THE
MeCAUTHY WEEKLY NEWS
Entered as second class mailer. Sepiem
ber 1 ill., lllls ai llie tosl Office, ai
McCarthy. Alaska, under the Acl of
March '•>. IS ill.
C. F. M. (,'oliE. Manager I
M. . .d. UUl.K Editor j
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DECREASE BUREAUS and
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INCREASE ROAD BUILDING!
For a paper the size and cir
culation of the News to so far
presume as to criticize the work- j
ings of the bureaus by which
we Alaskans live, move and nave
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our being:, may seem as pre- j
sumptuous as it is probably fu-.
tile. Yet small as the sheet is ;
and unlikely as it is that the j
Washington government will be
deeply moved or overthrown by
our ideis, still, a cat may look
at a king and even a hound pup'
has a good license to howl if |
somebody steps on its tail
All of which gives rise to the |
road and bridge question in A-|
laska in general and around Mc
Carthy in particular.
We now have four separate de
partments in charge of road
work in Alaska. First and fore
most the Alaska Road Commis
sion which was formed for the
purpose of constructing military
roads and trails. Just why
the Army wanes to travel over
the territory may seem a mys
tery to some; but the answer
is that it seemed easier to pry
Congress loose from needed
dough through the Army Ap
propriation bill to in in any oth
er way. Then there is the
Forest Reserve outfit which
spends the results of the sde
timber in Al-isk i. or a pirt there
of in building r»uJs m the For
est Reserve.
Tnen comes tlie money speit
under the appr »pri ition for
Good Roads and finally the
money appropriated by the Ter
ritorial Legislature.
The territory first attempted
to establish its own organization
but soon found that the limbed
amount of money available
would hardly support the salar
ies of the road overseers, let a
lone the construction «*f any i
roads. As a consequence the
territorial organization was a
bohshed and the money turned
over to the Koad Commission,
whose organization was complete
and must be maintained.
The territory thus set a good
example t » the national admin
istration which is not being prof
ited by, for the Forest Keserve
spen is its money independently
and the National Good Roids
money will be spent by another;
organization. Ail of which re-1
suits in plenty of office jobs &
but little effective work being
done.
Now if we may be allowed in i
all humility and self abnegation
to suggest something we would
rise to remark “ Why in Sim
Hill don’t the government use
as much horse sense as a wop
peanut vender would and lump I
these sums under one manage
j ment.”
Such a course as suggested
miiiht cut out a few jobs, but it
might also result in thecomple
i tion of such vitally necessary
* projects as the Nizina Bridge
and trail and the saving of some
precious lives.
Alaska’s population is not in
creasing so fast that we can
afford to lose any more.
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