THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for en^ry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana. Alaska.
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THE GREATEST MOTHER
Do not imagine thal because the
great armies of the world are rest
ing on their arms that the need for
Red Cross work has ceased.
On the contrary, now as never
even in the bitterest days of fight
ing, those ministering angels of
mercy are needed.
The wounded have not ceased to
suffer. The starving have not ceas
ed to hunger. The weak have still
the need of the strong supporting
arm of the “Greatest Mother in the
World"
The Red Cross carries into the
field not only the ministrations of
material remedies for material
needs, but what is better and greater
and of more lasting benefit the
spiritual medicine that vivifies the
flagging soul with hope and courage,
with faith and joy and peace.
The Red Cross is needed not only
for the times of war but for the
times of peace, and in these days of
the armistice even more than in
either peace or war.
The Red Cross is neutral. It
takes no sides in war—neither our
side nor the other fellow’s. It works
for our enemy as well as for our
selves. And when our enemy lies
vanquished and bleeding at our feet,
the tear-dimmed eyes of the Great
est Mother are as full ot sympathy '
and love for him as they were for
US. ,
A greet people, fighting a great
battle, for a great cause and having
won a great victory, should have
greater magnamity and compassion
for the fallen foe than to withdraw
their support of that greatest agency
for relief—the American Red Cross.
The people of Nenana are asked
to renew their subscriptions to this
noble cause. There should be no
delay, no hesitancy, no doubts. It
is their duty to themselves, to their
children and to their children’s
children and all that are to come
in the many generations that are
to follow, that they shail support
the Red Cross.
In times of peace it conducts its
plans for the relief of suffering
with the business acumen and energy
of the Steel Trust or the Beef
Trust. It has a monopoly of the
work of humanitarianism. It goes
to the rescue of the famine-stricken
of India; it rushes to the rescue
of the flood victims in farther China
and in nearer Toledo; it sends its
servitors and its service wherever,
the calamities of earth overtake
men, whether these men be Chris- j
tian, pagan, or idolaters. The Red;
Cross is enlisted in the service of.
Mankind not only for the war, but1
for all time- j
You know not what day it may j
bring to you the succer, the help
that may be the giving of you back
to life, to joy, to happiness; so
withhold not the dollars that will
make its mission permanent.
A WORD TO THE WISE
The farmers of th(H Fairbanks dis
trict, we are informed by the Fair
banks News-Miner, supplied the
Alaskan Engineering commission dur
the past season witn home-grown
products to the value of $8,000
“because Nenana can’t raise enough
vegetables to feed itself.” Part of
which statement is true and part
untrue.
It is true that the Alaskan En
gineering commission has distributed
a considerable sum of money among y
the Fairbanks farmers in exchange
for their products. It is the policy
of the Commission to encourage home
industry.and for several seasons past
those in charge of the railroad work
have contracted for potatoes and
other vegetables grown by Fairbanks
farmers. The Commission has
created a market for products pre
| viously grown very considerably in
excess of local demands and has
furnished the farmers with an in
centive to strive for the higher1
cultivation of their farms. The ]
Commission has helped materially to j
put the farming industry of Interior
Alaska on a solid commercial foot
ing.
It is not true that “Xenana can't |
raise enough potatoes to feed itself.” |
The fact of the matter is that the i
people of Xenana have been too I
much taken up with town and rail-!
road building to devote much of j
their time to the development of i
farms; but sufficient has been done!
in that direction to demonstrate that •
the soil in and about Xenana is cap- j
able of growing bountiful crops,j
with the expenditude of very little j
effort.
Scores of families in Nenana have !
their cellars well stocked with vege
tables this winter—enough for their j
own needs and the needs of their j
neighbors—and the quality of the
vegetables is equal to that of any
grown elsewhere in Interior Alaska.
In fact, we have yet to learn of
another town, in Alaska or out of
it, which has made so good a show-.
ing in so brief a time, and the show
ing of Nenana is especially remark
able in view of the fact that our
“farming” was done “after hours",
and on holidays.
All of which goes to prove that
the garden spots of Interior Alaska
arc not confined to any particular
region. Excellent growing soil is to
be found throughout the length and
breadth of the great Tanana val
ley, enough of’ it to provide thous
ands of farmers with ample tracts,:
and to supply the demands of
Alaska’s future population, however
great it may become.
The Nenana School district, em
bracing an area of forty square
miles, includes some of the best
soil in the valley, and all of it is
sufficiently close to the government
railroad to insure a quick route to
market. The boundaries of the dis
trict were determined after care
ful Consideration of the possibilities
of future development and in the
firm belief that the entire district,.
at no very distant date, would be
under cultivation, insuring' ample
revenue for future educational re
quirements.
The opportunity is here for those
who desire to engage in farming
and it is altogether reasonable to
believe that our government can and
will be induced to extend aid to
homesteaders as a means of hasten
ing the settlement and development
of Alaska’s agricultural lands. Other
governments have gone far in this 1
direction and the results have been |
most gratifying. The time has come !
for some such steps to be taken!
for the upbuilding of Uncle Sam’s:1
lorthern empire. j!
Two-thrids of the entire popula- ,
don of Germany was destroyed dur
ng the Thirty Years War; in some i
states, such as Bohemia, three
fourths of the population were j
dlled or exiled. Out of 500,000 (
nhabitants in Wurtemberg only
18,000 were left at the end of 30
?ars .
ITALIAN WOMEN
ARE HOPEFUL OF
GREATER RIGHTS
NEW YORK. — Countess Maria
Loschi of Rome, who, as the guest
of the United States government is
on a six weeks' tour of this coun
try to survey social, educational and
political conditions relating to
women and report to the government
of Italy, declares that “Italy’s lib
erated womanhood is preparing to
take a big part in the rebuilding of
the devastated northern provinces. It
is the dawn of a new day,” she
said, “in the development of our
nation.”
Grateful for the part the United
States has taken in the war. Coun
tess Loschi made public at the re
quest of a former premier of Italy,
Luigi Luzzati, the latter’s overseas
toast to America and to Americans
delivered to her just before she
sailed. It follows:
“Born in a divine heart throb,
They grow greater now in the
throb of the human heart.
Born to deliver themselves from
the multifarious religious tyran
nies of Europe,
Today they rise to save Europe
from military tyranny.
At the daw’n of the marvelous life
shines God’s liberty, as a crown
of sacrifice and redemption.
At midday they harvest, as an
imortal reward, the deliverance
of oppressed nationas.”
The countess is a young woman,
dresses simply and speaks, fluently,
English as well as French and Ita
lian. She is a writer on sociological
subjects, a teacher of French litera
ture in a collegt in Rome and, in
addition, is on the staff of a tech
nical school. An ardent suffragist
and one of five women, representa
tives of the Italian Feminine Patri
otic League, appointed to aid the
government authorities in devising
a plan for the readjustment of labor
after the war, the Countess Loschi
says, “the tuture is bright with
promise for the women of Italy,
more than 200,000 of whom are at
work on farms and in munition
plants.
Until the war started, she said, the
status, of women in Italy was one
ot ‘"complete eclipse by man.” She
was not allowed to handle her own
money, for instance, without the
consent of her husband. Women,
as such, had no standing in court
except as the chattel of a husband
or father.
New laws, said the countess, were
being drafted which would elevate
Italian womanhood to a plane as
hi.-h as that enjoyed by the women
of any other country. The time was
coming, she felt sure, when Italy
would have women legislators and
when they would be allowed to
practice in the law courts. The in
consistency of the present time, she
said, was shown in the case of Miss
Therese Labrigola. Italy's first wo
man lawyer and foremost suffragist,
who although competent to teach
jurisprudence to youths in a law
university was barred from practic
ing in the courts.
The changed attitude toward wo
men in Italy, the countess attributed
in part to the great response made
by her sex to the appeals of the
government for war loans. During
the recent Fourth loan, she said, the
women of Milan alone bought more
than 12,000,000 lire worth of
aonds and other cities did as well,
rhe government urged the women
:o buy independently of their hus
bands and, thus, wittingly or not,
>roke one of Italy’s oldest traditions.
SJANT GRANITE SHAFT
TO HONOR MONTANA BOYS
BUTTE, Mont.— Butte is r.dvanc
ng a plan for a gigantic' granite
haft, to be erected on Big Butte,
i towering mountain that lies on the
vestern edge of the city.
The granite would be seen for
orty miles on clear days, and would
ontain the name of every Montana
ioy who gave his life for his coun
ry during the great war.
Our idea of a non-essential indus
ry is tracing the pedigree of a dog.
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DUNKIRK, France—Thirteen tons
of food was carried by the British
Royal Air Force and the Belgian
Air Forces to several divisions of
; the Belgian army which had ad
vanced beyond the Houthulst Forest
in Belgium, early in the Allied of
fensive in the Belgian sector, and
i sustained those troops during the
period in which they were cut off
, from supplies owing to impassable
I roads. This is believed to be the
; largest scale in which supplies were
i ever delivered to troops by airplane.
< Continuous rain, shell fire and
artillery fire had ground the roads
I out of existence. They were trans
i formed into channels of deep mud.
By evening the general in command
of the Belgian forces reported that
supplies of food had been exhausted.
Would it be possible, he inquired,
to send food by airplane?
The answer was that it would and
the task was assigned to one of the
Belgian Air Forces and to the Fifth
Group of the British Royal Air
Force. Their job was to deposit I
army rations at a point to which
nothing but a bird or an airplane
could penetrate.
It has been done before, of course
the garrison of Kut received sup
plies by air. and ammunition and the |
like have been dropped at various
places. But it had never been at-'
tempted on such a scale.
The cases of rations were broken
up into appropriate parcels and these i
were packed in sacks of earth to
cushion them for the fall; while1
upon the front the hungry divisions
prepared the dumping grounds and
marked them with a large white
cross.
Some eighty machines shared the!
work between them, including a
squadron of the Fifth Group’s two
seaters. They lifted their loads
easily, and one by one they dipped
to the front—it was the front, too
and close to the line—and dropped
them overboard to the cheering re
ception committees below and re
turned. Only one machine, attacked
by a German machine-gun from the
ground it was as close to the
front as that—had to land; and by
II a. m., the general reported that
all his units had been supplied. ;
NEW MEXICO PLANS
UNIQUE WAR RECORD
SANTA FE, X. M.—As part of
its plan for the preservation of the
record of New Mexicans in the world
war, the state bureau of historical
service is appointing representatives
in each of the twenty-eight coun
ties of the state who were inducted
or who enlisted in the various
branches of military service. ;
The bureau has an outline map *
of New Mexico and is placing a
gold star in each county for every
man who died in the service- When i
this record is completed it will be j
placed in the state museum at
Santa Fe. I
EXPORT BAN LIFTED;
MEXICANS GET BUSY '
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JUAREZ. Mex—Farm implements i
and garden tools may now be im- j
ported to Mexico, all restrictions j
having been removed from these ar- j
tides by the war board, acting ;
American Consul Stephen Aguierre;
announced. The result has been j
a renewal of agricultural activities!
in the Juarez valley, across the river)
from El Paso, where hay, wheat and j
vegetables are raised for the Ameri
can market.
r.s. McDonald
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NOTARIAL WORK
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Look Them Up In Best’s
Union Insurance Society, London
COWBOYS CELEBRATE
DAWN OF WORLD PEACE
ROOSEVELT. Utah.—What was
said to have been the nearest ap
proach to the genuine, old-time wild
West celebrations occurred here up
on the occasion of the signing of
the armistice terms by Germany.
This town, named after the former
president who is said to have taken
part in wild-West demonstrations
durinp his cowboy days, “turned
loose" when the news arrived and
every revolver, shotgun and rifle in
the community was used to make
noise.
The town was litterally "shot-up”
by several dozens o' cowboys who
came in from neighboring ranches,
the riders riding through the main
street at break-neck pace, shooting
their revolvers as they rode. No
casualties resulted, nor was any
damage done to property. The cele
bration stopped only when the par
ticipants and ammunition were er
hausted.
Because of the roughness of the
land, and the extreme heat, auto
mobiles in use in the cattle raising
districts of Australia are equipped
with solid tires of cocoanut fibre,
said to be bullet, glass and nail
proof.
®£2£2L__Al»«kV»__Int«rioryu*iI>*j>ot
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—New lincoleum ma
hopany phonopraph. child’s bed,
and Persian cat. Inquire of Mrs.
Mellish.
LOST—Bunch of Keys; five flat
^ ale keys and two round keys.
Finder please return to News
Office. Reward.
business Opportunity—Nortn <
Star—Mike’s Place. For rent
ready for business on most reas
| enable terms. Apply R. S. Me
I Donald
■FOR RENT.—Small one room cabin
on First and B streets. Apply
at News, office.
LOST—A Grey Husky Dop, about
Nov. 27th; has collar on neck.
Finder return to Cophill’s store.
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