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Moose Pase, Alaska - October 18, 1939
No. 33
APPLICATION BLANKS IN SEWARD
FOR UNEMPLOYED MEN
Unemployed men are invited to call at
the office of the Seward city clerk, E. D.
Webb and get from him application forms
which properly filled cut, will entitle
them to opportunity for work on either the
Sitka or Kodiak air base projects.
It is important that men seeking work
on either of these projects prepare their
application blanks in time for them to be
delivered to Glenn A. Robinson, manager of
the Alaska Territorial Employment Service
i’or this district. Survey of the entire
territory is being made and men from the
various districts will be hired on propor
tionate basis,
KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT WE ARE AND OF
WHAT WE ARE DOING IS POWER
From the Alaska Weekly Editorial Column
In his annual address at the University
of Washington, President Lee Paul Sieg
described the war in Europe as a war "to es
tablish the dignity of man." It may not
answer the question, he said, but it sharp
ly sets forth the question of whether "the
individual exists for the state or the
state exists for the individual." Presi
dent Sieg gave over his address to a plea
which is so timely and vital that I wish I
might quote it in full. He urges that
American citizens examine the difference
between ruling themselves and letting a
"self-labeled sureraan do it for them" and
pointed out in no uncertain terms that,
unless the citizens of a democracy study
that democracy and become steeped in the
knowledge of its value, it becomes a "hol
low sham." To merely accept the democrat
ic way as the most desirable without know
ing why, is not sufficient to make the type
of citizenship which stands unscathed by
the barrage of spurious theory with which
the democracies of the world are now being
bcmbarded from without and within.
"Knowledge of what we are and of what we
are doing is power," Dr. Sieg said. "It
is the surest power to prevent the suicide
of any nation." '7ith that thought in mind
he has prepared a list of books, the read
ing of which he advises and the University
will be glad to send you the list.
The motorship "Discoverer" has delivered
in Tacoma the first shipload of gold con
centrates from the billow Creek country to
be loaded over the new dock at Goose Bay.
The concentrates came from the Fern mine
and the load was 101 tons. It is expected
the concentrates will yield more than $150
in gold per ton.
GERMAN BOMBING PLANES AT
AT SCAPA FLOW YESTERDAY
Germans bombed Scapa Flow yesterdayin
the South Orkney Islands off Scotland.
Scapa Flew was a naval base during the
World War. The result of yesterday's en
gagement gave them nothing to brag about.
Four'German planes were totally destroyed
and radio report is that not half of them
returned to the mainland. The Iron Duke,
British battleship, was fired upon and
slightly damaged. The Iron Duke was cap
tured frem the Germans in the battle of
Jutland,May 31, 1916.
The Royal Oak, British liner, sunk by
the Germans this week, had 800 officers
and men on beard. The Rsyal Oak was a
battleship, not a liner. A French liner
and a French freighter were sunk by the
Germans Sunday. Around 400 passengers
were on the liner.
Turkey announced yesterday that she
would jein the Allies against Germany and
-Russia.
Maps in the September issue #f Life
offer an education in comparison of dis
tance and flying time of "then and now."
London, 550 miles from Berlin, 2-£- hours
distant in flying time; not mere than 100
miles than the distance between Seward and
Fairbanks, as the crow flie9.
Berlin to Warsaw,300 mi.,l£ hrs by plane.
Paris to the Western front,300 mi.,1^- hrs.
flying time.
London to the Western front,350 Mi.jl-J hrs.
flying time.
Lenden to Cologne, 250 mi.,l"i hr. flying
time.
Paris to Cologne,150 mi., f hr. flying time,
London to Cuxhaven(naval base Kiel Canal)
400 ai., 2 hrs. flying time.
Cities can be bombed, hundreds of thous
ands of people killed and the flyers who
keep their lives, can return home for lunch,
Adolf Hitler defiantly warned the allied
powers that if his peace terms are rejected
Germany is stronger than ever before and
ready for a struggle in which no rules will
be used. Nothing can frighten ub, he said
Leu Gehrig retires from baseball to be
come a member of New York city's municipal
parole commission.
Sidney Denison returned en the as Yukoa
to the Seward office ef the Forest Service,
Frank Case will spend the winter in
Lewis Tulare's cabin at Grant Lake,