THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
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THE AMERICAN NAVY
Xot yet can the great part the
navy played in the war be fully de
scribed, but in his annual report
Secretary Daniels lifts the veil of
secrecy from many details that will
not lessen the just pride Americans
have always taken in their war serv
ice at sea.
The armistice, points out the
New York World, found the navy
personnel just short of 500,000
souls, while its active work abroad
employed more men than it.-, entire
strength when we entered the war.
No element monopolized its atten
tion; its “Navy that Flies" snep
herded the fleets from the air, wh’le
its Marines won deathless fame at
Belleau Woods. Nor did it shine
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in action while fumbling prepara-,
tion; the House Committee of In
quiry found its war work on shore’
“a remarkable record of achieve
ment.”
Whether in laying 85,000 .nines,
in the vast sea barrage that sliut
Germany in, or rushing < ’.v-doik
and navy-yard expansion at home, |
or repairing German ships with
amazing speed, or developing elec-!
trip propulsion in the biggest cruis .
ers or adding niceties of detail to.'
depth-bomb practice, or placing itst
huge guns on railroad cars to hat-;
ter down German defense far to-;
ward Metz, the navy was -cry day!
doing its bit, or more. A.t I the I
nature of its delicate tasks wa•> suchj
that even now not too iueh can!
be said about all that lias been*
done beyond landsmen’s fight. j
As an agent in social progress]
the navy has continued its school!
work among "nlisted men rrtd l as
worked an improvement in their
physical condition which ;s attested i
by a remarkable showing of health
statistics, while the novel t;.'k of
rehabilitating men convicted of
grave charges has drawn to the
Portsmouth Naval Prison under
Thomas M. Osbourne, the praise of
naval men and prison reformers of
both continents.
What the navy is in future to be
must depend upon circumstances.
Mr. Daniels foresees “an end of
competitive building.” We hope he
may be right. For the present
there is every reason to continue
with the program of construction
which he recommends. If in the
long run we have mainly to provide
for “survey and discovery and pro
tection, in addition to police duty
of an international as well as of a
national eharacter," so much the
better.
Toward that desired goal the navy
hus already given some impetus. It
has promoted a smaller League of
Nations afloat by the team-work
to which Secretary Daniels referred
in Springfield. "One outstanding
blessing” of the war was the “sym
pathy and comradeship between
the American and British, * * *
in close co-operation with other
Allied navies." Such intimate re
lations as his report describes with
British, French, Italian and Japan
ese seamen can have had no paral'e!
on land and must greatly aid inter
national understanding.
That is looking ahead; far ahead
perhaps. We can look back upon
the great service which the navy
has rendered to the world; its para
n. unt erviee, and possibly a de
ciding factor in the mighty struggle.
Bv>.ry troop-ship that enters harbor
crowded with cheering soldiers
should remind us again of the'si'feep
less vigilance that watched over our
convoys on the perilous road to
France. The kaiser sneered at our
army as a “wooden sword.” It
could not in the end have cut his
battle-line and cowed his veterans
but for the ships that ferried it
and the “international police” that
taught the lurking U-boat its place.
■ This was, as Mr. Daniels says, “a
shining demonstration” of the navy's
“capacity for the teamwork so es
sential to victory.” And victory was
essential to the world.
WOMEN WILL STICK
Probably half of the 2,000 women
in the state of Montana who have
taken the places of men in indus
trial positions during the war
emegency will continue to hold
their jobs after the return of sol
diers and war workers, according
to advices received by the State
Industrial Accident board, which
has supervision of industrial con
ditions in Montana.
“Their work, as nearly as we can
learn, has been very satisfactory,
especially in the matter of account
ing and bookkeeping and office
work," said A. E. Spriggs, chair
man of the board, in discussing the
work of women on war jobs. “In
the line of manual labor, we are in
clined to think that the women now
holding these jobs will be supplanted
by men as soon as applicants for
the jobs in question present them
selves.”
Substitution of women for men in
Montana has extended, in railroad
centers of the state, to car cleaners,
engine wipers and baggage handlers
Advices received by the board indi
cate however, Mr. Spriggs said, that
women in such positions will be
supplanted by men shortly.
Hotels and restaurants . have
found women efficient in the places
formerly held by men as waiters
and elevator operators, and women
have replaced men in many instances
as operators of passenger elevators
in stores and business buildings. In
the office of the board itself, three
women now hold positions as hook
keepers given up by men at the
beginning of the war, and Mr.
Spriggs declared it to be the in
tention of the board to continue
them in those positions so long as
they are able to do satisfactory
work. Such, he said he believed,
is the case with many other busi
ness offices.
In several cities of Montana
women are employed as mail car
riers to the apparent satisfaction
of their patrons, and in Great Falls
they work for the street department
in cleaning the pavements and tend
ing the parks.
| One thousand tons of hay pet
. year can be cut around Valdez, ac
! cording to Road Commissionei
James Wilson, who also is the pio
: neer freighter of the Third divison
Mr. Wilson has run thirty head oi
horses out of Valdez for years, and
has put up a great deal of the hay
necessary to winter the animals in
I and around Valdez. This year, de
spite the heavy crop of grass, Mr,
. Wilson was unable to secure laboi
to put up the hay, and is therefore
paying high prices for the feed hr
uses. He states that he could make
a fine thousand acre farm near tht
old townsite on Mineral creek that
would yield 100 tons of hay at $ 1OC
per ton.
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MONTANA PIANS
OUTLOOK BRIGHT
HELENA, Mont.—Not only Mon
tana suffered comparatively little
from the slowing down of war work,
but reconstruction projects, which
are expected to add greatly to the
activities of the state, are hardly
more promising and important than
those industrial and commercial
projects which were halted by tli *
war shortly, it is probable, will le
sume full blast.
Thus far, with the exception of
loss contracts by the manganese in
dustries at Butte, Philipsburg and
Great Falls, no line of endeavor
worth mention, within the confines
of the Treasure state, has witnessed
diminution of effort through ces
sation of the war. Mine, mill, farm,
field and factory from border to
border, with the possible exception
of the phase of the lumber industry,
are in full operation and expect to
continue to do so. it is said, cn
peace orders, for many a month
to come.
Railway development, highway
expansion and the completion of
irrigation projects, together with
other and hardly less important
plans seem to assure the state sev
eral years of prosperity unpre
cedented even in Montana.
A half score of railway Exten
sions were on the point of initiation
when lack of material and "labor
called a halt before America entered
the war. Since this country’s en
trance, and under federal control,
only one short line, the Blackfoot
extention of the Milwaukee in the
w'estern part of the state, has been
handled. There are no official tid
ings of what the government means
to do, hut since the president ;s
known to favor any feasible *plan
to provide employment, it iii as
sumed that even while under fed
eral management these extensions
will be undertaken as soon as ma
terials can be obtained and work-1
ers assembled.
Bills now pending for ('•‘eat ap-1
propriations for the numerous irri
gation projects in the state give hope .
that active work on them will be
pushed during the coming year.
Large sums for highway develop
ment will be available for Montana
from both federal and state sources,
and it is understood that the state
highway commission will make,
every effort to get these roads'
building next spring and keep them j
going through the summer.
The only dark cloud on Mon-!
tana’s horizon has been the abnor
mal shipment of cattle out of the
state, due to high prices for feed
and its scarcity.
But inquiry for lands indicates
heavy immigration and as the fu
ture of the cattle industry, with
the gradual disappearance of the
range, must lie with the small
rancher, it is felt thut a year or
two will see the cattle business es
tablished on as wide a score and on
a firmer basis than before.
One interesting item to Montana
is the news that war trucks wilf
be turned over to the postoffic«i
department for immediate exten
sion of the parcel post system. laist
fall trucks were used to haul crops
from sections without railways, and,
it was said at the time that a wide
and comprehensive use of motors
over good roads would tend to in
crease the population of the state
within a short period. Montana’s
magnificent distances hardly can be
' ribboned with rails for many years,
• but a workable truck system would
' enable immigrants to till with profit
outlying lands which, despite their
• richness, have not offered proper
■ remuneraton because of the diffi
I culty of hauling products.
MANY ENGLISH GIRLS
JOINED LAND WORKERS
SAN FRANCISCO.—Three hun
i dred thousand young women found
1 health and profit through service
> in Great Britain’s army of land
i workers during the past season, ac
: cording to Lieutenant Colonel V.
I O. Faunthorp, of the British Iinfor
mation Bureau here.
We Carry the Best Grade of
MACKINAW SHIRTS. COATS and PANTS
Finest assortment of Men’s Socks, Daniel
Green Felt Shoes and Slippers, Moccasins,
Wool Blankets and Comforters
A Full Line of Miner’s and Trapper’s Supples
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JAPS AID RUSSIANS
WITH FREE HOSPITALS
TOKIO.—A semi-official report
says that the .Japanese miiltary
authorities in Siberia have estab
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lished for the purpose of rendering;
medical assistance to the Russian
patients , charity hospitals inde
pendent of military hospitals proper,
at mine centers of population in
Siberia including Vladivostock.
Free medical aid thus given the
Russians has proved highly satis- i
factory and many Russians, men ,
and women, young and aged, are i
gathering at these hospitals. Some!
patients came from a distance of
more than 200 versts.
DEMANDED HIGH PAY
TO WAIT ON FAMILY
VYIXXEMUCCA, Xev. — Thirty j
dollars a day for waiting on afam-;
il.v was the wage at which a colored
woman was hired here by a Basque;
sheep man to go to his ranch near j
McDermitt, on the Oregon line; all j
the members of his family being i
down with the influenza. The!
sheepman hail tried in vain to j;et!
shop nearer, and failing came to j
Winnemucca There were a num
ber of cases of the disease here, and i
that, together with the fact that j
many people are afraid of con-|
tracting influenza, made it diffi
cult to find a woman to go. The
colored woman was offered $20 a
day. She said it was worth $30,
and without parleying, the Basque
sheepman consented to pay it.
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Dr. W. A. Borland, of Hoonah,
was appointed United States com
missioner for that place by Judge
Robert W. Jennings. Heretofore
there bps been no commissioner at
Hoonah for the past ten years.
Fix Up a Bit!
Have that Suit preeced, cleaned end
altered, or that fu** coat or rohe
renovated at little coet at
MRS. D’ORSAY’S TAILOR SHOP
Third and A Street. (Upper)
TRAPPERS, NOTICE!
We are in the Fur Manu
facturing Business, therefore
CAN and WILL pay you more
for your furs than any other
fur buyer in town
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ALASKA
Mea wanting employment can
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only
come back "Busted" in the spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER.
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouche and
Kennecott.
ALASKA PUBLICITY
BUREAU
Juneau Alaska.
A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
Tom Smith, Prop.
COLBS AIR TIGHT
HEATERS
RANGES
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
Yukon Stoves and Drums
Air Tight heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
ing or Heating Line
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—Sled and 13 dogs with
harness complete. Sled 12 feet
long, in good shape. Malamutes
and huskies form the team. Ar
rived in Nenana recently from
St. Michael. $160 for the outfit
Apply George Hanoff, Cooney
j Hotel.
hOR SALE—Wall folding bed; m
single spring; new lumber frame;
j has silkoline curtain. Suitable k
for one-room cabin, provides
shelf room, economizes space; is
more sightly than ordinary bed.
Price $12. Inquire Mrs. D’Orsay’s
Tailor Shop, Third and A streets.
Membership List
Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred, Mrs. Clara
Berggren, Ernst
Budovv, A1
Browne, F. D.
Bresnahan, E. D.
Blankfield, D.
Bowen, J. R.
Blair, Roy
Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J. F.
Ball, I. B.
Brown, Erie
Burns, R. E.
Coutts, W ,T.
Calderhead, R. VV.
Campbell, N. J.
Cochill, W. A.
Cooney, M. ,T.
Doner, Frank
Diven, R. J.
Douse, Fred
Davis, Harry
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A. B. ' g
Fisher, Joe
Flower, J. H.
Foster, Steve ■■■■
Gagnon, Wm. , i
Haslem, H. G. j •
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W.
Hagen, Hans V
Hoey, Andy
Gray, E. B.
Gilcher, W. H.
Hyland, Mike
Isabel, L. C.
Irvine, A. J. 5
Johnson, A. G.
Jones, f rank
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B.
Koland, Knut
Ketooroky, John A.
Laughlin, E. L.
Lund, E. E.
Lehr. Q. F.
Markus, George
Mortensen, Peter j
Myers, R. R.
Moore, Frank B.
Miles, J. H.
McDonald, R. S.
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. C. ' i
Nash, Martin
O’Keefe, Larry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington. G. .W.
Palfy, Paul
Packer, W. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm. .
Shaw, Harry N.
Stol, Nels
Schmidt, Carl
Schaeffer, M. A. '1 '
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Scott, J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
Stone, A. J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, Chas.
Southworth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Thompson, Theodore
Toussaint, J G. K
Tyler, M. V.
Taylor, Wm. J.
Verhaeghe, Cyriele
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Woods, Geo. W.
Williams, E. A.
Waechter, R. I.