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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, l£>a7
MAIN FRAILS AND BYPATHS—
(Alaska Sportsman)
A new Alaska, wherein individual activities are on
the increase, is arising- This fact is more evident this
year than ever before. Modem homes and business
houses are being built, tourist trade is being given more]
than passive interest, and Alaska cities are taking on a
metropolitan aspect.
Greatest development in recent months is in old
mines and old prospects. Millions of dollars in new.
dredges, draglines and other mining machinery have
flowed into Alaska. The C-oodnews Bay discoveries are
putting new life into a hitherto almost dormant interest
in prospecting. Export of platinum promises to reach a
big figure.
The tourist traffic has reached unprecedented highs
and Alaska cities are becoming so crowded that this sum-'
mer it has been impossible to And hotel accommodations'
for all the visitors. Alaskans who- have previously paid
little attention to the economic- advantages of developing
the tourist trade, are awakening to its possibilities.
Mount McKinley Park, where hitherto tents have been
used to provide quarters for visitors, will soon have aj
modern hotel with accommodations for 160 or more j
^people.
Agriculture is at la3t getting deserved attention and
is being developed on a basis which should prove that it
can be made a substantial industry in providing food for
the prowing population. There is room for more farmers
of the righ* type.
Ideal conditions for fur-raising invites considerable
expansion of this industry. Great resources in pulp-wood (
lie dormant, but there are indications that interest in the
construction of paper mills in the Territory may be re-,
vived. Lumbering is growing.
The salmon- industry is becoming st^buzea ana uie
great advertising program undertaken by all the canners
has proved that even the greatest pack in history can be ,
successfully marketed in competition with other foods,,
many of which have been advertised for a much longer
time than canned salmon.
Uhdeiaa scientific program designed to preserve, the
halibut industry by preventing too-great a depletion of
the halibut grounds, the International Fisheries Commis
sion has succeeded in increasing the supply of halibut. It
is likely that before long the permitted annual take will,
be increased.
Alaska cities have long had good schools. The Uni
versity of Alaska has won a high place as an educational
institution and is drawing an increasing number of stu
dents. The college facilities are being expanded.
New roads, trails and airfields are being built. Ex- ;
pansion in this direction may come from the develop
ment of trans-polar flights as airplanes from other na
tions wing their way over Alaska.
The Forest Sendee, and the CCC under its direction,
are developing the great recreational advantages of the
Terri t»ry.
Alaskas most imperative need now is for more cap
ital to develop its resouroes and take advantage of op
portunities for building indusries such as already out
lined. Alaska has been creating capital for many years
by the shipment of some of its great resouroes to the
States, bur'the capital has not been returned to the Ter
ritory. Some of this should be used for the further de
velopment of the new Alaska.
territorial agriculture—
' (The Farthest-North CoUegiaa)
The importance of agriculture to the Territory of
aij.Va needs to be emphasized. A generation of agricul
tural experiment station work has demonstrated that,
vast areas of the Territory are productive of excellent
(Continued is last eotm sa this page*
SIXTEEN YEARS ABO THIS WEEK
(TAKEN FROM THE FILES OF THE KUSKO TIME8)
E. Saupe. H. Saupe and George
1 Stensell, from Yankee creek and
| Frank Majectic, Takotna, were among
j today’s arrivals.
Dan Nicholson, well known Ophir
i ite, arrived Thursday for a short, visit
i here.
Jack Nelson, at Takotjia, has open
! ed the old Brazeau home as a road
; house.
Frank Majectic, at Takotna, has
| just finished a new lumber cabin, into
which he expects to move shortly.
A1 Walsh returned yesterday from
; a business trip to Takotna.
Bill Hummel left Thursday morr.
i ing for Nixon on a business trip.
WASHINGTON — General John J.
Pershing has designated Sergeant
Samuel Woodfield, son of a Welsh
father and German mother, bom at
Bellevue, Indiana, as the war’s great
est hero, to bear the body symbolis
ing America's unknown dead. Wood
field distinguished himself in the war
by cleaning out a German machine
gun nest single-handed, killing sev
eral of the manning crew.
John O. Strand arrived yesterday
from Nixon to attend to a few busi
ness affairs.
Fred Carlson, Ophir mining man,
arrived here last night, and left this
afternoon.
Ed Good came from and returned
to Candle this morning.
Dave Mutchler arrived Monday
from Iditarod and left yesterday
morning for Nixon.
Frank Maestriek left Monday morn
ing for Niiaon.
Bob Robinson returned Monday
from a trip to Takotna.
Ed Johnson arrived here last night
from Nixon.
KANSAS CITY — Jack Johnson,
former heavyweight pugilistic cham
pion, who was released from Leaven
worth Federal prison some weeks ago
after serving 10 months of a year’s
sentence for violation of the Mann
Act. t,old newspapermen today that
he would go into the ring soon and
declared he would seek to wrest the
championship from Jack Dempsey.
"It doesn’t make any difference what
Dompsey says about drawing the col
j or line, the public wants Dempsey
i whipped,” the negro fighter said.
"And,” he added, “the public knows
I am the one to do it. I have a war
record to be proud of, “Johnson con
tinued, ‘*1 offered myself to the Gov
ernment for military service during
the war, but I wasn’t accepted.”
Thomas P. Aitken, well known Can
dle mining man, came in Monday to
attend to a few business matters, re
j turning to Candle yesterday.
—
John Vouk, who has been engaged
at Candle all summer, arrived here
: on Monday.
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TIMELY EDITORIALS
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„ONG-TERM PLANNINCr FOR PUBLIC HEALTH—
(The Alaska Daily Press)
physical ailments as something set apart for medical men
alone to cure. There was no general moral compulsion to
For a great many generations, people regarded their
take an interest in disease beyond submitting it a man
who knew how to deal with it.
Fortunately, through the efforts of leaders in tha
medical profession itself, a new attitude based on the re
sponsibility of the individual to know exactly what caus
es disease, what he can do to avoid getting it, how best
to cooperate with the doctor in getting rid of it.
The question of public health, therefore, is becom
ing as much a matter of public policy as wages, working
hours, or living costs. But it is a mistake to think that
adopting the attitude settles the matter and that we are
thus automatically ushered into an era of freedom from
bodily ills.
Just released, the report of the Hospital Survey for
New York indicates anotherbig step necessary to the
final success of the new public health policy
The public already has an immense investment in
hospitals and allied institutions, the report points out.
And while this investment has been made haohazardly.
The result is that in many cases the benefit* are not
properly distributed, facilities of many hospitals are
never fully used, and new and more efficient methods of
lighting disease are not placed universally within reach
i of the people.
In the light of expanding knowledge m medical
science, the hospital is an indispensable publie utility be
; cause of the wide variety of resources for diagnosis and
; treatment that it offets.
For that reason, the report emphasizes that tne or
ganized care of the sick a gene re* ion hence wdt best bo
provided for by the orderly growth and co-ordination of
i present facilities.
Now the great majority of institutions for the care of
the sick are provided and maintained by taxes or vohm
I tary contributions of the local population. This, then
places the duty of forwarding a great humanitarian
I work directly upon those individuals who make up eficl
community
Untold sums of money and the genius of qualified ex
perts have been turned to the eo-ordination of our en
deavors m many other fields, commercial, cultural anr
philanthropic.
It seems that it would be good economy, as well a- _
■ good sense, that the public health, through our facilitit
for guarding it, should have the same advantages
TRY TO STOP HIM —
(Seward Gateway)
Impatient over the inactivity experienced at the Sit
ka Home for pioneers, William A. Guizler has gone bade
to prospecting. He was 51 years old when he came to
Alaska 40 years ago, but why should a mere 91 years b«
; a handicap to prospecting, Mr Guizler asks
Some of those high-flown executives in the States
; who lay off men when they reach the advanced age of 40
years might come up to Alaska and try to keep up with
Mr. Guizler in his intensive search for gold about rugged
. Teller. They might catch up with him, but it is doubtful
; if they would have enough breath left to fire him be
cause he had passed two score years.
It must be admitted that the veteran Alaskan is car
rying on at an advanced age, but nevertheless he is
merely an' outstanding example of that group of hardy
group of men who cSrae North to conquer and have beer
I conquering ever since. What if they haven’t laid up great
wealth for themselves—they have blazed the way for* a
: fine civilization, a masher achievement in the eyes of tho
; Great Recorder of worthwhile deeds
i (EDITORIAL CONTINUED FROM FIRST COLUMN).
; farm crops. The residents of the Territory need those
I products; not only because in the process of develop
ment of any state or territory all the resources .at hand
, ought to be utilized.
The independence of the farmer was recognized not
because it was highly idealistic but because it was in
i tensely practical. With the development of transporta
: prominence, with the result that independence had to
surrender proportionately to dependence.
Less than a year ago Alaska and Hawaii were con
fronted with a tie-up in transportation that threatened
the delivery of necessary food supplies which these Ter
ritories could easily produce.
Alaska needs a large number of fanners who know
farming and who are willing to devote their time, energy
and best efforts to diversified farming- in order 'that the
demand for their products can be assured a setisfnNifirr
supply*