The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-11-26
THE GOVERNORS REPORT.

The annual report of Gov. George A. Parks to the Secretary of Interior covering the llscai year ending June 30 1892, is one Of the longest anu most comprehensive ever compiled by Chief Execu- tive of Alaska The wealth of detailed information contained in it's numerous pages bespeaks Wide knowledge of the Territory and it's people, ana the conditions which they faced during the period coV- eerd It is document that is of real vaue 1o students of the Northland and to all of it's residents
 If it does not depict as rosy picture as Sohe of those issued in former years, neither ooeS IL nortrav aggravated social and economic evils that have followed throughout the world in the wake of the depression Very properly it emphasizes that Alaskans do feel the current widespread ecohon'c disturbances, but the extent is much less than IS to be found in other parts of the country Ihe fisheries all branches of the mining industry except gold mining and the lumber industry are nara hit as elsewhere. Gold mining prospers and the pros pacting mutipies, spurred rather than hlnoereo oy the depression.
 We are not without unemployment problem So far it has been handled without special aid from Federal authority The Governor stresses this fact It is in significant contrast to the many forms of financial assistance extended by the Federal Government to the several States during the past year Many of those forms Alaska does not desire to share according to Gov. Parks. Loans are no particularly needed the Governor thinks and nont are sought by him. Money for charity is mol asked Alaska has always tended to its charitable needs and said nothing about them.
 But Federal appropriations for public works such as roads, Rivers and Harbors projects and badly needed public buildings, extended with lavish hand to the States have been denied to the Territory even on a normal scale This the Governor does right in making clear
 Federal funds for Federal Aid Highways and Forest Highways for the current fiscal year have been made available to the States in more than usually generous amounts Alaska does not share in the Federal Aid Highway money The appropria- tions for the Alaska Road Commission here is com parable to that fund Instead of making normal appropriation, the made available for the Commissions work this year was about 50 per cent. of that of the past several years.
 The Territory does share in Forest Highway moneys Under the general law of 1921, allotments to the Territory made on the same basis as to other National Forest units.
 Congress last Spring, motivated by economy and misguided by false information given it by a member posing posted expert on Alaskan road matters, tied up almost S1 100000 of Forest Highway funds accumulated as working reserve in the Territory which was subsequently diverted elsewhere for ex- pendture, and limited the amount to be expended from this years s934OOO allotment to $350OOO.
 It's action in these two instances aggravated unemployment problems in all parts of the Terri tory. Hundreds of Alaskans normally earning their livelihood by employment road projects were forced into ideness because all classes of road work had to be curtailed by lack of funds. Many of these men today without means for the most meager subsistence. There should be no repetition of these circumstances another year.
 It shouldn't have been necessary for the Gov to call such facts as these to the attention of the Federal Government. The Administration and Congress ought to have been advised that sucl results would follow the slashing of road appro prations and allotments. Officials who have a opportunity of appearing before Congressional Com mittees should have made such representations-an didn't. And while the Governor has done so too late to ward off the blow since his repol follows the final action of Congress by man months.
 The report makes no reference to legisatio regarding the scope of Alaska Government tn approval of the bill repeating the Alaska Bon Dry Law.