THE ALASKA FISHERMAN
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Alaska, by A. N. B. Publishing Co.
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BY THE OREGONIAN
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Ralph E. Williams, vice chairman of the Re
publican national committee, commented recently
on the controversy which has arisen over the
campaign activities of Robert M. Lucas of the Re
publican National Committee against Senator
George W. Norris of Nebraska. Williams made it
plain, however, when asked to express himself on
the Lucas-Norris dispute, that he spoke as the na
tional committeeman from Oregon, and not as
vice chairman of the national committee.
Elect, Not Select
“A long while ago,” Williams said, “A former
chairman of the national committee made the
statement, which has become axiom to me, that
it was the duty cf the national committee to elect
candidates, not to select them. I am vice chairman
of the Republican national committee. That is an
inactive office, and I do not desire to say anything
as vice chairman, nor at this time to say any
thing other than an expression of my personal
attitude as national committeeman from Oregon.
Duty to be Neutral
“I have held the position of national com
mitteeman for the past twenty-two years. In all
that time it has been my practice, and I have
considered it to be my duty as national committee
man, to take no part in any primary contest be
tween candidates seeking Republican nomination
to any office. In those contests I have remained
absolutely neutral,” Williams declared.
The actions of the Republican national com
mitteemen of Alaska in the past have not been
in keeping with the declaration of Mr. Williams.
Which is probably the r
Ouov/ll W iij
life of these national committeemen does not be
gin to compare with that of the national com
mitteeman of Oregon. We commend to the Re
publican party, yes to the Democratic party, of
Alaska, the political tenets of Mr. Williams in
order that the political atmosphere of Alaska may
be somewhat clarified—and purified.
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UNIVERSITY COSTS
At the last session of the legislature, Presi
dent Bunnel of the Alaska Agricultural College
and School of Mines, appeared before that body
with a request for $263,000 for operation and
maintenance of the farthest north college. This
request was cut down to $105,000. Just for passing
information we call attention to the fact that ad
ministration costs of the University of Oregon
during the 1929-1030 biennium aggregated $234,
134, while $234,911 has been requested for this
purpose for the biennium of 1931 and 1932, ac
cording to the biennial report of the state board
of higher education completed in Salem, Oregon,
recently.
There were 1019 graduates at the Oregon col
lege during the current biennium which exceeds
the total registration at the Alaska College by
a whole lot—end this could include the register
ing of the faculty.
Under the Alaska College activities are min
ing, chemistry and animal husbandry which de
partments are placed at the disposals of Alaskans.
What other activity this institution might have,
its worth has not yet been demonstrated to the
Territory. The Oregon institution has made sur
veys of educational systems in Oregon counties,
studies of industry and trade, have completed and
published the results of these surveys. Crime sur
vey, undertaken under the auspices of the new
school of applied social science, gives promise
that the results in published form may be laid be
fore the next legislature. Numerous extension
classes have been established in several popula
tion centers, and the offerings in the field of cor
respondence work have been diversified. Notable
advances have been made in the field of instruc
tion, research and extension teaching.
Oregon is not parsimonious with its institu
tions of higher education; neither is the Territory
of Alaska. Oregon secures results which are evi
dently beneficial to that state at a minimum cost
and without partizan politics entering and domi
nating the educational field of its institutions.
Alaska has expended on an average as much for
its college as does the state of Oregon for its
great university but with results that are evident
ly beneficial only to and for the partizan political