7HE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918. at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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FOR WORi D REFORM
An appeal to the Christian public
of Great Ei itain to support the prin
ciple of self-government of all
peoples qualified for it has been
sent from New York to the leading
newspapers of Great Britain and
Ireland by the National Committee
on the Churches of the Moral Aims
of the War This committee has
been conducting a campaign thru
the American churches in support
of President Wilson’s policies in
prosecuting the war. international
justice and a league of nations. It
comprises representatives of the
Church Peace Union, the League to
Enforce Peace, the Federal Coun
cil of the Churches of Christ in
America and the World Alliance for
international friendship through the
churches.
The appeal is signed by former
President William H. Taft, Alton B.
Parker, Hamilton Holt, the Rev.
Charles S. McFarland, and the Rev.
Sidney L. Guilck and others.
They assert in their appeal that
foremost among the moral aims
of the American church is “the
principle of self-government, self
determination and, in the due and
fit end, independence for all peoples
with reference to their development,
their training in self-government and
their final and complete self
direction.
»» c uc:ic*c, vviiv*iiurs uic al
peal, “that this policy should be
applied to all the acquisitons of
any of the Allies. Lands, islands
and peoples, not yet advanced in
social organization, government, or
a capacity for the articulate ex
pression of their desires may re
quire control, direction and educa
tion. Such should be kept in tutel
age until they are able to speak
for themselves and act on their
own account; but this should be
done solely for them, for their de
velopment, and for their free and
self-governing future, and not under
pretext whatever to provide the
world with their products and fur
nish a profit for others.
“What is true of savage lands i?
equally true of empires, once grea!
and powerful, but now smitten with
misgovernment and massacre, dis
order, anarchy and pillage. These
should be governed by an ‘nter
national agency’, representing free
and self-governing powers, united
in a league of free nations, as
agency under no temptation to pro
long dependence, profit by authority
or magnify the national aims and
national prestige of a suzerain ad
ministration, however wise and effi
cient.
In reorganiz.ng, reuniting anc
raising from long oppression and di
vision, lands and peoples, the same
principle should be followed Lands
enjoying an autonomous independ
ence in the past should not lose
this hereditary privilege to round
a frontier or provide for some
greater power. No treaties, secret
or open, new or old, no pet colonial
ambitions and no traditional claim
or policy, no commercial desires and
no colonial plans must be permitted
to bring any land or people under
any flag or rule save for its own
development and its ultimate inde
pendence, pledged by its eolonial
rulers.
“This is now our own settled
nat:onal policy, recognised by all
political pa.-ties. Wa confidently
appeal to the conscience of our
fellow Christians and to each and
[all of their churches and communions
[to adopt, to support and to urge
j this principle, this practice and this
policy.”
EDUCATING SHIPPERS
A nation-wide campaign to im
prove the nation's express service
was inaugurated on February 10 by
the American Railway Express com
pany through the 135,000 men an 1
women employed in the express
business. The purpose is to interest
1 the shippers and the people gener
ally in this government organiza
tion’s plan to raise the standards
of packing, wrapping and marking
express shipments with a view to
minimizing the waste of time, effort
and money that result from pack
ages being lost or damaged through
iax methods of prepara ing them
for sending forward.
While shippers and the public are
being educated to pack, wrap and
mark shipments properly, the Amer
ican Railway Express company will
campaign among its own employes,
instructing them to avoid rough
handling, mis-routing and other devi
ations from correct express methods
in offices and terminals, and this
closer supervision is expected to
improve internal operating condi
tions. ‘'Better service campaign
committees” will be organized and
“four minute speeches" will be made
to drivers, platform men, office and
claim bureau clerks, car messengers
and other employes. “Start express
shipments right,” texts will be
placed on posters to be placed on
express wagons and on window
placards.
U.. 1 ... O on 1&1C
“no marl;" bureaus of the company
received 127,859 shipments which
the company had been unable to de
liver because all means of indica
tion of either shippers or consignees
had been lost, and part of the cam
paign will be made to eradicate this
“no mark” evil and induce shippers
to place identification marks on
shipments in addition to the address
tags. Use of inferior quality of
twine and paper will be discouraged.
NEW BRITISH AIRCRAFT
British naval authorities announce
that the “rigid airships” of the
super-Zeppelin type now under con
struction in Great Britain will be
at least twice as good as anything
Britain now possesses and “probably
superor to any other airships in the
world."
Although no details of these new
airships have been made public, the
naval authorities say the German
modern super-Zeppelin have a capac
; ity of apporximately 2,000,000 cubic
feet of gas, and possess a range
of action from 4,000 to 8.000 miles
with a maximum full speed of about
175 miles an hour and the ability
to rise to a height of about 20,000
feet.
It is claimed that the rigid air
ships now in use or about to be
' constructed could, in settled weather
cross the Atlantic and return with
, out descending. It is also asserted
that a rigid airship of 10,000,000
! cubic feet capacity could carry a
: commercial load of about 150 tons
j over such a distance as the trans
j Atlantic passage. Naval authorities
are quoted here as saying that the
building of these huge airships is
a “practicable proposition.”
A big first and second class Out
side mail was received last night
FORMER WKJK
El OF DOINGS
ON THE OUTSIDE
Writing- to Mrs. Maude Bishop
from West St. John. N. B., under
date of January 8, Mrs. Love, for
mer postmaster of N'enana, says
that she got right into war work
as soon as she reached her home
and is still hard at it. The work
she says, is greatly different from
the Red Cross work in N'enana. as
they are more in the actual war
zone, as it were- St. John was a
city of mourning. St. John was a
there was scarcely a family that had
not lost someone in the great
struggle.
The city was in darkness every
night and even the street cars ran
without lights, as the people ex
pected to be bombarded by the sub
marines where were believed to be
close by.
The news of the signing of the
armistice was received by the people
with wild delight, and a great cele
bration of a lengthy nature was in
dulged in.
Then the flu invaded the town
and caused sad havoc, she says.
The disease wiped out whole families
rnd caused mrre distress and tuifer
ing than could be described. Owing
to the inability of the majority of
the people to attend to their house
hold duties, diet kitchens were
started by the government, and fif
teen women at a time took turns
at cooking food, which the autos
distributed and in this manner thous
ands of lives were saved Mrs.
Love expresses the hope that the
flue will never reach Nenana. Her
family escaped the disease.
Just now, she says, the govern
ment has its hands full in getting
back and relocating returning sol
diers. From six to eight thousand
of them come in at a time. Most
of them are married to French an 1
English girls. The soldiers arrive
on one transport and their wives
on the following. Twenty thousan 1
women have arrived so far and, she
says, seventy thousand more are due
shortly. This, she says, is hard on
the Canadian girls. The incoming
women are met by a delegation of
women from the city; those who are
ill are sent to hospitals and those
who are able to travel are sent
to destinations in care of nurses
who are paid *4 10 a day by the
government for their services and
are allowed a rest of four days
after their duties have come to an
end.
Elven Johnson, formerly of the
Terminal, has been discharged from
the army and is now taking life
easy in San Jose. Cal., his home
town. Writing to Andy Hoey, un
der date of Januray 16, he says
that he spends most of his time in
an automobile, driving friends
around and having a good time gen
erally.
He is at present with his folks
and does not know what he will do
for some time at least.
W. S. (Doct Layman, former
mayor of Chena, and later a Ne
nanaitev is at present ranching on
his brother’s ranch, up the Willam
mette valley and about 55 miles,
from Portland. He talks enthusi
astically of the life on the ranch
and says he is trying hard to make
a farmer out of himself. Tractors
are being used to farm with, he says
and he is operating a 40 h p tractor
which handles four plows with discs
and steel harrows. The ground is
ready for the seeder right behind
th" tractor.
Doc say5 that there is good shoot
ing around the ranch and that he
occassionly takes a crack at the
Chinese pheasants, quail and jack
rabbits, which appear to be plentiful
in that district. The nearby foot
hills affordf good dear hunting and
there is also plenty of good fisiiin:
around the ranch.
All tilings come to him who waits,
including poor sis ion—unless he
cares for his eyes in time. We fit
you with goggles—light, medium,
and dark amber, 50c to $1.25; Wm.
Taylor, jeweler.
Kenana. Wtisrs Battle and Rivers Meet
LOCOL SUV INTERFSTS
MEET ENCOURAGEMENT
The Slav men who are seeking
to interest men of their own race
in a general and orderly effort for
self improvement are meeting with
very decided encouragement. They
are showing the true American
spirit in the way they are starting
their movement. Each man who
becomes interested in the plans and
declares his purpose to support the
movement, goes out to find at least
one other man whom he may inter
est and enlist in the work. One
man, in thinking over Mr. Diven's
address on the relations of foreign
born people to the Government, ex
pressed his hearty conviction that,
as a class, they have been better
treated thaji they would be in any
other country in the world, and that
they have not been availing them
selves of the opportunities already
offered for self improvement in line
with the spirit and aims of the
T'nited States. He feels that as a
people they should not confine their
thought merely to getting enough to
eat and to wear, and to pay travel
ing expenses to some other locality
whenever they may wish to shift
around a bit, but that the time
has come when they must acquaint
themselves with the language of the
country, with the country’s institu
tions, and link themselves up with
the many lines of public effort in
behalf of public improvement. For
example, all should understand the
value and aim of the public library
and should support the public lib
rary, at least to the extent of the
small yearly membership fee, even
though they may not yet be able
to make any very extensive use of
the library’s contents. This man
realizes that our country’s strength
and greatness depend upon the
united interest and effort of its
individual citizens. Many older resi
dents of Amerca might profit by
such a bit of wisdom, carefully con
sidered
MRS. CHANQUIST LEAVES
FOR HER HOME AT TANANA
On the last stage leaving Fair
banks for Tanana, Mrs. Charles
Chanquist took passage for the army
town and, it is believed that she
intends to dispose of her holdings
there and go Outside.
Mrs. Chanquist arrived in Fair
banks recently from the States, en
route to Tanana. and has been re
siding in the upper town for a few
days.
Mrs. Chanquist has recently been
through very trying times; fate has
been more than unkind to her. She
went Outside last summer and it
was the intention of her husband
and son to join her in the States,
going out on the last boat of the
season for that purpose.
Shortly after her arrival in the
States her baby was bom, but did
not live long. The influenza then
made a raid on her family, with the
result that her mother, two brother",
and a sister succumbed to the dis
ease and she herself had a bad at
tack of it. Shortly after her re
covery she heard of the Sophia dis
aster, on which boat both her hus
band and son had taken
passage.
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—A new 7mm Mauser
rifle with 40 rounds of ammu
nition, $50; also a 12-gauge Rem
ington automatic shot gun, almost
new, $40. Inquire at News office.
WANTED TO BUY—A three or
four-room house. Must be
reasonable. Inquire News office.
FOR SALE—-Sled and 13 dogs with
harness complete. Sled 12 feet
long, in good shape. Malamutes
and huskies form the team. Ar
rived in Nenana recently from
St. Michael. $160 for the outfit
Apply George Hanoff. Cooney
Hotel.
She arrived at Juneau recently,
where she claimed the bodies of
her husband and son and buried
them.
The Chanquists own the Grand
Hotel at Tanana, and were old
timers in this section of the country.
PROTZMAN AND CALLAHAN
BACK FROM HOT SPRINGS
L. F. Protzman, the game warden,
and Dan Callahan, of Fairbanks,
who had been sojourning at the Big
Chena Hot springs, taking the water
cure, returned to Fairbanks yes
terday.
They report that a large number
of caribou were seen in the district
and that wolves are also very plenti
ful
Jack Singleton, of Singleton's
roadhouse on the Broad Pass trail,
left this morning for his home.
We are in the Fur Manu
facturing Business, therefore
CAN and WILL pay you more
for your furs than any other
fur buyer in town
SI|M SON’S
Don’t Leave
ALASKA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wage* at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latoucbe.
If you go out you will only
come back “Buated” in tbe spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER.
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouchs and
Kennecott.
ALASKA PUBLICITY
BUREAU
Juneau Alaska.
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HEATERS
RANGES
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
Y'ukon Stoves and Drums
Air Tight Heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
ing or Heating Line
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
NICELY HOUSE
With Belmont In Connection
POOL CANDIES CIGARS
AND TOBACCOS
WARM COMFORTABLE ROOMS
PRICES REASONABLE
Rate* By the Week or Month
MRS. NICELY, Proprietress
Nenana—The Gateway to McKinley
national Park.
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Membership List
Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred. Mrs. Clara
Brown, Jess
Berggren. Ernst
Browne, F. D.
Bresnahan, E. D.
Blankfield, D.
Bowen, J. R.
Blair, Roy
Brooker, Ed
Bennett. .1 F.
Ball, I. B.
Erown, Erie
Burns. R. E.
Coutts. W T
Calderhead, R. W.
Campbell, N'. J.
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney, M. -T.
Doner, Frank
Diven, R J,
Douse, Fred
Davis, Harry
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A B
Fisher. Joe
Flower, J. H
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Wm
Head. E. A.
Haslem. II. G.
Hagan, James
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Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
Gray. E. B.
Gilcher, W. H.
Hyland. Mike " '
Isabel. L. C.
Irvine, A. J. ^ .
Johnson, A. G.
Jones. Frank
Julian, W. .1. ■■■:&>
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph. H. B
Koland, Knut "4,
Ketooroky, John A.
Laughlin, E. L.
Lund, E. E
Lehr. Q, F.
Markus, George
Mortensen, Peter
Myers, R R. ^
Moore. Frank B
Miles, J. H.
McDonald. R. S. '*«**
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. C. Tp j
Nash, Martin
Owen, Harry \ ,
O’Keefe, Larry
Parks, S. E. ?
Pennington. G. W
Palfy, Paul
Packer, W. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Rosburg, Herman * >’
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm.
Sborgia, William
Shaw, Harry N.
Stol, N’els
Schmidt, Oar!
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippem, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Scott, J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
Stone, A J.
Schmidt, Fete
Smith, Chas.
Southworth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Taylor, Frank
Tunison, B.
Thompson, Theodor*
Toussaint, J G. K
Tyler, M. V.
Taylor, Wm. J.
Verhaeghe, Cyriela
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Woods, Geo. W.
Williams, E. A.
Waechter, R. I.
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