THE NENANA DAIL Y NEWS
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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.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Scuthworth.....Editor and Manage*
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TOWN BOOSTING.
Every town has a certain number
of obstructionists, truthfully re
marks the Valdez Miner. In many
cases they do not mean to hinder
the progress of destiny, but are
doubting Thomases, with little con
fidence in their town, their environ
men, or themselves. They are so
constituted that they must be
shown before they believe, and by
the time they are shown it is too
late to take advantage of oppor
tunities presented.
If every Alaskan town would
choose the most optimistic man in
it, levy an assessment to provide
him with funds for advertising, and
then padlock the pessimistic mouths
and throw the key into the well,
good times would be advanced from
three months to a year. Other per
sons hindering the growth of a city
are too mean to want to see their
neighbors get ahead. They hold
back in the harness and need a lib
eral application of the gad of public
disapproval to stimulate them.
Valdez, says Editor Selby, has
fewer of these pests than other
towns that we know of. Our people
pull together better than they have
for years. Adversity has cemented
them together, but the faith which
moves the mountain is not here. Our
people, or a large portion of them,
have to be shown. They overlook
our many advantages by holding
neighboring towns too close to the
eye. The seven members of the
city council cannot build a town
without the help of its citizens'.
The Chamber of Commerce cannot
pull settlers to our shores without
our people grabbing hold of the tow
line.
If you do not believe that Valdez
is the best town to live in in the
Territory, you are not a Valdezan.
BLAMING LABOR.
Officials of the New York State
Grange, representing 125,000 farm
ers, in a statement issued recently,
placing responsibility for the high
cost of living upon labor, declared
that “an economic adjustment must
be made if the world is to be fed
and agriculture preserved." The in
dictment of all workers except those
engaged in agricultural pursuits is
made by Sherman J. Lowell and W.
N. Giles, master and secretary, re
spectively, of the grange, who allege
that strikes have been an important
factor in raising the price of food,
clothing, and shelter.
“The first factor in a happy life
is three meals every day,” says the
statement. "The next is adequate
clothing and housing to keep the
body warm. The war has only
hastened what every thinking agri
culturist has seen for years was
surely coming. Rural workers have
not received the support and en
couragement which the urban work
ers so easily obtained in the form
of better schools, roads, churches,
houses, shorter hours and higher
wages for work under more favor
able conditions. This has had the
result of steadily drawing from the
country its population to an alarm
ing degree. Now, instead of going
into a study of our situation and
developing a remedy, our laboring
brothers of the city purpose to
remedy our trouble by arbitrary
measures without any real knowl
edge of the cost of proaucing the
< necessities of life.
•'No class of Americans with red
; blood in their veins will stand being
Itold they must labor long hours at;
inadequate pay in order that an
other class may have shorter hours
and higher wages. Even the faith
ful farmer, who has always pro
duced sufficient food for all, feels
he has about reached the limit, and
that no laboring man of the city
should find fault if he applies the
j same rule that his city brother has
i taught him.
‘‘Why is it that over half our
i farms have mortgages on them, and
that two-thirds are worked by rent
iers? When a class of men demand
a higher wage although their labor
does not earn it, someone else must
j pay. and they become dishonest
| profiteers.
“We here challenge the city !a
' borer to a cost accounting, that all
I the world may see who earns his
s
wage. Let .there be an autnorita- '
itive cost accounting of farm prod
i ucts and a wage scale for labor the
base of which shall be its earning
j power. 1
j “When wheat was $1 a bushel,
one bushel paid for a day’s work.
Wheat, by Government fiat, is now
;$2.25 a bushel, and it now requires
from two to three bushels to pay
| labor for one day's work. Again,
■when wool was 30 cents a pound,
■ allowing four pounds for a suit of
■ clothes, the farmer received for
the product $1.20. Figuring the
cost of a suit of clothes at $20.
■ thirteen day’s labor at $1.50 per
jday paid for a suit. Today wool is
65 cents a pound, four pounds
(bringing $2.60, the amount received
I by the farmer. The same suit of
i
■ clothing is now $40 and the laborer
■can obtain a suit by eight days’
(labor at $5 per day. These com-i
parisons will hold good with every
farnl product.”
Shoe Leather, Soles, Nails, Traps
and Equipment, Cooking Utensils.
Anderson Bros. & Nerland.
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* PERSONAL *
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« ttrtKt>l!lttl>tKRI!M! It
i Sam Godfrey, well-known Tolo-.
ivana mining man, who arrived ini
'Fairbanks recently on his way to I
I the States, plans to leave the upper |
i town within a few days for the ■
'coast. He is going .to the state of
; Washington to visit relatives.
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j Advices received from Fairbanks
i today state that the temperature
dowered considerably during the
'night, the ground being frozen hard
;this morning. There was no snow
j there.
■enaua. Where Kalla and Rivera Meet
NOTICE.
To whom it may concern: Notice
is hereby given that I will not be
responsible for any debts contracted
by my wife after this date, Oc
tober 14.
(Signed) OLIVER LEE.
Dated at Nenana, Alaska, October
14, 1919. 11-14
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OPERATORS SAVED
PARIS FW FAMINE
PARIS.—Vigilant telegraph op
erators in the central office here
saved Paris from a possible famine
during the recent food crisis pre
cipitated by the profiteers.
Following disorders around the
central markets, where consumers
raided the stands and overthrew
them, scattering vegetables, fruit,
fish and other food to the ground
because of the high prices, a num
ber of commission merchants sent
urgent telegrams to producers out
side of Paris, telling them to hold
back their goods until further or
ders. Many of the dispatches indi
cated that, owing to a general de
cline in prices, the merchants wrere
withholding their goods from the
market.
The telegrams numbered about
one thousand. They had gone past
the wickets into the operating rooms,
when the operator who was work
ing one of the wires to Brittany
noted a batch of them cancelling
orders for butter. Now, he had paid
ten francs for a pound of butter
that morning. He consulted with
colleagues operating wires leading
to fish, vegetable, fruit and other
centers and their tables were loaded
down with similar telegrams. Not
one of the messages was sent.
In a statement issued subsequent
ly the government said that it took
the responsibility for the action of
the telegraphers.
ST. PAUL PLAYERS ARE
HOLDING VERNON DOWN
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17.—The
St. Paul baseball team took an
other game from the Vernon ag
gregation yesterday afternoon, the
score being 3 to 1.
"MICKEY"
TAT HAT adventures,
' ’ hardships, for
tune and glorious ro
mance in store for this
mischievous tomboy!
“Mickey" is an epoch
making picture. Don’t
fail to see it.
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WANT ADS
WOMAN WANTED FOR LAUN
DRY WORK BY THE HOUR at
Xenana Steam Laundry*
FOR SALE—Piano and complete
household furniture; also set of
mink furs. Inquire of Mrs.
Duke. . 10-28 j
FOR SALE—Small Lang range, with
kitchen outfit complete; couch
i springs, mattress and bedding. In- j
| quire Skof House.
FOR SALE—Lady's pony fur coat
and muff. Apply Mrs. R. S. Mc
Donald.
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*'Pa." said little Willie, “what’s!
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an echo?" j
“An echo, .my son,” answered Pa, ;
casting a mean side glance at little ;
Willie’s ma. “is the only thing on
earth that can cheat a woman out
of the last word.”
“Another definition of an echo,
Willie,” said ma, “is a man who goes
to old patent medicine almanacs for
| his alleged wit.”
And then nobody said any more
1 words but Willie, whose infant mind 1
was naturally confused by all this:
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A CHILLY REMINDER
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is that blghting first.frost. Look
over your last year’s underwear;
give attention to partly worn mack*
inaws, jackets and fur coats, caps
and robes. Have them mended and
cleaned at moderate prices, before
winter sets in, by
MRS. D’ORSAY
Tailor Shop, Thi^d and A Street.
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MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
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Second and Fourth Tuesday *
At 8:00 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER,
Secretary Dictator.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
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
in the employment office, on the
, ground floor of the general office
building, Alaskan Engineering com
mission.
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and can
be purchased in sufficient time be
fore the departure of the trains.
Regular trains leave the foat of
'A street on Wednesdays and Satur
j days at 8 a. m.
! On and after july 15th the freight
on the North side of the river at
| Camp 415 dock will be shipped out
Tuesday and Friday of each week,
j leaving at 8 a. m.. until further
j notice.
j Effective Monday, October 20,
i fares will be charged on trains oper
ating between Camp 415 and end
of track on Nenana-Fairbanks line.
Tickets may be purchased at either
end of the line.
Horlick’s Malted Milk. Fowler A
Morris.
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