MOOSE PASS MINER
By L. H. Alleq_
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Most of us had to learn to recite that
tender poem "The Children's Hour" during
our tender school years. Well* here is
"The Children's Hour" brought up to date
by Mary Holland Gordon:
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupation
That is known as the Children's Hour.
I see them beside the loudspeaker
The innocent, sweet little dears
While stories of gangsters and bump-offs
Are brought to their infantile ears.
From four until seven they sit there
Enslaved by the program's appeal,
And hear of the gats and the gun molls
And terrible mobsters who squeal.
Cowboys and horses and rustlers,
Love and the wages of sin,
Kidnapers, death and destruction,
Maniacs, arson and gin.
Th9 serial, ah, how it grips them'.
Enveloping all in its power;
If the kids ain't in jail when they're
fifteen
Then no thanks to the air "Children's
Hour."
And, speaking of jail, it wouldn't be a
bad idea if parents would hold some"fire
side chats" with their offspring around
Hallowe’en and point out that there is a
difference between prahks and lawlessness,.
Soaping windows and scaring old ladies out
of their wits with grotesque lantern-heads
suddenly thrust at their windows are prankj
but removing and hiding gates, tipping
over back-yard edifices and hiding parts
of automobiles are lawless acts.
Our "American way of life" on All Hal
lowmas Eve would never lead anybody to
suspect that Hallowe'en ushers in All
Saint s' Day, November 1.
The largest mass launching of cargo
ships since World War days took place on
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and on the
Gulf of Mexico on the same day recently
when 14 new ships slid down the ways.
President Roosevelt spoke thru an el
ectrically transcribed address, heard at
all the launchings, during which he saids
"With every new ship, we are striking
a telling blow at the menace to our na
tion and the liberty of the free peoples
(Continued last page).
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NEWS
The Moose Pass unit of the American
!Red Cross met with Mrs. Frank Hielo and
| Mrs. George Clark at the home of Mrs. Hie
i 10 on Wednesday. October 22. Present
were Mrs. Kenneth Condit, Mrs. Leora Roy
croft, Mrs* E. L. Robbins, Mrs. Roy Thurs
ton, Mrs. Lyle Saxton, Mrs. Fred Laubscher,
iMrs. Ralph Reed, MrB. Lyman Graves and
! Miss Orah Dee Clark. In the short time
I 8ince the organization of the unit,seven
shirts have been finished and one pair of
! knit sox with other work almost ready to
j be turned in.
Roy Thurston went duck hunting over on
' Chickaloon Flats recently and bagged 10
i ducks. Mrs. Thurston thereupon cooked
an elegant dinner of duck and accompanying
good eats and the Thurstons had for their
guests Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hielo, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Laubscher, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle
Saxton, Roy Mitchell of Hope, Charles Lean
of Cooper* s Landing and Bill Saxton of
Mile 68.
Miss Zoe Anderson, formerly of Cordova
but for several months resident of Seward,
and Joe Vonah, until recently resident of
Moose Pass but now living in Seward, were
married early this month at Anchorage*
The bridegroom's Moose Pass friends,
numbering all who know him, wish the new
ly-weds a long, happy and prosperous Mar
ried life.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Jones will sail the
next trip of the Aleutian to spend the
winter in southern California.
Roy Seater arrived Wednesday of last
week to join his family which has lived in
Moose Pass the last several months. Mr,
Seater is engineer of an Alaska Railroad
boat which sails the Yukon River.
Miss Hazel Zimmerman, Home Economics
i Director with the extension service of the
University of Alaska, will pay Moose Pass
an official visit around November 15.
Mrs. Kent King of Hope was called to
Anchorage during court session to serve as
a juror.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Hacking and children
have moved into one of the Moose Pass store
cabins.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Griese are occupying
; Russell Williams’ cabin.
R.A.Bush, who lived in RusBell Williams’
cabin, has gone to Fairbanks by way of
Valdez.
An unusual earthquake Sunday night be
cause only one tremor was evident.