Valley FRONTIERSMAN
Published each Wednesday and Saturday
Palmer, Alaska
Viola Daniels .Editoi
Evftn DeLand.Advt. Manager, Palmer
Marilyn Rhodes.advertising manager Anchorage area
No printed material in the Valley Frontiersman may be re
produced except by permission of the editor.
Subscription rates .75c month
Delivered by carrier in Palmer. Mailed to all points in
Alaska and the United States.
Printed in Anchorage plant of Anchorage Daily Times
Darnels —In the Lion’s Den
The “Let’s-Give-The-Paper Hell” club, which has a loosely
knit and limited membership, has perfected its plan of operatior
and is now functioning smoothly. Club activities and procedure
have been outlined, and the group is now ready for some earnest
all-out criticism, back-biting and fault-finding.
Club meetings are held after each newspaper publicatior
date, at a site conveniently close to any newsstand where paper*
are sold, in order that current editions may be perused and re
turtied to the stand without cost to the club member.
The procedure, which now has been in use long enough tc
become standard, runs something like this:
A club member walks past the newsstand, helps himself to £
copy of the paper and seats himself beside other members of th<
group, many of whom are already engaged in searching for truth ir
the current columns of the paper.
Remarking, “Ah, so this is the latest scandal,” or “Well, well
what’s new in the news today, boys?” (these phrases are both clul
passwords) the latecomer then usually orders something nourishing
to strengthen himself to the task at hand.
All members read in silence for a moment, until suddenly
one cries out:
“Oh, oh, listen to this—here it is.”
Whereupon all club members who have not yet availed them
selves of free copies at the newsstand promptly do so, in order t<
be in at the kill. Club rules require perfect attention as the new:
sleuth who is first to find the error, continues to read.
“It says right here ‘John Smith, who came to the Valley ir
1938 . . .’ Now I distinctly remember, and you’ll agree with me
I know, fellow members, that John Smith did not come to tht
Valley in 1938. I remember the day he walked in here and it wa
at 4 o’clock on the afternoon of Jan. 3, 1939.”
General club discussion begins at that point. Members vie ir
remembering past errors and in prediction of future errors yet t<
be made. Club rules require that anyone who finds somethin!
wholely right printed in a newspaper be dropped from the mem
bership at once.
Club policy in regard to newspapers is whole-hearted non
_ pport. “Don’t advertise, don’t subscribe, and don’t ever be caugh
giving any authentic information” is the club’s motto.
Members dodge cleverly if asked an outright question by any
one connected with a newspaper, and then chuckle delightedly
when they read information they might have supplied which i
printed incorrectly or incompletely.
Printed stories are never read through to their ultimate con
elusion. By so doing, the club member might strike a qualifyinj
phrase which makes the written article essentially correct. Thi
is to be avoided at all costs.
There is probably no more satisfied group of readers anywher
in the Valley, than the “Let’s-Give-The-Paper-Hell” club’s menr
bership at the conclusion of any membership meeting. They’re th
boys who get ten cents worth of enjoyment out of every issu
printed. The fact that the dime’s worth of pleasure is at the ex
pense of someone else, makes it doubly enjoyable.
I’m getting service now that I have
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A Few Words
To The Wise . . .
I
(Sponsored by the Valley
Ministerial Association)
We, the ministers of the Val- '
ley, greet you with the hope that ■
this column will give you a lift
along life’s way. We hope that ’
you will turn to it regularly and
that you will be frank with
your criticism, but that you also
will give us encouragement if
we deserve it.
Words! How carelessly we toss
them around, both in writing
i and speaking. Do we realize
i fully how much good or much
evil we can cause just by the
use of words?
An unkind word is said and
the damage is done, for al
though the word and what is im
plied may be forgiven, it cannot
! be forgotten.
; “Boys flying kites haul in
their white-winged birds.
You can’t do that when you
are flying words!
Thoughts unexpressed may
sometimes fall back dead,
j But God Himself can’t recall m
them, once they’re said.”
i: But if this is true about un
kind words, it also is true about
! kind, encouraging words. Don’t
, be sparing with your kind words.
They leave the person to whom
you address them infinitely
richer and do not leave you any
poorer.
SAY SO
By Geraldine Searfoss
Does a neighbor help a little,
, As along the way you go;
. Help to make your burden
lighter?
Then why not tell him so?
Does a handclasp seem to lift
you
From the depth of grief and
5 woe
When an old friend shares
1 your sorrow?
> Then why not tell him so?
’ Does your Heavenly Father
give you
Many blessings here below?
Then on bended knees before
t Him
Frankly, gladly tell Him so!
“A word spoken in due season,
r how good is it.” Prov. 15:23.
, REV. VICTOR ALFSEN
! , Church Services
ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN
CHURCH
W. L. Zeile, Pastor
Sunday
Sunday school, 10 a.m.
j Morning worship, 11 a.m.
Holy Communion is celebrated
on the last Sunday of every
second month.
UNITED PROTESTANT
CHURCH
Victor I. Alfsen, Pastor
Sunday
Sunday School, 10 a. m.
Morning Worship, 11 a. m.
Young People’s Service, 7 p. m.
Evening Service, 8 p. m.
Prayer Meeting, 7:30 p. m.
ST. MICHAEL’S CATHOLIC
CHURCH
Rev. James A. Snead, Pastor
Sunday
Mass, 10 a. m.
Confessions heard before Mass
Sodality Communion held the
first Sunday of each month.
CHURCH OF GOD
FULL GOSPEL
George Savchenko, pastor
Sunday
Sunday School, 10 a.m.
Morning Devotions, 11 a.m
Services at Butte, 3 p.m.
Matanuska Electric
Association, Inc.
For Power Distribution
Friday
BRYANT & CO.
BULLDOZING CARRYALL WORK
GENERAL LAND CLEARING
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ON SETS OF TIRES
Be sure you see the new Gates
Silent Safety all-size passenger
tires
GRAHAM SERVICE
Machine Work Welding Repair
Gas Oil
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