THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,'
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ZION SCHOOLS TEACHING
THEORY OF FLAT WORLD
ZION. 111.. Nov. 8—Zion schools,
of which Wilbur Gleen Voliva, the
overseer of the colony, is president,
have adopted his new theories of *a
flat world and the absence of gravi
tation, and the thousand grade and
high school pupils believe them im
plicity. according to their teachers.
The public school maintained by
the state board of education and at
tended by the children of non-mem
bers of Voliva’s Christian-Catholic
Apostolic church, still teaches, how
ever, that the world is a globe mov
ing through limitless space and that
it was the attraction of gravity
which caused the apple to fall on
Isaac Newton's head.
At the Zion schools -the new
course of study teaches that:
The earth is a flat, circular world,
with a north pole in the exact
center, no south pole, and sur
rounded by a wall of ice which
keeps venturesome manners from
falling off the rim.
That the earth has no motion,
nut remains stationary' «> space.
That the sun is not millions of
miles in diameter and SI.000.000
miles away, but is really a little
orb 32 miles across and only 3.000
miles from the earth.
That the law of gravitation is a
fallacy and when objects are thrown
into the air they continue to rise
earth because they are heavier than
air.
A standard map of the world, on
Christopher's projection, is used in
until the force which propelled them
is expended, and then fall back to
the schools to demonstrate the flat
world theory. This map. which -s
used by navigators and scientists
in making time ar.d longitude '■a'
culations, differs from the usual
Mercator's projection familiar to
other schools, in that it shows the
earth as it would look to an observ
er directly above the north pole,
with the continents and seas pro
jected on a flat plane. As a result
the north pole is in the center, and
instead of a south pole the Ant
arctic regions are indicated by i
■white ring- about the outer circum
ference of the circle. This ring, ac
cording to Voliva. is the ice barrier
which keeps mariners from falling
off the edge of his flat world.
The Christopher projection was
made thirty years ago, prior to the
discovery of the south pole and be
fore much was known about the Ant
arctic regions, so only a bare outline
of portions of the southern ice land
is shown.
Miss Mary Thompson, principal of
the Zion school system and an ardent i
beKever in the Voliva theories, has
propounded a question which she'
believes wili trip scientists and navi
gators. Showing on her flat map
. that the tropic of Cancer, 43 de
grees from the north pole, was a
much smaller circle than the tropic j
of Capricorn. 47 degrees farther
i away. Miss Thompson says:
l “Navigators on a globular earth
! would find if they were to sail com
pletely around either of these trop
: ics that they would be indentically
the same length. On a flat earth.
! however, the tropic of Capricorn
would be much larger than the tropic
1 of Cancer, and would take much
■ longer to sail around, because on,
a flat earth Cancer would be near
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er the center, or north pole. Why J
don't some of the globular earth ‘
believers try sailing around the two
tropics and find out whether they
or we ar correct? The globular
people certainly can't prove curva
ture of the earth."
Miss Eva Baker, teacher of geo
graphy, demonstrates to her classes
that the sun is only a tiny orb a
few thousand miles away, instead
of an orb millions of miles in dia
meter and 91.000.000 miles from
the earth. If the sun was so large,
she says, it would light up all the
world, instead of confining its hot
test rays to a 3,000 mile- wide belt
between the two tropics. Voliva
himself, in a recent sermon at
Shiloh Tabernacle, said God certain
ly would not have made a sun to
light the world and then placed it so
far away.
“A man would be a fool.” the
overseer added, “to build a house
in Zion and place his parlor light in
Kenosha. Wis.”
Miss Thompson says the children
prefer their new flat world to the
old fashioned round one in which
Columbus believed.
“The students in Zion schools,"
she says, “grasp the theory of the
flat earth readil because their minds
are not full of globular earth
teaching such as older folks have
had drilled into them. Therefore,
they accept the flat earth teaching
without questioning, not because
they have to, but because it appeals
to them as rational. I don’t believe
there is one student in the grades
who has questioned it. The flat
earth seems more reasonable to them
and the globular unreal.”
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, who suc
ceeded John Alexander Dowie as
overseer of Zion on the latter’s
death in March. 1907, was born
near Newton, Ind.. March 10, 1870.
In 1897 he received his B. A. from
Hiram College, Ohio, and in the
same year a degree from Union
Christian College at Merom. Ind. In
1889 he was ordained a minister
in the Christian church and held a
pastorate at Linden, Ind., from 1889
to 1892. Seven year? later he join
ed Dowie’s church and was ordained
an elder and placed in charge of
the Zion tabernacle in Chicago. He
represented Dowie at Cincinnati in
1900 and 1901 and was then sent
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LADIES ARE WORKING HARD
TO INSURE ENJOYABLE HOP
The ladies who are in charge of
the arrangements for the dance and
entertainment to be given at L’nion
hail on Friday night in honor of
Armistice Day, the incorporation of
Nenana and the members of the
new council, are devoting much time
and labor to the work and the men
of the community, who will be the
honor guests of the ladies on that
occasion, will find much enjoyment
in the affair, with a number of
novelties to relieve the monotony
of dancing. There also will be re
freshments and an augmented or
chestra, of at least five pieces and
perhaps more. The musicians have
volunteered their sen-ices for the
evening and Prof. Berggren is ar
ranging a special musical program.
ABOUT THE MAIL.
Mail is dispatched from X'enana
for the Outside on Wednesday and
Saturday. Letters may be posted
up to 7:30 on the morning of de
parture.
Mail is scheduled to arrive from
the coast on Monday and Thursday.
Mai! is dispatched for Fairbanks
on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Mail for the Tolovana is dispatch
ed by way of Fairbanks, pending the
commencement of winter travel by
way of Dunbar.
COMMERCIAL CLUB TO MEET
TO DISCUSS FREIGHT RATES
At the request of Fred’k D.
Browne, who has been assigned to
the work of figuring out a satis
factory rate schedule on the Gov
ernment railroad, the Nenana Com
mercial club will meet at Union
hall on Saturday night for the pur
pose of conferring with the Com
mission representative on the ques
tion of tariffs. Notice of the meet
ing is given at this time by Presi
dent Bowen in order that members
i of the organization may give the
matter some thought in advance
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STORAGE
WARM and COLD
Wm. C. Heinz
Andy D. Swingen
Successors to
Casey’s Warehouse
Coal
From the Mine of the
Broad Pass
Coal & Development
Company
$330
a ton
F. 0. B. cars at Lignite
$4.50 at Nenana
$6 at Fairbanks
and Creek Points. Deliveries
about November 15
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change without notice:
LEA\ E NENAN'A for Healy on
Monday, Wednesday. Thursday and
Saturday at 8 a m
Returning leaves Healv at 1 p. m.
LEA\ E FAIRBANKS for Nenana
on Tuesday and Friday at 8 a. m.
Returning leaves Nenana at 1:30
p. m.
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MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
Fourth and B Streets
At 8:00 P. M.
Secretary Dictator.
ALEX FOWLER, ALF EKELANU,
SECOND AND FOURTH MONDAY
Pioneers of Alaska
Nenana Igloo No. 17
MEETS AT UNION HALL
FIRST MONDAY EACH MONTH
AT 8:00 P. M.
Visiting Members Always
Welcome.
Frank Rourkc Geo. S. Smith
Secretary. President.