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.
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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth....Editor and Manager
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LET JIM DO IT
Citizens of Riverside, California,
have discarded alarm clocks, and
leave it to the police department
to get them up in the morning.
Formerly the telephone girls used
to make a note of the hour that
patrons wanted to be called, and
ring them up in the mornings, but
that was stopped by a company
order; so the desk sergeant at police
headquarters took over the unre
quited, and usually unappreciated
task.
Newspapermen, restaurant work
ers, and others whose business calls ■
them out early, leave their numbers j
and the hour of their calls with!
the police sergeant, and he spends j
his spare time waking them by tele
phone. Some days he has as many
as 200 calls, and every day there
are scores of them.
CENSUS SUPERVISION
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The act providing for the Foui’
teenth and subsequent decennial
censuses was signed by the Presi
dent on March 3. The enumeration,
which will be made in January,
1920, is now less than nine months
distant; and the Census Bureau al
* ready 'has under consideration the
selection and appointment of not
to exceel 400 supervisors who will
have charge of the 90.000 enumer
ators. The supervisors’ districts
will, in most cases, except in the
large cities, have the same bound
aries as the Congressional districts.
The supervisors, under the law, are
to be appointed by the secretary of
commence upon the recommendation
of the director of census.
The supervisors’ duties will oc
cupy their time for the greater part
of a year, beginning about July 1,
1919. Their compensation will be
$1,500, plus $1 for each thousand
or major fraction of a thousand of
population enumerated. The total
compensation in an average-sized
district, outside a large city, will
therefore be between $1,700 and
$1,800. Clerk hire and other nec
essary expenses will be paid by the
government.
A test examination, of which a
record will be kept, is to be re
quired for appointment to the post
of supervisor. In addition to this,
a careful personal inquiry is to be
separately made respecting the
qualifications of each candidate.
REARING GERMAN SOLDIERS
The action of the Women’s Inter
national League in sending 500,000
rubber nipples to Germany to save
German babies and its efforts to get
money to send another half million
has been the subject of considerable
controversy in England. The -or
ganization is the British section of
the International Committee o
Women for Permanent Peace.
Shipment of the nipples was sug
gested by a correspondent in Ger
many. He quoted the head of a
children’s hospital to the effect that,
if something was not done to he y
German babies, by 1933 there would
be no German soldiers fit to f.ght.
Commenting on this statement the
Evening Standard says:
“There are crowds of peop e in
this country, who while loving
children, want to know if the first
and most imperative duty of Grea
Britain is to raise up a German
army for 1933. There are many
in the area upon which German
children’s fathers dropped bombs,
killing English children, and still
many more in France and Belgium,
whose childhood came face to face
with these German children’s fath
ers who would tell where the char
itable thought of Great Britain as
regards children might first be
focused.”
After listening to an appeal for
funds to purchase the nipples,
George Egerton (Mrs. Golding
Bright) the author, gave out a
statement in which she said that the
“child is the one thing that counts,
yet I say frankly the appeal left
me cold.”
“The boys whose bandages were
torn off,” she continued, “who had
cups of water dashed from their
parched lips by German women,
were all some British mother’s baby
once; these wonderful boys, in the
thoughts of broken-hearted mothers,
are always just her baby. I had too
much faith in the common sense of
my sex to believe they would supply
Fritz with a million pieces of rub
ber, but I find my faith was not
justified.”
The secretary of the league has
stated that the league’s work at
home need not be curtailed in any
way to help the German babies.
“We ourselves feel it may mean
a great deal more than merely giv
ing nipples to starving babies,” she
said “It may create a better feel
ing which, after all, is the only
guarantee of peace afterwards.”
NEW YORK MAY HAVE
PEACE CELEBRATION
ALBANY, N. Y.—A bill .designed
to make November 11 a holiday
known as “Peace Day” has been
introduced in the New York state
legislature. ,
Another bill would authorize city
and county officials to provide in
1919 for a city or county celebra
tion in honor of returning soldiers,
sailors and marines of the world
war, and to provide medals, badges
and decorations for them.
CORDOVA NOT HOPEFUL
OF GETTING BUILDING
CORDOVA.—Cordova has aband
oned hope for the construction of
a federal building. James A. Whet
more, acting supervising architect
of the treasury department, Wash
ington, has informed the local cham
ber of commerce that funds are not
now available.
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NEWS OFFICE
PRICES
DALLAS, Tex.—Fearing cotton
prices will sink near the pre-war
levels, unless measures are taken
to prevent it. Southern cotton
growers are joining in a movement
for the general reduction of 1919
acreage. In Texas the move ha«
taken the form of a pledge to re
duce acreage to two-thirds of that
of 1918. The state agricultural
department is emphasizing the bene
fits of planting grain on the acre
age thus saved.
The government crop report
placed last year’s Texas production
at 2,500,000 bales. Cotton was
around 35 cents a pound at the
close of the picking season, but
many growers and some speculators
felt it would reach 40 cents and
did not sell. Prices fell, however,
with the signing of the armistice
and since then have been wavering
between 21 and 25 cents.
Bankers who loaned money to
growers found their security di
minished, and plantation owners
found their crops of less value
than when harvested. Texas grow
ers estimate there are 1,600,000
bales stored by idividuals and in
the compresses. They declare much
of this has been damaged by winter
rains.
While cotton at 21 to 25 cents
is higher than before the war,
growers say production cost is so
much higher that they will lose
money at 25 cents a pound.
Last year’s government reports
placed the Texas acreage at 11,
235,000. By reducing this one
third, bankers and agriculturists
feel that prices can be held to a
point that will bring a profit and
also a higher price for the un
moved crop of 1918.
The Council of Defense chair
man in each county and the county
agricultural agent have been named
as committees to aid in an extensive
advertising campaign to persuade
all planters to sign the two-thirds
acreage pledge.
BOLSHEVIK AGENIS
ACilVE IN MEXICO
MEXICO CITY.—Bolshevist liter
ature amons Mexican laborers and
labor leaders, it is said, are spread
ins the gospel by word of mouth.
These propagandists, according to
reports, base their arguments on
literature that is being brought
into Mexico from the United State
by a Bolshevik agent, who i;
either Russian or Austrian.
According to the Excelsior, the
propaganda is being carried on
secretly but actively, and that with
in a short time the results will show.
Several industrial disputes, the
nftner adds, were inspired by tb"
Bolsheviki. Recent reports from
Vera Crus say that two Bolshevik
had landed there.
Labor troubles in Tampico dur
ing the last year of the world war
were blamed on I. W. W. agents,
instigated by Germans. The prin
cipal union labor organizations o*
the country, the Confederation oi
Syndicates Obereros del DistriV
Federal, officially denies any Bol
shevik affiliations or sympathies.
Senator Jones in a speech in tht
Senate recently said that poor mai
service was one of the things that
were handicapping Alaska. He alsc
urged hydro-airplane mail servict
to Southeastern Alaska.
Mountain sheep are not nearb
as numerous in the vicinity of Me
Carthy, Alaska this year as in pre
vious years. Wolves have destroyet
manv of them, the wolves beinf
unusually numerous this season.
Willie Flynn and Chris Larson
two Skagway boys who were in th<
army, are back at their old jobs
with the White Pass railroad.
DENVER, Colo.—Fresh vege
tables and home grown strawber
ries will be on the bill of fare of
Denver home growers again this
summer in the national campaign
to reduce the cost of living by
utilizing vacant lots of the city
for war gardens. There will be
potato patches between fine resi
dences and tomato vines on the
corner where you wait for your
car.
All this was decided recently
by the city administration when
the offer of last year to plow free
of charge one lot for each war
gardener was renewed Along with
it came the offer from the city
water commissioner to supply the
water to war gardeners at half
price.
The man lucky enough to own
a vacant lot or to have the use
of it until the owners get ready to
build a flat or bungalow is busy
these days studying the seed cata
log and profiting by the mistakes
of last summer.
Last year’s national war garden
value was $525,000,000 and of this
Denver economists had their full
share with the co-operation of the
city. There is every indication,
according to city officials, that the
number of war gardens this year
will approach the number of 1918
because of continued high prices of
foodstuffs. But the increase in
building activity, suspended by the
war. it is said, will prevent the
1919 record equalling that of the
previous year.
80® UNIFORMS
GO 10 CHANS
COBLENZ—Thousands of un
used German uniforms that were
found in the storehouses here have
been delivered to the local authori
ties by American army officials for
conversion into civilian clothing for
the poorer residents of the city.
Both boys and men now appear
on the streets in new clothes, some
of which have been disguised by
dyes. The women too have availed
themselves of the opportunity to get
warm war coats. They have scorn
ed, however, the camouflage of the
dye man and it is now a common
sight to see one wearing a long war
coat that obviously once, as a gray
military overcoat, adorned a Ger
man officer. The only change has
been the feminizing of the collar
and sleeves with perhaps the addi
tion here and there of a few but
tons or trimming.
Some men of the Rhineland have
resorted to the turning of the war
coats inside out. Scores of men
who are well dressed wear the but
tons on what was the inside of the
army coat.
Katalla coal, which is semi-an
thracite, is on sale at Cordova at
$2 per sack of $18 per ton.
WANT ADS
FOR SALE.-—Three room log cabin,
furnished; good garden; well. In
quire at News office.
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