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THS MUKLUK TRAIL
(continued from Pag* I)
I it response to a request from
Mayor Guy Smith of Douglas, Dele
gate Dimond is endeavoring’ to hasten
start of construction of a new Office'
of Indian Affairs school at Douglas.
The su mof &000 has already been ap
propriated for the building, but for
for some reason er other construction
Bus not begun.
The economy program for a time
eame close to leaving the Fourth di
vision eourt without employees. Fund
<£, out of which the chief deputy clerk
of court, the deputy clerk and the
court reporter are ordinarily paid, be
came exhausted, and when Judge E.
0oke Hill ardVised the Department of
-justice of that fact he was instructed
tt> furlough those employees for an
indefinite period. To say the least, it
would be rather difficult for the court
± sftanoes, as only the- judge and ‘ the
clerk would he left to carry on.
The Delegate interceded with the
to function under these crrcarv
Department, and was given assurance
that arrangements would be made for
payment of May and June salaries'
and a study would be instituted’ to
evolve some plan, for the coming fiscal
ifear...
A fiat cut of 25 per cent has been
I mad® in the appropriation of the Jus
tice Department for next year,, and
budget officers are encountering many
difficulties in reducing expenses by
that amount.
In this connection it may be said
that Delegate Dimond will not only
continue to ask fairer treatment for
Federal employees in Alaska in the
matter of pay in view: of the higher
living costs-there, -but he will resist
X' to the best of his abiliy efforts to re
duce personnel below the point essen
tial to efficient service.
The Delegate is now engaged in:
formulating a public works program
for Alaska for presentation to the ad
ministrator of the public works pro
gram. He is assembling every legiti
mate project, rejecting at the same
any suggestion of “pork barrelism”
which: might endanger the entire pro
gram.
Most important project in the list,
and at the same time the one most
important to the: Territory, is the
American section of the International
Highway.
As the puhlie works bill has not re
ceived final congressional approval,
and no administrator has yet been ap
pointed, it is too early to say what
consideration the highway proposal
will receive, but ever yargument in
its favor will be presented.
Paramount in the presentation will
be the report of the International
Highway Commission. The report has
Been written, edited and is now
ready for publication.
A snag was encountered for a while
when oit was learned that the State
Department appropriation, out of
which comes the money for the print
ing, was virtually gone. Major El
liott and. Mr. Dimond did some fast
work, with the result that the report
wilL how be printed just as afst as it
is possible for the Government Print
ing Office to turn it out,
A limited number of copies will be
available for distribution from the
Delegate’s office and will be! sent to
those who first request them.
I
The Delegate has introduced the
bill providing for sale of gpyernment
residences at Anchorage to employes.
This bill has the approval, of .the Dec
parturient of the Interior..
If H. R. 1735 becomes a law tfhe
present limitation on radio broadcast:
facilities in. Alaska: iwould be removed,
but it would still be necessary for any
applicant rto satisfy he .Federal-Radial
Commission that public interest, con
venience and necessity y wdbM be::
served by .assignment-iof fadditional,
sfacilities. Under the commission’s
system of quotas. Alaska now < is en
[ .^■•aiagwM,
Your Generous Palironag^thjis^serEabi&i ms
to reduce CommissionsrjeiBiFiiuS^ea s
to„& PdMMtot.
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Continuous Sales; jvistft’i
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368 Central AYe., Highland Park,' lit''
titled to .38 unit and actually has .68 j
unit, and therefore is approximately i
79 per cent over-quota.
A powerful organization in the >
movement to- devaluate the dciliir • js ,
the Committee for the Nation, a body <
composed of leading business men.
To achieve this end, ft wdaald follow -
substantially tW> same method re- t
cer.tly approved by a resolution .
passed by the Anchorage Chamber of ,
Commerce. The Committee for the
Nation recommends that gold be re
priced at $36.17 an ounce. By virtue
of legislation passed by the present
Congress the Presiden tis empowered
to take such action, one immediate
effect of which undoutedly would be
a vast acceleration in gold mining in
Alaska and elsewhere. Oki the di
recting committee of the Committee
for the Nation are J'. H. Hand, Jr.,
head of Remington Rand, Inc.; Fred
eric H. Frazier, chairman of i&e G«*
eral Baking Company; Vincent Ben
dix, president of the Bendix Aviation
Corp.; Lessing J. Rosenwalih .^hair
man of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and F.
H. Sexauer, president of-the’-XJaary
men’s League Cooperative Associa
tion, Inc. j
One of the objects of .. inflations
higher commodity prices1—can uaot • >j
hut work injiiry. to the.gold ‘mining j j
industry.. The . limited^ extent" to i
which inflation has., now been carried j
has brought ahout higher prices, and J
gold miners, with. the^_price foe -their ^
product stationary, ..are directly af-ji
fected. The embargo, on gojd pre-vl
vents ..a free - market, in theu metal,:
which would have th .^.effect, of rais-..<
ing the. prjee substantially, now that
the dollar is depreciated.
The Committee, fi r the..Nation, of •
course*-. is not concerned with . gold
mining as such c when it recommends.,
a higher price for gold, but believes
in that .manner, prosperity,will heire- -
stored.
i, liav .depreciation a^d. the .-gold .em
bargo have .reacted t® th disadvantage
.of gold ruining yriU.be realized .by (jhe..
fact, that on May 15'it required 118- -
plus dollars to buy the. legal, gold .coiir,
lent of $100.
a - The.-President now \hea.it 3n..*hiAi
payer to reduce the! dollar's gold con
tent up to, SO^pey; ceut^whiehywould.
automatically increase.-AhehgoltLlpFic®61'
and. serve 4as .a spur to the..industry ,
concerned with mining thei.metaL. .
A caller, at; the Delegate’s office
luring the papt week was the Rev.
i'irederick B. .Dranej Mr«- Drane willr
ie remembered as Archdeacon, of the
Yukon. He now lives .in.: Monroe,
North Carolina,'^
Regulations !.with respect th ve
hides usingzthe Richardson. Highway
have been. prepared, but have not yet
been signed by dthe Secretary of the
Interior, who is out of the city, so it
wiU be a day or twor yet before the
exact amount of the! feels- to be tan*
posed will be learned.. .
JELEGATE DIMOND BOOSTS
INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY
(Continued from Page 2.)
,000. miles, more than half is already
built. Of. this unconstructed length,
less than 200 miles ile in Alaska. It
,is also apparent that Alaska would,
.benefit out of al proportion tc the
length of line within her boundaries.
Jt is also apparent that the financial
Requirement, when all the potentiali
3ies of the project are considered,,
oes not constitute an obstacle. The
jbstacle arises in the distribution of
e costs. The greatest length of line
es within the boundaries of the
eakest member, in point of financial
resource.
•;i I rely upon Mr. MacDonad’s state
ment, for he has made an intensive
{study of the whoe project. The con
struction of the highway would dove
tail with the present plans of the Ad
ministration for the relief of unem
ployment in Alaska and elsewhere by
great public works. The building of
this road would be the same sort of
step for the development of our .last
treat frontier empire as the building1
>f the transcontinental railroads was
'or the development of the great re
gions west vof .the Mississippi river*
Che President has truly: said, “With«
tiai vision th&-; people *peri»hi” This
building of the Pacific-Yiikon high
way is a great vision. The opportun
'ty is a hand to snake this vision come
rue. „•
Sixty-six years ago Secretary Sew
trd said, “Why.wait .until tomorrow?
Let ns make the treaty tonight-** So
today I may ptuperfy say, “Why wait
until next year, or the next decade, or
the next ientary? Let us go now.”
Experience Speaks
; Wife (turning frees squalling kida):
“Well,. h«w is your new novel com
ing?”
Husband: “Fine! The hero is just
proposing to the giiL”
Wife: “Tell her to say no.”—Ex.
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