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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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
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PRINT WRITING.
To abolish script-writing and re
place it by print-writing is the pur
pose of an influentially supported
movement begun in England. Advo
cates of the change contend that the
present system fails to stand the
test of commercial life in England
and causes a great loss of time and
labor.
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The characters used in the pro
posed system are the ordinary print
ed letters, known as Roman block
letters, with the exception of the
“a" and the “g,” which are simpli
fied into their script forms. The
print characters were employed by
monks long before script-writing
came into fashion, and can still be
seen in ancient manuscripts from
which, in fact, they were first copied
by the printer.
Advocates of print-writing claim
it possesses many advantages over
ordinary handwriting, especially to
the teacher "that, the same charac
ters being employed both for writ
ing and reading, the < child learns
much more quickly, and it is fur
ther asserted that his spelling and
his education as a whole are corre
spondingly benefited.
Many British educational authori-5
ties favor print-writing and it is j
taught in numerous British schools, i
No time is wasted in the new svs- j
tem on innumerable joinings. Super
fluous loops and flourishes are abol- j
ished.
One big London firm has adopted
the system and other concerns are
said to be considering its use.
CAPE TO CAIRO.
Despite enormous difficulties being
met with in establishing the long i
air route, it is expected that the
Cape to Cairo aerial mail service
will be in operation before the year
is out. The first flight, it is said,
probably will be made in October or
November.
Partial reports of the African
survey parties now in the field de
tail some of the obstacles that have
had to be surmounted. Between
Maiaka! and Gondokoro, about 400
miles, the Nile so inundates the
country that no suitable landing
place for an airplane could be
found. It is therefore proposed to
use a flying boat for that stage
of the journey.
A month after the signing of the
armistice with Turkey the first sur
vey party was ready to start. Two
years previously the route from Sol
ium to Cairo had been used by
Major McLaren on his flight from
England to Egypt, and aerodromes
had been built at Solium, Mersa
Matruh, and at Amria, near Alex
andria, while intermediate landing
grounds had been cleared for emer
gency use. An aerodrome had been
constructed also at Khartum, in
1915.
For the purpose of the survey,
Africa was divided into three sec
tions. One party was assigned to
Egypt, the Sudan and as far south
as Victoria Nvanza. The second cov
ered the central stretch from Vic
toria Nyanza through a part of
what was German East Africa to
Kituta, at the southern end of Lake]
'Tanganyika. A third party inspect
ed the line from Kituta to Cape
Town.
A route via Egypt and the Arabi
an coast to India is being developed
from Atbara to Trinkitat, on the
Red sea, and thence via the Farsar.
and Kameran islands to Perim and
Aden. It is said that this probably
will be more used for military than ;
civil purposes.
KOREA.
That all aspects of military rule
should be completely banished from
Korea is the opinion of representa
tive Japanese. Thus only, they say.
can Japan hope to re-establish peace i
and order among the Korean people. !
It is generally admitted at Tokio j
that the disaffection is not removed. I
but merely quescent. ready to burst
forth anew once the existing mili
tary pressure is removed.
Institution of a civilian govern
ment and removal of the present
police system are believed here to
be necessary. The gendarmes are
held responsible for cases of brutali
ty and mistreatment, the soldiers i
being only responsible, it is declared,1
for the killing of Koreans in the
Christian church at Cheam-ni. In ‘
this case, says the Herald of Asia,
a Japanese policeman had been mur
dered, and his body mutilated. Th •
gendarmerie toid the arriving sol
i
diers an exaggerated story, says the
newspaper, and the young troops \
joined the gendarmes in a massacre
of the people.
Once the gendarmerie method of
policing the peninsula is removed, j
ar.d the people given more local au- |
tonomy, such as the villages of
Japan enjoy, the newspaper thinks
the Koreans may see that their
best interests lie in the peaceful j
acceptance of things as they are.
Responsible Tokio organs of opin- j
ion favor making Korea an integral
part of the -Japanese empire politi
cally, as it already is territorially.
Korea, they conceive, might be made
a province of Japan, with a civil
governor and proper representation
in the Japanese diet. But before
this is possible, th^ newspapers
think, the Koreans must pass through
the necessary education and show
themselves prepared for self-govern
ment.
PORTO RICAN AMBITIONS.
The Porto Rican legislature has
been asked to send a commission
to Washington to ask Congress for
a loan of $30,000,000 and for legis
lation to present monopoly of land
in Porto Rico by large corporations.
It has been proposed also that the
commission should ask for a prefer
ential tariff on coffee ar.d for the
establishment of a bank for making
loans to farmers. '
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Advocates of the proposal want
the $30,000,000 for educational pur
poses, irrigation, freight steamers, to
pay off the island's debt, and other
purposes.
It is also proposed that the com
mission should ask Congress to grant
the island complete self-government.
These suggestions have aroused
some opposition. Representative Lus
tra has declared that the Porto
■tican legislature has full authority
to deal with the land monopoly
question and that bills in the legis
lature looking to that end have been
defeated.
PROM TAX ON
BRITISH CAPITAL
IS TURNED DOWN
LOXDOX.—The house of com
mons has rejected, by a vote of 317
to 72, a proposal made by the Lib
eral party and endorsed by the La
bor party for a levy on capital as
a means of discharging part of Eng
land's enormous war debt.
Sir Donald McLean, one of the
Liberal leaders, in the debate pre
ceding the vote, deprecated making
the question one of party, as a capi
tal levy, he said, was "an emer
gency proposal to meet an emer
gency situation.” The government,
he said, had to choose between a
levy on capital and a Continuance
of the present heavy income taxa
tion for 30 or 50 years.
Austen Chamberlain, chancellor
of the exchequer, refused to con
sider the idea of such a levy. He
said he would not even consent to
a committee of investigation into the
subject, because its appointment
would create fear and insecurity,
and “would disturb the minds of
people to whom we must look for
help in order to bring the finances
of the country back into order.” 1
A portion of the London press
has been dealing at considerable
length with the question of a capital
levy. One of its principal propon
ents is C. F. G. Masterman, a prom
inent Liberal.
“We have concluded the war," he
argues, “with a deadweight debt
burden of some eight thousand mill
ions of pounds $(40,000,000,000).
Interest and sinking fund on this
debt will amount to some four hun
dred million pounds a year. Either!
that debt must be reduced by some
heroic effort to redeem the capital,
or that interest must be raised as a
first charge on industry for an in
definite period of time, or the na
tion must repudiate its obligations.”
Xo other course, he asserts, is pos
sible.
The advocates of a capital levy,
he explains, propose that a substan
tial portion of the country’s debt
shall be liquidated by a graduated
contribution from all who own more
than a limited amount of the na
tional wealth.
MRS. WAECHTER LEAVES
FOR FAIRBANKS VISIT
Mrs. M. Waechter, mother of
Ralph Waechter, who has been a
guest at the Waechter home during
the past several weeks, left for Fair
banks yesterday on the steamer Yu
kon, to visit ■with relatives in the
upper town.
Mrs. Waechter spent last winter
in Seattle and was in the thick of
the “flu” epidemic. All of the oc
cupants of the apartment house
where she resided with her grand
daughter, Miss Wilma Carlson of
Fairbanks, were attacked by the dis
ease, with the exception of herself.
She moved among the invalids with
greatest freedom and observed none
of the usual precautions when shop
ping downtown, and came through
it all ■without a touch of the “flu.”
There were 37 cases in the apart
ments where she lived.
Mrs. Waechter will be back in
Xenana again before the end of the
summer, and probably will spend the
winter in Interior Alaska.
Clifford Taylor, messenger attach
ed to the local signal corps station, i
has returned from Fort Yukon and
is again on the job in Xenana.
Commissioner A. J. Griffin of
Richardson was among the out-of
town visitors in Xenana for the
baseball series.
■•Has. W>ere Balls and Jtivers Xset
WANT ADS
FIFTEEN MEN WANTED to cut
wood. Five dollars per cord;
good timber. A. G. Vachon, Tan
ana. k8-lG
FOR SALE—My entire holdings,
consisting of Lot 6, Block 10.
three-room log house, finely fin
ished and partially furnished, to
gether with provisions and wood.
Also my half interest in Nenana
Steam Laundry. A bargain, if
taken before August first. Must
go Outside on urgent business is
reason for sacrifice. Mrs. Clara
Allred, Nenana. Alaska. k7-2S
FOR SALE — Showcase, 5 Vi feet
long. Practically new. Cheap.
Inquire Mrs. Herman Rosburg.
L C. ISABEL
BARBER
SOUTHERN HOTEL
BUILDING
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m ***»?**«»,*»*,*•*,**»! at
Alaska, scheduled to leave Dawson
Tuesday evening.
Jacobs, down Marshall, 10:30 p.
m., 26th.
Davis, with two barges, down Kot- j
lik, 6:30 a. m., 27th.
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Kotlik and Kelly, at Gibbon.
Casca. up Dawson. 11a. m., 26th.
Yukon, up Nenana. 8:30 p. m..
27th.
Tanana, at Nenana.
Dawson, up Selkirk. 2:30 p. m.,
26 th.
Nasutlin, up the Stewart river.
Julia B.. up Kotlik, 3:30 a. m..
24th.
Benchley, at Melozi.
Washburn, up Holy Cross forj
Dikeman. 24th.
Sibilla. up Fort Yukon, 2:30 a
m., date.
MAIL STAGE EXPECTED
AT FAIRBANKS TUESDAY
A mail stage is expected to reach
Fairbanks from the coast sometime
tomorrow, with a consignment of
Outside mail and two passengers.
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Apples, Rhubarb, *New Spuds
Onions, Ham, Bacon,
Lard, Cheese and Eggs
AT
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Clean Dry Wood (or Sale
OFFICE AT THE TERMINAL
Hauling of All Kind,
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FIRE INSURANCE
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Dr. R. R. MYERS
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SOMETIME IN JULY
Date will be announced later
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
FOURTH AND B STREETS
Ob Second amd Fou'tk Tuesday*
At 8 P. M.
ALEX FOV?LER M. V. TYLER,
Secretary Dictator.
Department of the Interior
Aiaikaa Engineering Commission
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 ia
in the employment office, on the
ground floor of the general office
ouilding, 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 fo»t at
A street on Wednesdays and Satur
days at 8 p. m.
On and after july 15th the freight
on the North side of the river at
Camp 415 dock will be shipped out
Tuesday and Friday of each week,
leaving at 7 a. m.. until further
notice.
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Dr. J. R. BOWEN
DENTIST
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THE BOWEN BUILDING
NICELY HOUSE
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