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Takotipi. Alaska. March 21, 1913,
WICKERS AM TELLS P.-T.A.
OF ALASKA HISTORY
Judge Janies Wickersham., Dele
.jgate-elect to Congress, gave an ab
sorbingly interesting talk on the
“High Lights of Alaska History” in
.an address before the Parent-Teach
ers’ Association of Douglas, accord
ing to the Juneau Empire. He began
by telling in eloquent words how this
Northland owes its discovery to Peter
the Great, enlightened ruler of a
semi-barbaric Russia, and to Cather
ine, born a slave, whom the auto
cratic iinonarch stooped from a glit
tering throne first to embrare as his
paramour and at last to exalt to sov
ereign grandeur as his empress. The
speaker rerohnted how those power
ful personages conceived the idea and
executed the plan that sent Vitus
Bering on his mission to find what
lay in the vast unknown expanse be
tween the west coast of America and
the east coast of Siberia.
The Judge brie,fly recalled the dis
covery achievements of Captain Al
<exie Chirkof and his adventurous
successors; the fur-trading exploits
<of Stephen Glotof and his intrepid
tql.lowers, among whom was included
Alexander Baranof, commonly called
the first governor of Alaska, and the
,early settlement and development ac
tivities of other daring Muscovites.
The speaker imparted familiar
glimpses of Don Salvador Fidalgo,
Spanish mariner who gave Valdez
.Rort its designation; of J. F. Q, d^ la
Perouse, French navigator, whose
.Port des Francais is known as Litoya
JBay; of the dauntless Englishman,
iCaptain James Cook, who sailed the
inlet that bears his name, and of
(Captain George Vancouver, whose
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voyages have left an imperishable
impress on northern lands and seas.
No less fascinating than the his
tory of discoveries is the geography
of this vast Territory, as traced by
the Judge. Cursory knowledge of
physical aspects solves many prob
lems that long vexed scientific minds.
“On a clear day in January, thirty
years ago, the speaker said, “I stood
on the promontory at Cape Prince of
Wales, Alaska, and across the Bering
Straits I could se.e, 48 miles distant,
Hast Cape, Siberia. The Diomedes
lie between, not quite midway. The
natives on both American and Asiatic
shores look alike, dress alike., speak
the same language. They inter-trade
and inter-marry. On both sid.es .are
found relic.s of prehistoric animals of
the same kind, the ages-old remains
of plant life of the same sorts.
“The straits and the sea north of
them are shallow, only 180 feet deep
—a vast plain covered by a compara
tively small amount of water. Not
so long ago, considering the great
antiquity of the world, the plain was
above the water and the two conti-1
nents were joined by dry land.”
The Judge tersely mentioned Sew-,
ard’s purchase, the commercially ro-j
mantic attempt of the Western Union
in the ’60s to build an all-land .tele
graph line from the States to Bering
Straits, then lay a short submarine
cable and connect in Siberia with an
all-land line to countries of Europe.
He referred to Alaska’s wealth in
fisheries, furs, limber and numerous
other natural resources.
“In fifty years, 1880 to 1930,” he
declared, “she h.is poured from just
her mineral treasure vaults alone,
into the lap of the world, 8600,000,
000—600 months. 81,000,000 every
month.”
Alaska schools do not teach Alaska
history and Alaska geography as
these subjects should be taught in,
this Territory, ht insisted.
“We should know Alaska better,”
he concluded. “Wo should learn about
| her when we’re young.”
ALASKA LEGISLATURE
CONVENES AT JUNEAU
JUNEAU.—Without a single hitch
the Senate and House completed per
manent organization and squared
away for business.
Luther C- Hess of Fairbanks was '
elected pi-gsident of the Semite and
Arthur VV. Fox of Juneau secretary.
Mrs. Bertha lV!?Kay of Nome was
elected assistant secretary. George
McKay of Nome, husband of the as
sistant secretary, was made sergeant
at-arms of the Sennte.
The House elected Grover C. Winn
of Juneau to be speaker after a three
\ days’ caucus had failed to break the
deadlock between Frank Foster and
Harry Donnelley. Winn was brought
[forward by Foster as a compromise
candidate.
Lawrence Kerr was named chief
clerk, and Mrs. LeRoy Vestal of Ju
I neau assistant clerk. R. C. Booth of
I Seward was elected sergeant-at-arms,
j Republicans have a majority in the
| Senate. There are four Republicans
! and one independent. The Republican
i majority in the House is much larger,
; with eleven Republicans, four Demo
crats, one independent.
Members of the Legislature are:
Fourth Division.
Senator Luther C. Hess, Democrat
(holdover); Senator John W. Dunn,
| independent.
House—Andrew Nerland, Harry
Donnelley and Fred B. Johnston, Re
publicans; Joe McDonald, Democrat.
Third Division.
Senator A. J. Dimond, Democrat
(holdover); Senator Bragaw, Repub
lican.
House—Cal Brosius, Joe Murray
and Frank Foster, Republicans; H.
H. McCutcheon, Democrat.
Second Division.
Senator Richard N. Sundquist, Re
publican (holdover); Senator Alfred
J. Lomen, Republican,
House—Henry Burgh, George Hel
lerick and Cliff Allyn, Republicans;^
Andy Nylan, independent.
First Division.
Senator Charles Benjamin, Repnb
lican (holdover); Senator Allen Shat
tuck, Democrat.
House—Ziegler and Boyle, Demo
crats; Winn and Johnson, Repub
licans.
DOOM OF DRY REGIME SEEN,
SAYS SENATOR WAGNER
- i
WASHINGTON.—Asserting that
the Wickersham report was “the be
ginning of the end” of prohibition,
Senator Wagner, Democrat, New
York, today proposed a plan for re
peal of the eighteenth amendment,
calculated to prevent return of the
saloon. I!
The New Yorker, in a carefully
prepared speech to the Senate, advo
cated repeal with concurrent action
by non-prohibition states "to insure
the conservation of the one achieve
ment of national prohibition”—aboli
tion of the saloon.
“You tell me repeal is impossible,”
Wagner said. “I answer yon it is in
evitable. You tell me that a small
majority of the states can prevent it
I know they can, but I am sure they
will not.”
Wagner sail the issue must be <
faced under "courageous leader-.
ship. “That, unfortunately, we can
not expect from our President,” he
added.
Wagner said the Wickersham com
mission would have recommended
outright repeal if it had followed its
own logic, except for fear of the sa
loon’s return.
Assurance that this would not hap
pen could be given, he said, , hy con
stitutional amendments in the wet .
states barring that form of liquor
sale or by other similar methods.
Wagner was interrupted by Sen
ator Caraway, Democrat, Arkansas,
who wanted to know if he was going
to insist upon the Democratic party
“I will be guided by the party con- ’
sponsoring repeal in 1932.
vention,” said Wagner. "But I hope
it will meet the issue.” ■
Never Again.
Captain Lindbergh tells a Wash
ngton reporter a. story about his first
flying days.
“In those 'days,” he said, “I flew all
over the South, and I’d stop at every
little town and take the people up.
“An old colored mamm did me a
good turn once, so I gave her a free
ride. When we came down she-said:
“ Thank ye fo’ dem two rides, sub.'
“ “Two rides?’ 1 said, ‘but you only
had one.*"
“ ‘No, suh, two,’ said the old wo
man. •‘Blah fust and mah last, suh.’ ”
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