Here There Everywhere
We managed to survive another
election. It looks as if the Demo
crats were the only people who
voted. Was it fear for their candi
dates chances of getting the vote—
or were the Republicans attracted
by the Demo candidates. It looks
like Alaska did it again—voting,
contrary to the administration in
power seems to be a characteristic
of this land of individualists . . .
. . . . The Governor’s face mu
have been a little red the next day
when he recalled a statement h>
made one the eve of the election
quote: “Republicans may well h<
proud of the vote they will re
eeive.”
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The unsung heroes or heroine:
of election night are the pollin',
clerks who have to count the bal
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lots and faithfully record the
totals for each candidate. We have
sat through several of these or
deals that run well into the night,
and as the names are droned out
and faithfully recorded and tallied,
a mixture of boredom and weari
ness sets in, eyes become heavy
with sleep—yet these ladies pinch
themselves to keep awake, evoke
a wan smile, and as at 3:30, at 2
a. m. it’s ’ Bartlett,” from the read
er, "Bartlett,” “Bartlett,” from
each of the recorders, and the
same for “Gruening,” “Atwood/
"Rivers/’ ad infinitum.
And so its hats off to the polling
clerks at the City hall 'Who manag
ed a good natured grin, even dis
position, and above all, kept awake
until the last vote was counted.
They are probably the only ones
in an election who like a light
vote. The “crew” consisted of Mrs.
Dorothy Haag, Ruth Breckberg,
Mrs. Ada Munson, Mr;. Irene tow
head and Mrs. Peail Foster, those
at the Montmartre who counted
the votes were Mrs. Mary Garoutte,
Mrs. Molly Pickett and Mr.:. Daly.
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to jeopardize their reputation for
sagacity to the extent of predict
ing who will be the next Presi
dent. The Democrats are becom
ing increasingly confident—the
Alaskan vote doesn’t mean a great
deal, although it points a trend in
public thinking. Top level and
Democrats all down the line
are conducting a vigorous -
campaign—whether Eisenhower’s
amazing popularity can offset this
enthusiasm remains to be seen.
There must be a lot of Democrat
votes around the country—that’s
what kept the donkey party in for
twenty years. It just remains to
get the vote out.
*****
Bob Atwood in the Anchorage
Times made about the safest elec
tion prediction one can make. As
regards the Territorial election, he
said: ' We would predict that when
the legislature adjourns next
spring there will be the usual has
sle over whether it did a good job
or bad. We would predict further
that the consensus will be that it
was bad. Alaskans always send
their representatives to Juneau
with great expectations. When they
come home, no matter how much
they have done, there is disap
pointment because they didn’t do
more."
*****
Life is going to start to get dull
around here. Now that we have a
new Council elected and sworn in
to office, the territorial elections
settled, and the world series out
of the way, we will have to turn
our minds to the more humdrum
happenings of the man on the
street. Of course we have the Na
tional elections yet.
Tn editing a weekly, you are con
fronted with this age-old problem
of what to write about every week.
Monday starts out, after a quiet
weekend, nothing happens for the
first couple of days, sometimes
longer. By that time you are be
ginning to wonder and tear out a
few hairs. All those big holes
around the advertising have to be
filled up. But the fallacies and
foibles of human beings, as well
as their good deeds, which we are
committed to record, are with us
at all times. In the language ot
one of Charles Dickens’ loveable
characters, '“something is bound to
happen.” And generally does. For
something is always impending in
this world of ours, is destined,
brewing, forthcoming, looming, in
the wind boding or foreboding.
The ups and downs of man's life
leads one to expect that we will go
on, for a long time, recording the
happenings of people in this "best
of all possible worlds ”
George Sundborg of the Juneau
Independent voiced our sentiments .
completely in a recent editorial.
Prior to the election, he predicted
the outcome, and hit it pretty good.
In fact about on the nose. He par
ticularly attacked one candidate.
Gillam, the "Ax the Tax" man—He
said the people wouldn’t go for his
type of campaign, and wouldn’t
swallow such campaign promises.
It said it was easy to make these
kind of promies before an elec
tion. ‘Any body can do that' he
said. His editorial was one of the
... WMWMBB—a
best we have read for some time.
It might be a good idea for future
candidates to read it a few times.
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land formerly required by the mil
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been returned to the public do
main since World War 11. We
learn this from the Alaska Dis
trict, Corps of Engineers. So far
this year nearly 42.000 acres have
been released, and 53,510 more
are to be cancelled shortly. Recent
relinquishments include land at
Juneau, Whittier, Shemya, Bethel
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