THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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ENCOURAGE THE RACE.
It is to be hoped that jwners
of X'enana motorboats, who have
aroused public interest in racing,
will be able to get together this
week and agree upon the conditions
upon which a match can be ar
ranged. They will find the public
ready to give enthusiastic support
to such a contest, and one good
race almost certainly will be fol
lowed by other races. The people
of Xenana are keen for that kind
of sport, and with an exceptionally
good course and many boats to draw
upon, there should be no difficulty
in arranging some kind of a race
every week or so. The main thing
is to get a start. Let us hope there
will be no slip-up in the present
negotiations.
THE FUTILE “TERROR.”
It will take more than newspaper
headlines, says an editorial appear
ing in a recent issue of “Collier’s,”
to convince us that there is a “wide
spread anarchist conspiracy.” Or,
if it is spread wide, it is spread
thin. Perhaps the example of Rus
sia and the activities of the I. W.
W. have added to the number of
anarchists, increased their sense of
importance, emboldened them to
gather in larger bodies than was
formerly their practice. But the
very nature of anarchism excludes
the idea of organization. The an
archist is at worst a criminal, at best
a maniac. In either class he is a
sore and suspicious individualist.
He hates and distrusts his “com
rades” with only a less degree of
fervor than he diplays toward “or
ganized society.” His vicious ego
tism. his passion for heroics, con
demn him to the loneliness that is
the lot of the criminal insane. The
police naturally like to magnify the
danger. Running down a handful
of mattoids scattered here and there,
who manufacture bombs in cellars,
is an unromantic task compared
with making war against an inter
national eamorra “with hundreds of
trained agents in all the principal
cities.”
The description of threat societies
of these miscreants, oath-bound, di
rected by cruel but sagacious minds
and carrying out their villainous
plans with baffling adroitness, is ex
cellent reading for the followers of
Mr. Oppenheim. But in the past,
when the truth has been discovered
about these outrages (all of them
exactly like the recent oue), it has
been found that they were the work
of a few unbalanced wretches, fur
tive, cowardly degenerates of no
more importance as “enemies of so
ciety” than the footpads and mur
derously inclined criminals whom it
is the daily business of the police to
pursue. In the “great anarchist
conspiracy” in Chicago it is a fact
that the bomb throwing was done
by one man, and there was little
proof that he did not act entirely
on his own initiative, although, it
may be true that this detached,
lone madman was kept on edge by
the utterances of "leaders” who
made a scant living out of preach
ing revolution, were privately cyn
ical about the wrongs of the op
pressed, and paid very dearly for
I their joke.
The people of this country will
not lie awake nights in dread of an
anarchist uprising. The detection of
these criminals is a difficult but
'commonplace police job, ar.d the
more it is treated as such and the
' less as the suppression of a revolu
tion, the better will be the results.
The doctrine of anarchy—if there
is such a thing, if these outbreaks
are anything more than the expres
sion of blind individual rage and
insane individual vanity—has never
taken root in this country. Terror
ism may be effective in Europe, but
here it invariably arouses a fierce
but businesslike opposition that soon
makes an end of it. In Russia,
Lenine overcame his opponents by
deliberately organizing a “Reign of
Terror.’’ At Moscow, according to
reliable report, for four or five days
a certain number of men and wom
en were told off by the Soviet gov
ernment and butchered without trial.
The result was that the eitv was
completely cowed. In parts of Italy
whole communities are dominated by
secret societies of blackmailers and
cutthroats. But the “terror” as a
political weapon loses all its potency
by transportation across the Atlan
tic or only provokes the use of the
more fearful weapons of justice
with which American civilization has
armed itself. We have never heard
of a magistrate or public official or
police officer who was prevented
from doing his duy by threats of
assassination. In fact—and it is a
'comfortable thing to realize—a vig
orous prosecution of anarchists has
always seemed to be a form of in
surance for the prosecuting officer.
The policeman who arrests, the dis
trict attorney who prosecutes, the
magistrate who condemns these
criminals almost invariably lives to
an untroubled old age. That truth
again emphasizes the near relation
ship of the anarchist and the in
sane, for it is a well-attested fact
that paranoiacs and homicidal mani
acs seldom attack those who treat
them with fearless severity. In the
“outbreak” last month the anarchist
attacks were directed against an
attorney general who had just taken
office, an inconspicuous city magis
trate, and a local shopkeeper.
To treat either the practitioners
or preachers of assassination as po
litical offenders is a waste of good
nature. The new crop of anarchists
will not last any longer than the
Johann Most and August Spies crop
under a blunt application of the
ordinary criminal law that recog
nizes no difference in degree in de
liberate murder.
It was hardly necessary1 for Henry
Ford to admit on the witness stand
that he has no use for music. His
“flivvers” made that fact known to
the world long ago.
A one-armed fisherman named
Frank Spaulding recently caught
1,336 pounds of red king salmon
and 350 pounds of -white in one
night’s fishing in the Stikine. He
received $164.46 for the catch.
There was a sidewalk dance at
Seward a short time ago.
E
ROAD CONTRACT
The grading contract awarded by
the Alaskan Engineering commission
early this year to George Kasoff &
Co., for a cut of considerable size
on the Xenana-Fairbanks line neai
Standard creek, has been completed
by the contractors and they are
now in town for settlement. They
'have the distinction of being the firs!
in that section to complete theii
' contract, which was awarded ir
! February.
Kasoff & Co. were not handi
capped as were some of the con
tractors nearer Xenana. Their wort
■ consisted chiefly of removing ma
;terial from the cut and they wer*
not much disturbed by weather con
ditions. Their chief difficulty wa:
in securing explosives, which have
advanced considerably in price, and
'of which the Commission had none
'Other contractors along the Xenana
Fairbanks line, on the other hand
are building up the grade from bor
row pits, and almost every showei
iPuts them temporarily out of busi
ness. The borrow pits fill with wa
iter and slough in to such an extent
that work during rainy weather is
practically out of the question, es
pecially where horses are used. In
wet weather a suction dredge would
be more to the purpose.
The frequency of rains since the
commencement of the present sea
son has held back the grading north
of X'enana to a very great extent,
rendering the work doubly difficult
and disheartening the contractors on
more than one occasion. Building
grades from borrow pits along Gold
stream, they say, is a good deal
like navigating a leaky boat—they
are compelled to stop work and
bale water about every so often,
and sometimes the water runs in
faster than they can bale it out.
The belief is general, however
that the rainy season is about over
and with dryer weather the work
should move much faster.
The firm of Kasoff & Co. is com
posed of: George Kasoff, Alec Me
doff. Alec Hanoff, Jim Kambol, Bai
Sabanoff, and George Romanoff.
'
PARIS.—A woman has been en
trusted with the big task of organ
izing and administering relief worl
in one of Europe’s new states—
Czecko-Slovakia.
Lady Muriel Paget, an English
woman, whose devotion to th<
Czecho-Slovak cause is well known
arrived here from Prague recent!;
after a month’s tour of the nev
republic, and outlined to The Asso
ciated Press correspondent he:
scheme for the relief of that coun
try. Her plan, which has the ap
1 proval if the Czecho-Slovak authori
ties, is to enlist a body of able anc
.willing social workers to train th<
women of Czecho-Slovakia in socia
welfare work. Her ambition is t<
interest patriotic Czech women ii
I America in the welfare of then
native land.
“There are, roughly, five millior
people in Czecho-Slovakia today whc
have just enough to keep body ani
soul together,” Lady Muriel said
.“Against these, who may be de
scribed as the rural population, theri
are 7,000,000 w'ho are below tht
| line of bare existence. They are
broadly speaking, the industrial and
mining population.
“Food, most of it from America
is now coming into the countrj
through Triest at the rate of about
100 carloads a day; yet 400,000
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FIFTEEN MEN WANTED to cut
wood. Five dollars per cord;
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vana. k25
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lA SNAP—Upright piano, practically
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| rack. Inquire News office.
| FOR SALE—My entire holdings,
consisting of Lot 6, Block 10,
three-room log house, finely fin
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gether with provisions and wood.
Also my half interest in Nenana
Steam Laundry. A bargain, if
taken before August first. Must
go Outside on urgent business is
I reason for sacrifice. Mrs. Clara
I Allred, Nenana, Alaska. k7-28
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FOR SALE — Showcase. 5% feet
long. Practically new. Cheap.
Inquire Mrs. Herman Rosburg.
people in Eastern Slovakia are
j starving, and even in the better
[situated parts the flour ration is
1 only three pounds a head per
month.”
i
Lady Muriel explained how this1
situation is utilized by the Magyars
in Hungary to sow discontent
among the Slovaks.
‘•Practically all the intelligent
: classes have left Slovakia,” Lady
[Muriel continued, “and it is during
jthe present crisis and until their
| own people can be trained to do
constructive and adminiserative work:
I that the Czecho-Slovak government
-and the people have asked me to
i organize temporary assistance and
i provide advice.”
Lady Muriel will establish her
relief headquarters at Pressburg,
from which center the 16 necessi
tous Slovakian districts will be fed,
clothed and medically assisted.
—
She Seattle port commission has
closed contracts to handls 2,500,000
cases of canned salmon at the Spo
jkane street terminal this season
ifrom Alaska canneries.
A crew of men is employed in
straightening out the glacial stream
near Seward to try to keep it from
going on the rampage and destroy
ing property in that town.
A municipal floating dock is to be
erected at Seward.
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