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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IS IT WORTH WHILE?
The question. “Is it worth while?'
must be answered honestly before
we can enter with any enthusiasm
upon the more stringent measures
of food conservation that are asked
of us today.
Has the saving of a few pounds
of meat a week and the several
ounces of butter and sugar by the
individual been worth the effort?
The best answer will be found in
the enormously increased exports of
food for the Allies in the last six
months. For instance, 12,363,942
bushels of wheat and wheat products
alone went from the United tSates
in April, and 12,207,742 bushels
were transported in March. The
total exports of wheat and wheat
products from July 1 to May 1 were
110,000,000 bushels.
Perhaps these figures mean little
to you until it is remembered that
the best expert advice placed the
available surplus of wheat from the
last harvest variously at from 10,
00,000 to 30,000-000 bushels, pro
vided domestic consumption has been
carried on at the accustomed rate.
The difference between 110,000,
000 and' 10,000,00 to 30,000,000
bushels has been saved because you
and thousands of others did with
less wheat last winter.
Proportionate gains have be^
made possible in the meat shipments
because of the voluntary saving of
meat by Americans. The total ex
ports of beef and pork products f >r
April for instance, were 359,000.000
pounds. In April of last year the
total exports of beef and pork were
only 190,000,000 pounds- The in
j crease over last year’s exports is
seen to be 169,000,000 pounds—169
000,000 pounds of beef and pork
sent in one month by patriots who
have answered the food administra
tion's call both for increased pro
duction and for reduced consump
tion.
Let these, and similar figures
showing proportionate increases in
the exports of fats to the Allies an
swer the queston “Is it worth while,
—these little daily savings you and I
j make in our kitchens.”
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SPUDS IN DEMAND
Orders continue to be received
through the Anchorage Chamber of
! Commerce and the Land and Indus
trial department of the Alaskan En
gineering commission from Alaska
coast towns for Matanuska potatoes.
Shipments go forward on every
steamship.
i Since late in April, says a coast
report, when the first effort was
made to find markets in Alaska
towns for Matanuska potatoes, forty
two orders, calling for about 105
. tons of vegetables, have been re
1 ceived there. Included in those
1 orders are sixteen “repeat” orders,
calling for forty-two tons.
Among the towns whose dealers
have bought Matanusko potatoes are
Kcnai, Seward, Valdez, Cordova,
Kennecott, Juneau, Douglas, Thane,
Skagway, Ketchikan and Petersburg.
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Herman—Down Xulato, 5 p. m.
28th.
Sarah—At St. Michael.
Reliance—Up Louden, 2 a. m.
Relance—LTp Louden, 2 a. m.
Sibilla—Up Birches, 11:30 p. m.,
the 28th.
Jacobs and Davis—At Gibbon.
Tanana—Up Koyukuk. 8 p. m.,
the 28th.
Julia B.—Up Louden 3:30 a. m.
Alaska—Up Nenana, 11:45 a m.
Yukon—Up Crcle, 5:15 p. m. 27th
BOYS ARE TRAINED
RAPIDLY AT GIBBON
Recent advices received in Nenana
indicate that the Alaska registrants
who have joined the colors and are
now attached to Company B, 14th
infantry at Fort Gibbon are pro
ceeding rapidly with the training
given by the army officers.
They are now being daily taken
out for a six-mile run and all of
them are reported to be bearing up
well against the unusual strain of
the exercise and feeling all the bet
ter for it.
The Anchorage restricted district
has been closed, by order of the at
torney general.
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ABOUT ITEMS IN
BIG ALASKA BILL
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WASHINGTON.—By the enactment
of H. R. 12441 (The Sundry Civil
Bill) which was passed by Congress
shortly before adjournment, apro
priations are provided for Alaska in ;
the sum of $5,690,000; divided as 1
follows:
Alaskan Engineer Commission
.$5,250,000
Care of Alaska Insane. 99,000 j
Bureau of Education. 215,000 j
Medical Relief in Alaska.... 75,000'
Support of Reindeer Stations
... 6 000
Protection of Game. 20,000 !
Suppression of Liquor Traffic
. 15,000!
Alaikan Engineering Commission
In the original estimates of the'
Alaskan Engineering commission and
the Department of the Interior, $7,- '
350,000 was asked to carry on the j
work. This amount was cut by the i
committee on appropriations in the
House to $5,250,000 and despite the
efforts of Hon. Chas. A. Sulzer, dele
gate from Alaska, it was impossible
to have the amount restored to the
sum originally requested. The ap
propriations committee became con
vinced that the work to be carried
on with the $2,100,000 which it cut
out, was of such a nature that it
could wait until next year without
injury to the original plans for the
construction of the railroad and for
this reason, and not that it was in
opposition to the completion of the
road or unfriendly to it in any way,
it was an impossibility to secure
favorable acton on the flour of the
House.
Mr. Sulzer, when the matter went'
to the Senate, attempted again to
have the amount raised to $7,250,
000, but the committee, after a brief
consideration of the bill which in
cluded hundreds of millions for pro
jects in all parts of the country, re
ported it to the Senate without
change and it was passed. And the
Senate passed the bill within two
hours after it was reported.
As to the distribution of this
money, it is left to the discretion
of the Alaskan Engineering commi.—
sion, but the estimates which are
submitted and approved by congress
provided that approximately $3,000,
000 should be spent between Seward
and Susitna. and approximately
$2,000,000 between Fairbanks and
the Nenana coal fields.
Care of the Insane
The section of the Sundry Civil
Bill, relative to caring for the per
sons who are legally adjudged insane
within the Territory of Alaska, is
the same as in former years. To
care for these unfortunates, and to
provide transportation and other ex
penses, the sum of $99,000 is appro
priated, which is slightly more than
was set aside for the same purpose
last year. •
Education of Natives
To provide for the education of
the Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians of
Alaska, the sum of $215,000 is ap
propriated, to be expended under the
direction of the secretary of the
interior.
Medical Relief.
Under the direction of the Public
Health Service, provision is made
for the medical and sanitary relief
of the natives of Alaska and $75,000
is appropriated to carry on the,
work. In the hospitals under this
department, patients, other than in- j
digents, may also secure assistance
at such rates as shall be fixed by
the secretary of the interior.
Reindeers Stations.
For the support of reindeer sta
tions in Alaska and for the instruc
tion of Alaska natives in the care
and management of reindeer, $6,000 j
is appropriated. The commissioner j
of education is also authorized to!
sell such male reindeer belonging;
to the government as he may deem
advisable, the proceeds from such
sales to be used in the purchase of
female reindeer belonging to missions
and in the distribution of reindeer
to natives in those parts of the terri
tory in which reindeer have not yet
been placed and which are adapted
to the industry.
Game Protection.
As for a number of years, $20,
000 is appropriated for the pro
tection of game, to pay the salaries
and other expenses of game wardens
to be expended under the dirction
of the governor of Alaska.
Liquor Traffic.
The sum of $15,000 is appropri
ated to pay salaries and expenses
of special agents for the suppression
of liquor traffic among the natives
of Alaska.
Further Help for Railroad.
By members of the Committee on
Appropriations, Mr. Sulzer was as
sured that if the money appropriated
for the use of the Alaskan Engineer
ing commission should not be suffi
cient to carry on the work planned
during the year 1919, a deficiency
appropriation, when asked for might
be considered with favor. Under this
state of affairs the Alaskan Engin
eering commission may carry on
such work as it deems advisable
while the funds under the present
appropriation hold out and then ask
for more, with a fair degree of cer
tainty that such request will meet
with the support of congress.
In view of the fact that many
items in the Sundry Civil Bill of
former years, which had secured con
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sideration annually, were stricken
this year as non-essential and of
such a nature that they could be
dispensed with during the war, the
friends of Alaska in congress feel
that the territory has been given
as much as it could hope for at this
time. And the members of the com
mittee stated that because of the tes
timony given before them by repre
sentatives of the department of the
interior and by the chairman of the
Alaskan Engineering commission j
they could not see where more money j
could be used to advantage than the j
amount recommended to the House, j
BERNE.—The Swiss government j
I
has just resolved that henceforth j
foreign deserters shall be refused j
entry at the frontiers or shall be i
expelled if found on Swiss territory, j
Exceptions will be made for men
who lived in Switzerland before the
war began, or who have family or
business connections in the country.
Deserters and men living in Switzer
! land to avoid military service in
their own countries are to be sub
I jected to much closer control and
; all who give trouble in any way
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! will be expelled.
Of 20,000 Such men in Switzer
land about 8,000 are said to be
Italians and G,000 Germans.
ITALIAN OFFICIAL SAYS
NATION’S PAYROLL HEAVY
i ROME—“That there are too
many public officials has been
proved by the war,” declared Secre
tary of the Treasury Nitti, while
i
speaking before parliament regard
ing a proposed increase in civil pen- j
sions. “About two-fifths of our
public officials have been called j
from their old positions to serve as !
soldiers, and public work seems to j
be done about as well as if they
had been there,” he said. “There
will be plenty of better paid jobs
in the private industries of the na
tion after the war, so let us hope
that our citizens will try to obtain
these positions instead of ones in
pubic service and then the people
will not be taxed to support idlers
or to give them pensions.”
Mrs. Flannery and two duaghters,
who are among the passengers on
the Alaska, enroute to Fairbanks,
are wealthy residents of New York
City, enroute through Alaska on a
sight-seeing tour. The elder daugh
ter is said to have spent several
months in France, during which
time she was engaged in war work.
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