/alley FRONTIERSMAN
Published each Wednesday and Saturday
Palmer, Alaska
Intered as second class matter on Oct 21, 1947 at the post office
t Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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iola Daniels .Editor
von DeLand.Advertising Manager, Palmer
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Janiels —In the Lion’s Den
There are 24 of Palmer’s young people who will step from their
esk in a classroom into the beginning of their adult life next
'hursday evening. Some of them look forward to more schooling,
ut for most it will be an end to formal education.
For all it is an end to childhood. Those who do go on into
ollege will answer to a formal “Mr.” or “Miss” as they pass into
ew classroom routines. Those who stay at home, or who seek work
l other cities, will find an adult’s responsibilities thrust upon them.
,ess and less often will their careless and negligent acts be excused
ecause of their youth. Henceforth they will be expected to act
s men and women.
We who are older, who have seen many other commencements
ome and go, find there is much that we would say to the graduates
f 1948 as they hesitate on the doorstep to life. There are warn
lgs and admonitions we would like to voice, pitfalls we would
elp these young adults pass by.
There are hurts we would soften, bumps we would gladly
ike that their way might be smoothed. We blindly wish them
appiness, full and complete, forgetting that we never know a road
; smooth till we’ve been sorely tried by the bumps just past. We
-»-90t remember the savor of that smoothness is twice as zestful
ecause we know there are other bumps around some corner just
lead.
In our desire to help, we give too much. We lead young
aople to expect too much of the life ahead. We send our young
iults out in quest of happiness, giving them that as their goal for
fe. We forget that happiness is never in the here and now; that
jr only real content comes in death rather than in daily living.
We teach our young adults that the best in life is attained
rough the possession of money. By our example, we teach them
at we will reach an end to work, once we gather together enough
this world’s material things.
We forget that the only real satisfaction life gives is the satis
ction that comes with a job well done—that the only content
:e can bring is that which comes in the few moments’ pause we
ke to gaze on a finished job before we pick up the work of the
!W one ahead.
Therefore, the admonition I would give to Palmer’s 24 gradu
es, and to all young people everywhere, is to take time now to
id the one job you really want to do. Don’t be ashamed of the
sk that you know, in your heart, is yours. Neither be ashamed
spCnd time in decision, if you are not sure of that job.
Once your mind is made up, get all the training you can in
is job you choose. And once prepared, never lost sight of that
irk for a minute, even though other jobs may promise more in
lary or prestige. You’ll be happier in the work of your choice,
en though you struggle to survive, than if you were president
the nation’s biggest corporation.
There’s a satisfaction in doing the work you like, in the sense
achievement you get from that work, that can never be measured
dollars and cents. It will stay with you through your darkest
imgpts, and will see you over every bump. And as you come
the close of your adult life, you know that this was happiness.
FRONTIERSMAN ADS BRING RESULTS
Mac’s Plumbing and Heating Shop
(Basement of Ward Bldg.)
J£
For Plumbing Supplies and Repairs
ALL WORK GUARANTEED—PHONE 33
McCOOL’S BARBER SHOP
* (InRec Hall)
SPECIALIZING IN
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Weekday business hours from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday business hours from 10 a.m. to 10 pun.
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One of Our 300-watt Slide Projectors Will Bring
Out the Beauty in Your
KODACHRONES
>VE Model AK, 300-watt.$63.90
lolde Manumatic, 300-watt.$71.50
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Ads
FOR RENT
OFFICE SPACE, Koslosky Bldg.
Inq. Jan Koslosky.
FOR SALE
CABIN, 2 lots, 50 x 200; located
in North Palmer. Inq. Valley
Frontiersman.
DAVENPORT, chair and otto
man, $25; large Philco radio,
$35; White electric sewing ma
chine, $30; washer and tub,
$35; lamps, end tables, misc.
household articles. See Mrs.
Morton, Matanuska Valley
Bank.
’41 BUICK, excellent condition;
new paint, new tires. $1,650.
Hartley Bros. Motors.
TWO ANTIQUE floor lamps, one
hand-hammered brass, one
Italian marble; Singer treadle
machine. See Mrs. Stinson,
first street north and parallel
w/Anchorage highway, third
house no. side of street.
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.
88-ACRE farm, 7-rm. house,
water, lights; 30 acres cleared;
4V£ mi. north of Palmer. Inq.
David Bryant, Box 1848, Pal
mer.
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.
POSITION WANTED
PART-TIME stenographic work,
mornings; secretarial experi
ence, good knowledge of short
hand, typing. Inq. at office of
Valley Frontiersman.
NOTICE
FOR BREAKER PLOWING, disc
ing or general field plowing,
..write or see Wallace Moffitt,
Box 741, Palmer.
Dairy Expert Discusses
Herd Improvement Plan
Dr. William Sweetman, in
charge of the improved dairy
breeding program established by
members of the Matanuska Val
ley Dairymen’s Association, met
with the dairymen at their regu
lar meeting last oMnday eve
ning. He outlined the herd im
provement program in detail and
assisted in working out plan
ning leading to the initiation of
the program here.
The thoroughbred bulls to be
used in the Valley’s herd im
provement project already have
arrived at the experiment sta
tion.
IwibwT —Xdr.
Coltey Insures ETwylblag—
M. D. Snodgrass
REAL ESTATE
Dairy and Vegetable farms
City Lots Acreage
Mstoa—ta Electric
Association, Inc.
W. B. BARNHARDT
Dimension Lumber House Logs
Write Box 682. Palmer
(Mill located on Lower Butte road)
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