Eodiak Mirror
_' ^Njtds of (America’s Last Jrentier”_
Published Every Saturday at Kodiak, Alaska by the
KODIAK PUBLISHING COMPANY
Gene Dawson, Publisher
William H. Lamme, Editor
Lillian E. Lamme, Associate Editor
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for the people shall not perish from the earth.'—Lincoln
Helping Hand for a Needy World
With need for relief so great in so many parts of
the world today the plea of the Red Cross for fin
ancial assistance is more deserving than ever, if
that is possible.
Years of work and service have proved to the
public of America, and of the rest of the nations,
that it is one organization that does deserve the
support of everyone. Now that the Red Cross
mem Dei.ship drive has started, it behooves everyone to do his part
in helping them. No contribution is too small, and it should be re
membered that the greatest part of the monet' collected bv them
comes in the small contributions from all parts of the world. Do
J'our part today—join the Red Cross.
RED CROSS
\ictory in Christmas Seals
Man’s battle against tuberculo is is about to be decided. Victory
is in sight!
There was a time when we had to be contented with stopping the
enemy, relieving the suffering and helping the victims This still is
necessary but at last the time has come when we dare to think a
foout a nation free from tuberculosis.
Victory can be won if the American public will be as generous in
the less spectacular future ahead, when there will be less and less
tubesculosis, as it has been in the dramatic past when the disease
killed members in almost every home.
Your gift will further the cause of health, hasten the approach of
the day when this communicable disease will no longer threaten
your home. It will weaken the hold of tuderculosis on our people
And strengthen the forces pf defense.
To avoid conflict with the lied Cross drive Alaska’s eighth an
nual Christmas Heal Hale will begin November 24th.
Thanksgiving Has Went
Hail and farewell to the new Thanksgiving! Now we can look
forward to the good old days when hands across the table all reach
for the favorite piece simultaneously. This business of half a nation
celebrating at one time and half ai, another has gone the way of
ail (turkey) flesh.
Next year when the governor’s Thanksgiving proclamation gets
delayed in the mail and doesn’t arrive in time, as happened this
year, we won’t worry at all. We’ll;just look at the calendar and
pick out the last Thursday of the next to the last month and go
right ahead with our plans. And as we do in Kodiak, likewise will
they do in Kalamazoo, Kinston, Kokomo and Kissimmee. _
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Our Responsibility
3. TO OUR BORROWERS
Consistent with its recognized responsibility
to its depositors and stockholders, thtVbank’un
dertakes to accommodate with suitable loans those
depositors or others who have occasion]tomorrow
money for sound purposes and can meetVeason
ble credit requirement.
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Day in ’41
I count my blessings,
One by one.
The greatest of which
And no mistake
Is to be working for
SIEMS.and DRAKE.
I’m fed and housed
Disinfected
Deloused
Trucked to and fro
And—well, you know—.
I’m happy to be just
One more Jake
Who signed on the line for
SIEMS and DRAKE.
I'm checked
I’m paid by,
My expenses
Defrayed by,
Watched in my boozing
Wakened from snoozing.
I cut me quite a
glice of cake
When I sailed North with
SIEMS and DRAKE.
Yes, the Northern Lights
Have seen queer sights.
But the strange 4 they
Ever did see
Was Thanksgiving Day
In Womans Bay,
And SIEMS and DRAKE
making a —
Rich man of me.
—Jack Evans
Class of ’41, S.D.S E.
(Siems—Drake School of Ex
perience)
The Chronic Kicker
You can look this whole world
over
And never find a place
Without its chronic kicker
[n every creed and race.
I suppose we have to have them
At every place we go,
But they cause a lot of trouble,
A tot of grief and woe.
To “level-headed” people
They are mighty hard to bear.
And it seems to me that Kodiak
FRESH
PISH ■ MEAT ■ rOWE
.1 GIBSON’S
j BACONS-HAMS !
I We Cater to the Best- !
With Only the Best
City Meat
oMarket
Oscar Breedman
rlaa far more than its share.
“The food is never fit to eat,
“The shifts are always wrong,
“They always have to work too
hard,
“The hours are much too long.
“The scale of pay is far too low,
‘ The price of goods too high.’’
There seems to be no stopping
them,
They’ll kick until they die.
In Kodiak or at the base.
You hear the same refrains.
“It’s too hot if it shines,
“It's too cold if it rains.”
In this great defense program,
In the East, West, Noith and
South,
Uncle Sam can surely use you,
Just keep a check rein on your
month.
But if you find that you can’t
take it,
If your back’s not made of bone,
There are steamships sailing
weekly;
Why the heck don’t you go
home?
—Robert H. Casperson, X.A.S.
The above poem by rights
should he on the front page. The
editor turned one of the author’s
poem3 down—it was good, but it
sounded like a chronic kicker it
self. The author was told if he
would present a poem that prais
ed instead, it would be printer!
on the front page. He did, but
we couldn't. So instead of the
publicity of the front it gets the
dignity of the editorial page, We
hope every'body is satisfied. We
are.—Editor
Cafe Owner Returns
Mike Putselas, owner of
Mikes’s cafe in the Belmont Bar
has returned to Kodiak after a
month’s vacation in the States.
Charles Fletcher, owner and
operator of the Cameo theater
at Unalaska stopped in Kodiak
on his way' to Seattle. He is build
ing a new theater at Unalaska.
Nick Gleboff, son of Rev. Greg
ory Gleboff, of the Russian
church, arrived from Chicago on
the Yukon. He plans on making
his home here.
THE
M & V Varieties
NEW ASSORTMENT
CHRISTMAS GIFTS
NOVELTIES OF ALL. KINDS
TOYS NOTIONS LAMPS
100’s of HOUSEHOLD ITEMS
Budd Vigue & Harry Montrose, Props.
Corner of Alaska Way & Brooklyn Ave.
r v w w' w
4,cIhe friendliest Spot in Town"
Where
Good Fellows
Meet
Mecca Bar
&
'cocktail lounge
Roy Snyder, Prop.
TERMINAL OF THE KODIAK TRANSIT BUSSES
i a i »
JERROME'S
Northern Light Grill
JERRY LODGE, PROP
Stop at Jerrome’s
"The Bright Spot of Kodiak”
ERROME SAYS:
Our Customers Deserve The Best And Qet It!
After having a delicious dinner here,
why not drop down to our Recreational Parlors
for an hour or two of billards or cards.
^HE PLACE to MEET and EAT