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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1944.
LAND FOR
VETERANS
Land grants for return
ing war veterans has al
ways been an American
tradition. At the end of
the Revolutionary War
soldiers made homes on
the frontier beyond the
Allegheny passes. The fron-!
tier had moved further
west after the Civil War
but the procedure was re
peated. And at the close
of the last World War, the
same offer was made but
was not taken up because
the makeup of the nation
had changed from rural to
urban with approximately
75 percent of the people
making their living in cit
ies.
Today the idea of farms
for returning veterans is
again being promoted, and
today the only real frontier
left to the United States is
the Territory of Alaska.
Whether the tight-fisted
Department of the Interior
will loosen up and offer
some land to the soldiers,
we don’t know. Rep. Har
vey J. Smith of Anchorage
during the last session of
the Territorial Legislature
petitioned Congress to
make land grants to all
veterans who wanted them,
but nothing has been done
along this line so far as we
know to date.
There is not much suit
able land left for such pur
poses in the continental
United States today. A
few areas where dam con
struction has made irriga
tion possible and the
scrawny cut-over lands of'
A
the North Central States
will be hardly enough.
However, some action
has been taken by both
Federal and State agen
cies. Montana, South Da
kota, North Dakota and
Massachusetts have ap
jointed committees to work
on the problem and the
“GI Bill” as approved by
Congress offers veterans a
loan of $2,000 for farm
ing ventures. — (Juneau
Empire).
“THE PACIFIC
WORLD”
From the beginning of
the war there has been
evidence of a new spirit of
cooperation in many fields
of endeavor. Industry has
achieved its astonishing
production by whole
hearted cooperation be
tween peacetime rivals.
Scientific societies, and
scientists of many individ
ual companies, have shown
a commendable spirit of
mutual help in research.
The newest example of
such cooperation has been
among nine societies con
cerned with the physical
and natural world: The
American Geographical
Society, the American Mu
seum of Natural History,
the Arnold Arboretum, the*
Blue Hill Observatory,
Carnegie Museum, Chica
go Natural History Mu
seum, the Museum of Com
parative Zoology, the New
York Zoological Society
and the Smithsonian Insti
tution. This teamwork has
resulted in a book, “The
Pacific World,’’ the earn
ings of which are to go to
the American Committee
for International Wildlife
Protection.
Edited by Fairfield Os
born, the new book is pub
lished at a time when, as
never before, interest is
centered on the great re
gion that stretches from
our own Western shores to
the Orient, from the cold
mists of the Aleutians to
the South Polar Seas. Un
usual in concept, and espe
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| dally so in treatment, the
book presents a fascinating
picture of the climatic,
physical and ethnological
life of the countless islands
which dot this vast ex
panse. Their peoples, their
strange animal and bird
life, and the extraordinary
multitudinous life of the
ocean which laps them, are
reviewed through text and
striking cartographic and
illustrate treatment in a
way which seems certain
to lead to a better under
standing of an area which
thousands of our fighting
men are seeing at first
hand and to which
thoughts of most Ameri
cans iare turned with hope
and speculation. “The Pa
cific World” should help
our knowledge of a region
that must plan an import
ant role in the future of the
United States. — (New
York Times).
SUSPICIOUS SAUSAGES
i SYDNEY, Australia —(AP) —
! A flourishing trade in horseflesh
for pets sprang up here after
stringent meat rationing, but ru
mors that it was going into sau
sages and pies resulted in bills be.
ing passed enforcing strict con
trol of the meat.
U. S. cities named for promi
nent persons number about 575.
ALONG MEMORY
LANE
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(October 20. 1944)
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
vessel, “The North Star,” an
chored in the roadstead, as well
as the Coast Guard cutter “North
land.” The Dellwood and Depere
of the Alaska Line, are discharg
ing and the Forest King and
Arthur J. Baldwin of the Arc
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Transport Co., are due. The Vic
toria sailed from Seattle for
Nome. All are loaded with car
goes which will last until June.
MELBOURNE, Australia — In
1 the Australian Air Derby Scott
I and Black, exhausted English
| men landed to receive the $50,
j 000 prize. They averaged 176
miles an hour. ^
The National Committee on
Mental Hygiene estimates there
are more than 400,000 paients in
mental hospitals in the United
States.
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