A i'<M days ago the Old Cynic got surrounded by a buncli. of .wealthy. '
1 J.r»g, sp3j|.ntorsfrom Florida, They looked .at- him hungrily, . He;"';
thvtj "here is where I get that proposalidhhave been looking for h;;
thoH.i r. i any ...years, and now I can retire to'Florida and‘live the-life
.of Alloy the rest of my days", .*•••• w. r ,
bo ff.lt a Kt disillusioned when one -of them said;, f Was sure' we
\ MUd ovjntual'ly see one of those old ^fissilized sourdoughs’ \ve • read
•o.ui; v.oen we wore kids”, * • •
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oOi.io people believe or pretend to believe that the reason no in
bi.istr.ie3 are starting in Alaska is because we do not have statehood,
oome people believe or pretend to believe -that the reason there are
;io industries coming to Alaska is because of the*prospect of. state
hood, it is suggested that the common peojble of Alaska keep their
ears open and listen to the opinions of-the men who come up here re*
presenting "risk capital11 that they would like to invest in a promis
ing venture,. ■ ; ' . ' . •'
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The next time you happen to take nqte of that chunk 'taken out of
your pay check for Territorial Taxes just bear in mind the following
given out at a recent meeting of the Territorial Welfare Council,
'during the welfare section discuss ion Jimmy Huddington, veteran Husla
trader, spoke of the ’Terrific abuse of Welfare monies in Interior
Alaska, "and declared his belief that ’Forty percent of this money is.
thrown down the drain*, Huntington further declared knowledge of
’gambling in some villages where 75 per cent of the money.that goes
ever the table is welfare money".
And mostly you will find that anyone .who protests this Waste of
the Territorie ’3 money is called a damned old'reformer by most*
Alaskans who want to see public monies/.in: circulation, they, might
get in on some of it, • • ... v' ' Wv • - • "W;
Breathes there’a nan with soul so deqd,
That never- to his neighbor .hath said'* '*
“I told you so,11. - . - f
The.Old Cynic ha3 been predicting another winter ahead end he found
he made 3one headway putting that idea over* He has been saying for
long , that this past phony defense supported boon that Alaska has been
experiencing has no solid foundation like the Korn, Kows and Kahtaloups
of Kansas City and i3 sure to fade away*.
The only response he has heard has been a bleat of pity that anyone
could be so dumb and pessimistic as to think that a recession could
, hit this Alaska with its "vast resourcesn*
And the Old Cynic acinits that he is mean enuf to get a bit of satis
faction in hearing these same people squawking today because they cb
net know v/hat they did with last year's wages that came so easily an d
seemingly went the same way* *
But probably everything will be O.K.. Those.people who claim to
believe that there is no limit to the»Unemployment and Welfare funds
in the Territory's Treasury may be right. *'
In a recent issue of LIFB magazine in an article on the new
governor of Alaska it states that "He has been trying-to make a3
many friends as possible among the industrialists whom Alaska needs
for development." They quote the Governor as saying:' "It must also
mean that when we offer an olive branch to•enterprise with one hand,
we don’t hold a baseball bat in the other." \
A statement like the Governor's made in Missouri would have been
meaningless, it would not have been pertinent to anything in the spirit
of the people. But when our Governor said it relative to Alaska he
knew it-was pertinent to the'current short-sighted,greedy Alaska Spirit
Vve Alaskans have assured " risk capital" that if it shows up here
we will tax It to death, and risk capital is staying out of Alaska
in droves these days* But we Alaskans protest that we simply have to
have the taxes because there are more parasites per capita living on
public charity in Alaska than in any other place on earth.