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 March 3, 1879.
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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ENEMY FOOD SITUATION
A detailed survey of the food
situation in Germany, Austria-Hun
gary, Bulgaria and Turkey, during
1917 recently published by the
United tSates Bureau of Gabor Sta
tistics, based exclusively on laws, de
crees, orders, utterances of public
officials and civic bodies of the
countries covered and on comments
of the daily press and leading econo
mic and trade journals of these
countries, shows in general that
Turkey is actually starving because
of the corruption of her own offi
cials and the greed of Germany;
that Germany and Austria are not
starving, but are having a very hard
struggle to feed themselves; that
Hungary is in better shape than
either Germany or Austria; and that
Bulgaria, so far as food is con
cerned, is suffering the least of all
the countries covered. The survey
also shows that Germany has failed
by a wide margin to live up to her
reputation for efficiency in her at
tempts at food administration, hav
ing been obliged to reverse her poli
cies in an effort to remedy in part
the fatal results of official blunders.
It shows conclusively that the civil
populations of Germany and Austria
are suffering permanent physical de
terioration from lack of proper food;
that the death rate from tuber
culosis is rapidly increasing; that
growing boys and girls are not get
ting half the nourishment they
should have; and that manual labor
ers are being underfed to about
the same extent.
Politically the most interesting
thing revealed by the survey is the
fact that the traditional hatred be
tween the two parts of the dual
monarchy, Austria-Hungary, has
been manifesting itself in the re
fusal of Hungary to share her com
parative abundance with Austria and
in the official and public resentment
of that fact in the latter country.
Profiteering, greed, breakdown of.
transportation, and faulty organi
zation are big factors in the food
situation of Germany and her allies.
Many original articles on the food
situation in leading German and
Austrian newspapers were at the
disposal of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. Comments on food ord
ers, their enforcement, and the prac
tical result of their application were
available from organs of all politi
cal parties, thus representing every
point of view. Material relating to
the food situation in Hungary, Bul
garia and Turkey was much scarcer.
Those parts of the bulletin which
cover the; food situation in these
countries are therefore less com
prehensive than the parts covering
Germany and Austria.
PLAY IT SQUARE
Claire Bosancon, in Blunt, S. D.
Advocate: “What kind of a patriot
are you anyway. Are you a real,
honestto-God, dye.d-in-the-wool stand
up-for-your-country and the boys
abroad, war bread, corn-bread and
semi-porkless patriot, or are you
of the mean, yellow-backed breed
that keeps riht on babying the stom
ach in violation of the requests and
regulations of the food administra
tion?
“Do you eat white bread when
you absolutely know that the win
ning of the wa' depends upon wheat
being saved for export, and that
without this saving millions of ilves
perhaps the life of pour son or
your neighbor’s son, will be sacri
ficed in vain?
“Without doubt you are digging
up your little old dollar or $5 freely
enough to the Red Cross solicitors,
and probably you have done what
you are able to do in the matter
of buying Liberty Bonds, but are
you doing the square thing by your
country and by your fighting forces
in the matter of food conservation
which threatens to make just a
slight inroad upon your epicurean
and needlessly pampered tastes?
“In short, if your boy, after wal
lowin about all night in the muddy
trenches of Flanders, weakened and
emaciated from lack of food of the
right kind—a condition that may
come to pass—should lie down in
his cheerless duout for a rest and
in his dreams have a vision of home,
with the family gathered around a
table laden with pie, cake, crackers,
white bread, pork roast and other
restricted foods, wouldn’t you feel
like a criminal? What do you think
ought to be done to that kind of
a stay-at-home slacker,
“Be a patriot.
“Be a real patriot while you are
at it.
“Play the game square.”
THE *COST OF * WAR
The London Economist for Feb
ruary, says a Treasury department
statement, places the total gross
debt of Great Britain at 5,678,600,
000 pounds ($27,636,000,000).
The French minister of finance in
presenting; the budget for 1018 es
timated the public debt of France
on December 31, 1018 at 115,166,
058,000 francs ($22,227,000,000).
The public debt of the Central
Powers are estimated as follows:
Germany $25,408,000,000; Austria,
$13,314,000,000; and Hungary $5,
704,000,000.
Our own public debt is now
around $8,000,000,000, but more
than half of this amount has been
loaned to our Allies and will be
repaid iis. It is estimated that of
the total net expenditures of the
United States for the fiscal year of
1018, exclusive of our advances to
our allies, more than one-half will
be defrayed by taxation.
SMOKERS ARE LIMITED
BY AUSTRIAN EDICT
NEW' YORK.—-Ration cards for
smokers have ben introduced in Aus
tria, says a Vienna dispatch pub
lished in Berlin newspapers- Each
smoker is allowed six cigars and
eighteen cigarettes or half a pack
age of tobacco.
NOVEL PLAN SUGGESTED
TO MAKE IRISH FIGHT
DUBLIN.—One of the latest sug
gestions to assist recruiting in Ire
land is that the government confer
on every Irishman who has fought
in the great war the right to bear
letters after his name—preferably
an aditional syllable to be attached
to the name—denoting service in
the army or navy. The name with
its suffix of honor, would thereafter
be borne by him and his decendants.
NOTICE
A meeting of the Nenana school
board will be held this evening
a 7 o’clock at the Franklin K. Lane
school.
All members are urged to be in
attendance.
YANKEES STAND
WELL IN BALKAN
MILITARY CIRCLES
Americans Are Regarded With High
Esteem By the People of the
Little Kingdom.
LONDON.—The United States is
honored and loved by the Rumanian
above all other nations in the world
with the possible exception of
France. To the simple Rumanian
peasant and soldier, America is the
real land of promise, and the Amer
ican is pictured as a sort of super
man, wealthy, capable, energetic and
efficient, and, above all, animated
by the loftiest and most altruistic
ideals.
The secretary of the American
Red Cross Mission, who visited the
Rumanian front in the snow-clad
Carpathian mountains late in the
winter, was the first American that
thousands of Rumanian soldiers had
ever seen, and they showed a most
astonishing curiosity and interest in
him. There was more than friendli
ness in their salute, not directed
so much to the individual as to the
great nation overseas which he was
supposed to typify and represent
Even the officers refused to treat
their visitors as an ordinary guest
The Red Cross secretary, at the
time of his visit, had been living
in Jassy for several months on the
rather humble fare which was every
body’s lot in a country where there
was no abundance, and he expected
no special dispensation regarding
food while with the army. But the
army insisted that this visitor from
the great new ally must be treated
with special favor and his visit made
a real fete.
It was after nightfall when the
Red Cross representative reached a
little observation post on top of a
mountain. The colonel in charge
of the post at once telephoned across
a range of hille to the general
commanding this particular army
group. Half an hour later the gen
eral appeared and invited the Amer
ican to dine with him. He led the
way down a corridor, and ushered
the visitor into a large dining-room,
brilliantly lighted and profusely
decorated with American flags and
bunting.
At the tablt>, 150 Rumanian and
French officers awaited the arrival
of the general an,| his guest. As the
latter entered the room, an orches
tra in the corner of the room played
“The Star Spangled Banner,” and
the officers rose and stood at at
tention until the music had finished.
Then they joined in a cheer which
concluded with “Traisea, America.”
(Long Live America.)
The unexpected appearance of a
room large enough to be used as a
banquetting hall, with a real or
chestra and piano, at an army out
post on the peak of the Carpathian
mountains, was startling enough to
seem like a page from a fairly tale.
Moreover, the menu provided for
this “dinner Americain” was the
most elaborate that the Red Cross
man had eaten since he arrived in
Rumania several months before.
The piano, which was only one of
nine instruments in the orchestra,
had been captured by the Rumanians
from the Germans in the battle of
Rackitash Mountain.
The Rumanian officers at this
time were expecting great things
of the United States. Most of these
expectations were destined to dis
appointmnt later, but at that time
difficulties of distance and trans
portation were regarded by the Ru
manians as scarcely operative in the
case of the great and ingeniuos
American people.
“Nothing is impossible to the
Americans,” said a Rumanian offi
cer in his speech at the Carpathian
banquet in honor of the American
Red Cross representative.
T. R. Needham, a pioneer Alas
kan, has purchased a plant and
started a new paper at Ketchikan.
It is known as The Alaska Pioneer
The first issue appeared July If
The paper, a weekly, is published
primarily for the pioneers of Alaska
ALLIED TROOPS
PLAN ON HAVING
SET OF SPORTS
War Time Substitutes For the Big
Olympic Games Will Be Staged
By Allied Troops.
NEW YORK—The success of sev
eral minor track and field meets not
far from the battle lines in France
and Italy has lead to tentative plans
for a real international set of amcs
to be held during the autumn. At
present the scheme has only been
outlined in a general way but the
interest evinced indicates that su'
a series of events can be made un
usually attractive in view of the
athletic talent available.
j The games, if staged, will prob*
I ably be held in or near Paris and
| will include entries from the Eng
lish, French, Italian, Canadian and
| United States army, navy and air
| forces. Much will depend, of course
! upon conditions prevailing at that
i time, but it can be stated without
I fear of contradiction that if the
I opportunity is favorable there will
• be a remarkable turn-out of athlet
talent.
i The United States forces abroad
! include a large number of college
land club athletes of prominence in
j their particular athletic specialities
i an dthe same is true of those of
Canada and England. France and
Italy number among their soldiers
many men who have, after several
years of service, developed remark
1 able physical power and endurance
land from these there could be
'sleeted perfumers whose ability on
track and field would undoubtedly
prove a surprise to other competi
tors.
Under certain conditions such a
meet if it eventuates, might prove
a war-time substitute for the Olym
pic games, which were scheduled to
be held in Berlin during the sum
mer of 1916. The war naturally
side-tracked all possibility of these
I ames and there has not been a
, meeting of the International Olym
! pic Games Committee for many
months. At the last conference
i
I there were tentative requests for the
: privilege of holding the games in
1920 from Cuba, Belgium and Sean
Idinavian countries.
Andrew Nerland, former mayor
of Fairbanks, who was on a brief
■ business visit to Nenana, returned
i to the upper town on the Victory
i this morning.
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