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
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printinj
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. South worth.Editor and Manage
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HOW WAR CHANGES MEN
When a man goes down into the
depts of war, he may come up the
same man, but the chances are he
will be someone entirely differen
The effects of fear are as many as i
the men who are afraid. And, says
Alexander McClintock in Best o’ Luck ■
“if a man isn’t frightened when he !
goes under fire, it is because he !
lacks intelligence.”
Sergeant McClintock tells of some !
of his friends 'whom the war turned i
into new men. One of them was an j
amusing, hilarious boy during his j
whole time in training camp. “The ,
war changed ihm entirely. He be-1
came extremely q jiet, and seemed j
to be weighed down with the terrible !
things which he saw. He formed j
the habit of sitting alone and silent |
for hours at a time, just thinking, i
In action he was as brave as they j
make them, but the prospect of
death and suffering around him
changed him utterly. From a cheer- •
ful, happy lad he was transformed
into an old man. silent, gloomy, and I
absent-minded except for momentary i
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flashes of his old spirit, whicl^ be
came less and less frequent as the
time for his own end drew nearer.”
Another man was worthless and
unreliable while he was in training.
He was always cheerful, always will
being drunk, absent without leave,
late on parade. “In France this
chap was worth ten ordinary men.
He was always cheeful, always w;ll
ing and prompt in obeying or i*-rc,
ready to tackle unhesitatingly the
most unpleasant or the most risky
duty. i
“Then there was a certain ser
geant who was the best instructor
in physical training and bayonet
fighting in our brigade. When he
got under fire he simply went to
pieces. On our first bombing raid
he turned and ran back into our
barbed wire, and when he was caught
there acted like a madman. I don’t
think he was a plain coward- There
was merely something wrong with
his nervous system.”
Most of these men, remade for
better or worse, find somewhere the
courage to go through with it. Says
Sergeant McClintock: “It is the
elbow-to-elbow influence that carries
men up to face machine-guns and
gas. A heroic battalion may be
made up of units of potential cow
ards.” j
GETTING * THE* HABIT
—
Evidences are acumulating says
thf Official Bulletin, that the habit:
I
of saving among thi American peo-:
, p't. especially among tnc patrons of
savings banics and postal savings, is
outstripipng the financial demav Is
made upon them by the Govern- j
ment.
While no exact figures are av.i.l
•able at present it is known that
postal savings deposits have steadily
gained during the year 1017, and
notably since the 1st of duly of that
year, which was after the first issue
of the Liberty Loan.
The reports from savings banks
also show a steady gain, nd the
same is true of cooperative ihbng
and loan associations.
Nor have the people of small
means been the only savers. It ik
estimated that the savings of the
■whole people of the United States
ordinarily $5,000,000,000 to $6,000,
000,000 annually, have increased to
$14,000,000,000 to $15,000,000,000
In 1917.
The response of the people to the
national need of economy and saving
has been general and generous.
THE MARRIAGE MARKET IP
GERMANY
Marriageable men are growinj
very scarce in Germany, and girls
who before the war waited coyl'
to be won, are now going vigorously
about the important matter of mar
riage, using the modern machinery
of advertising.
“One afternoon I was giving i
message to one of my patients, i
very high German officer,” sayi
Adele Blenau in ‘A Nurse’s Story
(Bobbs-Merrill). I had been wit!
him a few minutes when, putting
ais finger to his lips, he whispered
in French ‘They’re letter-writing ir
the next room—if we are quiet .
:hink we can hear, it’s very funny.
[ listened; the men were talking
about matrimony, discussing it as
a pure question of market value.
They were reading matrimonial ad
vertisements from a German news
paper. General von T-said to
ne: ‘The war has changed the atti
:ude of young girls, and older ones
:oo, who have means and are seek
ing suitable mates. They have
greatly increased their efforts, while
narriageable men are becoming cor
respondingly shy. The women are
jetting less particular in their re
quirements,’ he chuckled. ‘A girl
,vith twenty-five thousand marks
Aould hardly have advertised before
the war for anything less than an
officer of the army or navy; now
she will gladly accept what is tech
nically described as a “better gentle
man.” ’
“A moment later we heard the
nurse reading:
“ ‘Well born, tall pleasing in ap
pearance, thirty-two years old, seeli
suitable companion for life, having
in my own right large fortune; nc
anonymous communications and nc
agents.’
“We fancied that advertisemenl
sounded interesting to the soldiei
to whom it was read, for he loweret
his voice and seemed to be dictating
an answer.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
Some little opposition is mani
tested in coastal parts of Alaska
against the government railway thai
will extend to Fairbanks, says thi
Anchorage Democrat. It would b<
well for any person who lives ir
Alaska to first consider this .vern
ment ownership of railways in th<
territory as a concrete proposition
Also to remember that the pt'-'sen
route was only selected because ii
was considered that the country tiib
utary to the line was most in neec
of transportation relief. 3ut thej
should also consider that all th«
other routes that were c f.’iciet
at that time will in all irobabilitie!
later receive government rid. Ir
all probabilities, at no very distani
day, roads will be built from Haines
the Copper River road constructed
and that there will be a system t<
the westward of the line -low b. inf
built. If Alaska is to be opened U|
as other frontier parts of the coun
try were, it will take more thar
one system, and it is probable tha
if the war was not now on, som<
sort of program would be inaugu
rated by the government to see tha
all the places in Alaska needing rai
transportation would be taken can
of. Therefore for the future 01
railway construction, it sands every
one in hand to boose their projec
so that the policy of constructinj
government railways will in th<
future be fostered.
• • * . * *
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DEATH PENALTIES IN ARMY
- II I I
Four American soldiers, sentence
to death for sleping on sentry dut;
, in the front line trenches in France
, were saved from the law’s extrem
penalty by General Pershing’s actioi
i in sending the records of their case
i to Washington for review. Genera
Pershing has authority to carry ou
the sentence of a court-martial, bu
it is only on foreign soil that sue
power lies in the commanding gen
eral’s hands, for by an order of Dec
29, the war department, at the sup
gastion of the President, ruled tha
no death sentence in the army force
in this country could be execute
before review of the case by th
, department. So far as is know
[ here, the only execution of an Amer:
can soldier in France up to the pres
ent time has been that of Privat
. F. Cadue, hanged in November fo
assault and murder of a Frenc
’ girl.
Under the laws of the America
military organization, eleven offense
are punishable by death, althoug
these are variously subdivided. Spie
must suffer the death penalty, an
theirs is the only offense for whic
the death sentence is mandatorj
| For murder and rape, punishmen
must, according to the ruling, b
1 either death or life imprisonment
if the death sentence is impose
it is by hanging. Spies are usuall
hanged also, because, to quote th
manual of regulations, “death b
hanging is considered more ignomin
ous than death by shooting.” Hang
ing, the rule continues, “ is the usua
method of execution designated ii
the cases of spies, persons guilty o
murder in connection with mutiny
or sometimes for desertion in th*
face of the enemy; but in the cas'
of a purely military offense, sucl
as sleeping on post, such sentence
when imposed, is usually ‘to be sho
to death with musketry.’ For the
sake of example and to deter other:
from committing like offenses, the
death sentence may, when deemee
advisable, be executed ‘in the pres
ence of the troops of the command.’
The other eight offenses, o
gropps of offenses, listed as punish
able by death leave the penalty ti
the discretion of the court-martial
“Death or such other punishmen
as the court-martial may direct” i
the usual wording of the army regu
lation The offenses are cowardice
in any one of a variety of ways
sleep or drunkeness on sentry post
desertion or the incitemen to o
assistance in desertion; attack upoi
a superior officer or insubordination
mutiny or sedition; making knowi
the countersign; forcing safeguard
relieving the enemy with ammuni
tion “or any other thing,” or har
boring or giving intelligence to th<
enemy.
In the offense of “neglect of sen
try duty,” which is a betrayal o
responsibility whose seriousness ha
made it an almost unforgivable crim
against military law, the letter o
the regulation recognizes no differ
ence betwen being asleep and beinj
intoxicated. The ruling reads: “An;
sentinel who is found drunk or sleep
ing upon his post, or who leaves i
before he is regularly relieved, shall
if the offense be committed in tim
of war, suffer death or such othe
punishment as a court-martial ma;
decree.” It is further provide*
taht “the fact that the accused hai
been previously overtaxed by ex
cessive guard duty is not a defense
although evidence to that effect ma;
be received in extenuation of th
offense.” The point is distinctl;
made that the sentry who neglect
his duty has jeopardized no on
knows how many thousands of hi
t fellows, and it may be a cruciil posi
tion to his country’s cause. Whcthe
he was intoxicated or merely aslee;
is, in the letter of the law, a mino
, matter.
The rule regarding insubordina
tion is very strict. It leads:
I “Any person subject to mititar
, law, who, on any pretense whaievei
> strikes his superior officer or draw
or lifts up any weapon against him
. being in the execution of his office
, or willfully disobeys any lawful com
, mand of his superior officers, shal
suffer death or such other punish
ment as a court-martiai may direct.
, It is explained, however, that thi
; does not apply to the striking of ai
officer “in legitimate self defense,
and, of course, an officer who strikes
a man under him is liable to severe
punishment.
Rules regarding punishment for
mutiny or sedition are inclusive.
The death penalty may be imposed
at the descretion of the court-martial
upon any one who “attempts to
create, begins, causes, excites, or
joins in” mutiny or sedition, but the
liability to the extreme punishment
does not stop there. Any one, who,
being present at a mutiny or sedi
tious outbreak, does not “do his ut
most to supress it,” may be punished
by the execution of the death sen
tence, as if he had been an organ
izer of the sedition himself. Also,
any one who has reason to believe
that a rrfbtiny is about to occur or
that sedition is being stirred up
must report the matter in full to his
superior officer on pain of incurring
the same punishment as an actual
mutiner.
“Making known the countersign”
and “forcing safeguard” are purely
military offenses for which the death
penalty may be imposed. “Reliev
ing the enemy” may cover a number
of military crimes against one’s
country, and “harboring the enemy”
or “directly or indirectly” giving
him any sort of intelligence is pun
ishable by death at the discretion
f | VI liiv Lwuii-uiauiai.
3 The tragedy of sleeping on post
! has furnished some the the most
- famous and touching stories in the
- history of our own and other lands. .
1 Every one has heard the story of
i Lincoln’s forgiveness of the country j
' boy, who, tired by a long campaign, j
, slept at his sentry post. An English i
: soldier, writing of his experiences
. in this war, tells how he found a
i young sentry asleep in an important |1
, point of watch, and of the agony' *
of mind that preceded his decision 1
that he must report the youth whose (
neglect of duty might have had ter
. rible consequences for his comrades
| and the army’s position.
In the connection with the need
1 for sleep and the tragic results that
• may follow neglect of the place of .
. sleep in militray discipline, the an
> nals of Camp Upton contain the
story of a young lieutenant’s first
t night on duty with a raw squad of ]
i' the first draft- They were boys ,
. from New York city, a hundred or (
so, sent to spend their first night in [
I an isolated barracks in the unfinished
• camp under a second lieutenant just
• out of college, 22 years old, deter
! mined to do his duty by his new
■ commission in the U. S. R. The ,
, boys were not bad boys, but they
j were not used to discipline, above
. all, they were not used to going to .
. bed at 9 o’clock in the evening. When .
, taps sounded, they refused to quiet
down. The lieutenant told them
. they must go to sleep, that at all
f events they must stop talking. Hut
3 calm in the consciousness that their .
. loud jokes and laughter were only ,
f an offense against a new, strange, (
. seemingly senseless “army rule” they ,
, paid no attention at all. Then the (
j lieutenant rose out of his bed and ,
. dressed himself, mounted the stairs (
t to the new squad’s barracks, and (
gave an order; he made every man
, in the barracks get dressed. By
r this time it was the middle of the ,
r night. He took them out in the
1 mud and stumps and the rough
I ground that at that time were in the
. streets and parades of Camp Upton,
and marched them around and
r around for three solid hours.
“If you want action,” he said, j
T “you’ll get it. If you won’t keep \
, quiet you’ll drill. s
f He had no trouble with them after
. that. No one has had any trouble
p
f
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vith them. But a vital part of the |
tory was that next day, when the I
ieutenant reported to his superior j
fficer, the captain called the men j
ogether and told them they must !
>bey the rule about quiet at night, j
“A soldier must be allowed to
leep at sleeping time.” he said. “If ;
here are 150 men in a barracks and
49 want to talk, they’ve got to keep '
luiet betwen taps and reveille so
hat the 150th man can sleep. The j
eason is very simple—If a soldier |
nisses sleep he’s got to do without j
t, for if he gets sleepy and tries j
o make it up on sentry duty he:
:ets shot.” j
Apropos of the war department’s I
irder that death sentences passed i
ipon soldiers in this country be re- '■
erred to it for review, it is recalled
hat Lincoln in 1861 ruled that no
irmy death sentence should be exe
uted until he had personally exam
ned all the circumstances and facts
n the case.
LOOKING FOR DEAD ONES
A superstitious subscriber, who
’ound a spider in his paper, wants
,o know is it is considered a bad
>men- Nothing of the kind. The
ipider was just looking over the
■olumns of the paper to see what
nerchants were not advertising, so
hat it could spin its web across his
loor and be free from disturbance.
One of the Juneau laundries re
ently suffered a heatless strike,
is the laundry was cold when the
;irls went to work and finally they:
ill stopped and went home. After a 1
treat deal of rustling a full crew;
vas recovered and the work resum
id. The heating system will be sup-:
demented by electric stoves in the
uture to prevent cold feet and also
trikes.
Buy That Libtrjr Bead Tedajr.
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