Tiie preacher in Chitina was finishing admonishing his flock on
the evils of avarice, "And remember, my friends,11 he said, “There
will be .no buying or selling in Heaven”•
thereupon a man who sat in the back seat was heard to grumble,
"that*s not where business has gone anyway
It seems the United Good Neighbor movement in Anchorage is run
ning into‘difficulties in raising money. Perhaps the people in Anc-‘
horuge are finding Oxt what we have long known thet much of this -’ A
money is pooped away on dhronic and contented bums. In past years
the people of Anchorage have had so much money they donated freely
and didn’t 'care how' it was spent or wasted. Things are getting tight
and some people are'beginning to resent being played for suckers.
We note that when some -of the young people who have been persuaded
that statehood will be a big thing for themLask the proponents how
Hoon we.will feel the benefits of it they are somewhat taken aback
when they are told not to worry about that, everything will be all
right in the end, it took sons of the western states from twenty to
forty years to recover from the shock and set-back of getting state
hood. ’ ; •
Chief Banagita says that the people who tell us that statehood will
not raise tuples are either fools or liars.
-Down in the'Worth end of Chitina live some old timers like Rickey, *
Berg, Richards, Peneff and Asplund. They are a timid lot a. nd are
afraid to face the future'without a lot of security. They reputedly
have bulging bank accounts, we wo-ytld not know about that but we do see
that they have enormous wood, piles. They have wood enuf to last for
years. Do they think they are going to live forever, or that perhaps
they can £ake it with them? Now we. Siwashes are not so timid, we do
not care whether wo have a dollar or a stick of wood. Of qd urse we
know that Uncle is always standing there in the background.
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EDlTORo FLASH]
The rumor has reached the Gazette that Kernel (R. Korn of course)
is running for the U« S. Senate. Wo don't know his platform, but what
ever it is it had better be a big one (in Kase ho gaines back the extra
200#s).
When two Korns get together, a kornoy writer and a korney Senator,
there are bound to be roperkusions - with or without statehood. -
Kernel R. Korn of Kordova is bound to karry a lot of weight. We
expekt a landslide.
If you are in doubt about whore to kast your vote - Kast it, of
kourse, with a kurve at Kernel Korn. -