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FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1S44._
NEW PATTERNS FOR AMERICA
A soldier writes: “What do they mean,
fussing around about what kind of
an America we servicemen want when
we get home? Do they value America
as something that can be changed with
the seasons, the same as women’s hats
and clothes?
“We can’t escape the notion here that
some people back home are trying to
fashion new patterns for America—run
ning around with tape-measures, shears,
chalk and things, and quarreling among
themselves as to what style of a tailor
made country will please us after the
war. I
“You tell these self-appointed design
ers to let Uncle Sam alone. When we;
get back, we want to see his swallow-tail
coat still there, and his bootstraps, tall
hat and everything else that’s familiar.
His way of dressing has been all right
for a long time. It’s what we-’re fighting
to keep all right for a long time to eeme.
Leave him be. Just have him there to
say, ‘Hello’ when we return—dressed
the way we know him.
“It’s swell that our first few months
in civics are getting some forethought
instead of the hind'thought—or no
thought—of the last time.
“When that period is over all that we
want is to be free to work at what we
can do best—with an employer who is
free to expand—all of us managed by
someone who knows how to weld us into
a going business to the end that our
work and risk, in a fair, open market,
will bring reasonable returns that we’ll
be free to use for building family and
country into a still more wondrous fu
ture.”
Doesn’t it make sense?—(Juneau Em
pire).
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY IN
WARTIME
Nation-wide statistics disclose non
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uniform increases in juvenile delinquent
land in neglected children’s cases during
the past three years. Girls’ cases are
increasing faster than boys’. War areas
have shown a disproportionate increase
which is attributed to the greater nunr
ber of incoming children; wider employ
ment of juveniles; more drinking and
sex offenses by girls; more acts of vio
lence by boys; children left without su
pervision; great increase in family in
come; and more children of. higher in
telligence committing violations. The
author urges the strengthening and im
proving of probation and social-work
services for children and families, with
adequate recreational facilities and op
portunties for youths to participate in
ithe war effort.—(Written by Charles L.
Chute. June, 1943. Comment by “Federal
Probation”).
RUSSIA REDEEMS
OFFENDING YOUTH
“Bolshevo” is the name of a correc
tional institution for youth, 20 miles
outside Moscow. The words “prison”
and prisoner” are never used—neither
are there cells nor bars nor guards; and
yet, 3,500 boys and young men living
1 there are serving sentences for every I
known offense from petty thievery to
assassination.
When offenders come to Bolshevo,
they are kept busy going to school, re- j
eeiving trade-training, learning to swim
and dance, and being taught to govern j
themselves. They are proud of their
work in the institution factories, for
which they are paid the same wages as
similar workers on the outside. Half of
What they earn is applied on the cost of
their food and clothing; the remainder
is theirs to spend as they like.
Older boys with good records are en
couraged to marry girls from outside
|and each couple is provided private liv
ing quarters. Excellent schools are
j maintained for the children of these mar
riages, 1,800 of whom laugh and play
about the place.
A well-equipped hospital is provided,
and a movie and theater play to packed
houses nightly. Life is so ideal that the
director s problem is to make the men
leave when their sentence is completed.
It is claimed that when they do go. they
are always the most industrious, hon
orable, and useful citizens in any com
munity into which they, with their
wives and children, move.—(Federal
Probation).
LITERARY
GUIDEPOST
By JOHN SELBY
"THE MOCKING BIRD IS SING
ING". by E Louis* Mally (Holt:
12.75).
It is a little difficult to say why
E. Louise Mally’s “The Mocking
Bird Is Singing” makes the ef
fect it does, unless one charges it
off to the impact of nos'algia at
a time like this. The novel does
make a deep impression, what
ever the reason.
It is another “Gone With the
Wind” job, although the s’ory it
self is by no means as long and
is certainly different in local col
or. The setting is chiefly New
Orleans and Texas, although it
pops about the country at a great
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ra‘e, including battles of the War
Between the States, Washington,
Boston and other places. The at
mosphere is Creole, and one of
the numerous purposes Miss Mally
had in mind was to indicate the
way in wh'ch an artificial, or in
any case foreign, culture influ
ences those who hold to it in a
land such as this. She brings it
off, too.
And she brings it off in spite
of a singularly complicated nar
rative which is much too long to
summarize here. Basically, it is
the story of what happened to a
Creole girl who married a very
handsome young Scot on the re
bound: she had been in love with
her first cousin, and might have
married him had not there been
already a still more risky mar
riage in her line—a niece who
married her uncle, to be specific.
So marriage with a first cousin
was not considered a good risk
NOfOVi f TELUNS T+tEM TO <S[OP
under the circumstances, and it
became an impossibility when
Charles, the boy in question,
brought home a bride frqxn
abroad. She was the sister of the
handsome Scott aforementioned
and as cold as the water of a
; Scottish loch. j
The period is that of the War
Between the S'ates and the years
that followed, and this is well
handled in the light of obviously
j great research and much loving
care. You can believe in the
places as w'ell as the people, even
1 if Miss Mally has made them
speak in the li4erary tradition in
j stead of the much less oratorical
day-by-day speech of the period.
And few serious oversights dis
turb the glamor. “Michel closed
j his teeth on each other and said
the words to himself—being ac
tually a coward,” is the worst one
I noticed. It is a pretty neat trick
for a young man.
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PFC. WM. NEAKUK
’ VISITS IN NOME
i Pfc. Wm. Neakuk, of Pt. Lay,
i Alaska, is in Nome following a
30-day furlough, which he spent j
at home in Point Lay. Bill is en-!
route to his outfit in the Aleut
ians.
I 1
FRANK L. RICE
RETURNS ON BOAT
Frank L. Rice returned to
Nome on his way to the Teller
district, to resume work on his
i mining oronertv
MRS. ». V. WHALEY
TO LEAVE NOME
The Whaley House has been
sold to the Sommers Constructionj
Co., and its owner, Mrs. B. V. 1
Whaley, plans to leave for the
States some time this month, and
will go to New ark to visit her j
daughter, then will make her I
, home with her sister in Virginia, j
Mrs. Whaley has been very ac-|
j five in community affairs, and'
will be missed by her many
friends. She will be accompanied
by Miss Ida Rudd.
DUNBAR FAMILY
ARRIVES IN NOME
The family of Luther Dunbar,
office manager for the Northern!
Light & Power Co., were arrivals j
in town this week. Mrs. Dunbar!
is an old Nomeite, having taught
school here. Their children, Bon
nie and June, are also Nome chil-1
dren and their son was bem in
the States, where they had made
their home until recently.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that by
order of the Probate Court in and1
for the Barrow Precinct, Second^
Division, Territory of Alaska, the !
undersigned has been appointed j
Administrator of the esf^tk of
Arthur James Allen, deceased, of
Wainwright, Alaska.
All persons having claims
against said estate shall -present
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tached, within six months o* the
date of this notice to the under
signed at Point Hope, Alaska, or
to Mrs. Alice Allen Killbear,
Wainwright, Alaska, to be for- ;
warded to the administrator.
Dated at. Nome, Ala$$», June
16, 1944.
WILLIAM J. GORDON,
Adminis'ratot.
Point Hope, Alaska.
June 16-23-30: July 7.
IN THE PROBATE COURT,
CAPE NOME PRECINCT, TER
RITORY OF ALASKA.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES
TATE OF GABRIEL JOHN
SON, Deceased.
No. 664 i
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that by order of the Probate
Court in and for the Cape Nome
Precinct, Second Division, Terri
tory of Alaska, the undersigned
has been appointed administrator
of the estate of Gabriel Johnson,
deceased.
All persons having claims
against said estate should present
them with proper vouchers at
tached within six months from
the date of this notice to the un
dersigned at Nome, Alaska.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, June
1, 1944.
FRED J. ROHN,
Administrator.
C. C. TANNER, .
Attorney for Administrator.
Scorchy Smith....
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