THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana. Alaska
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REFORM NEEDED
The outward flow of foreigner
from the United States with pock
ets bulging with wage? received *..=
member? of Uncie Sam'? well -aid
industrial army, suggest? that then
is something radically wrong with
our way of dealing with our foreign
population. Figures arc- not ob
tainable at this distance from the
port of embarkation, but it is safe
to say that a very large proportion
of these people—and there are
many thousands of them—are re
turning to the lands of their nativ
ity. after years of residence in our
country, in much the same condi
tion of mind as the day they landed
on American soil. Their language?
are those of the countries whence
they came, their manner of living
is unchanged and their notions of
government unimproved. Of Amer
icanism they know little and care
less. They came to this country
solely for the purpose o-f exchang
ing inefficient labor for big Ameri
can dollars, and they are now re
turning home well satisfied with the
transaction. The money they are
taking away with them, will enable
them to live their remaining years
in comparative ease in their home
countries.
The sojourn of such foreigners
in America is not a benefit to
America. The best that we can
hope from that class of residents
is the worst of it. They come in
ignorance, they are a menace to
society during their stay on Ameri
can soil, and they take away with
them all the money that they earn
in America, less a miserly amour.:
expended for living. Chinamen live
better, work better and behave
bettei.
In the general readjustment ol
things, we should be a little more
careful in the class of immigrant
admitted. And, after admitting
them, we should be more energeth
in seeing that they acquire quick!;
the habits of Americans and lean
the meaning of Americanism. W
must insist that they have a cer
tain amount of education when the;
reach our shores and that they be
come American citizens within i
certain time, providing they cai
qualify. If they cannot qua!if;
■within the time limit, they shoul<
be deported without further cere
mony. Foreign residents for a Ions
time have enjoyed, and still enjo;
altogether too many benefits in thi
country. The war proved, bevorn
a doubt, that we have been mucl
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too lax in this regard, and now w<
have the departures of many thous
ands of aliens as additional evi
ricnce that our treatment of foreign,
ers within our borders is a matte:
demanding immediate eonsideratior
and radical revision.
CLEAN UP
Elsewhere in this issue of tht
Nenana Daily News there is a noticf
over the signature of the townsitt
manager, calling upon owners oi
property in Nenana to dispose oi
the winter's accumulation of rub
bish. which appears in unsight!}
heaps or widely scattered over a
considerable portion of the town.
The appearance of the town is not
bad. as Alaskan towns go, but there
is room for improvement and the
time has arrived to take this work
in hand.
The accumulation of rubbish dur
ing the winter months in Intericn
Alaska is almost impossible of avoid
ance. All towns are alike in this
respect and each year, at the ap
proach of the "breakup" front and
back yards and nearby vacant lots
stand as zTeatly in need of over
hauling as do the interiors of Alas
ka homes, after a hard winter.
Some property owners are quick to
realize the need of rake and bon
fire and as prompt in taking the
work in hand: others must be re
minded of their duty.
Nenanaites should take specia'
pride in making their property pre
sentable. The town has a natura
beauty, with good buildings, wide
streets and substantia! sidewalks
a combination of attractivenes:
which gives rubbish the appearance
of being more than usually out o:
place and which should prove ar
incentive for the early and thorougl
cleaning of unsightly premises. Le
us hope there will be a promp
response t-o the reminder of the
townsite manager to get busy.
HONOLULU MAY HAVE
CITIZENSHIP SCHOOL!
HONOLULU—At the behest o
W. M. Ragsdale, naturalization ex
aminer. a bill has been introduce!
into the territorial legislature pro
viding for an appropriation of $10,
000 to establish and maintai'
I classes in citizenship in the publi
schools of Hawaii.
Jack (Checku I Hansen returne
• to Nenana today on the Thelin stag
! after a busy time spent as time
i keeper at the camp near Happy.
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OF N0MINA1ING
BOISE, Idaho.—Idaho's fifteenth
legislative session at which the Re
publicans had an overwhelming: ma
jority, repealed the state primary
law as it applies to state and con
gressional nominations and returned
to the convention plan for the nomi
nation <of party candidates. This
change was made as a consequence
of the usurpation of the Demo
cratic party machinery preceeding
last summer's primary by the Non
partisan League.
The state adopted a commission
form of state government, creating
nine departments in place of the
48 now operative, and vesting full
responsibility in the governor, who
will choose his own cabinet of nine
men, each of whom will receive
S3,600 a year.
A constitutional amendment will
be submitted in 1920 providiing
for an increase in the supreme
court membership from three to five
members. Whether the supreme
court may have jurisdiction over
decisions of the public utilities com
mission w!I also be decided as a
constitutional amendment. The
legislature is authorized to prescribe
the scope and conditions of appeals
perfected.
A state constabulary system with
extensive police powers was estab
lished and an appropriation of $50,
000 was made for that purpose.
Extensive road improvement was
authorized and SI.800,000 to be
raised by a special road tax levy,
was made available for the con
struction work.
The erection of wings to the cen
tral capital unit was authorized
and a $900,000 bond issue approved
for financing the construction.
Appropriations for all purposes
total approximately $8,000,000,
which includes $150,000 for the
erection of an administration build
ing at the Lewiston State Normal
school replacing the one destroyed
a year ago by fire.
A bill creating a soldier's settle
ment board and carrying an appro
priation of $100,000 passed the
Idaho legislature. The board is em
powered to aid returning soldiers in
finding homes and expects to co
operate with the federal govern
ment.
Soldier labor is planned to be
extensively used on the construc
tion of east and west wings to the
central capitol building for which
a $900,000 bond issue has been
authorized.
A bill providing for a $1000
tax exemption for discharged men
who had seen Mexican border serv
ice or were in the army during the
• German struggle, was killed and ar
emergency employment bill for sol
diers, providing for employment by
the county commissioners for 60
‘ days, failed of passage because
it was believed to be unconstitu
tional.
1 Governor Davis wired a resolution
to Idaho congressional representa
tives favoring the abolition of fed
^ eral employment agencies, and fed
eral financial assistance for a state
employment bureau. .
WEST VIRGINIA PLANS
' OWNERSHIP OF SHEEP
CHARLESTON, W Va—The
state of West Virginia has decided
to engage in the raising of sheep,
in conjunction with A. E. Aegen
and S. M. Croft of Grove City, Pa.,
and Charleston, and other business
men of this state.
James H. Stewart, state commis
sioner of agriculture, is authority
for this announcement, claiming
that his department is lending en
, couragement and financial assist
ance to the establishment of the
greatest agricultural project ever
attempted by a state. The ranch
is to be located in Greenbrier county
and will take in 18,121 acres.
F. M. Glenn, sheep expert of the
department, is enthusiastic over the
plan and says the ranch will be es
tablished in a narrow belt of West
| Virginia which produces the finest
fleeces in the world.
SUBS INSPIRED
NAVY INVENIURS
10 BIG EFFORTS
LONDON'.—One of the most suc
cessful devices invented by British
naval experts in the war time was
one known as a “blister”, and serv
ed to protect ships against tor
pedoes. It is an outer steel easing
fitted to the sides of ships. All
of its technical details of construc
tion have not been revealed, but
naval experts assert that ships
equipped with blisters run no great
er risk from undersea attacks than
from surface fighting dangers. In
the war the Germans torpedoed sev
eral blister ships, but in every case,
it is asserted, the vessels were able
to reach port and be repaired.
Sir E. H. T. D'Eyneourt. director
of naval construction, invented the
blister, which was first attached to
four old cruisers. Patiently the
navy waited for a test for two years
then, in June 1917. the cruiser
Grafton while steaming at ten knots
was struck amidships by a torpedo
fired from a German sumarine only
thirty yards distant. The blister,
which stuck out from the cruiser's
side about fifteen feet, exploded the
torpedo, and the Grafton steamed
back to port with only a slight list.
Improvements were made on the
blisters and they were fitted to the
sister monitors Erebus and Terror.
Both these vessels, mounting 15
inch guns, bombarded the Belgian
coast for months. Both were tor
pedoed within a week and but for
the protecting blisters they would
have been sunk. Three torpedoes
struck the Erebus, two hitting the
fore part of the monitor where the
blister tapers off. As a precaution
the Erebus was beached, but it was
afterward found that she was less
severely damaged than had been
thought and she was subsequently
repaired. No ship ever before sur
vived three torpedoes.
The navy now has about fifty
blister ships in commission, includ
ing some of the first battle cruiser
squadron The new dreadnaughts
Dodney, Howe and Hood are being
fitted also with blisters.
A self-propelling projectile charg
ed with 500 pounds of T. N. T. was
perfected by the naval experts only
a short time before the armistice
was signed. It is believed to have
strengthened materialy the power
and effectiveness of the British
fleet. The projectile can be , dis
charged without concussion from
small boats or a light platform,
exploding i n the contact, or when
fitted with a special device, be
low the water, thus serving the pur
pose of a depth charge.
An appartus for throwing a flame
for a distance of 240 feet, as water
is thrown from a hose, was rigged
on one of the vessels that took part
in the raid on Zeebrugge. But be
fore it could be used a shell from
the enemy battery put it out of
commission.
Another invention is a gun to
fire signals from submerged sub
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Several kinds of *moke screens
were invented, most >i them for the
purpose of baffling U-boats. A
powerful flare equal to a million
candlepower was another achieve-,
ment of the naval inventors which
was used with great effect against
enemy submarines waiting on the
surface at night to attack merchant
thips. These flares, suddenly* ig
nited. turned night into day and in
the Straits of Dover alone seven
teen U-boats were caught by their
aid and sunk.
The work of developing these in
ventions was carried on by the
Royal Naval Experimental station
near London. Its staff comprised
of 25 officers and 1,050 men. all
experts in research or construc
tion work, most of them being
chemists or engineers.
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Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred, Mrs. Clara
Bergman, Charles
Brown, Jess
Berggren, Ernst
Browne, F. D.
Bresnahan, E. D.
Blankfieid, D.
Bowen, J. R.
Blair, Roy
Brooker, Ed
Bennett. J. F
Ball, I. B.
Brown, Erie
Bums, R. E.
Coutts, W T.
Calderhead, It. W
Campbell, N. j,
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney. M. J.
Boner, Frank
Diven, R J.
Douse, Fred
Davis, Harry
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A B.
Finlayson. K A.
Fisher, Joe
Fiower. 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. -n
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.
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, Carl
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Scott, J H.
Sellander, C. J.
Stone, A J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, Chas.
Smith, George A.
Southv.-orth, 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.