thinga as they are, it is tine for
6 10 \i i/lt'i;y Xnc Ian:H I now 3 .
ino to die". Thu Old Cynic is euro ho has lived plenty long and then
3evn.^ and there seem to be quite a number who agree with him in this,
now v,e live in a Oho at down in a Ghost State of Alaska. Those
i
woo nave
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our fe t on the ground and apposed Statehood
beinga the same? :mu v/o have*nothing to worry about. no can
^ „ , nqVe aw. y e.r retire anu mostly we will. The hollow gesture of
making Alaska a State by the misled people in the U.S. is not going to
ado anything to our meager resources. if it fortunately developed that
the now unforeseen happens and large oil fields arc found in Alaska,
tii'.ri • Very thing will be fine, but tho. Old Cynic expects Alaska to dwin
die considerably in the immediate future under the dead weight of
i-1-.al;snood* And as Chief Tyono said: M If 1 am right nothing that
anyone says can ms he re. wrong, and if I an wrong then a thousand
angels shearing on a mountain of bibles that I am right will not make
»»« 3 O r " -
>r.e
Tti.; O’! t i Cynic has tel ted with quite a number of real Alaskans, .
those who have a vostea interest of money or years in Alaska and
invariably ho finds tunt they think about like this, M It is the
p- ■ 01: ns v/ho^heve gotten statehood for Alaska, those who want tie
lienor, u is tine tion or money that go os with these political jobs.
A.1 ska cannot begin be support a state government and the politic ia
gevv.-ieuae no auu one politicians
lu'ev.’ it* The result will be that Uncle will have- to support our
•• and also in tho meantlm w.
idustry 1
pa,:?!,
ontor’pri
will put on such taxes that no
think of comraing to Alaska, dtatohood is
not going to put resources in a territory that has practically nore ,11
or
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‘•u *'•••• .r-.Ci’ot past the. probability of otatohood has scared all risk
capital frotii venturing into Alaska, now wo will bo avoided like the
V'i-hvUv* pining Qonpanios and petroleum companies are backing out of
A.lanka, v’ury few tourists ur« coming to Alaska this year. The plane
c omp a n i e s no re in Alaska complain of no tourist business, Even tho
sulmon have soused statehood and are refusing to head for our rivers,
just ask the fishery, n in Cordova•
Unfortunately Alaska is a ecuntry of almost 'no' resources, And by
"■••a,sources'• m'o mean just tho same as the people all over the Earth
re an oy resources; those things tlr. t can presently bo harvested or
workable cost and not somethin*, that may bo found sometime
5.ie tiro future, ^ Eor all anyone knows there may bo great oil fields
uno.or the corn.fiolds of Iowa but until it is found the people of Iowa
would consider anyone rather silly who spoke of oil as one of the
11 v is t ruscurc<;su of low a,
heath and s ta teamed. arp irrevocably and wo can make our plans rug arc
ing bo the with a fueling of certainty. If statehood proves to bo a
flop tim proponents will have a hundred good alibis. It it turns out
to b, •• od tiling: tiro opponents can only admit that they wore dead
wrong.
In th east lev/ days since the people down in the U.o. have given
ua ::t sc • wo have observe a a perplexing; phonomonon. Every Alaskan
who nan. ceu into Onitina, and there have boon quite a number,
has expressed alarm at what wo have gotten and wonders what in hell
v/Cr Vv'ill do with it. How that wo have it wo are beginning to see that
statehood la a tragic comedy.
Business Is so bad in Cliitina that rare hunts have stopped saying that
it could be better and now note that it could and will bo worse,
An indication of how widespread the current depression has become is
tho fact, that repossessions are starting here in Chitina, Just recent
ly it seemed desirobl for tho owner to repossess a ...refrigerator* The
usual reason, for repossesslone is uns&tisfnctory finances. The Old
Cynic advises t:«. t if you have no connection vl tn other people then .
you will have no trubble.