Show death for private enterprise the following 0 edi editorial toral is reprinted from the portland cortlan oregon journal if you think TVA and the proposed bill are far reaching consider this william warne assistant secretary secret ary of interior recently outlined in in part plans for an alaska development corporation bill that has everything the doctrinaires doctrin aires of re regionalism 0 ional have been advocating and then some this government corporation with 1 billion of federal funds would have the authority to engage in any kind of business power shipping railroading mining banking lumbering printing and com munica eions it could operate any kind of retail business or service including hotels restaurants housing theatres theartres the atres dairies commissar ies laundries and what have you run by a three to five man board appointed by the president this government corporation could do almost anything it chooses to do with the water land forest power and mining resources of alaska it would have a strangle hold on alaskan economy and could if it chose to do so elbow private enterprise out of the picture like TVA and the proposed and bills it could agnor civil service and do all construction st work on a force ac account aunt basis thus eliminating private contractors and it would be specifically exempted from au all federal territorial and municipal taxes tames this then is a master plan for alaska one that would nationalize alaskan commerce and industry it rep represents a philosophy widely accepted in ih britain and heard more and more frequently in these united states which holds in its effect that personal initiative and private enter enterprise are no longer effective and that only an all wisa authoritarian type government corporation superimposed upon basins states and territories can do the governmental and developmental job we believe this philosophy philo is wholly unacceptable whether it is exen exemplified in an alaska dc da corporation or in a valley authority |