The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1930, Page 4

i H H ' appropriation for the Alaska Capitol. ~ Alaska, is going to be constructed. Daily Alaska Empire - g == | specially prepared colored maps, showing the three JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANA('}_EB or four available routes north from Vancouver, to- Published g except Sunday by the|gether with the natural resources of the great | EMPIRE PRI at Second and Main | territory the highway would open up. Streets, June automobili inion Government at Ottawa, which has just sent It is favored, in formal statements by the In- Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. terior Department in this city, Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and If it were not, Secretary Wilbur would have been Thane for $1.25 per.month. 3 ake o Siidton By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: slow to take a position committing the administra One year, in advance, $: six months, in advance, |tion to the project. 46,00; one month, in advance, $1.25 n neither . " Zubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly | In neither country has a word been spoken by notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity [way of opposing it, or by way of doubting is prac- in the delivery of their papers. i ticability. The highway % Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. PiS) ghway would open up to the motor F ASSOCIATED PRESS. Press is exclusively all news dispatches credited t MEMBER The Associated use for repub ation of it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also th local news published here ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. entitled to the versified, attractive and least developed of the few o |remaining wild spots of habitable North America, ¢|and undoubtedly result in an inflow of population that, in a comparatively few years, would many times over pay for the cost of construction. DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED: Those familiar the ten-year road construction plans of the Alaska Road Commission. In the first place, the plans for future work of the Alaska Road Commission | have never been approved by the ultimate authority. But in spite of that fact, the Road Commission has been receiving from year to year nearly all that it has asked. This year it will receive from Congress $800,000 to which will be added the license tax monies and Territorial aid. There are many reasons to expect that there may be greater liberality in the future than that of the past. That would be particularly true if there should be developments within the next few years as a result of working out the plans of the Alaska Railroad for colonization and other efforts to stimulate business in Alaska. ‘Whenever work starts on the Pacific-Yukon High- way, if plans in that direction successfully mature, the need for faster and more road building in Alaska than we have had in the past will be so apparent that there is no doubt but that appropria- tions in larger sums will be forthcoming. This central fact ought never to be lost sight of: The War Department, particularly the Engineer Corps which has beer directly connected with the work, has shown its friendship for Alaska angl its appreciation of the needs for roads over and over again during the years since the Alaska Road Com- mission was organized. Then there is the further fact that Congress has recognized that the Fedefal Goverhment is the great landlord in Alaska, that its lands and other natural resources here do not pay taxes into the Territorial trasury and, therefore, the Federal con- tributions to roads and other public improvements are, in part at least, in lieu of taxes on Federal resources the value of which increases with each progressive step in Alaska's development. THE NEW BRITISH AMBASSADOR. The belief prevails in both London and Wash- ington that Sir Ronald Lindsay will prove to be one of the strongest and most popular Ambassadors Great Britain ever sent to the United States. He is a career man who has devoted a life time to the foreign service. He is regarded as one of the big- gest men in the service, both physically and men- tally. He is a brawny Scotchman of over six feet and a profound international lawyer. Sir Ronald ought to feel at home in Washing- ton. He served twice with the British Legation there—two years when Roosevelt was President and two years when Wilson was in the White House. That he has no prejudices against Americans is evidenced by the circumstance that not only is his present wife an American woman but his first wife likewise was an American. The present Mrs. Lindsay was Miss Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, daughter of Colgate Hoyt of New York. The first Mrs. Lindsay, who died not many years after marriage, was Miss Martha Cameron, daughter of the late Senator J. Donald Cameron, of Pennsylvania. The new British Ambassador has never taken part in partisan politics, and, it is said, does not know to what party he belongs, if any. He has! been a devoted servant to Great Britain under Con- servative, Liberal, Labor and Coalition Governments. Young Bob La Follette who won his fight for membership on the powerful Senate Finance Com- mittee has shown some of the combative spirit that was exhibited by the late Old Bob. How his selec- | tion will affect the attempt to bring the Senate | Republican factions closer together will become ap-! parent as time progresses. with the situation declare that| too much importance could very well be attached.\ to the failure of the Secretary of War to approve | That is why British Columbia and the Dominion Government are prepared to cooperate with the United States in the making of plans that will legislation can be enacted. Bills are now pending in Congress providing for appointment of a com- mission to make a study of the proposal, including a survey, and setting $25,000 aside to pay its ex- penses. That work would take a year for comple- tion. It is believed the bill will be passed during |the present s n Similar ley Columbia Parliament, or by the Dominion Parlia- ment at Ottawa, or both. -Most of the new con- struction will be in British Columbla, some 500 miles. In addition to the paved highway from Se- attle to Vancouver, from the latter city there is a dirt highway as far north as Hazelton, which at small cost could be fitted for tourist traffic, Haz- elton is 960 miles from Seattle. North of Hazelton there are trails. From the Yukon-Alaska boundary the distance to Fairbanks is 80 to 200 miles, depending on the route selected. This is all the highway building |Congress would be called upon to provide for. The |distance from Seattle to Fairbanks, going in this |way, is, as Times readers know, about 2,000 miles | No choice of routes from Hazelton has been |made and will not be until after the surveys have been completed. At Fairbanks the new highway would connect with the Richardson Highway and other means of transportation in Alaska—highways, | rail and water—which Congress has built. Probably no person in the United States or Can- | {ada has given as much study to the proposed high- way as Ernest Walker Sawyer, recently appointed to be special representative of the General Manager | of the Alaska Railroad, with headquarters at An-f chorage. Previous to that appointment he has been Executive Assistant to Secretary Wilbur of the Interior Department. He will proceed to An- chorage next spring. | of British Columbia, and by the Dom- to the Washington Government an elaborate set of and while Presi- |dent Hoover has not yet made a public announce- ment of his attitude, it is known to be friendly. [ing public of both countries one of the most di-|° ion must be passed by the Britis h | THE Alix TiCNIC By Mary Graham Bonner g to be a picnic and had asked e to go. ( la ja w g to be. | Wnen they heard it was going to start construction going as soon as the necessary D¢ @ picnic they were delighted. | And when they heard that it was zoing to be a picnic up in the air! were completely thrilled. the strangest thing to do, seemed quite natural. Of e the Little Black Clock had 1 the time way, way ahead. The landing place was something |like a great flat deck of a ship. It was held up by large gas bags. It | was very, very wide and large and there were long wooden tables and benc upon it. On the deck were tree: ind and earth. T had to bring these up from | |the earth to make this a real pic- nic ground,” the Little Black Clock explained. It seemed the most amazing thing to be up in the air and to have | [stopped and to be walking about | l as though down on the earth. “We have lots of landing places b so they don't have to move, only once in awhile they go down to earth to be all fitted up once more.” Other planes now kept arriving had brought picnic baskets with them and they began arranging the | food at once. i It was a splendid picnic with de- ' licious things to eat and when the | meal was over they all played Mr. Sawyer becomes more enthusiastic over the | {proposed highway the better his understanding is| of the benefits that would follow opening up of the§ rich territory between Vancouver and Fairbanks. That it is to be built he is certain. He knows what | is being done by both goveriments to encourage it, | and what its practical advantages would be, not only in the way of tourist travel, but in the solid | development of a great area fabulously rich in game, | |minerals, forests and soil adapted to agriculture, “The highway,” he said, “would be open as late | in the fall as any of the highways in the western part of the United States. And it would have long {summer days, of which we get just a hint in our northern tier of States and in the southern part of | Canada. Before reaching Fairbanks the tourists| |would find, during the summer season, almost twen- | |ty-four hours of sunshine. “We must not forget that this highway would be a very important link in an international high- way reaching as far south as Buenos Aires. In |no other part of the world would it be practicable |to build a highway of such length. Latin-American |sentiment in favor of it is very great and is stead- ily increasing. “This is the preparatory stage. I look for much greater activity in the future than in the past in {the way of condtructing important highways through- |out Latin America as to make them connecting links with this imposing system. The link through“ the United States is now completed. the highway | to Fairbanks would extend it from the Mexican | boundary almost to the Arctic Circle. “This is the thought that has captured the imagination of Chambers of Commerce, automobile | clubs and countless numbers of other groups and {individuals on the Pacific Coast from Vancouver | to Southern California. | “All this is coming. Already there has been much construction in Latin America which has |this great north and south highway in mind. of | |course the building of the road to Fairbanks would | \open up a new airplane route to Alaska, for with the road there would go fueling stations and settle- ments, many of which would quicl! become large | and important towns. This would ‘sllow because of the natural resources of this northern region and its agricultural possibilities.” | On December 4, the Interior Department made |an official statement, in which it said “Secretary Wilbur has taken a position definite- jly in favor of cooperative action between the United States and Canada to the end that an automobile highway be built from Seattle to Fair- banks, Alaska. Several maps of various proposed routes have been received from the Canadian | authorities, and recently a splendid folio of maps showing profiles and outlining in detail the resources of the territory traversed was presented by the Sec- retary of Interior of Canada. . .. . Al parties are favorable to this spectacular piece of road con- struction, and it is expected that the development of the plans will continue. In an earlier official statement from tn = ior Department, dated November 4, it was esaix::ur “The Department of the Interior, the Territory of Alaska and the Candian Government are col- Sixty-eight books, pronounced as obscene by | the authorities, have been barred within the year | from Boston libraries and bookstore shelves. Boston authorities have evidently had a lot of in- teresting reading. After a three months’ session a Grand Jury declares that Washington is not as wet as Senators reported it. At that it might be that the Grand Jury did not have as much first hand information as the Senators had. Twenty thousand dollars is to be added to the After it was decided that we are to have the Capitol it seems to be the purpose that we have a good one. Jermane Says Pacific-Yukon Highway Will Be Built. (W. W. Jermane’s Editorial Correspondence in F Seattle Times.) WASHINGTON, Saturday, Dec. 28.—The proposed international highway from Seattle to Fairbanks, I believe I am It is amply justified in making that statement. favored by the Government, commercial bodies and Those | F&irbanks, Alaska. . laborating in the preparation of plans for the de- velopment of an automobile highway which will ex- tend from the boundary of the Uniteq States to - . It will tie into the park-to- {park highways in the United States and link them |with the Mount McKinley Nationa)] Park in the |heart of Alaska. | "It will connect with the road syste) ;\thxgh may be followed to the coast |Cordova, with Yukon transportation whyj the Bering Sea, and with that system cok; laeil:;:u:z transportation which centers at Fairbanks and {reaches practically all of Alaska.” o e R ms of Alaska, at Seward or bad enough, but the hunter over in Montana who was shot in the arm in mistake for a rabbit feels humiliation more painful than the wound.—(Van- couver, B. C., Province.) One, at least, of Uncle Sam’s dreams has come true. A business man occupies the White House.— (Atascadero News.) “Well done Good and faithful public servant.” Such is a truthful epitaph of the late Secretary of War.—(Atascadero News.) Hancock called the tariff a locel issue. “And language its chief component part,” he might have added —(Atascadero’ News.) il LT A TR LT O LT SRR games. John and Peggy were very popu- lar because they had so many new | ideas for games. But they knew | it was really because they were suz- | gesting games so old (in this far-| distant time) that they were new to,; all the others! - eee Try the Tive uClock Dinner Bpecials at Mabry’s. —adv ATimelyTip ELL the people about timely merchandise with | good printingand watch yoursales | volume grow. Other merchants | have proved this plan by repeated tests. We'll help with your copy. | HARRIS Hardware Co. LOWER FRONT ST. i | ROOFING PAPER Hardware || ) eemed that the pilot had told e Black Clock there was he thought John and ‘Peggy | z=. . Little Black Clock had said |% was sure they would enjoy it ' nd they had said “Yes” to the in- | without knowing what it' landed up in the air.| this,” said the pilot. “They arz | and soon everyone was ready. Many | = i 1 & Helene W. L. 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