Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-03
TIMES SAYS BOW NECK TO YOKE

TIMES SAYS BOW NECK TO YOKE
 The Anchorage Times like Hamlet, has pondered the question: whether ts nobler in the mind to take up arms against of troubles and by opposing end them or to die to sleep" etc.
 Unlike the courageous scion of the Vikings the Times has decided to sleep choice not entirely with the Times.
 The Times says in taking issue with the Gateway on the big timber grab in Southeastern Alaska Tt to The Times that the Forest Service has found the right souon the offering the greatest benefit to the great
 Would the Times advocate withdrawing the right of the individual to trapsite other of taking fish and delegate this right solely to one big organization which financially able to expend ten million dollars in plant and substitute for the present syste which gives any a right to share in the fish and to catch and sell them to whomsoever would buy, rule that fish? '''~ 0-'~''0'' ''''''
 This eptomzes what the big pulpwood deal in South eastern Alaska It seeks five billion feet of tim Der with the exclusive privilege of logging it, and the For estry Bureau grants until 1882 stated in story in the Times, to do the logging or monopoly of 45 years
 The Times says the position taken by the Gateway that III view of the fact that the conservation policy Gar bitrary took from the pioneers of Alaska what theirs by right of precedent and custom in the nation could ameorate the wrong by allowing bona fde Alas kans to acquire title to the timber units that they do the selling instead of the government pretty sen timent" What is justice and honor but refined senti- ment opposed to the principle of savage might makes right?
 For the sake of argument let us suppose that the
 
 given Aaskans, in effect It would that every pioneer in the Stka home would be holding timber or this would have vended his holdings instead of being object of charity which costs the Territory large of money annually to sustain, condition created through despoiling them of natural right It would that any man with desire to be more than wage slave, could be logging his holdings under supervision of the Forestry Bureau in advisory capacity, and selling his material to any pupwood lumber industry that cared to buy The only difference would be in that Alaskans would participate in the enterprise free and unham pered American citizens instead of being subjected to serfdom whereby the opportunity would lie in either being on the payroll of big corporation that of the bu reaus, as IS now the case with respect to timber
 The Times points to the return to the Territory off funds for schools Are reduced to that phase of Bo the State and not the State the creature the individual Are Aakans to be reduced the status of the natives supervised by the Bureau of Education through does education from the national Treasury instead of being the creators of their economic condition which will and has cared for such matters in the States of the Unon 1t seems that the Times overlooked the fact that funds de- rived from individual enterprise and industry would be sufficient to meet all educational demands and that other economic features would be paramount.
 Alaska faces condition where it must resign itself to all the principles taught in Communism, where the veal or woe of the individual is contingent upon the at utde of the State composed not of the forces which nave created the great American commonwealth but op- portunsts and those who by fortuitious ci1cstances the ballots of the people, or it must renew the battle for It's rights to existence free unit of the A erican republic. l. Ii the Times can marshal scntilla of evidenceI that Alaska has progressed better under the