THE MEN AN A DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
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A NEW SPIRIT
The war ha; revolutionized the
id; among civilized peoples con
cerning: international relations, de
clared Takashi Hara, Japan’s new
commoner premier in a recant in
terview .
“A i ew spirit seems to have been
born among- them,” he. said. “It
set m> to tne that this new spirit
will in the future come to sway
the minds of people in all civilized
countries and govern the. relations
between the nations.” Speaking of
peace, he said: “The idea of op
pressing the tie. man people will be
repugnant to the labor parties in
England and France and also to the
humanitarians in America--classes
of men whose sentiments their re
spective governments cannot ig
nore. Under these circumstances,
I am inclined to believe that com
paratively moderate and fair opin
ions will prevail at the peace con
ference, with the result that the
war will end in a peace under which
all the nations of the world can in
the future live in safety and in
harmony with one another. No
body can deny that such is the
peace needed for the true welfare
of mankind ”
Mr. Hara recalled incidents of
the active sympathy American sol
diers showed to the French peasants
in the war zone whom they were
ever willing to help in the field
when ever off duty. He told how
American soldiers had spent their
money buying candy for French
children and continued:
“Such is the new spirit now bind
ing the different peoples of the
world with increasing strength. This
spirit does not permit nations mere
ly to seek their own selfish inter
ests without any regard to the in
terests of others. Japan has sent
her army to Siberia, and it is my
ardent wish that the officers and
men will always bear in mind that
they are there to help the Russians
and so conduct themselves as to be
welcomed by the latter as deliver
ers. Good behavior is just as praise
worthy on the part of a nation as
oil that of an individual. Rook at
Germany. She has followed the
principle that a state is free to do
anything however selfish or treach
erous, and the result is the tragic
plight in which we. now find her.
Ret us take a warning from her
experience.
HUN AIR LOSSES
For the Allies to take 2,000 air
planes from Germany, in accordance
with the terms of the armistice,
means militarily crippling; Germany
in the air beyond hope* of early
recovery, while immensely adding
tot he aerial strength of the Allies,
an aviation expert. This was
emphasized he says, by ihe fact that
in five months of the heaviest air
fighting of the war, Germany lost
in at *sal combat with the British
i loin ‘.omet’ ng like 2700 machines.
i’o ti s total n ust he added the de
f ,'uetien wro'”'ht by the French
a"-1 a erica" \ir services
'1.. j 'xpei asserts that for sev
e: I ni i. th before the armistice,
Germany’s capacity for producing
airp’-mes was unequal to the task
of .epl ici ig h-r immense losses.
This, he add', 'as strikingly illus
trated by the an.lost complete fail
ure of her air nrm during the final
rod most critical phase of the war.
The declaration of war by Great
Britain at midnight, August 5, 1914
found the Royal Flying Corps with
only four squadrons in being—rep
resenting well under 100 airplanes.
Three of these squadrons went in
stantly to France. A new squad
ron followed these pioneers in about
ten-days lime, while a fifth squad
ron, mobilized and sent out in 24
hours, reached the fighting zone
about the middle of September.
In those early days of the war,
machines were used simply for
strategical reconnaissance. It was
not until after the battle of the
Aisne, when settled line warfare
was established, that artillery fire
control from the air, and the cruder
forms of co-operation with the in
fantry were practised and developed.
As late as June, 1915, ordinary
rifles with shortened barrels were
carried by British pilots, and hand
grenades were flung at enemy
aviators in the air.
The development of formation
fighting and the evolution of aerial
gunnery dates from about this time,
when the machine gun became an
essential part of the equipment of
fighting pilots and observers.
SFOP KNITTING
LATEST ORDERS
The W Oman’s Bureau of the
Tanana Valley Chapter of the Red
Cross received on the mail which
reached Fairbanks last Saturday, an
order to discontinue knitting at
once.
The local chapter will obey the
order and all knitting finished or
only partly done will be called in
immediately. The unfinished knit
ting, if found to be in an advanced
stage will probably be finished. No
new work along this line will be
started.
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
RENDERS STATEMENT
The board of trustees of the
Agricultural College and School of
.Mines rendered a statement of the
[cost of the building and attendant
expenses at a recent meeting.
The total expenditure on the
building and incidentals to date is
given by the board as .$56,273.68.
The building is on a tract of land
adjoining the government experi
mental farm near Ester Siding.
The fish that pilots vessels into
the harbor at New Zealand is known
to all local mariners here. It is
called the Pelorus or Jack Dolphin
The fish is about 12 feet long and
usually joins an incoming vessel
astern; then it .bounds along and
across the vessel’s bow, each tune
rubbing its back, sides or belly
■ against the ship—-legend says to
rub the barnacles off the ship.
Years ago the English Parliament
passed an act protecting the fish
from fishermen—the only fish, it
I is said, that were ever thus pro
■ tected under an act of Parliament.
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| When the English tank gets into
I German it loses its simple four
: letter name and becomes the Shut
| zengrabenvernichtungsautomobil.
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COMMERCIAL CLUB
TAKES ACTION ON
RAILROAD LAY-OFF
The committee appointed by th<*
N'enana Commercial club at its last
meeting to take appropriate action,
with a view to remedying the de
plorable state of affairs existing
as a direct result of the curtailment
of work on the government railroad
and the laying off of a great many
men, held a meeting yesterday and
despatched the following telegram
to Secretary of the Interior Frank
lin K. Lane and Delegate Wick
ersham:
“N'enana, Jan. 2(1, 1919
“Curtailment, operations Alaskan
Engineering commission Fairbanks
division due exhaustion appropria
tion has thrown majority railroad
workers this division out of employ
ment at time when other work here
unobtainable- Because excessive
cost materials and supplies, due
war conditions, mining operations
other activities Interior Alaska at
standstill. As result of this con
dition discharged workers must seel!
employment in States, leaving serious
shortage labor here for future oper
ations. These men are without
funds owing liberal investment war
relief and government securities
which they must sacrifice to exist.
-Suggest immediate action provide
funds continue railroad building
pending regular June appropriation.
Delay in this matter will retard
development Interior Alaska and
jeopardise success railroad enter
prise.
“Nenana Commercial Club.”;
The committee, composed of R.
CL Southworth, Dr. R. R. Myers,
Herman Anderson, Andy Hoey and
Ralph Waechter, will also send j
-opies of this telegram to other i
government officials in Washing-]
ton and to the Seattle C’hamber of
t ommerce and the press in the
States where it will do the most1
good.
I
The matter was also taken up!
with Charles L. Thompson, of Fair- j
banks, a prominent member of the
Fairbanks Commercial club who is
now on a visit to Nenana, and the
support of that bodv is assured. i
The Commercial club of Nenana !
took the initiative in the matter, as
it was felt that the curtailment of
railroad operations constituted a
serious menace to its resumption in
the spring, when ample funds would
but labor would not, be available.
1 here is no choice for the men?
affected by the slash in the force
but to lay around in idleness anil
spend what little they have been
able to save, to live on until spring
comes again, or leave the country
immediately and take a chance on
getting something to do in the
States; and the majority of them
are figuring on leaving the country.
The action taken by the Com
mercial club, backed by the action
taken by the men themselves at a
mass meeting held Saturday night,
and the hopeful promise these ac
tions hold of aid to come, is the
only thing that is keeping the ma
jority of the men from stampeding
for the Outside immediately.
The Commercial club has pledged
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Visiting Cards
Typewriter
Ribbons
Carbon
Paper
Legal
Blanks
Tablets
Blotters
Envelopes
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NEWS OFFICE
itself to leave no stone unturned
in its efforts to right a palpable
wrong done to the men, who cer
tainly deserve better treatment at
the hands of .the government, and
: will use every known means to edu
j cate congrgss and the secretary of
1 the interiof regarding conditions in
j Interior Alaska.
It is confidently expected that the
local head of the Alaskan Engineer
ing commission will soon be in
I structed to resume operations on
; the scale planned for the winter
work, in which ease the men
who were laid off recently will be
| on the job again.
j Mary had a knitting bag;
’Twas solid full of yarn;
And everywhere that Mary went
That bag went on her arm.
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Membership List
i Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred, Mrs. Clara
Berggren, Ernst
Budow, A1
Browne, F. I).
Bresnahan, E. D.
Blankfield, I).
Bowen, J. R.
| Blair, Roy
Brooker, Ed
.
Bennett, J. F.
Ball, 1. B.
Brown, Erie
Burns, R. E.
Coutts, W .1.
Calderhead, R. W.
Campbell, N. J.
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney, M. .1.
Doner, Frank - j
Diven, R J.
Douse, Fred
Davis, Harry
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A B.
Fisher, Joe
Flower, J. II.
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Wm.
Haslem, II. G.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W.
Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
Gray, E. B.
Gilcher, W. H.
Hyland, Mike
Isabel, L. C.
Irvine, A. J.
Johnson, A. G.
Jones, Frank
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B. •
Roland, Knut
Ketooroky, John A.
I.aughlin, E. I,.
Lund, E. E.
Lehr, Q. F.
Myers, R. R.
Moore, Frank B.
Miles, J. H.
McDonald, R. S.
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. C.
Nash, Martin
O’Keefe, Larry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington, G. W.
Palfy, Paul
Packer, W. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm.
Schmidt, Curl
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Scott, J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
Stone, A. J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, Chas.
Southworth, It. G.
Spira, Frank
Thompson, Theodore
Toussaint, J G. K
Tyler, M. V.
Taylor, Wm. J.
Verhaeghe, Cyrielc
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Woods, Geo. W.
Williams, E. A.
Waeehter, R. I.
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BOND PAYMENT DUE SOON
The final payment on Fourth
Liberty Loan bonds on the install
ment plan is due on or before
January JO. This is a payment of
the remaining unpaid JO per cent
of the purchase price of the bond,
and is payable at the office of the
Special Disbursing Ap;ent Frank T. ;
Doner, at the general office of the ;
Alaskan Enj>ineerinjr commission, j
Mr. Doner announces that his of-!
fice will be kept open until 5:30'
p. m., January 30, for the con- i
venience of the public and all those j
who have ordered bonds on the in- j
stallment plan are requested to pay
before that time and date.
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National Park.
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A and FIFTH STREETS
ROC MS AND BOARD
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Coffee and Doughnuts 25c
DOG KENNELS
Don’t Leave
ALASKA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only
come back "Busted'’ in the spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER.
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouche and
Kennecott.
ALASKA PUBLICITY
BUREAU *
Juneau Alaska.
WANT ADS
FOR RENT—Furnished cabin, suit
able for two. Phon? 03 Rod.
Gentlemen’s Suits cleaned and
pressed, Fur Coats lined and reno
vated; Ladies’s Suits and Dresses
renovated at the Tailor Shop on
Upper A street, near Third.
NICELY HOUSE
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POOL CANDIES CIGARS
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