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FHA IN ALASKA
(Juneau Empire)
The instructive and encouraging address at yesterday’s
Chamber of Commerce meeting by John E. Pegues, able
Director of the Federal Housing Act for Alaska, who has
just returned from Washington, D. C., launched this agency
in Alaska, perhaps the most important to Alaska, with the
exception of the increased price of gold, of all the New Deal
programs. »
Mr. Pegues explained that the Administration hopes
to accomplish a three-fold purpose with FHA, “to bring im
mediate unemployment relief, promote business recovery,
and reform the home mortgage market.”
In Alaska the working out of FHA will without doubt
be effective in fulfilling the hopes of the Administration in
regard to the foregoing, as it will in the states.
In Alaska through the improving of homes, apart
ments, office buildings, stores and business places, the re
sulting benefits to each community will transcend situations
outside. Because of the pioneer pature of the country, and
the former practice of a great many who came to Alaska
merely to exploit it for gold, fur or fish, to make a “stake”,
and get out, every community has suffered from lack of
building for permanency. This applies to living quarters and
generally to business quarters as well.
Alaska for sometime past has been slowly working out
of this era of temporary camps, towns, communities. Many
towns in Alaska are now firmly established, backed by re
sources that insure extended community existence. Howev
er, either through inability to get credit, or 'through doubt
and fear of permanency substantial improvements and mod
ernization has lagged.
Through FHA credit will be available, courage and
faith in the various communities will have a cumulative
growth as individuals repair and rebuild their homes, and
business men modernize their buildings, stores, and shops,
resulting in much new construction, stimulation to business,
better methods of business and most important of all mak
ing Alaska a more desirable place in which to live, and in
vest permanently.
Juneau should benefit* especially well from the FHA.
As explained here recently, the purchase by the Alaska
Juneau Gold Mining Company of the former Alaska Gast
ineau properties, has added many years of operations to the
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Alaska Juneau Mine. As previously stated this has without
any question of doubt increased the value of every parcel
of real property in this community.
Now through FHA lasting, income producing improve
ments can be made to this more variable real estate, and
Juneau can and will be the thriving, growing, permanent
community, its strategic location entitles it to be.
FHA Director Pegues has launched a most important
constructive work. He is well equipped to carry it through
to complete success. Every property owner in Alaska should
take advantage of this exceptional opportunity for real pro
gress. Those that do will be making an investment that will
pay them good returns, and contribute much to the security
of their economic future.
KODIAK DISCOVERY
Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, the noted anthropologist of the
Smithsonian Institution, has perhaps achieved his greatest
discovery in his field of science on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
The Institution at Washington has just been informed
that Dr. Hrdlicka has unearthed skeletons and other relics
of prehistoric peoples on the bleak island, after four years
of excavation.
His reports indicate that Kodiak, in the very ancient
past, was inhabitejd by a “succession of different peoples,
each with a different culture”.
It is the Hrdlicka theory, similar to that of Dr. Henry
Fairfield Osborn, that the human race originated in Central
Asia, whence it slowly overspread the earth.
In this direction Kodiak Island was a “stepping stone”
between Asia and America.
The vista thus presented is one of countless centuries of
time, with races slowly developing and two great streams
of humanity flowing eastward and westward.
The westward flux continued far down into the histori
cal period—the barbarians who overran the Roman Empire
and created modern Europe were among its last currents.
The migration to the Americas ceased far earlier, when |
the Aleutian land bridge wafe broken down by geologic!
change. j
But while it lasted—probably at its height—it poured
into these continents the ancestors of the cultured Aztecs
and Mayas and, presumably, after these intelligent races
came the less developed tribes whose descendants Columbus
and his successors found living here in various stages of
savagery.
Dr. Hrdlicka’s discovery is evidently one of the most
important links in a chain of evidence to sustain that par
ticular theory of evolution which most interests mankind—
the evolution of man himself.
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“DON’T TRY TO PROVE THAT THE MAN WITH A NEW
IDEA IS WRONG. HELP HIM PROVE HE IS RIGHT.”
.The old saying: “Adversity Makes Us All Akin”, was
never more vividly exemplified than during and since the
calamity experienced by Nome’s citizenry just a few short
weeks ago.
At the height of the conflagration, when the fire demon
was devouring everything in sight, everyone forgot past diff
erences as well as personal safety and gave his efforts and
strength for the assistance and protection of his neighbor.
What an ideal city Nome will build into if this consid
erate spirit is perpetuated. It can be. It is simply a
community demonstration of the old “GOLDEN RULE”.
If there were no better or higher reward offered for such a
utopia, the advertisement in itself would be profitable for
Nome would soon become known and famous as “THE
MODEL CITY”, and it moral credit fixed at the highest rating.
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