Heaviest Ocean
Traffic since Pre-War
(Continued from Page 1)
The sailings from Seattle for
Seward on this basis have been set
as follows:
The Aleutian, every other Satur
day; the Baranof, every other Sat
urday; the Alaska, every other
Wednesday; and the Denali, every
third Thursday. Eight freighters
will also be making calls at Sew
ard at frequent intervals as well
as other ports.
It has been arranged to have the
Baranof stay in Seward 36 hours
and The Alaska Railroad will run
a special excursion train to An
chorage to bring tourists that de
sire to stay there over night.
Perishables will be rushed to An
chorage and Fairbanks by an ex
press refrigerator train.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
• • •
Dear Editor,
Excuse our writing directly to
you, but as we don’t have any
friends in Alaska, we decided you
to be the proper personality# to re
fer to with our wish.
May I introduce you to us? I,
Christel, and my girl friend, Claire,
are living in Mannheim, Germany.
The main thing is, however, we re
cently have read in our local news
paper about the thrilling beauty
! of your country, and as we have
seen such beautiful pictures of it,
we decided to launch a letter to
you and ask you for your aid
(which really would be a big favor
to us).
Would you mine! to find out two
nice girls or ladies we could write
to? We thought that there would
be some nice girls in Seward or
its neighborhood which would
like to hear a little about Germany
and Europe.
Here are our addresses:
Claire Toclle,
12 Vogelstang,
JPIC & gPAH
Telephone Adams 92
Pickup & Delivery
Cleaning
Alterations
Pressing
Hat blocking
Mannheim-Kaefertal
U. S. Zone of Germany.
Christel Semmler,
40 Vogelstang,
Mannheim-Kaefertal
U. S. Zone of Germany.
Thanking you in ^advance for
your kind aid in this regard, and
hoping to hold a letter in our
hands someday from our nearly
being antipodes, we remain,
Sincerely yours,
Christel Semmler
Claire Toelle
I have just received clippings of
a newspaper story originally print
ed in the Seattle Post-Intelligenc
er, about setting aside land for the
Indians in Alaska. This article
quotes me at length, as saying,
among other things that the seven
thousand Indians in southeastern
Alaska are “due to die miserably
in a few years” if they don’t get
land of their own.
Since Senator Butler has brought
this matter to the attention of Con
gress, I had better make a slight
correction. I didn’t say several of
the things that are attributed to
me in the story, including the one
above mentioned. The leporter
simply made a mistake. However,
his report was generally correct,
in that I do urge most strongly the
setting aside of land for these In
dians. They won't all “die miser
ably in a few years” but they’ll be
very very hungry if they don’t get
their land soon. And conditions in
the towns are shockingly bad at
the present time.
There is one other impression
that needs correction, namely that
I am sponsoring legislation to give
land to these Indians. In my opin
ion no legislation is necessary for
■ that purpose. The Secretary of the
Interior has full power to settle the
The Levy To VD
The cost in money and man
power levied by the venereal
diseases is heavy. Take the dol
lars-and-cents figures. Annual ap
propriations for Federal, state and
local VD control measures mount
upwards of 30 million dollars. Eco
nomic losses, which were estimat
ed for a pre-war year when every
dollar bought more than it does
now, set personal income loss to
syphilitic blind and to paretics at
118 million dollars, and public
maintenance of these two groups
at 15 million dollars. Or take pre
valence figures.
In 1947 for every work injury of
more than casual nature tabulated
by the National Safety Council in
its list of occupational injuries, the
U. S. Public Health Service re
ceived four reports of positive
syphilis diagnoses. For every
American hurt in an auto accident,
another fell victim to gonorrhea.
Is this levy to VD avoidable? Yes,
says the American Social Hygiene
Association, basing its verdict on
35 years’ experience in the field of
VD control.
Blaming ignorance as the major
factor in the spread of VD infec
tions, the Association has launched i
simultaneous observances in cities
and towns across the nation to
point up ways for the public to
combat VD. This effort, because
VD menaces national health and
strength, is particularly vital in
this period of national defense.
problem under the Alaska Indian
Reorganization Act. He informed
Congress a year ago that he could
settle the problem under that law
in a brief time. I agree. He should
go ahead and do it and not throw
the problem back into the lap of
Congress.
Very truly yours,
James E. Curry
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