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SCHOOL NOTES
The following narrative of
the doings of the school children
of McCarthy appears in the Nov
ember number of the magazine
“Everyland” published in Bever
ley, Mass., in the special interests |
of boys and girls the world over.
We regret that we are unable to
reproduce the ‘cuts’ that go with
the article.
Yes, the author (or author
ess) is our own Mrs. Harrais!
Editor
THE DAUNTLESS ELEVEN
By Margaret Keenan Harrais
A knack at the door and the
soft shuffle of feet. I glanced at
the clock, wondering who my
late delegation of callers might
be. It had been dark so long that
I had lost my reckoning on time;
but it was only 7.80, in spite of
the fact that the lamp had been
lighted five hours. Yes, the dis.
carded lamp of your grandmoth
er’s days, and even it is a luxury
with coal oil at eighty cents a
gallon and the sun working only
a four hour shift. Alaska is “The
Land of the Midnight Sun” in
summer; but this was November
and lights are blown out at 10.30
in the morning and relighted at
2.S0 in the afternoon.
The opening door revealed
four eager little faces; but the
look of confident expectancy
changed to one of uncertainty
as Uiey surveyed tire cabin with
myself the sole occupant.
“Aren’t the big kids here?”
“No.”
‘ Haven’t they been here all
evening?”
“No, why?”
“They told us they were
coming over here to make plans
i'or the Si wash drive, hut I guess
they were just stringing us. You
see, they don’t want us little
ones to tag, but we came any
way. Well, I guess we may as
well be going,” and the disconsol
ate quartet turned toward the
door.
With the unerring direct
ness of childhood the visitors
had read aright the tactics of
the other group. It was the old
game of hide and seek in which
each age attempts to elude the
next younger. Having a very
good memory of my own child
hood days, I felt that the look of
hurt and disappointment must
somehow be banished from their
little faces at once; so I said
“Since the others have not hon
ored me with a call, what is the
matter with ycur being the com
mittee and planning with me?
Be sealed, please.” April sun
shine never more quickly dispe
jled gloom. They poised expectan
tly on the edges of their chairs
and turned upon me four pairs
of oddly assorted eyes. There
were Norweigen blue with their
quiet steadfastness, Russian
from the westward Alaskan
coast, showing a strong trace of
Slavic fiie, English—grandson of
an English lord--ana a combina.
tion of Nordic blue in a Polish
setting—truly a fine grist of
Americans in the making. I con
tinued, “If that is the way the
others feel about, it, why don’t
you organize a rival team and
beat them?” Would they? The
four went out of the cabin with
^ a whoop, eager to begin the
contest.
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ALASKA
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loot, of th± grt at Kennecott
giacier and manages to keep on
excellent terms with its frigid
neighbor. Mt. Blackburn lifts its
snow crowned head 1<,600 feet
into the heavens just north of
the camp, and many other peaks
form the sky line on all sides By
including all who head in and
out of the town for mail and
supplies and a few oi the oldest
and best loved huskies of the
streets, one might possibly en
u me rate one hundred inhabit
ants. The little white and green
schoolhouse set in their midst
proclaims it an organized comm
unity of homes, though the
nearest church is some two hun
dred miles away. Here Uncle
Sam spends over $200 a year
for the education of each and
every child, no matter what its
shade or color, and here the
program of loving service was
planned and fostered.
There were only eleven child
ren all told; but let no one dis
j count the energy and resource
fulness of that little band, nor
their intense Americanism. Unc
le Sam is a long way off, yet
strangely near because he deals
very generously with Alaskans
with no state or country govern
ment intervening. Born of a dir
ect and forceful people, cradled
in the shadow of majestic moun
tains from whose sides descend
mighty glaciers, they gaily hur
dle obstacles of climate and iso
lation without even recognizing
them as hindrances.
to be cont. next week
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