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THE ALASKA RAILROAD MUST
BE MAINTAINED
That the Alaska Railroad must be
maintained to give ample oppor
tunity to test out the question of
development of the vast Territory
of Alaska, Is the opinion expressed
by Delegate Sutherland to the crit
ics of the Railroad. The question
was under discussion during the lat
ter part of February in the Sen
ate, when Senator Howell sought
to have the Interior Department
appropriation bill so amended that
the road would only be maintained
from Anchorage to Nenana. The
article recently published by Colonel
Wilds P. Richardson, was gen
erally referred to as tending to dis
courage the further financing of
this project.
Not only does Delegate Suther
land maintain that the Alaska Rail
road has its defenders In both
branches of Congress, but special
writers from Washington hold out
the hope that the government will
carry on in the future, as in the
past, when the needs of the road
are made manifest. Senator Frank
B. WilllB from Ohio and Chairman
of the important committee on Ter
ritories who visited the territory
last summer, was most active in
defeating the amendments made by
Senator Howell to the appropria
tion bill in the Senate. Represent
ative Vestal, Republican, Indiana,
who also was a visitor in Alaska
last year, has sought to justify the
governmental expenditures in Alas
ka in replying to criticisms express
ed in the House.
The specific proposals of Senator
Howell in connection with the ap
propriation bill, which he will re
new when the proposed investiga
tion gets under way, are that the
government discontinue the oper
ation of a thirty-mile stretch of
narrow gauge which runs from
Fairbanks northwest to Chatanik.i
and also 114 mile* of road at th »
southern end from Seward to An
chorage. The thirty-nine mile stretci
according to his contention, is op
erated solely fr the convenience of
the United States Smelting, Refining
and Mining Company Boston, cor
poration, which he says, made a net
profit in its various activities last
year of $4,000,000. This company
should operate the line itself, Sen
ator Howell asserts.
The lower end of the road from
Seward, a port on the Gulf of Alas
ka, to Anchorage, is not necessary
he says, because of the fact that
Anchorage, which is on Cook Inlet,
furnishes a suitable harbor for
ocean vessels. Senator Howell al
so thinks that the section from
Nenana to Fairbanks, a distance
of flfty-six miles, eventually should
be abandoned.
The appropriation bill recently
under consideration provides $1,300,
000 for the Alaska Railroad for the
fiscal year 1929. Of this amount
$900,000 represents an operating
deficit and $400,000 proposed ex
penditures for new equipment.
Senator "Willis thinks there is no
reason for discouragement as to
the future development of Alaska.
“We have the same kind of prob
lem in Alaska that we had in Kan
sas and Nebraska seventy-five years
ago and in Montana and Idaho for
ty years ago," said Senator Willis.
“The only question is whether we
■hall have the vision and the Ameri
can spirit to go ahead with the so
lution of thi3 problem or whether
we shall be frightened and finally
destroy and emasculate the who!i
property so that the vast empire
shall lie there for other generations,
untouched and undeveloped."
Representative Vestal belie vos
that Alaska ha3 paid a handsome
profit on the investment, skeptics
to the contrary, notwithstanding.
“It is admitted that it has pro
duced approximately one and one
quarter billions of gold, minerals
and raw products that have been
shipped to the States,” said Mr.
Vestal. “Of this over three hun
dred and fifty million dollars has
been in gold. The wealth that this
territory ha3 produced has not re
mained there, but has come to the
States and has been no small fact
or in the building up of the Pacific
Coast”
O’MALLEY GIVES WARNING
Last April Henry O’Malley, United
Commissioner of Fisheries made a
brief visit to Seattle at which time
he expresse dhimself in peculiar
terms to u3 poo rAlaskans who have
decried the wasteful production of
salmon. We don’t understand this
business f conservation of salmon
as is in vogue by the canning indus
try. However, here’s the warning:
“I find that extensive prepara
tions are apparently being made
for the 1928 salmon pack, especial
ly in Southeast Alaska. This is
borne out by the amount of tin
plate ordered, notwithstanding the
large supply of cans carried over
from last season in this district.
“The Bureau of Fisheries has
long been convinced that there
should be a reduction in the Alas
ka salmon pack, but it is apparent
that the present prices for the pro
duct are stimulating a desire for
increased output. This attitude
may compel the Bureau to curtail
the season’s operations at a later
date in order to provide for an ers
capement of salmon to the spawning
grounds.
“The policy of reducing the sal
mon pack was clearly stated to the
packers last November, but this
seems to have been l03t sight of in
the season’s prepartlons to date, and
the Bureau feels that a note of
warning should be sounded at this
time. The same conidtion applie3 to
Prince William Sound.”
The only way to conserve the sal
mon is to curtail the pack. Reduc
tion of traps with no reduction of
other gear will not curtail produc
ts of the salmon. The realization
of the proper solution of this ques
tion has fathered the urge of good
Alaskan3 to urge the abolishment of
all traps in Territorial waters, per
mitting seine operations to contin
ue on a more modified scale. This
on account of the greater number
employed in seining operations. Un
less this plan is followed we predict
that the Department will be plan
ning production curtailment too
late.
I
A SON OF PAWHU8KA
Could It ever have entered the
thoughts of Pawhuska, the famous
chief of the Osage tribe of Indians,
while struggling against the en
croachments of the white children of
the Invincible and all-powerful be
ing he knew as the Great White
Father? Could Whit® Plume, the
famous chief of the Kaw tribe of
Kansas Indians, while riding the il
limitable, star-lit prairies have ever
imagined that his great-great-grand
son might one day be the Great
White Father?
Yet there is that possibility, for
White Plume’s granddaughter
married Louis Pappan, a French
trader of the Mississippi Valley, and
their daughter Ellen Pappan, mar
ried Captain Curtis, who traced his
ancestry back to a Puritan colonist
of Massachusetts, and who on his
own initiative won a Captaincy in
the Civil War. From this union.
■
on January 25th, 1860, was born
Charles Curtis, the first Republican
candidate for the Presidency in 1928
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United States Senator from Kansas.
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Senator Curtis is an outstanding
figure In the national political life
of the country today. Since October
26th, 1927, the white light of publi
city which he ba3 heretofore shunned
has directed on him the inquiring
eyes of the rank and file of the peo
ple of the United States. On that
date he deliberately placed himself
on record as a candidate for the Re
publican nomination for the Presi
dency In 1928. The man and his
work are beginning to be appreciat
ed by the million's of voters who
will be represented in the approach
ing gathering of delegates to the Re
publican National Convention at
Kansas City. He is now the Repub
lican Leader of the Senate, and one
of the most powerful figures in Re
publican politics. Powerful enough
to block the candidacy of the “great
Herbert Hoover,” when he (Curtis)
swings his weight with other senat
ors against Herbert. The influence
which Curtis has attained by con
stant hard work and ability is as
tonishing. There is hardly a single
important step taken by the Govern
ment in which he has not had some
constructive share and which does
not bear his imprint. “Anti-Sav
age” electors please note that wheth
er you like it or no, the guiding
hand in national legislation is the
descendant of Poor Lo.
As between Curtis and Hoover
we would say Curtis for the next
President of the United States. The
primary election which turned down
the Hoover supporter indicates the
general objection in Alaska to the
mussolinic head of our fisheries.
OBLIGATIONS TO OUR CHILDREN
Children are an asset, not a lia
bility, despite the fact that “they
cost money.” Even though parents
are unable to provide for their chil
are unable to provide for their chil
dren, and this responsibility falls
upon the community, children are
none the less a community asset.
There is a minimum of care to
which every child has a right, and
if they do not receive it the com
munity suffers.
Certainly therefore the care and
provision which children require 13
not to be given merely as an act of
kindness and humanity. It is the
children’s right.
In the light of the best present
knowledge it is generally agreed
that all children have a right to the
best of care before birth—for the
care of the child begin3 with the
care of the mother before the baby
comes—and at birth.
The yhave a right to come into a
home prepared for them. They have
a right to pure food suited to then
needs and given at regular hours;
at first their mothers nursing and
then simple, well-chosen, well-pre
pared meals.
They have a right to enough food
and the right kind o ffood to keep
them steadily growing and gaining
weight. They have a right to a
clean, well-kept home, not over
crowded. They have a right to
plenty of fresh air and pure water.
They have a right to warm rooms
and warm clothing in cold weather.
They have a right to clean and suit
able clothing an dto properly fitting
shoes.
They have a right to sanitary
conveniences which make it easy to
keep clean. They alive a right to he
taught habits of cleanlines3 con
cerning the body, face and hands
and teeth.
They have a right to be protected
against communicable diseases and
to be taught the ways of keeping
well. They have a right to regular
health eaminations by doctor and
dentist and to treatment for any de
fects that occur.
They have a right to healthy play,
tutf so they have a right to safe
outdoor play space. Indoors too
they have a right to some place
where their play will not be restrict
ed. They have a right to playmates
an dcompanions and to sympathetic
interest from adults. They have a
right to play material and tools.
They have a right to freedom
from all except light household or
Indoors work so that they may go to
3Chool and have the extra strength
they need fr growth. They have
this right as long as they are grow
ing, or at least until 16 and they
have a right to moral training and
the influence of good example.
Now all of these righto are usual
ly best secured in a normal family
bode. We may say without any
doubt, that every child has a right
to home life, with an income on the
father’s part that will allow hom to
provide the things just now summed
up. If the father’s income does not
enable him to give hfe children all
they ought to have, the community
must help.
The man who takes his political
defeat most to heart had the great
est hope of election.
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