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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UNFAIR TREATMENT
Long distance administration of
Alaskan affairs by men, for the
most part unfamiliar with Northern
needs and conditions, has long been
a handicap to the territory. Denied
the right to govern themselves,
Alaskans are dependent upon con
gress and the heads of various bu
reaus atid departments lor prac
tically every form of relief re
quired to improve conditions in the
territory, and lack of sympathy and
understanding at Washington con
stitute a constant menace to the
welfare of Alaskans and the de
velopment of Alaska’s resources, not
withstanding the fact that we have,
at tin national capital, many staunch
friends willing at all times to render,
us such assistance as lay within
their power.
Alaskan are not lacking in grati
tude for the things that have been
done for them in the past, hut. there
are so many instances of neglect
and such evident lack of under-'
standing, that impatience and lack
of confidence are causing many to',
quit the territory. The reforms)
needed to restore normal conditions
and insure the development of In-j
terior resources are so slow in com
ing that Alaskans find themselves
hard pressed to tide over the in- j
terim. '
The restoration of normal con-;
ilitions in Interior Alaska depends:
very largely upon the early com-!
pletion of the government railroad [
and the construction of wagon roads j
feeders, to tap mining districts of
promise tributary to the railroad. :
Pending the arrival of these im
proved conditions, many Northern
ers have entered the employ of the
government on the railroad project,.
forced by the high cost of mining j
operations to abandon temporarily
their mining properties, or occu
pations dependent directly upon the
mining industry. The employment
offered by the Alaskan {engineering
commission has kept these men in
the country; without them it would
have been difficult for the govern
ment to continue building opera
tions in Interior Alaska. *
The partial suspension of build
ing activities at this time by the
Commission is a serious blow to In
terior Alaska, to the men who have
been laid off and to the enterprise
itself, and anything that can be
done to restore the working forces
to normal conditions should be done
without loss of time. Congress and
the various departments at Wash
ington should be made aware of the
fact that the employes of the Alas
kan Engineering commission, in In
terior Alaska, have given loyal sup
port to the government throughout
the war, subscribing to I.iberty
loans. Red Cross funds, War Savin
stamps and patriotic relief move
ments to such a degree that they
cannot now afford to bo without
employment. Idleness at this time
meai. *ho sacrifice of government
-securiti s \ lit h the government de
jsires held intact It means also
j that many of the men laid off will
leave the district, and perhaps the
territory, and that there will not be
sufficient labor available when the
next regular appropriation for rail
road construction renders a large
' scale resumption of work possible.
It should be pidnted out also that
the present curtailment threatens
Ihe success of the railroad project,
for it shoud require little argument
to show that a railroad cannot be
successful if there are not enough
men in the country to provide ton
nage. And one very simple way to
keep the men here is to keep them
employed.
On more than one occasion dur
ing the past year the government
has shown a disposition to treat the
working men of the Satates with
more than usual fairness, and it is
not at all unreasonable for the
workingmen of Interior Alaska to
ask for continued employment. Fail
ure to remedy the wrong that has
been done will be little short of
breach of faith on the part of the
government, for which there appears
to be not the slightest excuse.
WOMEN IN WASHINGTON
The state of Washington will not
have to turn many women out of
their wartime occupations, believes
Lawrence Wood, federal director in
Washington for the United States
Employment service Seattle rail
road officials and others who em
ploy many women have been quoted
l recently to the same effect.
, 1'ublic employment officials hope
I to send returned soldiers back to
the soil and let the women keep
their present posts, Mr. Wood said
. recently. “Soldiers who formerly
: performed light indoor work will
j be better men if they go to the
I land, he asserted.
“The question of discharging the
women is not very big in this
state” Mr. Wood added. “Washing
i ten was just beginning to employ
j women in large numbers when the
I war ended. Compared with Eastern
(states, our total of employed women
j was small.”
Women in Washington replaced
j men in practically every occupation,
according to the state labor ocm
I mission. W'hile the number was
i not comparatively large, the women
were placed in many lines. They
! were in all the lighter occupations,
] as clerks, janitors, taxicub drivers,
I elevator operators, meat cutters,
■ laundry workers, bookkeepers, and
j waiters. N'o record has been found,
, however, of women employed as
j motormen, conductors, policeman
| or firemen
i Even in occupations classified as
“extra hazardous” by insurance
companies, women were found.
State inspectors found over 2,500
women employed in Seattle in
j “hazardous” posts.
| One Seattle woman, who offi
cials say held the most hazardous
I job of all her sisters, worked in a
| saw mill riding a saw carriage.
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ARE GVERIAXEO
BY PARIS RUSH
_
Probably the biggest problem that
the Young Men’s Chistian Associa
tion has to face in the city of Paris
is the housing of soldiers who flock
to this city in thousands for twenty
four to forty-eight hours leave,
j Every American boy who comes to \
France is eager to see the city of j
Paris, and the prices of accommo- j
dations at the French hotels is be-;
yond the possibilities of their slend- !
I er purses. The Y. M. C. A. has,
! several hotels where they can go;
1 and for one franc a night can get
I a bed and a shower. Meals are
! served at cost.
The Pavilion is the largest of
these hotels, and as an illustration
the crowd that flocked in there the
other night is a good one to be
guided by. The hotel was full to
overflowing. The other hotels in
the neighborhood on the overflow
list were also crowded to the limit
The office also has a long list of
rooms which French families will
rent to soldiers. The list was ex-1
hausted. Yet the men kept pour-1
ing in. Seventy-six men took off
their coats, rolled them up, made
them into pillws and slept on the ■
floor of the ‘‘lounge room." At
eleven all lights were out.
At eleven-thirty p. m., Miss Eliz
abeth (iilman, of Baltimore, who
has charge of the canteen service'
at the Pavilion thought she would '
call it a day’s work and go to bed. !
But just as she was starting up-j
stairs, she heard a pounding on the j
door, and went to see what it was. i
She opened the door to find 34!
enlisted men who had traveled IB’
hours on a railroad train. They!
wanted cover for the night, and j
“for the love of Uncle Sam, sister,
i
food of some sort.” She let them;
in, went upstairs and called an-*
1 other canteen worker Together j
they went into the kitchen and j
- tole the bread that was hidden !
in the closets for morning. They j
found a key to the storeroom and I
dragged out canned meat to mase |
sandwiches. They started a fire in j
the stove and made hot chocolate, i
and the thirty-four boys were fed.
Then the two women went into
the dining room with the tables I
all set and ready for breakfast, and :
cleared away those tables, and the j
men were only too glad to roll up j
on them and on the floor and sleep i
the sleep that only tired, war-weary j
soldiers can sleep.
This is a situation that the Y. i
M. C. A. meets every day, in spite
of the fact that it is renting every!
available vacant hotel in the city, j
The first army in the world be-1
longed to Egypt. That was in 1620 j
j B. C. The first guards and regu-■
(lar troops of an army were formed ;
by Saul in 1003 B. C.
Mills, factories and shops employed!
scores . They did light work in1
saw-mills, packed shingles in shingle j
mills, operated rip saws in box and J
furniture factories, worked in ma-'
chine shops, trucked freight, sorted
junk and steel in steel plants an'i
did light work around shipyards. *
In the railroad offices and along
the lines women were employed as1
clerks, accountants, car cleaners,:
painters, and even section hands
Railroads, however, soon found the
women not able to do the heavy
section work. Recently the State
Insurance Commission barred wom
en from section work.
Most of the women received the
same, or almost the same pay given
the men they replaced. A Wash
ington state, law provides that all
women over eighteeen years of age
must be paid at least $13.20 per
week. i
Overalls were not popular among
the Washington working women. In
some lines overalls were necessary,
but in most of the occupations that
women filled they were found wear
ing their usual apparel.
‘Amen” does not mean “end”, as
an end to a prayer, for example..
It is an old Hebrew word meaning
truly or verily.
RLD CROSS MEETING
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON
A meeting of the local Red Cross
! branch was held yesterday after
j noon at the Nenana club rooms, and
i the work of making garments for
I the use €f>f the Belgians was con
i tinued.
The ladies present at yesterday’s
• meeting were as follows: Mesdames
Bagley, F. D. Browne, .1. R. Bowen,
! M. J. Cooney, R. .1. Diven, J. H.
i Flower, Alex Fowler, \V H. Gilcher,
j Walter Gould, S. E. Ivey, J. J.
! Kestly, Fred Major, J. T. Oldfield,
I R. G. Southworth, M. Sweeney, M.
i V. Tyler, Carl Schmidt, B. Tunison
| and Miss Feretti.
These meetings, /or the purpose
lot' making garments for the needy
Belgians and for such other strictly
; Red Cross uses that may come up,
are held on every Friday afternoon,
commencing at half past one o’clock
Membership List
Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred, Mrs. Clara
Berggren, Ernst
Budow, A1
Browne, F. D.
(Bresnahan, E. D.
Blankfield, I).
Bowen, J. R.
Blair, Hoy
Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J. F.
Ball, r. B.
Brown, Erie
Burns, R. E.
Coutts, W J.
Calderhead, R. W.
Campbell, N. J.
Coghill, VV. A.
Cooney, M. J.
Doner, Frank
Diven, R. ,T.
Douse, Fred
Davis, Harry
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A. B.
Fisher, Joe
F’lower, J. II.
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Wm.
Haslem, H. G.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W.
Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy >.
Gray, E. B.
Gilcher, W. H.
Hyland, Mike
Isabel, L. C.
Irvine, A. J. '
Johnson, A. G.
Jones, Frank
Jacobsen, J. C
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B. •"r"
Koland, Knut
Ketooroky, John A.
l.aughlin, E. I,.
Lund, E. E.
Lehr, Q. F.
Myers, R. R.
Moore, Frank B.
Miles, J. H. !
McDonald, R. S
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. C.
Nash, Martin ' si*' &
O’Keefe, Larry l’"'
Parks, S. E.
Pennington, G. W
Palfy. Paul
Tackcr, W. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm.
Schmidt, Carl
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Scott, J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
Stone, A. J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, Chas.
Southworth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Thompson, Theodore
Toussaint, J G. K
Tyler, M. V.
Taylor, Wm. J.
Verhaeghe, Cyriele
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Williams, E. A.
Waechter, R. I.
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in the afternoon. For the present
the meetings are held in the rooms
of the Nenana club, which has been
placed at the disposal of the Red
Cross by the membership of the
club.
GRACE (Presbyterian) CHURCH
REV. ROBT.
JOSEPH DIVEN
D. D.
MINISTER
Sunday School .at 12:00
Service 7:30 p. m.
Evening Topic—“Science and
the Bible” 7:30 p. m.
Mrs. Kellum will sing “One
Sweetly Solemn Thought,” with |
piano and violin accompaniment.
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Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latoucbe.
If you go out you will only
come back “Busted” in the spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER.
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouche and
Kennecott.
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