If you want to smoko cigarettes go ahead ,no one is going to
stop you, in fact those who mako money out of the business will
do c..ul they can to encourage you. You are sure as hell going to
die sometime soon anyhow, cigarettes only make you die a bit
sooner, and make you harder to live with before y*u die. But
you61i have lots of fun. But we still question the sense and
ethics of filling our best magazines with beautiful ads admonish
ing school girls to start smoking, cigarettes* ,,nyone in Russia
who did that w uld be shot or sent to Siberia*
«4nd too much likker is bad. It makes you fight with your
neighbor, it even makes you shoot at him, and it makes y^u
miss him. _ _
There is no church in Chitinr. and it is not recorded that
the Devil needs a church. ,»nd one thing that a lot of church
people overlook is the fa.ct. that the Holy Scriptures establish _
the Devil and his domain as authentically and permanently and
necessary as the Lord and ^is d main# Chitina seems to be
fortunate enuf to be in the Devil's domain. Talk -.bout fun and
freedom/ If Chitina had a church nd git into a fight as full of
bitteness and hatred as the great church in New York City is now
enjoying , where they have been fighting for years and now have
the joint closed, even the dogs here would not speak to each
otner. the Lord does not have his fighting folk very well
organised, they fight each other. Back in the Lid-West the
church people felt quite tolerant of the Devil (.nd his people,
but how they fought and hated each other.
There are nr 1 er.ders unless there are willing fo_lowers#
There are people all around *who would very much like to be
leaders but are not because they can inspire no following#
Today the Russians willingly hc.ne their resources over to their
leaders b^caus- they believe these leaders arc leading them to
where they want to go# '’follow irer and we will conquer” .said
Alexander, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, 'talin, Khruschov. ^ lead .r
is a man who senses which way the crowd wants to go and gets out
in front and runs like hell# The Russian people are very proud of
their scientists, planes,submarines, missiles and Sputniks and
are-willing to pay the prioo# Y/hy. do we Americans wrnt to keep’
up the silly pretense that the Russian people are not willingly
behind their leaders# A
It's so nice to kid ourselves# But, then wo Americans bet on horse
races even th* we know they are fixed#.
The ..laska Steamship Co# had intended to have increased their
rates by 15% in last December but have announced that this in
crease has been postponed for the present# The competing Coast
wise nine has discontinued service to .*1 ska in the meantime and
we hope that the «loska Line will have found that without this
sharing of the traffic to #*lasKu that their* revenues will be
sufficiently increased that this rise in rates will not bo
necessary# One thing that we who have done business with'the
#*laska Line for ub^ut a half century can feel sure of is that an
organization that has over so many years built up a reputation
of being a vital part of ««laska and of giving useful and generous
service in building the Territory has a pride in its reputation
that m:.Kos itan outfit that can be counted on’for frankness and
fair treatment#
The behavior of the American economy generally is typified
by our local situation* The place to cut firewood is on the oix
other side of the Copper River.firom town. We have to sled it
accross the ice after the river freezes in latter winter. Winter
so far has boon so mild the riveh has not frozen over well and
Iooks doubtful. We are wishing for a good,long cold spell that
will freeze the river over so we can get over to cut some wood
that we would not need if wo did not burn our present supply
during this hoped for cold spell.