MOOSE PASS MINER
_By L, H. Allen_
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ALASKA NEEDS PEOPLE
This is the time of the year when every
boat brings newcomers to Alaska, ALASKA
NEEDS PEOPLE. The federal government
will not contribute toward a big program
of road-building in Alaska until Alaska
has a greater population. It has said so
in juBt those words.
Alaskans may not realize it, but their
general attitude toward a newcomer is -
"and what the heck, did you come here for?'1
From Ketchican to Barrow, if a newcomer
doesn't explain in detail all the whys
and wherefores of his migration to Alaska,
someone (made suspicious perhaps by the
fact that he,himself, left a nigger in the
woodpile back home)decides that the new
comer is in Alaska for one of three reas
ons:(l)that he is a fugitive from crime;
(2)that he is a fugitive from debt;(3)that
he is a fugitive from something or other.
It wouldn't occur to that type of "someone"
that people might want to live in Alaska
because it is a beautiful, wonderful and
interesting place to live.
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themselves came to Alaska with but a few
thin dimes, who have landed on their feet
and are prosperous but funny enough to
resent other people coming to Alaska with
a few thin dimes. As a matter of fact ,
there is nobody living in Alaska today
and there never has been anybody living in
Alaska who didn't come to Alaska for the
sole purpose of bettering themselves.
Alaska hasn't a chance of drawing her
needed "greater population” from among
people who have big bank accounts in the
States, Norway,Sweden,Denmark or Finland.
It would be a smart move on the part of
Alaskans to encourage these people who
have come to take seasonal jobs to stay
in Alaska to spend their Alaska-made money,
Especially the young people. Say to them
”see what a wonderful land of opportunity
this is," instead of "here's your hat -
what's your hurry?"
Read the life stories of those pioneers
about whom Oregon, Washington, California
boast most loudly today and you will laam
that not many of them entered those rich em‘
pires of today, with a cent of money in
their jeans. Scores of Alaska's most em
inent and successful men and women of today
frankly admit a paucity of funds when they
came to Alaska. Lack of money has been
the urge that has sent people to frontiers
since time begun. Alaska is the J*®4
frontier. If it is ever to be .laced with
highways it is time to stop cold-shoulder
ing people out of it.
THE SEWING CLUB MEETS
Today is the day that the Sewing Club
meets,
I must do up my housework and get a
quick lunch,
Leave out some food as a snack for the
bunch
For when I come home I'll have no use
for eats,
Not on the day that the Sewing Club meets.
I'll carry my sewing, what have I to do?
Some stockings to mend, or a quilt block
to piece;
That yarn for an afghan of soft colored
fleece;
Dr maybe I'll hem up a dish-towel or two;
That unfinished lunch-cloth will carry
me thru.
’hen the refreshments! What will they
produce?
Sandwiches, salad, or cake and ice cream,
)r some new concoction, a caterer's dream;
i delicate pastry, or moulded fruit juice:
’Pity the ones who are trying to reduce.)
Ifhatever the program, it's always a treat
’o put on your best, with a wave in your
hair
ro out in the crowd feeling groomed,
debonair;
[nowing your day will be full and complete
,s one of those, who, with the Sewing Club
meet.
M. R. S. 5/8/'39
Eight people from Moose Pass attended
the Sunday services held by Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Greise at the Falls Creek cabin of
Mr. and Mrs. Witt last Sunday night.They
were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stafford, Mr. and
Mrs. H.L.Smith, Mrs. Clarence Scheiber,
Mrs. John L. Nelson and Joanne, Mrs. An
toine Velanis.
Mr. and Mrs. George Brooks are new
comers to Alaska from northern Califor -
nia. They are now at the Ranger Station
in Lawing but will be stationed at Russian
River this summer when Mr. Brooks will
act as junior forester.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Raves and four chil
dren arrived on the week end boat from
Tacoma. They are taking over the Al.Sel
lers sawmill property at Grant Lake.
Stanley Duke has returned to Moose- Pass
from Fairbanks to work this season with
;he surveying crew of the Bureau of Public
taads.
With their comp equipment and supplies
an u sled, George Parkinson and Nathan But
ler who spent the winter in Moose Pass,
Left for a long hike to the Iditarod coun
try.