THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska
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RESULTS OF SAVING
We all like to site results. It is
hard to work for a thing if you
never know how near you are com
ing to it. We have been saving
a cup of wheat flour, a pound of
sugar, two pounds of meat and all
the small household amounts that
scorn to mean so little at the time.
It has been hard sometimes because
we felt that we were not accom
plishing anythin#.
But the Food Administration has
made out a table of exports show
in# the pro#ress of world-feedin#
from the United States. It shows
in tons just how much larger our
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exports were last year than at a
corresponding time the year pre
vfous. It is gratifying to read this,
table, and know that we in our:
homes are largely responsible for
the gain, because we did save that
pound of sugar, that cup of wheat
flour.
In three months, from July to
October, 1(0 7, we exported 93,962,
477 pounds of beef. During this
last July, August and September,'
we sent to the Allies and our sol-1
diers abroad 311,737,957 pounds.;
This is an increase of more than [
200 million pounds.
There was a very large increase
in the exportation of pork and pork j
products. Giving up ham helped
to increase the pork exports from I
196,250,750 pounds to 587,692,445.;
The dairy exports went up from
130,071,165 pounds to 184,297,179,
pounds. As dairy production was,
very much less, this increase repre
sents the striking results of eon-'
serration. The housewife's part in
making that increase possible was
our determination not to waste a
bit of milk, butter or cheese, and
not to use butter in cooking.
The grain harvest in 1917-19IS
was not as good as usual, but we
managed to send out almost twice
as much in those three months of
1918 as in the same time in 1917.
In 1917 it. was 66,383,084 bushels,
and last year 124,791, 766. This
was accomplished by cutting down
bread allowances in hotels and
restaurants and homes.
Already France has begun to
make it easier for us by harvesting
the wheat on the land recovered
during' the successful counter- of
fensive of July and August. This
wheat has been gathered by the
agricultural service of the armies
with the aid of the office of agri
cultural reconstitution. Lastly, the
table of exports shows what our ef
forts in saving sugar have done.
This has been the hardest of all
sacrifices for us because we have
always been surb n sugar-loving
nation, with our candies, cakes, past
ries, sweet drinks and rich deserts.
But our lowered sugar ration made
it possible for us to decrease our
imports and to release shipping for
war needs. About 600,000 tons of
sugar was saved by the reduction'
to «, 1 "O-poui 1 ration. Our sugar
exports it ring the three months of
July, August and September 1918
were 123,867,145 pounds.
The soldiers in the field who ad
vanced could see th • ground that
they co\ red s ' that they knew they
were advancing. The housewife,
who is faithfully doing her part in
feeding the world by saving food,
can never see he big result of it all'
until she has an opportunity to see
some stat-sties such as these pub
lishd by the Food Administration,
and to realize that she has done her.
share toward making those impres
sivo figures possible.
THE BOLSHEVIK
The Bolshevik government in
Russia is described as “a carpet
hap- government of the most flap
rant sort.” Theoretically, the Bol
shevik government is popular and
supposed to represent the will of the
working masses throughout Russia.
In practice local Soviets have been
howled over whenever they failed
to satisfy Moscow officials, and out
siders have been placed in control.
A large proportion of the traveling
commissars who go about Russia on
amored trains to keep the local
Soviets in line are declared to he
agitators from New York and Lon
don.
The government, says an Asso
ciated Press correspondent, writing
from London, is desribed as ana
logous to such rule as might he
imagined to originate with work
men of New York or Chicago. Car
rying out the analogy, such a gov
ernment would recognize the politi
cal rights of nobody but workmen
in New Orleans and San Francisco.
It would overthrow by arms any
government in Seattle' or San An
tonio which did i\ot reflect its own
views and would deny the ballot
to all persons possessed of property
Under such a government New York
and Chicago politicians would be
sent with armed trains to overthrow
Soviets in St. Louis and Detroit
which failed to obey the mandate
of the central governing board.
Dakota wheat farmers and Texas
cotton growers would be forced to
surrender their product to armed
crusaders at whatever price the
central Soviet officials chose to pay.
Banks and industries of all sorts
would he nationalized. Titles to
farm land and city property would
vest in the government.
Workmen compose less than ten
per cent of the population of Russia.
Consequently, the assumption of
spokesmen of radical labor circles
to socialize Russia was more chim
erical than it would be in a highly
industralizcd country. Russia is an
unorganzied primitive agricultural
country; ninety per cent of its
peasants possess property which
falls within the confiscation lines
as defined by Lenine. Siberia and
other undeveloped farming sections
of Russian domain offer exceptional
opportunities to industrious settlers
and there every man stands or falls
according to his own industry and
merit. Such districts, it is stated,
feel no need for efforts at socializa
tion and were the first to resent the
domination of representatives of the
Lenine government.
Insults offered by the traveling
commissars and their armed bands
have aroused the antagonism of
Christian organizations, ' including
the Prussian Orthodox church. It is
asserted that few of the agitators
from America are American citi
zens. Almost without exception,
they are said to be anxious to re
turn to the United tSates. They
are dissatisfied with Bolshevik
Russia and, after denouncing the
United States in public speeches,
confess in private that they would
rather live in America than any
where else.
Official statistics have placed the
available water power of Spain at
about 5,000,000 horsepower, of
which only about 300,000 is until
ized.
I LOANS 10 CHINA
I USfD WASTtFULLY
:! DECLARES SGAIBE
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PEKING—Japan’s loans to China
are estimated by the Tokio corres
pondent of one Peking newspaper
to have attained a total of about
$148,885,000. Loans from Japan
contracted by China in the last year
are placed at $66,515,000.
The newspaper’s correspondent
alleges that according to his infor
mation much of the proceeds of the
loans contracted has been diverted
from the stipulated purposes for
! which they were made, and have
i been “squeezed” by private persons
| or wasted in prosecution of the
civil war. He elaborates as follows:
“The loans of $25,000,000 con
tracted by the Hank of Communi
1 I
; cations nominally for the purpose
of effecting reforms in the said
bank did nothing to attain that end
but, on the contrary, the value of
the bank notes kept on dropping
| steadily. The proceeds of the Tele
graph Administration loan amount
ing to $20,000,000 were also reck
lessly squandered. The Military
loan also amounting to $20,000,000
| was contracted ostensibly for the
purpose of participating in the
; European war by recruiting and
specially training three divisions
and eight brigades of troops. But
the proceeds were used for prose
cuting the internal war."
Further loans in process of nego
tiation by China are estimated by
the correspondent to amount to
about $70,000,000. Of this sum
about $50,000,000 is intended for
the purpose of establishing iron
works. “According to the provision
of the loan agreement the engin
eers and mechanics to be employed
1 in these iron works must be en
gaged for the Chinese government
, by the Japanese," says the corres
! pendent.
WOMEN OF MO
MW KEEP I0BS
—
BOISK, Idaho.—It is the general
opinion among employers that wom
en who have been taking the places
if men in Idaho during the war will
retain these positions. William T. I
Wallace, manager of the Idaho
Power company, in an interview on j
this subject, says that he feels
women can fill many positions bet-!
ter than men, in his company, and
he has proved his contentions dur
ing the war. He does not think
many women will lose their posi
tions, particularly if they were in
door ones.
Women proved so successful in
the box factory in the Boise Payette
company, that they will be re
tained. Women have occupied many
positions in the machine shops of
the Oregon Short Line, and a large
number will be retained. Women
were also employed in the canner
ies, and these will be retained.
Having few factories, most of the
women of Idaho have been employed
as elevator operators, clerks and
some few as printers. In many
instances they have been said to
have given equal satisfaction with
men. In but one case on record
have they received equal pay with
men, that is in a Boise print shop.
Idaho's minimum wage bill, in
troduced at the last session of the
legislature, failed to pass. Data
gathered at that time showed that
the minimum wage paid in the state
was about $6, while the cost of
living was about $9,
I
‘'At the ship yards and in other
war industries, overtime work is
; being discontinued, and the wages
; therefore, greatly reduced,” re
• ported a Juneau resident recently,
. upon his return home from Puget
. Round- A general adjustment to
i new conditions is going on, for
| while wages are lowered to normal
prices and the cost of living have
not been lessened.
Wenana—TI'" C*»tewp'r to McKlnlay
National Park.
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FINLAND A1IIS
RECOGNITION BY
ALLIED NATIONS
LONDON.—General Mannerheim
the Finnish leader who has con
sented to become recent of the new
coalition government of Finland,
and the other supporters of the
government sustained by the White
Guards, are extremely anxious to
have the Entente powers and the
United States recognize the new
Finnish government.
The necessity for such recogni
tion at once is urged on the ground
that the peasants feel under great
obligations to Germany for inter
fering and establishing order in
Finland, and cannot be induced to
transfer their allegiance to the
enemies of Germany unless steps
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Allred, Mrs. Clara
Budow, Al
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Blankfield, D.
Bowen, J. R.
Blair, Roy
Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J. F.
Ball, L B.
Brown, Erie
Burns, R. K.
Calderhead, R. W.
Campbell, N. J.
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney, M. .T.
Doner, Frank
Diven, R. J.
Douse, Fred
Davis, Harry
EkeJand, Air
Funk, A. B. f.
Fisher, Joe
Flower, J. If.
Foster, Steve '
Gagnon, Wm. t
Haslem, H. G.
Hagan, James
Hill. I,. W.
Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
Gray, E. B.
Gilcher, VV. II.
Hyland. Mike
Isabel, L. C.
Irvine, A. J.
Johnson, A. G. ’ 1
Jones, Frank
Jacobsen, J. C.
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jopson, Peter
Joseph, H. B.
Koland, Knut
Ketooroky, John A.
Laughlin, E. I..
Lund, E. E.
Lehr. Q. F.
Myers. R. R.
Moore, Frank B.
Miles, J. II.
McDonald, R. S.
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. C.
Nash, Martin
O’Keefe, Larry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington, G. W.
I'alfy, Paul
Packer, W. L.
Ryan, VV. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm.
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
Touasaint, J G. K
Tyler, M. V.
Taylor, Wm. J.
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Williams, E. A.
Waechter, R. I.
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are taken that will convince them
that the Entente powers have a
real interest in Finland’s welfare.
The Russian Reds are threatening
the Finnish border and the political
situation in Finland is so troubled
that a recurrence of the war
between Reds and Whites which
devastated the country last winter,
is feared unless the government is
able to obtain adequate food sup
plies to relieve the distress which
is now becoming widespread.
Russian political refugees have
escaped into Finland in large num
bers. It would be almost certain
death for many of these if they
were forced to return to Russia- ]
Consequently the Finnish govern-!
ment has permitted them to remain
in spite of the shortage of food- ]
stuffs, thus imposing an additional;
tax on its limited supply of grain. -
General Mannerheim Ted the Fin
nish White Guards in their fight
against the Finnish Red Guards and
Russian Red Guards last winter,
but retired from the command when,
the White Guards accepted the sup
port of German troops. He was
not in sympathy with Germany’s i
movement to entrench itself in Fin-;
land, and was summoned hack to:
Finland from Sweden after it be
came clear that Germany must with- j
draw as a result of its defeat on
the Western front.
An election is to be held next
Feburary to select a new Finnish
senate, which will pass on the form
j of government Finland is to have.
! At present it is a constitutional
j monarchy, conforming to the laws
under which it was governed when
a part of Sweden, before it was an
nexed to Russia. It is really a
grand duchy, but as there is no
grand duke to approve its legisla-;
tion, and as its laws require such
approval, General Mannerheim will,
j if he becomes regent as is now pro
j posed, act instead of a grand duke,
; pending the establishment of a legal
| government to replace the consti
! tutional monarchy.
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