Evening star., 1935-03-31
BY JUNIUs b. WOOD.

BY JUNIUS b. WOOD.
ABOARD STEAMER NORTH HA-
VEN, March 80 (N.A.N.A).-Angry
seas which buffeted the stanch
square-rigger bringing the pilgrim
fathers westward across the Atlantic
to colonize America could not have
been different from those tossing the
North Haven, argosy of the Pam
American Anyways, as 1t pounds west
ward across the Pacific to colonize
the islands dotting the air route be-
tween the United States and Asia.
Though oceans are unchanged, lit
tie else is the same in colonization
today. Those aboard the North Ha-
ven can more easily picture what will
20 into a colonizing expedition when
It is done by airplane, as will be done
q few years hence, than Magellan.
who discovered some of these lonely
islands more than 400 years ago, could
have dreamed how they are being
colonized today.
Though wave-drenched sailors
chung to ropes on the careening decks
to lash down the cargo, future colo
nists and the corps Of engineers and
technicians-those who had not sue
cumbed to SeaSickneSS-liStened in
side to the familiar grooming of a
broadcasting station in Los Angeles,
undisturbed by crashing chinaware
and skidding baggage.
Must Chart Seas.
Classes aboard ship have been
started. The fundamentals have al
ready been learned by those of the
modern colonists who must be experts
in navigation and be able to read To-
cations on the unmapped waves from
the sun and stars. They must be
able to chart the seas, and If by mis-
chance an airplane should be forced
down between the island bases, they
must know where to speed to its res
cue. Aboard the North Haven IS a
twin-engine, o-equipped, sea-
cruising motor launch for each island,
with a normal cruising radius of more
than 1000 miles. This is for erner-
gencies, which are not expected, but
everyday navigation will serve its
part in other ways in the life of these
ColoniStS.
The old colonist settled on his new
soil, isolated from the world, pre-
pared to fight for existence and sur
Vive starvation and sickness until the
next ship appeared over the horizon
In year or possibly never. He read
the clouds for rain. climbed tree II
waves rolled too high on his coral
atoll, and worried about nothing be-
yond the skyline.
weather man with scientific instru-
ments. He is experimenting on the
bridge, to the great entertainment OF
the salty skipper, and he will report
each day by radio. He will know as
easily whether the sun is shining in
Canton, China, or San Francisco, as
he does whether it is shining outside
his own door. Before a clipper plane
leaves any field the pilot will know
the weather over the entire course
and all its changes, not only whenever
he stops but while he is speeding
through the air.
The new colonist must not only
know how to run power plant OF
Diesel oil-burning engines, but how to
repair 1t If anything goes wrong. He
will have an electric station for power
and light. He must also keep running
q cold storage plant with q Six-month
supply Of frozen food, an ice-making
machine, and a distillery for drinking
water. Finally, and most essential to
airplanes, will be radio station over
which the colonist must be constantly
sending and receiving messages.
How to Get Food.
Though food will come from the
cold storage plant, some is expected
from plants which live, just as for
the colonist of a past generation
Seeds and roots from the semi tropical
West Indies are among the cargo to
provide for these. AS the American
colonist may not have time or in
clination to hoe a garden in the
tropical evenings under the palm trees
this will be the particular pidgeon OF
the Chinese help the North Haven
will pick up in Honolulu. Even among
the Chinese in each island colony, one
must be enough of a mechanical
technician to run a new style cooking
stove whose fire will burn for one
year on single ton Of coal.
Colonizing now, with clipper planes
arriving any day and pausing for a
few moments or overnight, becomes
more test Of science than a con-
quest Of the land. Each piece of
equipment has enough spare parts for
year. Each colony will have trac-
tor and, as the smallest island king
dom is only 266 acres, it will not be
used for joy-riding. Like the old
colonlst, the new must mend his
clothes, but instead of needle and
thread he will have sewing machEle
which stitches anything from silk to
leather.
Aside from Hawaii, Guam and Ma
nila, which already have the COM
forts and necessities of civilization,
the island colonists should be indie
pendent after the supply ship leaves
on its return voyage. Their homes
will have been built in record time,
the machinery installed and working,
and after that their connection with
the outside world will be only by radio
or the fieeting airplanes until the next
supply ship arrives half a. year later
Those who will colonize each island
have the vague titles of manager,
radio operator, assistant radio oper-
ator, weather man, mechanic and as
sistant mechanic. All the varied Jobs
will be divided among the six, accord
ing to their experience. Wake Island
will have physician in addition. His
work Is clear, but he may also put In
the screens and supervise the land
scape gardening.
(Copyright. 1885. by North American
Newspaper Alliance. Incl