Palmer, Alaska
Editor: Dorothy IT. Boll
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CHANGE IN PERSONNEL
' No arc?- sorry to report that ITrs. Hr.lon Ray found it impossible to keep on "ith the
rork of helping rith the Valley Settlor. Mrs. Harriot Bell has consented to toko over
this rork and rill have charge of the Advertising,
R E V OL U 71 ON A R Y PE RIOD
Murray’D. L-ncoln rho is general manager and president of Farm Bureau Insurance Com
panies, Columbus, Ohio; nrcsidont of tno Cooperative League of the U.S,D; president of
CARE, consultant to the United Natidns, trustee of the A tional Planning A-social5on
and director of Friends of the Land, states that re are living in a revolutionary
period of human history.
He goos on to say—"You may disagree with no, but I think what is happening is foie' y
clear. The common nan—call him .the average man or the little fallen in terns of
material realth—is on the march. Ho nay not knor whore he is going, but ho does !aior
I7Ifcro he has been, .jid he doesn’t want to &o back to some of those periods if he can'
help it, Sufch periods as those of a collapse of farm prices, loss of Sams and henes,
unemployment, bank failures and finally war.
"Pcoplo keep moving whether institutions do or not. That is true of business, cooper
ative or government institutions, And if you ignore this tendency you wake in some
morning "1th a bruised head and injured pride.
"As near as I can appraise our present situation, ar.d of course I can be wrong, it
soemd to me that people have sensed that- hero is an abundanc of material things nossi
blc in this age, and* they want what they fool is there share,
,r7c arc witnessing much agitation in many fields—economic, social, and governmental.
And all this has implications for good, as well as the opposite. Hhich ray it goes
depends on many things and attitudes.
"Apparently pconlc are ready to turn from one system of economics and government to
others, until they find that dogreo of security arid well-being that they believe is
rightfully theirs.
"All this,and of course other factors,explain to me many of the things that arc going
on today.
"A fcr illustrations to this point. Businesses rho profess to cc the only advocates
of "free enterprise* (although they alrayc mean a particular kind) ore exhorting pconlo
to beraro of "crcoping socialism*—the Welfare State that so many arc non concerned
rith. And the apparent rillingncss of farmers to accept a degree of control of their
operations in exchange for certain financial guarantees.
” I bolive people have in their om hands the tools to fashion their orn destiny, if
thoy rill use them. And to me this situation offers a great challenge to cooperatives
who I think truly have a ’'riddle ray” that can be successfully applied to many of these
institutions.
"Eut I fear that oven cooperative, concerned as they are nith the need of consolidating
their fast-groring enterprises, are evidencing too much unuillingncss to raise -their
sights and speed their gaits to moot the coming and present challenge and needs. And
so by default, re, nith other scgncn.ts of our economy, drift into dopcndonco on Stato
to do rhat re could better do through the further expansion of voluntary effort in a
truly democratic extension of real ”froo enterprise,"
RE SEEbiNCj AIRPORT
The airport ras reseeded this Y?ook on the
North and South Runday. The stand from
last falls seeding uas rather poor and
spotted.
Don L, Irrrin plans'to go to Fairbanks
this next rreok to confer rith the Fair
banks Experiment Station and make plans
for the future operation of the Haska
Station's joint operation of the LRA rnd
Station rrork.
TO Vi Si T
Nil W PRESIDENT
VALLEY
Dr. Turris Hcorc and family arc arriving
today from the States and rill bo in f1ch^r
age for a dinner given by the Alumni-cy fcho
University of Alaska.
Dr. Iloorc rill head the University of
Alaska as the nor presfldent to replace Dr.
Charles Brrncll rho is retiring thi_ y.c t.
Dr. iloorc plans to d±bvo to t vc Valley o •
Saturday tho 25th before proceeding to
Fairbanks via the highr§ty.