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Alaska., together with the other states and territories of the
3d States* has been asked to unite in a voluntary program of
conservation. We are asked to.eat no meat on Tuesday and
?gs or poultry on Thursday. We are asked to save at least one
of bread each day.
This voluntary rationing program, we are told, will help to
food for starving nations abroad. The program’s motive is
'. There are not many of us who would not willingly forego
; small luxury that others might have a necessity.
American housewives are ingenious. There is small doubt
many of us will feel any sacrifice in acquiescing with presiden
•equests to ration our food. Doubtless most of us will believe,
e^nobly nibble a well-buttered cracker in place of bread, that
slight sacrifice is our share in “winning the peace.”
That phrase “winning the peace” is becoming a catchword in
ricari vocabularies. We hear it in the mouths of political sooth
rs, radio seers and others of the brotherhood who make their
g foretelling the future.
So frequently does it appear, that some of us are beginning to
ler if that very frequent appearance isn’t an idication that there
rv serious doubt about our ability to do that thing.
Some of us, as we swallow cracker crumbs, even may go so
s to wonder about the relation of recently released facts and
es of government expenditure for new war machinery, and
tarving nations of Europe. ‘
Here in Alaska wTe learn that the Army Corps of Engineers
mnounced a seventy million dollar construction program for
airfields. Seventy million dollars would certainly buy more
?s of bread than Alaskans will conserve in several years of a
Hess diet.
Why not seventy million dollars of bread for a starving Europe,
ad of that much in new airfields for Alaska? Or do we win
peace only by virtue of our foot on someone’s undernourished
, while we brandish a bigger war club than any former enemy
ly can build?
We fast moderately that others may live, they tell us. Why,
thirty-five million dollars poured into airbases near Fair
s. where fields are being developed that will be large enough
ndle atomic bomb-carrying B-29’s and B-50’s? De we preserve
Dark of life in hungry nations, only until such time as we please
amp it out with atomic destruction?
As we spread jam on our tasteless cracker, there are some
lg us, who may even want to learn just what we have done to
this peace?” Are infantry troops maneuvering less than 150
; from Russian territory, our messengers of peace? Are large
field exercises for Army troops on American territory near
.ussia the strongest bid our diplomats can make for Russian
dhip and understanding? Do newspaper stories about tales
ght to American missionaries by friendly natives* who re
dly heard the story from Russian-dwelling natives, in regard
jssian fortifications, help us in this task?
There are many of us who would give much more than a daily
of bread to win this peace. There are millions of us who feel
,ve cannot live to face the barbarism of another war. We ask
that our government show us the way we must go to win
>eace and we promise to follow that path no matter how hard
/ay.~
3ut first we need proof of good faith from those who lead us.
re fatten Europe to fit her for another war? De we rebuild
to sow more bombs? Is there a mailed glove on the hand that
ws the blessing of bread?
Though we bicker and quarrel among ourselves, though we
ar short of our belief in brotherhood, that is the gift we would
w with our bread. We plead with our leaders that the blessing
ace goes with our gift of bread. May that be our part in win
this peace.
1 Funeral Plans
2 bodj!' of Bobby Ford, 19
Dld Wasjlla high school
i who accidentally killed
himself last Wednesday night,
will be shipped Outside for
burial in Oakland, Calif., Phil
lips-Mapleton Funeral Home of
Anchorage today indicated.
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Valley’s Future
As Industry Site
Interests ARR Man
Col. John P. Johnson, general
manager of The Alaska Rail
road. expressed keen interest in
the Valley’s progress when he
was a guest here last week.
Colonel Johnson asked many
questions of Valley businessmen
in regard to what had been done
to attract more business and in
dustry here;
He told these men that the
railroad soon is to have an ex
pert make a study of cities and
towns along the Railbelt to de
termine what industries can be
established in the territory.
Before the specialist comes, the
railroad manager told Chamber
of Commerce representatives
that he should like to meet with
the chamber soon to discuss fu
ture plans for Palmer and the
Valley. That meeting, which will
be held in the evening, is to be
called at Colonel Johnson’s con
venience.
Further announcement of time
and place of the meeting will be
made at a later date.
School Refuses
New Students
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potatoes. But I learned some
thing from it.”
The engineer believes the
greatest mistake farmers make
is in drawing conclusions from
former farming experience, with
regard to storage* and then at
tempting to make those same
ideas work here. As time passes,
they are apt to forget all the bad
things about that former exper
ience, and remember only the
best-of it, he believes.
He saidvhe had seen one type
of storage in use here, which he
would like to say was wrong.
Past experience has proved to
him that it should be wrong. But
until it has been tested in the
Valley, he feels he cannot con
demn its use.
In his 16 years of work in po
tato storage problems, Mr. Ed
gar’s greatest achievement has
been research which culminated
in the development of houses of
an improved type making use of
a new principle known as “shell
cooling.”
Under this plan, engineers
construct a building which pro
vides circulation spaces in the
wall and floor to allow cool air
to pass around bins of potatoes
instead of through them. The
method is effective in removing
excess heat given off by potatoes
and in maintaining correct stor
age temperatures.
Less Shrinkage
The plan thus helps to reduce
shrinkage and deterioration of
potatoes and thereby prolongs
the marketing period.
Assisting Mr. Edgar in the de
velopment of this new type con
struction were Myron G. Crop
sey, M. G. Huber, C. N. Turner,
C.'H. .Jefferson, L. E. Holman,
T. E. Long, H. O. Werner and
W. F. McGee.
The storage expert hopes to
be of help to Valley farmers by
publishing a circular of his
findings here. He has been tak
ing pictures of types of storage
facilities found on Valley farms.
His circular will be principally
pictorial, With illustrations show
ing the right and wrong of vege
table storage.
Here Last Year
This is Mr. Edgar’s second
visit to the Valley. He was a
member of a team of agricultural
specialists who studied farming
problems here last year. He re
ports that already he has seen a
recommendation he made then,
with reference to barn ventila
tion, now in use.
While Mr. Edgar was in the
territory on that first visit, he
was called to Seattle to confer
with a group of British agricul
tural engineers who had come
from England to discuss their
problems with him.
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