THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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AN EDUCATED ARMY
A great new educational force
in the shape of the American regu
lar army will come into being in the
United States in the near future if
the present plans of government (
officials, army oficers and promi
nent civilian educators are realized. :
Briefly, it is proposed to make
Uncle Sam's standing army a huge
university in which the young men
of the country will receive not only j
a physical and military training, but
will be given opportunities to ac-,
quire acedemic and vocational learn-.
ing which might be beyond their!
reach in civil life. The old days j
of virtual wastage of time which;
represented almost blank pages in1
the life diary of the soldier will
be a thing of the past. Instead 1
of being turned back to civil life* l
in a more helpless state than when
he entered the army, he will be \
equipped to wage a vigorous fight:
for his place in the sun of the busi- j
ness or professional world.
The possibilities of this plan have
been demonstrated in the wonderful
work done during the past few
months by the Educational Com
mission in the American Expedi
tionary Force in France. Since
the signing of the armistice some- j
thing like 450,000 American soldiers |
have been appreciably benefited j
by the army schools, which have
been put within the reach of every !
man and which have provided fa- j
cilities to study almost every con- i
ceivable subject, from farming to
philosophy.
Few of the army educators in j
France realized at the outset how j
srreat a work they were starting.
The avidity with which the enlisted
man and his officer have seized upon
the proffered opportunities has as
tounded them.
With this object lesson before it,
the army has been inspired to carry
on this work at home in the stand
ing forces. The project assumes, it
is understood, that the standing
army of the future will be a com
paratively large one, and that there
may be a short period of compulsory
training for the youths of the coun
try, although the scheme is not
dependent upon the compulsory
feature.
Under the new system all sub
jects would be taught, from A, B.
C’s for the illiterate, up through
perhaps the first year of university
work. Vocational training would
naturally form a most important
phase of the program. Boys who
had no opportunity for schooling
before entering the army would be
started on their way and would be
permitted to re-enlist at the ex
piration of their service, in order
to carry on their studies. Others, .
who perhaps had finished high
school, would be given a chance to
begin their college course so that
there would be no waste of time
in case they were planning to go
into professions or business.
There would be military train
ing, of course, and the soldiers
would be made as nearly physically
perfect as possible. A large part
of their time, however, would be
devoted, if they so desirad, to im
proving their minds. Thus, tho
army believes, any boy, no matter
what his standing in society, would
be materially benefited by his
period of service with the colors.
Probably the man who would
profit most would be the one who
hafl acquired either no education or '
had been forced to leave schcol
at an early age; for example, a
New York East Side boy who has
left school to help support the fam
ly and has no equipment to enable
jhim to secure lucrative work and
so drifts about in unskilled labor,
j If he enters the army, he is to be
put to work in the school, housed
and fed, and paid a regular wage
which he can send home to his
! people. At the end of the year
it is expected that he will be pro
ficient enough in his trade so that
he can secure a job with good pros
pects. The gate to the broad high
way will be opened to him.
It is believed by educators that
many poor youths will devote not
only one year to the army, but will
remain for several years, in order
to acquire at least some higher edu
cation.
This, in brief, is the plan which
is being worked out now by promi
nent men who have every hope that
it will be carried out.
EL PASO, June 24.—According
to military advices received in this
city this afternoon, the followers
of Francisco Villa have been put
to rout at Villa Ahumada by a
strong detachment of Carranza
troops. The Villistas had possession
of the town and attempted to hold
it against the attacking federals.
Sixty-three of the rebels were
killed and many wounded during
the battle, which took place on
Saturday.
SEATS FOR EIGHT
IN GREAT DEMAND
TOLEDO, June 24. — Promoter
Tex Rickard, who is staging the
Willard-Dempsey championship fight,
scheduled to take place in this city
on July Fourth, announces today
that sales aggregating four hundred
thousand dollars have been reported
thus far, ^dth the daily reservations
increasing steadily. Seats aggre
gating six hundred thousand dollars
are still unsold, the promoter re
ports.
Jack Dempsey is celebrating his
twenty-fourth birthday today.
HURLING GRENADES
IS GOOD PRACTICE
FOR PITCHING ARM
FORT BLISS, Tex.—Hurling the
hand grenade in France with the
Germans on the receiving end of
the battery failed to put a kink in
Major R. R. Nevland’s pitching arm.
which made him famous in his cadet
! days at West Point. -
Returning from France with a
record for hand grenade hits along
the western front, he went into the
box for the Eighth engineers here
recently and struck out 24 men,
which is claimed as an army record.
He was credited with 24 of the 27
putouts, only three opposing play
ers laying wood to the ball.
Frank Taylor, formerly of the
; Arctic, returned from a business
trip to Fairbanks yesterday.
“BLUFF” OF RUSSIAN
NAVAL OFFICER SAVED
ALLIED EXPEDITION
NOTE—Some of the unusual in
cidents that have marked the Allied
campaign against the Bolsheviki in
Northern Russia are related in the
subjoined letter from The Asso
ciated Press correspondent who has
“covered” the fighting in these
near-Arctic regions from the be
ginning.
ARCHANGEL.—It was largely
due to the “bluff” of a young Rus
sian naval officer in command of
one of the little Allied steamers
on the Dvina river that the original
Allied expedition up that river from
Archangel was not wiped out by the
| Bolsheviki in the early phases of the
Northern Russia campaign.
The Dvina expedition, 133 strong,
; went poking its way nonchalantly
'up the broad river aboard twro or
three funny looking river steamers,
on which field pieces and machine
guns had been mounted. The Bol
sheviki had taken the best boats,
Mississippi type of paddlewheelers,
with them in their flight.
The famous 133 reached Beres
niki, nearly 200 miles south of
Archangel, at the junction of the
Vaga river with the Dvina, without
firing a shot. One night, all of a
sudden, three or four Bolshivik side
wheelers, mounting big guns, came
around the bend in the river and
started trouble. When we fired our
cannon, they fell through the thin
decks into the staterooms of our
steamers.
A young Russian naval officer,
in command of one of our little
ships, with his own gun out of ac
tion, stood pat, with the useless
muzzle turned toward the bi^est
of the enemy’s ships, and barred
the channel while our other ships
retreated.
Then our river expedition got
the glad news that a British moni
tor, sent all the way from the Bel
gian coast, was on the way to help
them. The monitor crawled along
the sandbars and got to Beresniki.
The colonel in command of the
river land forces told me about it,
a few weeks later, when I went up
to his sector of the front. It was
something of a tragedy this first
episode of the monitor, but the col
onel couldn’t help laughing about it.
“The monitor steamed up,’’ the
colonel said, “and its captain was
rowed over to my headquarters ship.
The navy was on the job and so,
naturally, all was over. He didn’t
want to stop a minute.
“ ‘Where,’ he shouted, ‘is the
enemy fleet, and which is the way
to Kotlass?’
“And then the monitor chugged
off in the direction of the Bol
shevik ship around the bend in the
river. It didn’t find the enemy
fleet, and it certainly was a long
way from Kotlass, when a Bolshevik
land battery, masked in the woods
on the river bank, dropped a big
shell into the monitor, putting it
out of commission and sending it
back to Beresniki.”
It was in this episode of the mon
itor that a young British naval
surgeon performed one of the feats
of bravery and self-denial that are
continually taking place in this war.
With one eye shot out and with
blood nearly blinding the other, this
young surgeon calmly and success
fully attended to the monitor’s
wounded until he fell exhausted.
On the river our forces had
reached Beresniki, on the railroad;
a little command of French had
battled its way nearly one hundred j
miles to Oboserskaya, and, in the
swampy tundra between the railroad
and the river another party, in
cluding some American sailors, was
lost in the mud, when reinforce-1
ments, in the shape of three trans
ports loaded with American infantry
men and engineers, steamed into
Archangel harbor.
CARL WHITE ARRIVES
ON WAY TO FAIRBANKS
_ I
The Carl White launch, which J
was disabled some little time ago!
on her way up to Fairbanks from
Tolovana, arrived in port last night.
The mail and passengers on board
WANT ADS
COMPLETELY FURNISHED Home
for sale, with greenhouse and
garden. Bargain. Present owner
compelled to leave Nenana. In
quire J. H. Flower, at N. C. store.
100-EGG INCUBATOR, practically
new, with brooder, for sale cheap.
Inquire Tolovana Trading Co.
BRAND NEW FISH WHEEL for
sale cheap. Set up, ready to
catch salmon. In good working
order. For particulars incuirj at
News office. k3 4
Restaurant Tabs and Tablets at
the News Office.
at the time of the disablement were
transferred to the steamer Alaska,
and the launch only had some of
the heavy baggage of the Fairbanks
and Nenana passengers on board
when she arrived last night.
She sailed for the upper town
about an hour after arrival, and will
be back in Nenana in the course of
a few days with the Tolovana mail.
F-esh garden seeds, just arrived,
Fowler & Morris.
NENANA PEOPLE
SHOULD EAT PIE DAILY
Pie is wholesome, combining both
fruit and grain. Those who have
trouble digesting pie should take
ONE SPOONFUL simple buckthorn
bark, glycerine, etc., as mixjjd in j
Adler-i-ka. This flushes the ENTIRE
bowel tract, removes foul matter j
which poisoned your stomach for
months and relieves ANY CASE
sour stomach, gas or constipation
and prevents appendicitis. Leaves
stomach in condition to digest ANY
THING. A. D. Thompson, druggist, j
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.
Notice is hereby given that the
copartnership heretofore existing be- j
tween Mrs. M. Bishop and Andy ;
Hoey, under the firm name of Bishop
& Hoey, owners The Terminal Cigar
Store, has this day been dissolved |
by mutual consent.
All accounts owing the said firm
are payable to either Mrs. Bishop
or Andy Hoey, and all debts owed
by the said copartnership are paya
ble by Andy Hoey and Harry Davis, i
successors to Bishop & Hoey, who i
will conduct the business after this;
date.
Dated at Nenana, June 18, 1919.
MRS. M. BISHOP.
ANDY HOEY.
ot HARRY DAVIS. I
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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
Duilding, 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 foot of
A street on Wednesdays and Satur
days at 8 p. m.
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
FOURTH AND B STREETS
On Second and Fou-th Tuesday*
At 8 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER
Secretary
M. V. TYLER,
Dictator.
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