THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enzry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Company, at First -and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
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COAST SHIPS NEEDED.
Interior Yukon and Alaska are
suffering inconvenience this season
from the inadequacy of steamship
service along the Alaskan coast,
declares the Dawson News. Com
mercial and mining bodies and oth
er organizations and concerns in the
North can do a helpful thing in
these matters by now calling atten
tion to the situation. Improved con
ditions should be provided before
another season.
Many passengers arriving in Daw
son this season report having been
delayed in Seattle or Vancouver at
heavy expense for days while await
ing opportunities to get berths. Some
have had to wait over several boats,
and some men traveling alone even
tually have had to take second-class
accommodations in order to get
through at all.
The development of the touns.
traffic up the coast has resulted in
berths on ships of all lines being
engaged far ahead. . Many of the
big liners have their bookings com
pieted months before the season
opens. The consequence is that the
people who claim the Northland as
their home and who go out and
come in when their business ar
rangements will permit find them
selves greatly inconvenienced and
hampered by want of accommoda
tions. Tourists are largely of the
class who have time to spare and
can plan far ahead for their exact
dates. The people who are devoted
to the development of the North
find their movements often restrict
ed to the completion of business
matters. Therefore, if the coast
steamers sell most of their space,
the Northerners find what is left
insufficient, and some are crowded
out and delayed or become discour
aged and do not travel at all.
The tourist trade is much appre
ciated by the North, and the people
of this region are glad to see it de
velop, and will do all in their power
to encourage the development. At
the same time the coast steamship
lines should remember that it is the
permanent population of the North
which produces the big freight traf
fic for their lines both going and
coming, and that a resident of the
North travels many times, compared
to the tourist who travels once, and
that far more consideration is due
those who remain and open the
land and make it a permanent prop
osition, than to the transient.
While due allowance is given for
the fact that the period of read
justment following the war has af
fected the supply and distribu‘;on
of ships, the fact remains that the
usual volume of Northern travelers
aside from the tourists should be
amply accommodated by the lines
hopeful of holding their patronage.
In the rush for bookings for the
sight-seeing season the coast lines
will make a mistake if they fail also
to provide fully for the requirements
of the sourdoughs. The Alaska leg
islature last winter found the Am
erican coast steamship lines so in
adequate and their mail contract
rates so high that the legislature
took steps to establish a government
steamship line for the entire coast.
An initial sum was voted and a
[large bond issue authorized, and a
; board named to go ahead with the
: plan should it be deemed the only
means of relief. This proves that
■ if the present 'lines do not take
care of the people of the North,
!they will find a way out of the
difficulty.
WRANGELL SENTIMENT.
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Wrangell was glad to welcome
our Governor and the first lady of
■Alaska, says a recent issue of the
Wrangell Sentinel. Their coming
jto us was an honor which we deep
ly appreciate; but few of us were
prepared to have them walk into
our hearts and affections as they
i did. They are such big people that
they made us forget their high po
sition, and by their friendliness and
■ simplicity of bearing we came quick
j ly to feel that they were just home
folks whose visit we were enjoying
immensely. When the time came to
go, they left a town full of friends
. behind them who will alwavs re-1
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member them with pleasure and af- ■
fection and whose best wishes for
their happiness and welfare will j
ever reach out after them.
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RECOVERY.
The world is going through emo
tionally just now a very natural
pathological process—that of start
ing to get well, says the Boston
News Bureau. Therefore it is very
touchy, grumpy, irritable and nerv
ous. It knows the climax is past,
that its own status is changing, and
will change yet some more; but it
doesn’t know how or how fast, and
it doesn't precisely know what it
wants or “where it is at.” Hence
the case of jumpy nerves.
It is obvious to countries, in
classes, in communities and families
and persons. Each is disposed to
argue, and to fear lest in the new
adjustment somebody else will “put
one over." Things are in flux; and
the self-preservation impulse has
been transformed from a national
or allied military expression to a
, much split up civilian concern over
'a problematical future.
The international wrangle that it
involves is made manifest in Paris.
With the best will in the world
there cannot help being much fenc
ing there as to prospective national
rewards or recompense, assets or
liabilities, and touchy nerves make
• it harder to compose some of the
difficult realignments that the new
map of the Old World presents.
.The nerves of our vanquished foes
are evident every day in genuine as
well as feigned protestations.
I The returned soldiers in every
land present a complex case. Their
absorption into civilian life—from
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; their own point of view or that of
the civilians who absorb them—is
not an easily automatic process.
Each will have to get newly focused
to the other; and there will inev
itably be many disillusionments and
readjustments imposed on those who
have come back from the abnormal
life of the battlefield. If they show
restlessness or dissatisfaction for a
w-hile, they cannot be harshly
blamed.
Classes within the community.
while the after-war working out of
relative values of everything from
labor to land is in process, are quite
as naturally apt to shoulder one
'another, and to do it with a newly
j irritable sort of class consciousness.
I Capital and labor are each apt to
; try to make out that it is the great
1 loser or sufferer from the war and
I the after-war conditions; and there
are many different kinds of capital
.and labor.
Could there be any more fertile
germ-culture for Bolshevism and
such noxious growths than this after
war neurasthenia? A host of con
certs or victims are now suscepti
ble. They look only at the price
of butter or of shoes or what-not.
They cannot or care not to know
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about underlying causes, or to de
tect specious fallacies.
Gradually the world will work
out of this convalescent nervous
ness—as reconstruction abroad and
prosperity here supplant a conse
cration to destruction. But, mean
while, the only specifics for certain
symptoms will be patience and pa
tient education.
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Every oldtimer of Fairbanks and
Dawson knows Tom McSmart, who
came North in the very early days
as a boy, took part in nearly every
stampede, and -was long identified,
more or less closely, with the pro
motion of various forms of enter
tainment for oldtimers, ranging from
high-class musicales to fistic encoun
ters in the squared circle. Hs
helped in the publication of Fair
banks’ first daily newspaper, paint
ed some of the signs which were
ordered in haste after the big Fair
banks fire, beat the drums in an
early-day band, sold ribbons in a
ladies" furnishings store, and oper
ated a gasboat on the Chena slough.
He could do anything, and did al
most everything,
His last venture was soldiering.
He went overseas during the early
stages of the war, being among the
first to reach France from the west
ern shores of the Atlantic, and he
fought through to the closing days
of the great conflict, being com
pelled, toward the end of the war,
to retire from the firing line be
cause of injuries received during a
particularly vicious gas attack in
jthe Paaschendaele sector.
As soon as he was able to leave
;the hospital overseas, Tom returned
; to California, in which state he
was when the war started. He was
advised to seek a warm climate. But
I even California did not furnish the
[necessary warmth to heal his gas
i filled lung?, and in his last letter
jto friends in Alaska he stated that
he was about to leave for Arizona.
;His lungs, he said, contained 21
perforations, caused by gas inhala
itions, but the doctors had been un
able to find any trace of tubercu
i losis.
I Tom says his shoulders are also
j pretty badly done up, the result of
ipacking his equipment during the
| several years he fought with the
j British forces. He is taking osteo
'pathic treatments for them, but says
| it will be quite a while before he
will be himself again.
AIRPLANE MAKERS USE
X-RAYS TO TEST WOOD
LONDON.—Airplane manufactur
ers are now calling science to their
aid in making their machines safe.
All wood used in construction in
some of the most important plants
is being first subjected to X-ray
tests. In one instance the radio
graph of a fine silver^ spruce plank
showed certain light and dark spots.
When the plank was split open it
was found to be honeycombed by
beetle borings.
Xanana—The Gateway to McKiul-sy
Vattonal Park.
WANT ADS
FOUND — Keyring and two keys,
i Owner can have same by calling
! at The News and paving for adv.
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j FIFTEEN MEN WANTED to cut
wood. Five dollars per cord;
good timber. A. G. Vachon, Taa
ana. k8-lG
FOR SALE — Showcase, o\s feet
long. Practically new. Cheap.
Inquire Mrs. Herman Rosburg.
AMERICAN RED CROSS
OPENS BIG HOSPITAL
IN RUSSIAN CITY
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OMSK, Siberia. — To meet an
emergency in hospital work for
wounded Russians of the army fight
ing the Bolsheviki, the American
Red Cross has opened one of its
! biggest hospitals at Cheliabinsk.
The opening of heavy fighting on
the Ufa front brought many wound
ed soldiers to the already burdened
Russian military hospitals. The Red
Cross sent to Cheliabinsk Dr. Henry
W. Newman.
j Cheliabinsk promises to be an im
portant station for American Red
[Cross work this summer, as it is
expected that the fighting will be
[particularly heavy in the district
[fronting it.
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NOTICE
Passengers leaving on the train
for any point on the line south of
town are required to purchase
tickets before entering the train.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is
in the employment office, on the
ground floor of the general office 4
Building, Alaskan Engineering com
mission.
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and can
be purchased in sufficient time be
fore the departure of the trains.
Regular trains leave the foot of
i A street on Wednesdays and Satur
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I days at 8 p. m.
On and after july 15th the freight
j on the North side of the river at
jCamp 415 dock will be shipped out
i Tuesday and Friday of each week.
I leaving at 7 a. m., until further
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