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A TREND OF THE TIMES
Noticeable at this time is the national interest being paid
to Alaska as a possible base for U. S. Army Air Corps. Small
comment previously occupied but little space in the news
papers concerning the requests and demands by the people
of Alaska for the establishment of air bases in Alaska which
would serve as a measure of protection.
Today, especially since the Alaska Flight of ten of the
U. S. Army Air Corps’ latest bombers, people in the United
States have come to recognize that Alaska today remains
open and vulnerable at all times to any opposing power, via
the air route. If the United States could dispatch a fleet of
Army planes more than three thousand miles, why couldn’t
some other power across the Pacific do the same, only before
the U. S. could rally to defend it?
People have become Alaska-conscious. Daily, reports
appear in the newspapers of another legislator or congress
man taking a stand that suitable army air bases should be
established in Alaska.
Today, two widely separated cities in the United States had
reports of influential persons backing such a proposal. Al
aska is entitled to the protection of its “mother,” and the
people of Alaska are urgently behind the proposal for the
establishment of Army Air Bases in Alaska, for measures of
fortification and defense, and the progressive step forward in
helping this frontier country.
ABOLISHMENT CAUSE OF MUCH DISCUSSION
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(Alaska Fishing News)
The question of trap abolishment is in a fair way to be-;
come the chief topic of conversation among those interested,
in the fishing industry. One may hear an argument nearly j
any time as to the merits of the referendum vote proposed
by Delegate Dimond. I
The huge vote cast in favor of trap abolition in Wash
ington is a good indication of the sentiment of the people
regarding traps. We predicted editorially that the Wash
ington measure would carry by a large vote, and, in the case
of Alaska, we predict that the percentage of votes cast for j
trap abolishment, if the referendum is held, will be even,
greater than the Washington percentage. In Washington
huge sums of money were spent in the effort to defeat the
measure, even to the extent of conducting prize contests for
essays on why traps should be retained. The Territorial re
ferendum, of course, is not effective in itself. But—a vote of
the people for abolishment, coupled with the result of the
Washington election, will go far toward convincing Congress
that abolition is desirable. Delegate Dimond thinks he can
get the traps abolished with this expression of the people to
back him up, and certainly, Delegate Dimond is in a posiiton
to judge what can be accomplished along that line.
Some contend that canneries could not get enough fish,
and that the fish they would get would be of inferior qual
ity. However, an authority on the subject informs us that,
as to quality, seine fish can be just as good as any trap fish
and that the main reason for present discrimination between
trap and seine fish is caused by traps catching so many fish
that the seiners are forced into the mouths of streams as be
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ing the only places they can find enough fish gathered togeth
er in one place! As to the difficulty in getting enough fish,
British Columbia threw out traps some time ago, and the
Canadian canneries seem to be getting along all right,
i Trap advocates in Washington indulged in much flag
waving to the effect that seiners and gillnetters wanted a
monopoly on salmon fishing, and that it was unjust to the
poor trap owners to allow this. They did not mention how
ever, the fact that in granting a trap owner a location he was
given a one-man monopoly on the best piece of fishing wat
er his scouts could find, and that, by the construction of his
trap, he barred all other classes of fishermen from it. A trap
owner is hardly in a position to accuse someone else of seek
ing to monopolize salmon fishing.
PIRACY IN ANOTHER FORM
Edson R. Waite says: “The technique of piracy appears
to have altered from the old days of the Jolly Roger and
his skull and cross bones by which the honest pirate adver
tised to all. His calling has gone and the tax raisers have
taken his place.”
If the old pirate should again go back into business and
be caught red handed, he would probably not be hanged, but
would be the subject of many conferences and legal squab
bles because, no doubt, many people would think it quite
proper and perhaps patriotic to take from those who have.
Our lawmakers and tax collectors are busy inventing
new ways and means of taking from those who have and col
lecting every cent that can be squeezed from them. The
people, innocent victims of this political development of
such high taxes which they neither wished nor assisted in
bringing about4, but which was imposed upon them by our
politicians, can only pay and wonder “Where do we go from
here and where will we get the money to continue to pay?”
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