The Wrangell sentinel., 1952-03-07
THROUGH THE SENTINEL PERISCOPE

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 Of course, he hasn't had time but take another week or two and he'll be able to make a statement, whether he represents the Terri tory of Alaska or the Interior De- partment.
 Delegate Bob Bartlett will come up with an answer. He will be in position to say just where he stands; Chapman's boy or the re- presentatiye of the people of Alas ka We'll, he will or his pal, Ernest Gruening, will have one. Ernest was never one caught short of an answer
 Therefore, we will get the real solution to the question:
 Where were the boys when state hood, even under an Interior De- partment bill, went out the win dow?
 It might be just as well to point out that Bartlett and Gruening for the last ten years have been saying that they would deliver.
 
 hands of the solid South, which didn't and doesn't want statehood at any price So we find Bartlett in his newsletter, which Mary Lee Council writes, accusing the south erners of giving him a bad time. He puts the southern Senators on the spot for roing just what many hoped they would do - reject statehood
 As a result We have Bartlett campaigning as the great, staunch supporter of statehood, and pal Ernest calling the balls and strikes
 As the late Grover Winn used to say many years ago, it's nice work if you can get it.
 It Makes One Wonder We've been wondering for sev- eral weeks why Bill Baker of the Ketchikan Chronicle picked up a piece from The Sentinel Periscope Knowing how Bill is with the Gov ernor, we naturally wondered.
 At any rate, Bill did feel called upon to publish an item in his newspaper which referred to the reading out of the Republican par ty Anita Garnick and Mildred Hermann of Juneau by the Repub- lican Club of Ketchikan. Result: Anita was able to write a letter tC' the editor of the Chronicle blam- ing The Sentinel Periscope for re- porting fact.
 e the Republican party, now seeks succor at another source. Our best wishes to Bill to deliver. Franklya Sid, between you and me, we don't think he can.
 Noted at the City Council The clerk read, as it is his duty to do, a letter from the Alaska Public Works Agency. It stated that an item in The Wrangell Sen tinel reporting that some Juneau brass had relayed a message to tell "The Sentinel to lay off Gruen- ing and Bartlett" if the town want ed some public works money, was not founded on the APW policy.
 We agree that it shouldn't be public works policy and we hope they mean it.
 The Way They Do It
 In the days when John Walmer was Clerk of the Court in the First Division, Delegate E. L. Bartlctt was seeking reelection to Con- gress. After the votes were count- ed and the Delegate was sure of re- taining his job, he began to sus- pect he should have gotten all the votes. As a result there had to be a goat The man Bartlett chose for that spot was John Walmer.
 Walmer, said Bartlett, had not given his all to see that Bartlett was reelected. The then Secretary of Alaska, argued the point on grounds that Walmer was and had been doing his job as Clerk of the Court in an able manner
 Its time" said Bartlett, ''to show some of these people who'sl boss around here"
 Result: Walmer, sound and up right Alaska pioneer citizen. was eased out of the Clerks office. His crime: Failing to cheer when Bart lett walked down the street.
 Another victim of a similar play: Slim Rydeen, former Clerk of Court in the Second Division.
 They, like many others, have been relegated to that rather dis tinguished group of good citizens known in the Bartlett language as mot my kind of a Democrat"