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A STEP FORWARD
Enactment of the so called Water Power Bill, providing for develop
ment, and utilization of the nation’s tremendous water power resources,^is a
long step toward that increase of production and Industrial development ne
cessitated by growth of population. Unlike the ancients, to whom the utili
zation of water resources was a first requisite of national growth and pros
perity, we have not learned to take full advantage of the great development
possibilities of our rivers and streams. Irrigation, brought to a fine art
l>> the people of ancient days, is only in its infancy in America. Canals
are so few in the United States that they are looked upon as in thd nature of
curiosities by most people. Aside from, some small utilization of the power
producing possibilities of a few rivers and water falls, we have accomplished
very little toward making use of our immense water resources.
We have made our boasts about cutting through the Isthmus of Panama
and prided ourselves on the construction of the Roosevelt dam in Arizona,
yet these efforts to make use of water for the advancement of industry and
ually almost trifling compared to the work <if some <»f the
Only recently British engineers operating in the region
i and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia made discoveries
t the irrigation system constructed to utilize tl. • waters of
production are a
ancient nations,
between the Tigris a
which indicate that t!
those great streams
for the good of man,
>bservations i
man. At a meeting of the British
weeks one of these engineers read a |
by the aviators of the corps to which no was uttn> h.
the belief that by the aid of this irrigation system
million people was provided with subsistence. 1
com pan led by photographs obtained while hovering
lovealed wonders of construction only casually rofen
gists, who were more interested in set tiring portable
life of ancient peoples than In study!• g the • valence
trlbuted to their growth.
Unquestionably the foundatio
the utilization of water, which they i
to moderns who have given attentior
ently they conceived and carried put
even considering The aetlal photographs taken by
:o disclose that the plains in the indi* a ted area were covered with
of canals whose dimensions are said to make the irrigation ditch
furnia and other sections of America seam like insignificant gutte:
!»a rison.
flourishing
These canals led the water to every part of the country .and they ap
pear to have been paralleled by roads which made communication with the
cities and the producing regions easy. By their means the Tigrjs and
Euphrates were controlled and kept in their proper channels. When those
mighty works are spoken of. usually there is a prompt reference to the un
doubted .fact that they were carried on by slave labor, the assumption being
that autocratically driven human beings can accomplish more than machinerv.
This cannot be true. The explanation of our failure to match these useful,
works of antiquity is probably due largely to the fact that modern mechanical
development has until recently been confined to regions in which the para
mount use of watrtr has been for purposes of navigation and not of produc
Viewing the evidences of ancient civilizations huilded upon the utili
zation of water, there appears no doubt that toy the utilization of water on a
scale revealing that of antiquity, this country can be made many times is
productive ns It is: the well being of our people can be vastly Improved,
and the pessimistic belief in the possibility of encroaching upon the limits
of subsistence indefinitely postponed.
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SELF-DETERMINATION FOR ALASKA
(From the Portland Oregonian)
We hear much about self-determination for Egypt, Ireland, Armenia,;
Syria, and other countries, but Why not tself-dct arm! nation for Alaska? While
the death battalion has been fulminating about the wrongs of those distant
peoples, it has had nothing to say of the wrongs suffered by Americans in the
far north, though they, as the last of the pioneers, should have a superior
When the gold discoveries of the Klondike, Fairbanks and Nome and
the copper discoveries of Copper river drew tens of thousands of men to
Alaska, it was hoped that mining would be the precursor of development of all
the other wealth of the far north. The minor has ever been the forerunner
of the farmer, the cattleman, the fruitgrower, the lumberman and the manu
facturer, bringing in their train of full organization of civil life. So it was in ,
California, Oregon, Montana, Idaho and Colorado. So It would have been
in Alaska if the government had done for It what was done for the states men- 1
But soon after Nome was discovered the conservationists appeared on .
the scene, and they got a grip on Alaska which, has not yet been broken. The
government sent no officials to that territory with authority to decide any
thing except that settlers should not be permitted to use the land. Anybody
who wanted to tie up anything found a (ready ear at Washington. The big;
game hunters won protection for the great brown bear of the Alaska Peninsula |
in order that they mJnght have the pleasure of chasing and killing him. But i
if any body of men wanted to develop a coal mine or an olT well or to cut!
'imbar or to improve a harbor by building a wharf, the cry of "corporation” .
or “landgrabber” was raised, and they were hounded by investigators and in- ]
specters. Authority over Alaskan affairs was so finely divided among many]
bureaux at Washington that nothing could he done without referring to on
of them, and some other usually found encroachment on its authority, while
tlie conversationists warned them all to bewaire of the corporation bugaboo. So
much time was thus spent in discussion and referring things to and fro that
the man who wanted to do 'something tired of waiting and left Alaska to Its
solitude. Thus the northern territory is being strangled by a bureaucracy
more cruel than that of the czars at their worst.
Not only Alaska, but the whole Pacific Coast, in fact the whole West,
is interested in this matter. If the coni and oil of that Territory were
developed, they would be added to the fuel supply and would lower the price
both for the cities and ships. Greet herds of caribou and reindeer could
be raised to increase the meat supply. The Coast needs the help of Alaska I
as much as Alaska needs help. By the consideration which they have se
cured for reclamation. Western Congressmen have proved that, when they
unite, they have power. They should use that power on behalf of Alaska,
that it may be emancipated from bureaucracy and be given real self-govern
ment with freedom to develop.
NEEDS A NEW ISSUE
The Persistent Tapper evidently figures it’s time for politics to warm
up a hit, ‘judging by the windy tales being loosed hereabouts in recent days.
We undarstand all the new comers who will stand for the guff have
been duly enlightened regarding the woes of the. persistent one. and it is also
said the sad, sad tale has been carried to the high seas in the hope it might be
wafted across the briny blue to the far off “powers that be."
Trouble is, however, its the same old stuff and don’t get anything—aside
from the patience and nerves of those who listen to it. Somebody needs a
new issue iif the bacon is to bo brought home before the jug Is up and the
political wilderness again looms black and desolate.
AMERICA’S GIFT TO FRANCE
(From the Alaska School Bulletin)
“Marked by a wooden oross with a faded inscription is the spot at
the end of the bridge across the Marne at Menux where, the French peasants
will Jell you, God set his finger and willed the victorious advance of General
Von KI tick’s army upon Paris should halt. At this spot on September 6.
101. Marshall Joffre’s small army, faint* with wounds, racked by hunger and
with its back to the wall, turned the tide of invasion, with Paris less titan
twenty miles away.
“It was at this spot that Foch, who was serving under Joffre. said to
an officer who complained that his men were worn out:
“ ‘So are the Germans. Attack!’
"Across heights overlooking the winding course of the Marne runs
a straight white ribbon of road, built by Caesar, rebuilt by Napolean—a great
artery leading directly to Paris, the heajrt of France. Here the French
Republic has marked out a plot <»f ground, still pitted with shell holes, over
which the grass has spread a carpet of emerald, partly concealing them. And
on this spot, at a place to be selected by Matrshnis Joffre and Foch. will bo
erected a memorial to mark the Thermoylue of the great war.
"The Marne monument will he given to France by America. It
wdl express the sympathy, the love of the sister Republic, Columbia, wh >.c
ideals of liberty alre the same as those of France. The statue itself will
be the work of Frederick MacMonnies. the American sculptor who turned
liis studio at Paris into a hospital .during the war and who can draw from
inspiration upon a lifelong love for France. It is already known that his
treatment will be inspirational and not realistic.
"The cost of the statute will bo $250,000, which is approximately the
same sum as that which France expended on the Statue of "Liberty Enlight
ening the World." by Frederick Vuguste Bartholdi, a gift to America from
the French people. The Marne statue will he nearly as large as the statue
i in New York harbor. It is Intended to procure the money for its manufac
| turc. transportation and erection in the same way as France obtained the
j money for the Statue of Liberty by small contributions from all the people
i It will lie ‘America’s Gift to France.’
"When Bartholdi, Laboulayc, and other French artists, writers and
scientists "f the group sought money for the Statue of Liberty it seemed
peculiarly appropriate to them that the school children of France should col
lect and give a large share of the amount needed. The love for Americrl
which had come with the birth of the French Republic was firmly rooted in tlm
hearts of tlie children of France. They romembetred the food ships from
\meriea which had brought relief to the suffering caused by the war of 1870.
And so when they were asked to give to America the airdor of their young
idealism. school schlldren responded with all their centimes and francs flowed
The gift of the French children were in the minds of a group of
Americans, headed by Thomas W. Lnmount, when in 11)16 they first, con
ceived the idea of a gift to France in recognition of the stand her soldiers
made at he Marne. The organizers <>f the plan for ‘America’s Gift to France’
could have procured the money from large private donations, but to have
done this, they felt, would have defeated the spirit of the gift, which was to
he an expression by all America. So when the final plan for the gift was
adopted, the sponsors decided to ask for small contributions of one cent and
upward’ from all the people of America."
1 The above quotation tells the story. It Is expected that the school
children of the nation will he leaders in this movement. Alaska has been
assigned a quota. However, we feel that the school children of the Ter
ritory will want to have a part in the erection of this monument which has
as its purpose the further cementing of the feeling of fellowship and comrade
ship between the United States and France.
Teachars are asked to hear in mind that all contributions to this fund
by children are to he voluntary and that no child is to ‘be made to feel that
he must give. There is little doubt, however, that when the purpose to
which the money is to he put is clearly understood that Alaska's school
’children will he eager to contribute their share and that, accompanying their
gift, will go the warmest feelings of ri end ship and regard for their brothers
end sisters across the sea.
Knowing full well the tendency among all Alaskans to give more
than generously, we are suggesting that no child be permitted to give more
than ten cents. Smaller amounts are acceptable. The total amount to be
raised by the nation,$250,000, is not large. The opportunity to contribute
something in such a cause, and the spirit which prompts the gift are the re
wards of the donor rather than the actual amount contributed.
B. M. Behrends, President of the B. M. Behrends Bank. Juneau,
Alaska, and Territorial Director of War Savings, has kindly consented to act
as treasurer and to forward the contributions of Alaska school children to
the central committee of the “America’s Gift to France.” Remittances from
each school shoxild he made direct to him.
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LETS BREAK THE COMBINE
Pitting the past two or three years
the territorial officials at Juneau have
steadily encroached upon the business
of other towns by attempting to cen
tralize everything at the capital city,
which adds greatly to the receipts of
the firms at Juneau. First the bu
iroau of publicity was organized, with
a lavish appropriation, practically
every cent of which has been spent at
Juneau with Juneau firms. The bene
fits to any other part ’of Alaska have
been so negligible that the only effect
in abolishing the office would be to cut
off revenue from Juneau printeries.
J’hen came the fiasco of 1918, when
thd” legislature turned over the funds
of the divisional road commissioners
to the territorial officers with he;'J
quarters as usual, at Juneau. This
again t< o< a nice hunch of patronage
away from the printers of th« Third
divis'cn. as all blanks since that time
luiv been printed it the c. pi tat.
If the rest of th? Te«r*.o*y is t.»
dance to the financial music of the
l irst Division It is time an effort was
n.:itle to abolish some of the power*
delegated to the officials at Junouu
and allow the rest of the Arms to
profit from Territorial business.
loot’s break up the First division
combination and get our shore of the
public patronage.—Valdez Miner.
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VOTE FOR
Hon. Dan Sutherland
FOR DELEGATE FROM ALASKA
ELECTION TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
Hon. John Rustgard
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
ELECTION TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
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O. D. Cochran
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
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O. H. Flowers
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Andy Anderson
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Victor A. Julien
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
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Jas. P. Daly
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
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VOTE FOR
Ed. W. Burroughs
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALA8KA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920
James B. Ivory
Independent Candidate
v FOR SENATOR .
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E. L. HOLT
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1020.
R. B. Julian
^ For SENATOR
Alaska Legislature
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER Ind, MB.