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where -22,000,000 sockeye eggs
are being hatched.
Since propogation of sockeye
salmon by the hand of man, un
der kitchen tables, stoves, bunks
and outhouses began several
years back, the number of eggs
hatched runs into over ten bil
lion. Fed with corn meal and
ice cream, given a vegetable
diet and an eight-mile board
walk to find their way back to
the hatchery, still the salmon
streams become fewer and fewer
yet the scientific fisheries bu
reau continues the wasteful
farce. The Canadians long
since questioned the worth of
the system and disposed of prac
tically all their hatcheries. How
ever, no one denies the state
ment that the Canadians are
regulating their fisheries with
more honest efficiency than is
the United States Bureau of
of Fisheries.
A VICTIM OF BIG SPORTS
-x
Last week was printed in these
columns a protest against the
conservation regulations pro
tecting the brown bear. Human
life has paid a heavy toll in or
der that the big game hunters
of the east might come to the
Territory to hunt bear and oth
jer game and have assurance
they will secure the pelts of the
bear. To the*Westward the cat
tlemen and sheepmen have been
| complaining that said regula
tion is costing them consider
able in livestock so that finally
the Biological Survey has de
clared that it will wink at the
killing of brown bear when they
are caught in their depreda
tions.
Another Victim
Last week one dead and one
narrow escape from the mangl
ing jaws of the brown bear was
reported. The man was a sur
veyer connected with the feder
al payroll; the other near-vic
tim made his escape by
dodging around a tree. It is not
improbable that the death of
ihis member of the federal
force will make the Biological
Survey change its regulation.
Not that that life is of more
worth to the Territory, but be
cause it brings death closer to
home to the federal officials,
i Be he a member of the Govern
! or’s immediate family or a com
! mon beach-combing handtroll
er, the desire to and right to
i
live is inherent. Be he a feder
al bureaucrat or an Indian flsh
!
You Should Worry.
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why should you worry when the cold weath
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crman, loved ones mourn thej
loss of their dead. And with the
real Alaskan the thought that
predatious brute life is more val
uable than human life become
more intolerable. They even
declare, “Dr. Hornaday and his j
oig game hunter friends should:
be made to go through the ex- j
perience of meeting the brown |
bear and cubs and made to feel I
its ferocious anger.”
AN IDLE GESTURE
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Prohibition Commissioner Do
ran recently issued orders that
after the 15th of this month all
wine tonics must have not less
than 30 per cent solids to pre-.
vent its use as a beverage. The,
notice was sent to all adminis
trators to give to the manufac
lurers. The solids to be irre
spective of medication in the
tonics. The commissioner ex
pects to make the tonics so un-i
palatable as a beverage that it!
will not have a ready sale.
When denatured alcohol, and
other poisonous liquids are used
as “de-horn” and serve the pur
pose of intoxicating beverages,
the question is raised What good
will a little bitterness do to the
tonics?
CAN’T PROVE NATIVITY
Jackson Barnet, wealthy Ok
lahoma Indian desired to make
a trip to Europe but was refused
passports because he could not
present evidence that he was
born in this country.
Illiterate Indian, described by
Sam Clark in Jim Jam Jems as
“Crazy Barnett” born of an Ok
lahoma tribe of Indians, unable
j to talk any language but his own
j Indian language can’t prove his
nativity in spite of the fact that
the Indian Bureau turns over
to him his allowances, makes
contracts for him, leasing his
lands for him and even giving
away over one million dollars
with his consent but without his
j knowledge; and also with the
! courts of Oklahoma, New York
land Washington, D. C., recog
nizing his birth and right to al
i lotments under his tribe. In the
,face of all this evidence and re
| cords he cannot establish to the
j satisfaction of the State Depart
ment that he was born in the
United States.
Perhaps someone in the State
Department wants him to jar
loose from some of his shekels.
GOOD GOVERNMENT
In the United States when a
| man or several men conspire to
I defraud the Government, they
are hedged in by technicalities
( and clever lawyers who circum
, ^ent the law and by delays and
, whatnot, secure release of the
| conspirators. The most notable
■case in late years being that of
the Elks oil lease. Of the gang
of conspirators, Secretary Fall
alone seems to run the chance
of looking out upon the world
irom behind the bars of a jail.
In Russia, the Soviet govern
ment makes short shrift of such
conspirators. One of the great
est of crimes in that country is
to defraud that government or
attempt to do so. The punish
ment is swift and sure.
It might be well for Ameri
cans to take lessons from the
Russian government in order
that the slimy mess be cleaned
out of America.
A CAT MAY LOOK AT A KING
| -x
Common Pleas judge Freder
ick P. Walther, of Cleveland.
Ohio, has recently sentenced
Editor Louis B. Selzer and Edit
orial Writer C. K. Matson, of
the Cleveland Press, to serve
thirty days in jail and pay a fine
of $500 each on a judgment of
contempt of court. It is not ne
cessary here to go into the mer
its of the matter upon which the
judge acted. The only point
> which needs to be considered is
»riiVirftrii-TMiyr.
whether the criticism was of a
completed act or of a matter
which was pending. It appears
to have been the former. In that
case, any citizen should have the
right to speak his opinion as to
the merits or demerits of the
act of the court. The defendants !
are out of jail on bond pending;
the hearing of an appeal. The
right cf a cat to look at a king
may be restored, and should be.
if facts are as stated.—The Pres
byterian Banner.
MARRY MERE MONEY
A good many women are will
ing to marry money, even to
marrying a “Crazy Barnett” and
for that matter the same may
be said of the men. A recent
case in point is that of George
Campbell Carson, desert miner
who recently won a fortune esti
mated at $30,000,000. He is far
past his youthful charm; all
the kick of youth has been long
since burned out upon the de
serts. Notwithstanding this
lack of youth he already has re
ceived over 5,000 proposals of
marriage. Fine feathers do not
make fine birds—but oh the
feathers!
ABOLISH PIECEMEAL
PANACEAS
From Seward Gateway
While every hope for success
of his plans for colonizing the
Railroad Belt accompanies Gen
eral Manager Ohlson’s efforts,
the departure is but a piecemeal
panacea for the slow growth of
population, not only here but in
other portions of the Territory.
Gauged by several decades of
history, little real progress can
be looked for until Washington
takes the wraps off th'e lines and
allows Alaska to come into her
own. It will not be necessary
to extract funds from the treas
ury in attracting settlers. Op
portunity will serve as a greater
magnet.
While there is merit in con
servation for posterity, the in
terrogations of “what posterity”
intrudes itself. It would appear
logical to consider the youth of
Alaska as the primary element
in the general scheme, a thing
that is not apparent when iron
clad restrictions, over-regula
tion bureaucracy in all its mal-|
ignant guises staly freelk in the
land
One does not have to assure
a pessimistic attitude to picture
future of Alaska’s educated
youth. At the present writing
it is not inviting. The field is
restricted to accepting a wage
from the business field, or a
wage from the government bu
reau, or a wage in the fishing
in the fishing industry, and fin
ally a day’s job at hard labor.
Steps must be taken to create
a field for the rapidly develop
ing younger generation, where
the arts and sciences are open
to those who qualify thereof,
it must not be restricted to the
socialistic condition which bu
reaucracy has saddled upon us.
In other words take down the
barriers and Alaska will work
out its own salvation without
help. Hoover said bureaucracy
blighted men’s souls. Take it
off and allow Alaska to develop
a soul and she’ll do the rest.
Short skirts, Volstead act and
companionate marriage go hand
in hand these days of the cost of
high living.
-x
A negro preacher referring to
Judge Lindsey’s “companionate”
marriage idea, called it the
“cum-passionate marriage.”
-x
In 1913 the winner of the
Schneider Cup Trophy made a
winning speed of 44.7 miles an
hour. Twenty-six years later
the winner of the cup attained a
speed of 355.8. miles an hour.
At which speed the driver did
not get much of an outlook up
on life about the course.
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CURE OF WORLD'S ILLS BY
CULTS
James R. Little
If the opportunity for eco
nomic success is so great aoinm
riomic success and material hap
piness is so great in this coun
try, why are therevso many nu:
ures in industrial life? Why d
these mighty multitudes gatlv
about the platforms of these
agitators and communistic orat
ors? “The fault, dear people
lies not in our stars, but in our
selves. that we are underlings.“
Success or failure, nine times
out of ten, is preponderantly a
matter of character. And what
is character? Character is the
sum total of your habits,, for
habit makes character.
A man is the product of his
habits. Tell me a man’s daily
habits, and I can usually give
you his character without so
much as a glimpse of his face
or figure, although both his face
and figure usually are unfailing
index to his character. Well,
then, let me go a step further,
what is habit? It is an action
repeated over and over again
until it becomes a kind of se
cond nature. Automatically,
the hand of a thief finds its
way into the pocket of another.
Certain actions are easy to re
peat because thev follow a man's
internal appetities and passions.
All men and women are subject
to hunger and sex longings.
Gluttons and libertines allow
their instincts to rule instead of
ruling their instincts.
Bad Habits are always easy to
acquire because they follow in
variably the passions which we
share with animals. Greed, self
ishness, cruelty, intemperance
—all these animal passions be
get an iron chain of habits if a
man, or woman, follows blindly
the list of his nature. Bad hab
its are called vices, and weak
and evil men and women are
scarcely to be reckoned human
for they are not much more
than brute beasts dominated by
their own unrestrained inclina
tions.
Good habits constitute virtues
and they are hardly acquired
and easily lost.
All men and women have na
tural prompting both to good
and evil. A good, and therefore
happy man ,and woman, is one
whose good habits outnumber
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his had habits. He recognizes
his bad habits as such and con
nizes r.ldankw-nl er?I cmfw
stantly fights them. Without
attempting to excuse himself on
the plea that he is only human.
He is truly human only to the
extent to which he conforms to
the standards of the truly hu
man. Can anyone doubt :hat
Abraham Lincoln was mon oraly
human than Gerald Chapman?
Can any man seriously maintain
that a poolroom is a better
than a gymnasium or an athlet
ic fie i? The whole question of
habits lies in the people you as
sociate with, good people or
bad people.
Worry kills more men, because
more men tackle worry.
?cnce
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