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• Entered as second-class matter February 1, 1387,
post office at Takotaa, Alaska, under tea Act of
_Un 3, 1878.”
Represented Nationally by
J. W. GS.EELT ana ASSOCIATES
618 Steer an Street, Sec: tie, Wash.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 19S7
LNICAMZRAL FLAN ALASKAN MENACE—
(The Fairbanks News-Miner)
A bill was passed by the recer-t congress and signed
fev the President providing for a referendum by the
pt. pie cf Alaska, on the proposal to abolish the two
htuse form of legislation and soostitate the one house—
o: unicameral plan
The matter soon -will come before - the people, and
deserves most careful consideration by every Alasuan
has the rights and welfare of every individual at
heart.
Just what was the origin cf this unicameral move
r.-Ut or what inspire-, it is a mystery to the average
Alaskan. It is yet to be learned that there ever was any
spontaneous demand among the people of the Territory
cr any general discussion indicating that there is a need
or any advantage in adopting a one-house legislature.
Cn the other hand, it appears there is grave danger
that enlisting rights and protection to different districts
of Alaska will be menaced if the two-bouse form of leg
islation be abolished.
~L..~ bi-cameral, or two house form of legislation, dat
ir- t -k centuries unaer the most democratic and rep
resentative forms of government, was founded on the
the..y that greater safety is thus guaranteed against
has." and ill-advised legislation and insidious forces
that n rh. seek to control cr Inf.u.nce legislation. The
c _~-i house' also was deemed a wise provision by the
f _i iers if the present form of government in various
Tir-'-T- —unlading America—on the ground that the
smslisr states or districts have equal rights in one of
the houses, based on geographical divisions, regardless
of size or population. Without such equality the rights
of the smaller division would be nil or negative.
The bi-cameral plan, as in other most democratic
and progressive nations, has become decidedly an Amer
ican institution safeguarding the rights of the people
and the many as against the few. By the same token
the unicameral plan may be branded as positively un
AJEsr icskn.
Ivandom articles in certain newspapers of late have
r: .-.Isd chat the last-mentioned danger exists in Alaska)
in : aspect to the unicameral plan. Already the sugges
- a jjas gone forth in some such articles that tnere be j
-appor.ionmtnt _nder the unicameral plan, should it ;
adopted in Alaska. It is suggested that certain por-.
tiens- of Alaska be allowed more legislative scat* than:
at present—giving them, when the situation is analyzed,!
control of the legislative measures affecting every divi-.
-. n of the Territory.
Interior Alaska under such control would find itself
-voted and at the mercy of the larger coastal groups.
Under the present plan the smaller divisions have equal
ity in the senate, or upper chamber. Based on the large
geographical areas and their vast resources and impor
t_nce as pro-active areas, these interior regior s are en
i ' d to the existing safety provision of the two-house
ferm of legislation.
Stalin’s hardest job, now that his men are actually
at the North Pole, will be to get that story across about
Santa Claus •
French law has met its greatest crisis. defendant
■ ru on the -stand without pleading the Unwritten Law..
If it is a disgrace to die rich, there are-a lot of us
who will never know the blush of shame.—Dallas News.
The European situation resembles a tahfc supported
by Italian, German, French and British legs. At inter
vals of a day or two someone kicks one of the legs from
under but the rickety contraption manages ta wobble on.
Boston Transcript.
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
(TAKEN FROM THE FILES OF THE KI SKO TIMES)
WASHINGTON—An open season in
Alaska for trapping beaver and mar
ten has been proclaimed by the -De
partment of Agriculture. Under the
new regulations, recently promulgat
ed, the season will vary to different
districts, but generally trapping will
be permitted from November to De
cember, inclusive, Heaver have been
protected since 1919, and marten
since 1916, the regulations having
been made at a time when it appear
ed that both beaver and marten were
threatened with extinction.
Officials of the Alaska Engineering
Commission are hopeful of being able
to lay steel from the soubh to Mile
.13 before work is su. pen _ed for the
winter, if that point is reached, and
the track extended south to Riley,
the gap between steel will be only
34 m.les. The distance between steel
at the present time is 57 miles.—Ke
nan* News.
Dan McDoneil arrived yesterday
. from Flat, where he has been engag
ed tor several months, and left to
day for Candle.
A1 Walsh 1 ft his morning for
Crooked Creek and other down-river
paints. He expects to be gone about
a' menth
i Crosing the lake back of the upper
end of town, Capt. George Green
had a rather exciting and certainly
unexpected experience- About one
third way over, his dogs jumped and
I gave chase to sorr.etlrng in the dis
; tance, which later proved to be two
land otter. The dogs got their game,
the finishing touches to which were
applied by Capt- Green. He’s certain
ly some trapper.
The first mail from Ruby via Ophir
arrived here yesterday, having
been brought to Ophir by Sig Wiig
and Scotty Clark, mail contractors.
About 50 dogs arrived with the mail,
Harry Meenam driving the third
team.
Mr. and Mrs. Bobbie Lowrie arriv
ed Friday, returning to Takotna this
morning, after a short visit with Mr.
and Mrs. H. E. Carter.
Deputy Marshal Peter McMullen
drove into town with his fancy dog
team and had no trouble getting a
lady passenger and ballast on the re
turn trip to McGrath.
Andrew Giron and Fred Larson
amt uowj lrcm Grayling Cr^ek to
-4y.
The mail from Jd.tarod is due to j
arrive any time, but not later than ;
tomorrow.
—
J. E. Eeatty, with a gold consign
ment for Seattle, and W. Duffy, with
the second outgoing mail from Flat,!
arived here today.
The dance given, by Dick Rhodes,!
proprietor of the Langley House,!
last evening, was a huge success.
»he unexpected arrival of Ivtr. and;
JIrs. Eobb.e Lowrie proved a boon,;
as they furnished excellent music for j
the occasion. The supper ser ei at I
midnight could not have been improv
ed upon, and a.l present gave a rous- j
ir.g vote of thanks to Dick for a most
pleasant evening.
Charles Smith arrived today from j
Takotna. and is scheduled to leave in'
the morning for Anchorage.
John Beaton, Otter creek dredge j
man. and P. G. Pedersen, arrived in'
McGrath from Flat yesterday.
Charles OHai’oran left Thursday
for Iditarod, to return here in a few
days.
A new company has been formed j
to take over all the holdings of the
Northern Commercial Company, ac
cording to telegraphic advices just
received here. The new company, it
is stated, is headed by Volney Rich
mond, for years in charge of north-;
ern affairs of the present concern,
and a number of associates. The
McGrath p st, it is also stated, will
be turned over to the new company
January 1, 1922.
“Yes, Roberta, ‘amo’ is the Latin
word meaning ‘I love’.”
“Now what word suggests its op
posite?”
“That’s easy—‘Reno’!”
The blue whale, caught in the Ant
arctic, measures up to ICO feet in
length and is the largest mammal in
the world. i
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Write or cable: Harry Clark, 6tt Granville Sc, Vancouver,B.C.;
H_ P. “Nick”- Carter, Alaska Representative, or
R. C. Mich Ms, OA.P.D, 1400 4th Ave„ Seattle,
' who will gladly meet you at Seattle or Vancouver.
TIMELY EDITORIALS
Culled From Our Exchanges
ALONG THE HART) ROAD TOWARD NEUTRALITY—
(The Anchorage Daily Tices)
As the Chinese-Japanese conflict dangerously ap
proaches iarge-scak warfare, it is none too soon to be
gin thinking about neutrality.
Already factors are beginning to pile up, before
there is any formal war, which will make the neutial
course hard In London, a vast §10./,tO ,0.0 oan .9
already being negotiated for Ch.na. Ihe X.oig_ns are be
lieved to be interested, and path of the loan may be rais
ed in the United i'-ates from .iiui«,a_&l s-u.-a-u.i.. e,.
ery subscr.ber immediately ac u.r.s a stake .n Ch-nese
victory, and will And it hard to be neatra..
The danger to Americans now in China has not yet
been averted. A statement by one mis. ianarv organ za
! tion that Japanese victory w„uld ntiiTy th u.ort -t:
money spent in China by Amer.can ch-:.h . ...j. y
years, is already an example of the pressure -..at wii. be
brought against complete neut.ality. Lnt-rpr..us u..dsr
aken by private individuals or by pr.eate assoc a.iars
.n China must not he permitted to influence our pa.i.y
as a nation.
Word comes from the west coast that Amen:an fly
ers are be,ng recruited to fly for China- and American
plates are being sold to the Chinese. Ameri-an individ
uals leaving the United States to fight for Ch na or any
other foreign power forfeit protection they might ex
pect from this country. We cannot prevent free Ameri
can individuals from doing anything they like, but we
can make it dear that, once enlist.d in a foreign cause,
they forfeit American protection.
The constant pressure on the American State Depart
ment to change its policy toward Spain is a good exam
ple of pressure that will multiply a hundred times over
if there is war in the far east. Radicals continue to in
sist that the U. S. policy of refusing to ship arm? tc
either side in Spain is all wrong. Because Portugal, Italy
and Germany are shipping arms to France, and only
Russia is shipping to the legal Valencia government,
radicals argue that the U. S. ought to even things up by
shipping arms to Valencia,
That, of course, is not neutrality.' Neutrality means
not getting into a war, and treating equally those wht
are in it. If the contestants are unequally matched, or
find themselves in a spot where equal treatment help*
one, hinders the other, that is their hard luck, and they
ought to think about that before going into the war.
The conception of neutrality that argues that we
are somehow to see that contestants are evenly matched
and to hack the weaker, is hard to understand
Should China and Japan engage in a real war, it
seems likely that American neutrality would be harder or
China than Japan .which has control of the seas, money,
and armaments
Quite rega-d’ess of any sympatny one may have for
China, neutrality means equal treatment for both eves
if China gets thr short end. Any other kind of neutrality,
which would be a change of policy with the wind to see
that the odds were somehow evened, is not neutrality
ALASKA, \ COUNT Y IxF WASHINCTCN —
<Seward Gateway;
California > *h Ihamna as suburb to hot Angeles*
with the satrt ty limits at the Arctic Circle—aceord
■
mg to the sign- posted acd photographed, had ncth&ig
cn Washington when that, commonwealth was a Territory
For it was enacted b7 the House of Representatives
February 4, 1871, “until otherwise provided by law, that
. all the territory acquired by the United States of Amer
ica, from his majesty, emperor of all the Russ.as, etc.,
. etc., be and is hereby declared to be the county ;f Alaska
and attached to the Territory of Washington, for the ex
ecutive, legislative and judicial purposes ”
This interesting document, of which there is net ger
, era] knowledge, came before the 41st congress as HJ1
21*44. L/vided into eight sections with • county seat at
Sitka, the act provided for legislative and judicial con
duct, based or the law then governing Washington Ter
ritory ,
The “county’- was not to oe without representation
in the legislative branch of the Territory of Washington*
provision being made for the election of one councilman
and two members of the lower house of the legislature.
These wtje the days when the old boys were a little
at sea as to just what it was all about. The chantry hat
that awful white elephant, “Seward’s Folly,” on their
j hanus. What u> do? So it is evident they tried to wish it
i on to the struggling Territory of Washington, which waa
also a nameless, senseless area.
If they could only see ue now, and in the years to
come, with spouting oil wells, greater ‘mineral produc
tion, wealth from seae rolling in, blasting furnaces, palp
and paper mills feeding world markets, and with teethJcg
popaltfth- u.