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NOME, ALASKA MAY 19, 1917. j
CO-ORDINATION NEEDED.
Recently Franklin K. Lane secretary
of the interior, writing for the Na
tional Geographical magazine con
cerning the work of his department,
had the following to say regarding the
spirit of national development:
"An intense nationalism has been
the marking note of the past year.
Each American has realized with
keener consciousness the meaning of
this land to Him, and has sought for
a larger view of its many aspects, and,
if possible, to gain a glimpse of its
future. To each has come his dream.
AVe now that there is more to nation
al feeling than pride in the possession
of a land that is rare and valuable
or the splendid memory of a history
of struggle for those things of a sphrit
which men call principles. The high
est sense of nationality comes with a
sense of purpose—a sense of common
purpose—for the Enited States is not
yet ours in the produst sense, and
cannot be until we are doing all that
can he done to give to all its people
and to the world the full expression
of its highest intelligence applied
alike to its resources and to the life
of the people."
Alaska is. from a point of settle
ment, a new land, one of the youngest.
Handicaps to its being thickly habi
tated have arisen from more sources
tha one. One of the first of these is,
of course, an exaggerated conception
of the rigors of the climate; another
the absence of adequate means of
transportation and commun'ication.
During the last few years a systema
tic campaign carried on simultan
eously by all the towms of the terri
tory has been greatly beneficial in ex
ploding the "land of eternal snows
and mountains of ice" myth, and peo
ple are beginning to realize that we
have up here things bes'ides placer
mines. The railroad being built by
the government will cut the distance
from here to the coast from days to
hours and eventually put the north
ernmost town within week-end visit
ing touch of the states. Thus the
drawback of slow communication will
be done away with.
In the history of the development of
any country there are, roughly speak
ing, four stages. First conies the
pioneer who 1'ives oft the country's
obvious supplies, killing the game for
Ills food and trapping the fur bearing
animals for his clothing. Next we
become producers of raw materials,
grains, minerals, lumber, etc. Follow
ing this comes the manufacturing
stage, in which only the courses
! things are touched. Th'is eventually
expands into wider markets and more
varied industries, accompanied by
more economical methods of produc
tion and exchange.
For a large part of Alaska tTie first
j stage has passed,- although some cf
the territory has not qu'te emerged
from it yet. But for the remainder
of the country the second phase has
just been entered. Barge tracts of
mineralized ground are untouch' .1,
and the ring of axes in vast stretches
of forest has never been heard The
agriculture of the eoutnry is still in
its infancy.
We are Just now standing at the
1 threshold of our period of greatest op
portunity. We should take advantage
of tlie lessons taught in the develop
ment of other lands and profit by
them as we endeavor to build up - if
own land. In tela land of the last
frontier, larger than osme of the first
class nations of tl e world, are found
ations for ms .v varied industries, and
homes for mtlhcns realy for occu
pancy with the oxpedlture of almos'.
no money, and very little real labor.
The time is coming when all these will
be taken up, and it rests a great deal
with us, who are already here, ns to
how rap’idly they are occupied.
There is at present a crying need
for a co-ordination of purpose and ef
fort, which, successfully applied, will
surely revolutionize the entire life of
the territory. Start in the schools
and identify them with the work that
must be done in the different indus
tries. he schools ns mere scholastic
'institutions of learning have outlived
their usefulness and must be carried
out on boarder lines if they are to
play their part in the future of Ihe
land.
Towns must lay aside sectional dif
ferences, outlying sections get in clos
er touch with the towns. No longer
will Individual effort serve our aims
or achieve our ends. The will of
the Individual must lie fused Into the
will of Ihe mass, and a unity of pur
pose take the place of the present
haphazard, hit-or-miss system that
prevails. All of ns may not live to
see this accomplished, but we can
help start the work so that it will be
easy of continuance, and tn so doing
vve will have done our “lilt," for this
is the surest and quickest way to
realize our dreams of making Alaska
the 'ideal home spot of the world.
A NEW ALASKA.
Hidden away In the more intensely
interesting news disaptches telling of
the results of the election there was
a brief story from Alaska that Is
strikingly significant of what may be
expected In that country.
Brifly, the story was to the effect
■ that several hundred homesteaders
j have arrived and settled in the sec
tion of country through which the
I fidted States government is building
its railroad; that these settlers are
prospering, and that indications favor
a rapid increase of this class of new
comers.
Think of that? Homesteaders go
ing to Alaska instead of gold hunt
ers. It opens an entirely new con
ception of that country. It means
that instead of stripping an unwill
ing land of its sole wealth and then
abandoning it, men are finding that
there Is a continuous wealth In the
agricultural possbilities of the coun
try, and are going there to cultivate
it and make it continuously richer
and more prosperous. It gives a no
tion of a new Alaska of vastly differ
ent style from that of former days.
Perhaps, too, there is another sig
nificance in this movement. Perhaps
it is an indication that men are not
today ns insanely anxious for sudden
wealth as they were in ’49 and Yukon
days, but are better satisfied to be
industrious and prosperous with cer
tainty, without taking the risks and
undergoing the hardships of the
usually disappointed gold hunter. Per
haps.
Alaska has yielded up many mil
I ions in gold, now it may begin to
j yield even more millions in even
| more valuable products.—Iluluth Her
ald. ■
Office end rtesiftnee of J. F. McAl
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