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The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-05-17
PLENTY CORN MEAL

According to an estimate made
public by the United States Food
Administration following a canvass
of the whole country the actual mill
ing output of corn meal increased
from 100000 barrels in October
to nearly 100000 barrels for the
month of March.
The estimated maximum capacity
for milling corn meal in the United
States mills running "a hours per
day, 80 days per month, exceeds
100000 barrels per month, an in
crease of 200 per cent over last
year.
In view Of this great output, says
the Official Bulletin, Americans are
now il a position to observe total
abstinence from wheat flour and de-
pend wholly on corn meal and other
corn products as their source of
breadstuffs. Our normal consump-
ton of W It flour is 100000
barrels per month.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-05-17

A. Miller, superintendent of the
Indian schools of Alaska, recently
purchased at Anchorage fourteen
one dollar memberships in the Red
Cross for as many natives at Susitna
who had been working on various
articles for several months and had
sent them to him to be sold and one
dollar of the total amount obtained
to be placed in memberships. The
school there is under the direction
of Miss Katherine Kane, who has
tried to particularly impress upon
her pupils the necessity for them to
do their share in assisting in the
war.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-05-17
NOT so BAD.

In view of the many reports ot
tampering with food by agents of
the German government, which have
been given wide publicity through
out the country since the United
States entered the war, it is graft
fying to learn from reliable source
that at least one of the evil prac-
tees recounted has been greatly ex-
aggerated. Ground glass, for in.
stance, which we have been led to
suspect might be encountered in al
most any article of food manu-
featured during the past twelve
months, exists chiefly in the minds
of super-imaginative persons.
The frequent and widespread pub
LEGATION of statements concerning the
presence of ground glass in food
stuffs led the committee on public
information to inquire into the au-
thenticity of these reports, with the
result that it was Informed by the
food administration that thorough
investigation of more than two hun
dred of the cases disclosed only one
instance in which ground glass was
found in the foodstuffs inspected.
I'VE have followed the elusive
ground glass story from Maine to
California, and from the Lakes to
the Gulf" announced the Food Ad-
ministration, in response to the in
curry, War Intelligence, Navy In
telligence and department of Justice
are doing the same. and in the thou
sands of cases that have been re-
ported. we have found but one gen
uine case Of deliberate intent in
putting ground glass in food. This
case was where a disgrunted en-
ployee of a bakerey in Fort Smith,
Ark, placed glass in one loaf of
bread. This was done for the pur-
pose Of injurinc the business of the
baker, and succeeded so we'll that
the baker is out of business, due
to untimely publicity"
The baker in question had had
trouble with his employees, one of
whom desiring to destroy his en-
ployer's business, filled with glass
loaf of bread which was to be de
livered to an orphanage. When the
bread was served to the inmates Of
the institution, several of them suf-
fered decorations of the lips, but no
more serious injuries resulted. The
case was given premature publicity,
and the owner Of the bakery was
accused Of being a German agent,
with the result that he had to re
tire hastily from business. .."
Premature publicity in such cases,
the Food Administration points out,
serves to create a condition of hys-
terra in households and does irrepar-
able damage to food producers and
handlers whose products are at
tackled.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-05-17
ANCHORAGE ASKS
LARGE SUM FOR
MARKETING COAL

Five million dollars to be used in
development work in the Chickaloon
coal fields and the building and oper-
alton of barges and transports to
carry coal shipments between An
chorage and Pacific coast cities, are
requests that have been made of the
United States government by the An
chorage Chamber of Comerce.
A resolution in which these re-
quests are incorporated, was intro
duced by DR.. F, NJ. Boyle at meet
ing of the chamber and adopted with
out any substantial opposition and
copies of it were cabled to congress-
men and senators and to the secre-
tary of the interior and the secre-
tary of war and other high officials
of the government at Washington.
The question of building ard main
tanning wagon roads in the Cache
creek country was discussed at some
length and copies of resolutions ask
ing for the construction of roads in
this district were ordered sent to the
proper officials at Washington.
The Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce is just now centering its ener-
giles upon obtaining better roads in
the Matanuska valley, Cache creek
and Willow creek districts and it is
anxious that work be commenced on
roads in these districts during the
early part of the summer.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-05-17

Eight hundred and twenty dollars
and fifty--three cents is the amount
in the treasury of the Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce, while the
outstanding obligations amount to
only Sis, according to the report
compiled by Robert NJ. Courtney, sec
rotary of the organization.
The present membership totals 1856,
which is the largest in the history of
the chamber.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-05-17

Ashes will be used by the townsite
office at Anchorage this spring for
the purpose of street Improvement.
Persons having any quantity of ashes
have been requested to notify the
townsite office of their location and
wagons would remove them to the
streets as soon as the work starts.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-05-17
Can Help Her Husband

And another woman writes:
"This gift will enable me to send
parcel to my poor husband, who
writes from Germany "a prisoner)
saying that he is starving. God bless
the American Red Cross, which came
at such sad time to brighten our
lives with ray of sunlight, and to
help US reach the harbor of peace.
Of this l shall keep the remembrance
all my life; and teach it to my wee
ones when they are old enough to
learn how to love America"
France never forgets-either an
injury or a kindness.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-05-17

No trouble to buy, cheap, con-
venient, a real investment.-WAR
SAVINGS STAMPS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
BOY SCOUTS AGAIN

A GAIN the Boy Scouts of the
u city have offered themselves
- for war service. The lads are
not old enough to shoulder guns,
but their thoughts are with their
older brothers in the trenches and
their hearts beat with the spirit Of
devotion to country and a desire to
help make the lot of our fighters as
pleasant as possible in the difficult
circumstances under which the SOL
dier lives. The cry has gone out for
books for the troops in the canton
ments and in France. 1t was like
the Scouts to volunteer to get them.
All over the country entertaining
and instructive literature is being
sought, but in Harrisburg the Scouts
will make the giving easy, for on
the day set apart for the contribu-
tions they will make a house-to-
house canvass.
And with that, gentle reader, the
Scouts put the matter up to you.
They cannot collect books unless you
give them. They don't want merely
books, however. They want real,
live books-the kind you yourself
read. Look over your library, pick
out those you have enjoyed most and
give them. Giving any other kind
is merely getting rid of junk and the
American soldier doesn't care for
that kind of literature. Be just as
good a scout as the Boy Scout and
make some soldier happier.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08

consolidation of schools, toward
which there is a tendency in some
counties. And it stands to reason,
because of the trend of cities and
the decline of agriculture in certain
sections, that they cannot generally
increase their tax rates. Moreover,
it must not be forgotten that the
State aid is in reality a reimburse
ment for the money spent the year
before and that the finances of many
districts are run so that some of
them have notes in banks most of
the time.
The problem of adjusting the
State appropriation for the COM
mon schools so that it will main
tain the educational facilities of the
rural districts, and at the same time
give reasonable aid to the cities, is
about as big a one as any State has
to face. And it should be made one
of the prime subjects for the next
session, be well studied and thor
oughly considered.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
ONE THING TO DO

IF THERE is one thing that must
be put down on the list for the
next session of the general as
sembly of Pennsylvania, be it regu-
lar or special in the time of its meet
ing, it is to be a new apportionment
of the millions of dollars which the
keystone State votes annually for
education. Like redistricting for
representatives in federal and state
lawmaking. it has been neglected
too long.
For years there has been COM
plant that the scheme for division
of the State aid for schools was
working in the interest of the cities.
State superintendent Schaeffer call
ed attention to that phase two years
ago. For years the plan has been
based on population, and naturally
the growth of the cities brought
them larger shares. But either the
State aid or the sums raised by local
taxation has not met the require
ments of these days, when education
is most highly priced and law de-
mands that juvenile wage earners be
given opportunities. The rural dis
tricts are losing out. They can not
hold their teachers They can not
erect suitable buildings. They can
not handle the problems attending
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08

Your propaganda proclaimed the
unity of the democratic elements OF
the whole world. You stretched
forth your hands to our simple
trusting soldier. AS he. extended
his hand to return your grasp of
fellowship you snatched his weapons
of defense from him.
Now gaze upon the Russian sol
dier. He stands disarmed before
you. Your sword is raised over his
head, ready to penetrate the vitals
of his nation.
fore the crime that you have COM
mitted.
Do not say that you are powerless
in your struggle against the pur-
poses of your government.
1t was you who raised the banner
of Zimmerwald. From your social
ist ranks came Lenine and other
agitators into Russia. The hour
has come when men who have prin-
ciples must fight for them. Sincere
men give up their lives for theil
principles. They go to the stake
for them. They die in exile. Wha
have you done to prove your sin
cerity?
The world awaits your words o.
condemnation of your government
But not a sound is heard.
OS the contrary, your govern
ment is now triumphantly reapinI
the fruits of your propaganda. YoI
stand idly by. You do not checl
it. The result of your conduct is {
mockery of all idealism. The mos
sacred ideas are pressed into tenn
porary service to replace the poison
gases of warfare.
1 call upon you, not in the namt
of Russia, not in the name of an.
material thing; 1 call upon you il
the name of those great ideals o
human brotherhood and fellowship
which you have insulted and shame
fully trampled down.
Unfortunately, individuals, some
times act in violation of their pro
fessed principles. Society condemn
such individuals bitterly. But ii
this case ideals have been misuset
to lead astray nation. Their high
est aspirations, their faith in hu
man nature itself, has been trif1eC
with. And remember that upon you
the leaders of German thought, th
sponsors for these appeals, falls tn
heavy responsibility, not only il
the eyes of the world, not only be
fore your own people-no, you
greatest responsibility rests upon yol
yourselves. How can you face tn
Judgment of your own conscienc
and the verdict of victory?'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
Count Hya ToLstOy on
German DupHcitv
BY COUNT ILYA TOLsTOY

ITO YOU, the thinking people of
Germany; to you, the leaders
of the social democratic party.
and to all citizens of Germany
whose Conscience is not yet dead, L
address this appeal.
l believe that if my words are
true nobody will be able to stifle
them, and that they will reach you.
The answer must come not to me,
but to the whole world.
l accuse you of the most heinous
crime that can be committed by
trifiing with the highest humane
ideals.
So long as you followed the law
of Moses, an eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth, and We're ruin
ing millions of lives inventing terri
BILE weapons for warfare and muir
der; while you were inhumanly kill
ing fellowmen and you yourselves
were dying fanatically, both you and
your victims were to be pitied. HUI
manity might have taken the wrong
road; but there was hope that the
trampled ideals of love and brother
hood could be resurrected to save
and bring the human race together.
Ou IIOSS
ideals long before the war. You
proclaimed them loudly The So
cialists OF your country promised
their comrades of different nations
that you would not lift your sword
for the conquest of Imperialism.
You have not kept these promises
Formerly you might have been
convinced that Germany was not
conducting a war of conquest. You
might have thought that you were
defending your fatherland from the
Imperialism of Russia. Since then
everything has changed. Russia's
imperialistic government has fall
en-. Russia has become democratic
Yet you continue to advance against
the helpless Russians. The greed OF
your government has become ter
ror.
What can be your justification
now? What have you done to prove
your sincerity? Not only have
you not demanded the cessation ot
the war, and kept your promises
but you have committed a far great
er crime.
Taking advantage of the freedom
of propaganda in Russia, you enter
ed our trenches, penetrated into the
interior of our country as heralds oi
a new ideal of international brother
hood. Under false banners of inter
national brotherhood you have lee
our people to disaster with the cry
of love on your lips.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
THE GERMAN-AMERICAN

Honor to him whose very blood re-
members
The old, enchanted dream-song of
the Rhine,
Although his house of life is fair
with shine
OF fires new-kindled on the buried
embers;
Whose heart is wistful for the fiow-
ers he tended
Beside his mother, for the carven
gnome
And climbing bear and cuckoo
clock at home.
For the whispering forest path two
lovers wended;
Who none the less, still strange in
speech and manner,
With our young Freedom keeps
his plighted faith,
Sides with his children's hope
against the wrath
or his own childhood. halls the
Banner
AS emblem of his country now, to-
morrow;
A patriot by duty, not by birth.
The costliest loyalty has purest
worth.
Honor to him who draws the sword
in sorrow!
BY Katharine Lee Bates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08

THIS is a day of great possibil'
tiles; possibilities for good
possibilities for evil.
Labor has it in its power to help
make the country victorious against
the advance of the Hun, or to utter
ly wreck its war for the perpetuatior
of freedom and democracy on earth
Labor has elected to stand by the
Government, as it always has. La
Dor is loyal, labor is patriotic. But
what is labor going to get out OF
the war?
That is a question thousands are
asking themselves, and very prop
erly so, for this is a war for democ-
racy and democracy is the govern
ment of the people, by the people,
and the great democracy of labor
brain as we'll as brawn-must profit
by this conflict or the sacrifice will
have been for naught.
How England is meeting the war
situation and how English labor is
answering this question we shall
hear in Chestnut Street Auditorium
this evening from the lips of men
who have been keeping English
labor steady in the crisis and have
Nbeen helping frame England's after.
the-war program. To hear them
ought to be very well worth any
mans while.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Lieutenant J. L. Candy, one of
the men decorated in France, is a
former Pittsburgh man. He used
to fe in the steel business.
The Rev. Charles Scanlon, who
was prominent in the National
party convention, was 'one of the
active men at the Dry Federation
meeting here last month.
Col. l.. II. Beach, of the United
States Army engineers, has been
making visits along the Ohio river
in western counties.
State Librarian Thomas Lynch
Montgomery, was for seventeen
years head of one of the big Ii
braries in Philadelphia.
DR. II. d. Heller, quarantine
officer at Philadelphia, has been hon
ored by election to the board of
health of his home town, Heller
town.
Seth D. Shoemaker, chairman
of Scranton's war garden commit
tee, has received offers of 600 acres
for gardens in that city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
A STATE CONVENTION
[From the Altoona Tribune

From the Altoona IflDuneI
While the state law has abolished
political conventions-very unwise-
ly, as we believe-there is moth
ing to prevent the assembling of q
state convention representing the
Republican voters of Pennsylvania
for purposes of discussion, plat
form making or even the suggestion
of state candidates for the consid
Grafton of the voters at the pri-
maries. The Prohibition party held
state convention some weeks ago
and nom mated q ticket to be rati-
fed by mem bers of the party at the
primaries. The Socialist party has
just done the same thing. Why
should not the Republican party
initiate their example?
No organization is likely to pros
per if the bond of cohesion among
its members be loosened. Who are
the most active members of the
church, those who forsake the as
sembling of themselves together. or
those who make point of attend
ing all the regular or special serV-
ices? Which member of your fra
ternal society is most useful in work.
| ing for it's maintenance, the regular
| attendant upon the weekly meetings
or the one who never visits the hall
! in which those meetings are held?
We are told that there is safety in
a multitude of counselors, which
means that interest in cause is al
WAYS intensified by frequent gen.
eral meetings.
Upon several occasions since the
Legislature adopted the uniform pri-
mary act and abolished state con-
yentions the Tribune has urged the
party leaders to arrange for an un-
delegated gathering of members of
the party at Harrisburg for the pur-
nose of consultation and agreement
upon policies. When we say undel-
egated. we do not mean that the
convention should not be limited as
| 70 numbers or that each county
| should not have a definite number
of representatives. These might be
named by the county chairman of
each county, or by some other au-
thority, the state committee having
fixed the total number. A state
convention thus constituted could
not interfere with the final action
of the people at the primaries, but
II could formulate an expression of
Republican opinion and the min
Cling of the delegates would stimu-
late enthusiasm and greatly
strengthen the party.
The Tribune believes in the con-
tagious enthusiasm of crowds. IT
wishes the leaders who are at this
moment trying to get the better of
each other would come to their
senses and arrange for a great Re-
publican mass convention at Harris
burg within the next six weeks at
which all factions might be repre-
sented and where the fullest and
frankest discussion of the present
situation and of the possibilities OF
the future might be indulged in
Why not have love feast instead
of civil war"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
Over he Top
tN PeMno.

There was time when the "effete
East" regarded the wild and
woolly West" with awe. The day is
past. Think of a Western paper
being so timid as to speak of a man
hanged as having throat trouble"
There is no doubt this mighty war
will have good results, among them
teaching efficiency and adaptability.
A north county weekly paper illus
trates this with an advertisement:
-"Wanted:-MaS with Ford car
who has mechanical turn and knows
all about cows"
A successful scheme for collect
ing honest debts was recently used
by an upstate jeweler which may
interest some unfortunate. He put
an advertisement in the local paper
which ran:
at shall publish the name and
exact address and vocation of each
of the aforementioned dead beats,
giving in my usual style a psycholo-
gical treatise of their character and
makeup. The paper goes to press
at 1890 a. M, and all who are
anxious to have their characters
III pTiIlI ilOL SSbllS
their accounts before that time"
The latest sensation in science is
| the claim that man was the father
of the monkey, instead of the other
way. The theory is not likely to
become popular; quite few might
have trouble proving an alibi.
"Our cars are badly crowded. '
| informed the trolley superintendent
"Um," from the president.
"And our passengers are good ano
hot"
Splendid" said the president
"Then we can turn off the heat"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
chose Last Dear Moments

Each at her post we women stand;
Mine is the safer, easier part
And yet there is an iron band
OF envy round my heart
For her, the weary nurse who spent
Those last dear moments at his
side,
The woman who in pity bent
And kissed him when he died.
BY Amelia Josephine Burr.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
Found Out Soon

The American sector is in Lor-
raine. There was no use trying to
keep its whereabouts a secret. The
Germans knew where it was right
away.-From the Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08

Rochester IN. Y.) Transfers and
Chauffeurs' Union has secured an
advance of 81 week.
More than one-tenth of the mar
ried women in the United States are
engaged in gainful occupations.
Since 1914 the women employed
on trans, buses and railways in
England have increased 326 per
cent.
Portland, Ore. grocery clerks are
organizing. Their complaint is long
hours and low wages.
State officials say there are more
minors employed in Pennsylvania
industry now than for years.
A ribbon decoration for nurses and
women hospital workers is to be
awarded shortly.
In Pennsylvania 2,67O workers in
| industries sustained accidents which
resulted fatally in 1916.
Three hundred thousand domestic
servants in England have turned
their attention to munition work.
Salem, Ohio. retail clerks have
organized a union.
In a report on industrial exper-
fences of trade school girls in Mass
achusetts, issued by the Federal Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics, it is stat
ed that the history of the 744 Boston
trade school girls who graduated
and then entered their trades does
not support the common theory
that the working girls stay in in
dustry is limited to a few years.
After seven years 66.S per cent. of
those girls were still wage-earners.
1914 per cent. had married, 81 per
cent. were at home or in school and
46 per cent. had died or been lost
sight of.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08

The trouble with the Russian is
not that he will not fight, but that he
prefers to fight his neighbor rather
than the highwayman from over the
border.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg's amateur
gardeners raised food worth
thousands of dollars last sum-
mer and fall.