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> PROSPERITY STILL AROUND
THE CORNER
By James R. Little
While the present state of af
fairs in this country is no laugh
ing matter, still it is amusing to
watch the government and the
privileged and petted classes
trying to coax Miss Prosperity
to come on.
But they can’t fool her, for
she well know that Old Man
Depression is still hiding behind
the wreckage that he has been
piling up for the past 15 or 20
years and that he will kidnap
her the instant she steps around
■ the now famous corner.
The Old Boy was busy with his
wrecking long before he was
: suspected of being anywhere
: near. The splurge that is now on
; in the stock market is nothing
; but a sham for business condi
: tions and commodities do not
! justify an advance.
A short time ago the news
: papers carried sensational re
ports of the rapid advance in
the price of farmer’s products,
and before the papers were
fairly in circulation the pricos
were slipping back. When the
prices of farm products are
double what they are now, then
the farmers—the greatest per
capita buyers in the nation —
can have money to spend, and,
all arguments to the contrary,
they are the freest spenders of
all. Here are the average prices
that farmers of the middle
western States were receiving
for their products the last week
in July, 1932 as reported by a
prominent farm journal of that
section. These are not selling
prices at city markets, but what
the farmers actually received:
Corn—22^2 cents; Oats—11*
Earley—31; Rye—36; Wheat—35
Hogs—$3.75 per hundred; Cattle
--$4.50; Hay—$4 per ton; Chick
ens—10 cents per pound; Cream
—15 cents; Eggs—12 cents a
dozen.
How can anyone figure that
there is any advance at all in;
the prices of farm products?!
There is none, and there will be
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none for some time to come.
Enough mortgages have not yet
been foreclosed to suit the
money lenders. If you get a car
Cut your meat and grocery
bills to the bone.
Buy where you can save
most-all the time.
Don't go on paying the same old prices! You
don’t have to if you shop here! You’ll find
everything for good meals at prices that do
not strain your pocketbook.
The Veribest for the most particular at all
times is our policy.
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The Sanitary Market
stuck in a mud hole, you are not
likely to get out by prying up
the front wheels and getting
them on solid footing and doing
nothing for the rear wheels
where most of the load is usual
ly borne. Neither can better
I times be attained by prying the
big financial, industrial and
[transportation concerns out of
the hole and leaving the small
interests—but greater in the
aggregate—still in the mire.
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GROWING POWER
OF THE BUREAUS
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The sum by which the econ
omy law, signed by President
Hoover with an expression of
| disappointment, will reduce the
cost of government is so much
smaller than thai named as the
goal when the bill was introduc
ed that it simply illustrates the
practical impossibility of dis
lodging a bureau or an official
from the public payroll. In an
article in The Nation’s Business,
Representative Louis Ludlow of
Indiana admits that congress is
powerless against bureaucracy
without strong pressure from
public opinion. That statement Is
proved by the comparatively
small results of the mighty ef
fort of congress to economize.
This is a matter of vital inter- j
est to every citizen, for not onlyj
is his money wasted but the bu
reaus are gradually taking away
his rights and liberties. During
his thirty years in Washington
Mr. Ludlow has seen “a trend
toward increasing centralization j
of power in Washington, toward
bureaucracy and paternalism.”1
This trend “involves a ceaseless
and ever-widening invasion of!
corporate and individual rights.” j
He continues:
An inevitable accompaniment
of bureaucracy is a lust for in
quisitorial powers, and the re •!
suit is already visible in the
swarms of agents, inspectors,
and other functionaries, who
prowl oar land, worrying, bluff- ,
ing and exasperating individuals I
and corporations alike.
He recalls that in 1907 Senat-j
or Foraker grew indignant at
the growth in ten years of a
‘ little band of 167 special de
puties ,agents and inspectors”
to ‘‘an army of more than 3000.”,
but this army has grown to one,
of more than 20,000, and is put-'
ting innumerable fetters upon J
business, fetters which are al- j
ready beginning to bind and.
hurt.” Though hiding benind
the cloak of benevolence, bu
reaucracy is no less dangerous,!
for it is ‘‘the entering wedge of.
tyranny” and ^‘unless checked
becomes more and more domi
neering as its powers increase
and its position becomes en
trenched.” As an example, he
cites the growth of the bureau,
of markets in the department
cf agriculture. It started in 1913
with $50,000 and has grown from
year to year until in 1931-32 its
appropriation was $5,731,336.
Cnee established, a bureau is
perpetual. The national screw
thread commission was estab-!
lished in 1918 with a life limit- j
ed to six months. Its life has
been extended several times un
til congress finally made it a
continuing commission—to go
on forever. There are now more
than forty commissions, boards,
bureaus and independent estab
lishements, which “have reach
ed out in all directions, usurped
governmental functions and
spend a billion dollars annually.”
Waste is seen in wrecking of
the postoffice building, erected
in 1889 at a cost of $3,241,326,
jto be replaced by a building
costing $10,300,000 in accord
ance with plans to make Wash
ington the City Beautiful re
gardless of expense. In the
library of congress is a display
| of incunabula, for the purchase
of which congress appropriated
$1,500,000. Few members knew
what “incunabula” meant until
jthey looked in the dictionary
j and found the meaning to be
] “works of an early epoch, espe
| cially books printed before A. D.
1500.” Then there are tons of
|superfluous copies of depart
ment and bureau reports on
which $200,000 a year is wasted.
So firmly entrenched are the
bureaucrats and so tame is con-j
jgress in the presence of their
j demands that it seems as j
though nothing short of a na
tional wave of indignation would
compel congress to work for the
taxpayers instead of the tax
spenders. Mr. Ludlow says:
‘ There are signs developing that,
give hope that public opinion is1
j belatedly arousing itself to the1
dangers of the situation. The re-'
form that will save the country
l must spring from among the1
people.”
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PROPOSED SALE OF ALASKA
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Among the suggestions now
under consideration by the De- j
partment of Interior is one j
whereby permission would be'
given to private capital to pur
chase areas in Alaska from a
few of 25,000 acres.
The plan was copied from
that of Canada, which some 30
years ago thus alienated large
sections of the Cnadian West at
a price ranging from 25c to 50c
per acre.
Aside from cattle ranching,
this land lay idle until about
1909, when the land began to
boom which resulted in the set
tlement of the provinces of
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta.
Despite the fact that there
wras a large area open to home
steading, and which made pos
sible the settlement of the
prairies, there are still immense
landed estates, constituting what
in Europe would be a principal
ity, and held by absentee land
lords.
During the year of 1918 it was
necessary, in order to provide
large areas for colonization by
the Alberta government, to pur
chase portions of these immense
tracts at prices running from
$20 to $25 per acre.
The effect of such a proposal
as that to allow a similar condi
tion to prevail in Alaska would
be equal to a withdrawal of I
agricultural and mineral lands!
equal to the conservation rules
now in effect whereby every
thing save farm land and min
eral bearing ground is tied up in
a sort of hap-hazard socialistic
idea.
One of the notable features re- ,
specting this proposal to dole out i
the Territory to big interests is I
the fact that no effort has been i
made to sound Alaskans or sc- i
cure opinions from those most I
vitally affected.
Which further emphasizes the
fact that in dealing with Alas
ka, Washington does not consid
er the opinion of subject citizens
remain to the issue or worthy
of consideration.
The proposal to sell the Ter
ritory in large slices will meet
with determined opposition.
Alaska asks only the privileges ,
accorded the settlers of all
frontiers of America, including
those of Mexico and Canada as
they obtain them today.
It was free land and free re
sources which permitted Cana
da to emerge within 10 years as
one of the strongest little na
tions on the North American
continent and become the refuge
of millions of American citizens
denied the privileges offered
them in alien land.
The history of this hegira
from the United States is well
known to the average person,
but apparently it failed to im
press those who launched the
Alaskan experiment and have
seen it to utter failure.
The correct way to solve the
Alaska problem is to throw the
country wide open to capital
and settlement by lifting the
conservation blight. In the pro
cess the question of federal ex
penditures and the ultimate de
velopment of the country will be
answered.—Seward Gateway.
Washington News Letter |
By Will A. Steel
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Mrs. Anna Borak, of Fairbanks i
i' concerned as to the where
abouts of her son Paul John
Borak, who served in the World
War, returned to Alaska and
then disappeared. It is not
known whether the young man
is still living and the parents
have written to Delegate Wick
ersham to aid them in trying to
locate the whereabouts of Paul
John. The matter has been tak
en up with the Veterans Bureau
and the Director of Compensa
tion is now trying to find out
through the regional office at
Seattle whether his application
had been received for additional
compensation under the recent
law. When this report is receiv
ed a thorough search will be
made of the Central office re
cords to get such data as may be
available.
Several weeks ago Delegate :
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Wickersham received a petition
from J. C. Allen, Secretary of
Igloo No. 8, Pioneers of Alaska,
asking for additional mail ser
vice to Wiseman, and that the
mails be carried from Fairbanks.
The matter was taken up with
Second Assistant Postmaster
General W. Irving Glover, who
has just written the Delegate as
follows: “The investigation just
completed discloses that the pro -
posed increase in service is
practicable. I am glad to inform
you that the two additional trips
in winter desired have been au
thorized; also the contractor, the
Alaskan Airways, Inc., has been
permitted to provide the service
from Fairbanks, as requested.
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There may be a reason—and
possibly it is political—but every
few days some report is wafted
into office of the Delegate from
^aska from the far-off Terri
tory, that is entirely without
truth or reason. The latest is
hat wages on the Alaska Rail
road have been cut but that the
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