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MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED FRESS
APRIL, THE
MONTH OF WAR
It is now April, our nation’s
month of war!
Three times, in the same month
the United States has begun to
fight. The twelfth is the anni
versary of the shot at Fort Sum
ter, that began four years of
bloody civil strfe. The twenty
fifth marks our declaration of
war against Spain and the sixth
is the anniversary of our entry
into the World War.
Once more, in 1941, the United
States faces more than the pos
sibility of warfare. As Spiling
comes to the nation, to give i
gladness, the threat of hostihti .
ads a touch of sadness.
There is some comfort in th;
thought that the people of th
United States have seen the way
they should walk. They have re
affirmed their stand for the free
dom of men, regardl.ss of the
danger that the course entails.
The world, be it recalledf was
not meant to be the mausoleum
of human hope, the grave of hu
man faith and the cemet ry of
human presonality. It simple i
not ordained. Those who seek tc
plunge humanity into the darke
barbarisms of earlier eras wag
a battle as fruitless as the effor'
of Wint r to obliterate the re
birth of nature, that comes with
Soring and warms the heart o'
man.
— Fairbanks News-Miner
VITAMINS AND WAR
Even physicians are hardly
aware of th; revolution in nut
rition which was brought abou
by the last war and which is
still in progress. Very little was
known about vitamins in 1915
Indeed, the word had not even
passed into medical vernacular.
Nevertheless. British expert -
were already b ginning to think
of vitamins in terms of deficiency
diseases, whereas the German
could see nothing in food bu‘
cal ries and were therefore wor
rying about protiens, carbohy
drat s and fats. One outcome of
the war was Professor Edward
Mellanby’s discovery that ricket
is the result of a lack of vitamin
D. Another was the clarification
of scurvy. And so with other af
flictions caused by lack of vita
mins.
The importance of all this wa
not lost on the world. In 1918 the
Medical Research Council o'
Great Britain sent to Vi nna a
mission, headed by Dr. Harriet
Chick, to study malnutrition
She found not only scurvy and
rickets rampant, but an aston
ishing ignorance of vitamins am
ong physicans. Even so eminen'
an authority as Professor von Pir
quet stoutly claimed to the theo
ry that rickets was an infection
disease. Not only has Gr at Bri
ain systematically continued the
study of nutrition, but the Lea
gue of Nations has done import
ant work in estabishing mini
mum diets—minimum both as to
calories and vitamins. Out of the
war came methods of preparing,
preserving, storing and transport
ing food—al] with an eye to vita
mins.
What of the preseat war?
There can be little doubt that
the pioneer work of Mrs. Mellan
by, Chick and others will be con
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tinued. Already we have bread
enriched with vitamins and min
eral salt stripped from flour in
the process of milling. There is
every reason to believe that ev- j
ery advanced nation will hence- |
forth make it its business to |
spread the new knowledge among
the needy and to bring the food
itself to the table. What was once
a purely scientific problem has
become one of economics and
Government policy.
ALASKA TRANSFER
WITNESS IS DEAD
BERKELEY, Calif. April—The
man who was believed to be the
last survivor of the party that
first raised the American flag in
Alaska, Hubert Viseher, was
dead in Berkeley. He was 87
years old.
Viseher was the son of a weal
thy San Francisco merchant. He
was enroute to Heidelberg Uni
versity, by way of Alaska, Si
beria and Russia in 1867 when
the northern Territory was sold
to the United States. He was in
Sitka, the old capital of Alaska,
when the Russian flag came down
and the American flag was rais
ed.
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Governor Re
port Is Released
That Alaska has entered a new
period of consistent evolutionary
g’-owth is indicated by the 1040
c-'n'us figures, showing an in
i’>• ease uniform throughout the
; Territory and in regions of
wholly divers activities. G^v. Er
nest Gruening states in his an
nual report to the secretary c'
the interior, copies of which
h !V" In oi? received her-' fr^m the
Gov rnment Printing Office in
Washington.
The report covers the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1940. and
summarizes Alaska activities for
‘he preceding 12 months.
Commenting on the loss in pop
ulation of various mining dis
tricts, the governor observes that
“the lession is cl ar that from the
long-range view, mining is only
temporary as an economic re
sour e, and that sooner or later
when the quartz lodes and plac
ers have been worked out, the
community which dep nds whol
ly or chiefly on the extraction or
min 're’s, will dwindle and disap
pear unless other activities, com
reread and industrial, may be
brought into existence.”
Reaction Industry
One of these activities sugg st
n t : development by the gov
t . r Is the recreational indus
' v. Alaska is just beginning to
b? aware of this new fivId of
activity and to think in terms of
■Itable accommodations for tour
i - and ad quale facilities for
I
ffvMr transportation. Here lies j
one natural resource which can ,
hr conserved indefinitely and
jr>av well be a substitute when j
the mines and placers have b en
exhausted. In the meantime it
will form a third prop to Alas
ka's economy. Every effort should
be made to develop this indus- j
'fry.”
The governor makes in his re-;
r> wt th. tax revision suggestion j
since developed more fully in hir
message to the legislature*
"To make Alaska an American
community of permanent resi
dence is one of the challeng
that confronts the Territory to
day,"the report states. "From ev-,
cvy quarter come requests fori
r>. - . roads, for more school fac-,
ili ic . for civic improvements of
one Rind or another —although i
the sense of responsibility for1
meeting the cost of these im
provements is not as fully devel
oped in some communities as in
oth rs.” •
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Broad Field Covered
Th rep mt continues with a sur ,
very of Alaska’s commerce, fin
ances, banks, travel, roads and
trail.-, fiihinig, mining, game and
furs lands, rivers and harbors,
communication, aviation, educa-;
lion, ii alth, social welfare and
public works.
Ex a copies of the 64-page rej
po:'. r :y be obtained from the
S - riaiend.nt o; Documents atj
Washington for 10 c* nts apiece, i
V’ •» • • v--.ii fr ernis .itwj reia
- n - O.rside'. using Sour
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ENVOY ENTERTAINS MEXICAN FASHIO N—A gay Mexican costume party
was given in the Mexico City embassy by I'.S. Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels, in honor of
North Carolina’s governor, J. M. Broughton (right), and Mrs. Broughton (second from left). Ambas
sador Daniels stands next to Mrs. Daniels, in costume. At left is Adolfo Cuellar. Mexican economist.
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NOT SO MAGNIFICEN T—This is Mexico’s once-favored bullfighter, Lorenzo Garza, who
may have to change his title, “The Magnificent,” to something less showy since his failure to kill bulls
satisfactorily has disgraced him with Mexico City bullfight fans. Several times the crowds have jeered
wildly when bulls Garza fought had to be removed alive from the ring.
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“THREE SMART GIRLS GROW UP”
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Once They Laughed at Kisses—Now They Sigh For Them
and “MARCH OF TIME"
One Show Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Adm. 25c & 55*
“IF I WERE KING”
with RONALD COLIMAN—FRANCES DEE—ELLEN DREW
Romantic Drama of the l’oet King
also “Stranger Than Fiction”
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with LEWIS STONE—MICKEY ROONEY—VIRGINIA GREY
Millions in His Pocket and A Heart Full of Love
and “THE SHADOW” — No. 11
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