»Ve Alaskans are making & lot of palaver nowadays over our
"mentally ill" and. our "Juviailo delinquents" • ',Ve brag aboiit them#
~en,;c'.' this luxury because the costs come out of
l’.'x'A, if and hen wo got ’Jetohood o r.r byboorHical
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. n. l is wrecked the Powder K, use in Cordova
l.u :* r pur .oi-o was to "get taken away", From what
ether jv.vinj ] e3 who have been "taken away"
.row it ’"-til be just a happy lark« .hen some of us were boys
th ught cl going to the "lieform School" made us shudder-- and
Cnco upon a time a boy asxed another boy how to teach a
girl to swim
the second boy began explaining how to lead her into the
water, hoy to noId her, how to talk to her and some more rigamarole#
The first one crone in with,""hi3 girl is my sister"o
»ai1
the second boy, "just shove her off the dock"*
Laokah3 ever have to.pay their own.way they will quit
coring over the juvinile delinquents’and start shoving them
x-x* .me the Bible assures us that it will work wonders#
.m o .incus .expression we see quite;often nowadays in•connection
with education ? crime and economics (just lo.x in any leading
t try to catch up with the Russians"* It
it .a
this sXo
off the
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we have
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lot to learn#
seems
"he United Good Neighbors- organised ,charity- in Anchorage
seems to bo having difficulty collecting money with which to carry
on. Perhaps one reason is that too many people are aware that a lot
of the money is pooped away on. chror.i c drunks, 'bums and criminals#
Here is an illustration* .Last year the hulvation Army;, which gets
in o.. th i c UGh ,money and specializes ih” dragging men* out ' of xhew
cu • ter who are intent on jumping right- b’ac'k in, load so'much .money
to spree d rtrj-.d iav? t:-Uly that they sent a couple' cf checks for .^25#
each to an impoverished family with four- or five .small kids# Across
each checx wc 3 -iv.-.t ,en "chri^t aas Cheer"; The man who delivered
,tho chocks' ulc'o brot them-a..big hex of. turkeys'and food a Vary nice#
ho re ..orted 4.hat v hen he ©ont ?to the .snack to deliver he found both
?pui'OuTm ,o d: un.^ they did rgtf realiza thht they vx re getting the
donation, ,,nd within a day or two every cent of those two checks
was spent for boosed great many fine people say* and sincerely
believe that there is no practicable way to handle social matters
of this kind except to donate generously#
'.© can sympathize with the man who ent to a lawyer and
t-ld him that he wanted to get a divorce*, he simply could not live
with his 'wife any longer.
The. lawyer wanted- to know what the trouble was, '’’he man
replied that she talked too much,, she just .talked, talked, talked
all the time. che lawyer said he did not xnow if that would be
grounds for a divorce and asked the man v/hat she-talked-about. •'
The man pondered a bit and replied ”V?ell, she won't say.”
.e asx those pro statehood people how we are going to pay for
ihe ru.aiinw of the "tute of *»laska and they, simply refuse to
answer, but launch into a garbled exhortation hich upon being put
into jlain honost language mee^ns that they count on Uncle to come
and bail us aout when we begin to sink.* ^nd of course he will just
as he is now pactm
Five million behind
up for our exhausted Unemployment Fund,
now.
Poncho and his mate Shannon are the proud parents of some
fine locking pups* Gut of a litter *f eight four of them were
"kept", and one of these mot an untimely death so now there are
, three. George Nugongast was taxing one of the pups from the house
out to the dog house arid slipped on the icy front steps. When
George stopped tumbling at the bottom of the steps he had broken
two of Ins own ribs and seemingly all of the pup’s rib3.
It will soon be gardening time, but here is a word of
caution, Unless a person really enjoys digging in the dirt with
probabilities of only small returns or perhaps none, then they had
better leave this gardening in Alaska alone. This is not much of
an agricultural country. Out somu of us like to dig like hell and
raise a few turnips and C.«3B*k0rii.