VALiTTY SETTLER is published
every Friday by the I'atanuska Val
ley Farrier’s Cooperating Associa
tion at Palmer, Alaska.
Mng. Editor: Irving Yowville
Subscription rates: ..1.00 year
By nail: 51.75 year
hailed Anywhere: .10 copy
This paper is issued for the pur
pose of giving information and
news of the Latanuska Valley Far
mers Cooperating Associations
work, problems, accomplislanents,
also news of local and general
interest and to foster t’-e Co
operative snirit of the Farmers
of the Matanuska Valley.
In compliance with a re
quest from Frederic .7. Ayer, Ad
ministrator of Territorial de
fense Savings Service, a committ
ee has been formed in Palmer to
start organizational work on
a campaign to sell defense Bonds
and Stamps, The committee ap
pointed for this work is composed
of hessers DeLand. hullaney, lo
home.. , - arold dice, heal ./ri_ht
and ilet'ic'ames Dorothy Anderson and
Beatrice huntley.
Io~tmaster DeLand said today,
11-he sale of bonds hero has been
most gratifying, the local sup
ply has been sold out and the
names of applicants are on file.
I.ore bonds and stamps will arrive
soon,1'
Leave your name with l.-Ir. le
Lnnd and signify the denomination
of bonds you wish to purchase
and deliveries will be made as
soon as they arrive.
There are a few people who
have not yet realized the advan
tage of financing cur car'by the
purchase of Defense Bonds.
Invest your dollars now in
Security - Democracy - Freedom.
Fight off yhe aggressive enemies
of Democracy and after the Far
is won, those same dollars will
help, finance the reconstruction
which follows every Far.
Reports have been made of
a Japanese Aircraft carrier off
the coo.st of Alaska in the vici
nity of Seward. Bo cause of heavy
fog and rough water the carrier
was unable to launch her planes
and had to leave.
Those waters are not al
ways rough nor is there always
fog.
Military authorities cont
inue bo urge the observance of
morning blackout.
Remember Pearl Harbor
V/ould you like to think on
some future day that it was your
light the Japs used as a beacon
to guide-the landing of a raid
ing party that wiped out the
lives of several of your neigh
bors? Think it over - -
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, said
to be the best informed man in
the U.S. today on conditions in
the far north, is working night
and da2r in his Hew York office ..
surrounded by the largest pri
vate library on polar regions in
the world, on information for
the Army and Navy'about ^ is fu
ture battle front. He has al
ready supplied the Army with two
million words, part of which ai*o
in an Arctica Annual, tolling
them how to live and got along in
the North. Then there is Con
fidential information for the use
of key officers also. Me is now
busy on a new work for the Havy
which will bo used as a guide for
ships and sailors that ply Ice
landic, Greenland!c and other nor
thern waters.
One does not hear much of
the details of military defense
preparations for a very good rea
son in the North but preparations
there would make it decidedly un
healthy for any invader*
In a straw vote conducted by an
Icelandic magazine last year Stod
anson was chosen.asrfavorite for
president if the country might be
come a republic.