The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-29

three or years and is longer right that Alaska boys and girls should be denied these opportunities It has especially noticeable in the last when the Cover nors Office making intensive effort to secure the employment of Alaskans, particularly the federal construction projects that many boy would have been of excellent job at high wages had he even moderate degree of skill carpenter in of the building trades or in one of several forms of mechanics There today and will increasingly be throughout America
 shortage of skilled workers Every state in the union now heavily engaged providing its young people with this type of education in addition to the older classical nsruc tion Alaska should not do less. u
 However it is desirable that the program be intell gently adapted to Alaskas special requirements A % nave discussed this matter with several members of he Board of Education found them open minded and receptive concerning the needs for such training It IS my pc lief that industrial schools specializing in the particular fields that offer good prospects empoymenthe build ing trades engine and machine shop work & industrial training be rentroduced in practca ana useful appropriate to special conditions and needs
 hope that the Board of Education at it's meeting here in February will devote itself to this problem and in conJunc ton with the legislature make tangible beginning in this field It is longer fair to boys and girls to limit them to the odfashioned type of academic education which, whatever it's merits (and do not decry it) in the and are not particularly adapted to learning, equps them to do nothing we'll feeling in Southeastern Alaska which been expressed to that the University tor reasons that part of the Territory less than western Alaska It might be well for this new and vocational schooling which has been discussed in connection with the possible establishment of junior col eges included in the work of the University py the establishment of southern branch or branches. l the Territory Some training in fisheres ana m dul farming contemplated for its students at the new Fsne es Products Laboratory in Kechkan and the Experlmeht Petersburgboth of these Jont federal ana territorial undertakings. reason why as Tn some states of the unon the state universityhere the territorial
 unversity-canno be expanded by means of branches Ill different parts the territory order to serve our widely scattered areas more effectively It is clear that some subjects be effectively taught in one secton t
 in another the interior of Alaska is ideal for instruction in mining then certainly indicated as the region in which to teach occupations related to the sea . .
 Summarizing, feel that nothing is second Tn lmpof- ance to the furnishing of opportunities of every vare
 educational technical recreaona mental phyScau ana sprua-for growing generation of Alaskan boys ana girls We want make that they stay here ana ina in Alaska things those opportunities and incentives which will automatically lead to their staying here
 No more uniquely Alaskan institution exists than the Pioneers Home It there that the veterans of the con quest of the Alaskan wilderness receive in thelr decg years the security and support when the herlg the Home has for daily of between lsO and Of these some 20 have neen & a4nnea M m at Goddard There been constant waiting hst o pe
 Worthy and qualified applicants have sometimes a had to wait wear before admssion and many have had to W
 six months often thereby undergoing consderaoe mea' and physical distress which we surely shoud ty o
 In an effort to alleviate the situation, even II tempo- ary the 1889 legislature purchased Goddard Hot sprg n9o for $2OOOO and made further appropraMto%n at % o % for necessary repairs and improvements to le % ous f and grounds and operation and mantenance costs Tor the bennium Eef h be asr fsror of Goddard Hot Springs essentially that of the land only only that the building is old delapdated frame tba ture the upkeep of which is progressively @ & @ m such equipment as already been unked will have to be replaced within brief tme that the doek m IS m If renairs that fresh water system should pc eppeu and nropery damned It is serious fire hazard
 Coped with the need of expensive repalrs anu Iepiee
 ents Superintendent Hansen believes based on hls two wears experience with Goddard that is too small ue i onerae economically His report reveals that whereas the average daily maintenance cost at stka IS a at at Goddard it is $87 at Sitka the daily food cost IS 9o m
 Jdard if is -differentials respectively in malnen ance and costs of 5 and 1o4 These The faasf n figures are sufficiently startling to call to one
 ec;a attention The Board Trustees of the PloneeS
 Home that in relation to the annual mn ade N ea the legislatures committee to Sitka thls Vlslt pe a & m so that the whole important problem may nave full study and careful time Tor sod m
 d an estimate of the total cost of rehabltatng the e
 stng structures Goddard rendering them be nlus he added costs of maintenance ana operation M
 egsators could then weigh these costs of rehapta.lo plus higher costs of and haodon od drd and to bud an annex Sitka connected wlth he Home sufficiently large to n the pr
 osod annex is S75OO Likewise there are no Iuios 1
 transportation of pioneers from rom" 6eIsn. e Atoey General indicates that funds appropriated for the p d f IIION10So Honan