WRITER TELLS OF
leoun VISION
10 HUSKS POISE
NEVER SAW AN ALASKAN WHO
WASN’T ANXIOUS TO
GET BACK
fBy Magnar White, in the San
i Diego Tribune.)
Alaskans are people with un
bounded visions. They live their
lives in heroic patterns -only the
fittest surviving the awful rigors
of the country. And proud! The
only thing in the world prouder
, than an Alaskan is two Alaskans.
As exemplers of patriotic pride in j
the homeland they are worse than
we Texans.
I never saw an Alaskan who
wasn’t anxious to go back there.
TELLS OF HIGHWAYS
Max E. Miller, formerly in the
United States medical service in
the little Eskimo village of An
drea f sky, southwestern Alaskan
Interior, sojourning here with his
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Uhler. Sta. B. Brooklyn, N. Y.
wife and two children, told me
these things that I didn’t know
about Alaska.
1. Texas is Uncle Sam’s big
gest state—but Alaska its biggest
unit, and it’s bigger than Texas
and California put together.
2. Within the next generation
Alaska will have a highway sy
stem which will connect with a
north and south highway unit
ing the whole Pacific Coast from
Point Barrow to the tip of South
America. Thus, you will be able
to go from San Diego on this
highway to within 800 or 1000
miles of the north pole by auto
mobile!
3. Alaska is commonly though
of as a land of extreVne cold, but
sometimes in the interior, when
forest fires are going and the
sky is overcast with haze, it
gets to be 100 degrees in the
shade.
4. In the summer, when the
sun never sets, part of Alaska,
thoroughly moist from the win
ter snows and warm under the
sun. become like a hothouse, and
gardens and flowers grow in
greater profusion and more rap
idly than anywhere else in the
world.
5. The airplane is opening up
Alaska like a key opens a lock
to a treasure house. Look for more
gold rushes—bigger and better
ones than ever.
6. A journey from Fairbanks,
largest interior city, across to
Nome on the west coast, which
used to take about 30 days by
dog team, is now made by plane
in six hours.
7. The airplane is killing off
some of the picturesque roadhouses
—or inns—at which the weary
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traveler was glad to put up for
the night. The passengers fly
on over now. These roadhouses—
which are not the same thing as
a roadhouse in the United States j
--are, many of them, operated by
oldtime dancehall girls of the!
Klondyke days
ON LOWER YUKON
Miller’s former station is a lit- j
tie village about 90 miles lip the J
Yukon River. Its population con-!
sists of about 150 Eskimos. The!
principal industry is reindeer rats
ing. and Miller’s job included
looking after large reindeer herds.
The government hires herders
to assist in the reindeer industry1
—"cowboys” as it were. These;
are paid in reindeers.
"The reindeer roam all over!
the country,” Miller explained, j
“When you go out to round up j
the animals you tell your family
goodbye, because you are going
to be gone for some time, maybe
two months.
"Because of lack of transpor
tation we don’t ship many out
from our section, but the rein
deer means everything to the na
tive for it supplies his food and j
his clothing.”
TELLS HAIR-RAISER
“I’ve never seen an Alaskan,”
I said to Miller, "who couldn’t tell
a hair curling story about storms
in Alaska. Tell me one.”
"All right. I’ve seen the wind |
blow for 14 days straight—and so
hard that to get anywhere you
had to crawl on your hands and
knees, and get as close as possible
to the ground. If you stood up
so the gale could get hold of'
you, it would knock you down so 1
hard that it would stun you. I’m
not joking when I say that a
wind like that would actually blow
the pants off you if it got under j
your belt.”
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