THE FRONTIERSMAN
Entered at second clam matter on Oct. 21. 1947, at the post office
at Palmer. Alaska, under the Act of March 3. It79
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THE IMPRESSIVE FACTS
Those who argue in favor of government run or
government dominated medicine, in one or all of its
many proposed forms, would lead us to believe that the
American people have little or no protection against the
costs that come with illness.
The American Medical Association's Council on
Medical Service now tells the facts. Among them:
Eighty-four per cent of the entire U. S. population is
now protected against health care costs by health in
surance or other means.
More than 140 million of us have hospital expense
protection, 130 million are covered for surgical expense,
and 97 million are protected for regular medical ex
penses.
Significantly, 60 per cent of the 140 million people
with coverage of this kind are over age 65. In addition,
93 per cent of the aged currently live in states which
have utilized the Kerr-Mills medical care program—a
program which provides federal aid under a system of
state and local administration, decision, and distribution.
Still another significant point is made in the AMA's
study. That proportion of the public which is without
health insurance coverage is, in substantial part, protected
in other ways. These include the beneficiaries of public
welfare, patients in institutions, members of the armed
forces and their dependents, and so on.
We have not reached perfection in this field—or
in any other. But the progress we have made has been
outstanding. And nothing in the record shows a need
for a system of medicine based, wholly or partly, on
political domination.
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By Dan Halligan
DEAR DAN: Today a few of my girl friends were over
and one of them phoned this boy I like. He didn’t talk very
long to us and after he had hung up. another one of my friends
phoned him and told him not be be mad at me because it hadn’t
been my idea to phone in the first place. But what happened
was that he told this girl he didn't like me anymore. Dan.
I really like him and want his friendship back. How can I get
it back?—Wondering.
DEAR WONDERING: Wait and hope is the only
advice I can give. There's nothing, absolutely nothing,
a boy hates moie than to be called by a girl and know
there are about a dozen other ears nearby.
Fourteen, 15 and 16-year-old boys embarrass much
easier than some of you girls believe. I don't blame him
one bit for what he said.
* * * *
DEAR DAN: I’m 15 and would like to know if it’s all right
if a person of my age smokes a pipe? I’m in a group of boys
who get together once a week for a meeting and everybody
there smokes a pipe but me.
I have a summer job and earn $17 or $18 a week and I
would be willing to buy my own pipe and tobacco. My father
says I’m not old enough to smoke and my mother says I would
look stupid. What do you say?—Darrell G.
DEAR DARRELL: If you could give me one good
reason why your buddies smoke pipes. I might be able
to give you a sensible answer. Why don't these guys eat
apples during the meeting? Why don't they drink milk?
f Why don't they chew gum?
If there's anything sillier looking than a 15-year
old boy smoking a pipe, it's probably these sweet little
old ladies with their blue hair smoking king-size cig
gies. Be the odd ball in your crowd—don't start smok
ing.
* * « *
DEAR DAN: I’ll list the facts first and then ask the ques
tion. I’m 15 and a sophomore. Bob is 17 and will soon be a
soldier for three years. We want to wait for each other and
after I gradute and he’s out of the Army, we want to get mar
ried. We’re sure we love each other and that this isn’t an in
fatuation. We enjoy being together. Our parents consent to
our waiting.
Do you believe we should try this because I have no
desire to go out with anyone else but Bob, and he feels the
same way about me. Should he give me a diamond before he
goes in service? We both agree this might make a difference
to some of the boys around here. The ring might also dis
courage me if I tried my flirting while Bob was away. I don’t
intend to but you never know about such things.
Give us your honest opinion—P. and B. of Pylesville, Md
DEAR PYLESVILLE STEADIES: Both sets of
parents agree to your waiting? Good grief, how stupid
can some adults be? If your parents encourage this
ridiculous situation one day more, they should be
weighed down with cast iron and dumped into the
nearest reservoir for about a week.
The facts are these: You're 15 and the quicker Bob
leaves town, the better off you two will be. I know
how romantic everything sounds to you and I also know
how dreary I sound but don't be a chump, will you?
Whether or not I hurt your feelings is the least of my
worries. Surely your clergyman doesn't condone this
planned tragedy, does he?
• * * »
DEAR DAN: If a boy calls a girl pet name's, such as
"honey” and "doll face,” does it mean he really likes her?—
Don’t Know.
DEAR DON'T KNOW: It could but I'll bet he calls
other girls by these names too. I also bet he believes
he's quite the lady's man.
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Voice Of The People
Strange Things
Somewhere in the Holy
Scriptures we read that this
world will be destroyed by fire,
but that the exact date is
known, not even to the angels,
but to the Father alone. This,
it seems, applies to the indivi
dual, who does not know when
i the Grim Reaper will break the
silver cords and take him or
her to a place from which no
traveler ever returns.
In the Old Country there is
a proverb, “Young people can
die—old people must die.”
Without question, we should
not know when the time has
come to leave this earthly
home. But do we?
In 1916 and 1917. there lived
a man on Ship Creek near An
chorage who was destined to
become, if not the greatest, one
of the greatest painters of the
then territory of Alaska.
He lived in a room above Mr.
McDonald’s silent movie thea
ter on Fourth Avenue, where,
for a nominal sum, he develop
ed pictures.
Many times, when I brought
our films for developing, I
found him with palette and
brush in hand.
In the summer, he would go
to what is now McKinley Park,
where he made drawings of
the greatest mountain on the
North American continent.
“Denali.” “The Silent One.”
"The Great one.” Mr. McKin
ley.
His wonderful painting of
the mountain, now to be seen
at the Matanuska Valley Bank
in Anchorage, was shown for
merly in the museum in Jun
eau. The story goes that a lady
visitor seemed to admire the
painting very much. She gaz
ed at it for hours from various
points of view. The next day
she was back again.
One of the attendants gave
her a chair, thinking she was
an artist. “You like this paint
ing?” he asked.
“I surely do. It's three-dim
ensional, with the beautiful
forest in the distance, and the
light shining on the river
winding its way. It seems so
peaceful that I can hardly
sleep with wanting to see it
time and time again. It holds
me in a spell, so to speak.
"But,” she said, “there is one
thing about the painting I do
not understand. Why, oh why,
did the artist paint that great
pile of rocks in the middle of
the picture?”
Sydney Laurence was a great
artist and a true pioneer. Some
times he slipped off the nar
row path, and made no bones
about it.
Once when he was painting
in the Hotel Anchorage a visit
or said to him, “Mr. Laurence,
you must like Alaska, accord
ing to your paintings.”
“Madam,” he said, “You are
mistaken. I do not. It is too
light in the summer, and in the
winter they can follow my
[ snowshoe tracks in the snow.”
Once, when Syd grew older.
I met him on the street. He told
j me about his wonderful part
| ner, his wife, who is also an
' artist, using Alaska flowers as
her subjects.
"But Alaska is not Alaska
any more. Too many strangers.
The oldtimers are on the way
out.”
The last time we met was in
| the Empress Barber Shop.
When he got out of the chair,
j he looked in the mirror to put
on his necktie. He smiled at his
; image, pinched his cheek, and
I said to himself, “Well, Syd,
you have had a good time
; while it lasted, but your time
! has come.”
He shook hands with Jake
Gotstein and Frank Cooper
i the barber. He told us he was
going to the hospital to die.
I We all laughed and kidded
! him. “You old buzzard,” some
one said. “You are good for an
other 25 years.”
He smiled and left. Walking
to the hospital, he arrived
around 2 p.m. At three o’clock
Dr. Romig was informed by the
Sister Superior that Syd was
in Room 9. The doctor opened
; the door, took one look, and re
turned to the office.
“Sister,” he said, “please call
the undertaker. Alaska’s great
est painter. Sydney Laurence
is dead.”
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Thursday. August 6, 1948
A series of evangelistic
meetings, in which Church of
God ministers from Kodiak
and Anchorage will assist Rev.
George Geiwitz of Palmer, will
open here tomorrow evening.
The services will continue
nightly.
* * *
A junior camp for the young
people of Anchorage’s two
Presbyterian churches and for
the Valley’s United Protestant
Church, opened at King’s Lake.
It will run for a five-day per
iod, closing on Friday.
» • *
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Batts
of Wasilla have accepted a
position as teacher and spec
ial assistant at Mountain
Village. Mountain Village is
a small settlement south of
Nome and is located on the
Yukon river.
* * •
The Westside Service switch
i ed owners last week. The sta
! tion is now operated jointly by
A1 Brager and John Leppan
en. Mr. Brager formerly was
mechanic for Tost's Service
I and Mr. Leppanen is associated
j with Wirtanen’s Tanker Ser
1 vice.
The Valley Theatre bulged
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LUTHERAN
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at tha seams last Saturday
night as a record crowd
gathered to hear the lecture
and see the films of Father
Hubbard, the "Glacier
Priest". Father Hubbard pre
faced the movies with his in
terpretation of the present
international situation. He
has just returned from two
years abroad. Before that he
was overseas with the Army
during the war years.
• • •
Lake George began to stage
its annual show last week. The
self-dumping lake, which
breaks through the ice barrier
at its outlet each summer about
this time, channeled through
the ice dam on Thursday. The
first small chunks of ice were
visible from the Knik River
bridge on the Anchorage-Pal
mer highway late Saturday
evening, and by Sunday morn
ing the Knik river, which is
fed by the lake water, had
risen three and a half feet.
THOUGHTS
OF A
LAYMAN
Old Clothes
Six hundred thousand men,
besides women and children,
marched out into the hot
Arabian desert. These He
brews who escaped slavery
under the Pharaohs were to
wander in this wilderness for
forty years. Several very
strange things happened
Six days in the week food
came down from heaven in
the form of manna. A pillar
of fire by night and a cloud
by day guided them at all
times. The Apostle Paul says
that this was our Saviour
Christ before His incarna
tion. Another miracle had to
do with their attire. Clothes
and shoes did not wear out
during this entire forty year
period.
The small, still voice of con
science is never that way when
it echoes back from the neigh
bors.
St. Bartholomew's
Episcopal Church
Morning Prayer —10 A.M.
Church School-11 A.M.
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THE
VOICE
Do you ever pause to listen to the
voice of God? We hear it every day,
wherever we may be.
In the whispering of tall trees . . .
the music of rushing brooks . . . the
songs of the birds . . . the gay laughter
of happy children ... we hear the voice
of the Great Creator. Through his in
finite grace a bird is enabled to sere
nade his mate, a tiny cricket chirps its
faint refrain. God is the Bringer of all
blessings to man and beast alike.
Let us give thanks to Him who has
so enriched our lives. Open church doors
beckon all over our land. Let us seek
the House of the Lord, and enter in to
pay Him homage. Here through prayer
and humility, let us re-dedicate ourselves
to His service and glorification.
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday I
Psalms John Proverbs Romans Isaiah I Corinthians Isaiah ^ *
100:1-5 10:25-33 17:1-6
5:1-8
12:1-0
12:4-11
35:3-10
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