The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-11-10
THROUGH THE SENTINEL PERISCOPE

As Alaska Goes so Goes the Na- tion"
 once again Alaska has proven the barometer for the national eleetloh' disereditfng the old Maine adage. prt more important, the election oI Tuesday in which MT Roosevelt ,,,as reelected for a fourth term re- veals the American people are all out to win the war. quickly a n d oo,nleteIv Regardless of the pollu- coI boop-la. it Is evident the fathers. mothers, wives and sweet bea1ts of some Il million men III inc armed forces wanted to take no chances on a change when victory is in sight. They want the Doys home. the boys want to come nome Roth know the only way to do IL IS win the war as soon as physically ,oesible The President as Commah- aer-in-Cbief of the armed forces bsads fhe winning combination. lie o1so heads the combination which tbe American people are depenulng on for an established peace so their bovs will not again have to go out to die on the beaches and in the jungle.
 Ii is probable that the pollstefs and the politicos, whose guesses on tba whole were close to loo per cent wrong. overlooked the human clement in making their calcula- lions They forgot our kids were dying every day to assure free elee- lions in America; to defeat the very kind of people who would overthrow us and the world. They forgot those lads are realists. Ihose bovs with the guns, some 4,SOO,OoO who are reported to have east pal lots know you cant vote from un- der a cross. They voted for what they believed to be a winning com bination. So did Pa and Ma at home.
 America keeps rolling to victory And, of course. Alaska leads the way,
 
 scheduled to get away to vocal re- birth in Seattle November l5 Wl0h' if is assumed, everybody standing on their aboriginal rights, the un- reported dope is that Gov. Gruenlng will come out in a message. to the ANR convention in Rake next week against the reservation idea. Those who have talked to the Territory Chief Executive get the impression he fells the establishment of Indian reservations is discrimination in re- verse and that it would set the h. dians back instead of assisting them toward improving their own conditions.
 It is another interesting fact that Secretary Ickes, who is the focal point of attack in connection with the reservations and who could walk away with the leather medal in any contest to name the man Alaskans hate the most" has ex- pressed himself as unfavorable to establishing reserves flor exclusive native use." Fact is that as early as August 2, last, Secretary lckes wrote to Representative Schuyler Otis Bland Chairman of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, as follows:
 By the act of May 1, 1886 (49 Stat. 1250), the Congress vested h this department the power and re- sponsibility of establishing reserya- tions for the natives of Alaska. This power has been very sparingly used, and indeed has not been used at all in Southeastern Alaska. The au- thority to establish reservations at- lords only a partial solution of the problems that we face in this area. I am convinced that in fairness to non-Indian fishing interests some measure should be adopted which would permit us to compensate the natives of Alaska for those lands and fishing areas to which their possessory claims have not been ex- tinguished, but which, from t h C standpoint of sound economy, should be open to public development in stead of being reserved for exclu- sive native use."
 What the Alaska Native Brother hood will do on the matter of res ervations at it's Rake convention remains to be seen but there is con siderable foundation to the repor