Valley FRONTIERSMAN
Published each Wednesday and Saturday
Palmer, Alaska
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947 at the post office
at Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Subscription rates.75c month, $8 a year
Viola Daniels ..Editor
Evon DeLand .Advertising Manager, Palmer
No printed material in the Valley Frontiersman may be
reproduced except by permission of the editor.
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Alaska and the United States
Daniels —In the Lion’s Den
L “Happiness is not born of idleness, uselessness and self-will.
It is created by serving, by spending oneself in useful labor for
oneself and for others, never by self-seeking toward material
ends. There is no content, no lasting ease this side of death. Life
is constant change, a restless active driving toward an ever-distant
goal. Face that fact, take life in both hands and bend it to service
and at once life is beautiful and warm contentment seeps through
the soul.” (Angelo Patri in Life’s Disciplines)
^Perhaps in that paragraph Mr. Patri has placed his finger on
a problem that is common to a great many of us in Palmer. Too
often there are those among us who lose sight of our goals. They
view the enormous civic tasks ahead of us, if Palmer is to become
all that we want it to be, and the job looms too large to seem worth
the effort.
Many and many a worker has been lost to the Airport Associa
tion, the Chamber of Commerce, the Valley Hospital Association
and many other organizations working for the betterment of
’"’aimer, because that worker is misguided by belief that he is not
“getting anything out of it.”
Again these lost workers have been heard to remark that
they were “just doing all the work for some other fellow’s benefit.”
Both excuses, seemingly logical to the man who uses them, are
weak and childish reasoning. They do nothing to better the
personal inner life of the man who uses them, and they are one of
the major deterrents to progress for Palmer.
These things we do for Palmer, in order that Palmer will
be a better place in which we all may live, never are measurable
in tangible dollars and cents. The headaches we suffer, the com
plaints we bear, in the service of others, can never be balanced in
a ledger against visible returns in material things.
The work we do for our community, our clubs and our gov
ernment is our contribution, given gladly as our share of the allot
ted responsibilities of our race and time. If that work cannot be
given in a spirit of gladness, humility and enjoyment of service
for others and for common good, then it had better not be given
at all.
If we must count the cost of the things we do, then there is
no niche in community service where our efforts can be rewarded.
And in that service, unless we have the interests of our neighbor
at heart as much as our own, there can be no inner sense of satis
faction and accomplishment. Without that there is only bitter
ness, selfishness, hurt and unhappiness.
It is only as we begin to work for others that we begin to gain
some small understanding of what our place in life is meant to be.
Until we find that place, we are unfulfilled, selfish, restless and
grasping; we are living only half a life, and that half miserably
as we search for those things we feel we lack, but which we
never can put a name to.
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(Basement of Ward Bldg.)
For Plumbing Supplies and Repairs
ALL WORK GUARANTEED—PHONE 33
McCOOL’S BARBER SHOP
(In Rec Hall)
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Three flights weekly
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FOB BENT
OFFICE SPACE, Koalosky Bldg.
Inq. Jan Koalosky.
FOR SALE
’37 FORD pickup with ’41 100 j
h.p. Mercury motor; A-l condi-1
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FLAMO gas water heaters. Hart-}
ley Bros. Motors.
’33 PLYMOUTH 4-door sedan;
new tires and battery, new
paint job and upholstery. Hart
ley Bros. Motors.
ROTO-TILLERS, the power tool
of a thousand uses. Hartley
Bros. Motors.
TAPPAN gas stoves and regu
lators. Hartley Bros. Motors.
CERTIFIED Blue Tag Arctic
seed potatoes; passed Montana
laboratory test for ring rot.
10c f.o.b. Palmer. See J. L.
Cope.
M I S C ELLANEOUS household
furniture; reasonable. See Mrs.
Harold Morton, Matanuska
Valley Bank.
WORKHORSE, 12-1400 lbs.; rea
sonable. Inq. Lazy Mt. Chil
dren’s Home.
MONTGOMERY-WARD washer,
electric; handwringer, nearly
new; crib mattress; blue taf
feta formal size 16; 2 pr. silk
brocade lamp shades; 2 wool
Navy blankets. W. L. Zeile.
KITCHEN RANGE, pot type oil
burner w/blower; Coleman oil
heater, 50,000 B.T.U.; both
stoves used very little. See Bill
Hecker.
88-ACRE farm, 7-rm. house,
water, lights; 30 acres cleared;
4 Vi mi. north of Palmer. Inq.
David Bryant, Box 1848, Pal
mer.
SPRING’S JUST AROUND THE
CORNER.
Army needs the Spuds,
We’ve got the seed.
Certified Arctic Seedlings, 10c
lb. Leave orders at Loberg’s
Quonset or write Box 1836,
Palmer.
LAND, 10 acres; 4-bedroom
house on full concrete base
ment. House unfinished but
livable. 3 blocks s.e. of Palmer
school near airport. Inq. E. D.
Culver, Box 889, Palmer.
ATTENTION!
127-ACRES good farming land;
approximately 8,000 feet sea
soned lumber; large lake suit
able for small plane landing.
See George Small, Palmer, be
tween 5 and 7 p.m.
4-ROOM HOUSE, modern; to be
moved. See Mrs. Matt Perkins,
ARRC office.
POSITION WANTED
PART-TIME stenographic work,
mornings; secretarial experi
ence, good knowledge of short
hand, typing. Inq. at office of
Valley Frontiersman.
WANTED TO RENT
10 ACRES gardening land for
summer; close in. Write Box
B, Frontiersman or inq. at
Frontiersman office.
HELP WANTED
COMPETENT WOMAN to assist
in housekeeping care of three
children; room, board, salary.
See or call Mrs. Jan Koslosky,
Palmer.
M. D. Snodgrass
REAL ESTATE
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Proprietors
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