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 ANL) RIVER MEET”
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana. Alaska.
R. G. Southworth .Editor and Manager
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WE HAVE THE GOODS
"Get the tourists. Capitalize your
scenery. Switzerland has done it
and has made a success and now
Spain is following her example.
Alaska has them both beat.”
This was the advice given Alas
kans by E. C. McCormick, San'
Francisco, vice-president of the
Southern Pacific Railroad during a
brief stop at Cordova recently, on.
his return trip to the States. Mr.
McCormick headed a federal com-:
mission sent • North by the depart
ment of the interior to study the
territory’s resources and possibilities.
“Alaska is not the ‘saw-toothed
range of mountains with people who '
lie about the land' as has so often;
been reported,” Mr. McCormick de
clared. “The mountains are here
but they are so wonderful that you i
don’t have to lie about them.”
Mr. McCormick said he hoped to
return North next -year and bring
with nim Secretary of the Interior j
Franklin K. Lane. i
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
1
“The Great Power Idea” as rep
resented by foreign offices, must be
done away with if the proposed
League of Nations is to be a suc
cess, declared H. G Wells, the novel
ist and publicist, in an address de
livered recently at London before a
large audience at the American
Officers’ club.
A League of Nations, he said, was
in accord with human nature and
the spirt of nationality, and it was
not opposed even to what Americans
would call the "king business.” But
the Great Power idea would have to
be exercised if mankind was not to
go down in bloodshed and ruin.
The Great Power idea, he ex
plained, was that each state was in
conflict with all other states, and it
absolutely opposed the idea if the
common welfare of man.
“It was only a little more active
in Berlin.” he asserted, “than in the
other capitals of Europe. Every
foreign office and admiralty has
been organized to carry out the
Great Power dreams.
“Foreign offices are too secretive
and advantage-seeking instruments
and too antiquated for the difficult
task of dealing fairly with all other
nations under a League of Nations.
“The United States is in a differ
ent position. It is a republic, with
a president capable of speaking
plainly to the peoples of the earth
in a manner which is enough to
produce an epidemic of epilepsy in
European foreign offices.”
A League of Nations would have
to substitute, he said, some sort of
central control in which diplomacy
would have to be pooled and rep
resent the whole of mankind. If
this was left to the present foreign
offices to arrange, he contended,
it would be asking them to arrange
for their own extinction
“I have always been an advocate,”
he added, of “complete victory. But
something more than Germany is the
matter with Europe at the present
time Unless the Great Power system
embodied in present-day foreign
offices, pursuing secret policies, is
destroyed, this war will not have
been worth while.”
The greatest thing a human soul
ever does in this world is to see
something and tell what it saw in a
plain way. Hundreds of peope can
talk for one who can think, but
thousands can think for one who
can see. To see clearly is poetry,
prophecy and religion, all in one.
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LINE INSPECTOR
PASSES THROUGH
Line Inspector Fitzwilliams, of the
I Signal Corps, who left Circle on a
j line inspection tour some time ago
'and was on his way to Fort Gibbon,
S via Fairbanks and Chena, arrived at
the quarantine camp on the river,
| last Wednesday, December 18th,
I which was at the time, in charge
: of Sizeland. A few miles beyond
' the quarantine camp, on the Fair
banks side. Fitzwillams, who was
i traveling by dog team in company
I with Lineman Smetka from Chena.
1 was met by Quarantine Officer Steve
j Foster, who was on his way up
i stream on business. On learning
I that Fitzwilliams had been at Chena
j and had also stopped at the road
■ houses on the trail and thus come
’ into contact with travel,, Foster told
him that he would not be allowed
i
, in Nenana without special permis
! sion, and got Fitzwilliams to give
i his word of honor that he would
I not go beyond quarantine. In the
meantime Lineman Morris of the
local Signal Corps detachment with
horse and sled, had gone to the quar
antine station on the river to meet
the line inspector and take him
through Nenana.
On arrival of the dog team from
Chena with Fitzwilliam and Smetka,
they were met by Sizeland, who was
temporarily in charge at the quar
antine station. A pass which had
been issued by the secretary of the
Board of Health, permitting Signal
Corps men to travel for the purpose
of repairing the line, which was in
possession of Lineman Morris, was
shown Sizeland, and the right to
pass quarantine, on the strength of
the pass, was claimed by Morris and
Fitzwilliams. Lineman Smetka, who
brought Fitzwilliams from Chena,
returned to his station. Sizeland
having full knowledge of the fact
that Fitzwilliams came from Chena
and possibly had been at Fairbanks
and that he had been at a roadhouse j
on the trail, declined to honor the j
pass and permit him to go through ;
with Morris.
The pass referred to fully covered j
the requirements of the Signal Corps j
and permitted men of that service j
to go out on the line,, both east and j
west of town as often as it was:
necessary to do so, for the purpose j
of making necessary repairs and to j
keep the line in working order; there
were absolutely no restrictions as
to the number of men, duration of i
the period of absence from town, j
distance to be traversed, etc, always:
provided that the men so employed I
do not come into contact with travel |
in the full acceptance of the term!
I and thereby render themselves quar
; antinable.
On the refusal of the quarantine
officer Sizeland to honor the pass,
i Morris and Fitzwilliams cut in on
; the line and sent a message to the j
i local Signal Corps office, apprising j
i them of the fact. Messenger Taylor ;
jfrom the local office was despatched
: to see Dr. More and get the neces-;
i sary permission for the men to come i
in. Taylor told Dr. More “We have i
two men on line duty and they want'
J *o come in”, and on being further:
questioned, Taylor said that he did j
' not know whether or not they had!
! been in contact with travel. Dr. |
.More was under the impression that
: the men for whom the permission
I to return to town was requested,
: belonged to the local Signal Corps
.detachment and on further question
i as to when the men went out was
told by Taylor that the men went
out that morning, and the permis
sion asked for was readily granted.
Fitzwilliams came into town with
Morris on the evening of the 18th;
i remained over the 19th, and left at
about noon on the 20th for the re
: lief station at Minto with Morris.
1 • Game Warden Foster, who is also
quarantine officer, came into town
on Thursday and reported the facts
to Dr. More, who only then realized
that he had issued the permit asked
; for by the Signal Corps men in
j error, believing that both the men
, were members of the local detach
ment. The doctor felt that he had
I been imposed upon and that a man
had been passed through quarantine
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by a subterfuge. He took up the
matter with F. D. Browne, who
Jent a telegram to the commanding
officer at FoW Gibbon, advising him
of the facts of the case and request
ing that Fitzwilliams be returned
to undergo quarantine.
Lineman Morriss of the local Sig
nal Corps detacnment who took Fitz
vvilliam down as far as Minto, reach
ed the quarantine station at about
6 p. m. on the 21st and was prompt
ly placed in quarantine. He will be
held at the quarantine station for
the full quarantine period pre
scribed by the local Board of Health,
while Fitzwilliams is being held
temporarily at Tolovana, pending
the decision of the local Board of
Health, as to whether or not he will
be brought back to the quarantine
station.
The pass issued by the Board of
Health to the Signal Corps has now
been withdrawn, and the local de
tachment have been notified that
passes will be issued to them when
ever they need it. The reason for'
the withdrawal of the blank pass
is so that when passes are issued
the names of those in whose favor
the passes are issued can be men-;
tinned and confusion and misunder
standings avoided in the future. It
will also make it possible for the
Board of Health to keep an accu- ■
rate record of passes issued during
the period of quarantine for sta-j
tistieal purposes.
It is felt by the members of the
Health Board that there has been
a misunderstanding on the part of ^
the Signal Corps of the purposes
of the quarantine; that they assume'
the attitude that the men of that
service should be given free per
mission to go and come at will, even
though th'>y come in contact with
travel on the trail.
The local Board of Health and
F. D. Browne, engineer in charge, j
wish to enforce a very strict quaran-!
tine during the prevalence of the'
influenza epidemic and are not will-1
ing to relax the rigid measures
adopted. Mr. Browne stated that
the men of the Signal Corps will,
always be given permission to go
out on the line whenever they deem
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it necessary to do so, and that they
will also be permitted to return to
town provided they do not come
into contact with travel or stay at
a roadhouse on the trail.
The linemen employed by the
Alaskan Engineering commission also
have to eonofrm to the quarantine
j regulations and avoid contact with
travel when duty calls them out on
1 the line. Lineman Perry Warner,
who had been sent out recently to
make repairs on the Nenana-Fair
banks line, is now held in quarantine
owing to the fact that he was in
contact with travel.
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