THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for eniry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
In an address delivered before
The American Bar Association, at
the annual gathering of that organ
ization recently at Cincinnati, Ed
win W. Sims, president of the Chi
cago Crime Commission, pointed out
that the history of organized gov
emment demonstrates that the swift
trial of criminal cases and the cer
tain and prompt punishment of
criminals effects a reduction in the
volume of crime.
“On the other hand,” he argued,
“increased crime follows closely on
the heels of delayed trials and de
ferred punishment. In short, crime
increases or decreases in the pro
portion that punishment is swift
and certain. The speed with which
a crime is punished has a great
deal more to do with the preserva
tion of law and order than the
severity of punishment.
“Criminal law® bear close analogy
to natural laws. A child puts its
hand in the fire but once. One ex
perience is sufficient. It is not
necessary that the injury be severe.
“Existing criminal laws in Amer
ica are the evolution of centuries
of practical experience. There are
those, however, who attack the
theory of punishment and who,
contending that crime is a disease,
recommend and urge that punish
ment be abolished and some other
form of treatment substituted. It
is a grave mistake to in any way
interfere with, impede or hamper
the enforcement of existing laws
which have been centuries in de
velopment. at least until the ex
periment has been thoroughly test
ed and found to be practical.
“Three years ago the Chicago
Association of Commerce appointed
and financed a Crime Commission.
It does not "of itself undertake the
apprehension or the prosecution of
criminals. The commission limits its
activity to an investigation of
crimes of violence, murder, burglary
and robbery. It early reached the
conclusion that crime flourished be
cause criminals escaped punishment
and that the principal avenue of
escape was the delay in the trial of
criminal cases.
‘‘The commission was organized in
the year 1919. Data collected for
that year showed there were 110
murders to one million of population
in Chicago as against nine to the
million in Great Britain and 13 to
the million in Canada. This meant
that during the year 1919, there
were more murders in Chicago, wits
a population of three millions, than
in the British Isles with a population
of forty millions.
‘ For years in Great Britain and
Canada, murder cases have been
generally disposed of within 60 to
30 days. In American cities there
are practically no murder cases be
ing tried within 90 days. -
‘‘On April 1, 1920, there were
awaiting trial in Chicago, 135 per
sons previously indicted for murder.
In 104 cases the accused were at
liberty on bond. The situation was
brought to the attention of the
courts and officials by the Crime
Commission with the result that
four judges then in the civil courts
volunteered to sit in the criminal
court and Uy cases until the murdei
docket was cleared. The trial ofj
these cases resulted in the sentenc-;
ing of 12 hang and 12 to the peni
tentiary for from one year to life.
“The effect on the number of
murders in Chicago was electrical.
Immediately the murder rate there
dropped 51 per cent, where it has
since remained. The record for the ;
first seven months of each of the
last three years is as follows: 232
in 1919; 87 in 1920; 91 in 1921.
“In compiling its report on con
tinuances, the Chicago Crime Com
mission ran across a case, and in
December. 1919, more than eight
years after the crime was committed
the defendant was placed on trial. \
The evidence seemed to be convinc
ing, and the case was ably pre
sented by the prosecuting attorney,
notwithstanding which the jury re
turned a verdict of ‘not guilty.’
“The jurors, in explaining how i
they came to reach that verdict in
the face of the evidence presented.!
stated that they felt there was some
reason which was being withheld
from them for the nealy nine-year
delay, and that under such peculiar
circumstances they concluded to re
turn a verdict of acquittal.”
The catch of beaver and marten1
this winter will be unusually large
in Alaska—but mbs; of ne pelts
will come from the caches created
during the closed tease n.
There are just two cuts ftr Fat
ty Arbuckle. One is the . -s and
the other is a return to biscuit
shooting in dives where murders
don’t count. Whatever may be the
outcome of the trial, it is doubtful
if the public will ever • ormit his
return to the screen.
That is some job former <7oVernor
Dunne* ha- token on his hands—to
harmonize religions .n America. It
may be among the possibilities of
the future but Mr. Dunne and his
associates will find it not easy of
accomplishment. The News is in
clined to the belief that more rfcal
good would result from a campaign
to improve conditions among the
millions who have been rendered
destitute throught unemployment '.n
the States.
DRUNKENNESS INCREASING
SAYS ENGLISH STATEMENT
LONDON. Sept. 17—Drunkenness
by over 65 per cent in England
during last year, according to offi
cial licensing statistics. The reaction
after the war period of sobriety
was shown by 95,763 -convictions,
compared with 27,948 in 1919. In
1918 there were only 29,075 con
victions.
The convictions of women were
36 per cent more than in 1919, and
j more than double the total of 1918.
The Daily Express, while ad
mitting the figures are startling, at
tributes the increase in convictions
to the continuance of early closing
regulations enforced during the war
and suggests that “people who arc
denied reasonable facilities for ob
taining liquor, have taken in their
resentment more than was good
for them when they could get it”.
The paper also holds that the clos
ing of properly-conducted saloons
has led to the opening of many
bogus clubs and illicit drinking dens.
Official health returns for 1920
just issued indicate, on the other
hand, that the nation as a whole is
distinctly healthier. Tuberculosis fig
ures are the lowest recorded since
compulsory notification came into
force. The number of deaths from
consumption v.as 33.469.
The infant mortality rate. 80 per
1.000. is also the lowest recorded,
while the birth rate rose from IS.Z
in the previous year to 25.4, and
the death rate, 12.4. shows a de
cline at most ages.
RAILROAD WORK IS DELAYED
BY UNFAVORABLE WEATHER
Storms and heavy rains in the
highlands to the south of Nenana
have greatly delayed the construc
tion of the Govirnment railroad,
and at a time when every days
counts largely in the plans of the
railway builders. It is estimated that
the work has received a setback of
more than a week in consequent
of the unfavorable weather con
ditions which have prevailed along
the line, between ends of steel.
Storms in the Southern division
are reported to have held up track
laying operations considerably. The
end of steel, north from Hurricane
Gulch, has reached Mile 294, where
the work was held up by stormy
weather. Swollen streams have put
a number of bridges along the wag
on road temporarily out of com
mission. and more or less damage
also has been done to completed
and uncompleted sections of the
grade.
The end qf steel south from
Healy. has been advanced to Mile
351. where the work has been halt
ed. pending the completion of a
bridge of considerable size. The
construction of this bridge may- take
two or three weeks, after which
the rails will again begin moving
twoard Riley Creek, three or four
mlies beyond, The arrival at Riley
Creek will mark the completion
of tracklaying operations in th;s
division, as it will be necessary- to
wait there for the coming of bridge
steel from the coast, which cannot
be hauled until the rails reach Riley
from the south.
Officials of the Commission are
hopeful of being able to lay steel
from the south to Mile 313 before
work is suspended for the winter.
If that point is reached, and the
track extended south to Riley, the
gap between steel will be only 34
miles. The distance between steel
at the present lime is 57 miles.
SOVIET GOVERNMENT TP'ES
TO SPEED UP PRODUCTION
RIGA, Sept. 17—Many experi
ment* are being introduce 1 in the
management and supol/ system of
Russian factories in an effort by the
Rokhe\ ik gocernmeni to increase
production in order to obtain pro
ducts to exchange with the peasants
for food.
Some time ago a piece work scale
was introduced in the hope that
this would incite individual work
men to increased efforts. Accord
ing to a Moscow dispatch, all of the
factory managements have been di
rected to carry it into effect urgent
ly and immediately.
In many industrial concerns a
collective rationing plan has been
substituted for the old system of
granting individual rations. Under
the new method a whole factory
is granted a monthly allowance of
foodstuff and money on the con
dition that it turns out a stipulated
amount of work.
If the factory is able to produce
this quantity with a smaller number
of workmen than estimated, the
surplus of foodstuffs and money
can be distributed among the work
men as a premium.
The All-Russian Council of Trade
Unions has issued a circular point
ing out that increases of wages in
money payments are inadvisable at
this time because this would make
necessary an increase in the out
put of currency which the govern
ment is even now unable to print
in sufficient quantities. The govern
ment is said to have been printing
until lately about 200 billions of I
rubles of paper money a month.
This amount has been increased to
the maximum possible output of the'
printing machines.
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amazingly brilliant, soft, white light,
even better than <ras or electricity,
h:■# been tested by the U. S. Gov
ernment and 35 leading universities
and found to be superior to 10 ordi
nary oil lamps. It burns without odor
smoke or noise—no pumping up, :s
simple, clean, safe. Burns 94 air
and 6'< common kerosene (coal
oil >.
The inventor. Z. F. Johnson, 29
X. Fifth St., Portland. Ore., is offer
ing to send a lamp on ten day's
FREE trial, or even to give one
FREE to the first user in each lo
cality who will help him introduce
it Write him today for full particu
lars. Also ask him to explain how
you can get the agency, and with
out experience or money make $250
to $500 per month. Advt.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To J. H. Patten. A. H. McNeer. X.
C. Stewart. Roster Sherman and
MaybelC. Sherman, their and each
of their heirs, executors, adminis
trators and assigns:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the sum of one hun
dred dollars ($100.00» in labor and
improvements has been expended
upon the Fox Gulch Association
placer mining claim, situate on Fox
Gulch, a tributary of Platt Creek,
in the Nenana mining and Record
ing District. Alaska, in order to
hold said claim under the provisions
of Section 2324 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States and
the amendments thereto concerning
annual, labor upon mining claims,
being the amount required to hold
said mining claims for the year
1920; said labor constituting the
annual assessment work for the year
1920; and if within ninety (90i
days after the last publication of
this N'otice you. and each of you,
as respective co-owners of said
claim, fail or refuse to pay to the
undersigned your respective propor
tion expended by me for said labor
and improvements leeallv required
to hold said claim as aforesaid for
the year 1920, together with the
cost of this Notice, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner.
; under said Section 2324. Revised
Statutes of the United States.
C. C. HEID
First Publication August .13, 192.
Last Publication Nov. 5, 1921
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WANT ADS
LOST—Lady’s engraved wrist watch
Reward for return to Railroad
Cigar Store.
FOR SALE—Four jackhammers and
fittings; 250 feet of hose; six sets
of steel. All in good condition.
Inquire of Jack Singleton, Healy.
FOR SALE—-Casey - warehouse and
Casej’s building on 'A” street.
All instalments and taxesnre p*;di
up to date. This property will be
sold at a great sacrifice. Apply to
James Hagan or Frank Rourke.
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WANTED—One or two sets of No.
5 bobs. .Must be reasonable and in)
good condition. Inquire at The
Portland. i
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FOUND—Two keys. Cal! at A. D ,
Thompson Drug Store.
WANTED—Information as to the ;
whereabouts of our father, Erik
Hartull; last knowm address was
Nenana. Communicate with Mrs,
M. Silva and Anna Sofia Hartull. j
F36 15th. St., Oakland. California ‘
FOR SALE—Three room furnished
house. For particulars inquil*
News Office.
FOR ANY GAS TROUBLE SEE
JOHN TEELAND. Shop opposite the
Johnson Store.
Sid Goodwick came dowm from ,
Fairbanks on today’s gascar.
George Densttwie came in from
Healy this afternoon.
RUST HOUSE
Clean and
Comfortable
ROOMS by the DAY
WEEK or MONTH
Fred Clark, Proprietor
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WATCHES
JEWELRY
Watch Repairing
designing and native
JEWELRY A SPECIALTY
WM. TAYLOR
Pioneers of Alaska
Nenana Igloo No. 17
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Frank Rourke Geo. S. Smith
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Alatkan Engineering Commu.ion
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\LEX FOWLER, ALF EKELANI*
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