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CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14,1915
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BUREAU CHIEF MAKES A
MOST REMARKABLE DISCOVERY
SECRETARY LANE’S remarks in his recent annual report
condemnatory of the evils of bureaucracy in the federal
government are already finding their reflection in some
other arms of the federal service. The complaint of the West,
described by the secretary, against an excess of federal control
in Western matters, is beginning to he understood and appre
ciated in Washington.
Thus, when l)r- George Otis Smith, director of the geologi
cal survey, was testifying before the senate committee on public
lands the other day on the water power hills, he said:
“I think sometimes that the conservation view of develop
ment has been defective, in that too much emphasis has been
put on the future. We cannot save things, for our children at
too much expense to ourselves. But l think that in many cases
we can absolutely co-ordinate the future uses with the present
uses. ’ ’
Which, in view of all that lias gone before in recent years,
is rather a surprising statement to come from a bureau chief.
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ALASKA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
MEANS MUCH FOR TERRITORY
THERE seems to bo a lot of misconception about lame’s
proposed development board for Alaska. Some criti
cise it as usurping the rights of local self government.
On the contrary, the board as proposed, will have nothing
to do with territorial subjects- It simply means that a man
aging board will placed' at the head of the federal departments
in Alaska. Federal affairs in Alaska will then lie managed by
a board with headquarters in Alaska instead of by numerous
bureaus and departments at Washington.
There is, in fact, an imperative need of such a board in Al
aska. The various federal departments now form seperate
units. They work entirely independent of each other, although
through the same general bureaus at Washingion.
The present system is the same as though branch offices of
a corporation worked through distant managers with divided
responsibilities, instead of through one central managing board.
All that Secretary Lane is seeking is to inject better business
methods, with a view of efficiency, and tin- saving of money,
into the federal departments of Alaska.
f CHARTING ALASKA’S COAST j
NOW SEEMS A CERTAINTY j
CONDITIONS in the House of Representatives are said to
point to a speedy charting of the Alaska coastal waters.
A tentative poll of the members, taken by an agent
of Secretary Redfield showed that the Congressmen approved
the plan of the commerce department for carrying forward this
work in North Pacific and territorial waters.
Redfield’s strong presentation of the need for action, back
ed by the emphatic statements of President Wilson in his an
nual message, apparently has convinced Congress.
Once its attention has been forcibly called to the impor
tance of action, it is difficult to believe that either House or Sen
ate will neglect to take the proper steps.
That any portion of the Coast of the United States or its
territories should be in such a condition as to warrant the
strong statements made by the chief executive and his com
merce departments made chief verges on the absurd.
When it be remembered that these same waters must be
used by the government in transporting all the materials for its
Alaska road and all the labor that is to be used on that road, the
proposition ceases to be absurd and comes to take on the aspects
of gross error of omission.
While the need for adequate surveys in the North Pacific
and particularly in Alaska is not to be classed with the major
measures before the national legislature, because its appeal is
restricted instead of being nationwide in its scope, no proposi
tion submitted during the present session will be backed by
more logic.
It takes drastic action to arouse Congress to the needs of
a section as far away as Alaska but from all apperance now that
its eyes have been forcused on the Northern necessity, it will
not hesitate in granting the needed amount, even though it
reach a sum which, for such purposes, is to la* accounted ma
terial—Seatle Times.
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In speaking of the new government trunk line in Alaska
the Iditarod Pioneer very wisely says:
Whichever routes are determined upon by the President,
local jealousies will no doubt be aroused, as those regions which
have hopes of being included in the areas to be benefited by rail
road constinotion will naturally feel the pangs of disapoint"
ment if they are passed by; but railroad construction will benefit
the whole territory, and there should be no permanent dis
affection on this account. Kailroad building once fairly launch
ed will mean the construction of branch line and a network of
rails that will reach all points of the great Interior of Alaska.
When that day arrives Alaska will be the scene of industry and
enterprise that its natural advantages destine it to become.
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Norman E. Mack, former chairman of the democratic na
tional committee, after observing the effect of the democratic
tariff law would now take the tariff entirely out of politics.
There's a reason.
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORYl
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