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“By Their Deeds Ye Shall Know Them”
We particularly enjoy welcom
ing the gr<$up of Elks who will be
our guests next week.
The Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks is a comparatively
old and certainly an honorable or
ganization with a record of good
works and charitable deeds in its
past that is almost staggering.
This is the first State Elks As
sociation convention — the organ
ization as it stands* today embraces
the whole of Alaska. Conceived
some twelve years ago, the. group
started with three organizations.
It now has twelve, and one more
to come.
p-,‘ -at concerned with
Us history. We are instead ofifer
fctg a salute to an organization
whose influence is fe?t in every
community and throughout the
Slate.
“By their deeds ye shall know
.them.”—so says the Scriptures.
Nothing that could be said of the
Elks is truer than that
The Grand Lodge of the B.P.O.E.
is made up of common, everyday
man—dfcs membership from every
walk of life. It preaches and prac
tices Charity.
The State Elks Association
brings hope and new life to the
little Cerebral Palsy victims
throughout the state; it assists the
yoouog boy by sponsoring Boy
Scout work in the various com
munities;1 it encourages the young
student by awarding scholarships;
*«. agists Uie aoy and girl in per
iods o.'recreation; and many, many
more.
It is first -and foremost an Am
erican organization dedicated to
loyalty to our country.
Is it any wonder we in Kodiak
are proud to host this fine group.
Elks—-May you accomplish the
good you have set for yourselves
at this convention. And may you
enjoy yourselves in your moments
of re^xaton—May we assist you.
Call on us.
Fisherman Drows
Off Cape Trinity
Ben Luque, well-known fisher
man on the Island, met death Sep
tember 18 when he fell from a fish
ing boat as he and his brother were
travelling from Cape Trinity to
Lazy Bay. They were going fishing.
Ben went on deck, and when he
did not return, his brother investi
gated, but did not find him. He
turned back in search and after
about ten minutes saw him. He
threw a line to him but Ben sank
without taking it
He is survived by his wife Jackie.
Marion O. Parker, charged with
trespassing on the City dump, was
fined $50 in the U.S. Commission
er's Court this week.
Thomas Carrol
Renamed To Post
Brigadier General Thomas P.
Carrol, 40 year old Silver Star hero
of World War II, was renamed ad
jutant general of Alaska earlier
this week.
The appointment by Gov. Wil
liam A. Egan placed Carrol at the
head of the State’s Department of
Military Affairs, activated simul
taneously with the reappointment
as adjutant general.
Carrol thus heads the State’s 1,
700-member National Guard. He is
the son of Mrs. Charles Edris of
this City.
PLACE A CLASSIFIED! ADVER
TISEMENT IN THE KODIAK
MIRROR TODAY!
Here, There and Everywhere
By BIG DIGREE
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Last week we printed an item
which appared in The California
Star more than a hundred years
ago. We dont know how you feel
about it, but we find it fun to
delve back into early pages of his
tory—if for no other reason to
see how history repeats itself.
What might have been a fore
runner of the lonely hearts clubs
of today, was the “Grand National
Wife Agency Assurance Company”
which flourished in 1847 accord
ing to the 'English magazine Punch.
According to the article, “the ob
ject of this society is purely phil
anthrophic being to relieve the
frightful amount of matrimonial
destitution now so alarmingly prev
alent.” The article continues: Per
haps the united classes are not
aware that there are at this mo
ment many, very many indivi
duals, of one-and-twentp to thirty
years, and upwards, now dragging
on their existence in a state of
cheerless celibacy . . . The Wife
Assurance Society will place with
in reach of almost every man, a
partner of his joys and a soother
of his sorrows; as well as a de
cided ornament to his establish
ment. For the accommodation of
persons anxious for immediate
felicity, a large number of hands
will be continually ready for dis
posal on the following scale of
■'ecs:—
A goad serviceable wife 10
pounds, 10 shillings; Do. with ac
complishments, 15,15; Do. hand
some, 23,; Do. intellectual, 26, 5;
Do. of superior beauty and fasci
nating manners, 17,16; Do. extra
superfine in every respect, all
that the imaginaion can conceive,
etc., 31, 10;
Monied wives at one per cent
each on their capital. Ladies are
respectively invited to register
their names gratis, for the present
at Punch’s office; but to prevent
obstruction in the street, he in
tends to open a new office shortly
in some more commodious situa
tion. N. B. The amiability of all
wives guaranteed, if required, on
payment of one shilling extra.—
(Galignani’s Messenger)
This is another little gem from
the same source: A Georgian editor
declares upon his honor, that he
recently saw a loafer fall over the
shadow of a lamp post, in trying
to catch a lightning bug to light
his segar with!
Up to about that same time,
here’s a curious fact noted by the
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THE KODIAK* MIRROR
‘"Globe”: It is a fact not generally
known, we presume, that no Presi
dent of the United States, who had
sons, was ever re-elected—Wash
intgon, Jefferson, Madison, Mon
roe ,and Jackson, had no sons,
and were re-elected. John Adams,
John Quincy Adams, Van Buren,
Harrison and Tyler had sons and
were not re-elected. (Ed. note:
Times have changed since then,
luckily)
Hunters should not be confused
when they read that the hunting
season on. Elks begins October 1.
Hunting should be confined to
the four legged variety which are
to be found in the wilds, not those
here for the convention. A shake of
the hand would be more in order.
Letter to the Editor
Kodiak is a nice little town. Pic
turesque, quaint, sleepy, dull—
stagnate. Right now it seems to be
a town without a future. Even the
young people going outside to
school refuse to come back. Why?
Kodiak has nothing to offer
them, or anbody else for that mat
ter. It can’t even support what is
already here, and tha& isn’t much.
It has no market to entice out
sidG interests. It has no worthwhile
tourist attraction except an over
sized, cowardly bear that reeks of
ioften salmon.
Let’s face it. If the fish run con
tinues to fail, and if the Navy
moves away, Kodiak may well be
come a ghost town remembered
only in history books.
This situation has but two al
ternatives. Do nothing until the
town dies—or create something
imaginative that will put Kodiak
on the map. I suggest that some
thing is this:
Let’s turn Kodiak into the show
place, the play place of all Alaska.
Let’s make it a wide-open, gut
busting town where anything goes
except murder and mayhem.
Let’s turn it into a Little Reno
with all the bright, gay lustiness
that can be mustered.
People need a place to blow off
steam. Let’s give it to them right
here in Kodiak, with all the bawdy
freewheeling that made Alaska
famous.
Let the hard noses on the main
land keep their mid-Victorian blue
laws over there—as long as they
spend their money over here. They
will, too, by the hundreds, maybe
thousands.
Outside help? There will be an
overflow of it once the town an
nounces its intentions to the world.
Kodiak is an ideal place for such
an adventure. The possibilities are
limited only by imagination. So
what are you waiting for?
ROBERT CASKEY
Egan Orders Study
JUNEAU —Wl— The A! ki \t
torney Genera! has been d e ed
to review the relationship between
other state governments and .Lite
employee unions. The study, or
dered in the wake o>f efforts to
organize Alaska state emp j/ses,
was directed by Egan.
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