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BUREAUCRACY CONVICTED
Bureaucracy stands convicted.
It is only necessary to enter judgement. This
judgement is that it signally fails as a method of gov
ernment for a free people.
On the first occasion that it was called upon to
meet an emergency in relieving distress among several
hundred residents of the Territory by giving access
to a plentiful resource, the mesh of red tape proved
too much entangled to permit of unraveling.
By this entanglement of red tape these hundreds
of self-reliant men will return to civilization from the
trapline practically penniless. The merchants who;
granted them credit will be compelled to carry the
burden of several hundred thousand dollars until these;
men may, by a day’s pay job, recruit the losses sus
tained by their failure to secure sufficient fur to liqui
date,—if they can find the jobs.
It will be observed that the Cook Inlet Trappers,
Game and Fur Protective Association did not ask for
an opening of the season on beaver as an established
policy. They asked in the same spirit as would have
prevailed had there been a total crop failure in any one
of the States. In this instance the situation was not un
like the farmer whose wheat had failed, yet who could
have harvested sufficient wild hay from the public do
main to carry him through, and at a time when hay
was in abundance. In the case of the farmer, the fed
eral or state government might have voted monetary
relief. In the Alaskan case no one asked for alms or
doles, and it is confessed by the Bureau of Biological
Survey that the fur laws are so worded that they pro
hibit granting such relief as was asked for.
China has its millions of starving. Some humani-j
tarian—inclined Senator or Representative in Congress
will wipe away a tear while he presents a bill to appro
priate millions to relieve China’s distress. There were
no tears shed wrhen American citizens requested the
Bureau of Biological Survey, not for charity, but for
the privilege of utilizing a natural resource with which
to relieve their distress.
The answer to the problem lies not in pillorying the
men sent to Alaska to administer as princes, but in de
manding of Washington that Alaska be given the priv
ilege of administering every resource that enters into
her economic life.
We have an election coming up next November. No
man should sit in the Alaska Legislature who is not
prepared to go on record on such a « program and be
willing to fight until it is secured. No man should go to
Washington as a Delegate to Congress who is not pre
pared to take the battle to the floor of Congress and
stay with it until it is won.
NEW GIANT AIRPLANE
Early this year construction will be begun on the
largest airplane ever designed, to be built by the Gen
eral Development Company of Connecticut, according
to an announcement made a few days ago by Dr. Wil
liam Christmas, vice president, who is the inventor of
the aileron balancing device now used on every plane.
The new giant of the air will have a wing-spread
of 262 feet, which is 100 feet greater than that of the
DO-X, now the largest airplane in the world. It will
carry a crew of 17 and will accomodate 206 passengers.
There will be berths for 160, also smoking and card
rooms, with a spacious lounging and dining salon seat
ing 42 persons. Freight and mail compartments with
electric elevators are to be placed in the wings. There
will be eight motors of 1,200 horsepower each.
Du ling 1930 this will perhaps be the last word in
airplane development. Who can fortell what 1931 and
succeeding years may bring?
What a lot of soft, fat jobs the prohi law has made!
JOBS MM OF
HESLY, Hi WERNER,
ENRSUTE TO SESTTLF.
Mrs. A. Werner, who with Mr.
Werner conducts the famous
Singleton hotel and restaurant
at Healy Forks, where every
body eats, north or southbound
over the Alaska Railroad, is in
Seward enroute to Seattle where
she will enter the Virginia-Mas
on hospital for brief special at
tention. Mrs. Werner, a former
well-known resident of Anchor
age where her daughter Dora is
enrolled in the high school, ex
pects to return North within a
period of two-months.
In addition to her duties op
erating the hotel and lunch
room Mrs. Werner is Postmistress;
during her absence her postal
duties are being taken care of
by Mrs. B. A. Green, and for her
assistant, Mrs. Green has Harry
Hill. There is a surprisingly large
volume of postoffice business
at Healy necesitating two to han
dle it properly during Mrs- Wer
ner’s absence.
Mrs. C. Hissong and L. Baker
are in charge of the hotel and
cafe for Mrs. Werner. Mr. Wer
ner has long been associated
with the Healy River Coal Corp.,
mines at Suntrana.
Business has not been bad at
all, Mrs. Werner stated, but the
confining work is at times very
tiresome- They look forward to
an exceptionally large increase
in travel over the railroad this
season.
TRAIN TOMORROW?
Agent Sweek, of the Alaska Rail
road, announced yesterday that
providing the S. S. Northwestern
arrived in port late today the
postponed train departure from
yesterday’s regular schedule to
this morning would undoubtedly
be postponed still another day,
or tomorrow (Friday) morning at
7:30 o’clock. And the last report
here this morning was to the ef
fect the Northwestern would
steam into Resurrection Bay
about 3 o’clock this afternoon.
NO 1ST CLASS MAIL
The absence of first-class mail
today from the S. S- Northwes
tern is explained by Postmaster
Charles Sheldon who made it
known yesterday that all 1st
class mail had been transferred
from the Northwestern to the
Admiral Rogers in Southeastern
Alaska. Oother mail, however,
was brought in by the big ves
sel as well as first class from in
termediate ports.
NORTHWESTERN CARGO
The S. S. Northwestern, of the
A. S. S. Co., in port today from
the south, brought a total of
306 tons of general cargo for
discharge here. Of this 32 tons
were for Seward business houses,
36 tons for the Alaska Railroad,
and the remainder of 238 tons
for various points in the rail
road belt.
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