THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, tinder the Act of March 3, 1879.
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•HARMONY" IS THE WORD.
• “Wickersham predicts a sweeping
Republican victory at the presiden
tial election in 1920. He plans to
reorganize the Republican party in
Alaska while in the territory. He
has already discussed the matter
with Republican members of the Al
aska legislative assembly and har
mony prevails. In the reorganiza
tion of the party in Alaska, the old
Shackleford crowd will be entirely
eliminated."—Telegraphic Dispatch.
Wickersham and “harmony” lis
tens good, says the Valdez Miner,
but if Wickersham is in earnest
about reorganizing the party and
there is to be any harmony, the
party will be composed solely and
alone of James Wickersham.
PROSPECTORS NEEDED.
The suggestion of J. E. Barrett
of McCarthy that Alaska needs pros
pectors worse than anything else
just now is absolutely true, believes
the Alaska Daily Empire. The lack
of prospectors is responsible in large
measure, says the Juneau paper, for
the slowing down in mining develop
ment and promotions. This fact is
recognized in the Interior, and re
cently the Fairbanks chapter of the
American Mining congress started a
movement to secure aid for pros
pectors from the federal govern
ment. Mr. Collins introduced a
memorial urging Congress to appro
priate $400,000 to create a fund for’
that purpose, and it was passed by
both houses of the. Alaska legis
lature. Every encouragement should
be given to induce prospectors to
resume the occupation of scouring
the hills and valleys of Alaska for
mineral wealth.
There is not a mining camp in
Alaska that is not the result of the
toil of prospectors, and more pros
pectors would without doubt result
in more mining camps, more towns,
more business, and more develop
ment in all lines.
FIGHTING THE COST ACCOUNTS
Strikes are and will be an im
portant feature in American busi
ness until war upheaval and war
unrest have quieted down somewhat,
remarks the editor of Collier’s in a
recent issue of that periodical. Most
strikes of any public importance are
against corporation employers rath
er than individuals. A basic trou
ble is that the going on of any
large enterprise tends to sort out
the workers into a smaller group
whose efforts are personally valued
and a much greater group whose ac
tivities are judged rather in the
mass. The effort to keep track of
the exact cost of the services or
articles which the company turns
out makes the bulk of wages come
to be regarded as an impersonal
cost element. It is the business of
the leaders to keep cost down, and
this sometimes is, .and more often
is thought to be, the same thing as
keeping wages down. In reality it
is not. What must be kept down is
the cost per unit of whatever is
made, and brains can lower tl^t
while raising wages. The United
States is great industrially because
this is so often done here. Never
theless, the difficulty remains of
making the cost process clear to
the average worker; the essential
task remains of proving that the cor
poration is for its employees and not
against them.
COSTS IN CANADA.
The Canadian minister of labor
recently admitted that the cost of
living in Canada has doubled during
the past four years, and he admitted
that this was one of the chief cause,
of the present unrest; but he had
no remedy whatever for the evil,
save to increase production. - But
just why a farmer should double
his output of butter, comments the
Christian Guardian, when he can
now secure as much for one pound
as he could then for two, is not very
clear. And just how increase of
production would affect the retail
er’s selling a $6 shoe for S12, the
average reader will fail to under
stand. One thing only is clear, that,
so far as the honorable minister of
labor is concerned, he has no remedy
for the present conditions; and this
one fact will do not a little to in
tensify the present unrest.
FARMERS AND THE LEAGUE.
Several hundred Granges and oth
er agricultural organizations have
; adopted resolutions approving the
League of Nations covenant and
urging its ratification.
But of even greater significance,
perhaps, says the Chicago Post, is
the result of a canvass of 66 farm
papers, representing a constituency
covering 42 states. Of these 66 pa
pers no less than 62 answered a
questionnaire, issued by the League
to Enforce Peace, with an unquali
fied declaration in favor of the cov
enant as it now stands. Two gave
conditional approval. One was non
committal. and only one—a Tennes
see publication—was absolutely op
posed.
The farm periodicals are close to
the prevailing sentiment of the com
munities they serve. Many editors
wrote that their support of the cov
enant voiced the convictions of an
overwhelming majority of their sub
j scribers.
The workers and the farmers are
behind the League of Nations. When
that fact is fully realized in Wash
1 ington the effect will be apparent in
I the attitude of those senators not
too inextricably committed to oppo
sition.
ELSEWHERE IN ALASKA
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Rockefeller
and Chester Hull, formerly of Chit
ina, are located at Modesto, Cal.
Governor Riggs has awarded Ger
man helmets to the following per
sons in Cordota and the Copper
; River valley for services rendered
.during the recent Victory loan drive:
Mrs. J. V. Lydick and Patrick Tam
any, Cordova; R. V. Watkins, Ken
necott; J. E. Ketchum, Chitina.
The first salmon of the year was
caught at Dawson on July 9th.
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BANDITS MAKE
MUCH TROUBLE
- INTHESOUTH
LAREDO, Tex. — Withdrawal of
troops from bandit-infested regions
in Central and Southern Mexico to
campaign against Villa in the North
has led to a new wave of train
wrecking and railway destruction in
that republic, according to stories
printed by Mexico City papers re
ceived in this city.
The most striking feat of the reb
els was the capture of a train from
Mexico City to Puebla at a point
only a few miles from the latter
city by the forces of the former fed
eral general, Cirilo Arenas, who re
volted about a year ago. One hun
dred of the several hundred pass
engers were seized as hostages,
among them an American, Charles
Chapman. They were driven for
hours on foot, over rocky trails, to
the headquarters of the rebel chief
tain. Later they were released with
out being held for ransom and made
their way safely to Puebla. The
bandits’ loot is estimated at 100,000
pesos.
This followed close on the heels
of the capture of six well-known
residents of Mexico City at a picnic
resort known as the Desert of the
Lions, not more than a dozen miles
from the capital. The captors, for
mer followers of Zapata, sent the
women of the party back to Mexico
City for a ransom of 2,400 pesos,
and released their captives when
the money was delivered.
More than one hundred followers
of Pedro Gabav are reported to
have been killed when federal forces
recaptured the town of Chocoman.
state of Vera Cruz.
The Excelsior tells of the murder
by bandits of the millionaire. En
rique Langenschein, son of the Ger
man consul at Guanajuato. Langen
schein met his death at the hands
of rebels fleeing from Michoacan
into Jalisco, who caught him on his
ranch near Lake Chapala.
I
HUN PRISONERS
TRY TO ESCAPE;
ATTEMPT FIS
—
j SYDNEY, Australia. — Several
| hundred Germans and Austrians
jmade an attempt to escape by tun
jneling from the Holdsworthy con
jcentration camp here recently, in
| order to foil the purpose of the
Australian authorities to send them
back to Germany and Austria.
The military authorities had pre
viously notified the interned Teu
itons that they were soon to be re
turned to their native countries.
| Shortly before they were to be
taken out of the internment camp,
the authorities discovered a tunnel
150 feet long, which led from one
! of the barracks underneath the fence
Unclosing the camp, and thence to
the surface outside. The tunnel was
the work of 150 men and apparent
ly was begun as soon as the prison
ers received warning of the inten
tion to send them home. They had
planned to break free from the
'camp on the night before the sail
ing of the steamer for England.
Earth removed from the tunnel
had been so distributed around the
camp that it was not noticed until
| the tunnel was almost completed.
;When the tunnel was discovered the
J Germans made a hostile demonstra
tion, but the guards suppressed it.
The prisoners watched with chagrin
the filling in of the tunnel.
No Credit.
“What does she say?”
“Says her face is her fortune?”
“Now I understand what they
, mean by involuntary bankruptcy.”
1—Louisville Courier-Journal.
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“Pa, why do you always insist on
my singing: when Mr. Bimley comes
here?”
“Well, I don’t like to come right
! out and tell him to go.”—Boston
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