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EDITORIAL
And So \\ hat?
Germany points the accusing
finger at the United States, utter
ing the gutteral charge that the
Lend-Lease act as written by Fe
lix Frankfurter, member of the
United States supreme court
And so what? Germany discov
ers so many things about us thal
we know nothing about, it is ar
idle waste of time and energy tc
answer them. But concerning
Felix Frankfurter. Germany
should understand that it is ab
solutely all right with us if h
did write the bill.
' Perhaps there is no more gift
ed mind in public life today than
that of Felix Frankfurter, and
his mastery of legal lore, his
keen insight into th. govern
ment of nations, his knowledge
of international affaire ought
really to make him an ideal man
to write anything pertaining tc
statecraft and to do it in a work
manlike manner.
Of all the odd quirks concern
ing the G.rman makeup as a na
tion, one of the oddest is the per
haps subconscious conviction that
the world shares with her a sense
less hatred and distrust of Jews
And that too in spite of the fac!
that in England they hav helc
prime ministerial posts, and ir
America sit upon the Supreme
Court bench.
Hence Germany now takes the
6tand that she has found out th.
worst about us, and tells i;n i
breathl ss world that Felb
Frankfurter wrote the Lend
Lease act! And nobody outsid;
the confines of Germany cares i
hang whether he wrote it or not
— Seward Gat way
GIVES WARNING
I....' ML. M MHa
Prime Minister Robert G. Men
aces warned in London of “ele
ments of danger” in the Pacific
and that NO nation must think
that Australia is “unwilling or in
capable of defending herself."
Menzies is leaving the Sydney
railroad station after his arrival
from Melbourne to attend a rec
ent meeting of the Australian Ad
visory War Council.
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Current Comments
From Washington
o
The spirit of the anti-Hitler
movement in the United States is
’ indicated briefly but forcefully in
a few sentences from a recent
address by Secretary Ickes:
"There is a widely disseminat
ed and ably conducted movement
in this country that draws togeth
( er such ... as would sacrifice
democratic ideals and Christian
civilization to alien economic and
5 social predispositions. There are
' those who believ. that we ought
to bow our heads meekly to the
scourge of Nazi-ism, accepting it
as something inevitable, as those
f the Middle Ages accept d the
Black Death."
i
1 Most persons luke-warm
toward the Lend-Lease bill, or
- openly hostile to it, will maintain
i that the Secretarys indictment
t does not apply to them. The
i fauits of the Nazi doctrines are
> recognized, and there is no dis
• position to abandon democracy.
It is felt, however, that th re are
other matters which should be
’.carried in mind.
I The first of those considera
? tions, quoting the remarks of a
. Senator on the floor, is that the
t passage of the bill would r-sult
1 in the "degradation of Congress,
i a presidential dictatorship, and
- entrance into the war." Moreover
there is the view that .after all,
it is England’s ox that is b-ing
gored. Here, again, the Senate
a furnishes the text. “We are begin
• ning to move our battle fleet and
- make thr atening gestures only
now that British imperial inter
i ests in Asia seem to be threaten
. ed. The minute British imperial
interests were threatened, then
we began to talk war and act in
warlike ways.
It is to be regretted that copy
right limitations prevent a liber
al use of an article by Leland
Stow , entitled "Scandinavian
Twilight," appearing in the Wash
ington Star a few days ago. Hav
ing spent about six months in Fin
land. Sweden and Norway, Mr.
Stowe reaches the conclusion
that after a !ong period of peace,
during which too much effort
was spent on social bett.rment
and the settlement of purely dom
estic problems Sweden has gone
soft; and that although the terri
tr-ial borders of that land re
main intact, a somber twi ight is
ttling on freedom there. Mr.
Stow- thinks that in all this
there is a lesson for the United
States.
In old times, the doctors attack
( I almost every diseas: by bleed
ing the patient. Science has pro
dividual, but the physician in in
ternational affairs who can lay
asid. the lancet, is yet to appear.
War is abhorrent. Probably the
doctrine that a nation needs a
blood-letting now and then is a
falsity. Yet out of all the commo
tion abroad, there comes the
haunting impression that the
price of liberty and freedom in
the United States may rise in
the days that lie ahead.
—
Taking it for granted that de
fense is necessary, and that the
def rase program must go for
ward, it follows that strikes and
1 labor disputes can be permitted
to be an impediment no more
than can a refusal by industrial
ists to their part. Nothing can be
said in condemnation of a
"strike” considered as a protest
against existing conditions. How
far strikers may go in making
the protest effective, when na
tional defense and the common
safety are involved, is a much
THE SPACE A C E—Torgrr Tokle (left), 22-year-old Nor
wegian ski ace, (ells how it felt to soar through a snowstorm 243
feet and 238 feet at Lake Placid, N. Y„ to shatter an Olympic
63-meter jumping record set nine years ago at Lake Placid.
Tokle's skis are three-grooved. Some 4.000 persons saw the jumps
which were on concluding event of Lake Placid Silo-Birds' meet.
MUSEUM LOANED REINDEER
SKIN ESKIMO PICTURE
JUNEAU (A1) — For the first
time, the Territorial museum has
on display, as a loan, a picture
by the popular Eskimo artist,
George A. Ahgupuk. In a frame
36 inches by 18 inches, the pic
ture consists of nine seems from
Eskimo life sketched on bleached
reindeer hide.
Ahgupuk has attained consid
erate fame in recent years as
the only Eskimo artist. His sketch 1
es, usually spoken of as skin etch
ings, were first sold as Christmas
cards to individual purchasers,
but now are distributed widely
through the United Artists Group
of N w York City.
He started his work whi’e con
fined for a long period in the
Bureau of Indian Affairs hospital
at Kotzebue. To occupy his time
he first made Eskimo life sketch
O' on bridge talleys for the nurs
es Mrs. Nan Gal agher and other
nurses in the hospital recogniz
ed his tal -nt and encouraged him
to sketch in reindeer skin purs
s. The Christmas cards follow
ed.
Orders from individual in Kot
ebue. Nome and other Seward
Peninsula centers kept him busy
with the novel Christmas cards.
Through Mrs. O. S. Weaver of
Nome, who sponsored much of
his work, Rockwell Kent became
interested in him, furnishing him
materials and bringing him to
the attention of art patrons in
the east. Since that time he has
enjoyed a favored place among
American artists.
Ahgupuk now lives at his nat
iv village at Shishmaref, fill
ing as many as possible of the
many orders he receives.
OUT OF HILLS
AND INTO DRAFTS
HELENA. Mont. — Since last
August Steve Dorn has been cut
ting timber in the isolated South
fork country. So when he arriv
ed in Helena recently, the first
question he asked was:
“What is this about the draft?”
He explained he had known
nothing of it “until I decided I
needed a radio and walked to
Wolf Cn ek, 12 miles from my
cabin, and bought one.
“When I got back in the hills
and tuned in I kept hearing
about selective service so I de
cided I’d better catch a bus at
Wolf Creek and conv: on to the
state capital and find out what
it was all about.”
The clerk of the Helena draft
board gave Dorn number 2907—
the highest in the county.
more complex affair.
Germany extinguished strikes
in north rn Holland by imposing
martial law. They would not do
here. Realizing this, the work of
the Conciliation Service is to b ■:
supplemented by that of a board
about to le created in the Office
of Production Management.
In a court action, which may
have far reaching consequences,
a number of Washington medical
men are charged with violating
the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, and
it is alleged that some hospitals
have been aiding and abetting. It
is claimed that the members of a
medical group are attempting to
throw a monkey wrench in the
machinery of the Group Health
Association.
Many have benefited by the
hospitalization plans of the gov
ernment. On the other hand,
there is a kindly feeling toward
the individual free lance doctor,
whose calming presence is to be
had in the sick room by a word
over the phone. A decision there
fore cannot be based on good
will and friendship. Nor can it
be based on the facts. After two
weeks or more of testimony,
some of them remain to be brot
out.
RODEO RULE_a Tucson
h!ch school girl, Louise Priser,
r^led over La Fiesta de los
A .uru.cros. annual rodeo staged
in quite rip-roaring fashion at
Tucson, Ariz.
ICE MOVED AT NENANA
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1918— May 11 . 9:33 a.m.
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1920— May 11 . 10:46 a.m.
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1922— May 12 . 1:20 p.m.
1923— May 9 . 2 p.m..
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1925— May 7 . 6:32 p.m.,
1926— April 26 . 4:03 p.m.|
1927— May 13 . 5:42 a.m.!
1928— May 6 . 4:25 p.m. j
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1930— May 8 . 7:03 p.m.
1931— May 10 . 9:23 a.m.
1932— May 1 . 10:15 a.m.
1933— May 8 .. 7:30 p.m.
1934— April 30 . 2:07 p.m.
1935— May 15 . 1:32 p.m. '
1936— April 30 . 12:58 p.m.1
1937— May 12 . 8:04 p.m.
1938— May 6 . 8:14 p.m.
1939— April 29 . 1:26 p.m.
1940— April 20 . 3:27 pm.
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