The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1940, Page 7

PRO(,RI:.SS AND DLVI:LOPM[:NT EDlT ION : Dear Son: : ] in the days of my prime and now Pioncers’ Home, Sitka, Alaska, March 15, 1940. Dear Son: I have new been in the Home six months and have already risen from the basement to the first floor. In time I may be promoted to the sec- ond floor where the old timers roost in glorified independence, angd if e long enough I might even to live in the penthouse where aristocracy drinks tea and tailor-made cigarettes. The is that the Home is too The Superintendent says made of rubbe: 18 ot the smokes difficulty crowded. if he had a house he could perhaps stretch the w enough to take care of everybody As it is there are 181 men at Sitka, 21 at the Springs and 28 on the waiting list. The Supe is a good juggler, and if necessary I am sure he could pull hats out of rabbits, but apparently he has not yet discovered a method whereby you ean put two pints of whiskey in a one pint bottle. Of course, you know I am accus- temed to taking things as they come without complaining, but I am glad some of the places T have tried to sleep in have come and gone. Last winter in Juneau after my cperati I had nothing better to do than listen to the Legislature making laws. It was due to a little misunderstanding among the mem- bers of the House that the situa- tion in the Home has been inten- cified instead of relieved. The Su- perintendent of the Home recom- monded the construction of an an- nex to house 75 men. The Senate evidently thought that was a good idea, because a hill introduced for that purpose was passed unani- mously, but it was lest in the House The Legisliture did pass a bill tc buy the Geddard Hot Sprnigs, criginally with the idea of us- ing it temperarily for the Pion- cers’ Home overflow, and then cenverting it into a tuberculosis sanatorium. Before the bill be- came a law it was changed to read that the property was later tc be used as a site for a home fer men and women, You have known the kind of people, son, who start out for a cer- tain place and wind up somewhere else. When they came to appro- priate money for the operation of the Springs the trouble brewed anew, and when it was all over they had appropriated just half the amount asked for. I know the Springs well, having heen there many times when I was trolling in the Sitka district. Tt is a nice location but the buildings are old and dilapidated and from what I hear the equipment is worse. What is amounts to is that the Ter- ritory has acquired property that will have to be replaced entirely within a brief time. Nothing there now is either worth saving or re- pairing. Whatever is done there new should be started from the ground up. If the next Legislature wants to do something for us pioneers it should appropriate money for an annex to the present Home. Also it should determine definitely what it wants to do with the Springs. Don’t ask me about the food be- cause if T began bragging about the cook he might get the idea he rated a better job and quit. I have gained 11 pounds, which ought to be rec- cmmendation enough. But you know how some of these old Sourdnugh.m are. They would kick if they had| pickled tips of canary birds’ tongties | served on gold platters by platinum | blondes. | Sitka is quite a town. The scenery is almost as beautiful as the surroundings of Fairbanks. There has been quite an influx, cf pecple lately. With all the werk geing on at the Naval Base a lot of pecple have rushed in expecting jcbs immediately. If you have any friends in Seattle that are planning en geing to Sitka or Kediak to seek employ- ment tell them they beétter be sure of a job first or else have money encugh to pay their own way back. I enclose a photo of the Home and as you will see it is quite a pretentious looking structure. It is| just as nice inside as out. I found\ a number of old friends here when | I came and have made new ones gince. We talk a lot about po!iuu,! the war in Europe and old times. For diversion we read, play selo or go for a walk. You know I was always used to being indépendent and it has been rather hard for me to adjust myself to this new life. I| will say, however, that no man’s| liberty should be curtailed. You can | go without asking permission, and | when you return there are no dogs to bark at you. A home, I guess, is| what the people that live in it make' it. | It was kind of you to ask me to| come and live with you, but you know how that is. In the first place, 1 believe young people ought to live their own lives and carry out their own ideas, and not have some old fossil breathing down their necks| and saying—“When I was a young man we did it this way.” Further-| more, this is my country and if it was good enough to live in it is good | encugh to die in. I am satisfied to be where I am. You know hew I hate the word charity. Well, I do not feel that 1 am accepting any boon or sub- sidy by living here. 1 am 76 years of age and therefore too old to werk. I put in my stint Letter from Pioneers’ Home Mail Box Tells Story of Oldtimers at Sitka. . EUUO— that youth and health is mine no_longer 1 feel T am entitled to live in this haven of rest without obligation to anyone. The people of Alaska provided this Home for its pioneers in appreciation of what they did to develop the Territory when it was an unknown wilderness. A few days ago I heard the Su- perintendent tell a man that if he ever heard anyone call the Pioneers Home a poor house he would ram the words down his throat. That about expresses my sentiment. With nothing else very important to do I am going to plug for that annex with some of my political friends. I sort of feel that I am entitled to a little more room in which to meditate over the past and cogitate over my sins ¥ hope you are not suffering too much from the cold wave that has hit the States. Here the weather is fine, the grass is green and prim- reses and wild daisies are blooming in the front yar With sincere regards to your wife and yourself, T am, YOUR FATHER. . - BUDGET from Page One) (Continued salary of Assistant to the Seeretary to Governor $2700 per annum, $5,400; salary of two stenographers, $2,100 per annum, $8,400; additional special service, $1,800; contingent of- expense, including dissemina- tion of information about Alaska and publication and circulation of pamphlets and booklets, under di- recticn of the Governor, $2,500; re- pairing and ' furnishing Governor héuss and upkeep of grounds, $2.- 000; entertainment &t Governor's house, $2,000; total, $23540 Office of Attorney General fice Salary of Attorney General, $5,000 | per annum, $10,000; salary of clerk, 2,700 per annum, $5,400; extra cler- ical assistance, $500; traveling ex- penses, $2,000; court contingent office expense. additional law books, $400; $21,800. costs, $1,500; total, Office of Auditor Salary of the Auditor, $5,000 per annum, $10,000; salary of Chief s $2,700 per annum, $5.400; salary of Accountant, $2,700 per annum, $5400; salary of Assistant clerk, $2.100 per annum, $4.200; ad- ditional clerical assistance, 400; contingent office expense, payment to U. S. Commissioners of recording fees for vital statistics, including printing and binding rec- ords, $10.500; printing Session Laws in sheet form, $450; printing Au- ditor’s report and report of Board of Budget, $500; carrying into ef- fect provisions of insurance laws, including veling expeTises, hear- $3,000; audit accounts t ings, reports, of Alaska University and Pioneers’ Home, $2,000; total, $52.850. Ferritorial Treasurer Salary of Territorial Treasurer, $5,000 per annum, $10.000; salary of Assistant to Treasurer, $3,600 per annum, $7,200; salary of Chief Clerk, $2,700 per annum, $5,400; sal- ary of two stenographers, $2100 per annum, $8400; pvemium on Treasurer’s surety company bonds, "TREAT YOUR CRED AS A $2,000; | $6.000;" pense, $2,400; printing and pur- | annum, $3.600; library supplies, files, | *hasing supplies for distribution | Stationery, postage, repairs, trans- to schools, $2,000; printing biennial | Pertation c ges, incidentals, $500; report, $500; publication Alaska |Subscriptions and binding of Ter- | | School Bulletin, $500: traveling ex- | ritorial newspapers and magazines, penses of Commissioner, $3,000; to- | $1.000; acquisition of rare books as tal, $33.400 cpportunity arises, $200; total, $11,- | University of Alaska | 300. SACRED TRUST Surely, you have a sincere desire to win your way clear of debt, fo return to a good credit standing. Maybe you have been unfortun- ate, perhaps sickness, unemployment, mismanagement or family troubles have piled bills about your ears. Then we can really help you 1o overcome your troubes — furn to the Pooled Account Plan CHARLES WAYNOR, Manager First National Bank Bldg. Juneau, Alaska THE DAILY ALAbKA LMPIRI:. SUNDAY MARCH 31, 1940. Theusands every year travel the few miles from Juneau the unbelievably blue river of ice.. When a boat's one at the face of the Glacier. $2500; | Cerdova and Chitina, Nenana and two bonds for $100,000 each, premium on surety company bond |Hot Springs, Rampart and Eureka, of Chief Clerk and tax collector |Nenana and Unalakleet, $8,000. clerks, $400; carrying into effect, Shelter Cabins School Tax Act, $500; carrying into For erection, equipment and | effect Automobile License Law, $2,- | maintenance of shelter cabins, $5,- 500; printing, postage, office sup- | 000. plies and equipment and necessary Commissioner of Mines travel ahd contingent expenses. Salary of Commissioner of Mines, $6.000; salaries of tax collection [$5.000 per annum, $10,000; salaries clerks and necessary travel expens- |of Assistant Mining Engineers, $3,- es, $17,600: audit of Territorial ac- [600 per annum, $21.600; salary of | counts, $1,000; total, $61,500 clerk, $2430 per annum, $4,860; one Support of Schocls d man not to exceed $200 per (Biennium ending June 30, 1941) |month, 12 months, $2400; special Schools within incorporated towns | {lling cases, $750; travel and field, and incorporated school districts, |$10.000; contingent expenses, in- $730,000; schools outside incorpor- |¢luding supplies, printing, publica- ated towns and incorporated school |tion of reports, bulletins, maps, ete, stricts, $515,000; special school fa- | $3.600; total, $53,210 cilities, $30,000; payment of tuition Assay Office to incorporated towns, etc., $32,000; | Salary of two assayers, $3,000 per lerk hire, necessary expenses and |annum, $12,000; one assayer and salaries, Board of Education, $5,000; ficld engiheer, $3.000 per annum, total, $1,312.000. $6,000; centingent expenses, includ- Cemmissioner of Education ing rent. power, light, clerical, jan- Salary of Commissioner of Edu- |itor, telephone, etc., $2,200; equip- .ation, $5,000 per annum, $10,000; ment and supplies, $4.300; neces- alary of Deputy Commissioner of |53y travel expense, $500; total Education, $2,700 per annum, $5,400; | $25.000 salary of accountant (clerk), $2,700 Library and Museum Salary of Librarian and Curator, $3.000 per annum, $6,000; salary of assistant, not to exceed $1,800 per $5.400; salary of assis grapher), $2.100 per | contingent office ex- | ser annum ant clerk (sten annum, $4,200 Health and Sanitation of Administration and maintenance, Commissioner $166.400; Territorial scholarships,| Salary $6,000; experimental work coopera- | Health, $1,800 per annum. $3600; tive with Hatch-Adams-Purnell and [salaries of Assistant Commissioners Bankhead-Jones Act, $10,000; exten- |of Health, $3,600; salary of Secre- sion work cooperative with Smith- |tary to Commissioner of Health, Lever and Capper - Ketcham Act, |$1,800 per annum, $3600; contin- $17,000; mining extension, $20,000; \g«"nl quarantine expense and con- total, $222400. |trol of disease, $8,000; travel ex- Highway Engineer penses of Commissioner and As- | Salary of Highway Engineer and |sistant Commissioners, $1000; inci- Superintendént of Public Works, |dental office expenss $300; rent $10,000; contingent office expense, |for offices, including Territorial lab- including necessary clerical and-or ‘uxal $3,600; light, power and technical assistance of Highway En- | telephone, $600; care of crippled | gineer, $6,000; total, $16.000. $20,000; total, $44,300 | children, | Pioneers’ Home maintznance Telephene Lines Maintenance of telephone including | lanG | Gener al lines between Nome and Golovin. [denml and optical work, and opera- | ‘PKnd'\fl What fo Do— | If Your Debfs Are Piled Too High! - of | Lu' Lftom whoto to Mendenhall Glacier to see in, the scene here is a typical ticns expense, $156,900; salary of | vided in Sections 1971-1974. C 1933, $5,000. Livestock Inspection Carrying into effect the provis- ions of Sections 625-632, C. L. A 1933, $750; industrial and agricul- tural fairs, $8,000 carrying out provis Emergency Appropriation Expenses necessarily incurred in jons of laws en- acted by the Legislature of the Ter- ritory \ for, i | vided by law, $165,000 and $5,000. Primary Election To carry out the provisions of the Primary Election Law, $15,000. Bounty on Wolves, Coyotes To payment of bounties as pro- This appro- not otherwise provided priation to apply also to bounties on wolves and coyotes earned dur- ing the biennium ending March L'fl' 1939. Bounty on Eagles | ‘o payment of bounties as pro- vided by law, $10,000 Beunty on Hair Seals To payment of bounties as pro- vided by law, $60,000. | Superintendent, $3,600 per annum, | | $7.200; insurance, $1,500; and landscaping, $2,000; Secretary, Board of Trustees, $1,200; | salary of Treasurer, Board of Trus $1.200; total, $170,000. Liquor Enforeement Salaries, trvaeling expenses, cler- ical assistance, contingent office ex- | pense, $50,000; payment of Terri- torial liquor stamps, $15,000; total, $65,000. Allowance to Mothers Allowances to mothers for care of minor children, $66,000. Rescue and Relief Rescue and relief of lost persons as provided in Seetions 2111-2116, C. L. A, 1933, $15,000. Aid te Publie Libraries Aid tees. ! | | [ | | | | | | ! [} ' i N i | | | | | | | | i | t PHONE 28 | | | to public libraries as pro- |$4,000 per annum, $8,000; than uuy ° Cleaning of Salmon Streams To cleaning of salmon as provided by law, $25,000 Unemployment Compensation St-rrelarv to Duector 52 700 per an- | num, $5400; salary of Accountant- | Statistician, 860; * MORE, BIGGER VESSE[S IN 11939 In both coastwise and foreign | trade, Alaska last year had a pros- | perous yedr, exceeding 1938 and 1937 in number and tonnage of $2,430 per annum, $4,- | salary of Senior Clerk-Steno- grapher, $2100 per annum, $4.200; els entering clear salaries of three Juhior Clerk- :;:om ports of :r‘,:’mn:: il Stenographers, $1,800 per &annum.| cogstwise 1,464 Veasels of 800,419 $10,800; Total, $39,140. total tons entered Alaska, a5 com- Relief of needy and indigents, cluding | and |and necessary | education of mentally and physi- | cally handicapped children, Allowance to certain aged resi- dents of Alaska, as provided by Jaw. $500,000. Care of children as wards of the Board of Children’s Guardians, and streams | other Insurance, $660. Ot 'Age, Awistaiioe pared with 1463 of 136,167 tons in 1938 and 1265 of 740564 in 1937. Clearing in 1939 were 1635 vessels of 790,998 tons, compared with 1,676 of 660565 tons in 1938 and 1481 of 724,714 tons in 1937 In foreign trade, 1,090 ships of 222,938 tonnage entered Alaska ports in 1939, compared with 918 of 102.- 031 tons the previous year and 898 of 221,252 tons in 1937. Departures numbered 643 with 321,395, total ton- nage last year, compared with 557 of 248,295 in 1938 anid 505 of 225,964 in 1937, —— Alaska cost the United States ap~ Relief of Destitution n- | hospitalization, sanitorium | medical care, transportation care, training and $300,000. Dependent Chifdren incidental expenses, Territerial Building $50.000. Commission | To this tétal is added $4.700 in | proximately two cents an acfe and ‘Employment service account, ‘xupplomenlnrv appropriations for has produced since its purchase $20,000 | legislative expensgs and $800,000 for | total exports exceeding $1.250,000,- Aerenautics and Communieations ‘ronds provided in a separate bill. 000 Cemmission - v e Sdeee For carrying out provisions “rjb & 34 1 . ) ) Chapter 75, S. L. A, 1937, $70,000. Alaska Planning Council For carrying out Beard of Optometry Expenses of Board, $300. Board of Pharmaey Expenses of Board, $500. Board of Medical Examiners Expenses of Board, $600. Beard of Accountancy Expenses of Board, $200 Board cf Cosmetology Expenses of Board, $700 Board of Law Examiners Expenses of Board, $100. Board of Chiropractic Examiners Expenses of Board, $500. Depariment Public Welfare Administration: Expenses of Board, including salary, travel, and per diem, $6,000; salary of Director, salary of §52pR8 e sumn. v H, & v CHARLES GOLDSTEIN 1 provisions of | cemetery | chapter 39, S. L. A., 1937, $20,000 salary of | | | O S S A FTER more than half a century in Alaska fur busi- ness, doing business witll Alaskans, watelling Alaska‘ grow, l take pleasure iu predicting in t Edltmn that Alaskans may lmik furward today to a more magnifieent future | ther land un ¥ his Prog;fess Welcome Alaskcms ® NEWLY DécofiATfif SO $2.00 SINGLE—~$2.50 DOUBLE With Private Bath ® COFFEE SHOP ¢ MEETING ROOMS e GARAGE 24-HOUR SERVICE" HOTEL FRYE MANAGEMENT = & @ THE FRYE ESTATE THIRD AT YESLER MAIN 2680 '} . -..-«-.-..-«.«-a—.c-.- e S [ qer 1]