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.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Street*. Nenana, Alaska
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A CHAMPION OF JUSTICE
The frank utterances of Federal
Judge Landis commend him as a
man who is not afraid of his job—
a man whose training has fitted
him to distinguish between justice
and injustice and who 13 fearless
enough to express his opinions re
gardless of how his opinions may
differ with Government officials and
Congressmen at Washington, to
whom he is more or less answerable
for his conduct, on and off the
bench. The American people like
that sort of a man when he is right
and the only regret is that there
are not more in our great country
of that calibre.
The men who gave up their jobs
to fight for American ideals are en
titled to more generous treatment
than they have received at ihe hands
of the Government they helped to
preserve. Lives were risked in the
trenches and on the battlefields of
Europe, while those who remained
at home waxed fat on war profits
and abnormally high wages, with
not even the risk of punishment for
grafting, which flourished uncheck
ed throughout the duration of the
war—and still flourishes.
It was not the fault of our fight
ing men overseas that our affairs
at home were manipulated for the
benefit of profiteers. And they
should not now be made to suffer
because of those extravagant ex
penditures of tie war period.
That the service men are entitled
to some sort of a bonus seems to
be quite generally agreed in all
quarters. Even President Harding
does rot contend that recognition is
not warranted, his argument being,
in effect, that the tonus cannot be
paid fceeause the treasury has been
looted by profiteers.
Under the circumstances, it is
pood to hear a man of the standing
of Judge Landis call things by their
right names. He says if he were
President he would fire the whole
outfit standing in the way of bonus
legislation, and we would like to
see him have the opportunity.
Should America be so unfortunate
as to be drawn into another conflict,
the men who do the fighting should
receive at least a fair share of the
profits earned by those who do not
don the uniform. We have had two
wars in recent years, and each time
the fighting men have been turned
adrift after victory had been won,
without funds and without employ
ment, and even without adequate
provision for those disabled. Fight
ing men are heroes while a war is
on; they are patriotic consumers of
embalmed beef and loyal vcearers of
counterfeit army clothing. But with
a return to peace, they eea.se to be
of value to their Government, to
the beef trust or to the equipment
profiteers. And about all they can
hope for, upon release from the
army, is a jobless freedom.
Marshal L. T. Erwin is enroute to
the Tolovana district on the steamer
Carl White, having left Nenana yes
terday. He is on an official trip and
expects to return immediately.
See “Tarzan cf lh» Ape*”—Coming
! GOVERNOR SEES FLOOD AREA
UNDER UNUSUAL CONDITIONS
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DENVER, July 21—Governor O.
; O. Shoup, of Colorado, knows now,
from personal experience, something
about how the Yankee doughboys
felt when they were touring France
in those little "hommes 40, chevaux
8" vehicles on the French rail lines
running up to the front. For the
governor, when he received news of
how serious the Pueblo flood had
been, started for the scene of the
disaster and despite all obstacles he
got there. He was disheveled and
battered, chilled and miserable when
he reached the stricken city but he
was proud of the fact that he had
arrived.
At Colorado Springs all roads to
Pueblo were reported impassable.
But Governor Shoup believed d-f
ferently. He got in touch with rail
road officials and finally they agreed
to press an automobile truck into
service. It was transformed into the
governor’s special by fitting it with
flanged wheels such as those on rail
road cars.
In this Governor Shoup, accomp in
led by Colonel Pat Hamrock, ad
jutant general of Colorado, and half
a dozen newspaper correspondents,
started for Pueblo.
Just outside of Colorado Springs
the first bridge was found destroyed
and the special took a switch and
transferred over to the D. & R. G.
tracks to continue its trip. At
Fountain, Col., the Santa Fe bridge
was down.
'All this time it had been raining
in a steady, chilling downpour and
the truck offered but little protection
Everybody in the “special” was wet
to the skin. Everybody was miser
able. But everybody was cheerful.
At Fountain it was necessary for
the “special” to double back some
five or six miles to the nearest
switch. Or.e grade was so steep
that the special’s engine could not
make it and everybody clambered
down and began a long hike across
country, through roads ankle deep
with mud and with the cold, driving
rain still falling.
After a wait of nearly an hour,
the rain still falling, tf.e “special”
came chugging along to pick up the
party. At Buttes the bridge was out
and had to be repaired before it
could be crossed. A temporary re
pair, good enough to permit the
passage of a light automobile, was
made and there the governor and
Colonel Hamrock parted company
with the newspaper men and con
tinued the journey to Pueblo in the
auto that was first to cross over
the broken bridge.
But the governor himselr sums
it all up, in telling the story, with,
“I got there, didn’t I? You bet
your life I got there.”
The Masons of Skagway have re
cently improved their building, by
raising it and putting in a new
foundation.
Chief Steward A1 Clarno returned ■
to town on yesterday’s train, after
an absence of several days along
the line.
FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN PAY
HIGH FOR LIVING EXPENSES
TOKIO, June 29—Justification of
the daily lament by foreigners in
Japan over the high cost of living
is found in a report given out by a
committee of the American Legion
of Tokio and Yokohama. The report,
founded on replies received from
i members of the post, fixes the living
expenses for a single man at be
tween $275 and $291 a month, and
for a married man, between $541
and $666 per month, and said that
these salaries permitted no saving
whatsoever.
Only one man in the list who
made reports spoke of Japan as one
where luxurious living conditions
are common. He writes: “It is
luxurious, or better to say, lazy, as
it seems necessary to have servants,
and these are so inefficient that it
takes two to do the work of one."
Salaries considered fairly good in
the United States are not “good”
salaries in the Orient, the result of
the investigation shows. The report
says the committee feels that no
one should come to Japan for sums
less than those mentioned above.
Of 17 men making prophesies as
to the probable changes in costs dur
ing the present year, eight see little
prospect of changes, -five anticipate
increases of from 5 to 20 per cent,
while four hope for decreases of
from 5 to 10 per cent.
Difficulties in finding permanent
quarters are also mentioned in the
list of replies. Regarding the length
of time it has taken to secure quart
ers, the average time needed in
house hunting was two months and
10 days. One reply said that it took
nine months to find a house.
COFFEE HEALTHFUL DRINK
IS VERDICT OF SCIENTISTS
BOSTON, June 30—Caffcin in the
moderate quantities consumed by the
average coffee drinker is declared to
be a safe stimulant without harm
ful after-effects in a preliminary
report of a scientific investigation j
conducted at the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology since June.
1920. The investigators dliected by
Professor Samuel Prescott, head
A the department of biology and
public health who makes this an
nouncement of the first findings of
their research, are now at wrork to
isolate and identify the other con
stituents of the coffee bean, esp*Pal
ly those which determine *he flavor
and aroma, preliminary to studying
the best methods of brewing bever
age coffee.
“The effect of caffe in is known,”
says the leport. “For the great
majority of norma' individuals it
is a mild stimulant of the heart,
increases power to do muscular work
increases concentration of mental ef
fort and therefore the power to do
more biuin work. It is not followed,
except in excessive d.‘ses. by unde
sirable after effects. A few people
are especially sensitive to coffee,
and for them its use is not to be
recommended. In these cases the ab
normality is in the individual rather
than in any inherent poisonous or
dfcleteriou property of the caffeir,
itself.
“Cr.ffein can be taken by tin vast
majority of hea'tby aduits without
subsequent narcotic jr depivtsent ef
fect, provided it is used in moder
ation and not abused. Excessive
amounts incire temporary disturb
ances in the central nervous system
but these do .lot cauit any perma
nent injury. It is equally true that j
other normally harmless substances)
such as salt, sugar or condiments
when used in excess may also pro
duce untoward symptoms which are
often severe. Our studies lead us to
entire agreement with the results
stated by Hollingworth that when
taken with food in moderate amount
caffein is not in the least deleter
ious.”
It is understood that F. C. K.nowl
ton, who acted as special disbursing
officer at Healy during the absence
of Frank Doner, will return to the
Northern division shortly from An
chorage, to be engaged on special
work.
BASEBALL STARS EXPLAIN
WHY HITTING 13 COMMON
CHICAGO, June 22—Here are the
reasons advanced by some of base
ball’s leaders in explaining the in
creased icng distance hitting:
Tris Speaker, manager of the
world champion Cleveland Indians—
“InefTec.ive pitching is the cause.
They’ve barred the emery ball, the
spitter and all the old deliveries.
The pitchers haven’t anything left
but a glove and a prayer and they
work the prayer overtime.”
Ty Cobb, manager of the Detroit
Americans—“Baseball moves in cy
cles. We had the cycle of great
base running, the cycle of great
pitching and now we have the cycle
of heavy hitting. It wont last long.”
Johnny Evers, manager of the
Chicago Cubs—It’s the lively ball.
The ball is so fast the players can’t
handle it and the force that used
to be used in bunting now puts the
ball out of the infield. The fast ball
is crippling infielders and spoiling
the game.”
John Heydler, president of the
National league—“Babe Ruth caused
it. Babe made everyone think it
was easy to hit homers and now the
batters swing their hardest. Every
one takes a full swing at the ball;
result: more long hits than ever.”
Kid Gleason, manager of the Chi
cago White Sox—“It's partly the
fast ball and partly the fact that
the weather has been so bad in the
Central West that the Western clubs’ j
pitchers are not in condition. Most
of the heavy hitting has been in
the East by Eastern clubs against
Western clubs’ pitchers.”
Frank Xavin, president. Detroit
American league club—It’s not the
lively ball, for there is no such thing
The balls are all the same. The hit
ting is caused by the rules prohibit- i
ing a pitcher from doctoring the^
ball a little. He’d rub dirt on it to
roughen it up a little, spit on it
and do lots of other things to en
able him to get a better grip. These
things are barred now, and the pitch
ers are ineffective as a result.”
Commissioner R. S. McDonald is
making a hurried business trip to
lower river points, having left on
the steamer Reliance. He was re
cently granted a 30-day leave of
absence by Judge Bunnell
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ANDREW POPOVICH PASSES;
WAS OLDTIMER OF ALASKA
Andrew Popovich, an oldtimer of
the Fairbanks district, passed away
at the Government hospital in Ne
nana this afternoon. He came to
Nenana some time ago and has been
!a patient at the hospital most of i
I the time since his arrival, although
! the nature of his illness was such
that little could be done for him.
The deceased was a Serbian by
birth and he was well advanced in
years.
Mrs. McDonald, of Fairbanks, is
spending a few days in Nenana. the 1
guest of Mrs. James Cody.
Among the arrivals from Fair-'
banks today on the gascar, were: ■
Mrs. Dave Fairburn, Deputy Marshal!
J. L. Anders. Bill Eglar. Mrs. Andy
Johnson and little son, B. Serokaj
and two or three others.
Fine Stock Staple and Fancy Gro
eerie*. Fowler & Morris.
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KING SALMON RUN
is pinching out. Picked fish for
salting, while they last, 12% cents j
per pound. Delivered in 50 and 100 1
pound lots.
FISH CAMP—First and D Streets |
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KINGSBURY UPRIGHT PIANO, in
nice walnut ease; also Player1
Piano, for sale cheap, or will i
rent for one or two years to re
sponsible persons. Address, An- ■
derson, Piano Expert, care of'
Nenana News. 3t j
NEW AMMUNITION ju.t re
recived, including; .256 Newton
•hells. Anderson Bros. A Norland.
WANTAD8
LOST—Cameo ring. Finder please
leave at News office.
LOST—Lady’s engraved wrist watch
Reward for return to Railroad
Cigar Store.
WANTED—Information as to the
whereabouts of our father, Erik
Hartull; last known address was
Nenana. Communicate with Mrs.
M. Silva and Anna Sofia Hartull, j
836 loth. St., Oakland, California
FOR SALE — fwo pairs short vamp
2-strap slippers. Mrs. Langstrom.
A BARGAIN—Fully equipped hand
laundry and bath house, for sale
cheap. For particulars address
Mrs. L. Gallian, Brooks, Alaska.
FOR SALE—Four jackhammers and
fittings; 250 feet of hose; six sets
of steel. All in good condition.
Inquire of Jack Singleton, Healv. .
LOST—Pocketbook containing pa- ,
pers of value to the owner, ana ■
money. Reward for return to A1 j
Clarno.
FOR SALE—Mule weighing 1500
and two horses. William Srnythe.
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