j VALLEY SETTLER, Palmer A^ska.
Carl Rasmussen, Editor.
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FREEDOM FROM WANT AND FEAR::::::
Last week President Roosevelt addressed a group of people who were
appointed, to represent a collection of nations who are now engaged iif
a common effort to win a great war, this conference was called for the
purpose of making plans to feed and supply the many people who are,will
still be, after the war is won, hungry and unclothed. This is somewhat
of a novelty because wars usualy concentrate on destruction,and while
the battles still rage,little is usualy *thbught about the aftermath.
To a 7/orld of war weary, cynical people this is refreshing and it
kindles new hopes in the human mind,ito the millions who have never
known anything but fear and want it probably dosent mean much, because
they have no hope and cant believe that anything good is going to be
done for them, but to the people who have enjoyed some of the comforts
of life and who have been fairly well fed and cjothed until the present
holocrust swept over their homeland it means everything, and t!a, only
thing needed to make it an actuality, is the winning of the war.
Not only is the pirn noble and charitable in its purpose, w.ll fitting
•to the thoughts and training of a Christian Nation, but it is also
very good from a strtcgic standpoint, it offers inducements for support
from the people, whom it will benifit, in resistance to the enemy and
will undoubtly furthur cooperation in the war effort against the Axis.
While we hope and believe that all loyal Americans will support this
lan, yet to those who are acting as our loaders,it provides a challenge
o also clan and act to provide relief from WANT and FEAN to the people
in our own country who are not too well fed and who live in fear of the
men who control their destinies.
It might also be pertinent to say that would be Dictators, who are
continualy trying to suppress and dominate their fellow citiz if , are
not confined to any partarcular country, every :,ation has them nr.d we
in America have our share, the only reason that they do not dominate, is
because we have too many people who are concious of the benifits of
freedom and independence to the individual citizens and who will resist
the subversive efforts of this class to the utmost.
It was truly said,that; ETERNAL VICAEANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY.
CREDIT, WHERE CREDIT IS DUE.
Announcement comes from our sister city of Anchorage, that the supply
of milk is now large enough to make rationing unessary for the present.
While the supply is still not to large, the problem that confronted, the
Farmers in the Mat anus k-' Valley and their Cooperating Distribut tion
facilities seemed to make the question hopeless a few short months ago,
but like all good farmers everywhere, there was no let down, except in
a very few cases, milk was produced and sold just the same. High feed
costs, mounting debts and payment of burdensome installments on new
facalities,required by the Army and Territorial Health Authorities,
from their bross income, would have discouraged any but the most rugged
individual. These men didnt sell or dispose of their herds when times
looked hopeless and help was not available, appearantly. Then just when
skies looked the darkest, help came in the form of a very subst; r.tial
"ayijient from profits derived from the Milk Fool for last years business.
nd a raise in the price of milk. Valley Dairymen are not out of the Wood
yet, but it looks a lot better and to those who have stuck through thick
and thin, we feel that a vote of thanks is due. If this is not the true
practice of Patroitsm, when men continue to produce things that are need
so badly, even tho they cant see anything but a bare living in it for
them, then we need another Dictionary. Farmers who jump from one job to
another, just because it seems to offer greater financial returns, are
right in a class with Job-jumpers engaged in War production wor1r, about
whom we hear so much.