machine which dominates and controls the Alaska
politics. When the directing heads of the Alas
Ka institution begin to forget their partizan poli
tics and attend strictly to their educational duties
and when they begin to show results worth while
at a minimum financial cost, the Territorial Legis
lature will soon be glad to enlarge the appropria
tions to such figures as will be adequately gen
erous to carry on a much more ambitious program
than is even thought of at the present time.
This is not an argument against the Alaska
College. It is an argument for a better managed
college; a college with a program of educational
expansion in the territory that will make it an
institution worth while in any section of the coun
try. An argument against using the Alaska col
lege as a political patronage for the perpetuation
of a political machine in the Fourth Division.
When the college is demonstrated to be an educa
tional institution with an educational program
worth while and efforts that are really honest and
sincere, it will receive the hearty support of the
legislators from the First Division.
“THE MAN FOR TIIE JOB”
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“With a million dollars in youi Territorial
treasury why doesn’t Alaska endeavor to help
herself by advertising and publicity,” was the first
question asked by the Senate committee touring
Alaska last summer. The Gateway has been try
ing to put over that idea for years and for three
years past has tried its utmost to obtain just that
kind of a job for “Babe’ Hayes, of Cordova, Alas
ka’s unofficial ambassador in greeting and good
will. Politically speaking, ‘Babe,’ who is without
question the best man in Alaska for such a posi
tion, seems to be the last man the politicians
want. But to H.... with the alleged rulers, the
Alaska rank and file who earn their bread by hon
est sweat of the brow7 and not by hot-air, want
him.
As usual, no doubt, the buck will be passed to
the Governor who in turn will either pocket veto
the idea or dole out some more political patronage
to one who has never attempted to lift a finger
toward helping the Territory, whereas “Babe” has
unselfishly given freely of his services for years
past because this sort of boasting comes natural
to him; it a hobby with him.”—Seward Gateway.
Editoral Note:—We have recollection of a
publicity agent in Alaska with a salary as we re
member it of $5,000 per annum and additional
salary for an assistant. Whatever was gained by
the Territory therefrom is nothing that anyone
can point to with any degree of pride. It was a
bit of the “pork barrel” set in the midst of Alas
ka’s political swine and they only benefited.
But we are not against the idea of advertis
ing Alaska and its resources. That is something
that the Territory should do and should do in a
proper way. It is a job that must be given to a
man ol vision whose objective will be more than
just having a fat job with nothing to do. Twenty
five thousand dollars annually spent in proper and
correct advertising of Alaska will do much good
for the entire Territory and may mean greater
development of the resources of the Territory. It
is no concern of this publication whether “Babe”
Hayes of Cordova gets the job or not. It is the
concern of this publication and every citizen of
the Territory to see that if such a plan is carried
out that the efforts of that office be expended to
ward legitimate advertising of Alaska and not for
the perpetuation of a prostituting political ma
chine.
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JUST WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, BROTHER?
From the Seattle Star
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H. E. Jones, president of the Franklin Trust
company of Philadelphia, has written a pretty
good editorial—and here it is:
Most of us are our own worst enemies.
Grab your imagination and will power by the
back of the neck and sit down and have a talk
with yourself.
What are you doing to make conditions better
—can you name one constructive thing that you
have done to help the situation during the past
week or have you really been a slacker and de
pending on your fellow men to hold the frontline
trenches?
There isn’t a person in the world whose con
dition or fortune, whether good or bad, could not
be much worse. Just look around you now and be
thankful for what you have—you might have less.
Take a trip down thru the slums of any large
city—get your nose close to what some of your
fellow men have to call living and then just re
member that after all you, too, are just flesh and
blood the same as they, with desires love and
ideals perhaps a little more refined or a little more
highly developed, but just simply human after all
with a heart that knows sorrow and is searching
for happiness.
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WHAT WE HAVE FAVORED
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We have always favored industry coming to
Alaska. We have never been opposed to the pulp
and paper mills coming as we believe that every
legitimate industry should be developed in order
that our population might grow. The time should
be hastened when by force of our population a