THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918. at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska
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TRAINING CHAPLAINS
The only School for Chaplains eve
maintained by the United State
army soon will graduate its secon,
class at Camp Zachary Taylor, an
nounces an Associated Press reporte:
from Louisville, Kentucky. Thert
are ninety students in the class
which is made up of ministers o!
many denominations, some of whon
until recent | . served as pastors ol
big city churches. Some of tht
graduates already have been com
missioned as chaplains, while other:
are “approved candidates for chap
lain awaiting appointment.”
Xo instruction on theological sub
jects is attempted at the school. The
whole effort is centered upon fitting
clergymen, fresh from civil life and
the problems of cilvil life, into the
military scheme of things.
If private Bill Jones gets what he
considers a “raw deal” from his cap
tain, ten chances to one, he will find
it convenient to talk the matter over
with his chaplain, for it is to the
chaplain the “buddy" goes in time
of trouble. hen Bill Jones ap
pears with his tale of woe, he must
get a sympathetic hearing, and then
if he has ben wrong all the time,
and his injury is but fancied, the
chaplain must know enough of mili
tary law and military regulations to
tell him definitely just ho\> and why
what was done to Bill was the right
thing- Therefore, the School for
Chaplains bears down hard on in
struction in military law and the
army regulations.
If Bill is in the right, the chap
lain, if he is polite will not tell Bill
so. but wil Isuggest that he see him
again. In the meantime the chaplain
ha? seen his commanding officer and
asked that such unintentional in
justice as may have been done is
rectified before Bill come back.
How it was done Bill may never-ex
actij know, but if the chaplain had
lacked the knowledge of just how
to go about tne thing the injustice
under which he suffered might have
gone uncorrected.
In the words of one of the in
structors at the school this is not
intended to make of. the chaplain
a guard house lawyer,'’ but merely
to :;t him to give intelligent advice
to soldiers.
If the men in the army are to
look up to a chaplain, it is necessary
that he have their confidence to the
smallest detail. And, as the men .f
the National army, are rapidly be
coming experts there must be no risk
of their coming to regard the chap
lain with the half contemptuous
amusement the experts feel for an
amateur, because of any lack of
knowledge of military custom on the
chaplain’s part. For this reason
great attention is paid also to in
struction in miltary etiquette.
The chaplains class is also taught
the very highest of high snots in
international law. In addition there
is instruction in equitation, in the
care of persons and cloth'ng in the
field, for the chaplain follows the
men with whom he serves into the
trenches, and may frequently “go
over the top” with them. If not he
will be found assisting in the care
of wounded men on the field under
fire. Under such conditions, he. like
every one else connected with an
army in th field, must shift for him
self and must know how.
While attending the School of
Chaplains, the students are quartered
in barracks originally built for en
listed men; they get “government
straight” to eat three times a day,
and they wash up the mess kits frorr
which they eat just as would anj
enlisted man. In addition they sleef
’ on the same straw-filled mattresses
1, to be found on the beds of endistec
. i men.
. j In this way they are learning
, | something: of the conditions undei
\ which an enlisted man lives and
• | works, and most of tehm are finding
j the experiences really enjoyable.
! Their attitude is ummarized in the
! answer to a query given by one of
j them who said:
“Oh boy! This bunch of preachers
never knew how good real food
! could taste or how soft a straw tick
j could be until they started putting
! us through this course of sprouts
i eleven and one-half hours every
day.”
The school is in charge of Major
i A. A. Pruden. a Regular army chap
lain, and he is assisted by four in
structors, all drawn from the Regu
lar army.
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EAT ENOUGH, BUT NO MORE!
The war time definition of con
! serration should include an actual
reduction in consumption.
“But this is no time to endanger
one’s health,” a war worker was
heard to argue.
Quite right. The full working
strength of every man and woman
is needed during these days of na
tional stress as never before. It is
not, however, a question of suddenly
eating less than is actually needed
to sustain life and health, but of
discovering the facts that the Ameri
can man and woman has long eaten
more than is necessary or wholesome.
As an experiment a group of war
workers deliberately reduced their
diet 20 per cent below the nutri
tional standard of 100 grams pro
tein and 3000 calories every 24 hours.
In a period covering six months they
found their powers of endurance and
tnc-ir pnysical strength did not suffer
but actually increased. They lost
surplus fat, but that was all.
Purine: this time one of the num
i her had typhoid fever and his ill
ness was regarded with extraordinary
interest in the light of this reduced
diet. His case proved to be a per
fectly normal one, his recovery no
slower than usual, and he immedi
ately resumed the self-imposed diet.
Food saving should imply cutting
off all unnecessary consumption.
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IKS AI JUNEAU
JUNEAU—Frank Mercerm, a na
tive Four-Minute speaker, has been
chosen by the local speakers’ com
mittee to urge natives to conserve
the supply of deer in Alaska, as a
purely war measure- The natives
will be told that if the war con
tinues. Alaska may be forced to de
pend upon her own food resources.
They will be urged to wage a system
atic campaign against wolves, which
kill thousands of deer annually. A
; plan to save deer from starving dur
I ing the severe winters by cutting
j green sapplings and otherwise sup- j
plying them with food when the
snow becomes too deep for them
to forage, will likewise be suggested.
The man who grows more food
adds to the wealth of the world;
the man who grows dollars may be
adding only to his own wealth.
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10 MEET VETS
Behind the British Lines in
1 France.—The young: soldier under
orders to embark for the first time
who pictures to himse f a xuture
: which will be all fighting days and
sees himself step from a troopship
1 i to 'be rushed to battle as did the
first British divisions sent to the
! rescue at Mons, is doomed to dis
| appointment.
j As a matter of fact, he will spend
1 only a small proprotion of his time
: in the front line, and even v nile
there, will only see actual fighting:
at more or less rat% intervals. Life
will hold a good deal of “base” and
i “billets” for him even in France.
This time spent far behind the
lines he will find irksome or pleas
ant, according to whether his tem
perament is eager and enterprising
or the reverse. For the great ma
jority, however, billets and base
' camps are very pleasant. The food
is excellent, work is comparatively
light and amusements are plentiful.
The Associated Press correspond- i
; ent paid a visit recently to a huge '
artillery base camp, situated on the ,
French coast near some famous!
bathing beaches and within easy j
reach of a big city. Within the j
■ camp, which also serves for a large !
number of engineers and some sue-,
| cial infantry units are several
theaters, the canteens of the Brit- i
;ish Expeitionary Force, the i unge j
rooms and huts of the Young Id m’s
Christian Association and various
“camp institutes” and athletic ,
grounds. Here the soldier can have ,
a fairly comfortable and enjoyable
vacation.
Most of the men enjoy the varied i
opportunity for amusement to the
full. Occasionally one meets a few j
men, probably just over from Eng
land, who are impatient at every j
day’s delay in moving forward to
the “business end of the line.” 'The
sergeant-major soothes them with
wise words:
“Don't worry, boys.” he says,
“there's going to be lots of fighting
in this war. enough for all of you
and a little to spare.”
It is the custom at this base, so
far as artillery officers are con
cerned, to distinguish between those
who have not been up to the firing
line and those who have had then
“baptism.” The former have a
fairly complete program of daily
drills and are kept occupied also
with lectures and educational
i
courses.
The veterans are permitted to
forego these trials to a large ex
tent. They have little to do bat
amuse themselves with sports,
theaters, operas and the beach, sub
ject only to the stipulation that they
must always be prepared to move
off at a few hours' notice.
Throughout the army, in the or
dinary course of things, the indi
vidual soldier gets a rest period at
the base every two or three months.
Sometimes a whole unit comes down
for a rest, after an exceptionally ,
arduous period in the line. Then i
there are specially organized sports, •
in addition to the standing attrac
tions, to help the soldier to forget
for a time that there is a war on
Between amusements, the soldier
spends his time hunting up “town- j
eys, ’ that is, men from his own
town who are in other units at the j
base.
DISTANCE TABLE
Dawson to Eagle .100 miles
Eagle to Circle .180 miles
Circle to Fort Yukon.90 miles
Ft. Yukon to Rampart.300 miles
Rampart to Tanana.... ......80 miles j
Tanana to Hot Springs .....75 miles
Hot Springs to Tolovana.60 miles
Tolovana to NENANA.60 miles
Nenana to Chena . 60 miles
Chena to Fairbanks .12 miles
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SLAV CHURCHES
IN ALASKA ARE
UP AGAINST II
Inability of Mother Church to Supply
Funds Is Big Handicap to
Coast Ministers.
JUNEAU.—Russian churches in
Alaska have been having hard times
making both ends meet since turmoil
i in Russia stopped the payment of
; money by the mother church toward
i the upkeep of these far away par
j ishes.
All of the churches in this sec
tion are now being supported solely
by their small congregations. Many
) of the churches contain valuable
i paintings an jeweled robes.
In order to eke out his salary, one
I member of the Russian clergy. Father
I A. P. Kashevaroff, arch priest in
| charge of the Russian church at
Juneau, has taken the post of in
|spector of customs at Hidden Inlet,
near here for the summer. Father
Kashevaroff is a native of Sitka,
Alaska, and is well known in South
ern Alaska.
JUNEAU—Few, if any', new maps j
of Alaska, indicate the location of I
Dyea, one of Alaska’s “dead cities" j
which, according to reports received J
here, has been entirely depopulated.
For a brief time, during the golden j
stampede days of 1898, Dyea’s pop-1
ulation numbered several thousand j
and the town was one of the busiest
and largest of the several which j
rose during the boom.
Dyea lay on tidewater at the foot j
of the famous Chilcoot Pass and
was an outfitting point for many j
of the thousands who surged across !
the pass on their way to the gold !
fields of the Klondike. Money was
plentiful, laws were few and to Dyea
flocked adventurers from many parts
Then the boom days passed, and ■
the population dwindled away, leav
ing the tents and the frame houses
to fall away beneath winter snows. ;
A few years ago it was reported j
but one Indian lived in the town. I
Now, it is aid, he has gone.
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A band concert and dance will be !
riven at the Auditorium on the 20th. •
:he proceeds to go towards the up- i
teen of the band.
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WINDOW AND PORCH BOXES
Made, Filled and Planted
$2.50, up.
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Highest Cash
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SIMSON’S
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
FOR SALE—Furnished House, three
,< rooms. Fourth and A. Inquire
News. 5-6-251
FOR SALE CHEAP—Log Cabin and
Lot on F street, between First and
Second, heavy malthoid roofing,
double floor, two large windows,
glass door, cellar and well. Lot
50x140, fenced in and plowed.
Owner leaving town.
.FOR SALE—Electric Piano, either
current, fumed oak, practically
new, with 125 records. Terms, if
desired. Inquire this office.
FOR SALE—Full size Iron Bed with
springs and Ostermoor mattress,
$25. Extension dining-room tab'e,
$20; Victor phonograph with 23
good records, $20. Mrs. Adams.
FOR SALE CHEAP—Log Cabin/
15x15 feet., nicely papered and
completely furnished for bachelor.
Inquire Thompson’s Drug Store or
Anderson Bros. & Nerland. 7-1
FOR RENT—Four Room Hou-.e.
All conveniences. Partly fi
nished. Central location. Inquire
News office.
FOR SALE OR ENT—National Cash
Register. Simson’s.
SKOF HOUSE for rent. Inquire on |
premises. tf
PUBLIC LAND SURVEYORS
MOVE CAMP UP RIVER
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W oodbury Abbey, who is in charge
of the Public Land Surveys in this
district, arrived in town on Sunday
with his crew of men from the camp !
on Little Goldstream. E. C. Guerin,
assistant to Abbey, is expected to
arrive in town today with his crew.
The camp on Little Goldstream
will be abandoned as the work in
that section of the counrty has been
completed for the season. The en
tire force will go up river and es
tablish camp .at the old telegraph
station, about seventeen miles up
river and will continue the work
of surveying along both banks of
the Tanana river to a point several
miles above “Eat ’em up" Frank’s
roahouse.
Mr. Abbey is now arranging for
he necessary transportation for his
men, equipment and supplies, and it
s expected that the party will be
ible to get away in a day or two. i i
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72 Cases Over-the-Ica Eggs
3 Cases Fresh Lemons
10 Head Young Draft Horses.
3 Wagons.
4 Sleds.
50 Tarpaulins. All Sizes.
House and Barn.
RANCH-40 acres under cul
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ing implements; ground fall
plowed; hay enough to put
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Salvage from
the battlefields —
The Allied armies find it very profitable
to salvage scrap from the battlefields. Great
Britain is saving millions every year from
this thrifty parctice.
If we could extend this practice to the
United States—if we saved only the waste
and needless spending of every day and put
the saving into War Savings Stamps,
would help to win the war.
Your every saving helps the Government.
Put the small savings into U. S. Thrift
Stamps at 25 cents each; when you have
16 of them, exchange them with a few extra
pennies for a $5 War Savings Stamp.
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