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MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1920
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GOVERNMENT S. S. LINE *
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The new secretary of the interior
is reported as being in favor of a
government-owned and operated,
steamship line between Seattle and
Alaska ports, notably Seward and An- j
ehorage. The plan would not prove j
feasible, at this time, because the
traffic does not justify its inaugura
tion. In time, when the Matanuska
coal fields are developed sufficiently
so as to produce a large tonnage of
the output for the export trade, and
especially for the uses of the United
States navy, it might be advisable for
government colliers to handle the
fuel product, but until then, the
present private companies operating
steamship lines can handle all the
business there is likely to be. It is j
»ot the business of the government j
to enter into competition with pri- j
vate concern unless there is a valid j
reason for so doing. Such a reason
Iies not appear to exist. Neither of 1
e private-owned companies are
aking any money in the Alaska
ade under the present high cost of
deration, and if private concerns are
table to operate at a profit, it is a
regone conclusion that the govern
ent would not be able to do so
ther.
vciiiuiuiii upeicitiuii ui me ran
ray systems of the nation has not
[roved such a howling success as to
ratify the hope or expectation that
wou^d be able to operate steam
tip lines more successfully than pri
tte companies.
Of course, advocates of the plan
1 on the theory that passenger and
Iight rates would be lowered. But
sh a hope is not well founded, un
s the government would operate a
amship line at a loss. Such a pol
cannot be expected. The pas
iger and freight rates would he
ed on cost of operation, cost of
kinal investment, etc. Alaska’s
|e for lower transportation costs
k not lie in government-owned
I operated steamship lines.—Alas
■Dispatch.
\LASKA NATIVES THRIFTY
ogress of the United States Gov
ient schools for natives in Alaska
viewed in the annual report of
commissioner of education, just *
shed, and in a special annual
svoted to the “Work of the
Education for the Natives
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ports show the advances
better health and sanitary
, despite the inroads of the
epidemic of last year;
co-operative enterprises
e natives themselves under
of the government teacher,
re been uniformly prosper
civilizing influence of the
adustry, which is developing
mic power and responsibil
3 natives; the strength of
istrial work in the schools,
especially the school gar
3h have long helped to give
the old verse that—
is a land of ice and snow;
all we know and all we need
ow.”
intendents and teachers in
sports all testify to the re
e interest shown by the na
Alaska in the nation’s prob
war and after. Enthusiastic
' the Red Cross and War Sav
e reported from every school.
(the year ending June 30,
eports show there were ap
y 145,000 reindeer in Alas
?rowing importance of the
rendered necessary the era
of an expert in animal in
10 has proceded to north
la ska, where he will care
r the prevention and treat
lA^mssssussmest
ment of diseases among reindeer, as
well as scientific breeding, herding,
butchering, and marketing.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
No man is insane enough to believe
that if the steamship companies now
in business here are taxed $3 per
ton the cost will not be passed on to
the public. Alaska is well served,
with a fleet of fine steamers, at the
present time, and until competent au
thorities show us that the steamship
companies are profifiteering on the
public we are averse to “Jones pay
ing the freight.”—Valdez Miner.
There is so much interest in the
Volstad act here that the News-Miner
today wired the attorney general for
the facts in the case, and will prob
ably receive them by Monday. If the
Volstead act kills the Alaska bone-dry
law, then will Alaska be reconciled to
prohibition as never before, for un
der the Volstead act a man has the
privilege of self-determination, which
Mrs. Thatcher would not accord the
men of Alaska in her work. If the
Volstead act applies to Alaska and
governs here, Alaskans will feel them
selves better off than they were when
the saloons were open.—Fairbanks
News-Miner.
ESCAPED CONVICT BLUNDERS
Makes Mistake of Calling at Home of
Keeper When He Lost
His Way.
New York.—Irving Lavea, the con
vict who escaped from New York*
city reformatory at New Hampton,
made the mistake of calling at the
home of Michael Mell, one of the
keepers, for directions after he lost
his way. He was recaptured and re
turned to his cell.
For a person of such great haste,
Lavea proved a slow traveler. He
lost his way in the woods and, after
eight hours’ continual going, was
caught one mile from the spot where
he cast off his overcoat on the prison
lawn and fled.
Fmerging from the woods after
tramping all night, he saw a light in
a house and asked how to go to New
York. He was dumfounded when
Keeper Mell, off duty, came to the
door. Keeper Charles Hiker took hitr
hack to the institution and the war
den called in the guards who were
hunting for him. Lavea is serving three
years for larceny.
Job printing at Dally Times office.
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