Seward daily gateway., 1925-11-13

vided between nine of the 10 execu- tive departments, with 25 bureaus participating. Based on the entire population of Alaska, it costs $190 per capita to govern Alaska There are approximately $500 Government employees. Thus more then one- tenth of Alaska's white population at present is in the Government en- ploy in some capacity or other. The functions performed number 135 and consist of every conceivable phase of Government supervision and jurisdiction.
 < Interior Department.
 "The Department of the Interior has supervision over it's Territorial Government, including the Cover nor, it's public lands, it's mining claims, townsites, manufacturing sites, hot springs and cemeteries on public lands, Indian allotments, wharf sites, homesteads, coal leases, oil leases, the Alaska Railroad, na- tional parks and monuments, schools for natives including education in the protection of their health, the propagation of reindeer, the topo- graphic and geographic survey of it's lands, the suppression of traffic in intoxicating liquors, and the protec- tion of it's game.
 "The Department of Agriculture exercises supervision over it's na- tional forests, fur-bearing animal life, weather bureau, public roads, migratory birds, and agricultural development through the operation of five experimental stations. The Department of Commerce functions the protection of its fish industry; and the Coast and Geodetic Survey enforces it's maritime laws and the Bureau of Lighthouses maintains lighthouse service and other aids to navigation.
 '"The War Department operates the cable and telegraphic lines in Alaska, maintains army, posts and military reserves, and, through. it's engineering corps, provides for the improvements of it's rivers and har- bors, and other navigable streams, as we'll as the construction of trails and roads through the Alaska Road Commission. The Navy De- partment has control of the radio stations of Alaska, of which there is one at every important town; operates a naval patrol along it's coasts; mines coal from it naval coal reserves; and has an immense naval oil reserve over which it ex- ercises jurisdiction.
 ''The Treasury Department has likewise heterogeneous variety of functions to perform in Alaska, in- cluding the collection of customs, the guarding of the coasts from smuggling through the Revenue Cut ter Service and it's Coast Guard Patrol. the collection of Federal taxes, the construction and custody of public buildings, the supervision of national banks, the registry of ships, the maintenance of quaran- tine stations and hospitals, and the protection of public health.
 "The Department of Justice main tains courts in four judicial dis tricts, with marshals to arrest vio- lators of the Federal and criminal laws and to bring them into courts for trials, it's legal machinery in- cluding the custody of jails and courthouses in the Territory. The Department of Labor has charge of immigration in Alaska. The Post Office Department operates the mail service, postal routes, the post of- fees. The Federal Water Power Commission functions upon all wat empower TlgntS In Alaska.
 Claims Too Much Division.
 '1t is apparent that such a con- plexity of Government activities contributes to ineffective adminis- tration and extraEagance in expen- ditures. A multiplication of Gov ernment bureaus responsible to sep arate departments also contributes to overlapping of functions. A con- plete coordination of allied func- tions would avoid lost motion and confusion and save an immense sum of the taxpayers money.
 "The Governments activities in Alaska should be covered into one Department and under on Secretary