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COMING: FAMILY AIR FARES
At least one airline will initiate a “first” in the field
of air travel this fall, when family fares are offered
the public.
The air fares will be offered on transatlantic runs
initially and unusual savings will be offered to the head
of a household if he takes members of his family. For
example, the head of the family cap fly to Europe for
full fare, and his wife and other members of his family
can go along for $300 less, per passenger on additional
first-class tickets, and $200 less on additional tourist
class tickets.
The saving, in the case of a man with a wife and
two children, would amount to either $900 or $600, and
is a considerable saving. Such a saving will induce
more and more travelers to take to the airlanes on their
trips to Europe.
The new company recently completed its $50,000th
Atlantic crossing.
The new family fares are an indication of increas
ing passenger volume in the air and also a continuation
of the trend toward lower fares for transatlantic flights.
One can remember when a round-trip flight to Europe
cost almost $1,000. In the last decade, prices have come
down steadily until off-season rates now allow tourists
to go to Europe and back for less than $500. The new
family fare will allow a man to take his wife to Europe
and back for less than $750 and perhaps less than that.
In other words, the cost for two is about what the cost
for one was about a decade ago. _
Los Angeles Heat Wave
Ends With 99 Deaths
LOS ANGELES, 'The death
list from the heat wave that be
gan nine days ago in Los Angeles
County stood at 99 today, but the
siege of 100-plus temperatures is
apparently over, at least for the
time being.
The weather man said today’s
high would be a mere 90 degrees.
Yesterday’s was 96 and humid
ity was 25 percent.
The expression “pin money”
refers to the allowance men gave
their wives in the 16th century
for pins, which were a luxury. I
THURSDAY BASEBALL
American League
Cleveland 5, Baltimore 3
New York 13, Kansas City 0
Washington 5, Chicago 4
Detroit 5, Boston 4
National League
Brooklyn 10, Milwaukee 2
Philadelphia 6, Cincinnati 4
New York 6, St. Louis 2
Pacific Coast League
San Francisco 13, San Diego 1
Sacramento 2, Hollywood 0
Seattle 3, Oakland 0
Los Angeles 5, Portland 1
Fish, like humans, get seasick
if left to the mercy of the waves
for an extended period.
Noted Attorney Says Constitution
Of Alaska Should Be Brief Document
The following article is the first in a series of brief constitutional
studies prepared under the auspices of the Alaska Statehood Commit- ;
tee. The articles are designed to offer to the people of Alaska discus
sions of some of the issues which will face the delegates to the Alaska
Constitutional Convention meeting at the University of Alaska Nov. 8.
By ALFRED E. DRISCOLL
Former Governor of New Jersey; Member, Bar of U.S. Supreme Court
Alaska stands on the threshold ]
of a great and significant event. I
A Constitutional Convention, to
write what will very probably be
the last constitution for a new
member of the American Union,
will convene at College on Nov. 8
of this year. Its purpose is to
write fundamental law for this
part of America which is of such
supreme importance to our na
tion’s destiny, now a land of po
tentialities.
The spirit and inventiveness Al
aska citizens have demonstrated
for 88 years, combined with the
knowledge of over a century and
a half of .American governmental
tradition and practice, should re
sult in an organic law of the high
est order for the prospective state.
This constitution will first be
submitted to the voters of Alaska
for approval. If they ratify it, the
Constitution will then be present
ed to the Congress of the United
States which will be requested to
accept it, thus admitting Alaska to
full partnership in the Union.
The Constitution and '
Modern State Government
In the broad sense, a constitu
tion sets out the general rules
under which the activities of gov
ernment are conducted and limit
ed. The document is an agreement
by the people on the broad prin-j
ciples under which they order
their individual conduct to make
possible enjoyment of the benefits
of an organized society. Thus in
1789 the American people estab
lished the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, a document which is
today the oldest written constitu
tion in the world.
The American Union is a federal
organization. Under this principle
we have not only the national
Constitution but each of the states
which comprise that Union also
have established constitutions
which grant powers to stafe gov
ernments and limit those govern
ments. These state constitutions
perform a vital role in American
society, for the national govern
ment has only those powers grant
ed to it by the national constitu
tion. To the states is left a vast
amount of governmental author
ity; state constitutions establish
the legal boundaries within which
that authority must be exercised.
A Document of Fundamentals
The Alaska Constitution, to be
worthy of the name “constitu
tion,” must represent a statement
of fundamentals. The Constitution
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of the U.S. has survived these
many years because, for the most
part, the men who met at Phila
delphia 166 years ago made no
effort to write into the document
minutiae better left to the dis
cretion of the legislative and ex
ecutive branches. They produced
an organic law capable of being
flexibly interpreted to meet the
demands of a growing society.
The fundamentals of the Alaska
constitution can be divided into
two categories: (1) the fundamen
tals of principle and, (2), the fun
damentals of organization.
Under the fundamentals of prin
ciple can be listed such concepts
as the belief in popular sovereign
ty—the idea that all governmental
power comes from the people. The
Alaska Constitution should also be
based on the concept of limited
government, so fundamental to j
democratic thought, that govern- j
mental officials should be hold to j
strict account for their actions; |
the belief that certain civil rights i
are protected from interference
on the part of governmental auth
ority. A Bill of Rights is a tradi
tional American ^constitutional ex
pression of this idea.
There will be agreement on the
American concept of the separa
tion of powers, the division of
governmental authority among
legislature, executive, and judic
iary, to the end that all govern
ment power never be concentrat
ed in the hands of one branch.
The principle of checks and bal
ances will be incorporated into
the Alaska organic law, in order!
that each branch may check the
other.
Having established the funda
mentals of principle, the Alaska
Constitution should establish, in
broad ouiline, the fundamentals
of government organization. The
document should create the three
branches of government and con
fer on them their powers.
Constilution a Brief Document
Agreement by the citizens of
Alaska that their Constitution
shall contain only fundamentals
will result in a document notable
for brevity. The national Consti
tution contains scarcely 8,000
words, in contrast to the “book
length” documents of California
(72,000 words) and Louisiana (65,
000 words). The average wordage
for state constitutions today is
around 15,000.
The longer the constitution, the
Famous Artist . . »
(Continued from Page One)
Born in Sweden, he came to
the United States in 1906. He now
operates his own art school in
Los Angeles, and for ten years
he was chief portrait painter at
20th Century ‘Fox Studios.
Von Schneidau won in national
competition throughout the U.S.
for painting a portrait of King
Gustav VI of Sweden in 1951.
He has painted over 550 por
traits, and over 800 landscapes in
'the past 40 years. This prolific
work has won him 19 gold medals,
48 first prizes and many other
medals and awards.
Famous names among his por
traits include those of Mary Pick
ford, Douglas Fairbanks, Betty
Grable, . Florence Vidor, Gene
Tierney and many others. While
in Fairbanks this summer he
painted the portrait of Mrs. Ada
Wien, wife of Noel Wien, pio
neer Alaskan aviator.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Schneidau
are loud in their praise of the
Alaskans they’ve met whose hos
pitality and friendliness, they
think, is unmatched anywhere.
While in Nome the Schneidau’s
are the house guests of Tommy
and Barbara Martin.
more in need of amendment it
seems to be. The California Con
stitution was amended 343 times
from 1880 to 1940, with many
more amendments adopted since
1940! The Louisiana Constitution
has been amended scores of times.
Underlying the demand for de
tail has been a popular distrust of
legislative bodies and a tendency
to assume that economic and so
cial problems require constitu
tional solution (an assumption
amply disproved by experience on
the national level).
If the delegates are wise and
profit by the accumulated exper
ience of other states, they will re
sist the temptation to clutter the
constitution with legislative en
actment. The incorporation of un
necessary detail may seriously
hamper Alaska’s growth.
(Next: Contents of a state con
stitution today.)
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