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PROSPECT AND PROSPER OR
GO OUTSIDE AND GO BOKE
The hour is at hand when men in the full vigor of
life who have been enjoying the privilege of a summer’s
occupation in Alaska and now have or soon will have a
full poke usually make up their minds whether they are
“Going Outside”for the winter or are going to remain
here.
If it turns out as it has for years, an army of such
hardy men soon will be congesting traffic lines, headed
southward. These birds of passage go out in the fall,
spend what they have, return in the spring-with empty
pockets and start all over again where they were the
^year before—no farther ahead.
They not only take the earnings which Alaska has
been good enough to give them, out, to spend in a land
that knows them not and wants nothing but their mon
ey, but contribute naught to the progress of the country.
Another sort of men, ambitious and determined,
swho will not be balked, remain in the land, and a cer
tain percentage with the will and skill to do, get out and
create opportunities for themselves. In this realm it
as chiefly in prospecting.
Quartz properties in particular offer new opportun
ities. It would be better to get out on a hard-rock
property offering only a long chance at all to better
one’s seif. But there are thousands of square miles of
territory in Alaska and many tributary to Fairbanks
and other Alaska towns.
Once a lode claim is located it should be opened.
Trenching, tunneling and sinking can be carried on to
advantage in winter as well as summer, especially if the
work be started early enough.
Winter opportunities in this land can be capitalized
■by remaining in the country and applying the same
tireless energy of the early placer operators of the re
gion, who worked all winter and had big returns to
show in the spring.
Alaska’s greatest stumbling block to steady pro
gress is the fall exodus.lt should stop.
Men would be just as far, if not farther, ahead if
•they remained here and di nothing but remain in their
cabins all winter. But there is no necessity for that
■when thousands of square miles offer opportunities—
■especially to the man who will get behind the pick.
Alaska should be built up in winter rather than
be drained white. When she becomes a land of year
round industry with a home-people satisfied to push
her development intensively at all seasons she will ad
vance as never before.
Many now with full pokes from the season’s activ
ities should ponder well these facts and think twice
before embarking on a wasteful voyage to the Land of
the Lotus.—Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
Actress Bobbe Arnst sued her husband for divorce,
claiming he had no sense of humor, and it appears their
imarriage was a big joke.
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SELF-MADE ISSUES
(Now York Times)
It is generally agreed that an unusually large num
ber of citizens have not yet made up their minds how
to vote next week. One of their complaints is that is
sues between the two leading parties are not sharply
defined. In this there is some force and point. If two
lawyers representing respectively the Democratic and
Republican parties were to go into Court to argue their
case, an experienced and competent judge would be
apt to tell them to go back to their offices and rewrite
their brief, on the ground that they did not present to
him, the essential thing in the trial—namely “an issue
joined.” One result of this confused and doubtful feel
ing on the part of many voters is that they are taking
up for themselves the task of deciding what are the real
policies between which a choice must be made. It ap
pears as if a popular book might be written under the
title of “Everyman His Own Issue-Maker.”
One consequence, at least for the present, is a
large amount of perverse reasoning on the subject of
politics together with decisions based upon whim or
personal freaks Thus one voter will say: “‘I am ag
ainst Roosevelt because I hate Hitler.” Another will
take the ground that he cannot possibly support Lan
don because the Republican candidate has not come
out against vaccination for smallpox or the practice of
vivisection. It may be thought that such things have
no possible logical connection with the pending politi
cal contest. But we know that man the political ani
mal is often very poor at making correct deductions
from given premises, and no one can tell what may be
the effect on the actual election of judgments which are
really fantastic.
We have to consider also the large number of so
cieties and organization that have been quietly formed
in various parts of the country, each with a destinctive
political demand or objective. A clergyman in Kansas
City has made a collection of the names of these “or-;
ders”, some of them secret and oathbound. They are
extraordinarily numerous and diverse in their aims.
One proposed to forbid any foreign-born citizen to hold
office in this country. Another would insist upon the
immediate deportation of all aliens. Others would make
short work of religions and races which they dislike.
The whole is an amazing congerie of private prejudices
and passions, not directly related to any political cause
or party, but capable of throwing many votes into the
balance in a way to disturb it. We do not need to take
seriously the exorbitant claims of Representative Lem
ke and Dr. Townsend and Father Coughlin. The mil
lions of votes which they pretend to be sure of will
doubtless shrink into hundreds when the actual returns
come in But there is now a prospect of more eratic
voting in November than we are accustomed to see in
Presidential years.
Wholly apart from these political eccentricities,
there is a visible and growing purpose of many citizens
to make up their own lists of issues between the parties.
Conventions and platforms and committees cannot dic
tate to them. They will think questions over indepen
dently and carefully by themselves and arrive at con
clusions very different from those asserted by politi
cians to be the only true ones. It has often happened
before, and may happen again this year, that decisive
issues are born in the minds of the voters and not made
to order by party leaders.
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Sea Tonnage
Of Navies Is
Over Limits
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ships are old that no self-Tespect
ing fighting man would go to sea
in them.
Greait Britain had an excess
tonnage of cruisers at one time
but claimed to have come since
| within the limitation.
All agreed in 1930 to build no
more battleships until after 1936.
Great Britain and the United Stat
es have 15 each, Japan 9.
But months before the treaty
expires England annuonced two
huge batteships would go on the
ways as soon as the year ended,
and the United States is expected
to follow.
Japanese Effect
What will be the effect of the
Japanese submarine power? Nav
al experts said it would put her
ahead of the other two nations—
until they had time to catch up,
which was expected not to be
long.
Submarines are most effective
on defense since they have no
great cruising range, but England
learned during the World War
they had plenty of force in at
tack, and particularly against
shipping.
Privately, many naval men say
none of the three powers could
whip another on the other’s home
grounds and at the same time pro
tect its home shores.
But then when, or if, the next
war comes, nobody expects just
one nation to fight just one other
nation.
Production of rayon yarn, sta
ple fibre and waste in the United
Kingdom reached 72,200,000 lbs.
in the first half of this year, an
increase of almost 18 per cent
from the similar period in 1935.
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