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fiskoiinii Alaska, March 16, 1929,
OL0.MZAT1ON PLANS TO
Elfin IT ALASKA RAH.KOAlt
(Fairbanks News-Miner.f
Having -met the unqualified ap
roval vf federal officials at Whshmg
li. ’ ae- study made hy Genera! Man
ge r Otto PI Ohlson Co provide for a
■■ manent increase in the road's busi
'• s will soon he translated into ac
.. Colonel Ohlson, who is now in
rhani s, said yesterday thar ma
eery designed to bring the railroad
i If sustainitur hauls will sw.n be
- * r; tort ion.
Colonisation of the railroad belt,
oitrticularly the Tanana and Matanus
valley s, will. Colonel Ohlson be
lieves.-do more than any other one
single thing to bring- prosperity to the
-;Sih-oad and thn country which it
serves.
Tb** general.manager is of the firm
•‘pinion that, those persons who hold
• r.fit Jtrnenfftattf&rtd dairying v»ii>
never flotms-r here are entirely er
runeous in 'heir views. He points to
the fact that the'Territory is iniport
!■ t? S-.0Oik.0O0 in foodstuffs annually,
$£,000,090- of which goes for dairy
products, Colonel Ohlson sees no rea
soti why all of the dairy products and
i‘g-xvd part of the .farm produce
srtould not be home-made and honie
ndsed. thus creating a market of very
ctffi side-able size.
As an example of ill-informed opin
ion on the agricultural possibilities of
Alaska, Colonel OHlson cites the
-tatemeut of a United States Senator
to’-the effect that abandoning of 6$$
admesteais in the Territory showed
f. nring to be- unfeasible. But the
Senator failed to- imaprt the import
ant information that-the greater- ma
turity were abandoned because they
..'r»> been pied by old prospectors wh
nsjuirad taetn almost, solely for the
purpose of getting, cheap homes, the
ear oral manager declared. Naturally
the homesteads were taken from them
when- they failed to make improve
ments.
"idemnation work to be dune by the
Alaska Railroad will be aimed at
farmers who konw their business and
% lo'ar* desirous of making a change.
Hr. H. VV. Alberts, director t Alaska
experimental stations, is now in Utah
showing moving pictures which illus
trate the fine agricuhurl opportunities
nrche coastal and interior valleys.
M. D. Snodgrass, head of the Mata
ntr=k!i experimental station, will be in
charge of the railroad's colonization
work. :h*scriptive literature and still
anti n-trteg pictures are now being
prejpojfr.r ?»Md will be used by Mr.
Snodgrasieon his arrival in the States
early in April. The idea is to bring
interested farmers with their families
to the Territory in group.v-of from 25.
to 50.
White in W .tt-mngton, Colonel OM*
son called on ambassadors from nerth
trn European countries and explainec
uis colonization scheme. They were
• 5?y much interested, and Colonel
w».n promised to send them liters
turv pertaining tot he railroad. The
ambassadors promised to distribute it
among their respective steamship
agencies. The real work, however,
will be done through- Mr. Snodgrass.
His work will be made easier by rea
son of the fact that special rail rates
aad special steamship rates from Se
attle to Seward will be offered colo
nists.
The colonizatin plan as a means of
increasing railroad tonnage is by no
means new. Colonel Ohlson said. The
transcontinental railroads serving the
Northwest have carried on a similar
work for many years past. Hard hit
by the diversion of freight traffic
through the Panama Canal, they were
confronted by the necessity of in
creasing their tonnage and settled on
colonization as the best means of so
doing. Expenditures of large sums
of money were made, but the money
was well spent. Rural population has
gained rapidly and. steadily, with con
sequent benefit to the railroads.
Thus in settling upn colonization as
a means of increasing the business of
the Alaska Railroad, Colonel Ohlson
will make use of a plan which has.
proved to be an entire, success in .a
country, very similar to Alaska.
It has been the general manager’s
opinion from the time he made his
first trip over the road that there has
been need for better hotel accommo
dations for tourists and he has. pre
vailed upon Captain Austin E.. Lath
Ti papd the \Vsrrack Construction
Company to build a hotel in Fairbanks
It is very necessary .that adequate
and to enlarge one of those at Seward,
aeeommodatrns be provided in order
that tourists will leave Alaska in the
proper frame of mind to .go hack to
the States as boosters, not knockers,
holds the general manager.
Next year the highway into the
Park will have be«-jv completed to Cop
per Munt in, a distance of 71 miles
from the Park station. The plan is to
put up a fine hotel at Copper Moun
tain It is Colonel Ohlson's intention
upon completion o*the highwa yto
move the Curry" hotel to McKinley
Park, which he believes to be the log
ical site tor it. -Trains wouia then run
direct from Fairbanks to the Park for
the overnight stop. They would also
run through from Seward'ter the Park.
The extra distance could be cvered by
leaving Seward a little earlier, in the
morning. so«ding up the trains and
eliminating all but regular stops dur
ing the tourists season. Northbound
s stop would he made at. Anchorage
for unch.
PROHIBITION' SUBJECT OF
STIRRING DEBATE BETWEEN'
SENATORS REED AND BORAH
WASHINGTON, Feb.—Two mas
ters of oratory, Senator Reed of Mis
souri and Senator Borah of Idaho,
held the attention of their clleagues
for throe and one-ha!f hours today
while they debated prohibition en
forcement.
Senator Reed, about to retire from
the Senate, denounced the law in his
strongest terms but assured the Sen
ators that he was only’Jesting on Sat
urday when he threatened to make
public the names- Or those men who
“vote dry anti urtnk wet,.... addings
“I wou'd not violate the confidence of
my friends’-Or the hospitality of my
neig-hbors ’by even telling anything
about them when they are merely try
ing to* get a bit of sunshine out of
life.*' Then, with biting sarcasm, he
tore into the prohibition law and ac
cused the Anti-Saloon Lt,.goe of sub
stituting the doctrine f fore* for rea
son. He declared that great races al
ways have been addicted to the use of
stimulants and he denounced the cor
ruption in government as the out
. rewth of the 'io.uor la vy.and in con
clusion he pleaded for s carte .cntrol of
•’he- liquor question.
i - a r Borah profs d his speech
by expressing regret at thv passing
of a man whose “industry; couraee
and genius have p’aced him aming
’he foremost men-of-hi* day.” Borah
agreed with his colleague in the de
duction that there ore among the sup
porters of the prohibition law those
who ‘ live in violation of the law,” but
he denied that the dry law is the
“crime of crimes.” a s claimed by
Reed. He insisted that the liquor in
terests are seeking to break down the
law, as they have every other law
aimed at contrlling liquor.” He belit
tled the argument for. state control,
declaring that it had been tested and
failed. Answering Reed’s contention
that the dry law is a crime- against
the people, Senator Borah declared
that “it.may have been a mistake, the
people of the United States may have
erred in their judgment, but time and
experience alone will .determine that
fact. It was not a crime. The people
of the United States were sincerely
drugging with that which was
deemed one of the great evile of md
ern civilization; the-object was an ex
alted one: the purposa.embodied some
thi of the . ideal. Possthiy in the end
it will be found impracticable, but it
is not a crime to-undertake to control
and bring under direction of the law
and under the domination, of civiliza
..tiosi that which, wuld undermine and
destroy civilization.”
The debate, started, during the con
sideration of the bill of Senator Jones
of Washington, providing for increas
ing penalties- for violatjon.ofr the dry
law. Neither speaker was. -interrupt
ed while he occupied the-.floor; and at
the corclusirr of the debate Senator
Reed walked over to Senator Borah
and grasped his hand warmly.
NEW EINSTEIN THEORY
OPENS}..* LARGE FIELD
NEW YORK.—The most fascinat
ing field of experiment that couid be
opened to man lies behind Einstein’s
new theory that electricity an dmag
r.etism are related.to gravitation, says
Dr. H. H. Sheldon, head of the de
partment of physics of New York uni
versity.-/
“Such, things." said Dr. Sheldon, “as
keeping airplanes aloft, without en
gines or material support, as stepping I
out of a window iSto.tha air without
fear of falling, or of making a trip to
he moon, as far. as hindrance of grav- :
itation is.eoncerait are avenues of
investigation suggested by this the
ry.”
Ho, Huml ■'
Nurse—Whom were you operating
on today?
Orderly*,-A tiellow. That, had a golf
ball knocked do wo hii throat.at the
links.
Nurse—And who is the man wait
ing so nervously tn the h-ali? A rela
tive?
Orderly—No, that’s the golfer, a 1
Scotch gentleman. He’s waiting for
his ball.
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