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C. O. PARKS,
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During the past ten days, U.
S. Dep;.';y A v s’.ial Hans Wick
of Petersburg, made two arrests
After making the first arrest,
it was necessary to send out the
street cleaners to wash down the
street where arrest took place
and it was further necessary to
wash out the* car in which the
man was taken to jail. In the
second instance a woman re
monstrated with the marshal
for brutally kicking his man who
was more unconscious from be
ing dragged bumpty-bump down
the steps, after he had been
handcuffed.
In ordinary drunk cases, when
viciousness is absent it is possible
to arrest most any man without
the need of blackjack or lead
billies. Such actions bring dis
repute upon the office, officer
and may lead to suits against
the bondsmen of the marshal of
the Division himself when, no
doubt he does not even tolerate
such animal brutality.
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JUDGE BARS THIRD DEGREE
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Atlanta, Ga., has a judge who
i of uses to tolerate unjust treat
ment of prisoners, white or
black. Not long since, Judge J.
D. Humphries of Fulton Superior
Court, ruled out two alleged con
fessions of two Negroes which
were said to have been obtained
by use of third-degree methods, j
Judge Humphries excoriated;
such methods, and asserted they
were a discredit to both the Po
lice Department and the police
men using them.
The judge expressed the hope
tnat he had heard the last of
brutal treatment of prisoners by
ofiftcials^ He then asserted that
the confessions were void, hav
:ng been obtained under duress.
The jury acquitted the Negro
who was on trail, and the case
against the codefendant, also a
negro, was nolle prossed.
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AND HOW!
A group of women in an Alas
ka town sat sipping some of that
vintage which made Milwaukee
famous. The following was ov
erheard :
“Here’s to the White Ribbon
Society.” A non-member of
this great temperance organi
zation said: “I have been asked
to join the W. C. T. U., but I re
fused to because I believe it a
wrong to myself and to that or
ganization to wear its ribbon
and not live up to its principles
tz the letter.”
A famous publicist recently
declared that if the preachers
talked less enforcement of the
Volstead Act and drank less,
prohibition would naturally be
come no national problem. It
is the hand that rocks the crad
le which rules the world.
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MAKE YOUR APPLICATION
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Capitalistic United States has
refused to recognize the Soviet
Government, officially. Capital
istic United States is more than
delighted to receive order for
commodities during the past
year from Russia in excess of
$400,000,000. But at the same
time Big Business demands that
an embargo be placed upon So
viet produced goods.
Russia has turned its trade to
other countries and has formed
an alliance with Germany just
at a time when the United
States can ill afford to add to
the unemployment problem.
To the blindly biased citizen
we recommend the reading of
the Russian Revolution, by Leon
Trotzky, in the Saturday Even
ing Post. The blindness of the
Czar and his following, the deaf
ness to the demands of the peo
ple, the silly strutting of banty
cocks of an antiquated system
is severely drawn.
Is American business so blind
and ignorant that it expects the
Soviet Government to return to
receive more slaps and kicks
when other nations are more
than glad to trade with the new
government in Russia? After
all how like the state, like the
county, like the city, like the
individual are our systems of
government!
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WHY SHOULD WE CARE
In 1921 the earning of the
Indian fishermen were so piti
able that we saw men go and
buy one can of milk today, a loaf
of bread tomorrow, a dime’s
worrh of spuds the next and so
on. He just could not earn si;l
flcient to get even ordinary
quantities at a time. Many men
laid in harbors unable to pur
chase gasoline to even return to
their homes.
Those days taught the Indian
a severe lesson and he has bene -
fitted thereby.
Conditions not dissimilar wt-1
be this summer. Low prices for
salmon; regulations which a 3
so discriminatory as to prevent
the fishermen from securing
more than enough to eat. The
resident fisherman is going to
cinch up on his belt this year.
The Indians are putting in their
gardens of potatoes, carots, ru
tabagas; they are going to put
up their canned meats, canned
berries, canned fish and tnis
will mean just that much trade
lost to local business men. Ai d
then when the fisherman set
tles up with the canneryman,
he has perhaps $100 for his
season’s work. He squeezes the
bills tightly and then with pen
in hand, sits down and orders
winter shoes and clothing from
mailorder houses. And that is
more competition for the resi
dent businessmen.
Looking like the cat which
ate the canary the United States
Government now sits back sat
isfied with slapping Russian
trade from its doors. In like
manner, Alaska business has
been slapping its local business
i^way by refusing to understand
the problems which must be
met or giving assistance which
in the end means real develop
ment of business in Alaska. The
thing to do immediately is tc
take care of the local trade by
seeing that labor is fairly treat ■
ed and is given opportunity tc
earn greater spending power.
Are we right or wrong? If we
are wrong, tell us about it and
.put us right. But please, all
' dont write at the same time.
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TAKING IT OUT ON ALASKA
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| Railway and Marine News
| The recent Congress, now
passed into history, seems to
| have taken a peculiar delight in
“ragging Alaska.” The unfor
tunate child of Uncle Sam in
the North was the object of un
friendly Congressional attention
apparently for no sound reason.
The proposal to cut the annual
appropriation for the Alaska
Railroad, meaning disastrous
increase in rates, was followed
by a bill which would have giv
en authority for the sale of the
Washington-Alaska milita r y
cable and telegraph service.*The
government has vested great
sums in the cable and wireless
service, owning approximately
3,500 miles of submarine cable
Sale of these facilities would
undoubtedly result in higher
rates, thug adding another han
dicap to the many under which
Alaskans are pow struggling. In
some quarters it is said that the
cable and wireless service en
tails a monthly loss of approxi
mately $30,000. This deficit ifi
Charged against the army, which
has control of copiunication. Na
turally army officials resent this]
constant drain on the service
appropriation. The logical move
would be for the Government to
absorb this loss out of general
funds and not charge it against
any one service.
Attempts to “snipe” at Alaska
are resented by the people of the
Pacific Coast. If economy is the
object money can be saved else-)
where. Alaska has poured mil- •
lions of wealth into the coffers I
of the United States. The Ter-!
litory should be aided until it
can stand on its own feet. Alas
ka needs a helping hand. The
Government can make it poss
ible for people to make u
i the North, developirr
great natural resources. With
proper encouragement, Alaska
would in a few years be one of
Uncle Sam’s most prosperous
and flourishing units.
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SAVING LIVES
It has been demonstrated
that ten states with strong driv
ers’ license laws showed an av
erage decrease of 1.5 per cent
in automobile fatilities last year. I
States without such had an in
crease of 8.3 per cent. On this
comparative basis, had the en-|
tire country been on a stricter i
license basis about 1,700 lives I
would have been saved.
AS OTHERS SEE IT
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A project that stirs the imagin
ation is the proposed interna
i tional highway connecting the
United States with Alaska. With
in the space of a year the dream
, of the Pacific-Yukon Highway
has become a strong possibility.
Congress has voted $10,000 for
an inquiry into the feasibility of
{the road, a commission appoint
j ed by the President has pro
I nounced it practicable, aerial
i photographs have been taken,
! and a preliminary survey has
| been made of five hundred miles
i of a proposed location. The gov
. ernments at Ottawa and at Vic
i
toria have received the idea cor-,
dially. The proposed road would
run from Seattle to Fairbanks
through regions of vast miner
al wealth and great scenic
beauty. It will be costly, of
course, but its sponsors say that
ways and means can be found
to finance its construction.— (
World’s Work.
SHOULD INTEREST OUR
“STATESMEN”
Germany recently enacted a
tax on cigarettes but the man on
the unlighted or is it “unlighten
ed” end still pays the same price
for his favorite brand. The
manufacturer simply removes
two smokes from a package to
meet the taxes.
Now, just tell us Who pays the
taxes?
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THE BREAKDOWN OF LAW
AND JUSTICE
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“A civilization that will suffer
crime to pass unpunished, ancl
will view without agitation the
evidence of a working alliance
between crime and the forces
upon which society relies for
crime repression, must quickly
alter its ways if it is to be saved.
That this condition is nation
wide, particularly in our great
er cities, is a fact which none
dispute. Today we read of self
constituted committees of citi
zens in cities throughout the
land, organized for the purpose
of detecting and punishing
crime in order to save the public
order from utter collapse. In
our larger cities it is obvious
that some members of the judi-j
ciary are sitting not only on the
Bench, but ‘on the lid,’ screen
ing wrongdoers from punish
ment and interpreting not the
law of the land, but the wishes
of dominant and corrupt polit
ical organizations.”—Bainbridge
Colby.
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BUREAUCRACIES
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. .“The most wasteful and ex
travagant part of the govern
ment is this bureaucracy, na
tion-wide, which we are build
ing up and appropriations are
;ts lifeblood,” Senator William
Borah of Idaho.
.There is no remedy for this
condition in Alaska except the
people <call the turn in no un- .
certain terms. So long as they
elect men to office and to the
legislature who become the sub
servient tools of the bureau
ciatic machine, Alaska will have
to continue to feed the para
sites.
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A CITIZEN BY BIRTH, A
CAPTIVE BY LAW
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What shall we think of this:
That of the 250,000 Indians who
have been under the absolute
control of the Indian Bureau for
fifty years, the majority of these
today cannot read, write, or
speak the English language? Yet
fifteen years ago, the then as
sistant commissioner of Indian
Affairs publicly declared that
the Indian Bureau school sys
tem “was one of the most effi
cient school systems to be found
anywhere in the United States
or in the civilized world”? So
far, we are unable to understand
the facts, we are inclined to ac
cept as true the following from
“The American Indian: Captive
or Citizen.”
Our bureau of Indian Affairs,
founded as it is, upon its seper
a^eness from our form of gov
ernment, and its arbitrary re
straint, or control, of all the,
civil liberties of the Indian, in
cluding his personal liberty—j
never has, and never will “edu^
cate,” or make the Indian “self-j
sustaining,” but will continue to
make him more dependent, more
servile—less a man and. more a
serf. Nc bureau with its separ-j
ate autocratic government,
“makes citizens,” nor “merges
them into our national life,” of
any other race composing citi-l
zenship, with the single except
Uon of our native American.—
Our Dumb Animals.
FOR HOME CONSUMPTION
Don Meidrum who recently
lobbved against the fibre box
tax at Juneau, returned to Ket
chikan and said: “Zellerbam
has not lost interest in building
a mill here. As soon as condi
tion ■ wan ant the mill will be
i
constructed.”
“Eventually, why not new”? is
the query of the skeptic Alas-,
kan. In view of the turmoil as
reported in the paper industry
last week, it is not expected the
puilp mills will be constructed
very soon.
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Blessed is the man who is able
*0 live up to his own epitaph.
Combo
Our new "Ringlettt” method of permanent wiving
is revolutionary It i* quite as simple, easy and com
fortable a* ■ Mere manti. With it there is not the
slightest discomfort, pull oc pain. There is no ped
estal—no chandelier—no heavy mass of metal to
takeaway tha pleasure of having a beautiful wave.
Too—just one wire is used—that assures you of free
dom of movement throughout the operation—you
esn write, walk, or ultphone / It produces a beautiful,
natural wave —and that with one-tenth of the usual
amount of heat. This naturally tends to protect tha
hair rather than take the life out of it. The "Ring
latte'* marks a new freedom and new beauty in pet
wanents—be smmg the first to enjoy Its comfort.
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colt—rarin’ to go. Just a
touch of the toe on the
gas and —zingo! she eats
up the road. Get an esti
mate of cost. It’s a sur
prise.
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