The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 21, 1937, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1937. | ROBERT W. BENDER B — Epmmu COMPANY &t Second Alasta. " Eutersa in the Post Office and Main Streets, Juneau, SUBSCRIPTION 3 clivered in carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month t the following rates One year six months, in advance, $6.00; | ‘one month. in advance Subscribers will confer o Business Office of auy fai papers or rregularity in the delivery News Office, 602; Business Office, 374, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The ansociaiad Pres. i¢ exclusively entitled to the use fr republicalsin of all s dicpatches ¢ ‘edited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and alse the local news published Telephone ALASF-\ CIRCULATION GUARAM VEED TO BE LARGER “@AN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION SUCCESS IN MAT “Alaska is our country now. Vic and I look for- ‘ward to a day when, in answer to some inquiring tour- st 2 and Mrs. our station agent can point to us and say. ‘there’s couple of real. sourdough. colonist farmers—Mr Victor Johnson of Tract 97 Thus does Mrs. Victor Johnson, collaborating with ‘Bar Willoughby, widely known Alaska author. con- felude an article in the June American Magazine on yher life in the Matanuska Valley under the title, “I'm a Cream-puff Pioneer.” It an enlightening and interesting ithe typics Willoughby manner.- Boldly it contra- dicts the assertions of such men as U. S. Senator Elmer ‘Thomas of Oklahoma, who. after standing for a short time on the Palmer station platform last summer, went back to the States to predict that the colony would “collapse as soon as Federal aid is withdrawn.” Mrs. Johnson very honestly points out that being a Colonist is not particularly a bed of roses if one is determined to make a succe: she and her husband are doing. There were har especially at the start. There w unfitted persons sent from the States in the undertaking. There was a degree of confusion. but that has been ironed out in large meas- ure, the Matanuska farm wife points out. The reader gets the idea that Mrs. Johnson knows what she talking about when he reads “While our life certainly bed of -roses, neither is it pioneering in the traditional sense. 1 know, because my mother was born in a sod house on a North Dakota prairie homestead. Moreover, I taught school in Wisconsin farming districTs, my speec- jalty being early American history. As for real Alaska ipicneering, my near neighbor is a sourdough farmer, ho slashed his way into this valley with a pack en vhis back to stake his homestead. Unaided, he has is article, in hips colony is no CAUSTIC WLEKLY COMMENTS “A Newspaper Within a Neu THE FRIENDLY STORE BISQUICK cahnibal?” Make delicious biscuits, | | would you be?” Jchnnie—“An also shortcake — regular 10-cent package— PANCAKE FLOUR 10 1b. bags—Self-rising 67 TOMATO SAUCE First quality tomatoes— No cereal added— 4 for 25c An efficiency he often of cherries in girl five quarts, will farmer knows “You can't “That's dia” like a man?” actly; he nis wife.” UN A revivalist gregation: | “There is a | man’s wife. in there were and a $2 bill with a note pinned | te it saying: “Th is all but will send | Wednesday.” Editor and Manager | 1 Juneaw as Second Class| 1f they will promptly notify | &t Garnick’ Friday, May 21, 1937. Teacher—“Johnnie what is a Johnnie—I don’t know." | Teacher — “If you would eat vour father and mother, o—0—o JUST HORSE SENSE right, says a friend of ours, but lacks common ance, He can tell you that if a farmer boy can pick six guarts pick 11 quarts. them tegether will net pick any. 0—0—o say I made any noise coming home last night.” true; friends who w 0—0—o0 “Did JYones take his bad luck 0—0—o0 sXPECTED RESULT | who is flirting with another Unless he puts $5 in the collection box, his name will be read from the pulpit.” When the collection box came |turned his section of wilderness into paying, culti- vated acres, with livestock, barns, and a dwelling that make it one of the show places of the Matanuska. But—to achieve his success he put in twenty years Publishnd e.ery evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE of grueling work and loneliness. I admire that sour- dough’s courage and tenacity. I should be proud to feel that I might face such problems as his with equal | fortitude.. But I'm happy to know that I shall never be required to do so0.” Giving a glimpse of the progress that they have made, Mrs. Johnson says: “When my husband, Victor, and I first set foot on our 40-acre tract too, was a wilderness of birch and spruce. Tod: sixteen months later, eight of | the 40 acres are cleared and in production. Our com- | fortably furnished cottage overlooks an excellent graveled road which connects us with the 170 other tracts of fellow colonists scattered about this 100 square miles of valley. The tight log walls of our barn and our chicken house, built after the govern- ment’s modern plans, keep their occupants warm with- out stoves, even in the coldest weather. Our well is a good one; and we have all the creatures we can winter-feed from this year's harvest—a cow, 100 white leghorn hens, and some pigeons, “For over a year I've had from five to 15 boarders. The food I serve them is not put on the cuff of the corporation. Vic and I, being childless, were permit- ted a credit of only $30 a month. But Alaska’s for- ests and streams offer, without a variety of wild food to those willing to gather and preserve it. While Vic's rod and gun supply our table with trout, salmon, ducks, geese, and moose, I can enough these items to last through the winter. T now have on hand a supplementary supply of wild fruits—200 quarts of blueberries, currants, raspberries, and cran- berries, which I picked in the nearby woods. In ad- dition. contains an abundance of home- canned vegetables, together with cabbages, potatoes, and such, taken from our garden. Our cow and | chickens provide milk and eggs 'and a Sunday bird we live off the fat of the land.” cost, ;populur my cellar So. you see, Giving due credit to the government, the pioneer woman writes: “Though our comfortabie circumstances are due. primarily, to our own unceasing labor, We realize that no amount of individual effort could have advanced us so far in sixteen months, had it government aid. That aid enabled us to reach Alaska and be housed within five months. It placed at our disposal the most efficient modern machinery for clearing and cultivating our land; supplies us with invaluable data on local soil, crops. and seasonal con- ditions; and it extended the long-term credit which assures us the necessities while we are bringing our tract into profitable’ production.” Weeks ago Mr. and Mrs. Jonnson have declared themselves independent of the colony. she writes, and are now paying cash for everything they buy. In addition, they have lowered their debt to the govern- ment to $1,700 which, she assured, they will eventu- ally pay in full clared themselves independent Much has been written of the failures in Mata- nuska. Thus it is refreshing to read of actual success in the Colony, which bodes well for not only success for the Johnson family but for most of the right sort of Colonists and the project as a whole. That type of people would make a succes: at any undertaking. The twelve-ounce Southern baby who is flourish- , ing on a ration of corn syrup and whisky may no‘t be mighty like a rose. but a poet might be justified in 2 Iyrical reference to baby’s breath.—Boston Herald. s Chats THRIFTY FooBp NEWS paper” THE FRIENDLY STORE . WESSON OIL pint size 25¢ RINSO large packages SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY c what orphan.” expert is all horse an hour, and a the two of them But any that the two of but the three ere carrying you GOLD DUST CLEANSER SPECIAL 4 cans 25c RICE Best head rice—long clear grains— 4 Ibs. 2 Sc blamed it all on said to the con- man among us six $5.bills in it the cash I have, the other $3 CALL GARNICK’S — PHONE 174 of | not been lor‘ Nine other colonists also have de- s S e 20 YEARS AGO M ‘The Empire HAPPY. BIRTHDAY The Empire extends congratula- tions and best wishes today, their birthday anniversary, to the foilow- o MAY 21, 1917. Plans for the proposed Parochial School and Parish Hall building to be constructed in Juneay by the Catholic Church had neared com- pletion in the office of A. Howard Peterson, architect. MAY 21. Mrs. T. J. Selby Edward F. Rodenberg Melville S. Leath Samuel Feldon Harley J. Turner R MOPLERN ETIQUETTE By Roberta Lee A. T. Nelson, from Alaska Lodge {No. 1, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Charles Swinehart, dele- gate from Aurora Encampment pranch No. 1; and Mrs. A. E, Aris, delegate from the Rebekahs, were to leave for Vancouver for the Coasl jconvention of the I. O. O. F. @ Is there any remedy by which| Mrs. L .D. Henderson, wife of the one can overcome the -gutteral and|former Superintendent of Juneau Schools, had left for the South on the Princess Sophia to spend is{summer visiting with her pare in Idaho i nasal tones of voice, so unpleasant in conversation? A. Deep breathing exercises an excellent remedy, by which many people have overcome this fault ientirely. President Wilson's Cabinet was Q. Is it all right to use office,to be increased by three new port- for business stationery for social |folios including a Secretary of Food | correspondence? Administration, Secretary of Mu- A. No; the person of good taste|nitions @nd Supplies, and Secretary will not do so. of Transportation. Action by the | @ 1Is it all right to give a formal |Senate limiting the powers of the dinner on Sunday? {Council of National Defense had Yes, it is permissible, but not shifted so much work to the Cabinet that the new posts had become im- | perative s The American sieamer Mongolia, ‘which had sailed for Europe carry- ing a Red Cross crew, had returned to an American port with the bod- ies of two nurses. The gun crew had been practicing when a shell “inertia” mean, as fited from the after starboard had |ricocheted from the surface of the || LOOX unid LEARN By A. C. Gordon ® 1. What doe: used in physics | 2. Who wrote “Faust”? 3. In what country was the Or- and blowing to pieces, scattered mis- der of Eagles founded, and ingwhat sles to the deck, killing two nurs- year? |es- What is the official language e of Vatican City? *|" Charles E. Hooker of J. B. Caro 5. What is the largest river in!e?nd Company, had left on the England? |Dolphin on a short business trip 5 WSS ‘!tu Skagway. ANSWERS | 1. The tendency of a body at! rest to remain at rest, and of a body in motion to remain in mo- tion, 2 Mrs. Hazel Kirmse, leading busi- ness woman of Skagway, had visited in Juneau while the City of Se- attle was in Gastincau Channel ports. Mrs. Kirmse had spent the winter in San Francisco and Paio Alto. Johann Wolfgang Goethe. United States, in 1898. Latin. Thames River. - 3. 4 [ e The Graduate Nurses Association was to meet at the home of Mrs. E. H. Kaser to make report on the recent dance given for the Red Cross chapters of the channel DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH By W. L. Gordoa military passenzers, had been torpedoed and had sunk in the Mediterrancan Sea accord- ing to official dispatches. Words Often Misused: Do not say, “Mary had been to a lecture ear- lier in the evening.” Say, “had been at a lecture.” Often Mispronounced: Necessar- ily. Pronounce nes-e-sa-ri-li, both e’s as in let, a as in say, both i's as in it, and accent first syllable, not the third. Often Misspelled: Circuit. Ob- serve the u, though second syliable is pronounced kit. Synonyms: Unlawful, illicit, pro-| hibited. {7 Temperature in Juneau bad rang- ed from 38 to 44 degrees, with cloudy cenditions prevailing. Cee> - “Alaska” by Lester D. Henderson. PHONE 36 | For very prompt LIQUOR DELIVERY | =] 1 Word Study: “Use a word Lhn’e‘ times d it is yours.” Let us in-| crease our vocabulary by mastering {water, taking a centrifugal motion| nch passenger liner Col- se Isuffer along with the guilty lletic activity, jvere physical lautumn. { 5 [;t Wa:: ;-bi;;h(;ay include Thomas o ! Pay’n Takit Charles Power, Senator, 1839; Fred- !erlck Wellington Ruckstuhl, sculp- \tor, 1853. \ (Co . PHONES 92 or 25 __Free Delivery Fresh Meats, Groceries, Liquors, Wines and Beer We Sell for LESS Because Maine Street, Lindsborg, Kansi We sell for CASH has written to the Marshal’s office | asking information relative to her { Leader Dept. Store grandfather, Charlie Watson, a man | George Broth of about 65 years of age, She said! Sp0LE rei i Horoscone “The stars inclice but do not compel” D Ao S ) SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1937. Except in the morning adverse planetary aspects rule strongly to- day, according to astrology. It is a most unfortunate sway under which to lend money or to proffer any sort of aid to friends. a man of that name had been a The stars smile on contracts for:Watchman at Taku Harbor and she the future and it is wise to sign]|Wondered if it might be her relative, | them today. Busine: ould be|she writes. | dropped at noon, for this is a rule under which rest and recreation are imperative. 1937) >->> KANSAS GIRL SEEKS GRANDFATHER HERE Miss Linnea Olson of 303 North| " SIGRID'S | DEAUTY SALON “YOUR APPEARANCE IS | OUR RESPONSIBILITY” | Shatiuck Bldg. Phone 318 DOUGLAS TO RADIOVILLE To install weather equipment at Newspapers and periodicals con- Radioville, H. W. Douglas, Assistant tinue under a sign making for suc-|Meteorologist for the U. 8. Weather cess and profit. Advertising should'BUreau. flew to that place today be particularly effective while this¥ith Pilot Sheldon Simmons. He ex- configuration continues. pects to be gone several days. From overseas will come sensa- RERTLANES] tional rumors, but they may serve COUNCIL TONIGHT to put this country on guard, Amer-| Regular meeting of the City Coun- | icans again are warned against in-[Cil Will be held at 8 o'clock tonight volving the United States in trou- in the Council chambers. ble. v 2 There is a prediction that be- se of gross injustice and perse- cution of certain individuals and peoples retribution will affect a'l Europe Again the innocent Juneau Drug Co. | 8| | HOTEL JUNEAU | Formerly Hotel Zynda i CLARENCE WISE Manager s [ ! Lode ana pmacer 1ocaiion notices —42 ' for sale at The Empire Office. Many - sudden de: are fore-; cast. The young a cautioned against dangerously strenuous ath- Girls will regret s exertion under this planetary government. Holland now muay experience dif-| ficulties affecting the royal fam-| ily. A political has been| foretold for the summer or early) Mary Crewson 1 ou are invited to present this “oupon at the hox office of the Capitol Theatre and receive tickets for ycur- self and a friend or relative o see “The Gay Desperado” As a paicé-up suoscriber of The Daily Alaska Empire Good only for current offering. The seers, who foretcld the in- fluence of a planet which is blamed for fires and explosions, again warn that there will be serious cenfla- grations in forests as well as citizs.' Persons whose birthdate it is today have the augt of a year of ad- vancement and ssceess, Both men and women will profit through pub- li ildren born on this day prob- ably will be determined in niture and ambitions, Subjects of this cien may be exceedingly versatile owing to their Gemini sien. 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