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Toying with Inflation
Congress ls getting ready to make a bluff at tackling the
problem of avoiding inflation. “Bluff" is used with full know
ledge of the purport of the word. It is justified by what has
already happened in Washington and what is probably going to
•happen, unless the American people make themselves more vocal.
Congress certainly recognizes the dangers of inflation but
seemingly lacks the courage to meet the problem in the only way
it can be met. Next year is election year when all the represent
atives and one-third of the senators come up for re-election. Con
gressmen from the cities fear the labor vote, and congressmen
from the country fear the farmer vote. Senators fear both blocs.
That is why there is a slim chance of any real anti-inflation action.
Let's explain. To prevent inflation, it is neeesary to place
a ceiling on prices of farm products and manufactured goods, on
rents and on wages. Omit one of these, and the result is failure.
The vicious circle begins.
If farm products are allowed to soar in price, the cost of
living automatically goes up. City workers find their dollar buys
less, so they ask and through their unions usually get higher
wages. Manufacturers of shoes, clthing. hats, furniture and ev
erything else boost the selling prices of their goods because of
the higher wages they have to pay. The farmer now finds every
manufactured article he needs costs much more. His remedy is to
demand price increases for^his farm products. Then the wage
earners seek more wages to meet this and so things go spiraling
ever upward until the worth of a dollar becomes a tragic joke.
What is depicted here is not guesswork. It happened in Ger
many in the 1920's. It ruined the middle class, closed factories,
threw workmen out of jobs, and largely paved the way for the
rise of Adolph Hitler.
The bill the House Banking Committee has concocted is not
even a weak stab at preventing inflation. It does not deal with
the question of wages. When it comes to farm products, it not
only permits 110 percent of so-called parity prices, but in many
cases allows 20 percent above that figure. It should be called a
bill to hasten inflation.
The time is now’ 10 minutes to 12 for pressure by a mightier
group than either the farm or labor lobbies—the great masses of
American people. For once inflation starts, it will hit the farmer \
and the workingman as viciously as any group.
Development Follows File Army
It is too soon to ring all the bells and blow the horns about
it, but Alaska may soon have another industry added to her beau.
It is cattle ranching—large scale cattle ranching such as is con
ducted in Montana, Wyoming and Texas.
That is the word brought to Anchorage by B. F. Heintzle
man of the U. S. Forest Service who visited there last week dur
ing the course of agricultural investigations.
Alaska has vast grasslands lying untouched by civilization
2nd investigations are under way to determine whether they would
support this new industry. The climate, soil and the market all
seem to point toward cattle ranching as an enterprise eminently
suited for this part of the world.
Disclosure of the proposal to establish large ranches in Al
aska recalls an interesting fact in the history of the United
States. Not so many years ago the West remained untamed and
untilled. The United States Army was sent to the frontiers —
Montana, Wyoming and Texas — to guard against Indian raids
on the frontier settlements.
After forts were built over the vast section of the western
states, the American caravan moved in with the pioneers who
set up the first cabins, cleared ground and established the back
bone of industrial America. Development followed the Army
west of the Mississippi.
Now the Army has come to Alaska and within the first year
after its arrival the Territory is showing every indication of de
veloping as the western states developed.
History shows that permanent development follows the Unit
ed States Army wherever it goes. History is at present repeating
itself — this time in Alaska.
Wasting Time?
In the absence of official explanation of why nothing is being
done to speed the construction of a tuberculosis hospital for Al
aska Indians for which funds were appropriated by Congress
some time ago, it would appear that valuable time is being wast
ed by the Indian Bureau—assuming that the need for such an
institution is as urgent as Congress was led to believe it is.
Months have elapsed since funds were voted to build the
hospital and the bureau has not yet decided where to locate the
institution. That detail could have been settled a long time ago
end plans made ready for immediate execution the moment the
(President had affixed his signature to the measure authorizing
the appropriation.
In the meantime, tuberculosis is continuing its deadly spread
iamong the Indians of Southeast Alaska and in other communities
x>f the Northland where natives make their homes, and every
week of delay in getting work started on the projected hospital
means additional cases needing the care that such an institution
can give them.
Army And
Navy Given
\\ ide Power
WASHINGTON, Dec. — The
White House announced that
complete authority had been
delegated for use, control, inspec
tion, or closure by the War or
Navy Departments of other gov
ernment agencies.
The purpose of the order, the
White House statement said, is
“to insure the national defense
and the successful conduct of the
war.”
Chairman James Fly of the De
fense Communications Board ex
plained that the order puts in its
hands powers given to President
Roosevelt under the wartime pro
visions of the Communications
Act.
Under the order, the Army or
Navy will now, where necessary,
arrange to take over or close ra
dio facilities through the Defense
Communications Board, thus re
lieving the President of that re
sponsibility. Said Fly:
“It has long been known that
the military may require certain
communications facilities in con
nection with the national de
fense. It does not mean that any
general takng over or operation
of private radio by the govern
ment is contemplated.”
Fly insisted that most of the
arrangements for necessary ac
tion have already been complet
ed in advance, and said again
that the DCB does not contem
plate any form of censorship.
The DCB is headed by Fly,
who is also chairman of the Fed
erl Communications Commission.
The other members include the
chief signal officer of the Army,
the director of naval communica
tions, the assistant secretary of
states in charge of international
communications, and the assist
ant secretary of the treasury in
charge of the Coast Guard.
Lindbergh Keeps
In Seculsion
WEST TIDBURY, Mass., Dec.
— Charles Lindbergh, visiting
on Martha’s Vineyard island to
day refused to see newspaper
men or accept any messages.
Notice of Rendering First and
Final Report of Administrator
and Petition for Final Order of
Distribution
No. 636
In the Probate Court in and
for the Cape Nome Precinct,
Second Division: Territory of
Alaska.
In the matter of the Estate of
BLAKE BARLOW WALES. De
ceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that
B. B. Mozee, Administrator of
the estate of Blake Barlow Wales,
deceased, has rendered for final
settlement, and filed in the above
Court his first and final report of
administrator and petition for
final order of distribution, and
that Wednesday, the 4th day of
February, 1942, at 10 o’clock a.
m., at the office and courtroom of
the Court in Nome, Alaska, has
been set as the time and place
for the settlement of the account
and report and for hearing ob
jections thereto if any there be,
and for a hearing on the petition,
and all persons interested in the
estate are hereby notified then
and there to appear and show
cause, if any they have, why the
account and report should not be
settled and allowed and why dis
tribution of the estate should not
thereupon be immediately made
to the persons entitled thereto
without further notice or pro
ceedings. At such hearing the
Court will adjudicate and decree
who are the heirs and distribut
ees of the deceased. Reference is
hereby made to the account, re
port and petition for further par
ticulars.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this
3rd day of December, 1941.
B. B. Mozee Administrator
Publish Dec. 3, 10, 17, 24, 1941
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Tlie Territorial Director in Ju
neau notified the Department of
Public Welfare that the Social
Security Board in Washington
hod approved their request for
funds totaling $70,336.9-4 for the
quarter ending December 31,
1941.
All but 5% of this money,
when matched by funds of the
territory will be used to pay
monthly benefits to over 1.500
aged Alaskans who are eligible
to receive aid under the Old
Age Assistance Law of the Terri
tory of Alaska.
The 5% is granted for the pur
pose of assisting the territory in
I meeting the expense incurred in
administering its law.
U. S.-SOVIET HOOKUP
VIA ALASKA
Don’t be surprised of Pan Am
erican Airways soon undertakes
another giant operation like its
present task of delivering planes
j to the Middle East via Africa.
1 There are strong hints—without
formal confirmation—that Roose
velt will arrange to have the
1 company fly planes to Russia by
| way of Alaska. Organizational
details would be simiar to those
for the African delivery service.
If advance word from Moscow
, is correct, a dramatic gesture of
i Soviet willingness to cooperate
with the U. S. in postwar re- J
construction will be made about.
! the time Litvinoff takes over as
new ambassador here. It will
! amount to full endorsement of
'the so-called Atlantic Charter,
| with Stalin, in effect, promising
to adopt more democratic pol
icies. Best information is that
Stalin was prepared to make the
gesture when FDR announced
the billion-dollar Lend-Lease ar
1 rangement, then decided to with
| hold it until Litvinoff's arrival.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that J.
S. Winder has been appointed by
the Probate Court for the Koyuk
Precinct, Second Division, Terri
tory of Alaska. Administrator of
the E. tate of Sam B. Smith, de
ceased and ail persons having
claims against the said estate are
required to present them with
proper vouchers within six
months from the date of this No
tice to the undersigned Adminis
trator at Haycock, Territory of
Alaska.
Dated at Haycock. Alaska, th:s
21st day o>f October, 1941.
J. S. Winder,
Administrator of the Es
tate of Sam B. Smith, de
ceased.
Publish Nov. 26. Dec. 3. 10. 17.
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At Lehmann’s
Carrying an Assortment
of Fine Liquors. Win
es, and Beers.
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MEDITERRANEAN BATTLE
British sources said that is a Fiat B. R. 20 plane (arrow, top)
as it attacked the British battleship Nelson while it escorted a
convoy through the Mediterranean. At right center (arrow) is the
splash of a torpedo dropped by the Italian plane. The Nelson,
British said was scarcely damaged and the plane was later shot
down, one of 13 in the attacking force bagged by anti - aircraft
guns. Shrapnel bursts can be seen faintly left of the plane.