THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enzry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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TRIBUTE TO GRIGSBY.
George B. Grigsby, formerly of
Sioux Falls, a son of the late Mel
vin Grigsby, is now in Congress
from the Territory of Alaska, and
it is apparent to those who read the
Congressional Record that he has
brought with him to Hhe national
capital a vast amount of first-hand
information about conditions in Al
asks, remarks the Sioux Falls (S. D.)
Argus-Leader. In his first speech
on the need of an additional and
continuous appropriation for the
construction of the Alaskan Gov
ernment railroad, now in the course
of building. Delegate Grigsby sub
mitted to a volley of questions fired
at him from every part of the
house, and, according to the Record,
which we have before us, he acquit
ted himself like a veteran. Many a
new member would have lost his
head under the circumstances, but
Mr. Grigsby, in answering them, re
vealed an accurate and comprehen
sive knowledge of Alaskan matters
which at once commanded the re
spect of the house. He got the ap
propriation through in the form he J
desired.
At a later date, when the rail
road bill tvas pending, an amend-1
ment was considered, proposed by
Congressman Johnson of Washing- ,
ton, which would have “babied” the j
American transportation lines at the j
expense of the people of Alaska, i
Delegate Grigsby showed the injus- i
tice of the Johnson amendment to !
Alaska. “As between the people of |
Alaska and the steamship com- j
merce,” he said, “this house should j
favor the people of Alaska by de- !
feating this amendment.” And the ■
amendment was defeated.
His old friends in Sioux Fulls'
watch with much interest the future
career of the young man who now ]
represents Alaska in the halls of the
National Congress. He will make |
good.
ABILITY DEMANDED.
The conditions which obtain in
national politics arc unusual, com
ments the Washington Post. Not
in recent years has a similar status
confronted either the Republicans
or the Democrats—a status where
there was little surface activity in
advance of the conventions. But
favorite sons are beginning to
rouse themselves, and lightning-rods
are shooting up as thick as Yankee
bayonets in the Argonne. Soon the
national campaign will be on in ear
nest.
In the selection of their candi
dates the Republicans and Demo
crats will do well to keep in mind
this one important fact: the people
will demand ability as the chief
requisite. Geographical location,
factionalism, personal popularity,
and other canditions and qualities
which prove important factors in
normal election years, will shrink
into insignificance beside merit in
the coming election.
The reason for this is obvious.
This country, life the rest of the
world, is facing new problems which
require firm courage and sound
judgment in their solution. The
I ship of state is sailing: through un
charted seas which demand a safe
and experienced navigator to bring
her into port. The American peo
ple will not be so greatly con
cerned about the name of the next
President, the state he hails from
or his past political affiliations, as
they will be interested in his ability
to gTapple successfully with the dif
ficult situations he is certain to
meet during the next four years.
They will demand a President in
whom they may repose their fullest
confidence. Let the party leaders
in manipulating the wheels within
wheels keep this fact always before
them.
SAWING OFF THE LIMB.
The lot of one multimillionaire in
Germany will be a hard one under
the new emergency levy and income
and inheritance taxes. Dr. Felix
Pinner, financial writer of the Ber
lin Tageblatt, estimates that under
these taxes a German industrial
fortune of 10,000,000 marks would
be reduced by 1925 to 3,114,000
marks. This would mean that the
state bad taken nearly 7,000,000
marks by various forms of taxation
designed to solve the tremendous
financial problem which Germany
faces. Of the amount so collected
by the state. Dr. Pinner estimates
that 2,827,900 marks would be
taken as taxes on war profits, while
the emergency levy would take 2,
737,000 marks. This would leave
the millionaire about 5,500,000
marks at the end of the 30-year
period in which this levy would be i
collected.
Dr. Pinner points out, however,
that the older industrial leaders who
own most of the German industries
p obablv would die in the first 10
years of the 30-year period, where
upon that part of the levy then
remaining unpaid would be taken
bj the state.
If the owner of this fortune were
I to die, say in 1925, and should
I leave but one son, the son would
have to pay to the state as inherit
jance tax 1,289,000 marks. The bal
ance after all taxation had been
'completed is placed by Dr. Pinner
tat 3,114,000 marks which the family
'of the industrial leader would have
|to continue their business.
I The Tageblatt’s commentator
■ points out that this would be in
j sufficient to continue an industry
; which in peace times had required
:a capita] of 7,000,000 marks, and
that this operation would weaken
the productive power of industrial
concerns by over-severe liquidation
of their wealth. “The high capital
taxes will saw off the limb upon
which income and industrial taxes
should sit.” concludes Dr. Pinner.
A Rejected Meal.
Tramp: Kind lady, would yer
please give a pore man a bite to
eat?
The Lady: What! You here again?
I will call my husband immediate
ly.
Tramp: Excuse me, lady, but I
ain’t no cannibal. I bid yer good
day.—Boston Transcript.
IN UN PUIS
EASTERNERS Oil!
j ASTORIA, Ore.—Next year the
\ peat bogs near here, on both the
Oregon and Washington sides of the
state line, will produce 33,000 bar
rels of cranberries, enough to take
care of the entire Pacific coast,
which has been largely served from
Eastern fields, according to J. S.
Dellinger, president of the Oregon
Cranberry Growers’ association.
The remarkable success of Mr.
Dellinger, publisher of the Astoria
Astorian, as a grower of cranber
ries is typical of the industry on
the Pacific coast, now largely con
centrated in about 700 acres near
this city, although the wild berries
thrive from Oregon to Alaska. He
started several years ago with an
experimental plot of a few acres,
and now he has 30 acres in cran
berries at his picturesque farm,
“Dellmoor.” Each acre, he esti
mates, is good for an average pro
duction of 100 barrels, and last year
the growers received $12,50 a bar
rel.
The Pacific Cranberry exchange,
the coast growers' selling agency,
of which H. S. Ganc of Santa Bar
bara, Cal., is manager, is beginning
to offer stiff competition to the
American Cranberry exchange, the
Eastern organization representing
the Cape Cod district and the fields
in New Jersey and Wisconsin. Last
year Pacific coast berries were ship
ped as far East as Denver. The
cranberry now is the only fruit
shipped from the East to this coast.
The cranberry fields about As
toria are real peat bogs that will
bum when dry, and that quake
when walked upon. They have been
cleared of timber, the stumps torn
out, sanded, drained and prepared
for irrigation. The cranberry vines
form a brilliant green carpet on the
fields, studded with millions of crim
son berries.
Mr. Dellinger said the growers'
association contemplates an adver
tising campaign to make popular the
all-year-round use of the berries.
Until the 1919 season, early frost,
the greatest menace of the Eastern
fields, was unknown. Coming un
expectedly last season, it took most
of the crop, which could easily have
been saved by flooding the fields as
a preventive measure.
Woodbury’s Facial Soap and other
standard toilet soaps. Fowler &
Morris.
HAVE MV TIME
The regular meeting of Nenana
igloo, No. 17, Pioneers of Alaska,
to be held in Union hall tonight,
will be followed by a jolly smoker
and social session which promises to
be an unusually pleasant affair, with
plenty of smokes, good eats, and
something in the way of entertain
ment.
The business meeting will start at
eight o’clock, and all members of
the local and other igloos are urged
to be on hand. The chidf business
before the meeting will be the elec
tion of delegates to the grand igloo
session to be held at Anchorage
next month.
FREAK PITCHING MAY
BE ELIMINATED SOON
CHICAGO.—President Veeck of
the Chicago National league club is
in favor of legislating “freak”
pitching out of baseball’s code of
rules. Veeck, a member of the
National league committee of three
appointed to change the rules, be
lieves the “shine" ball, “spit” ball
and “emery” ball are harmful to
the sport and should be eliminated.
“Although there are some expert
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pitchers in the National leapue capa- ’
ble of doing wonderful things in !
•freak’ deliveries, not one club own- ,
er in the leapue is opposed to the '
change,” President Veeck said.
“Even Garry Herrmann, who has
‘Hod’ Eller and Ray Fisher, both'
‘shine’ ball experts, is in favor of1
eliminating freak pitching.”
Veeck said the National league j
committee is awaiting the appoint- j
ment of a committee from the Am- j
erican league to discuss the pro-'
posed changes in the rules.
SURPLUS ARMY FOOD
GOES FAST IN HAWAII j
HONOLULU, T. H. — Honolulu
sold its allotment of surplus army j
food to the accompaniment of foxj
trots, one-steps and military march- j
es played by the Hawaiian band.
While the band played the people
bought army beans, bacon and oth
er staples at prices far below the
market quotations. Later it was i
discovered, when the invoices ar- j
rived, that these prices were ten!
percent above what it was neces- j
sary to charge. A reduction ac-1
cordingly was made and the sur-'
plus ten percent already taken in j
was given to city charitable insti
tutions. 1
Calling Cards printed to order on ;
short notice at the News Office.
SEIZED OPIUM STOLEN
FROM HONOLULU OFFICE
HONOLULU.—Malcolm Franklin,,
collector of the port of Honolulu, |
shipped 104 pounds of opium, valued j
at $41,000, to the army medical de-j
partment at Washington, when the j
steamship Lurline left for San FTan-j
cisco on her last trip.
The opium represents the total
seizures here since April of last
year, with the exception of 03
tins which were taken from the
steamship Persia Maru last July,
and which later disappeared from
the seizure room in the customs
house.
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NOTICE
Passengers ate required to pur
the employment office, on the ground
floor of the General Office Building.
Alaskan Engineering Commission, or
at Camp 415 (North Nenana).
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and can be
purchased in sufficient time before
the departure of the trains.
Regular trains for the south leave
the foot of A street on Wednesdays
and Saturdays at H a. m., and from
Camp 415 (North Nenana), Dor
Fairbanks, Tuesdays and Fridays, at
1 p. m.
The following is the schedule be
tween North Nenana and Fairbanks,
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 their
i own arrangements for reaching
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chase ticket1" a
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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 namea of
people in all sections of Alaska and the Yukon who 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 U3 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