Around The q
By Observer
‘It happens elsewhere, it can
happen here," might be < title
of this column. What might he con
sidered a grudge fight ha~n«ned
at City Hall the other day. It was
between a man who has champion
ed many a battle before, but ihey
have always been verbal. He is not
ed for picking flaws in the City
Administrations mantle and mak
ing thrusts and sideswipes at its
armour, all by the power of speech.
This time he and a former
councilman had words, words that
lead to fisticuffs. The upshot was
a broken window, broken wall
board and smashed furniture. We
have it on good authority the two
lovely secretaries rushed into an
inner room and locked the door,
aparently fearing mayhem. Like
most such affairs between two non
professional combatants, order was
restored by bystanders, and noth
ing was settled.
We would like to have been pre
sent on this occasion so as to have
been able to give you a blow by
blow description. As it is we are
unable to report if the fight was
one-sided or even. Or whether it
will go down in history to rank
with the great fights of this and
earlier centuries. One thing we do
know, Government hill is a poor
place to stage a battle between two
irate citizens turned gladiators. In
the first place the present city hall
won’t stand much hard usage
without crumbling to the ground.
In the second place its a long way
down for the successful contender
to throw his opponent if he should
have a mind. The third and per
haps the most eloquent reason is
that the City’s Bastille is too close.
In jig time one could be thrown
into one of its cells and there re
main to languish and cool off.
We have always considered the
local school system quite adequate
and if anything, superior to many
Stateside, even though until re
cently the physical aspects were
not the best. It remained for a lit
tle child to give the answer as to
how effectively our schools teach
the children. One individual was
berating the school system, lack
of competent teachers, and the
schools in particular. He conclud
ed his tirade with a remark that
went something like this: “Kids
don’t learn anything in these (Ko
diak) schools. Why, they don’t
even learn the alphabet,” he said.
“Is that; so?” his listener rejoined.
Then turning to his own small
daughter, the listener said: “Do
you know the alphabet?” To which
the little tot replied, “Do you want
it in English or in French?” A lit
tle child can unknowingly, oft
times, give a more eloquent an
swer than hours of explaining by
a grownup.
Speaking of children reminds us
of another story told by a friend.
This happened during Halloween’s
Trick or Treat maraudings. He was
dishing out candy for about the
nineteenth time that night, this
time to a little tot who could not
have been over three years old.
As the little fist closed over the
candy, he said to the little child,
"Are you all alone?” The little
girl turned and pointed a fingei
into the darkness and said, “Oh,
no, my daddy is out there.” Sure
enough there was daddy about fif
ty feet away waiting for his little
cherub to come with her spoils.
When it comes to Halloween
nowadays, if you’re old enough to
walk, you’re old enough to paitici
pate. It was not always thus.
Whenever this time rolls around,
reminiscences indulged in brings to
mind many crude and evil pas
times that actually must have hurt
somebody. Gangs were organized
for the sole purpose of destruction.
They left in their wake uplifted
outhouses, chicken coops, torn
down trees, cattle let loose and a
thousand more things. We think
the younger fry of today, though
not angelic in their intent or ac
tions, are a great improvement
over the old, at least from our ob
servations in Kodiak.
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TffmH Knudsen, RaljA JohnSOW,
Henry Neseth, George Cornelius,
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