THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918. at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enxry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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. R. G. Southworth.Edilor •nd Manager
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FOOD CONTROL OR NO FOOD
TO CONTROL
Which is perferable—food con
trol or no food to control? Let
those who have resented national
food regulations ponder this.
The world’s food supply is meas
urable in difinite units. There is
now a definite shortage. War has
played havoc both with production
and distribution. The food supply
of the Allied countries must be
pooled.
To meet this war eme.'gcrcy and
to make the limited food supply
reach as far as possible, Food con
trollers or administrators have been
appointed in all warring countries.
The United States Food Admini
stration has labored to reduce waste
to prevent hoarding, to combat pro
fiteering and to eliminate illegiti
mate trading. In the case, of the
wholesaler this has been accom
plished through the license system;
with the retailer failure to co-oper
ate with the administration has been
met by a refusal on the part of
REGISTRATION OF
«N WOMEN
BEGINS AUG. 5
Instructions Are Received by Deputy
Marshal Hagen Regarding
Female Enemies.
The following telegram, which is
self explanatory, was received last
night by James Hagen, U. S. deputy
marshal, from the marshal’s office
in Fairbanks:
Fairbanks, June 27, 1918
“Hagen, Nenana
“Time fixed by Attorney General
for German alien female registra
tion Alaska is August fifth to four
teenth inclusive, excluding Sunday,
August eleventh. Postmasters reg
istration officers, same as registra
tion males. Notify all postmasters
your district also give widest pub
licity possible. Forms and instruc
tions following in mail.
“ERWIN.”
The registration of German alien
women went into effect in the States
on June 17th, under the following
Government regulations which cover
the registration of such aliens
throughout the nation.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—United
States marshals, postmasters and
police chiefs in every city of the
United States will register between
June 17 and 26 every German alien
woman in the United States, record
ing fingerprints and photographs
and providing the registrant there
after with an identification card,
which must be carried on the hold
er’s person for the duration of ths
war.
The work will be carried out un
der regulations issued by the At
torney General Gregory, and womer
who do not comply may be interned
imprisoned or deported.
American women who have mar
ried German aliens will also be re
quired to register, under the regu
lations, unless they have takei
steps to get a return of their origi
nal citizenship status. Women o
German nationality who have takei
out American citizenship paper
need not register. The regulation
also hold that the wife of a Ger
the wholesaler to sell him goods.
But with the individual con
sumer, conservation and food shar
ing has been entirely a volunteer
matter. The spirt of voluntary co
operation has > increased with ar
increasing consciousness of the se
riousness of the situation.
With the enemy hammering agains'
the Allied defense in a great sprin*
drive, the American people hav<
awaked with a start to the need o1
plenty of nourishing food for th<
soldiers and civilians over there
They must have wheat. We can ea
other things. The United State:
Food Administration, therefore, ha:
asked all households to refrain frorr
eating more than one and one-hall
pounds of wheat flour per weel
per person. There are many house
holds who will do even better thar
this. There are still others whc
have already volunteered to do with
out wheat entirely until our owr
supply is replenished with the com
ing harvest.
Is it better to exercise food con
trol or to have no food to control?
man who has become naturalized
and has completed the acquirement
of American citizenship is a citizer
herself, and need not register. A
German woman who married ar
American before April 6 is als<
outside of the class required tc
register, while special provision is
made in the regulations for th<
treatment of natives of Alsace-Lor
raine and of Schleswig-Holstein.
Police stations in cities of 5,00(
inhabitants or more. are designatei
as registration places, and post
unices in uLiiei areas.
L/cicuia v
local precedure are left to the offi
cials charged with the work. Fou:
photographs of the registrant, eacl
one personally autographed, will bi
taken, and her affidavit of persona
history must show a variety of facts
Her occupation, relationship to sol
diers in the German army or to per
I sons now in Germany, length o
| residence and circumstances attend
| ing arrival in the United States ar<
particular matters of inquiry. Th
regulations emphasize the fact tha
registration will be considered a
“giving proof of peaceful disposi
tion and intention to conform wit!
the laws of the United States.” Eac;
registrant will be required to stat
specifically whether or not she ha
even been required to report to o
register with any German milltarj
diplomat, or secret agent,
j False statements or represents
| tions in the affidavits required wi
[subject the woman concerned to irr
! mediate internment. Her care
showing that she has complied wit
the law, will be issued to her withi
15 days after her appearance. ]
will carry one of the signed phote
graphs, and a print of her lei
thumb. The printed forms provide
for the registration have been di
tributed to the proper officials.
When the registration has bee
completed, three sets of the aff
davits will be prepared, one of whic
is to be sent to Washington, tl
, second to be held by the Unite
| States marshal within the distrii
where the women have registere
• and the third is to go into the loc
• record.
i German women who are outsie
. the territory in which they usual
' reside during the period set for tl
i registration must apply for ter
I porary cards in the place whe:
i they happen to be and then cor
hon
plete their^ registration at
BOLSHEVISM-The Undoing
of the Russian Empire.
NEW YORK.—The distress,hope
lessness and chaos which overwhelm
ed of the well-to-do and official classes
in the Russian revolution are vividly
| portrayed from the standpoint of a
Russian woman in a letter received
by her former classmate in this
country. The writer is a daughter
of a Russian diplomat, who was con
nected with the Russian embassy in
Washington about twenty years ago
and a widow of an officer in the
Russian army who was killed early
in the war.
“Russia, crushed by exterior and
interior enemies, justly despised and
abhorred by the great countries that
once trusted her. is ruined and dis
appearing,” she wrote- “My coun
try is ceasing to exist. It was bad
eaough before the March revolution
when our unhappy, half-witted em
peror, under the influence of his
| German wife, seemed to do every
thing possible to make people los^
patience. We have a thousand an
onymous potentates, the top ones
paid by Germany, and the lowei
ones lured into supporting them bj
money, money, and money.
“The present government ha:
abolished all laws, all courts, ths
police, land ownership, all private
real estate in towns, all distinctior
of castes and grades in the army
and navy. They have seized all the
banks, are opening all the private
safes and confiscating all gold ane:
silver found therein though it
never been said before that it
criminal to have it.
“Of course, everything they
cree’ is so mad that it is quite sure
] not to last forever, but the chaos
| they make will take centuries to for
get. The country is going back tc
i a savage state. And we will no1
! live to wait for better times.
' “All Russia is suffocating—every
day brings new surprises that show
that there is but one way out of ii
—the grave. On the ground oi
had
was
‘de
; liberty they abolish all laws, judges
attorneys, and substitute for ii
j ‘people’s courts of justice’ with only
soldiers, workmen or Deasants, ofte,
; quite illiterate and always withou'
! the slightest knowledge of cour
1 proceedings, taking the places 01
the former judiciary.
1 “On the same ground they abolisl
.1 all police, let loose all the criminal:
from the prisons, arm them, con
, stituting from their number to
( gether with workmen, deserters am
'hooligans a ‘red guard’ and fill th<
I! prisons to their utmost with all thoci
; who crave for order and will no
work together with them toward;
the total ruin of the country.
,' “On the pretense of equality the;
abolish all grades in the army am
i; navy and make all posts electivi
, j by the simple soldiers. In mos
j extermination, lynching of the offi
! cers, who, for being better educated
(are under suspicion of being counter
, revolutionary. The highest post
are occupied by elected soldiers wh<
very often can hardly sign thei
■ names, and the former officers ar
i made simple soldiers with a soldier’
i pay of $3.50 a month and ordere
| to the lowest tasks; cleaning of th
j i barracks, cooking food, taking car
! of the horses.
>> j within thirty days. After the regis
b ] tration has been completed, no Gei
o! man woman can change her plac
11 of residence without a permit froi
the officials in her original distric
‘t j and records of such changes will b
d i filed with the original affidavits i
i-1 three places. Power to deny sue
I a permit of change of residence
given to the registration official;
though they must submit a repoi
of their reasons for denying it.
The regulations admonish regisei
ing officials to be courteous in the
:t treatment of the women and 1
i, i render all necessary assistance i
il i filling out the affidavit blanks. TI
(photographs required must be ui
e | mounted, and “without hat or oth<
y j head covering.” Special provisior
ie1 are made for Hawaii, the Philli]
l-1 pines, and other outlying territorii
■e | of the United States, but the regi
i-' tration is compulsory over the ei
ie tire area.
“Our great country could only
exist when all the wheels of the
government were working in har
mony. Now everything is a perfect
chaos. Everybody was willing to
throw over the czarist’c govern 'lent,
but not in order to change it for
this one of loot, anarchy and trea
son tow’ard our Allies. Oh, the
shame the disgrace and tne folly
of it!
“The army which now consists
of young boys (the regular tne is
long ago killed) without any sense
of duty, morals and discipline, see
their acquired ‘freedom’ in t.ie free
dom to go home when they want
to. And so all the trains, all the
stations, are attacked and destroyed
by this horde of savages, who kill
engineers, if it seems to them the
train goes too slowly, who martyrize
] the railway agents who tell them
of the impossibility of starting their
| train for there is another one .’urn
ing towards them in the same time.
As this human flood goes home
without any organization, everything
is looted and destroyed.
“Some months ago, I was be
lieving myself to be quite well off
I have a house in Petrograd. Last
spring I was offered $125,000 for
it, but was advised not to sell and
go over to America to have my
little girl become a happy American
school girl. Now—1 have on hand
about $2,000 and no other resources;
the house, like other private property
is being confiscated, the revenue
going to the government, that is to
say to the private pockets of the
usurpers. The government bonds—
annulated (repudiated) and even if
I had not more money—believe me
there is nothing to buy.
“Petrograd will begin to die fr >m
j hunger one of these days. And
those who are the authors of it are
sure to escape at the last moment
abroad and live happily afterwaids
with the millions they will have
robbed, and leave the countiy to its
dreadful fate.
“Life in Petrograd is horrible—
all the criminals, all the workmen
and demoralized soldiers rob the
few cars that still bring some kind
of products. In the very heart of
the city, in daytime, you have your
clothes taken off your back liter
ally. Just think that there is no
police, nobody to call for help, for
those who would like to help have
had their firearms confiscated, even
the officers, even the highest gen
erals. All the soldiers, etc., are
armed and have become highway
men. At any moment you can ex
pect a number of them coming into
your private lodging and, under the
I pretense of ‘perquisition’ take away
all your money and valuables.
“And as the government declares
that in a ‘real Socialistic state’ nu
i crime against private property will
be considered as such, for the big
gest of all crimes is just ‘the crime
of private ownership,’ so you see
there is nowhere to look for help
‘Our money is not accepted any
where abroad. Russia is bankrupt
so that it is impossible to escape
All my friends and relatives are ir
the same position. Everybody live:
on their last money, even those wh<
• were quite rich. Their money wa:
_ i in government or private bonds, anc
- as they are declared void, where wil
-1 you get the money from? My pool
mind cannot grasp the whole thing
it is too great a madness. I hop<
with all my heart that my deal
e | American friends are happy—it :i
some relief to think that there an
people not suffering what we havi
to.
“My only chance to save my littli
girl’s life and my own would be t<
get away from here and go to thi
United States- If you can think o
any way to bring this about pleasi
write to me at once. I would di
any kind of work—and if I came t
starve there, it would be to hav
my little one escape from this mad
house! Here, if we do not die ii
the next few months, we will b
slaves, regular slaves, of our lowes
clases. So you see that anythini
in free America would surely be ;
thousand times better than what w
must expect here.”
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FOR SALE—Furnished House, three
rooms. Fourth and A. Inquire j
News. 5-6-25 1
FOR SALE CHEAP—Lor Cabin and
Lot on F street, between First and
Second, heavy malthoid roofing, j
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 table,
$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 House.
All conveniences. Partly fi
nished. Central location. Inquire
News office.
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"WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
ISSUED BY THB
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT
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, it
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.
THEY EARN MONEY
THEY SAVE LIFE AT THE
FRONT, BY HELPING UNCLE
SAM WIN THE WAR.
BUY THEM AT THE
POSTOFFICE
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