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.
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Company, at First and B Streets. Nenana. Alaska
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this paper and also all the local news published herein.
While The News stands strongly
for the administration of Alaskan
affairs by Alaskans, we do not be
lieve Northerners should insist on
excluding Outsiders from member
ship on the proposed Alaska De
velopment board. We quite agree
with the sentiment expressed in the
editorial appearing- in a recent is
sue of Sunset magazine, that at
least two members of the board
should represent the States. That
would leave the balance of author
ity in the hands of Alaskans and
insure a larger measure of support
from state delegations, among whom
there is a feeling that guardianship
of Alaska should ntft be altogether
relinquished in favor of Alaskans.
In order to insure the success of
the development board plans, the
people of Alaska must be willing
to make concessions. It will be a big
step forward for the territory, to
have created such a board as has
been proposed by Representative
Curry, however it may be consti
tuted ; and Alaskans will be fortu
nate, indeed, if they are granted the
privilege of filling three, or a ma
jority of the places on the board.
We do not share the fears of
the editor of Sunset that an all
Alaskan board would sacrifice future
resources for present enrichment.
On the contrary, we believe Alas
kans, if given authority to act,
would make a much better job of
conservation than have our guard
ians at Washington. Knowing the;
country and its peculiar needs, an \
all-Alaskan board would inaugurate j
conservation methods which would
conserve and permit development
at the same time—s.omething that
Outside management has failed ut
terly to do.
In any case and however consti
tuted, the development board, if
one is created by Congress, should
be permanently located in Alaska
and the members should be suffi
ciently well paid to insure enthus
iastic and faithful performance of
duties.
WHAT THE WAR DID
Net profits earined by American
manufacturers and merchants duriig
fthe late war were equal to the
capital stock of practically all the
manufacturing plants in the whole
United States.
Proof of that statement, it is said,
can be found in Senate Document
259—providing you can get hold
of the document. It is an official
report on profiteering made by the
secretary of the treasury to the
senate.
This document now securely laid
away in the archives, is said to
show ithat during the year 1916-1917
the United States Steel Corpora
tion cleared 887 million dollars, or
more than 20 millions in excess of
its entire capital stock.
Clothing and dry goods stores
made profits as high as 9826 per
cent.
Coal operators, in some cases, ran
their net profits up to 7866 per
cent.
Meat packers’ profits ranged as
high as 4244 per cent.
Fruit and vegetable canners raked
off as much as 2032 per cent velvet.
Furniture manufacturers demand
ed and received a profit 3295 per
cent.
Woolen mills exacted a toll of
1770 per cent profit.
It is pointed out in the document,
according to those responsible for
the disclosures, that one little steel
corporation, with a capital stock
of $5,000, reported for 1917 a net
income of nearly $15,000,000.
This corporation, it is claimed,
cleared no less (than 290,000 per
cent profit in a single year.
These huge profits were respon
sible for boosting 17,000 profiteers
into the millionaire class during the
war, the total of their net earnings
being approximately the aggregate
amount subscribed by the American
people during the first, second, third
and fourth Liberty loan drives.
After the armistice came the
Victory Liberty loan, bringing in
something like five billions more,
and coincident with it came more
millionaires, many thousands of
them for, in the words of Repre
sentative Mondell, “the peak of our
war expenditures was not reached
during the war, but some months
after the signing of the armistice,
and it bequeathed us a war over
hang of some $2,500,000,000, not
covered by the bonds or by cur
rent revenue,”
Taking the ration established dur
ing 1917 and 1918, it is figured
that at least 7,500 additional mil
lionaires must have been created
in 'the months following the armis
tice. That would make a total of
24,500 fresh millionaires as one con
sequence of the war
And that does not take into ac
count the thousands of pre-war
millionaires, who doubtless profited
in somewhat like proportion, and
the hundreds of thousands of near
millionaires and smaller profiteers
who were elevated to the near-mil
lionaire class.
One writer contends that if the
Government, at the beginning of the
war, had taken over the essential
lines of industry, and the American
people had been required to pay
the prices which private manufact
urers and merchants charged them,
there would have been sufficient
profit to pay every dollar’s worth
of capital stock, and leave the na
tion in possession of practically all
of its manufacturing plants.
THE INDIAN QUESTION
The Juneau Empire sees very lit
tle room for controversy in the po
sitions of Superintendent Hawkes
worth, Superintendent Henderson
and Governor Riggs and “speaking
broadly and as to the principles in
volved, the position of the Alaska
Native Brotherhood, on the matter
of the assimilation of the Indians
THE NEW RAILROAD
CIGARS AND TOBACCOS
POOL AND PAN
SOMETHING DOING ALL THE TIME
BARBER SHOP AND BATHS
| ROOMS IN CONNECTION. BILLY THOMAS
COLISEUM
TONIGHT
THOMAS MEIGHANa/td BETTY COMPSON in.
George LoaneTuckers 'The Miracle Man*
Q'aramountjilrtcraft Q>iclure
] of Alaska”. They all agree, the
1 Empire points out, that the ultimate
' end of the situation in Alaska
should be the elevation of the In
, dians to a position of equality in
citizenship, that the Indians should
have the right to look forward to
a time when they may enjoy all
the privileges and rights of full
citizenship on exactly the same
plane as the white citizens, and must
prepare themselves ito bear all the
responsibilities that go with citizen
ship.
Continuing, the Empire says that
Governor Riggs. Mr. Henderson and
Mr Hawkesworth agree that there
should be no undue haste in bring
ing about thai condition, and there
is-no doubt but that the Alaska
: Native Brotherhood will agree that
they are right. With complete agree
ment as to (the principles involved
the rest will follow as a matter of
course and in its own good time,
through serious, cautious and pains
taking cooperation along the whole
line.
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CONGRESSMAN MILLER IS
FRIEND OF ALASKA PROJECT
j ‘‘I know something about this
railroad,” declared Congressman
Miller, of Seattle, recently while
the request of the Alaskan Engin
1 eering commission for $4,000,000
to continue railroad construction
was under consideration at Wash
ington. The statement wa3 made in
. answer to an attack on the project
j made by Representative Madden, of
j Illinois. Continuing, Representative
| Miller said: “I only wish the mem
bers of the house could see (the
railroad and see the country througn
which it passes. Alaska is the great
est asset held by any nation in the
world."
! The following account of the in
cident is taken from a dispatch to
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from
its Washington bureau:
| WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8—
Because Secretary Payne, of the de
partment of the interior, sought to
increase the salary of Col. Freder
ick Mcars, chairman and only re
maining member of the Alaskan
Engineering commission, from $10,
,000 to $15,000 a year, the item in
the sundry civil bill appropriating
$4,000,000 iio complete the Alaska
railroad has had some trouble in
getting through the house. The item
emerges bearing the following pro
viso, on demand of Representative
McKinley, Republican, of Illinois,
senator-elect from that state:
‘‘Provided that no individual shall
be paid an annual salary ouit of this
fund of more than $10,000.”
| Representative Blanton, of Texas,
: tried but failed, to have the salary
I cut to $7,500.
Representative McKinley, in the
course of the debate, declared that
the original estimate for the con
struction of the road was $65,000
per mile.
“There has been about 410 miles
built,” said McKinley, “at a cost of
$41,000,000, or an average of
$100,000 per mile. I make that
statement simply to show that I do
not think (there has been any great
amount of saving in the construc
! tion of the roa'1 ”
Owing to the appearance of a
i crack in the river ice in front of
I the A. E. C. docks, the passenger
| coaches and big locomotive used on
| the run between Nenana and Fair
banks do not leave the solid ground
on the north' side of the river. A
light engine brings the freight cars
to the Nenana side.
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Admiral Watson . Feb. 6
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Coast Train Schedule
Train leaves Gold Creek for
Anchorage on Sunday and Thurs
day at 1:00 P. M.
Train leaves Deadhorse for An
chorage on Tuesday and Friday.
Train leaves Anchorage for Sew
ard on Wednesday and Saturday at
9:00 A. M.
Train leaves Chickaloon for An
chorage, via Eska on Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday at 7:30
A. M.
Nenana Train Schedule
Trains leave Nenana for the end
of steel four times a week—on
Monday. Wednesday, Thursday and
Saturday.
THE ROYAL BEAN POT
Is now opened up,
Baked Chili Beans, hot or not;
The Coffee and Sandwiches are line,
You’ll find it a good place to dine
Service, noon until after show
CHRISTINE BRODESEN
Third and A Streets
Genuine Daniel G'een Felt Shoes
Fowler & Morris.
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Chop Suey, Noodles
AND
Home-Made Bakery
Northern Cafe
GEORGE TANAKA, Prop.
HEALY RIVER
ROADHOUSE
END OF STEEL
First-class Meals
BEDS
Cigars and Tobacco
Ambrose Van, Prop.
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President.
Department of the interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
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change without notice:
LEAVE NENANA for Healy on
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Saturday at 8 a. m.
Returning leaves Healy at 1 p. m.
LEAVE FAIRBANKS for Nenana
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Returning leaves Nenana at 1:30
p. m.
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
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SECOND AND FOURTH MONDAY
At 8:00 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER, ALF EKELANU
Secretary Dictator.