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OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM
—THE TEACHERS
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Senator A. J. Dimond’s bill to
provide pensions to teachers af
ter twenty years’ service in
Alaska will show what is wrong
with the Alaska school system
—tourist teachers.
With very few exceptions, the
really good teachers do not stay
in Alaska. These teachers can
get better pay under more
pleasant conditions in the States
than in Alaska.
If this pennon bill will induce
our teachers to remain with us
for twenty years, more power to
it.
The thing that will keep our
teachers here however is not the
hope of a pension twenty years
from now, but good pay, as good
or better than the States NOW. |
THE NON-POLITICAL SCHOOL
BOARD
“The proposal of Senators
Dunn and Dimond to establish
a non-partisan, non-political.
Board of Education to take the
place of the present Board was
upset Saturday afternoon by the
Senate which struck such a pro
vision from the school code
measure under consideration by
it in Committee of the Whole.
The majority then wrote in the
bill provisions identical with the
present statute, which makes
the four senior senators and
the Governor. the Board. The
Dunn-Dimond bill provided
that the Governor and six citi
zens appointed by him should
compose the Board.”—Juneau
Empire.
There is only one serious
fault with the above report, to
wit, the so-called “non-politic
al” board is not non-political. I*
is political in its worst sense.
It is to be expected that Sen
ator A. J. Dimond would support
such a bill which takes away all
the power of the elected repre
sentatives of Alaska to pass on
the Commissioner of Education
and gives it to the federal gov
ernor, because Mr. Dimond be
longs to that school of politics*,
that believes in government by
the foreign federal machine.
But for Senator John W.
Dunn to do so brands him in a
fawning, lickspittle class of poli
ticians. It is now clear in our
mind that the said Dunn will be
a candidate for reelection and
that he will have the backing of
that other non-political (?)
board, the Trustees of the Fair
banks College, and the worst of
it is, the political machine built
up around the Fairbanks Col
lege will reelect him.
Senator Dunn built up quite
a reputation for himself when
he first came to Juneau as a
Senator in 1921. He maintain
ed his independence until, in a
moment of indiscretion and a
woeful misinterpretation of the
innocent admiration of a pretty!
school girl, this bachelor Senat
or from the lonely confines of
a sparsely settled mining region,
allowed his long repressed pas
sions to overcome him. Not
that any real harm was done,
but enough to enrage the father
and enough to give the unscru
pulous minions of the federal
democratic machine the power
statesman.
He wishes the Senate to sur
render the little power that it
does have in school matters and
deliver the same to the federal
governor. Nonpartisan? and
nonpolitical? Not at all, for the
federal governor in his parti
sanship and in his play at poli
tics has not hesitated to appoint!
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pie oi Alaska and look forward
to the day when the people will
take back to themselves all the
power which they have hereto
fore surrendered to die federal
machine.
A SPANKING ROW
A lot 01 fuss is being raised in
one 01 the school districts of Sc
athe over the spanking oi chil
dren by teachers, ii the parents
wiio are raising aii the fuss
would spank the kids at home
more, the teachers would have
iess Ox it to do in school,
would nave iess oi it to do at
school.
ANOTHER SLAP AT ALASKA
Ihe recent oil conservation
policy precludes any further oil
prospecting or development in
Alaska. The rule is retroactive
in that the executive order ap
plies to applications filed before
promulgation of the executive
order. What chance has Alas
ka for development?
WHO WILL START IT
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Governor Erickson of Mon
tana, speaking of President
Hoover’s recent address before
the Associated Press said:
. .“We are acquiring a world re
putation .as .the most .lawless
civilized .nations .and .public
opinion should be aroused as tt
'vaj s and means of combatting
forces responsible for crime. Ar:
intelligent .effort .should .be
made to enforce the law. I do
not favor scrapping the present
liquor law or making changes
until it Is ascertained that it is
impossible of enforcement.”
WHERE DOES THE BLAME
LAY
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Charles Evans Hughes has
said that the judiciary system oi
he United States is a black
spoo on our government. And
;he average citizen has less re
ject for the entire court sys
tem than expressed by the
ormer justice of the Supreme
2ourt.
FIVE YEARS AFTER
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Sinclaire, the oil magnate of
rummy fame must, serve three
nonths in jail for contempt of
he United States Senate. He
tarts for prison five years after
ie is found guilty.
Had he been a poor man he
irobably would lu-ive gotten live
ears and begun serving his
entence three months after
eing found guilty.
WASTED INK
The bureacratic litanies set
irth by the Gateway make nice '
sading. But we wonder why j{
ypy holier against bureaucratic ;
omination and tie up with and
elp to perpetuate the federal ]
ureaucratic machine in Alaska. ]
onsistency is a jewel—if so 1
len friend Jessen “ain’t got ]
one.” *
OUR NEW MASTERS |
The growing tyranny of gov- \}
mment bureaus in Washington
giving many thoughtful peo- j
'e concern lest our boasted lib- £
’ties shall vanish in a maze of t
id tape. t
Perhaps few citizens have had 1
)portunity to observe these en- 1
‘oachments of federal bureau- ^
■acy over a longer period than
is Louis Ludlow, for nearly 30
f,: s one of the ablest of Wash
6>- ->n reporters. He was elect
jc^ i/u Congress last November
| and in a recent statement- said
I ‘Bureaucrats are becomiru
| ti e lords anti masters of the na
lion. There is no private busi
ness that is safe from interfer
once, for a bureaucratic army o
30,000 agents, inspectors anc
spies is abroad in the land, tan
talizing business interests ant
steahhily prying into the pri
vate concerns of individuals. I
the drift toward paternalisn
continues we shall have Ameri
can life standardized according
to forms prescribed at Washing
ton; education will be acquiree
Li.rough uniform text Orel's ant
the everlasting sameness wii
destroy individuality and in
ltiative in the growing youth
’lie bureaucrats will tell us wha
to think and how to think.
Still, in spite of this deplor
able tendency which Mr. Lud
low so eloquently points out, ad
vocates of paternalism in gov
ernment constantly clamor fo
more and bigger bureaus will
added battalions of officehold
ers to harass the people at th
expense of the taxpayers.”
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ANOTHER INVESTIGATION
A federal investigator is be
ing sent to the Territory by At
torney General Mitchell to lool
into charges preferred agains
certain federal office holder
who are seeking re-appoint
ment.
Now, just who are those offic<
holders? Judge Harding? U. S
Marshal A1 White? White’s ae
puties? No report has reachec
this office of any charge agains
Judge Harding, tho many cri
ticisms have been made; A
White and his deputies, now
will probably have some tall ex
plaining to do as to severa
things that have taken place
in their offices.
What sayst Thou, gentle read
er. One guess is as good a.
another.
ASK BROWN
A number of queries have
been directed at us. Frankly we
don’t know. As it has to do
with deputy marshal Brown, we
refer to him for the answers.
1. The young woman who was
witness in the case against John
Adams was promised $200 to
work a plant on Adams. Did
she get it? or did she get only
$20.
SPREAD EAGLE, FLAG WAV
ING CITIZENS
In the public school system
and in the segregated school
system is taught this pledge:—
..“I pledge allegiance to the
flag (my flag) and to the coun
try for which it stands; one na
tion, with liberty and justice for
all.”
In the segregated schools (a
few of them) the children wind
up the pledge as follows—WITH
LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR
ALL—except the Indian.
FOURTH WANTS TO HOG IT
ALL
The representatives from the
fourth Division playing their
same of making the tail wag the
log, defeated the demonstration
ur farm which Representative
'JcCain sought to have estab
ished at Anchorage The Fair
janks College politicians sought
o have the experiment station
nade a part of the political in- j
ititution of the Fourth Division,
rhe Third Division representa- !
ives, rather than permit this,
roted down the measure.
From all reports gatheredJ
rom Juneau, the fox farmers I
md other fur men may thank I
he federal-demo machine for!
he tabling of this worthy pro- i
losition.
IHEY ARE WILLING TO MAKE
A CHANGE OF RULES
“In view of recent develop
• ments at Juneau the people of
Alaska undoubtedly will give ap
» proval to the proposal to make
he office of territorial com
! missioner an elective one as well
as other important offices in the
■ territory. It was not the inten
tion originally to let politics!
play a part in the selection of j
the director of the Alaska school
■ system but now that the mem
bers of the senate comxjosing the
present board of education have
1 demonstrated that the old meth
1 od is not proof against man
ipulation, the voters of the ter
- ritory should be given the op
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portunity to show their com
petency to do the selecting in
the future. There are reasons
to believe the results would be
more satisfactory than they can
possibly be by continuing the
present method of selection af
te what has happened and' Alas
kans should insist that such a
change be made during the pre
sent session of the legislature.”
Anchorage Times.
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