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Nome, Alaska, Friday, May 25, 1951
HORN OF PLENTY-MORE-WHERE-THAT-CAME-FROM
YOUR BONDS CAN BE SAFELY KEPT
Ten years ago the first Series E Defense bonds
were offered for sale to the American public to help
finance the defense effort that was then underway.
This year $1,888,000,000 of the original bonds will
mature. The Government is anxious for the purchasers
to retain their maturing bonds and Congress has passed
a law which gives the bondholder three options: One
of them permits the holders to retain their bonds for
an additional ten years, or any part thereof, during
which the bonds automatically continue to earn
interest.
In addition, the Treasury Department is under
taking a special campaign to increase the regular sale
of defense bonds. It is considered important for the
public generally to share in the purchase of these bonds.
Besides taking money out of the current market, the
buyer has a good investment, which, as a saving fund,
represents a nest egg for future emergencies.
TO USE OCEAN FOR DEFENSE
In the Netherlands, where one-third of the land
lies below sea level, the defense plans include the con
struction of dikes to facilitate inundation in case of
invasion.
The Army makes it clear that no effort will be
made to establish a complete “water line” because air
bombardment, air-borne invasion and modern military
bridge-building overcome the effectiveness of such a
barrier. Nevertheless, the Dutch plan to use the open
ing of dikes as part of a general defense.
Meanwhile, the business of arming and equipping
a division by the end of next year proceeds slowly.
Harry K. Newbern, president, University of Ore
gon: “We have been unable to develop, in many of our
young people, a satisfactory antidote for the attitude
that ‘anything we can get away with’ is a satisfactory
standard of civic behavior.”
Lewis M. Terman, professor, Stanford University:
“We have too long taken as our motto that if we look
out for the hindmost, the foremost will take care of
himself.”
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of
language so much as the grateful.—C. C. Colton.
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Alaska Statehood Secondary
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Problem Reports Senate Committee
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WASHINGTON, <{JP) —“Bureau
cratic controls” and economic
problems resulting from Alaska’s (
unique geographical position
should be of deeper concern to the
Congress than the pending state
hood question, Senate Alaska op
ponents say.
That is the view of five mem
bers of the Senate Interior Com
mittee who signed a minority re
port opposing immediate state
hood for Alaska.
The report, published this week,
continued: .
“A searching investigation of
these problems, to be followed by
corrective measures, should be un
dertaken by the Congress before
statehood can be reasonably con
sidered. Any other approach is il
logical and will place territorial
inhabitants in extreme financial
peril ”
Such an investigation has been
| asked by Senator Butler (R-Neb>,
I one of those signing the report.
I Other signers include Senators
Malone <R-Nev>, Watkins <R-Utah)
Sm'athers (D-Fla\ Long <D-LaA
The report takes issue with
statehood on five points:
1. “Alaska cannot afford state
! hood at this time.”
2. “The present bill does no
j thing to remove the cloud of In- j
dian claims against territorial
lands.”
3. “The present bill does not
guarantee protection of the terri
tory’s rights to its fcidelands.”
4. "Sections of the bill which
j would convey land grants to the
new state are inadequate and do
not answer the basic question of
the lack of preliminary surveys.”
5. “The section under which
delegates would be elected to the
constitutional convention is faulty.
Unler it, political elements in the
territory, of demonstrated irre-j
sponsibility, could seize control of j
and dominate the government.”
Despite these objections, the re
port stated, “It is apparent that
steps must be taken to end these
abuses while broadening the ex
perience of the territory in self
government and providing the in- 1
habitants with increased opportu- j
nities to develop their political •
institutions. I
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“This can be accomplished,
reasonably and logically, by con
ferring on Alaskans the right to
elect their own governor.”
' As a result, the report contin
ued, “at 'the proper time during!
consideration. of ’ the pending bill
and in conformity with the wishes
of many Alaskans, we expect to
move to substitute the pending
elective governorship bill and ask
for its passage in the place of the
statehood legislation.”
In support of its economic argu
ments, the five senators asserted
that Alaska’s per capita tax is es
timated ait $126 a year—“higher
than any other state.” Statehood,
they said, would add approxi
mately $10 millions to the annual
tax bill.
As for agriculture, -the report'
continued, there are “far less”'
farms in Alaska than in the av
erage county of the ‘United States.
The minority criticized lack of
protection in the bill from what it
called “the ruinous Interior De
partment policies of withdrawing
public lands for the creation of j
vast Indian reservations at the •
whim of bureaucrats.”
It termed, settlement of the In
dian question “fundamental” to
any development o*f Alaskan re
sources.
The report also contended that
certain language in the bill “raises
a serious question as to the future
control of the tidelands.”
“This language, when consid
ered in the light of the firm pol
icy of the Interior Department to
control Alaska, its lands and Its
resources, leaves no choice but -to
assume that ithe department will
construe the bill as retaining con
trol of the tidelands in the federal
government.
The report also criticized selec
tion of delegates to the constitu
tional convention by a single, non
partisan election.
“The dangers of such a system
are obvious. Manipulation of a
relatively small group of voters
such as there are in Alaska is not
difficult as has been proven in
past territorial elections.
The more populated Third Ju
dicial Division, it added, would be
“in a prime position to seize con
trol of the convention,” being only
one seat short of a majority if it
could elect three delegates at large
as well as its own 10 delegates to
the 27-member convention.
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