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Friday. February 21
Interesting Trips To Other Lands
(Prepares by th* National Oeo»rephle
Society. Waehingtoa. D. O >
MERIUA'S farthest northw««t
and Asia's furthest northeast
mark the Icy region where air
planes of the United States
and Soviet Russia have been seeking
to (Ind Lieut. Ben Elelson who disap
peared while trying to curry aid by
air to a marooned ship. The region
In which search was made embraces
Bering strait, a portion of the Arctic
[ sea to the north, and Bering sea to
the south.
While whaling ships pass through
these waters at intervals, much of the
region is far from being a frequented
Entered at the post office at Willamina. Oregon, as second class one. Less than Suu years ago Bering
matter. August 24. 1909, under act of Congress ot March 3, 1879. strait had not been crossed bv a I. ■ it
with a civilized navigator In command,
but since then, whalers, Arctic explor
G. G arland S ittser ,
E ditor and P ublisher ers, and adventurers have passed
through and across the strait.
About twenty years after the Pil
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landed on Plymouth Rock, two
Russian expeditions sailed along the
i western bank of Bering strait without
seeing the American side. Later a
trading station was established on the
Russian bank, but It was nearly a < en
! tury later that Alaska was explored
| from the west
Rumors were current at the Russian
trading station that th-re was an Is
land In the strait, hidden by tho fog
that enve)<>i>es the region, und that
America lay to the east The "Island"
proved to be two Islands now known
as Diomedes. Today one of the Di
omede« belongs to Russia, the other to
the United States; for the Interuathm
al boundary line runs between them
They are Inhabited by Eskimos who
make their living chiefly as “go be
tween«” for American and Russian
traders.
Named for Vitus Bering.
Bering strait and Bering sea take
' their names from Vitus Bering, a Dan
ish navigator who enlisted In the Rus
sian navy in 1703. Peter the Great
ordered him to the east coast of Si
beria In 172.5, He went overland to
Okhotsk and then to Kamchatka,
where he built a ship for his explora
tions. He sailed up the Bering sea
coast but America was hidden in the
fog. On a subsequent voyage. In 17-11,
he saw th« American continent for the
first time. On his way back to Si
beria, Bering's ship was wrecked on
what Is now known as Bering Island
In the Commander group. Sailors who j
reached the mainland carried the story
of the fur trade possibilities in Alaska
and soon Russian trap|>ers and traders
moved to the new continent.
If the international boundary line J
continued north and south as It does |
through the strait, half of the Alen- I
tluns would belong to Russia. But at J
the south end of the strait It veers
southwestward, ndssing the western
end of the Aleutian chain by about
150 miles.
The Commander Islands form the i
mly group on the Russian side of the
line while the United States acquire«)
the St. Lawrence, St. Matthew, Nunl-
vak and the Prlbllof islands when
Seward paid Russia $7,000,000 for the
famous "Seward Ice Box,” as Alaska
was called by the critics of the pur
chase.
Perhaps the most Important and best
known of the American Islands are the
Pribllofs, where the United States bu
reau of fisheries maintains a sealing
station and fox ranch. The Pribllofs
consists of 3 Islands, lying In the Ber
ing sea, about 2(X) miles north of the
Aleutian chain.
St. Pauls and St.
Georges Islands, the largest and only
ones of the group that are Inhabited,
are each slightly more than 30 square
miles In area. The other three are
merely Jutting rocks with a combined
area no larger than a fair-sized east- i
ern farm.
Willamina Cimes
are often called upon to answer a question from
W E strangers
who visit our city. We must always
hang our head in embarrassment and disgust when we
give our answer, “no,” in a very small voice. The nature
of our work is such—newspaper work—that we cannot
evade the questioner; for we are supposed to know and
we do know, and in knowing, we blush. Some of these
questioners are men who are looking for business locations,
and others are men who want good mill and factory sites.
They have money to invest and they would be valuable ad
ditions to our city. Others are those who wish to locate
here and build homes to become valuable residents in our
town. They say, “We like this part of the country,” and
they are in a mood to be influenced to make the right kind
of a decision, had we an organization to work with such
individuals. And they ask this very question: “Have
you a chamber of commerce in Willamina?” This is the
first thing that comes to the mind of a person who comes
to our city to give us the “onceover.” Today, every city,
town and hamlet, nearly, has its commercial organization,
and the average citizen always thinks of these associations
when he desires to obtain help in locating a business or in
dustry. The well established organizations over the state
headed by the State Chamber, have educated him in this
line. These organizations are helpful and in turn, they
are the means of bringing much help to a town that wish
es to go ahead. Willamina needs just such an organiza
tion. In fact, she will never go ahead with Oregon until
she does take steps in this line. Somebody must act.
Someone must lead out in organizing a commercial body.
But the state of mind in Willamina has been such that
no person has had the courage to undertake such a work.
The chances are that he would be thought of as one who
was not attending to his own business. There is also a
spirit present that drives our business men away from
each other instead of leading them together. Each one
seems to feel that anything in the way of an organization
would be too apt to give too much help to the other fellow.
This spirit of selfishness must be laid aside if we ever ex
pect to get anywhere as a town or city. We must realize
that to organize for the betterment of all will mean that
we all will be benefitted individually. What do you say,
men, shall we go ahead with Oregon, or shall we stay be
hind to soon be forgotten as other live towns grow into
cities all around us? There are big problems that Willa
mina should be working out at this time, and we need a
good live chamber of commerce organization above every
thing else, and we need it now. What shall we do about
it?
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Their burren, volcanic peaks ami
and If successful in Ids fight with the
rocky shorea ure hostile to vegetation.
bull, he takes «way a cow or two.
In the winter they ar« covered with
As cold weather approach««, tho
Ice und snow, und whipped by the
cows nnd newborn puj>s leuv« tiie Is
frigid Arctic galea, while during lit«
lands and go south, followed shortly
summer months, tl.ut fog that emel
afterward by the bulla They m-ver
opes tiie whole urea Is so dense that
touch land until thirty return t» th«
the sun's ruys rarely touch Hie earth
Pribllofs In tiie spring. Tho two to
As a result the climate is uncomfurt
three-montha'-oid pups, who imv« twen
able, cold and damp. Toward autumn
subsisting on milk and hnnlly know
the wind clears the atmosphere uno
1
how to "navigate," nr« force«) to make
here und there grass ami mosses make
their own way without assistant*« from
the Iwst of the short fogies« and !■ e
the rest of tho family. As a re- tlr. It
less season. Only a few years ugo
Is estlmat«*«) thnt 60 per «-ent of them
the Inhabitant« of the Islam!« were en
die before the next season.
tlrely Isolated from lb« rest of tie-
How th« Hards Ar« Protected.
world for six mouths of th« yenr, but
the radio has changed that condition.
Tho Real herd« of tho Prlbllof« de-
•rensed from hetween MOO.OoO nnd 4.*
When Prlbllof, the Russian navi
Ot>),lMX> when the Islnnds wore ti. <n
gator, whose nume the Isluuds hour,
over by tho United States In P A, to
landed there In 1780, after three years*
150,000 In WIL Although the g«»vern-
search for the breeding grounds of the
m«mt placed restrlmlons on killing them
seals that frequent«-d the north Pn
on tiie Islands, the Io«» was largely
ciflc and Bering seas waters, he found
duo to the killing uf cows while they
no human life, but millions of ««mis.
He was follow«.-«! by Russians und later swam about In (Im water In tin- sum
by natives from the Aleutian Dhim'«, mer. perhnps seeking squid and tlah
Russians and a few Americans make j nr the non rest food source, n hundred
miles south, or during the winter while
up the present population. u» st of
In
the Pacific. Th« death of a row In
whom are connect«-»! with the govern
ment sealing and fox raising Indus- tiie winter means Hie loss of a pup to
be born the following summer, »bile
tries.
a similar killing In th« summer would
While seals are sometimes known as perhaps be* more dlsairtrous. for the
sea bears, their names peculiarly fol new-born pup left at th« rookery would
low those of cattle and dogs, and even die of starvation nnd an unborn pep
humnn beings.
Th« adult male Is would a Io- bo lost, Laws and treaties
calle«l a “bull” nnd the femnle, a now prutc<-t seals while at sen.
"cow." Insteud of referring either to
Scientific propagation la allowing Its
bears or cattle by calling the b.h)
favorable effect upon the herds annu
seals “cubs" or "calves," man call»
ally. Only surplus mules are kllletl
them “pups." The young males fun-
for their pelts. Tho best furs are tak
better by annexing a name of human
en from souls under five years old.
origin—bachelors.
Those thnt nre to be killed are rc|e
The more rocky the shore, the more arat«*d from the herd, struck on the
the seals like It during the breeding head with a large club, and then
seasons, for the harems (seal fnmlli—•) struck through the heart with a knife.
forsake the few smooth spots on t! • After the killing uu expert skinner
islands nnd establish their rookeries can remove the pelt of a seal In two
(breeding places) among the broken or three minutes.
rocks along the shore, or on the aides
The government also successfully
of rocky hills. From tiie rim the rook
maintains and propogates blue and
eries appear to the eye ns collections
white foxes on the Pribllofs, which
of black splotches continually mo ing.
ndd to the revenue already received
while to the ear comes a blend of loud
from tiie »«-tiling Industry.
Nearly
grunts and barks.
Each of these
1,000 pelts are shipped to this country
splotches repres«-nts a harem of 50 or
annually. Unlike tiie fox farms on
ip) cows and, perhaps, twice ns many
the Aleutian bland» where tiie little
pnps, which are protected by a bull.
animals are Inclosed In chicken-wire
The bachelors are not allowed to cams
cages, the Prlbllof packs are allowed
near the harems but occupy “hauling
to run wild. They are the most suc-
grounds,” on smooth rocks or sundy
cesful pucks in the world.
beaches, outside the family circles.
Seals on th« Pribllofs.
Most of the pelts of both the seals
. The islands ar« bleak and desolate. Sometimes a bachelor raids a harem
and foxes are auctioned off in the SL
study groups are fostered with cor Ix>uls fur market.
respondence aid.
Bering s«-n Is 38 times larger than
it has been said that the A. I. B., as l.nke Michigan. The Gulf of Mexico
It Is familiarly known throughout tho could be swallowed up In its area. If
banking field, is the greatest adult ed- the Bering sou were placed on a map
Through the American Institute of
| ucational organization In the world of the United States with its northern
Banking, which Is the American Bank
! and Is supplying the banking business most point at Chicago, the Aleutian
ers Association's educational section,
with the largest supply of trained islands, which form its southern hound*
the banking profession is educating
workers each year that any compar ary, would dot the northern shore of
35,000 bank men and women in the able line of business is rece'ivlng, Tho the Gulf of Mexico.
technical and scientlflc departments
• • •
organization holds an annual conven
ot their work. These students are en
tion attended by hundreds of young
From the standpoint of feed pro
abled by this Institute, which Is entire
bank workers as well as senior bank duction, the pasture is commonly the
ly non commercial 1n its operations, to
officers actively Interested In further most Important field on the farm.
obtan a grasp of the finer points ot
ing the Institute’s educational work, Don’t overlook the permanent pasture
banking without interrupting their
at which numerous technical subjects when applying this winter's manure.
employment or interterIng with their
• • •
of practical banking application are
earnings, in their bank jobs.
presented and discussed. This year's
Soy beans are recommended by spe
The courses given, including bank
convention will be held at Denver, cialists ns on excellent emergency hay
ing economics and law and bank ad
Colorado, June 16 to 20.
crop. The soy bean Is tolerant of
ministration In all the departments,
acid noils and produces a (my of high
have been worked out under the di
When tiie «oil has plenty of bumus protein content nnd feeding value com
rection of senior college educators
It plows np better and cun he reduced parable to alfalfa.
and the lectures are always given by
to the proper fineness much more
• • •
practical men, such as lawyers in the quickly nnd with less power.
Plows scour moat easily tn soils that
• • •
legal courses, experts in banking oper
have plenty of humus. A starch con
ations and college professors in th«
Soy beans do not make an Heal dition of aolls ran be corrected by
economics courses. There are chap forage crop because they do not pro
bringing the percentage of organic
ters with meeting rooms in over 200
duce new growth when eaten off and material up to 4 per cent using cal-
cities and also a number of smaller
consequently their season Is short.
rium carbonate for soil acidity.
IT seems that Oregon may have its share of rain this
year after all, providing, of course, it keeps on sprinkling. HELPING YOUNG FOLK
TO BECOME BANKERS
UPHOLD RESPECT FOR LAW
By CHARLES H. TUTTLE, United Sute. Attorney, New York.
Today the danger which confronts our flag and country is not from
•without but from within. The time, therefore, has come for a thoughtful
consideration of the strength and durability of the foundation beneath
this fast superstructure and for the American people, by a qualitative
analysis of their own democracy, to heed the recent warning of our Presi
dent that there is occurring a subsidence of our foundations. Stated in
another way this means that the foremost problem before the American
people today is the problem of their relation to the law and of the law’s
relation to them and that their foremost task is to preserve the dignity of
the law.
One is appalled by the consequence to the vast and delicate structure
of the American state if this keystone of reverence and respect for Inv
ahould ever be shaken by the ceaseless attacks upon it.
•«ala on Ono of the Prlbllof (alando.