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The north Mississippi herald., 1918-09-20
SHOCKING STORY
OF UNSOPHISTICATED
YOUTHS CREDULITY

Engineer J. E. (Red) Myers pulled
in Tuesday morning with his "945"
and Immediately deadheaded back
to Jackson, Tenn. Before leaving,
our good friend Red got shave, a
haircut, shampoo, massage and his
finger and toe nails manicured, in
fact he spent dollar and six bits at
the beauty parlor" on his personal
on the part of our friend who is so
well known for frugality and econ
omy struck his understudy, Tom
Myers, as being very strange indeed,
in fact it so deeply impressed Tom
that he began an investigation of
Reds strange conduct Tom pressed
the veteran engineer so hard that
Red couldn't shake his friend, and
rather than let the "cat out of the
bag" Red confidentially told Tom the
reason for the reckless expenditure
of the dollar and six bits. Tom stat
ed that Red was simply getting ready
to attend the big Ringing Bros.
circus as soon as he got back to
Jack.on Tom said Red even offer
ed to pay his way in the circus and
buy him peanuts and red lemonade
if he would go back to Jackson with
him. Tom believed Reds story and
was walking around, all swelled up
like poisoned pup, telling the "boys"
about Reds generous offer and Incl
IDENTIFY mentioning how popular he
was getting to be with some of the
real good engineers, and the young
man might have lived and died in
blissful ignorance of his old friends
perfdy and deceit had he not casual
ly run up on his old friend, William
Ruffin, another veteran engineer run
ming between Jackson and Water
Valley, and making Jackson his home.
Now Mr.. Ruffin is one of the best
known engineers on the Mississippi
division. His friends are legion,
many of the railroad boys calling
him "Bill" for short, while those who
know him best and love him most
call him Little Willie-the ladies al
ways refer to him as "Mr. Ruffing," I"
which seems to rather please him.
When Tom met up with "Bill" or
Little Willie" as Tom addressed his
friend, he dramatically and grandilo-
quently told of Reds magnanimous
offer to take him to the circus and
pay all his expenses as well. Bill
then looked his young friend square
ly in the eyes and said, Circus,
Hi! You poor supe-how my
heart aches for your gullibility, You
had no more chance of going to the
circus with that gay deceiver than
the Kaiser has of winning the war.
Tom was greatly surprised at what
his good friend Bill had to say about
Reds offer, and in a rather stammer-
ing and faltering manner asked for
some proof of Reds deception.
Now all the railroad boys have i'm
plicit faith in any statement made by
Engineer Rufin. While Little Will
lie" never chopped down any cherry
trees Tor cut any other wood, stove
wood included, for that matter) with
an old hatchet or any other instru-
ment, and no other cherry episode
occurred during his long, interesting
and tempestuous career aside from
eating red cherries from Cocktails"
with a silver spoon; still the "boys"
said they believed he always told the
truth So Tom realized Immediate
ly that his confidence and faith had
The north Mississippi herald., 1918-09-20

LeIeRrapnerS whose applcaClOn IOr
wage increases is under considera-
tion), together with chief clerks !;
foremen, subforemen and other su-
pervisory forces of the preceding
groups, $3.50 month.
Office boys, messengers, others un-
der 18 years of age, and station at
tendants, $45 a month.
Janitors, elevator and telephone
switchboard operators, Office, station
and warehouse watchmen, $40 a
month.
Stationary steam engineers and
chief stationary engineers, $110 a
month; stationary firemen and power
house oilers, 500; locomotive boiler
washers, 38 cents an hour, with
maximum of so cents an hour; opera
tors of transfer and turntables, As
cents an hour.
Laborers employed in and around
shops, roundhouses, stations, store
houses and warehouses excepting
harbor employees, to be provided for
separately such as engine watchmen
and wipers, fire builders, ashpit,
boiler workers, f1ue laborers, truck
ers, showers, shippers, coal passers.
and coal chute men, 81 cents an
hour, with maximum of 43 cents an
hour; other common labor in these
departments % cents an hour, with
maximum of 40 cents an hour.
In the maintenance of way depart
ment, those receiving the s25 month
or II cents an hour increases over
the pay of last Jan. /, together with
the minimum for each class are:
Foremen of the kinds of work
known as building, bridge, painter,
signal, construction, mason and con-
crete, water supply, maintainer, and
plumbing, $115 month; for assist
ant foreman of these classes, and for
foremen of classes known as coal
chute, coal wharf, fence gang and
for ditching and hosting engineer
and bridge inspectors, S105 a month.
Track foremen, 500 a month; as.
sistant track foremen, cents an
hour above rate paid iaborers when
they supervise.
Mechanics in maintenance of way
and bride building departments who
were not included in wage advances
for shop crafts several weeks ago, SO
cents an hour; helpers and mechanics
in these departments, not provided
for in the wage order affecting shop
men, 43 cents an hour.
Common laborers, % cents an
hour, with maximum of 40 cents.
Draw bridge tenders and assistants,
pile driver, ditching and hosting
firemen, pumper engineers and pump.
ers, crossing watchmen or lagmen,
lamp lighters, add $25 month to
wages of Jan. /.
Coach cleaners are to receive A
minimum of 20 cents an hour, with
maximum of 40 cents. This is or
dered as supplement to the action
affecting shop men.
For groups not specifically men
toned among the preceding CLASH
fications, the standard increases of
$25 month or IL cents an hour were
ordered.
In no case were wages received
under the general wage advance or
der to be decreased. Wages for new
positions are to be in conformity
with rates for similar kinds of work.
The order does not apply in cases
where amounts of less than $50 a
month are paid to individuals for
special part time service. Employees
assigned to higher rated positions are
to receive the higher rates, but those
denoted temporarily are not to have
their wages reduced. When called
to work outside of established hours.
employees will be paid for minimum
allowance of three hours.
The north Mississippi herald., 1918-09-20
0. 4. HAMMER.
County Fuel Administrator


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The north Mississippi herald., 1918-09-20
MEN 10 TO2O AND
81 TO Sc SLATED
FOR FIRST CALL

Provost Marshal General An
nounces New Registrants in
These Limits Will Be Placed
in Ranks in October. Ques-
tionnaires Go to These Class
es First.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-08-28

exclusively repubi-
paper and ALT local published herein.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-08-28
NOTICE

The management of the Coliseum
theater wishes to call the attention
Of the theater going public to the
fact that war tax tickets can be pur-
chased at the following business
houses: Tavern Cafe, Arctic Pool
Hall, Thompsan's Drug Store, Ter
minal Cigar Store and the Portland
Cigar Store.
1t will save time and delay at
the box office if you purchase your
war tax tickets before going to the
big shows.
Remember, it will take two five
cent war tax tickets for one general
admission, which will be 81; and
three five-cent war tax tickets for
reserved seat, which is $3.50.
Reserved seats may be engaged
at any time for either one of the
big shows on any night as advertised.
All seats reserved by phone will re-
ceive prompt attention.
Do 1t Now! And get a good seat
for the greatest shows that were
ever shown on the screen "The
Birth of Nation" and Intolerance"
Each show has twelve reels and will
be shown complete on each date as
advertised.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-08-28
LADIES' AID SOCIETY
HOLDS BIG MEETING

At the residence of Mrs. NJ. ].
Cooney yesterday afternoon a largely
attended meeting of the Nenana
Ladies' Aid Society was held and
much business pertaining to the well
fare of the society was transacted.
To fill the vacancies caused by the
designations of those who have left
the district, the following were
chosen, viz: Mrs. R. G. Southworth,
president; and Mrs. Oscar Rothen-
burg, treasurer. The remaining
officers will continue until next
election.
Rev. R. ]. Diven. who had kindly
consented to instruct the ladies in
parliamentary law and procedure,
gave his second lecture on this in
teresting subject at the meeting.
These lectures will be continued at
every meeting of the society.
Mesdames J. R. Bowen. W. H.
Gilcher and NJ. j. Cooney were ap-
pointed a committee to make ar
rangemets for giving a public enter
tainment in the near future in aid
of the Presbyterian Church Piano
fund. Mrs. Bowen is the chairman
of this committee.
About thirty-five ladies were pres
ent and many new members were
added to the strength of the society.
A delightful lunch on strictly
Hoover lines was served at the con-
clusion of the business meeting.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-08-28
COMMUNICATION
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Nenana, Alaska, August 2

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Editor News:
Had Sour Dough" mot even
hyphenated) failed to use that par
ticular pen name one might have
been forgiven for mistaking his
rather verbose attack on the gold
bonus suggestion, appearing in last
nights News, for one of those eff
fusions of paternal advice that some
newcomers just can't help unload
ing, usually in anything but homeo-
pathie doses, in kindly, patronizing
manner on poor, benighted Alaskans
who for years have been denied the
uplift that can be garnered only
, from residence in the big cities.
Sour Dough embodied in his COM
munlcatlon a paragraph of sound
reasoning-that one quoted from
the Scientific and Mining Press.
The greater part of the balance is
assumption with insufficient basis
He assumes, for instance: that
Congress has authorized a bonus of
SIP per ounce on gold produced in
the United States and also that
that bonus is confined to United
States producers"; that gold pro-
duction in the U. S. has increased
by leaps and bounds, Mines long
laid by as exhausted have become
miraculous producers Old gold,
coins and jewelry now go to the
melting pot by way of smelter and
refinery. To prevent this, an army
of policemen and detectives, greater
than the contending forces at the
front, is bootlessly employed. To
meet the bonus bill has put a tax
on the treasury of the u S. amount
ing to over s50,OOO,OOO. But we
can safely estimate that next year
will result in doubling the require
ment, if not quadrupling it,
A year ago l conjectured that the
government of the United States
might find itself in the position of
being absolutely unable to get along
without its normal accretion of raw
gold. 1t was on that hypothesis
alone that the suggestion of bonus
was made, coupled with the intima-
ton that if such bonus was to be-
come necessary eventually it would
be well to start at that time and so
maintain in operation mines then
struggling for existence, or other
wise they must inevitably be closed.
AS has been very thoroughly demon
strated since that time the vastly
increased cost of production has
made the profitable mining of gold
impossible in other than bonanza
properties, and many mines have
had to close down. Consequently
the government is not getting its
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-08-28

sitting down and allowing people to
leave the town under the misappre-
hension that they will better their
conditions Outside, when the facts
are that they can probably get high
er wages here and live under better
conditions here than they can Out
side unless they are skilled in some
line of work with a big demand now
for their particular class of labor.
Not only that, but the main sub
ject of conversation in those dying
towns is as to how bad conditions
are there, and what black outlook
there is for the future-in fact
crossing the bridges before you come
to them or even know they exist.
AS soon as a stranger comes to town
he is told all of these things and
naturally believes them. If he came
inclined to invest money, he soon
changes his mind and goes away, and
then he proceeds to tell everyone
how bad things are in that par
tlcular place, and as a result, it
soon becomes universally known
that such and such city is so dead
that it doesn't even need the SER
vices of an undertaken.
The facts of the case may be that
the town is only laboring under a
temporary depression, but once
known as dead one it takes it a
long time to ever regain conscious
ness.
A careless remark has been known
to cause run on a bank that was
unjustifiable and caused it to close
its doors; some gossipy remark can
absolutely ruin the reputation Of
some good man or woman; and a
few thoughtless words about a town
may spread and cause loss of bust
ness and population that otherwise
might be enjoying a healthy growth.
Business men should give up the
passing of malicious remarks about
their competitors that are sure to
react as boomerang to themselves
and cause them loss of patronage
also. The better plan is to get to-
gether and keep together and make
this the one town in Alaska that is
known all over the coast and
throughout the Interior as being in
good, prosperous condition. Boost
all the time. If you can't say good
word for the town, keep still. Re-
member that "as a man thinketh so
is he" applies also to cities. ILL.,
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-08-28
LET'S GET TOGETHER AND
KEEP TOGETHER

Ebert Hubbard once said: LAS
a man thinketh, so is he". That
truthful quotation can well be APP
piled to towns AS the people of
town think, so is the town.
In the last decade scientists and
thinking men have devoted an end
less amount of time and study to
the subject of psychology, which is
the science of the mind, mental
attitudes, and the effects produced
by mental means. Every citizen in
Nenana should become a practical
exponent of this subject, if not
student of it. Small oae-horse con-
Germs have applied psychological
laws to their business and have
grown beyond their widest dreams.
individuals have applied the same
laws and succeeded when failure
seemed indelibly stamped on their
lives. Towns that seemed dead and
gone forever have got together and
stayed together, and become cities
with a permanency of industries.
This has been accomplished in most
cases by the booster spirit; by al
ways speaking a good word for the
home town, and by never knocking
one another, never telling how bad
conditions are or are going to be
perhaps; in fact, by always seeing
the silver lining to every cloud, and
remembering that The man that's
worth while is the man that can
smile when every thing goes dead
wrong"
Medical men and scientists agree
that the constant thinking of even
imaginary ills, and the steady ac-
ceptance of negative suggestion can
produce death in person otherwise
healthy. The same applies to towns
and cities. A few knockers, Crouch
es and pessimists can kill town so
dead that a volcanic upheaval could
not bury it any more completely, #
they constantly talk about how dead
the place is, and how much deader
it is going to be in the near future.
Negative Suggestion is the mid
die name Of plenty of people, and
they are generally of the type who
have no ambition, who always see
only the dark side of everything:
and who never have any business
of their own to attend to because
they spend all their time talking
about the other fellow and his bust
ness. That reminds US of an old
adage that Is as true as gospel:
The reason that people who mind
their own business succeed in life
is, that they have so little competi-
ton"
Nenana is probably the best town
in the Interior of Alaska at the
present time. If it were not it
would beh0ve US to think so for our
own good; but the fact remains
that it is. Let's keep it that way.
Let's constantly talk about how good
times are here considering the stu
ations with which the entire world
have to contend Let's not only fig
ure for the present, but also for the
future. Too many think and say,
when the railroad is finished the
town will die. Let's not let it die.
There are endless resources and
possibilities that can and may be de-
veloped that will keep Nenana good
for long time. Let's try and make
our town the center of things that
are going to be in this district for
some time to come.
Other Interior towns are depict
ing in population, gradually dying,
and the main reason is that the
citizens of those towns are quietly
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-08-28

Pick up the pillow where it stands
in the furrow-patriotism is the prac-
teal doing of the next job.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-08-28

So long as the boys are at the
front, difficulties are to be subdued,
impossibilities to be trampled down.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-08-28
Want ADS

FOR SALE-Enameled double bed.
cotton layer laid mattress, spring
Lang cook stove, wood or coal.
also heater and baker, wheel
barrow, shotgun, 16 bore. with
shells; axes, wedges, saws, sledge,
peavy, carpenter tools. etc; all
best quality and cheap. Inquire
at yellow tent, opposite Commits
sion sawmill.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-08-28

FOR SALE-Two tents, 1Sx30 and
20x40. Inquire Simsons.
The sun., 1918-07-27
Plain Addition.

Some political prophets go entirely
by sentiment, employing for its meas
urement their indescribable, non-pat-
entable gauges Of that mysterious
spiritual effluvium which rises above
political regions in the early fall.
Other seers, less elastic of magma
ton, rely upon the cold figures of the
past for their DEMONSTRATIONS. Both
schools of prophets are not infre-
quenuy wrong. This year the po-
litical season is so young that the
mists-or miasmas-studied b. the
psychologists have not appeared. The
purely mathematical students have
the field all to themselves. Probably
many of them are porting over the
votes received In this city by one
candidate in the election Of Cover
nor in 1916 and by another candidate
in the election Of President Of the
Board Of Aldermen in 1917:
The sun., 1918-07-27
The Soul OF France.

We have lately read and heard
much about the soul of France, and
nothing could be more inspiring and
sustaining than the study Of the I'M
conquerable spirit Of that land Of
heroes and heroines; but it Is well
to remember that France has, be-
sides her soul, tenement for it that
should not be overlooked.
Frances enemies have spent much
energy and much money In hypocriti-
cally lamenting the alleged fact that
the nation was "bled white" Will
helmstrasse's agents were greatly
wrought up about her plight. Their
sobs as they discussed 1t almost made
the Jingle Of the German gold in
their pockets inaudible. They would
have had us believe that physical
France had been reduced to power
lessness and that only the glorious
soul remained.
But France is not mere soul. We
have the word Of ANDRE TARDIEU
that her strength has not entirely de-
parted from her; and we have incon-
trovertible evidence afforded by her
magnificent soldiers that the High
Commissioner speaks the truth. In
the present attacks on the Germans
the French have taken about IS per
cent. of the prisoners captured; they
have done a great share Of the fight
ing; they have struck blows that no
feeble, exhausted nation could have
struck. To WELD the sword that
France Yields to-day muscles and
Drawn are necessary.
Nor are muscle and Drawn and
soul all that are required to wage
the war that France is waging. In
telligence, knowledge, wisdom are es-
sential; and these France has. Pure
reason has never been more COM
pletely triumphant, more absolutely
INDICATED than in the case of FERDI-
NAND FoCH, the great commander
under whom other great commanders
serve; who, with mind Informed and
enlightened by the military genius
which so distinguishes the French
above all other peoples, visualized,
fought and won years ago the vital
struggle that Is in progress now.
The first victory was moral; the sec
ond was of the intellect; and the
third, now progressing to its final
stage, was physical.
Let us by all means give praise
10 the soul Of France, but let us not
forget that the soul of France IL
sheltered by body and Illuminated
by a mind.
The sun., 1918-07-27
The President on Mob Rule.

Every word that President WILSON
uttered yesterday in condemnation Of
mob rule, which finds it's most degrad-
ed expression in lynch law, Is sound,
true. and beyond controversy. All
men agree with the Presidents senti-
ments; not a few men have said
much the same things in the past.
Mob rule subvertS all civilized author
ity; lynching Is disgrace to the
town in which 1t occurs, to the State,
TO the nation. Private vengeance
discloses rotten public spirit. cor
rupt or incompetent public admins
tration, lax government generally. All
this Is admitted. confessed, and will
pass unquestioned.
But what emergency Of public af-
fairs has arisen to cause the Presi-
dent to read this lecture to his fellow
countrymen at this timer
II mob rule has been more general
recently than 1t was before April,
1917, for instance, 1t has certainly
been well concealed. There has been
no sudden eruption Of mob violence,
80 far as we have been Informed. The
Industrial Workers Of the World and
their continuous struggle against
society, in the course of which many
disgraceful acts of violence have been
committed by both sides, are not sew
factors in the nations life. Lynchfhg
of negroes in the Southern States Is
not to be attributed to passion result
ing from the war. The assaults on
Germans and pro-Germans, on fool
pacifists and pacifists with their peck
cts full of Prussian brlbe money have
not been numerous enough to Justify
20 broad an Indictment OF the nation
as Mr.. WILSON has presented.
THE SUN will not be accused of de-
Tending lynchers or mob law. We
have frequently denounced both
more, We have pointed the only sure
and dependable way Of curing what
is n notorious and a grave evil. But
we confess that the Presidents sud.
den heat on this subject, leading ia
On extraordinary address to his fel.