Seward daily gateway., 1932-02-23
THE ARCADIAN VIEWPOINT

eaucracy in it's principles and using The Gateway as the object of it's premise or postulate, the Valdez Miner epitomizes it's premise in the statement that it is better for Alaska as a whole to crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow faWning" than to take up arms against sea of troubles and. by opposing, end them"
 Like the condemned sailor ac- companying Drake on his ravages of the Spanish main, the Valdez Miner thanks God (it) he is permitted to die for so gracious q Queen"
 Since the Miners stuff" is ap- parently done by the pen or at least at the behest of Bureaucracy, as was the figures he quotes as coming through MT. Alan Faith of the Cordova Times, from Mir ChaS. Flory the question repoSes more upon the question of Bureaucracy than upon the attitude of The Gateway with respect to it's criti cisns of the Alaska Road Com mission, Whi ch criticism was printed in The Gateway several weeks ago.
 The Miner has second In It's mission of defending bureaucracy i'll Strollers Weekly, which, in ad- dition to giving the entire system clean bill of health, tells us that until Alaska reaches point where she can finance her own affairs she should submit herself to the veal or woe of the commissions set to govern and guide her.
 And here is how the Miner takes The Gateway and Seward to task for going after and getting It's just deserts:
 
 ''Of all towns in Alaska Seward has been the most persistent wan Ter, and has been fortunate in se- curing much that it wanted !. there is no sense of gratitude for the numerous requests granted
 Tt got the breakWater for small boats at government expense It got dyke to protect the town from the floodwaterS of LoWel Creek from Uncle Sam and the Territor- ial Legislature to protect the town and is to have coal bunkers at government expense, and it is not satisfied.
 Seward wants a road to Kenai. The Alaska Road Commits sion has informed Seward that 1t is precluded by law from building roads paralleling railroads or nav igable waterways
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 Ii we are to accept as fact the first paragraph, it would be inter eSting to know if the Miner as- cribes this result to going after what is wanted and getting 1t whether it has merit or not, or be- cause it was sustained by it's own merit only needing plausible fact and argument to support it. If not, are we to believe that the Miner is accusing the Bureau of Public Roads, The Alaska Railroad Bur- eau, the Legislature, and the Board of Engineers of the Federal Gov ernment of making a pet out of Seward in order to be good fellows? Whatever might be said in criti- eism of bureaus The Gateway has never been so broad in it's stric- lures to hint that they could thus be played with.
 The Miner failed to inform it's readers that the Lowell Gre e k Hume at Seward Is being paid for Jointly by the Federal government, the Territorial Treasury and the citizens of Seward, the latter Of which, some 400 in number, being compelled to contribute the sum of $l5,0oo, the Territory $10,00O and the Federal government $125,0O0,
 It did not tell us that the great est property volume affected was that Of the Alaska Railroad, owned by the Federal government, whose costs, accruing fro m overfloWs
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