THE KUSKO TIMES
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Entered as second-class- matter
August 29th, 1923, at the postoffice
at Takotna, Alaska, under the Act
of afch 3rd, 1879.
by ELOIT HARRIS
George E. Allen, commissioner ot
the District of Columbia, returned
recently to Washington from a per
son!') trip through the no-man’s
land of unemployment;, oroclaiming
two big facts: ,
1. “Ninety-- igit . p*u cent of
the unemployed ,want nothing
in the wocjd hut jobs.”
2. “The snootiest people on
God’s green earth are running
the Federal govenment unem
ployment agencies.”
Mr. Allen is one of the three con
missioners who govern the nation ■
capital. He is an experienced busi
ness man, having managed some of
Wa: ' tigton’s largest hotels. fie
the? ore, might he expected to tube
e. t( servative'view of the employ
r..en. probleiMi •
It Is a part e Mr, Alien’s task to
kncle unemployment relief in the
capital, and he felt that he needed
mor first information.
Ho put' an work troupers and a 79
cent shirt, mt his beard 'gow enough
to look ragged, and traveled through
V’iiv. aukee, Chicago, Detroit, Cleve
land and Toledo as a man looking
or work.
“I find that as to 98 per cent of
the people you find around relief
stations and employment agencies
all they want is a job,” Mr. Aller
declared on his return. “Furthermoe
ah of them hope that they are going
to g&t a jot)' to-morrow, perhaps
the nex) da>, •dow long thi;
hope will hold out, I don’t know; buf
it’s there now.”
“I found that our employment
system is wrong from beginning tv
end. Around the federal agencies
i n by the federal government, yoi
will find the snootiest people ot
Cod’s green earth. You ask then
for a job and they, fee* they. are do
ing you a favor when . they tak<
your application.
“We’ve got to treat the unemploy
ed with more respect. Our method;
are not so hot.
“I have been a hotel execuuvi
most of my life,” Allen continued
“I have been going around with thi
big shots, meeting well-dressei
people, ordering boll-hops aroum
and having a good time. A lot o
my friends have been telling mi
that we are handling this relief busi
ness all wrong, and that handing ou
money only makes people into bums:
“Now I know they are wrong
Ninety-eight per cent of the jobles
men I talked to want nothing 01
earth but jobs. I spent hours ever)
day just talking to the unemployed.’
He added' that while a Commun
ist speakers? can get listeners b;
talking about overthrowing the gov
eminent, the least whisper that ;
job can tie Had down the street i:
enough to make the audience breal
away and leave the orator talking t
the wide open spaces.
“One tning i .found among the job
ess was the good effect of a cigar
ette on theii ihprale,” said Gommiss
ioner Allen.
DuEai.U’s Cafe
Good Clean. Food.
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Everybody Welcome.
FLAT, ALASKA
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WINTER OrPORTNITIES
(The Anchorage Daily Times)
Many Alaskans this summer made
comfortable small stakes fishing,
mining or in other pursuits. They
now face the rapidly approaching
winter. Should they go outside and
spend the money. Decidedly not.
Men who go outside this winter
will find nothing to do but spend
what they have. With millions of
of idle in the states and many more
sure to soon be idle there will be
no room for the average Alaskan to
1't in without some highly special
ized line.
It is ten to one the man who
goes out with a full poke will re
turn with an empty one. The man
who remains in Alaska and has a]
poke to buy an outfit has every,
jhanee by hustling in the hills ofj
coming out even—by trapping or|
developing some hard rock' prosect
or punching holes in some promising
placer area.
It is the man who has the grit
and the industry to work who turns (
up the big stakes in mining. If a
man hits it right in the prospecting
! game, tha money conies quick. The
! game is a fascinating one. True it.
\ takes red-blooded he-men to carry on
I such a game, but Alaska is noted
j for that type of men.
It is well worth the while when
j the stakes one plays for in the pros
pecting game are so high. The fieidj
is an open one.
The man with a nest egg in the j
way of a surplus from summer
I wages or other earnings will do him- j
| se;f a service to buy his outfit before j
J he eats too far into his funds or j
] issipaes them.
'low is the time to look about for.
.vinter’s proposition or to create;
ue. lnitiatve goes a long way in1
the game. And the will to do is the j
first essentia] in getting started.. i
NO PENAL SETTLEMENTS
WANTED
The Set ;,. ^'rves in a recent ed
itorial joinea .,'iih Alaskans in pro
.esi ng against the proposal of,
California Legionaires to have the;
federal government establish penal
settlemens in Alaska. The F,moire j
was the first to voice opposition to
the plan as being wholly un-Amer
ican in principle and altogether un
called for.
The Times, noting the sentiment
against the project here said:
“War veterans resident in Alasr
ka vigorously denounce the proposal
to establish criminal detention i
camps in the territory. A resolu-j
tion to that effect, which they ad-‘
opted at a meeting in Anchorage
last week, will be vigorously sup
ported by Seattle, as it should be'
wherever any sense of justice, pre- j
vails. The proposal to make Alaska
something of a penal colony bobbed i
up at the recent and stormy Calif
ornia American Legion convention,
where there was so much else to
quarrel about that the delegates
couldn’t have known all that was
,going on. Alaska is more free from
crime than any state in the union.
The idea of sending criminals there
for punishment or detention is
wholly offensive.”— Juneau Empire.
Juneau.— “Alaska has fully 60
planes in constant commercial ser
vice today, with the number incres
ing rapidly,” says Chas. H. Flory,
regional forester for Alaska, who
recently returned to Juneau fom a
trip to the Interior. “Aviation is
expensive in such regions as Wise
man, where I found gasoline $1.85
per gallon, and nearly as much at
Kotzebue, but a better d5y is at hand
for Alaska. Weather service reports
has a splendid service in the Signal
Corps system, but if army, naval or
other airplane V;vses or defensive
forces be estahlshedit will be found
that the weather stations will give
trustworthy data which will make
commercial aviation m. the Territory
safe in every section. The more sta
tions the Territory has the better
for Alaska as a whole.”
Sec. of the Interior lekes spent a
day checking up on his clerks rec
ently.
He found, among other things,
a young man sitting with his feet
on a desk readin a n wspaper.
“Is that the way ju i ,^rerk?” he
asked. “I don’t do t«a. .m^elf.”
“And who are vo ?” came the
reply. .
Alaska has less than om i'nhaibit
ant to ten square miles of Territory.
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by W. C. B.
Did you ever feel a tug at your
heart,
And were restless and could not be
still,
While a magnetic force seemed to
tear you apart,
With a yearning that naught seemed
to fill.
You walked about as a man in a
trance.
And were grouchy and ill as a bear.
Your ears were deaf to music, no
pleasure in dance,
“Alaska” is calling you there.
The air hangs heavy with mists;
Your temper's on edge, you’re
nervous and jerkey,
While you yearn for the trail’s turns
and twists,
A frost bitten nose, a finger-tip
nipped,
,Tis an everyday thing to “Dog
Mushers.”
They’re often down hut never say
whipped
They are “Meii,” and. never four
. flushers,
We’ve been on the trail twelve
hours or so, 1 /
And pushing our dogs to their best.
The stars are out, and its forty
below,
There’s where man meets hi« most
trying test.
We top a rise, and see > 'ight far
ahead, >•
Our dog team, Though fagged,
tighten traces,
And with visions of and soft
snowy, beds,
They leap into neck breaking paces.
By the roadhouse stove, after eating
our fill,
We sit scanning the month old
papers.
While the keeper’s children, refuse
to be VtjilA
Amuse us with mild pranks and
capers.
Bed time at last ail i a much needed
rest,
To relieve us from til ache and pain;
With the breaking of . day, the dogs
yelp with ...est,
Just raring to “Mush-" On” again.
Ketchikan,— Delegate. ..Dlmond, on
leaving for Washington,'said he will
urge a territorial r> !' rendum on the
control of fisheries and advocated
the territorial legislature should
provide $50,000 for* a referendum to
overcome the apposition o 1 the Bur
eau of Fisheries to' tertStorial con
trol.
NOME.— With the opening of
the U. S. Court-house vaults 17 days
after the fire, it a as found that all
records were destroyed. Papers in
the district court lteg'jvere safe.
NOME.— Colonel E. Clarke, who
flew into Nome with- pilot Hall, is
making a suvey regarding PWA as
sistance for the rebuilding of that
city.
ANCHORAGE.— Funeral of H.T.
Kennedy, who was killed by the acci
dental discharge of his rifle, v;as
held today, Oct. 12, at Anchorage. A
brother and a sister of Mi4. Kennedy
attended the funeral oeside a host
of sorrowing friends.
FAIRBANKS.— John A. Mackin
tosh, (52, died here, Oct. Ilf He was
a well known druggist and. started
his business in Fairbanks' in 1909.
He was a member of the Pioneers
and first came to Alaska in 1897.
JUNEAU.- - Mrs. Mary Irwin,51,
was found on Gold Creek bridge in
a eiitica condition with a bullet
wound in her temple. No motive
could be advanced for the act.
Her husband and two sons reside
at Petersburg, Alaska.
Father Hubbard, the Glacier Pri
est, will make a lecture too- of, .the
States this winter. He has w i01**feim
100,000 feet of Alaskan films which
he wil show on his tour.
Father Hubbard plans to return in
1935 to Bogosloff Island, v\ here..he
will continue his explorations.
ANCHORAGE.— Ed. Coffey, sec
re ary of Anchorage Local of the
Alaska Resident Fisherman's Union,
left Anchorage recently to visit.,the
locals at Kenai and Seldovia. fie
will proceed afterward to Seward to
take the steamer next week to
Seattle, where. he will act as dele
gate from the Anchorage Local to
the Fisheries hearing to be held/in
that city from October 20 to Novem
ber 15. Delegates also will go from
vo 'iak, Seldovia, Qordcva, and Nak
nek.
A. C. Wamser, president of the
Alaska Resident Fisherman’s Union
who left here several dayb ago by
plane for his home at Nan;nek, is ,ey
pected back here by plane Jin-’ time
to catch the next ship for Seattle,
where he also will serve as delegate.
All five of tho( delgates will go south
on the same ship.
| ADAMS HOUSE
l When in Flat, stop at ADAMS HOUSE. We are open at
l ail hours. Dog barns in connection.
\ Thru Adams House, you can-obtain Outsido
] Liquors of all kinds, Wines, and Bee&.r
I CIGAR? " CIGARETTES
U B. ADAMS
! FLAT ALASKA
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Where Everything is Homelike an !
Where You are Cordially Welcomed
A Modern Hot-air Heating System
Supplies Warmth to Every Room.
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BATHS
The Kuskokwim’s Largest and Most
Complete Stock of General
Merchandise.
Complete Line of
Groceries
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Hardware
Clothing
Finest Liquors and Wines.
Bidweiser and Blue. Ribbon Beer.
Northern Commercial
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McGrath
Tak«$jia
Milkman—Li you won’t pay for
your milk, you might' at feast give
back the empty bottles.
Woman—What do you Allow on
empty bottles?—Hummel • (Ham-,
burg). ~ . .
Optimist—The best thing m the
world is a clear conscience. > - >
Pessimist— And the next best hi
a good lawyer.—Lustig Kolner Zct
tung (Cologne).