The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-12
KENDRICK COMPLIMENTS LOMEN
 INTERESTS.

Recently g headline writer The Empire Used the phrase "Kendrick Sides With Natives" over a story relating to the reindeer hearings in progress in Washington, D. C., under the auspices of com lni5tee appointed by Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur Of the Interior Department Senator Kendrick, to whom reference was made by the headline, is the chairman of the committee.
 He is a veteran stockraiser and has long ex- perlsnee in problems incident to grazing on open range and conflicts in herd management and owner ship. His comment on which the phrase was based was to the effect that the interests of Eskimo owners of reindeer would be adequately safeguarded in any plan that might be adopted to control the industry. This did not imply any criticism of the Lonen Corporation the biggest single factor in the reindeer industry and against which certain charges were made by Delegate Sutherland and others dur ing earlier hearings of the committee
 As matter of record, Senator Kendrick at the fourth hearing held February 24. last, and after many of the accusations had been aired and before the companys officers had been given oppor tunity to present their own case compmented the organization its methods and it's activities in endeavorng to produce stability in the raising of deer and to build up a market for the meat. In answering 9 comment of Arthur j. Baldwin one of the associates of the Lsmens the outset of the fourth meeting, Senator Kendrick said
 As I have listened to the testimony up to
 this time I have not heard anything se-
 riously reflecting upon either your company
 CT MT Lomen. Incidentally, I may say
 that the man who find way out of
 the present business depression would de-
 well of his felowmen This would
 apply with as much force to the livestock
 industry of the United States today as to
 the reindeer business in Alaska It is
 perfectly human thing to try to leave the
 responsibility to someone else, and very
 naturally the people of Alaska who are
 depending on these reindeer, the receipts
 from which have declined almost to a van
 ishing point attempting to determine
 from those who are working with them, the
 cause of the present situation. However,
 1t seems to me, the people who have
 testified here, apparently in opposition to
 your activities in Alaska, have indicated
 clearly that your company was not profit
 eering nor were you at the same time re-
 ceiving even, legitimate profit from the
 business This fact rather demonstrates that
 the depression which followed the reindeer
 business in Alaska is a part of the general
 worldwide condition. This committee has
 been glad to hear MT. Lomen's story, as we
 shall be glad to hear anybody else who has
 the opposite side to present. but I see
 reason why you should feel the least bit
 disturbed by anything that has been put in
 the record so far I see nothing in your
 activities in Alaska different in any way
 from the legitimate activities of the live
 stock industry in this country.
 Of course, Senator Kendriek and everybody else concerned more than anyone else the Lomens whose own prosperity depends largely upon Eskimo we'll being, want see the Eskimo reindeer owners ade- quately safsguarded in every respect They are entitled to fair division of grazing areas oppor- tunity for utilization of markets and the right to do business on the same basis as white owners