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Now that Statehood appears to bo sons thing of a probability right ,
around the corner scree of us old work hjrsoa who have believed that
if goods and services were kept in circulation that money would
autom;;:mic ally take care of itself, we will gradually recced to tho
background and leave the circulation of goods, serviceswater,
electricity, fuel and all merchandise to those magicians who can
maintain our economy simply by keeping money in circulation, 'and ! .
this St ..to of Alaska is going to keep money in such beautiful cir-p
culation there will be no‘'incentive for us oldsters to make ourselves
appear foolish by trying to keep goods and services in circulation.#
he Alaskans have been asking for and demanding Statehood for some
time. The present administration thinks it would uselessly *
complicate the defense activities.of the federal government if the
northern and western part of Alaska were to be under-the handeling
of a sparsely settled and perhaps uncortiangy organized State., So
now it is being pr posed by this Adminissrafion dnuo tho southern and
eastern part of the Territory be made into a State and the northern
anc w jstern p art waach fia. sm, .11 popul .tion' of Askino, Jadian -and a
tery few wniuea left «.>ut of the state, •.
This western part couiu. continue as a Territory and the southeastern
part with its "Vast Ko30urcea" would be the State of Alaska, Wo
Alaskans object vigorously to this martition of our wonderful Terri
tory, we are not going to sec any Alaskans left as "second class •
citizens11, hoes ti is gi-wct concern for ; few of our neighbors leave
you a bit puzzled? want to know tno answer? bell, as tho preacher
said, wo is- gw inter i\a thorn the unf nthonat 1 o, explain the explicable
and unscrew the inscrutable.
Vvo alnekans want dtatehood for the ono mid simple reason that we
believe th.it it will' get- us a .better leverage for getting Federal
money spent in Alaska and we all- hop.e to got our share of it, It
seems probable that in the future quite a lot of this Federal ex
penditure and pay roll will be on defense work in western Alaska,
now if this western part of Alaska is not included in the State wo
will not get thv advantage of putting a tax on this big Federal pay
roll. It is just as simple as that.
People in the States who are in command of risk capital are becoming
painfully aware that a lot of Alaskans are simply intent on getting
them to plant their money in any old swamp up here so that we Alas
kans can dig some of it up and thus get enuf to get the hell out of
this damned country as id retire to that place in California, vi/e
Alaskans are great Boo-Stors but, a lot of perhaps investors think
we'are concerned only with.boosting their money into our pockets.
As we have so sagely remarked' before, when people get north of
Ketchikan they seem to loose that ability to see themselves, called
a sense of humor.