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EDITORIAL
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TOO BUSY TO
argue: politics
Wendell Willkie's recent chal
lenge to the President to meet
him in a debate on the issues of
the campaign, drew more support
for the Administration than
should he have pursued his own
particular line of campaigning.
The Republican nominee for
the presidency, went out of his
way, to interject politics into a
situation which is daily becoming
more serious. With all of the
forces of the Administration and
both parties in Congress devoting
their entire time to providing
legislation for the promotion of
national defense, the GOP’ers
made a misstep in trying to play
politics.
The country as a whole is con
■cerned in how long it will take
to rearm the good old U. S. A.,
so that the blitzkreigs of Europe
do not happen here. Mr. Roose
velt merely passed the challenge
of the Republican nominee off by
saying: “I'm too busy concerned
with the welfare of national de
fense to bother with Mr. Will
kie’s ideas on politics.”
Shortly after the nomination
of Mr. Willkie, the President
had an opportunity to discuss
national events with the GOP
nominee, with the purpose in
mind of attempting to short-cut
the political “baloney” which us
ually occupies the public mind
during a presidential year, and
for the benefit of national legis
lation — however, Mr. Willkie
shied away from such an inter
view in that he would pursue
his own campaign policies and
programs.
Well, if that is what he intend
ed at that date, then it appears
he can continued to pursue those
ideas on his own—but it is cer
tainly true that no man or pol
itical party is going to divert the
President’s attention away from
the national welfare in this cru
cial time of world stress.
If the campaign is going to be
fought on the basis of national de
fense, it appears that the Re
publicans (who bucked rearm
ament during the past six
weeks), are several steps behind.
Confidence in the man who at
tempts to get thing.-, done; and
the man who has kept this coun
try on the “make" during the
past eight years, will be vindic
ated again this November, from
all reliable observations.
COAST GUARD NORTHLAND
ARMOR PLATED, TRIPLE
ARMED, GOING GREENLAND
By Jack Stinnett
WASHINGTON — Armor-plat
ed anti triple-armed, the United
States Coast Guard cutter North
land is going to Greenland!
Getting any inside information
cn what is going on in any na-:
tional defense work these days is
like trying to pull jaw teeth with
eyebrow tweezers.
Over at the Coast Guard offices
if you ask them about it, they
just look blank. Or if one of the
boys Is in good humor, he might
tell you he never heard of the
Northland, but if present plans
aren't changed and quickly, the
famous old west coast cutter will
soon cleave down past the Statue
of Liberty, dip through the Nar
rows and rounding Montauk
light, set a course northeast for
Greenland’s icy mountains.
The story was rumored recent
3y when the Northland left the
west coast, but Coast Guard of
ficials denied it. In the Brooklyn
'Navy Yard, even now, the ham
mers are ringing and welding,
torches blazing as the deck of j
the Northland is armor plated
and her deck complement Ls in
creased to three guns.
Just what is the purpose of the
Northland’s cruise to Greenland
must for the moment remain a
but obscure. Piecing known parts
of the puzzle together, it is safe
to conjecture that the Northland
is off on a scouting or observation
cruise—a sort of detective of the
Greenland seaways.
It is something of a known
secret that the United States has
a radio station in Greenand, pre'
sumably controlled either by the
Army or Navy. It is considered:
likely that the orders of the
Northland will include contact
with operators there and pro- \
bably a survey of the southern!
coast of Greenland from the
standpoint of Western Hemi- i
sphere defense.
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FAMOUS AMONG CUTTERS
The Greenland junket will be
just another leaf in the log of:
one of the most famous of the
U. S. Coast Guard cutters.
For some summers, the North-!
land has been in the Bering Sea
patrol. Following the ice floes
north in the spring along the
coast of Alaska, the boat would
cut west along the Aleutians and
visit the ports of those sparsely
populated stepping stones to with
in hailing distance of Russia.
It has sometimes been called
“the Eskimo marrying boat.’’ and
again “the law west of Seward.”
The reason is that these is
lands. with their tiny Eskimo
Communities, are isolated thru
out the year and have no other
contact with the outside world
than the annual cruise of the
Coast Guard.
The captain of the Northland
(or of whatever cutter might be
making the cruise now) thus be
came, ex-ofTicio, the only justice
of the peace ever to visit the
islands. And is became his duty
to bless with legal matrimony all
those couples who, by tribal cus
tom. had united in marriage dur
ing the winter. It wasn’t unheard
of for the captain to marry cou
ples who had, as witnessess, off
spring a few months old.
The Northland also carried a
doctor and dentist and the boat
tied up for days at these little
Eskimo villages while the natives
came aboard for examinations
and treatment.
ANYBODY’S BUSINESS
What the Northland will carry
to Greenland is anybody’s guess,
for its crew and cargo have
been given no publicity, but not
even the Bering Sea patrol, as
strange as it is, can compare with
this trip. The Coast Guard is pri
marily what its name impiles, a
coastal patrol. With the exception
of the recently established wea
ther observation patrols in the At
lantic and iceberg patrols in the
North Atlantic, the Coast Guard
seldom operates far from shore.
The Greenland cruise isn’t un
precedented, but it will be un
usual enough to make headlines
in the annals of U. S. Coast
Guard.
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SATKOS MAKE PROGRESS
ON ALASKA HOME
Life for Paul Satko, captain of
his Ark. immigrant from Virginia
and 1940 pioneer, is beginning to
take more definite shape in the
land he has chosen.
For the past several days, arm
ed with an old Springfield Army
rifle, his axe. crosscut saw, and
the economic box compass which
rested forward of the Ark's steer
ing wheel on the journey north,
Satko has been driving his $50
Studebaker sedan to the end of
the Herbert River road.
There* “Where the Govern
ment forget to reserve some
land," Satko is hacking a hole in
the forest, clearing land and
cutting trees to build a cabin.
Two Children Working
Two of Satko’s seven children,
the two oldest boys, are working
at the Juneau Lumber Mills
while father works on the home
stead.
The old Studebaker “works
pretty well,” Satko says, and
working steadily with axe and
saw, he lias “cleared quite a hole
in the trees.”
The Springfield is for protec
tion against bears, wlych for
tunately enough, have in Satko’s
words, “So far seen me first.”
The compass Satko uses to lo
cate his homestead corners over
grown and forgotten in dense tim
ber and brush.
Piles of Letters
Coming home at night, Satko
reads and chuckles over piles of
letters he receives from persons
all over the country who have1
followed the tale of his north
ward journey and envy him.
Some, like a man in Everett,
Washington, want to buy Satko’s
boat. Others think the Juneau
Chamber of Comerce should buy
it and set it up as a monument
to an historic event and a tribute
to pioneer spirit. The Satkos,
very definitely, are known all
over the country and their letters
bear witness that the lure of Al
aska Outside, every day becomes
a louder call to the inhibited
dwellers of cities and towns in
the States where the ruts of pio
neer wagon wheels have long
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ALASKA Says
/Ume
CREAM!"
1 his “DOUBLE-RICH”
whiskey is the largest
selling straight Bourbon
w hiskey in the world.
since been covered with the re
fuse of progress.
And if you’re worrying about
that addition to the Satko fam
ily, Mrs. Satko “feels fine’’ and
the little one is -due about the
first of the month.
NOTICE
A Meeting1 of the Board of
Directors of the Fair Association
and all superitendents and assist
ants wi*l be held at the IOOF
Hall at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug.
26th.
To The Voters Of
The Second Division
Since 1932 a Democratic Administration has again
come to the rescue of the people. One of the first things
done to directly benefit Alaska was raising the price of
gold from $20.00 to $35.00 an ounce. The beneficial re
sults from this one enactment should be apparent to all.
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Firm in the realization that the Democratic Party
is dedicated to the principle of representive self gov
ernment, and that its political creed makes it a true
party of the people, we the undersigned Democratic
candidates for Territorial office, ask your support in
the forthcoming general election September 10th :
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
ANTHONY J DIMOND
ATTORNEY GENERAL
HENRY RODEN
TERRITORIAL AUDITOR
FRANK A. BOYLE
HIGHWAY ENGINEER
Wm. A. HESSE
TERRITORIAL SENATOR
0. D. COCHRAN
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ELIZABETH M. CROSS
HOWARD LYNG
W LEONARD SMITH
FRANK H. WHALEY
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