THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1919
SURVEYS WANTED
Now that the eyes of America are
turned on Alaska, and Southeastern
Alaska in particular, for paper, every
thing possible should be done by the
territory and the federal government
to furnish prospective investers with
the information which will induce
them to settle, build factories and
establish large logging camps.
Nothing in the way of industry
means more to every town in South
eastern Alaska now than the devel
opment of the paper industry. With
it will come workers’ homes, new
cities and larger cities, bringing in
their wake the means of livelihood
for thousands of people. This will
come in time, but it can be made to
come almost immediately by some
good systematic work.
Every piece of timber land in
Southeastern Alaska should be sur
veyed, cruised and platted, and every
stream in it should be surveyed, as
to the waterpower. If such streams
were surveyed and all the timber
platted and cruised, it would be an
easy matter to furnish prospective
investors with the information which
would bring them to the country.
Everyone in Southeastern Alaska
knows that it has wonderful power
sites that would ifurnish sufficient
electricity for all the paper mills that
could be built, as well as for smelters
using the new Swedish process of
electricity, but the investors don’t
know that.
Therefore, as it would be to the in
terest of all the country, city councils,
commercial bodies and citizens in a
private capacity should communicate
with Delegate George Grigsby, ask
him to introduce a bill appropriating
not less than $2,000,000 to have a
thorough and complete survey made
of all the waterways in the South
eastern part of the territory. Such
an appropriation would be a good in
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terest on his money.—Ketchikan
Chronicle.
THE JOYS OF AN EDITOR
One half of the world doesn’t know
how the other half lives, but the
chances are they don’t care a hang,
anyway. There are tricks in all
trades but ours, and as a result the
life of a country editor is just one
glad, sweet song from early morn till
dewy eve. The chances are that al
most. every man in our town envies
the editor the easy life he has and
the joys of living which are his at all
times and places. Nobody expects
the editor to work, and ANYBODY
could get out a (better) paper in our
town, and we ought to be happy
though poor and are—both. But,
once in a while comes a day when all
does not go merry as a marriage bell
(which always makes merry at the
joke it is playing on ONE of them)
and things don’t happen for publica
tion, and therein hangs a tale on such
occasions.
This is one of “them” days. You
can pity the sorrows of a poor old
man or not, as you darn please, but
it’s no joke. From 6 to 10 a. m., we
had no cause to worry, for our time
-was fully and agreeably occupied ir
doing the housework. The govern
ment editors and the Literary Digest
wrote the editorial for us, and from
10 to 11 we searched the town foi
news, which -wasn't. From 11 to 12
was luncheon hour for the children,
which we had to take them to, and
on returning to the office we found
a note from the operator-in-charge
to the effect that the telegraph sys
tem has a string halt today and the
chances were good and plenty that
the telegram which arrived at mid
night last night and is therefore
dated today, is probably the only one
we will receive today, because of wire
troubles.
And there’s the telegraph page to
fill and the news pages to camou
flage for our benefit and that of Jack
Pegues, and at 4 o’clock comes the
night shift, the dinner to get and the
house to put to bed, and tomorrow is
another day, in our town, and. you
never can tell. It may be worse.
We could print a page or two from
the Encyclopedia Britahnica, (old
news, but good news) but who the
-would want to read it? You
won’t get out and DO anything worth
writing about, and the last time WE
did they arrested and fined us, and it
isn’t worth the money. The only
thing we can see to do in this real
emergency is to write like this and
keep the Mergenthaler orperator busy
“setting” type and cause you to read
it in lieu of news, for there is nothing
else to write about.—Fairbanks News
Miner.
MISSING LINK IS
FOONDINCONGO?
Can Talk in a Way to the Na
tives, Declares Professor
Garner.
LURES MALE TO DEATH
Professor Imitates Call of Female and
Secures Specimen of Strange An
imal—Spends Over Two
Years in Congo.
New York.—Prof. R. L. Garner, nat
urUiist and student of monkeys, return
ed recently with lour tons of speci
mens for the Smithsonian institution
in Washington and a description of
an animal, a cross between a gorilla
and a chimpanzee, which he avers
was of such high intelligence that it
could talk to a limited degree to na
tives in the French Congo.
The naturalist said he had spent two
years and seven months in the French
Congo In the interests of the Smith
sonian institution.
Region Called “Infested.”
“In all my travels through the jun
gles I have never come across such
a strange animal as the talking go
rilla,'’ he said. “I first heard of the
beast from natives in the Congo, who
said that a certain region was infested
with the animals, with which they had
learned to talk after a fashion.”
Professor Garner said he induced
four natives to accompany him to the
habitat of the animals. He said he
found they had told the truth and he
himself set about to learn to talk to
the monkeys, which, in the dark, could
he taken for natives.
Lures Male to Death.
One night several of the man apes
approached the edge of the village and
uttered a strange call which sounded
like “Waa-hooa,” Professor Garner
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Cculd Talk to Natives.
tiie male for its mate. Interpreted, it
meant: “Where are you?” The an
swering call, given* usually by a fe
male. is “Ahooahoo,” meaning, as Pro
fessor Garner said, “Here I am.”
Professor Garner said he spent
weeks perfecting himself in imitating
the call of the female. Then one night
he answered the call of a male ape,
and, to his surprise, the animal bound
ed briskly over the ground to where
he stood, witl^his rifle in hand. He
said he shot the animal and brought
its body back with him.
The ape, he said, was more than
six feet tail and weighed 200 pounds.
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