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 Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth. .Editor and Manager
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VOLUNTARY OR INVOLUNTARY
It is apparent .from reports re
ceived from the States during the
past several days, tuat the Ameri
can people are not giving their sup
port to the Fourth Liberty Loan
in a manner commensurate with the
showing that is being made at the
front by our boys. The people at
home are not doing their share.
They are depending upon the army
to win the war for them; they are
not providing the funds needed to
whip the Hun into final submission.
They do not realize, seemingly, that
money is as necessary as fighting
men to insure the successful con
clusion of the war.
The war department, according
to General March, has asked for
eight billions of dollars to carry out
a war program greater than any
ever undertaken by a world power.
The money is needed to double the
fighting strength of the present!
great American army and to equip j
that army with suitable weapons to
insure the speedy and definite de
feat of the kaiser's fighting ma
chine. The war department is not
doing things in a small way. It real
izes that democracy is at stake and1
that it is not a boy’s job to force i
the kaiser to his knees, ready to
accept the terms of peace which
have been outlined by President
Wilson.
German peace overtures,' which
have reached us from time to time,
have not disturbed the plans of the
war department. There has been
no modification of our elaborate
war program in consequence of the
receipt of these messages, however
hopeful they may have seemed on
the surface, and we may rest assured
there will be no letup to our pre
parations until the Germans have
been forced from all Allied territory
now occupied by them, until they;
have ceased to menace the seas with '
their submarines and until they ]
have accepted all of the other terms |
insisted upon by President Wilson!
and the Allied governments.
This is the view American people
at home should take of the war.
They should continue to give finan
cial support to the government until
appeals for funds cease to be issued
from Washington. We should not
presume to know more about the re
quirements of our government than
the heads of departments which
have the war preparations in hand;
and so long as our government con
tinues to ask for financial assist
ance, just so Ion" should we strive |
to supply the demands, even to the
advancement of our last penny.
We may be sure the money would
not be requested were it not needed.
And there is another point which
the American public should heed.
Now that we are in the war, with
a fully developed determination to
defeat the German war machine,
not even the failure of war loans
will cripple seriously our fighting
machine. For if the money is not
forthcoming from one source, means
will be found to get it from some
other source. In other words, if
the people do not contribute volun
tarily, by investing in gilt-edge
Liberty bonds, the government will
be forced to make up the deficiency
by increasing taxes. The money
will come out of the poockets of the
people in either case, the only diff
erence being that the purchase of
Liberty bonds means a return of
the principal with interest, at the
end of a few years, while the money
paid into the treasury in the form
of taxes returns only in the form
of results obtained overseas.
It is to be hoped that the govern
ment will not be forced to levy
additional taxes. It is to be hoped
that the people will realize, before
it is too late, that the floating of
the Fourth Liberty loan is as im
portant as any of the previous
loans—that the money will be needed
by the government even though
hostilities are suspended before all
of the loan payments have been
made.
Considerable worry is caused by
the fact that shipments of canned, i
salted and other prepared fish are j
being, delayed an unreasonable time
by lack of transportation, says the
Juneau Dispatch. Out of 26,000,-!
000 pounds of salt fish to go out of
the territory this fall, only 2,000,
000 pounds have been moved or are
in transit. Also over 3,000,000
cases of canned salmon must reach
the States. As the government has
commandeered practically all the
canned salmon pack, it is sure to be
moved, but in the case of salt fish,
it is feared that the shortage of
steamships will make the task im
possible.
Clerk of the District Court Lang;
recently informed the city council
of Cordova that the wharfage tax
collected at that city for the fiscal
year ending June 30 was $11,373.60
the amount of freight being 113,736
tons. Mr. Lang contends that the
municipality is only entitled to its
pro rata of this amount from the
time the corporate limits were ex
tended so as to include the Ocean
dock up until the close of the fiscal
year, but the councilmen ask for
the whole amount for the whole
year.
A charivari party of children at
Cordova recently met with a hot
reception from a bridegroom who
evidently was not an Alaskan. When
the youngsters appeared with their
noise making instrments, the irate
groom greeted them with cuffs,
kicks and slaps, chasing them into
the tall uncut. It has been the
custom for years in Alaskan towns
to charivari newly married couples
who generally respond with a liberal
treat to the children, but one man
has been found who loves his money
better than the good will of the
kiddies.
The Cordova Home Guards re
cently received a shipment of 80
rifles from the governor’s office at'
Juneau. They were formerly made
for the Russian government, but
withheld from shipment when the
Bolsheviki upset the administration ..:
plans.
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Julia B.—Down Marshal, 10th.
Reliance—In Gibbon; leaves this
morning for Nenana.
Seattle No. 3—At Circle.
Alaska—Up Fort Yukon 9 a m.,
yesterday.
Washburn—Up Eagle 3 a. m.
Tanana—Got into Tanana river
during the night enroute to Nenana.
Yukon—Up Rampart 3 p. m. 10th
There is work for every person
to do in this war—food is ammuni- j
tion, are you wasting it?
BIG WAR INDEX
USED 10 PLACE
MEN RIGHT JOBS
CAMP KEARNEY, San Diego.—
The principal apparatus used in work
ing out the army’s announced plan
of puttting each soldier in to the
niche where he can be of most serv
ice to the country, the army and
himself is the personnel card. The
whole work is entrused to the “per
sonnel office,” which makes out a
variety of records for the incoming
soldiers. These do everything from
listing his dependents to making sure
that his mail reaches him promptly.
The most important one, however,
is that mentioned.
On this card are a number of
blanks, each of which is filled out
by an officer in the course of a
personal interview with the man.
There is nothing hasty about these
interviews; they average half an
hour in length and occupy as much
time as is needful to secure the de
sired information. They are of in
timate, personal nature ar.d in them
the man is encouraged to talk as
freely as possible, as all the data
secured is for the army’s own use
and is confidential. Further,, “cam
ouflage is not permitted,” as Cap
tain Irwin W. Minger, camp per
sonnel officer expressed it. “The
government has ways of its own for
finding out whether a man has lied
about himself in this interview.”
On the card go the names of the
recruit’s parents, of his wife, child
ren or divorced wife of whom the
civil court has allowed alimony, if
he has any of these, his religious be
lief, home address and the address
of his nearest relative, certain con
fidential information, and, eventu
ally, the unit to which he is assigned.
By means of this card the army can
locate any man in service within
a short time.
Un the other side of the card are
blanks for about 90 vocations useful
in the army and in these is listed
the length of time the man has
been employed in each. Other blanks
are provided for listing his special
qualifications. Every effort is
made to draw out from the recruit
statements as to any special abilities
he may have. Questioning the re
cruit is almost an art in itself. For
instance, a recruit may declare he
is a miner. If he is a metal miner,
accustomed to working in hard rock,
he is very valuable; if he is a miner
experienced in another sort of work
he is no special value to the army.
If the recruit is a farmer, another
question as to his ability to handle
steam or gasoline tractors is neces
sary. If he is accustomed to driv
ing these he is almost sure to be
assigned to the artillery; if he knows
more of livestock than of machinery
he may wind up in a remount de
pot, a supply company or some o't
the different sorts of trains where
animal-drawn equipment is untilized.
Across the top of the card are a
series of spaces corresponding to the!
vocations listed. In these tags aro
put, a red one for qualified men in
that line and a green one for men
of unusually high qualifications. By
these names, when the cards are put
together in a filing case, a clerk
can run his eye down the case and
pick out at a glance all the men
qualified in occupation No. 42, etc.'
In rating the men every effort
is made to determine the real de
cree of their skill. “Experts” in
any line are very rare, personnel
officers say, declaring that far few
er than 1 per cent of men qualified
in an occupation are expert in it.
Ip determining a man’s skill the em
ployers he has had are considered.
For instance, a man who had
charge of all the tractors used on
some large western ranch, would be
rated as of more skill, providing his
record showed he had carried out
this work satisfactorily to his em
ployers, than a man who had only
operated one tractor on a smaller
farm.
The steamer Shusana was sched
uled to leave Chena for Nenana this
morning. A train carrying freight
»nd passengers for the boat left
Fairbanks at eight this morning.
PROOF OF FIND
TAKEN OUTSIDE
BY STEFANSSON
SEATTLE.—Blond hair from the
blond Eskimos, alleged proof of the
existence of that strange far away
tribe—is being brought back to
civilization by the explorer Vilhjal
mar Stefansson, according to P. C.
Lepetich, a miner who recently ar
rived here from Fort Yukon, Alaska
where he saw the explorer. Stefans
son, it is believed, will arrive here
shortly.
Stefansson is credited with the
discovery of the light skinned nat
ives far up on Canada’s Arctic rim.
He found the tribe in 1908, while
commanding an expedition fitted
out by the Canadian government
and the American Museum of Na
tural History.
The party penetrated into the
white lands, marked “uninhabited"
on the maps, far east of the Mack
enzie river, and in 1910, on Coro
nation Gulf, found Eskimos who had
never seen white men from the
Outside. According to Stefansson,
they numbered probably 2,000. Un
like their dark hued brothers of
Alaska, they had white skin, many
had red hair, the men wore full
beards and all had light eyebrows.
News of the discovery was brought
back to the Outside world by Stef«
ansson in 1912. In 1913 he set out
again for the North on the trip
he is no\v bringing to a close. From
Lepetich’s statement, it is belived
that Stefansson, during the past
two years, made another trip to the
land of these little known natives.
NOTICE OF MARSHALS SALE
United states of America, fourth
District of Alaska, ss:—
Public notice is hereby given, that
by virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias
(or execution) issued out of the Dis
trict Court of the United States for
the 4th District of Alaska on a judg
ment rendered in said court, on the
26th day of June, A. D. 1918, in favor
of Kuskokwim Commercial Co., a
corporation, and against Thomas
Robin, I have, on this 22nd day of
August, A. D. 1918, levied upon
the following described real estate,
situated in the precinct of Innoko,
and Territory of Alaska, to wit:
All the right, title and interest
of the defendant Thomas Robin in
and to that certain mining claim
known as the “Bonanza Association”
on Little Creek, in Innoko Pre
cinct, 4th Division of Alaska, and
all of the right, title and interest
of the defendant in and to claim
Number one below on Little Creek,
aforesaid in Innoko precinct, 4th
Division of Alaska; and that I will,
accordingly, offer said real estate
for sale, at public vendue to the
highest and best bidder, for cash,
on the 4th day of November, A. D., j
1918, at 10 o’clock A. M.. at Front!
door of the Marshal’s Office, at;
Flat City, Alaska.
Dated, Flat City, Alaska, August j
22nd, 1918.
L. T. ERWIN I
U. S. Marshal, Fourth Dis- j
trict of Alaska.
By G. G. GERAGHTY,
Deputy.
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Plaintiff’s Attorney.
First publication Sept. 13. Last
publication Oct. 18.
PIANOS—For Rent and Sale. Sim
son’s.
In England “His Majesty the
King” and the humblest subject have
a duplicate ration card.
Highest Cash
Prices Paid for
RAW
SIMSON’S
If you have saved a slice a day,
eat cornbread and save a loaf.
Michael Jackson, a native, two
Indian women and some small child
ren were found shipwrecked on the
beach about three miles south of
Point Retreat on Sept. 3 by Special
Agent J. F. McDonald and Game
Warden J. Lund, Jr., when they
were returning from Sitka in the
game warden’s boat. The natives
were in a starving condition and
Mr. McDonald and Mr. Lund left
j them all the grub they had aboard
their boat and offered to tow them
into Juneau. Jackson said they
would be picked up and towed to
Fun tor Bay, and refused the tow.
R. J. Boryer, for several years an
attorney for the Copper River rail
way at Cordova, is now working in
the shipyards at Seattle. He goes
on duty at the shipyards at 4 p. m.
and works until 12. He gets to
his office at 9 a. m. and stays until
j 3 p. m. He averages $25 per week
I from the yards and says he will
stay until the war is over. The
Seattle yards are short of men and
many businessmen are working in
them after business hours.
Mushing several hundred miles
over lonely winter trails to answer
Cupid’s call, David Brown, an old
time mining man from the Iditarod
district, was recently married at
Seattle to Miss Anna McCaffery of
Spokane. Mr. Brown crossed two
mountain ranges and mushed 400
miles to get to salt water.
WANT ADS
CABIN' FOR SALE—Cost $300;
will sell for $50. Inquire News
office.
WANTED—Two or Three con
genial fellows to occupy 4-room
residence with me. Kitchen fa
cilities if desired. See Slippern
FOR SALE—Panoramic views of
the town of Nenana in 1916 and
1917; taken by Johnson, of Fair
banks, from hill overlooking the
town. Apply at News office.
bOR SALE, CHEAP—Large tank
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
good as new; also sink. Inquire
Simson’s.
tOR SALE—Beaver Boartl, in plain
and oak finish. Doors and win
dows, sash stock and mouldings.
Inquire Simson’s.
FOR RENT—-Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
The management of the Coliseum
is nothing if not enterprising. The
latest of the many recent big-town
innovations is a lusty addition to
the theater orchestra, in the form
of drums and traps, which add con
siderably to the enjoyableness of
musical program under the skillful
manipulation of Manager Rosburg.
A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
The Southern
Tom Smith, Prop.
Phone 84
Front Between C and D
Johnson’s Store
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
PRICES REASONABLE LOUIS JOHNSON, Prop.
COLES AIR TIGHT
HEATERS
RANGES
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
Yukon Stoves and Drums
Air Tight Heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
ing or Heating Line
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
PERISCOPE THIS
WE HAVE A FULL CARGO OF WATCHES ABOARD—EACH
ONE HITS THE MARK, AS OUR PRICES ARE
SUBMERGED
The Army Wrist Watch
That Light* In the Dark—Not a Novelty, But a Necauity
Our S3 Radium Treated Alarm ClocRs
JUST THE THING FOR DARK NIGHTS
WM. TAYLOR
WATCHMAKER
JEWELER
ENGRAVER