MOOSE
PASS
MINER
Bv L. H. Allen
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NO FIFTH COLUMN
(By Gene Lindberg—)
Fifth columns breed in cellar dens where
souls are pinched and small.
They wouldn't like it here where peaks and
trees and men grow tall.
The crawling things that feed on fear and
hate and jealousy
Would wither in the sunlight here* where
men are really free.
Up here it takes warm hearts, cool heads,
the strength to swing an ax.
This is a land of picks and spades and
drills and double-jacks;
Of rock and steel and dynamite and sweat
and axle grease -
Where men make war on nature for the right
to live in peace.
Yes, that's our kind of conquest - not an
underhanded plot
To steal away the hard-earned things the
other fellow's got.
The fur thief and fish pirate and the
skunk who steal w a claim
Don’t live long in this climate, and
fifth columnists the same.
The British naval guns which sank or
set fire to French warships off Oran, Al
geria, to keep them from falling into Ger
man hands fired the first shots exchanged
between British and French forces since
the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815,a
few days more than 125 years ago.
From COLLIER'S
. . . What is the best way for us to
help the Allies?
From a 22 year perspective on the pre
vious big war, it looks as if we helped
the Allies that time in about the worst
possible way. We rounded up an army of
about 4,000,000 men, and sent about 2,000,
ooo of them to France. In addition, we
financed a considerable part of the whole
Allied war effort; it was in that field
that we possibly made our big mistake.
Our mistake lay in not foreseeing that
the World War was going to bankrupt the
Allies, practically, and in confidently
expecting to be paid back all our money in
due time afterward. The war debts over
hung world money adjustments for years,
soured relations between ourselves and
Europe and in the end v«rere redudiated in
large part because our debtors simply
could not pay.
(Continued on back page).
SAXTON - KING WEDDING
The wedding of Miss Clara Louise King
to Lyle William Saxton was celebrated on
Saturday evening, July 20» at the home of
the bric'e's parents, Mr. and Mrs, Kent
King, at Hope. The Reverend F.G.Phillips
of Valdez, was the officiating clergyman.
The ceremony was witnessed by Mr. and Mrs.
King, Mrs. Dolly Masters of Payette, Ida.,
mother of the bridegroom, William Paxton
of Moose Pass, his father; and John King,
brother of the bride. The bride wore a
long skirted frock of pink net.
The newlywed8 , following the ceremony,
came to the home, one mile south of Moose
Pass, which the bridegroom has been for
several months, preparing for his bride.
Miss Nettie Fitzgerald, teacher in the
public schools of Newark,N.J, and her sis
ter, Mrs. John Duffy of Pelham Manor,N.Y.
were guests for six days of the MINER ed
itor.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Laubscher, Mr. and
Mrs. Lyle Saxton, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Thurs
ton and son, John, are occupying cabins
at Cooper's Landing while some extensive
road work is being done by the men.
Mrs. Leora Roycroft has received word
from the Bill Estes family that they have
moved into one of the newly-built and very
modern duplex apartments for the families
of heads of projects at Kodiak.
Mrs. James H. Pierce has opened a candy
and ice cream shop at Kodiak which met
with gratifying success from the opening
day.
Mrs. Hub Clark of Hope, was a patient
last week at Seward General hospital.
Mrs. Dolly Masters, who visited her
sons, Lyle, Verne and Bob at Moose Pass
and Fairbanks, sailed on the ss Baranof
Tuesday for her home at Payette, Ida.
The Harry V. Johnsons, formerly of
Moose Pass, are now at Alma, Colo., where
Mr. Johnson is owrking at a placer mine.
Mrs. Johnson's brother, Lowell Gresham,
well known here, is at Parkville, Mo.
Mrs. Johnson wrote Mrs. E.L.Robbins
that they were all of them homesick for
Alaska.
On the occasion of the formal opening
of the new ball room in the Officers’ Quar
ters at Kodiak, Mrs. James H. Pierce and
Emil Kraft were winners for the prise
waltz,
Mrs. Pierce calls her new shop in Kodiak
"The Rendezvous."
Very few, if any, low bush cranberries
in thi3 section this season.