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 \iarch 3, 1879. j
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
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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The Rev. George A. Griffith, a
Baltimore Protestant Episcopal
clergyman serving as chaplain with
the 5th Field Artillery, the regiment
that fired America’s first shot in the ■
war, has written a letter to a prom
inent Baltimorean, in which he dis
cusses at length cruelties inflicted i
by the Germans upon civilians and
soldiers.
“I feel,” he says, "that I express
the sentiment of those who have;
seen and heard over here, when 11
say that were I in America today,
priest as I am, I should do my best
to have put to death any boche in
America or any so-called American
who would apologize in any way
for what the boche has done.
“All that you have heard in
America about them does not ap
proximate the truth. There are
little children right here in France
with their little stumps of hands;
there were some not far from my
last camp, and young men with all
the fingers of their right hand cut
off. The other day a British officer
and three Tommies told me that a
short time ago they went as an ad
vance party into a little vi age from
which the boche had been driven
back, and in a large room there
were four young Canadians cruci
fied, one on each wall of the room.
Also, when I was with the British
they told me the bodies had taken
young Belgian and French girls into
their first line trneches and tor
tured them until their screams made
the Scotch and Canadians so crazed
they would go over into the machine
gun nests which the boche had set
up. using the women’s screams as a
decoy.
“And I have it on the word of a
British officer that they have stood
(the officers), with guns leveled at
their men to keep , them from going
over when the women scream, and
being slaughtered. I cannot tell you
what the Tommies told me they
found when they drove these hell
fiends out of these positions; it is
too awful even to think about. I
also have it on the word of one of
the greatest French abbies that the
boche were specially instructed to
destroy convents—and kill or out
rage the nuns, and he says that
all through France and Belgium are
ruined convents, and that the nuns
were given the soldiers to be out
raged in the camps.
“These are not isolated cases nor
abnormal conditions which prevail
here and there where troops were
drunk or without restraint. Go
along the French or British front,
and the only conclusion you arrive
at is that they are just the ground
principle of boche efficiency m ac
tion. I don't believe there is one of
us here who wouldn't like to be
home. But there is not one of us
here, I believe, who does not want
to see Bocheland devastated from
one end to the other, with Berlin
a blackened ruin—with the boche
exterminated, militarists and all, be
fore we come home.
“It is American blood .hat is
flowing now, and God grant it may
give America some strength to real
ize what we are up against. To
talk of terms until the boche is ex
terminated is to league with Satan
for a corner in hell. Privations,
sacrifices! What can you do at home
to compare^ with what these men
of ours are doing over here? Meat
less days, wheatless days, sugarless
days, good women knitting, benefits
for the Red Cross—or all your social
diversions with a charitable object
sandwiched in!
‘‘When you are out on a shell
swept hill and the shells are going
by like bats out of hell, as the sol
diers say, and it's dark as the grave,
and every man, God bless himl
stands strong and true, camouflag
ing all his own feelings for your
sake and for the sake of what he
has back home, meatless days and
wheatless days, and Liberty Bond
campaigns seem cheap as your sup
port of him in such an hour.
“'Loathe the boche; preach against
him—work against him, wherever he
is, ostracise him socially and com
mercially- Take no chance—ever
though his reputation for loyalty ha;
been a long-standing one. The leap
ard cannot change his spots—neither
can the boche demon lose his horns
I’m begging you now—as the boche
are trying to murder us—to helf
wake every one up to the fact tha1
America must realize what the work
is facing over here. Can’t you see
it—can't America see it— how
everything is hanging in the balance
—and I know that the weight whict
shall cast it down is when youi
loathing for the boche will so burr
in you as to make you count nothing
—consider nothing—but his ex
termination.”
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Brushes weighing less than hal:
an ounce, which can be carried in
side hats on which they are to be
used are the invention of a Parisian
JUST RECEIVED
ALL THE LATEST
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MINING PLAN
CONSIDERED FOR
AFTER THE WAR
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SAX FRANCISCO.—Preliminary j
to the training of an army of young
men and women for an American |
trade drive after the war, a survey I
of commercial interests in 15 large
cities of this country will be started
this month by a committee of 15
prominent business men and edu
cators, appointed by P. P. Claxton.
United States commissioner of edu
cation.
The survey, according to John
Clausen, San Francisco banker and
member of the committee, will dis
close what qualifications will be re
quired of applicants for foreign
trade positions, and will be made
the basis of an appeal to American
schools and colleges for co-opera
tion with Anter’can business in the
contest for world trade which will
follow the war. Mr. Clausen said
the survey would probably be. con
cluded by the end of this year.
Special training for United States
consular positions and private ex
port trade enterprises will be re
commended.
“The Committee of Fifteen,” as
j it is known, was named by Com
| missioner Claxton at the Second
Pan-American conference at Wash
ington. Its chairman is Glen Levin |
Swiggert, specialist in commercial j
education, bureau of education, and
E. D. Adams, professor of history,
i Stanford Uuiversity, is a member.
! Recently an advisory council of i
i j
the committee comprising 100 men j
I was named. Among the western I
men on this body are Charles H.
i Bentley, sales manager, California
'Packing Corporation; H. B. Schles
: inger, manager of the Emporium;
! H. R. Kingsbury, vice-president of
i Standard Oil Company, all of San
Francisco, Henry Suzzallo, presi
dent of the University of Washing
' ton, and Charles R. Van Hise, presi
dent of the University of Wisconsin.
The American Association of Urban
Universities and the United States
bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce, are co-operating with
the “committee of 15” and the bu
reau of education in making the
j survey.
Questionnaires are to be sent out
. to business houses in each of the
I cities and the data assembled and
classified by a local committee, in
cluding representatives of the gen
eral survey committee and repre
sentatives of all higher institutions
I and city schools and of leading
trade organizations. The informa
tion, thus gathered and sent to
Washington will be held in confi
1 dence.
Emphasizing the necessity of de
| veloping closer relations with the
• republics of South and Central
! America and of “modifying our pres
\ ent home business-winning methods
to suit the customs and prejudices
of our foreign friends,” Mr. Clausen
■! in a statement sent out by Mr.
Swiggert, said:
“If we accept the assertion of
the Sage Foundation that only 5
per cent of the males in the United
■ States are prepared by definite edu
cation for their occupations in life,
it is readily conceived that our pres
ent courses of study are wholly
inadequate to meet the needs of our
younger element who in such a
large percentage plan for a com
ercial career- It would seem tftat
the first forward step to devise
effective courses of study and de
velop methods of commercial attain
ments, would be to unite the edu
cational agencies in promoting the
move of specialization in instruc
tions for the most direct prepara
tory training, as covered by the
following principal class subjects:
History, modern languages and lit
erature, preference to be given to
Spanish and Portuguese; industrial
economics and political economy.”
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AN IRISH PORT.—Considering
the large number and the quiant.
attractive type of many of the bar
rooms in the small town at the
American Destroyer Base there is
comparatively little drinking of in
toxicants among the men of the
fleet. It is unusual to see an j
American sailer who has imbibed
too freely and the saloons are not
crowded during the hours when the
largest number of men are allowed
ashore.
There is more sociability in drink
ing in a small Irish town than in the
larger centers of population in the
British Isles or in American bars.
Often an antique looking place in
an ancient stone or cement house
is operated by one man with the
assistance of his wife or daughter
or both in serving drinks. ' Even
on the first visit to such a place
a person, particularly an American
is treated more as a guest than as
a customer.
The men prefer to go to the
“Men's Club," which was erected
with funds provided by Americans
in England and managed by the
naval officers, or the Y. M. C. A.
The Y. M. C. A. establishment can
not care for many at a time, but it
is being enlarged. The reading
rooms at both places are full every
night, while the pool-room at the
club draws a great many. At the
club besides the theater, which at
tracts many every night, is also a
soda fountain with real American
ice cream and ice cream soda, both
of which are unobtainable in Eng
land or Ireland unless provided
through American enterprise. The
restaurant with its plain, whole
some, well-cooked food, also is a
great attraction.
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* FAIRBANKS NOTES »
It ■(
George Milich, who escaped from
custody while at work on the de
tention hospital grounds recently,
has not been apprehended yet.
Search parties are out looking for
him.
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The big dance to be given in aid
i of the Fairbanks beds in the Amer
ican Hospital in Xeuilly, France will
take place tomorow night at the
j Masonic hall.
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Einar Tonseth. who was recently
drafted for army service is reported
j to be running the store at the mili
tary post at Fort Gibbon.
Bishop Crimont, who is on his
annual visit, will leave over the
trail tomorrow bound for Baltimore
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, to attend the golden jubilee celebra
tion of Cardinal Gibbons. Bishop
Crimont expects to make a fast trip
' in order to be on time for the cele
bration, which takes place on the
20th of next month.
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! W. B. Raeburn, superintendent of
transportation is on a visit to camp
j 415 on the Nenana-Fairbanks branch
line.
Dr. and Mrs. David More and
son left for Fairbanks on the launch
: this morning. They will return to
Nenana in a few days.
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TO SIBERIAN RELIEF
TOKIO.—The Japan chapter of
the American Red Cross has sent
seven cases of supplies on the their
way to the relief of the wounded
Czechs in Siberia. They were re
quested by Dr. Teusler, who went'
to \ ladivostock to investigate con
ditions for the Japan chapter. He
visited the Czech units and saw j
fighting at Nikolsk.
An inventor has patented a lat
ticed foot scraper to be inserted in
an automobile running board to
lessen the amount of dirt carried
into a car.
Dr. J. R. BOWEN
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THE BOWEN BUILDING
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Prices Paid for
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SIMSON’S
Union Hall Club Rooms
HALL FOR RENT
See Erick Nelson for Terms
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FOR RENT—Cabin, furnished or
unfurnished. Apply at Carter
House.
LOST—Larne red baseball sweater
with grey stripes on arm Finder
please return to News office.
FOR SALE Paifnramic views of
the town of Nenana in 1916 and
1917; taken by Johnson, of Fair
banks, from hill overlooking the
town. Apply at News office.
FOR SALE—Steamer trunks, trav
eling bags, suit cases A large
variety to choose from. Simson’s.
LOR SALE, CHEAP—-Large tank
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
good as new; also sink. Inquire
Simson's.
FOR SALE.—Mrs. W. F. Lyons is
leaving for the Outside soon and
offers shop, fixtures and business
in cleaning and pressing clothes,
for sale. No reasonable offer re
fused- Shop is on A street, near
blacksmith shop.
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN—Sew
ing machine, phonograph, launch
Bunny, with 21/2 h. p. Ferro en
gine, shot gun, rifle, etc. Inquire
of J. A. Slippern.
FOR SALE—Beaver Board, in plain
and oak finish. Doors and win
dows, sash stock and mouldings.
Inquire Simson’s.
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
PIANOS For Rent and Sale. Sim
son’s.
FOR SALE CHEAP—Cook stove in
good# condition. Inquire News
office.
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