THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for errry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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HIGH PRICES IN BELGIUM
Conditions in Belgium generally
are very hard, reports an Associated
Press correspondent, writing from
Belgium. The prices of food have
reached a distressing height. Coffee
costs the equivalent of about $5 a
pound; meat and butter, $2.50;
sugar, $.02; eggs, 40 cents each.
Men's suits of poor quality cost
from $100 to $120 Men's shoes
are about the same as clothing.
A moderate meal in a restaurant
costs the equivalent of about $5.
The streets of Brussels and other
cities are filled with promenading
crowds from morning to night be
cause scarcely anybody does any
work. The shops, many of which
indeed are closed, sell next to noth
ing for two reasons; in the first
place, because they' have very little
to sell, and secondly because the
prices are so high that the public
cannot possibly afford to pay them.
The people have been very much
disappointed about prices. They
always hoped that as soon as the
war was over and the armistice was
signed the necessaries of life would
be procurable at normal prices.
Their anticipation has been far from
realized. In fact, people have to
pay nowadays quite as much as
when the Germans were in Brus
sels.
The number of places of amuse
ment, dancing houses and the like
has increased to a great extent.
Another grave economic diffi
culty arises out of what is called
the unemployment fund. This was
created during the war to aid work
men, employers and others to en
able them to subsist without having
to be dependent upon the Germans.
In the first instance this fund work
ed advantageously, but after a while
a different state of things arose.
A workman who was being fed
gratuitously by the relief organiza
tions received from the unemploy
ment fund regular pay of about 100
franc a month for doing nothing,
and numbers of these workmen, well
content with their lot, refuse to re
turn to work.
I he railways, telephones and tele
graphs in Belgium have been for
practical purposes destroyed. The
Belgians are doing their best to
restore them, but it will take a
long time before the ante-bellum
condition is reestablished. Out of
pure mischief the Germans de
stroyed all that they could. For in
stance, the rails on the line between
Adenkerke to Bruges and Ghent
were cut into pieces three or four
yards in length and this was done
in the most systematic manner, a
special machine being brought up to
sever the rails one by one. The
line is now being gradually re
stored, but one can still see the
short lengths of rail ranged in
heaps along the track.
Communication between one town
and another is most difficult. In
places where the lines are to some
extent, hut only temporary, re-es
t. blisho'1 one or two trains are run
in the d ,y, but they go very slowly,
taking many hours over journeys
■which formerly lasted from half
in hour to an hour. Until the
coi.imcjication routes are restored
tr.i re-.T'ivlsioning of Blegium will
be verj difficult and prices cannot
go down.
PROFITEERING IN TURKEY
Profiteering was carried on to
such an extent in Turkey during
the war that, in the opinion of a
; special representative of the British
press as Constantinople, it passes
; comprehension how people managed
to live Writing from Constan
tinople, he says:
“There is no doubt that Turkey
during the war was largely the
plaything of Knver Pasha, Talaat
Pasha, and their band of satellites.
They reduced the country to a state
of wholesale corruption remarkable
for Turkey, and in amassing riches
themselves allowed economic con
ditions to become a nightmare.
“Nowhere else in the whole area
of the war have the prices of com
modities approached anything like
the heights known here. The right
to use a railway wagon was sold
for fl,000. The profiteer who se
cured it bought, say, sugar from
Austria or Germany at a shilling
or so a pound, and sold it at two
or three hundred times its value
making £50,000 or more on a single
consignment of modest dimensions.”
RUSSIANS BURN
IK FOR LIGHT
With the American Forces on
Dwina—The shortage in kerosene
and candles in Northern Russia has
brought into use once more a primi
tive lighting arrangement known as
the “svetila”, an arrangement to
burn birch twigs.
The “svetilas” have been resur
rected from some ancient storing
place in the log houses of the vil
lages and are now lighting many
of them. The arrangement con
sists of a wooden trough, about
two feet long, with an iron pan
to catch the ashes from the burn
ing birch twigs, which are placed
in a fork like arrangement so that
they slant downward and burn
easily.
Each twig, or “lutchinka” burns
about five minutes, with about as
much light as a candle and much
more smoke. The members of the
family take turns feeding it.
The “svetila” is but one sample
of the resort to old customs oc
casioned by the general shortage of
almost every imported commodity
in the villages along the Dwina
river. The peasant women are
again generally employing the “pre
elka”, a primitive wooden loom on
which they card and weave flax
for their garments. The result is
cloth, both of coarse and fine va
rieties, and not at all bad looking.
COMMERCIAL CLUB
TO MEET TONIGHT
The regular weekly meeting of
the Nenana Commercial club will be
held at the club chambers in the
Union Building at 8 o’clock this
evening.
As important matters will be up
for discussion, all members are
urged to be in attendance.
Jacob Clark and Nellie Aragon,
of Douglas recently imbibed too
much hard cider and were placed
in the bastile by Marshal John
son. Clark got off with the pay
ment of $52.60 and Nellies’s hus
band put up $25 to secure her re
turn to his bed and board. Accord
, ing to Clark the pair swallowed
two demijohns full of the stuff be
fore they became hilarious.
IS
WORLD MENACE:
ACTION URGED
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AMSTERDAM.—The five card
inal points of Bolshevism are, ac
cording to M. Oudendyk, formerly
Dutch minister in Petrograd, as
follows:
One—High wages.
Two—Don’t work.
Three—Take other people’s
property.
Four—No punishment.
Five—No taxation.
“1 wish, said Mr. Oudendyk, “to
give a solemn warning to the work
ing classes of all nations against
the high-falutin notions which I
have seen in Russia. Bolshevism.
1 say without exaggeration, is the
end of civilization. I have known
Russia intimately for twenty years
under the old regime am! under
the new conditions. Never have
the working classes of Russia suf
fered as they are doing at the pre. •
ent moment notwithstanding all that
the present so-called ruling classes
in that country choose to tell tne
world.
“The hulk of the workmen In
Russia are today far an 1 way worse
off than they ever have been and
the state of unemployment is s/nply
terrible. When 1 left Petrograd
the situation was one of utter star
vation and most people hardly knew
how they would exist through the
following day. Wherever Bolshe
vism rules, the nation has been
beaten to pulp and is utterly help
less. The future to me seems hope
less. One thing is certain, that,
left as she is now, Russia will be
in a state of utter and complete
ruin.
“Factories are at a standstill and
are being ruined and, without the
aid of foreign capital, they can
never be revived. I have never
seen or dreamt of the possibility
of such corruption, tyranny, and
the absence of all semblance of
freedom as there is in Russia at
the present moment.
“Most of the workmen now be
gin to see that the regime of Bol
shevism cannot possibly last. The
whole world must stand shoulder to
shoulder so that out of the ruins
something may arise, but personally
1 know not what.”
NEMITES GET
FEU IN FB
On the last mail J. A. Slippern
received a letter from his wife, who
with their daughter Thora are now
in San Francisco, intimating that
both of them weer down with the
flu recently.
Mrs. Slippern says that she did
not have it very strong, but that
Thora was <|uite siek with it. They
have both recovered now and are
feeling none the worse for the ex
perience.
The flu would appear to have got
bad again, as Mrs. Slippern re
marks that everybody is wearing
masks again.
They expect to be joined by Arild
Slippern soon. He is at Camp
Dodge at present but expects to be
discharged soon.
WYOMING TO TAX
AUTOS BY WEIGHT
CHEYENNE.—A bill fathered
by the state highway commission
and ready for presentation during
the present legislative session pro
vides for a direct road tax on all
automobiles in proportion to the
weight of the car. Under the bill
an owner of a small touring car
would pay 10, and a heavy truck
from $40 to $50. Under the pres
ent system the state levies a tax
of $5 on each car, the total receipts
from this source for the present
year amounting to $80,750.
Jack Hansen, former timekeeper
for the track camp, has been trans
ferred to Camp 454 at the end of
steel from Happy station He left
this morning to assume his new
duties.
DUAL MONARCHY
FACES PROBLEM
CASH DIVISIONS
VIENNA.—Pending an investi
gation by Parliament of the dis
position of the imperial funds, the
p position of the former Emperor
Charles and the erstwhile imperial
family continues to be a painful
one, though not dangerous unless
the situation should lead to dis
orders. In that event the family
possibly may travel to Switzerland
or elsewhere.
The Socialist papers continue free
ly to attack the former emperor,
archdukes and aristocracy, claiming
that the latter did not do their duty
during the war. There is much
critical and frivolous gossip con
cerning the former Empress Zita.
The secret file of the old Em
peror Francis Joseph is being ex
amined. His fortune is variously
estimated at from 30,000,000 to
200.000. 000 crowns. According to
one report the old emperor divided
60.000. 000 crowns between his two
daughters Gisela and Valerie and
his grand-daughter, the Princess
Windischgraetz, with other large
sums of the imperial funds from
which donations were made to
churches, pensions and the royal
poor. Although Charles, officially
is the dispenser of these funds, it
is stated that in reality it is hand
led by the bank directors.
Ekertsau castle, where the former
emperor is now living does not be
long to him, hut is the property of
the state together with other large
estates and also the famous col
lection of jewels in Hofburg castle
among which is the “Florentina”
diamond, called the fourth largest
in the world, and also a wonderful
necklace. It is expected that this
property will be distributed among
the various republics of the former
empire when the accounts are set
tled among them- It will be nec
essary also to divide up the vast
and wonderful treasures, the master
pieces of art, paintings, antiquities
and vases centered in Vienna, for
merly crown property or in the state
museums or other museums or lib
raries. These are believed to be
worth several billions of francs.
The disposal of these treasures
is expected to be a difficult task
and to be fraught with disaster to
Vienna since her whole future ex
istence is believed to depend upon
her ability to make herself a center
of attraction for visitors, tourists,!
artists, architects and students of
music and medicine; now that she
no longer is a center of commerce
! and politics of a great empire that
j annually drew in billions of income
from such sources.
Friends of the former Emperor
Charles assert that all the sins of
the Hapsburgs have been visited
upon his head and that he has been
blamed for all the grafting in the
army, although the aristocrats de
clare that the grafting generals
weer principally those without titles.
They admitted, however, there were
a few exceptions in which corrupt
nobility profited by the war. It is
asserted by the friends of Charles,
the last emperor, that while the old
emperor never was permitted to get.
in touch with the people, Charles
immediately got rid of the “old
crowd” and did his best to intro
duce new men and to stc_ the
war.
The authorities reported loO eases
of influenza in Klawak, a native
village in Southeastern Alaska.
They were carefully looked after
by Miss Esther Gibson, a nurse
and no deaths occurred.
TRAPPERS. NOTICE!
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
SIMSON’S
Don’t Leave
ALASKA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only
come back “Busted” in the spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER.
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouche and
Kennecott.
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WANT ADS
FOR SALE—Sled and 13 dogs with
harness complete. Sled 12 feet
long, in good shape. Malamutes
I and huskies form the team. Ar
I rived in Nenana recently from
St. Michael. $160 for the outfit.
Apply George Hanoff, Cooney
I Hotel.
FOR SALE—Wall folding bed;
single spring; new lumber frame;
has silkoline curtain. Suitable
for one-room cabin, provides
shelf room, economizes space; is
more sightly than ordinary bed.
Price $12. Inquire Mrs. D’Orsay’s
Tailor Shop, Third and A streets.
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Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred, Mrs. Clara
Berggren, Ernst
Budow, A1
Browne, F. D.
Bresnahan, E. D.
Blankfield, D.
Bowen, J. R.
Blair, Roy
Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J. F.
Ball, I. B.
Brown, Erie
Burns, R. E.
Coutts, W .T.
Calderhead, R. W.
Campbell, N. J.
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney, M. J.
Doner, Frank
Liven, R. J.
Douse, Fred
Davis, Harry
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A. B.
Fisher, Joe
Flower, J. H.
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Wm.
Haslem, H. G.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W.
Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
Gray, E. B.
Gilcher, W. H.
Hyland, Mike
Isabel, L. C. "7 "
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Irvine, A. J.
Johnson, A. G.
Jones, Frank
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B.
Koland, Knut
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. f
Nash, Martin
O’Keefe, Larry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington, G. W
Palfy, Paul
Packer, W. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm.
Shaw, Harry N.
Stol, Nels
Schmidt, Carl
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Scott, J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
Stone, A. J.
Schmidt, Pete
' Smith, Chas.
Southworth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Thompson, Theodore
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.