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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, February 22, 1950
ADDRESS BY DELEGATE BARLETT
(Excerpt from an Address by Delegate E. L. Bartlett
before the 24th Women’s District Conference on Na
tional Defense, Washington, D. C., January 28, 1950).
“I have often been asked why Alaska has so few peo
ple if it has the wealth of resources we claim for it. The
reasons are easily stated. In the main, they may be class
ified under two headings.
“It is often said that Scandinavia, lying roughtly in
the same latitudes as Alaska, has 12 or 13 millions of
people, and there is no good reason why Alaska should
n’t have the same number, or more. But the difference
there is that the Scandinavian countries utilize and ship
to their several hundred million European neighbors to 1
the south natural resources not elsewhere available in
western Europe. By and large, Alaska possesses the
same type of resources as does the U. S. proper. Not un
til there is further exhaustion of those resources will
there be increasing demand for their counterparts in
the North. From the standpoint of the nation, if not for
the immediate benefit of Alaska, that is a highly desir
able situation. Additionally, by world standards the
United States is still a sparsely settled country. If the
density of population were anywhere on the order of
Belgium’s, for example, we could expect that several
million Americans would now be identifying them
selves as residents of Alaska.
In my opinion, the second reason and perhaps the
more important in the retarded development of Alaska 1
is because of the policies of the federal government. Out
of a false interpretation and twisting of the principles i
of conservation, it has locked Alaska up tight. Over 99
percent of the land is held by the federal government.
Dealings with government are carried on at expense in
money and temper, and the patience of those who wait
through to success is an eloquent testimonial to the
fighting qualities of the American. It is not in harmony
with the American genius of government that rule shall
be impressed from afar, but Alaskans are subjected to
just that. They not only have to bear up under the on
slaught in Washington of those who oppose construc
tive measures for Alaska, or fail to understand them,
but they are likewise required too often to accept the
well-meaning but poorly executed ministrations of
those who would be friends. When Alaska was incorpo
rated into the Union in 1912—the great act preliminary
to statehood—fewer home rule privileges were bestow
ed in the organic act than had ever before been con
ferred upon a territory. That fact, plus outright discrim
inations existing in federal law toward Alaska, plus
failure to include Alaska in other federal laws of sup
posedly general application, has served to create a sorry
governmental structure.
It is to cure that situation so that population may be
attracted, so there may be proper resource develop
ment, so that adequate representations may be made in
respect to national defense needs, that Alaskans new
seek statehood. They feel, aside from all other consid
erations, that defense needs as they apply not only to
Alaska but to the nation as a whole, can only be ex
pressed and implemented properly by two United States
Senators and a voting Representative. History’s pages
abound with the failures of voteless Delegates in Con
gress to act effectively. We who advocate statehood
were notably cheered on Monday last when the House
of Representatives adopted a resolution making in or
der general debate on the Alaska statehood bill.
If we work in unison toward a common goal we shall
haVe success crown our efforts. That goal—the military
protection of Alaska and thus the nation, and the de
velopment of a civilian economy with the concomitant
granting of statehood—ought to command the devoted
support of every loyal and patriotic American.
Truman Insists
On International
Atomic Inspection
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cial order. They demand a way of
life that will provide greater free
dom and more widespread oppor
tunity. . . .
“These ideals are under deadly
attack from those who would de
stroy them. The most aggressive
of these enemies today is com
munism.
“Communism seeks to induce
men to surrender their freedom by
false promises of a better life, but
the great danger of communism
does not lie in its false promises.
It lies in the fact that it is an in
strument of an armed imperialism
which seeks to extend its influ
ence by force.”
When he turned to discussion of
atomic weapons, the President re
iterated his support of the Baruch
control plan involving interna
tional inspection of atomic plants
but declared “the stakes are too
large to let us, or any nation,
stand on pride of authorship.”
“We asked only for a plan that
provides an effective, workable
system—anything less would be a
sham agreement,” he said.
Americans, Mr. Truman contin
ued, must “be no less firm, no
less resolute, no less steadfast”
than George Washington was.
While the stage is larged today
than in Washington’s time, funda
mentally the problem is the same
—“to make democracy work and
defeat it from its enemies.”
McCarthy Insists
State Department
Has Communists
WASHINGTON, (iP)—A Repub
lican Senator’s charges that two
men and a woman make up a “big
three” directing a spy ring in the
i state department headed yester
day for an investigation by the
Senate foreign relations commit
tee.
Senator Lucas of Illinois, the
Democratic leader, told reporters
he will propose that the commit
tee look into accusations made by
Senator McCarthy (R.-Wis.) that
81 communists either have or I
now work for the department.
McCarthy, who described these;
individuals from supposedly se
cret files in a five-hour Senate ]
speech Monday night, said he'
would give names to such a com- j
mittee. He didn’t give any in his
speech.
u .1 running word battle with
Lucas, the Wisconsin Senator re
fused in his Senate speech to tell
whom he suspects of being mem
bers of what he described as “an
espionage ring in the state de
partment.”
As an off-shoot, McCarthy said
at one point that a member of a
communist front organization who
failed to get security clearance in
the state department had turned
up as a White House speech
waiter.
Without naming the individual,
he said he has a relative with a
financial interest in the Daily
Worker, communist paper.
One Man’s Washington
iUP) Newsfeatures)
GEORGE WASHINGTON’S portrait was painted by many art
ists. Here is the way he looked at various times in his life to one
artist, Charles Willson Peale. Washington is shown as a colonial
colonel, as a general at Valley Forge, at the end of the Revolution
and as President.
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be mostly maintenance.
George Beacom, publicity and
entertainment, reported that plans
were being formulated for a Barn
Dance to be held in the High
School Gym on March 11.
Ted Duffield, legislative and
housing committee reported that
Glen Wilder will arrive in a few
days to discuss housing for Nome.
Chuck O’Leary, mining and in
dustry spoke of mining difficul
ties, such as added taxes and cost
of operation; and that roads were
one of the things vitally needed
to open up new development and
cheaper cost of operation.
Gordon Osborne, chairman of
the ways and means committee
urged that everyone use the new
C. of C. suggestion boxes for con
structive ideas that can be used
by the Planning Council.
Keith Hedreen congratulated
the new president and board
members and also the past presi
dent and board members.
Harper and Mandeville gave
several constructive ideas as to
the new C. of C. pamphlet.
Larry Galvin, chairman of the
better business committee urged
that all Nomeites work together
for the betterment of our com
munity and stressed the import
ance of buying locally which will
indirectly aid everyone. Also, that
persons with criticism regarding
local price structure and business
management should let their ideas
be known through the use of the
C. of C. suggestions boxes and at
Chamber meetings.
Jack Estes spoke of the oppor
tunities in Nome as to lower
prices if merchants would take
advantage of volume buying and
take advantage of cheaper freight
rates and wholesale cost of mer
chandise which would tend to
lower prices.
Alaska, Alaska, is but a glorious
dream,
Of valleys and mountains and
rivers and streams,
The cold far North, with its vast
timberlands,
And its Eskimo tribes, who strive
with their hands.
A land of the Sun, in the vast
Northwest,
Whose mineral resources are of
the best,
It’s gold producing is great in
number,
Its timberlands produce much
lumber.
Its cities are growing from North
to South,
Its people are learning the word
of mouth,
Its farms are raising crops by the
thousands,
Its people are working on future
housing.
I see a land of much progress,
A land of friendship and happi
ness,
A land where lies the Arctic deep,
A land for democracy to keep.
A land that’s closer to commun
istic acts,
A land of importance for our de
fense attacks,
In this we strive to keep the world
at rest,
By procuring and defending the
far Northwest.
E. James Liberty,
Sgt, U. S. Air Force
Home, 297 E. 33rd St.
Paterson 64, N. J.