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EDITORIAL
DON'T BE A SPONGE;
THEY'RE ALL WET
One of the best warnings about
Fifth Column activities to appear
lately is in a little booklet issued
by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
These Americans, all of whom
have known war at first hand,
have compiled a little treatise
setting forth clearly and circum
stantially just how various Nazi.
Fascist, Communist and native
quasi-fascist organizations work,
and through whom.
Without hysteria, the writers
warn all Americans to be on the
alert for such activities native
and imported, and if they seem
really subversive to report them
to proper authority for investiga
tion. Nothing is gained, and
much lost by amateur vigilante
attempts to remedy thes. situa
tions. Injustice is more likely to
result than justice.
But there is one thing all of
us can do. That is to stop and
think when people babble into
our ears. Keynote of all Fifth
Column activity is to create con
fusion in the minds of the peo
ple. As a farmer’s first step is to
plow and harrow hs field before
he plants his crop, so the Fifth
Columnist first plows and har
rows the mind of his victim, mak
ing it ready for his seeds of dis
content.
“They begin, usually,’’ cautions
the VFW pamphL-t, “by attack
ing the Jews, whom they regard
as the weakest minority in the
land . . . The objective, is always,
is to divide the population by ere
ating hatred, animosity and pre
judice. Or.cc th,: cracks in na
tional unity begin to appear, the
©Tensive doubles its forces and
strikes next at the Catholics.
•Soon the labor unions feci the
brunt of the Fifth Column at
tack. Then comes th,: system of
private enterprise. And finally,
the forms and traditions of dem
© ratio government itself are as
sail ted."
That is a fair outline of the
approach. This does not mean
th -t anyone who speaks to you
in such Vi in is necessarily a
F.fth Columnist. But it does
moan that thoughtless talk along
such lines serves the same pur
pose.
The remedy? Use your head.
To all talk appealing to preju
dice and fear, to hatred and di -
spair, ask yourself the sober ques
ition, “Is there any sense to this?”
If there isn’t, tell yourself so
with electric force—and answ. r
back.
Don’t be a sponge, absorbing
everything fed to it. Think. A
sponge can absorb a great
amount of slop, but after it has
done so, it’s all wet.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that
Wallace PorCr has been appoint
ed by the Probate Court for the
Koyuk Precinct, Second Division
Territory of Alaska, administrat
or of the estate of Jesse Peter
son, deeeas d. and that all per
sons having claims against the
said estate are required to pre
sent the s ‘me with proper vou
chers i six months from the
date of this notice to th u de
signed administrator at Hayc ck.
Territory of Alaska.
Doted the 4th day of Novem
ber, 1940.
Wallace Porter.
Administrator of the Estate!
of T sse Peterson, deceased. ■
Publish Nov. 4. 11, 18. 25, 19401
COAST GUARD FACILITIES
IN ALASKA TO EXPAND
WASHINGTON, Nov. — Plans
to increase Coast Guard facilities
in Alaska were made known by
D legate to Congress Anthony J.
Dimond who said a radio station j
'will be constructed at Wards’
Cove, near Ketchikan and that
a lG5-foot cutter will be station
led at Cordova, this vessel to take
the place f the larger cutter
which was assigned to Atlantic |
patrol duty after outbreak of the j
war.
HUNDREDS OF AMERICANS
I TO RETURN HOME
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KOBE, Japan, Nov. 22 — The
!s:cond American ship evacuating
■ American citizens from the Or- i
I ienet, the Matson liner Mariposa,
I arrived at Kobe from Korea.
The Mariposa carried 156 Am
| erican men and 354 women and 1
children leaving the Orient on
advice of the State department. t
Among the passengers were 11
members of families of American '
diplomatic officials, including ;
Mrs. William Langdon, the wife j
of the United States consul at i
Mukden, Manchukuo.
HE MEETS THE CHIEF —The man in “civvies" is Gen.
George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the expanding U. S. army,
seen in Washington as he greeted Lieut. Col. Jorge Sarmiento,
new military attache to the Peruvian embassy in capital.
JOE LOUIS MAY DEFEND i punnent f. r Joe. Jacobs said a
CROWN FEBRUARY. MARCH "on’ remoter. Walter Sharp
- vr jl.i be sign d as the Now
DETROIT, Nov. 22 — Heavy- v rk fight promoter’s match
weight Jo, Louis is slated to do- ita’ er. Jacobs sa d Louts probab
,fend his crown in the motor city !y v. ,!d meet a challenger in
either in February or March. i " part of February or
Peon dor Mike Jacobs arrived in !'!y ;n March.
Detroit to line up a series oc
bou s in the Olympia Art a. The But them by the bundle, Use
ifigh! - will be initiated early in cen- t r starting fires. For Sale
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of forts (shaded area) along the Albania, Jugoslavia, and Bulgaria frontiers. Arrows show the Ita'ian
lavored invasion routes. Italian bombers found t. gcts at Lepanto, naval ha e and other towns in
the Patras area (2). Islands where British troops ave and. d are kept a military secret.
' ^ "i i' '1 . I ^ DEATH-DEALER S—As fussy as Fncle Sam is about the shells that are so
vual to his deicnse program, the U. S. field artillery school at Fort Sill, Okla., is the proving ground for
new army developments before their adoption. Busy at Fort Sill, Privates L. E. Faith ar.d If. E. Mas
ters learn about artillery shells from Staff Sgt. C. W. Carter (left).
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