MOOSE
PASS
MINER
By L. H. Allen
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LIFE IS AN ENDLESS CHAIN .
Engraved on the pedestal of OUR Statue
of Liberty, are these words:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to be free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming
shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest test,
to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
It is ironical, to say the least, that
many among us who are the great, great,
great, great(and sometimes not so great)
grandchildren of "huddled masses yearning
to be free" who passdd the"lamp beside the
golden door" and gave their brains, their
labor - even their lives - to make the
United States the glorious land to live in
which it is, would NOW withhold it as a
place of retreat and security to "huddled
masses yearning to be free" to pass the
"lamp beside the golden door."
When the appropriation bill for the De
partment of the Interior was before the
House on March 5, Delegate Dimond urged
the need for the Alaska items in the meas
U 1*0 • • • •
Pointing out that the Territory has suf
ficient natural resources to properly sup
port several million people, Mr. Dimond
stated that it was his considered judgment
that the population "would be steadily and
sufficiently increased from year to year
over a period of many years if we mould
only secure fairly adequate facilities of
transportation. . . .
With reference to land transportation
needs, Mr. Dinond said, "In my opinion, at
the present time it is not necessary to
subsidize farm settlers or other settlers
to locate and set up their homes in Alaska.
If roads and highways are furnished, the
settlers will come just as fast as we can
take care of them. But it is not possi
ble for settlers to lead a comfortable life
unless roads are provided. It is no long
er practicable for people, particularly
women and children, to take up residence
in some remote section where they have not
e en the simple means of communication with
others which is afforded by a road.I have
in mind particularly, Mr. Chairman, the
west side and Kachemak Bay region of Kenai
Peninsula. In this area the soil is deep
and fertile, the climate is comparatively
mild, the length of the summer growing sea
son is ample, and the land generally is
well suited to agriculture.
(Continued on back page)
LOCAL
N E ty s
Because of the illness of Charles
Clements, the wedding of Mr. Clements to
Miss Mary Stafford had to be postponed.
Miss Stafford received word from Mr.Clem
ente Thursday night that he will undergo
a major operation at Anchorage hospital
this week. Their many friends sincerely
sympathize with the young couple over this
unfortunate delay in their wedding plans.
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A very informative article entitled,
"Klukwan, Home of the Chilkats,"in the
April number of The Alaska Sportsman" was
written by Mrs. Harriet E. Williamson,for
merly of Lawing, known affectionately by
her friends as "Mickey."
Mrs. Fred Laubscher and her son,Wesley,
are home-coming passengers on the as Al
aska following a winter spent in Seattle.
Lyman Graves has secured a contract to
build a schoolhouse at Unga, on Unga Is
land, one of the Shumagin group. He will
sail from Seward on the motorship Fern on
April 13.
Verne Whitmarsh, for the last year and
a half in charge of the CCC camp in this
Bsction and for the last five years in
the employ of the Forest Service, has re
signed and will leave soon for Fairbanks
and service in the North.
The death of Mrs. Jessie Anderson, wife
of H. A. Anderson of Caribou Island in
Skilak Lake, occurred at Seward General
hospital last Friday night following a
long illness. In addition to her husband
Mrs. Anderson is survived by a 14 years
old son, Baimer, and three sisters living
in Seattle.
Mrs. Anderson had lived in Alaska for
18 years and with her husband had built
a most interesting and beautiful garden
hone on remote Caribou Island. She was
also an artist of more than usual abili
ty, In accordance with her own request,
her body will be buried on Caribou Island,
When L. C. Stock, director of the Mat
anueka Valley Farmers' Co-operative Assoc
iation, was in Seattle recently, he sold
50 tons of low bush cranberries to be de
livered next summer by the Co-operative
association* The VALLE * SETTLER, the
association's newspaper says* "The sale
of this crop alone will bring from 12 to
15 thousand dollars into the Matanuska
Valley. The Co-Op would be unable to
handle these berries except for the fact
that they hrve the cannery to grade,wash,
and pack in#"
The Liberty motion picture theatre in
Seward is closed because of the serious
illness of Mrs.D. C. Brownell and the ab
sence of Mr. Brownell from Seward.