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Mr. Harold L. Ickes, Secretary
of the Interior, under whose de
partment comes control of the
largest part of Alaska, dropped
into town recently and left a few
potent suggestions for Alaskans
to mull over. Some of his sug
gestions are not going to be very
weld received. It isn’t normal for
a person to consider further tax
on himself. It just goes against
the grain. But whether we like
it or not, most of us will admit
that the Secretary was as right
as the Sabbath in most of his
utterances.
For example, Mr. Ickes said
we’d have to change our psychol
ogy; that we would have to get
away from the idea that Alaska
is a place to make a stake and
then get out of to live in south
ern California or some other place
that appeals to our imagination.
We will have to change that
scheme of life to the theme that
Alaska is a good place ot live in,
to establish a home and to raise
a family, he contended, or we
will never reach that goal of
statehood which we talk so much
about but actually point little to
ward.
The Secretary wasn’t romanc
ing. He was talking facts, which,
being human, many of us like to
sidestep, especially, if they hap
pen to be facts which are person
ally a bit disagreeable.
Mr. Ickes said that permanent
civilization can’t be built on ex
haust, ble resources. Something
must be built up to take the
places of those exhaustible re
sources when htey actually be
come exhausted, he explained.
We all know that you can’t take
everything away, pirt nothing
back and hope to do it for ever
without getting into a jackpot.
Mr. Ickes was just giving us a
bit of sound philosophy, his sights
raised on the future. He was talk
ing about statehood for Alaska,
and the way to get it.
Of course, if Alaskans want to
.continue to be, as he expressed
it, “the tail of the Washington
kite”, there isn’t miuch that can
be done about it. The saying is
that the Lord helps those who
help themselves. Washington isf
doing something about helping
Alaska, but unless Alaskans help
themselves there is a limit to
which Washington can go. That
was the theme of the Secretary’s
remarks.
It’s sound logic. There isn’t a
state in the Union which was
made a state by the people who
took their wealth and went aw
ay from that state. It was the
people who stuck, made the state
their home and developed re
sources to support it that brot
about a star in the Union of St at
es. Alaska is no exception. It is
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the people who live in Alaska;
stay in the country and develop
.it; use its resources to create new
resources; think of Alaska in
terms of ultimate statehood who
will force Alaska to the final
goal.
Alaska isn’t self-supporting. In
other words, it can’t raise suffi
cient revenues within its own bor
ders to support a state govern
ment. It's the tail of the kite and
has to look to Washington for
succor. But it doesn’t need to be
in that shape forever, as the Se
cretary pointed out, if Alaskans
will point in the right direction,
and try to become self-support
ing. And it would be ridiculous
to suppose that a Territory of
600,000 square miles with the
countless natural resources that
Alaska has could not become self
supporting if it actually directed
its efforts toward doing so.
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Secretary Ickes gave us some
thing to think about. He gave us j
something to act upon. But will
we dot it? Have we got what it
takes, or are we going to contin
ue to try and make a stake and
then high-tail for the sunny |
south. Write your ow'n ticket.—
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