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FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1920
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress—
DAN SUTHERLAND.
For Attorney General—
JOHN RUSTGARD
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
JOS. H. MURPHY
R. E. ELSNER
A. H. FRAME.
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
WORKING FOR ALASKA
Friends of Alaska will regard with
keen appreciation the energy and the
skill displayed by Representative Cur
ry, of California, chairman of the
house committee on territories, in ad
vancing the interests of the North
land. Not in recent years, if at all,
has a chairman of that important com
mittee been so indefatigable in his
efforts to obtain from congress the
important things which Alaska has
sought. His interest in promoting the
welfare of the territory is only part
ly explained by his long residence on
the Pacific coast, part of which time
was spent in Seattle. The fact is
that Mr- Curry has familiarized him
self with Alaska’s problems to an
unusual degree and he may be counted
* upon to champion its cause at every
opportunity.
Representative Curry’s bill provid
ing for an Alaskan development board
to be composed entirely of real Alas
kans, has an excellent chance of be
coming a law at the next session. It
proposes to place the destinies of the
Northland with its magnificant re
sources in the hands of the men who
have pioneered in the North. With
an opportunity to direct its own af
fairs and to develop its great natural
wealth without outside exploitation,
Alaska will enjoy an unprecedented
prosperity. ,
One of the purposes of the bill
is to take from the department of
agriculture the management of the
Northern forests. The chances of the
bill becoming a law have been
weighed by the forest service with the
result that the rigid regulations of
the Tongas forest have been some
what relaxed to permit timber to be
used for pulp paper and other com
mercial purposes. In discussing the
action of the forest service. Mr. Cur
ry recently said:
“The department has loosened up a
little, but it hasn’t loosened up enough.
. Its reasons for making some conces
sions are very clear. It veiws with
alarm the proposal to take the Alas
ka forests away from the department
of agriculture and put them under ai:
entirely Alaskan board. The induce
ments now offered by the secretary
of agriculture for the development
of the pulp paper industry are not
as liberal as those offered by the
Canadians and until they are we can
not expect much development.”
The shortage of paper throughout
the country has turned the eyes of
the country to Alaska, whose great
natural wealth has hardly been touch
ed. It is expected that when use is
made of the great forests in the
North, they will supply paper to the
country in perpetuity. The growth of
trees suitable for making pulp is so
rapid that a new crop may be expect
ed every fifteen or twenty years. The
paper industry, while highly import
ant, is only one of the lines of en
deavor which will be open when op
portunity is given to develop fully
Alaska’s resources. Alaskans will
give Representative Curry every en
couragement in his undertaking.—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
A MAN OF ACHIEVEMENT
George W. Perkins, whose deajth
was announced a few days ago in
our Associated Press report, was for
ten years a member of the firm of
J. P. Morgan & Company, of New
York, and during the construction
days of the Copper River & North
western railway. Mr- Perkins made a
trip to Cordova and will be remem
bered by many of our old-time resi
dents. He was reputed to have first
suggested to and persuaded “big bus
iness” to adopt profit-sharing, insur
ance, service houses, sick benefits
and old-age pensions.
It was Perkins who w^s also said
to have inaugurated the plan which
permitted employes of the United
States Steel Corporation and the In
ternational Harvestor Company, in
both of which he was at one time an
executive, to purchase stock on in
stalments and at less than market
value on the assumption that “indus
trial justice is the most profitable of
investments, that justice promotes
peace, peace promotes prosperity, and
that the workmen’s prosperity is
necessary to the prosperity of the bus
inocjQ man ”
Mr- Perkins was born in Chicago,
January 31, 1862, a descendent of
Jacob Perkins, an English ancestor
who settled in Boston in 1631. His
father, George W. Perkins, long en
gaged in the shipping industry at Buf
falo, was later a pioneer in the life
insurance field. The son entered the
insurance business in Chicago when
15 years old, as a clerk, became a
bookkeeper, an agent and subsequent
ly manager of a Cleveland office. He
went to Denver and in 1903 was made
vice-president of the New York Life
Insurance Company. His achieve
ments attracted the attention of the
elder Morgan and in 1900 he was in
vited to become a member of the Wall
street firm. In this capacity he ne
gotiated a number of big foreign loans.
He remained with J. P. Morgan &
Company until 1910, meanwhile be
coming a director of numerous large
corporations including the steel and
harvester companies, a number of
railroads and the International Mer
cantile Marine Company.
Retiring from business a few years
later as he said, “to devote myself
to other work of a public and semi
public nature.” Mr. Perkins ■wrote
and spoke frequently on the subject
of industrial justice and when Col
onel Roosevelt became Progressive
candidate for the presidency in 1912
he became chairman of the National
Executive Committee of the party.
Previously he had beer a Republican.
The year before he had urged a re
vision of the Federal Corporation laws
and in testifying before a congression
al committee investigating the United
States. Steel Corporation he advocated
the fullest publicity for all corpora
tions. Despite the defeat of the Col
onel, Mr. Perkins continued active in
his advocacy of Progressive principles.
Mr. Perkins early in the world war
interested himself in the matter of
American preparedness. He was a
severe critic of President Wilson. In
a speech in Indianapolis in 1915 he
declared the “United States was un
prepared for war” and urged immed
iate action. After the United States
entered the struggle he endeavored
to stimulate food production and by
large purchases of provisions at dis
tant points sought to avert a war
time shortage in New York City. He
was also active in Red Cross, Liberty
Loan and other patriotic drives. After
the war Mr. Perkins went to ^France
to investigate charges of waste and
inefficiency against the Young Men’s
Christian Association workers abroad.
He reported that while some mistakes
had been made there was “‘little
ground for honest criticism.”
A close friend of the late Mayor
John Purroy Mitchel, Mr. Perkins at
one time was prominently mentioned
for the mayoralty of New York. He
was once quoted as having said that
New York City could save $25,000,
000 a year by “ a proper cut in its
budget.” He was a trustee of Vassar
College and Berry School, Rome Ga.,
rnd a member of numerous civic,
scientific, sociological and philan
thropic organizations. In 1911 Mr. Per
kins received the honorary degree of
L. L. D. from the University of Woost
er and the University of Vermont.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS ,
Valdezans may still have the pleas
ure of seeing the aurora borealis. It
is the only thing left that has not
made its headquarters at Juneau.—
Valdez Miner.
For some reason or other the first
tourists of the season to arrive in
any quantity— they being on the City
of Seattle on her present trip—were
not such a scrawney bunch as we are
used to seeing. There were a number
of cornfeds in the crowd and not so
many tourist makeups as is the cus
tom. They looked almost civilized.
—Douglas News.
The men who most get our goat
in our town are the members of
the Anchient Order of Hammerthrow
ers, who hold daily sessions in our
local resorts and knock, knock,
knock. Listen to one of them mur
mur all day and you wouldn’t hear a
word of constructive talk—just knock,
knock, knock. The day when these
men take their foot in their hand and
mus hon to other places, the farther
away the better, the sooner this
camp will have a chance to go ahead,
for two or three of them would make
a dilapidated hamlet of New York
City. The poorest asset any town can
j possibly have is a man or a woman
j who is dissatisfied, wants to leave,
| and insists upon making everybody
else disssatisfied while they are here
—and they are always with us. It
would actually pay the business men
of Fairbanks to outfit such people
and pay their fares to wherever they
want to go provided that they could
never get back here again. Some of
them have never done a day’s work
in 20 years to our knowledge, yet
they knock the town wrfich endures
them, whereas any other town on
earth would have vagged them years
ago.—Fairbanks News-Miner.
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