THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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IT MIGHT BE WORSE
Perhaps you thing your lot is
hard and that the fates are harsh
and cruel because you’re short of
flour and lard and have no coal to
use as fuel. Perhaps you growl
when meat gives out because it’s
used to like the German, and think
that war is just about what it was
called by old man Sherman. Per
haps you think it’s mighty tough
when war tax sets you scratching
gravel, or think it’s hardship pretty
rough to use a day coach when you
travel. Perhaps you’re right, but
what of that, you poor, misguided
grouchy duffer? Just let me tell
you good and flat you don't know
what it is to suffer. Suppose you
do find things upset throughout the
breadth of this great nation; some
how you’ve never failed to get
enough to keep away starvation.
Suppose you look about a bit, watch
how it goes with other races, and
see how hard all Europe’s hit, be
fore you think of changing places.
Suppose you figure how you’d feel
to make a trade with some brave
yeoman who faces shell and gas and
steel in battling with a ruthless foe
man. Suppose you had to spend
your days in trench of mud and
grime and vermin, with horror
spread before your gaze, and fate
that no one might determine. Com
pare your lot with those who go to
blaze the trail for freedom’s guer
don, and then you’ll quickly come
to know that they’re the folk who
bear the burden. So drop your
grouch, and be a man, and help to
win the fight for freedom. We’ve
got the troops, now we must plan
to furnish food enough to feed ’em.
Get out and make a garden plot
and work it like a greedy miser.
Grow in your yard and vacant lot
munitions meant to like the kaiser.
PRICES IN ENGLAND
“High wages mean high prices, j
Fresh cycles of wage advances sue- j
ceed on another- Each one results!
in further increases of prices or in 1
preventing a reduction of prices. ;
The producers are raising prices
against themselves as consumers, j
We are deeply impressed with the;
seriousness of the situation, and are
convinced that if the process con-1
tinues the result can hardly fail i
to be disasterous to all classes of
the nation.”
This is the summing up of a re- j
port recently presented to the house j
of commons by its committee on
national expenditure, after long in
vestigation into the rising cost of
necessities of all kinds in Great
Britain. “The whole thing is a
vicious circle of rising wages fol
lowed by rising prices," asserts the
report. The counter recommenda
dations of the committee include:
“The government should endeavor
to avoid the creation of new credits
in financing the war.
“The actual increase in the cost
of living to the working classes
should, be ascertained.
“Profits should be limited.
“An advance of wages should be
limited if given on any ground other
than the rise in the cost of living.
“A single policy under the direc
tion of one authority should be
adopted in all industry in the de
termination of wage questions. The
all-around increase in wages of 10
per cent and similar increases in
the cost of commodities purchased
at home have already involved an
increase in national expenditure of
£130,000,000 yearly.”
One of the most important causes
of the increase of expenditure, says
the committee, has been expansion
of credit. If it had been possible
to finance the war from day to day
by means entirely of taxation and
loans from the savings of the peo
ple the general increase of prices
would have been considerably less
than it is.
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OUR BATTLESHIPS
American battleships are the larg
est which have yet been laid down
by any nation. The largest British
battleship which the American gov
ernment has knowledge displaces
27,500 tons; the largest German,
28,448 metric tons, or 28,000 of
our tons. The largest Japanese dis
places 30,600 tons. These may be
compared with our Arizona and
Pennsylvania, 31,400 tons; Idaho.
Mississippi, and New Mexico, 32,000
tons; Californa and Tennessee, 32,
300 tons; Colorado, Maryland, Wash
ington, and West Virginia, 32,600
tons. The six new battleships which
have been authorized are designed
to be 41,500 tons.
Our new battle cruisers of 35,000
tons and 35 knots will be the fastest
in the world, having a speed equal to
the latest and fastest destroyers.
They will also be the largest in the
world, with the sole exception of
the Hood class, which was 41.200
the Hood classfi which are 41,200
tons.
On April 1, 1917, the total num
ber of civil employees at the nine
principal navy yards was 29.708.
On March 1, 1918, the total number
of employees at the same yards was
58,026. The total number of me
chanics employed at all navy yards
and stations in the United States
is over 66,000.
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PULL TOGETHER
The administration has show much \
wisdom by getting together with the !
military committees of congress and j
arranging to keep them informed ;
from week to week on the progress:
of the war, comments the Portland
Oregonian. The President will ac- j
complish much more by working |
with congress than by fighting or!
ignoring it. He must look to it j
for money and legislation, much of!
which must be obtained in a hurry, j
and the weekly meetings will fur
nish an opportunity for quick ac
tion.
But the war department confer
ences should not be permitted to j
degenerate into a device by which
the committee of Congress becomes.
parties to covering up failures or j
blunders of administration. To that;
end there should be _as much pub
licity as to their proceedings as i
there is at a congressional inquiry, i
consistent, of course, with that de-!
jfree of secrecy which is always nec-1
essary in war. It was not the in-1
quiry by the senate committee which j
caused the perceptible improvement I
in war activity and organization i
which has followed, but the pub
licity which it received and the open
discussion which resulted.
If the public learns from week to !
week which branch of war service i
is behind, it can give the laggard j
a dig with a spur of criticism which
will make him speed up. The free
atmosphere of publicity is democ- j
racy’s means of attaining and main
taining efficiency.
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Miss Edith Waite, of the Fair
banks telephone office, is among
the Fairbanks visitors in town, hav
ing come to Nenana to undergo a
minor' operation at the Government
hospital.
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BEANS - A FOOD FOR WAR OR
*se ue vjt PEACE «* jt -m
Declaring that a person “doesn't
know beans” is equivalent to saying
that he knows nothing at all. And
| yet. speaking of them as an article
: of food, do most people know beans?
j That is,do they understand all about
jthem: their origin, where they grow,
! how nourishing they are, how many
varieties exist, how they are grown
and prepared for marketing, and
whether there are special reasons
why pople should eat them in this
country today?
Origin of the Bean.
To find out when and where the
bean originated takes one back into
the dim mists of antiquity. The
time as well as the country where
it started is uncertain. It may have
been China, India, or Northern Af
rica. There are evidences that the
Aztecs used beans. Certainly beans
were cultivated and used by the
| Indians in North America in the
days when the first European voy
agers came exploring.
Bean* A* A Soil Enricher _
Beans, like peas, belong to what
is called the legume family, which
is always characterized by having
seeds within a pod. There are many
varieties of beans. In addition to
the kinds edible by n-.an, there are
others which are most desirable as
feed for live stock. And what
makes the bean one of the most
valuable of all crops is the fact that
it enriches the very soil in which
it grows. Chemistry is outside the
province of this article, but it may
be mentioned that the bean, more
| than most other plants, has the
j power of drawing from the air a
j specially generous share of nitrogen
and replenishing the soil with i
j after that valuable element has been
partially used up by other crops
Thus beans fertilize the soil in whicl
ithey grow-, a fact understood by al
i who use them and similar plants a;
a “rotation” crop.
Dried Beans—A Source of Protein
Supply.
Much might be added about th«
bean as a soil enricher, or about itf
special qualifications for stock feed
or even about how appetizing it is
as a fresh garden vegetable. Bui
our special study here is the dried
shelled bean, because that is the
form in which it feeds most people,
For feed them it does, particularly
in furnishing those body-building
substances, the proteins, which we
recently studied. Dried beans con
tain more than 22 per cent of pro
teins, a far greater proportion than
is found in wheat flour or corn
meal, more even than in beef. Thus,
as a source of protein supply it may
be seen how valuable a substitute
beans are for the meat and other
foods which we should save to help
win the war.
The Bean Crop of 1917
The total crop of dry, edible beans
raised in the United States in 1917
was larger than ever before. It
has been estimated at over 16,000,-!
000 bushels, with the largest pre- i
vious crop at 9,000,000 bushels. The j
four states producing most beans in
1917 were California, Michigan, New
\ ork, and Colorado, in that order.
And the four most important kinds
of beans raised in these states were
Navy (a general term for the me
dium-sized bean), Lima, Pinto and
California Pink.
Recently the so-called soy-bean-—
also known as the soya- or soja bean
—has been much discussed. It is
one of the most valuable foods of j
China and Japan, where it is grown
in abundance. A bean of great
richness, containing an oil which not
only increases its proportion of fat
but is also extracted and used com
mercially, the soy-bean is now being j
grown to an increasing extent in j
this country. But in quantity of i
domestic production it does not be-1
gin to compare with the four varie
ties just mentioned.
From the time beans are har
vested until they reach the grocery
store where you trade, no elaborate
processes or special treatment is re
quired. But the necessary stens of
cleaning and sorting serve to illus
trate the labor-saving power of
modern methods and machinery .
Preparing Bean* for the Market
First of all, the bean plants arc
gathered by a machine which shears
them off just below the surface of i
the earth. After lying in the field
for a short time, they are either
piled in stacks or placed in barns.
When thoroughly dried, the beans
are threshed out of the pods. But
there is bound to be much dirt left
among the beans themselves, and
this is removed at the elevators, to
which the beans are now shipped.
Ingenious machinery begins the
cleaning process. First the beans
are shot between huge revolving
brushes; next a strong blast of air
blows away all the dust and light
dirt. After that they are dropped
through large sieve-like screens that
not only remove the larger, heavier
lumps of dirt or bits of pod, but
also sort the beans according to
size.
In some states the beans are fur
ther sorted by being run along a
giant picker, consisting of rubber
rollers. It is something like a huge
elothes-wringtr laid on its side. The
rollers catch all the beans which
have any roughness of suface, the
smooth beans passing along un
touched Finally the beans are run
along a sloping belt, which separates
the flat beans from the round by
permitting the latter to roll off.
That finishes the methods by
which beans may be classified by
machinery. When it is desired to
remove beans having spots or simi
lar blemishes, hand-picking is nec
essary.
After this the beans are ready
for distribution (usually in 100
pound sacks) to the wholesalers,
then to the retailers, and finally to
you.
The Importance of Beans in the War
In winning this war beans are go
ing to figure directly and indirectly.
Directly, because our army and navy
are using vast quantities of them.
Indeed, they have contracted for
practically the entire white bean
crop. And indirectly, because the
wide-spread use of beans at home
in place of meat dishes will release
that much extra meat for shipment
overseas, while at the same time
giving much of the nutrition quality
of meat. It is no hardship to eat
beans. One does not have to be a
Bostonian to relish baked beans, and
there are other dishes, such as bean
loaf, in which this vegetable may
figure in the home bill of fare.
The Value of Colored Beans
People should get rid of the no
tion that colored beans, such as the j
California pink bean and the Colo- j
rada pinto are inferior to white. !
Analysis has proved them just as
jourishing. Some persons have been
jrejudiced against the pinto bean
because of its dark-brown spots.
But it is exactly as good as a white
jean, and it has been selling at a
ower price. Besides, even the spots
iisappear in cooking. The United
states Food Administration, empow
;red by the provisions of the Food
Bill of August 10, 1917, is purehas
ng through its Grain Corporation
ast year’s entire crop of pinto
jeans, with a view to distributing
:hem to all markets and keeping
;heir price stable.
Nowadays only the person who i
;ruly “doesn’t know beans” can fail
;o perceive this vegetable’s value to
jeople at home, to our soldiers, and
:o the cause for which they battle. ,
1
A. W. Lipke, wireless operator on j
;he Tahoma at the time of her i
wrecking on an unchartered reef j
jear Attu Island in 1914, when he !
ipent four days and five nights in
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"WAR SAYINGS STAMPS
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Saving is
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a habit—the habit that makes
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that will be invested in the War Savings
Stamps, there are other, and simpler meth
ods that could be used to raise this two bil
lion dollars.
The greater purpose of War Savings Stamps
is to give every man, woman and child a
personal part in financing the war for free
dom and to teach the most beneficial habit
in life—the habit of thrift. So that when
the war is over the people will have saved,
out of the high wages of these days, some
part of their income, as a provision for the
future.
Look out for your personal future. Make
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