The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-29
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with it certain problems With these problems it will be our duty to grappe But should be agreeable as well as challenging assignment For fortunately, deal ing here with problems of prosperity not with problems or adverstv We face the inspiring task of putting together consructvey the assets which have come to s not
 few of them without effort the part of Aaskans TO ;ncornorate these new materials into better and during structure to build for greater more prosperous sefsuffcent more nearly self-sustalnlng Aiask- responsibility believe that the time has never been more ripe the moment opportune than now into the fifth decade of the twentieth century Within the next biennium next year lndeed we sha nave passed anniversary of the great purchase Three quarters century will have elapsed since William Sew ard established his place in hstorys role of fame by bring ing Russian-America under the Stars and Stripes .
 ' Aaska's history under the American flag falls into two periods First the generation from the purchase Tn Alaska lay empty dormant undeveoped It's population almost wholly native stationary This was the era of governmental neglect The rest of America was too busy settling the West itself with it's vast un known Northwestern empire-Aaska; m VI.
 The great gold strikes in the klondke, the Yukon Basin and Nome ushered in the second period rush of prospectors to the Territory each hoping to make his pile quickly Alaska viewed by the overwhelmng majority of them place in which to get rich over night and then to retire from.
 They were hardy race of They wrote great chapter in the American epche final chapter perhaps o the Westward march of the pioneer To their struggles their prvaton their dogged we owe the open
 ing of Alaska But certainly few Ii any o them planned settle here. What they through their physical ef fors enterprise and uck they hoped to take with them This expectation has to considerable extent been that of Aaskas second generation Such attitude clearly not conducive to to the improvement of environment to the founding of homes However as mining continued and improved it's methods of extraction many stayed Some earlier communities vanished some dwinded; some grew Meanwhile the fisheries, with a somewhat different but in some ways similar kind of pioneering developed into big business largely financed directed and manned from below In the last decade has come in part through normal development part through governmental activity stability evidenced by the popuation growth to which has been made Today
 third generation has beguna third generation Alaska born and bred which has sentimental ties with the states otsde third generation which knows only Alaska and loves Alaska third generation which wishes and expects to stay here to found homes here, to bring up It's children here It is to this third this present this growing genera 1vbc hnld Tho hnnp 9n0f must dedicate attention and our efforts.
 For must be clear that today still far too % much % sur in Alaska of the earlier practice of taketaout take tdown-beow, eaveasittle s-possibe spendnohlng-ln Alaska.
 social structure is just that Too much going out Not enough staying here This is not said in any critical spirit It is the natural consequence of conditions which existed and which to considerable degree have persisted Abse teeism natural product of circumstances which sur rounded the earlier history of territory which freely or in earth and We like to boast in restrospec how wise old Bill Seward and how in exchange for the he paid for the territory it has poured two billion dollars worth of fisheries minerals and urs into the na has enriched the nation But has done relatively little for itself The time has when increasing propor
 on of that wealth should be kept in Alaska for the further development progress and improvement of Alaska and the Aaskans That the fundamental issue which faces us here today That is the challenge which we should meet
 The time has come in short when Alaska should move rapidly with soundness and safety toward pud ing up this territory place of permanent abode as community of and better homes as an American com munity increasingly serelant increasingly self-governng increasingly supplied with those necessities and modern life which like to believe integral part the American standard of living This is selfish pro- gram This is narrowly exclusive policy is however an effort to realize for Alaska in which Alaska shall be less and less mining cannery camp to whcl thousands seasonay to extract what they can and take it all down below It is time for to exhibit
 greater and enlightened sefnterest in terms of the people of Alaska And when the people of Alaska
 those who to live here and stay here and create here and build here Our task is to speed the permanent seekers and hoebuiders For it must be apparent that is WhO naE that is their character and their joint purpose in building a society which makes community. The mountains and the running from them which store the great min era wealth that has been is being and will be taken out and the rivers and which hold the great marine wealth which has been is being and will be taken outthese by themselves do not constitute Alaska It is the people who and make their livelihood apd sete establish the American principles of government and the ideals of democratic society the basis of the products which they deveop-they constitute the Alaska to which should dedicate efforts
 Alaska, entering its third generaon hitting it's stride in genuine growth of popuation longer distant and inaccessible territory linked by air to the nation incopor p +hac of he