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THE GREATEST ASSET
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“The greatest asset of a race
is its children, that their bodily
s t re n g t h and development
should prepare them to receive
the heritage which each genera
tion must bequeath to the next.
—President Herbert Hoover.
TAKE OUT POWER INSUR
ANCE NOW
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It is usual, out in the west, to
look upon our waterpower re
sources as “almost limitless.”
That is a dangerous state of
mind for any city. .
In the east, New York already
ic taking steps to preserve every
drop of water in the Great Lakes
for power production at Niagara
Falls and on the St. Lawrence
River. Other thickly settled
parts of the east are hunting
about for new power sites.
The story of the east today is
the story of the west tomorrow.
If we let power sites get out of
public hands into private own
ership, we must pay toll in the
future every time we turn on an
electric lamp.
The west has plenty of power
available—NOW. It should se
cure that potential power lor
the public good, to be developed
when necessity arises. Every
publicly-owned powersite is in
surance against high rates in
the years to come.—Seattle Star.
FOR BETTER WAGES
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“When the pay envelope con
tains not merely a living wage
for the worker and his family,
but a surplus with which he may
purchase some of the lux ories
of his desire, our country at
large is the beneficiary.
“This principle of liberal pay
ment is a boon to labor, indus
try and business. It is the cre
ator of markets, whose goods, in
turn, create new demands for
men and their labor.”—James J.
Davis, Secretary of Labor.
“THE CALL OF ALASKA ”
By JAMES R. LITTLE
Did you ever have a longing to
get back to the trail,
And to face the crashing light
ning and the thunder and the
gale?
Not for no particular reason,
but to give the world a laugh,
And to showr the roaring ele
ments you still can stand the
the gaff?
Don’t you ever feel a yearning
just to try your luck again?
Down the ripping, White Horse
rapids with a bunch of men?
Don’t you ever sorta hanker for
a rough and risky trip,
Just to prove you’re still a living
and you haven’t lost your grip.
Can’t you hear the Yukon call
ing you to have another try,
Sleeping out beneath the
spruces with a roof of moon
lit sky,
With the wind a sorta singing
through the branches over
head
And your fire a gaily cracking
and your pipe a burning red?
Don’t you often get a feeling
sorta cramped and useless
there,
Making flggers while you shine
your pants upon an office
chair. j
Don’t you yearn to get acquaint
ed with life and God?
If you don’t then heaven help
help you, for you’re dying in
your pod. ,
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USELESS HOPING
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It is to be hoped that among
those federal employees who are
coming from the national cap
ital to see Alaska, there are some
who are attached to offices in
which Alaska business is trans
acted. There is need of enlight
enment among the office forces
at Washington as well as among
department heads having juris
diction over federal activities in
he territory, and a trip to Alas
ka is the best way to get the
lowdown on territorial condi
tions.—Anchorage Times.
Ed. Note: If they are all as
deaf to suggestions from resi
dent Alaskans as Henry O’Mal
ley, if they never came, Alaska
would not be any worse off.
ALASKA AND THE BUREAUS
Alaska is by bureaus run,
Or perhaps I should say ran,
jThey rule us each and everyone,
;Both woman, child and man.
! There’s a bureau for the bear,
'And another for the whale;
One for the earth and air,
Still another for the mail.
A bureau for the nanny goats
; That graze high on the moun
tains;
One for the farmer’s young
shoats;
One for the springs and foun
tains.
Now wouldn’t things be bettered
If this territory great
Should stand free and unfet
tered
To become at last a state?
ED MILLS, in Anchorage Times.
THE ACME OF ASININITY
By HILL BILLY in Seattle Star
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It is not only the silly laws
that half-baked legislators turn
out that harass this free people;
free to pay taxes if you can find
the money; but it is the mess of
bureau enactments, of legal de
cisions; of ultra-legal mandates
passed by accidental inhabitants
of places official.”
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Hill Billy must have lived in
Alaska for most of our govern
mental affairs are under control
of ‘accidental inhabitants’ and
the mass and mess of bureau en
actments. legal and illegal deci
sions of the pinhead chair
warmers whose ultra-legal man
dates are fast depopulating this
grand and glorious territory
Hurrah, Free-Born American!
Sing the song of praise for your
Henry O’Malley, 0”Connors.
and others who are driving re
sidents from the Territory for
the benefit of the few.
PATRIOTISM
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“Patriotism is a far greater
sentimentality than mere flag
waving. In its deeper, truer
meaning it comprehends the ev
er continued care of those men
who unselfishly shed their blood
for the liberty of their fellow:
men and constant guardianship |
of the widows and orphans of
the valiant hosts who heroically
gave their lives for the same'
noble cause.”—Wilson.
But to many others of the
plunderbund, they make gran
diloquent speeches, wave the
flag and stay at home and reap
rhe profit from supplies for
those who pay the supreme
price. Those kind of pay-triots
even drag conscientious object
ors through the streets behind
automobiles and throw those so
dragged into the bay. Patriot
ism is a funny bird and many
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crimes are committed In its
name.
WILL “REMOLD INDIANS ”
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Miss Mary Stewart was ap
pointed by Secretary Wilbur to
lead America’s Indian peoples
into the unfamiliar but nourish
ing held of vocational education.
She hopes in her new job to
teach them “to give society val
ue returned” by meeting envi
ronment conditions adequately
and thus attaining the good
life.”
She is not particularly con
cerned about the amount of so
called “civilization” the red man
jtakes on; she desires to provide
[“education which in its broadest
[sense is the way of all progress.”
OLD FOGY NOTIONS
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Ever so often the Indian Bu
reau “gets religion’’ -and pub
lishes “new plans for the civili
zation of the American Red Man
And in every instance save one
the Indian has had to pay in
Joss of time and expense of per
petuating a millstone which has
retarded progress of these peo
ple. The one exception to the
rule was General R. H. Pratt’s
idea of treating the Red Man as
i any other human, getting him
:nto civilization; to keep him ci
vilized, letting him stay. But
this practical theory was a thorn
in the side of the Indian Bu
reau. It did everything to de
stroy the work of this great man
and his school. But he left his
impress upon those people and
upon their friends.
There is only one thing Miss
Mary Stewart need do and the
nroblem will resolve into no
problem: Give the Red Man the
same educational opportunity,
he will take care of himself. He
has demonstrated that fact in
the various professions; on the
athletic field; on the field of
battle. a
GET OFF THE EARTH
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A few beachcombers, no mon
ey, no job. King salmon in the
bay. Hook, trolling boat, line
and sinker. Two salmon. Fish
buyer-fisherman on dock, along
comes buric rat of the O’Malley
clan and warns buyer not to buy
salmon. Buyer walks away, fish
erman tightens his belt and
thanks God he is not arrested,
SKiff confiscated and a fine of!
$400 imposed. (
The dignity of the law and
belicose O’Malley upheld; sal
mon conserved for the traps.
I‘Glory, Glory Hallaluyah,’ Sweet
land of Liberty, of thee I sing\
hummed the fisherman as he
[strolled back up the dock and tc
his palatial residence, where he
| turned on his new Victor elec
tric radio receiver and then had
Wilson bring on the dinner tc
which a half score of other
beach combers were gathered.
They all had some good stuff as
the prohibition enforcement
officers and other friends of the
recent assistant attorney gener
al did not want to bother with
poor consumers of pre-Volstead
Seattle spirits, but were after the
big wholesaler and white collar
ed dispenser of the happy mak
ing liquids. At a late hour the
banquetors sang Praise God
, nn All Blessings Flow
end God Save the King, O’Mal
ley. They staggered back and
came too with a bang when
their heads bumped up against
the hotwater pipes in Sing Lee’s.
They had only been dreaming—
except about being ordered not
to bring in any fish for sale.
IGNORANT MASS VOTING
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It is not long since the Hyder
Chamber of Commerce sent out
strong resolutions protesting
the present Workman”s Com
pensation Act for the Territory.
The Empire and Chronicle im
mediately spoke up in praise of
the abortion of a law and Mr.
Metzgar, father of the physical
moron, sang its praises and told
cf its wonderful protection for
labor. Forthwith the following
of that clique and clan agreed
that it was a fine law and should
NOT be changed. And 95 per
cent of them do not know what
it is all about—but they have
their minds made up for them by
ihe bureaucratic bibles of Ju
neau and Ketchikan. Give us
more “illiterate, ignorant voters”
who first ask and learn what it
is all about and then vote as
they believe right and not be
cause money power dictates.
DRIVING THEM TO IT
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As unto the hand the fingers,
so are the fishermen—halibut,
seiner, gill netter, troller and
herring fishermen to the fishing
industry—all coming from a
common source and all laborers.
The regulations for herring,
calmon and king salmon, are
driving those fishermen to one
common though t.—solidarity.
The International Fish Com
mission meets in 1930 when the
present treaty expires. Notes
of warning have been sounded.
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