THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enrry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 18 <9.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
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FOUNDATIONS.
In sentencing Townley and Gil
bert. of the Non-Partisan league
Judge Dean, of Jackson, Minn., tool
occasion to enunciate a moral axi
om, which Non-Partisan leaguers
and others of a like character ma\
ponder over to their profit. San:
the judge:
"Any organization built on false
hood will not long endure.”
Whoever has any doubt as to the
truth of this statement, says th<
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, needs but
recall from his own experiences the
organizations that have risen, flour
ished, decayed and disappeared. Po
litical parties founded on falsehood
have sprang up overnight. The un
thinking and the dishonest, t-he ad
venturers and those bitten by dis
content have supported them with
enthusiasm. Their memberships
grew, funds accumulated and suc
cess seemed within their grasp. But
where are they today? Where are
the enthusiastic members who once
so loudly shouted and cheered"
Where are the plans that were just
about to triumph? Where are the
leaders whose names were on every
body’s tongue, who were watched
with admiration or with fear? Gone,
all gone, into the limbo of the
things that are false; gone and for
gotten. One must look in old news
paper files to learn of them, or
catch a stray paragraph in some
memoir or autobiography.
"Things and actions are what
they are, and the consequences of
them will be what they will be.”
There is, then, little use in man try
ing to deceive himself; even less
sense in man believing what he
wants to believe. But from time
immemorial man has allowed his
wishes to distort facts, and the con
sequence has ever been the same.
Townley and Gilbert will disappear
from the scene in due time. Those
of their followers who had blind
faith in them will close that chap
ter of their lives and refer to it
only in the privacy of introspec
tion. Townley and Gilbert may
leave some little residue, some spot
to mark where they once stood, but
if they do it will be because in all
their falsity they had some little
grain of truth.
Townley is an adventurer who
failed on rather a grand agricultural
scale before he went “into politics.”
Gilbert played a small part in a so
cialistic way in his community. How
irresistibly they remind us of “Sock
less” Jerry Simpson, Bill Peffer,
Mary Ellen Lease, and H. L. Loucks.
They, too, are gone and are remem
bered with a smile.
We have gone through this Town
ley-Gilbert business before, not once
but many times. And always the
last effort was to be the successful
one. Only somehow it wasn’t. And
we will probably have them in dif
ferent guises and with different aims
so long as the nation exists and men
are unable to convince themselves
that “any organization built on
falsehood will not long endure.”
COAST LABOR CONDITIONS.
The United States census record
of the growth of manufacturing in
dustries at Los Angeles, while
manufacturing was shrinking at San j
Francisco, presents an intensely in-1
teresting economic lesson of what
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, must follow when costs of produc
| tion mount at once place and are j
- held within bounds at another.
Thirty years ago, points out the
Spokane Spokesman - Review, San j
; Francisco had 1,784 manufacturing:
'establishments, providing employ-j
ment for 32,555 wage-earners, i
Twenty years later the number of
| establishments had increased only
148, and the number of wage-earn
|ers had decreased to 28,244. a loss
of nearly 4,000.
At Los Angeles, in exactly the
same period, the number of manu
facturing establishments increased i
from 534 in 1899 to 1,325 in 1909, r
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and the number of wage-earners j ■
grew from 5,173 to 17,327.
j It is generally thought in Cali- |!
fornia that the census to be taken j1
next year will show a still more re-!f
markable loss at San Francisco and ^
| a still greater growth at Los An-!
: geles. 1
! These changes, as was to be ex- ’
, pected, are reflected in the general '
;growth of the two cities. While 5
j§an Francisco's population increased i'
j but 39 percent in the 20 years be
tween 1890 and 1910, the popula- j
tion of Los Angeles showed an ex-j
traordinary growth from 50,395 to
:319,198—nearly 550 percent.
In California the reason is very
! well understood. San Francisco
-passed under the sway of an intol
erant, unreasoning labor union lead
ership. Manufacturers and other
j employers there faced an incessant
demand for more wages, coupled
I with diminishing output, due in part
; to the shortening of the labor day,
| but in larger part to a systematic
policy on the part of the workers
to loiter on the job. under the eco
nomic fallacy that they were pro
viding jobs for a greater number
of workmen, when the census record
shows that they were throwing near
ly 4.000 wage-earners out of em
ployment. and all that notwithstand
ing the general growth in the Pacific
‘coast states.
It will help us to catch the full!
import of this depressing loss at
San Francisco and amazing gain at
(Los Angeles to bring home the illus
tration to the cities of Washington.
If. 20 years hence, Seattle, having
followed its present course, on tak
ing stock should find that it then
had 4,000 fewer wage-earners than •
it has today; that its industries had j
1 been driven away to another citv or!
j
1 cities; that its population had
scarcely grown in 20 years, while
that of Portland, Tacoma, Everett,
or Bellingham had grown nearly 600
percent—that record would be iden
tical with the experience that has
come to San Francisco.
The warning lesson applies, of
i course, to Spokane and other cities
that are hoping for steady growth.
If, from increasing production costs,
they must ask for their manufac
tures higher prices than are asked
by their competitors in other cities,
either east or west, their hope of
growth will not be realized. They
will have to travel the same down
hill road that San Francisco trav
eled so long. Many of their wage
earners will have to move on to
distant cities in search of work, with j
all that means of loss and sacrifice j
to men who have built homes or i
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acquired other interests and ties. j
EXPLAIN SALE
OF RED CROSS
MERCHANDISE
PARIS.—Because many inaccu- J
rate reports of large sales of Am
erican Red Cross merchandise have
appeared in the past few weeks.
Red Cross headquarters in Faris has
issued a statement explaining that
the only materials which have been
sold are certain perishables, second- |
hand equipment, surplus stocks, and
articles which can no longer be used
for direct relief work, either in
France or in Eastern Europe.
The total sales of surplus and
second-hand material by the Ameri
can Red Cross in Europe will ag
gregate not more than thirty mill
ion francs, says the Red Cross,
ivhile the value of the relief ma
:erial distributed in Europe during
luly and August alone will amount
:o more than one hundred million
:rancs.
The American Red Cross is now ,
•onducting operations in 17 Europe
in countries. The relief material
iistributed in France, mainly in the
levastated districts, since the ar
nistice. is valued at over one hun
ired and twenty-five million francs,
vhile in the same period other
European countries have received
nore than two hundred million
rancs' worth of similar supplies,
ncluding not only medical and sur
gical material, but also clothing, :
ood, barracks, etc.
Such sales as have been author- '
zed in France have been conducted
hrough the American Red Cross
-iquidation Board. The official
tatement says regarding this ma
erial:
“Unexpectedly heavy expenses of
rork in Poland and the Balkan
tates. and the beginning of new
elief activities in Wastern and
Southern Russia made it advisable
i
o turn these stocks into cash to
ssist the relief programs, as well
s to save certain of the accumu
ated stocks from total loss.
“Of all the relief material in the
tmerican Red Cross warehouses on
lay 1, one-third was set aside for
istribution in the devastated dis
ricts of France. The distribution
f this material is still continuing,
,nd will continue for months to
ome, while the shipments of relief
naterial to the commissions in East
ra Europe are on a constantly in
reasing scale and will continue thus
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WANT ADS
FOUND—Gold button, No. 32. Own
er can recover by calling on Jim
Dzukoff, at The Terminal.
FOR SALE—Large tank heater and
pipe drum. Inquire Simson’s store.
ROADHOUSE FOR SALE—Inquire
News Office. 11-29
GOOD TEAM, harness and No. 5
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sleigh for sale. Inquire Knut
Koland, Third and C streets.
FOR SALE—Furnished house of five
rooms, attic, large basement and
winter cellar for vegetables. Heat- ;
ed by furnace. Winter supply of
vegetables. Full corner lot. One,
of the most desirable parts of
town. Inquire at News office.
FOR SALE OR RENT—High-grade
player piano. Inquire Simson’s
Store.
FOR SALE—Piano and complete
household furniture: also set of
mink furs. Inquire of Mrs.
Duke. 10-28
FOR SALE—-Small Lang range, with
kitchen outfit complete: couch !
springs, mattress and bedding. In- j
quire Skof House.
BLTNCH OF KEYS found. Owner
can recover by calling at News
office and paying for this adver
tisement.
for many months.
“In the meantime, the shipment
:>f further relief materia! from the
United States continues in a iarge
.vay, and we have recently received
totice from America of the early
:hipment of supplies valued at near
y forty million francs.”
New Rifles just received by An- ;
lerson Bros. & Nerland.
r.s. McDonald
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A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
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Tom Smith, Prop.
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You’ll Say It’s Good UNION HALL
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NENANA LODGE No. 1193
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MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
Fourth and B Streets
Second and Fourth Tuesdays
At 8:00 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER,
Secretary ^Dictator.
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Trappers and Traders of Alaska
SELL YOUR FURS TO A HOME INDUSTRY. WE GUARANTEE
YOU HIGHER PRICES THAN OUTSIDE
CONCERNS WILL PAY.
During the last season we conducted an advertising campaign
throughout the North and are prepared to send you the names of
people in all sections of Alaska and the Yukon who will verify our
statements. ii
Our excellent Eastern connections, and the tremendous amount
of mail order business we are receiving from all parts of the
States for furs made to order enables us to turn our stock quickly |
at a reasonable profit, but we must have fur, for which we guar
antee top prices.
Make us a trial shipment. If our price does not suit you, the
goods will be returned charges prepaid.
WE MAKE FURS TO ORDER
at more reasonable rates than can be obtained Outside. At present
we are working three operators, and need others. If you are an
operator and finisher, and want a good year-around job, com
municate with us.
CHAS. GOLDSTEIN & CO.
JUNEAU, ALASKA
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers are required to pur
rhase tickets before entering trains.
Tickets can be purchased from
he station agent, whose office is in
he employment office, on the ground
loor of the General Office Building,
\laskan Engineering Commission, or
it Camp 415 (North Xenana).
Tickets will be on sale at any
:ime during office hours, and can be
purchased in sufficient time before
:he departure of the trains.
Regular trains for the south leave
:he foot of A street on Wednessdays
»nd Saturdays at 8 a. m.. and from
lamp 415 (North Xenana I, Tues
iays and Fridays, at 8 a. m.
No tickets will be sold crossing
:he river. Those intending to trav
el to Fairbanks must make their
>wn arrangements for reaching
Vorth Xenana. The Commission wall
■ontinue its ferry sendee, with skiff,
is long as the river is passable, and
(very endeavor will be made to nefp
>assengers across. The ferryman
vi 11 be on duty from 7 a. m. on
:he Xenana side, and will help pass
;ngers from the north upon their
trrival in the evening; but this
service may have to be discon
iinued any day.
Passengers taking trains for Fair
banks on any other days than Tues
days and Fridays are liable to be
leld up en route. No through con
nections are assured except on these
fays. This schedule is subject to
:hange on short notice for without
notice) upon completion of steel lay
ng between North Nenana and Fair
banks.
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