THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for en:ry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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MILITARY TRAINING
One beneficial result of our en
trance into the war is an awakening
of interest in the value of obli
gatory universal military training,
says the Eagle Magazine. This
value lies not wholly in the pre
paration it would afford the .nation
for possible war, but also in its
wholesome influence on the young
manhood of our country. Six
months’ training in the cantonments
established under the whip of war
with Germany, has brought results
physical and mental, that are too
fine ever to be relinquished- Our
young men have become alert,
graceful, and strong. They have
learned obedience, respect for ou
thority, self-control, and dicipline.
Some have, for the first time, em
braced the moral ideal of a clean
mind in a clean body. More than
all, they have become democratic
and broad-minded—a fact by virtue
of which they will hereafter be more
intelligent citizens. “The camps are
wonder-workers,” said one who has
watched their development; “they
are making the men over.” This
no one has seen more clearly than
the young men themselves, who, with
scarcely an exception are quick to
| rj knowledge the benefits of the
discipline and training they have
secured.
While public attention is only
now being called to these benefits
by the present training, students of
social problems have long been cog
nizant of them. They will tell you
that a very large percentage of
criminals are lacking in just those
manly virtues which military train
ing inculcates, and officials of penal
institutions are unanimous in the
opinion that military training of the
young men would reduce crime fully
50 per cent. The attorney-general
of New Jersey thus states two pro
positions: “Whatever improves health
teaches obedience, and enforces dis
cipline, lessens crime. Military
training does all this, and therefore
; it should be obligatory upon all our
i youth.”
A bill is now before Congress
providing for six months of such
| training for all young men at some
period between the ages of eighteen
and twenty. It carries with it no
obligation of military service; it
simply prepares for such service if
it does come. But far more, it pre
i pares for useful service in civil life.
The bill should becomq a law, con
■ eludes the magazine.
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* FAIRBANKS NOTES *!
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September 16th has been fixed
by the land office as the date on
which the annual payments of the
Nenana lots are to be made.
The Pioneer Women of Fairbanks
will organize a branch of the Red
Star at their meeting next Monday.
R. M. Brown has promised them his
help.
Val Diebold and Dad Shaw went
out to look over a boiler on Our
creek recently. They got lost and
missed a few meals before return
ing to town.
The last performance of “Intol
erance” will take plr.ce tonight at
Thorne’s. Full houses have greeted
every performance of “The Birth of
a Nation” and “Intolerance.”
The transport Jacobs arrived from
the upper Tanana yesterday morn
ing and is scheduled to leave on the
down river trip tomorow morning.
She will take the third contingent
i<)f the Fairbanks second draft
1 quota. __ __
| The new Agricultural College and
School of Mines building is pro
gressing very satisfactorily. Nearly
all of the concrete work has been
: finished and the superstructure will
soon be raised. The building is
! situated on the hill overlooking the
| railroad near Ester Siding and com
; mands a view of the slough from
Fairbanks to Chena and the river
above Chena. The workmen saw
I the transport Jacobs coming down
the river from Salcha. She was in
i sight for a long time.
The employees of the Granby^
mine in the Valdez district have ^
signed pledges to donate one day’s;
j pay each month as long as the war
shall last to war charities.
E. C. Guerin and Robert Benner,
of the Public Land Survey, arrived
in town for the week-end. They
will probably return to their camp j
camp on Monday.
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JUST RECEIVED
ALL THE LATEST
June July August
VICTOR
PHONOGRAPH RECORDS
ALL THE LATEST POPULAR SONG HITS
SIMSON’S
YANKEE TRANSPORTS
LAND TROOPS SAFELY
American Port, Western France—
Twelve o’clock at night, all lights
out ashore and afloat, heavy rain
| squalls sweeping out to sea, and this
I great port dark and silent as the
| latest fleet of American transports
|and convoys 13 monster ships, 10
I destroyers, 36,000 fighting men and
j 5,000 crew—creeps in from the Ai
j lantic.
j With an American army escort
we had climbed to a high point on
the sea front to get a glimpse of
this first process in the gigantic
I military migration from America to
| Europe, the greatest the world has
| known; and then to follow it step
| by step, as its vast and intricate
| activities unfolded up to the arrival
j of the men on the fighting front.
The wireless station had received
; a cipher message giving warning
| of the approach of the fleet. It
had been hoped the arrival would be
in daylight, with flags flying, bands
playing and the sun shining as the
American fighting men got their
first glimpse of Europe But this
is no dress parade, said the Admiral
and there is no time for stage
effects.
And so at midnight in the rain
and darkness with signal lights
showing for the first time since
they left the other side, the huge
flotilla moved in a long line of lights
to the sheltered roadstead. There
was the creak of windlass and
chains as the anchors gripped.
And yet this midnight arrival in ■
the darkness and rain is only one ■
of the steady succession of great
armadas coming every three of four!
days, in the colossal American mili- \
tary influx which Secretary Baker
gives at 275,000 men for a single;
month. These 36,000 men just in
are the population of a good sized
city; twice as many men as we
sent to Cuba for the Spanish
American war; about half the force!
Napoleon had at Waterloo when the
destinies of Europe were in the
scale.
And while this is one of the record ;
debarkments, yet it is only a small1
part of that mighty stream coming
in from the west. It is the unpre
cedented magnitude of such a mili-1
tary movement, across the ocean, in ,
the face of submarines, that has
thrilled the Allied world and broken
the spirt of the adversary.
It was a stirring scene in the har
bor the morning following as the
transports unloaded their 36,000
men. The sky had cleared and the
huge hulls of the transports loomed
out of the mist, their funnels puff
ing black smoke, their sides painted
with fantastic camouflage, and their
decks rising like terraces crowded
with khaki-clad Americans in their
broad brimmed sombreros. The de
stroyers had drawn off and were
lying bunched ten across. They
looked diminutive besides the big'
ships, but their power showed in the
glint of guns and the long, lean!
build like a greyhound stretched out;
for action. Further back were the I
French warships.
All about were innumerable small!
craft, army and navy tugs, lighters,
launches and a flotilla of fishing
craft with their nets hanging to dry
like huge sails of lace. Back of
this water scene stretched the huge
American warehouses, sprung up
like mushrooms, until the whole
front was black with buildings and
the skeletons of more buildings. Al
ready the lighters were alongside
and the soldiers came tramping down
the gangways to go ashore.
The Americans found this port
without any system of big docks. A
few of the smaller ships can come
to the docks, but most of the un
loading from the deep-draught ships
must be by lighters. The American
commanders are planning to change
all this, and soon the long break- ,
water will be linked to the land by
bridgas, thus creating at a stroke
a huge docking systm by which the
American troops will march straight
ashore from the ships.
A lighter was now pushing off,
with 500 troops packed on it like
i the crowd at a holiday procession.
The men were feeling gay, for they
were about to step on solid ground
again, and to have their first look
at France; and besides they had
the regimental band which was send
ing the Star Spangled Banner echo
ing over the water. Every head was
bared as the strains of the anthem
went up. Over the men floated
a huge dirigible balloon pointing
out to sea in quest of a submarine.
The soldiers gazed at it as the first
sign of warfare. After it rose two
hydroplanes, l;ke monster beetles and
joined in the search for submarines.
Now the lighters were at the dock,
and with the tide out the men
climbed up 20 feet to the wharves.
As they fell in for the march to
camp they had an earnest quizzical
look; for this was the first sight
these men of the new world were
taking of the old world—most of
them from Iowa, Nebraska and the
Middle West.
M TA1KS
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tutes referred to assessment work
to be done by miners in the States
and he therefore did not think that
Sulzer had helped the Alaskan min
ers at all in having a law passed \
suspending section 2324 of the Fed-!
eral Statutes. He repeated his state
ment made in his speech on Satur
day, and said that Sulzer had not
done anything to help the people
of Alaska.
Speaking on the proposed bonus
to gold producers, he said that he
had seen much newspaper comment
on this subject, some of which cred
ited Mr. Sulzer with having initiated
proceedings for the purpose of hav
ing legislative measures adopted
which will eventually give gold pro
ducers a bonus of $12 an ounce and
give a much needed stimulus to the
gold producing industry of Alaska.
He said that up to July 18th last,
which was the date on which he
left VV ashington, D. C., he did not
know or had not heard of any
thing that Mr. Sulzer had done in
regard to the obtaining of a bonus
to gold producer He explained
that it would be impossible to raise
the standard price fixed by the gov
ernment as the price of gold with
out destroying the monetary struc
ture. He recognized and urgent
need for government aid to gold
producers, owing to the high cost
of production, and he agreed that
something had to be done and done !
quick. Next to food and munitions j
gold was the thing the government
needed most, he said.
Legislation with a view to cutting
down the high transportation rates
and the destruction of the trans
portation monopoly in the North
with the completion of the govern
ment railroad, he thought, would
very materially help the miners in j
Alaska and stimulate the production 1
of gold. He said that he intended ‘
introducing a bill to obtain a bonus
on the gold produced by placer
miners in Alaska and will continue
to fight against the unjust trans
portation rates that are now choking
the country and driving the people
away.
He practically issued an ulti
matum to the Northern Commercial
company and allied interests, the
White Pass, the Alaska Steamship
Co., and the C. R. & N. W., who
he accused of throttling the coun
try and using every means in their
power to prevent the completion of
the government railroad and to re
tard and obstruct legislation intro
duced with a view to helping the
development of the Northland.
He paid a high tribute to Frederick
D. Browne, engineer in charge, for
the good work he was doing in ex
tending the railroad. He said, we
have the right man here who could
be relied upon to build the road in
the quickest possible time.
We’ll substitute corn for wheat
and victory for defeat.
HON COLONISTS
IN RUSSIA ARE
READY TO MOVE
AMSTERDAM.—“There is not a
single German colonist in Russia
who places the smallest faith in the
Russian government. Our minds are
made up. If Germany does not pro
tect us with a strong hand there
is only one way out, namely, to emi
grate to the United States or Can
ada.”
This is the statement of Pastor
Johannes Schieuning who has come
to Berlin representing the interests
of so-called Wolga Germans, a farm
ing colony of seven hundred thous
and persons established along that
river.
After the Brest Litovsk peace,
Schieuning returned from three years
banishment in Siberia and made
himself spokesman of two million
German settlers spread over differ
ent regions of Russia.
According to his statement, the
colonists were incorporated in the
Russian army, first sent to the
Russo-German front and then some
three hundred thousand were trans
ferred to the Caucasus. There they
underwent terrible sufferings, thous
ands died, those staying at home
had their properties confiscated,
were reduced to beggary and the.
Bolsheviki completed their ruin.
Wolga colonists now ask to be
assisted back to Germany or per
mited to settle in the Baltic prov
inces. Failing this they intend to
emigrate to America, declares Pastor
Schieuning, who thus places before
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! FOR SALE, CHEAP—Large tank
| heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
ttood as new; also sink. Inquire
Simson's.
| FOR SALE.—Mrs. W. F. Lyons is
I leaving for the Outsdie soon and
offers shop, fixtures and business
in cleaning and pressing clothes,
for sale. No reasonable offer re
fused- Shop is on A street, near
blacksmith shop.
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN—Sew
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Bunny, with 2 Vi h. p. Ferro en
gine, shot gun, rifle, etc. Inquire
of J. A. Slippern.
FOR SALE—Beaver Board, in plain
and oak finish. Doors and win
dows, sash stock and mouldings.
Inquire Simson’s.
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
FOR SALE—Two tents, 18x30 and
20x40. Inquire Simsons.
the German government a problem
filled with peculiar difficulties.
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