THE NOME NUGGET
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Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Wednesday, September 25, 1946
Massachusetts Paper Calls Us "Back
ward" And Bilbo-Type Producing
(Anchorage Times)
An attack on statehood proposals for Alaska and Ha
waii came from Massachusetts recently in an editorial
published in The Evening Gazette at Worcester.
The editorial dubbed the residents of the territories
a s“backward people” and concluded that 'We don t
want those people to share in governing us.*
Secretary Krug’s statement in favor of statehood for
the two territories prompted the editorial, which said.
“It is difficult to fathom the mentality of responsible
public officials who want to add these outlying people
to the body of governing voters in this Republic.”
The newspaper said the United States has ‘'put up
quotas against immigration from Europe and Asia,” and
“we want to protect the standards we are trying to
maintain for our own people.”
The Worcester newspaper continued:
“When we get a Bilbo or a Huey Long in the Senate,
we realize that something ought to be done for the men
tally undernourished states that produce them. Yet the
public doesn’t seem to feel that its collective intelli
gence is insulted when the President asks us to create
more states of that character.
“We have owned Alaska nearly eighty years; it has
been a territory since 1912. Counting Indians and Es
quimaux, it has a population smaller than that of
Quincy, Mass. And it is proposed to let that handful of
people send two members to the United States Senate.
“There are nearly half a million people in the Ha
waiian islands. The bulk of them are natives or half
breeds, Puerto Ricans, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans and
Filipinos. About one-third of the total are listed as
‘Caucasians,” whatever that may mean.
“Possibly the pineapple and sugar interests, with the
white minority in the islands, could manipulate the
votes of this conglomeration of people who are far less
fitted for American citizenship than the Europeans we
are jealously keeping from our shores.
“Over at the peace conference we are making a brave
attempt to vindicate the principles of democracy. But
some of our official spokesmen don’t seem to under
stand them very well. So far as it is practicable, we all
favor the idea of letting Asiatics and other so-called
backward people govern themselves. But on the rare
occasions when we stop to think about it, we don’t want
those people to share in governing us.”
The editorial was published August 29.
Making America Over
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
An impending meat famine far worse than the coun
try has ever experienced before—
Almost complete failure of the New Deal’s grandiose
housing program for veterans—
Private enterprise in the home building industry at a
virtual standstill, while tens of thousands of families
seek places to live—
The American principle of mass production and low
prices in durable goods unable to operate, and a pro
tracted period of low production and high prices con
fronting the public—
A continued shortage of clothing when hundreds of
thousands of tons of wool and hundreds of thousands of
bales of cotton lie idle in warehouses—
Shoes rapidly vanishing from the stores because pro
cessors and manufacturers cannot obtain hides to meet
their needs—
Black markets flourishing in numerous trades, and
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THE LADY OF THE LAKE
4)
black markets again taking command of the food busi
ness—
Strikes paralyzing ocean shipping and threatening to
isolate and immolate our cities.
These dreary items provide a picture, and an incom
plete one at that, of the New Deal’s “planned economy’':
half way between the adjournment of Congress and the |
November elections.
The New Deal wanted dictatorial authority over the
housing industry to provide preelection homes for vet-j
erans.
The bureaucrats got the authority, but the veterans
are getting very few homes.
The New Deal wanted its Office of Price Administra
tion reestablished and its price controls reinstated in
packing industry.
During the interim when OPA was dormant, meat:
and dairy products were returning to the people’s fare,
and prices were stabilizing far below the black market
prices of the old OPA.
On August 31, the new ceiling prices were imposed
on the slaughterers, with new retail ceilings to become
effective on September 10.
Before the second date arrived, shipments of live
stock to the abbatoirs had virtually ceased. Thousands
of packing house workers had been laid off and many
small companies closed down entirely.
Mr. George Dressier, executive secretary of the Na
! tional Rtail Meat Dealers’ Association, spokesman for
the country’s 58,000 butchers, said:
“There'll be no meat on family dinner tables until
price controls again are removed.”
lAs for the housing, the confusion is fully as bad. The
ceiling price on oak flooring in the East is $175 for 1,000
feet. None is available at that figure. The black market
l price is $350—$150 more than the black market price 1
I of last spring. Nails, worth $3 a keg before the war, now
j sell for $15.
The New Deal s price and priority system makes it1
almost impossible for contractors to know how much a
house will cost to build, much less what its sales pric
may be or what profit it may yield.
This is driving private builders out of business, leav
ing the field to the federal agencies, whose own emer
gency program is reported to have “broken down.”
Activities of Alaska
Develoment Board
Outlined
(Continued from Monday)
Joint action has been initiated
with Fish and Wildlife Service to
stabilize the butter clam industry.
Similaryl, the Board has co-operat
ed with the Federal Works Agen
I
cy, Surplus Property, Native Serv
ice, Alaska Rural Rehabilitation
Coporation, Public Land, R.F.C.,
Veterans and other Territorial and
Federal agencies.
Two instances of such coopera
tion are represented, first, by the
loan of Linn Forrest, architect of
the Forestry Service, to survey
actual and potential tourist lodge
sites throughout Alaska, so that
suggestions can be made and
rough sketches prepared
velopment of these sites. I
pected that the Board wil
porate this data in a pi
that will list all the hoti
tourist lodge facilities in
and thereby facilitate the \
travel agencies in routing
to Alaska next year. In th
nection, efforts will be rr
establish a booking office
in a central point in Alaska
United States, so that a re
ble agency can deal with tl
officials. This has been a
handicap to the encouragen
tourist trade to Alaska in th
The services of Mr. Forrc
being paid for on a joint ba
tween the Board and the Fc
Similarly efforts are bein*
to encourage the rehabilitai
reindeer in Northwestern I
and along with this to insi
telligent placing of loans fc
erans under the Territorial
Bill, so that the local indust
Northwestern Alaska can b
developed. Mr. John Padc
Alaska Native Service is ope
under joint expense of the
and Native Service to mak
survey.
The Board has engagec
services of authorities to pi
pamphlets on subjects for vvl
special great demand has
evidenced in the four or five
sand inquiries handled by
Board’s personnel since its i
tion. Pamphelts already pub!
include four prepared by C
Gasser, Commissioner of Ag
ture. on the following sub
Information for the Al;
Farmer-Settler; The Tanana
ley: The Matanuska Valley
Livestock in Alaska. In cour
publication are two pamp
prepared by Roy Anderson, 1
er publisher of the Ketcl
Chronicle, on Trade and Ind
and Recreational Riches in .
ka. The latter pamphlet was
considered complete enougl
the Board to warrant printir
this time chiefly because repe
requests on the communitie
Alaska failed to produce suffi*
accurate material to make
pamphlet complete. For this
son, it is being published in r
eographed form and will be
mitted to the communities in
hopes that they will supply
ficiencies and bring the mat<
on their community up to a 1
with that prepared by other;
pamphlet on fur farming i;
course of compilation. This
include practical articles by
cessful fur farmers in all area
Alaska, as well as hints to be
ners and rules and regulat
covering the industry. In this <
nection, the Board has been ac
seeking to expand the work of
Experimental Fur Farm and
place it on a more secure finan
footing. An illustrated pampl
stressing the advantages of A
ka from the viewpoint of set
ment and investment is in cot
of compilation. This will be m
up of about 150 photogra;
culled by an expert photograp
from over 50,000 prints in the f
of the Army, Navy, Forestry i
Geological Survey. The booV
will have pictures of every co
munity in Alaska and will
available for sale by local dealt
The tourist lodge and hotel pa
phlet has already been mention
A list of the persons and fir
contacted in the United Stat
either personally or by m;
would read like “Whos’ Who
America”. Tt is essential that su
contacts be maintained a
brought up-to-date from time