The Nome nugget., 1949-10-26
BUREAUCRATIC PLANNING AGAIN
 Alaska Sunday Press)

crises often come upon without advance notice or preparation That is the situation with which Alaska IS confronted, and many among our population are of the events tranSprng which Will ln- fluence the whole future of Alaska.
 The powers that be in Washington, D. G. have appar- eny conferred the brain trust level to decide just what should be done about Territory And they nave up with two undenlable and lrretutaDle lrutnS First Alaska needs money lots of it, for development Of resources for buidng for all the things that will event uay make Alaska able to take her place State Sec ond, Alaska needs more people
 Working from these basic needs two major proposals have been promulgated. And this is the place where Alaskans pay careful attention We go along with the boys on what we need but the way they propose handing it to Us is something else again.
 First-lets consider the people problem. The Peter son House Bill Mo- 5880 provides for group settlement of Alaska Even casual reading of this bill indicates many provisions that will be unsavory to Alaskans- that would be unSavory to independent people, any where The bill would authorize the secretary of interior to set aside up million of land suitable for settlement in the Territory and develop 1t under strcted program of handpcked settlers There are clusions-there reservations and exceptions-and throughout the b settlement administration IS left to the discretion of the secretary of agriculture to the initiative andor discretion of the secretary of the interior It would that primary objection to this bill would be that too much power left to people who would be, in effect ruling from distance and surely no will deny that that is what have too much of already.
 But this group settlement bill in all it's faulty ramifi cations lSn anything compared to the manner Tn Wlcn the money wants to be supplied The first inklng of this has reached in current conferences held around the Territory by assistant secretary of interior Warne The bi sponsored by the interior department and not yet officially introduced calls for billion dollar Alaska Development Corporation, and, among other things it would provide industrial developments, built by the federal and leased to private individuals or corporations, temporarily until such time private capital becomes willing to carry the load.
 Points of the act for the development of industries commendabe but with the corporation bill set up again would be confronted with bureaucracy and red tape and discretionary reservations, policy which has found increasing dsfavor in Alaska.
 If it is true that this is the type of legislation needed in Alaska then surely a long way from being ready for Statehood and even more important if Alas ka is sadded with such restrictive bls it's aspira tions toward Statehood will be set back seriously.
 The Development Corporation bill would serve to set tie structure of industry upon unsound base As long freight rates prevent from entering world markets competitive basis, all the government owned industrial projects in the world can't really help us or would all transportation too be under govern ment control?
 Alaska is rich and has great poentiates which have hardly been explored but even our widest dreamers don't fool themselves into thinking that be self sufficient now We can't support huge population and