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LOUIS F. PAUL,.- EDITOR
C. O. PARKS,.BUSINESS MANAGER
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SAYS WICKER SHAM IS OLD
AND DECREPIT
The brilliant young editor of
the Petersburg Press last week
m an editorial spraddled all over
the Bureaucrats of Juneau and
tlieir organ when he described
the Hon. James Wickersham as
oeing oid and decrepit. Those
were not just his wards but the
implication is there if one can
under stand the English of A
laska’s Arthur Brisbane in Pe
tersburg.
It is all very true that Jucge
Wickersham is not as young us
ne was when he served Alaska
so well in the national congress.
But for anyone to impugn his
mentality or ability is to make
a glaring display of ignorance
and prejudice. Naturally, as one
takes on years the resilliency oi
vitality is not great as in the
early twenties and no one is
paying that Judge Wickersham
is in his twenties. But, the legal
skill, knowledge and political
sagacity which is his because oi
Ids years of experience, adds to
his worth as representative oi
tne Territory.
Our good looking young friend
who is alleged to have written
the editorial also declares thai
because of the small majority by
which he was elected, Judgt
Wickersham does not have the
support of the Territory and
therefore cannot accomplish as
much, perhaps, as another. In
ether words George Grigsby,
who was Mr. Wickersham s op
ponent, would have accomplish
ed more for Alaska had he been
elected. That is the understand
ing of the editorial by the aver
age reader. We are asked, is the
Press looking for a good place
to lay its political head in the
laps of the bureaucrats and poli
tical hyphonates of Alaska the
Federal Brigade, etc.? That re
mains to be seen for it was only
a few months ago this political
ly saggacious writer was declar
ing himself a Republican anc
now, before the delegate is sworn
into office, it takes a sideswipf
at him.
More than ever, the Territory
is going to stand back of Dele
gate Wickersham in his efforts
to secure constructive legisla
tion for the Territory. More and
more is the old Troy-Shackle
ford political machine being
torn asunder and shown to the
public as the plundering, ne
:arious machine that it is. And
more and more is it the will of
the people that a fuller measure
of support? be given to the Dele
gate. This in spite of the peanut
politicians and political* peewees
v/ho constantly try to destroy
work constructive in the inter
ests of Alaska while building up
their own predatory machine.
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THE SALARY OF ALASKA
GOVERNOR.
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Sutherland: * * "Perhaps with
a $10,000 a year salary attached
to the office some independent
minded individual who is not
entire dependent on the $10,00C
salary may challenge his ad
ministertative superiors, the
bureaus and the exploiting in- ;
terests that now dominate the ■
office, and tell the wide world of <
the contrasting conditions in ]
two neighboring provinces.
Mr. Rankin. * * * I call the at- ,
tention of the gentleman from I
Alaska to the fact that is con- i
siderably more salary than a^i
majority of the governors of the i
various states of the Union re- ]
ceived. ($7,000). There are only 9 j
states of all of the 48 that pay
salaries of $10,000, and they
have much greater population
The governor of my state, with
a population of more than 2,
000,000, gets a salary of $7,500. i
The governor of the State of our t
distinguished friend from Ver- t
[ mont receives a salary of $5 000.
. f these governors of the various
states are able to administer the
affairs of those commonwealths
on such salaries, does not the
gentlemen from Alaska think
that the Governor of Alaska
could perform his meager duties
on a salary of $7,000 a year.
* * * “The Governor of Utah
gets only $6,000 a year; the
Governor of South Dakota gets
only $3,000 a year, but I find the
same thing with reference to
other governors. For instance,
the governor of the State of New
Mexico gets only $5,000; the
Governor of Arkansas $6,000; the
Governor of the great state of
Georgia gets only $7,500, where
he has millions of people under
his jurisdiction. Then, you come
here and say we must raise the
salary of this man to $10,000 a
year in order that he may hang
around Juneau, Alaska, while a
few bureau representatives look
after the exploitation of the
ashing industry of Alaska.
* * * “Let me say this to the
gentleman from Colorado that
I am not impugning his motives,
but the governors of Mississippi
and Colorado have all of the in
stitutions of the State to look
after. This Governor of Alaska
does not. He has the Department
of the Interior, the Department
of Agriculture, and the Depart
ment of Commerce,—all these;
departments looking after every- '
thing from fish to fowl. All the
Governor of Alaska has to do is I
to sit around Juneau and waitj
tor the legislature that comes
down there every two years andj
maybe every year—he does not,
nave anything like the duties
and responsibilities of the gov
ernor of the smallest states in
the Union.
ENLARGEMENT OF THE
HEART
The Juneau Chamber of Com-;
oerce recently initiated a move- ’
ment to employ local labor in |
southeast Alaska canneries. Lo-!
cal labor available will be listed
oy the Chamber which will urge
i he canners to employ such labor
‘at least a proportion of their!
crews from this source.”
This movement was started at!
.he request of Governor George j
A. Parks. A representative of the j
Brotherhood last fail took thej
matter up with the Governor,
md he expressed himself as
willing to use his office to assist.
n influenceing the packers to
utilize as much local labor as
possible.
In years past, Alaskans have
had to go to Seattle to secure
employment from packers of
salmon in Alaska. Men in Wran- [
jell being hired in Seattle to
.vork in canneries in the Wran
gell district but refused employ
ment when they tried to secure
it from Wrangell. The same is
true in other districts. In Kasaan,
ifes Bay, Kake and other Na
tive settlements, many of the re
sidents had to lay idle during
the greater portion of the sea
son while imported laborers had
die cream of the work. Only
ivhen the contractors were un
ible to take care of their work
lid they use local help and then !
lismissed them at the first op- <
'ortunity. <
It is hoped that the efforts c !
i.ll Alaskans will this year checV
he influx of foreign labor. Anc 1
t should if the local business
nen hope to climb the economi
iffle the coming year whim <
>romises to be one of the mos: i
evere in the history of Alaska. ,
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A DOG STORY
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That reminds of the story of i
lie big Newfoundland dog that t
he late Senator James, of Ken- :
ucky, used to tell. The dog
c
would walk into the post office
following his master. He was as
big as a yearling, and he just
pushed men, women, and chil
dren aside as he moved aiong.
They did not like that. So one
boy patted him on the head
while another one tied a tin can
with some shot in it to his tail.
Then they opened the way for
him and told him to get out. As
soon as he started the can com
menced to rattle. He stood not
on the order of going. Down the
street like something mad he
fled, furiously howling at every
jump. Every time they would
catch him in the post office one
would engage his attention
while another would tie a tin
can to his tail. They ran him so
much until finally he got to
where the can did not frighten
lim as formerly, and he would
ict run very much. So they
quit tying cans to his tail. The
ooys observed him for days, and
he seemed sad and lonesome. He
got to where he would wa’k the
streets looking for an empty tin
can, and when ever he found
one he would back up to it. and
stand there and howl for some
body to tie it to his tail. (Laugh
ter.)
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PRESIDENT HOOVER ON
CHILDREN
‘ One of the biggest of all prob
lems is to drive in the idea of
the necessity of properly born,
trained, educated and healthy j
moral children to the voters and
officials of America.* * * This
New Generation of children, j
healthy, trained and mentally
inspired, would go a long way
towards solving all this. (Today
there are more than 100,000
criminals in Federal and State
prisons— and many more at
large who should be behind the
bars.) Most of our native crimin
al class are products of city1
slums. If the character and'
quality and health of these I
children were watched and nur-J
tured, a criminal type of child
would not develop. It would be!
difficult to overestimate what J
the single item of adeem? te|
playground facilities would mean]
In the bringing-up of normal j
city children.
“Proper food is another all
important part in planning the
New Generation, for, according
to the Conference one hundred
per cent of all deficient children
are simply the product of bad
xeeding. And while this goes
l:ack to the home, health, edu-;
cation must largely originate in
the school—and for the time be
ing, in proper and periodic ex
amination.”
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JUST A LITTLE DIVIDEND 1
Operations of the Alaska!
Packer’s Association for the i
year 1930 resulted in a net loss
of $894,328, is a statement made
public by President William
Timson of that corporation op
erating in Alaska.
Figures reported compare with
a net profit of $749,140, or the
equivalent of $13.04 per <diare
on 57,505 shares outstanding
earned during 1929.
During the year quarterly di
vidends of $2 per share and one
insurance fund income dividend
of $2 per share were paid from
the isurance fund. Another divi
dend of $2 was declared at the '
and of January payable on the !
10th of February to stock of 1
record January 31, but the in- 1
rurance fund dividend which 1
oas been paid annually in Fer- «
*uary since 1917 was omitted. «
Once before this corporation •
laid approximately $33 per share •
m its stock when its years’ op- •
'ration showed a net loss of •
5700,000. j •
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JNPRECEDENTED retreated j
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One of the last Indian chiefs l
f America to surrender to the 1
nvasion of whites was Chief g
toseph of the Nez Perce Indians,
Idaho.'His tribe consisted of 300 j
varriors and their families.
It took 40 companies of United |
States cavalry and infantry |
learly four months to capture 1
hem after a running battle of |
500 miles. The Indians were |
lever. Against the leadership of |
Chief Joseph was the pick of of
ficers trained at West Poini
Military Academy. Joseph woulc
send his warriors back to delaj
the federal troops and then de
coy them off in another direc
tion while he led his old men
women and children on a fine tc
tlie Canadian border. The war
riors would later join Joseph anc
his band only to stop to agin de
coy the cavalry away from th<
ma n band which had refused t<
be moved from their huntini
grounds to a new reservatior
! chosen for them. History doe
not shew any place a retreat o
hke length or manipulated witl
such skill.
General Sickles, Civil War vet
eran led the trodps which sur
ornded Joseph and his littli
band when they were withii
sight of the Canadian border
Recognizing the futility of try
r.g to force his way through tin
troops, Joseph surrendered rath
er than witness the butchering
of his women and children. Ir
later years, General Sickles anc
Heightened
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