that it was informed by the
food administration that thorough
investigation of more than two hun
dred of the cases disclosed only one
instance in which ground glass was
found in the foodstuffs inspected.
“We have followed the elusive
ground glass story from Maine to
California, and from the Lakes to
the Gulf,” announced the Food Ad
ministration, in response to the in
quiry, “War Intelligence, Navy In
telligence and department of Justice
are doing the same, and in the thou
sands of cases that have been re
ported. we have found but one gen
uine case of deliberate intent in
putting ground glass in food. This
case was where a disgrunted em
ployee of a bakerey in Fort Smith.
Ark., placed glass in one loaf of
bread. This was done for the pur
pose of injuring the business of the
baker, and succeeded so well that
the baker is out of business, due
to untimely publicity.”
The baker in question had had
trouble with his employees, one of
whom, desiring to destroy his em
ployer's business, filled with glass
a loaf of bread which was to be de
livered to an orphanage. When the
bread was served to the inmates of
the institution, several of them suf
fered lacerations of the lip5, but no
more serious injuries resulted. The
case was given premature publicity,
and the owner of the bakery was
accused of being a German agent,
with the result that he had to re
tire hastily from business.
Premature publicity in such cases,
the Food Administration points out,
serves to create a condition of hys
teria in households and does irrepar
able damage to food producers and
handlers whose products are at
tacked.
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PLENTY CORN MEAL
According to an estimate made
public by the United States Food
Administration following a canvass
of the whole coun*ry the actual mill
ing output of corn meal increased
from 3,000,000 barrels in October
to nearly 6,000,000 barrels for the
month of March.
The estimated maximum capacity
for milling corn meal in the United
States mills running 24 hours pel
day, 30 days per month, exceeds
9,000,000 barrels per month, an in
crease of 200 per cent over las1
year.
In view of this great output, say;
the Official Bulletin, Americans art
now i- a position to observe tota
abstinence from wheat flour and de
pend wholly on corn meal and othei
corn products as their source oi
breadstuffs. Our normal consump
tion of v. f.t flour is 8,000,00(
barrels per month.
It is estimated that during the
past 18 months the output of corn
flour has increased 500 per cent.
The estimated production of corn
; flour for October and for March
is placed at 250,000 and 540,000
barrels, respectively.
There is now enough corn meal
I being turned out to care for all de
mands in the United States. The
remarkable increase in output, which
I is certain to become greater each
; succeeding month, is due in con
siderable part to the conversion of
much wheat-milling machinery into
corn-milling machinery.
FOOD PRICES WIN
Figures compiled by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics of the Department
of Labor show that wage increases
in the United States are not keep
ing pace with the advance in the
cost of living, according to a state
ment made recently by Assistant Sec
retary of Labor Post. These figures
he says, show that, while the cost
of food last year increased twenty
five per cent for the entire country,
the wage advance was only half or
two-thirds of that rate.
The statement issued by the Bu
reau of Labor Statistics showing the
increased living costs throughout the
United States for the year ending
Januray 15, says:
“Comparing January 15, 1919,
v. ith Januray 15, 1917, the price
of food as a whole increased 23
per cent. All articles show decided
increases with the exception of po
tatoes, which decreased 16 per cent.
Corn meal shows the greatest price
change, an increase of 77 per cent.
Bacon increased 64 per cent; lard,
53 per cent; pork chops, 44 per
cent; ham, 42 per cent; milk, 35 pel
cent: hens, 29 per cent; butter. 2a
per cent; eggs, 23 per cent; bread.
19 per cent: sugar, 18 per cent:
and flour, 17 per cent.
U. S. AIRPLANE MARKINGS
All airplanes manufactured in the
United States for the army and
navy will bear a red, white and blue
bulls-eye of three concentric circle^
. similar to the insignia of alliec
planes, on the wings, and vertiea
' red, white and blue stripes on the
rudders.
The specifications follow:
Wings: Red circle with diametei
approximately equal to chord (ol
• wing), one blue circle with dia
meter two-thirds of chord, centei
white circle with diameter one-thin
of chord.
Rudder: Vertical red, white ant
blue stripes, starting at rudderpost
The above markings were adoptee
by the Joint Army and Navy Tech
nical Aircraft Board on January 11
and approved by the secretary o
war and the secretary of the navy
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RED CROSS GIVES $14,400
TO AID SERBIAN STUDENT!
The war council of the America1
Red Cross has just appropriated fron
the war fund the sum of $14,400 fo
the education in Switzerland of 4'
Serbian students in the study o
dentistry and tuberculosis! The ap
propriation was made upon the re
commendation of Cordenio A. Sev
erance, head of the recent Red Cros
j commission for Serbia, who pointe
out that the terrible hardships en
dured by the Serbian army and pec
pie have resulted in a great increas
', in tuberculosis. The sum voted wi
pay for the maintenance and educt
j tion of the young Serbians for
I course lasting one year.
OF BIO BATTLES
The American Red Cross has di
i vided among the Departments of
France 5,000,000 francs to aid the
soldier families which have suffered
| most grievously in the war. To say
that the French nation has been
; touched to its heart is no exaggera
; tion.
Gen. Retain, senators, and presi
j dents of departmental councils were
: among the first to reply in terms of
warmest thanks; but other letters
that have come in to headquarters—
hundreds of them—breathe a deeper
gratitude because they are from those
, to whom the money means the vital
; necessities of life.
The donations are made in allot
I ments of 100 francs to each family.
In some instances this sum goes
through the prefectures of the vari
; ous Departments, in others it goes
direct. Some have received it at
j the Maire—getting it from “le bon
pere” after he had said mass.
People Greatly Moved.
But however it comes, and through
whatever local medium, they know
| the source of this beneficence and
! are greatly moved by the generosity
i of the American people.
A very young child has laboriously
i written:
1 “My little sister and I thank the
American Red Cross so very much
for the gift of a hundred francs to
our Mama. Our Papa died for
France, and. Monsieur, long live
America! our Ally, who has come
to help us drive away those nasty
Bochc-s, and who will revenge the
death of our Papa."
This is one of the many that have
come from the pens of children. The
seven ages of our ephemeral evist
enee are, however, amply repre
sented.
Letter of Girl of 17.
The girl of 17 writes:
"It is a wonderful kind of friend
ship, as I was left alone without
father and brothers; a deed of
friendship rich with material en
couragement that I shall keep as a
precious memory of th American
Red Cross."
A young widow writes:
“I have received the donation
from the Red Cross of America, and
am so grateful for this good action.
Please Monsieur, tell to this organi
zation, and to the generous souls
across the water, of my profoundest
and sincerest thanks. I shall teach
my fatherless children to love and
respect our good alley—America,
or myself, I shall never fogret!”
Quotation from a Grandmother
This quotation comes from a
grandmother—and the aged have
tasted the bitterness of war:
"Monsieur. I address to you my
thanks for the generous gift from
the American Red Cross, which was
paid to me at the Mairie of the
fifteenth arrondissement. Yet 1
do not know' how to express my
thanks—my gratitude! My grand
son fell at the age of 26, mortally
wounded in Belgium, and died a
prisoner in Germany. It is he whc
"still watches over me from his tomb
1 and I thank you in his name. I an
74 years old and have been ill fo:
years; now I shall never recove!
1 from his death.
"I Dray that God will chastise am
; revenge us on this cursed Germany
■ and that He will bless all those gen
, erous people in beloved America whc
have helped so generously the strick
. en ones here who are suffering ir
i this war.”
Can Help Her Husband
i And another woman writes:
“This gift will enable me to sent
' j a parcel to my poor husband, wTh<
> writes from Germany (a prisoner
f 1 saying that he is starving. God bles
I | the American Red Cross, which cairn
f j at such a sad time to brighten on
- lives with a ray of sunlight, and ti
- j help us reach the harbor of peace
- j Of this I shall keep the remembranci
5 j all my life; and teach it to my wei
II ones when they are old enough t<
-1 learn how to love America.”
France never forgets—either a:
e injury or a kindness.
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No trouble to buy, cheap, con
a venient, a real investment.—WA1
SAVINGS STAMPS.
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ALIEN PROPERTY
IN STATES WILL
NET LARGE SUM
The Alien Property Custodian has
taken over a wide variety of mer
jchandise and commodities in various
| parts of the country belonging to
| enemy persons, says the Official
Bulletin. The list includes manufac
1 tured articles and household goods
land lots of cotton, rosin, nickel, and
: tobacco. Much of this is subject to
! waste or storage charges, and must
; therefore be sold promptly.
It is in comparatively small lots
and scattered all over the country.
For instance, there is an Ingersoll
watch in San Francisco, a small con
signment of Japanese rugs in New
York, three horses near Joplin, Mo.,
two vases worth $6,000 at an At
lantic seaport, a carload of logs
(cedar) in the South, and some ma
chine tools in New England, etc. If
it should be sold at public auction,
the expense of advertisment and sale
and the storage charges and other
cost for protecting the property
caused by the delay of sale would
consume much of the proceeds.
In the interests therefore of get
ting a better price, saving money for
the government and the ultimate
owners of the property, and seeing
that the property goes to the pur
chasers who can make the best use
of it, private sales of this property
will be negotiated as heretofore un
der an executive ordere issued by
the President on April 2.
ANCHORAGE ASKS
LARGE SUM FOR
MARKETING COAL
Five million dollars to be used in
development work in the Chickaloon
coal fields and the building and oper
ation of barges and transports to
carry coal shipments between An
chorage and Pacific coast cities, arc
' requests that have been made of the
United States government by the An
chorage Chamber of Comerce.
A resolution in which these re
| quests are incorporated, was intro
, duced by Dr. F. M. Boyle at a meet
ing of the chamber and adopted with
out any substantial opposition and
copies of it were cabled to congress
men and senators and to the secre
tary of the interior and the secre
tary of war and other high officials
of the government at Washington.
The question of building and main
taining wagon roads in the Cache
creek country was discussed at some
length and copies of resolutions ask
ing for the construction of roads in
this district were ordered sent to the
proper officials at Washington.
The Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce is just now centering its ener
gies upon obtaining better roads in
the Matanuska valley, Cache creek
and Willow creek districts and it i=
anxious that work be commenced on
roads in these districts during the
early part of the summer.
A. Miller, superintendent of the
Indian schools of Alaska, recently
1 purchased at Anchorage fourteen
one dollar memberships in the Ret
.Cross for as many natives at Susitna
; who had been working on variou;
articles for several months and hac
sent them to him to be sold and one
dollar of the total amount obtainec
to be placed in memberships. Thi
| school there is under the directior
| of Miss Katherine Kane, who ha:
tried to particularly impress upor
; her pupils the necessity for them tc
| do their share in assisting in th<
I
war.
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Eight hundred and twenty dollar:
, and fifty—three cents is the amoun
, in the treasury of the Anchorga:
, Chamber of Commerce, while thi
outsanding obligations amount t<
, only $118, according to the repor
compiled by Robert M. Courtney, sec
retary of the organization.
The present membership totals 186
[ which is the largest in the history o
the chamber.
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COOINEY MOTEL
Not Better Than the Best,
But Better than the Rest.”
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Ashes will be used by the townsite'
office at Anchorage this spring for
the purpose of street improvement.
Persons having any quantity of ashes
have been requested to notify the
townsite office of their location and
wagons would remove them to the
streets as soon as the work starts.
Union Hall Club Rooms
HALL FOR RENT
See Erick Nelson for Terms
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Saving is a habit—the habit that makes
men rich.
While the Government needs the money
that will be invested in the War Savings
Stamps, there are other, and simpler meth
ods that could be used to raise this two bil
lion dollars.
The greater purpose of War Savings Stamps
is to give every man, woman and child a
personal part in financing the war for free
dom and to teach the most beneficial habit
in life—the habit of thrift. So that when
the war is over the people will have saved,
out of the high wages of these days, some
part of their income, as a provision for the
future.
Look out for your personal future. Make
certain of it by buying War Savings Stamps
now, while you can. They pay 4 per cent
interest, compounded quarterly, and are
backed by the strongest treasury in the
world.
THEY EARN MONEY
THEY SAVE LIFE AT THE
FRONT, BY HELPING UNCLE
SAM WIN THE WAR.
BUK THEM AT THE
POSTOFFICE