Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-30
HOWELLIAN SOCIALISM

Public utilities should be run for blood" d"-Senator Howell of Nebraska.
 In other words, Senator Howell cannot distinguish between government, service service medium and government as tradesman If to accept his homie hess every department of the government should be able to show earnings and above operating expens eS. people of the Territory be taxed to the extent of balancing the receipts and disbursements of the railroad and any cess funds be turned into the federal treasury to be uz ed for the benefit of states desiring services logically fall ing on the public treasury He overlooks the ina principle of political economy that funds in the treasury for the purpose of supplying governmental services, ever and above cost of salaries, etc.
 It would be reasonable to ask the pOsoffce depart
 ent to show balance above expenditures by cutting off all mail services which did not return profit It natural here to ask what method of disposal of this surplus the Senator has aside from creating more government jobs for the faithful.
 The values created by the Alaska Railroad cannot be considered in terms of receipts As pointed out by an eminent economist they scrapped values and cannot be collected at their Thus the learned gentleman from Nebraska overooks the values accng to the nation thru the s1 100000 annual purchases in the States, and the $8000000 in gold annually turned into the mars of trade and in support of the gold standard plus the S60 00O000 derived from fisheries which in turn eXerts economical effect upon the nation at large not to mention the fact that thru the railroads ability to place coal in the Interior price permitting it's employment in industry millions of dollars paid to owners of placer ground and $lOOOO0OO expenditure was carried out which de- veloped O0O in gold reserves which will take life time to extract, and the end is not yet.
 The outstanding results of the increased rates the railroad have been It has failed to make the railroad and expenditures balance; (I has burdened the Interior points of transportation with costs cessve than previous to the railroads coming 1t has generated competition which may conceivaby perman- enty the railroads earning power if the old rates resumed QIt is increasing the cost of con- modtes to point where development is being effectua ]y discouraged.
 As a remedy for this condition policy is ffere suggesting wherever possible there shall be destruction of competition Thus the Richardson Highway is to be a- lowed deteriorae and economic waste of 100000 is caused.
 Despite what criticism might be directed to personnel of the Alaska Road Commission it's record far exceeds that of the Interior Department in point of bestowa of permanent benefits to the Territory It has built 1000 miles of automobile roads, constructed 70 arfeds thous ands of miles of winter ras and conceived the idea of the International Highway. Now it would appear that in order to make these permanent needs producing the major portion of them will be scrapped thru lack of funds for maintenance and toll roads made of those nlaining.
 It is nconceivabe that this muddle is the product of Ignorance of economics the part of Senator Howell and his followers There is something sinister behind it. /: VAN GLIDER HOTEL. l: HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY l: ROOM-STEAM HEAT ]: