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ALASKA OF TOMORROW
Mr. Iekes has discovered Al
©ska. Whenever Mr. Iekes dis
covers any thing—and that hap
pens frequently—he does some
thing about it. Usually he also
says a mouthful about it. So has
it been with Mr. Iekes and Al
aska. Having discovered Alaska,
Mr. Iekes proposes to settle it
(i. e., to populate it, not to dis
pose of it, or put an end to it).
And, having made this decision,
he has said more than a mouth
ful. He has said ninety-four pag
«s worth, with illustrations and
statistics. To be sure, the report
is issued under the name of Har
ry Slattery, Under Secretary of
the Interior, but any one who
knows Honest Harold knows that
he has a hand in every pie that
is baked in the Department of
the Interior, and that no state
ment or report goes out without
his sanction, approval and edit
ing. He is the Department of the
Interior. What it says, he says—
or, rather—what he says, it says.
The two cannot be divorced. Be
fore the public they are as one.
Alaska of tomorrow is some
thing which should stimulate the
imagination even of our own
Grover the fair maker. The area
of Alaska is 18,698 times the
area of Flushing Meadows. The
Department of the Interior
points out that more than 98 per
cent of this area is public land,
still available for homesteading,
factory sites, fur farms, mining
operations and timber entries.
The winter climate of much of
it is said to be better than that
of New York (barring the flies
and mosquitoes the same can
surely be said of Alaska’s sum
mer climate). In fact, Alaska is
a pioneer’s paradise. All that it
lacks is pioneers, with the ex
ception of Matanuska colony and
the earlier settlers when went
there “on their own” and stayed
there without benefit of govern
ment reief. To get around this
the formation of something akin
to the Dutch F.ast India Com
pany is suggested—strange pro
posal, indeed, from one who has
so vigorously fought against mon
opoly—with a sort of partnership
among pioneers, investors and
Xjncle Harold. The possibilities
are endless —and are set forth
in almost rhapsodic phrases by
A aska’s present custodian.
In view of the continuing fail
bre of Alaska’s population to
grow, it might have been thought
there would be trouble about the
types of persons who are to set
tle Alaska. But this, with the
aid of Mr. Iekes, has been dis
posed of. There is room—so the
report sets forth glowingly—for
"men of talent from many lands.”
Boatmakers, fishermen, lumber
men. machinists— these all fig
ured in pre-Ickesian Alaska. Al
so leather workers, cabinet-mak
ers, and workers in wood. Like
wise. persons (shades of the gold
rush days!) trained in develop
ing recreational and tourist cen
ters and mineral springs. Finally
but by no means least, there is
room—so the Slattery report in
forms us—for “trained toymak
ers.”
Those brought up in the days
when the mere mention of Alas
ka connoted the verses of Robert
W. Service will find a slight dis
crepancy between the Yukon
poet’s vision of Alaska of the
future and that of the Secretary
of the Interior. We remember
Mr. Service’s crude dismissal of
those who were “dissolute, dam
ned and despaired, crippled and
palsied and slain.” Uhe men
whom his Alaska welcomed
seem to us today very much like
like that thrice-damned species,
rugged individualists. He called
for men with “the hearts of Vik
ings,” “desperate, strong and re
sistless unthrottled by fear or
defeat.” But Mr. Ickes, we are
sure, will change all that—or at
least he would if he could.
—New York Herald Tribune
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University of Alaska
Cosmopolitan Attendance
Alaskans who believe in their
Alaska and her institutions view
with a deep sense of satisfaction
and pride the mounting charac
ter of those attending her insti
tution of higher learning, the Uni
versity of Alaska.
With all present dormitory ac
comodations occupied, and many
of the faculty and student body
finding homes in the city, the
University reports a banner en
rollment this year of 223 stu
dents. Of this nuknber 48 are
registered from Fairbanks and
16 from College, or the Univer
sity campus.
One hunderd and fifty hail
from other parts of Alaska, rep
resenting communities from
Ketchikan to the Arctic rim.
Practically all attendants are
now actual residents of Alaska,!
but out of pride of their old
place of residence or birth, many
have given their original home
in the States as their place of
i origin. Actually they are Alas
kans. The register more properly
reveals the cosmopolitan & thor
ough American character of new
Alaska.
This splendid manifestation of;
growing widespread appreciation!
afar of the opportunity to re-,
ceive University training in the
Northland is something to cause
every thoughtful Alaskan to en
large his faith in the University
and resolve anew to lend the in- !
stitution every aid that will lead
to its gradual enlargement and j
improvement, making it a per-;
manent attraction for youth who.
seek to best qualify for the act-1
: ivites of life.
REVENUERS GOING
OUT TO SCHOOL
“Ho, for school.’’ O S Sullivan
deputy collector of internal rev
, enue for Alaska, and Peggy Lyle
deputy collector for the Fair
banks district are going.
These two worthies are going
to attend Uncle Sam’s convoca
tion of collectors and deputies
1 from the entire Northwest dis
trict of the United States—includ
ing Washington State and Alas
ka. They will assemble in Tac-:
oma for a week, to receive in- i
structions from experts from the -
Washington. D C headquarters
of the internal revenue depart
ment. All fine points in the art I
of gathering revenues and makj
ing adjustments of every sort
pertinent to the business will be i
dealt with by the instructors,
and every imaginable question
raised and debated by the school.
A watch is something -which if
you look at it long enough it will
be too late to do what you were
going to do before you looked at
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NEW HEAD NAMED
NOME WEATHER BUREAU
Arnold E. McKenzie, head of
the Columbus, Ohio, City Air
port weather bureau the past 10
years, has been named to suc
ceed Roswell E. Dobbs in charge
of the U S Department of Agri
culture Weather Bureau station
at Nome.
Howard J. Thompson, in char
ge of the U S W’eather Bureau
station at Juneau, made this an
nouncement in Fairbanks upon
his return from an official visit
to Nome.
Dobbs will be transferred to a
station in the States, Thompson
said. His exact assignment has
not been announced yet. Dobbs
has been in charge of the Nome
bureau the past two years. His
assistant, Leonard Hedine, will
remain and hold the same posi
tion upon the arrival of McKen
zie.
McKenzie is scheduled to sail
from Seattle about October 10.
It is expected he will bring his
family with him.
The Columbus man was recent
ly paid the honor of being sent
as representative of his city to
sessions on air mass analysis con
ducted by leading authorities at
the Newark City Airport.
CENSUS CHIEF IS ON
WAY TO THIS CITY
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Dwight R. Hammack, area su
pervisor of the Bureau of Cen-1
sus, was a passenger on the S S
Aleutian which arrived Seward
Saturday.
From Anchorage he will go to
Fairbanks and then to Nome and i
is expected to name an assistant
census director at each place.
“I’m jest writin’ Paw that
you’re sick. Does cemetery begin
with a ‘c’ or an ‘s’?’’
Insurance is the sensible way
to take care of what you'll need
if something happens to what
you've got.
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Thos. R. Lyons Ira D. Ortoi
CHAS. CAVEY
Has Opened A Liquor Store
Carrying an Assortment
of Fine Liquors, Win
es, and Beers.
FRONT ST. NOME.
Pioneer Water Co.
Water Delivery Daring Summer
Months — Tuesdays and Fridays.
Hauling Gravel, Oil, Etc.
ILWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE.
NELSON and BULLOCK
Phone Blaek 44
NOME MACHINE SHOP
W L. SLACK & SON, Props.
LOOK AT THE NICE TROPHIES
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Three little girls who have what it takes made good in the Atlantic
City beauty contest, and here display their trophies and their
charms. Patricia Mary Donnelly (center) of Detroit, was named
Miss America. Betty Cornelia Avery (right) of Tulsa was runner
up, and Anna Mae Schoonover (left) of Seattle placed third.
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