THE FRONTIERSMAN
Entered as second class matter on Oct 21. 1947. at the post office
at Palmer. Alaska, under the Art of March 3. 1879
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THE PUBLIC AND UNIONS
A number of Senators Have proposed or will
onopose various kinds of limitations on the monopoly
power of labor unions, ar>d on an unbridled right to
all and prolong strikes which are gravely damaging to
*he public interest.
These Senators are not alone. It should be clear to
all including the unions heads that public sympathy for
*be organized labor movement, which was once over
whelmingly strong, has undergone a sharp decline be
cause of labor excesses.
The New York newspaper strike is one example.
So was the maritime strike along fne Eastern Seaboard.
So are shutdowns in missile and other defense installa
tions
The unions, to a large extent, have put themselves
n the same position as did numbers of big businesses
many years ago. Greed, arrogance, and an almost total
disregard of the public interest blinded these businesses
‘o the restraints which are a necessary compliment of
power, if power is to be tolerated. Legislation provided
control. Now legislation must curb union monopolies in
the interest of the rank-and-fife of the membership, as
well as everyone else.
A SOCIALIST FORECAST
(The following prediction was once made by Nor
man Thomas, six times a candidate for the presidency
on the Socialist ticket, many years ago.)
"The American people will never knowingly vote
'tor Socialism, but under the guise of liberalism, they
"will adopt TVA. Social Security, federal aid to educa
tion. public housing and compulsory health needs. They
’will adopt fragments of the socialist platform until one
day America will be Socialist without knowing how it
-came about."
! Unde*. 21
* ®y Dan Halligan
DEAR DAN. I'm 16 and my mother only lets me date
^wic? a week and then it has to he on weekends. If I go out
•on Sunday evenings, I have to he home by 9:30. She won't
let my boy friend come to the house on week days because
she Says he'll interfere with my studies. She won't even permit
him to give me a ride from the house to Christian Doctrine. I
have to walk.
She knows he’s a nice boy so I don't see why she won’t let
rne be with him more. Don t you think he should be able to come
up to the house once or twice a week? What curfew would
you put on a 16-year-old girl? Is 11:30 all right?—In Need of
Help.
-DEAR IN NEED OF HELP: When a girl is 16 and
is* allowed to date twice a week, she has very reasonable
parents. Neither do I see anything wrong with you
being in at 9:30 on Sunday nights. You have to pin up
your hair, etc, and it’s prcbably 10:30 or later before
you get to bed and you do need your sleep for that
bright Monday morning at school.
A curfew of 11:30 isn't too late for a girl of yc-ur
age on Friday and Saturday nights so at least we agree
there. However, while I see nothing wrong with the
boy giving you a ride to Christian Doctrine if he happens
to be going there himself, there's really no need for
nouse dates during the week. Maybe you have to be a
parent before you can understand how we think.
DEAR DAN: Do you see aything wrong with a girl of
*5 dating a boy of 20? My parents say he's too old for me but
E don’t think so. What’s your opinion?—Hope.
DEAR HOPE: Okay, if you don’t think he's too old
for you, let's say you're too young for him. He's strictly
out of your class. Most of your social activities for the
next three years will center around school—games,
dances, plays, etc.—and a youth of 20 would be out of
place involving himself with 15 and 16-year-olds. There
would be more problems than you realize.
DEAR DAN: There’s a boy in my school who keeps fol
lowing me around and I can’t stand him. Besides, I already
have a boy friend. Please help me. It’s getting terrible.—Little
•Girl
DEAR LITTLE GIRL: If the boy is becoming ob
noxious, tell your mother. She'll get him off the trail
—fast.
DEAR DAN: My problem is my little brother. He’s the
lyoungest of five kids and is spoiled. I’m spoiled too but only
• about half as much as he is. I’m also trying to control my
temper. When I do blow my top, he tells on me and I get into
trouble. When I try to reason with my parents, I get into more
'hot water. Please help.—Fed Up.
DEAR FED UP: The secret of your success lies in
your temper. Control it completely and you'll quit
getting into that hot water. Don't let your little brother
bug you either.
DEAR DAN: The people I baby sit for say it’s all right
"with them if my boy friend drops over to the house for an hour
or two but my parents won’t permit it. What harm can I get
Vito7—Angry Junior.
DEAR JUNIOR: Let's hope you can get into no
harm. Your parents are right. It's a matter of stand
ards. Teen-age girls just don't entertain their boy
friends alone in a house. The sleeping children wouldn't
count as chaperones.
"I have had on my desk, and
have read several times, the
three extracts from Baha'i writ
ings on Social Regeneration. Tak
en together, they form an unan
swerable argument and plea for
the only way that the world can
be made over. If we put into
effect this program, we should
indeed have a new world order."
DR. HERBERT ADAM GIBBONS,
Historian and Christian Scholar
unit)
IN THE
VsilLE'l
“I know of no part of Alas- ]
ka, nor even of all America,
which has greater potentialities
than has the Valley.” Thus
Governor Ernest Gruening con
cluded his luncheon address at
last Wednesday's Chamber of
Commerce meeting in Palmer.
He earlier had asserted that he
felt the Matanu.'ka Valley,
composed of a farming popula
tion. was least likely to suffer 1
I the ills brought about by a ;
transient population. since
farmers are most likely to put
| down root- upon which suc
* feeding generations may build.
m * *
Babies Collier. Pruitt and
Granger moved over in the
nursery at the Valley hospit
al late last week and early
this, to make rocm for four
more new arrivals. The nur
sery population of eight is a
peak record for the hospital.
i t * *
Henceforth the Army is go
! ing to do its part toward fos
tering Alaskan agriculture by
I buying the produce of local |
farms. Valley vegetable grow
ers %vere told at a meeting held
at Fort Richardson last week.
Not only does the Army plan
to buy local produce to meet
tiie needs of Fort Richardson. :
but it will buy vegetables for
other Army posts located in the
Territory, the farmers learned.
# * * |*
L. C. Stock and Ralph
Goodrich of Palmer flew to
Kodiak with Anchorage Elks
last weekend, there to assist
in the initiation of a class of
74 candidates for a Kodiak
Bill's Club.
Members of the Hospital As
sociation’s board of directors
have evolved a plan by which
they hope to raise a necessary
$50,000 for a new hospital
building, it was announced this
week by C. W. Peters, secre
tary-treasurer of the group.
The board plans to sell build
ing and improvement bonds in
$100 denominations in order to |
build their fund.
Strange Things
By Heinie Snider
Before the coming of the
white man, the population of
the Matanuska and Susitna
Valleys was made up of Alas
kan Indians. They were hunt
| ers, trappers, and fishermen,
On Our homestead on Lake
Lucille, you can still see the
trail leading to the outlet and
a small creek, where large sal
mon and trout were caught. Us
ing a trap made of willows,
- they also were able to catch
j migrating muskrats.
Many of the Indians became
victims of that great killer of
| Indians and whites alike, tu
i berculosis. Only a few Indians
! are with us today.
j Oldtimers can still remem
! ber Indian Jim. who wore a
navy coat and told everyone
that he had served in the U.S.
Navy. As a matter of fact, Jim
had been in prison at McNeil
Island for killing another na
tive. He became a trusty there,
and was a deck hand on the
prison boat, plying between the
island and Seattle.
There was Blind Nick. Tough
Luck. Stump. Chilican. and a
native hunchback we will
never forget. Captain Slivers
from old Knik.
Slivers never learned to read
or write, but was a good hunt
er. Although he could not read
a book, at reading tracks of
bear, mink, lynx, and other fur
bearers Slivers was an expert.
In those days, around 1917
1918, there were no unemploy
ment compensation payments.
From October until May we
had no work, so we trapped,
and cut some 15 cords of wood
by hand. We had no oil, coal
was too far to haul, and there
i were no roads.
Slivers and this writer be
came partners. He taught me
how to snare lowbush moose
(rabbits), and to catch beaver
for their hides (also to eat
them).
In Alaska there never was a *
color line. Slivers was a friend
in the Snider home. But two
things (both bad) he had learn
ed to like from his white broth- j
ers—whiskey and cigarettes. j
His stepfather was a whit<?<
man. by the name of MacNeil,
whom Slivers disliked very'
much. After a bootlegger sold
Slivers a bottle of moonshine
for some beaver pelts, the In- ’
dian got drunk and started a
rumpus, breaking windows and
fracturing a number of playing
records over MacNeil’s head.
The marshall, Frank Hoff
man, arrested Slivers and
brought him before the com
missioner, Leopold David, who
in turn sentenced him to three
months in the Anchorage klink.
Slivers was a model prisioner.i
and well liked by the inmates.
When friends brought candy,'
cigarettes, and cake. Slivers ]
was given his share.
Came the day when Slivers
had paid his debt to society,
and was informed by Frank
he was free, and could leave
the Bastille and go home.
Slivers mgrie no move to get
up from the bench he was sitt
ing on. All he said was, ‘‘When
him train go Wasilla?”
“Monday."
“Ugh. What day him today?”
“Saturday.”
“Good." said Slivers. “I stay
Monday.”
“No, you go now.”
“Me no go now. Me stay
Monday.”
Frank let him stay, and paid
his fare back to Wasilla.
We met him on the station
platform. He looked fine, about
20 pounds heavier.
Upon my question. “Where
have you been?”, he said, “An
chorage. Me stay good place.
No cut wood, plenty grub.
You go Anchorage, you stav
HOTEL FRANK HOFFMAN.
Good place stay!”
Choose your Pharmacist
; as you would
r choose a doctor
Place complete con
fidence in your
pharmacist, as you
would your doctor
in time of sickness—
for guarding your
health is his
only profession.
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Palmer
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THE AMERICAN WAY
Formula for Socialism
DANCE CLASSES OPEN SATURDAY
rveopening iui iut* >uminci
months this Saturday. March 2,
in Carpenters hall, Lorraine
Haas’s Valley School of the
Dance will again offer lessons
in ballet, tap, and toe to local
youngsters.
The time schedule for classes
is as follows: 10 a.m., pre
schoolers; children aged 6-8. 11
4.1.111., I li IC1 I * Itu JC1 It V. IIU'OV *
p.m.; and advanced classes, 2
p.m.
Those wishing to enroll chil
dren or seeking additional in
formation are asked to call
Joan Jensen at PI 5-4181.
Montana’s first white visitors
were French fur-traders in
1743.
THOUGHTS
OF A
LAYMAN
Forgiveness of Sins
The blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all sin. If we
confess our sins. He is faith
ful and righteous to forgive
our sins and cleanse us from
all unrighteousness. Christ
took upon Himself the sins
of the entire world, and died
for our sakes on the cross
that we might put on the
white robes of His righteous
ness. The gift of eternal sal
vation is free to all who will
receive it. “Behold the Lamb
of God that taketh away the
sins of the world.” There is
salvation in none other.
Emergency Brake
History proves that it's easy
to prevent suffering in time of
depression—just teach people
to quit showing off when times
are good.
THE ROLL-CALL
Those hardest to convince
that they are of retirement age
are school children at bedtime.
ST. JOHN
LUTHERAN
CHURCH
tnv. k. H. Frill,
Palmer, Alana
X-52S43
Oivin* Senicei II1OOA.M.
Sunday SchMl »:45 AM.
t WasiHa |
I Assembly of fieri I
Jj ■ *
Rer Paul E. Rilef, *
* Paalar * j
{ Sun. School-10 a.m.^ji,
| Morn. Church Sere. 11 a.m.*
*Even. SerT. 7:30 p.wi.*
* Prayer and Bible *
|: Study, Wednesday 7:30 p-m.*
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paying hands
these b.vnds m pRaveR
with fucntl'j poised
AS t€!l C.UheORAl COWCRS
in humptf supplic.vt.ion
oentlv now Reposed,
handsthat have soothed
the infant's cr\.
or. in love. cARessed
the wRinklco brow oi c.vce.
now lifted up
in PRAYCR!
these, pcav me, hands
arc youps And mine,
in chuqch, ^
At WORk,
oh home,
wheceveR you may Be,
£ hands that speak
' unfetteRCd
bV space, or haste, or time,
dean Ior6;
|| we ask thy outdance
in MOUH Of tRIAl
&*t, we arc thtne i ri
Sunday
Isaiah
38:1-6
Monday
Isaiah
45:18-23
Wednesday
Matthew
21:18-22
Thursday
James
5:15-20
Friday
Colossians
4 :2-6
Saturday
I Timothy
2:1-8
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