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One of Alaska’s most progressive ideas in
years is about to be thrown in the trash can
by members of the present"legislature sit
ting in Juneau. The Alaska Development
Board, after two short years of existence,
is doomed.
Senators Green and. Coffey started the
ball rolling with the introduction of a bill
in the Senate to abolish the Board, and
there seems to be no doubt of the passage of
the legislation.
The first move toward a coordinate plan
for the development of the territory since
it came into the possession of the United
States, the Board already has done much to
bring Alaska’s possibilities to the atten
tion of stateside industrialists. The re
cent interest in the development of a major
pulp industry in southeastern Alaska can be
traced directly to the activities of the
Board.
And the determined opposition the Board
has made to any increase in freight rates to
Alaska, a sore spot with every sourdough and
cheechako in the territory, would seem, in a
large measure, to justify its continuance.
The real reason for the bill’s introduc
tion apparently is dislike of some members
of the Board as well as objection to the go
vernor’s participation in Board activities.
So the short-sighted legislators have decid
ed to throw away the whole idea as a piece of
spoiled fruit, rather than to take the re
medial action which would dig out the blem
ishes and give the territory a complete and
unified whole.
Communism does not reach the heart of a
man who knows he is treated justly, whether
white, black, red or brown,-- Methodist Bis
hop G. Bromley Oxnam of New York,
Booms and depressions can be eliminated
but not by government alone. Both labor and
management are needed in free America. They
have got to learn how to get along.-- Irving
M. Ives, Republican senator - elect of New
York.
15 REVISED
attorney General
Ralph Rivers this week
wrote J# W• Thompson,
chairman of the Public
Health Council commit
tee named to protest
V/elfare legislation
soon to come up for
passage, that revised
bills had incorporated
all of the suggestions
the committee made in
regard to the proposed
adoption bill#
Mr# Rivers said the
bill had been intro
duced in both houses
and should come up for
action soon.
Legislation regard
ing the licensing of
foster homes has been
postponed and will
come up in a second
bill later in the ses
sion# _
DOCK AGENT
SAYS THANK YOU
Appreciation for
the cooperation of
Seldovia’s merchants
and transfer men in
the recent unloading
operations of the
Denali was expressed
by the operators of
the Anderson Dock
this week.
Mrs. Juanita And
erson of the dock of
fice said that if it
had not been made
possible to continue
the all-night deliv
eries, much of the
Homer freight would
have had to have been
placed oon the dock to
await further hand
ling.