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Wednesday, February 6, 1946
STATESMEN NEEDED
(Fairbanks News-Miner)
More and more it looks as if statesmanship is the
misssing ingredient in efforts to settle the mounting dis
putes the world over. Conferences of all kinds and on
a wide variety of subjects have not brought about the
progress that one would expect.
• For the purposes of this discussion, statesmanship is
the kind of unselfish leadership that lets facts decide an
issue, gives equitable weight to opposing points of view,
and disregards personal gain or popularity that might
result from support one cause or faction.
The United Nations, individually and collectively,
•could use a healthy injection of this kind of leadership.
The haggling and bargaining system is fast steering the
UNO into a series of deadlocks which can do serious
damage to the foundations of the new organization.
Even more, the United States has the “help wanted”
sign out for statesmen. Haggling and bargaining in our
country is most plainly illustrated in the labor-manage
ment difficulites. The code of the day is to look out for
Number One, get all we can for our side and let the
other fellow make the best of what we leave him.
It is not that we have no statesmen, or at least poten
„ tial statesmen. It would be impossible to believe that
any country could be so completely riddled with selfish-1
ness that there was no one who could hew to a straight!
line through any given situation. We probably have as I
big a supply of the raw materials of statesmaship as any j
nation that ever existed.
If we have them, why aren’t they getting busy? The j
answer is that statesmanship is like any other kind of
leadership: a leader is one who has followers, and the
followers must reflect the same intentions and desires
as some collection of individuals who will give him their
confidence and support.
We can ccmpiain but we can expect no statesman to
appear unless we first provide the necessary group of
followers of the same unselfish frame of mind.
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WAGES AND SAVINGS
(Alaska Daily Empire)
All during the war most people thought that the
thing that would be foremost in the mind of the nation
with the first days of peace would be a reconversion to
a peaceful economy. Some people actually thought that
prices which rose steadily throughout the war might
go down a little.
But across the nation today, and ever since peace |
came, the great organized mass of the people have had j
on objective—higher wages. This objective has been|
endorsed by the Administration to the extent that
higher wages won’t raise prices. But just how this can
be accomplished hasn’t been yet explained. It seems |
that if an article which once cost $1.00 to manufacture i
will cost $1.25 because of higher labor cost, the price j
must increase.
Those who have devoted their coin to savings during
the war aren’t making much a clamor for higher wages
because they can see that this will reduce their savings j
and that what they have saved for use after the war will j
buy less. Those with savings already have suffered as
prices increased during the war. A dollar saved in 1940
or 1941 will buy very little today, and next year it may
be worth 25 cents.
if wages continue to zoom, prices must also go up if
the higher wages are to be paid.
The worker who gets higher wages will find that he
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must pay more for what he needs and actually is mak
ing little more if any more money.
But the person who depends upon savings will be out
in the cold—the pensioner, the elders who retired on
savings established before the war—those with fixed
incomes, will really be up against it.
COLOR PRINTING FOR THE AMATEUR
A new color printing process which reduces by more
than two-thirds the time required for color printing by
the fastest previous wash-off relief method, has been
announced by the Eastman Kodak Company.
The dye transfer process, described at a meeting of
the Rochester technical section of the Photographic So
city of America, will be available to amateur and com
mercial photographers early in 1946.
With a contract printer or enlarger a photographer
can, by the new process, produce the first full-color
print in less than an hour and a half, excluding nega
tive and print drying time. This is about one-third the
time required by the wash-off method.
Successive color prints, which the company says
maintain an unusually high standard of quality, can be
turned out on the average of one every ten minutes,
less than one-eighth the time previously needed.
Known as the Kodak dye transfer color process, the
new method utilizes the principle of dye transfer from
matrices made from color-separation negatives. How
ever, every step in the process has been improved over
former matrix color printing methods, the company as
serted.
Color balance of a photograph can be controlled eas
ily by the process, the company said, contrast may be
increased or reduced, and the finished prints may be
spotted and retouched.
The company said it is expected materials for the
process will be available shortly. Users will be able to
buy all necessary chemicals in a complete kit, and also
sets of replacement dyes and necessary developers.
WASHINGTON i
NEWS-LETTER !
By MARY LEE COUNCIL
SacWarr to E. L. (Bob) Bartlef
Delegate to Congress from Alaska
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POWER PO * TS
STAR ROUTES
Twelve contract* for carrying
mails on the steamboat or other
power boat routes in Alaska for
during the contract term from
July 1, 1946, to June 30, 1950,
have been accepted at the rates
specified below, according to in
formation made available to Dele
gate Bartlett by the Post Office
Department. A few of the routes,
accepted bidders and prices fol
low:
Hamilton to Aklurak, William
Odinzoff, $65.00 round trip.
St .Michael to Kotzebue, A. R.
Ferguson, $2,199.00 round trip.
Contract for carrying mails on
the star route Gamoell to Savoon
ga, on St. Lawrence Islanl,
Irving Ifkoluk, $25.00 per annum,
for the same four-year period, has
been accepted.
Fourteen additional contract' for
power boat and star routea in the
Territory have to be reaivert'sed
because of lack of bidders. These
routes include: Hooper to Tunu
nak; Kotzebue to Selawik; Bethel
to Kwigillingok; Bethel to Tunu
nak; Mountain Village to Hooper ^
Bay; Bethel to Hooper Bay; and
Kotzebue to Noatak.
Decision on the remaining thir
teen power boat and star routes
awaits revision and completion of
errors and omissions on original
bids submitted.
REVENUE BOND BILL
The Senate Committee on Terri
tories and Insular Affairs has re
ported Delegate Bartlett’s revenue
bond bill favorably without
amendment, and the measure will
now go to the Senate floor for ac- ^
tion. ^
The legislation authorizes muni
cipalities and public utility dis
tricts in the Territory to issue rev
enue bonds upon a majority vote
of the qualified electors in the
municipality or district concerned.
The House has passed the bill.
FLAT-FORTUNA LEDGE
MAIL DELIVERY
The airmail route between Flat
and Fortuna Ledge via Holjr Cross
has been extended to cover the
entire year, according to informa
tion given Delegate Bartlett by
the Post Office Department fol
lowing representations made by
the Delegate urging such action.
It is expected the difficulty,
which has been experienced in th^*
past in moving the mails promptly
during the opening and closing of
navigation each year will now be
relieved.
The new order issued by the
Post Office Department author
izes extension of performance of
service once a week from about
May 1 to about October 1.
1945 ANNUAL REPORT OF
INTERIOR SECRETARY
All divisions under the Interior
Department recognize the ever-in- ^
creasing importance of Alaska and ,
the need for federal aid in the de
velopment of the Territory, ac
cording to Secretary Ickes’ 1945
annual report on the functions of
his department. The Director of
the Division of Territories and Is
land Possessions placed special
emphasis on this belief by stating,
“Development of Alaska is a fed
eral responsibility and requires
the prompt, generous and intelli
gently directed support of both
the legislative and execu t i v e
branches of the federal govern
ment.”
Excerpts From Report
. In 1945 a lode deposit of tin on
the Seward Peninsula of Alaska,
which has greater potentialiteis
than any other known domestic
source of tin, was tested through
diamond drilling by the Bureau of
Mines. During the fiscal year 1945
almost all efforts of the Bureau
of Mines apd the Geological Sur
vey were expended for the suc
r^sful carrying on of the war.
Th* Survey reDorted that quick
silver, formerly considered as a
resource of only minor s;gnificance *
in the Territory has become one of
the most imnortant commodities
now commercially produced in
Ala«?Va. T^e reoort of the Survey
stated, “The task ahead of accum
ulating lasting information of
Alaska’s resources is tremendous.
A«s a result of the activities of the
Geological Survey the known
value of Alaska’s mineral resourc
es can be set at a minimum of sev
eral billions of dollars.” LeSs than
one percent of Alaska has been
mapoed in the Survey in the detail
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