The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 17, 1927, Page 4

Govern 'u') AI( La mezre - - EDITOR AND MAVAGEF wnd M j Office in J i GULSCR PTI R4TEn. Dellvired by carrier in Junsau Douglis, Trea fwell Thane for §1.25 per month By mall, postage Cthe follow ing One r ir (®e Faonth in i Avuses, ¢1:5. 6 But s cenior a1 ¢ wiil prom ptly notit | Bus ¢ f any dlerity it Rvery of their pera Y, Telephone (1 Bt MEMBER OF CIATED FRESS, The Aumcc t rep blic | { I Lyt oth rwis . 1 I pub fahad b ALABKA CIj \TION NTEED TO BE LARGER THAN 71 OF ANY ¢ i1 1CATION JLCOME PIONEERS. The re tiy I of Ak tin t Ju ' nual conventic W ied he i n ! v i 55 th 1f d nz a old wohahly ! ha organizaticn o ro to organization it that on hould have . arrived in Alaska 1 than tl o184 ime, she s old. A very le mber of the pic ter were in Dawsor Fairbank nd rofirst Alaska exper fence at this piace implies ng from the nearts of a n o Al ihat the U Nia B th n Jansan 2l and en anca will enjo 1t PUBLI DOMAIN OF THE UNITED STAT Form B 1 Robirt N tanfield of Orego b n « l ] T t transfer to Heparate S W peblic domain located within borders ¢ [ t e b the Federal Gover ment to private owne » announces that will prepure f for the newspapers America—and iy particularly interested in curing the publication in the country newspapers the public lands Stas His tirst article, entitled, Public Bomain of the Uniled States,” which foundation for his contention that the Federal nt should give up its grip on the Waostern the Union, follow [Copywrighted by 1 Sov but permission to publish Pire oy | B en tat f the Grea extend ing from the Continental Divide t the Pa cific O [} ntiain 184,749,145 acres of the put omain ar 150991501 acre of forest rosery Ilic res do not include i tions f Indian PParks or Mineral The balance of the public domain, 1,184,127 aere of forcst reserve, 5,661,304 acre It will i i en. without argn ment 1t dev toof these eleven ( Wiestorn States is intimately houn:d up with Government’s policy respecting the sal ttlement, cultivation and use of the pui main and forest reserve | [ the Government should be predicated on the broadest possible con sistent with and other lare t natural resources, in which roper conservation of for the ple of 1 th States feel a c-ordinate interest How ir v vast dies of un developed la 1 the present and fu ture welf: se Western Stat shown | located in will be recalling the percentage of ar tal land arca of 70,285,- ves in public This means that 1 with about 15 per cent. of with whi domzin and f to carry on. It ecan ccome a State of the first class under this handicap. 1f all its urea were under development, it wonld rapidly become popu lous and prosperou Utah 1} 62 e toof its area similar Iy reserved; ldaho i per cent.; Wyoming and Oregon v tcach; New Mexico, i * per cent.; Ari- ado, 33 per cent.; nd Montana that has per cent.: ( velopmen The t Government holdings in these eleven States exclusive f Ind Parks and Miner: acres, or an ag Bregate teritory about twice the size of Texas. Texas has u pre population ap- proaching 5.000,000. wnd developing by leaps and hound It never dee lands to the Government, and t full control of all It is fair to | 000 new people coull perity on the Governt even Western St ods of development. This would represent in the aggregate a new commonwealth as great as Pennsylvania. The value of such potential citizenship and development can scarcely be estimated The total value of Pennsyly cultural crops in 1923 was § of its manufactured products, 867; of its mineral products, including coal and oil, $600,000,000. Acre’ for acre, the undeveloped areas of ed any of its refore has e that at least 8,000,- e homes and pros- nt holdings in the el- under intelligent meth- agri- 000; SETING Southeastern Alaska wish hi discha find hi w and that he might 1 ng camp ed ah on account of it, but most of w theaf schanical means the | the Pacific Coast Indian lan Washington, and such institutions Museum in Cambridge, the Americs Nutural History and the Museum of the buried mater Fortunately made are of lnl,lmu..l (San Franci Walpole finds as little inteerst in story or plotless novel as in a joyless| there is not Bruce's assertion that all who are personally dry, could get in one taxicab is as an old saying, recalled by the [Boston Globe, that “an empty hack drove up to the Alexander Stephens got out."— (Pitts- as forcible burgh Post.) THE2 DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. West equal awd in many instances to protential wealth both above the surface of Pennsylvania is one of the xpayers to the Government T'he areas of the Great West contri es of any sort; the Government, ihsentee landlord, is not a taxpayer to itselt or the State: These Stat handicap, are dispossessed of the which might legitimately be their vacant lands were seftled wduction, and the Government i f taxes. This aspect of ntere the entire county TO MR. HARDING. of Juneau have given Mr. Harding ¢ Who became United States Attorney yesterday morn nyg They and the other people well in the public wor Ihey ought to, and doubtles \\.‘[ him and support him in every way of his duties. They hope k and life in Alaska me so attached o the will never want to leave it has created a fine impression during dence here. and the feeling is that we and find co-of eratioin with him an aring for open gambing zad a uditions that made the days of earlier liectic and lurid, the nate of inst it all There may be f Nevada will probably be pleased nd be preparad for any emergency steps to the City Cler tizen owes his town the scrvice that to take them. arriors had better be careful always the officers and crew when they in Naval ve T Our man-of like to have their buddies killed Indian Rownh lur F\e and Ear. New York Times.) the old customs and tradition ans are vanishing, even though th of the tribes may e st to work such as is cal special by the anthropol of California in department nd re nguages of the years experts The both in New York, have carrie studies of tribal customs and folklore, particular, have made collections of ar- material. Scientists and a photographs of individoals and of rtists and methods of living A mass now available and is being studied lassificd throughont the country however, too little work has been de those priceiess recorders of history, the moving and the various sound recording de- v fact that the old men, who are the » old traditions and the old lore are s on, and that the younger men have, part, and civilization to ca been too much affected by Amoci- Yy on the old that the time in which this work arily limited. The collection of course, of utmost importance. In the archacological remains, it is especially ur- s known or suspected to contain import- inl be protected form vandals, so that he properly guarded from dese ©years to come. This is not true of folklore, of the sonzs and dances and ried out But the ition, are likely to experience has shown that the old! readily understand the value of records of these ceremonies and folk myths work of winning their confidence is has been done among certain trib done 5 among otl They realize t nd even per- many of the younger Indians, for zically aware that the spiritual and| the Indians is being gradually crus! istible pressure of modern“white civil To such organizations as carry out this work © word as it is spoken and the corc performed white men and Indi *incoming generations will owe a great debt Storyless slorles. 0 .ll]]i'lll\. ) very moderns are so busy setting r general impressions of life, they stories. In place of characters photograph v and th reactions to life. If the autho v interesting people, their books ma) otherwise they may be, and often boring. in the prevailing mania for self-ex- regardless of whether the exposure is in- ting or even decent. thyself.” said the ancient Greek, " adds a cynical but wise modern. As for writing about the people the author actually| , there is nothing wrong in that, write about any others; but dram- atized psychology or Freudian dialogue is not fiction Unless a novel tells a story it is as insipid as the| keeps the word of promise to the L\l‘! reproduce the people work s filled up with the 1i The plot is the “kick much “kick™ in a plot that is ll‘\> than half of one per cent. of the book. oolidge will gain more votes than he will lose by his veto of the MeNary-Haugen bill.! |The message containing that veto Is a convincing to the common sense of the nation. — (San Francisco Bulletin.) nuni it tonsorial artists, 1 paper ncn a journalist 1 realtor: little boy? 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