THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
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STAMPING OUT GERMAN
Fourteen states in the Union
have abolished the teaching of the
German language in the schools,
and in sixteen other states a cam
paign to eliminate German is un
der way, according to an announce
ment made recently by the Ameri
can Defense Society. Many cities
in the sixteen states where the cam
paign aginst the study of the Ger
man language is in progress have
thrown German out of their schools
but the state itself has not taken de
cisive action, says the announce
ment of the society, which has been
conducting a campaign against the
study of German in the public
schools.
This announcement was made upon
a canvass of the states and cities
which was conducted by Dr. Perry ^
A. Dickie, of New York.
The states listed as having abolish
ed the study of the German lan-1
guage from their schools are: Ala
bama, California, Connecticut, Dele-;
ware, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, i
Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, j
South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and
West Virginia.
The following states, it is an
nounced, now have under considera
tion the abolition of the teaching
of German: Arizona, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana,
Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, New
Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode
Island, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin.
The society announced that the
following cities have wholly or
partly “thrown out” study of Ger
man from their schools: New York
City, Phila, Pa., Washington, D. C.,
Seatle, Wash., Louisville, Ky., Port
land Ore., Jersey City, N. J., Grand
Rapids, Mich., Des Moines, Iowa,
Elizabeth, N. J., Plassaic, N. J.,
Tacoma, Wash., Bayonne, N. J.,
Wheeling, W. Va., Mt. Vernon, N.
Y., Pawling, N. Y., Alton, 111.,
Champaign, 111., Charleroi, Pa., Eu
gene, Ore., St. Mary’s Pa., Cliff
side Park, N. J., Quakertown, Pa.,
and Glen Cove, L. I.
The situation in the sixteen states
where the campaign against the
German language is reported as in
progress is in part, discribed in
Dr. Dickie’s report, as follows:
Arizona—“German is fast being
eliminated by our local boards.”
Arkansas—“Many of our public
schools have discontinued the teach
ing of German. It has been prac
tically discontinued in all of our
high schools.”
Florida—“I think that practically
all of the Germans have been re
moved from the schools without
making any public demonstration1
about it. They just simply failed
of re-election.”
Georgia.—“We have decided to
discontinue giving examinations in
German in order to certify teach
ers in this subject. There has been
no rule or law displacing the study
from the schools, though it is be
coming more unpopular every day.”
Idaho.—“Teaching of German is
prohibited in schools up to and in
cluding the eighth grade. Teaching
of German in the high schools is
left to the determination of the
local boards.”
Indiana—“With the reassembling
of the legislature ample provision
will be made for the exclusion of
German from our schools.”
Kansas.—“There never has been
any German to speak of taught in
any of our elementary schools, and
since the war it has been eliminated
from practically half of our high
schools.”
Michigan—“It is my opinion that
at least 50 per cent of the schools
of this state have dropped German
from their course of study. It has
also been dropped from the courses
of study of many higher institu
tions.”
Missouri—“So far as reports have
come there will be one or two high
schools outside of the cities which
are planning to give German next
year. The city high schools are
limiting the teaching to students
who are preparing for technical
courses. In Kansas City the teach
ing has been discontinued alto
gether.
New Jersey—“The State Board
of Education passed a resolution
under which it will be possible
for every local board to prohibit the
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LOW FLYING IS
HARD GN HUNS;
ALLIES EXPERTS
Behind British Lines in France.!
—“Ground flying” is perhaps the
most exciting of all the aerial tac
tics in which the British airmen
are instructing their American
pupils in Northern France. It de
mands a high combination of skill
and daring, but it is a game in
which the British have during the
past year won a marked superiority
over the Germans.
The training of “ground flying”
pilots is particularly thorough, and
includes much necessary practice in
leaping hills, trees and telegraph
poles, etc.,—in a manner which
promptly leads the uninformed spec
tator to condemn the airman as a
reckless fool.
But failing this practice the pilot
would never acquire the skill and
confidence necessary for this highly
specialized type of work. The ma
chines used are fast and difficult
to fly, and operating so close to the
ground, the pilot knows that he has
literally no more margin for in
decision or hesitating than he has in
actual aerial combat.
In “ground flying” tactics the
pilot acts mainly on his own per
sonal initiative, and he must be pre
pared to attack the enemy when
ever he may be found, either with
bombs, grenades, darts, or machine
gun fire. Thus German officers
in charge of ammunition dumps
have every reason to fear the ap
proach of a British “low flier.”
The fear of machine gun fire is
even greater, and w'hole German
regiments have been decimated and
demoralized by British airplanes.
German batteries, railway sta
tions, billets, training grounds and
aerodromes are frequently attacked
in this way, and the moral effect
is very great. Von Richthofen, the
famous German airfighter • now dead,
once described how an English ma
chine one night came down to a
height of 150 feet, through a fusil
lade of gun fire and a blinding
glare of searchlights, to bomb a
Hun aerodrome with deadly effect.
Richthofen considered it “tremend
ously plucky that the man didn’t
swerve but came :|raight on in ac
cordance with his plans.”
study of German. What will be
the result time will tell.”
New York—“It appears that reg-;
istration in German classes has;
fallen off about 80 per cent in'
schools where German is still op- j
tional. Next year German will be
dropped in a majority of the high
schools in the state, principally be
cause the students will not have it.”
(No action against German by the
legislature, or State Board of Edu
cation.”
Ohio—-“No measures have been
taken in this state by the Depart
ment of Public Instruction for the
removal of German from the public
schools. It has not been necessary
They are removing it in nearly all
the schools in the state of their
own acocrd.
Rhode Island—“Foreign language
never have been taught in Rhode
Island’s elementary schools. Sev
eral towns and cities have recently
barred German from their high
schools.”
Texas—“The legislature has en
atted a law that the English lan
guage must be used exclusively in
the conduct of the work of the
schools except in the foreign courses
permitted in the high schools.”
Virginia—“German in most of
the high schools of the state, is an
elective study, and the high school
pupils are not electing this subject."
Wisconsin—“The teaching of i
German has been discontinued in
a good many schools of the state
either through official action by the
local board, or through the fact that
there are no students asking for
the subject.”
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CAMP LEWIS.—Teaching men
to write their own names in a single
day, when in many cases they had
reached the age of 30 years with
out having ever formed a single
letter of the alphabet, is one of the
accomplishments of the new de
velopment battalion here, which
seeks “to give every man who has
not been properly placed in the j
army a chance to find his place j
where he can be of real service in !
winning the war.”
Once upon a time if a man could
not read nor write the English lan
guage he could not enlist under the
United States banner Now he is
taken in through the draft and
taught to read and write, and not
only does the army educate him
in these two vital subjects, but
takes him through practically the
first five grades of grammer school.
The new soldier does his five
grades in about three months.
Many of the details of grade schools
are lost sight of, but the soldier
when he completes the course has
practically the learning of five
years in grade schools.
By order of the secretary of war
“the instruction in the school shall
be sufficient to enable the student
to receive, execute and transmit
verbal orders or messages intelli
gently; also, as far as possible to
read and understand ordinarily
written or printed matter as con
tained in the various drill regula
tions, soldiers’ handbooks, etc.”
The Y. M. C. A. furnishes the in
structors, books, stationery, and!
other materials, and military of- j
ficers declare this to be one of the I
greatest accomplishments of the j
civilian organization.
Approximately six hundred men
are now enrolled at the schools.
These are not all illiterates, but the
majority are those of other coun
tries educated in their own schools,
but not conversant with English;
soldiers seeking special training in
some particular subject and many
scores who are being aided in ob
taining citizenship.
The official function of the de
velopment battalion as a whole is j
to relieve other organizations of un
fit men; to conduct an intensive
training with the view to developing
the unfit for military service and
to rid the service of all men who
after a thorough trial are found j
physically, mentally or morally in- j
capable of performing the duties of i
a soldier. :
Capt. George Black, former gov- j
ernor of the Yukon territory, with |
headquarters at Dawson, has been i
wounded by a gunshot wound in j
the thigh while fighting in France, j
U. S. 1'o‘mI AdJuinldtration.
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If you have saved a slice a day.
?at cornbread and save a loaf.
The Lighthouse cannery in Cor
dova ceased operations with a pack
of 8,000 cases of clams and 6,000
cases of salmon- Last year the
pack was 30,000 cases. The short
age in the pack shows that the sup
ply of clams is fast being depleted
near the Copper City. Many of
the canneries start canning before
the clams are fully done spawning!
and it is this fact, taken with the
enormous tonnage of bivalves used, I
that is believed to be responsible
for the poor packs by most of the
clam canneries in the lower Prince
William Sound section.
Col. .T. J. Morrow, formerly chair
man of the first commission sent
north to look into the advisability
of a railroad under government sup-,
ervision, has been nominated for
brigadier general.
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WANTED—Two or Three con
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F'OR SALE Panoramic views of
the town of Nenana in 1916 and
1917; taken by Johnson, of Fair
banks, from hill overlooking the
town. Apply at News office.
FOR SALE, CHEAP-—Large tank
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good as new; also sink. Inquire
Simson’s.
FOR SALE—-Beaver Board, in plain
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FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,’
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