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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MR. BURLESON AND ALASKA.
During an address recently at At
lantic City, Mr. Burleson, postmas
ter general of the United States, fo:
the first time publicly defendet
himself and the department agains'
the attacks that have been directe.
against him for months by a grea
majority of the leading publication:
of the United States.
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The efficiency of the departmenl
is marvelous. Mr. Burleson told tht
Manufacturers’ association; jus!
marvelous, or words to that effect.
Throughout every one of the 4?
states of the Union Chat may be
correct. All of these attacks on
the postmaster general may ' have
been unwarranted. But. believes the
Ketchikan Chronicle, the average
Alaskan, assuming that the rest of
the country has been given the same
treatment as the Territory, without
any desire to accuse the postmaster
general of favoritism, would say
that the postal administration has
been a fizzie.
Mail is handled in the same man
ner as canned salmon or copper ore
-—by freight, and then only when
the whim hits the steamboats or the
shipping clerks of Seattle. And yet
Mr. Burleson talks of efficiency.
That is one of the main mail con
tentions, the lack of consideration,
the disregard of whether it ever
gets here or not. and the other is
the outlying sections.
Millions are spent annually by
Mr. Burleson in extending the rura’
free delivery service in the States.
Farmers, with their own automo
biles. living an hour or two from
town, who would just as soon take
a joy ride in the evening to gel
their mafi. are not permitted to dc
so. They must have it delivered a!
their doors. All farmers are r.ol
in position to run to town every
evening, but today a great many of
them are, and they would be glad
to get their neighbor's letters 01
papers for him. too, if there was nc
rura! free delivery.
Yet the farmer is entitled to that
delivery, and, if he is. the pros
pectors and settlers of the remote
corners of Alaska are a thousand
times more deserving of considera
tion. But they don’t get it.
New opportunity after opportuni
ty presents itself in the North
wherein the postal department coulc
be of assistance in developing tht
country, but no helping hand is
extended. Witness the demand foj
a mail subsidy from Ketchikan t>
the Hyder district, to give Ameri
cans trade that is now going oo for
eign ports.
Throughout, the postal adminis
tration with respect to Alaska ha.
been a disgrace and a fizzle, Mr.
Burleson to the contrary' notwith
standing. His boas*ed efficiency,
like that of the kaiser’s army, breaks
down before the actual test.
A PUBLIC STRIKE.
Everybody else having already
had a whack at going on strike, the
public may also decide to go o;i
strike against strikes. suggests
Forbes' Magazine. The readiness
with which certain classes of em
ployers have capitulated to the de
1 mands of their workers for fancy
j wages suggests that it was well un
derstood that the dear public would
be saddled with the extra burden.
'. Where ah industry has a very pow
erful association of producers or
: principal distributors, it is compara
tively easy to mark up prices to
conform with whatever wage scale
the workers demand. The public is
! beginning to suspect that there has
been too much of this sort of thing
going on. Also, the public has
reached the conclusion that certain
classes of workers have become con
scienceless profiteers. The railway
| union members want to have the
'roads handed over to them, with
i j
j power, virtually, to fix their own j
iwages. Coal miners are agitating'
for a 30-hour week—five days of;
six hours each. Painters in Xew j
.York had only to go through the i
motion of walking out in order to j
. get their pay raised to $8 a day. j
• Bricklayers went them one better ■
by demanding $10 a day. We read,
i too, in the newspapers that factory
' workers are earning—or at least
getting—as much as $30 to $120 a j
| week. These are samples of whet j
. is going on. There is a limit t~ j
I what the public will submit to in j
:the wav of gouging. That limit has ;
]
.been almost, if not quite, reached, f
THE MAN OF MANY BURDENS.
F#w men in history have carried
the weight of responsibility that Am- j
erica’s President has been shoulder-!
ing manfully since 1914. savs the!
i
Juneau Empire. The question of
this country's entrance into the war, '
the difficult industrial problems, the
nervous strain of the election of
1916, the plunge into the bloody
turmoil and its consequent problems ;
, —-all have contributed to the sap
ping of his physical strength and
imposing a strain on his active
! . . i
mind.
;
Today the President is paying the
1 price of his intense devotion to his!
country—a country that is not un-1
appreciative of the great work he
has done in its behalf—a country1
that is praying in its heart for his
rapid recovery and early return to
the tasks that are as yet uncom
pleted.
TARIFF AT ISSUE.
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It is hard to realize, points out
the New York Telegraph, the
changes that will be brought about !
in the world trade as a consequence
of the war brought upon Europe
| by a mistaken policy of domina
tion by one nation, or even a com
bination of nations.
Those with which this country
| came to be associated, and still
;more that which provoked the con
vict, have not merely exhausted j
their industries for the time being
and made recovery difficult, but they
have burdened themselves with debt
and heavy taxation. Their working
| people, after all they have suffered,
j insist upon higher wages and short
!er hours of labor, with the inevita
jble result of decidedly higher cost
jof living at home.
This country is in a position of
decided advantage, inasmuch as it
may supply the markets abroad to
Ja large extent, not only with nat
ural products and material, but with
manufactured goods of various kinds.
It will have to do it largely on
credit for a time, but payments will
have to come out of foreign prod
ucts of one kind and another from
different sources. It will be taking
a larger part than before in trans
portation across the ocean and back.
The development of industry and
trade on both sides will be to its
advantage in the use of capital and
labor, and the policy to be pursued
| for successful trade at home and
I abroad is likely to be far different
from that which had prevailed so
long before the war.
The issue may arise conspicuously
in the political campaign of next
year, but it is pretty sure to take
a very different form from that
which has been so familiar in past
years.
“TIDES OF BARNEGAT”
PARAMOUNT TONIGHT
i
Blanche Sweet, Lasky-Paramount
star, will make her appearance at
the Coliseum tonight in the Jesse L.
Laskv photodramatic adaptation of
F. Hopkinson Smith’s story, “The
Tides of Bamegat,” a thrilling
drama of a little colony of fisher
folk near the famous bay on the
Jersey coast.
In “The Tides of Barnegat,” in
the role of a school teacher. Miss
Sweet bears the blame of her sis
ter’s shame, sacrificing the love of
her sweetheart, and is about to be
driven from the village that her own '
flesh and blood may be protected.
In this role of deep sympathy and j
human understanding she adequately
fulfills all the expectations this
noted part demands.
F. Hopkinson Smith has given to
American literature some of its best
works, and the greatest of these is
considered by many to be “The
Tides of Barnegat.”
In the cast supporting Miss Sweet
are such prominent players as Elliott ]
Dexter, Tom Forman, Harrison Ford.j
Lillian Leighton, Norma Nichols, and
Walter Rogers.
Hughie Ross, who was injured by
a falling boulder while at work in
the canyon last week, is resting
comfortably at the Government hos
pital. He was bruised considerably
on the shoulder and suffered a con
cussion of the brain, but his condi
tion is not serious. The injured
man was brought to the hospital on
Saturday by Dr. T. O. Lake, who
made a special trip to the canyon
to attend him.
Woodbury * Facial Soap and other
standard toilet soaps. Fowler &
Morris.
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FOR SALE—One horse, with two
horse outfit—sleigh, wagon, tw<
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News Office. 11-29
GOOD TEAM, harness and No. J
sleigh for sale. Inquire Knui
Koland, Third and C streets.
FOR SALE—Furnished house of fiv*
rooms, attic, large basement anc
winter cellar for vegetables. Heat
ed by furnace. Winter supply o1
vegetables. Full corner lot. On«
of the most desirable parts oi
town. Inquire at News office.
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Fourth and B Streets
Second and Fourth Mondays
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Alaskan Engineering Commission
; * NOTICE
Passengers are required to pur
, chase tickets before entering1 train.-)
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is in
the employment office, on the ground
floor of the General Office Building.
Alaskan ^Engineering Commission, or
|at Camp 415 <North N'enana).
Tickets will be on sale at any
. time during office hours, and can be
j purchased in sufficient time before
| the departure of the trains.
Regular trains for the south leave
the foot of A street on Wednesday'
and Saturdays at 8 a. m., and from
('amp 415 (North N'enana), for
Fairbanks, Tuesdays and Fridays, at
11 p. m.
The following is the schedule be
j tween North Nenana and Fairbank-.
j subject to change without notice:
Leave Fairbanks at 7:00 a m:
arrive North Nenana, 11:30 a. m
Leave North Nenana 1 :00 p. m ,
arrive Fairbanks, 5:30 p. m.
No tickets will be sold crossing
the river. Those intending to trav
el to Fairbanks must make the*
I own arrangements for reaching
j North Nenana.
Trappers and Traders of Alaska
SELL YOUR FURS TO A HOME INDUSTRY. WE GUARANTEE
YOU HIGHER PRICES THAN OUTSIDE
CONCERNS WILL PAY.
During the last season we conducted an advertising campaign
throughout the North and are prepared to send you the names of
people in all sections of Alaska and the Yukon whd will verify our
statements.
Our excellent Eastern connections, and the tremendous amount
of mail order business we are receiving from all parts of the
States for furs made to order enables us to turn our stock quickly
at a reasonable profit, but we must have fur, for which we guar
antee top prices.
Make us a trial shipment. If our price does not suit you, the
goods will be returned charges prepaid.
WE MAKE FURS TO ORDER
at more reasonable rates than can be obtained Outside. At present
we are working three operators, and need others. If you are an
operator and finisher, and want a good year-around job, com
municate with us.
CHAS. GOLDSTEIN & CO.
JUNEAU, ALASKA