THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for e ntry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
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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THE PRESS IN RUSSIA
Newspapermen have suf fered mure
lhan any other class of Russians
from the Bolshevik regime, accord
ing to an Associated Press corres
pondent. They are the only ones
absolutely unable to find employ
ment and who are condemned by the
Holsheviki to literal starvation.
From the very first day the Bol
sheviki assumed control of the coun
try, fines imprisonment, and sup
pression of papers were more fre
quent than even in the worst periods
of the emperor's rule. The fines
imposed by the Bolshevik! commis
sars were incomparably heavier than
in the old days, when 11,000 rubles
was the maximum amount. They
fined papers 20,000 rubles for pub
lishing war news without permission,
and one Moscow paper was fined
110,000 rubles for the same offense.
For spreading "provocative rumors,”
in Moscow alone, in one day, four
newspapers were suppressed, five
were heavily fined and ten were in
dicted for “reports tending to dis
credit the government.'
The publishers could not stand the
heavy drain of constant fines, the
editors dreaded the prospect of a
more or less protracted stay in
prison, and the reporters were afraid
to write about anything reflecting
upon Holsheviki methods, as that
might he construed an attempt to
discredit the government. A news
paper aequaintance of the writer, a
member of the staff of a most pro
gressive daily, after having been
twice imprisoned and his paper made
to pay a fine of 10,000 rubles for an
inoffensive article, cunfesed that he
was at a loss what to do, how to
write.
Whenever public dissatisfaction lie
came too pronounced, the govern
ment suppressed all nun Holsheviki,
“bourgeois" publications. This ex
ample of Holsheviki statesmanship
war emulated by the Petrograd and
other soviets so that the. Russian
press entirely ceased to exist.
Barring the offical Iv.vestia, the
Police Gazette, as some workmen call
it—published by every local soviet,
and the organs of the Holsheviki
and Left Social-Revolutionary part
ies, not a single newspaper is pub
lished in soviet Russia at present.
All those who made a living by
writing for the press now find them
selves in dire straits and face pov
erty and starvation if unwilling to
change their political faith and join
the ranks of Bolsheviki journalism.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Finland became a monarchy in -
stead of a republic solely because
the Finns yielded to German domina
tion, according to a communication
from Finnish sources published in
the Berlin Vorwaerts. The corres
pondent asserts that up to April last
the Finnish leaders were determined
to organize a republic, but in May
the government withdrew the meas
ure for its organization and advo
cated a monarchy, giving as its reason
the fact that Germany desired it.
The Vorwaerts asserts that al
though the German government pre
tended to be neutral on this ques
tion, he political section of the Ger-;
n an genci staff supported a mon
archy in i. inland.
“In reality we were not free,”
writes 'he Finnish correspondent.:
“German tro< is were quartered
t 'O’tghout Finland ami warships lay!
i.i rl.iHrjfors harbor. The Finnish!
foreign minister announced in thc
Finland Diet in July that the Ger
man government wanted a monar
chist government jn Finland.”
The Finnish communication as
serts that some of the Finns refuse to
recognize a German prince as a king
of Finland.
The Vorwaerts predicts that a time
will come when the German rulers
; of the new Baltic countries will be
i packed off home, bag and baggage.
It asserts that the German people
have been kept in ignorance of the
developments in Finland and that
this has created a dangerous position
| for Germany in the Fast.
PLACING THE MAIMED
Plans for training and placing in
renumerative positions soldiers and
sailors maimed in the war worked
out by the United States Employ
ment Service and the Federal Board
or Vocational Education are ready
to be put into operation.
The Employment Service has in
,structed its representatives through
out the country to obtain informa
tion that will be helpful in the
placement of partialy disabled sol
: diers and sailors. Surveys of labor
needs will be made in conference
with employers to determine where
such men can be used efficiently.
The Board for Vocational Educa
tion will maintain in each hospital
• or the treatment of the wounded, a
1 representative who will confer with
; disabled men before their discharge
trom the hospital. If a man desires
to continue in the occupation he
was engaged in before the war and
is fitted for it, help will be given
him in finding work in that calling;
should hs injuries make it necessary
•or him to seek a new means of live
lihood, he will be advised of the
lines in which he can enter without
finding his injuries a handicap, and
a course id' training in the work
to be adopted wdll be offered. Every I
effort will be made to assisat dis
abled men toward that occupation
in which they are most interested
and for which, because of aptitude
and experience on one hand and
handicaps on the other, they are
best suited.
After the vocational adviser has
assited the recuperating patient to
choose a suitable occupation, his
case, with full infromation, will be
referred to a local board in his com
munity made up of two representa
tives of the district employment
office, one a physician, two repre
sentatives chosen from the locality,
one to be an employer and the other
a representative of labor. The
board wil see to his training, and
while it is in progress he will be
supported by the government and
given the same allotment and family
allowance for dependants as when he
was in military or naval service.
His expenses, in the main, will be
covered from the compensation pro
vided in the vocational rehabilitation
act.
Manufacturing establishments, of
fices and farms will be used to give
preliminary training, especially for
those occupations not yet regarded
as being within the school or college
field. Afterward, through the Em
ployment Service, a permanent suit
able position will be found for him.
The board will keep in touch as
friend and adviser for s;ieh period
after employment is found as may
be necessary to complete bis reestab
lishment as a civilian worker.
SCOTS PERFORM
i NOBLE WORK ON
LONELY ISLAND
BRIDGEND, Island of Islay, Scot
land.—There were tears in the eyes
of five American soldiers saved from
the wrecked troopship Otranto when
they said good-bye recently to the
Rood people of the little hamlet of
Kilchoman. They had pust attended
a simple Sabbath service especially
held for them by their friend the
padre, the Rev. Donald Grant,, in
the cottage of the village school
mistress, Mrs. Isabelle MacIntyre,
who had personally cared for seven
of the twenty survivors who reached
the island, and who with Mrs. Grant
the padre's wife, were regarded by
the men as second mothers.
One of the five. Private Garver
of Cincinnati, owed his life to Mrs.
Grant, who worked for five hours
over him before he revived, and who
was fighting- to save Private William
Cooney, of Augusta, Ga., critically
ill with pneumonia. For years Mrs.
Grant was assistant matron of a big
hospital in Glasgow, and Dr. Hugh
McIntyre of Bridgend, who treated
all the Otranto survivors, regards
her as one of the most skillful nurses
in Scotland.
Big Sergeant C. A. McDonald, of
Galesburg, 111., was visibly affected
over the handshaking, and he said
to the Associated Press representa
tive as they drove away to Bridgend,
“1 hat's almost as bad as it was to
leave home."
But neither McDonald nor any of
his companions realized the extent
of the sacrifice those two women
had made for the American boys, or
that of other of the islanders includ
ing a warmheryrted shepard named
McPhee, whose two sons, Ronald and
John, rescued five men and took
tour of them to their home. In
ordei to provide for their guests,
the Grants, Mrs. McIntyre and the
McPhees not only gave up their
own needed clothing but cheerfully
used every scrap of food they had to
supply the hungry survivors with
meals, and were themselves literally
starving when American Red Cross
officers by accident discovered the
situation and drove twenty miles to
a country store to buy provisions to
replenish the larders of the good
Samaritans.
One of the Red Cross officers in
recounting to the correspondent the
relief work of the islanders, con
cluded by saying: “The people of
the United States owe a debt of
gratitude to the people of the
island that can never be repaid.”
DOG FISH—8c a pound. Johnson’s
Store. 13
The News Office.
r.s. McDonald
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NOTARIAL WORK
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The Otranto was sunk in collision
with the steamship Kashmir off the
Scottish coast with a loss of 357
American soldiers.
United States army oficers have
been so greatly impressed by the kind
ness and hospitality of the islanders
, that they made a ?/,ecial request of
^ the Associated Press to carry a list
: of the names of those whose service
; was particularly notable. From the
I-aird of Islay, Hugh Morrison, and
his wife Lady Mary, down to the
! humblest peasant, the islanders have
I done everything in their power to
! comfort the survivors and help to re
[ cover the dead.
In addition to those already named
the army officers’ honor list includes
David MacTaggart, a farmer, and his
wife and son. MacTaggart, who is
the chief of the island’s volunteer
coast lifeguard, led the rescue parties
I when the survivors began to come
\ ashore. Standing up to his armpits
in the dangerous surf, he pulled out
four drowning men, three of whom
were soldiers and the other a mem
ber of the crew. All of these, with
four other survivors, were taken
by MacTaggart’s young son to the
family’s home at Kilchiaran, several
miles distant, where they were taken
care of until a British destroyer
took them to Londonderry.
Another lifesaver was Andrew
Stevenson, a seaman who holds a
Ca/iegie medal for heroism.
Others on the army list are Mrs.
Sarah Hyland, Alex MacMillan,
Miss Jennie Killen, Captain Rob
Lawson, Miss Mary N. Clarke, Miss
Flora MacAlpin, Miss Euphemie
Currie, Donald Gillespie, Hector Mac
fadgen, Miss Kate Clark, Ronald
McDugash and Miss Mary MacIntyre.
Many of these already had earned
American gratitude by their labors
in connection with the Tuscania dis
aster.
Colonel Turnbull, head of the con
stabulary of Argyll is warmly praised
by the army oficers for his able
administration of the work of re
covering bodies. Sergeant of Police
Malcolm MacNeil, who led the Tus
cania rescue work, is also commended
for his tireless labors in recovering
the Otranto bodies.
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NEWS OFFICE
Don’t Leave
ALASKA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
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 Latouche and
Kennecott.
ALASKA PUBLICITY
BUREAU
Juneau Alaska.
Announcement is made that a
meeting of the original quarantine
committee will be held at the town
site office at 7:30 p. m., on Thrus
day, December 12th, for the con
sideration of sundry important mat
ters, especially ways and means.
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Skof House
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Mrs Norman Campbell
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Wenana, Where Bail* and Blveri Meet
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—New lineoleum- ma
hogany phonograph, child’s bed,
and Persian cat. Inquire of Mrs.
Mellish.
LOST—Bunch of Keys; five flat
Yale keys and two round keys.
Finder please return to News
Office. Reward.
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Star—Mike’s Place. For rent,
ready for business—on most reas
onable terms. Apply R. S. Mc
Donald.
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Soft Drinks — Pool
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