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PRESERVING ALASKA'S PAST
Since the Alaska College now has a fireproof vault in
the new Eielson Memorial building for the keeping of val
uable and irreplaceable objects of historical or intrinsic val
ue. attention, is again called to the part which this institution
has played and which it may play in the future in the accu
mulation and preservation of records of Alaska’s interesting
past. - —
The College now has in its museum the most extensive
and complete collection of specimens of Eskimo cultures and
handicrafts, both modern and prehistoric, of any known to
exist. The greater number of these, together with many
archaeological specimens of great scientific interest and val
ue, have been acquired through the efforts of the Bunnell
Geist expeditions to St. Lawrence Island. Many others, how
ever, have been the gifts of interested friends of the College
who have recognized that it is the natural repository for such
valuable objects.
Some of the most interesting apd precious records of
Alaska’s historic past are to be found in old newspapers and
letters. The College already possesses a number of papers
published in Dawson, in Nome, and in other fabulous “gold
rush” towns at the turn of the century, but its files of these
papers are far from complete. It is possible that old copies
of these papers still exist in out of the way places in the
Territory or perhaps in the States. The ranks of the pioneers
of Alaska are thinning out year by year, and the memory
of Alaska’s most colorful past may soon be lost before we
sufficiently appreciate how much we would wish to have
preserved it either through the oral or the written accounts
of contemporaries. Readers of the Collegian may do a worthy
service to the College and the Territory if they will keep
their eyes open for such valuable records, whether they be
newspapers, play bills, dance, programs, advertisernents,
hands bills, posters, or anything in printed or written form
which recalls the early days of Alaskan pioneering in the
gold camps or elsewhere. Sometimes the owners of these
do not fully realize the general interest which they possess
and their usefulness as historical documents if they were put
in the temporary or permanent keeping of the Alaska College.
—The Collegian.
INCLUDING THE OLD FOLKS
Once again President Roosevelt has proved himself big
enough to change his mind.
Addressing social security workers some time ago, he
doubted that this is the time to cohsider old age security.
Recently, in his message to the Chicago Conference of May
ors, he definitely included old age pensions on the Congres
sional program.
“It is undoubtedly true,” he wrote, “that the coming
session of Congress will give further attention to proposals
involving unemployment, relief, public works, unemploy
ment insurance, old age pensions and housing, all of which
vitally affects the city governments.
~ “I cannot say what final action Congress will take with
/reference to these subjects but I assure you the Federal
government is anxious to work effectively and co-operatively
on all of these common problems.
Whether this change was wrought by the President’s
own more thorough study of the subject, or by the advice of
others, or by the popular outcry over his earlier utterances
does not matter. The important fact is that he changed this
policy.
We believe the Administration will make a great mistake
if it does not push old age pensions along with unemploy
ment insurance. A bill at least as generous of Federal aid
as the Dill-Connery bill should be on its security program.
The old age pension principle is economically sound. By
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ment can standardize pension relief, bring the States into
the pension picture, save money for the counties and remove
from relief rolls all indigents past 65 years. This can be
,done with an estimated federal expenditure of $40,000,000
a year or less.
It is politically wise The nation is being stirred by dem
agogic demands for old age pensions of an extreme and un
workable type. A sound measure is needed as a back-fire.
It is morally right For it would include the really for
gotten men and women of this rich country, some 500,000
old folks to whom the late afternoon of life now is too often
a nightmare—New York World-Telegram.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT .
There seems to be an extreme reluctance on the part of
many elected, appointed or hired public servants to perform
an act not strictily within the routine of their duties. Tho
the public may at times display a forgivable impatience at
this tendency, the public servant is not always to be blamed.
Employees and junior officials are not always encour-j
aged to act upon their own responsibility, and if a maty per-j
forms such acts that merit the approval of his supe&6rs, he!
is not likely to be made aware'-of that fact. If the hun-|
dredth act incurs the wrath of the powers that be, an im-;
mediate calling down will be forthcoming.
Governments need governing. If not on a commercial;
basis, at least upon a basis of early recognition of merit,
energy and ability of those public servants who deserve it.
In Italy at least, it is true that the King can do no wrong.
II Duce doesn’t give him a chance—Detroit Free Press.
“Is the Republican Party passing out?” queries a Texas
editor. How silly! Why, of course not! What’s it got to
pass out?—Boston Herald.
Advertising is not a tax on the public, although some
people keep insisting that it is. Nobody in particular pays
the nation’s advertising bill.
The manufacturer uses advertising as a mass salesman
and the great size of his business, the lower the price
to the consumer.
Do you remember when people paid $5,000 for an auto
mobile that was not nearly as good as the $1,000 car of today?
Advertising sold cars to the millions and, because of the
great demand, car makers cut the price while they added to
the quality.
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