The Alaska daily empire., 1922-12-07
BUREAUS FLAYED
BY GOVERNOR IN
REPORT TO FALL
Progress Is Reported But
Capital and Centraliza-
ton Still Necessary.
WOULD TURN TERRITORY
OVER TO INTERIOR DEPT.
Re ends Additional
100000 for Territorial
Capitol Building.

ALASKA is going ahead" said Gov.
Scott C. Bone in his annual report,
made public today, which maintains
TINT capital and a home-centralxed
Government are prime requisites for
the development Of the Territory.
The Government should either
spend millions Of dollars In a pater-
nalistie spirit or admit private eapi-
tai upon terms conducive to invest
ment, he said, and the preliminary Of
this eventuation must be a simpll-
fled and centralized system Of ad-
ministration brought closer to Alaska.
Like his first report to the secre-
tary Of the interior, made year ago,
in the present document, the Cover
nor is sharply critical Of divided GOV.
ernmentaI authority and adminstra-
ton within the Territory and long
range supervision. A. = cure for
this evil, which he decries, he recon-
mends first of all that the Depart
ment Of the interior be given control
Of all the Federal governments ad-
ninistrative .overs u Aeastta exespf
as regards the fisheries which he
asks to be. left in the hands Of the
Department Of Commerce, where Il
now rests. He renews his recon-
mendatIon for 100000 additional ap.
preparation for construction Of a Ter
ritoriai capital building.
On Road to Recovery
In his introduction, which summar.
ICES the main report, Governor Bone
said:
Alaska is going ahead Under nat
ural and imposed handicaps, 1t made
progress during the fiscal year
1922.
Officially, a degree Of coordination
was attained and a fuller measure
OF cooperation secured.
Materially, the gradual return to
more normal economic conditions
quickened recovery from depression
and gave impetus to industry. and
commerce.
The Territory received more gen.
erOus general attention during the
year than ever before in its history.
Interest aroused by the Presidents
contemplated visit, unavoidably de-
ferred, fixed the public eye upon Al
aska, stimulated desire for know
ledge Of the unknown domain, pro-
NOTED tourist travel and otherwise
contributed helpfully toward making
Alaska's resources and needs better
known.
Enlightenment and a centering OF
national attention upon the Northland
might easily have been utilized to
filn af ttnt mil hnt
the time was not ripe to encourage
an influx. Constructive development
was under way only in the compile
ton and operation of the railroad
from Seward to Fairbanks. Further
upbuilding policies waited upon i'm
perative legislation by Congress.
Divided authority and dilatory red
tape methods continued to hold sway.
Therefore, wouldbe settlers, and
home seekers, making inquiries from
every State in the Union. and eager
to have a part in prospective pioneer
ing, could not in prudence or wisdom
be invited or advised to come. They
would encounter too many obstacles.
Alaska needed and wanted them. but
inherent difficulties were many, bu-
reaucracy obstructive. hardships in
escapable and means a necessity.
The path has not yet been made
easy as in the Dominion of Canada.
whittier Americans have been at
tracted and gained footholds In great
err numbers than were ever enumer-
ated in Alaska.
Capital Must Lead
Capital must lead the way. With
out capital, abundant capital. Alaska
cannot be opened up.
Stagnation was Alaska's portion
under academic treatment for de-
| cade and more. Theory did not spell
| progress. but u positive going back.
ward Conservation politics entailed
blight.
If the argument sometimes strange
ly advanced that Alaska's rich re-
sources should be preserved for pos
terity be valid. it would be equally
and increasingly valid as the CEN
turtles roll on. and the Territory for
ever remain Theoretically sealed !:
but common sense answers that
boarding is not conservation. and that
natures laws, ever beniftcent. call
for a minimum OF artificial protec-