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Nome, Alaska, Monday, July 30, 1951 %
A BUU. OF ANOTHK COLOR
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MY KINGDOM FOR A GOVERNMENT JOB!
By George S. Benson,
President Harding College, Searcy, Arkansas
The owner of a small business establishment in
Denver has met the Federal government in the field
of competition and has lost. He’s about ready to close
up shop and “jine ’em”’ When you’ve read the account
of his plight, as published in the Denver Lions Club
bulletin, you can understand why he is wondering
whether .there’s any future for private enterprise.
(There is, of course, if the excessive growth of gov
ernment can be halted.)
But to the Denver business man the outlook is
gloomy. He seems .almost to have good chuse to wonder
whether we shouldn’t all lay down our cares and get
on the Federal payroll. Here’s why: A new Federal
agency recently set up shop in Denver. It hired a lot
of stenographers away from their regular jobs. “It took
my secretary, Dorothy,” reports the business man,
“paying her $2,650 a year to start, and giving her 26
days’ vacation and 15 days’ sick leave. I, who happen
to be in a highly competitive field, cannot afford to
meet these terms, and couldn’t even if I wanted to.”
He couldn’t, he points out, because the Federal
government won’t let him. The government has frozen
the prices on his merchandise—so he can’t make more
money. “And then,” he moans, “in order to keep down
inflation, the government tells me I cannot pay the sal
ary the government.itself offered Dorothy.” But the
irony of the whole thing, the lick that really crumpled
his last resistance, was the latest news from Wash
ington, in which the Federal government was saying
to him, in effect: “Because we’re going to pay Dorothy
more money than you could, we are going to have to
increase your taxes again.”
That did it! And it s enough to make all of us
groan — for the new tax increase demanded by the
President and the Federal Treasurer is for $10V2 billion
and it would drastically boost the heavy tax load we’re
all already carrying. The Denver business man now
wants a government job himself. “In my present con
dition,” he says, (with his secretary hired away by
the government, his earning capacity and future pros
perity jeopardized by government restrictions an<| with
another heavy blow from the tax collector in the off
ing), “I could certainly use a government job.”
Truman
Accuses Russia
Of Warlike
Preparations
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DETROIT, (/P)—President Tru
man bitterly accused Russia Sat
urday of making dangerous, war
like military preparations “around
the world” and warned this coun
try to get ready for “any emer
gency.”
Mr. Truman questioned whe
ther the communists “really de
sire peace in Korea” since, he said
Soviet rulers “are putting them
selves in a position where they
“can commit new acts of aggres
sion at any time.”
And he assailed administration
critics at home for “trying to stiri
up trouble and suspicion between
the people and their government.”
“They are using the smear and
the big lie for personal publicity
and partisan advantage, heedless
of the damage they do their coun
try,” he asserted. “Never, not even
in the bitterest political campaigns
have I seen such a flood of lies
and mud pouring forth over the
country.”
Mr. Truman fleW here from
Washington to address an outdoor
audience in Cadillac Square ^n
front of the city hall as part of
this city’s 150th anniversary cele
bration.
The president charged that the
armed forces of Russia’s satellites
“are rapidly being brought to a
peak of military readiness” and
that the Russians themselves
“have more than four million men
under arms in Europe and the Far
East.”
Britain To Send Cabinet
Mission To Tehran
LONDON, </P) — Foreign Sec
retary Herbert Morrison announ
ced today Britain will send a cab
inet mission to Tehran to discuss
an oil settlement with Iran.
Morrison explained the decision
came about -as a result of con
sultations with Averell Harriman,
President Truman’s envoy now in i
London.
Morrison said there ape still
some points to be cleared up be
fore the mission can leave for the
Iranian capital.
A United States embassy spokes
man -announced Harriman intends !
flying back to Tehran by tonight.
Morrison said the British gov
ernment and the Anglo-Iranian
Oil Company “have been ready
at every stage to meet the legiti
mate aspirations of the Persian
people.”
Dan A. Kimball Confirmed
As Secretary of Navy
WASHINGTON, UP) — Dan A.
Kimball was confirmed as the
new Secretary of the Navy. He
succeeds Francis P. Matthews,
named by President Truman as
the new ambassador to Ireland.
Also approved by the Senate
were promotions for more than
100 generals and admirals in the
Army, Navy and Air Force.
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Alaska RR Ups
Demurrage Rales
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, iJP) —
The Alaska Railroad will revise
its car demurrage rules and
charges Aug. 1 to conform with
an Interstate Commerce Commis
sion order which has been in ef
fect on all statesidp railroads
since May <1.
The revision will be upward.
The new order boosts the mini
mum daily demurrage charges
from $3.75 to $5, and the maxi
mum assessment from $7.50 to
$20 per day.
The action followed an urgent
request to make more railroad
cars ready for handling vital con
struction materials earmarked for
military projects.
“A critical car shortage and the
interests of natinal defense make
the move imperative,” General
Manager J. P. Johnson said.
Unloading delays are “bottle
necking” the most critical ship
ping movement in territorial his
tory, rail officials said.
General Commanding
Detroit Tank Arsenal
Relieved of Command
WASHINGTON, The com
manding general of the Detroit
Tank Arsenal has been fired from
his command and reprimanded for
accepting favors from contracting
companies.
An Army announcement said
Secretary of the Army Pace had
relieved Brig. Gen. David J.
Crawford after an inspector gen
eral’s report showed Crawford
had “violated army regulations
and had not met the high stand
ards required of an army officer.”
The 54-year-old Cawford, a
West Point graduate and veteran
of 29 years’ army service, admit
ted before a congressional com
mittee at Detroit on July 23 that
he had accepted a free Washing
ton hotel suite and the gift of a
boat keel from contracting com
pany representatives.
Crawford said he felt there was
no impropriety in his action and
that he “couldn’t do business
without accepting hospitality.”
He will be replaced by Brig.
Gen. Carroll H. Deitrick, 53, who
now commands the Watertown,
Mass., arsenal.
Juneau Drum Majorette
To Participate In Seattle
Seafair Coronation Ball
SEATTLE, W—Beverly Arline
Powers, 14-year-old drum major
ette from Juneau, will represent
that city in the Seattle Seafair
Coronation Ball August 7. Miss
Powers is visiting here with her
mother, Mrs. Sena P. Powers.
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Time For Alaska To Quit
Booming and Settle Down
To A Pioneer Attitude
SEATTLE, </P) — It's time for
Alaska to quit booming and settle
down to a pioneer attitude of toil
and sweat.
That was the opinion of L. A.
Colby, president of the Pacific
Northwest Trade Association, who
stopped here Thursday after a
three-week visit to Alaska Cham
bers of Commerce which belong
to the Association.
Alaska's gold and defense con
struction booms have been a good
thing from the standpoint of pop
ulating the territory, Colby said,
but Alaska should now think of
more permanent things.
“People going to Alaska to get
what they can and then get out
are not those * who will give the
territory a permanent economy.
It takes the pioneer qualities of
hard work and perserverance to
successfully produce in Alaska.
But experience has shown it can
■be done.
“Once Alaska is self-sufficient
in certain aspects, extra dollars
will be available for the purchase
outside of items which are im
possible to produce there,” he said.
Religion involves a willingness
to give other people a square deal.
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