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IT WILL BE TOO LATE
' When the original Alaska Statehood Bill, HR 331,
alter having passed the House, came to the Senate
and a hearing was had before the Senate Committee
on Territorial and Insular Affairs, it was brought to
the attention of the committee that this bill had not
been given any circulation in the Territory so that
very few persons were familiar with its contents.
It was also pointed out that the provisions of the
bill relating to the transfer of public lands to the new
State were wholly inadequate. Apparently most of the
proponent- of statehood agreed to that and so did the
member, of the committee, for the bill has been
amended' in the Senate Committee and the chief
amendments deal with Section 5, relating to the
transfer of public lands to the new State. We have
received a copy of the bill as it now stands and as it
was amended by the committee on June 21 and 23. Sec
lion 5<b> of the latest bill reads as follows:
“After five years from the admission of Alaska
into the Union, the State, in addition to any other
grants made in this section, shall be entitled to select
not to exceed twenty million acres from the vacant,
unappropriated, and unreserved public lands in the
State. Such selections shall be made in reasonably
compact tracts: Provided, That valid, existing rights
shall not be affected by any such selections or grants.
Where the lands desired are unsurveyed at the time
of selection, the Secretary of the Interior shall survey
the exterior boundaries of the area requested without
any subdivision thereof and shall issue a patent for
such selected area in terms of the exterior boundary j
survey. Such lands may be granted or sold by the
State in tracts of not more than 640 acres for any
purpose, but with a reservation to the State of a
royalty of not more than 12 m per centum on all
minoja^jn^jjjdjf^. thereljPW- The granted ^o
the State of Alaska pursuant to this subsection, and
income ^therefrom and the proceeds thereof when said
land, arc sold, shall be held by said Sta^e as a public
trust for the support of public schoois and other public
educational institutions."
In the first amendment made by the committee, the
provi ion "that valid existing rights shall not be af
fected by any such selections or grants" was not in
cluded. However, the inclusion of that in Section 5eb»
would seem to add very little protection for the new
State in acquiring public lands.
As the section reads, the State shall be entitled
after live years to select not to exceed 20,000,000 acres
from vacant, unappropriated and unreserved lands in
the State. As the tracts are selected, the Secretary
of the Interior shall survey the exterior boundaries
of the areas requested and shall issue a patent for
such selected area in terms of the exterior boundary
survey.
Now, let us suppose J,hat the new State after five
years begins to select areas to be transferred to it by
patent from the United States. Let us say it selects
an area containing three or four thousand acres in
one locality. The new State is not likely to select
mountain neaks or tundra, but it may be assumed
' that it will try to select the best lands available, and
j it is difficult to conceive of any considerable tracts of
; land which might be so selected which would not
contain within their exterior boundaries some un
i patented mining claims and some other unpatented
ground held by settlers for one purpose or another.
In the first place, since the Stat» is authorized to
select only from vacant, unappropriated and unreserved
| public lands, it could hardly be said that tracts which
I include unpatented mining claims and other un
patented claims would be either vacant or unappro
priated; therefore, according to the strict letter of the
law, the Secretary would refuse to make the survey
and issue the patent to the State.
If he should attempt to make the survey and issue
the patent, just how would the valid existing rights
of any person be protected? Furthermore, there might
be existing rights which the Secretary or the new
State might consider not to be valid.
This would surely cause litigation in case the
| Secretary should consider the lands to be vacant,
| unappropriated and unreserved and issue the patent
I to the new State.
| The very best he couia ao wouia De to survey u>e
I lands selected and issue a patent which would con
tain a reservation in the language of the statehood
bill that all valid existing rights on the land are un
affected. No one would know what those valid exist
ing rights were, how many claims were involved, their
area or extent, or what other rights might be ef
fected, and there is no machinery set up in the
I bill for determining these things.
This is a most serious matter, and one which might
well prevent the new State from ever getting any
public lands or if it did acquire any, there would be I
endless law suits to determine who had valid existing
lights on those lands prior to their transfer. Who
would be the judge as to what was a valid existing
right? In all cases it would require litigation.
Another objectionable feature in Section 5 is the
provision for the sale of State lands in tracts of not
more than 640 acres for any purpose”. The meaning
of that phrase is certainly obscure. We do not know
whether it means that not more than 640 acres may
be osld to any person or corporation—but if it doesn’t
mean that, it is meaningless.
If it does mean that any one person or corpora
tion is limited to 640 acres, what would happen in the
case of a mining company like the Alaska-Juneau
Gold Mining Company which operated before the war
a large low-grade property on a very narrow margin
requiring a very considerable acreage of land exceed
ing 640 acres? A mining property such as the Alaska
Juneau requires a very large investment, requires a
large number of claims and millsites, power plant
sites, land for transmission lines, dam sites, etc. How
could it ever operate if it is restricted to owning
640 acres?
Another very objectionable provision in Section
5ib) is that which provides that when the State ac
quires lands and sells them it must reserve a royaltf
on minerals of not more than 12'-%. The mining
industry in Alaska and generally throughout the
United States has always been strongly opposed to
royalties, yet the statehood bill, for some reason which
we cannot fathom, requires that the State must reserve
a royalty on minerals, whether the people desire it or
not. In our opinion this would further discourage
mining in the new State.
A royalty is on gross production and again let
us illustrate by taking the case of the Alaska-Juneau
mine. It was a large low-grade mine and it was
necessary to operate on a very extensive scale, mining
13,000 to 14,000 tons of ore a day on account of the
very low grade of the ore. The mining in the pre-war
days was on a scale which required a gross production,
we believe, of between five and six million dollars a
year. The profit, in years when there was a profit,
was very slim, and even if a royalty of 1% on the
gross production had been in effect, that is to say,
if such a mine were operated on lands acquired from
the State, the royalty alone could well mean the dif
ference between profit and loss.
It is difficult to see how such provisions were
inserted in the statehood bill by the committee and
we repeat wThat we said before, that if statehood is
to be granted to Alaska, it is certainly of sufficient
importance to permit the people of the Territory to
} express some opinion as to the public lands provisions
of the bill.
We think the bill as amended by the Senate Com
mittee should be generally distributed throughout the
Territory in order that the people may read and
! consider and comment upon Section 5 before it is
[enacted. It will be too late afterward.
The Washington
Merry-Go* Round
(Continued from Page One)
Willot. hby attached no significance
to the presence ot these tanks.
2. Overrating the South Korean
army. In ■ his first teletype con
versations with the Pentagon after
the invasion. General MacArthur
confidi ntly expected the southern
ers to take a firm stand. Actually,
the southern army fell apart in
virtually a complete rout. This
has dangerously imperiled United
Nations supply lines and ports.
Note—to one delegation from
Washington, General Willoughby
lectured on the importance of pres
tige in the Orient. "It's the way
you live, you know, that counts,”
he declaimed.
Capturing the South
For yea): Republicans have been
hoping to capture or even make
a dent in the solid Democratic
south —without success. Now it
looks as if they could do it.
Jonathan Danie!-. who used tc
be one of the Rrosevelt-Truman
secretaries, had a heart-to-heart
talk with his old bcss in ‘he White
House the other day and told him
how.
Daniels, who has been one of
Truman's most loyal supporters,
vvarutd that the administration’s
coi.cinued blind support for the
FI.PC iFair Employment Practices
Commission) was ruining the Dem
ocratic party in the south, and
would even defeat the best parts
of the Truman program in the
north.
I Daniels, who comes from North |
| Carolina and is the son of Woodrow j
1 Wilson's liberal secretary of the
Navy, gave Truman a case history
showing how Sen. Frank Graham,
former President of the University
I of North Carolina and one of the
outstanding liberals in the south,
had been defeated for the Senate
only because of the negro-FEPC
question. He also cited the Senate
primary in South Carolina where
the two candidates, Gov. Strom
Thurmond. Dixiecrat, and Sen. Olin
Johnston, both are trying to outdo
each other in castigating the negro.
And he indicated that Republican
politicians are secretly invading the
! south to stir up the negro question
in order to elect senators who bear
the name ''Democrat” but actually
will vote Republican. Naturally
the more pro-Republicans elected
to the Senate—even though bearing
the Democratic label—the less
chance Truman has to pass his
, legislative program.
Smart (iOF Tactics
It is doubtful if Jonathan Dan
iels’ talk with the Pjpsident made
too much of an impresion. Dan
iels had talked to him before—in
Chicago last May and again last
fall—without result.
It is also significant that cer
tain Republican leaders, such as
Senator Brewster of Maine, who
votes for FEPC, have been using
FEPC to undermine the Democrat
ic party in the south, l'c is like
j wise significant that Guy Gabriel
j son. chairman of the Republican
j National Committee, made an un
I advertised trip to South Carolina
J the other day w’here Republicans
! are secretly backing Gov. Strom
| Thurmond, former Dixiecrat can
j didate lor President.
Meanwhile, here is the inside
story of the "Battle of North Car
olina," which shows how the GOP
JULY 10
Virginia Rae Adams
Ludwig Nelsen
Earl Crass, Jr.
Daniel Ross
Arvid Anderson
Addie V. McKinnon
Elroy Ninnis, Jr.
Mrs. James H. Knott, Jr.
Joyce Helton
Junior Jewell
has now learned now lo invade the
south in sheep’s clothing.
Up until June 5, 1950, Willis
Smith, Senator Graham's opponent
for the Senate, having trailed in
the first primary, had not asked
for a runoff. He was 50,000 votes
behind Graham, and it looked as if
he could not overcome his lead.
But on June 5 the Supreme Court
handed down one of its historic
decisions, opposing segregation in
the University of Texas. This was
announced in the North Carolina
newspapers on June 6 and one day
later Willis Smith seized this as
a heaven-sent opportunity to defeat
Frank Graham.
Graham had previously neld a
state-wide examination for candi
dates to West Point, announcing
that he would appoint the rakn
with the highest grade, and a negro
came out as third alternate. This
w#s one of Smith’s best weapons.
Helping him spread the anti
negro propaganda were large am
ounts of Republican money, some
of it raised by Senator Brewster,
chairman of the Senate Republican
re-election committee. Among other
things Brewster inserted in the
Congressional Record a Reader’s
Digest version of a book by isol
ationist, pro-Fascist John T. Flynn,
castigating Graham. Brewster's
insert exceeded the allotted space,
so part was paid for by someone
other than the taxpayers. At any
rate a million reprints were made
and mailed from a box number in
Grand Central Station in New Yol'k
to boxholders in North Carolina.
Ex-Convict Enters Fight
One of the organizations which
mailed these reprints was the Com
mittee for Constitutional Govern
ment. headed by Dr. Edward Rum
ely, an ex-convict, jailed during I
World War I for being the agent 1
of the Kaiser. Many reprints were j
mailed under the frank of Con- .
gressman Ralph W. Gwinn, New
York Republican, friend of General
Eisenhower, and who has loaned
his frank to almost every pro-Fas
cist organization in the United
States.
On top of this. Republicans clev
erly concocted negro endorsements
of Graham under the phony title
of the "National Society for Ad
vancement of Colored People."
Thera is no such society. But there i
is a "National ASSOCIATION for
Advancement ol Colored People," j
headed by Walter White.
By changing the word “associa- I
tion" to “society." however, and ;
signing the letters "Whitte" in- ]
stead of "White," Graham's enemies
succeeded in fooling thousands of
North Carolina voters. Copies of
these phony endorsements were
mailed from New York to North
Carolina boxholders. As a result,
thousands of voters who had been
for Graham in the first primary
stayed away from the polls in the
runoff.
Note-^likeable, lethargic Senator
Guy Gillette, Iowa Democrat, is
chairman of a Senate committee
supposed to investigate expendit
ures of this kind. However, he was
appointed as one of his invest
igators Fielding Wright, Jr., son of
Gov. Fielding Wright of Mississippi,
the No. 2 Dixiecrat; so it isn’t dif
ficult to guess how much invest
igating will be done.
ACROSS
1. Paddle
4. Fusible
opaque
substance
9. Hold back
12. Bias
14. Gone by
15. Mentally
sound
16. Adjective
suffix
17. Cut
18. Deem
20. Chafe
21. Exist
23. Ourselves
24. Elder son of
Isaac
26. Like
28. Beer
30. Kind of fish
32. Minute object
34. Cherrv red
36. Monkey
38. Sign
39. Demolish
41. Vase
42. Former
universal
negative
43. Songs
45. Proposed In
ternational
language
47. Continent:
abbr.
48. Tidy
60. Decorates
53. liemaln
64. Color
65. Century plant
58. Auricle
69. Making a
succession
of slight
sounds
61. Entire amount
62. Velocity
63. Children's
game
Solution of Saturday’* Puzzl*
UUWN
L Goddess of
the harvest
2. Southern con
stellation
3. l.et
4. Greek M
6. l’lrst warden
0. jaun-ui-au
trades
7. Deed
8. Football
positions
abbr.
9. Valley
10. Fomentert of
unrest
31. Swab
13. Israelite king
17. Morsel
19. Doctrines
20. Note of the
scale
21. Kind of meat
22. Simple
25. Convulsive
cries
27. Medicinal herb
29. Before
31. Uncanny
33. Evidence of
debt
35 Kind of dental
filling
37. Air: comb.
form
40. Shrewd
44. Preposition
46. Author of the
Rubaiyat
49. Nobleman
61. Nerve network
52. Cut lengthwise
53. Ocean
64. Chance
56. Fueglan
Indian
57. Poultry
product
69. Abbreviation
at the end
of a letter
60. Short for a
man's name
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120 YEARS AGO $Sr empire
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JULY 10, 1930 ,
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Davis arrived from Seattle, where they had just
been married. The bride was formerly Miss Mattie Simpson, nurse at
Providence Hospital, Seattle. The bridegroom was wellknown here, hav
ing been a Juneau resident for four years. He was an electrician for
Alaska Juneau.
David B. Tewkesbury, one of the best-known newspapermen of the
Northwest, was Juneau-bound on the Alaska to become a member of
The Empire staff. He had been with the Times and Post-Intelligencer
In Seattle at various times, and had experience in virtually every branch
of editorial work. He also had done newspaper work in Nome and
Anchorage.
Staging a last-inning rally, the married men of Douglas copped the
baseball game from the single men for the lion's share of the Fourth
of July prize money of $100, which was split 60-40. Final score in the
delayed holiday game was 14-13. Playing for the married men were
Fleek, E. L. Cochrane, W. E. Cahill, R. Bonner, Jr., H. Roberts, E.
Bach, A. Shudshift, J Niemi, A. J. Balog, L. W. Kilburn and A. E.
Goetz. Single players were H. Hayes, L. Cashen, T. Cashen, G. Gray,
E. Roller, R. Kronquist, F. Pettygrove, E. Smith and W. Cashen.
R. A. Schmidt of Douglas, head clerk of the Feusi Hardware Store,
left on the Admiral Rogers for a six-week visit to Puget Sound, planning
to go East if the weather wasn’t too warm.
Weather: High, 61; low, 52; cloudy.
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; Daily Lessons in English L. cordon |
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WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The clock tells me that it
is a quarter of twelve." Say, "a quarter TO twelve. “A quarter of
twelve” would be three o’clock.
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Ally (noun and verb). Pronounce a
li, A as in AT, I as in LIE, accent second syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Daffodil: two F's, one L.
SYNONYMS: Parsimonious, penurious, stingy, niggardly, miserly.
WORD STUDY: "Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us
increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word:
INDEFINABLE: incapable of being described. "The man has an in
definable charm.”
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MODERN ETIQUETTE Roberta LEE
i
Q. How should a letter be addressed to the governor of a State?
A. On the envelope should be inscribed, “His Excellency the Gov
ernor, Columbus, Ohio.” On the inside the salutation should be “Your
Excellency” or "Sir.”
Q. What should one do when in a group of persons, either sitting
or standing, and it is necessary to turn one's back towards another
person?
A. Apologize, always.
Q. Is it considered good manners to crook the little finger when
lifting a cup to the lips?
A. No; this is an affectation.
LOOK and LEARN a. a Gordon
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1. Which of the two well-known wedding marches is played at the
beginning of the wedding and which at the end?
2. How many members has the United States Senate?
3. What title was conferred on the husband of England’s Princess
Elizabeth at the time of their wedding?
4. Flowers fall into three groups—annuals, perennials ,and what?
5. If pediatrics is the medical treatment of children, what is pedi
cure?
ANSWERS:
1. Wagner's at the processional, and Mendelssohn’s at the reces
sional.
2. Ninety-six.
3. Duke of Edinburgh.
4. Biennials.
5. Treatment of the feet by a chiropodist.
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I
A well representative group met j
last week in the Standard Oil build- j
ing at the airport, and heard Bill
Norton of the REA of Auk Bay out
line the steps to be taken to ob
tain an REA loan for telephones
covering the whole highway. Rep
resentatives of the Vanderbilt Hill
area were also in attendance, and
expressed a desire to co-operate with
the Auk Bay and Mendenhall areas
in obtaining this service. A commit
tee was elected for the Mendenhall
group to work in conjunction with
the committees of Auk Bay and
Vanderbilt Hill. A meeting of the
three groups will take place tonight
at 8:30 at Auk Bay to formulate a
questionnaire to be filled in by all
interested persons on the highway
who desire to obtain telephone serv
ice.
The ball is bow rolling, and with
active support of the people has
every indication of being a success.
Appreciation was expressed by the
group to Dewey Baker who kindly
allowed the Standard Oil Building
to be used for the meeting.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
LECTURE HERE ON
THURSDAY EVENING
“Christian Science." is tne title of
the free lecture to be given at the
First Church of Christ, Scientist,
on Thursday evening, July 13, at
8 < lock.
Ralph Castle, C.S., the lecturer,
comes from San Francisco, Calif.,
and is a member of the board of
lectureship of the mother church,
the First Church of Christ, Scien
tist, in Boston, Massachusetts.
In arranging for the lecture, the
members of First Church of Christ,
Scientist, of Juneau, believe they are
providing a means for reaching
many people with answers to fre
quent questions about Christian
Science—whav it teaches, if it heals,
why thousands have become its
adherents. A cordial invitation is
extended to the public to attend.
ATTENTION MASONS
Stated Communication Monday
evening with Labor in the M. M.
Degree. Visitors welcome.
J. W. Leivers, Secretary
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