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MEASURES THAT DEFEAT
THEMSELVES
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Two years ago, Representative
Ziegler raised the proposed tax
on non-resident trollers, from
S50 to $250. The Seattle Trollers
Association through one of their
members carried a case to court
opposing this tax and when it
met with contrary decision in
the District Court, went to the
Appellate Court in San Francis
co. This court reversed decision
of the District Court and declar
ed the law invalid. Attorney
General Rustgard, representing
the Territory, allowed his appeal
to die by elapsed time so that
now the Supreme Court refuses
to review the case.
The very size of the tax con
demned it and forced protest
from the non-resident trollers.
A bit of study and a mite of clear
judgment would have given Alas
ka fishermen protection worth
while. Had that tax remained
at $50 or even $75 there is no
doubt but that it would not have
met the opposition of the troll
ers. But the attempt to prohib
it (and $250 was prohibitory)
' LIONS IMPOSE FINE
FOR NON-VOTING
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“Joining the ‘Bring-out-the
•ote-Campaign,’ the Seattle
Lions Club voted recently to im
pose a fine of $1 on every mem
ber who fared to vote at the
next election. The action was
taken after an appeal by Willis
Brindley, chairman of the Cham
ber of Commerce publicity com
mittee to insure a representative
vote on the tenth of this month.
“We are faced with the rather
startling spectacle of less than
20 per cent of the registered
enters taking part in the recent
primary election,” Mr. Brindley
said. “This small majority pick
ed the candidates who will be on
the ballot next Tuesday because
more than 100,000 stay-at-home
voters permitted it. While elec
tion of members of the City
Council, School Board and Port
Commission, and the proposed
charter amendments and bond
issues are important, the para
mount issue is whether Seattle
is going to have representative
government or government by a
small minority.
“Wut Tsa”
A herd of seal were basking in
AGAIN: ENVIRONMENT
OR HEREDITY
In a recent issue of the Se
ward Gateway, Editor Jesson of
that paper declares: “It is na
tural for a white man to try to
progress; it is not so with the
average native. They have always
been contented to carry on like
their forefathers, and perhaps,
after all, they get more out of
life from their way of thinking.”
Which leads us to ask M: Jes
son why is it natural for one
lare to progress and for another
to mark time while civilization
marches on? What leads him to
believe that the native is always
contented to carry on as did
his forefathers? And in what
way does he get more out of life
‘ from their way of thinking”
and what is their way of think
mg?
A number of years ago a Tah
ltan Indian woman gave birth
to a son by an Englishman. That
£ on was adopted by a Chinese
and sent to China where he was
educated and where he lived as
a chinaman. Today that En
glish-Tahltan writes and speaks
the Chinese language and does
not write the English language.
A white woman in Telegraph
Creek, B. C., deserted a girl baby
on the doorstep of an old Tahl
tan Indian couple. They raised
ihat red-headed girl as befitted
the daughter of a chief and to
I was made, and the very attempt
defeated the bill. Washington
tried this same stunt a long time
ago when they tried to keep the
California fishermen from oper
ating on the Columbia River.
Now comes Representative
Ziegler again with a tax on fibre
boxes in an attempt to force the
canners to use wood containers
manufactured in Alaska. It is a
1 roposal of merit if practicable
But in the words of Mr. Ziegler:
“This proposal is not intended
to be a revenue producing meas
ure.” In our humble opinion
this admission will defeat the
very purpose of the bill. But
while it is in the legislature and
if it does pass, it will make good
political thunder which perhaps
after all is what it is intended to
be.
Just as soon as the canners
and pulpmen get ready to do so
jthey will carry a case into the
[courts and relegate the law into
! the same class with the now de
Jfunct trollers’ tax.
the warm sunshine on their
favorite rookery. They had nick
ed out “Wilt Tsa,” a half-grown
seal as sentry. Swimming back
and forth around the rookery
‘Wut Tsa” kept calling to the
sleeping herd warning them that
some hunters were apprcachin
the rookery, but the lazy her
gave him no heed. So he too,
climbed up on the rock and doz
ed off to sleep.
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Quietly but swiftly, severa
canoe-loads of hunters ap
proached the rookery and using
shotguns, spattered their shot
amongst the herd killing a large
number of seal. “Wut Tsa,”
slightly wounded, slid into the
water saying: “Now sleep on! I
am not the only one to be hurt
;by the failure to stay awake'”
The Lions Club of Seattle may
! ue likened to “Wut Tsa.” Thej
will not be the only voters whr
i will be hurt by the indifference
i
and apathy of the voters where
: vital issues must be considered
And in Alaska too, “Wut Tsa
has spoken.
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day she talks and thinks in the
Tahltan Indian language and
cares not for her own parents
people.
An Apache Indian boy was
captured by Federal Troopers
during the Apache uprising He
was adopted by an officer and
given his elementary education
in the public schools. The spark
of ambition in his heart was
kindled so that he fought his
*vay through college and medical
school and he afterwards suc
cessfully practiced medicine in
Chicago. He was one df the fore
most Indian thinkers and op
posed to the bureaucratic domi
nation of the American Indian
by the Indian Department.
Many instances like the above
may be given to show that not
heredity but environment moulds
our lives. Environment shapes
the lives of every individual and
only rarely does a child with
stand the deterring influences—
—regardless of what race that
child may be.
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SOUND DOCTRINE
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“Give the common people all
the facts and there will be no
racial, group or national hat
reds.” So speaks an Alaskan
publication. We agree with the
statement fully and urge that
publication and others to prac
tice what it preaches
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PUBLIC LIFE IGNORAMUSES’
FLAYED AS ‘ECONOMIC
FOLLY’
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Squandering of national re
sources by “intrusting develop
ment of national policies to ig-l
norant and incompetent men,”
was attacked by Samuel Unter
myer, New York attorney, in an
address before the University
Club.
Untermyer also assailed pro-1
hibition, antitrust laws, “lame
luck” Congresses, “too-’iberal
tanking laws” and berated ad
ninistration of justice by the
courts.
Speaking on “Some of Ameri
ica’s Social and Economic Fol
'ies,” Untermyer reminded his
■ udience that he was “an incur
able optimist on America and
its future.”
“The sooner wTe recognize that
in the management of our af
fairs we are deficient in the ru
diments and practices of a sound
social and economic philosophy,
take stock of our blunders and
mend our ways, the better if will
be for our future,” he declared.
“I venture to assert that on
the whole, a more generally un
trained body of national, state
and local legislators and cne of
ov/er intellectual standards
>s not to be found in any civiliz
?d country on earth,” he said.
“Ours is the veritable pas’adise
of the demcgogue and ignora
mus in public life.”
Untermyer blamed this condi
tion on indifference.
“Our form of government is
neither democratic nor highly
urogressive,” he continued, and
said the most democratic of
governments was that of Great
Eritian.
“The weakest link in our chain
of government is in the admin
istration of justice,” Untermyer
said, “the delay and proldbitive
costs of litigation constitute g a
virtual denial of justice.”
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BE PROUD OF YOUR BLOOD
“One day last week after
chool one of the girls called one
of the boys a Jap. Then he called
■er a Native. Then they started
quarreling so hard that he hit
her. There were several others
watching. They were all school
mates.
“The next morning the teach
er asked who started the fight.
The two kept blaming each oth
er so teacher said we would have
to hold court and find out the
truth, and who was most to
blame.
“Wednesday morning after a
day to investigate and get ready
”e h°1 court. Dan Resoff and
Fad Brizgoloff were officers Paul
Elei and John Resoff were the
two lawyers. Patrick Tedishoff,
Jennie Allen and I were on the
i jury. Gus Stevens was the Tudge.
It got very exciting. It is no in
sult to be called what race you
are, but if you yourself are no
good, then that is something to
be ashamed of. Hitting people
is a different matter. So when
everything came out the boy was
found guilty but the judge cnly
gave him a suspended sentence
because the girl shouldn’t have
quarreled either. * * *”— Mary
Stevens.
The above article was written
up by one of the pupils in the
Cordova school and appeared in
the local newspaper together
i with other news items regarding
: the Cordova school under the
heading of “Government School
Notes.”
Our experience is that prac
tically all publications through
out the Territory are anxious to
furnish information on native j
| school affairs and would oppre-'
date any item written by the!
pupils and corrected by the
teachers. We feel that this is anj
excellent way of bringing the|
school before the native people)
and that it will act as an added;
incentive for our boys and girls!
to improve their command of
I the English language.
| We also take pleasure in run
ning the above article in order
t hat our native people through- j
out the Territory may appreci
ate the outlook on life expressed
by the Cordova pupils. Race is
not a thing to be ashamed of. j
It is what we ourselves are that
counts.— Bureau of Education
Monthly.
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RACIAL DISTRUST
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The fact that all foreigners
were looked upon as barbarians
by the ancient Greeks is not so
hard to understand when one
remembers the difficulty, slow
ness and infrequency that pre
vailed in international inter
course until quite modern times,
and the unenviable qualifier
that a man is, naturally and in
self-protection, inclined to as
cribe to a stranger at first and
until he has had the opportuni
ty of knowing him better. There
is still a certain class in every
country whose members hate
and fear the foreign born.
Ignorance of one people by an
other, or, to put it a little more
mildly, lack of accurate in
formation, is often at the bot
tom of this distrust. Man fears
what he cannot see and doesn’t
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