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NEW TYPE LEGISLATURE UP FOR APPRAISAL— ■
(The Anchomge; Daily Times)
It vs not strange that Nebraska, reviewing the re
cof ed initial session of its - experimental, one- house
n npartisan legislature, is unable to decide ■whether the
kks was worth the trouble.
On the balance sheet after Nebraska's new streanr.
!ir,r i legislature adjourned.' were many other things
• which showtd no improvement over the old two-house
legislature. j
For instance the 1- * mwkbtrs of the unicameral
body introduced - only 570 bills in this years session, as
compared with 1,042 bills nntroduoed by the 133 mem
bers if the bicameral • legislature in 1935. However. 220
laws -were enacted this year, the greatest number since
1921.
The 1937 legislature tost *50/00, less than that of
T935, but its members adopted a S54.000.000 budget for
The next two years, exceeding by Slfi.000,000 the budget
set up hi 1935.
Taking‘98 days to complete its work, the unicameral
neared the record for lengthy sessions, and disappointed
it> disciples whoi-fiatfc predicted that a one-house assem
bly would work with_ greater speed.
On the credit side, the unicameral passed new rules
of procedure ,to assure “legislation openly arrived at;”
set up a. planning commission to obtain detailed facts
on budget needs of state 'restitutions: Paved the way for .
the previously rejected Federal Child Labor amendment
by initiating a change which would permit voters to
pa-- _ou amendments to the U. S. Constitution and mov
ed to shorten the state ballot
An important point of the debate which followed
the first unicameral session was that greater criticiwn
developed over the non-party nomination and election of
-members than ovt-r-what those members -did when they
got down to law maxing.
Democratic and- Republican leaders alike protested
-this loss of party responsibility. Although the rolls
snowed a Democratic, majority, it was claimed that Gov.
R. L. Cochran, a Democrat. had difficulty obtaining sup
port fer his legislative plans.
This cSjectitm easily could be the stumbling block
for Nebraska's noble experiment. Fortunately, there is
n real evidence that-America or any other free nation
would fall under a political hierarchy if the familiar two
■partv system were abolished. The two-party credo is
more-or L-ss aunatir-.al legend which has been neither
pT erred nor dispr «a evncusively.
Nebraska is pioneering in uncharted governmental
procedure, but there is n thing, thus far. to indicate
that any in-urahle hazards lie ahead. Imperfections that
have already dwk8"yed seem to be within the power of
the people to correct. At least, the unicameral, nonpar
tisan plan of state law making deserves a longer trial
and that, apparently, is just what the citizens of Ne
braska intend to~fee*- -it
W HAT IS A BUJtTifiorSE—
•' (Ketchikan' Chronicle )
An outside newspaper association referred recently
to the roadkouau »n which the Black Rapids giacs-r was
allegedly nrostgg- The association -referred to the place
alternately as a roadhouse and as a night club.
The error is easily understandable. In the states
these days there is no such thing as an old-fashioned
roadhouse. Jd*i. of this generation have .never known
a real roadhouse To them, a roadhouse is a pace oat
of the city Limns where lack of city ordinances and It k
of neighbors allows pretty free drinking and what not.
But in Alaska there is still enough of the frontier
lo have real roadhouses; sort of English inns or hotels
on a traveler’s way where he may stop for meal? end
rest. Most of the Aaskan roadhouses, luckily, are still
not night clubs.
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PLACER LOCATION NOT!'” :; now or. sale at
Thr Tiaars efiP-e. Get your*-»od»y. •
SIXTEEN TEARS AGO THIS WEEK
{TAKEN Fit©If THE FILES OF THE KUSKO TIMES)
Dan McRae and Jack ISutdUe
were passengers on the- Tana yestei
day for Berry ijanding.
Tom Barr and William G«**s.‘wel
known Ophirites, arrived here _las
night on matters of business. The
will leave tonight for Takotna
The steamer Tana, Captain W. <
Langley, arrived here at 6 a-m. Jul
3. making an unusually fast ru
from Bethel, which place she left i
10 p.m. June 27 the time being tot
five days and eight hours. The Tan
carried about 300 tons of freigh
principally for the N. C. Core pan
and the Alaska Treadwell Minin
Company at Nixon.
W. W. Lukens, in charge of the erj
eraticns of the Alaska Road Commh
slot! in this section, and Robert Hai
and Harry Stockman left yesterda
for Takotna, going up in Bob Hart
launch Maple Leaf. Messrs. Luken
and Hart will leave Takotna shortl
via the winter trail for Ruby, an
will probably be accompanied by A
Thorns, who also has business cr
gageroents at the latter place.
At Bethel this spring the stage c
water reached the highest since th
year 1911, according to Capt. W. (
Langley of the Tana. On tie islar.
where gasoline of the Treadwe
Company and fuel oQ of the Kuskc
kwim Dredging Company had be
stacked, the water rose to a heigh
of over seven feet, resulting m th
loss of about 125 drums, principal!
gasoline which floated away.
The steamer Quickstep, Cap
George Green, arrived here early o
the morning of the Fourth makin
comparatively the same t ravelin
time as the Tana, her delay bein
due to discharging a large shipmei
for George Hoffman"® --to-e at Van;
mute. From the Quickstep’s bang*
at this place was discharged larg
supplies for Backbhrn & Goebel, a:
ter which the Quickstep proceed*
up the Takotna as far as Nixa
Forks, where she wil discharge hcav
stocks of merchandise for A. Rif
gins’ store at Takotna, also a iarg
shipment of material for the Flurr
Dredging Company.
r Miss Josephine Parent returnee
- here on the Tana fmra a visit to bee
parent > -at ' rooked River
t
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L. F. Bullard and Janies Foley,
from the Nixon mine, arrived here
Sunday. Mr. Bullard left yesterday
on the Tar.a for Berry Landing, or
' his retort to Nixon.
r Herb Kearney, accompanied by
a _ rs. Kearney, who came up on the
t Tana after spending the winter on
t the Outside, departed ferr their home
a at Takotna yesterday, being ' passen
gers on tbe" Quickstep as far as the
y Forks.
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Sam Nesvoog, in his launch Sel
dema, and Scotty Auld. arrived her*
- Sunday night from Bethel, coming
- up in seven days. Mr Nesaoog left
t yestreday for his up-river home, hav
e ing as traveling companions Masters
s Melvin Heino and Glenn Long, on a
3 trip of inspection.
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URGES PARK TO HASTEN
CONSTRUCTION OF ROAD
WASHINGTON July 2 — Believing
f that it would facilitate the movt
e men* towards building the Alaska
highway. Senator Louis B. Schwel
j" lenbach, from Washington, proposed
j today that Canada Join the United
States in creating a 23I0I 0 square
B mile international park rn the soirtR
, western tip of tbe V ukon Territory
e which divides southeastern Alaska
_ from the rest of the Territory.
' “If this park is created,” Mr.
Scfcwellenbach sa:d. “there would be
no doubt that out government would
” be justified in bearing at least tw*
♦h’rd' of the Tnense of extending
, the Pacific highway to Alaska.' Abo
g tu leit tuat tne United States would
? feel justified in creating a fr e port
at Skagway if this park was created.
In a etter to Dr. Ernest H. Gruen
ing. chief of the department ol ter
■_ riterial affairs. Senator Schwellen
j breb wrote:
n “Creation of this international higfi
„ way and park would constitute an
y ’tstand'ng contribution to the eaase
of world peace.”
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Remember the Advertiser*
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FLAT, ALASKA.
HOT LUNCHES
Served Anytime
1EER
WIRES
GANDIES
CARD TABLES
BARBER SHOP
EVERYTHING FIRST CLASS
^Where Sociability Reigns”
ANDREW MISCOVICH - CHARLES YOST
OATES FREISHTIKG
We Haul Anything
Heavy or Li^ht
Where You Want It
JOS OATES, TKPGxlIES
TAKOTMA ALASKA
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Parsenger Service
FSHvDDIR OATE£. Pr«w
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TIMELYT EDITORIALS
Culled From Our Exchanges
FARI.EY1SM \T its BEJH —
iPalo Calif., Times)
One of the mvstifyiug phenomena Of each year i*
the lilierality cf *.iii- teral f Office Depaitmer* !r.
withholding the penalties for violation «f the anti-letter>
rules when the lottery in qae-dior chor ees u he ih* no
torious Irish Sweepstakes.
The regulations of the Post Office Department in th«
matter of lotteries are comprehensive ami drastic. Mat
ters pertaining to lotteries is ruled as unw.ailabie. A
newspaper publishing either news item or advertising
matter concerning them “directly or indirectly ” is barred
from the privilege of the mails.
The department has beer strict u. Its enforcement
of that rule when the particular lotteries have beer suet
things as benefit card parties (with door pmes and the
like' given by church or fraternal organisations ana raf
fles at charity bazaars. But the Irish sweepstakes—a
foreign graft that is barred from the press of it* owi
e> untry—has been headlined in the American metropol
itan press from coast to coast with never a peep of cam
paint from the postmaster raneral
The exposure of last year which revealed the Irish
lottery as a bold graft, and by bo means the beautiful
charity enterprise it purported to be. has lea publishers
tr* query the Post Office Department as to the Status of
the thing as a lottery- within the means of the must office
code
The result of the inquiry was most amazing. Post
master Genera! Parley, the editors were informed, de
lined to state formally the departm*t> attlr-ide sc
ward papers publishing the sweepstake stories. How
ever. it was pointed out. rules ha' e bher,- interpreter! “St
erally,” but individual postmasters may act, although he
general order has been issued. ‘Suggest, you Ct.mact
your postmaster,” was the postscript.
If there could be anything more uiiefttc auod wobbly
in the line of federal departmental policy to an that »e
cannot conceive wrist it might be.. Just why there should
be a greater liberality in interpretation of the anti-lot
tery regulatiru in favor of this foreign* and vicious lot
try than there is in favor of Use dime bazaar.- that ar*
church and charity benefits, is hard to expain. Just why
the -postmaster general declines to state formally the at
:ude of the department hith.-wlf ubo invites wor.dei
The absurdity of passing the buck tt» individual post
masters whe» the issue is one </ fundamental policy is
also ridiculiHw whan Under that pTar. publication of the
lottery new? might be held permissible at one pom:, an*
ille-gal at the post -office a mile aw?„\. Bo-i a -possible ex
planatic n suggests itself:
The -politically minded Mr. Farley sees 'Under this
system opportunity for answering the question ir at
cordaace with the weight of local sentiment, which ab
vioasly would he good personal politic*, at bo ugh rot tin
public policy aad ya rottetler ethics.
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<1.4110 OK KLMifiHII*
■h S "ward Oatew ay I
With ali tilt pomp and ceremony so deal to the
hearts of the CngHcfc people, another king h:i- beer.
■ axi upn tht throne, the fti-tieth sowfereign since
William the Conqueror' tros»<sd fe<*« • <fMi find. ;-.nc
-iarted the tight little, right Lillie isle hi r anal
• jad to destiny.
An -unespectf ■» king, hat Vme flnf will n the trx
nx*. :i right thing The prime minister a ml his cabinet
;c. parjament, will have ne trouble with King t ‘urge
V,. '^etattse it is tbs kingship-, R»t the linli!, *»h«rt -i the
reat rntert; lie:.
The ciown has been described as a '‘sensitive id •al *’
?n unseen force that binds as with binds ol steel th»
hearts, the minds and thoughts ’<■{ English re' ’e. Abu
•hat ideal mu--, not be disturbed by st-n.^atiss a. faintest
breath of Scan laj.
Georg; VI wiil wear h:s crown with dignity, will
(.an on the traditions and honors that Hedge aboutV
throne, when a more popular king, a man who would
rlrsw tbs peope to that throne for' closer view might
■ nd , in a ■measure that intangible something tbat 'rofb
mp re together and builds fur greater kings,
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Borrower; “1 sav old chap, Can yoo loan me a f' »
bucksT"
f•>*«}<;: “Why. yes. Til let you have if wheh 1 rt
urn fr :r' my vacation."
Borrower: ‘‘Fine! When wiir you' ieturn ?'
Cia aic: 'Tm 'not going'
L: ' from Tmuerville: “I tell you, 1 wbn’t have
•y- rr > 1 ain’t going to pay my (Jood hidney for’ a
p- , - w ,h a measly foldin’ bed in it. If v&U tmrir-bftj
‘ He-- ause I’m Worn the country-”
Pell Boy: ‘ “Get in, mum, get in. This idr't ">'cui
oom, it’s t*. teevaiSri” I
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V SroiVme^'Court apparently has derided I •£*».
the Now Beal n'hB* dbal