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
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth..Editor and Managei
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ANCHORAGE BEAR
AWAKES 10 FIND
After hibernating in a hole on
the side of the hill at the fooot
of Seventh avenue in Anchorage for
five months and ten days, a little
black bear appeared early in April
and was disagreeably surprised at
the presence of snow on the ground.
For several minutes after emerging
from his winter quarters, he refused
to walk, but sat huddled in a ball at
the entrance to his hole from which
all the snow had been cleared away
by S. E. Nelson, who captured the
animal as a cub last October, near
Palmer, on the main line of the
government railroad.
Mr. Nelson has raised eleven
bears since coming to Alaska in
1898 and says he has never known
one of the animals to stay as long
in a hole as his present possession.
The bear went into his quarters
last November 1. Mr. Nelson tied
a long chain about the animal’s
neck and then started a small hole
in the side of the hill. Mr. Nelson
placed several gunny sacks and some
excelsior and straw near the hole
and left the bear to his own ideas
of winter home-building.
The animal took all the building
material in with him and no doubt
used it in truly bear fashion. \
fact, which ' few persons, not stu
dents of the habits and actions of
bears, are familiar, says Mr. Nelson,
is that when a bear, whether old
or young, comes out of his long
period of hibernation, he prefers to
anything else as food the bark of
the quaking asp, a species of the
poplar tree. The little Anchorage
specimen of the genus ursus ran
true to form and when thoroughly
awake refused to eat anything other
than some of the quaking asp bark,
which was obtained by Mr. Nelson
on Turnagain Arm.
The bear will be kept by Mr.
Nelson in the yard of his home until
next fall and then he may ship the
animal to some zoological society
in the States.
“Sleeplong,” as Mr. Nelson has
named the little fellow, will be a
year old this spring.
NEED ONE HUNDRED WOMEN
BACTERIOLOGISTS AT CAMPS
There is need for about 100 wo
men bacteriologists te take the place
of men in the cantonment labora
tories, the surgeon general’s office
of the United States army announces.
The service of the men is demanded
for the hospital units which are go
ing abroad and their places a*t the
home cantonments are to be filled
by women. Applications are arriving
from all the camps, some asking for
as many as nine women.
A good practical knowledge of
clinical pathology and diagnostic
bacteriology is required for the
work. The present salary is $720
with maintenance and $1,200 with
out, with transportation furnished
by the Government. Applications
may be made to office of the sur
geon general, Washington, D. C.
Dick Dougherty, who with Mr,
James O’Reilly, opened up the firsl
commercial shipping coal mine or
the government railroad, was the
first member to be initiated intc
Anchorage Elks lodge No. 1351.
ALASKA LADIES
WILL BE URGED
10 FORM CLUBS
The economics division of the fed
eral food administration for Alaska,
under the direction of Mrs. Allen
Shattuck, of Juneau, is perfecting
a plan for the organization of food
clubs in every community in Alaska.
The service of all officers and all
members of the organization will be
| voluntary. The individual club
president will appoint a local club
1 committee to help plan and promote
, interesting programs at each meet
ing, to do special work and to head
sub-committees. The usefulness of
the clubs will depend upon the pat
riotic work performed, such as the
distribution of leaflets, pamphlets
' and cards, recipes, make reports to
the federal food administrator of
cases of hoarding and other viola
tion of the rules of the food ad
ministration, excessive prices, etc.;
endeavor to get the merchants to
adopt the “cash and carry” system;
i induce the public to patronize only
stores and restaurants belonging to
(the United States food administra
tion; take census of homes and in
stitute measures to increase pro
duction.
Mrs. Shattuck has just returned
to Juneau from a conference of
the home economics directors held
at the food administration in Wash
ington.
BOOKS AND LIBRARY SERVICE
FOR SOLDIERS IN HOSPITALS
Books and library service are to
be provided for army, navy and Red
Cross hospitals in America and
France, according to the plan of the
American Library Association. Wo
men will be employed in these lib
raries. and it is also announced that
two women have recently been ap
pointed as assistants in cantonment
libraries which hitherto have been
unavailable to women workers. Miss
Anna Neuhauser is acting as assist
ant in the cantonment library at
Camp Hancock, Ga., and Mrs. Lois
W. Henderson at Camp Bowie, Tex.
The American Library Asociation
will direct the hospital library work
under the War Department Com
mission on Training Camp Activities.
Miss Caroline Webster, library or
ganizer for New York state, has
joined the staff of the American
Library Association in Washington
branch of the service.
So far the chief difficulty has
been to secure book space in the hos
pitals and living accommodations
for the librarians. It is expected
that the librarians will be accommo
dated as nurses are and that they
will be on the same standing as the
| regular hospital staffs.
This work has been doae with
; great* success in England since the
beginning of the war by several well
known literary women, who have
made the hospital libraries their par
ticular care. ’-The most prominent
of the women who have been doing
the work in this country is Alice
Hegan Rice, who has acted as lib
rarian of the hospital library at
Camp Taylor, Ky.
Louis Spitz, of Ruby, is packing
; up his pool tables and other fixture!
j to ship to the Outside on the firs
i boat.
YANKEE DEVICES WILL WIN
THE WAR SAYS HENRY FORD
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“American mechanisms—designed
by Ameriacn engineers, constructed
! by American workers and operated
I by American fighters—are going to
| win the war on land, in the water
| and in the air.”
i Henry Ford, that quiet-voiced,
| gentle-mannered ex-pacifist, who is
i doing more, perhaps, than any other
I individual in the country to pro
duce mechanical battle contrivances,
voiced this opinion to The World
i recently.
"Work—Americans’ willingness and
capacity to work—is what will bring
us victory. Idlers caused the war—
idlers of so-called royalty, who by
command made others'obey them;
and capitalistic idlers, who made for
tunes and sought greater fortunes
by forcing others to do their bidding
“But work will beat the mall.
The mechanism turned out by our
! strong, intelligent wage-earners will
I triumph over the ideas and ideals of
{the idlers. I hate war and always
' did. but I hope this war continues
! until there are no more idle ex
S ploiters of others left upon the
j earth.”
j Mr. Ford had been for a couple
j of days in New York “resting.”
| His rest consisted mainly of inspeet
i ing and making further plans for
| his great plant out in the Jersey
| meadows near Newark, where he is
to turn out, primarily, Eagles—those
200-foot, all steel submarine de
j stroyers which the navy counts upon
j heavily to combat the undersea
| menace.
The Eagle is one of two par
ticular fighting devices which are
j so engrossing Mr. Ford’s attention
| at present that he is working harder
j and putting in longer hours than
any of the 10,000 employees of his
I concern.
Have U Boat Detectors.
■ Without going too deeply into de
I tails as to the construction of these
j boats, it is permissible to say that
i they are 200 feet long, 25% feet
! wide, and draw 8 feet of water,
' carry 5-inch guns, are equipped with
submarine detectors that can spot
the enemy’s U boats more than a
mile away, have devices for drop
ping depth bombs, and are expected
to do great execution.
Yet they are to be turned out
(big as they are) in the same
standardized, systemized fashion as
the little pleasure cars which made
Mr. Ford's name known throughout
the world. He described one of the1
buildings along the Rouge river, r.t
Detroit, where the Eagles are now
under construction.
“This is 300 feet wide and 1,800
feet long,” Mr. Ford said. “It has
three sets of rails, along wnich t.ie
Eagles progress from the beginning
to their assembling until they file
complete. At the end of the tracks
they take to the water and by t' at
time they are a finished product,
fully equipped, armed and fu,-))lied
—and with their crews aboard.
“We have orders for 100 of these
boats, but we are prepared to build
1000 if they are needed,” Mr. Ford
; said. “Construction will go on at
■ Rouge river until the weather is too
cold next fall, and by that time the
plant in the Jersey meadows will be
in operation.”
The Two-Man Tank.
Mr. Ford’s other pet war machine
is the “two-man tank.” This is not
his own idea he wanted it under
stood. It was the conception of
army men, just as the Eagle was the
outgrowtlf of navy ideas. But he
has built one of the small tanks
for experiment purposes and he
knows what it will do.
“The simplest thing possible!” he
said enthusiastically. “It’s merely
j a little affair of sheet steel, armor
plated, with two of our ordinary
j 20-horse-power motors, driving truck
! worm-gears, with caterpillar trac
I tion. *.
“These little tanks could turn
within their own length, could dart
I here and there along the fighting
line almost as fast as an unpro
tected soldier. One man could
handle the machine, the other fellow
man the guns. I have arranged for
a permanent supply of chemicals
’ within the tank for a protetcion
i against gas should the enemy em
; ploy that, and the little tanks could
therefore go anywhere.”
So far as Mr. Ford knows, there
has not yet been any provision1
made in the American army’s fight
ing scheme for these tiny tanks.
But if they should be wanted he’d
like nothing better than the job
of turning them out. And they
could be produced almost as rapidly
as pleasure cars he thinks.
War Work Hit One Interett
He isn't much interested in the
passenger car end of his business
now. He is turning out only 2,000
a day, which is a tremendous cut
into the company’s former produc
tivity. And he doesn't care whether
he turns out any or not, even though
the demand, he said, is for at least
four times the number produced.
War work only is engrossing Henry
Ford now.
“Remember when we were all
pacifists on the old Oscar II?’’ he
laughed. (His interviewer was The
World’s reporter who accompanied
Mr. Ford on that famous peace ex
pedition.) “Well, I’m still a pacifist
to a certain extent. That is, I
want peace, but I’m fighting like
the devil to get it!”
Perhaps the most vital thing Mr.
Ford has done thus far to help win
the war is that he has aided trem
endously in the production of food
supplies for Great Britain by means
of his farm tractors.
No fewer than 6,00 of these ma
chines, each capable of doing the
work of at least five teams of horses
and capable besides of being hand
led by old men, women or half
grown boys and girls, have been
shipped to England within the past
year.
The state of Michigan is being
supplied with tractors. A certain
| New England state has applied for
them and will be given .some. Can
ada is to receive twenty-five a day,
“I think France should pay more
attention to her food supply,” Mr.
Ford said." She ought to have thou
sands of tractors tearing up her
soil right now. Not necessarily
mine—I don’t care about that But
there is the seat of war, and right
there the utmost possible quantity
of food should be produced.
“Maybe I’ll get in bad for what
I’m going to say, but I think the
vineyards of France (or some of
them anyhow) should be uprooted.
Tear out the vines and plant grain
and potatoes there. Food is more
necessary than champagne. And
I’m not a Prohibitionist either.”
The interviewer asked if the vari
ous Ford plants had yet found it
necessary to employ women to re
place men in their mechanical de
partments.
“No, I’m using old men—or men
that used to be called old,” Mr. Ford
replied. “And they’re fine!”
His Alien Born Loyal.
This led to a general talk on labor
conditions, irt the course of which
the Detroit manufacturer said that
many of his workmen were foreign
manyof his workmen were foreign
born. Hundreds were natives of
Germany and Austria and Hungary.
But there has not been the slightest
suspicion of disloyalty among them.
“We try, as their employers, to
give them a square deal, to pay
them well, to keep them satisfied,”
Mr. Ford said. “And they are con
tent.”
Just about now the Ford plant
at Detroit is beginning to turn out
Liberty motors for our airplanes.
Shortly it will be producing twenty
| five of these a day- Ever since the
i Liberty motor was first designed
! 1,500 cylinders have been produced
I for it each day at the Ford estab
| lishment.
For Government Control.
| Knowing him to have commun
| istic (though scarcely Socialistic)
j ideas, The World’s interviewer asked
the man from Detroit what he
j thought of government ownership as
far as it has gone.
“I think it should go a great
deal further than it does,” he said.
“With a genuine sincere test and
the best efforts put forth by rail
road employees, I think Government
control of railroads will be more
successful than private control. I
doubt if the railroads will ever go
back to private ownership. But I
think that all mines and in particu
lar all power-producing waterways
COOINEV MOTEL
Not Better Than the Best,
But Better than the Rest.”
NENANA . ALASKA
FOWLER & MORRIS
GROCERIES
DRY GOODS
COMPLETE LINE LOWEST PRICES
SOFT WATER PURE SOAP
HOUSECLEANING TIME HAS COME
HOUSEWIVES SAVE WORRY AND TROUBLE BY HAVING
Your Laundry Done Rough Dry
GARMENTS READY TO IRON AND FLAT WORK FINISHED
20c a Pound
LACE CURTAINS AND BLANKETS AS FINISHED WORK ONLY
NENANA STEAM LAUNDRY
ALLRED & BENNETT
v SANITARY SNOW WHITE 0
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—in fact, all natural resources—
should belong to the nation; in other
words, to the people, and should
not be in possession of a few who
reap all the profit from them. The
profit should be distributed.”
Mr. Ford reverted to his belief
that “idlers” had caused the war
and that workers will win it. He
said:
“I think the idlers will largely
be wiped out of existence. Not all
of them, maybe, but most of them.
Of course, we won’t see the millen
nium after the war. The millen
nium, to my understanding, is the
time when ‘principle shall replace
passion.’ Some men still have a
passion for making money by ex
ploiting their fellow men, a passion
for holding power in the same way
—but there won’t be so many of
them.”
Since the beginning of the war—
and consequently of his extra-pro
ductive eforts—Mr. Ford has been
in close touch with the administra
tion in Washington.
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LADIES OF RUBY
REMEMBER ARMY
Through the efforts of Mrs. Bag
gerly, the Ruby branch of the Red
Cross was presented, recently, with
three hundred “fomfort bags” that
were forwarded to the Tanana Val
ley chapter at Fairbanks, to be sent
to Our Boys in France. Through
the kindness of Henry Robson, mail
carrier, the bags were taken to
Tanana free and from there the
X. C. Co. dead-headed them to
Fairbanks. The following ladies
made and contributed “comfort
bags”: Mesdames Young, Willis
Tryck, Lund, Baggerly, Wegner,
Lovely. Xeilsen, Carey, Younkins,
Halstead, Flannigan, Wilkinson, Bert
Johnson, Stroup, Taekstrom, Bert
Walker, Ellis, Campbell, Roberts,
Hartwich, Light, Sousa, Spitz, Fred
Clark, Amalong, E. B. Clark, Long,
Day. De Costa, Harry Clarke, Cody,
DeVane, Hoffman, Gildea, Tillison,
Strite, Webster, Klog, and Misses
Xeilsen, O’Connor, Bachelder and
Williams.
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WS.S.
VAR SAVINGS STAMPS
ISSUED BY THE
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT
I The habit that -
1 makes men rich
Saving is a habit—the habit that makes
men rich.
While the Government needs the money
that will be investe.d in the War Savings
Stamps, there are other, and simpler meth
ods that could be used to raise this two bil
lion dollars.
The greater purpose of War Savings Stamps
is to give every man, woman and child a
personal part in financing the war for free
dom and to teach the most beneficial habit
in life—the habit of thrift. So that when
the war is over the people will have saved,
out of the high wages of these days, some
part of their income, as a provision for the
future.
Look out for your personal future. Make
certain of it by buying War Savings Stamps
now, while you can. They pay 4 per cent
interest, compounded quarterly, and are
backed by the strongest treasury in the
world.
THEY EARN MONEY
THEY SAVE LIFE AT THE
FRONT, BY HELPING UNCLE
SAM WIN THE WAR.
BUt THEM AT THE
POSTOFFICE