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ALASKA’S NEWEST
COLONIZATION PROJECT
(Fairbanks News^Miner)
A big order, that of a Denver
group of men, including Robert
G. F. Tallman and the noted
former Judge Ben Lindsay of
Colorado and California, to at
tempt to colonize Alaska with
European refugees and Ameri
cans.
If ail falling within that class
were quickly diverted this way,
fleets of ships and innumerable
other facilities would be called
into action, and Alaska convert
ed into a babbling beehive of
heterogenous people.
Much as .Alaska wants recruits
to develop her dormant resourc
es, and to give her a permanent
population, she cannot afford to
undertake to carry on with a
mass of misfits.
Alaska has rightly been des
cribed as “An Empire Without
a People.” With only some 60,000
to 70,000 population—half of
them natives—Alaska has but a
fraction of the population of
Scandinavia, Finland and north
ern Russia, lying within the same
latitude in the old world. More
than 30.000,000 people live and
thrive . north of the sixtieth
parallel in Europe and bordering
areas of Siberia. The sixtieth
parellel crosses Alaska near Se
!
j ward.
Doubtless the mineral, farm
lands, timber areas and fisheries
of this region in time will at
tract and hold a large poulation
in this country—and southeast
ern Alaska teem with prosperous
peoples the same as the area
north of the Panhandle.
But Alaska will not proceed on
a successful course of develop
ment without careful selection of
i an adaptable people—those fitted
to bend to the task of pioneering
and who are not afraid to face
new conditions with the same
fortitude characterized of those
who blazed the way and laid the
foundations of the great states
which were carved out of Aim
erica’s vast domain between the
Mississippi and the Pacific.
The Matanuska colony, grad
ually evolving into a success, is a!
striking example of the fact Al
aska, with all her rich lands and
abundant other resources, is no
place for the unfit or those un
willing to work.
This is the law of the Yukon, and
ever she makes it plain:
Send not your feeble and foolish,
send me your strong and your
sane—
Strong for the red rage of battle,
fit—for I harry them sore,
Send me men girt for the battle,
men who are grit to the core.”
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EDITOR IN DEATH LEAP
NEW YORK, Nov. — Victor
Mattson, 58, for many years an
editor and executive of Hearst
newspapers, plunged to his death
from the 11th story of the Hotel
Abbey.
A note found in his room said:
"God forgive me for every
thing.”
Until two months ago he was
; managing editor of the New
York American but recently was
I with the promotion department
of the Hearst general manage
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OLD DOBBIN STILL A
NEED IN U. S. ARMY
WASHINGTON, UP)—The ma
chine age enthusiasts have been
predicting that the airplane, the
machine gun, the tank and gas
w 11 drive the army horses to the
military boneyard.
But just suggest to the arms
experts that the cavalry is on its
last legs an you’ll get a polite
horselaugh. And 22,000 horses
and mules in the streamlined U.
S. Army of 165,000 men will join
in the derisive chorus.
The experts say that as long as
there is movement in war and
“getting there fustest with the
mostest” is what counts, the su
perior mobility of cavalry to
other ground forces in rough
country will remain indespens
ble.
They back up this contention
with lessons of the value of cav
alry in the current Spanish and
Sino-Japanese conflicts as well as
the World War.
Marshal Foch, supreme com
mander of the allied troops
which defeated the German
army on the western front, said:
“The next war will begin as the
last war ended—with move
ment.”
Men and munitions can be
brought into battle action very
rapidly with motor cars if net
works of good roads are avail
able, But off the paved highways,
there are woods, hills, streams,
ravines and swamps to oppose
| the progress of motor vehicles.
And then the horse comes in
mighty handy.
The airplane, of course, has
greatly expanded the range and
increased the speed of scouting
troop movements. Yet when vis
ibility is bad the cavalry comes
to the rescue. Said General Von
Seecks, late commander-in-chief
of the German army:
“The aviator has come to aid—
not to replace—the cavalryman.
Close reconnaissance is left to
the cavalryman whose vision is
not dimmed by clouded skies."
The Spanish General Monast
ery's cavalry has been highly
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'DON’T CO NEAR WATER ' their mothers must have
told bathers at English beach resort at Southend-on-se», Essex.
Note the crowded, narrow strip of beach, the few swimmers.
•'Trippers" crowd the boats, taking a "Jolly ride ont”
HE’S COT SOMETHING THERE —believes Inventor Preston Tucker, who sits in the tur
ret of his combination armored car and anti-aircraft unit. Tucker, demonstrating; machine at Rahway,
N. J.. claims a speed of 114 m.p.h., plans to show tank soon to the U. S. army.
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efficient not only as a scouting
force, but also in attacking. It
has often broke through the Loy
alist flanks and has prevented re
treating units from reforming
their lines.
Japanese officers now are la
menting the lack of adequate
cavalry for effective flanking
movements and quick follow-ups
of drives against the Chinese. On
the other hand, Chinese gueril
las have found their Mongolian
ponies extremely useful in mak-.
ing sudden raids on Japanese!
outposts, followed by quick re- j
treats to the hills or other cover.
Says General Malin Craig,
chief of staff, U. S. Army: “Am
erican cavalry is not only a scout
ing force, but it is a powerful
combat arm. It offers a larger
target but moves faster than the
infantry. Its purpose is to ad
vance men with rifles and ma
chine guns. In advancing them it
can take advantage of the cover
of woods, ravines and draws
much more easily than any mo
tor vehicle.”
On a good road the infantry
farches at a rate of 2*6 miles an
hour: off the highway its pace is
cut down to 1*6 miles an hour.
Cavalry can trot an average of 8
miles an hour; gallop easily at 12
miles an hour.
Military statisticians say that
during the World war large units
of cavalry could march 75 miles
and arrive on the battle field
ready for combat faster than
large units of infantry which, on
short notice, had to move their
complete outfits by truck or rail.
In that war the cavalry turned
the tide on numerous crucial oc
casions. During the race to the
sea, 10 French and three British
cavalry divisions fought and
marched continuously to stop the
Germans who used 10 cavalry
divisions to extend theiT flanks.
Gas was supposed to render
horses useless. The answer to
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that is the horses have their cfwrn
gas masks now. The Germans,
rated tops in military efficiency,
still have their division artillery
(the light kind that is used close
to the front) drawn by horse*
You may not be hearing much
about modem Jeb Stuarts, and
Phil Sheridans, but 22,000 horse*
and mules in the small modern
ized U. S. army can’t be very
wrong. ^
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