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HKOWX ADMITS CHARGE
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in last weeks issue of THE ALAS
KAN was published an editorial—
“Sheeplierders and Gumshoers”—
charging I'nited States Deputy Mar
shat Charles V. Brown with eonduet
unbecoming an officer, beingg im
moral and of a nature contrary to
Ids sworn oath to enforce the law
without fear or favor.
Now Mr. Brown virtually admits
tl.** charge by bringing to task the
n ail whom lie thought was our in- j
formant and who therefore knew
of Brown’s illicit visits. “You had
no business” said lie, “to tell Paul
anything about it.” The man he
brought to task has hardly even, sai 1
“how’-dy” to Paul, let alone talk of
U"i<ed States Deputy Marshal ana
his private affairs in the Red Light
district.
vYhen any representative of the
Department of Justice so far forget s
his sworn obligation to the pubh
whom lie serves, it is high time tha
he served it no longer. Therefore.
Mr. Brown should either resign fo"
tha* good of the service or he should |
he divorced from the position by or
der of the Department.
RECITATIONS
The reputation of a public servant
pioeedes or follows him. Tn tlm
case of Charles V. Brown it wo -
said that he was “hard-boiled" and
and viciously mean without rhyme
or reason. Facts have borne out
the statement.
tn the case of Deputy Marsha1
Harriman, temporarily here, it said
said that he is one of the few real
good men in tlie service; that he
performs his sworn duties fairly and
squarely without fear or favor.
The First Division is woefully
short, of that type of men. Let us
har e more of them.
MERCHANTS AND MERCHANDISE
The Juneau Empire waxed wroth
recently because prohibition agents
“raided prominent merchants of Ju
m an” aiul confiscated certain bever
ages used for intoxicating purposes.
The Empire holds that the goods
n.et the requirements of the law,
and dispensed thereunder by law
prescribed; and that the raids by
the officers was unnecessary, unwar
ranted, ungentlemanlv and interfe'
ed with traffic otherwise permitted.
Did any non-advertiser of Hie Em
pire go down the street podding
lemon extract, vanilla and other ex
tracts high in alcoholic percentage,
or other beverage with plenty of vol
atile content, lie would lie arrested
and receive mighty little support
from that organ which shouts of
constitutional liberty.
'Vas ordei^d to Morninggside last
v eek from Wrangell one Oscar Ka
shoets, Indian who purchased con
siderable of the extracts, hair tonics
ami various other bug juices. Oth
ers will follow and still others wilt
become blind or die by reason o
such purchase and use of so-called
“legal commodities.”
When extracts et cetera go out of
mercantile establishments by the
dozvm or more, into (he hands of
persons not eligible to purchase in
wholesale quantities, then it is be
irg purchased for no other purpose
than for immediatae intoxicating
purposes.
The buyer then is selling for no le
gitimate purpose. To condemn the
tiie prohibition agents for stopping
this nefarious business is rather out
of order for any law abiding person
or publication. The officers should
be commended, not damned.
“BREED LATE FISH
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We are now lead to believe by ;•
•5v ivel chair fisherman that the rea
son for the reported heavy run of
late salmon this year is due to the
black feed reported prevalent in
Frederick Sound and other water;;.
The question arises then with
plenty of black feed in Blake Chan
n.d, Clarence and Sumner Straits
why the scarcity of fish?
The run from the southern dis
tiTt to Point Lemesiurer gradually
deceased as the traps took their
toll of salmon. The headwaters go"
bat a very small proportion of the
escapement. All things being equal
insofar as black feed is concerned,
wry is not the run in that section
heavy as in other districts?
Black feed theory notwithstand
ing The Alaskan challenges air/
sc enlist, bureaucratic or swivel
chair, to disprove the parent stream
theory in view of the following:
^tikeen sockeye run larger every
year than any other red salmon
s ream. A scant dozen miles from
its direct mouth is Konk Creek
v.hi<*li produces sockeye running 2
fnr-1; Lake Bay and Salmon Bays
are next in point of size as to their
sal.non yet with Coffman’s Cove and
V. hale Passage in short swimming
d'stance we do not see many sockeye
salmon going up these dog and
humpy streams; Neeker Bay, Baran
of with its 2-for-l sockeye is never
mis'alien by Redoubt salmon or
vice versa, regarless of the quantity
o! black feed, or lack of it.
Black feed theory or not, the
2-fr.r-l sockeye do nor make the mis-j
t V' of entering any other than the
paren stream.
“DEVELOPS LATE FISP
\'o cannerymnn in his senses de
nies that the dune and July runs of
s:. . ion are runs of the past. Those
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run 5 of salmon used to insure the j
Mr. ka Packer’s at Wrangell a pack
o’ <>0 to 85 thousand cases before
the end of August. Since the cycle
lias been destroyed the Packer’s have
discontinued operations there; the
Xm thwestern Fisheries have closed
down their plant at Santa Ana and j
tho e canneries going to rack and ;
ruin.
1 lie present run which is very
sj.o'ty is the salmon conserved by
the closed season. The conserved
seed of previous years has develop
ed a run that now appears after the
seasonal closing date. The fact is
incontrovertible in view of the con
diiion of spawning areas and imme
duPe vicinity.
Late fish begets late fish. Black
fc-.nl begets black feed and cannot
reproduce any but their own kind.
WAGES AM) HEALTH
“A sound mind in a sound body,”
is sound doctrine. A speech b;
William Green, president of the A
F. of L., said in a recent speech:
‘‘Civilization and the preservation
of our national life demand the most
serious study and consideration of
the causes of ill health among chil
dren. We cannot have a strong, vig
orous people unless we grow strong,
healthy children.
“Because working men and wo
men realize the effect of the grave
social error which confronts our
present-day civilization due to a
constantly increasing underfed and
undernourished child population,
they emphasize their demands for
higher wages and an adequate year
ly income.
“The workers insist on the estab
lishment of a wage level sufficient
ly high to provide a yearly income
out of which they can feed, clothe, '
care for and educate their children.
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“They cannot buy the necessary (f
rod and clothing, nor can they pro- j l:
kle decent housing conditions for !
heir children unless their income \ s
jriesponds with their domestic and |
amily needs.
“Health, happiness, home and \
‘.erne environment for millions ot t
vorkermen’s children depend upon {
vages and income.
.“Wages and .income .therefore ,
ucan life, health and happiness to ^
v-eking men and women and tain* (
'anlilies dependent upon them.
‘If we are to save the children, i
ve must abolish poverty resulting ,
rum low wages and unemployment.
We must face this problem resolute*- .
y and constructively.
“We must find a remedy for un
employment and we must establish
a code of industrial ethics which
e* ill guarantee the payment of wag
es and salaries wholly adequate to
provide for all the comforts and ne
cessaries of life for bread winne *n
and their children.”
WILL FIT FISHERIES SYSTEM
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Dr. John McDowell, secretary of
the Presbyterian Board of National
Missions gave Labor Day message
which might well be read and ap
plied to the seiners’ situation in
Alaska in view of the fact that it is
the only industry which employs or
cm employ the major portion of the
population total:
“The most significant feature of
the industrial world today is the
passionate cry for social justice.
Pity and charity are scorned by the
rank and file. They insist the*
equity, not charity, is the only ade
quate basis for industrial relation
ships.
“Luxury can justifiably come into
existence only when honest penury
has vanished.
“Let us. therefor, affirm again an
this Labor Day that any social and
ii dustrial system which grinds up
men and women and children to
r..a!:e cheap goods, is an un-christin a
svstem; that, no social and industrial I
system can be Christian until it is s i
organized that every honest and will
ing worker can find work, and work
<?o remunerative that he cannot onlv
r aintain his own working powers
in health and efficiency, but shall al
so he able to give bis wife and clP1
dre-i a decent, healthy, joyous and
honorable life; in other words, 'the
abundant life’ which Christ came t >
give the world.”
M RCHASTNG POWER NEEDED I
V7e can talk all we please of pa
tronizing home industry it will be
but wasted breath until such a time1
ar Alaskans get purchasing power.
'i he average seiner this year earn
eil for two months labor, exclusive
of present season, $150. for two
;
ir oaths labor. Out of which earn
iT go must come operating expenses
Allowing $100, clear for the season
the seiner must make his wage cov-.
er a deal of needs. He goes where
he -an get the most for his money
as a matter of self-protection there
by bringing the mailorder house iu
direct competition with local busi
TlfcS‘3.
So long as Mr. Fisherman could
earn from $500 to $1500. the season
prices were of little concern to him.
He bought what he wanted, when
he wanted. Business was in far bet
ter condition than today and mail
n?der business was small.
Senator Robert F. Waggner re
cently made an attack on the Depart
ment of Labor in which he said:
“'Most of the people I know claim
to be quite well stocked with wants
but what I what they are complain
ing of is a shortage of purchasing
power to satisfy the old desires.
“It is true that purchasing power
is now concentrated in the hands of
a few who are already surfeited with
more than they want.
“But the vast majority of wage
earners, who have not even achieved
the distinction of being income tax
payers, the great and grevious need
is not new want, but new purchas
ing power..
“ * * * And of those who are
talkiing in terms of ‘self-adjustment*
I should like to ask: Who is to pay
or the terrific loss that is boundjt
p with the readjustment? Will! j
hai burden be loaded upon thejt
boulders of those least able t« i c
ear ii ? • fc
“* ** \ve owe it to the men and t
/omen who work not to expose them e
o the unfair competition of starved 1
nd wretched men. c
‘We owe it to ouhselves not to per (
nit the army of unemployed to he
isccl as a powerful lever to depress 1
>ur standard of living. 1
“At any rate we cannot sit by and 1
vatch the idle millions tramp the J
•it> streets in vain ‘for - work. We
>ray for inventions like the Orion* - '
ns prayed for rain.
? Every human being exacts a liv
n-v from tne society in which he
ives.' If permitted, he gives his ser
vices in return. If not, he secures
a is maintenance none the less, per
haps, fror^ the superintendent of
lie poor or the warden of the jail.
“These men who are now idle
must live and will live. Your onlv
alternative is WTLL YOU COMPEL
1H AM TO 15 E PARASITES OP
WILL YOU ACCEPT THE MAR
\ ELOPS WEALTH THAT YOUR
[OLE HANDS ARE ANXIOUS TO
CREATE FOR YOU.”
The mailorder house is here to
stay and compete with Alaska con
cerns so long as the earning power
of residents is below a standard of
comfort.
It behooves the business men to
■join with the fishermen in the effort
to secure better than an existence
wage. It is the answer to BUY AT
HOME.
ADVISED TO STAY OUT
OF POLITICS
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“Do nothing that will drag the
prohibition unit into the presiden
tial campaign” is a notice that has j
been given to the prohibition unit j
by Assistant: Secretary of the Trea
svis' Seymour bowman, in charge of
prohibition enforcement. The agents
have been told frankly that they are
under civil service and not in go
eminent service as politicians and
that they must pipe down on all pc
whnt they say be misinterpreted,
what they ay be misinterpreted.
W. W. Jermane, feature writer in
a Seattle paper says from Washing
ton- “The one thing that Assistant
Secretary bowman, Dr. Doran and
the other prohibition chiefs are in
sistent on is that the prohibition unit
shall do nothing to give any critic
—politician or journalistic—lever
age for the charge that the unit is ;
being used in the presidential cam
paign to help Hoover and hurt Smith
They cannot do too much to make !
■ sawoarriMH nru**: nmmtBmmm nKMMMnoBHM
his perfectly plain to everybody
loover, it is certain, would not conn
['nance anything that kind, even if
ivi! service rules permitted it.
iinith would want nothing better
han to be able to show that the fed
ra! government, through its prohi
e.tion enforcement officers was fav
ring one presidential candidate and
ipposing the other.”
It. is being urdertood that this ap
dies to United States marshals also
v lio are more or less active in cam
utiairng for presidential nominees
\s United States Marshal Albert
A'hite is soon to taHe his vacation
ml campaign in Idaho, it is won
lored what, the attitude of the De
;artment of Justice will be in the
na her.
WHEN IS A LAW?
Republicans and Democrats areone
n their protest against the action
>f Assistant Attorney General Mabel
Vv illebrandte to close New Yoru
‘night clubs” more' generally known
in Alaska ‘‘bootleg damps.” The
mice of the elite is raised in protest
against such lese majeste by the lad/
attorney.
It seems to be the general prac
tice and believed proper, to drag the
bootlegger and his customer into
court. It seems to be violating the
‘‘constitutional guarantees” to go
after the bonded liquor dispenser
and his big customers.
\Ve cannot differentiate. We can
n< t see wherein a big violator is any
more exempt than a little one—-re
tailer or consumer. Perhaps it will
bo explained and shown why consti
tutional guarantees are violated yet
at the saiiie time the “ruffneck” go"
what he deserved.
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To one of nervous temperament
there comes a time when it seems
that every nerve in the body is tied
in a tight knot. If only they could
be untied! They can be—if you
v : 11 give the chiropractor a chance.
The nerves, of course are not
knotted. But a spinal irritation at
their point of origin produces that
sensation, and the adjustments of
the chiropractor, removing that ir
ritation, have the effect of untying
the mythical knots.
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I correct dis-eases of the eyes, ears,
nose, throat, lungs, stomach, liver,
kidneys, bowels and lower organs.
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Palmer Grsdimt* 1014
PETERSBURG, - - ALASKA
AT THE CHURCHES
Rev. W. J. Maakestad, Pastor.
Sunday School at 10:30
Morning worship: 11:30.
Sermon by the Pastor. Theme ’“Aa
Understanding Christ.”
You are cordially invited.
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Fresh Doughnuts, Cup Cakes, l oo' us
and Cinnamon Rolls
Always on Hand Fresh
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tersburg Friday morning, leaving
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about noon.
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Mutton and Pork
Vegetable in Season
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