THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska, !
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PACIFIC PROTECTION.
War against the United States
will be made almost prohibitive for'
any Oriental nation through the es- j
tablishment at Pearl Harbor of the;
greater part of the new Pacific j
fleet, according to American naval j
authorities. The arrival of the fleet'
late in August, it is declared, will 1
make Pearl Harbor one of the j
greatest naval bases in the world, J
and the most important to the Unit
ed States.
Naval authorities have said Ha
waii affords the only possible loca- j
tion for a strong base in the Cen-1
tral Pacific ocean for a distance of j
4,000 miles. It lies approximately j
2,500 miles off the American coast. ]
If Hawaii were in the hands of an :
enemy, according to naval experts, j
that nation could harass and threat- j
en the entire Pacific coast. To guard j
the Pacific coast against an enemy j
occupying Hawaii, the United States i
would be compelled to keep a fleet j
many times the size required with j
Hawaii as an American base.
With the United States in con
trol of the islands an Oriental na
tion moving against the United
States would be compelled to work
from a base 7,000 to 8,000 miles
from the American coast instead of
the Hawaiian coast, only 2,500 miles
off.
Pearl Harbor, where the base is
situated, is considered one of the
best, if not the best, natural har
bors in the world. It is has an area
of 10 square miles and a depth of
more than 60 feet. It is landlocked
and ships within the harbor are out
of view from the sea. The great
new drydock just completed will be
officially opened by Secretary of the
Navy Daniels when he reaches Hono
lulu. It is 1,029 feet long, 138
feet wide, and can handle any ship
afloat or contemplated.
The war department also has am
ple sites at the channel entrance
and already has engaged in the con
struction of protecting defenses. A
considerable army force also is
maintained in the islands.
LABOR IN ENGLAND.
To provide adequate living wages
and to set a limit of 48 hours as
a week's work is declared to be the
purpose of tmo important bills which
are being prepared for action in
parliament, writes an Associated
Press correspondent from London.
These two measures are under
stood to be the result of an agree
ment between representatives of
employers, of trade unions and of
the minister of labor, acting as a
national industrial conference. They
are described as “government bills
on maximum working hours and
minimum time rates.”
The wage bill as drawn up pro
vides for an inquiry by a commis
sion to decide what shall be the
minimum wages for adults and for
young persons, the commission to
consider the cost of living. It is
also provided that the minimum
wage shall be adequate to meet the
increased living cost.
The bill intended to make 48
hours constitute a week’s work does
not apply to domestic servants, sea
men on ocean-going vessels, nor to
| employes in positions of trust and
! confidence. An inquiry is to be held
j regarding the working conditions of
! domestic servants and seamen to de
| termine whether they can be
brought within the scope of the bill.
It is stated that if - the bills are
approved and accepted by the work- j
ers affected by them, the trade un-;
ions will be asked to aid the gov-.
ernment in organizing a national:
industrial council to be representa
tive equally of employers and trade
unionists.
OPPORTUNITIES IN ECUADOR.
With a population smaller than'
that of Philadelphia and an area
slightly larger than that of Ari-!
zona, Ecuador offers alluring oppor-j
tunities for American capital and ]
enterprise, in the opinion of C. W. j
Copeland, American vice-consul at
Guayaquil, who is now on a visit to ,
the United States.
Partial toward Americans, genial i
in disposition, practical though a bit j'
dilatory in their business dealings. I
and slightly inclined toward super- ;
stition, the Ecuadoreans, according
to Mr. Copeland, possess a blend
of characteristics puzzling though,
not displeasing to an Anglo-Saxon:
mind.
“At first, the average American i
business man is likely to be vexed
by the constant attitude of ‘man- j
ana',” said Mr. Copeland, in an in
terview recently at Denver, “but -
experience shows that the Ecu2- ;
dorean’s ‘manana’ is as good as our ,
‘today.’ He pays his bills scrupu-'
lously—but one must be content to i
wait until ‘manana’.”
Textiles and foodstuffs of all
kinds are the chief items imported
by the people of Ecuador. There is j
also a heavy demand for hardware,!
ready-made clothing, machinery,
drugs, and boots and shoes.
The principal articles of export
are cacao, Panama hats, coffee,:
vegetable ivory, cotton, hides, and:
rubber.
‘‘Ecuador is a land of paradoxes,1’
observed the vice-consul. “The Pan
ama-hat capital of the world is not
Panama, but Jipijapi or Monte
Christi, Ecuador.
“Another paradox is that man/
deadly insects and reptiles are not
deadly in Ecuador. For example, I
have never known of a case where
the bite of the tarantula has proved
fatal.
“With the extirpation of yellow ■
fever, through the efforts of the!
Rockefeller foundation, one of the'
greatest deterrents to the advent!
of foreigners has been removed.” i
Superstition, which is not con-!
fined to the ignorant classes, is a1
dominant trait of the Ecuadoreans. [
says Mr. Copeland.
According to Mr. Copeland, there
is great diversity of climate in
Ecuador, ranging from the hot hu-j
midity of Guayaquil to the bracing
air of Quito, the capital, and of a
number of mountain resorts. The
commercial center of the country,
however, is Guayaquil.
Miss Mallory, sourdough mission-1
ary of the Interior, came down
from Fairbanks on Saturday, en
route to the Tolovana on her first
invasion of that camp.
NEW WIRELESS
ROUTE PROPOSED
BY COL LENOIR
SEATTLE.—Establishment of a
transpacific communication route in
alternate cable and wireless ‘•jumps"
following roughly the “Great Cir
cle” steamship route off the Alas
ka coast and across to Japan, has
been advocated by Lieutenant-Col
onel B. O. Lenoir, Seattle, officer
in charge of the cable and wireless
system operated by the United
States army signal corps men be
tween Seattle and Alaska.
Congestion on the transpacific1
cable and wireless system has caused ;
Seattle’s Chamber of Commerce to i
investigate the possibility of estab-1
lishing a new line of communica- j
tion between the Northwest and the j
Orient. The suggestion of the
“jump” route along the Alaska i
coast was made to the chamber by
Colonel Lenoir.
The present military cable be
tween Seattle and Southeastern and
Southwestern Alaska probably could j
be a part of the system proposed \
by Colonel Lenoir. Messages filed j
from here to the Orient over the j
line would be sent on the cable to !
Valdez or some other Southwestern
Alaska town.
From the end of the cable, prob
ably at Valdez, the messages would
be relayed by wireless out along the
Alaska peninsula to Attu island, a
dot of land on the map far out on
the end of the Aleutian string.
Attu would take the messages off j
the radio and send them to Japan
over a cable which Colonel Lenoir;
believes could be laid along the :
Japanese coast from Yokohama to ;
the end of the Aleutian islands.
Erection of wireless stations at
Valdez and on Attu island and the
laying of the Attu-Japan cable
Seattle to Valdez is already down
would be necessary.
By using a cable from Attu west,
according to Colonel Lenoir, delays
at relay points would be avoided to
a large extent. He pointed out
that if over the entire distance to
the Orient messages were handled
exclusively by wireless stations, con
siderable delay would occur be
cause of one station interfering
with another while sending or re
ceiving. There is some difficulty in
sending and receiving radio mess- 1
ages at the same station at the
same time. The same rule would
work on the eastern cable end of
the proposed system.
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The steamer Tanana, which was
ordered out of Fairbanks in a hurry
on Saturday, reached Xenana short
ly after nine o’clock yesterday morn
ing, enroute to Hot Springs to pick
up two barges of steel for the
Alaskan Engineering commission,
which were landed at that point
from the lower Yukon by the steam
er Seattle No. 3.
The barges are loaded with rails
for the Government railroad and
the entire shipment will be taken
to Chena, 60 miles above Xenana,
transferred to the Tanana Valley
railroad, and hauled around to the
end of steel north of Happy Junc
tion, on the Xenana-Fairbanks line.
The original plan was to unload the
rails at Camp 415, for use on the
Xenana end of the Fairbanks line.
When this shipment is delivered at
its destination, there will be suf
ficient steel on hand to complete the
road between Xenana and Fair
banks.
Calling Cards printed to order op
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WANT ADS
WANTED—Pair of 8-power field
glasses. Inquire Pete Jensen, at
Johnson’s Store.
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arms against an American film pro
ducing firm which has acquired sites
for motion picture theaters in Lon
don. Their agitation reached the
house of commons when a member,
asked the president of the board of
trade whether the government was
doing anything to stop it. He was
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Secretary
M. V. TYLER,
Dictator.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
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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
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 foot of
IA street on Wednesdays and Satur
! days at 8 p. m.
| On and after july 15th the freight
j on the North side of the river at
Camp 413 dock will be shipped out
Tuesday and Friday of each week.
; leaving at 7 a. m., until further
i notice.
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