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The frontiersman., 1953-04-23
Complete PIons for
 Breeding Ground Survey

Plans for the annual water fowl breeding ground surveys to be conducted in Alaska, United States and Canada this spring and summer by the Fish and Wildlife Service in cooperation with the Canadian Wildlife Service, Pro- vincial Wildlife workers, State fish and game departments, Ducks Unlimited and the Wild life Management Institute were announced this week by Secre- tary of Interior Douglas Mckay.
 Plans call for collection of in- formation that will serve as a basis for Canadian and U. s. of lcials in the drafting of appropri- ate regulations for the 1953-54 season.
 Because full coverage of the continents vast breeding grounds IS not practical, the Service and agencies will use sampling meth ods statiStically designed to bring
The frontiersman., 1953-04-23
The Frontiersma1i
...25 Percent of Local Farms Changed Hands
 In Past Two Years

Farmers could keep their land in the family, through father-son business agreements and at the same time help stabilize Alaska's farm population, Agricultural Economist Hugh A. Johnson said in a new bulletin now available in the local Extension Service of flee.
 More than 25 percent of full time farms in the Matanuska Val ley have changed hands during the past two years, Johnson said. In the bulletin, the economist out lines ways this can be avoided and how workable b1siness agree ments can be developed.
 Johnson is head of the Depart ment of Agricultural Economics at the University of Alaska which cooperates with the Agricultural Extenson Service and the U. s. Department of Agriculture. His bulletin is titled, Family Farm Agreements for Alaska" and is available without charge to per- sons interested in this problem.
The frontiersman., 1953-04-23
CONSERVATION
 NOTES
By Lew E. Hanks

We have a bad example of water erosion starting in the Val ley.
 The spring runoff is causing the formation of a bad gully at the east end of the airport runway, where drainage ditches end at the river bank with no provision to get the water down the hill.
 As a conequence a gully has formed over 100 feet long and 30 to 50 feet wide; deep enough to bury a house, in places. It's some thing to sec. It also is going to get bigger, wider and deeper un- less it is stopped. It's. going to cost some money to stop it. It will eventually cost us several hundred feet of runway if it isn't stopped.
 A gully such as this can only be cured by sloping it back. making provision to carry the water to the bottom and covering the raw slopes with trees and grass. That is going to take some time and materials. It can't be done by dumping a bunch of junk in it. That has been tried too often be- fore with dismal results.
 
 We have been fortunate here, in that water erosion is not too much of problem. I've seen thousands of acres devastated in places in the tates by gullies. The threat is always with us though. All it takes is loose top soil, a careless dug drainage ditch and the dam- age is started.
 Our wind erosion damage is not as spectacular as gullies are threat to our farmland. Erosion but it also is an ever present is an enemy always to step for ward. We've always got to watch it.
The frontiersman., 1953-04-23
PALMER OES FITTED AT ANCHORAGE

Several local members of the Order of Eastern Star were guests of the Anchorage chapter at a potluck dinner held April 20, in the First Presbyterian Church in Anchorage.
 The dinner was followed by an imitation program presented by the Palmer Chapter.
The frontiersman., 1953-04-23
1 forth the information needed.

forth the information needed.
 Aerial and ground surveys are planned. As large a sample as possible of young waterfowl will be banded during the breeding season in order that returns lat CT on may indicate hunting pres sures, mortality rates and the dis tribution of birds to the several Always.
The frontiersman., 1953-04-23

12:30 pm. Plans will be made for a hike sometime during the month of May.
The frontiersman., 1953-04-23
BOYS CLUB
 TO PLAN HIKE

St. John Berchman boys club of St. Michaels' Catholic Church will meet in the church basement Saturday afternoon, April 25 at
The frontiersman., 1953-04-23

FRONTIERSMAN CLASSIFIEDS
 ALWAYS BRING RESULTS
Evening star., 1953-02-01

DEFoRE my father died, when was very young, he
- used to say. BE patient, son. ! guess every
father has said that to every many times 1t took
me many years to understand it. first learned what
he meant when tried to fish in hurry. found that
it doesn't work. For boy to catch fish with an
angleworm he has to carefully seek out and find the
worms. Then he has to bait the hook and patiently
wait for fish to take the lure. He has to be calm and
quiet Most of ALL to fish successfully, he has to keep
trying.
An old friend of my father, trying to explain what
he meant in later years. used to say that he didn't
mean sttin patience, he meant "workn' patience"
In other words, whatever your goal, don't sit and
wait, but keep working at it. AS nation we Amer
leans must learn that lesson.
The patience of free men has been sorely tried.
Having done what considered to be honorable and
upright both with our wartime allies and our present
that peace is not ours.
BY our own human standards, we have given gener-
olsy BY our most Christian standards, we have
acted as well as we knew how. In faith, have
believed that men are meant to be Free We have
pledged every effort toward rebuilding a stable
world, aiding both our friends and former
enemies. We have helped to reestablish our former
enemies - Japan and Germany in the ways of
democracy. We have searched out the refugees to
help the and we have tried to get along with every
race every creed every political belief We have joined
the United Nations sponsored the Marshall Plan and
even broken our tradition to join alliance in peace
time for the defense of Europe y NATO.
We have given our resources our energies, our
Evening star., 1953-02-01
"PATIENCE IS POWER
by General Omar N. Bradley
WIDE WORLD

ideals and hopes to the cause of freedom. And yet
peace is not abroad in the world And sons die on
the battlefield again, this time in far-of, remote
corner of the world.
In our hearts, many of us can't help but repeat
the anguished cry of Habakkuk, the prophet:
80 Lord, EOsO long shall cry, and tl1Ou sUilt
not hear? EUen cry Out unto thee Of UiOLence
and tIaOu sUilt not sGUe!''
At such a moment and in such a mood we need
more than before the steadyng force of patience
For the second time - this time with the new pres
ident have visited our soldiers sailors and airmen
in Korea. They anxious for end to the fighting
they are pledged more deeply than any of us to a
dedicated peace. But they do not want to quit nor
to appease the Communist transgression.
commodity important bO,0er. If are patient
our power won't be msapplied Also, if we are power
full, we can always afford to be patient.
Patience, in ITSELF is not a policy. But patient
steadfastness in principle and in action is an essential
Ingredient of good leadership
If our determination for freedom is as great as the
Communist desire for tyranny, we will always rally
good men to our better cause. Communism as polit-
ical system has lasted less than 40 years.
This nation founded on the Christian ideal for
every man, has lasted almost 200 years.
Christianity ITSELF with the help of faithful men,
has lasted almost 1000 years.
There is chance of failure unless it be through
haste. Resourceful patience part help the
world pluck security and peace out of the present
nettIesome danger.
Evening star., 1953-02-01
2hizw

CHAMP? The other day we wrote little
item about odd place Names such as Difficult
and Defeated, Tenn. A reader whose hobby is
collecting such things tells us she believes
Kentucky would win first prize as the state
with the most strangely named towns. A few:
Sacredwind, Ruin Prosperity, Equality, Halo,
Incline, Greasy Creek, Mummie and Twenty
six. Deserving honorable mention: Oklahoma
with Bushy Head, Bowlegs, Bromide and
Goodnight; Minnesota with EmbarTass and
Ballclub; Texas with Direct; Pennsylvania
with Distant, and Louisiana with Utility
SEEDS FOR SONGS. A Virginia friend of
ours, Richard T. Penn, reminds us to feed
birds that have decided to stay with us through
the winter Penn, who collects Fabulous
Facts of Nature" says birds require more
than twice as much food in cold weather than
in warm. Incidentally, one of his fabulous
facts" that you may not have heard concerns
rooster that was tried in Swiss court in the
18th century. 1t had laid an egg, and subse-
quently was tried for witchcraft, sentenced
ana burned.
COMING UP. Under our new administra-
ton, will the US. shift away from a foreign
policy based on containment of Communist
expansion? In its place many predict dy-
manic policy of liberation "a crusade"
against the rushing worldwide menace of
Kremlin domination. What are the perils we
face in this shift? And what can we hope to
gain by it? In next week S issue, James Burn
ham, author of the book, THE Coming Defeat
Of Communism. gives his answers. They will
shock some Americans, and they will reassure
millions of others.
Also next week: Carol Barnes tells for the
first time the fascinating story of Jon
Lindbergh, eldest son of the Lone Eagle;
Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower gives sound ad-
vice to women in How To Be Mother In.
Law; Author Eric Hatch presents his newest
fiction thriller, They Rode Ghost Plane"
plus many other features. - THE EDITORS
Evening star., 1953-11-10

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eobordines, tweeds and fIeeces In herrinebones,
nubby effects and plain coors Raglan and set-in
Sleeves regular or slash pockets Good size range.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-12
BeIoted Nursery Control

1t is unfortunate that Montgomery County
waited until tragedy occurred at an I'M
licensed nursery home before moving to bring
such establishments under county supervision
and control Now that public demands for
remedial measures have developed, there is
every reason to believe that an adequate
nursery home inspection and licensing ordi-
nance will be adopted in the near future.
Since the repeal of an old State regulatory
law three years ago, only one child-care institu
ton in Montgomery County has been licensed
to operate. This license was issued under a
general law applying to establishments caring
for more than five children overnight. The
repealed law was of much broader scope.
Under it about 100 institutions and homes in
the county were licensed to care for young
children Presumably, all or many of these
places still are engaged in nursery activities, but
without any State or county supervision what
ever. Whether any of them are operating in
violation of the State law governing homes with
more than five overnight inmates is unknown.
Montgomery County Manager Beall will
have wide public support in his determination
to investigate the nursery situation throughout
the county, preparatory to recommending an
effective county ordinance to license and control
child-care establishments, large and small The
public Is entitled to better protection for the
nursery children than it has received under the
limited State law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-12

and its surroundings that would be "blighted"
"a piece of nonsense that the Fine Arts COM
mission, to its credit refused to swallow. AS
a matter of fact. the Fourteenth street bridge
construction improved the Jefferson Memorial
setting. Today it is the Roosevelt Memorial
Island that will be blighted, or destroyed, or
whatever the scare word is, by placing bridge
piers on its downstream end.
Such assertions are disputed by the high
way engineers. They do not believe that injury
to the island by construction of bridge piers
would be permanent, or would affect the islands
present purpose as wild-life sanctuary and
memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. If, however,
a bridge cannot be built across the island with
out impairing it as a memorial to Theodore
Roosevelt then there is a serious question
whether such a memorial can be retained in
that location, if it is permanently to foreclose
needed public improvement.
The planning commission was wrong in
1945. It may be wrong now. The only appro-
pirate agency, in Washington, that can settle
the matter by study of the facts and exami-
nation of the evidence, is Congress- It is the
growth in population of the district now rep
resented in Congress by Representative Broyhill
that has made necessary another bridge over
the Potomac. 1t seems to The Star that Mr.
Broyhill is a good man to force a showdown
on the argument over where the bridge will be
built, and to end the repeated delays in its
construction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-12
SLOW Justice

Your editorial Of October 8, "Slow
Justice" does not completely cover the
case of the disgraceful delay between
the time of filing and trial Of cases in
the Federal Courts.
Locally, as your editorial points out,
there is a lag of "a months in civil
jury cases.
Twenty-Five years ago six judges
handled all OF the cases in our District
Court. Today there are Is judges.
including the one retired judge, to
handle the District Court cases.
"Slow justice" is not due to the num-
Der of judges but to the amount Of time
that District Court judges devote to
their cases per year. The District Court
is in recess each year from the last few
days of June until the first Tuesday in
October, as well as approximately 10
days to two weeks holiday at Christmas
and another 10 days to two weeks holi-
day at Easter time. It is safe to say
that approximately AZ months out
of the IL the Court only has one or two
judges in attendance, and then only
for the purposes of handling emergency
cases, or few criminal cases.
If the judges took the same length of
vacation that other officials and private
individuals are allotted, the lag in the
trial of cases would soon be completely
absorbed. 1t is pretty disgraceful
situation to walk into $16-million
courthouse, completely aforementioned
from basement to roof, during the en-.
tire 80 summer months and find only
two judges in attendance. What was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-12
By Charles E. TroceweH
Native Citizen.

cause the owner has not washed them
in soap containing chlorophyll.
If nasty in habits, 1t Is because said
owner has not taken the trouble to
train them better.
AS for the fawning attitude, that is
something inherent in dogs Of most
breeds and owners ordinarily do not
call it fawning, but affection, and even
sheer at cats for not displaying the
same attitude toward man, the master
AS for the dogs readiness to inf1ict
damage and discomfort on all else, this,
too, is matter in which the owner is
most responsible. Just as there cannot
be delinquent children without delin-
quert parents first, so delinquent dogs
trace right back to delinquent owners
who are too lazy to train them properly
The well trained dog is the socially
acceptable beast and also the happiest,
since his acceptance somehow manages
to make itself felt in his doggy brain.
Man is his god, as Maeterlinck
pointed out, his owner his special god,
and all other persons little gods of the
everyday which the honest dog must,
with his clear cut disposition, either
like or dislike immensely. The dog
wants to like everybody, but something
in his ancestry makes him want to bark
at them, and chase them, too, If he
can. A little of his dogginess is being
taken away from him when he can't
and this is so generally realized that
every dog is allowed at least one bite,
as the saying is We fear some dog
must have bitten Thorstein Veblen
twice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-12
This and 7 hat

Some would be willing to give half
their lives to have seen Walt Whitman
walking along Pennsylvania avenue
past the White House.
This is. of course, hindsight, based on
the subsequent fame which the good
gray poet's was to win for himself in
world literature.
Some few persons, perhaps, would be
willing to forgo quarter of their lives
to have remembered bearded man
who worked in the old Food Admins
tration in World War l.
Perhaps there are few, but precious
few. who do remember him.
He was ThorStein Veblen, whose 1.-THE
Theory of the Leisure Glass;" as first
published by the Macmillan Company
in $780, and subsequently copyrighted
by them in 1922, has achieved fame
in its own right
This cynical volume has now en-
tered into the folklore Of American
capitalism. But in its own day it prob
ably sold only a few hundred copies, or
few thousand at best.
It has just appeared as a 35-cent
Mentor book, and in this form will be
read by thousands, of persons who
never even heard of it before
, Men who specialize in what may be
called mental work will. at least, have
heard of it. and it will do them good to-
read it, even in closely crowded page
set in small type.
Some, of the chapter headings. such
as "Pecuniary Emulation" "Conspicu-
Gus Leisure" and Conspicuous Con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-12

sumption" have become part Of the
chit chat of the superintendent
Pet animals played a part in Veblen's
scheme Of things.
They represented, to him, both con-
spicuous leisure and conspicuous con-
sumption.
Bet you never thought Of Bozo in
those terms. or old Tabby, either!
Seeing both ''cat" and dog" in the
index, We looked them up, and alb
stracted a few sentences, with thanks
both to the Macmillan Co. and the
Viking Press, with the latter of which
the New American Library of World
Literature, publishers of Mentor edi-
tons, made arrangements for this
cheaper publication.
Speaking of the cat. Veblen said:
she lives with man on terms of
equality and she does not lend herself
with facility to an invidious comparison
between her owner and his neighbors."
OF the dog. he says:
He is the hlthiest of the domestic
animals in his person and the nastiest
in his habits.
For this he makes up in q Seryile,
faWning attitude toward his master and
a readiness to inf1ict damage and dis
comfort on all else"
One may wonder who sicked the dog
on poor old Veblen
X +
Most well bred dogs, OF course, are
neither as filthy nor nasty as the econo-
mist saw them for his special argument
If they are filthy In person, 1t Is be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-12
Standardized Schools

Last spring the Montgomery County
Board Of Education was criticized by
some self-styled experts" on school
needs as condoning waSteful and ex-
travagant construction practices. A
specific example cited by the budget
expert employed by the Montgomery
County Taxpayers Association was the
boards failure to use standard plans
for school buildings. Why not save
money by using the same set of plans
over and over? This probably sounded
logical to many taxpayers especially
when voiced by some one who claimed
to be an authority on budget matters.
An article in the September, 1858,
issue of the Maryland State Depart
ment Of Education publication, Mary
land Public Schools shows how
misinformed some of our taxpayers
. experts" are on such matters. I quote
from this article which is titled STOCK
Plans for Buildings:
6. -. One of the arguments most
frequently heard in favor of stock plans
is the savings in engineering fees. The
amount of such savings is questionable
since in every case the footings, foun-
cations and structure below the floor
line must be designed to fit the existing
topography of the site. It is doubtful if
any two school sites in Maryland are
identical.
1T is of considerable interest to note
the result of a recent survey made of
all 48 State Departments of Education
on this subject. This survey revealed
that Is States formerly used, stock plans
but have abandoned them. Twenty
three States do not and never have used
stock plans, and 10 States have limited
stock plans available In the latter
group the plans are, for the most part,
limited to one. two or three rooms, or
to schools costing less than SIS 5000, or
to special units such as art, music, home
economics, lunch rooms, etc.
while the Maryland State Depart
ment of Education is opposed to the
use Of stock plans as such, every effort
is being made to coordinate the
planning done in the local communities
in order to take advantage of past ex-
periences and new ideas, thereby re-
ducing time in planning as we'll as costs.
Remarkable progress is being made in
some Of the counties along these lines.
particularly in Anne Arundel, Baltimore
and Montgomery Counties, where dupli-
cation with some modification of plans
is resulting in considerable savings"
Let us hope this authoritative State
report, which singles out Montgomery
County for special praise, puts to rest
for good the lone set of plans economy
fiction of the school board critics.
Athenian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-12
Columbus Day, 1858

The 461st anniversary of the arrival of
Christopher Columbus in the New World is an
occasion for remembering that the ties between
the countries which he represented and our
own are very important, very old yet very new.
1t often has been said that the discovery of
America was purely accidental, that the Grand
Admiral never realized that he had found
second half of the globe, and that it would have
been better for mankind in general if what
historians call "the expansion of Europe" had
been the work of northern rather than Mediter-
ranean explorers.
But such notions are unscientific. Columbus
was motivated by series of events which began
in the Middle Sea basin. The fall Of Con-
stantinople to the Turks in 1853 was one of
these, the consequent revival of learning in
Italy and France another, the defeat of the
Moors by Ferdinand and Isabella still third.
If the appeal of the Genoese stranger to their
Catholic majesties' had not been successful, a
similar petition from the Pinzon brothers might
have BEEN The challenge of the Atlantic was
in the air. Ottoman control of eastern routes
to the far Orient made acceptance OF 1t neceS-
Sary and the Renaissance supplied the inteli-
gence needed.
Today the name of Palos on the Bay of
Cadiz has an enlarged significance. It was from
that port that Columbus and the Pinzons sailed
In the santa Maria, the Plnta ana the Nina,
August 8, 1892. The same harbor was the adj
mirars point of departure on his second, third
and fourth voyages. That area soon may be a
base of the United States Navy. Though the
mouth of the Rio Tinto is silted up the bay
proper is good roadstead for our ships. Air.
fields are to be established in adjacent Huelva
Province The whole surrounding area figures.
in the story of the DiScoverer. La Rabida, the.
monastery where he planned his original ex-
petition, is nearby. 1t symbolizes the religious
and cultural aspects of his nind-and of the
civilization which he wanted to advance.