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EMILY BOUCHKR Society Editor
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Nome Post O'Oce
WIMCESDAY NOV, j, 1944
WAR’S GEOGRAPHY
LESSON
Consonants and water,
sufficient to befuddle any
traveler, confront those Al
lied paratroopers who have
waded into the thick of the
battle in The Netherlands.
And we here at 'home,
scanning the maps, are not
much better off.
The rivers, which help
to produce much of the wa
ter and some of the conso
nants, not to mention dou
ble vowels, also are respon
sible for much of the con
fusion. One of these, which
in France has been the
Meuse, becomes the Maas,
under Dutch treatment,
and we are not to mistake
them for two separate
streams. And the Rhine,
which flows sedately be
tween firm banks all
through its course in Ger
many, goes all to pieces
when it crosses the Dutch
border and traverses the
lowlands in half a dozen
directions.
Maps have so many lines
that it is sometimes diffi
cult to follow all these
aqueous gyrations. But
the main body of the Rhine
in Holland flows off to the
west, toward the North
Sea, and is not called the
Rhine at all, but the Waal,
which eventually receives
the waters of the Maas.
The Rhine continues on,
though the Dutch call it
the Rijn, and part of it
splits off again to empty
into the Zuider Zee, and
here it is called the Yssel.
When we have mastered
that fact, we must not be
astonished to find Yssel
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sometimes spelled Ijssel.
Nor need we be further
befuddled when we not
that the Rijn, or Rhine,
meets the sea somewhere
near a place called Grav
enhage, or, as the Dutch
abbreviate it, den Haag.
For that it is our old friend,
The Hague, capital of that
country and the seat of the
erstwhile International
Court of Arbitration, or
the Hague Tribunal.
Paratroopers span rivers
with ease, and if they are
tripped up by consonants
it is of small importance.
For them, as for us, Dutch
geography soon will be
yesterday’s interest. Up the
Rijn is the Rhine.—(Seat
tle Times),
RACE QUESTION
IN ALASKA
The Alaskan at_:~]here
has been remarkably clear
of the jealousies and dis
criminations that cloud
other areas where men of
different colors dwell side
by side.
Now comes the Interior
Department, sponsoring a
return of most of the terri
tory to the Indians on the
ground, that they have own
ed it all along. It cannot be
said this program is calcu
lated to lessen race bitter
ness. On the contrary it
may well fan the flames.
As the white man resists
the Indian claims, it will
be a simple thing to say he
is opposing the Indian. As
a matter of fact, all that
The Chronicle has said, and
all that most others have
said against this proposi
tion, is directed at the In
terior Department—not at
the Indians.
The white Alaskan who
has lived in harmony
among the Indians is anx
ious to see justice done. If
the Indian is entitled to
something, he should get it.
But it hardly seems possi
ble that all the resources
developed by the white
man alone, or with the help
of the Indian, should be
turned over to the Indians
simply because those re
sources were on land or in
sea once in possession of
the aboriginals.
The whole thing is fan
tastic, of course. And to
top it all, those who have
felt sincere friendliness
for Alaskan Indians now
find themselves in the pos
ition of being called oppon
ents of the Indians.—(The
Ketchikan Chronicle).
THE RAGING
FUEHRER
German army officers,
still compelled to play a
grim delaying game along
the receding front in Italy,
have received very special
instruction from the Nazi
political bureau.
They are ordered to
counteract the rumor cir
culating among their forces
that der fuehrer occasion
all goes mad with rage,
and when in that state
tears down curtains and
bites holes in carpets as he
rolls in convulsions on the
floor.
The political education
bureau stops short of posi
tive denial that der fuehrer
gets that way now and
then, but plaintively sug
gests that many a man
would have gone under
long ago if exposed to the
disappointments and grief
der fuehrer must bear.
Ever since Hitler emerg
from obscurity, the .world
has been hearing rumors
of his strange behavior.
Judged openly by the harm
he has done, it may be ta
ken for granted that his
personal conduct always
has been other than nor
mal. Only an incurable
madman, a muderous ma
niac, could have wrought
so much evil.
It will be just as well
for Hitler’s side kicks to
let Hitler bite the carpets
while he may. It won’t be
long now until he bites the
dust.—(Seattle Times).
ALONG MEMORY
LANE
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(November 1, 1934)
The plane honeymoon of Mrs.
Russell Merril, Alaskan aviatrix,
and Duncan McLean, mining en
gineer, ended in a cow pasture,
at Kent, where they made a forc
ed landing.
Leipzig, Germany — Tentative
plana of the Zeppelin Polar Ex
pedition to the heart of that vast
sector lying between the North
Pole in Alaska and Wrangell Is
land, with the U. S. Territory as
a starting point, was announced
by Professor. Ludwig Weckijian,
director pf Leipzig University. He
proposed to use the new German
ship, the IJc 129 now under con
struction.
Anthony Dimond, delegate to
Congress, declared that it was the
duty of the. United States to pro
vide adequate defenses for the
Territory, regardless of any ac
tion or lack of action at the Lon
don conference. The United
States delegation warned the
Japanese that if they scrap the
Washington Treaty of 1929, this
country would be forced to for
tify its possessions In the Paci
fic. Delegate Dimond said it was
folly for America to continue to
permit Alaska to lie defenseless,
as it has done in the past.
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