cause his neighbors say ‘h# is getting
rather ripe that ho can put the
sugar in Sugar . baduy.; At.va- pi arty
recently he was-pro^testing tearful-'
ly because the hot called the ...
pettel black. • rr--The Old Cynic *'* ’’
THE" CHIEF GHOST IS COLUMN ’ . .... ,
' By s The old Cynic
^The people of Alaska are the smart
est lot of known Americans .and . .
they, are not too proud tq .admit
it as they often and'forcefully
do; we Alaskans have elected a
’'senator*’ to the United States *
Congress who is, as far as the re- ’
cords show, the only man who .had
impunged the integrity, .of Ike * ’
Eisenhower.•'‘There have been a
.-number of people who questioned ,
Ide’s judgement in a fow.matters,
but. no one” else who questioned his
honesty, ‘Ferhaps we Alaskans are
phoud of an unprecedented boldness.;,
and discernment*. .->■
The , "Senator" rnay. have the ambition
Ana drive of an Aaron, Burr but he
f also'has dof Aat‘ of: Clay* ~~Thl3.' -
fish cannery story has a familiar,
.... old 'odor about it and 3ome- Alas
kans think it stinks-.. . , .
It do beat da dickens .what q
frustrated little man* will say
when, he feels desperate. Ho
should be teamed with Joe.- McCarthy.
The Old Cynic was recently ..in one
of the Coast‘towns where fishing
is th'J chief concern of tho people.
He happen-*d‘ into kcGinty1 s ..Bar
where a lot of rugged fishermen
were slobbering .into their‘‘btrer
and bemoaning, the-' -fact that Alaska
is headed.for economic decay. It
seems that someone - now contemplates
building a dam in' the Copper Kiver
that wiirf‘inter.f-ere.. with the
salmon run some‘' twenty or thirty
; years from'now. Now any fisher
[ man iknows that the .salmon has an
' intelligence that make.s. Newton,
‘ jblnstein or -any fisherman look
like a moron. The•£iny sklmon
'• ^ingerling leaves the lake in the, .
vast - interior of ?niaska where ho
was spawnee. and goes- down streams
and rivers to the racific* Ocean
where he disappears, for several
years:ahd‘grows dp /to be an ,adult#
He then comes bac'k to ‘the ’river
that he camo down- years before.
He .swims up this'river' fpr^ hurv^
dreds of mile3 past .th'o mouths of
Innumerable rivers and creeks.
PlHlil$yr1iipo comes to the little .
cfe^k down which he. cerne long
ago. He wriggles up this creek’
to .the lake where he. wa3 spawned
and there enjoys'a-short season
Of ronance and* then di^s* happy
ever after« ; Now any fisherman l:r*
knows that any creature of such
ihfinite* intelligence and dis-:
cernment as that would have no * .
difficulty in detecting the in
tentions of some evil men to in* /
terfere with his travel up and
down the Copper River and in all
reasonableness the salmon will
feel discouraged and will begin ■*,'
to look for other spawning places.
If there is a poor run of salmon
in the Copper River this coming
summer the fisherman drooling* lri'
his beer will know ’thilt*’ it is ’
because the salmon; are anticipat.
ing the interfer'ohce in • the rivier
twenty years from now,
Ho'one except the Old Cynic Would
think that tho fishermen are thus
rationalizing-their plefa-next
Winter'for government charity
because'^tha_rfi3h.run is.going to
be interrupted twenty'yeari from
now. ' 4 ’ ' •*; .
» -f
"Rent-Free Land^for industry Is.
be in g offered by Montana'1 s Black
foot Indians on l>-697- sq. inif. ;
reservation near railroad, high
ways with ample electric povier*!
The Tribe wants to creat employ
ment source for 4,2.00 Blackf&et,
.now''}na,d---prieased to make'a’living
onthoir .ancestral’ grounds.
Wow convjaro this attitude by the
Blackfejt vi'th the' nroeciy, ‘ child
like effort wo Alaska oiv/nshes
are,going to make' to got the next
Alaska Legislature to pass a,.-:,
property tax lav; that will get
revenue from every venturing?" and
unprofitable enterprise in Alaska
Perhaps you have noticed that
risk capital is staying away from
Alaska in droves these days*
Anthropologists, to the contrary,
not withstanding the Old Cynicf
otijl believe that us Siwashes
aVe just naturally more observant
of details of the passing sceno
than mere whites,. * Paddy King
wpuld probably have noticed that
Ijiddy Godiva was riding a white
horse.