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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 1944.
NAVY GOVERN
ALASKA?
We don’t imagine it will
go very] far, but the bill of
Representative Cole of
New York to have the navy
department govern all the
American territories and
possessions might as well
be dealt a knockout blow
before it gathers any sup
port on Capital Hill.
As the press reports des
cribe it, Mr. Cole believes
that the territories and
possessions were purchas
ed or won by force primar
ily for their military val
ue, therefore should be
maintained and governed
only for military purposes.
This is like saying that a
luxury liner, because it
was designed to be con
verted to military purpos
es, should be kept in the
navy’s transport service
after the war.
After this war is over,
the chief military value of
Alaska will lie in the Aleu
tians, nearest to Japan,
China and Russia. That
area well could be turned
over to the military, as it
probably will be, but why
hamstring the develop
ment of Alaska by making
it a military reservation in
which gold braided officers
parade around with little
regard for the economic,
social or cultural welfare
of the people? This is not
the proper destiny for
Alaska.
The navy has, as a mat
ter of fact, had no prepara
tion for such a job. Its ex
perience in governing pos
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sessions has been confined
to such outposts as Guam,
Wake, Midway and Amer
ican Samoa. It is current
ly training men in govern
ing occupied territories
and Alaska might well
feel like an occupied ter
ritory if the navy were to
take over. We could expect
little more in the way of
liberal government thatn
we had during the first
years of this war when our
civil rights were compro
mised, our every move
made under permit, and
even our routine occupa
tions such as 'fishing car
ried on only after the navy
and other services had ta
ken what they wanted in
the way of docks and boats
—for which many owners
have not yet been paid.
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Ask any officer in the
army, navy or coast guard
what he thinks of the pros
pects for Alaska if the
navy takes it over to gov
ern, and you’ll understand
I why the objective of Mr.
Cole is so far-fetched. The
navy has already put what
it holds in Alaska into a
reserve, even Mr. Ickes al
lows the people to use for
the selfish purpose of mak
ing a living, something
over one per cent of the
territory’s land.—(Ketchi
kan Chronicle).
EDUCATION
FOR PEACE
It( would be well if all
American educators from
primary teacher to college
dean could read the words
addressed to their profes
sion by the marine corps’
commandant, Lt. Gen.
Alexander Vandegrift. For
they state clearly and au
thoritatively the important
part that schools must play
in training a generation
for active effort in the pre
vention of future wars.
Educators cannot do the
whole job, of course. But
they can have tremendous
influence in teaching the
frightful lessons of war
when, as General Vande
grift says, many others
have forgotten them with
the passage of time.
“YOU will have to de
cide,” the general points
out, “whether to keep your
appreciation of problems
and obligations of real na
tional security keenly alive
and thus inspire others, or
to let your interests slip
until one day the whole
matter has become remote
and you trust vaguely that
somewhere a few govern
ment and military officials
are taking care of things.”
This ever-present con
cern for peace should not,
it seems to us, be left to the
individual teacher’s1 re
sponsibility.
It might better become
a part of educational pol
icy, thoughtfully consider
ed. The horror of war
should not again be allow
ed to become a succession
of facts in the history
books, with occasional ac
cents on heroism and for
getfulness of suffering! —
'(Anchorage Times).
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One of the first serious at
tempts to classify criminals or to
discover the causes of crime was
; made late in the 19th century by
I the Italian physician Lombroso,
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I who thought he discovered cra
nial differences in criminals on
whom he performed autopsies.
ALONG MEMORY
LANE
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(November 3. 1934)
The P. A. A. mail planes took
off from Nome and Fairbanks.
Pilot Jerry Jones, making his first
flight under the new contract
from Nome to Fairbanks, and S.
E. Robbins, flying from Fair
banks to Nome, with many stops
en-route. This marks the begin
ning of the regular winter sched-^|
ule for twice a week mail ser
vice by the P. A. A.
Merrill K. Reddick claims that
Alaska is still ^‘reeking with gold”
and is organizing a company to
prospect by airplane. He claims
that he knows of 800 unexplored
domes.
John Pegues was appointed ad
ministrator for the Federal
Housing Administration for
Alaska, and will travel through- ^
out the Territory advising on
ways of obtaining funds for the
improvement of Alaskan homes.
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