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.
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MAN POWER
We read much of man power these
days; human power is a better term,
because it emphasizes the fact that
the women and children also consti
tute a great factor in this war. In
the final victory every man, woman
and child in America can and should
have a part.
In comparing the man power of
Germany with that of the United
States it must be borne in mind that
a much larger proport:on of the
manual labor of the man power of
the nation performed, is exerted
by the German women than by the
women of America. It is said that
in peace times the women consti
tuted 42 per cent of the agricul
tural and industrial labor of Ger
many. They work in the fields, in
the factories, in the mines, at the
very hardest and most laborious
tasks, doing the work only done by
men in this country. With a great
proportion of the German men in
the army, it is not improbable that
women now constitute by far the
larger half of German manual labor.
The women of the United States
are nobly, unselfishly, manfully, one
may say. bearing their share of the
burdens of war. By the grace of
God and the power and courage of
America the fate of the German
women is not and will never be
theirs But it will be with their
assistance and co-operation and their
full assumption of the burdens and
duties of the day that the United
States is to exert its full power in
ridding the world of that intolerable
German kultur which makes brute
soldiers of the men and slaves of the
women.
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THE SOLDIER’S CHANCES
Great as the danger and large as
the losses in the aggregate, the in
dividual soldier has plenty of chang
es of coming out of the war un
scathed, or at least not badly in
jured.
Based on the mortality statistics
of the Allied armies, a soldier’s
chances are as follows:
Forty-nine chances of recovering
home to one chance of being killed.
Forty-nine chances o frecovering
from wounds to one chance of dying
from them.
One chance in 500 of losing a
limb.
Will live five years longer because
of physical training, is freer from
disease in the army than in civil
life, and has better medical care at
the front than at home.
In other wars from 10 to 15 men
died from disease to 1 from bullets;
in this war, 1 man dies from disease
to every 10 from bullets.
For those of our fighting men who
do not escape scathless, the govern
ment under the soldier and sailor in
surance law gives protection to the
wounded and their dependents and
to the families and dependents of
those who make the supreme sacri
fice for their country.
REHABILITATION OF OUR
WOUNDED.
Perhaps none of the various uses
to which the proceeds of the Liberty
Loan are to be devoted appeals more
strongly to the American people than
the rehabilitation and re-education
of our wound od men. To teach
j these men, to train and fit them for
I useful and gainful occupations, when
by reason of loss of sight or limbs'
'or other injuries they are rendered
unable to pursue ordinary vocations,
| is a work in which every American
! has a heartfelt interest.
I Compensation will be allowed them
; and family allowances will be paid
^ their families as if they were in
• actual service while they are taking
the training, and every method
known to science will be used to
restore our wounded men to health
and usefulness.
' This work has been delegated by
Congress to the Federal Board of
Vocational Education. The board
published at Washington a monthly
bulletin, dealing with its work, ..ailed
The Vocational Summary, which will
be sent free to anyone upon re.;i'e-t.
CARRIER PIGEONS ARE
SERVED TO DIPLOMATS
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LONDON".—The most expensive
pigeon pie which perhaps has ever
been served anywhere was enjoyed
by members of the Allied diplomatic
colony in Jassy last spring.
One February afternooon one of
the Allied ministers received a crate
of fine pigeons. There was no mark
to indicate the sender. The pigeons
were killed and cooked that evening,
and a number of the minister’s col-,
leagues, including American JJinister
\ opicka, had their fill of pigeon
pie.
A week later, a delayed telegram
reached the minister who had been
host at the dinner. It was from a
high military officer of his govern
ment, directing him as to the dis
posal of a “very valuable consign
ment” of carrier pigeons which had
been sent him after a long course of
training and which were designed to
take an important part in certain
highly confidential nego ^tions then
pending.
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GERMANS PAY HIGH
FOR VEGETABLES NOW
j NEW YORK.—There was a grea
shortage of vegetables in Berlin a
ithe beginning of June, accordin'
to the Berlin Vorwaerts. Describinj
the condition in the Berlin public
markets on June 5, the Vorwaert
says: The stands were almost empt;
but there were many seeking food
For a head of cauliflower of th<
size of a potato I and one-half mark
was charged, and for a pound o
lima beans six marks. Kohlrabi
young carrots, and turnips wer
scarce and enormously high in price
Fifteen kohlrabi small and with muci
foliage, cost three to four marks.
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Mrs. Earl Hunt, who. was recently
operated on by Dr. More for the re
moval of a goitre, is reported to be
doing very well. She will be able to
sit up tomorrow. Mrs. Hunt is said
to be a model patient.
The X-ray pictures taken of Mrs.
Haggren’s fractured arm disclosed
the existence of an ununited frac
ture of the left humerus. She will
probably be operated on tomorrow
and the ends of the fractured bone
will be united.
Howard Wilson, who had been
operated on recently for the removal
of a piece of dead bone from his
foot, is rapidly nearing convales
cence- He has the advantage of the
new Carrel system of wound dress
ing.
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HOSPITAL NOTES
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Mike Romes, through whose foot
a pick had been accidently driven
recently, has recovered entirely and
leaves the hospital today.
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The latest system for the treat- j
ment of wounds known as the Car
rel system, has been adopted in the '
Commission hospital with very grati-!
fying results to both the surgeons I
and their patients. The system was
introduced by a very eminent French
surgeon, Major Alexis Carrel, of
the French army, and is now used
for the treatment of war wounds in
the Allied military hospitals with j
wonderful results. Dr. Carrel came j
over to this country and was for
some time attached to the Rocke
feller Institute of Medical Research,
where he demonstrated the working
of the system to American surgeons
with the result that it was adopted
by our government. Dr. de la Vergne
who is assisting Dr. David More in1
the hospital work in this division
for the A. E. C.. has had the ad
vantage of personally going over the
working of the new system with Dr .
Carrel at the Rockefeller Institute
in New York, and was also present
when the demonstrations were made
by Dr. Carrel. I
The Carrel system consists of the
installation of a solution of hypo- j
chlorite of soda continuously into the
wound while in the process of heal
ing- A main rubber tube with sev
eral smaller tubes attached and
leading into the different parts of
the wound is strapp&d to the in
jured part and a solution of chlorite
of soda is injected to the injured
parts every two hours- and when the
wound is regularly dressed, every
twenty-four hours, there is absolutely
no pus found. The new system al
lows of the healing of the wound
without infection, does away with
all the unpleasant features and re
sults such as fever, the gathering
of pus, etc. It also shortens con
valescence and almost entirely elim-1
inates pain, swelling and bad odors.
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The new economic method of dress
ing in use in all of the Allied mili
tary hospitals has been adopted in
the Commission hospital. The long
bandanges in use heretofore and
which took up much of the surgeon’s
time, is now discarded altogether
and a towel is used instead to form
the covering over the dressing, the
ends being held together by clothes
pins. instead of safety-pins, as here
tofore.
Besides being of much economic
value the work of the surgeon is
made much easier and takes up much
less of his time. The unfastening
of the clothes pins lays the affected
part bare and the treatment of the
wound being completed, the ends of
the towel are brought together and
fastned as before. The value of
such a system in a hospital with a
large number of patients is incal
culable.
Alick Kalisoff, who has been a
partner in the grading contract
awarded George Gotto & Co., has
relinquished his part of the con
tract and is now in town, prepara
tory to answering his country’s call
for soldiers. He will leave with the
second contingent of., the second
Nenana draft on tfee 20th of this
month for Fort Gibbon.
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* FAIRBANKS NOTES *
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Governor and Mrs. Riggs arrived
yesterday evening. They came thru
on a Sheldon auto with Bobby Shel
don at the wheel. The entire jour
ney from Chitina was made in this
machine in 24 V2 hours actual trav
eling time.
Dr. Martin, of the Geological Sur
vey, also arrived on the auto with
the Governor’s party.
Lieutenant-Colonel B. O. Lenoir,
who is on a tour of inspection of the
military telegraph system in Alaska,
arrived in a government automobile
shortly before the Sheldon auto got
in with Governor Riggs and party.
He will proceed to Nenana after in
specting the station here.
Word has been received from
Marshal Erwin, who is at present
in Seattle on his way to Fairbanks.
He may stay in Seattle until the ar
rival of Chief Deputy Joe Miller,
who is on his way to the States with
some prisoners. Miller has been
held up in Cordova until the 14th
for a boat.
Jimmy Haney and Elmer Bab
cock left for Nenana this morning
enroute to the Kantishna country.
They will probably get their outfits
in Nenana.
The steamer Reliance sailed short
ly after 10 o’clock this morning for
the Koyukuk and way points.
Mrs. Maud Bishop returned to
Nenana yesterday on the steamer
Tanana from a brief business visit
to Fairbanks.
KING DONATES WINES
FOR RED CROSS WORK
LONDON—A wagon load of wines
from the cellars of Buckingham
Palace, contributed by King George
V as a gift to the Red Cross, was
sold at auction here the other day
and brought a total of $8,500. The
royal champagne fetched $100 a
dozen bottles, while $125 a dozen
was paid for royal sherry dating
back to 1841.
NEW ORK—School children in
Berlin have been mobilized to serve
as “coal transporters”, according *o
the Berlin Vorwaerts, which says
that a Pupil’s Auxiliary Service has
been organized, the purpose of which
is to deliver coal from the yards to
old or ill persons or to those who
cannot call for the coal themselves.
The children are supplied with small
carts.
Fred T. Congdon, former member
of parliament from the Yukon, pass
ed through Skagway recently on his
way back to Dawson from Eastern
Canada.
Cigars POOL Tobaccos
NICELY
HOTEL
EVERYTHING NEW
furnished rooms
SPRING BEDS 50c
Mrs. Nicely, Prop.
V. S. Food Administration.
Be ol‘ long sez “Car's Sugar in
<3e Gourd,” but Br’er ’Tater ’lows
dat de only sugar he's studyin'
bout now-a-days is what’s in do
sugar bowl en hit's gwine ter stay
dar.
De folks wots doin’ de flghtin’
mus' have sugar fust.
But ef dais enny sweet’nin’ in
de gourd now'days, he sho' gwine
ter git tapped, ’cause dey's lookin’
fer syrups en ’lasses en honey to
“substitute."
EASTERN EDITOR
TELES OF DDK
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Editor of Eastern Paper Writes of
Stirring Times and Events In
the East.
The following letter was received
recently by a Nenanaite from John
M. Siddall, editor of the American
Magazine, and tells of the happen
ings in New York city at this time:
We have been having quite ex
citing times in New York lately.
Every other day there have been
parades, and when there wasn’t a
parade (a real honest-to-God sched
uled one) the inhabitants got one
up on their own account. Every
other person you meet on the street
is either in khaki or blue—and the
blue is now steadily changing to
| white, with the advent of hot weath
er. And this doesn’t exclude the
women either. A number of them
are driving cars for the Women’s
Service League, doing a kind of
messenger service, and I can tell
you they look pretty smart in their
uniforms. I guess your wife would
like to see them. The enthusiasm
for the war is high—that’s the
reason for the parades. And you
get corralled on the street and you
find yourself buying Thrift Stamps
wholesale or giving to the Red Cross
or the Salvation Army fund for the
soldiers, etc. I tell you the feeling
is wonderful. Slackers, conscien
tious objectors, and pro-Germans are
given short shrift these days. And
the war spirit is fostered by the
presence of British and French
wounded soldiers, Australian Tom
mies. Many of these men have been
talking in the streets and from the
steps of the big public buildings, urg
ing recruiting, urging the giving of
funds for various war oranizations,
urging thrift. And the very latest
thing we are now urged to do is to
obey the aerial raid warnings- Yes,
we’ve come to that. The sin dng
of twelve ships in home waters has
brought the war right to*ur shores.
And is confidently expected that air
raids will be attempted. Already
; the fiat has gone forth that lights
be extinguished in the buildings,
I confined to the rear of stores, etc.
| Now New York is dark at night.
I Sirens have been established that will
I warn people of an approaching raid
! and then there will be a mau rush
for the cellars. So
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| pretty exciting in these parts.”
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Rust House. #"or terms apply on
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POSITIONS WANTED—There ~aiZ
three women cooks in Fairbanks
looking for positions as camp
cooks; also one man cook. All
highly recommended. Address
Nenana News office
FOR SALK—Beaver Board, in plain
and oak finish. Doors and win
dows, sash stock and mouldings. ^
Inquire Simson’s.
PIANOS—For sale or rent. Inquire
Simson’s.
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DENrisT
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MILLIONAIRES SHOW
INCREASE IN HOLLAND
THE HAGUE.—The number of
‘guilder’ millionaires in Holland in
creased by sixty-one in the past year.
Official figures, based on income tax
assessments, indicate that the in
dividual wealth of the Dutch nation
in twelve months has grown by
$21,206,400 to a total of $3,136,
544,000.
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