THE NENANA 1)AILY NEWS lli
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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, 18 <9.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth..Editor and Manager
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THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN j
The campaign for the Fourtn
Liberty Loan is now on and it will
close on October 19. The result of
the loan will be watched with keen
interest in Europe, not only by our
associates in the war against the
Teutonic powers but by our enemies.
It will be regared by them as a meas
ure of the American people's sup
port of the war.
The Germans know full well the
tremendous weight and s girflcance
of popular support of the w» % of
the people at home backing up the
army in the field. As the loan suc
ceeds our enemies will sorrow; as
it falls short they will rejoice.
Every dollar subscribed will help
and encourage the American sol
diers and hurt and depress the ene
mies of America.
The loan will be a test of the loy
alty and willingness of the people
of the United States to make sacri
fices compared with the willingness
of our soldiers to do their part.
There must be and will be no failure
by the people to measure up to the
courage and devotion of our men in
Europe. Many of them have given
up their lives; shall we at home with
hold our money? Shall we spare
our dollars while they spare not
their very lives?
A CALL TO DUTY
From the battle fields in France
there comes an unspoken call that
should find an answer in every
American’s heart. The recent great
events in Europe, the successes of
American arms on the fields of
France should spur every American
to greater effort.
Our people at home should not
rest on the laurels of our soldiers
in France. Every death on the field
of honor in the line of duty and for
our country’s cause shou'd be a call
to us for every sacrifice and every
exertion to aid the cause for which
our soldiers are fighting, for which
our soldiers have died.
Increase production, decrease con
sumption, save, and lend to the Gov
ernment. Every cent lent to the
United States is used to support, I
strengthen and aid our soldiers in
France.
OUR BOYS GET IT
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The American army in France is
getting good soft bread made from
pure wheat flour, says a recent War |
Department statement- There are
several reasons why it is not ad
visable to carry out the wheat-saving
substitute rule in bread making over- j
seas. Field bakers must work swift-.
ly and can not afford to experiment,
with new flour mixtures. Every
effort is made by the subsistence
division of the Quartermaster Corps
to give these bakers the best ma
terial possible and to make the bak
ing process simple and standard.
Our troops in the United States
have bee,n getting the prescribed
amount of substitutes in their bread,
and it has pryed satisfactory. Here,
bakers are definitely located and
can easily work out mixtures that
will produce good bread. The daily
ration for soldiers of the American
Expeditionary Forces is 18 ounces of
wheat flour for soft bread. This
has proved to be more than enough,
and a reduction to 16 ounces per
| day is now under consideration,
i The army supply of flour at this
1 time is 100 per cent abundant at
] every place along the line, from the
mills to the battle line in France.
| Every requirement for flour, both
! for domestic and overseas consump
tion, is being met.
MAILING YOURSELF MONEY
Every time you stick a Thrift or
War Savings Stamp on your card
you are mailing money to yourself
i to be received later with interest.
Cashing in these stamps is going to
be better than “getting money from
home,” for with the money comes
the reminder that you contrbiuted
to the great victory which then will
have been completely won. ,
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The trading schooner Belvedere
arrived in Nome roadstead recently
after a successful trip to the Si
berian coast. She is owned by a
Seattle firm.
The Best Buy
Of The Year
You Can't Lose
NEW PRICE TODAY
Lot No. 1 - $569.52
Lot No. 2 - $242.52
These Lots are centrally located, being
only a few steps from the Postoffice and
office of U. S. Commissioner and across
the street from the Telegraph office and
Federal Reserve.
The Lots origionally sold for $1200.00
and $,500.00 respectively. For further in
formation see Dr. J. R. Bowen, the dentist
Bowen Building, Nenana.
A DAY OF JUDGMENT
Address of Judge Amidon, Delivered to a Convicted
Pro-German Citizen on the Passing of
Sentence, at Bismark, S. Dakota
The foreign citizen is not wholly
to blame for his little Germanies,
or litle Swedens, or little Ital’es, be
lieves the Mason City Gazette. Here
in America there ought to be a
movement to teach Greeks and other
foreigners the American language
and as soon as war conditions per
mit those who employ these for
eigners should make it a part of
their contract that they go to night
school and learn the language, or
some other means should be devised.
In North Dakota, recently Judge
Amidon passed sentence on a preach
er. In passing sentence he made a
declaration which ought to be print
ed in every newspaper in the United
States and especially those printed
in any foreign language.
Rev. J. Fontana, pastor of the
German Evangical church, New
Salem, N. D., had been on trial at
Bismark. He was charged with hav
ing uttered from time to time sedi
tious language for the purpose of
interfering with the military activi;
ties of the government. The jury
returned a verdict of guilty against
him. In passing sentence. Judge
Amidon said:
“You received your final papers
as a citizen in 1898. By the oath
which you then took you renounced
and abjured all allegiance to Ger
many and swore that you would
bear true faith and allegiance to
the United States. What did that
mean? That you would set about
earnestly growing an American soul,
and put away your German soul.
That is what your oath of allegiance
meant.
“Have you done that? I do not
think you have. You have cherished
everything German, and stifled every
thing American. You have preachei
German, prayed German, read Ger
man, sung German. Every thoughi
of your mind and every emotioi
of your heart through all these year:
has been German. Your body ha:
been in America, but your life ha:
been in Germany. If you were se
down in Prussia today you. woulc
be in harmony with your environ
ment. It would fit you just as i
flower fits the leaf and stem o
the plant on which it grows.
“\ou have influenced others wh<
have been under your ministry to d<
the same thing. You said you woult
cease to cherish your German soul
and that you would begin to built
up inside of you an American soul
That meant that you would begii
the study of American life and his
tory; that you would open you
mind and heart to all of its in
fluences; that you would try to un
derstand its ideals and purposes, am
love them; that you would try t
build up inside of yourself a whol
group of feelings for the Unite*
States, the same as you felt to
wards the Fatherland when you lef
Germany.
“There have been a good man
Germans before me in the last sum
mer. They have lived in this coun
try, like yourself, ten, twenty, thirt
and forty years, and they had t
give their evidence through an in
terpreter. It has been an impressiv
part of the trial. As I looked a
them and tried as best I could, t
understand them, there was writte
all over every one of them. ‘Mad
in Germany.’ American life had no
dimmed that mark in the least. I
stood there as bright and fresh a
the inscription upon a new coin.
1 “I do not blame you and thes
men alone. I blame myself,
blame my country. We urged yo
to come; we welcomed you; we gav
you opportunity; we gave you land
we conferred upon you the diader
of American citizenship—and the
we left you- We paid no attentio
to what you have been doing.
“And now the world war ha
thrown a searchlight upon our na
tional life, and what have we dis
covered? We find all over thes
United States, in groups, little Gei
manies, little Italies, little Austria:
little Norways, little Russias. Thes
foreign people have thrown a circl
about themselves, and instead o
keeping the oath they took that the
would try to prow American souls
inside of them, they have studiously
striven to exclude everything Ameri
can, and to cherish everything for
eign.
“A clever gentleman wrote a ro
mance called ‘America, the Melting
! Pot.’ It appealed to our vanity, and
' through all these years we have been
! seeing romance instead of fact. That
j is the awful truth. The figure of
my country stands beside you today.
It says to me: ‘Do not blame this
1 man alone. I am partly to blame.
I Punish him for his offense, but let
j him know that I see things in a new
j light; that a new era has come here,
j Punish him to teach him and the like
of him, and all those who have been
misled by him and his life, that a
change has come; that there must be
an interpretation anew of the oath
of allegiance. It has been in the
past nothing but a formula of words.
From this time on it must be trans
lated into living characters incarnate
in the life of every foreigner who
has his dwelling place within our
midst. If they have been cherishing
foreign history, foreign ideals, for
eign loyalty, it must be stopped, and
[ they must begin at once all over
again, to cherish American thought
American history, American id > Is.
“That means something that is to
be done in your daily life. It does
not mean simply that you .vill not
take up arms against the United
States. It goes deeper than that. It
means that you will live for the
United States, and ‘hat you wil
cherish and grow American souls in
side of you. It means that y^u wil
take down the picture of the kaiser
: and put up the picture of Washing
| ton; that jDu will take down tin
| picture of Bismark and hang up tn<
j picture of Lincoln. it means tha
■ you will begin to sing Americai
(songs; that \‘ou will begin enmestb
'to study American history; that yoi
i; will begin to open your lives thri
i i every avenue to the influences o:
(American life; it means that you be
[! gin at first of all to learn English
1 the language of this country, si
. that there may be a door into you
souls through which American lifi
I may enter.
' j “I am not so simple as to enter
' tain the idea that racial habits am
I . qualities can be put aside by the wil
, in a day, in a year, in a generation
I ' but because that is difficult is al
•; the more reason why you should ;■
i about it, and quit cherishing a for
-1 eign life If half the effort had beei
■ i put forth in these foreign communi
- j ties to build up an American lif
-, in the hearts of these foreign bori
i ■ citizens that has been put fort
) ■ to perpetuate there a foreign life
- | our situation would have been en
II tirely different from what it is to
- j day. You have violated your oat'
t of allegiance in this, that you hav
cherished foreign ideals and trie
f to make them everlasting. That i
- the basic wrongs of these thousand
- of little islands of foreigners tha
f have been formed through our whol
i limits, that instead of trying to re
- move the foreign life out of thei
; souls, and to build up an America
t j life in them, they have striven stud
); iously, from year to year, to stifl
l ; American life, and to make foreign
; [ ness perpetual. That is disloyalty
t and the object, one of the big oh
t jects of this serious proceeding ii
s this court, and other like proceedini
courts is to give notice that tha
i must be stopped.
I “I have seen before my eyes an
i other day of judgment. When w
s get through with this war, and civi
; liberty is made safe once more upo
i this earth, there is going to be
i day of judgment in these Unite
i States. Foreign born citizens an
the institutions which have cherishe
s foreignness, are going to be brough
- to the judgment bar of this re
. public. That day of judment look
3 more to me today like the great Da
- of Judgment than anything that
i, have thought of for many year:
e There is going to be a separatio
e on that day of the sheep from th
f goats. Every institution that ha
v been engaged in this business o
making foreignness perpetual in the
United States will have to change
I or cease. That is going to cut
i deep, but it is coming. I recognize
| the right of foreign-born citizens
■ hear their religion, if they cannot
understand it in English, spoken to
them in the tongue that they can
, understand. If they have not yet
j acquired enough English to read,
! they are entitled to have a paper
that shall speak to them the lan
: guage that they can understand I
1 cannot go further than that.
“And this is the capital thing that
j is going to be settled on that day
.of judgment, namely that the right
; to those things is temporary, and
| it cannot be enjoyed by anybody
; who is not willing to regard it as
! temporary, and to set about earn
estly making the time of that en
i joyment as short as possible. That
| means a fundamental revision of
! these foreign churches. No freedom
| of the press will protect a perpetual
(foreign press in these United States.
| It won't protect any press or any
| church who, while it is trying to
meet a temporary need, does not set
itself earnestly about the business
of making that temporary situation
just as temporary as possible, and
not making it, as has been true in
the past, just as near perpetual as
possible.
“Men who are not willing to do
that will have to chose. If they pre
fer to cherish foreign ideals they
will have to go to their own. If it
| is necessary we will cancel every
certificate of citizenship in these
United States. The federal govern
I ment has power to deal with that
! subject and it is going to deal with
| it. Nothing else thijn that surely
can be possible. And the object of
| the sentence which I pronounce up
i on you today is not alone to punish
j you for disloyalty of which you
j have been guilty, but to serve notice
! upon you, and the like of you. and
i all of the groups of people in this
I district who have been cherishing
I foreignness, that the end of that
,; regime has come. It is a call tc
. j every one of you to set about earn
RUST HOUSE
Mrs. Ed. Williams, Prop.
A and FIFTH STREETS
ROOMS AND BOARD
ROOMS 75c and $1.00
Coffee and Doughnuts 25c
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WANT ADS
LOST—Lady's gold brooch pin,
made of native gold, with pick
and shovel design. Finder please
return to News office or owner,
Mrs. Victor Sogura.
FOR SALE—Panoramic views of
the town of Nenana in 1916 and
1917; taken by Johnson, of Fair
banks, from hill overlooking the
town. Apply at News office.
FOR SALE—Steamer trunks, trav
eling bags, suit cases A large
variety to choose from. Simson’s.
I* OR SALE, CHEAP—-Large tank
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
good as new; also sink. Inquire
Simson’s.
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FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN—Sew
ing machine, phonograph, launch
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Bunny, with 2 V4 h. p. Ferro en
gine, shot gun, rifle, etc. Inquire
of J. A. Slippern.
, FOR SALE—-Beaver Board, in plain
I and oak finish. Doors and win
dows, sash stock and mouldings.
Inquire Simson’s.
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
PIANOS—For Rent and Sale. Sim
son’s. >
' FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
| four rooms furnished. See Slippern
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! estly the growing of an American
| soul in.Jde of you.
“The court finds and adjudges
that you are guilty under each count
of the indictment, and as a punish
ment therefore, it is further ad
judged that you be imprisoned in
the federal penitentiary at Leaven
worth for the term of three years.
The sentences under the three counts
of indictment are to run concur
rently and not successively.”
A contract for the building of
two relief cabins on the Chisana
trail was recently awarded to D.
Woodman of McCarthy bv Road
! Commissioner James Wilson.
A NATION'S STRENGTH
IS IN ITS FOOD SUPPLY
Eat lew —Waste nothing
Create a Reserve
AMERICA MUST FEED
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HEATERS
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OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
Yukon Stoves and Drums
Air Tight Heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
ing or Heating Line
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
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SUBMERGED.
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