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DIARY ...
Add Kodiak references: In the
magazme “The Woman” is an
article on Mail-Order Brides, in
which a man describes a woman
as “having a hug like a Kodiak
bear”.
How did the man know?
When the last Railway Ex
press shipment came in one of
the hampers caused Lee Betting
er, local agent, one of the most
startled starts he has since hand
ling the express.
Opening one of the large ship,
ping crates he dug hurriedly into
the shredded packing, ran into
something, and looking down to
see what he had discovered, saw
a woman’s face staring right
back at him!
Mr. Bettinger said he jumped
back before he realized it was a
mannequin.
It was one of a 3?t ordered by
Mrs. Helen Beukers for her
store, and the artificial ladies are
now all dressed up and posing at
her dresse shoppe.
We believe they a'e the first
complete mannequins in these
parts, but we aren’t going to say
so. We said a while back that
the Business and Professional
Women’s Club’s Easter egg hunt
was “believed to be the first” in
Kodiak we got called on it by
Mrs. Charles Madsen, who told
us the late Mrs. W. J. Erskine
used to have Easier egg hums
in her yard year’s ago.
This time, in regard to the
mannequin*, we refuse to go out
on a limb.
The Saturday Evening Post
with the cute picture of the dog
in a bath on it (May 11) sold like
Saturday Evening Posts in Kod
iak
The re* n of course, whs the
affirmative a icle in the debate
“Should we have a more Demo
cratic Army?”, by Jack Fofsie,
which had a reference to the
Kodiak naval base. Everyone
was snapping up the copies to
see where it came right out in
print and said:
“The most flagrant violation
of officer privileges I know of
was uncovered and confirmed by
this reporter while visiting Kod
iak Naval Base a few months
ago. In this instance the Navy
| regime used intimidation to keep
decent women away from all en
listed men. An “understanding” \
was circulated that Civil Service
girls who had been seen in the
company of enlisted men could
not be seen socially with any of
ficer thereafter ” End of quote
We recall the hubbub that a
rose when the above reports were
circulated and we watched the
story grow into a vicious rumor
that girls going with enlisted men
would have to wear an insigne to
proclaim it (rumors always grow
that way in Kodiak) but as soon
as a certain regime was changed
at the ba°e it all died down.
We would never argue that the
“caste” system, subject of the
above eferred to debate, has not
been the basis of evils and ques
tionable conditions in the Army
and Navy in Kodiak, as it has
been true elsewhere.
But we hate to see the black
paint overly daubed as much as
we do the whitewash, and it
doesn’t seem fair to condemn
the Navy because of one flagrant j
instance of a breaoh of taste or|
decency or what have you
We have seen many men and
officers come and go at the h eal
base and post during the war
year*, and it is true of both that
there have been some that we
w’ould not care to meet even in a
dimly lighted room. We have in
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