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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WHY WE WANT IT
In the mountains marking the
boundary between Idaho and Wash
ington, the ponderous electric loco
motives of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& Pugest Sound Railroad pull the
heavy passenger and freight trains
up stupendous grades faster than a
steam locomotive ean move them
on the level.
The impelling power are the
mighty rivers that Lewis and Clark
discovered a little over a hundred
years ago.
In the mountains just out here
beyond N'enana are beds and seams
of good steam-making coal, vaster
than exist anywhere else on earth,
exposed to the air.
They stand way up on the moun
tain-side at a height of hundreds
of feet above the level of the
stream.
In this mighty deposit is stored
power enough to turn all the wheels
that will ever purr over the great
Alaskan government-owned and oper
ated railroad.
We want the U. S. government
to build a power plant at the base
• f that mountain and chute the coal
down to the boiler-house, turn it
into steam, the steam into elec
tricity, the electricity into power to
run the railroad, to run the mines,
the smelters, the factories and ail
the vast industries adjacent thereto
that will rise when cheap power is
available.
That’s why N'enana wants it.
That’s why we purpose to try and
vet it—for such a plant will do
more to develop Interior Alaska
than any other enterprise our gov
ernment could undertake.
NO ALASKAN MONOPOLIES
If the people of Alaska may be
said to have spoken aloud and em
phatically on any subject, it has
been to express their utter repug
nance to monopoly.
Monopoly -of any sort is repug
nant to the free born American.
Alaska wants no monopolies.
Neither a smelter monopoly, a
coal mining monopoiy, a monopoly
<•1 resources, a monopoly of capital
f,r a monoply of city-building.
Fairbanks can not have, and her
r-opo- would not want to have a
mt nopoly of the elements of growth
\ h;cl go to make up a big city
Certainly Nenana does not want
to monopolize the Interior of Alaska,
nor the transportation interests of
the Interior.
We want to share all our good
Things with the people of every
district of the Interior, and we want
our share of all these good things.
No one center of population will
ever serve the needs of the In' * •>r
of Alaska.
As competition is the life iri.de :
in commercial pur-jits, so it is in ;
city building. 1
\Y e are willing to compet “ fair’y '
with Fairbanks for our share of '
what the Inteiror of Alaska may 1
provide. !
We want it to be a friendly 1
rivalry, dealing in neither subter- !
fuge, falsehood or chicane.
Su h a rivalry, as honorable com- '
petitors in *he grocery business in- 1
duige in a ivalry of service, with- 1
out backbiting and slander. ‘
C/ i.L O ' THE NORTH ‘
_ 1
"v. o Arctic explorers, Roald
Am lUi.'ci! noted Norwegian, drift- *
I
i mg in his ice-locked boat eastward
from the Atlantic; and Storker
Storkerson, lieutenant of Vilhjalmur
Stefansson, Canadian explorer, float
ing westward fromthe Pacific on an
ice pack, are both believed approach
ing the New Siberian Islands, which 1
i
i jut out of the Arctic Ocean off the
mouth of the Lena river in Siberia,
i Authorities credited with knowing
I the Arctic currents believe the two
; will reach the islands early next
year.
No other explorers are now in the
Arctic and it is thought very likely
that neither Amundsen or Storker
son knows the other has the same
goal in mind. They probably will
not meet for Storkerson is expected
to arrive ahead of Amundsen and
probably will land far west of Am
undsen’s course.
Amundsen, the discoverer of the
South Pole and navigator of the
difficult northwest passage is on th<.
first lap of a journey to the North
Pole. He expects to make the last
lap by airplanes. Storkerson is
bound back in the general direction
of civilization after spending several
year's in the Arctic. Both are seek
ing new lands and studying the cur
rents and life of the northern ocean.
When Amundsen reaches the Si
berian Islands the current, it is be
lived will turn and carry him north
He is expected to remain with the
drift until it lands him on the im
movable ice far up towards the Pole. .
There, according to his plans he will ,
establish a base and attempt to fly ,
the rest of the distance'to the top
of the globe.
Storkerson, according to his plans, 1
will leave his iee pack when it '
reaches the Siberian Islands. With 1
his five men he will come ashore 1
and make his way back to Alaska, i
His friends expect to hear of him c
landing sometime next summer near
he Lena. However, they say he may *
change his plans and come ashore
before that time.
Stefansson, when he was in the
North last winter, planned to make
the trip Storkerson is now on. After
he completed arrangements and pur
•hased all the necessary supplies and
logs, illness forced him to go Out
side. When he left he put Storker
ion in charge.
The Canadian thinks Storkerson’s
rip is one of the most daring Arctic -
reats ever undertaken. "He is up -
:here camped on the ice and prac
tically living off the ice pack,**
stefansson says. "Other explorers
lo their work from their ships,
ships are little less than floating
lotels. Storkerson has no ship,
f Storkerson doesn't get homesick
ve should hear from him next year."
Storkerson and his five men were -
anded last May on the ice pack —
ibout 150 miles northwest of Her
chel Island. Rough estimates show ^
hat the ice at times drifts more _
han ten miles a day. This current,
Itefansson thinks carried Storkerson
vestward until in October he prob
tbly was about 200 miles due north
rom Wrangell Island, off Siberia
md east of the New Siberian Islands.
The Karluk, Stefansson's first
►oat, which was lost, was carried
vestward from off Alaska. When
t was crushed in the ice, it was
ff Wrange! Island. Storkerson ex
acted to get caught in the same
urrent and go beyond Wrangel to
he Siberian Islands.
r,uu—Gateway to XcXinUy —
national Park. „
AI TOP OF LIST;
COSTS ARE LOW
STOCKHOLM —Australia occupies
the most favorable position of al'
lands in the matter of increased cosl
of living, according to a survey
made by the Stockholm Commercial
Gazette. The Australian increase
was reported as 30 per cent since
the beginning of the war. The
United States was recorded as in
second position with the increase
of 60 to 70 per cent.
Holland with an increase of 70
per cent showed the smallest in
crease among European nations,
with Denmark next with the in
crease of about 80 per cent.
Sweden, England, France, Spain,
and Portugal are grouped with an
increase running from 100 to 182
per cent. England and France oc
cupying the most favorable place
with increases of about 100 per
cent, while Sweden had 182 per
cent.
Germany, Belgium. Norway and
Hungary had increases from 150 to
200 per cent, while the cost of liv
ing in Austria. Finland and Russia
had increased more than 200 per
cent.
In every case the figures are
based on the budget of a normal
Family within years of expenditures
rf 2,000 crowns in 1914.
NOME.—Americans wounded m
France may be resting on pillows
-tuffed with feathers gathered for
:he Red Cross by Eskimos and white
•esidents in this tection of the sub
Arctic. In answei toa Red Cross
•all for the feathers, about 1,000
rounds were shipped t > the Stares
;nis summer.
The fact that ptarmigan were few
n number this ummer hampered thr
ash of gathering the feathers.
Jeese, however, were plentiful. The
S’ome chapter of the Red Cross had
■harge of the work. The depart
nent of development of the Red
2ross has written from Washington,
5. C. expressing its thanks to ‘ho
Sskimos for their work.
TAHATI.—An unusually profit
ible pearl diving season is in prog
ess in the Paumoto group, to the
astward of Tahati. It is estimated
hat the crop this year will be 1000
ons. In past seasons the fisheries
iave yielded from 450 to 600 tons,
'he price paid at the diving grounds
or first class shells is one franc
5 centimes. Reliable information
? lacking as to the number or
uality of pearls found.
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Store. 1.1 :
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10 [ESI ABILITY
10
LOS ANGELES.—A method o
testing the ability of any persoi
to sing, without seeing him or evei
hearing him. has been devised b;
. Theophilus Fitz, of this city, re
cently director of music in the Stati
Teachers’ College of Colorado. Thi
method, which Professor Fitz say
is his “contribution to science,” i
.based upon a series ^>f measurement
of the head cavities that he declare
he has worked down to exact mathe
matics. He does not find it neces
sary to see, touch or hear the sub
ject, as his work, which he term
"voice diagnosis," has become as def
inite to him as mathematics. A1
he asks is that certain measure
ments of the head be taken cor
rectly.
After learning these measurement:
and the sex of the subject, he make:
his own calculation as to the size o
and theshape of the head cavitie:
an danounces whether the subject
if a girl, is a soprano or contralto
and if youth, whether he should sinf
the hole of a basso or of a tenoi
robusto.
"Mamie often sings soprano jusi
because Susie does, although shi
ought to be singing contralto," says
Profesor Fitz. And "Bill insists
upon singing base, because he thinks
it is manly, when he really ought
to be a tenor.”
Persons with round heads make
the best singers, he says, because
tbeir head cavities art1 the most syne
metrical; those with long heads com::
next and those with oval cranium
rank last.
| “It’s nonsense,” he says, "foi
i people to pass four or five vears
I studying music, to ascertain whether
they' can sing and if so, what part
when by this method, they’ can ob
tain such a decision immediatelv.”
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NOTICE
See the issue of December 3 for
particulars, mail your sujrjrostions
to the Contest Committee. Xenana
C ommercial club, win a prize and
help boost N'enana.
Don’t Leave
ALASKA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only i
come back “Butsed” :n the spring j
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER.
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouche and
Kennecott.
ALASKA PUBLICITY
BUREAU
Junaau Alaska.
Announcement is made that a I
meeting of the original quarantine I
committee will be held at the town- j
site office at 7:30 p. m., on Thrus-1
day, December 12th. for the con- j
sideration of sundry important mat-1
ters, especially ways and means.
WANT ADS
Skof House
CLEAN WARM ROOMS
Mrs Norman Campbell
FOR SALE—New lineoleum ma
hojjany phonojrraph, child's bed,
and Persian cat. Inquire of Mrs.
Mellish.
LOST—Bunch ot Keys; five flat
Yale keys and two round keys.
Finder please return to News
Office. Reward.
! ] Ifenana. Where Satie and Rivera Meet
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY—North
Star—Mike's Place. For rent,
ready for business on most reas
onable terms. Apply R. S. Mc
Donald.
. Cigars — Tobaccos — Candies
Soft Drinks — Pool
Furnished Rooms For Rent
HARRY DAVIS
FRANK TAYLOR
A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
The Southern
Tom Smith, Prop.
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