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EDITORIAL
Possible Index to Alaska Defense
One of the seven major air has
*6 of America established at Tac
oma, and the enlargement of the
military units of Fort Lewis, in
the same vicinity, is making that
tenter one of the most important
of all the nation’s strongholds of
defense.
The character of the activities
at Tacoma give some idea of
What Alaska may expect to wit
hess with the unfolding of the
present large naval and army de
fensive program in the Territory.
Tacoma Progress, published by
the Tacoma Chamber of Com
merce, refers to the latest devel
opment in the Tacoma area as
follows:
“A long time program of the
Chamber of Commerce for es
tablishment of a complete divi
sion at Fort Lewis came a step
nearer realization when the War
department last week announced
that the Third and Sixth stream
lined divisions are to headquar
ter here. These are two of five
streamined divisions to be establ
ished in the nation.
"The streamlining will bring
about decided changes including
almost complete motorization
and the use of more automatic
and heavy guns. Members of the
military committee of the Cham
ber, Robert Abel, chairman, for
see that the new type of organiz
ation will mean more divisional
training at Fort Lewis and is
likely to bring about the sta
tioning of new units of troops
here.
“The committee also believes
that the President’s order to
bring up the force of the army to
' nearer peace time strength also
will increase the number of men
at Fort Lewis.”
Current Comments
From Washington
Washington has just witnessed
the closing of an enjoyable and
profitable convention attended
by forty-six hundred postmast
ers. The President greeted the
delegates and spoke kindly of
their work. He may well do so.
The public sometimes forgets
that the Post Office Department
does more than peddle letters. It
conducts a hank of safe-keeping,
wherein there are no charges. It
takes the census. It attended to
the payment of the soldiers’ bon
us. Nobody wonders whether an
obligation really is wiped out, if
the debtor tenders a post office
money order. There are few
business transactions in which
Jim Farley’s men do not lend a
helping hand in same way.
The account attendant upon
the docking of the Iroquis, re
minds one of several things. The
passengers were not informed of
the torpedo menace until a con
voy arrived alongside, a few days
off the American coast. No doubt
they had plenty of time to wrnrry
STILL BURN INC KE ROSEN E_At the 85-year-old
kerosene lamp of Point Coneepeion light near Santa Barbara, Cal.,
one of the few remaining lighthouses not electrified, stands First
Assistant Keeper Charles Hellwig. Point Concepcion sheds its
faithful gleam over those waters often called “graveyard of the
Pacific" because here seven U. S. destroyers piled up in 1923 fog.
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SERVICE LAUNDRY
Located in Basement of
NOME BARBER SHOP
DRY CLEANING AND PRESSING
THE MODERN WAY
Our Now Steam Press Puts in a Press that Stays !
Clothes Pressed While You Wait
at that. Ignorance now and then
continues to be bliss. Those
aboard cheered when they saw
the big statue in New York har
bor. representing Liberty En
lightening the World. It was a
gift from abroad. Without throw
ing too many bouquets at our
selves. the torch at this partic
u'ar time seems to shine a little
brighter here than on the con
tinent from which the statue
came.
Probably the next month will
tell much of the story as to whe
ther or not the United States is
to take a hand as peacemaker in
the foreign trouble. President
Wilson tried it and the existing
turmoil is a sad comment on the
futility of his well-meant and
capable efforts. Europe wants
peace at any price, so long as
the other fellow pays it. Ameri
can peacemakers will do well to
consider a suggestion made by a
great teacher of a by-gone day:
Give not that which is holy unto
the dogs, neither cast ye your
pearls before swine, lest they
trample them under their feet,
and turn again and rend you!
On the eleventh of October,
ceremonies wese held at the
Washington monument to Casim
ir Pulaski, Polish general, who
on that date, 130 years ago de
parted this life after distinguish
ed service in the cause of the
American colonies during the
Revolutionary War. The Ger
mans have a legend that Em
peror Frederick Barbarossa, be
lieved to be dead, is merely
sleeping, to awaken at an hour
when the aFtherland needs him.
Partitioned in 1772, in 1793, in
1795 and again in 1939, Poland
has reason to hope that General
Pulaski too may be only asleep:
Amazing Flying Boats Ahead
Igor Sikorsky, designer of the
first trans-Pacific flying boat,
told 600 engineers at a round
table discussion of “The Next
Five Years in Aviation” in New
York, that flying boats weighing
a million pounds or more, and
capable of carrying 1,000 passen 1
gers in comfort and safety,
wou'd be an engineering possib
ility before 1950.
He added, however, that they
would probably not be economic,,
since frequency of operation is
one of the benefits of air trans
port. Continuing, he said, “I do, |
nevertheless, confidently predict
and planes and flying boats in op
eration, or at least under con- j
struclion. in the next fiv years,
of 100.000 to 200,000 pou. s. The
efficiency of aircraft improves,
with size, we have found. Speed j
will be somewhat increased also, 1
to a point where perhaps 250j
miles an hour cruising will bo |
standard for land planes.”
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.Seals Being
.Made For
Xmas Sale
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This year the Alaska Tuber
| culosis Association will conduct
' its sixth annual Christmas Seal
Sale to raise funds for the cam
i paign againt tuberculosis. Local
i committee are now engaged in
preparing the thousands of Seals
for mailing. Each year the res
ponse from the people of Alaska
to this appeal for assistance ag
i ainsf tuberculosis has been great
! er than the year before, and
! each year the Association has
j been able to widen its field of at
tack upon this disease Tubercul
osis is the leading health prob
lem in Alaska. It was the pri
mary cause of death during the
year just past. There were 215
reported deaths from tuberculos
is during that period, nor does
J this figure include those resi
I dents of the Territory whose
deaths occurred in the States and
i were not re-allocated to Alaska.
Speaking on the subject of
Christmas Seal Sale funds and
their expenditure. Harry G. Wat
son, President of the Association
said: "We are often asked why
we do not spend the money
which we raise for the actual
treatment of sufferers from this
disease. Although the response
per capita to the Seal Sale in
J A1 aska, compared with other sec
tions of the country, is very gen
erous, the amount raised is com
paratively small, $5,400 last year,
i It costs about $1,000 a year to
' keep a tuberculosis patient in a
sanitarium so we feel that we
can do far more good by spend
i ing these funds for early diagnos
' is and for preventative measures.
Each year the major portion of
the money raised has been con
tributed to the Tuberculin Test
ing and Early Case Finding Clin
ics. Since their beginning these,
clinics have given over 7,000 tu
bercu in tests and have taken ovj
er 6,000 lung and bone x-rays.
The Christmas Seal Sale funds
purchased the portable x-ray ma
chine, purchase of x-ray films
and other accessories. The Asso
ciation has purchased and distrib
uted thousands of pamphlet on
various phases of tuberculosis
and has acquired a number of
motion picture films on this sub
ject which have been exhibited
in over 70 localities in the Terri
tory.
“We believe that the examin
ation and diagnosis have been a:
i
great help to the people of Al-1
aska and that the people of Al-;
aska appreciate the results ob-!
tained and will continue to sup-'
port our Seal Sale campaign.” j
SPEED KING SPEEDS FOR KINC-Sir Malcolm
Campbell (left), England's famed auto and speedboat racer,
wheeled out this motorbike for war service in London, and here
he is, arriving at the war office to inquire about military service.
The headlamp is equipped with a mask to black-nut li.-rht rays.
Sir Malroim tc. ettily broke water speed records with 141..4 m.p.h.
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