THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
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A TIME TO BE WATCHFUL
The allied nations anil the United
States will presently, through the
medium of authorized and qualified
representatives, be employed in the
delicate tusk of formulating terms
of peace, says the Christian Science'
Monitor, in an editorial written
shortly before the assembling of
tin peace delegates at Paris. Never
in the past have the conditions
presented to a congress of nations,
following an armistice, or at the
conclusion of a great war, been
similar to those which must be
dealt with in Paris.
From time immemorial, read
justments necessitated by the out
come of military clashes between
major or minor powers have been
determined, in the main, with re
gard to the demands of the victors,
modified by the insistence of in
terested neutrals upon adequate
protection and consideration. The
familiar cartoon, showing the de
feated nation in the form of a
turkey on a platter in the center
of a table surrounded by figures
representing the other nations, each
earnestly and eagerly observing the
process of carving, a task usually
committed to the representative,
deemed the most trustworthy by
his associates, told, if in rather too
frank a fashion, the story of war
t settlements in former years.
Unless there shall be a complete
departure from the ideals expressed
and the plans agreed upon, which
is something hardly imaginable,
the whole system of procedure in
the pending conference will be con
trary to rule and tradition. Those
who are to exercise control over
the scope and method of adjust
ment will, it is expected, be moved
quite as much by world as by na
tional interests. Justice, the world
lias repeatedly been assured, not
from one quarter but from all, is
)o be made the standard of meas
urement in dealing with all pro
posals. or the first time in history
the welfare of humanity is to take
precedence of national advantage.
The fulfillment of the promise
held forth by a League of Nations
is noi somotning to oe anticipated
with pleasure or accepted without
a struggle by those who still be
lieve in the law of might. Their
interpretation of liberty is free
dom to intimidate, overawe, anil
enslave their weaker neighbors.
^ They are unbelievers in democracy,
cynical as to the equities, scoffers
at the idea of a single standard of
morality and justice. They are
striving to undermine popular con
•'"Tidence in the sincerity of the ac
credited peacemakers. They will
fail, of course, but thiir failure will
not come about automatically, and
their operations should be frus
trated in the incipient ..age. All
that part of the world which has
confidence in the Allies and the
United States should, frem today,
give pru.ti. al effect to this con
fidence. Sc. .aiional reports of
differences let ween nations, pre
dictions of sc. ous disputes, at
tempts to \ te national jealousies,
insinuations of elfish motives oil
the part of tbit or that country,
evi thing that, directly or in
directly, tends to arouse interna
tions' distrust, or to create doubt
as t • the results of the conference
and i’ accomplishment of a satis
factoi. and a permanent peace
shoulu he < nied credence, refused
approval, condemned as disloyal t
the cause of humanity.
It is a safe presumption that
those who spread rumors by word
of mouth, and those who publish
rumors for general circulation, the
effect of which is to weaken popu
lar confidence in the peace con
ference, are either willing or un
conscious tools of conspirators
against a democratic world.
SEATTLE URGED TO HELP
“Siberia is alluring to many min
ing capitalists, of course,” said R.
M. Courtnay, secretary of the An
chorage, Alaska, Chamber of (’om
merce, on the occasion of a recent
visit in Seattle, “but I want to tell
them and all concerned that Alaska
is likewise a gigantic treasure field,
close to home and under the Stars
and Stripes, with present oppor
tunities bejr.trin.tr for attention never
equaled in the history of the world.
“Wajjon roads should be built at
once from points on the government
railroad to open up the mining
country. These roads are easy to
construct, if the work is concen
trated in one single department or
bureau of the government. Several
divisions now are- supplied with
funds, but the work is not co-or
dinAtel and, as a consequence, little
is done. * “ * * * * '*
"Railroad construction is going
on well, but the tributary country
must have further transportation.
“Seattle should give all possible
support to the need of wagon roads
and help Alaska obtain the funds
and develop the working program.
The rseults would astonish the world.
The building of these feeders to the
railroad would also provide employ
ment for large numbers of men,
thus stablizing labor and wage con
ditions in the Northland and pro
vide work throughout the year.”
RETURNING YANKEES
HAVE HOARDED PAY
LIVERPOOL, Eng. — American
'soldiers ordered home since the sign
ing of the armistice are not leaving
England without funds. Most of
them have some money, and some
of them have considerable amounts.
One Red Cross officer who has
been here from London changing
the money of the soldiers from
pounds to dollars, in order that they
may have the currency of their
money when they reach America,
“I have changed the money of
some thousands of men and not
one of them had less than two
months pay to take home with him.
Some of them had as much as $100,
. while here and there was an es
pecially thrifty fellow with $125,
When it is remembered that the
boys have been subjected to the
temptations of buying souvenirs
for the home folks in a strange
country, and that they have been
paying war prices for all they
bought, it can be seen they have
done very well.”
CANVASSING BOARD
IS NOW IN SESSION
.1. E. Clark, clerk of the district
court at Fairbanks, was advised
'last night that the canvassing board
is now in session.
The board is composed of Gov
ernor Riggs, Surveyor General Dav
idson, and Special Deputy Collector
of Customs C. D. Garfield. They
are in session at .Juneau, the ter
ritory's capital.
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ALLIES WAILING
MOVE OF SLAVS;
WILL GIVE AIO
LONDON.—It is reported here
that conferences soon will be held
in the south of Russia in which will
participate representatives of the
Ukraine government, the Don Cos
sacks, the Orenburg Cossocks and,,
the provisional governments of Ar
menia and Georgia. Their purpose
will be to reach an understanding
as to the creation of a government
in both Russia, the Caucasus and
the Trans-Caucasus, with which the
Entente powers can co-operate in
restoring normal economic, social
and political conditions.
Athough the Bojsheviki l.r.vj many
followers throughout Ukraine, they
never were predominant, even in
the shipbuilding cities of the Black
Sea. In the Don region and in the
Caucasus and Trans-Caucasus their
hold has been even .dighter. Cos
sacks of all sorts have beep enemies
of the Bolsheviki, as they are all
landholders and unalterably opposed
to the domination of their districts
by outsiders.
Many British naval and military
officers, as well as civil officials
have left London for the Black Sea
district since the signing of the
armistice and commercial interests
are also sending representatives to
look the situation over preparatory
to opening up the extensive oil and
grain districts.
Siberia, the Ukraine, Finland and
the new government at Archangel 1
shut Bolshevik Russia off entirely
from its ports, and the unfriend
liness of the government in all these
sections to the Moscow government
under Lenine is daily increasing the
strain on soviet Russia. The new
governments in these various sec- '■
tions which have refused to accept 1
Bolshevism are not as stable as the 1
Entente powers might wish. While
they all express their desire to be
come a part of Russia should fed
eration become possible under an
acceptable central government, the
political differences in all the four
sections named have been keen, and
party quarrels and the ambition of
rival leaders have frequently ex
ceeded patriotism in the struggle
for power. ’„•) .
umy aooui 4u.uuu.uuu inhabitants
now remain under Bolshevik con
trol. The total population of the
Russian empire as it existed before
the revolution was estimated at
180,000,000. The great majority
of this population is in the portion
of Russia south of Bolshevik rule,'
which is far the richest and most!
populous portion of the former ern-!
pire. \
Consequently, developments ■ - in ,
South Russia are watched with great
eagerness by military and naval men
and diplomatists alike. A stable
central government established at
Kiev, Odessa or Sevastopol and re
cognized by the Entente powers
would control the great majority
of Russia’s natural resources, es
pecially if it gained control ofVJjhe
Volga and established communica
tion with the mineral deposits of.the
Urals, and the grain fields of Si
beria.
Such a government would Jna
turally be the key to Russia’s politi
cal and economic future. Norther*
Russia is sterile in contras? with thp
south. Its lands are poor. Moscow1
and Petrograd industries depend . en
tirely upon distant centers for theirk
raw products. The factories and inT
duslrial populations of North Rus
sia, or soviet Russia, are entirelfi
within districts which cannot feed
themselves. And therein lies . &£■
greatest inherent weakness of the
Russian Bolsheviki movement. It is
based on theories which are repug
nant to the districts which produce
the foodstuffs and can starve Sovici
Russia ns a sign of their disapproval
BANKS FOR MEXICO
MEXICO CITY.—Representative^
of Norwegian capitalists are ar
ranging for the establishment in this
city of a Norwegian bank, which
will have branches in various parts
of the republic, particularly in the
states of Tamaulipas and Jalisco.
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RUSSIANS FACE
FOOD CRISIS
EXTREME NORTH
ARCHANGEL.—A trawler loaded
.vith American food has just poked
ts way through the dangerous, reef
lotted waters of the White Sea
ilong the shores of the Kola Pen
nsula and brought relief to the
nhabitants who were, in many in
stances, actually starving. In one
.illage the residents had had no
iugar for two years.
The trawler, in charge of Captain
D. O. Lively, of San Francisco, an
(fficer in the American Red Cross,
las returned to Archangel, after
in adventurous cruise.
“The people living in the villages
dong the shores of the peninsula
ire Russians, of a blonde, prob
ibly ancient Sc-andanavian type,”
'aptain Lively told the correspond
■nt of the Associated Press. “They
ive in almost perfect communal
itate, but there is no Bolshevism
imong them. Altogether, there are
ibout six thousand inhabitants in
he port of the peninsula, mostly
iving in the villages of Umba,
vuzoman, Tetrani, Tchapana and
’onoi. To the north of them are
he Laplanders, but these people
ire of a pure European type and
ve saw among them many beauti
ul women.
“We left them enough food to
ast them throughout the winter. At
1’etrani there had been no ship in
wo years. They had eaten the last
'ood of any sort except fish two
veeks before our supplies reached
hem. Some of the men were too
veak to carry a small sack of bar
ey.
. “The entire coast line has been
wept by influenza, which has taken
errible toll because they were ab
olutely without medicine. At Pono,
vhere our ship had to leave quickly
.o escape the ice, thirty persons
lied in a week out of a total popu
ation of three hundred. They also
lave had much scurvy.
“All along the coast we were
lailed as ‘Saviours of Russia.’ The j
jeople here think just that—that
\merica will save Russia from all
its troubles."
Robert J. Sommers took the oath
r>f office on January 9 and is now
the duly qualified territorial mine
inspector for Alaska. Mr Sommers
headquarters are located at Juneau
and he will live there.
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WANT ADS!
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FOR SALE—Sled and 13 dogs with
harness complete. Sled 12 feet
long:, in good shape. Malamutes j
and huskies form the team. Ar- j
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 I
more sightly than ordinary bed.,
Price $12. Inquire Mrs. D’Orsay’s !
Tailor Shop, Third and A streets. |
FOR RENT—Good log cafyin, in-;
quire of Mrs. Nicley.
FOR RENT—Large front room, i
suitable for club rooms or parties,:
by night, week or month. Inquire1
of Mrs. Nicley.
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IMS, NUlibr!
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
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If you go out you will only ■
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Juneau and vicinity; one hundred ;
and fifty at Latouche and
Kennecott.
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memoersnip List
Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred, Mrs. Clara
Brown1, Jess
Berggren, Ernst
Browne, F. D.
Bresnahan, E. D.
Blankfield, D.
Bowen, J. R.
Blair, Roy
Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J. F.
Ball, I. B.
Brow'n, Erie
Burns, R. E.
C’outts, W. J.
Calderhead, R. W.
Campbell, N. J.
Coghill, W. A>
Cooney, M. J.
Doner, Frank
Diven, R. J.
Douse, Fred
Davis, Harry
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A. B. P
Fisher, Joe
Flower, J. H.
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Wm. r
Haslem, H. G.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W.
Hagen, Hans ''ri
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
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
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, Nets
Schmidt, Carl
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, I.ipman
Scott, J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
Stone, A. J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, Chas.
Southworth, R. G.
Spira, 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.