THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manager *■
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Demand for concerted acion to protect Alaska fish
eries from Japanese invasion is growing ever stronger.
We heard much of it during the regular session of the
Legislature. The Bureau of Fisheries has issued re
ports through Commissioner Frank T. Bell of the in
roads being made. Delegate Dimond, with Senators
Homer T. Bone and Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Wash- j
ington> are endeavoring to get appropriate action. Sen
ator Bone the other day demanded that the State De
partment be instructed to proceed at once with a treaty
or agreement toward that end. Newspapers and other
publications are urging action before it is too late. The1
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, commenting on the subject,
has this to say:
“The impudent announcement by the Japanese com
missioner of fisheries that Japanese fishermen will be
encouraged to carry on salmon fishing in Alaskan wat
ers makes this issue one for immediate action.
Floating canneries operated by Japanese have here
tofore operated off the Alaska coast, outside the three
mile limit. It was given out that the work was “exper
imental” and many persons failed to grasp the menace
involved.
‘ Senators Bone and Schwellenbach are right in
pressing the state department for ‘a determined stand’
—and at once.
“It is true that national jurisdiction customarily
ends at the three-mile limit. But it is also true that
the salmon are spawned far inland, in the streams of
Alaska, Canada and the United States and that they
return to those streams, at the end of their cycle of life,
to spawn and die.
“If, as is evidenced by Prime Minister King’s recent:
conference with President Roosevelt and by editorial
assertions in Canadian newspapers. Canada desires a
closer accord with the United States on matters of mut-1
ual interest, this affords a splendid opportunity for joint
action—for an assertion that America (which includes
the United States and Canada) will resist this unwar-i
ranted invasion.
"But whether or not Canada intends to speak, the
United States can speak and should speak now!”
There is a great deal of potential dynamite in desire
for world trade. Eyes in the Orient see vast possibili
ties in the fisheries of the North Pacific. The compara
tively few Japanese floating canneries which now oper-t
ate almost in sight of our shore lines under no regula
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tions naturally will become many if no barrier is raised
to stop them. The sooner the problem is approached
diplomatically the less danger there will be of serious
difficulties in the future.
ALASKA NEWS IS WORLD WIDE
It is a tradition that few things happen in the north
which do not have wide news interest. The recent fire
at Douglas was a typical example. The report was
spread in newspapers throughout the nation and ech
oed over the radio stations. Listeners on the short
wave in Douglas and Juneau were not a little surprised
to hear the Douglas fire news broadcast from London
as a matter of international interest.
A key to why Alaska makes news, particularly inci ■
dents touching on the Territory’s earlier days, may fca
found in the following account in a recent issue of the
New York Times on the Douglas fire:
“The fire which practically wiped out the tiny town
of Douglas, suburb of Juneau, Alaska’s capital, recalls1
a region where man and nature struggle on a mighty
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1 “Douglas just across the Gastineau Channel from
Juneau on the Alaskan ‘panhandle’ that stretches GOG
miles down the Pacific Coast- literally ‘sits on a gold
mine’ and once was one of the richest towns of Alaska,’
says a bulletin of the National Geographic Society._
“Penetrating deep into the rock of Douglas Island,
where the town of Douglas stood, is the famous Tread
well gold mine, one of the largest and richest of the
world s quartz gold mines, in which gold is found sprin
kled through veins of hard rock. Since gold first was
discovered in this region in 1880, the ore removed has
equaled many times over the price of $7,200,000 paid
for Alaska by the United States to Russia.
Each system has its defects. But can any American
doubt that the system of no control at all is a lot easier
tc live under than the system of too much control?
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