The Non-Political School Board
“The proposal of Senators
Dunn and Dimond to establish
a non-partisan, non-political,
Board of Education to take the
place of the present Board was
upset Saturday afternoon by the
Senate which struck such a pro
vision from the school code
measure under consideration by
it in Committee of the Whole.
The majority then wrote in the
bill provisions identical with the
present statute, which makes
the four senior senators and
the Governor the Board. The
Dunn-Dimond bill provided
that the Governor and six citi
zens appointed by him should
compose the Board.”—Juneau
Empire.
-There is only one serious
fault with the above report, to
wit, the so-called “non-politic
al” board is not non-political. It
is political in its worst sense.
It is to. be expected that Sen
ator A. J. Dimond would support
such a bill which takes away all
the power of the elected repre
sentatives of Alaska to pass on
the Commissioner of Education
j and gives it to the federal gov
ernor, because Mr. Dimond be
longs to that school of politics
that believes in government by
the foreign federal machine.
But for Senator John W,
~ Dunn to do so brands him in a
fawning, lickspittle class of poli
ticians. It is now clear in our
mind that the said Dunn will be
k candidate for reelection and
that he will have the backing of
that other non-political (?)
board, the Trustees of the Fair
banks College, and the worst of
f it is, the political machine built
Niup around the Fairbanks Col
lege will reelect him.
Senator Dunn built up quite
; a reputation for himself when
,he first came to Juneau as a
Senator in 1921. He maintain
ed his independence until, in a
mcment of indiscretion and a
woeful misinterpretation of the
innocent admiration of a pretty
i chool girl, this bachelor Senat
or from the lonely confines of
a sparsely settled mining region,
allowed his long repressed pas
sions to overcome him. Not
that any real harm was done,
but enough to enrage the father
and enough to give the unscru
pulous minions of the federal
democratic machine the power
over the statesman.
He wishes the Senate to sur
render the little power that it
does have in school matters and
deliver the same to the federal
governor. Nonpartisan? and
nonpolitical? Not at all, for the
federal governor in his parti
sanship and in his play at poli
tics has not hesitated to appoint
even so degenerate a man as
the unspeakable Tom Marquam.
The day will come when the
people will take back to them
selves all the power which they
have heretofore surrendered to
the federal machine.
CRAIG-KLAWOCK-KASAAN .
ROAD
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Senator Charles Benjamin in
troduced Senate Joint Memori
al No. 8, relative to the U. S.
Forest Service and Territorial
Board of Road Commissioners
investigating the feasibility of
the construction of a road from
the Klawock-Craig districts
across Prince of Wales Island to
some navigable point on Ka
saan Bay.
The Kennecott Copper Com
pany earned $10.03 a share in
1928 on 4,552,036 shares of old
stock before th two for one split
up. Earnings of this company
in 1927 were $6.23 a share.
Lawyers Oppose
Nullification
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For the first time in many
years two negroes have been
nominated to take entrance ex
aminations at the United States
Naval and Military Academies
at Annapolis and West Poin*.
The candidates were named by
The executive committee of
the American Bar Association
has refused to work with other
organizations to prevent en
forcement of the Jones Five and
Ten law and other prohibition
laws. The request for collab
oration on the part of the Bar
Association came from five un
named organizations and was
for the purpose of attempting
to nullify dry statutes.
The Executive Committee of
the American Bar Association
declared that all statutes on the
books should be enforced and
NO FOOLING
The day will come when the
college politicians will so far
forget themselves as to be sel
fish and brazen enough to ig
nore every right and wish of the
First and other Divisions. The
Day may come when the Lj
men Division will not hold the
balance of power;; t ie day may
come when there will be a coali
tion of forces and then the Col
lege politicians and federal bu
reaucrats will be compelled to
accede to the wishes of the ma
jority of the voters of the Terri
tory or it will be just too bad for
the “Fairbanks College.” When
the tale tries to wag the dog it
is time to cut the tail off.
The fashion wears out more
apparel than men.—Selected.
Advice to a young man: Make
your money first, then make it
last.