Kodiak Diary
(continued from page 12)
Despite these samples we have
been struggling to keep an open
mind, hut on discovering what
Mr. Edwin A. Lahey, of the Det
roit Free Press, said when he got
home, we have, in his case, closed
It.
“But nice as these (Alaska)
people are,’’ he said, “I must re
getfully report that all I am
bringing'Out of Alaska is a great
abhorrence of Nature. Her alleg
ed beauty is banal. .
Now we’ve heard everything.
You can argue about the wea
ther, and argue about the hous
ing apd just plain argue, but we
have always thought that the
one common ground of everyone
would be the beau y of Alaska’s
scenery.
But then lets read a little more
/of Mr Lahey:
‘"Phere is nothing about a gla
cier or a spruce forest as awe-in
spiring as the workings of an el
ectric refrigerator or a slot mach
ine”
And “the correspondents were
charged only 3 p ices instead of
the traditional 5, for white fox
neck pieces that haven’t been in
style since 1916 when they were
.worn around the necfes of ladies j
who patronized the back rooms
of saloons without escorts.”
This is the first instance in
print or out, that we have seen
an out and out expression of dis
like and umppreciationfor Alas
ka's scenery.
So it doesn’t surprise us that it
comes from one whose knowledge
includes what unescorted ladies’
necks wore to the back room of
saloons, and who compaies a
slot machine to a glacier, to the
detriment of the latter.
Mr. Lahey can have his aes
thetic slot machine and awe-in
spiring refrigerator with no quar
rel from us. Just so long as he
has them in Detroit—and never
leaves them again.
We have had requests for
some strange advertisements,hut
the recent one from Edna “Tex”
Bezner just about takes the cake.
She stopped us in the drug
store, where she was purchasing
a baby bottle and nipple,to Save
jus put an ad in the next is-ue,
stating that “she and baby left
by plane for home.”
I She had told some friends she
had the baby and she told them
to read about in the Mirror—
that would prove it.
It would prove it all right, and
she almost did, when she ran out
and came back a few minutes
later with the baby to show us.
Uooing at the little bundle all
done up in a blue blanket, she
finally opened it to show a large
doll!
The next day she left on the
plane, taking the doll with her.
“My folks are very reIigous,”she
had explained to us,” and am I
going to scare my mother! When
I get to Joplin I’m going to take
a taxi and fix the doll up on the
way and just walk into the house
with it. Will my mother be sur
prised! I’m just not going to say
a thing.”
If we were mother, she would
n’t get a chance to say a thing.
Our advertising department,
by the way, decided not to ac
cept that requested advertise
ment, which is why last week the
article had “Tex” leaving all by
herself
There would be no charge, ei
ther, for an 3'ticle telling what
happened in Joplin.
Season’s
BELMONT BAR
Jorgea Fredrickson, ©wner
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Remember.
IN KEEPING WITH OUR POLICY WE WILL CLOSE FOR
ALTERATIONS DECEMBER 25th TO REOPEN IN JANUARY
The ISLAND FOUNTAIN
"DELICIOUSLY DIFFERENT"
WE HAVE A LIMITED SUPPLY OF
FRESH ALEUTIAN