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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for en-ry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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WILSON, THE MAGICIAN.
One of the fine satisfactions of
life is the recollection of a great
artist in his prime. It makes little
difference whether the performer '
was a statesman or an actor, a mili
tary hero or a singer. In the days
of our childhood the old people
kindled anew the joy of living with '■
the memory of public performances 1
of which they had been lucky wit
nesses. With one it may have been
Daniel Webster at Bunker Hill; with 1
another Jenny Lind at Castle Gar
den, Paganini playing in Paris be
fore Heine and Berlioz, or that
genius for king acting, the Prince of I
Wales, at the Brevoort house. But
the people who are fortunate
enough to hear the President this
summer will have a reminiscence to
store away that will be worth more
than wealth to soothe their closing ,
days. For Mr. Wilson is at once
the foremost statesman of the world .
and its greatest artist. We know ,
of no more enjoyable treat, writes
the editor of Collier's, than to hear
him at any time. But now he
comes to us at the very peak of his
fame, his skill, his self-confidence,
wearing, as it were, the ^heaves of
victory in his buttonhole.
Having heard him more than once, I •
we can assure the adoring public j
that they will not be disappointed 1;
in his interpretation of one of the:
most stupendous events in history, j
They will hear the very top notes.
To say that his power of statement!
is marvelous is to give him faintest
praise. In our time no one has ap
proached him as a platform speak- j
er. He has all the arts and graces,!
natural or acquired by long and
careful practice. His opponents and
rivals are badly matched against
him. Lodge is cold, Borah violent;
Knox talks like a lawyer pleading
a case; Bryan is a mere ballad sing
er. The President beguiles the in
tellect and soothes the senses of his
hearers. Always himself at ease, he
never creates in his audience the
disquieting apprehension that he may
strike a false note. He has the
“bel canto,” but always in complete
control. He is as certain of his
cadences as a good singer, and ap
parently indifferent to them. No
matter how carefully prepared his
speeches have been, they sound ex
temporaneous and effortless. He ex
hibits none of the extravagances and
overemphasis of the “popular ora
tor,” but speaks as if in pleasant
and familiar but earnest conversa
tion with his audience, whom he
wishes to convince of something
which has deeply impressed itself on
his soul. Orderly, convincing, logi-1
cal, blandly humorous, he yet con-!
tinues to suggest strong feeling i
managed by a stronger mind. If
you admit a single premise, always
carefully veiled, you are lost as an
opponent. In any case, your an
tagonism, however alert when he be
gins to speak, eventually is soothed
to sleep by the grace of his elocu
tion and the melody of his voice.
His speeches sound even better than
they read. In hearing him you
wonder how a man in his position
dare say so much; in reading him
that he really said so little.
The League of Nations may be a
very good thing or a very bad;
guarantee perpetual peace or threat
en perpetual war; ennoble democracy
with a world mission or degrade it
to the level of wicked European
creeds; free us or bind us. No
matter. The opposition to it, rap
idly fading now, will cease entirely
under the spell of the lyrical inter
pretation to which many hundreds
of thousands of Americans will listen
this summer, and the tour will be
recorded as one of the most im
portant musical and political events
in our history.
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COMMUNICATION «
Seward, Alaska, July 14, 1919.
Editor Nenana News:
Like everybody else, I always get
a copy of the article in time if it is j
sufficiently unpleasant, and I suppose
that explains why some unknown
promoter of joy and happiness and
sunshine sent me a copy of The
Nenana News containing the “New
Seward Reformer” story.
Now, really, I’m not a reformer
in the popular sense, and in no sense
unless to believe that a man en
gaged in reforming himself and let- j
ting other people do the same thing
for themselves in thier own way
makes one a reformer.
Neither am I an “obstructionist”
of the Government railroad project,
or anything else.
I do want this railroad built, and j
I have wanted it for going on five
years, and I am convinced it would
not have been built within ten years
nor within a cost of one hundred
million, dollars had not a few loyal
Alaskans determined to light the1
fires under the job-holding incom- j
petents on this end, and thus stir
things up all down the line.
For some reason a number of the
territorial papers have paid their
respects to me individually, probably
becaus I am in the same game, and
was, I suppose, when most of the
Alaska editors were in pinafores.
You know and they know that I
have given an immense amount of
favorable publicity to such work on
the railroad project as deserved
commendation, but for some reason
that is ignored. The only stuff re
printed is where I have turned the
spotlight on waste, incompetency
and deliberate acts tending to pro
long the job. For example, I have
time and again commended Gerig’s
work, and used it more than once
as a startling basis of comparison
with the unbelievable schoolboy ig
norance and incompetency shown on
the Seward division from the spring
I of 1915 to this blessed hour,
i A sum of money, given to us by
■ Congress to build this road, ap
jproaehing $4,000,000 has been sunk
on this division, and the road is in
many places in worse physical con
dition than when we got it from the
I Alaska Northern people; and in oth
er places, and practically in all other
places, where it has been officially
“finished,” it is but a poorly-built
third-rate road over which a handcar
cannot run in safety.
As an Alaskan, with some chil
dren whose future depends largely
upon the future of Alaska; and be
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lieving it will be principally affected
by the proper and expeditious build
ing of this road, I cast in my lot
jwith those who are interested in
the welfare of Alaska rather than
in the salary checks of the gang of
migratory job-holders, whose only
tangible work on this division has j
been the systematic boosting of their !
salaries and the systematic injury of
jail “sourdough slobs," as they term
Alaskans.
Edes cuts no figure, anyhow; so
let Gerig take over this work, not,
alone to 56 as he -has, but to an 1
including Seward, and clean out the
incompetents, the useless, and the
salarv-padders, and I believe every j
Alaskan in these parts will support j
ihim loyally. And I also believe
they would not again stand for four j
years of do-nothing stupidity from
any man. 1 myself am for anybody j
land anything that’s for Alaska and
ithe road.
Respectfully yours,
THOMAS B. DRAYTOX.
JUDGE WILL GO
10 JAIL RATHER ■
JUAN PAY FINE!
DENVER. Colo.—Ben B. Lindsey, !
judge of Denver's juvenile court,
will go to jail before he will pay
a fine' of $500 for contempt of the
criminal court here, he has an
nounced. The Colorado supreme i
court has denied Judge Lindsey's
petition for a rehearing.
The fine was assessed when Judge
Lindsey, in May, 1915, declined to ;
tell what Neal Wright, 14-year-old
ward of the juvenile court, had
told the judge about the shooting
of Neal’s father. Neal's mother was i
trial charged with murder. Neal
was the only eye-witness. Mrs. ;
Wright was acquitted.
Judge Lindsey refused to testify ,
j at the trial, insisting that whatever j
j information he possessed regarding
j the killing had been given him by
ithe boy in confidence and he could
! not and would not violate the bov’s
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j confidence. Soon after the trial.
John A. Perry, then judge of the
criminal court, found his fellow
judge guilty of contempt and as-,
jsessed the $500 fine. Judge Lind
jsey appealed to the supreme court,
j The fine was upheld by a majority
| of the justices, three of* them, how
jever, dissenting.
Judge Lindsey announced that in
refusing to pay the fine he is not
acting upon a personal point of
view, but considers that as the Den
ver juvenile court is one of the old
est in the United States, all other
courts look to it to uphold its
rights. And one of these is that a
relation of circumstances given in
confidence to a juvenile court judge
is not to be used in any other pro
ceedings.
The judge has received letters
from many of the judges through
out the United States urging him to
maintain his stand. Various chil
dren’s agencies have offered to pay
the fine for him.
“No matter what the supreme
court decided, I still believe and
will always believe that what Neal
Wright told me was told me in
strictest confidence and that I would
have been unworthy to hold the po
sition I now hold- if I had testified,”
said Judge Lindsey. “The fact that
four justices of the supreme court
say I was wrong does not make it
so. I am not going to pay that fine,
i because if I did I would admit I
was wrong.”
Neal Wright, the boy involved,
enlisted in the army at the begin
ning of the war and now is serving
in France.
John J. Buckley, former fire chief
of Fairbanks, and until recently in
the employ of the Northern Com
mercial company at Fairbanks, came
to Nenana this week to accept a
position in the store office of the
Alaskan Engineering commission.
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wood. Five dollars per cord;
good timber. A. G. Vachon, Tan
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FOR SALE—My entire holdings,
consisting of Lot 6, Block 10.
three-room log house, finely fin
ished and partially furnished, to
gether with provisions and wood.
Also my half interest in Nenana
^Jeam Laundry. A bargain, ’f
taken before August first. Must
go Outside on urgent business is
i reason for sacrifice. Mrs. Clara
Allred, Nenana, Alaska. k7-28
FOR SALE — Showcase, 5% feet
long. Practically new. Cheap.
Inquire Mrs. Herman Rosburg.
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district attorney of the First divi-j
ision, has been appointed secretary
. to Delegate Grigsby.
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