THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postofflce at Nenana, Alaska,
for en:ry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
"WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET"
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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
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this paper and also all the local news published herein.
BEATING DOWN COSTS.
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A number of important manufac !
turing concerns in Pittsburgh art1
selling food and clothing at cost to
their employes, in an effort to meet
the advancing price of commodities.
One company buy- for its work- ,
men every two weeks a carload of j
hams and bacon. This is shipped !
direct' from the packer to the mill,
and there sold to the men at cost,
plus the transportation charge. The
president of the company endorses
it as one of the best things he has
ever done for his men.
Another concern has been supply
ing many of its mill and office em
ployes with canned goods, wearing
apparel, including overcoats and
shoes, anil even children’s shoes.
The saving was such as to make the
wage earners enthusiastic.
Employe? of another big manu
1'acturing plant rented a store,
stocked it with groceries, bought
through use of the company’s credit,
and in a few weeks were ifoing a
business of $2,000 a day. Only
employes of the company can buy in
the store. The priijy to the buyer
is first cost plus rent, light, clera
hire, and freight.
“We started with groceries,” ex-1
plained the manager to a corre- j
spondent of the Associated Press, j
“hui lately we have added such;
clothing as the men wear while at
work. Soon we will have a tailor
shop for men’s' clothes, and next
we are going to pul. in a line of
women’s wear and such things as
women must have around the
house. I don’t know how many of
the company’s 20,000 workmen buy
here, but 1 am sure we have among
our customers at least one repre
sentative of every family.”
There is still one item, however,
in the living cost, from which many
workers in the district can find no
relief—that of high rents. Work
men’s houses are scarce in every
section of the district.
MARRIAGE THREATENED.
“Everything; points to the near
approach of a general, deliberate
and sustained attack on the Chris
tian conception of marriage," de
clared the Bishop of Hereford in a
recent address at Manchester ca
thedral on “New ldcus of Mar
riage."
“The war has lowered the pres
tige of marriage in the thought of
many people and visibly endangered
its character," said the bishop. “This
has been accomplished partly by en
dowing women and girls with un
precedented independence and forc
ing them into n public prominence
for which nothing in their previous
careers had prepared them; most of
all by shaking the whole fabric of
civilized society and bringing into
open question the accepted principle
of social order, discrediting church
es, breaking down authority, anil
forcing under ruthless criticism the
most intimate and fundamental as
sumptions of human conduct.
“The divorce court shows us the
picture of a society governed by
impulse rather than by principle,
swept along by the currents of self
indulgent fashion rather than pur- J
suing a determined course by the i
direction of settled convictions of
personal duty."
“STELLA MIS" IS
FEATURE TOMORROW
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[’laying a dual role, popular Mary
I’ickford will be seen in a new Art
craft feature tomorrow night at the
Coliseum theater. Miss Pickford
plays the title role of "Stella Mar
is” in a film version of William J.
I.ocke's celebrated novel, and also
interprets the part of Unity Blake,
an uncouth character who is in
troduced as an inmate of an orphan
asylum.
As Stella Maris, a parlytic heir
jess, surrounded by every luxury
wealth can command, and protected
from even the slightest knowledge
of worldly things, the comparison
with Unity Blake presents a start
ling contrast. Later, when Stella
Maris has her health restored and
learns of the poverty, misery and
crime existing in the world which
, her imagination has pictured as
! idyllic, it proves so strong a shock
that her life is threatened.
| Through an amazing chain of cir
jcumstances, the two girls—the Ugly
j Duckling and the beautiful Stella
jMaris—love the same man, and then
I comes a supreme sacrifice, the giv
jing of Unity Blake’s life for the
man she loves and for Stella Maris,
i The portrayal of two characters ]
so vastly different by Mary Pick-!
iford stands as a wonderful achieve
l
jment in screen art.
Both story and acting are of the
^highest order and the feature comes
jto the Coliseum very highly recom
| mended.
THLINKET NATIVE IS
HOST AT BIG POTLATCH
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; Saxman, Southeastern Alaska, was
| the scene of a hie; potlatch by the
iThlinket tribe recently. About one
hundred Thlinkets were present. G.
Collins, a natives, whose wife died
two months atro, gave the potlatch
in honor of her memory. A bis'
monument was erected to the de
|ceased during the day. This is the
! first affair of the kind in many
| months, and is usually frowned down
|by the Government teachers, as it
I leaves the native giving the func
jtion in a state of beggary.
: TYPEWRITER PAPER IS
ON SALE BY THE NEWS
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j A shipment of typewriter paper,
of the standard American brand,
has just been unpacked at The News
office, where it is on sale by the
box or in any other quantity desired.
The sizes include both legal and
letter and the weights range from
the lightest to heavy.
The paper was bought right and
is being sold at a close margin of
profit.
The News also lhas unprinted en
velopes for sale by the box and by
the package—all sizes, frorr baroni
al to legal, white and colored, and
bond and wove.
GERMANS UNEASY
ABOUT FUTURE OF
FUE FATHERLAND
BERLIN. — The spectre of the
enormous emergency levy on prop
erty which threatens drastically to
reduce German industrial fortunes in
the next ten years, makes it diffi
cult for Germans to forecast the
economic outlook of their country
for 1920. Leaders in financial, po
litical and social circles are divided
in their opinions of the measures
for national relief proposed by
Mathias Eszberger, minister of fin
ance.
There is a widespread belief
among financiers, bankers, and fin
ancial writers in Germany, that if
two of Erzberger’s plans are put
into effect, Germany will face a fu
ture overcase with black clouds, if
not actual ruin. The most import
ant of these two measures is the
emergency levy on property, which
financial writers assert will reduce
industrial fortunes of ten million
marks to less than three million in
a decade. The second measure is
the income tax, which, it is claimed
by some, will “beggar every modest
fortune as well as every great for
tune."
Bankers say it all comes down to
this, that “America must come to
our aid."
They wish a comparatively small ]
direct credit and disapprove of the
much-discussed international loan, |
which, they believe, would saddle!
the debts of England and France on !
the United States, and thereby, per- j
haps, reduce the amount of credit |
Germany might obtain.
The opinion appears to be gaining
in Berlin financial quarters that Erz
berger's days are numbered and that
he cannot long continue to exert his
influence on the majority who pay
least, and therefore support his fin
ancial policy.
Berlin writers declare that Ger
many’s political future depends in
the last analysis upon the working
out of the peace treaty, and that
until this document has been con
summated in all its technical de
tails, Germany will be unable to
locate her fresh starting point. This
is regarded here as the crux of the
■ whole situation, and Germans ex
I pect the situation to remain acute
until this has been accomplished.
! Germany’s more conservative po
litical leaders frankly admit Bolshe
vist gains at the next election. They
say the Beds may capture 50 seats
instead of the till which they won
a year ago, and that they may poll
5,000,000 votes instead of the 2,
750,000 they obtained in the last
national election. The conserva
tives. however, assert that the In
dependent, Spartacist and Commun
ist elements will become less popu
lar as the opportunities for work
increase in Germany,
j Political leaders say that indica
tions point to an indefinite post
ponement of ihe elections on the
ground that the present government.
Ion the strength of its popular man
; date, is entitled to continue with a
I program of socialization at a pace
! in keeping with the nation’s eco
nomic recovery. It is pointed out
also that the new liberalism may
satisfy itself with a life-long presi
dent as a substitute for a consti
tutional monarchy.
It is agreed by German - indus
trial leaders that the German work
ers are weary of striking and that
the labor situation has been im
proved so far as the shortage of
coal and raw materials permits. The
authorities say that German indus
tries are working an average ol
perhaps four hours daily, and that
this is the limit possible with the
present under supply of coal. When
the coal situation improves it will
be possible, they say, to make a
real industrial beginning with raw
materials.
German’s recovery and progress
during the next year is felt by Ger
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suitable for light housekeeping,
with heat and light and hot and
cold water in connection. Also
office rooms, at The Arctic.
FOR SALE — Furnished two-room
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WANTED—Position as cook, town
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LOST—Pair of glasses in black case.
Reward for return to News office, j
I mans to depend on a whole succcs- j
sion of “ifs.” Many of them be-!
lieve that if Erzberger drains Oer-j
man industries with his taxes, there )
is little hope of their recovery. The
same critics declare that if the En
tente does not lighten German’s load
a little bit, the nation may be j
driven to Communism. If German ■
industry cannot recover some mea- !
sure of its former efficiency, they j
say, the world will be. the loser in ;
the end.
CRACOW CELEBRATES
NEW POLISH FREEDOM j
NEW' YORK.—The ancient Polisn j
city of Cracow celebrated on N'o
fvember 3d its first anniversary of
freedom from Austria’s yoke, ac
cording' to information received by
Polish residents of this city. After
singing the national hymn, "God
Rless Free and Independent Poland,”
a procession marched to the city
hall, where the mayor addressed
the people and Konstanty Buszczyn
ski, the Polish consul-general to the.
United States, displayed the Polish
banner which had been given to
him in America by the Daughters of
Cincinnati. He assured the Polish
people of the sincere friendship of
Americans.
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FURS
showing wear can be remodeled to
look like new. Old fu-s bought and
told at
D’ORSAY’S TAILOR SHOP
Third and A Street*.
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Kenana, Where Ball* and Blvers Meet
Dr. J. R. BOWEN
DENTIST
Prices Most Reasonable
THE BOWEN BUILDING
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FRESH STOCK
Groceries, Clothing and Footwear
SAVE TIME AND MONEY
All Necessities for Trail and Camp
GO TO
FOWLER & MORRIS
I We Strive to Please
| EVERYTHING THE BEST
Tavern Cafe and Bakery
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A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
NENANA HOUSE
Just Come in and Sit Down and Look Out.
MRS. A. B. EASTERLY, Prapriatrau.
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
Fourth and B Streets
Second and Fourth Mondays
At 8:00 P. M.
| ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER.
Secretary Dictator.
DR. R. R. MYERS
DENTIST
ARCTIC HOTEL
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Department of the lateriwr
Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers are required to pur
ebase tickets before entering trains.
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 Commission, or
at Camp 415 (North Nenana).
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and oan be
purchased in sufficient time before
the departure of the trains.
Regular trains for the south leave
the foot of A street on Wednesdays
and Saturdays at 8 a. m., and from
Camp 416 (North Nenana), for
Fairbanks, Tuesdays and Fridays, at
1 p. m.
The following is the schedule be
tween North Nenana and Fairbanks,
subject to change without notice:
Leave Fairbanke at 7:00 a. m.;
arrive North Nenana, 11:30 a. m.
Leave North Nenana 1:00 p. m.;
arrive Fairbanks, 5:30 p. m.
] No tickets will be sold crossing
the river. Those intending to trav
el to Fairbanks must make their
own arrangements for reaching
North Nenana.
Trappers and Traders of Alaska
SELL YOUR FURS TO A HOME INDUSTRY. WE GUARANTEE
YOU HIGHER PRICES THAN OUTSIDE
CONCERNS WILL PAY.
During the last season we conducted an advertising campaign
throughout the North and are prepared to send you the names of
people in all sections of Alaska and the Yukon who will verify our
statements.
Our excellent Eastern connections, and the tremendous amount
of mail order business we are receiving from all parts of the
States for furs made to order enables us to turn our stock quickly
at a reasonable profit, but we must have fur, for which we guar
antee top prices.
Make us a trial shipment. If our price does not suit you, the
goods will be returned charges prepaid.
WE MAKE FURS TO ORDER
at more reasonable rates than can be obtained Outside. At present
we are working three operators, and need others. If you are an
operator and . finisher, and want a good year-around job, com
municate with us.
CHAS. GOLDSTEIN & CO.
JUNEAU, ALASKA