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” WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1943.
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COMING EVENTS AND SHADOWS
Just around the corner is 1944—national and . local
election year. In the midst of its greatest war, at the
height of its most intense war effort, the United States
Will demonstrate the use of' the machinery by which
Its own form of Democratic government is performed.
To Alaska, the election next year will be one of the
most important in its history. It will be significant
because, for the frst time, its legislators will be elected
On a basis of population from the four divisions. The
old system of representation on an equal basis regard
less of population is no more. That is a step in the
direction of representative government, but not a com
plete journey.
Under the reapportionment law, each of the four di
ovisions will be represented by four senators; the First
Division will elect eight members to the House of Rep
resentatives, the Second four, the Third seven, and the
Fourth five members. As each Division now has one
holdover Senator, in the 1944 election Alaskans will
elect 12 senators and 24 representatives. These, with
four holdovers, give the Legislature a total member
ship of 40, an increase of 16 over the member
.ship from 1913 to 1943.
These are the coming events. Some of the shadows
are hinted at by Lew Williams in a recent issue of his
Alaska Sentinel’s “Periscope.” Dearth of candidates
in the First Division, lack of interest by many due to
pressure of business activities, manpower hortage. and
the fact that men, suitable timber for legislative
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candidates, are now wearing the uniform of the coun-!
try or engaged in essential industries.
What is true of the First Division applies with equal
force to the other three. Nothing can be done about
men in the armed forces. Their turn will come at a
later date. But we suggest the advisability of even the j
busiest of business men, or war worker at home, sac- !
rificing some 60 or more days’ service in the Legislature.
There has been some suggestion that “anyone can be
elected next year” under existing conditions. We hope
this is not true. The one thing to be most earnestly de
sired. is that our voters nominate the most highly qual- j
ified men and women, so that regardless of which party
is successful in the Fall election, all of Alaska shall have
capable representatives in the 1945 session of the Alaska
Legislature.—(Jessen’s Weekly).
COME, JOSEPHINE
Have you filed your application for a po§t-war airline!
from here to there frit doesn’t need to be very specific;,
you can always decide later where you want to start,;
which way you intend to go, and where you hope to wind '
up. Neither is it required that you know anything about;
flying, oi; traffic, or aviation management, or that you!
have a plane, money or backers. A piece of . paper, a
pencil, a three-cerjt stamp and imagination will do the
trick. - r . v !
American Aviation, a trade magazine, discovers that
80 companies*and individuals already have filed applica
tions with- the Civil Aeronautics Board For routes that
| would total 350*770 mles without counting those who
iwant to start an airline but don’t trouble to say just
i whence or Whither: •
Some of the applicants are sound, established enter
prieneurs—-air lin£s, trucking, bus, railroad and steam
ship companies. Others are “paper” companies, women
even high school boys.
The description “paper company” can be very damn
ing, but. needn’t be. One of the paper companies, pre
sumably, is.the group of ferry pilots organized as Trans
oceanic Air Lines, Inc., which has registered with the,
SEC its original stock issue. These men know flying i
and know a great deal about the international situation. |
! Recently 16 major domestic air lines got together on!
a declaration of principles for post-war expansion, j
i world-wide, which calls for “free and open competition.” 1
These companies intend to get into the expansion scrap
when the war is over.
Public interest in the helicopter is reflected by appli-;
cations for 75,922 miles of such lines of which 49,139 are
sought by the Greyhound Corporation, which is new in
aviation but a veteran in transportation
W. B. Stout, one of the big men in American aviation j
now with Consolidated-Vultee, predicts flying automo- i
biles and trucks and helicabs (not the Parisian or Wash- j
ington type—the “heii” here comes from helicopter) j
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j All is confusion, all is ambition, all is aspiration and j
enthusiasm in the post-war aviation field. But of one
thing we can be sure—a new flying era is no further
away than the time it will take to clear up the Axis and
shift our industrial stance.
So, to paraphrase the old popular song—“Come, Jose
phine, in My Flying Machine”:
“Up, up, a little bit higher,
My imagination’s on fire.”
RUSSIA NEEDS TRANSPORTATION
The United States is now sending tanks, trucks, guns
and ammunition to Russia, over the Persian Gulf route,
at a rate that strains the Soviet transport system, ac
cording to a statement made yesterday to Lieut.
Colonel William S. Gaud, Jr., of the Army General
Staff.
The officer says that Russian demands for equipment
have altered considerably. The Soviet is asking for
fifty per cent more trucks and hundreds of locomo
tives. Evidently, he adds:
“Locomitives have apparently become more import
ant than tanks.” , * , *; •
The shift in empasis from munitions to transporta
tion facilities is easily explained by the condition of
the front in Russia. The Soviet has recaptured con-,
siderable territory and must transport supplies over
longer routes and through territory which has been
devastated by the retiring enemy.
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