The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-27
Feeding Alaska Shadow Soup.
(Salem Ore, Manufacturer and Industrial News
 Bureau.)

(Salem, Ore, Manufacturer and Industrial News
 Bureau)
 Feeding the public on wind pudding shadow soup about Alaska will be the fashionable political amusement for the next three months. The Depart ments of the Interior Agriculture, Commerce and what not red tape bureaus will flood the of the country with showings from official reports on the fabulous wealth of Alaska and all the wonderful services of the of bureaucrats and office holders will render to Alaska for the coming years.
 The needs of the Northern Territory will be dished in print and all kinds development propositions by longdisance political service will be aired but the fact remains without a great change in govern mental activities, there is possible development Of Alaska Alaska needs people and needs private capital and millions of men and ready to go in and develop Alaska if the bureaucracy will only take off it's paralyzing grip
 To illustrate, today if private citizen or organi- z2tion of private capital wants establish indus try open coal mine invest in any kind of Alaska natural resources, it is necessary employ experts and make number of trips the national capital five thousand miles from Alaska, satisfy all the diff ferent bureaucrats that you trying to the government and after several years get necessary permits to start something.
 What is needed for the real development and open iEg up of Alaska is to brush away all these govern mental protectorates turn the average American with all his spirit of enterprise and initiative loose on Alaska, just the other western territories were opened up and settled and developed and then Alaska will be populated and development will follow For b. It remembered men and money must be taken into Alaska far more than will be taken for years 10 come before it be made rich and prosperous commonwealth.
 A commission form of government should dsplace the bureaucrat octopus in Washington D. C.. with it's hundreds of red tape tentaces reaching across the continent and blocking and thwaring every step that Is sought to be taken by for Alaska Develop ment. The Commission should reside in Alaska com posed of not more than three who have full power to examine any proposition for settlement in Yestnent or development and full power act instead ot the years of delays and expense of travelling to Washington D. G. with everything for approval before nail can be driven in any undertaking.
 The commission should be composed of independent outside men who know Alaska but do not share the local conflicts of interests and local eaousies of one section of the territory against aDother Struggles lo1 local advantages or whether thS mining or fish cries interests shall pay the bulk the taxes or whether the steamship companies the fur com ranies shall be cinched the be carried on under any government but strong independent men with no local or special interest serve must be placed on such a home-rule commission and their decisions must be final, subject only to be referred 10 the proper department in Washington D C.
 In the face of declining population declining min aral and coal output, destruction the salmon fish cries and other large natural resources are falling town under the creeping paralysis of too much long distance ohicalism, Alaska presents q dark outlook tol the future. There must be a radical change in ihe fundamental management of the Territory