THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska
for enrrj' as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879
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STAND PAT
The American people will be
greatly disappointed if the German?
are successful in their efforts to
secure a modification of the peace
terms submitted to them by the
Allied peace conference. Although
it is impossible for us to realize,
as invaded countries do. to what
lengths the Germans went in their
mad ambition to rule the world,
we are none the less certain that
leniency should have no place in
our present dealings with an enemy
people who have shown themselves
to be without honor, without mercy
and without repentance. They have
not appreciated our considerate
treatment of them thus far; they
would not appreciate a modification
of the treaty.
Fighting methods employed by the
German army during the war. fail
ure of the German people to live
up to the arimstice terms after the
fighting ahd ceased, and new the
defiant attitude assumed toward the
Allied peace conference—should
warn us to beware of the defeated
but unconquered foe and close our
ears to appeals for less exacting
terms, from whatever source the
appeals may come. We have had
enough of war. We have sacrificed
men and money that the world
might be freed from the German
menace, and we should not now.
by modification of terms or by
needless delay in enforcement of
peace terms, encourage the Ger
mans to entertain hope of future
greatness as a fighting nation.
A PERIL OF WAR
When the United States under
took the task of raising an army
of several million men, equipping
them for service and transporting
them to the front line trenches in
France, the work was of such mag
nitude that it necessarily involved
the neglect of certain details, both
at home and abroad. No nation
on earth could have done better
than our country did. under the
circumtances; no other nation could
have attempted to do so much in
so short a time.
The sending of Alaskans to Camp
Dodge and failure to take proper
care of them there during the flu
epidemic, might be regarded as one
of the mistakes resulting from too
much haste. It was the work, prob
ably of some incomoetent officer
or war department official whose
irresponsibility had remained un
discovered up to that time. A war
machine such as we were preparing
to send against the Huns cannot be
perfected in a day, and until it is
perfected there are certain to he
causes for complaint. The weeding
out of incompetents is a slow pro
cess, particularly in the case of a
cumbersome, red tape organization
such as our army. The marvel of
it is that we have gotten by with
so few mistakes, so few complaints.
Our boys who were sent to the
death-dealing camp in Iowa are not
the only soldiers who have a kick
coining. Illinois men, who recently
reached New York from the front,
declare that many American sol
diers who had been gassed, died
of influenza and pneumonia at the
big concentration camp at La Mans
because of unnecessary exposure
Class D men (unfit for further
service) were compelled to stand
in the mud up to their knees for
fully an hour while wating for
food, with the result that they con
tracted colds and became easy vic
tims of the flu.
These conditions are explained a;
being the result of placing the
camps in charge of officers who
were relieved of duty at the front
because of inefficiency. These offi
cers, the men declare, are no more
efficient in directing camps than
they were in directing fighting.
An example of this inefficiency
at the front is contained in a re
port received from Berlin at the
time the German capita! was the
scene of Spartacan disorders. An
A.merican officer, it appears from
the report, marched forty American
doughboys, in full fighting equip
ment, through an avenue of Spar
tacist machine guns in L'r.ter der
Linden, thereby exposing his Yankee
charges to gravest danger. The
matter was promptly investigated
by Genera! Pershing and the offend
ing officer probably now is in some
less conspicuous branch of the sen -
ice,—but still inefficient.
Such things are unfortunate, but
they happen in the best regulated
armies. They seem to be a part
of the deadly game of war. much
to be regretted, but difficult tc
remedy.
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; HONOLULU. T. H—As a re
! suit of experiments conducted for
three years, a large plantation or.
the Island of Hawaii is preparing
j to “paper" S.000 acres of its sugar
' cane land, much like a paperhanger
covers the walls of a room.
To supply material, a paper mill
< has been erected at a cost of more
j than $250,000, manufacturing heavy
mulching paper from bagasse, the
' dry, fibrous refuse of sugar cane
after the juices have been pressed
; cut. The paper is prepared for use
in the fields by being saturated
with liquid asphalt.
The plan is to cover the fields
with the mulching paper. The
sturdy sugar cane drives its stalks
through the paper, but all weeds
are smothered. C. F. Eckart, man
ager of the plantation, says the
mulching process not only will
greatly increase the yeld of cane
.but will reduce field labor costs
more than 50 per cent. The cov
ering paper not only keeps the
weeds out of the cane, but retains
I moisture in the ground for its
i nourishment.
The paper mill will take only 20
tons of bagasse a day, one-tenth
of the sugar mill’s output during
. the grinding season, and will make
‘ only enough paper for the planta
j tion.
L. A. Thurston, newspaper pub
lisher of Honolulu and one of the
founders of the plantation, is jf
the opinion that the manufacture
of paper from bagasse eventually
will become Hawaii’s second great
est industry. It has long been
known that paper could be made
from bagasse, but low prices did
not encourage development of the
industry. With paper prices what
they are now, Mr. Thurston says
there is no reason why Hawaii can
not become a great paper-producing
country.
Bagasse can be manufactured
! into roofing, sheathing, box board,
and wrapping paper, and by the
use of bleaching chemicals and ad
; ditional machinery, can be refined
I into the best grades of book paper.
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BERLIN. — Germany was jus
about ready, at the time the arm’s
, tice was declared, to lanuch a tre
mendous aerial offensive by mean
of a fleet of new airplanes whicl
had been perfected after month
of experiments and tests.
These machines—which toda;
stand, nearly ready for service, ii
the former Zeppelin works at Staak
en. near Berlin—would probabl;
have caused a revolution in flying
for they are constructed from nosi
to tail ar.d wing tip to wing tip
almost entirely of aluminum ant
.•therefore are immune to the great
est of aerial dangers, burning.
They are two-seated planes of tht
| observation rather than the “chas
ing" type. The only par: of theii
i construction not aluminum is i
1 small bit of the wing, the part tha'
tilts and tips to give the machin(
! upward or downward direction. Anc
the armistice came .iust in time tc
.halt experiments that should hav<
eliminated even this bit of inflam
mable material, and made the ma
chine every bit aluminum. It-;
speed is 125 miles an hour.
The aluminum airplanes, however
are but a fraction of the aeria
forces which Germany was care
fully perfecting and storing up foi
ithe time when she should have tc
I try to regain mastery of the air
An exhaustive trip through the for
mer Zeppeln works, such as the
Assocated Press correspondent ha;
Just had an opportunity to make
• illustrates what enormous advance;
Germany had made in aviation.
The most notable airplanes which
i Germany was accumulating—she
bad used them a little and even
had lost one through defective
orientation—is the five-motor, 125'!
horsepower machine, capable oi
carrying a score of passengers, oi
a ton and a half of bombs ami
a crew of eight, and which, Ger
• man experts claim, far surpasses
1 in size, strength, flying ability and
i general effectiveness the larges!
1 and best of the new British oi
Italian airplanes. They are impos
; ing aerial monsters.
Though now they are all beinc
rebuilt so as to be available foi
peace-time transportation purposes.
: they have, when in shape for theii
warlike work, a cabin forward an.;
[just behind the cooling fan where
: a mechanician sits, a cabin for the
'commanding officer equipped wit!
, an amazingly complicated yet foi
' him simple, signal system by which
• he can control the actions of hi:
entire crew and they can communi
cate with him at any moment, and
an open floor through which he
can sight at intended marks before
releasing his bombs.
Before the commander's seat art
registers and gauges showing the
altitude and speed and an ingeniou;
contrivance for night flying in
dicating exactly at what angle, tc
■one side or the other, or up oi
down, the airplane is flying. A
'register with rows of little plug;
enables him to talk with any oi
his crew. If for example the amr
in charge of the after machine gut
signals that the enemy is direct! j
behind so that the tail prevents hit
;ting him. the commander can b.\
pressing a switch give the order t:
iveer the airplane to right or left
up or down.
i A delicately constructed compasi
is one of the complements of th<
jtiny cabin, not only showing direc
! tion and other details, but also th;
[tip or slant of the airplane. Ther<
are signals to the man who feed;
and tends the gasoline, and, behinc
the commander, special safety de
vices for emptying immediately al
of the gas tanks to avoid fire oi
explosion in the case of an emer
gency.
Behind the commander on eithei
lower wing are two machine guns
facing fore and aft, and mannec
by four men. Farther to the real
is still another machine gun in the
hollow of the body of the huge ah
bird, which can shoot through i
hole in the floor at objects undei
the plane.
The machine travels at a speec
of about 80 miles an hour and car
stay in the air ten full hours. The
speed and horsepower were beinc
increased to an eventual limit oi
125 miles when the war ended.
To counteract the reduced at
mospheric pressure at great heights
which slows the speed, the Germar
engineers devised another airplant
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with four 250-horsepower motors,
alike in size and nearly in speed
to the five-motor ship, but equipped
with a condensed or compressed a;r
pr&ducer which automatically sup
plies air to the motors to enable
the airplane to keep up its speed
in rarified atmosphere, and outstrip
all other machines not so equipped.
Each of the airplanes which the
correspondent saw cost, according
to, the experts, about 500,000 marks,
a great share of which goes to the
account of the infintely complicated ,
. mechanism that is so striking a
feature of each machine.
The Gotha type of airplane which
sometimes was used in bombarding
Paris, though a big. powerful ma
chine, is insignificant in size when
seen alongside the new machine.
The Admiral Evans, which has not
ben in service for more than a
year, following her shipwreck in
Hawk’s inlet, will resume the Alas
ka run again. The Admiral Schley
will be taken off the run and placed
! on the Puget Sound-California run.
—
Leander L. James, a former Sew-;
ard attorney, is now associated with
a law firm in San Francisco, his firm
\ occupying offices in the Chronicle
j building.
A Russian naval officer is the in-,
ventor of an electrical machine for j
j writing messages in cipher and j
1 translating such messages.
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