Daniels-In The Lion’s Den
Cold, fear, hunger and unemployment still are the lot of war
ravaged nations of Europe. Peoples in a dozen European countries
face the coming winter months with insufficient food, shelter and
clothing.
The following letter, which reached the editor’s desk through
the courtesy of F. S. Lee of Eklutna, is a record of just one account
of what thousands of residents of Europe face.
It is reprinted here because I believe that we Americans need
to know more of what confronts our neighbors across the sea. We
complain of prices and the high cost of living. Mr. Nikolaidis tells
of earning a salary with which “We just can be in life without
buying some clothing or other things, which we need very much.”
While we ask for the luxuries of softer living for ourselves,
Mr. Nikolaidis pleads for cast-off clothing that his family may
survive the winter. His letter follows:
John S. Lee
Puposky, Minn.
Dear Sir:
You must be surprised receiving this letter from a Greek. I
will explain you how I found your address and the reason which
pushed me to write you. Some days ago a sheet of an old Collier’s
came to my hands wrapped in a packet. Looking in this sheet I
saw that it was the week’s mail where you had written a letter*
Then I decided to write you. The aim of this letter is to ask from
you some help.
I am 60 years old. I have a family of five. My 80 year old
* mother, my wife and two sons. My boys are going to school ntow
and they are not too much help to me. I am the only member otf
the family working and I am getting very strictly the living of
my family here and we just can be in life without buying Spme
clothing or other things, which we need now very much. The life
is very hard here. There are not work here and many times I can
not find a job to gain my family’s living.
Fortunately the Americans help saved us from death of famine,
giving us food. No one of Greeks will forget UNRRA and the great
American nation, which with so kindness helped the damaged by
the war peoples of the whole world.
I am closing my letter asking from you to send me, if you
have, some old clothing because we are here without a cloth. The
winter is coming and we do nnot know what shall we wear. We
have only that UNRRA gave to us. Please do not neglect my ap
peal to you and help me in your way knowing that you give a help
to a needy family whose desperate condition obliged me to write
you, asking to help it. Please if you are not able to help me, tell
te some other people to send clothing for my family. I am expecting
to hear from you by return mail. Excuse me for the trouble I have
given you with my writing.
Very respectfully yours,
Moisis Nikolaidis
52 Cassandrou St.
Salonica, Greece
Sept. 15, 1947
(Note: The packet referred to, through which Mr. Lee’s Minne
sota address was obtained, was a relief package, around which old
magazines had been wrapped for shipping protection. One page
Contained a letter to the editorial column, to which Mr. Lee had
submitted a contribution. John Lee is the brother of F. S. Lee of
Eklutna.)
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Mining Course
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A mining extension course,
the first to be given in Palmer
since 1937, is planned for the
Valley in late November, it was
announced this week. The course
will be taught by Howard G.
Wilcox, director of the mining
extension school of the Univer
sity of Alaska.
It is planned to begin the class
on Nov. 29th. It will last for
four weeks. Classes will be
scheduled in the evening, five
times each week.
Time and place of class meet
ings has not yet been announced.
In previous years, the mining ex
tension students met in the base
ment of Palmer school.
Mr. Wilcox, the instructor, is
at present ending an extension
course in Kodiak. He plans to
begin an Anchorage class next
week, and will come from Anch
orage to the Valley.
Further announcement con
cerning registration and course
fee will be made in the near
future.
Moose Auxiliary
Is Instituted
Palmer chapter 921 of the
Women of the Moose was insti
tutued last Sunday afternoon. A
total of 13 members was initiat
ed into the new chapter.
The Anchorage chapter of
Women of the Moose conducted
the initiation service and instal
lation of officers. Twenty-five
members of the Anchorage auxil
iary came to Palmer for the cere
mony.
Palmer initiates in the new
lodge were:
Mildred Moebius, Margaret
Cameron, Myrtle Bouwens, Fern
Leek, Haleen Ingall is, Juanita
McKechnie, Nina Stock, Vivian
Goodrich, Betty Rice, Fondola
Carroll, Ella Crosby, Agnes Reed,
Marjorie Hoskins, Genevieve
Moffitt, Viola Lentz, Helen Scott,
Mary Bergman, Virginia Morri
son, Juanita Yerbich, and Fanny
Wertanen.
Officers in the Palmer chapter
who were installed Sunday in
cluded:
Genevieve Moffitt, senior re
gent; Helen Scott, junior gradu
ate regent; Haleen Ingalls, re
corder; Juanita Yerbich, treasur
er; Fanny Wertanen, guide; Ag
nes Reed, assistant guide; Vivian
Goodrich, sentinel; Fern Leek,
chaplain; Marjorie Hoskins, Ar
gus; Myrtle Bouwens, pianist.
It was announced that meet
ings will be held on the second
and fourth Tuesdays of each
month. The next meeting of the
new chapter is planned for Oct.
28.
New Teacher Appointed,
Starts Work Monday
Mrs. Minnie Clark has been
appointed temporarily to the
new position as third and fifth
grade teacher in Palmer school,
it was announced this week. Mrs.
Clark meets her new students
for the first time next Nov. 3.
The appointment, made pos
sible by Dr. James Ryan, ter
ritorial commissioner of educa
tion, will alleviate over-crowded
conditions in two Palmer class
rooms, for a time at least.
The combination classroom is
to be set up in a basement room
in the school. Pupils will be
moved into the room, with books
and seats, from upstairs class
rooms. Their removal, with
equipment, will reduce crowding
in the two grade rooms with top
enrollments.
Only 25 students will greet
Mrs. Clark next Monday. How
ever it is possible the class may
grow larger as the term prog
resses, according to superintend
ent Carl Snelling.
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