THE MATANUSKA VALLEY PIONEER
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at palmer, Alaska
Jack Allman Editor
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A TRAITOROUS TIRADE
’’like other relief measures the
Matanuska colony is the product of
idealism steeped In the sordid
slime of rapacious commercialism,
where political favoritism and a
desire to grab while the grabbing
is good have taken all but a tithe
of the billions appropriated in a
worthy cause.'’
The foregoing, appearing in the
’’Cordova Times,1’ prompts us to ask
a few pertinent questions. First,
has the writer ever visited, this
project? Does he speak with author
ity or does he know only what he has
heard, in the biased reports of the
disgruntled few who have quit the
Colony because the jaundiced streaks
down their backs couldn’t be hidden,
and as a result found themselves os
tracized by those with guts enough
to take a few disapoointments and
still carry on?
To whom does he refer when he
speaks of ’’grabbibg while the .grab
bing is good?'’ has he seen vhe rec
ords of the money spent and the work
ac comp11she d ?
And why is the successful rehab- i
ilitation of 17b families called;
”...Idealism steeped in the sor
did slime of rapacious commercial
ism as he so sophomorioa1ly
puts It?
By what stretch of even a polit
ically distorted imagination does
he place the following on the door
steps of the colonists?
’’The reports from Matanuska of a
hold-up, attempted burglary and of
hoodlums attempting to manhandle of
ficers at Faimer, the center of the
Colonization enterprise, serve to
clarify the re .ason wby A-la ska as a
whole has not warmed to the influx
of a large number of people at one
time.”
Does he not know that the only
arrests In the valley have been
those of transient workers, brought
to the Territory because there was
not enough man power available; that
the men who manhandled a Colonial
policeman were of this group and
were sentanced to six months each
after pleading guilty?
The answer Is; Apparently not;
ATTENTION YOUNG COLONISTS
perhaps there is some hoy in
the Colonist group who would be
good enough to answer either one,
or both, of the two lads who have
written in asking that someone
here enter into regular corres
pondence with them.
One letter, addressed to Mr.
,fStew:T Campbell, Government Man,
is from M. F. crOman, R.F.D. #2,
}uakertown, Pennsylvania, croman
is SO years old and works on his
father*s 8 acre truck farm forty
miles north of Philadelphia. Pie
will send magazines and photos to
any boy who will trade regular
letters. He also knows some girls
'•ho want to correspond.
Another letter comes from
’Valter Kotc.h, 4of South Hancock
St.,Colorado Springs, Colorado.
He, too, is interested in the
making of this colony and wants
someone to write. He is the son
of an orthodox minister and a
high school graduate. He is soon
to join the U. S. Navy and will
be idle to send interesting pic
tures along with his letters.
'Valter is 81.
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