THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for emry 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.
R. G. Southworth.Editor and Manager
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A MORAL ARMY.
The more than a million men of
the American Expeditionary forces
constitutes the most moral army in
the world, according to official
statements of the United States
Medical corps, says a correspondent
of The Associated Press, writing
from Paris.
Attributing the extremely low
percentage of affected men in the
army to the medical programs of
the United States forces, medical
officers say that the two important
factors in the production of the
most moral army were vigorous work
programs coupled with the diversi
fied recreations of the camp and
hygenic measures.
At a meeting of the Research
Society of the American Red Cross
consisting of the medical officers
of the United States army, the plan
now in operation in the training
camps of the United States, where
illicit houses and the liquor traffic
is suppressed, was spoken of as
highly productive of results.
The introduction in the training
camps of the United States of ath
letic games, libraries, recreation
halls under the Young Men’s Christ
ian Assocation and other organiza
tions, lectures, and wholesome
amusements was hailed as a great
step in the solution of the problem
of vice in the army. The work of
the chaplains, the universities and
the press also was mentioned as
playing a great part in the allevia
tion.
The education of men along moral
lines conducted by the medical offi
cers through literature which was
distributed among the men. by ex
hibits and through the agencies of
the War Department Commission of
Training Camp Activities served to
keep the men in the right mental
attitude toward the problem the
medical officers stated.
AMERICAN WOMEN ABROAD
More than 600 American women
in all parts of Great Britain are
now enrolled in the “Care Com
mittee” of the American Red Cross
the headquarters of which is in
London, in charge of Mrs. Robert
Peet Skinner, wife of the Consul
General. There are sub-committees
in twenty cities in England, Scot
land, Wales and Ireland.
The “Care Committee” is imme
diately notified of the arrival in
l
I any hospital of an American sol
dier, sick or wounded, whether he
j belongs to the American army or to
the British or Canadian forces.
Every such soldier is visited at least
once a week and is supplied with
comforts of various kinds, including,
whenever possible, copies of the
| local newspapers of his home town.
More than 5,000 Americans in
! hospitals have received personal calls
from the women of the care com
mittee during the past few weeks,
and the number of visitors make
a special effort to get the men into
touch with relatives and friends
at home. Useful things to wrear,
made by the mothers and sisters,
are actually placed in the hands of
their boys by these American women
visitors.
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Native school teachers are urging
Alaska eskimos to give their child
ren surnames in order that ancestry
may be traced and familes kept to
gether. Eskimos at present do not
use family names and as a result,
one cannot trace his family tree
back more than one or two genera
tions.
“In every Eskimo family each
person has a separate name, so we
cannot trace our forefathers more
than one or two generations,” said
Charles Menadalook, native teacher
of the Kotzebue school, in an article
he recently wrote on the subject.
“We Eskimos call ourselves ‘Enu
peak’ ” Menadalook added. “It
means ‘a real human being’. While
men are called ‘Nalluakameuit’
which in English means ‘People who
come from white tan seal skin.’
Our forefathers gave the white
people that name because of the
color of their skin.
“We may be given a name by the
white people but that will not be
a real name to us. We must use
our ‘Epuneak’ name for our last
name.”
Sixty-three new Alaska fish in
dustries. including canneries, miled
cure and fresh cure fish plants have
been listed since .January by the
Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce and Commercial
club. The bureau estimates that
the Alaska fishing output this year
will have a value of between $65,
000,000 and $70,000,000.
Put the right food on the home
table and the camp table will take
: care of itself.
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FIT FOR BATTLE
With the American Army in Lor
raine—“A quiet sector,” said an
officer of an American division hold
ing a position so designated “ap
pears to be a part of the front
where nothing but scouting, patrol
ling, shelling and gassing are going
on, with a little bombing and flame
throwing to vary the monotony.”
In a “quiet” sector the American
soldier gets his first experience of
war. “Some of the relatively small
things in this war looks so big to
the new man that he is inclined to
take them for bigger ones,” said
an American general, “and it is im-j
portant for both the new soldier and .
the young officer to get familiar;
with the little frightfulnesses the
Germans send over so as to get the
[ proper proportion between them and
real attacks.”
Patrols are large contributors to
the war diary of the division in
this sector and the American sol
dier is particularly apt at it. It is j
no secret for the Germans that he
is always at it and that he is ven-1
turesome enough to push into their
lines and into the villages back of
them. The Germans find their wire
cut in most unexpected places, even I
live fire in some cases. A patrol
caught at this dangerous work found
itself in the range of machine guns
and had to roll back under the wire
and across No Man’s Land with bul
lets whistling over their heads. An-:
other patrol pushing into a German !
commanding post and finding it
vacant dragged an officer’s trunk
back over the shell holes to their
own trenches.
The patrol is expected to do noth
ing more than bring in information.
The orders are to avoid contact with
— uui pauuis onen meet
and occasionally are obliged to
fight.
One man of an American patrol,
separated from his comrades and
captured by the enemy, had gained
some interesting information that
he determined to take back if he
could. His rifle had been taken
from him but he had managed to
conceal a couple of grenades. Slyly
removing the cap from one of them
as he was being led across No Man’s
Land he struck it against the other,
let it drop and then sprinted back
to safety.
Indian troops arc1 rendering great
service in this work, getting over
the ground between the lines with
out seeming to touch a thing that
produces noise, and bringing back
most useful information.
Men in observation posts and cap
tive balloons furnish detailed in
formation of everything they see go
ing on back of the enemy’s lines.
From their reports the war diary
registers a daily count of the num
ber of trains and the number of
cafs in each train seen on the lines
of communication. A count is also
kept of columns of smoke with the
hours and minutes when they are
observed.
Working parties are counted and
the direction of their movements
noted, sometimes leading to the dis
covery of new emplacements for
heavy artillery. An aerial photo
graph showed recently where a bat
tery found in this way had been
completely destroyed by our fire.
The men out scouting or on patrol
in the listening posts or observation
balloons quickly sharpen their facul
ties of obseravtion, get a better
grasp of the significance of little
things and their relation to big
ones. Their sense of proportion
develops and they are no longer
to be misled as to the scope of the
enemy’s harassing operations.
Fifty-seven laborers recently ar
rived at Katalla on the steamship
Admiral Schley. They will work
on the Bering River railway.
The Odd Fellows’ hall at Seward,
a fine two-story structure next to
the Harriman bank, has just been
completed. The first meeting was
held in the new hall recently.
ELSEWHERE IN ALASKA
Service has been inaugurated un-|
til midnight in the Cordova offices
of the U. S. Signal Corps. An ad
ditional man will be sent to that
city from Seattle. Two men are
already at work on the cable, and
the third man will enable much busi- '•
ness to be handled. The new enter
prise was brought about through
a morning paper being established
in the city, and Col. Lenoir granted
its request for extra service.
The gap in the government rail-1
way between Seward and Anchor
age will be closed by the middle ]
of September, ffm. C. Gerig, en
gineer in charge, annonuced re
cently. As soon as the gap is j
closed coal will be shipped to Sew
ard for local consumption; potatoes’
will be shipped, which will be better I
than last year’s crop; and passenger
traffic between the two cities will
go by rail.
The lighthouse at Cape St. Elias:
has 300 000 candle power and has
been seen by masters of vessels 50'
miles out at sea. It is the largest i
and most powerful station on the
Pacific coast. It has four keepers i
who are trained to handle the com
plicated machinery in six hour
shifts. The station is also equipped
with a first class foghorn which can
be heard for miles.
Eskimo reindeer herders of Alaska I
are being organized in order that ^
they may systematize the care of [
deer. The organization is to be
known as the Reindeer Men’s Asso
ciation and will be governed by a
board of directors controlled by the
head herders. Government teachers
are assisting the natives to or
ganize.
A wild duck recently flew down
the big smokestack at the Valerie
mine at Whitehorse passing thru
the stack and emerging from the
incuuA uuui which was upen, me
furnace not being: in operation at
the time. The duck escaped from
the boiler and later flew down the
main shaft to the 100 foot level
where it was captured and taken
to the open air and set free.
Charles Warner, who had chargre
of salvaging the goods and ma
chinery of the wrecked steamship
Al-ki returned to Juneau recently
after completing his job and burn
ing the hull to the water’s edge
to remove the menace to navigation.
W. J. Wright, chief mechanician
for the sixteenth district, U. S. L. S.
recently made an inspection trip to
the lights at Capes Hinchinbrook
and Elias. He overhauled the deli
cate machinery while at the sta
tions.
The Canadian government will
repair roads in the Rainy Hollow
district on their side of the line in
order to permit transportation of
ore from Canadian points to Haines
on the American side.
Sam. C. Dunham, author of “The
Goldsmith of Nome” “The Lament
of the Sourdough,” and many other
poems on Alaska is editing a jour
nal called the Industrial and Mining
Age in New York City.
The Lighthouse cannery at Cor
dova received its last load of clams
from the beds and will close down
for the season. The company will
can salmon, however, until the run
is over.
According to a recent order of i
the postmaster general, Finnish
people in Alaska can no longer use i
the postal service between this coun
try and Finland. The reason fori
the order is that most of Finland is!
now under control of Germany. A I
number of letters were recently re-1
turned to Juneau to local Finnish
people.
A web house 30 by 80 feet is!
being built by the Carlisle Packing!
Co. at Cordova on a dock to be!
erected adjoining the present oil
dock, according to Nels Hawkinson,
superintendent of the cannery.
H. A. Anderson of Petersburg has
purchased the hulk of the steamer
Alaska formerly owned by the Wil
son Sylvester Mill Co., and will con
vert it into a herring saltery.
The Petersburg Report has a deaf
and dumb printer on its staff, who
graduated recently from the big
institution for the deaf and dumb
at Fulton, Mo.
The warehouse at Latuche was
burned a short time ago. The loss
was about $20,000.
is a
Stamina
’ Send-the Wheat
Meat Eats Sugar
the fuel for Fighters
UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION
WANT ADS
WANTED—Carpenters to build ad
dition to warehouse. Simson's.
LOST—Ticket ITS, on Noeller prop
erty. h inder please return to
News office. _ 9.13
FOR SALE—Steamer trunks, trav
eling bags, suit cases. A large
variety to choose from. Simson's.
FOR SALE CHEAP—Business lot at
Third and Market; also shot gun.
Inquire Mrs. Lavin. 9-12
FOR SALE, CHEAP—Large tank
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
good as new; also sink. Inquire
Simson’s.
FOR SALE.—Mrs. W. F. Lyons is
leaving for the Outside soon and
offers shop, fixtures and business
in cleaning and pressing clothes,
for sale. No reasonable offer re
fused- Shop is on A street, near
blacksmith shop.
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN—Sew
ing machine, phonograph, launch
Bunny, with 2Vb h. p. Ferro en
gine, shot gun, rifle, etc. Inquire
of J. A. Slippern.
FOR SALE—Beaver Board, 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
FOR SALE—Small heater. Cheap.
Inquire News office.
FOR SALE CHEAP—Cook stove in
good condition. Inquire News
office.
CHAIRS FOR SALE—Several rock
ers and dining chairs; also rug.
Inquire News office.
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HEATERS
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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
A Call To Arms
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