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LANDLORDS ARE LIKE THAT
Abandon Free Enterprise?--Nonsense!
POSTMASTER GENERAL SUMMERFIELD’S rec
ord merits close attention to remarks he made re
cently at the 63rd Congress of American Industry. He
has been successful in business, and in government he
•has lopped half a million dollars from the postal deficit.
He knows dollars and talks sense.
He argues that it is nonsense to abandon the free
enterprise rules that made us what we are today —
the richest, strongest nation the world has ever seen.
Those rules call for private savings, private invest
ments, private initiative. The ingenuity and drive of
millions of individuals will give better results than a
handful of civil servants in government bureaus.
Tax reforms are what we need, he urges, to make
possible new investment and risk capital that makes
new industry and expansion.
He would have curbs set on labor monopoly as
curbs were set on other monopolies years ago. That
would end the wage price spiral, which shrinks “un
sanforized dollars.”
He calls his proposals “politically feasible,” or in
other words, the public is smart enough to know that
two and two make four.
Manna From Heaven?
THE PORTLAND OREGONIAN PRINTS a letter
from a reader which offers an interesting sugges
tion. He proposes that we stop the practice of refer
ring to the financing of projects with government
money as though it was manna from heaven.
Instead, he thinks, we should start calling such
financing by its right name — that is, “your money,”
or “taxpayers’ funds.”
There is merit in this idea. Now that we are a
State and have a voice in the government, Alaskans
can change a trend of thinking and be leaders in saying
what they think about the spending of tax money, by
keeping our elected officials in Washington alerted as
to how we feel.
We can get into the groove by keeping posted on
spending a little closer to home as our Legislature
takes up its duties next week.
The elected legislators need the support of the
taxpayers and that doesn’t mean the fellow next door,
but You, and You, and YOU !
Soviet Leader
Asks U. S. Officials
To Visit Russia
Bv HAROLD K. MILKS
MOSCOW, (ff) — Anastas I. Mi
koyan said Saturday the Soviet
government believes his U. S. visit
has helped to lessen international
tension and to improve relations
with the United States.
At the same time, the Deputy
Premier threw open the doors of
the Soviet Union to any U. S.
leaders who want to visit.
Back from his U. S. tour, Miko
yan told more than 300 foreign
and Soviet correspondents in
white-columned Sverdlovsky Hall
of the Kremlin that he had re
ported to his government, “which
found my trip useful and fully
approved my activities in the
United States.”
Mikoyan added that his govern
ment, presumably including Pre
mier Khrushchev, found the re
sults “contributing to further
lessening of international tensions
and the improvement of Soviet
American relations.”
“There is a growing convic
tion,” he said, “that despite the
evidence of the cold war and the
existences of many prejudices
against the U.S.S.R. and its atti
tude, the atmosphere generally is
now favorable for steps toward
strengthening the peace.
“An increasing number o f
Americans are beginning to under
stand that war and the threat of
war under present conditions is
an altogether unsuitable means of
settling international disputes.”
Mikoyan expressed appreciation
to American business leaders and
others who entertained him. He
criticized the State Department,
saying it was backward in seek
ing to end the cold war.
“Our government has been sat
isfied by the attention shown by
President Eisenhower, Vice Presi
dent Nixon and Secretary of State
Dulles as well as by other offi
cials,” Mikoyan said. “Our gov
ernment will reply with the same
warm hospitality to Americans
when they will come to the So
viet Union.”
Mikoyan said the Soviet and
foreign press described his visit
fully and fairly, and he was
greeted warmly by the Americans
to whom he talked.
LAND-LUBBER BLUBBER . . .
BRIGANTINE, N. J., (*> — When
a half-ton, 9-foot whale washed
up on the beach here Sunday, 10
persons tried to tow it afloat with
a rope around the tail.
It worked. But the land-lubber
whale turned around and swam
back to shore. The rescuers waited
for high tide and tugged again.
Waves tossed the mammal back
on the beach.
The Coast Guard said beached
whales are not its responsibility.
Police had no solution. The whale
took a night of shore leave while
residents puzzled over the next
move.
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body else, including such officials
as an Attorney General, judges,
and agency directors, are ap
pointed by the Governor.
The number of jobs to be filled,
and the form of the offices them
selves, is up to the Governor. The
Legislature has the right to re
ject the Governor’s recommenda
tions — but in the formative days,
at least, the Governor is expected
to exert a free hand.
Such was not the case in the
old days when the vast new north
ern state was just a territory.
Any law enacted by the Legis
lature was subject to review by
Congress, and no new law could
be enacted that was in conflict j
with the federal Organic Act that
kept tight controls on Alaska’s
right to self government.
The Territory traced its law
making history back to 1913, when
23 legislators came by dog sled
and boat to Juneau for the first
session. There were 23 Territorial
legislators.
But none faced any task equal
to that now ahead of the lawmak
ers here today.
Enormous Jobe Before Lawmakers
The job before the new state’s
first lawmakers is enormous —■
and speculation on the length of
their session has ranged from
three months to as long as a year.
The first critical job will be
reorganization of a maze of more
than 50 boards, agencies, depart
ments and commissions that de
veloped during Alaska’s nearly
100 year history as a territorial
possession.
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RAM IN THE CHINA SHOP
GREELEY, Colo., UP) — A ram
was in the china closet here yes
terday.
It escaped from the Joe Cruz
Farm and headed downtown. .
He dashed through the plate
glass window of a jewelry store
when farmhands closed in. Eolice
found him sniffing handpainted
plates in the chinaware section.
Those 50-odd departments are
due to be squeezed into no more
than 20 state departments, and
the initial recommendation likely
will call for no more than a dozen.
The Legislature’s initial weeks
are expected to be devoted almost
exclusively to the governmental
reorganization and the establish
ment of the new courts.
There will be other items, how
ever, to occupy at least partial
attention of the legislators.
Included will be:
Deficit appropriations and new
salary scales for the Governor and
Secretary of State.
They ran for office, with no
promise of exactly what the pay
would be.
On the same line, the Alaska
lawmakers have some personal
salary fixing to do. They also
are temporarily without salary.
One proposal they will consid
er is a recommendation from the
Legislative Council that lawmak
ers be paid an annual salary of
S3,000 a year — plus $40 a day
expenses while in session.
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