One of the most treasured rights wo humans have, and the one we would
least like to loose is the privilege of thinking "I told you so“, a3
long as we keep our trap shut, say nothing and look sad. If a man
skates on thin ice in spite of our warning and then goes splash,
whines for help and goes down^ wo warned him with good intentions*
He got abusive and told us w'o wore old fogies and to mind our own
business. He goes splash. We look and act Vory sad/ But there is
no privelege we hold more sacred than the right"to feel as we damn
please deep down inside.
Yes, Alaska is.asking■for Statehood. The politicians have persuaded
Ala-s-kan3 to ask for Statehood. We. ra y got what wo are asking for.
We Alaskans require our Commissioner of Minos to include in his re
port as the big;; oat' 3 ingle it on of ’’Mineral Production" the amount
of #8,300,000 worth of sand find gravel last year, Whom do we think
wo are kidding?
In the valley here where the Chitina and Copper Rivers join there is
a bed of excellent gravel and sand one mile‘wide and six miles long
and 72 feet deep, containing 350,000,000 cu, yds. of gravel, worth’
#350,000,000.00. Alaska has innumerable deposits like this. Talk
about your "Vast Resources". Mining on .a large scale cannot start
before the middle of May*
Travellers, hunters, trappers and others report that wild animals
from moose and sheep to lynx and rabbits and rats are playing in the
•woods along the roads in contemptious indifference to humans. . Thq :
Indians have it figured out that the wild life somehow senses that'
Washington has decided that the laws .passed by the Alaska Gold
Commission's negulation are illegal and do not any more have the force
of law. This decision will nullify the Monopoly heretofore enforced
by the licensed guides of Alaska, The sportsmans' association will
now toko,;Ovei*,:the moose and bear just aren't afraid of anybody. The
Alaska Game Commission has long had the privologo of La king and
enforcing regulations that had no other legal basis. It would seem
funny xf we Alaskans found out 3ome day that vm. had as much right
to hunt and fish around here as sportsmen from Miami and Madrid.
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The Old Cynic says that there are a lot of honest to goodness nuts at
large in this Territory, 1 know because I have a number of neighbor.s«
There are al30 a lot of malingers who want to bo taken care of by a
long suffering public.^ And all they need is a swift kick in'the pants.
I know because 1 have dealt with some of them. There are some nuts
who need and deserve care. The fact that they ever came to Alaska is
an argument in that direction.
But don’t ever forget that a lot of Alaskans who are whooping it up
for that big mental institution want it simply because it will mean
spending more Federal mpney in the Territory and we can make our stake
sooner and got the hell- out, v* " ,
Princess Grace of Lower Tonsina is reputedly going to have another
baby without benefit of husband. There is no rumor of anyone having
seen the Koly Ghost flitting abound out there so some of the Sourdough^
neighbors are keeping in condition to head for the tall timber.