The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-28

some respects America is becoming al jungle where huge snakes and tigers stalk their prey. Unless science brings about an early improvement, masses of human belngs may revert to former type In their methods of living, their lack of fitness for the higher things of life, they strongly resemble their near-relations which hang by their prehensile tails among the leafy boughs.
 Night editors of outside newspapers keep regular directories of the leading town freaks, all of whom visit them at regular intervals to. exercise their ''bugs'' It evo1es no surprise in the editorial room in the congested city, when a widowed freak strides in and pro- claims himself to be Napoleon Bonaparte or Julius Caesar. Exaggerated ego is common afflicton and freaks inqunire solicitously ot each other on social occasions: "How is your paranoia progressing?'
 'Hop-heads'' are multiplying by thousands Seattle and Portland are said to have 25,OOO each and authorities declare this is a conserv- ative estimate Every city has it's tale of hor- TOT. This means reversion to former type. 1t must be halted by the heroic measures, or the country is ruined forever.
 The panacea may be found in the develop ment of country life, through the adoption of a national system of community land settle nent The great towns are breeding places of moral and mental decay, becoming worse all the time
 Dr. Owens-Adair, a scientific authority and author of a sterilization aw-her idea ot cure-declares after recent survey that 60- GOO morons ar running at large Tn the State of Oregon, and the asylums are crowded to capacity Oregon is no worse off than the other States This decadence is due largely to the admission of millions of mental and physical defectives from other lands. The se- lective draft figures confirm this conclusion.
 Religious mania also is rampant, another sign of racial decadence. Dr. Boris Sidls's great book on Suggestion gives the sclen- tific analysis of this malady. Every town outside is full of ''harmless freaks" In the Seattle brigade one meets a merry fellow posing as Moses, with a long name and pa triacha beard, going barefooted and bare headed all the time, wearing light duck suit and no under clothing. Winter has no terrors for him. He is vain of the beauty of his hair and feet. His ''religion'' requires this garb. God he says, never intended man to wear clothing, else nature had provided 1t, a la wolf and bear. In Alaska the old fellow would change his ideas to suit the climate, and he would get broader idea of the Creator.
 
 Alaska is the best hope of America. Here is being produced strong new breed. North land people must live close to nature, devel- oping strength to master conditions. It IS no place for weakling Here the fittest types survive and grow powerful, in constant touch with elemental forces The mammoth brown bear, the caribou, the moose, are sym bols of Alaska's titanic power.
 The leaders who develop the resources of this section who build the cities and establish the State, will be the strong men of the rising generation, mostly the sons of our pioneers.
 Alaska offers matchless opportunities for hardy home builders, for fearless aid self-re- liant people. None other is wanted, or can survive