THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for en:ry as second class mail matter, nnder the Act of March 3, 1879.
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AIDING SOLDIERS.
Plans to more than double the
number of discharged soldiers, sail
ors and marines receiving rehabili
tation training have been an
nounced by the Federal Board of
Vocational Education. The increase
will be made at the fall openings
of schools and colleges. More than
seven thousand men now are receiv
ing training.
“There have been delays in car-.
rying out the work of vocational;
rehabilitation,” said the board’s j
statement, “but most of them have
been due to causes which are be
yond the control of the board, and
which it has made unceasing effort
to remove.
“Nearly six months elapsed after
the passage of the Rehabilitation
Act before the agents of the fed
eral board were admitted to the
military and naval hospitals. This
exclusion was a necessary war mea
sure, but during this period, as well j
as during the 14 months which]
elapsed between our entering the
war and June 27, 1918, when the
Act became law, thousands of dis
abled men were discharged and were
scattered all over the United States
without any knowledge of their
rights under the law. Altogether,
more than a year and a half of
precious time was lost.
“Under the terms of the Rehabili
tation Act, the federal board could
put no disabled man in training
■until after he was declared com
pensable by the War Risk Insur
ance bureau. The amendment cur
ing this difficulty and allowing
prompt action by the federal board
did not become law7 till July 11,
1919.
“The board has made excellent
progress, for on August 1 it had
established contact with 130,000 of
the 160,000 men registered, had
sun eyed nearly 108,000, and had
approved over 12,000 cases for
training and had put 7,192 men m
training.
“Those men, as of July 26, were
in 449 public and private secondary
schools, in lot) institutions of col
lege grade and in 363 industrial
and other plants. They were being
trained for 1,363 different lines of
activity and, by utilizing existing
means of training rather than cre
ating new schools for rehabilita
tion, the men are being better
trained and million of dollars have
been saved to the United States
Since legislation siving the board
a free hand did not pass until
July, when most schools and col
leges are closed, the full measure
of training activity cannot be reach
ed until the latter part of Septem
ber. At that time the present num
ber in training will be much more
than doubled.”
THE GEOLOGIST AND
PROSPECTING.
The location of mineral deposits
at grass roots must grow more in
frequently from year to year, espe
cially in those areas that have be
come the home or hunting ground
of intelligent men. Much virgin
territory remains, and it will be
many generations before the most
distant has been prospected. But,
points out the Cordova Times, it is
not upon these distant localities that
out industries must depend. Manu
facturing industries do not quickly
follow- to the source of raw sup
plies. Supplies must be brought to
the industrial centers, and the near
er those supplies are to the indus
trial centers already built, the more
'valuable do they become. Natural
ly, supplies close at hand will be
| the first to be exhauted, and gradu
i ally the manufacturer draws from
| known sources farther and farther
away, until the expense of trans
■ portation becomes so great as to
threaten the industry. It is at this
stage that the prospector loses his
importance, and the economic geolo
gist has an opportunity to exhibit
his skill. With all visible ore ex
hausted, it is no longer a question
of following stringers and indica
tions to other veins or bodies of
mineral, searching with small de- i
posits as a guide to larger ones;j
but it is a matter requiring an in- j
rimate knowledge of ore deposits;
and the formations in which thev!
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occur.
The surface of the earth, that
portion of it which a prospector i
may examine with care, is a very
limited portion of the whole. The
surface of the earth as known to j
the geologist, or that portion re- i
specting which he has considerable !
knowledge, may extend from day- i
light to several miles in depth, cer
tainly beyond human means of pen-'
etrating with shafts or boreholes.
It is in the study of these buried
formations and the minerals that
they contain that the geologist be
comes especially useful to industry.
The geologist is not infallible—he
is not working with an exact sci
ence, or with one whose factors
are all known. The most that he
can do is to guide, to reduce the
amount of useless risk, and increase
the amount of profitable work.
Not only in oil, but in the mining
of almost every mineral of econom
ic importance, geological knowledge
may be used to advantage. Our
mining schools of the future will
probably spend as much time in
teaching how to use geological
knowledge as they spend in teach
ing pure science, and as we now
have mining, metallurgical and
chemical engineers, our colleges will
[soon be graduating geological en
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H. C. OF L. HITS
MEXICO VERY HARD
MEXICO CITY.—In th<= past nine
years the cost of living in Mexico
has shown an average increase of
212 per cent, according to figures
recently made public by the depart
ment of industry, labor and com
jmerce. Several staples have greatly
j increased. Lard has advanced 525
| percent in price, sugar 233 percent,
and eggs 266 percent.
Woolen fabrics now cost 471 per
cent more than in 1910; cotton
j goods 300 percent more, and shoes
j 166 percent more. House rents
have increased 140 percent, trolley
fares 66 percent, and railroad fares
20 percent. Natives’ shoes cost
j $4.50 a pair in 1910. Today they
!are $12 a pair.
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IS BELIEVED TO BE
SEATTLE.—Bound for the North
Pole, Roald Amundsen, Norwegian
| discoverer of the South Pole, is at
present drifting in his ice-locked
schooner, the Maud, somewhere
north of Western Siberia, according
to beliefs held by the Seattle Nor
wegian vice-consul, and Vilhjalmur
Stefansson, Canadian Arctic explor
In planning the trip, the explorer
, said he expected, after reaching the
I pole, to return either to Grant
jLand, west of Greenland, or Mel
iville island, which lies in the Arctic
ocean north of Canada. Should he
reach Melville island he probably
would journey by sea to Nome or
overland to Dawson.
Two airplanes formed part of
the Maud’s equipment when she left
Norway last fall and sailed through
| the White sea, bound for - the icy
north. The final dash to the pole
may be made in one of the planes.
Amundsen, it is believed, may also
fly back to civilization in one of
the machines.
Nothing has been heard from
Amundsen since September 1, 1918.
At that time the Maud was report
ed taking oil for her motors at
Dixson island, a White sea point.
After taking the oil, she sailed
northeast into the rapidly freezing
waters of the Arctic ocean.
From the White sea, Amundsen
expected to drift east with the ice
to the New Siberian islands, which
lie in the Arctic off Siberia. At
the New Siberian islands, it was
believed, the drift would carry the
boat toward, if not across, the pole.
Amundsen intended to use the air
planes if he found the drift would ]
not carry him across the “top of,
the earth."
Amundsen, in a degree, followed
the footsteps of his countryman,
Fridtjof N'ansen. in 1895-96. Nan
sen, in the Fram, started on a drift
across the pole, but left his boat
and tried unsuccessfully to reach
the goal on foot. Later, the Fram
drifted as close to the pole as
Nansen got.
The Maud carries wireless send
ing apparatus, but no receiving in
struments. Amundsen said he would ^
not install the receiving apparatus
because he did not want to be wor-’
ried by news from the outside world.
The Norwegian government this
summer arranged to establish sev
eral food depots on Grant Land,
from Cape Columbus to Robinson
channel, for the use of Amundsen
in case he comes out bv his Eastern
route.
If he comes toward the West and
strikes Melville island, he will find
himself on familiar ground, for he
passed near Melville island when he
discovered the Northwest Passage in
1903-06.
Amundsen expects to obtain sci
entific data at the pole. He will
take soundings, observe the ocean
drifts, study the ice conditions and
i bring back full reports.
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Kotlik, down Holy Cross, 9 p. m..
19th.
i Alaska, down Tolovana, 3:30 a. m.
j Davis, up Kokrines, 2 a. m.
Kelly and Tanana, at Cbena.
Yukon, at Eagle, upbour.d.
j Sibilla, at Dawson.
Washburn, up Holy Cross for
IDikeman, 11 p. m., 7th.
! Louise, up Holy Cross, 12:15 a.
m., 8th.
Relief, down Nulato, 6 a. m.. 8th.
Jacobs, up Gibbon for White
horse, midnight.
| Reliance, up Koyuknk river, 5:55
Jp. m., 8th.
j Seattle No. 3, up Kotlik, C a. m.,
17th.
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CONSTITUTION DAY
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The people of Fairbanks are plan
ning to observe Constitution Day.
September 17, in a fitting manner.
The celebration plans are being
formulated by a committee, and an
nouncement is made that a public
meeting will be held at Eagle hall
as one of the features of the day.
The program will consist of music
and patriotic exercises.
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NOTICE '
Passengers leaving on the train
for any point on the line south of
town are required to purchase
tickets before entering the train.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is 1
in the employment office, on the
ground floor of the general office
Duilding, Alaskan Engineering com
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On and after july 13th the freight
| on the North side of the river at
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Tuesday and Friday of each week,
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