The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 3, 1936, Page 10

i ¥ 1 TALBOT URGES LEGIONNAIRES T0 CARRY ON [ Past Department Command- er Stresses Community Service, Child Welfare Regrets at Being U yaPle to Aitend Convention _Here Ve iii &7 Mr. Anthony E. Karnes, Commander, The American Legion, Department of Alaska, Juneau, Alaska. My dear Commander: Your very kind invita- tion, on behalf of the ex- service men of Alaska,, is deeply appreciated, and 1 wish it were possible for me to arrange to visit your wonderful country and . meet with the Legionnaires at their annual convention next summer. Unfortunate- ly, however, duties in con- nection with the American Battle Monuments Com- * J.A. TALBOT Past Department Commander J A. Talbot of Ketchikan was unable | to attend the Legion Convention | ynow of our far reaching program mission will probably make it necessary for me to be abroad at the time, and I shall be, compelled, to, fore- o the pleasure. Please convey my affectionate greetings and best wishes to the veterans of the Department, of Alqsk?, and believe me, with sincere thanks for the courtesy of your invitation, 5 ¢ ik i Yours very truly, JOHN J. PERSHING port our many worthwhile activities this year but sent the following of Community Service and Child| ynich have d.us so closely to- reetings through Department Ad-|welfare and other activities of a boun jutant J. T. Petrich civic nature are saying that The gether these many years. “Now that the so-called ‘Bonus’ has been paid to ex-Service men nd women, some of the critics of The American Legion, who do not|stand fast and to continue to sup- “1 greatly regret that it was im- possible for me to attend the Con- vention in Juneau, and wish you every success.” American Legion will ‘go down hill’ from now on “It behooves every Legionnaire to 1 We Wish the American Legion—Department of Alaska -- a most enjoy- able 17th Annual Con- vention.in Juneau.... 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To believe Mr. Pitkins tripe would mean you would have to suf- fer until you are forty before life Is worth liying, We have to grow old if we liye long enough, but for- tunately the process is so slow that it is not mentaly noticeable. Most people are loath to admit that they lived too many years. 1 never have had an “Old Man” in the Home. When they come they tell me they have a pain in the chest or 2 little rheumatism in the legs and that they expect to be as good as ever in four or five weeks. The way they get to the Home is | like this. When the time comes that illness or age incapacitates them a friend says, “You ought to go to the Home, Joe.” And Joe taps him- self on the breast bone and says, “Who me? Me go to the Home where all them old Jakes are—Say! I'm a better man now than I was forty | years ago?” When he slips some the Home is a place where they work miracles every day and that they specialize in making new men and comes, Geat Glands vs. Old Crow find a way to give a man a new heart or a young pair of legs, al- though about ten years ago the: did have a doctor who went in fo the goat gland freatment. He pre- dicted that in a very short time he would have the Pioneers back in the hills leaping from crag to crag, from precipice to precipice. But Judging from the results it looked like the magic fluid was distilled out of the whiskers of the goats in- stead of the glands. The best phil- ter I have discovered for putting new life in a man is a couple of shots of Old Crow. However, be that as it may if a man has anything to go on it is remarkable how he res- ponds to good food and care. Most by proper medical treatment and by eliminating the worry of how and where they are going to live. As far as I have been able to learn the Alaska Pioneers’ Home is one of the best equipped institu- tions in the United States for tak- .ing care of the aged. It is a place every Alaskan can be proud of. For the past year it has housed an av- erage of 175 men. The cost of oper- ation and maintenance is approxi- mately $75,000 per annum. The total cost of the entire plant as it stands now is $343,000. Great Characters There have been some prodigious men in the Home in their various lines of endeavor. To mention just a few that have gone West there was: Montana Pete Wolverine Jack The Bald Faced Kid Jack Screw Ole Harry The Whale Concrete Jake Bear Hunter Johnson They tell that in any band of | men Montana Pete was an expert on the tinhorn. When I came to the Home it contained four Johnson.s Bear Hunter Johnson, Four-eyed Johnson, Johnson, and One More Johnson. Some years before he en- son came north in a gas boat which broke down in Petersburg, so he EILER HANSEN Superintendent of the Pio- meers’ Home. : | towed it to Pt. Alexander in a skiff. At Pt. Alexander he built a log cab- in. When they tore it down it took two men to take down the logs he had put up by himself. The only mari I have really lost is Turnabout | Mike. He disappeared about eight months ago without a trace being sea. It does not worry me. I know wherever he is, he is where he wants to be. Observed St. Patrick’s Day most noted men of the ed in the Home was he brought with was his high shirt. Every St. was full of moth holes, and and dragged his paralyzed point where he splendor. I braced him up on that day. few stiff drinks to help him ; more, another friend tells him that out of old ones. So he takes a chance | So far we have been unable to| r| & tered the Home, Bear Hunter John- | aboard a friend’s boat and gone to| B | esting Account of What ! Organization s (Continued from Page One) THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1936 !’ 410 leave,-but-not mamy; with deatha little easier I shall feel| VETERANS' PREFERENCE: Im- NIGHDLS TE [I-S | Likes Sourdoughs that my life has not been entirely | mediate legislation to enforce vet- l,{ ! | Taking the job as a whole, the fruitless. The Pioneers’ Home be-|erans’ preference in selection, re- 12 H ! more I see of millionaires the bet- | longs to fxlaska and I hope every Al- tention, and promation in civil serv- P E ter T like the plain common people | askan will take a personal interest|ice and public works projects. Ex- that I have to deal with in the| in its operation. No one knows what | clusion of aliens and elimination of | $5¥ F3 33 Home. Maybe it is because I feel| the future has in store for him. It| political endorsement, requirements 4 that I bélong to their kind. The| is well enough to say “It can’t hap- | for veterans. * Pioneers are an honest, upright, and | Pen to me,” but if it does it is some- | e W \ ; sincere body of men that fate has | fl;ms lohkflow ,""m there - besfoow AMERICANISM: Continued as b . tricked a little more than the rest|Place where a man can res ore | primary activity of th i Chef de Gare lecs I“tel.:or us. They have earned all they he embarks on the final journey.| Legion. Mlit.antyoppasinevnAxtx:)wsfx‘:;.l get, and more. They helped to de- | Personally I have been in the Home | versive elements. Sweeping program velop this Territory and now they for three years now, and I do not|for promotion of education, youth are in some measure being com- | have a sn_]gle comp]aint to make | improvement, highway safety and pensated for the material things| regarding its operations and man- | crime prevention. | they failed to win or retain in their | 3gement. | AR OT Y | abler dayss When my tenure of of-| RN NEUTRALITY: Full support for fice is fihished if I can feel that CHILD WELFARE: A square deal | mantenance of absolute neutrality T have smoothed, the way for some for every child and continuance of |to avoid entanglements in all for- of them or made their rendezvous|every Legion activity to that end. | eign wars. Forty and Eight. The fun is re- served for those who have earned the right to play by hard work for the Legion. “The Shock Trops of the Legion”, |as the Forty and Eight are called, led the zion's attack on the prablem of Child Welfare and still are carrying a substantial part of the burden of the Legion’s Child Welfare work. Another contribu- |tion of major importance to (i success of The American Legion has been made by La Societe in Legion membership work. And among the many other activities is the seeking out in hospitals throughout the land of fergotten Veterans, irrespective = GREETINGS ... AMERICAN LEGION § i FIBREBOAR PRODUCT INC. REG. U.S. PAT.OFF. MANUFACTURERS OF SOLID FIBRE SHIPPING CASES 561 Skinner Bldg.—SEATTLE 310 Henry Blda. 710 Russ Bldg. 4444 Pacific Blvd. PORTLAND SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES STANLEY J. NICHOLS of organization, and bringing to them the hand of comradeship, and create comforts that only their bud- dies can give them The work of the Forty and Eight in Alaska has just commenced We are proud to have as our Grande Correspondent Leonard Hopkins, energetic Past Commander of the Alaska Department. We are also proud to have as chairman of our Child Welfare and Americaniza- tion Committees, Clyde Roscoe El- lis, who is also a Past Department Commander. Under such leader- ship La Societe will reach the boal that it aspires to for the enhance- ment of The American Legion and |the welfare of the Territory of Al- | aska. Wishing Alaska Legionnaires | | Their Finest Convention Ever. forget his nugget chain. If I had won the ice pool soon enough I} ! would have tried to buy that chain so he could have worn it one more !St. Ptarick’s Day. | Although this was before I be-| | came Superintendent, I met Frank| | Aldrich at the boat when he came to.the Home. When I greeted him he said he had his hat in the ring “For what?” I asked. “Why for the | | Legislature.” He had his hat in the! ‘ring all right, but not for the Legis- | lature. Although death is a rather | frequent occurrence in the Home | there is no morbidity about it. On | | that subject young and old people | alike are fatalists to-the extent that | they think “It can't happen to me.” | Since I have been Superintendent | I have done everything from sewing |a button on a pair of pants to | preaching a funeral sermon. The | most necessary qualifications for a Superintendent are a clear under-! | standing of human nature, a thick j| skin, and a sense of humor. As far }| as the actual operation is concerned | | any dumb cluck can go down in a beer parlor for a few hours and find ' out all about how to run the Home. ! Lose Contact | The toughest assignment of a Superintendent is to send a man to crab G. P. Hglferty & Co. SEATTLE, U. S. A. Clams AT R e L | | o ! Morningside. Most of the men are, L] out of touch with their relatives, | but it is remarkable to see how kith | and kin spring up everywhere as | soon as a man dies. Théy write in| | to learn just how he came to die} §and if he didn’t leave some valuable || | mining claims, or a sack of gold | dust, or at least a watch and a ring they could have as a momento of | the dear departed. I have never had to put a man out of the Home for breaking the rules. The reason for that is that, there are no rules to break. In my opinion it would be useless to make 2 lot of rules and regulations for a | congregation of old sourdoughs that have never followed anything but| the natural law of the country. I do have the power to put a man out |} for insubordination but so far not a single mdn has béen able to make it so tough for me that he merited ' this dire punishment. There are ll-‘ ways some men that want to leave the Home to go out and try their| luck again. 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