Seward daily gateway., 1927-03-11
NEED FOR ALTRUISM

NEED FOR ALTRUISM
 Never in the history of the Territory was there more need for rum with respect to public serce be is local territorial in it's scope Without evidence of this spirit both the of those sincerely and earnestly endeavor ing to faithfully and others readily become the get of suspcion with the ultimate result that the in the street shrugs his shoulders and remarks: 'Oh what's the useY'
 Possibly no agency has gone further to defeat all movements for greater territorial powers than this lack of confidence in those who have stood sponsor for the movement Unfortunately there is always found turk ing in the background not much desire to enancpate the Territory from real fanced obstacles as there is to turn the question to individual group account
 These movements have interinged in the politics of the nation since the fifteenth century, and had to be bated by those who sought to prougate rules and regu lahons for the government of themselves and fellows What there is of good in the structure of the legal mach cry of America the outgrowh of application of Biblical laws to purely temporal affairs. ght be said to have begun with the work of Nathaniel Ware, leading Eng fish Puritan minister, who had been trained lawyer and who gave the product of his training to the New Eng land colonies in l642 which was incorporated into the "Body of Liberties of the Massachusetts Colony Pro- gressng under stress of rigorous religious faith and piet those associated in the work advanced toward what finally became the first code of laws and later the Const tuition of the United States considered the most wonder full document of all time since the Bibe
 Go in whatever direction we may, we find ourselves Jumping up against these fundamentals of society and or ganzed law They are but the experiences of a world
  cannot be scrapped under any expediency without pen alty following.
 Unconsciously these fundamentals have travelled hand in hand throughout Alaskas history finding inter- pretaton and expression in divers and many often crude ways. It the inherent principle of pioneer peoples finding natural expression under influences which often compel the individual to forego personal gain that his fellows may have square deal
 It would be unfortunate indeed if Alaska has dis carded these fundamentals for the modern and less substantial program of political expediency wherein men, thrsting for power which gives them unfair advant age over their fellows, gain the ascendancy.
 This is in evidence in the movement to separate the road activities of the Territory from those of the Alaska Road Commission. It will be hard for the spon- it is for the best of the Territory.
 Snch would bring conflict in the entire pro- gram of road building.
 Each community would be denadinng it's share of ex pendlture regardless of needs and this would lead to logrong in the Legislature swapping votes for di visonal appropriations It would into conflict with every other roadbudng function in the Territory such as the Forestry Bureau and the Alaska Road Commission The ultimate result would be the building up of an organ zaton with overhead expense the Territory can i'll a ford to bear.
 Instead of the altruistc spirit of legislation so badly needed would be plunged further and further into the meshes of private interests to the detrment of the whole
 Dispatches report that practically an entire family was burned to death the result of starting fire with kerosene which proves that remedy has been found to rid the ntion of this class of fool Each believes that he is the exception to the rle and thus the recurrent trage eoies follow