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 every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets. Nenana, Alaska.
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TIME FOR CHANGE.
When this country went into the
war, it went in all over, and with
a determination to win, declares the
Philadelphia Press. The Govern
ment was given all it asked for in
men and money to support its op
erations. The people made all the
sacrifices required of them, and
made those sacrifices in a patriotic
and truly American spirit. Billions
of dollars were made available by
loans and unprecedented internal
taxes. Every department and bu
reau at Washington greatly aug
mented the number of its employes
and its demands for money were
complied with by Congress with
practically no hesitation. Billions
were expended in the most lavish
and extravagant way, and there was
a scandalous waste of money and
waste of effort. The country was
unprepared for war, and the neces- j
sary haste was costly. The people
made no complaint. It was not a
question of money with them; it
was a question of winning the war
at whatever cost. But the war has
been substantially over for nearly •»
year and a half. The army has
been brought home from Europe
and demobilized. It is time to re
duce the enormous force of civilian
employes which the war brought
into activity. Two hundred thou
sand of these in excess of the num- (
ber employed before the war are
carried on the Government payroll,
and while there have been some
reductions, they are insignificant as
related to the whole. Now useless
bureaus are maintained. The orgy
of extravagance goes on, when care
in national resources and attention
to readjustment are the urgent need
in government activity. The public
is more than justified in the sus
picion that all this overgrown civ
ilian machinery, the most of which
is no longer required for war work,
is being maintained for the use of
the Democratic party in the presi
dential campaign upon which the
country is entering, and that a con
siderable part of the cost of that
campaign will be paid by the coun
try’s already overburdened taxpay
ers. We have paid a high price
for a few years of Democratic dom
ination and it is now time to end
the orgy.
A LABOR CASE WITH MERIT.
For the anthracite-coal miners of
Pennsylvania, whose claims are now
under consideration by a special
commission recently appointed by
the President, it must be said that
they come into court with clean
hands, comments the New York
World. They have engaged in no
strike, lawful or unlawful. They
refer with pride to the fact that
they have worked loyally under try
ing conditions and that they have
recognized their duty .to the public
no less than to themselves, being
confident that on an impartial hear
ing justice would be done.
With this attitude in mind, most
people will be astonished to learn
that wages for the best-paid men
have not exceeded $100 a month
and that what is asked now is $6
a day as a minimum for adult work
|ers, an increase of 31 percent on
! all contract rates, the standardiza
tion of the eight-hour day and the
formal recognition of the United
Mine Workers of America. Taking
into account the prevailing pay of
labor in many other lines, the de
mands of this basic industry appear
to be as modest as the tone of its
representatives is conciliatory.
If all the conditions are as stated,
it ought not to require a protracted
session of the commission to arrive
at a conclusion satisfactory to the
miners. In almost any other field
employers so powerful and prosper
ous as the anthracite operators
would have met such an issue as
this fairly and squarely, without
compelling the Government to take
a hand in its settlement.
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HOW TO STOP PROFITEERING.
There are two ways to get at
“profiteering,” points out the Ju
neau Empire. The first is through
law and court action. This is round
about and. involved in all the tangles
of litigation.
The American people can end the
profiteering abuse very quickly any
time they make up their minds to
do it, and really want to. It will
take general co-operation, however,
on the part of the people. There
are just two things that will do it.
The first is to produce such an
abundant supply of all articles that
the supply will exceed the demand.
You can’t have profiteering when
such conditions exist. Producers and
sellers of goods under such circum
stances are anxious to get rid of
them and will make sacrifices to
move them.
; Any man can verify this statement
I out of his own experience. He
j knows that when an abundant sup
j ply of any crop is raised, prices go
| down. That when the supply be
I comes scarce, prices go up. It is
ijust the same with manufactured
j goods.
j There cannot be this sufficient
supply of commodities so long as so
many people are spending extrava
gantly. It keeps supplies low, which
; permits profiteers to charge any
thing they want to. It takes labor
away from the production of neces
saries of life, and puts it to work
on luxuries, with the result that the
necessities rise in price.
Legal action against profiteering
j is a slow, complicated, and uncer
j'tain method of procedure. But am
j pie production and economy will
I quickly smash the H. C. of L. The
j American people can’t wear silk
shirts and have cheap food at the
same time.
THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP
May have what you a'e looking for.
SECOND-HAND GOODS BOUGHT
AND SOLD.
NORTH OF NENANA HOUSE.
FLASHLIGHT PICTURE
STAMPEDES COURTERS
PETALUMA, Cal.—After protest
ing repeatedly about the disturb
ances caused by “spooners” in the
grammar school grounds at night
here, an amateur photographer and
Trappers
T raders
SHIP TO
GEORGE R. GOSHAW, INC.
Dealer in Raw Furs
SEATTLE NEW YORK
Alaska Building 127 W. 27th Street
A WORD TO YOU
At our Seattle office we have opened a buying department for
the benefit of the Alaska trade.
We solicit the accounts of individuals, firms and corporations
desiring closer connections for buying and selling. The service
rendered is direct; we. at every step, exercise close supervision
over all transactions, thus assuring accurate and prompt atten
tion.
We are READY, WILLING and ABLE to buy right, to ship
right, to insure right—to attend to all matters as your personal
agent. Your enquiries and wants will receive our immediate and
most courteous attention.
WRITE US—there is no obligation. We are just the business
connection that the Alaska Trade has been looking for in the
buying of mining, cannery and fishing supplies, dry goods, gro
ceries, cigars and tobacco, drugs, rubber goods, furniture, house
hold sundries, electrical goods, gas engines—in fact, anything that
grows or is manufactured.
We are also willing and anxious to develop a market for all
Alaskan products. Get in touch with us, giving full particulars,
and your goods will be sold right.
electrician living in the neighbor
hood has at last stopped the prac
tice of billing and cooing of swains
in his neighborhood. One night re
cently he took flashlight pictures in
the school grounds.
F-esh Supply of Drugs at Thomp
son’s Drug Store.
EXPLORER TAKES
SCHOOLS TO TASK;
NORTH NEGLECTEO
WINNIPEG, Man.—“It is deplor- i
able and ridiculous what the schools 1
of Canada teach Canadian children
about the Northlands of the Domin
ion,” declared Vilhjalmur Stefans
son, a recent visitor here. “It
amounts to most defamatory propa
ganda,” added the noted explorer.
People generally display a lament
able ignorance concerning this coun
try, and it is simply due to the fact
that they are wrongly instructed
when they are children, according
to Mr. Stefansson, who declared
that the country north of the Arctic
circle is very different from what
people believe.
There are 640 different species of
flowering plants, and roughly three
times as many special of flowering
plants as non-flowering plants in the
Arctic country, Mr. Stefansson said,
and he described some of the con
ditions responsible for what to the
people of Canada seem anomalous,
because of the climatic conditions
there.
In the North, he explained, there
are two seasons similar to the sea
sons of the settled parts of Canada.
Just in the same way as grass
cannot grow here in the winter time,
the grass cannot grow in the coun
try around and north of the Arctic
! circle in the winter. But in the
summer time, one can find up there
goldenrod, poppies, bluebells, dande
lions, timothy and watercress, “and
these plants grow as far north as
any land that has been discovered,”
added Mr. Stefansson.
Speaking of the development of
the Northland, Mr. Stefansson pre
dicted that it would be developed in
the same way as other countries.
He explained that there are rich
resources up there, and when mea
sured by its productivity and not
by its climate, if a land is pro
ductive it will be developed irre
spective of its climate.”
OUTSIDE POTATOES — Fowler
ft Morris.
Kodak Supplies—fresh stock—just
unpacked at Thompson’s Drug Store.
OLD PAPEkS FOR SALE AT
THE NEWS OFFICE
WANT ADS
PHONOGRAPHS wanted at Sim
son’s Department Store.
FOUND—-Leather watch fob with
locket. Owner can have same by
calling at The News office.
BARN FOR RENT—Second and E.
Three double stalls. Pump in
barn. Inquire at News.
THE DWYER HOME FOR SALE.
Terms reasonable. tf
BUNCH OF SEVEN KEYS found.
Owner can recover by calling at
News office and paying for adv.
FRESH RANCH EGGS, $1.50 DOZ.
Poultry Dressed to Order.
A. G. JOHNSON
Front and E Streets.
The BUHACH is here. Thomp
son’s Drug Sto-e.
r.s. McDonald
Public Stenography Typewriting
Bookkeeping Conveyancing
REAL ESTATE
RENTALS LOANS
LIFE INSURANCE
FIRE INSURANCE .
Only the moat reliable companies
Safety Deposit Boxes
For Rent.
Rust Houss
CLEAN AND
COMFORTABLE
ROOMS BY THE DAY,
WEEK OR MONTH
MRS. CHAS. STANFORD
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Tom Smith, Prop.
NENANA HOUSE
Large Barn-In Connection-Dog Kennels
MRS. A. B. EAS fERLY, Proprietress.
J, R. BOWEN
DENTIST
j Prices Most Reasonable
THE BOWEN BUILDING
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
Fourth and B Streets
Fourth Monday of Month
At 8:00 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER, ALF EKELAND,
Secretary Dictator.
Department of the Interior
Alaikan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers are required to pur
chase tickets before entering trains.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is in
the employment office, on the ground
floor of the General Office Building,
Alaskan Engineering Commission, or
at North Nenana.
Tickets will be on sale at ny
time during office hours, and can be
purchased in sufficient time before
the departure of the trains.
Regular trains for the south leave 4
the foot of A street on Wednesdays
and Saturdays at 8 a. m.
* The following change of schedule
between Nortn Nenana and Fair
banks is effective June 1, subject to
change without notice:
Leave Fairbanks at 8:00 a. m.;
arrive North Nenana, 12:30 p. m.
Leave North Nenana, 2:00 p. m.;
arrive Fairbanks, 6:30 p. m.
A ferry will be run between Ne
nana and North Nenana to connect
with Fairbanks trains. Passengers
for Fairbanks should purchase tick
ets in Nenana before crossing the
ferry.
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 an'd are prepared to send you the names 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 us 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