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Entered as second-class matter
August 29th, 1923, at the postoffice
at Takotna, Alaska, under tfae Act
Of March 3rd, 1879.
Takotna, Alaska, February, 16, 1935.
AIR ROUTES NEED MARKERS.
Another plane lost—For several
days the search has continued with
unfavorable weather hampering fly
ing conditions, for the plane lost
bet we n JlcCrath ard Anchorage
with its pilot and two passengers.
Whether forced down or cracked up
word of the missing plane is anx
iously awaited.
No: many weeks ago another
plane was forced down on the same
route and ten days elapsed before
the marooned members of the party
were located and safely landed at
their destination. With Alaskans
flying more and more every day it
is time that a few improvements
were instituted on the main air
routes. Flying hundreds of miles
often with poor visibility over un
marked routes where landing is
next to impossible, a tremendous
responsibility rests upon the pilu
and his ship. ,
The government is spending mill
ions on such CCC projects as beau
tifying National parks and cutting
roads through them for the pleasure
of idle tourists. Surely funds could
and justly should be appropriated to
alleviate the uncertainty of flying in
Alaska over unmarked routes. In
the states pilots experience little
difficulty flying over unfamiliar air
routes simply because the routes are
well marked. Conspicuous markers
should be placed on lall main air
lanes in the Interior so that even in
stormy weather a pilot would kno.v
when he is on the right trail. But
markers alone will not insure safety
so emergency landing fields at reg
ular intervals are a prime requisite
to the safety of Alaskan air travel.
# Perhaps if a few more planes
and probably lives are lost the gov
ernment will wake up to the fact
that some steps are necessary to
better conditions for Alaskan pilots
and the passengers they carry. With
a certain increase in air traffic in
the Interior every year, the time to
prepare and improve flying facilities
is now.
ALASKA TO BE COLONIZED.
The secretary of the Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce recently received
a clipping from a Cleveland, Ohio,
. paper, giving a detailed account of
the organization of ihc “Alaska
C donization Branch of the United
Congo Improvement Association, In
corporated,” by Dr. Joseph T. Thom
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Address give.n to the Legislators
at the Banquet given -for them by
thc Eastern Star of Juneau. Mrs.
Mildred R. Hermann, -die only vvo- i
i:Jda lav/y.r .n. Alaska, is cli e author.:
The Legis ature’s come to town, and
everybody’s ready
To wacoh it grooi.i the ship of state,
«*r.u ii.e,.p sading steaay.
i ihey l\ heie .o overhaul our laws, ;
our revenues repien.sh.
They never work much at the first,!
but watch them at the finish.
Then bowiing ceases to entice, recep
tions got the boot,
While they gravely sit in sessions
long, a.:d . portion out the loot.
.Now, Mr. Hess is here tonigiu to
tepres.nt thj Senate.
He’s not an Eastern Star but. then
no one else is that’s in it—
--u ~ .o _pon the rostrum there, so
dignified and grave
And tel.s the ether Selena how be
warns them to buha.e.
And Tolbott Scott who comes from
l\ome, cwelis in the .ower camp,
ihey are not supposed to think down
there, just watch the Senate's lamp
. ho’ sometimes they get ideas that
give the Senate’s style a cramp.
A round two dozen men are there.
ihey come from every place,
-sen w. .h a platform promise ho
has made to save his face—
.ooa control for Hyder; school ex
pense for Nome;
Or something nice in bridges 4o
please the. folks at home;
A landing fidd for Fairbanks; re
l.ef for poor John Doe;
>vho buried old man Vv i.liams at
his own expense, you know.
And then they’ll settle down at k ~
and really legislate
i What to no with wh.skey and wn.
places to abate;
Or they’ll dec.de to drive the fish.
trap from Alaska’s shor.,
And people our fair country w;t..
fishermen galore;
Some will work for old age pensions;
for the College some will beg;
Seme labor for the working man.
tho’ they’re sure to strike a snag
Some :..ay want to help the ladies
since—God bless them—they hav.
votes:
But the plan will land in Hades and
we still will be the goats,—
They’ll loudly praise their noble chie;
• at his critics cry “beloney,”
And spend about a thousand bucks
on telegrams to Tony;
And when they’ve finished every
thing they’ll give a great big dance
And all Juneau will gather to watch
-the Soloas prance;
And then they’ll all trek homeward
by airplane, train or boat,
And proudly quote their record when
it’s time again to vote.
n v imc i/iic iCL LXl .it
statement be emphatic!
It’s the only thing Alaska has
that isn't bureaucratic.
And though it does some funny things
and often is erratic
It’s only proof we really have that
we are democratic.
So we welcome you to Juneau, and
this dinner here tonight.
We hope your stay is pleasant, your
visit-a delight.
And in spite of all the things we've
said that may not sound polite
We know that when men are Solons
they have to be bright.
as (colored) of Cleveland.
The movement, according to Dr.
Thomas, will colonize Alaska with
1,000,000 colored Americans. Fur
ther details of the movement, ac
cording to the newspaper article, is
to set up 400,000. farms of 160 acres
each for the colonizers and to set
up a State under Federal jurisdiction.
—Alaska School Bulletin.
REINDEER MEAT COSTS LESS
IN SEATTLE THAN NOME.
Seattle meat dealer? are payi . ;g
12 c. . a pound, according to the
StelSe Times for reindr er meat. ■
and the butchers of Nome pay 15
cents a pound for th? same n* a.,j
before it has been cold storage and I
shipped by cold st rage steamers j
way to Seattle.
Up n Nome they are beginning!
o ■ mder just why this is. Of:
course when compared wich s .c 5 j
e9i the iccal product is much j
cheaper for the Northern tabled,,
but they cannot see why if it i. j
possible to kill and dress the rein- j
e. .11 Nome and deliver i,hem o.t
-■! • i r eat dealers practically on the
spot, they should pay more for the
product than their Seattle neighbors
ousands of miles away.
Foss bly owing to the fact that I
the Lomen Brothers own their own
freight steamers, they save so much I
O' "he freight to Seattle that they
can afford to undersell their Nome
representatives.-—Alaska Weekly.
KODIAK INDIANS
LEE FI ' ITERS.
I.if2 was grim on Kodiak Island,!
U n prehistoric ancestors of the!
Indians lived there. Seme oi their
a eriul customs, as reconstruct
i-o.i: ancient remains, by Dr.
ucs ilrd icku, of the Smithsonian
institution wc-re:
il l. ng an infant if i s mother 1
bed and burying the two together: j
! r simply b .rying the baby alive j
i .h he dead mother.
KiMng a wife when her husband
i-d and burying them together.
Sacrificing slaves or captui'ed en-;
rv i s by burning them to death, j
Hazards of war and hunting were j
Iso severe, Dr. Hrdlicka found:
Bones of a hunf:r apparently
lied by a bear with most of the
e.tcbrac broken, ribs crushed and
..rrn missing.
Remains of a massacre, including
skeleton of a woman with a;
bov.c dagger through the heart; a
.rrriors skull with a stone club
head imbedded in it; another skuli
with a stone arrow point at the base :
base of the skull.—Valdez Miner.
FUTURE INTERNATIONAL LANG
UAGE MAY HAVE 800 WORDS. !
NEW YORK.—An 800-word voc
abulary, Dr. Janet Aiken, of Colum
lo, said, is enough for anyone to
Lai* to read the Bible or Ernest
Dr. Aiken has already reduced
the essentials of the English lan
guage to an 800-woi’d vocabulary’
wh;ch she calls “Little English” ami
which she hopes some day will be
come the future International lan
guage.
“You might call it Hemingway
English or Bible English,” she said.
“The greatest English literature has
always been the most simple and
direct. The Bible would go into this
vocabulary with very Tittle change
because it is so simple.
“Hemingway has gone back o
Bible Engish by using short, simple
,er:ter.ces, very few clauses and
clear, direct language. That is ex
actly our ideal.”
In “Little English,” Or. Aiken
and her associates plan to eliminate
ml “frills” such as prepositions, con
junctions, participles and relative
pronouns. There will be only nouns,
verbs, and “joining words” or words
which make relations to other words,
such as “and,” ‘4s,” and “of.”
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