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.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth.Editor and Manager
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
The end of the year 1918 finds
Nenana, at the tender age of thirty
months, well established among the
towns of Interior Alaska, and popu
lated by prosperous and contented
Alaskans whose number is increas
ing steadily and who have an abid
ing faith in the permanence and
continued prosperity of the com
munity. Nenana has a record of
growth of which those responsible
for it need not blush. It stands as
a monument to the indominatable
spirit of Xenanaites, who have
builded well and persistently, very
often in the face of discourage
ments not frequently encountered
in town building.
But those days of depression
have ended with the war. The
new year will dawn upon a new'
era for Nenana. With the restora
tion of peace has come the con
viction that travel will start Alaska
wards and that much of the capital
earned during the war period will
be released for investment in Nor
thern properties, promising early
development in all sections of the'
territory. Our government, too,
will be less occupied with the prob
lems of an international character,
and will find time, it is very reas
onable to believe, to assist Alaskans
in various ways to open up the vast
areas of undeveloped mineral and
agricultural lands.
Interior Alaska will come in for
a large share of the prosperity
which is in store for the Northland.
And Nenana is so situated that the
development of almost any section
of the Interior will be of material
benefit locally. The coal which is
now coming from the vast fuel beds
to the south of town, will be dis
tributed by Nenana; the distribu
tion of mining material and supplies
of all kinds for use in the upper
Nenana valley will be forwarded
from Nenana by means of tne Gov
ernment railroad; and wnen the
railroad is completed through to the
coast, practically all freight con
signed . to Interior points will be
trans-shipped at Nenana, creating
at this point, a shipping center o."
no mean proportions.
These are but a few of the posi
tive benefits that the future has in
store for Nenana. Much more allur
ing is the promise of the early de
velopment of the vast mineral belt
which skirts the mountains to the
south of town, by means of electric
energy generated at a central power
station at the nearby lignite coal
fields, to be owned and operated
by the federal government; by
wagon road feeders reaching into
the various mining districts; and by
the establishment of a government
owned and operated smelter for the
reduction of ores which abound
throughcvt the rich Nenana district.
Already the power plant project
has acquired sufficient momentum
practically to assure its realization;
the road requirements of the nearby
districts a 3 being presented forcibly
to ted era i and territorial road
b. ilder ;; an 1 the smelter will come
when rc 1 and cheap power have
Urm'l—tt?~ :h<—rrppiu luuilj—to—prove
the value and vastness of ledges
sea* ■’•ed thickly over Nenana’s
nea.-,y mineral belt.
The future of Nenana looks good
to the News ,and we feel sure every
resident of the town and every pros
pector in the adjacent, hills shares
our o’ timiitic views. We welcome
the nev. year full of confidence that
! it will not be long ere development
of worth-while proportions begins,
1 fostered and encouraged by our
i government and stimulated by
private activities. Feeling thus, we
extend greetings to our many read
' ers and to the people of Nenana
; generally, and wish all of them their
full share of happiness and pros
perity throughout the new year
GO THE LIMIT
Telegraphic dispatches received
from the national capital convey
the information that it is the inten
tion of the department of justice
to endeavor to bring about the de
portation of most of the alien ene
mies who were interned during the
war. The department would send
these undesirables back to their
native lands because their residence
in the United States would appear
to have failed to inculcate in them
a proper appreciation of the bene
fits bestowed upon them by a free
and liberty-loving nation.
In its attitude on the alien enemy
question the department will find
the great American public ready to
back up any steps that may be
taken to rid the country of those
who have proven themselves un
worthy of further enjoyment of
American opportunities. In fact, the
majority of Americans long ago
gave expression to their opinions
on this question and immediate
•deportation appeared to be the
popular demand. There were sug
gestions of more severe punishment,
such possibly as might have been
meted out to an American resident
of Germany under similar circum
stances—but we have not heard any
ciamourings for the restoration of
alien offenders to their former
status in our midst.
The Nenana Daily News believes
that anything less than deportation
would be an insult to those Ameri
cans who have contributed in any
way, even in the slightest degree,
to the winning of the war. It
would not be fair to them to deal
less severely with a foreign ele
ment which has given ample demon
stration of its unworthiness to re
ceive shelter under the American
flag. And we would go still fur
ther in our dealings with foreign
residents. We would deport also
those men who, after having taken
out their first papers, refused to
serve in Uncle Sam’s army. Presi
dent Wilson has said that these men
may not now became citizens and
it is our opinion that a man who
has proven himself unworthy of
citizenship, should also be denied
the privilege of residing longer on
American soil.
NOTICE
j The management of the Coliseum
announce that all soldiers of the
Commission guards who have hith
erto been admitted to the pic
ture shows on payment of the war
tax only, will, in future, be given
a special rate to all picture shows,
The rate charged the men in the
U. S. service, including the Signal
—Corps, will—be—twenty five oontt
for all shows and will include wax
i tax, with the exception of special
1 shows where more than fifty cents
is charged for admission.
For these shows they will be ad
mitted for one-half of the price
i charged for general admission, with
1 twenty-five cents extra for reserved
; seats.
For The WeBare
of the Community
(Editorial in The Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 8. 1918.)
A Mad World
Fear is the most prolific source
of all evil. Of course, if fear were
| understood in its full mataphysical
significance, it would be understood
j to be the provoking cause of all
i evil of every sort. But even from
ithe ordinary point of view of the
iworld, fear when it communicates
| itself to numbers, is capable of
causing greater disaster than any
other phase of the human con
sciousness. The pagan philosophers
| realized that there was such a thing
as the fear of fear; in other words
as they stated it, the fear of death
was worse than death itself. Cen
turies later Shakespeare appropriated
the idea, and put precisely the same
; sentiment into the mouth of Isa
bella, in “Measure for Measure;”
and, indeed, anyone who knows any
thing at a" of history knows how
disease was spread upon the wings
of fear in the case of that awful
visitation in the Fourteenth Cen
tury known as the Black Death, and
again when a pestilence of a similar
nature swept London, in the Seven
teenth Century.
Some day the world will come to
see that what it calls contagion is
a mental contagion, and that what
it calls infection is the infection of.
one mind from another. Orthodox
medical practice today largely recog
nizes this, but it draws back from
the logical consequences of its own
admission, and endeavors to shelter
itself in a half-way house, which is
built partially out of mind and par
tially out of matter. Any person
who has watched the ravages of
such a disease as cholera in the East
must know exactly what this means.
The European sahib, going about
doing his duty, and quite fearless
of consequences, moves through the
cholera camps with perfect im
munity from the disease. But the
native stricken by this disease, lies
down almost where he is overcome
by it, whether in his house or by
the roa.L:de, convinced, in the sud
denness of the shock and the con
fusion of his fear, that the moment
has come from which it is useless
for him to attempt to escape.
In such conditions it is surely ob-!
vious that the sanest treatment is:
to do everything possible to destroy:
fear. Fear in a Christian com-J
munity should be self-condemned- j
Some nineteen centuries of reading
the Johannine epistles should surely
have affected this if Christendom is
understanding what it reads. It is
little to the point to say that fear
is uncontrollable, for any person
who has ever had anything to do
■with causes which produce fear
knows that this is not the case.
Probably every man who has made
the sea his profession has been thru
periods of fear which he has had to
overcome in order to gain that
sereneness in danger, without which
he would be a liability instead of
and asset aboard his ship. Prac
tically every man who has ever
been into action on land can tell
you something of the sickening sen
sations or the first experience of
battle. But as time goes on, the
veteran rises superior to the fears
of the recruit, and daily takes his
life in his hands with a calmness
which shows that he has learned
something, at any rate, of the
dominion over fear. It is surely
: obvious, then, that in an hour of
! great fear, when the prevailing tone
of the human mind, in the midst
of the conflict of Armageddon, finds
, expression in an epidemic, that a
Christian country should rather re
, sort to its churches to relieve it
. self of its fears, than close their
doors so as to sound the top note
, of human agony in a belief that
, God’s hand is so shortened that it
cannot save.
•r-—Let—aim—person_who_W- been
■ brought in contact with the con
; ditions of today ask himself frankly
; whether it is not fear which is play
ing such fearful havoc in the world.
. Everywhere men and women are
i afraid. Afraid in the areas of war
of a storm blast that may at any
moment strike over them; afraid
within the orbit cf the air squad
rons of the sound of the terrible
engines whirring in the darkness
overhead, and of hearing the bombs
explode all around; boys sleeping,
fearfully in the trenches, waiting
for the summons in the gray morn
ing to go over the top, and men and
1 women sleeping in towns and vil
lages, miles and thousands of miles
away, fearful of what in that very
moment may be happening to those
whom they love; men and women
at sea, waiting, as it were, for the
explosion of torpedoes; or even
men and women in immediate phy
sical safety, wondering what effect
the war is going to have on their
incomes and their lives. A great
fear has stricken the world, and it
is little wonder if out of this fear
there have emerged pestilences and
disases which have mounted on the
winds of fear and scattered their
seeds in every direction.
In such circumstances what would
it be expected that a Christian com
munity should do? Would it not,
remembering the words of the Bible
that “perfect love casteth out fear,”
be to ask itself if there were not
something amiss with its under
standing of love which makes love
powerless to overcome fear? And
should it not naturally fling wide
open the doors of its churches, con
fident that in doing right, by wor
shipping God, no ill could touch it?
Have Christian countries so com
pletely come to distrust the doc
trines they profess that the 91st
Psalm is no longer a protetcion
against fear and against disease,
against pestilence and against war:
“He that dwelleth in the secret place
of the most High shall abide underj
the shadow of the Almighty. . . ;
There shall be no evil befall thee,1
neither shall any plague come nigh
thy dwelling.” Yet, at the "very!
moment when the churches should
be filling the minds of the people;
with peace, and reassuring ihem of
the impotency of evil, it is pro-;
posed that these churches shall be j
shut, and that the admission shall
be made that it is dangerous for
men and women to congregate to
worship God, for fear the Lord’s;
arm is so shortened that He cannot
contend with microbes. On the other ;
hand, if people believe that God
sends pestilence into the world, fori
the good of the world, what right!
have they to protect themselves'
against this pestilence, and to at
tempt by the drinking of drugs, by
methods of segregation, or by any
' means at all, to prevent the anger
: of the Lord from taking effect?
The very fact that all men and
women endeavor to protect them
selves against disease, at ail times,
is the proof, to any sane person,
that in its heart the world does
not believe that discord proceeds
from Principle, that death comes out I
of Life, or that reprisals are the j
work of Love.
“The way,” writes Mrs. Eddy, in j
a famous sentence on page 201 of
Science of Health, “to extract error j
from mortal mind is to pour in'
truth through flood-tides of Love.” [
Now not even the natural scientist
will deny hat the way to overcome
any condition at all is to learn the
truth about it. Until the truth has
been learned a man fights with his
hands tied behind him, or, at the
best, like the boxer in the Greek
games, who, Paul declared, beat the
air. The Christian religion is per
fectly" clear on this point. Jesus
of Nazareth Himself declared, “If
the truth will not free men from
microbes it will not free them from
anything at all. Now, it is perfectly
certain that if the truth about
Christianity exists anywhere, it ex
; ists in the Bible, and that one way
■to learn this truth is thiough the
-.churches_consecrated for the nur
1 pose of promulgating it, and not
by closing their doors in token of
their impotency. The church which
closes its doors practically proclaims
its impotency, and the admission is
a terrible one when it is made in
the hour of a nation’s need. If the
arm of the Lord is so shortened that
He cannot save, what is the good of
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the siren whistles to call people to I
prayer every day at midday? Is it \
to be supposed that the prayers for
the success of Truth in the war will
be more successful than the prayers!
in the churches for freedom from;
influenza? Let the sirens shriek!
on week days, but the churches be j
closed on Sundays. Surely it wasi
a wise man who once said, “A mad ,
world, my masters!”
CARD OF THANKS
Albert Fortier (“Hootch Albert")
desires to extend sincere thanks
to the local Moose lodge for their
prompt action in having him brought
to the hospital after his recent
accident, and to the Pioneer lodge
and Dr. David More for their at
tention to him during his recent
illness, following the accident
Andrew Simons, the oldtimer and
well known Kenai Peninsula guide,
and Mrs. Eva Lowell Revell were
married at Seward recently.
r.s. McDonald
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