THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the N'enana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth.......Editor and Manager
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PROSPECT.
-Many of the best things in this
world have come from digging in.
Keeping eternally at it solves many
a problem.
Literally and figuratively speaking,
says the Dawson News, in an edi
torial which applies with equal force
to Alaska, the people of Yukon
should dig in. Many are doing so.
Others need to start.
The world has its hundreds of
millions of people, and all must have
an incessant stream of supplies of
raw and manufactured products. The
machinery of the world is not going
to stop nor break down. The in
evitable human demand makes it
imperative that there be a continu
ous production from farms, forests, i
fisheries, and mines.
|
Yukon has her share of raw prod
ucts to offer, especially from her j
stores of mineral. The extensive I
i
outcrop of the wide Yukon basin in
dicates that this country is as highly
mineralized as any zone on the Am
erican continent.
Yukon has gold, silver, copper,
and other minerals. Not all coun
tries can boast the favorable indica
tions of this land in these rich re
sources. Many countries were long
developing. Many regions which
were occupied by civilized peoples
for centuries opened their best min
eral resources only recently. They
long slept on their richest assets.
They- were slow in learning to dig in.
Prospecting is the need in Y’ukon.
To probe and prove are the re
quirements. The man who works in
this region all summer with the big
placer operators can have a good
grubstake for winter prospecting.
He then can turn his attention dur
ing the crisp, dry winters to run
ning tunnels or sinking shafts. Men
who have a way of getting grub
stakes for summer prospecting are
doubly fortunate. They can scout
the hills, and also dig in on their:
properties. They have here as fa
vorable and as promising a country
as any for this sort of -work.
The capitalist will be ready with j
the money any time the prospector
can prove the proposition. Capital
is cautious and conservative, but at •
the same time keen. It wants op- ;
portunities to place its money and 1
its equipment where it will yield
returns.
The capitalist camps close on the
trail of the prospector. In the wake
of both come industries and prosper
ity and work for the masses.
However, not all the digging in!
and not all the prospecting must
necessarily be borne by the poor
man. In this day quite a number
of wealthy men and prosperous com
panies have set aside a good share
of their annual profits for the pur-1
pose of prospecting. They have
learned that they should come in at
the right time with their drills and j
more extensive equipment and help
open and prove thoroughly what evi-;
dently is mineral property worth'
while. It is their best chance.
The big man and the little man
both must dig in. The prospecting
should not be confined to the one.
The sooner this is realized and the
sooner all classes get behind the man
behind the pick, the sooner will the
I vast resources of Yukon be probed
to the core and opened to the maxi
.mum.
Now is the time. Deal the cards,
i Let every man take a hand. Play
Ithe game.
Prospect.
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WHAT DEPEW SEES.
“The next ten years in America,
[after the Republican party returns
to power, will bring a condition
which will cause Bolsheviki and trou
ble-makers to commit suicide,” said
former Senator Chauncey M. Depew,
of New York, acquaintance of Lin
coln and candidate for the nomina
tion for the presidency thirty years
ago, on his eighty-fifth birthday an
niversary. He still goes to business
with great regularity every day.
“One of the advantages of being
my age,” he went on, “is that you
need have no fear that any of your
indiscretions of speech will ruin your
political prospects. However, while
on the subject of politics, ’ might
mention that the Republicans are
going to win the next chance they
get. And then we shall see the
greatest growth in America, not only
material growth, but in the humani
ties. We shall see a return to that
condition which made the United
States a better place to live in than
any other country in the world.
Eighty-five is a jolly time. As long
as you can laugh, laugh with others
and not at them, you can be happy.
I was never in better shape, mental
ly, physically, morally.”
THE CHURCH AND LABOR.
The Protestant churches of Amer
ica should be brought into gloser
relations with the wage-earners of
the nation, says a statement issued
at New York recently by the Com
mission on Church and Social Serv
ice of the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ in America.
To accomplish this purpose, the
commission proposes that hundreds
of powerful, highly socialized and
democratically organized churches
should be established in industrial
centers.
It suggests that seminaries should
train ministers to know how to ad
minister such churches, men who
will know economics and social prob
lems, as well as theology.
It proposes an alliance of the
church with the workers themselves,
“to achieve the great objects for
which the workers are struggling,
such as living wages, reasonable
hours and conditions for labor, equal
opportunities and pay for women,
participation in management and
ownership, and abolition of child
labor.”
It is proposed also by the com
mission that the church denomina
tions should agree among themselves
to establish non-competing parishes
for these churches in industrial cen
ters, and that the denominations
should close churches which com
pete.
IRISH SOLDIERS.
The returned Irish soldiers are
organizing themselves and asserting
their right to be heard. In Cork it
was proposed by the local Municipal
Music committee to appoint as pro
fessor of traditional Irish music a
German musician. There was no
personal objection to the professor
except that he was a German, but
the soldirs would not have it. Four
: hundred of them turned out in a
body and prevented the appoint
ment. The secretary defending their
conduct in the press writes:
‘‘We are faced with a grave trou
ble in the people who yesterday
were badly misled by hopes of Ger
man victories and who have now
taken a definite stand against us.
Without friends on any side and
1 left to our own resources we find
.that in our own country we are un
. wanted and insulted. Only recently
la member of the Cork Board of
Guardians proposed that no demob
ilized soldier or sailor get employ
ment from that board. The Gaelic
! players have seen fit to ban us from
'their games. These and many sim
ilar incidents are not likely to im
I prove our temper.
I “To understand the feelings of
I our men these people should have a
j heart-to-heart talk with some of
i their countrymen who spent three
I or four years in German prison
j camps. This is not a time to set
| Irishmen flying at each others'
(throats over a job for a German
| professor.”
j The attitude assumed by Eamon
DeValera, president of the Irish re
public, towards the returned Irish
soldier, has not been one of hos
i tility. He gave them credit for
fighting for what they believed to
be the right cause and the one they
thought most likely to serve Irish
freedom.
DRY JAPAN.
The prohibition movement in the
United States has been followed in
Japan by the launching of a project
to stop the manufacture of sake,
Japan’s national alcoholic drink,
which is distilled from rice.
The end of the war has brought
no check to the steady increase in j
the price of the necessities of life,!
and the soaring cost of rice, which
is the staple food of the Japanese
people, is becoming a grave problem
for the government. Last year the
high price of rice led to serious
riots throughout the empire.
The Japan Temperance society has
presented a memorial to the govern
ment urging the prohibition of the
making of sake. The organization
points out that about 15,000,000
bushels of rice are consumed yearly
in its manufacture. With the popu
lation of Japan increasing at the
rate of 600,000 yearly and the na
tional rice crop falling on account
of the decrease of rice lands through
civic and industrial expansion, the
organization asserts that the enor
mous quantity of rice used in dis
tilling sake might be turned to a
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better use in distributing it as food
for the people.
Emperor Yoshihito is said to be
deeply concerned over the living
conditions among his people. Through
his lord chamberlain he recently or
dered the governors of the different
provinces to investigate the changes
4n the thought of the masses, the
cost of food for the middle and
labor classes, and the general in
dustrial situation throughout the em
pire. The discontent of the masses
of the people is seriously occupying
the government, which is trying to
devise means of relieving the situ
ation.
A good lead of ore has been struck
at the Saltchuck mine, near Ketchi
kan, at the end of a tunnel which
taps the vein at a depth of 300 feet.
The vein is said to be rich in cop
per, paladium, platinum, gold, and
silver, and is 15 feet in thickness.
In addition, 35 feet of ore of lower
grade has been encountered, accord
ing to the Ketchikan Times.
A marathon was a feature o'f the
Seward Fourth of July celebration.
Three prizes were given for the men
making the best time to the moun
tain-top and back.
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town are required to purchase
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Tickets can be purchased from
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ground floor of the general office
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