THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
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IT REALLY IS HIS ARMY
Sometime we may have the sus
picion that the kaiser is being a bit
presumption in referring to “my”.
army and “my” navy. As a matter
of act he is speaking by the book:
literally, the army and navy are his.
It is so stated in that every con
venient and careful.y planned docu
ment, the Prussian Constitution.
Paragraph 108 of the Constitution
reads: “A swearing in of the-army
upon the constitution of the country
does not take place.” Instead the
army swears, as stated in paragraph
(54. to “render unconditional obedi
ence to the orders of the emperor.
Wilhelm II feels so intensely that
he is the personal owner of the
army,” says Herman Fernau in “The
Coming Democracy,” that on every
occasion of the swearing in of re
cruits he perpetually reiterates: ‘You
have sworn me the oath of alleg
iance.’ And on Novembl' 23, 1891,
he declared to the newly sworn re
cruits: ‘More than ever before, un
belief and dissatisfaction lift their
heads in the Fatherland, and the oc
casion may arise when you will have
to shoot down or bayonet your own
brothers and relations. Then seal
your allegiance with the sacrifice
of your heart’s blood.’
Again, at Breslau, on December 2,
1896, he says: ‘The more people
shelter themselves behind catch
words and party considerations, the
more firmly and securely do I count
upon my army, and the more con
fidently do I hope that my army,
either without or within the realms,
will wait upon my wishes and my
behests. You are called upon, in
the first place, to protect me against
internal and external foes.”
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WHY SOME CHiLDREN FAIL TO
RESEMBLE THEIR PARENTS
“Like begets like” is a common
expression. It is all that we usually
mean when we talk about heredity.
But like does not always produce
like.
Take the race of the chickens
called the Blue Andalusian, and you
have a clear case of what really hap
pens in heredity. Breed two of
these blue chickens together, and
only half the breed will be blue. The
other half will be made up of white
chickens and black chickens. In
other words, like has produced like
in only half the children.
Now take one of these black chick
ens and breed him to another black
one, and all the Children will be
black; breed a white one toianother
white one, and all the children will
be white. But breed a black to a
white, and the children will resemble
neither parent; they will be blue
like their grandparents.
Every human being is a blue An
dalusian; that is to say, a mongrel.
He is a combination of many differ
ent kinds of ancestors, just as the
blue Andalusian is a combination of
white ancestors and black ancestors.
And, just as only half the children
of the blue Andalusian resemble their
parents, the other half taking after
their grandparents, so children may,
instead of resembling to a grand
parent or even a more remote an
cestor.
It was Gregor Mendel, an Augus
tinian monk of Brunn, Austria, who
first found all this out- Fifty years
ago he was experimenting with the
common garden pea. He found that
when he crossed a tall race of pease
with a dwarf race the offspring oi
the first generation were all tall, no!
medium in height, as we might ex
pect; the fact that they had a dwari
parent was entirely concealed or
“dominated” by the one tall parent.
When he bred together these hybrid
tails, there were dwarfs among the
progeny and the proportion of tails
to dwarfs was almost exactly three
to one. The dwarfness of the grand
parent had been hidden for one gen
eration, only to appear again in the
children.
It is highly probable that the same
thing often takes place with us
human folk. In some cases a good
trait from one parent will dominate
a less favorable one from the other.
Sometimes a child will look like its
mother and behave like its father.
In other cases the good and bad
traits of either or both parents will
be hidden for a generation, only to
appear in the next. In some for
tunate persons the favorable traits
of the parents combine, in others
the unfavorable; but it is a happy
law that to most of us a general
assortment of qualities is meted out.
Mendel’s discovery turned the
mystery of heredity into an exact
ecience. Its practical as well as its
scientific value is tremendous; for
not only is the wizardlike genius of
Burbank and other plant-breeders
due to their use of the Mendelian
principle, but throughout we are led
to clearer understanding of the de
velopment of man and the import
ance to our children and our child
ren’s children of what we are today.
IT PAYS TO WEAR GOOD
CLOTHES.
Lincoln once remarked to a friend
that he never felt his own utter
worthlessness so much as when in
the presence of a hotel clerk or a
waiter. His whole early careers was
marked by a failure to value him
self highly enough; he felt often ill
at ease and inferior in the company
of men to whom he was in every
sense superior.
It would be interesting to deter
mine how much of this self-depre
ciation was due to the unfavorable
impression that Lincoln often made
upon those who saw him for the first
time, says Alonzo Rothschild, in
“Honest Abe” “He probably had as
little taste about dress and attire
as anybody that ever was born,”
writes an attorney who saw him of
ten in those days. “He simply wore
clothes because it was needful and
customary. When I saw him first,
his hat was innocent of a nay- His
boots had no acquaintance with
blacking. His clothes had not been
introduced to a whisk-broom. His
carpet-bag was well worn and dilapi
dated. His umbrella was substantial,
but of a faded green, well worn, the
; knob gone, and the name ‘A. Lincoln’
cut out of white muslin and sewed
I in the inside.”
j In spite of all this, Lincoln made
|his success. Yet it was an undoubted
handicap in the early days. On one
• occasion, when his partner, Major
John T. Stuart, could not attend a
■ trial and sent Lincoln to represent
1 the firm, the client, John W. Bad
! deley, “gave one glance at the letter
| and one at the ungainly, ill dressed
| bearer of it. That a man who pre
I sented so unpromising an appearance
[ should come offering to be his rep
resentative in the august precincts
j of the law irritated him beyonc
measure. He dicharged a volley ol
abuse at the astonished Lincoln, paic
his respect in similar terms to Johr
■ T Stuart, and straightway hired an
| other lawyer, James A. McDougall
1 to defend the suit.
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A country worth fighting for i
a country worth laving for. Bu;
^THRIFT STAMPS.
ENGLISH WOMEN
TO BE ALLOWED
Oldtimc Custom of Limiting View of i
Statesmen Relegated to
the Background.
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English women are to be allowed
to an unobstructed view of the pro
ceedings in the house of commons.
The famous iron grill through which
they were formerly permitted to
peer at the backs of the heads of
Great Britain’s statesmen, is being
torn down, and a part of it will be
placed in the British Museum as a
curiosity.
The proposal to admit women to
the house of commons was first made I
in 1836, when the houses of parli-;
ment were reconstructed. Lord John '
Russel, leader of the house, opposed
the radical move, and for a time
held up the privelege. A petition
presented with a bit of silver plate
won the point, and the harem-like
ladies’ gallery was built.
Before that women were some
times smuggled in to hear their hus
bands speak. The place in which
they were usually hidden then was
a small, dark ventilator chamber in
the roof. There Mrs. Disraeli and
Mrs. Gladstone heard their husbands;
and there Elizabeth Fry listened to
many debates on prison reform. A.
mistake of Daniel O’Connel caused
the abandonment of the cubbyhole.
He had placed his wife there, and
after one of his brilliant speeches
rushed to receive her congratula
tions. Seeing a woman in the half
darkness, he seized her in his arms—
and, to his horror, found that he had
kissed the Dowager Duchess of Rich
mond, a powerful figure in Great
Britain’s petticoat politics.
Some of the legislators objected
to the ladies’ gallery, on the ground
that the presence of women would
distract their thoughts from affairs
of state. Privately, they told Grant
ley Berckley that the real trouble
was that a jealous wife could so
easily find out whether her husband
was on the benches. Berekley sug
gestd that “study in the library’’
would be an adequate alibi, and
added:
“You see, you can do ’em yet.”
BASEBALL FANS, ATTENTION!
Everyone interested in baseball for
the coming season are urgently re
quested to attend the meeting to be
held at the Fire hall tomorrow eve
ning at 7' o’clock, for the purpose
of lining up the teams and material
for this season’s baseball.
The meeting will elect a new treas
urer to succeed Mr. G. F. Cramer,
resigned.
NENANA ATHLETIC ASSN,
WOODBURY ABBEY, Pres.
OLSON IS ADJUDGED
INSANE BY JURYMEN
Charles Olson was taken into cus
tody last week on the charge of be
ing of unbalanced mind, and was
pronounced insane by a jury, at a
hearing held before Commissioner R.
S. McDonald on Saturday afternoon.
The complaint was worn to by friends
of the unfortunate man, that action
having been taken in order that he
might be provided with proper at
tention. Olsen will be taken to
Fairbanks immediately by Deputy
Marshal John Wocd and sent from
taht town to Morningside at teh first
opportunity.
Olson imagines that he is an ob
ject of suspicion and that people
are accusing him of the perpetration
of certain crimes which have been
committed here and elsewhere during
th past several months. According
to Dr. Malcolm E. Smith, his par
ticular affliction is paranoia.
The Washington-Alaska bank cases
in which Captain and Mrs. E. T.
Barnette seek to recover certain
funds from Receiver F. G. Noyes,
have been set for June 17, at which
time they will be heard in the dis
trict court at Fairbanks.
W. E. Muir, who is enroute to
Nenana to enter the employ of the
i Alaskan Engineering commission,
- is reported to have left Chitina this
morning for the Inside.
ALLIED -AVIATORS
HI! CANAL BOATS
Continuous Attacks Being Made On
Teuton Works Behind German
Lines.
AMSTERDAM, May 6—Reports
reaching this city from points behind j
the German lines in Belgium state j
that Allied aviators are waging a I
contiguous warfare against the Ger
man transportation systems and are
doing a vast amount of damage, in
spite of the defensive efforts of the
great German air fleet. As the re
sult of the activities of Allied air
men during the past week, thirty
five canal boats, loaded with gravel j
and supplies for use on the western
front, were destroyed. <
AT HULL TONIGHT
Good
By
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Program Has Been Arranged ,
Entertainment Committee
for Oldtimers.
Nenana Igloo. Pioneers of Alaska,
will hold a smoker tonight, for the
entertainment of members, visiting
as well as local, and a large at
tendance of oldtimers is anticipated.
The smoker will be preceded by a
brief business session, at the con
clusion of which the fun will start.
Several features have been ar
ranged, one of which will be the
appearance of Trainer Pete Schmidt
and his pair of bantam title holders,
who scored such a hit at the Grace
church benefit staged recently at
the Coliseum. The little fellows have
been in constant training since their
first appearance and promise a star
bout. j
In addition to the entertainment, j
there will be usual sourdough spread. '
Nearly Two Hundred Dollars Con
tributed for Smokes for the
Boys in France.
Notwithstanding the fact that Ne
nanaites have been investing heavily
in Liberty Loan bonds and War Sav
ing Stamps, the Tobacco fund, which
is designed especially for the com
fort of the boys in the trenches, has
grown steadily and now totals almost
two hundred dollars.
Max Smith, who volunteered to
forward the Tobacco money through
the Northern Commercial company
tothe Overseas Tobacco Club, reports
that the sum of $83.40 has been de
posited in the glass jars about town
since the first collection of $105.was
made, making a total of $188.40.
United States Attorney R. F. Roth
with headquarters at Fairbanks, an
nounces that he has perfected the
appeal papers in the eight hour case
and hopes to have the matter de
cided finally by the higher court at
an early date. This is the case in
which time Judge Bunnell will make
cision rendered on March 23, that
the territorial eight-hour act was
[ unconstitutional.
The pronouncement of sentence in
the Wm. H. Smith case, which was
set for Saturday, has been post
poned until Thursday afternoon, at
which time Judge unnel will make
known his decision.
Ed Quinn, who is engaged in
devoloping a promising looking
quartz ledge on the upper Nenana,
is in town on a brief business trip.
He expects to start on his return
trip tomorrow.
Steve Foster, game warden, under
went an operation at the Govern
ment hospital on Saturday for the
removal of a goitre. He will be
confined in the institution several
weeks.
Townsite Manager Watts, of An
' chorage, has announced that no more
j improvements will be made in that
town, except when urgently re
quested by property owners.
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But Better than the Rest.”
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out of the high wages of these days, some
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