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\!«ska and Alaskans Cher. Once
(Her In Fortune Magazine
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Including a few things the', won’t like and a good
many with which they will agree. Fortune, one of the
top business and industrial m gaz’nes of ihc nation,
gh-es Alaskans a spread in the March issue. Illustrated
with pictures of Gov. Ernesl Gruening, Gen. Simon
Buckner, Delegate Dimond, Joe Crosson, Marshal Hop
P n of CAA and Capt. A. E. Lathrop street scenes in
Juneau, Fairbanks and other places including some of
the usual romantic hooey always attached to Alaska of
the “boys in the back room” and a guv with a parka
on tending bar. Fortune tersely touches on a lot of
Alaska in nrnimum space.
Gov. Gruening gets a Fortune bow with being de
scribed as the “most intelligent executive Alaska has
ever had. the first to try in a th )roughgoing way to cope
with Alaska’s problems and needs.” Tony Dimond gets
Fortune’s attention for being a “lonely voice crying
in the wilderness of Washington."
Almost Human
Alaskans on the whole are described: “Like fr ntiers
men. Alaskans are individualists, and they grumble
and gr mch about the outsiders from Washington who
run their affairs, about the Governor (appointed by
the President) and about Secretary of Interior Harold
Ickes whose name is apt to produce guffaws of annoy
ance and wrath. Their territorial stature irks them,
yet they have no united desire for statehood. They con
plain about interference and remote control in Wash
ington. and in the same breath ask Washington for
more money. Some of their home-rule sentiment is
genuine—but some of it is not. as Gov. Gruening dis
covered when President Roosevelt sent him up to Al
aska two years ago."
Pointing out that the Governor’s program was de
feated in the last Legislature, Fortune says “even
when he hands out after-dinner cigars at his white
colonial mansion in Juneau, there is uneasiness in the
political air. He is no politician, no diplomat, and his
enemies say he is the worst-hated executive the Terri
tory ever had.
On Alaska development Fortune had this to say:
Development
“The development of Alaskan resources is not going
to be accomplished in a few years. Governor Greuning
knows that, but he believes that immediate (after the
war) economic benefit can come in the shape of tour
ists from the States. Alaska has mountains higher,
more rugged than the Alps; Alaskan moose and brown
bear are the biggest in the world; and Alaskan trout
run up to thirty-six inches. Fjords and the midnight
sun and live glaciers in Alaska are as exciting as they
are in Scandinavian countries, and the Governor be
lieves that better passenger ships, better roads, more
hotels and lodges would bring enough sightseers and
big-game hunters and fishermen to make tourism rival
the fish and gold industries. But even if he is right,
there is no place for tourists in wartime Alaska.
“Government bureaus—the Geological Survey, the
Fish and Wildlife Service the Forest Service, the Of
fice of Indian Affairs, and others—are doing what they
can with the limited funds, to develop Aaska. It isn’t
enough. The real settlement of Alaska is going to take
a long, slow time. The government will have to do
much more than it has to explore and survey and test
the minerals and soils, to plan and encourage settle
ment. Most important of all, it will have to build a
road to Alaska and many roads in Alaska. Its agencies
i in Alaska will have to be unified and coordinated, with
CEYLON HELD KEY TO INDIA'S DEFENSE
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Ceylon, separated by 18 miles of water lrom India s
mainland, was described by Prof. William Beer of
Boston University, as the key to the defense of India
and the entire Allied Nation’s war effort in the Indian
Ocean, area. He said the island’s naval base at Trin
comalee commands sea-supply routes and that a pin
cers action based on Ceylon and on Australia must be
considered for a counter offensive.
Alaskans assured or more polit
ical choice and power and assum
ing a greater share of the tax
burden and greater government
al responsibility. The responsib
ility rests on the people of the
U. S. Alaska belongs to them.” |
Hot Spot In Strategy
As the “Bridge to Asia." Alas-'
ka is pointed out as a hot spot in
U. S. strategy, declaring, “if the 1
Japanese should invade and eon-!
qtier, the blame will be ours;
alone. But the time has passed;
when the U. S. could regard Al
aska as the orphan among our.
possessions. Alaska is now vital
in the scheme of our war and de j
serves to be equally vital in fu
ture years of peace.”
Fortune stresses the vast re- ]
sources of the Territory, but
charges its mines and fisheries
have been stripped by Outside
interests. If Alaska was fully de
veloped, it believes the Territory
would support ten million peo
ple.
In its color stuff to keep up the
popular theory about the North,
Fortune in a bar room scene as
serts Alaskans average three gal
Ions of hard liquor a year—twice
the U. S. average; reveals couples
dressed in the frontier garb for
the occasion doing the “Scow
Bay,” and a bunch of the boys
in the back room having a little
game which Fortune remarks “as
in gold-rush days.'’
Daily Defense Stamp
Par •hose P’edcct! By
S Jicnlcy VVorl-rrs
Frankfort. Ky - - Original
ed by women employees in
the bottling department of
he Selim ley plant here, a
novel “ defense-stump-a -
dav” plan is maintaining a
100 per cent batting aver
age there and is now enlist,
ing the support of mer
chants and manufacturers
thruout Franklin county
Taken up by local civic
leaders who were impress
ed with its efficiency as an
aid to war saving, the plan
was placed under the super
vision of a committee of
six. each member repre
senting a different section
of the county. Co-workers,
contacting retailers and
manufacturers, had them
encourage their staffs to
pledge the purchase of at
least one ten-cent defense
stamp per day six days a
week.
Partieipation percentag
es are published monthly
by the State Journal at
Frankfort. According to
Mr. A. B. Blanton, vice
president of Sehenlev and
manager of the firm's local
p 1 a n t, the company’s
Frankfort personnel is fnc
ilbating its 100 per cent
participation in the plan hv
taking change in defense
stamps when buying lunch
es at the plant recreation
building.
Child Health Conference
Every Thursday
The Nome Public Health Nurse
Mildred K. llrown invites the
mothers to bring their infants
and children to the Child Health
Conference each Thursday from
1 to 5 p.m. The children will he
weighed and measured and
health prohems will he discussed
with the nurse.
An immunization clinic for in
fonts and all children, school
chidren included who have not
been protected aaginst diphtheria
and smallpox will be scheduled
in the near future.
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JAPANESE VISITOR STOPPED
Roy Hikida, Japanese, who sought to visit friends on
Bam bridge Island, near Seattle, where evacuation had
be, n :n .ered, was halted by army sentries at a dock.
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}AP CAMP SIT E—Waters of the I.os Angeles aoueduct
flow tlnough this section of the Owens river valley, California,
where the camp to house Japanese aliens Is being constructed in
the l>s*anee, hi lowed bv Sierra Nevada peaks
PIPES NOT OF PEAC E—At Manranar in the Owens river valley area of California, pipes for
use in construction of a camp for the housing or Japanese aliens arrive. Marxanar is about 235 mile*
northeast of Los Angeles and near Sequoia national park. Already 1,000 Japs have headed for the
camp, which eventually will house to 000 persons under r.S. guard