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, 1879.
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UNCLE SAM, btHUULIHAD I tK
Uncle Sam is now a fully certified
schoolmaster, with about 200,000
khaki-clad pupils. This is the result
of the establishment of the educa
tional corps of the United States
army to provide training for voca
tions and academic instruction for
young men in the army.
The educational corps is under the
direction of Brigadier General Rob
ert I. Rees, who militarized the
American colleges last fall. Under
him is an executive commission of
three educators, Dr. Frank E. Spauld
ing, superintendent of schools >r.
Cleveland; Dr. John Erskine, pro
fessor of English at Columbia; and
Dr. Kenyon L. Butterfield, president
of the Massachusetts Agricultural
College. In all, about 7,500 in
structors, including a number of men
of high standing in American educa
tion, are teaching the American sol
diers the way to progress. Every
thing from a, b, c, to university sub
jects and from stenography to engin
eering is included within the curri
culum of this great and unique col
lege.
me army scr.oo;s were in iuu
operation by January, equipped with
$1,500 work of books specially or
dered from America and provided
in part by the American Library
association. But there has been a
shortage of books and often one
book has had to serve for a whole
class.
Many hundreds of army schools
have been established throughout
France wherever there are enough
American soldiers to warrant. Gen
eral Pershing’s order required a
post school in every place where 500
or more men were stationed, and
as the schools had to be opened at
once, all sorts of queer places, from
cafes to monasteries, were used as
schoolroms, until regular quarters
could be provided. The soldiers are
studying in barns, stable lofts, aero
dromes, army barracks and in one
case in a convent. Meantime the
army is endeavoring to provide ade
quate quarters and sufficient books
for its 200,000 students. In cities
like Coblenz, the city school build
ings are used without interfering
with the regular school life of the
children.
These post schools may be Ttermed
the primary schools of the army
educational system, though this is
inexact, as in many of these schools
more advanced education is given
to officers and men who are unable
to leave their posts and attend the
divisional schools or the university.
The men attend these post schools
after their regular day's work.
Then every division has a high
school centrally located with better
accommodations. Some 30,000 men
are attending such high schools.
Then comes the big army university
at Beaune, which will accommodate
many thousands of students. Be
sides there are about 8,000 officers
and men attending French univer
sities who have hospitably thrown
open their doors to their American
friends, and 2,000 more are in Eng
lish universities. These university
students are all men who have had
at least the equivalent of two years
in college.
Obviously few men can be de
tached from their own units to at
tend these universities, but the post
school does not interfere with mili
tary work, but is available to every’
soldier and thus has an important
place in the educational system.
The breadth of the v/oil: ii i.I:j
post scnoois being done is astound
ing. Men who cannot read or write
are to be found studying in the same
room with college graduates who
are working for advanced degrees.
There is a chance for everybody.
The list of subjects taught would fill
a book, but here are a few to illus
trate: Algebra, calculus, geometry,
triginometry, economics, literature,
French, German, Italian, Spanish,
agriculture, automobile repairing,
baking, barbering, bookkeeping, arith
metic, business English, business
forms, carpentry, cobbling, commer
cial law, cooking, horseshoeing, sur
veying, mechanical drawing, road
construction, salesmanship, stenog
raphy, typewriting, tailoring, tele
graphy, and telephone repair.
For illiterates schooling is com
pulsory, for the great bulk of tho
army it is elective.
RED CROSS NURSE
USES RAZOR 10
AMPUTATE LEG
DRAMA, Macedonia. — With a
razor, a spool of cotton thread, and
a small portion of ether and chloro
form, Miss Maria P. Kouroyen, an
American Red Cross nurse, per
formed a life-or-death operation
here, as the result of which and her
other errands of mercy she has come
to be known as “the American an
gel” by the homeless and starving
Greek refugees.
Born of Greek parents, Miss Kou
royen is a graduate nurse of the
Massachusetts General hospital in
Boston. Because of her knowledge
of Greek, the American Red Cross
sent her to Macedonia, where typhus,
smallpox, and cholera tread on each
others’ heels and where the refu
gees bury their dead beneath the
dirt floors of their shell-shattered
shacks so that the bread cards of
the dead members of their family
shall not be taken up.
A Greek soldier, one of whose
legs had been crushed, was brought
to the boxcar on a railroad siding
in which Miss Kouroyen was living.
Something had to be done for him.
at once.
Miss Kouroyen spent no time in
talking. Borrowing a razor from
Lieutenant Abner J. Cobb of Den
ver, an American Red Cross field
worker, who was shaving by candle
light in the boxcar, Miss Kouroyen
anaesthetized her patient with her
small supply of ether and chloro
form, and performed an amputa
tion, using cotton thread to “tie off”
the arteries and veins.
Despite the prophecy of a local
doctor that the aged patient would
not live through the night, Miss
Kouroyen some time later received
a visit from her patient. He had
an artificial limb made for him in
the American Red Cross artificial
leg factory for Greek war mutiles
in Athens.
There was a report in circulation
in Nenana yesterday to the effect
that the Tanana river at McCarty
was higher than ever known before,
but reports from Fairbanks indicate
that water conditions at that place
have not been seriously disturbed
as yet, and the McCarty report is
(regarded, as an exaggeration.
1918 PRODUCIi
OF DRESSED MERE
BROKE RECORD
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Americar
dressed meat production, including
lard, amounted in 1918 to 20,129,
800,000 pounds—a quantity never
before approached in magnitude bj
the livestock industry of this or anj
other country. The corresponding
figure for 1917 was 16,317,300,00(
pounds.
Three-fourths of this enormous in
crease was in pork and one-fourtt
was in beef. ^
The meat surplus in 1918 was s(
great that extra export demand;
made little impression upon it, al
though 1918 export shipments o!
meat and lard nearly doubled th<
1917 figures — rising from slightlj
jless than one and three-fourths bill
ion pounds to slightly more thar
j three billion pounds—and these fig
I ures do not include shipments tc
American military forces abroad.
The aggregate 1917 consumptior
of dressed meat and lard in th«
'United States was approximately
14% billion pounds, but in 1918 i1
rose to 1714 billion pounds. This
means, after allowing for increase ir
population, an addition of 23
pounds for every man, woman, and
child in the country—despite the
food conservation campaign, which
in 1917 caused consumption to de
cline considerably.
“While the people as a whole,
through their abstinence, averted the
immediate crisis, it was the farmer
who was the really big factor in the
ultimate situation,” says the bureau
of animal industry, United States
department of agriculture. “The pro
ducer, of course, was expected to do
his part, but he did it with such
powerful effect that in a single
year the meat shortage was turned
into a pronounced surplus. Thus in
1918 there was not only meat
enough to supply all foreign de
mands compatible with the restrict
ed shipping facilities, but a greatly
enlarged quantity was available for
ihome consumption.
“To be sure, it cost the farmer
more, much more, to feed his ani
mals and get them to market. Like
wise, all other steps from nroducer
to consumer were more costly, hence
the high prices. But the unprece
dented prosperity of the people as a
whole enabled them to afford the in
creased cost. In fact, laboring peo
ple probably^ consumed more meai
during the past year than in pre-war
j times.
“The total number of cattle
slaughtered in 1918 is estimated at
15,750,400, as against 13,723,900 in
1917. Their average weights were
practically the same for both years
and the beef produced from then
was 6,686,000,000 pounds in 1917
and 7,641,000,000 pounds in 1918
This was a remarkable achievement
as it hardly would have been cred
ited that beef growers could increase
their production a billion pounds ir
one year.
“The hog matures quickly, there
fore a much more rapid increase
would be looked for than was th:
) case with cattle. Even so, the re
suits for 1918 can be described onlj
as stupendous. The hogs marketec
in 1918 numbered 69,854,700, a;
against 57,483,800 in 1917. Fur
ithermore, the average weight wa;
9% pounds more per hog in 1918
Thus when the animals are turnec
into pork and lard we have a tota
! production of 11,225,664,000 pound;
in 1918, as against 8,478,289,00C
pounds in 1917, an increase of 2,
747,355,000 pounds, or 32.4 pel
cent, nearly one-third.”
Striking increases in exports are
also shown by the bureau. Bee1
shipments abroad in 1918 were 91
per cent more than in 1917—the
chief 1918 items being 514,000,00(
pounds of fresh beef and 141,000,
000 pounds of canned beef. Ex
ports of pork and lard in 1918
amounted to 2,279,287,030—which
was 71.7 per cent more than the
quantity sent abroad in 1917.
The bureau shows that in the ag
gregate more meat by far is eater
in the United States than in an\
other country in the world—al
though some sparsely settled coun
tries raising much meat have a larg
WANT ADS
COMPLETELY FURNISHED Home
for sale, with greenhouse and
garden. Bargain. Present owner
compelled to leave Nenana. In
quire J. H. Flower, at N. C. store.
100-EGG INCUBATOR, practically
new, with brooder, for sale cheap.
Inquire Tolovana Trading Co.
BRAND NEW FISH WHEEL for
sale cheap. Set up, ready to
catch salmon. In good working
order. For particulars inouire at
News office. kl.4
Restaurant Tabs and Tablets at
the News Office.
er per capita consumption. It also
says that there is room in the
United States for a great expansion
in the use of mutton and lamb.
BIG SHIPMENT OF
RAILS COMING ON
STEAMER ALASKA
The steamer Alaska, which is due
to arrive in Xenana sometime to
night, is bringing, among other
things, a bargeload consisting of 337
tons of rails and a few tons of
perishables and general freight, con-1
signed to the Alaskan Engineering j
commission.
The shipment of rails, although
destined for Xenana,, is to be di- ]
verted in its entirety to Chena, and i
will be used in extending the gov- j
ernment railroad from Fairbanks
toward NTenana.
This decision to send the rails to
the other end of the line was ar- \
rived at by the Commission officials!
owing to the fact that the ground:
from the Happy end appears to
have been less affected by the re- j
cent rains and high water than the,
grade at the Xenana end. Con-1
tractors on the Happy end would
also appear to be having greater
success in grading operations and
it is considered likely that more
grade will be completed there than
at this end.
All of the other freight consigned
to the Commission will be discharged
here.
Lester Earhart, until recently at
work with the Lundborg outfit on
the Xenana-Fairbanks line, has ac
cepted a position as fireman on the
north side of the river.
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NOTICE
Passengers leaving on the train
for any point on the line south of
town are required to purchase
tickets before entering the train.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is
in the employment office, on the
ground floor of the general office
building, Alaskan Engineering com
mission.
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and can
be purchased in sufficient time be
fore the departure of the trains,
j Regular trains leave the foot of
i A street on Wednesdays and Satur
days at 8 p. m.
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
I FOURTH AND B STREETS
On Second ind Foii-th Tuesdays
At 8 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER.
Secretary Dictator.
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