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The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-23
TOlOVANA LAUNCH
 ARRIVES IN PORT

Carl Whites new lanuch Brooks, a steam propelled craft, built in Fairbanks last winter, towing the launch he used last season, arrived in port at o'clock this morning with the mails for Tolovana and ] few passengers in transit on board The launch also brought handful of mail, containing few local letters and papers and some regist- cred mail, and Father Monroe, Alex Fowler and another for Nenana.
 Among the passengers on board bound for the Tolovana country were H. E. St. George, Luther Hess, Paul Ringseth and Miss Mary Eng lund The boat and her tow got away at S:30 this morning.
 Carl White, who has the contract to carry the mail between Fairbanks and Tolovana, intends to transfer the new steamer Brooks across the jam and use her on the upper reaches of the river; his old boat will maintain the service between the upper town and the log jam on tn Tolovana river.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-23

sHOTGUNS and Shotgun Ammu- stock just opened, at Anderson Bros & Nerland. .":
The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-23
LAUNCH VICTORY
 LEFT FAIRBANKS

The fast launch Victory, under the command of Fred Douse. left Fairbanks at l o'clock this after noon and may be expected to arrive in Nenana this evening.
 She is bringing some second class mail and E. P. Allard and x. Dietz as passengers for Nenana.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-23
ACADEMY DANCE
 TOMORROW NIGHT

Immediately after the conclusion of the entertainment given by the Franklin K. Lane school at the Labor Union hall tomorrow night the dance given by the Nenana Dancing Academy, under the direc- tion of Mrs. Belle Campbell, will be held
 The price of admission to the dance will, as usual, be s1 for gentlemen, ladies being admitted free of charge.
 All arrangements as regards the floor and music have been made, and dance lovers are assured of d rollicking time.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-23
EXERCISES TOMORROW NIGHT AT
 LABOR UNION HAIL

The closing exercises of the Franklin K Lane school will be held tomorrow night at the Union Hall. commencing at 8:3O o'clock. Ad- mission will be by ticket at 50 cents each, and the proceeds of the entertainment will go toward the equipment and maintenance of the school library.
 It is hoped that Nenanaites will strongly support the entertainment and make it possible for the kids to secure for themselves a library worthy of the school and town.
 The teaching staff have taken great pains in drilling the pupils in their parts in the various mum bers on the program which is D be rendered tomorrow night, and that a finished rendition of the various items will result is but a foregone conclusion.
 The program of the closing exer- cises to be rendered tomorrow night follow:
 l. Song-Voices of the Woods.
 By the School 2. Dramatizations:
 O-Goldlocks ........-..........-...... Genevieve Oldfield, Noel Schaeffer Lena Herington, William Siverly
 (2)-The Hungry Wolf Richard Foster, William Siverly,
 Ira Campbell, Frank Major
 Genevieve Oldfield
The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-23
ROMAN CATHOLIC SERVICE
 IN NENANA ON SUNDAY

Father Monroe, who arrived in Nenana on the Carl White steamer Brooks this morning, announces that mass will be celebrated at the Roman Catholic church on Sunday morning at 9:30.
 Father Monroe has not definitely decided as to when he will lea ye for the upper town. If further services are to be held here, due announcement of same will be made.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-23

5. Play-Mother Goose in War Time
 By the First Six Grades 1. Solo-Lullaby (From Ermine)
 Valentine Anderson }. A Program Committee --.-............. Margaret Southworth and Valentine
 Anderson $. Boarding School Accomplishments Muriel Russell, Walter Scott, Mar garet Southworth, Sam Ivey '. Song-Be Glad d......-....-................ Valentine Anderson, Vera Russell. Margaret Southworth and Muriel
 Russell 8. Taking the Census s...-.....-.......-.. Valentine Anderson and Melville
 Cooney 9. Pageant-With Song America For Me.-...,-,.....--.,..By the School
The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-23
SHELDON DEFINES WORK FOR SEASON IN THE DISTRICT

Robert Sheldon, chairman of the Territorial Road Commission for the Fourth judicial division, has ao- pointed "Alabam" Leboyteau and Jim Tracy road overseers for the Tolovana district. "Alabam" will have charge of the road from Brooks up to Livengood, while Tracy will look after the road from the log jam to Brooks.
 Sheldon's plans for road work during this season call for the con- struction of road along Birch hill to connect the ranches in that sec tion and to give the ranchers an opportunity to market their pro- duce
 Considerable work is to be don- on the Ester and Fairbanks creek roads. Walter Rynearson will look after the work on the Ester road. which will take about a month to finish; while William Terrill will supervise the work to be done on the Fairbanks creek road, which will consume longer period. Terrill has specially constructed mess and bunk car on wheels which will admit of the rapid movements of the gang of men under his control For the work to be done on the road from Engineer creek to 21 Goldstream, Gus Peterson, who is operating on 21 Goldstream, has offered to give Sheldon the use os his teams free of charge and will also supply the necessary teamsters who will be paid by the road com mission.
 The road from Fox to Olnes will receive as much attention as the limited funds will allow; the bridges recently destroyed by forest fire will first be replaced and such work as is absolutely necessary will first be accomplished, after which the general repairs will be attened to.
 Jimmy Haney is in charge of a gang of men building road in the Steel creek region. He has already corduroyed a section of the road leading over the flats, built a bridge across Steel creek and car rieci the road for about a mile up the hill to where it connects with the Smallwood trail These roads will be put into good shane this season.
 Repairs are also to be under taken on the Little Eldorado road and the road from Cleary summit to Chatanika.
 There are two roads leading to St. Patrick's creek, neither of which is in shape for travel. One of these roads is to be selected and put in good repair.
 Nenana District
 MT Sheldon stated that he had received a letter from the Nenana Commercial club and an applica- tion from the miners of the Kan tishna district relative to summer road into the Kantishna district. He stated that he favors such a road as suggested and expects to go over the proposed route as soon as he can get away from Fairbanks. He will then look over the route from Lignite to Moose and other creeks in the Kantishna country.
 He stated that there was every possibility of the work being started before the end of the saaSop
The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-23
OUTSIDERS ARE SLOW LEARNING
 ABOUT ALASKA

Despite all that has been done
 by Alaskans to inform Outsiders
 regarding conditions in this country,
 despite the wide circulation of gov
 ernment reports, covering every
 phase of federal activity in the
 North, the publicity campaigns con
 ducted by the Alaska bureau of
 the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and the hundreds of descriptive
 articles published by writers of prominence, in magazines and news papers, despite all these efforts to enlighten the people of the United States, there still remains an as founding amount of ignorance re- garding Uncle Sam's northern en- pire. And more surprising still is the fact that a very large propor- ton of this ignorance is shared by residents of the Pacific coast,
 much of it even in Seattle, where Alaskan affairs are second only in importance to those of the Puget Sound metropolis.
 In letter adressed to the An chorage Times, well known old timer of the railroad town tells of coming in contact with many resi-
 dents of the Spirit City who dis played an appalling lack of know ledge of the territory.
 4 business man of Seattle, he
 writes, dating his residence from
 1889, expressed gratificaton in meeting someone from Alaska for the reason that he was "an old Alaskan himself" He had been
 everywhere in the North, he assured the visitor from Alaska, yet he could not recall the. names of any i; of the coast towns, except Juneau, and was not sure whether the capi- tai was Juneau or some other place. T have been to Juneau" he said, ''and seen that wonderful railroad
 the Guggenheims built" When re- minded that he must be referring to Cordova, he gave another ex- hibition of ignorance by replying "Oh yes, that's so, where the capi- ltol is. I remember"
 The writer also tells of an intro duction to a Seattle woman wh ) said she was glad to run across someone from the North, for she wanted to make inquiry about a
 brother who had migrated to Alaska several years previously. She did not knoY where the brother had located, but supposed anyone from
 Alaska knew everyone else there When an attempt was made to con- vey some idea of distances in the
 territory, the lady cut short the conversation, expressing the belief that her new acquaintance had never been in Alaska
 Among other questions put to the Alaskan by residents of the Spirit City, were: Do the boats stop at Seward before they do at Anchorage. Does the water in Cook Inlet freeze all the way to the
 bottom. Is it dark six months of . the year in Alaska? Is it true i that old prospectors are compelled to live on glacier worms when short of provisions? :..=.
 How to overcome this ignorance i of Alaska, the writer concludes, is la problem, especially when the representatives of our own govern ment at Washington refuse to be- lieve the cold facts concerning it's wonderful development of resources in the past under most adverse cir cumstances and conditions.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-23
FAREWELL RECEPTION
 FOR MRS. ERLE BROWN

In view of the impending depar- ture of Mrs. Erie Brown, a farewell reception will be held in her honor by Mesdames w. H. Gilcher and R. G. Southworth, at the home of Mrs. Gilcher, at First and c streets
 The reception is to be from ? 2:30 to p. m. tomorrow, and all ladies of Nenana are cordially invited to attend the function.
 Mir. and Mrs. Brown expect to leave here for the States on one of the first boats connecting with the ocean steamer at St. Michael
 Genuine Buhach at Fowler & Morris
The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-23
SHORT CIRCUIT CAUSES
 .: FIRE AT FAIRBANKS

The Fairbanks fire department responded to a hurry call yesterday afternoon from the residence of Morton E. Stevens, on Third av- enue, and by their prompt acticn were able to save the building. The dining room only is reported to have been gutted by the fire, which was caused by a short circuit.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-23
MARINE BULLETIN

Tanana-Up Birches 8 a. m, date Seattle 3-Down Melozi 6:3O a. m, date
 "ashburn-Up Tolovana 5:30 a. m, date.
 Siwash-Up Nenana 9 p. m., P. Alice-Up Louden with mail l-s a. m., 22
 Betty, mail launch-Up Melozi 3 p. m., p.
 Carl White-Down Nenana 8:3O a. m., date
The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-23
Ouch

''This transfer expired a half hour ago." said the street car con- ductor.
 ''Is that so?" said the grouchy passenger. Well, considering the lack of ventilation in this car, it is wonder the poor transfer didn't expire sooner!"
The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-23
SALE AT
 FAIRBANKS TOMORROW
The Pioneer Women of Alaska

will hold delicatessen sale to- morrow afternoon at Fairbanks.
 The sale, which will commence at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, will be held in the building on Second avenue formerly occupied by Mrs. Heath's store.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-23
SPRING IS RENovATING TIME,

Add to the life of a suit or hat improve your appearance at small expense, by taking your work to MRS. D'CRSAY'S TAILOR SHOP
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
4 Question of Plenty
of Water
And the Dramatic Part
It Played in the Fortunes
of a John Doe
BY John ]. Leary, Jr.

yelled 80 loud the District Attorney
out home heard them, So did the
Posto.y!ce people, and your friend 1T
out Just hop. skp and a Jump AHEAD
Of the Postoffice inspector with
warrant. 1t was moro luck than fair
shooting, for you see, the Postoffice
folks sent one-legged inspector to
got him, and he couldn't move as fast
as man with two real legs,
Then the suckers sent out delega-
ton to look things over and see what
they ought to do about 1t. They always
do, you know. They buy first and
then investigate. Even the wise ones
who know all about old DR.. Caveat
Emptor and would recognize him q
mile off do that. They told their tale
of woe to about everybody and got
all sorts of advice. They didn't want
to send good money after bad, and
anyhow, they were in bad way. That
is, some of them were. You see, these
had steered your friend up against
live ones with rolls. They didn't know
what to do and it began to look as
though I'd get the mill site after all
when 1t occurred to one of them to
take another look in the mine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
No Hope
For Vermin

For the first five minutes q vac
uum is created in the cylinder, loos-
ening up the garments. Then steam
at 120 pounds pressure is applied
for twenty minutes. At tempera-
ture varying from 254 to 280 de-
grees Fahrenheit, all vermin are
killed. Live steam eats up what
ever insects may have lurked in the
khaki folds. Five minutes more Of
vacuum dries up the moisture on the
clothes and loosens them up again.
When they emerge at the other end
Of the steam cylinder, the clothes
and blankets are free from foreign
matter and clean.
But the uniforms are also wrin-
kled, and that is where the soldier
has his kick. The same steam which
at 100 degrees pressure has killed
vermin has put creases into his uni
form which no tailor can remove
Those creases are in to stay.
When you see a soldier on thu
street in wrinkled uniform, dom
blame him for the creases on hi
coat. The chances are he has jus
been through a cootie mill.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11

the lowest form Of human life in the
A. E. F. he also knew that there we're
few generals who welded half his in
fluence and he must have derived some
compensatory amusement from the
process Of filling his wastebasket with
poems painfully composed by colonies
or better in their candle-lit billets.
And after all, it was Ross's fault that
his privacy remained undisturbed. The
18th Engineers, with which he crossed
to France among the first $4,000, con-
tldently sent him to the officers train
ing school, but he escaped from there
wildly and, smelling printers ink from
afar, showed up at the office of the
then Matching A. Z. +. newspaper,
which was destined within a year to
reach a circulation of half a million.
Later, when he was asked if he could
do his work more advantageousiy with
a commission, he replied that, person
ally, even corporal's chevrons would
cmbarrass him painfully, and as for
prinking up in a Sam Browne belt, he
believed that, while the doughboys
were ploughing ahead through muck
and wire and gas and hell generally,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
No Constructive
Thought

The effect on our national life of
this mental torpor, which keeps paca
with the increase in population, is evi-
denced on every side. Our depart
ments, for instance, are seethins with
petty politics and VIGOROUSLY lacking
in constructive thought. To illustrates
an employee receiving, say $1,000
year. after a year or perhaps a few
months will conceive the idea that he
or she, as the case may be, is worth
more to the state; so instead of prov
ing his or her worth by better and
more proficient work an appeal is made
to the Senator or Assemblyman Of his
or her home district to bring pressure
to bear upon the head Of the depart
mcnt to allow an increase of salsry.
Fearful of the possible outcome Of
resisting this pressure, the increase
is granted, to the detriment, of course,
of the entire department, as such bare
faced favoritism only results in the
decentralization of the morale, destroys
the authority of the department. head.
c1eates dissatisfaction among the other
employees and invariably sets low
standard of work. Back of the mo-
tive which moved the Senator or As
semblyman to favor his constituent
was thoughtIess willingness to do a
favor which would cost nothing to the
dispenser. In fact, lack of constructive
thinking is becoming a real menace and
is directly attributable to our public
educational system, which fosters a
stereotyped routine, denies initiative
to teachers and turns out boys and
girls who have never been given en-
couragement to think and act for them
selves
Isn't it about time, then, to change
the popular slogan-a higher standard
of living in every American home-to
a higher standard of thinking in every
American family? This accomplished.
the living business will take care Of it.
self.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11

A FTER Hoboken, Camp Mer-
~ rift. After landing, cootie
mill Just before sailing for
home, cootie mill. Life for an over
seas soldier is just one delousing
process after another.
The cootie-may its tribe de-
crease-gets warm welcome at
the New Jersey camp; 280 degrees,
to be exact. Whereupon the little
alien withers away. America is not
a fertile field for it's activities.
Since the day when Robert Burns
brazenly addressed his verses "To a
Louise" we had gradually grown OBJ
livious to the existence Of the in
sect. Lice were not mentioned in
polite society. Then along came a
war which not only gave the species
an international vogue, but also fur
nished English-speaking peoples with
IA less offensive appellation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11

II SAW the most curious advertise
ment the other day. 1t started
H. off like this; WANTED, a man
who knows how to think. :"
Well the more looked at that ad.
the more 1t was impressed upon me
there was nothing funny about it. 1t
was the most serious indictment had
read Cor a long time. "Wanted-a-
man-who-kmows kow-to think" And
yet we boast Of being the most pro-
gressive nation on the earth. The
ad. evidently referred to man in our
great middle class, which set me TO
thinking. Did l personally know any
men of that type who gave evidence
Of sane, constructive mental ability,
and if so, what mathematical proper
ton did they bear to the non thinkers
recalled some months spent in the
hammer shop Of large steel plant
doing war work, where the day shift
numbered some sixty men. OF these
there were three who could follow q
discussion intelligently to q logical
conclusion. By that mean a man who
had an opinion, for instance, on the
government ownership of rails, or
national prohibition, or the effect of
price fixing on wheat. Well, three is
5 per cent Of sixty, very good show
ing 80 far. On the train that carried
me daily back and forth to my work
were many mechanics employed in the
car shops of railroad company a
few stations beyond mine, and although
I made point of talking with them
on matters Of common interest, such
as the advantages or disadvantages of
union membership, the outlook of labor
after the war, etc, I seldom found a
man who could discuss a subject beyond
his own little narrow point Of view, OF
if he did it was only to echo the opin-
ions of the daily paper which he hap
pened to read. Ny record shows that
I talked to over fifty men withou,
finding one who thought things out fol
himself
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Wanted: a Man Who
Can Think
Quite Surprising, Too. to
Discover How Scarce an
Article He Is
By E. K. Parkinson

some years ago. when Il started an
inquiry to ascertain the Gauss Of ths
phenomenal sale Of certain food prod.
uct. The result showed that per
cent were influenced by friends, SO per
cent by advertising and 55 per cent by
statesmen in the shop. In other words,
only per cent had purchased because
they thought the article of sufficient
value to themselves.
To discomfit those who may wish
to cheer themselves by the thought
that the men referred to were probably
chiefly foreigners I will add that not
one was a foreigner; they were all
Americans who had had a common
school education in this country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Ross, the Man Who Edited a War
By Sergt. Alex. Woollcott

r. IMAGINE the inner feelings of an
American newspaperman who, at
n. twenty.seven, found himself the
managing editor Of one of the
most widely read. sworn at and sworn
by journals In the world, and who, IN
the pausea between dashing off an
editorial and rejecting 800 manuscripts,
had chance to reflect on the fact
that a grateful republic paid him Just
sa8 month and found for his services.
There you have the ironic situation Of
Private Harold W. Ross, of Salt Lake
City, San Francisco and Paris, who
helped to bring up 1.-THE Stars and
stripea" In the way 1t should 60 and
eventually took over its editorship.
This irony had its lights and shades,
however. For, while he knew he was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
A Desert
|! Now

"Well, sir. I'll be hanged If the first
man who looked in didn't all but
throw himself down the shaft. The
blamed thing they'd seen full of water
almost to the top week ago was dry
as bone. What had happened was
this. They were then driving the
Roosevelt tunnel. 1t didn't approach
that mine by many, many miles as
the crow flies, or would if there were
any in that neck of the woods. But
way down deep somewhere there was
fault in the rock. You know what
I mean-a geological error, or crevce
like, that ran all the way across coun-
try to that Roosevelt tunnel, and when
the tunnel men exposed one end Of
it, blooie. the water all leaked out.
1t sure was dry.
"1f that committee hadn't been made
up Of churchmen there'd have been a
glorious drunk that night. Instead,
there was sort of combination pink
tea-prayer meeting. AS I live, the
suckers had got q 100000 mine for
about 100000 They got it yet.
"And your friend? Well, last I
heard of him he was sitting on the
beach looking in the direction the COM
pass says is north and wishing he'd
saved some of that stock for himself
Nope, he amt back yet don't know
if he ever comes back. I don't think
he's got the necessary price"