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penny wise found foolish
One of the big- problems facing the
nation today is the saving or elimi
nating waste of the timber resources.
We are using our timber four times as
fast as it grows. Timber burned by
forest fires is used timber ,a useless
waste when we consider over half of
the fires are man-caused. National
efforts are being made to reduce man
caused fires. Each year time and mon
ey are expended. In face of this,
headway is not being made as rapidly
as should be. Has the cart been put
before the horse?
Who sets the fires, anyway? Usu
ally they are charged to railroads,
campers, smokers, hunters, incendiar
ies, and the like, which boiled down to
the essence means, “mere man.” He
is the man we are after and 100,000,
©00 more of his kind .There is where
the seat of the whole matter lies and
there is where the cure must be ap
plied. And that cure is not going tc
be accomplished, either by buying
long handled shovels or by hiring mer
to use them .
There is just one effective way oi
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defeating the Red Enemy of our for- 1
ests, education of the public to use
care in the forests.
Isn’t it time we were putting our
best foot foremost on the job ? “A
penny saved is a penny earned,’' they
say, but it surely is not when it comes
to the fires in the forests.
HELP THAT COUNTS
On the Routt National Forest in |
District 2, Rocky Mountain District,
a cattleman was driving a bunch of
beef cattle to a shipping point.
He saw a smoke in the Forest, turned
the cattle into the first field he came
to ,returned home, got the flivver and
started with another man for the fire.
Before he arrived he was advised that
a sawmill was afire, that the surround
ing timber was not menaced and that
there were plenty of men on the job
to do everything necessary. He return
ed, picked up his cattle and went on.
Much nearer at home we have a
i case of this kind of help. A prospec
tor found a fire, last summer, which
he was not able to handle. He walk
ed seven miles and rowed eight miles
in order to get word to the local for-!
est officer. This is help that counts.
Prevent Forest Fires—It Pays! 1
A PROFIT is not without honor un
: less you have to bribe an official to
i get it.
A HICK TOWN is a place where
i culture means hand-painted china.
IT IS RATHER discouraging. The
more civilized we become the more
frequently we yell for the state mili
tia.
CORRECT this sentence—‘“How
dai-e you!” cried the congressman, as
he kicked the millionaire down the
stairs.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24—
Although the flight of the Shenandoah
to the North Pole in search of new
territory has been abandoned for the
year, the intervening period may be
profitably employed by organizing a
more effective administration of lands,
title to which the United States ac
quired by reason of the enterprise of
other American explorers.
Such a territory is Wilkes Land, dis
covered and charted by Commander C.
Wilkes of the United States Navy in
the course of a tour of the South Seas
in 1840. The bold coast line of that
continent extends for no less than 1,
500 miles approximately along the
Antarctic Circle from the 100th to the
160th meridians east of Greenwich.
Its eastern end is about 1,600 miles
south of New Zeland. Thence westerly
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CLEAN, SANITARY BATHS,
EXPERT BARBERS AND
REASONABLE PRICES KEEP
US BUSY.
LADIES HAIR EXPERTS
Ray 0. Lewis, Propr.
PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS
E. E. CHAMLERLIN
Candidate for Territorial Senator on the Republican
Ticket, Primaries April 29, 1924
Senator Chamberlin is a ’Telong Republican, was mayor of Seward
for two terms, lias been a member of the Seward Council, and owns
property here. lie served in the Territorial Senate at the last
two sessions. At the last session he supported the literacy test
for voters, the woman’s jury bill, the Soldier bonus bill, the pioneer
pension bill and the memorial protesting against fisheries reserves.
A RESIDENT OF ALASKA FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS
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LIBERTY
THEATRE
RICHARD BARTHELMESS
—IN—
the splendid heart-interest story,
‘SONNY’
The Star plays a dual role in an unusually
good plot.
All the acting is well above the average and
should be seen by everyone.
With it we will give a line Two-Reel Come
dy and a Pa the News.
Saturday—Mary Miles Minter and Tom Moore
Barn Dance A. B. Hall Saturday Night
there is a Ion gstretch of high lands j
and bluffs interspersed with towering
mountains. It is believed that Wilkes
land is continuous to the South Pole,
and in all probability contains vast
deposits of oil ,valuable metals and of
other minerals. In area it is almost
equal to half of the continental United
States.
The explorations of Commander C.
Wilkes are set forth in detail on
charts of the United States Navy and
of the British Admiralty. The title of
the United States to the territory is
generally admitted, for in all the 84
years since its discovery there have
been no other claims filed upon it.
But unless this country perfects its
holding and provides for the govern
ment of Wilkes Land it is likely to
j find itself involved in a controversy
over its control. Even now the British
are fitting out a ship for south seas
exploration which may visit the ter
ritory and set up conflicting claims.
Great Britain is keenly alive to the
potential value of land holdngs in that
part of the world. As recently as July
of last year there was an order of the
King in Council constituting the Ross
Sea sector of the Antactic Continent
a British dependency under the juris
diction of New Zealand. That sector
adjoins Wilkes Land on the east and
the British title is based on discov
eries by the British Captain Ross in
1840, the same year as the Wilkes ex
pedition. It is reported that in 1922
Ross sector yielded $4,000,000 of whal
ing revenues to New Zealand, and in
1923, $9,000,000. In 1917 the British
extended their dominion by constitut
ing the Falkland Islands Dependency
which now governs the sector between
20 and 50 degrees of west longitude.
Both of these British sectors extend
all the way to the South Pole.
Let us act before Wilkes Land suf
fers the same fate as has befallen
other discoveries of American explor
ers. In 1913 Captain David Porter of
the United States Navy discovered
and claimed the Marquesas Islands.
The discovery was not properly fol
lowed up and in 1842 the French took
over the islands and have remained in
possession ever since. In 1821 Captain
Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer
discovered Palmer Land, but the U. S.
was again negligent and that territory
is included in the British Falkland Is
lands Dependency. In 1881 Wrangell
Island, destined to become an import
ant station in the air route across the
North pole, was discovered by an Am
erican, but is now occupied by a Brit
ish expedition.
The immense natural wealth of this
new land will slip from our grasp if
negligence such as followed other dis
coveries is to be continued. Future in
ventive genius will surely find a way
to make that wealth available. Pend
ing that tihe all danger of loss of sov
ereignty over the country should be
removed.
Easter Cards and Candies, Schaller
er’s Alaska Shop. tf.
Barn dance at A. B. hall Saturday
night.
Vote for May Queen.
tf.
Eastman Kodak Agency, Schallerer’s
Alaska Shop. tf.
Parker’s Fountain Pens, Schallerer’s
Alaska Shop. tf. i
For Sale Cheap
Lot 26, block 10. with two-room
furnished house; price $1,000.
Lot 31 and south half of lot 32,
two five-room furnished houses, at
$5,000; basement and heating plants
in each.
Lot 10 and north half of lot 9, block
12; 4 room furnished house, $2,000.
And other lots from $100 to $500
each.
All houses have baths.
P. M. OGLE
OWNER
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