The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-26

that there is not sufficient money secured for the t6rritory's thirty eight schools outside incorporated limits
 The Governor suggests a mining experiment station 'at or near Juneau This pork barrel idea can just as well be abandoned by AL askans. What such station would be at Juneau would in effect be an appanage of the big mines where in. side dope could be obtained as to the prospects which the miners have discovered. Nor is this any such thing as far fetched. It is notorr- ous that the assay offices connected with such stations elsewhere and even private asasy firms have been the decoys where prospectors un- burdened their secrets for the bene
 fit of the large mining corporations.
 Juneau is not the center of the Alaskan mineral belt. And it should be the last or one of the last places to suggest locating the mine experI- ment station. Alaska is very large country as the Governor himself suggests, and it does not begin and end with The Treadwell or the Gas tineau mines, or the Governors | m n Ci f al Point Barrow in the north, end to place it in Juneau is to leave non. available such station to sections of the country which need it most and to bring such stations under the thumb of the Treadwell and other vast and covetous corpora Mons
 Last but not least apparently the Governor has been won over to the doctrine of preparedness in a humble way all his own.
 Thus on page AS Governor Strong seems to say with regret "As yet Alaska has no militia or other mi litary organization I have therefore to recommend that such legislation be enacted by Congress as will make it possible to organize and maintain a force of militia in Alaska" The Governor agrees with a former War Department re- commendation to maintain force of militia particularly in the vicin- 1 ity of Juneau.
 One can feel how much eclat would be rendered to the gube rna- totorial functions, if officers :n unl- <, form resplendent with gold braid and waving plumes, graced such with their presence. And 1t can be i.so admitted that the absence ot such has detracted from the brillancy of many and many an otherwise perfect reception.
 Besides the managers of the large mines in Juneau may have observed in outside sections how efficient has a militia proved in breaking strikes. And the lack of such is not maoe up by the neighboring presence of regulars at Haines. The regulars never have been efficient strike breakers. The officers are notori. ously intractable They cannot be used as the militia officers them selves are used, owing their civil positions not infrequently to the company's whose strikes they have therefore to put down.
 Possibly (and of course possibly not) the Governor may have also observed these things, and takes time by the forelock 80 that Juneau can be prepared against any indus trial struggle.
 Otherwise there is no sense in the establishment of an Alaska militia The number available against foreign enemy is so small as to be negligible. One thousand men could no more hold Juenau than they could hold the entire coast against an invading foe.
 As part of the militia system of the United States, or as part of the preparedness system of the War Department. they would not even form nucleus for defense against an invader.
 Hence Common sense from the workers standpoint has neither sympathy nor patience nor approval for this rather sinister suggestion of the Governor in his report. If it is suggestion from a military standpoint 1t is absurd; ifit is in. dustrially inspired 1t is. where not