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FRIDAY.' AUGUST 13, 1937
CLINCH WORLD AIRBASE FOR FAIRBANKS—
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(Tbb Fairbanks News-Miner)
Fairbanks, the. crossroads of the continentsf
Such is the picture of the future to anyone taking
a. globe and viewing the world’s physical conditions.
Such should be the dream and the aim of every
Fairbanksan.
Alaska and Siberia are the contact points of the old
world and the new.- Only the narrow strip of water
known as Bering Strait separate them.
To cross between the American continent and Asia
or-Europe by any: other route means flying over vast ex
panses of Arctic or sub-Arctic ice and water.
But take either route, that is, via the North Pole
or across Bering Strait, and the natural route to C'~>
from the hbart of "this tontinent leads through Fair
banks.
World air romes are now formulating rapidly, and!
once established, with the necessary communications and
service stations, they will remain fixed and become lanes
of voluminous air traffic, serving the vast commercial j
mail and passenger traffic between- the nations.
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Ships of the air which will serve these routes willl
not base on the. barren and wind-swept strips of coast
land. They will leap hundreds of miles across border (
lands and coastal areas to sheltered bases of the inter
ior. On the American- side, Fairbanks has been placed i
at the focal point at thb top of the continent.
Broadcasts yesterday carried a declaration by Amt
Balchen, noted polar flier, that Russia is contemplating
four possible flying routes between her- country and the ’
"United States, one of which would be through Scandina- ;
via and over the Atlantic, another over the North Pole-,
and another through Siberia. Possibly more than one |
will be used.
It is to the interest of Alaska to see that the bus
iness be diverted through' Alaska, and to Fairbanks to
see that this city- be the established Alaskan port. Such
applies in respect to any other American air routes con
necting the old world with the new.
One thing is certain. The round-the-world air traf
fic will go largely if .'not in overwhelming major volume,
by the Alaskan route. For Fairbanks to cBnch her op
portunity to be the crossroads of such traffic, she must *
provide satisfactory accommodations in the way of aj
great northland airport. The matter is beyond a mere !
municipal project. Definite and immediate steps to have;
Uncle Sam take over this task, as he should, are now in
order.
If Faribanks will offer the site and urge the federal
government to undertake this task immediately, not only :
should the matter- bt- settled soon, but .major routes be
encouraged and their-serrices realized in the shortest
possible time.
It is time f<5r Fairbanks to act decisively.
C. S. HEALTH COSTS^
There are 662 cases of sickness and accidents peri
1.000 a year—75 are accidents, 587 illnesses—68 persons
disabled every mimrte—17 by accident and 51 by sick-1
ness.—Julius Eosenwald Fund.
U. S. people spend S3.500,000,000 a year for- medical";
care—average of $123 per family; 30 per cent goes to
doctors, 23.4 per-cent to hospitals, 18.2 per cent to- med
icines—balance tor nurses, dentists, etc; 79 per cent of’
the money comes-ffom patients. 14 per cent from gov-1
eminent, 5 per cent from philanthropy, 2 per cent from [
industry.-'—“CBsts of Medical Care.”
The country's annual bill for sickness and accidents
is $10,000,0000)00 including loss of time from work.— j
U. S. Public Health Service.
The topdearytoward specialists in the medical field'
increases the cost of medical care because speialists
charge more-for their services. Twenty-three per cent,
of the physicians are specialists making $10,000 e year,:
while 21 per-cent are partial specialists averaging 66,100
a year. The general practitioner averages around $3-900..,
—“Costs of Medical Ckire.”
There’s one language all the volunteers in the Span
ish war can understand—the language of bullets.—
Charleston (W. Va.1; Mail.
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Egypt has ofc* in admitted as the fifty-ninth member
«rf the League of*Mations and is anxious to get in touch
with someone showing its vtLereabouts-r—n Francisco
Obnmick.
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
(TAJKHN FROM THE FILES OF THE KUSKO TIMES)
Ed Johnson, from Candle, arrived
here Sunday, leaving yesterday for
Nixon Landing.
Carl Shuttler yesterday purchased
a four-inch hand drill from Fritz
Tittel, with which he will at once
proceed to the vicinity of Nixon,
where he has some prospecting U>
do.
Tom Byrne left yesterday for Nix
on, going up with Captain Nesvoog
on the Seldema.
Jack Mutchler and Harry Meehan,
from Takotna. arrived in McGrath
late last night.
WASHINGTON—Five million sev
en hundred thousand persons are
■out of employment throughout the
United States, Secretary of Labor
Davis today reported to a Senate
committee.
L. F. Bullard, James Burke, Owen
Gray, James Foley, George Blan
usha. Boy Massey, Dick Matthews
and John O. Strand left early yes
terday morning for Nixon Landing,
tr.route to the mines.
LONDON — The new American
dirigible ZR2 exploded over Hull
breaking into halves and falling into
the Humbar River. The explosion
occurred near the conclusion of the
trial trip undertaken late yesterday
in preparation for the trans-Atlantic
trip to America. The machine had
been in the air many hours. It is
reported at the air-station at How
den that only two persons were sav
ed. They were said to have descend
ed in a parachute. There were about
50 on board the giant airship, 690
feet long.
John Heino arrived here Thursday
from Nixon Forks, bringing down a
load of lumber.
Joe Sherwood at Nixon, it is said,
has found some pieces of fine-look
ing float and is getting good pans
from ore on his claim.
A wireless from the Ozmo reports
the Tana and Quickstep as having
left Bethel yesterday. Both boats
are expected to arrive in McGrath
not later than August 24.
Charles Nicolet and Adolph Lind,
on the Alaskan, arrived Wednesday
evening. Coming down on the Alas
kan were Mrs. Dave Clough, Miss
Mary Fred. Miss Josephine Parent
and Miss Coney Atwater, all of
whom had been enjoying a berry
outing. Captain J. H. McLean, lead
ing citizen of Takotna. also arrived.
SEATTLE—The Pacific Airway
Company, which inaugurated a ser
vice with a 400-horsepower flying
boat today between Seattle and Van
couver, announces that it will prob
ably make a one-way flight late this
month from Seattle to Juneau be
tween dawn and night fall. Several
well-known persons, including a trio
of Ala tans, have expressed a de
sire to go as passengers.
A little girl sitting in church
watching a wedding suddenly ex
claimed: “Mummy, has the lady
changed her mind?”
“What do you mean?” mother ask
ed.
“Why,” replied the child. “She
went up the aisle with one man and
came back with another.”
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TIMELY EDITORIALS
Culled From Our Exchanges
CONGRESS SHOULD GET ACTION—
(The Alaska Weekly)
The State Department has announced intention of
sending governmental representatives to Alaskan wa
ters for the purpose of investigating the activities of
Japanese fishing boats reported operating in extra-ter
ritorial waters near Bristol Ba> . We are unable bo
muster any unusual degree of elation over this news,
for we have not yet been able to ascertain whether our
Slate Department is operating for the protection of the
United States or as a goodwill emissary ready to give
everything from cellar to garret for the sake of good
fellowship.
Tokyo indignantly denies that Japanese fishermen
are competing with the American salmon industry and
the State Department told those who had occasion to
know better that the result of their reconnaissance in
dicated that “alien fishing vessels are not operating in
American territorial waters.” It appears that the fleet
of Japanese vessels now in Bristol Bay region are only
taking crab. Doubtless quite true, for the red salmon
run is iat;. and, so far as local information is concerned
there are as yet, no salmon in the area. It doesn’t follow
■ bat these same ships reinforced by further contingents
will not be fishing for salmon when the salmon arrive
n their way to the Territorial waters which a large
percentage of them will never reach.
Now comes Lemuel G. Wingard, Alaska agent for
the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, with the ridiculous state
ment that a tempest is being raised in the teapot because
foi sooth, they haven't any fresh water with which to
can the salmon and therefore can't be fishing for salmon.
"Most of the people,” Wingard is quoted as saying,
“who are complaining about Japanesb fishing have no
idea of the situation at all.” It is hard to believe that
such statements as those credited t/O Wingard could
have come from such a source without pressure. The
people who are complaining were packing Alaska sal
mon when Mr. Wingard was swinging on the gate at
hss childhood home . . . people who have built a many
million dollar industry.
Furthermore, these same Japanese have been packing
hundreds of thousands of cases of salmon for years in
floating canneries. Salt water is used successfully for
; sliming (many praeic-al operators say more successful
!y than fresh), the ships are fully equipped with con
I densers and with equipment for recharging the water
I with oxygen and the fresh water problem is no deter
| rent to the operation of the floating cannery.
Our own hunch is that the Fisheries Bureau has
i been shushed by the State Department—and shushing is
the best thing that department, does. Latest reports are
to the effect that more than one hundred boats flying the
Japanese colors have been sighted in this area. To our
way of thinking that is just exactly one hundred too
many, and if we have a State Department that turns
pale at each boo from Tokyo and a Bureau of Statistics
that plays into the Japanese hand by passing out mis
information concerning the situation it is time that the
Congress took a part in saving a great national industry.
THE PREACHER—
(The Emmett Messenger, Emmett, Ida.)
Someone is always writing about doctors and law
yers and teachers, but seldom can you find space devot
ed to that humble servant known as the preacher. May
be if it hadn’t been for the recent thoughtfulness of a
Missouri editor you never would have had a pen picture
of the preacher. But, he has thought to write one, and
in belief that citizens will enjoy reading it, we take the
liberty of reproducing it—and here it is:
“The preacher has a great time. If his hair is gray,
he is too old. If he is a young, man, he has not, had ex
perience enough. If he has ten children, he has too
many. If he has non-, he is setting a bad example. If
his wife sings in the choir, she is presuming, and if : he
does not, she isn’t interested in her husband’s work. If
the preacher reads from notes, he’s a bore, and if he
speaks extemporaneously, he isn’t deep enough. If he
stays at home in his study, he doesn’t mix enough with
people: if he is seen around the streets, he ought to be
at home getting up a good sermon. If he calls on the
poor, he is playing to the grandstand; if he calls at the
homes of the wealthy, he is an aristocrat.
“Whatever he does, someone could have told him
how to do it better. Yes, the preacher has a great
time!”
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IN HER PRESS ERE—
(The Seattle Times)
None of the guide-posts for human behavior set up
by earlier thinkers and writers commands very much re
spect anywhere on earth today. Among some people
even the precepts of religion are suppressed, voided and
reviled. Very little of our wrangling takes text from
anything that antedates the works of Karl Marx. In
other 'ands, and, with increasing degree in ur own, the
major discussions relate to trends toward Communism
or to other extremes, all of which, but a little while ago,
would have been held detestably incompatible with a
progressive civilization-. Some peoples have been forced
to take the jump all the way to one or another extreme.
We of America are under pressure.
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The Nazis have restricted the use of wrapping pa
per. Well, they have received several unwrapped “pack
ages” of what folks think of Hitler.—Indianapolis Star.
Certain aspects of the Spanish war outsmell Span
ish onions..