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.
“WHERE RAIL A ISP RIVER MEET”
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BOLSHEVIKI IN AMERICA
Announcement of the discovert
of a Bolsheviki movement in tht
United States should not come as
a surprise to Americans. Not many
of us. it is safe to say. entertain
the belief that such a movement
could pain sufficient momentum
to distrub seriously’ our government,
but we must admit that we harbor
among our population a very con
siderable number of foreigners who
do not hold law and order in very
high regard.
Roughly speaking, there are about
fifteen million foriegn-born residents
in the United States, a considerable
proportion of whom represent the
scouring? of European countries
Many of them cannot speak our
language, still more of them can
not read or write any language.
They are illerate. deficient in pat
riotism and easily swayed by orators
of the red flag type. By instinct
they are opposed to organized gov
ernment and Bolshevik propagand
ists would have easy work among
them. But fortunately for the safety
of our democracy, their number is
relatively small. They might start
a reign of terror, after the manner
of Trotsky’ and Lenine followers in
other lands, but they c-ouki not get
very far with it. The spirit which
took Americans across the Atlantic
to stamp out kaiserism. would even
more quickly crush Bolshevism,
which is many times worse.
Loose immigration laws and me
fact that employers of labor were
once permitted to import workers,
at low wages, from abroad, are re
sponsible for the presence in this
country of Bolshevik agitation. Had
we exercised greater care in ad
mitting foreigners, in the years be
fore the war. there would not now
be in America illiterates and agi
tators for the Bolshevik to feed
upon.
GERMAN FOOD RATIONS
German newspapers in the Ameri
can occupied area recently have
warned the people of a food short
age before spring. The Germans
are urged to economize in food as
they did day after day during the
war.
The weekly allowance of food for
the civilians of Coblenz as fixed
by the German civil authorities is
virtually the same as while the
war was in progress. The present
price for milk, which is allotted to
infants and invalids, is thirty-seven
marks a quart.
The food allowance for each resi
dent of Coblenz for the week of
December 30 to January’ 5 was as
follows: Bread, four pounds and
eight ounces; cereal (barley) seven
ounces; potatoes, seven pounds;
meat, seven ounces; soup stock,
seven ounces: margarine, (wo ounces
artificial honey, five ounces. The
allowance is virtually the same as
the week before, excepting that
during the week previous fourteen
ounces of meat were allowed, and
Teach individual was allowed five
' ounces of jam and seven ounces
of sugar.
Additional allowances for heavy
workers and children are about the
same from week to week. Under
' this ruling the workers are per
mitted to purchase an additional
pound of potatoes, and children
under two years of age are allowed
half a pound of biscuit with an
additional half pound of cereal.
Butter and eggs are not to be
found in the market, but surrepti
tiously a trade in them is carried
on An egg is worth from a mark
to a mark and a half, and butter
brings from fifteen to twenty marks
a pound. Special efforts have been
made recently by the German civil
authorities to stamp out this trad
ing in luxuries which, they contend,
has been continued for years.
ARMY ENTERTAINMENT
One of ihe most apparent needs
of the members of the American
Expeditionary Force at the present
time is entertainment to assist in
passing away the time until orders
are received to depart for home,
says an Associated Press correspond
ent. writing from Paris. To meet
this need the Knights of Columbus,
through its entertainment division,
have organized numerous troupes
of entertainers who will visit the
various units of the army, and the
first party of entertainers has left
Paris.
It is announced that this work
will extend to the American forces
in France. Belgium. Italy and Ger
many and that every unit of the
army will be reached.
Among the Knights of Columbus
secretaries :n France are many pro
fessional entertainers who will be
distributed among the groups and
will be assisted with amateur talent
among the workers. Entertainers
will also be secured from among
the members of the American Ex
peditionary Force to augment tb|
work of the secretaries.
A minstrel troupe is being re
hearsed and this show will soon be
staged in Paris and will then be
sent on the road to visit the various
camps throughout the American
army. The members of this show
will be recruited from among the
Knights of Columbus workers, and
members of the army and navy.
While the men in the field are
being entertained, those less for
tunate and who are confined in the
hospitals -are not being forgotten,
as concerts are being given in the
various hospitals in and around
Paris several times each week. This
portion of the work is highly ap
preciated by the patients and the
officers in charge of the hospitals.
There is a movement on foot to
establish a mail route from Cordova
to Seldovia and Frank Roycroft and
J. R. Myers, two young men who
have had considerable maritime ex
perience. are figuring on putting
a boat on the run.
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SIRBERIA OFFERS
MANY OBSTACLES
10 CAMPAIGNING
Enroute to Omsk, Siberia—People
'nave talked lightly of sending an
army of half a million men or more
to western Siberia to battle with
Bolshevism or for any other reason
connected with this stupendous Rus
sian problem. The Japanese learned
by bitter experience in the war with
Russia of the difficulties of a Si
berian campaign and would ponder
long before despatching a mighty
army to the far Ural mountains.
The correspondent of The Asso
ciated Press, as a passenger on a
special British military train bound
for Omsk, the seat of the All
Russian government, is having a
close oppertunitv to study the diffi
culties of transporting a great army.
We have on board a company of
splendid British troops recently ar
rived from India—men of the
famous Hampshire regiment—the
territorials or militia of England
who offered to go to India to re
place the regulars and who served
there for two years. Now the for
tunes of war find them riding
across the barren lands of Man
churia on their way to the heart
of the Siberian steppes, where the
temperature is forty degrees below
zero. Anxious as they are to re
turn to their homes in England,
they fulfill this new task gladly
and light-heartedly. They are travel
ing in plam, rude box cars, grouped
about stoves with all the discomforts
that a journey of two or three weeks
and perhaps more, involves.
For the officers commanding the
contingent, there is a third class
Russian sleeping car with bare wood
en shelves to hold their sleeping
bags and blankets. In another
British military train which pre
cedes us there is no sleeping car
and the officers are camping with
their men in the box cars. We are
fortunate in one respect. Lack of
Russian equipment and facilities for
cooking oblige the officers to eat
the same rations as the men which,
if plain, is wholesome and nourish
ing.
Lack of railroad cars is the most
striking feature of life in Siberia
today. There is deplorable disor
ganization. There is urgent need
of central management and people
who have the welfare of Siberia
at heart earnestly hope that John i
F. Stevens, the American railroad
expert, who is now here, will be!
given a chance to bring order from
chaos.
It was a picturesque spectacle
as the train stopped at stations on
the way from Vladivostock to Har
bin. Tall Russians, Chinese and
Koreans in bulky, tattered, filthy
garments swarmed around the train
offering doubtful-looking eatables
for sale. Hungry, long-haired dogs,
wolfish in appearance, prowled about
the cars, snapping and growling, I
gulping down anything that will stay
death. In a band in a lonely area
they would be formidable to any'
man. The weather was keen and,
cold, the wind biting. Long delays j
occurred at almost every station. -
Many freight cars were seen, but
few in movement. Disorganization
reigned master.
The two lessons taught early in
the journey were, first, the great1
material obstacles to be encountered
in sending a big army into Siberia
and the imperative need of central
management of the Siberian rail
roads. The comfort and perhaps the
lives of the people of Russia depend
upon a prompt central control of
the railroads.
Owing to the uncertainty of con
ditions affecting the 1919 season,
it has been the judgment or th‘*
Booth Fisheries compsry " r.-t cer
tain of its Southeastern Alaska
canneries should consolidate their
operations for this vear. ard w th
this in view it has been decided
to consolidate the work of the Santa
Ana and Shakan plants at Kasaan,
and the Hunters Bay and K«,e 1‘oint
plants at Quadra, while the fi<h
that would otherwise go to the
Seldovia cannery will be canned at
Kenai.
LINE EXTENSION
TOWARD LIGNITE
|l$ PROGRESSING
At the close of the day's worg
yesterday evening, the steel gang
had reached station No 11555,
bringing the coal mine one thousand
feet closer to the end of steel.
The spur tracK which will lead
to the Burns coal min? branches
off from tr.e main line :t $, r.tinn
No. 17420, arc'. there now remain:
only a di tance of 13.501 feet to
be covered by steel for this point
to be reached.
The grade ahead, up to the Burns
mire and for several miles beyond
is completed and ready for the
steel, and at the rate the steel is
now being laid, and provided the
weather does not hamper the work
any, it is confidently expected that
the mine will be reached in about
two weeks' time
The grade for the spur track from
the main line to the bunkers at
the mine pit is also ready for the
steel and the work of connecting
the mine with Xenana will be rushed
to completion.
Senaia—The Gateway to McKinley
national Park.
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OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
Yukon Stoves and Drums
Air Tight heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
ing or Heating Line
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
WANT ADS
ONE PASSEXGEff WANTED—Mike
Cooney will leave Nenana on the
train Saturday for Talkeetna, to
make connections with boat out
of Anchorage March 20th. Has
room for one passenger.
LOST.—Lady's Elgin Watch with
monogram on back M. C. Return
to News office. Reward.
FOR SALE—A new 7mm Mauser
rifle with 40 rounds of ammu
nition, $50; also a 12-gauge Rem
ington automatic shot gun. almost
new, $40. Inquire at News office.
Kissing is not the world's lan
guage. since in China and Japan it
is never practiced. It is considered
unsanitary!
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers leaving on the train
for any point on the line south of
town are required to purchase
tickets before entering the train.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is
in the employment office, on the
ground floor of the general office
Duilding, Alaskan Engineering com
mission.
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and can
be purchased in sufficient time be
fore the departure of the trains.
Regular trains leave the foot of
A street on Mondays. Wednesdays
and Saturdays.
We are in the Fur Manu*
facturing Business, therefore
CAN and WILL pay you more
for your furs than any other
fur buyer in town
SIMSON’S
Don’t Leave
ALASKIA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only
come back “Busted” in the spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouche and
Kennecott.
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POOL CANDIES CIGARS
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WARM COMFORTABLE ROOMS
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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. E.
Coutts, W. T.
Calderhead, R. W
Campbell, N. J,
Coghill. W. A.
Cooney, M. J.
Doner. Frank
Diven. R J.
Douse. Fred
Davis. Harry
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A B.
Finlayson. K A.
Fisher. Joe
Flower. J. H.
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Win.
Ghezzi, Alfred
Head, E. A.
Haslem, H. G.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W.
Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
Gray. E. B.
Gilcher, W. H.
Hyland, Mike
Isabel, L. C.
Irvine, A. J.
•Johnson, A. G.
Jones, Frank
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B.
Koland, Knut
I Ketooroky, John A
Laughlin, E. I..
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.
N'ash, 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, Carl
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Scott, J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
Stone, A J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, Cha*.
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.