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WHY ALASKAN RIVERS CROWD
THEIR RIGHT BANKS
By LAD GREB
If one travel along any Alaskan riv
er, or trace its course on a relief map
or a topographical map ,one may no
tice that where the river flows thru
a broad valley it shows a decided ten
dency to follow the base of the hills
along the right side of the valley. Yu
kon, Kuskokwim, and Koyukuk rivers
olTer good examples of this. The Yu
kon flats might seem to present an
exception, since the river flows ap
proximately through the middle of the
flats. However, this is only an appar
ent exception, for the flats on the
north side have a considerable slope
toward the river, though to the eye
they appear level. The right or the
northern edge of the true bottom of
the valley is really marked by the
course of the 1 iver.
The cause for this behavior of the
rivers is found in the rotation of the
earth and the high latitude of Alaska.
The earth has a circumference of a
little less than 25,000 miles, and since
it makes one revolution around its axis
each 24 hours, its surface at the Equa
tor travels eastward at a speed of ap_
proximately 1,000 miles an hour, while
at the poles it merely turns at a speed
of only half of that of the hour hand
of the clock. Any point on the equa
tor is about 4,000 miles from the cen
ter of the earth, and therefore also the
same distance from the axis of the
earth, since the latter, in passing thru
the poles, must also pass through the
earth’s center. Any point of the
earth moves eastward at a rate of
speed that is proportional to the dis
tance from the earth’s axis. Express
jn gthis trigonometrically one might
say that the speed is proportional to
the cosine of the latitude. The cosine
of 00 degrees is 0.5. That means, in
the latitude of Seward, Alaska, the
distance from the earth’s axis is only
half of what it would be at the equa
tor or about 2,000 miles. The speed of
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the surface of the earth at Seward is
therefore only half of the speed at the
Equator, or about 500 miles per hour.
However, this does not mean that Sew
ard is half way between the North
Pole and the Equator; from Seward to
the Equator is just twice as far as
from Seward to the North Pole. These
distances are about 4,000 miles and 2,
000 miles respectively. As this indi
cates, the speed of the surface of the
earth changes more in a given dis
tance along a meridian in the Polar
regions than in the same distance in
the Equatorial regions.
The speed at the Pole is zero. At a
distance of one mile from the Pole it
is about 1-4 mile per hour; at a dis
tance of two miles, about 1-2 miles an
hour; at three miles, about 3-4 miles
per hour .That is, the speed increases
about 1-4 mile per hour for each mile
away from the Pole. But, though the
speed continues to increase all the way
to the Equator the acceleration or rate
of increase, becomes smaller as one
goes southward, and within 1000 miles
or so from the Equator the increase is
negligible.
As already stated the surface of
the earth at Seward moves eastward
at a speed of about 500 miles per hour
A point on the Arctic Circle, about
450 miles to the northward, moves at
about 400 miles per hour. If we could
shoot a cannon ball from Seward to
the Arctic Circle, this ball would car
ry with it the eastward motion of the
starting point ,and when it arrived
at the Circle it would be traveling to
the eastward at a rate of a hundred
miles per hour faster than the east
| ward motion of the surface of the
earth at that point. When something
! stopped it there would be quite a col
; lision .If we should shoot the ball in
the opposite direction—from the Cir
cle to Seward—it would arive at Sew
ard with an eastward motion a hun-!
dred miles slower than that of the'
earth at that place, and it would there |
ffjfc appear to move westward at this!
! rate.
It would probably bury itself quite
! deeply in the side of Marathon Moun
tain. If we could shoot the ball in such
a way that, instead of passing free
j through the air, it would roll through
a trough all the way, there would not
be any violent collision at any point
but the ball would crowd against the
east wall of the trough in going north
and against the west wall in going
south. Similarly a river will crowd
against its east bank when flowing
; north and against its west bank when
j flowing south. Theoretically a river
flowing due east or west should not
be affected, but such a river could only
have a theoretic;^7existence, since all
j rivers meander more or less, and are
1 therefore flowing north or south to
! some extent practically all the time.
Of course this phenimcnon is not
confined to Alaska, or even to similar
latitudes, since, theoretically at least,
it applies to all of the northern hem_
isphere; but it is only in the North
that the effect is very pronounced, and
Alaska offers the best examples to be
found in any possession of the United
States. In the southern hemisphere,
the effect is reversed, that is, the riv
! ers tend to crowd their west banks.
THE BAD HABIT
_
Are you one of those cocksure per
I sons who think any old kind of a habit
i can be broken at will—if the will is
strong enough?
Try it sometime and see what a joke
that is!
Lots of strong willed persons go
sailing gaily a’ong through life, ac
cumulating one bad habit after anoth
er, secure in the consciousness that
they could cut them all out—when
they felt like it.
They’d be horrified if they thought
they (ouldn’t stop anything—if they
wanted to.
Sometimes they try, just to convince
themselves or someone el so, that they
are captains of their own souls.
And then they come to with a dull
and sickening feeling of bewilderment
when they find it takes an almost sup
erhuman effort to cut loose from some
simple little bad habit which seems in
nocuous in itself, but which, taken as
a finger on the wall sort of thing, as
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rumes the proportions of a juggernaut.
And the worst of it is that one never
realizes the strength of a bad habit
until it is too strong to be lightly brok
en!
That’s the insidiousness of the thing.
Also one reason why it’s a good idea
to take stock of one’s funny little
kinks and foibles and bad habits like
talking about one’s neighbors, eating
too much, or trying to put a crimp
in Mr. Volstead’s idea or any of the
thousand and one human failings we
all acquire as we meander through
life—and give them a good talking to
now and then!
There’s nothing quite so treacherous
as the feeling that all one has to do
to discard a bad habit—is just to
quit.
How many times have you heard
some one say that they’d stop a cer_
tain unpleasant habit, which was un
der discussion, a little later,
Think you could stop eating pastry
and sweets, if you wanted to
Try it and see just how easy it is’nt.
You’d hate to think you couldn’t give
up smoking cigarettes if you wanted
to, wouldn’t you?
What if you wanted to overcome a
habit of never being able to keep with
in your allowance either for the house
or your personal needs.
Just try making yourself do it—and
see what a straggle you’ll have to put
it across!
Try any of them—big and little—
simple little annoying traits or great
big character defects, and you’ll soon
come to the conclusion, that you’re on
ly a poor weak sister after all, and
have no backbone worth mentioning.
And when you have reached that
conclusion, there’s hope for you.
Just the very moment one gives
proper respect to a bad habit and he
sheers off as though it were made up
of component parts of nitro-glycerine,
that minute the thing becomes as in
nocous as a bumble bee with the sting
extracted.
FOREST PROTECTION WEEK
The idea of setting aside one spec
ial week on the year to be devoted to
education of the people of the United
| States in the care of fire in the forest
! originated in the Northwest in 1920.
I Such a week has been observed with
! increase of success each year .
Forest protection is a duty of the
! whole nation, to be preached and prac
; ticed by the private individual and the
| public officer of territory, state or fed
eral government. We are all interested
in this as we do not want to import
| our timber supply in the next gener
ation, which will become a fact if we
do not about face and save useless
i waste caused by forest fires.
It is not easy, however, to apply a
j measuring stick to the results of such
a campaign. Forest Protection week
has proved its value. The concen
tration within one week in the year of
fire prevention efforts draws the pub
lic’s attention to the subject as no
other volume of effort spread over the
other fifty-one weeks of the year could
nossibly do. It is not meant that For
est Protection Week should be limited
to seven days in April but in one week
concentrated efforts are being made to
impress upon the public mind the seri
ousness of forest fires.
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AMTUN YURINOVIC WANTED
Inquiry has been received at the
Governor's office concerning the
whereabouts of Mr. Antun Yurinovic,
who left Dalmatia 17 years ago to
come to Alaska. When last heard of
he was at Iditarod. Any information
concerning this man should be for- j
warded to the Governor's office, Ju- j
neau, Alaska.
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NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION
TO RE HELD ON TL'ESDAY,
APRIL 29, 1924.
To the Qualified Electors of the Town
of Seward, Territory of Alaska, Di
vision No. Three.
Notice is Hereby Given: That pur
suant to the requirements of Chapter
89, Session Laws of Alaska, 1919, ap
proved May 3, 1919, a PRIMARY EL
ECTION will be held on Tuesday, Apr.
29th, 1924 for the purpose of nominat
ing candidates of the various political
parties in the Territory of Alaska for
the following offices, to-wit:
A Governor of Alaska.
A Delegate from Alaska to the
House of Representatives of the
United States.
An Attorney General for the
Territory of Alaska.
A Member of the Territorial
Senate for the Third Division of
the Territory of Alaska.
Four Members of the Territor
ial House of Representatives for
the Third Division of the Terri
tory of Alaska.
Two Road Commissioners for
District No. Three and for the
purpose of electing the following
party officials, to-wit:
A Democratic National Commit
teeman from the Territory of Al
aska.
A Republican National Commit
teeman from the Territory of Al
; aska,
Six Delegates to the Democratic
National Convention.
Six Alternates to the Democrat
ic National Convention,
Two Delegates to Republican
National Convention.
Two Alternates to the Republi
can National Convention.
The Incorporated Town of Seward,
Alaska constitutes one voting precinct
and the Mayor and Common Council
of said Town, by Resolution to such ef
fect duly adopted, have designated the
Town Hall in said Town as the polling
nlace wherein such election shall be
held and have authorized and directed
that ,in accordance with law, notice
thereof be given.
Thei’eupon between the hours of
| Eight (8) o’clock in the forenoon and
j Seven (7) o’clock in the aftemon of
' said Tuesday, April 29th, 1924, in the
Town Hall at Seward, Alaska a pri
mary election will be held for the pur
poses hereinbefore set forth.
Qualifications of voters: Must be
a citizen of the United States, 21 years
of age; Must have resided in the Ter
ritory of Alaska one year continuous
ly and within the incorporate limits
of the Town of Seward, Alaska, thirty
days continuously, next preceeding the
date of said election.
Dated at Seward, Alaska, March 24,
1924.
(Seal) WM. H. WHITTLESEY,
Municipal Clerk of the Town of Sew
ard .Alaska.
Date first publication March 27, 1924.
Last Publication April 28, 1924. Daily
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