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A CP Unit Comes To Kodiak
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redited in
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when the people of Kodiak, as we!
as those in other commumtie!
throughout the territory, were ask
ed to give to a campaign launched
by the Elks lodges of the territory’
in an endeavor aimed at the treat
ment of victims of cerebral palsy
The affliction was little known tt
the average person, but the re
sponse locally was excellent. Th<
Kodiak lodge was “first with th<
most,” according to size of mem
bership, among the other lodges o:
Alaska. The splendid response
demonstrated that Kodiak Elk;
and others did not feel that
though charity begins at home, i
doesn’t have to be confined there
A coordinated effort whereby tb
heart of Alaska Elkdom was touch
ed, resulted in sufficient mone;
being raised to bring in a mobile
unit, which is stationed on tb
mainland, one in Southeastern an;
one in Kodiak. The one for Kt
diak armed this week
Three members of this common;
ty with children handicapped b;
this affliction, are now being ai
sisted by a trained Therapist, Dav;
Morns. As you know a cerebra
palsy victim walks, if at all. b
means of braces. With the car
M4IU guiuouLC XiUiU UJC UICJ
and help from the child's parents
he will be able to throw the brace!
away. This will take time, o:
course.
Every community has some grea'
need. The fact that there are onh
twelve cases of CP on the Islanc
may not seem to some people ai
many But when you stop to thinl
of the heartaches caused to par
ents who are confronted with thi
• problem, you realize it isn’t <
question of how many, but wha
‘ way can you assist them.
' The Elks organization is to b
complimented in placing this fin
service at the disposal of thos<
needing it. It is in keeping witl
the high principle of the B P. C
r E who have long been noted fo
, their fine, charitable acts and sei
, vice to the community. This, o
I course, is only one of the man;
. they perform every year. It i
gratifying to see where the dollar
. given a few years ago went. To al
levfate suffering, wherever it ma;
- be, in the furnishing of this unit
- it should be a great source of satis
1 faction to the organization's mem
bership. They can be sure the com
■ mumty will be eternally greatfud
Free Lodging Goes Begging
m. laitr ium uxue, dt\uriuag tu
patrolpien and others who have
beeB around Kodiak for some time
the City jail is empty of occupants
Even the annual jail residents,
who can almost be depended upon
to occupy a room for the winter,
as second, third and many-time o:
fenders, no doubt with the idea of
a place to hibernate for the "win
ter, are gone
This is the height of the “tour
ist" season for this popular resi
dence Some of the law-abiding
citizenry probably wouldn’t have
minded to have been in one of the
‘adequate” apartments during the
recent cold weather and winds.
Gone would have been their prob
lems of freezing pipes, keeping
warm and having the roof blown
off We have it on good authority
the food is good, too.
Many of the regulars, 1 am told,
could be depended upon, almost to
to the day, to be hauled in. Of
course, most of the time, it was
when winter's cold winds or disa
greeable weather set in. Since the
new jail was built, this was plush
lodging for many of them.
What is lacking? Why is it los
ing its popularity? Is the friendly
atmosphere gone, or the food be
low standards sets by these itiner
ant lodgers?
Seriously speaking, the answer
is that Kodiak is getting more law
abiding every- day. If you were to
make a comparison of communi
ties of comparable size in the ter
. rttory, Kodiak would rank in a fav
arable light with any of them.
■ This would probably hold true in
a like study with communities in
the states
iou nave probably heard
mother say she was anxious ti
.eave Kodiak because she didn'
want her child to grow up in thesi
surroundings and under “these in
fluenees.’ What was meant by thi
latter, we were never sure. We al
ways felt she would wind up wit]
her child among influences in th<
States just as bad or worse that
she would ever find here.
Your policeman on the beat wil
teli you there are less and less in
fractions of the law noted through
out the city. There are few drunks
' ery few disorderly, and a low per
cent.age of drunken drivers on th<
road. The latter is noteworthy, ii
view of conditions elsewhere in th<
territory, where this is a seriou
and oft-times recurring incident
of law infraction.
We do not mean to say Kodial
is a model town. It is not. But it
the last 8 or 10 years, the town ha;
progressively changed The transi
iion has been from a ‘‘hail-fellow
well-met-gone - tomorow" sort o:
town, to a family city, with a little
bit of civic pride creeping to th(
fore. Substantial houses represent
ing big investments have been anc
are still being built. Lawns ir
many cases are taking the place oJ
unsightly rubble and weeds. Yoi
even see an old house being paint
ed now and then, or new siding
put on
The down-town area is seldom
boisterous on a Saturady night un
like in the old construction days
^ et people seem to be enjoying
themselves. The same old friendly
greeting is there as you walk
along. We don't know how, or do
iwe. but Kodiaks reputation for
friendliness is far and wide, and
oft men turned as one travels
throughout the territory.
What makes a community stable?
Economic conditions of course,
play a big part in the changing
population The free-spending days
engendered by the war, when the
government spent huge sums on
defense work, and the worker
spent his earnings, mostly because
of sheer boredom, knowing there
was more coming from the same
source. Those conditions are gone,
and so is, for the most part the
itinerant worker.
A second factor that makes a
community stable, is the departure
of those, who, for one reason or
another “don’t like Kodiak." They
want to get into big cities, among
the glittering lights, big crowds,
etc., because they thought that
was wha! they missed Then there
are those who like Kodiak. They
remain.
Then, of course, credit must be
given the police force. By constant
patrolling, alertness and some mo
dern methods used, they have been
able to keep down the perecentage
: of minor infractions of th law. Ma
jor crimes haven’t been too much
. of a problem here. With that same
i empty jail, it would seem there
, was no need for policemen. That
i« the wTong kind of thinking.
Jails, in our estimation, neither
( keep people from committing
’ crimes, nor do they have any
’ great influence on deterring them
when they get out. But a police
1 man's duty and service to the com
■ munity goes far beyond that of
making arrests alone. His mere
- presence goes a long way in stabil
f izing a community. The little acts
he perforins, many times beyond
5 the call of duty, helps the citizen
5 and the community. He is not go
- mg to be very popular the next
i few days, when be starts checkin?
for license plates and City stick
_ ers. But, remember, he is only
. doing his duty.
Kodiak can be proud of that
empty jail. It speaks volumes for
a waterfront city dependent most
ly on seasonal work, and for a
community with a limited means
j of diversion Jails have their pur
, pose. An empty jail spells out a
^ healthy condition existing in a
community.
A Decision Is Made
1 The decision to run again, an
‘ nounced this week by President
• Eisenhower, has clarified the air
for both political parties
I The Republican party is particu- '
■ larly jubilant in that they have a ;
- candidate they can feel reasonably j
> sure has a good chance of duplicat- I
■ mg his win four years ago. They j
■ see in him the same popular man i
1 who caught the fancy of the voters i
: then. Whether his popularity has j
> waned remains to be seen.
■ The Democrats, on the other |
hand, are now in ^ position to I
: know what kind of a battle they j
1 will have to wage. It is reasonable j
; to suppose the politicians of the I
■ present administration will be car- j
ried into the next four years if Ike j
is a candidate and is elected Their i
only difficulty will be to determine i
what policies advocated by the Re- j
publican party are not in accord j
with those of the Truman admini- :
stration before 1952. The similari- \
ty has been more apparent since I
the Administration has been in of- \
fic-e. Adlai Stevenson, chief Demo- j
cratic contender, said “the main \
issue will be the policies and rec- ■
ord of the Eisenhower administra- <
tion.” ;
Health is a factor, of course, in |
carrying out the duties of the of- j
fice, but it is necessary to the im- I
portant question: Has the Admini- j
stration been successful the past ;
four years? Would we benefit by *
a change?
By TOM OKA
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