The Stroller's weekly and Douglas Island news., 1921-08-20
SENATOR NEWS NEW ALASKA BHL


 introduced bi n the Senate which, if passed, will con soHdatc an Alaskan affairs and place them under the Department of the Interior News bill suppants thc Cummings bl which took the place of the Curry bIl which superseded other bills and on alI down along Jbc lime and finally bringing up in the house that Jack built
 From thc press extracts given of Senator News bill we believe its passage would far toward rcscung Alas k. from the skmk-cabbagc-frmg slough of dSpalr m which she is struggling while her strength is gradually oozue out every pore in her skin being cogged by a 'ccch labeled Bureau
 But there are many who have lost confidence in bills puorne to be for the benefit of Alaska and which bud ,r season but contract San Jose scale some othcr deadly almcut before they bring fortb and are Imd away adding one more grave for the Congressional mock m- bird to warbe sweet requiem o'cr
 The Curry bi was for putting all Alaska eggs in ouc basket to bc guarded by am mterdepartmcmo hooId' which board was tentatively named by former Presden. Wilson Or rather the board was named and bll was to be rur through recognizing it. That bin was sul bom -or was stilcd very yomg-and another station was added to thc itinerary of the moc6ug brd
 Then the Cummings bill was introduced, providing Ior turning everything ou land and sea m Alaska over 1 the President to have and to hold until death or change of administration did them part-aud that was satisfactory. But perhaps u was too satisfactory Amy way. Senator New showed up one morning with a new b.l under his arm which provides for turning Alaska her auuurcuauccs and hercdtamcuS, over to the De- uarmcu. of the Interior distinct but scarcely different from tbc Cummings bl and thc latter was like its pre- 1e.c,Sor turned over to the moc5ug bird- -oycrworlcd a~ t already was
 Bu. win tbc New bul get anywhere! lNrty-cigh different Alaska bureaus have been uurscd, cudded and oujcI at Washington so long and there is such am cvel lasting troug of eod-fathcrs there that opposition dccp ... and tenacious win be encountered when am attempt -madc Co remove hcn-tcar them loose from thc parent stems that have uurturcd them long and zeaouSy aud until they have come to look upon them as household gods whose dcthrouemeut they will resist until Old tWth dd freezes over
 Aassaus are tine most optimistic people ou earth Otherwise they would mot be here. But is safe bct
 that uo. oue u every dozen believes in his, or her, heart Hat Senator Now's b will ever be passed ou Go Prcs Jeu. Harding i'm its present form for hi, signature lt may be passed u form but not m such as will cone oJatc Alaskan matters to the extent provided Tor os u now stands It would icopardizc too many IoweT beds of ease.
 Scrgovcumeut of Alaska and an within hcy broad domain tbc only satisfactory solution of thc problem Administrations may come and go and they will come and goo and they will continue to leave poor burcau cursed Alaska u worse condition than they found her. This has been the ease during an the period which has elapsed since she was taken young and trustiug from lhc -rowug Russian bear and will be the ease just so long as she is governed from Washington. Politics have never particularly either benefited OF injured Alas sa amy more than natural dsnegatou and dry rot be- comes more apparent with increasing years, and this condition win be changed SO long Alaska is gov cucj four thousand miles from Alaska
 The foregoing is not pessimsu- -only lack of cou- Hjeurc based ou experience and observation We have lived in cot by the waysde and watched the passing of six administrations and noted their policies toward Alaska and they have recalled to mind the hypcrboIc of lc Irs1mau who said, "Oue man is just os good as another and dd site better but in their policies to- uard Alaska one administration has been just bad another and whole lot worse.
 Herbert Hoover is authority for the statement that