W
Published every Friday by the A N B. Publishing Co., Petersburg
Entered in the Post Office in Petersburg as Second Class Matter
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
The Alaskan, six months.... $2.50
The Alaskan, jer year.,. $4.00
A. N. B. PUBLISHING COMPANY
AN INSULT, NOT APOLOGY |
In the editorial columns of
the last issue of the Flood Tide,
high school organ, appears an
“Apology” which reads as fol
lows:
“Because the lights were off
for several days so that the
photographer was unable to
work, we were so unfortunate as
not to secure the portrait of
Mr. Jess Ames for this issue of
FLOOD TIDE. We feel very
sorry that we could not do this,
as we are deeply indebted to
him for his perservering work
with the basketball team. There
are very few men who would
take such an interest in a group
of boys as Mr. Ames has shown
in our team.”
LIGHT ON SUBJECT
-o
“Dad” Mercer, upon the re
turn of the team from Fair
banks, offered to take a picture
of the team but was absobloom
inlootely ignored as “a picture of j
the team had been taken at j
Fairbanks.”
Second shot: Is it necessary
that the hydro-electric plant be
in commission in order to take
the picture of the coach of the
team?
Third: Imagine a banquet
given in honor of a citizen of
the town for exceptional ser
vices rendered and then that
citizen left out of the banquet.
Fourth: Such an empty ap
ology is an insult to the effort
of Mr. Ames through whose ef
forts and skill the school and
Petersburg benefitted.
DRIVING AWAY
RESIDENT FISHERMEN
The other day the writer
stopped and talked with a fish
erman alongside whom he fish
ed twenty years ago in Blake
Channel and other waters of
this district. “Are you going to
fish this summer,” we asked.
“No! There is no use. I can’t
fish any place now unless I vio-*
late the law.” “Well,” was our
reply, “why don’t you get can
nery boats and gear and fish
anyhow. You will get a certain
amount of protection.” “Yes,”
was his answer, “but it is not
pleasant to be tied up by the
courts and have fines of $400
soaked on us or to sit in jail
working out the fine and losing
our whole summer. No! I am
done with fishing. There is no
use in going out fishing any
more. It is a waste of time and
only invites trouble.”
For all of which Alaskans can
thank Henry O’Malley, who
parcels out the right of Alaska
fisheries to foreign operators to
the exclusion of residents.
TRAPS ARE ILLEGAL
The contention of this pub
lication is that under the sys
tem of management and regula
tion today, operation of traps
is being done illegally.
That is certain areas are clos
ed to all fishing and certain
areas opened only to certain
operators of salmon traps. The
law of 1924 declares without
equivocation that the right to
fish in all waters shall be guar
anteed to all fishermen. But
under the present regulation
Mr. O’Malley declares that at a
certain point (where a trap is
already maintained) fishing
may be done and outside of the
area of that trap for a distance
of several miles, no fishing shall
be permitted. The right of any
other person to enter the fish
ing area is prevented by the re
gulation contrary to the letter
oi' Hie law therefore operation
of that trap is illegal.
It is not to be expected that
ali the resident business men
of Alaska will wake up to the
steal which is going on right
under their noses but it is to be
expected that by this time some
oi the smaller operators who
have been hurt by these regula
tions will awaken and begin to
support effort to equalize dis
tribution of a resource which
belongs to Alaska and Alaskans.
SOME MORE DELAY
GREAT WAS THE FALL—
Ex-secretary A. B. Fall who
was to be tried in Washington,
in connection with oily briberies
has secured another delay. This
time by the sickness of special
counsel Atlee Pomerene, for the
government. Fall is now in New
Mexico.
The indictment charged Fall
with receiving $100,000 from E.
L. Doheney in “the little black
satchel.”
WHAT BRINGS PROSPERITY
TO CITIES
An article worth reprinting
comes from the pen of B. C.
Forbes in the Seattle Post In
telligencer and is headed “Un
selfish Acts of Civic Leaders
;Bring Prosperity to Cities.”
“Whether a city is prosperous
or not depends most often on its
citizens, and particularly on
their public-spiritedness. Ex
perience has taught me to ex
pect to find a lot of knockers
in a city that is not going for
ward; men without either the
will or the energy to do dis
interested things for the bene
fit of their community. In the
happy, progressive, up-and-do
jing city you commonly find a
great aeal of civic pride, and a
generous number of men work
ing enthusiastically and unsel
fishly to push the city ahead.”
| “In Syracuse the other day I
had the pleasure of attending
one of the most remarkable
gatherings. Of eighty men in
vited to get up at a sufficient
ly early hour in the morning to
enable them to attend a 7:45
breakfast, no fewer than 75
showed up—the host Harvey D.
Burrill, publisher of the Syra
cuse Journal, explained that
the other five were not there
because they were out of town.
“Would your city match this?
| My guess is that few cities
would.
These 75 leading citizens were
not animated by any selfish
motive; there was nothing in it
for them, as the saying goes.”
An evening banquet over 500
attended the annual dinner of
the Club and 150 had to be
turned away by the fire depart
ment as not another person
could be seated with safety. “It
was not astonishing to learn
that this city is steadily going
forward, and that it is today
enjoying a measure of pros
perity never before equalled.
“If your city isn’t what you
would like it to be, suppose you
ask yourself whether you are
doing everything within your
power to improve it. Charity is
not the only thing that should
begin at home.”
-x
WHY MR. SINCLAIR
WENT TO JAIL
Those optimists who point to
Mr. Sinclair’s jailing as proof
that “you can put a million1
dollars in prison” should reflect
that the oil king isn’t in jail
for breaking a law. It is, of
course, a healthful sign that
he IS in jail—but it isn’t fo:
any crime against the people of
hie United States.
Mr. Sinclair is behind the bars
oecause, in the language of th
street, “he sassed the cop.’’ H»
wouldn’t answer questions put
to him by a committee of th;
United States senate; the sen
ate, to uphold its dignity, lock
ed up Mr. Sinclair for three
months.
It still remains to be proved
Ghat “the big ones don’t get a
way.”
AN OBJECT LESSON IN
EFFICIENCY
-O
Senator Norris of Nebrask;
has been devoting some time
lately to the education of hi
colleagues on the power ques -
tion. He is trying to show then
the difference between public
ownership and private enter
prise in this field of public ser
vice, and explain how the power
Trust can afford to keep the
world’s most expensive lobby ir
Washington.
As a teacher, Senator Norik
uses what is sometimes called
the case method, and here k
one if his cases:
In Detroit, with electricity
[furnished by private enterprise,
the householder pays 10 cents
per kilowatt hour for the first
30 hours, and 4 cents per kilo
watt hour for the next 120.
In Windsor, just across the
river, in Canada, with a public
ly-owned municipal plant dis
tributing to its townsmen cur
rent bought from the publicly
owned hydro-electric commis
sion, the householder pays 2 y2
cents per kilowatt hour for the
first 60 hours, and 1 % cents per
kilowatt hour for any further
amount which he uses.
A householder who uses 30 k.
w. h. per month pays $3 in De
troit and 75 cents in Windsor.
A householder who uses 60 k.
w. h. per month pays $9 in De
troit and $3 in Windsor.
A householder who uses 130
k. v/. h. per month pays $4.20 in
Detroit and $1.50 in Windsor.
Or, to put it another way, the
Detroit family which uses 30
kilowatt hours of current per
month and pays $3 for it can
move across the river to Wind
sor and get six times as much
electricity—180 k. w. h.—for
exactly the same price.
Private enterprise, say the
[textbooks, is much more effici
jent than public ownership—and
[that is true. At least, in the
; matter of charges.—LABOR.
x
THE GREATEST NEED
j --
. .‘'The greatest need in Alaska/’
says the Juneau Empire, “is con
structive work that is both con
servative and progressive.”
Conservative in its political
sense means antagonistic to any
change in the institutions of the
country, civil or ecclesiastical;
especially opposed to change in'
the direction of democracy.
Progressive means to go for
forward, to favor progress; one
who promotes or commends re
forms or changes; opposed to
conservative. “Some are con
servatives, others progressives,
j still others may be called radic
als.” H. White, Pop. Sci. Mo.
XXXVI, 499. “We are forced to
take sides on it, either as pro
gressives or conservatives.”—S.
^Thurber, in Education, III. 619.
The greatest need, therefore,
acordin gto the Empire, Alas
ka’s greatest need is construct
ive work that is opposed to pro
gress and opposed to conserva
tiveness at the same time. Or
in other words it must be like a
man going in two directions at
the same time.
-x..
AND THEY SHALL BE BLESSED
ACCORDING TO THEIR WORK
A man cruising along the
shores of North Prince of Wales
Island, decided not so long since,
that he wanted a small tract of
land east of Point Baker where
he could establish a mink farm.
He made rough draft of the area
he wanted and forwarded it with
his application to the Czars of
the Forestry Department. He
soon learned that the agents of
that department were so busy!
and overworked (har) that it!
was not possible to get a man
there to make the necessary sur
vey. However, in due course of
time—a darned long time—an
agent of the department made
his appearance and made the
survey. Included in the area
was a bunch of scrubby piling;
and instead of surveying the re
quested five acres, forty was put
in the survey. After another
generation or two of mink pass
ed into scarfs, coats and what
not from other areas, the appli
cant was advised that his appli
cation could not be granted on
recount of the timber (?) area
Included.
His reply was typically Alas
kan and of any other red-cor
ouscled man: “You can go to
hell with your lands. I am going
lover into Canada where they
are fair to their settlers.”
The territory loses a perma
nent settler and attendant fu
ture development and Canada
gained by Alaska’s loss. The full
blame for the non-development,
of the Territory lies with the
parasytic, bureaucratic, auto
cratic, lordly nin-compoops.
George L. Johnson of Anc
horage recently made applica
tion to the biological survey for
permit to capture lynx this
spring for experimental pur
poses on his mink fvni. A
letter from the bureau opposed
i the capture of the animals be
cause of spring breeding which
might make the numb*” capt
ured exceed the permit granted.
In other words, the department
opposed the capture for fear
that in capturing a female it
| m ght present him with a litter
Jcf kittens.
EiDRS. C. M. & R. L. CARLSON
Optometriite and Opticians
218 -19 Commercial Building
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
S
• >< :>o
I ifi Hi# 1 Sols!
Home Service Mending <
of Laundered Goods c
We give full value for your t
* money. U
H. OY AM A, pro. I
:t , i
John Fanning a
SHOE STORE
Dealer in
Complete line of Silk Hosiery
Best grade of Shoes for men,
women and children.
A Best Quality Goods
V
V at very low price;
f
i .=
Cax^~xK‘*x~X"X~X"X"X~x~x~:~>»:‘
Shoe repairing neatly done.
Buy at Star Bakery and Save Money
Fresh Doughnuts, Cup Cakes, CooVisa
and Cinnamon Rolls
Always on Hand Fresh
STAR BAKERY
C. H. 5undmacher
Attorney at Law
Arctic Hotel Petersburg
Leave Seattle
Petersburg
Alameda
Alameda
June 5
Alameda
June 12
June 4
Northwestern
Pass. & Freight to S.E. & W. Alaska,
C. A. WEST, Agent
Phone 15
Petersburg, Alaska
The New VorI<
Pool Billiard And Card Room
Choice Cigars, Tobaccos And Candies
New Tables And Equipment
Dick Kuwata, Prop.
X
x
Satisfaction Always
Guaranteed
f0 A complete line of men’s
furnishings for work or
_ IHIW dress. A fine line of
[JV J iKj Goods for women
■v
dnnimtana’
TVVVVVir* V ♦ ♦ rvi
ATTENTION !!
Boat Owners
We can take care of general repair in wood and caulking
and all the blacksmith work on any boat up to 100 feet in
length at
Petersburg Marine Ways
J. C. Holton & Ed. Walwick
X ?
| Tdercex S\vAvos |
| portraits Alaska
x Landscapes? views
| COPYING AND ENLARGING
I TINTING AND COLORING DONE IN OIL
£ FRAMING DONE TO ORDER
£ .:
£ 1
V v
X
Z
<
u
z
o
H
A C
$ o
X «*“»
X .2
I
X -Q
Y to
l 3
* Q
Service first
Oxo-Acetylene > Pipe Fitting And £
Cutting & Welding Sheet Metal Work 2
GENERAL
BLACKSMITHING
John R. Kolstrand.
H ❖
^ t
1
H
O
z
►I
*<
o
c
c/>
3
xZ Front Street. - - - Petersburg, Alaska