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EDITORIAL
MANN SEES NO. U. S. PLACE
HITLER-GOVERNED WORLD
By a Staff Correspondent of
The Christian Science Monitor
SWARTHMORE. Pa. — A Nazi
victory in the European war giv
ing Germany domination of the
world, would mean destruction of
humanity and morality, accord
ing to Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize
winner in literature and German
exile now lecturing at Princeton
University.
"Our imagination is quite ca
pable of conceiving what a Hit
ler-dominated world would be
like, but we cannot see ourselves
in it, because there would be no
place in it for us,” Mr. Mann said
in an address at Swarthmore Col
lege here last night.
‘This strange race (the Nazis)
did not fall from Mars,” he con
tinued. "It has always been with
us. It is always awaiting the op
portunity to come to the surface.
These are people who always sus
pect their own worthlessness,
and always suspect hatred be
cause it is upon hatred that they
themselves exist.
"Always before, when they
came to power those who did
not agree could escape, but to
day the arm of the totalitarian
state is such that no one can es
cape it. The question of victory
or downfall is even more import
ant for Germany than for the
Allies. That is why Hitler is stak
ing everything on speed because
Aie knows that if he loses, there
will be no Versailles this time.
"How frightfully late has the
world come to realize that there
can be no compromise with all
or nothing. The statesmen of
'Western Europe could not see
this. They would not believe Eu
rope was at war even though sol
diers were not fighting. But the
statesmen of Western Europe
were not mistaken in their world
for the National Socialist State
doesn’t belong to their world.”
WILLKIE ON AGRICULTURE
Last week Wendell Willkie sat
dowm at Des Moines with the Re
publican Governors of Iowa, Min
nesota, Colorado, and South Dak
ota and with 44 “farm belt lead
ers'’ to talk over the farm prob
lem and formulate a Republican
agricultural program for the
1940 campaign.
Willkie and the assorted Re
publicans at the conference talk
ed all day. Then the Republican
Presidential nominee emerged
with—what? A statement that he
does not favor “changing the pre
sent farm program of the Dem
ocrat Administration unless a
better one is gradually evolved.”
He even added that he would
“not take away any of the bene
fits gained by the agricultural
people during the past few
years.”
The benefits gained by the
farmers of this nation in the past
few years were benefits bestowed
Iby the Democratic Administra
tion under its far-seeing farm pro
gram.
Even the roomful of Repub
licans at Des Moines couldn’t
find .anything to say against the
New Deal farm policy. If there
was anything wrong with it don’t
doubt that they would have at
tacked it violently, for one mem1
ber of the Democratic ticket is
the Secretary of Agriculture
who put that program into effect.
These Republican “farm belt lead
ers” knew that they could not
tamper with the New Deal agri
cultural program without alien
ating the vote of the nation’s
farmers. So after putting their
heads together they decided bash
fully that maybe all the terrible
things they had been saying in
recent years about the New
Dead's ruination of the fanner
weren’t so after aid.
Wendell Willkie has now put
himself on record as seeing eye
to eye with the Democratic Ad
ministration on foreign policy, on
the reciprocal trade program and
on the farm program. About the
only things he would change, we
take it ,are the name-plate on
, the White House door and the
safeguards which protect the peo
pie of America against the
schemes of Wall Street financiers
j and utilities magnates.
LIQUOR TAXES AND
THE REFERENDUM
Office of the Governor of Alaska
Press Release
Factual studies of Alaska’s li
quor industry by the Alaska
Planning Council made at the re
quest of the Governor’s office
and released today in summary
form by Governor Gruening re
veal its economic importance to
the Territory and its relative
place in its fiscal system. It ranks
! third as a source of taxation and
is one of the major sources of
employment and wages.
The study was carried out by
the executive staff of the Coun
cil and deals only with the ec
onomic and administrative phas
es of the industry.
The industry, the Governor
pointed out, since its establish
ment in 1933, coincident to the
repeal of the National Prohibi
tion Laws and the Alaska Bone
Dry Law has been directly un
der the control of the Territorial
Legislature through the Territor
ial Treasurer. Conducted by pri
vate interests under a licensing
and excise tax system, aumatic
. ally collecting the gross revenue
to the Territory now average
$3.67 per capita. Administrative
costs, including enforcement of
regulations and inspection, aver
age 36 cents per capita annaul
ly. The average for States having
the state monopoly or liquor
store system is $1.00 per capita
for Administration and net re
' ceipts of approximately $2.00 per
capita.
In 1939, for instance, the Trea
surer’s office received a total of
$268,033.00 in revenue from the
industry. This was almost 50 per-|
cent of the taxes paid by the
mining industry, $568,000 and
more than one third of the rev-'
enue of the salmon pack tax1
$765,592.
In addition to the Territorial
tax, incorporated communities
of the Territory collected approxi
mately $135,000 in real and per-;
sonal property taxes from licens
es and in refunds from the Terri
tory.
The complete report, the Gov
ernor said, w'ill be submitted to
the Legislature next January.
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be had at the Nome Nugget office
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VOTE IOR
EDWARD ANDERSON
Independent Candidate
FOR R EPRESENTATIVE
AND OBTAIN RESULTS
General Election September 10, 1940
WHERE CREDIT IS DUE
Appropriations for defense
works in Alaska in the past two.
years have been as follows:
Sitka Navy air base, .. $2,900,000
Kodiak Navy air base 8,750.000
Kodiak Navy air base ... 2,012,000
Unalaska Navy air base 2,963,000
Faribanks Army air
station . 4,000,000
Anchorage Army air
base . 12,104,060
Anchorage military post 6,379,225
Alaska gas and .bomb
storage construction .... 630,00
Land purchase, Anchorage 85,000
Total . $39,823,285
This large sum, more than five
times what the United State paid
for Alaska in 1867, is only the
beginning. The amount expended |
besides building .the vital north
ern defenses of the nation, is al
so giving employment to count
less Alaskans and is bringing
business to Alaskan businessmen.
In watching the Territory’s de
fenses being strengthened, in
helping to strengthen them, let
us not forget to give credit to
the one man responsible for this
activity. He has labored unceas
ingly in Washington for eight
years to call the attention of the
nation to Alaska’s vulnerability.
He has succeeded as no one else
^could have.
The Army and Navy installa
tions in Alaska, are a monument,
and always will be a monument,
to Delegate Anthony J. Dimond.j
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To The Voters Of
The Second Division
From 1906 to 1912, most of Alaska’s natural re
sources were withdrawn, under Republican rule, from
entry and development.
From 1912 to 1920 a Democratic Congress, under a
Democratic President, passed laws to relieve the situa- j
tion. One of the first was to establish the Territorial
Legislature giving us the right to pass laws and ad
minister a portin of our own affairs.
Firm in the realization that the Democratic Party
is dedicated to the principle of representive self gov
ernment, and that its political creed makes it a true
party of the people, we the undersigned Democratic
candidates for Territorial office, ask your support in
the forthcoming general election September 10th :
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
ANTHONY J DIMOND
ATTORNEY GENERAL
HENRY RODEN
TERRITORIAL AUDITOR
FRANK A. BOYLE
HIGHWAY ENGINEER
Wm. A. HESSE
TERRITORIAL SENATOR
0. D. COCHRAN
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ELIZABETH M. CROSS
HOWARD LYNG
W. LEONARD SMITH
_FRANK H. WHALEY
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