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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YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
These are no days for dwaddling
tongues or tweddling thumbs. We
are at war in earnest, witness
lengthening casualty lists. From
now on, every one of us must be
prepared to bear greater responsi
bilities than ever before.
It is impossible to conduct our
lives as we did previous to the war.
We must overhaul our whole system
of living and preface everything we
do with the question, “Is this help
ing to win the war?”
Not until we have the firm know
ledge that everything, not alone in,
our business affairs, tfut also in
the home, is helping, not hindering
our victory, can we hope to crush
Germany, which for years has gov
erned both the public and private
lives of her people with but one ob
ject in view; that of some day be
ing strong enough to put every
nation under foot that could dispute
her supremacy.
Let the woman who hestitates to
put her cooking on a wheatless basis
remember that it is her duty to go
without any wheat from now until j
the next harvest.
“But,” some housewife may say, j
“the official ration of wheat is a i
pound and a half per person per j
week. Why should I go without
wheat when this ration is allowed;
by the Food Administration?”
This is a legitimate question, but
one easily answered. After a care
ful survey of the nation’e wheat
supply the Food Administration has j
estimated that we can meet the tre
mendous demands made on us if
everyone in the country cuts his
wheat ration to a pound and a half 1
per week. 1(
But there will be some who can
not possibly do this, much as they
would like to do it Those people
are the ones who keep the wheels
of the nation's industry moving.
Many of these are working extra
hours to keep the nation apace of
the enormously increasing demands
of war. They have little time to
cook at home and must therefore
buy most of their food, a large part
of which is bread.
To be sure, they will buy only
Victory bread, but this at best must
contain over fifty per cent wheat
in order to make it durable enough
for distribution through bakeries.
Hence, these people must in most
cases exceed the weekly ration of
one and one-half pounds of w'heat.
It remains for those housewives
who do have time at home to do
their cooking and go without wheat
altogether in order to make the
average wheat consumption one and
one-half pounds per capita.
Delay and unwillingness to should
er a responsibility that is rightfully
yours means that these days of
horror and carnage will be pro
longed.
If you believe that “Food Will
Win the War", you have no alter
native.
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RICE THROWING AT WEDDINGS
“Don’t throw rice—save food and
help win the war.” This notice
has appeared in one of New York’s
leading hotels where wedings are
frequent.
The wedding feast has long been
frowned upon by food conserva
tionists. The amount of sugar re
quired for frosting has made the
conventional wedding cake unpat
riotic.
And now rice is too precious to
waste in throwing it after the de
parting bride and groom according
to tradition. Every grain of it is
needed for human food.
Rice will go far towards making
up for the lack of wheat in the
diet. It has numerous uses in the
menu besides that of a vegetable
rice flour, being used largely as a
wheat substitute in baking. Other
ways of using rice are in soups,
cooked with meat as a casserole dish
and also made into desserts.
Soldiers On Field March Are Well
Taken Care of By Popular
Organization.
CAMP KEARNEY —A regular!
technique and almost a standard !
equipment for providing for the !
wants of soldiers on field marches
is being developed by the Young
Men's Christian Association here. ]
On the march, where both weight'
and space must be conserved, es-1
pecialy if the march is a long one, :
every pound of equipment must oe
made to count.
To get the best results from the!
facilities they can transport the “Y”!
men have evolved a folding table
with an attendant bench. The table
is complete but supports for the
bench must be supplied in the field,
generally from firewood.
1 Field equipment for the “Y” hut
centers around a big lamp which uses
gasoline for fuel and whose light
| is sufficienlty brilliant to enable
J many men to write or play checkers
or read by it- Sometimes several
| of these lamps are taken on a trip,
and occasionally gasoline flares such
!as are used by the street shows
and circus “side shows,” are used.
For games, the Y. M. C. A. man
: takes along checkers, chessmen,
j boards that serve equally well for
either but are not heavy or bulky,
baseball outfits, boxing gloves and
quoits. Letter paper and envelopes
are standard articles at the Y. M.
C. A. “hut.” When all other sup
plies of these have failed, the “Y”
usually still manages to have plenty.
Stamps, too, generally are available
there. Sometimes candies, particu
larly chocolates, and chewing gum
are taken along. Occasionally, when
no canteen accompanies the march
; ing unit, tobacco will be provided at
the ” hut. Papers and magazines
! and sometimes a big phonograph
are carried for recreation.
In general, even if it has supplies
of the article, the “Y” will not sell
anything offered at the unit's can
teen, where profits on sales are
used for the benefit of the men
But equally, in general if the can
teen has not the desired article, and
it is one generally sold to soldiers
the “Y” will get it.
NEW BUDGET COMPARED
WITH EARLY WAR NEED
LONDON.—The budget intro
duced by the chancellor of the ex
chequer, amounting to £842,000,000
compares with that introduced to the
house of commons during the Na
poleonic wars in 1800, when the
amount was £38,000,000.
VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS
FOR ALASKA URGED
DELEGATE SULZER ASKS CONGRESS FOR AID
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—In con
! press, a resolution has been intro
j duced by Hon. Chas. A. Sulzer, del
egate from Alaska, wherein he seek:
to have extended to the territor;
of Alaska the same rights and priv
I ileges as are accorded the severa
i states under the act of Februraj
23, 1917, providing for the promo
tion of vocational education. Thi:
law is commonly known as th<
Smith-Hughes act. If the delegate
succeeds in having the resolutior
adopted, the territory of Alaska wil
be paid by the Federal Governmen'
not less than $15,000 annually uj
j to, and including, the fiscal yeai
i 1923, and not less than $30,000 pel
I year thereafter.
j The Smith-Hughes Act, which was
I passed but a few weeks before Mr
! Sulzer took his seat in congress, ap
; plies to every state in the Union
j but does not extend to Alaska. The
I delegate believes and will attempt tc
^ prove to congress that Alaska, more
! than any state, is in need of, and
| deserving of, the rights and priv
ileges of this act, owing to climatic
transportation, agricultural and in
dustrial conditions in the North.
As the present session of con
gress is drawing to a close, and be
cause the majority and minority
leaders have indicated that no busi
ness will be considered except the
appropriation measures and the new
revenue bill, there is some doubt
as to whether or not it will be poss
ible to secure favorable action on
this resolution at this time. The
delegate is confident, however, that
if he is not successful in the attempt
at this session that he will be, short
ly after congress convenes again in
December.
The Smith Hughes Act is entitled,
“An act to provide for the pro
motion of vocational education; to
provide for co-operation with the
states in the promotion of such edu
cation in agriculture and the trades
and industries; to provide for co
operation with the states in the pre
paration of teachers of vocational
subjects; and to appropriate money
and regulate its expenditure.”
Section one of the act provides:
“That there is hereby annually ap
propriated, out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated,
the sums provided in sections two
three and four of this act, to be
paid to the respective states for the
purpose of co-operating’ with the
states in paying the salaries of
teachers, supervisors, and directors
of agricultural subjects, and teach
ers of trade,, home economics, and
industrial subjects, and in the pre
paration of teachers of agriculture,
trade industrial, and home economic,
j subjects;” etc.
Agriculture.
j Section two of the act provides:
i for the appropriations of- money,
, covering a period of years, “for the
j purpose of co-operating with the
j states in paying the salaries of
I teachers, supervisors, or directors of
[agricultural subjects.”
And after setting forth the sev
■ eral amounts that are appropriated
i f°r the years to come, the section
reads:
! “Said sums shall be allotted to
the states in the proportion which
[their rural population bears to the
| total rural population in the United
States, not including the outlying
possesions, according to the last
preceding United States census;’
| PROVIDED, That the allotment of
funds to any state shall be not less
than a minimum of $5,000 for any
fiscal year prior to and including
the fiscal year ending June 30th,
1923, nor less than $10,000 for any
fiscal year thereafter.
Thus under this section, if the'
resolution introduced by Delegate
Sulzer is adopted, Alaska will re
ceive annually, for the furtherance
of agricultirfal education the sum
of $5,000 and after 1923 it will re
ceive for that purpose $10,000 an
nually.
Trade, Home Economics and Indus
trial Subjects.
Section three of the act provides: [
“That for the purpose of co- j
operating with the states in paying i
-1 the salaries of teachers of trade,
' | home economics and industrial sub
i jects there is hereby appropriated
for the use of the states, certain
y
sums of money, which are to be
] divided among states in the same
| manner and proportion as the money
appropriated in the previous spc
s tions for agricultural education.”
e So, also, under this section, the
e territory of Alaska would receive
1 not less than $5,000 for the pur
j poses stated until 1923 and after
t that year the amount would be
' doubled. Of this appropriation, not
r more than 20 per cent could be
used exclusively for the home econ
omics course.
, Preparing Teachers.
In section four of this act, it is
provided: “That for the purpose of
co-operating with the states in pre
’ paring teachers, that they may be
} able to give instruction in the sub
, jects mentioned in the first three
! sections,” certain sums are appro
priated, to be divided among the
, states as in sections two and three.
Thus, under this section also,
Alaska would receive $5,000 an
nually until 1923, and not less than
J $10,000 a year thereafter.
Other Features.
The rest of the act is devoted
to prescribing the manner in which
the money must be spent in the
states, and under whose direction.
In Alaska the money would be spent
under the direction of the Terri
torial Board of Education, which
would be required to submit its
plans to the Federal Board for ap
proval.
While the money for the general
education of young men and women
in the territory in agricuture, trade,
home economics and industrial sub
jects could be used in all parts of
Alaska, the appropriation for the
preparation of teachers would, very
likely, have to go to one institution.
If the Board of Education saw fit,
the money might be used in support
ing chairs in the Territorial Agri
cultural College and School of Mines
or in any other institution upon
which the board might decide.
Big Help to Alaska.
That the adoption of the resolu
tion will mean a great deal to
Alaska, where every dollar obtain
able is needed badly to educate the
ever increasing number of children,
is plainly evident, and the funds de
rived from this source will meet a
need, the delegate points out, that
would not, in all likelihood, be met
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News. 5-6-25
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in any other way.
Delegate Sulzer is in hopes of se- I
curing a hearing before the Com
initee on Education in the near fu
ture, at which time he purposes to
make strong representations as to j
the importance of the resolution and j
the need of prompt action. 1
In any event, whether the re
solution is adopted at this session
or next winter, it is not likely that
the territory would be in a position j
to take advantage of the benefits
until next year, but the aim of the !
delegate will be to have the act ex
tended to Alaska at the earliest
possible date.
We have to put every ounce of
effort behind the men behind the ;
funs.
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Salvage from
the battlefields —
The Allied armies find it very profitable
to salvage scrap from the battlefields. Great
Britain is saving millions every year from
this thrifty parctice.
If we could extend this practice to the
United States—if we saved only the waste
and needless spending of every day and put
the saving into War Savings Stamps, it
would help to win the war.
Your every saving helps the Government.
Put the small savings into U. S. Thrift
Stamps at 25 cents each; when you have
16 of them, exchange them with a few extra
pennies for a $5 War Savings Stamp.
THEY EARN MONEY
THEY SAVE LIFE AT THE
FRONT, BY HELPING UNCLE
SAM WIN THE WAR.
BUT THEM AT THE
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