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Safeguarding Our Liberty
By DR. GEORGE S. BENSON
President, National Education Program
A RESOLUTION OF IMPORTANCE to evei^
citizen has been submitted in the United States
Senate. It is Senate Joint Resolution 32. It proposes
an amendment to the U. S. Constitution reserving to
the states exclusive control over public schools. Such
an amendment shouldn’t be necessary, for when they
created the federal government the 13 original states
retained full control over their respective schools and
all other internal domestic affairs.
Such an amendment is necessary now only be
cause the present Supreme Court, acting contrary to
the Constitution itself, in numerous decisions has shat
tered the structure of states’ rights, one of-the great
bulwarks protecting each citizen against federal
tyranny, and essential to. long retaining personal
freedom.
States’ rights is not a narrow issue concerning
the present controversy raging around Southern
schools; nor is the need for establishing full state
control over state schools founded on any individual’s
or group’s wishes regarding segregation or integration.
The principle of states’ rights, the delegation to the
states of control over intra-state affairs, including
schools, was a keystone in the structure of American
freedom when the Constitution was drafted. We will
cease to have a Republic if this foundation stone is
torn out, for destroyed with it would be our individual
liberty.
GRASSROOTS OPINION
From the Bedford, Indiana, Daily Times-Mail:
When you get down to cases, the continued existence
and progress of every business and of the whole free
enterprise system, depends upon the skills, knowledge,
wisdom and attitudes of the generation of young
, people now being educated. This is the businessman’s
special stake and a basic reason for the general public
interest in the Federal-aid-to-education issue being
considered in Congress.
Permanent dependence on federal support would
lead inevitably to nationalization of the schools and
would-weaken the educational system which has de
veloped, under state and local responsibility.
(2nd Group of 59ers
| Sets Out on Long
|Trek to Northland
DETROIT, OP) — A seeond group
of Michigan 59ers started yester
day on the long, tough trail to
Alaska.
The caravan includes 76 persons
in 10 trucks and two automobiles.
There are 42 children in the 19
familes who plan to homestead
in the Susitna Valley where an
' earlier Michigan group has al
I ready settled.
Unlike the first 59ers, today’s
group is fully aware of the hard
ships to be faced on the road
and in their new home. In addi
tion, it has more equipment and
money than did the original 59ers.
Leader of the expedition is
Frank Milazzo of Detroit.
“We have gained by the
troubles of the first 59ers last
spring,” Milazzo said. “We know
what hurt and delayed them along
the road. We’ve taken steps to
avoid as much of their troubles
as we can.”
The some 30 members of the
orignal 59ers were beset by wea
ther and vehicle trouble en route
to Alaska. They arrived nearly
broke to find the best land had
been taken in the Kenai Peninsu
la where they had hoped to settle.
They finally located in the Su
sitna Valley.
The caravan will travel through
upper Michigan, follow U. S. 2 into
Montana and from there swing
north to the Alcan Highway.
A-J Mining Makes
‘Realistic’ Evaluation
LOS ANGELES. UP) — Alaska
Juneau Gold Mining Company
announced yesterday a re-evalu
ation of its physical properties,
reducing balance sheet assets from
$17,800,140 to $6,570,095.
The “quasi-reorganization,” a
spokesman said, also lowered the
book valuation of equipment from
$11,034,354 to $600,000.
Name of the corporation was
changed to A-J Industries in the
re-evaluation authorized at the
annual meeting Wednesday.
The spokesman explained that
the company has vnot liquidated
any properties or equipment but
has merely placed upon these “a
more realistic” value than that
carried on the books for holdings
which have been inactive for
many years.
GOOD INVESTMENT !
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — Albert
Oppenheimer left his wife, Hilda,
a $15,000 life insurance policy
when he died in 1924.
Mrs. Oppenheimer died in Oc
tober at 83 and her estate’s inven
tory, filed in Superior Court Wed
nesday, was valued at $441,246.
All of it was from stock invest
ments with the $15,000 her hus
band left.
WHY WORRY?
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and RELAX!
Residence: Main 52
ARCTIC OIL
DELIVERY
No Panhandle to Canada; But Alaska
Would Consider Land Swap --- Gruening
from the Financial Post of Canada
By C. KNOWLTON NASH
WASHINGTON — The Pan
handle for Canada in a land swap
with Alaska?
The answer is an unqualified
no,” says Senator Ernest Gruen
ing.
The scheme of 58-year-old Van
couver engineer Robert F. Lyons
for a deal in which Canada would
get most of the Panhandle in ex
change for giving Alaska chunks
of the Yukon and British "Colum
bia is “unacceptable” to Alaska,
Senator Gruening has said.
However, the Senator has come
up with a counter proposal which
he asks Canada to consider.
How about a deal, says Senator
Gruening, in which Alaska gets
a 10,000 square mile strip of land
more or less including that por
tion of the Alaskan Highway in
Yukon Territory, which now con
nects by highway the town of
Haines with Western Alaska
In exchange for this, Senator
Gruening’s plan would give Can
ada an equivalent amount of land
in northeast Alaska running from
just above the Arctic Circle to
the Beaufort Sea.
In addition, he would like to
see Canada have one or more free
ports on the Alaska Panhandle,
and a corridor from Canadian
territory to that port.
He also would like to see more
connecting highways between
towns in Alaska and Canada.
The Gruening land swap coun
ter-proposal originally came up 15
years ago when he was Governor
of Alaska. He discussed the prop
osition with President Roosevelt,
but the matter was not pursued.
“The purpose of this deal would
be to give the Alaskans a land
bridge between Southeastern
Alaska and Western Alaska which,
in effect, they do not now have,”
Senator Gruening said.
“While the map shows a thin
strip o f coastline connecting
Southeastern Alaska with Western
Alaska, for purposes of transpor
tation it is impassable. It consists
of tremendous glaciers coming
down from the St. Elias Mountains
to the Pacific Coast.”
Said the Senator: “I would be
very glad to have this discussed
and looked into by the Canadians.”
Two British Columbia officials
are expected to go to Juneau next
month, when they will sample
opinion on getting a corridor
through the Panhandle for B. C.
They are expected to make a
report to the B. C. cabinet on
their return.
The Alaskans in Congress have
made it clear they would be de
lighted to give Canada a corridor
and a free port in the Alaskan
Panhandle.
But — they want to get some
thing in exchange, and the key
question now is whether the price
for the corridor and free port is
too big.
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