THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1. 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana. Alaska,
for enzry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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WANTED—AN ELECTION LAW
An election law that will guar
antee the sanctity of the ballot
boxes is an Alaskan need which
should receive the earnest attend >r
of the Legislature, declares tb
Alaska Daily Empire (Juneau). In
dians who cannot read or write,
who have not severed their tribal
relations, who are not living as
civilized people live, should not be
permitted to vote. On the other
hand, Indians should be encouraged
to prepare themselves to assume
the duties and exercise the priv
ilges of citizenship.
Such performances as those
which were enacted in several
Alaska precincts in the last two
elections—at Seldovia. Afognak.
Unalakik and, perhaps, others—
should be made impossible in Alaska.
Those Indians, however, who arc
living like white people, who speak,
read and write the English lan
guage understanding')-, who know
what American principles of gov
ernment mean, who are doing their
bit in the development of Alaska,
should be allowed to vote. The
right to participate in the govern
ment should be held up to Alaska
Indians as a prize which may be
won by honest and industrious ef
fort.
There should be an Australian
ballot law passed abouc the man-,
datory nature of which there can
be no doubt. People should not be
given an opportunity to purchase
votes with cake and coffee or other
wise. People should be free from!
the danger of intimidation. None ■
should have an opportunity to “fix” i
the ballots that go in the boxes. (
The ballot boxes should be pro-;
tected by registration of voters pre- j
vious to election. Without regis-!
tration the permission that is grant-!
ed electors to vote in any precinct
within the division in which they
reside is a direct invitation to com
mit fraud. Registration of voters!
before election would permit the
voters’ lists to be checked up by
interested people and would enable
them to prevent disqualified per- j
sons from exercising the franchise
The Empire characterized the Dris
coll election law, passed by the 1915
Legislature, as an invitation for
fraudulent elections when it was
pending in the Legislature. It has
never changed its mind about it. It
is the worst election law that has
been passed in this century, as far
as we know, except one—that one
is the election provision of the
Alaska Organic Act. which Judge
Wickersham said was prepared
specially to prevent the Legislature
from amending it. That law per
mitted the use of any sort of scrap
of paper for a ballot, and had ab
solutely no safeguard against brib
ery intimidation or any of the other
methods of fraud.
Let us have an honest election
law, and let it be so plain that
elections may be held, the votes
counted and canvassed without the
need of courts and lawyers to tell
people what to do.
GARDEN DAY
“A Sixth of April Garden Day”
as a new national holiday with the
“millions of soldiers of the soil
marching to the furrows of free
dom” every year was advocated by
Char'O' Lathrop Pack, president of
the National War Garden commis
sion in a speech before the School
Garden Association of America re
cently in session at Chicago, in con
nection with the N'atioal Superin
tendents' Association.
“Could there be anything more
inspiring.” said Mr. Pack, “than
to have a day set aside in the
spring on which all of us shall get
out of doors and into the sunshine
for the first garden planting of the
year? On the last Sunday in March
we will have an extra hour of day
light which will mean millions of
dollars in increased home produc
tion Think what it would mean
every year if on the first Wednesday
in April or on April 6. the day we
declared war. the millions of mem
bers of the garden army marched
out into the furrows of freedom in
the war for food?
"In the great garden army there
is the making of the better and
healthier citizen—the creation of a
longing for a bit of land for the ii
dividua!—the creation of the desire
for a home. With that spirit im
planted in those who will come
after us we will have to set this
nation upon a rock that none can
shake—the great American home.
By all means let us mark this con
tinued building for better citizen
ship with a national holiday as a
sign to the world that the frontiers
of freedom will be maintained.”
Tfe-ara—Tie Gavwaj to McKinlo;
Wationa! Pari.
CHOFCH Will AID
PARIS—Actual work in the es
tablishment of three genera! work
shops for the employment of women
and girls whose bread-winners were
killed during the world war. has
been begun bv a committee of re
ligious leaders of the Methodist
Episcopal Church of America. The
committee, which has the sanction
of President Poincare and Marshal
Joffre will devote $2,500,000 to re
construction and reclamatioan work
during this year.
Among other projects for the re
lief of the devastated region al
ready started is the purchase of
a site for French orphans at Gren
oble. which includes a 250-acre farm
to be used in demonstration work
among the French peasants to
teach them the value of modern
methods of farming. The com
mittee also gave to the French
Protestant commission $25,000 to
be expended in rehabilitation work
without regard to religious denom
ination.
“France needs so many, many
things that whatever you do will
be of value, particularly in the de
vastated regions,” replied Marshal
Joffre, to a question by the re
ligious leaders as to how the Meth
odist Chuch in America could best
serve France “When people re
turn to their former homes in the
devastated areas and see the fright
ful destruction that has been ac
complished there,” he said, “they
will need not only material, but
also moral assistance. A great
tendency to immorality will follow
the shock of their loss.”
TRAVELER FROM
George F. Thomas, a Ruby min
ing man. returning from a sojourn
in the States, arrived on the tram
from the end of steel on Saturday
night, having mushed in over the
Broad Pass trail.
Mr. Thomas with two others
started out from Anchorage with a
850-pound load on a s’.ei 'hswn bv
three dogs, and the journey over the
tril by reason of tr.'- heavy load
was rather slow. His trailmates will
probably arrive tonight.
Mr. Thomas arrived at Anchor
age on the steamer Farragut and
stayed there ten days ere taking
the trail for the Interior. Several
people who arrived on the same
boat and who had intended “hitting
the trail" for Nenana and other In
terior points, deterred by the news
received at Anchorage, that the fail
ure of the passage of the bill carry
ing the appropriation may curtail
railroad operations to some extent,
remained behind to try their luot
or, the coast.
The shipyards strike in Seattle
had not been settled when he left
there, and the first intimation he
had that the shipyards had resumed
business was the account of it he
saw in the Nenana News.
Mr. Thomas fully bears out what
has already been said, by returning
Alaskans, regarding living condi
tions in the States. His experience
was confined to Seattle and the
immediate neighborhood, and he
positive in stating that there can
possibly be no comparison between
existing conditions in Seattle and
Alaska otherwise than is detri
mental to the former. Men who
had been in receipt of wages in
accordance with the scale ruling be
fore the abnormal war activities
came into being, which about fifty
per cent less than the wage scale
now in force, assert that they were
in a better position then to live
better and to save a little money,
both of which are now impossible
in spite of the higher wages.
The question of rent is said to
be the most serious item, and this,
coupled to the very high cost of the
necessaries of life, make existence
in the States a continuous struggle
to break even.
The many Northerners met with
during his stay in Seattle are very
far from satisfied, and will come
North just as soon as they can
possibly break away, and, he thinks,
[Alaska will gam greatly in popula
i tion during the coming summer,
‘ and that the great majority of them
] will remain in the country.
Speaking of the trail from T?1
, keetna to the end of steel on this
division, Mr. Thomas thought that
it was the only logical trail to the
| Interior and that with a little fixinr
1 it could be made into one of the
i best trails in Alaska. From Ind
j river to the Summit drifts had ob
literated the trail and the party
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John Sablak
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Tom Saroff
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Alik Azoff
had some trouble in having to feel
their way ahead. This caused the
biggest part of the delay on the
way, as every time the sled left the
trail it tipped over in the deep
snow lying on either side of the
trail. From the Summit to Lignite
the trail was found to be in ex
cellent condition, except in the
neighborhood of the Canyon. In
this short stretch there was ab
solutely no snow and therefore was
quite impossible for a heavy laden
sled. They came through the can
yon on the river ice, which al
though rather dangerous, was the
only feasible route for the heavy
sled.
Mr. Thomas and his associates
expect to remain here a few days
ere leaving for the lower Yukon
river camp.
Daddy von Valkenburg. the pion
eer fox farmer of the Atlin country,
died at Atlin on January 29th.
YOU
CAN
BUY
WAR
SAVINGS
STAMPS
NOW
WANT ADS
FOR SALE.—One pair of well
matched, high grade silver fox
skins. Simson’s.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
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 he on sale at any
time during office hours, and can
be purchased in sufficient time be
fore the departure of the trains.
Regular trains leave the foot of
A street on Mondays. Wednesdays
and Saturdays.
NENANA TO TALKEETNA
DISTANCE TABLE
Taikeetna is the end of steel on
the coast division.
From N'enana to No. Miles
Xenana Crossing (by rail) 43
Lignite .52
Riley Creek . 70
Jack River . 90
Broad Pass Summit 110
Sullivan's . 128
Indian River .162
Dead Horse .182
Taikeetna .202
The distances giver, are approxi
mate
Don’t Leave
ALASKIA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wage* at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latoache.
If you go oat you will only
come back “Bueted” in tbe 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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Membership List
Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred, Mrs. Clara
Bergman, Charles
Brown. Jess
Berggren, Ernst
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 r
Calderhead, Ii, W
Campbell, X. J.
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney, M. ,7.
Doner, Frank
Diven, R J.
Douse, Fred
Davis, Harry
Ekeland, Alf
Bank, A B.
Finlayson, K A.
Fisher, Joe
Flower. J. H.
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Wm
Ghezzi, Alfred
Head, E. A.
Haslem, H. G
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W.
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. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B.
Koland, Knut
Ketoorokv, 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.
Nash, Martin
Owen, Harry
O'Keefe, Larry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington, G. W
Palfy, Paul
Packer, W. L.
R.van, W, A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm
Sborgia, William
Shaw, Harry N.
Stol, Nels
Schmidt, Carl
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Seott, J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
Stone, A J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, C’has.
Smith, George A.
Southworth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Taylor, Frank
Tunison, B.
Thompson, Theodore
Toussaint, J G. K
Tyler, M. V.
Taylor, Wm. J.
Verhaeghe, Cyriele
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Woods, Geo. W.
Williams, E. A.
Waechter, R. I.