The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-04
THE G. o. P.'s GREAT MOUTHPIECE" RAPS THE NEW DEAL ON GLACIER BAY

RAPS HE NEW DEAL JUN GLACIEH BA
 great deal is being made these days about bureaucracy individual enterprise Especially dc the spokeSmen of the Republican party point witt alarm at what they term the rising tide of bureau cratic government and the curbing of individual ntia tive as result of too much government regulation under the New Deal H N# tN p
 One of the loudest and most consistent assaiants of the Democratic administration is the ultra. re- actionary Saturday Evening Post which has reeked of Republicanism and that particular variety known special privilege for generations. So thoroughly does the Post hate the New Deal that Is said every time President Roosevelt makes address George Horace Lorimer the veteran Post editor, has night mare Every time piece of liberal legislation for the good of the whole people passes Congress the Post editor terrible special interest fever which he can not get for at least three issues
 Thus it comes as a startling shock when the same Saturday Evening Post itself and becomes the champion of bureaucracy and govern ment privilege, which it claims to so thoroughly de- test Imagine you can, the Post shouting against individual enterprise and the opening up of Alaska that individual initiative might have an inning Imagine the supposedly learned Saturday Evening Post editor picking a little piece of Alaska some 50 miles wide and not than 75 miles in its longest
 
 campaign issue after casting experienced eye the national landscape for years.
 Yet it is in the Post issue of August 15 now arriv- ing here in the'mas that find the famous weekly shouting to high heavens against opening Glacier Bay National Monument to mining and prospecting The Post actually advocating bureau domination the Territory which has been choked into submission for years because of bureaucratic control which has pre- vented it from developing and expanding as it should,
 From the national publication which should know that Alaska has area of some 600000 square miles and that Glacier Bay Monument is just little patch of it northwest of Juneau which has been de- nuded by nature of virtually everything but rocks left in the old glacier beds read the following enlight- ening information:
 The features which make the Glacier Bay
 region especially worthy of protection are it's
 tdewater glaciers of the first rank in a setting
 Of magnificent fiords and lofty peaks it's
 great expanse of shores recently vacated by
 melting ice, which are coming m a new
 vegetation and new animal population
 visible demonstration of what happened over
 all of northern North America at the close
 of the Glacial Period and it's numerous we'll
 preserved relics of interglacial forest
 The Post goes on to tell that according to a committee preservation of natural conditions oi the Geological Society of America the glaciers woulc be in little danger from mining but it would be fal otherwise with the plant and animal life" Quoting the committee the publication says further: tEver a sparse mining population would result in the cut. ting of young trees they attain proper size. fir the use of the intergacal-fores relics as firewood and in the killing of the animal population"
 The Post may be forgiven for not knowing tha persons going to Glacier Bay to stake mining claim. take their wooden stakes with them There is hardly tree big enough left in the whole to make few stakes for posting claim notices. But when tho Post cries week after week about New Deal bureau. cracy and then turns around to defend the Repub- lican brand of bureaucratic control which has stec the Territory, only wonder, thither leads political poppycock such the Post has been spread ing over the land for 10, these many years?
 The Post talks of plant and animal life in the area, giving hint that its editor has been reading about the flora and fauna that abound in the north There is animal and plant life unexcelled on tn, North American continent in Alaska but there is not enough flora and fauna in the whole of Glacier Bay National Monument to fill a magician's trick hat Even jack rabbits speed across the devastated area in high gear as to reach the other side ir time to be sure to get something to eat. There is nothing to preserve in the Glacier Bay area except rocks. The glaciers the Post talks about can no compare with Columbia, Taku and Mendenhan anc countless other great glaciers of the north all out side of Glacier Bay and easily accessible tourists which Glacier Bay is not.
 There is thing in Glacier Bay and that is mineral. Gold, the good yellow metal that has been the foundation for the Posts gold standard yowl for decades It is rich in other minerals, which now, thanks to the efforts of Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dmond in getting the law through Con- gress opening it to prospecting and mining, be de- veloped and given to the world It give Alaska miners opportunity to use of that individual enterprise the Post has been raving about. But as