The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-29
,0V. CRUENINC CALLS FOR NEW TAXES
GOVERNORS COMPLETE MESSAGE TO LEGISLATURE

lar taking would record larger percentage of increase than state in the unionan increase o appro matey 30% in contrast to the 72 increase of the United
 However confning ourselves to the actual figures of the census may note that this is the highest figure in Aaskas history Moreover this atme high represents for the first time in Alaskas history natural an evou- t;onarv nrowth That fact becomes apparent when we study merely the 1940 federal figures and the figures of preceding censuses but the terrtoys own vital growth. Every judicial division shows substantial in crease-the First Division 30s% the Second l73% the Third 184%, the Fourth 189T Excepting only several communities unfavorably affected by the suspension of
 mining operations the entire Territory has registered inn
 This has never happened before. The great jump in population at the of the century registered in the 1900 (with from 32052 in 1890 to 63592 in 1900) which maintained with very slight increase in 1910 due, all know, to unprecedented gold to be temporary, and proved by l45 decrease in population 1920 only half of which recovered by 1930 Moreover during these changes of population what gains there were spoy and irregular Now for the first time see the steady ongpu continuing growh secured from Registrar of Vital Statistics show that AlaSkas birth rate both actual and nehe net being the difference between births and deass steadily increasing
 For three successive years our birth rate both actual ana net has achieved new highs The births for l9ss 1859 and 194O are respectively 1,93O, 1863, 2.118.
 It is important to emphasize again that all this in- took place before the advent of national defense Now in national defense but wish for the moment to stress of the economic implications The establish men of large bases at Ska Kodiak Anchorage Fairbanks at Dutch Harbor and of supplementary establishments near Kechkan Yakutat Nome and at other places as yet undesgnated the development of numerous air fields and all the many other byproducts and develop mens growing out of the defense acvitiesthese signify and tremendously important factor in securing the permanence and the future of the territory of Alaska
 It has been evident those who have given thought to that future that the of Alaska hitherto con suted has rested none too securely on just two nduse it's two major industries mining and salmon fisheries Invaluable and importanand indeed ndspensabe-to the welfare of the territory these 1t must be evident that community wholly secure whose economic are to speak in just two baskets Should any pos sbe unforeseen train of events seriously impair either of consequences of the territory to the welbeng of it's citizens who direct y or indirectly secure their livelihood through these indus res would be serious It has, consequently been desirable to develop additional economic props to diversity our m, dusres to add many different kinds of industrial and mercantile pursuits and activities possible It would be the task of staesmanshp of territorial planning to search the esteemed and beloved John Troy in both his and 1887 urged that the Territory ought Tn every possible way to encourage tourist travel pointing that constantly growing and profitable industry which could bring much money into the territory and citing what other states doing to develop this great new po tentia will not dgress at this moment to discuss the potential tourist industry in detail although strongly believe in it's possibilities and might point out the interest ing analogy in other Pacific territory Hawaii, where toursm developed in the last twenty years IS now third major industry, coming after and pineappes The point s that third economic Cor an additional eco homie prop as were has to the territory through the defense furnishing opportunities of the many respects more avorab than most of the States since creates activities that did not exist here before means more employment and the increased use of products and services here need not beabor this
 
 gram have yet been sensed and only the begin nngs thereof felt.
 For it must be clear that concomtanty with the de fense program many other important improvements for which have been striving for years have come or coming They coming partly in connection with the defense partly because their time had naturally arrived partly because the continued effort toward securing these desirable things for Alaska has finally begun to bear fruit They include the linking of Alaska by regular commercial transportation with the rest of the United States and the world. Along with it coming tremendously improved communications within the territory. Three million dol lars out of the $40O0O000 nationwide CAA airport program is about to be expended in Alaska Great new arpors have been begun about to be begun at Kechkan Juneau Cordova Anchorage Kodiak Fairbanks Nome Kotzebue Emergency fields in between and modern aids to navgatonwhich pioneering Alaska aviaors who blazed the sky trails did withoutw annhiate time and space this vast territory New highways will be built highways which apart from their military value will be indispensable to the economic developments prosperity further growth of territory There will be further harbor improvements additional aids to marine navigation beneficial to fishermen and seaborne commerce, and to all those directly and indirectly dependent upon it.
 It is of true that growth in population brings Continued