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The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-05-18
PULL TOGETHER

The administration has show much
wisdom by getting together with the
military committees of congress and
arranging to keep them informed
from week to week on the progress
of the war, comments the Portland
Oregonian. The President will ac-
complish much more by working
with congress than by fighting or
ignoring it. He must look to it
for money and legislation, much of
which must be obtained in a hurry,
and the weekly meetings will fur
nish an opportunity for quick ac-
ton.
But the war department confer
ences should not be permitted to
degenerate into a device by which
the committee of Congress becomes
parties to covering up failures or
blunders of administration. To that
end there should be as much pub
licity as to their proceedings as
there is at congressional inquiry,
consistent, of course, with that de-
gree of secrecy which is always nee
essary in war. 1t was not the in
quiry by the senate committee which
caused the perceptible improvement
in war activity and organization
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
is behind, it can give the laggard
a dig with spur of criticism which
will make him speed up. The free
atmosphere of publicity is democ-
racy's means of attaining and main
tanning efficiency.
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.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-05-18
PRICES IN ENGLAND

High wages mean high prices
Fresh cycles of wage advances sue
coed on another. Each one results
in further increases of prices or in
preventing a reduction of prices.
The producers are raising prices
against themselves as consumers.
We are deeply impressed with the
seriousness of the situation, and are
convinced that if the process con-
tinues the result can hardly fail
to be disasterous to all classes of
the nation"
This is the summing up Of re-
port recently presented to the house
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 recommends
dations of the committee include:
1.-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-
ton 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
f130,000,000 yearly"
One of the most important causes
of the increase of expenditure. says
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-05-18

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-
pie the general increase of prices
would have been considerably less
than it is.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-05-18
BEANS A FOOD FOR WAR OR
~ ~ ~ PEACE ~ ~ ~

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 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
Jumps of dirt or bits of pod, but
also sort the beans according to
size.
In some states the beans are fur
Their sorted by being run along a
giant picker, consisting of rubber
rollers. 1t is something like huge
clothes-wringer 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 SINH
lar blemishes, manipulating is nee
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 60
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
widespread 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. 1t 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.
ton that colored beans, such as the
California pink bean and the Colo
rada pinto are inferior to white
Analysis has proved them just as
Some persons have been
prejudiced against the pinto bean
because of it's dark-brown spots.
But it is exactly as good as a white
bean, and it has been selling at a
lower price Besides, even the spots
disappear in cooking. The United
States Food Administration, empow-
cred by the provisions of the Food
Bill of August 10, 1917, is purchas-
ing through it's Grain Corporation
last years entire crop of pinto
beans, with a view to distributing
them to all markets and keeping
their price stable.
Nowadays only the person who
truly doesn't know beans" can fail
TO perceive this vegetables value to
people at home, to our soldiers, and
to the cause for which they battle. |
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-05-18

an open boat with only a scant sup
ply of provisions, was a recent visi-
tor in Anchorage on his way to
assume charge of the wireless sta
ton at McGraun. The station was
built last summer by Falcon Joslin,
the well known mining man.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-05-18

A. w. Lipke, wireless operator on
the Tahoma at the time of her
wrecking on an unchartered reef
near Attn Island in 1914, when he
spent four days and five nights in
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-09
Indian Camp In Heart
of 'Glades Looked Mighty
Good To Lost Men

returned, picked up OConnell and
carried him on to camp. The Indians
were attired in gaudy clothes and
lived in crude huts with matched
roofs. They spoke a language that
could not be understood by either OF
the toll worn travellers. The wom-
en-, seeing them in dire need Of food,
hurried them a meal made up of hot
coffee and fresh bread which certain
ly was a Godsend to them as they
wer as near exhaustion as any two
living people could be. After the
meal they gave the Indians their col
lar ornaments and made arrange
ments to get to the nearest town
which was Miami, 80 miles to the
north, and retired to bed for the first
rest hey had had in three days.
At an early hour the next morning
they started their journey in a glade
boat or dugout through the slews and
swamps they had walked through for
the past So hours. At p M that
night night they arrived at a dredge
canal IA miles from the Indian camp
where they saw the first white peo-
pie since leaving Carlstrom, Field.
They were given clean beds for the
night and their clothes washed.
On the following morning they
took motor boat taking four hours
to travel is miles reaching the out
skirts CT Miami where they secured
a Ford and were driven to the Curtiss
field, a marine aviation camp, where
they were given treatment and this
post was notified of their sacety.
Or the following day Sgt. O'Con-
nell returned to Carlstrom Field. 1t
certainly looked good to the soldier.
LIT. Smith with a crew of men re.
turned to the ship where he is now
working trying to return 1t to camp.
| think every officer and ENLISTED
man on Carlstrom will look upon 1t.
Smiths return as a joyous moment
for he was one of the most popular
officer the camp has.
Sgt. O'Connel is again back on the
job at the Photo shop still feeling a
little of the hard trip and glad the
trip is over for it is one that he will
remember forthe rest of his life for
it was one that few ever came out of
long enough to tell how it all hap.
pened.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-09

them from the kaiser DOWNS beat
an beaten, beaten to his knees, maze
to understand the white mans nor
ror Of what his war-lust has speWeu
forth upon an innocent world
Remember the Lusitania!
Remember the priests and the
nuns!
Remember the wives and daugh'
tiers, the little children!
Remember our hospitals!
Remember the poisoned wells!
Remember the crucifixions OF our
soldiers!
Remember the blood that cries up
from French soil!
Vengeance! AS an American clti-
zen | demand it of my government
A white mans vengeance; retrlpu-
button; restitution. | demand it in
the name of my brothers-my com
rnon brothers who haev died IN
france, who are dying this moment,
fur those who will die tomorrow!
We shall talk of mercy and Tor
giveness only when we have finished
the job we have started out to do.
So take care, pacifists! We true
Americans are in no gentle mood. We
have no desire for the incurslon OF
white+livered, wobbly-kneed emotion
aljsts into the field we have no re-
Gently chosen for ourselves. We did
choose it. And by the same token
we shall finish it. Germany wanted
war. By the living God, she is going
to get it, a brimming cup of it. When
we have forced the draught down her
bloody pirates throat, we shall talk
of peace and mercy and forgiveness
But all pacifists are warned tc
keep clear of our road until then!
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-09
PAY THE DEBT
A Word to Voters from State Cam
naign Committee

America owes its civilization both
to inheritance and to training. lis
free institutions, inherited from Eng
disappearing peoples, came down to
us from a past filled with heroic sac
rifce, and have been preserved be-
cause American youth have been
taught their origin and meaning and
to know the significance of freedom
of speech, freedom of conscience,
freedom Of action so long as the
rights of others are respected and to
know, too, the struggles of their an
cestors for trial by jury and for self
government. Thomas Jefferson be-
lieved that the hope of lasting free
dom for this nation lies in it's public
schools, and the American people &C.
cepting that view almost as relig.
ion, have done much to make their
schools the best possible. Training
in the public schools has had much to
do with what efficiency we have
shown as nation in this war with
the efficiency of our Army in France
and most of this training has been
given by poorly paid, under-paid,
women teachers, who have had to
depend on relatives for support during
part of the year who still are com
PEELED to spend money for continued
selfimprovement at Summer Schools,
and this at time when the increase
in the cost of living makes such ex-
penditures almost impossible. When
the cost of living shoots up sudden
ly teachers are among the last to re-
ceive an increase of pay. Some Flor
ida counties have, it is true, given
an increase this year to their teach
Crs but that was possible only be-
cause they trusted to the peoples
sense of fairness and Justice, and the
patriotic appreciation of the men and
women who have had the benefit Of
{ public school education in Florida
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-09
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WILL RELEASE MINERS
FROM THE ARMY
British Government viii Send 10000
Back to Mines, Believing
They Can be Of Great.
est Service There

So important is the mining indus.
try to the success of the war that,
according to word which has reached
the Department of Labor, the Brit
ish government plans to return TO-
900 miners to their work, releasing
them from the army. These men en-.
tered the military service voluntarily
or under the CONSUMPTION act, but
because of the urgent need of their
services at home they will be sent
back to the mines.
Great Britain, according to some
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-09
WHY NOT TODAY

The campaign for the sale of Lib
erty bonds always drags at first and
winds up with a whoop at the finish.
This is no exception in the beginning
and will prove no exception in the
end The offerings are larger now
than ever before but the demand
should be greater for we now see the
money we are investing will certain
ly bring all the results we ever de-
sired. The people subscribed when
the war was going against our Allies
and their subscriptions coupled with
our contributions of men and mater
ial which the subscriptions made pos
sible turned the tide and now we are
face to face with a certainty Of vic
tory.
There are those who object % this
statement, saying we will not win VIC
tory if we relax our efforts. OF course
this is true but who ever heard of a
people relaxing their effort when the
c0nsummation of all their plans was
in sight? The amount asked from the
people today is necessary for success
IN the war. What we have subscribed
has turned the tide but if we were
to stop the fortunes of war would
again turn against us. The sum that
is now asked is as essential as any
that has been asked in the past and
it will be given as plentifully as anv
has been given in the past We now
see beyond peradventure that it will
buy what we want much more than
we want the money, large as the sum
is that is asked.
The government of the United
States makes no promises-it will
continue to call for money as long as
money is needed and it will get it,
but the Times-Union believes that
this is the last chance to secure Unit
ed States bonds drawing the interest
that these will draw Taking it for
granted that there will be no rc!axa
ton Of effort victory is assured and
not distant. We do not believe it will
be necessary to borrow any more
money to finance the war after this
loan and if peace comes soon as now
seems certain, the bonds bought to-
day at par will be worth at least 20
Per cent above par. In time of peace
Uncle Sam can borrow all the money
he wants at 3 per cent and bond
bringing as high a rate OF interest as
the issue offered will command a high
premium.
To the salaried man this issue Of
fers fine opportunity of saving for
he can make arrangements to pay for
the bonds on weekly payments. To
the capitalist II offers a fine invest.
ment for it will be worth much NOR
a year from now than it is now. t
the patriot it is the call of his cour
try and he will heed it. But why n,
today?-Jacksonville Times-Un;cn
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-09

There are enemy aliens and tA
are native aliens. The Amen1
who does not do his part tow
winning the war, who neither rgl
nor works nor lends for victory 81
much an alien to Americas purpU
and Americas cause as the rank
Prussian interned in this county.
This is a war of peoples as well
of nations, and each individual
place and a duty.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-09
CITIZENS, BE ON YOUR GUARD!
Written by Harold McGrath for the
National Security League)

Watch out! Be on your guord,
Americans! Presently the German
government will step forward, wash
ing its Judas hands and smirking
conciliatorily
Come; let us patch up our differ
cnces. Why go on with this murder,
when little quiet talk may settle 1t?
Why, we will give up Belgium, north
ern France, even Alsace and Lor-
raine. We don't talk about indemni-
ties. And who the devil cares for
Russia? Come on; let us get togeth-
or and talk it over"
Americans, watch your step. Faith
ers, mothers, sisters, wives, mind
your eye. Here comes the deadliest
menace of all. For there will be
thousands of well-meaning men and
women-kindly well-meaning people
who will never larn anything, who
were born wobble-kneed and weak in
the tear-duc-who will throw up their
hands and wall: "Oh, my friends,
let us be merciful! Let us stop this
horrid war before all youth is wiped
out. Let us forgive. In Chirst's
name, let us forgive!"
Americans, in the name of Christ
stand firm. For if this isn't war for
Christianity, there never was one
| 9osmany's god IS not ours. Ger
many's ruler has Wanted the fact.
No mercy until the Hun-all bi
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-09

indications, is in danger Of a d
shortage, and efforts are being q
eral to speed up production \
output per man in England is .
from figures at present available
good as in this country, where nj
coal has been mined than ever bel
despite depletion of labor po1
through enlistment and the draft
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-09
r in any state of this Union. But

or in any state of this Union. But
other counties have found that impos-
sible. In justice to both teachers
and children the more fortunate
counties must give such counties the
chance to raise more school funds;
it will rest with each county then to
act according to its own necessities.
To American teachers largely, and
to the difference in systems Of edu-
cation, is due the difference between
tn American and the German soldier.
To one American teacher, too, is due
the fact that July 1, 1918 witnessed
the launching of the largest feet of
merchant ships ever launched in one
year in all the world. A patriotic
and efficient, but poorly paid Ameri-
can teacher showed the United
States Emergency Fleet Corporation
how to get the 100000 expert ship
carpenters needed to build this feet
when only $4,000 could be found in
the United States, or indeed in all
the world and be brought here for
the work. Everybody said it was
impossible to train the men as need
ed and that the submarine had us
whipped. But an American teacher
showed the heads of the nation just
how to train the men and to do "the
impossible thing" of training expert
ship carpenters with unbelievable
speed. The ships were launched
And today there are at work in the
shipyards practically the full needed
quota of expert men.
The debt of America and of Florida
and Of civilization to the American
teacher is, indeed, too big to meas.
ure. Men Of American birth have
begun in other states to pay that
debt, which explains why so many
Of the better teachers are leaving
Florida. So, today the school boards
and school, trustees Of Florida, as
well as all State and County Super
intendents, officers elected by the
people to administer Floridas school
system, are asking the voters of Flor.
ida, the fathers and brothers of the
children, to give them on election
day chance to pay the children's
teachers just and living wage, to
keep the best teachers from leaving
the State in order to make living
wage, and to keep school terms from
being shortened next year in those
counties that have had to raise sal
aries to get teachers for their schools
this year. Those counties must have
, the chance to get from one to three
additional mills school tax-as they
may need it, Your county and your
County Board may not need another
mill or another half-mill. But If they
do actually need it, you surely want
| them to have it. So vote on Novem-
Der 9Th fort he ratification of the
, Amendment submitted by the Legis-
ature to Section or article XII of
the Constitution fixing ten mills in
stead of seven as the maximum coun-
ty school tax. In justice to your
children and to their teachers, this is
both your duty and your privheg.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-12-06
SAVE 100000 BUSHELS
OF WHEAT THAT FORMERLY
WAS LOST IN THRESHING
Farmers, Urged by Food Administra-
ton, Provide Seven Extra Loaves
of Bread for Every American.

! By adopting cleaner threshing meth
DDS and by literally combing harvest
fields to gather grain formerly vast
ed, threshermen and farmers Of the
United States this year saved fully
100000 bushels of wheat, estimated
as equivalent to about seven one-pound
loayes of bread for every person in
the country This result, accompanied
by corresponding savings of barley,
oats, rye and other grains, is shown by
reports from 33 grain states to the q.
s. Food Administration. Other states,
although not pzaaared to furnish def
mite figures 81 conservation in the
grain fields, f<x2rt greatly reduced
harvest losses.
This rural fs<A saving achievement,
accomplished Ia scarcely six months
time, was in 2asoct response to re-
quests by the Food Administration,
which asked farmers and threshermen
to reduce harvest losses from about
81 per cent.-the estimated average
in normal times-to the lowest posi-
BILE minimum. Country grain thresh-
ing committees carried into every
grain growing community the official
recommendations for accomplishing
the results desired.
In numerous instances drivers of
racks with leaky bottoms were sent
from the fields to repair their equip
ment and frequently bad order thresh-
ing machines were stopped until the
cause of waste was removed. But in /
proportion to the number Of persons
engaged In gathering the nations grain /
crop, cases of compulsion were COM
paratively rare. The Food Admins
Itration' freely attributes the success of
the grain threshing campaign to pa
triotic service by farmers, .thresher-
men and their crews. Incidentally
grain growers of the United States are
many millions of dollars 'in pocket"
as result of the grain saved. 4
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-12-06
RED CROSS RELIEF
IN The FAR EAST
Bring Food and Supplies to
Czecho- SIovaks in
Siberia.

IN HE American Red Cross has be-
come very active in that part Of
Russia surrounding yladivos-
ok, and the prompt medical assistance
| 'endered that distressed country has
esulted In saving thousands of lives
The rescue work done by the Red
Cross for the Czecho-Slovak refugees
las assumed prodigious proportions
md is daily becoming greater in scope
Cabled advices received from Vladi-
7ostok report that more than 10000
Jzecho-Slovak refugees, 1000 of them
children, are now being cared for by
he American Red Cross at that city. In
addition to this relief work, the cables
state that the Red Cross Medical or
yanization is attending hundreds Of
wounded Czecho-Slovak soldiers who
nave reached Vladivostok after weeks
If the most desperate fighting against
he ro-German forces.
The condition of the refugees, who
we're found living in tents and freight
,ars along the Chinese Eastern Rail-
way west of Hardin, was pitiable. A
majority of them are farmers, though
here are many coal miners and rail-
way employees In the number, people
who were driven from their homes by
he Bolsheviki, and some German and
Austrian war prisoners.
The work of administering to the
wounded Czecho-Slovak fighters, who
steadfastly refused to recognize the
Bolsheviki- German peace, and reliev-
ng the distress of the homeless civil
ANS was started the moment their
plight was brought to the attention of
The American Red Cross. The relief
work was directed by Charles K No
ser, American consul and head Of the
Red Cross chapter at Hardin. Ameri-
can Red Cross chapters at Tokyo and
Shanghai also gave valuable aid.
While waiting for instructions from
America, they went ahead and raised
funds in Vladivostok which provided
temporary relief for both soldiers and
civilians.
On authorization of the American
Red Cross. DIR. r. B. Teusler. head of