THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for eiKry as second class mail matter, Under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth .Editor and Manager
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STARVING HUMANITY
“If you could stand in the middle
of Germany today and survey the
land to the borders of Europe,” said
Food Administrator Herbert Hoover,
in a recent speech, “you would dis
cover its entire population of 400,
000,000 humans being short of food.
Where Germany has overrun its
borders millions of people in Poland,
Finland, Serbia, Armenia and Rus
sia are actually dying of starvation
and other millions are suffering
from under-nutrition. Still others
of those millions outside th-> German
lines, that is our Allies and neu
trals, are living on the barest mar
gins that will support life and
strength.
“This, the most appalling and
dreadful thing that has come to hu
manity since the dawn of civiliza
tion, is to me the outstanding crea
tion of German militarism. Yet
the Germans themselves are not the
worst sufferers; they are extorting
at the cannon’s mouth the harvests
and live-stock of the people they
have over-run, leaving them in deso
lation. I am convinced that if the
war were to cease tomorrow, the
toll of actual dead from starvtion
and its attendant diseases within
the German lines would double or
treble the five millions or six mil
lions of men who have been actually
killed by Germany and her allies in
arms- The ten millions of people
in Belgium and Northern France
would have all died of starvation
had it not been for the action of
the nations at war against Ger
many in the maintenance of these
people through a relief system. But
this is only part of the whole story
of misery, for the sinking of the
world’s shipping is reverberating
privation and famine in some direc
tion every day and into every cor
ner of the globe.”
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A QUICK VICTORY
The present food problem in ^
nutshell is a matter of ships. The
Alies now have to be fed in large
measures from across the sea. There
seem to be several markets upon
which they could draw: Australia,
South America, the United States
and Canada.
“Why, then,” complain the un
thinking, “ask the people of the
United States and Canada to upset
their eating habits of years, to
scrimp and save, if Australia’s
wharves are loaded with food stores
waiting, to be transported to the
war-ridden territories?”
This is the answer. It takes a
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ship three times as long to carry
food from Australia and twice as
long from South America ports, to
say nothing of added exposure to
the dangers of the submarine. The
North Atlantic lane is safer and
shorter.
From North America, in the time
it takes to go from Buenos Ayres
to London, the same ship could take
a cargo of food across, come back,
and take a load of soldiers and
munitions over.
The old adage of “a penny saved
is a penny earned” is true of ships,
as well as money. America is
speeding up her shipbuilding with
all possible haste. But meantime,
if we make one ship do the work
of two, we have doubled our chance
of yictory.
Every ship we build is neede'1
to replace one that has been lost
or increase our army at the front.
So it behooves us to save ships as
well as to build them.
Every particle of food, therefore,
that can possible be spared must
be sent from America with the
marginal amount drawn from the
more remote places. If next year
we could provide the whole of th
Allied food necessities we would save ,
hundreds of thousands of tons of
shipping.
Saving food means saving ships. '■
Saving ships means more soldiers,'
more guns, and more food over
there. And these mean a quicker:
victory .
RED CROSS CARD TOURNEY
WILL BE HELD TONIGHT,
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Sharp at half past eight o’clock
this evening, the third of the series
of card games given by the Red
Cross ladies of Nenana, in aid of
the yarn fund, will be commenced
at the Adams’ building on A street.
Tickets will be on sale at the
door and there will be ample room
for all at the different tables, where
Pan, Hearts, Bridge, Solo and Five ;
Hundred will be in full swing.
Rrefreshments will be served dur
ing the course of the games, which
will be run for as long a time as
players care to stay.
It is requested that intending I
players come early.
James H. Russell, father of Misses
Queenie and Alta Russell, came to
Nenana on a brief visit to his
daughters on Roy Lund’s launch \
yesterday- Mr. Russell will prob- j
ably leave for the upper town to- [
night.
Raise a freight-saving, year-round ;
cellar and pit garden.
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Dr. A. A. KENISON
The Fairbanks Optician
Will be in Nenana
This Week
Dr. J. R. BOWEN WILL MAKE APPOINTMENTS
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
HAS NOW BEEN ISSUED
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The following letter from the
! governor’s office in Juneau, which
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i is self explanatory, has been receiv
I ed by the News today:
Juneau, Alaska June 17, 191S
i From the Governor’s Office
i To All Divisional and Local Boards
| Subject: Provost Marshal General’s
Letter to All Draft Executives,
under date of June 4, 1918. (No.
1 B.-1290.
This office is in receipt of tele
gram No. B-1290 from the provost
marshal general, as follows:
“Please immediately communi
cate to all local and district boards
and give to the press for publica
tion :
One year ago occurred the first
registration for military purposes ol
the young manhood of the nation.
Ten million men responded in a
| single day. This accomplishment
was nothing short of marvelous,
The task of utilizing this enormous
force seemed unachievable. But the
work of classification of this great
mass of man power in such a way
as to permit of its organization and
moulding into an effective army was
entrusted to 4663 local boards and
156 district boards, constituting a
force of nearly 15,000 of the lead
ing citizens of every community,
who assisted in their work by more
than 100,000 equally patriotic voL
unteers have performed a work that
challenge*! the attention and f x
cites the admiration of all our
people.
Well may we pause today, while
another million of our youths enter
the lists, and survey the results of
the year’s work. Each registrant
has been examined and his availa
bility for military service has been
determined. In other words these
millions of men have been classi
fied in such a manner that the
nation may now call for them to
come forward into the army. No
call can be so large that it will not
be filled immediately whether the
number be such as may be filled
by those who have been found to
stand in the first rank of availables
or so great that men standing in
the second, third or fourth ranks
of availability must go forward. In
other words all these millions of
men who one year ago were an
inert mass, have become a mobile
army. Each has found his place and
each in his proper turn, has marched
or waits the order to march.
These results could not have been
accomplished except through the
devoted and unselfish labor of pat
riots. The local and district boards
has scored an unprecedented triumph
and have earned the undying grati
tude of the nation. Their achiev
ment is one of the Threat successes
of the war. They have already sent
into camp, including those under
orders for June mobilization, an
army of more than a million and
a half men.
Statistically stated, the local
boards have sent, and are sending
their registrants to camp in the
following numbers:
September, general .296,679
October, general .163,644
November, general . 35,721
December, general .20,320
Total furnished to Jan. 1.516,363
January, specialists . 2,024
General .21,264
Total .23,288
February, specialists. 5,107
General ..78,672
Total . 83,779
March, specialists . 10,569
General . 121,915
Total .132.484
April, general .166,343
School . 7,334
Specialists . 700
Total .174,377
May, general . 345,863
School . 10,175
Specialists . 17,026
Total ...
Total furnished to June
1918 .
June, general ..
Schools .
Specialists .
...373,603
1,
1,303,354
...252,468
... 25,073
.... 14,813
Total
292,354
Grand Total .1,595,70S
Compensated poorly if at all, ex
i cept by the gratitude and affection
of their neighbors and of the na
l tion at large the boards have labor
ed incessantly through the enervat
! ing heat of last summer, only to
find still greater tasks awaiting
their unceasing devotion through
out the rigors of the following win
ter period. Then, having accom
plished the classification they found
; themselves confronted with the
mobilization of millions of men and
accurately and promptly they have
; performed and are performing this
labor.
Much work yet remains. Today
the new men of twenty-one are be
ing registered and must be speedily
classified. On the first of next
month the local and district boards
will be invested with the still fur
ther responsibility of preventing
idleness and of unproductive em
ployment which is not effective to
the nation in the emergency. Some
boards still review their work and
correct these inequalities which have
j been unavoidable in so tremendous
| an undertaking.
The nation, however, with full
confidence in the men who have
performed these great tasks in the
past, faces the future without fore
boding. The splendid work of our
lotal and district boards and of tb
other great volunteer army of assist
ants has filled us with admiration.
They have been tried and found
I true and so long as this war may
last, our people are happy in the
complete assurance that this great
organization will not fail the nation.
CROWDER.”
By Direction of the Governor,
J. J. FINEGAN,
Executive Officer.
Not “Bit” but “Utmost”—the end
is worth our “All.”
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“To the Editor of the Nenana
News.
“Will you kindly let me know
through the columns of your paper,
the reason why the lot sale which
j was held on the ninth of this month
; was not properly advertised. It
seems to me that in matters of this
kind the property owners and citi
zens of Nenana should be notified,
especially in view of the fact that
we have bulletin boards in town
for this purpose, on which is posted
all townsite matters, such as assess
ment notices, dogs in pound, horses,
etc. Someone has certainly shown
an utter disregard for the interests
of the people of Nenana, and I be
live it is up to the News to find
out who the interested party is.
“A SUBSCRIBER."
WOMEN ARE MAKING GOOD
IN BANKS OF ENGLAND
LONDON—War experience in the
employment of women as bank clerks
has convinced British bankers that
women are able to keep business
secrets quite as well as men. When
women were first admitted to em
ployment in banks the British direc
tors and managers feared that some
of their customers might withdraw
their business, believing their finan
cial affairs might become the sub
ject of gossip. “It is gratifying to
think,” says the Bankers’ Magazine,
“that after three years’ experience
of the new conditions, no ground
whatever has been found for these
fears.”
All roads of “serivce” lead to
France.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
FOR SALE—Beaver Board, in plain
and oak finish. Doors and win
dows, sash stock and mouldings.
Inquire Simson’s.
FOR SALE—Singer Sewing Ma
chine, with attachments, in first
: class condition, $25. Inquire at
News Office.
: FOR SALE—One Iron Bed Spring
and mattress, in good condition,
$15. Inquire at News Office
J LOST—A small black pocket-book,
between Taven Cafe and Cooney
Hotel. Finder please return to
Mrs. Amy Patterson, at Cooney
Hotel.
PIANOS—For sale or rent. Inquire
Simson’s.
FOUND—Fountain Pen. Owner can
recover by calling at News office,
identifying property and paying
for this adv. S-7-9
FOR SALE—Two tents, 18x30 and
20x40. Inquire Simsons.
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Seatle No. 3—At St. Michael.
Julia B.—At St. Michael.
Sarah—Up St. Michael 1 p. m. 9th
Washburn—Up Holy Cross for
Dikeman 6 p. m. 9th.
Tanana—With barge and Kotlik
in tow, up Holy Cross 5 a. m. 9th.
Reliance—Up Holy Cross 7 a. m,
—Jacobs—At Gibbon.
Davis—At St. Michael.
Carl White—Up Tolovana for
Fairbanks 7 a. m.
Alaska—Up Gibbon for Fairbanks
11:40 p. m., 9th.
Sibilla—Up Chena 11:40 p. m..
yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Hawley Sterling and
baby left for the camp at Residency
2 this morning. Mr. Sterling is
resident engineer in charge of resi
dency 2.
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