THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth Editor and Manager
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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
The Nenana Daily News, which makes its appearance
on the streets and in the homes of Nenana toaay, is but
another evidence of the confidence with which Nenana
ites view' the future of their town—a confidence that has
filled the towm with permanent business structures and
comfortable homes w'ithin the remarkably short period of
eighteen months, and now makes possible the publication
of a daily newspaper. Gold booms have populated towns
in Alaska more quickly, but nothing short of confidence
in a permanent future could have achieved the substan
tial results so much in evidence here, where there has
been no boom. And confidence will continue to manifest
itself in ways which will add steadily both to permanence
and to prosperity. „
A daily newspaper can help a lot in the upbuilding or
any community, when backed by the right sort of spirit—
and confidence. And it is the intention of the News to
do its full share of the w'ork, so ably started by the citi
zens of Nenana. There is much to be done—there is in
every new town—and the News assumes its added res
ponsibilities, confident that there will be, at all times, the
fullest co-operation between press and public in all mat
ters affecting the welfare of Nenana and the develop
ment of the varied resources which abound in the districts
tributary to Nenana.
The price of the News hereafter will be $2 per month,
delivered by carrier, and the paper will contain a complete
daily telegraph report, the local happenings and as much
general Alaska news as it is possible to gather. The col
umns of the paper will be open to the public at all times
for the discussion of questions of general interest, the
only restriction being that signatures must be attached to
all communications. Nenanaites are urged to take an
interest in the paper, to the end that it may be made the
best newspaper in Alaska. News items are solicited, critic
ism will be welcomed, and—subscriptions we must have.
Liberal advertising patronage is also essential to the
success of the Daily Newrs, and the rates have been ar
ranged with a view' to making it easy for every business
enterprise in Nenana to take space. The support of every
enterprise, large and small, is needed.
The News plant is among the big ones of the territory,
with Mergenthaler typesetting machine, newspaper press
and complete equipment for turning out all kinds of com
mercial printing, from calling cards to posters. The plant
represents a large investment and the production of a
daily newspaper means a substantial addition to the vol
ume of money in local circulation. Very little of it gets
away from the town.
Don’t let it be said of you, after the polls have closed
tomorrow, that you flunked in your duty as a citizen.
Show your interest in school affairs by using your ballot.
The polls will be open until seven o’clock in the evening.
Von Hindenburg will have to do a lot of explaining
to the German people to account for his failure to be in
Paris on the first of April according to schedule.
Fairbanksans appear to have acquired the habit of
quarreling over school affairs. The annual row is now on
and reports indicate that bitterness of feeling is more than
usually in evidence.
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The War Behind The Front
Germany continues to carry on
the war, not because she believes
she can obtain a military decision
at the front, but because she hopes
to win against the morale of the
civil population behind the front.
Her chance of a military decision
slipped out of her hands long ago.
In 1914 when she set ». rear guard
of reservists at her back door on
the Russian front, and hurled the
flower of her army against France,
Germany believed she had a firm
grip upon that world victory which
was to be the fruition of forty years
of preparation; but Joffre pried the
Prussian fingers loose at the Marne,
and at Verdun and the Somme the
French and British tore the coveted
victory entirely from her grasp.
From those days to these the Ger
man general staff have known that
their dream of a military victory
has passed into the realm of things
that might have been.
The impossibility of a German
victory—German threats of a great
spring offensive notwithstanding—
becomes clear if we look at a few
simple facts. Thus, when the Allies
hurled the German army back at'
the Marne, France had 1,500,00 men
in the fighting line and England a
scant 100,000. Such forces as they
had were out-numbered in the ratio
of five to three; and they were out
ranged in artillery and outnumbered
and outwatched in all the things!
that go to make up military equip
ment.
Since the Marne, the French army
at the front has grown from 1,500,
000 to 3,000,000, and the British
army from 100,000 to 2,500,000. In
1914, Germany had a potential army
of 9,500,000 men—today, one-half f
if that number has been killed, cap
ured, permanently crippled or is
lead from natural causes, with the
esult that, on the Western front,
he numerical superiority has passed
rom Germany to the Allies, who
an oppose over 6,000,000 men to
i maximum of 4,500,000 German
roops. In the matter of artillery
here is an equal preponderance on
he Allied side. Last, and by no
neans least important, is the fact
hat what is left of the German
trmy contains a far larger propor
ion than the Allied armies of men,
vho by reason of age and immature
.■outh, are ill suited to stand the
errific strain of modern warfare,
'(or should we in this comparison
'orget that while in the German army
here has been a noticeable decline
n morale, due to the pinch of want
ind the sickness of heart which
:omes from endless promises that
ire unfulfilled, the morale of the
Allied armies, who are well fed,
iteadily increasing in strength, and
;heered by some eighteen months
>f all but unbroken victories from
;he Swiss border to the North Sea,
s uniformly good.
But if Germany despairs of a
jreat military decisions in the field,
vhy does she continue to fight?
She must be well aware that the
prolongation of the brutal war which
she is waging deepens the resent
ment against her, and will make
more hard the terms to which she
must subscribe when she is forced
;o admit that she has lost the war.
The answer to this question is to
pe found in the notable successes
.vhich Germany has won in that
field of conflict back of the front
vhere she is a far more skilled an
:agonist than she has ever been in
he sphere of military operations.
IVe refer, of course, to that world
wide war-ceret, subtle, deadly and
;normously effective which she is
ceaselessly waging among the civi
ian population back of the military
fighting lines of the Allies. Here
she has won victories more com
plete, of greater significance, and
,vith infinitely more disastrous con
sequence to her enemies than any
vhich she has won in the field. Wit
less the complete collapse of Rus
sia and the partial collapse, in the
’all of last year, of the hitherto
ndomitable Italian armies.
Germany’s hope of victory lies in
she war behind the front—a war
vhich in its secrecy and cunning is
is deadly and difficult to deal with
is the sub-sea piracy of the German
U-boats. It was after Germany
•ealized that she could never win
pn the sea and in the open, that she
struck below the sea and in the dark.
3o, realizing that she can never con
quer with the sword, she seeks to
.vin out against the non-combatant’s
population by means of the subtle
suggestion of failure, the secret
whisperings of disaffection, the little
spark of rumor which runs through
men’s minds like fire through dry
stubble, to say nothing of the de
iberate lie, craftily conceived, cun
lingly camouflaged, and whispered
py a thousand trusted spies into ten
;housand listening ears.
In carrying on this war there is
io weapon, however small, that is
so insignificant as to be overlooked
py the German propagandist; there
is no influence which can have the
slightest effect upon the morale of
the people that is considerel too
small for the patient, tireless effort
pf these soldiers of secrecy in our
midst, whose efficiency increases in
the ratio of their modesty and ap
parent insignificance. Many are the
current phrases which have origin
ated in the secret text books of the
German secret service: “Peace with
out Annexation or Indemnities” (a
peace which involves no acknow
ledgment of moral guilt by the van
quished). “The War Is a Stale
mate" (which suggests that Germany
is so strong that she can never be
beaten). “Look at the Map” (sug
gesting that Germany has won, anc
ignoring the fact that her man power
has decreased in the proportion in
which her boundaries have extend
ed). “Peace Without Victory” (tne
most insidious phrase of all; for a
peace without confession of military
defeat, would be acclaimed by Ger
many as a peace won by German
force of arms.)
It is a fact that the majority of
the people in this world never grow
up, and that only a small minority
develop that mental growth, that
sense of proportion, which enables
them to take a broad view’ of such
volved in this world war. Most
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people are intelligently concerned I
only with the things which are close
at hand and readily obvious. They
look, as it were ,through a knot
hole instead of using the sixty-de
gree angle of vision which every in
telligent man ought to have; and
consequently such people, and it is
the great majority, are peculiarly
sensitive to the suggestions of a
propoganda, which is as subtle and
difficult to detect as it is all-pervad
ing and pernicious. The large ma- 1
jority of the rumors of disaster to
our troops; of discomforts, sickness- '
es ,and deaths in the cantonments;
of delays, disorganization, and even
of graft in the great war industries ,
are of enemy origin. And the pity
of it all is that, unconsciously, there
are thousands of well-meaning citi- ,
zens who, because they have an ill- ,
regulated appetite for the scandal
ous and the shocking, assist this
enemy propaganda by repeating the |
enemy fumors, too often with em- ,
bellishments of their own.
j Without shutting his eyes to de
j fects or foregoing his inalienable
right to criticism, it is the duty of
every citizen to cultivate in these ,
! times a strees of spirit of healthy
[optimism. “Thoughts are things.” .
| A lie persistently repeated and idly
| passed on, even though we believe
j it to be a lie, begins, by virtue of
I its constant reiteration, to take on
in our minds a color of truth,
i Therefore, it is the duty of every ,
| true patriot among us, whenever he
! stumbles upon one of these calamity ,
, howlers, to ask him at once for his
j authority, and bring it sharply to
, his mind, that, whether he intends
i to or not, he is actively aiding the
i enemy in his attempt to shatter the
morale of the civilian poulation back
| of the fighting line.—Scientific i
j American.
! EAGER TO BUY LIBERTY BONDS
Despite the fact that the third
Liberty loan campaign has not been
started, the general executive com
mittee of the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners has author
ized the purchase of $75,000 of
third Liberty loan bonds, a letter
from Frank Duffy, general secre
tary of the organization, to the
treasury department announces.
“I want you to know we are more
active than ever in this matter,
Duffy wrote.
Duffy estimates that his organi
zation purchased about $1,000,000
worth of second Liberty loan bonds.
It also recently authorized the pur
chase of $25,000 worth of Canadian
Victory loan bonds.
The food you waste today may
mean HUNGER to someone, some
where, sometime. Be saving.
OVER THE ICE j
GARDEN SEED
NOW ON SALE AT
W. A. COO MILL
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HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR FUR
BOLD YOUR LIBERTY BONDS
SAYS SECRETARY M’ADOO
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
lrges the purchasers of Liberty loan
sands of both the first and second
ssues, to hold fast to their bonds,
rhey are the best investment in the
vorld.
The secretary’s statement was
•ailed forth by the fact that Liberty
>ond holders are approached from
ime to time by agents seeking to in
luce them to part with their Liberty
oan bonds and take in exchange
lecurities which ,in a number of
•ases, are of a very questionable
value, and was prompted by the de
;ire to protect bondholders against
11-advised disposition of their bonds.
The secretary expresses the hope
hat every purchaser ot a Liberty
jond will realize that the only gen
line help that he gives his govern
nent is keeping his bond as an in
vestment so long as it is possible for
lim to do so. He states, however,
Jiat no just objection lies to the
sale of a Liberty bond when real
lecessity exists for its sale.
Twelve cases of liquor were re
:ently found in a cabin at Wran
gell and the owner, J. G. Grant, was
tauled into the commissioner’s court.
Before a conviction was secured,
lim Matheson appeared and said he
lid not want to see the innocent
suffer. Jim stated that he owned
:he liquor, and was fined $650.
Be paid.
GIFT TO HOSPITAL SHIPS
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The National Society of the Col
i onial Dames of America has raised
' $50,000 for the purpose of equip
j ping the operating rooms of tv
hospital ships. Comfort and Mer
| now being fitted out for the use
' the navy. The fund was preset!
! through the Red Cross. The- r
• not only provides the ordinary^
1 ating equipment for the room*,
is furnishing the X-ray appar;
for each, with special drugs, 4i,
even supplying moving picture'**
phonograph records, and other
tides which will contribute to
comfort and recreation of the
valids.
The ladies of Anchorage recen
I completed their fourth box of k
j ted garments for the American ..
l diers.
! The office of a fire insurance
' agent at Anchorage rently suffered
a slight loss as the result of a fire.
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STRAY DOG—Black with white for
feet. Owner can recover bjr cal
> ing on Geo. Herrington and pa>
ing charge*. 4
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