THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enzry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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WICKERSHAM CAMOUFLAGE
Mr. Wickersham is now engagei
in his sixth campaign for the vote:
of the people of Alaska and todai
he is using the same axnmunitiot
that stood him in good stead in thi
first four of them. He is still has
ing his appeal for votes on his owr
bald assertion that he is a “fighter.’
Now. those who have lived ii
Alaska since 1908, when Wicker
sham first stood for election, knov
that the three principal objective;
of his “Fighting” proclivities hav<
been, since that time continuously
“Major” Richardson, the Guggen
heims, and the transportation com
panies. So let us see what he ha:
accomplished toward their downfall
"Major” Richardson is now i
general, standing ace high with th<
war department and in the estima
tion of the authorities at Wash
ington.
The Guggenheims are coining raori
money in Alaska, with their rail
road and mining operations, thar
ever before in their history.
The transportation companies art
still charging all the traffic wil
bear—and then some. In fact
more than ever.
And the reason of this is tha
Wickersham’s “fighting” has al
been done with his mouth, in his
campaigning in Alaska—none of i1
in Washington where he might havt
had some hope of getting results.
There is infinitely more reason
to believe that Wickersham wa;
successful in his attempt, ten year;
ago, to get on the Gugger.heirr
payroll than to believe that his “con
fined to Alaska" campaign attack;
on that corporation are sincere; foi
he has introduced no single bil
during his eight years as delegate
that would in any way embarrass
that corporation if enacted into law
His campaign talks, he knows, car
accomplish nothing to their detri
ment, and he has very carefully re
trained from doing anything at tht
national capita! that would in anj
way cramp their operations.
Certain it is that if he were on
the Gugg payroll he could in no
way better serve their interests.
A GERMAN PEACE
“What a German Peace Is Like,’’
is the enlightening heading of an
article written for the Weekly Dis
patch. by Annie Parr, who has just
arrived in London from Bucharest.
“I was in Bucharest, when the
Germans entered the Rumanian
capital” she writes. “They had evi
dently decided that it would not be
wise to shock the world with an
other Belgium, and they were care
ful to keep their troops under con
trol, but they were the masters. I
remember a male friend of mine
who was returning home from din
ner in evening clothes being stopped
in the streets in the middle of the
winter and compelled to sweep away
the deep snow for hours in the
bitter cold.
“Many a beautiful home was
wrecked. The Germans had no
scruples about converting drawing
rooms into stables for their horses,
and front g>-dens into cemeteries
for their dead.
Te*r:ble atrocities were com
mitted- by the Bulgarians, and the
sufferings of the prisoners they
took were unspeakable. Of 30,000
Rumania’, s taken prisoners only
8,000 ret ' i-jd, and they were in an
appall.ng cor. ’ition. They were
i skeletons, scarcely able to walk. At
i the station they seemed too weak to
i eat or drink. When we offered
them food they simply sank down on
a bench and burst into tears.
“It was a most tragic home-com
' ing for the Rumanian soldiers, fol
i lowing upon the crushing peace;
,. terms. It has left on my mind an
unforgetable impression of what a
i German peace is like- Those sol
; diers came back in rags and half
starved to homes that had been re
; duced to poverty. They had to wit
ness in silence the insolent bearing
j of the German soldiery in their
i streets. The officers were told they
would either have to salute the Ger
j man officers or take off their uni
forms. They preferred to take off
i their uniforms.
"There are still plenty of German
soldiers there fboking fat and well
; and at no pains to conceal their
satisfaction at the conclusion of a
j peace which has put a crushing
| economic burden onto Rumania and
bound the country and its trade
:hand and foot to the Germans. The
i one hope of the people is an Allied
j victory.”
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SCHOOL REPORT
i Report of the public school for
I the month ending October 25, 1918:
1 Total number of pupils enrolled
forty.
Number of pupils neither absent
nor tardy, thirty.
Names of pupils neither absent
nor tardy:
First Grade—Richard Foster, Gen
evieve Oldfield, William Siverly
Frank Major.
Second Grade—John Oldfield, J.
H. Russell, Lena Herington, Robert
Major, John Clausen, Olgo Strom,
Aina Strom.
Third Grade—Louis Schmidt, Al
fred Schaeffer, Margaret Schaeffer.
Fourth Grade—Margaret Russel!
Olga Martin, Carl Schmidt, Robert
Patterson.
Fifth Grade—Kenneth McLean,
Jean Russell.
Sixth Grade—Hilda Martin, Ger
aldine Patterson, Muriel Russell.
Eighth Grade—Alfred Lytle, Sam
Ivey, Edgar Brooker, Walter Scott.
Ninth Grade—Margaret South
worth, Valentine Anderson, Melville
Cooney.
Pupils having an average of Jli
per cent or more:
First Grade—Richard Foster, Wil
liam Siverly, Genevieve Oldfield,
N'oel Schaeffer.
Second Grade—Jo!|i Scott, Lena
Herington, Ruth Strom.
Third Grade—Alfred Schaeffer.
Fourth Grade—Charles More, Carl
Schmidt.
Eighth Grade—Edgar Brooker.
Ninth Grade—Margaret South
j worth, Valentine Anderson, Melville
' Cooney.
SUGAR MUST KF.
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heaping teaspooobl
saved each, meal for
nO days Car each, of fW
100.000.000 person*
in the United States
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HEBREW UNIVERSITY
RISES FROM WRECKAGE
JERUSALEM.—The ceremony of
laying the foundation stone of the
Hebrew University of Mount Scopus
was witnessed by 6,000 people. The
site is on the eastern slope of the
mountain, overlooking the valley of
the Jordan, as it enters the i’ead
Sea. |
Dr. Weizmann, head of th * Brit
ish committee in charge of the
work, said in his address: "Out r.i
the misery and desolation of war
is being created the germ of a new
life. This university, although in- 1
tended primarily for Jews, will give
an affectionate we’come also to '
members of every race and every
creed, and will be accessible to all
classes of the people. ’
CAMP LEE. Va.—An unusual
wedding ceremony, in which the
bride and officiating clergyman
could not approach with! 1 fifteen
paces of the bridegroom was vlem- ■
nized here recently, when Private
Leon Wellriver. of toe Infantry
Replacement camp, and Miss Mary
Smith, both of Wyoming, P,i , vere
married.
Wellriver was under quarantine, ;
which will extend until time for his
regiment to depart for France, so
the ceremony was performed frv m
a distance of fifteen paces of the
soldier. The minister wrote the
questions to be f!sked the groom,
and a lieutenant, who acted r.s inter
mediary, read them to Wellriver,
who signalized "yes” by rais'rg his
right hand. Miss Smith stj 1
the side of the clergyman and an
swered the necessary question;.
AIR ACCIDENTS SHOW
DECREASE IN FRANCE
PARIS.—The number of fatal ac
cidents at French flying schools are
continually decreasing.
An official report by the inspector
general of aviation schools states
that the average of fatal accidents
per thousand hours of flying during
1916 was 0.37; in 1917 it was 0.35;
and in 1918, 0.25.
The reduction is considered all the
more remarkable in view of the fact
that training is becoming more in
tense each year, the mechanism of
the machines is more complicated,
and higher skill in acrobatics is re
quired.
PASSENGERS BEAT WAY
ON GERMAN TROLLEYS
NEW YORK.—Passengers caught
“beating their way” on Berlin street
cars will be subject to a fine of
one mark, the Berlin Vorwaerts re
ports The fine will be imposed by
the trolley inspector not on the word
of the conductor, but following a
sort of prebiscite among the pass
engers.
The order was necessary the street
car company’s counsel said, because
the company suffered a daily loss
of 10,000 marks through the non
payment of fares.
“The worst offenders,” he said,
'are those of the better classes, es
pecially women who consider it
sport to ‘save’ carfare by not paying.
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VETERANS WAGE
BA1TLE AGAINST
MOSQUITO HOST
WASHINGTON, D. C—More than
one ally of the German emperor
who has attempted to interfere-with
the shipbuilding program has come
to defeat. The latest is the mos
quito.
Most of the new shipyards have
risen from marshlands bordering
rivers, lakes, bays and inlets. These
marshy places are the favorite breed
ing places of the mosquito and mil
lions fed so avariciously on the men
hammering out ships that, at times,
they were forced to leave the wavs
and production was retared. But
now a great, national mosquito
fighting army has been created and
this force is conducting a continuous
offensive against the insect hosts.
The staff of this army is com
posed of mosquito fighting experts
who have fought and battered down
mosquito offensives not only in this
country, but also in the fever-in
fected tropical zone where the pests
have been at their worst. Among
these is Lieut. Col. Philip Schuyler
Doane a member of the staff of
Surgeon-Genera! Gorgas, who elim
inated the pest from the Panama
Canal Zone. He is director of the j
Department of Health and Sanita-;
tion of the United States Shipping
Board and is organizing the war i
against the mosquito in all parts ofi
the country.
The co-operation of state, muni- j
cipal and private corporate interests;
has been enlisted in this war. Miles
of trenches have been dug in low
lands about shipbuilding plants so.
that the marshes may be drained
and the breeding: places destroyed
Where it is impossible to drain off
the stagnant water, oiling is re-:
sorted to. !
At the Hog Island plant near
Philadelphia, the work is being car- i
ried on with the co-operation of the
date of Pennsylvania, the city of
Philadelphia, the Westinghouse cor
poration, the Atlantic Oil Refining'
company and other private indus
tries. A fund of $250,000 has been
contributed and in addition the At-1
iantic Oil Refining company con
tributes all the oil used. Nine 100
icre tracts of marsh land had to
»e treated by sprinkling pools, cut-1
-ing down tall weeds, dredging anti 1
training and within three months i
ifter work started, the water area'
tad been reduced 95 per cent. Sev
■ral big pumping stations have'
t>een erected and employed in this'
>vork and more are planned.
Three thousand or more acres of
the land thus reclaimed, it is esti-;
fated will be suitable for agri-i
cultural purposes and it has been j
suggested that this land be turned i
>ver to the Boy Scouts of Phila- j
lelphia for war gardens, as the land ■
s within six miles of the central
>ection of Philadelphia.
The state of New Jersey is co
iperating with Camden and Glou-i
■ester counties and the Shipping!
Soard in work about the shipyards ■
>n the New Jersey side of the Dele- j
vare river. It is planned to spend!
ill).000 in this district this year.
Chester, Pa., an important center j
or all kinds of war work, has a!
ommittee that is working with the!
tate and the Shipping Board and'
he state has agreed to appropriate!
>40,000 if $60,000 can be obtained j
rom other sources. Other places ■
it which work is being carried on
dong this line are Wilmington,
C., which has raised $30,000;
Alexandria and Hampton, Va.; Los1
Angeles, Calif, and about the yards j
>n the Gulf of Mexico.
ENGLISH CHILDREN
TRUST THE LEADERS
LONDON.—Sunday schools thru
ut the United Kingdom have sent i
he following message to the leaders
f the army and navy:
“To the brave men ^ghtlig for us •
“We thank you
“We trust you.
“We pray for you.”
Sir Douglas Haig has embodied
he message in an official Order of I
he Day.
YANKEES IMPRESS
FRENCH EDITOR
PARIS.—Leon Daudet, son of Al
phonse Daudet and editor of the
Action Erancaise, recently visited
some scenes of American activity be
hind the lines and his enthusiasm
is unbounded.
“What cordial frankness they
show,” he writes of the American
soldiers, “To the inhabitants they
offer their bread, preserves and cig
arettes with a charming gesture that
seems to say 'Are we not brothers?’
They are full of politness to every
woman, no matter what her age,
and of kindness to every child.
“In a station, in the middle of
the night, I saw some poor little
kiddies, the family of refugees,
sleeping on the floor. Two Ameri
can officers passed. They stopped,
looked, shook their heads, then with
out a word, threw over the young
sters their overcoats which they
were carrying on their arms. They
themselves sat down near by and
A-aited for two hours in the cold
air of the dawn.
“A French aviator, instructor at
a flying school for Americans, said
to me, “They are remarkable pupils
their docility and modesty are won
derful. They learn rapidly and re-'
tain everything, and their gratitude
t° their teachers is extreme. They
burn to avenge the devastation of
r ranee.”
After speaking of the American
Red Cross hospital trains with the
greatest admiration. Daudet con
cludes :
“To the French, to the English,
still full of valor but exhausted by
four years of terrible war. the
Americans are bringing their fresh
blood- The older fighters, seeing
this glorious aid arrive, understand
ing its valor and vigor, have felt
their forces revive. Hope, the cer
tainty of victory, have bounded in
a single leap to the marvelous level j
of the beginning, and by victory, I
cursed Germany. I do not know
that the world has ever known a
sight so grand or one that even
resembles it.”
1,185,000 tons of sugar will be1
saved the first year if each of us
uses one ounce less each day. This
will keep sugar plentiful and cheap.
mean the definite crushing of ac
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