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WHAT WE Call CIVILIZATION
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Going through the exchanges
which come to our desk, from one
irsue alone we pick up the following
headliners:
“Mrs. Northcott Pleads Guilty Four
MURDERS”
‘Young Man Sought Connection
Murder Salt Lake City”
‘Negro Is Burned Alive At Rome
For Killing Man”
“Racketeers are Shot and Killed In
Chicago Cafe”
Are Killed in Presence of Two Hun
dred Patrons Who Dive Wildly Un
der Tables”
The worst atrocities of early
western pioneering in these United
States are mere Sunday School tales
along side the modern version of
civilization as pictured in the news
papers of today.
SHUT THE BIN BUT
LEAVE BARN DOOR OPEN
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To keep from losing the horse the
farmer covered up the bin and shut
the door. The bins remained safe
but the horse got out.
To protect the Behm Canal fisher
ies Henry O’Malley closes Behm
Canal but leaves wide open trap
operations at Cape Chacon and other
places below Cape Fox. The fish get
caught in those traps and do not
r°ach Behm Canal. The fishermen
who get a few thousand salmon
foot the conservation bill while the
big operator at the strategic points
continue their slaughter of the fish
which O’Malley pretends to try to
save.
JUST DRIFTING
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“Captain Bartlett planning to
Drift four years in Arctic,” says a
recent dispatch. That’s nothing.
There are many who have drifted
more years than that and did not
have to go to the Arctic to do it.
MAKE A GOOD EXAMPLE
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The National Committee for Law
Enforcement is going to make a ten
week’s drive in the city of Washing
ton with the view of making a good
clean-up as an example for other
cities of the nation.
And that is where the Volstead
Law came from.
EVOLUTION
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William Randolph Hearst recent
ly declared that the people do not
want to be ruled by liquor inter
csts nor by bone dry fanatics. Now,
if he would marry 'em may be by
process of evolution the question will I
be solved. ^
SERFS OF FEUDAL TIMES
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There was a time when the lords
owned the lands and the serfs occu- ;
pied it. That condition is re-ap- I
pearing in the world again. The on
ly difference being now, the serfs j
are attached to a machine, whereas j
in the feudal times they were at-1
tached to the soil. ,
Some of the latter-day-serfs have 1
white-collared jobs like Jasky ;
Shoedler, editor of the Marquam !
independent Press, and think they 1
are free. They are only herders, i
They are allowed to live only so i
long as they perform their tasks.
The rest of the people are not h
aware that they are servants, or be- t
ing aware, think there is no es- [
cape, and so they endure it. This f
condition will continue to exist just ;
so long as they support the Jasky s
Thedlers and the John Troys, the
herders for the lords and their over- 1
lords. a
Sometimes some more independ- e
cnt spirit tries to escape. He' is re- L
captured and punished not by being v
whipt or put to death or sold into I
more brutal slavery, but he is re- a
captured by some bank organized by
rhe money of tile overlord and em
powered by tile money of the pliant
serfs.
NEEDLESS TO COMMENT
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Lee Battle, Negro cook in Mercer
University, in Georgia, was dying.
Six white students offered their
blood for transfusion, one was se
lected, the operation performed,
and Battle’s life was saved.
The offer was made by these
boys with no desire to advertise, or
10 proclaim a social theory. From
that point of view, it is almost a
shame to drag their friendliness in
to the light and comment upon it.
But because the spirit of the offer
is so preeminently the spirit of the
South toward the Negro today, be
cause the South is so willing to be,
as Booker Washington put it, “one
as the hand.” while remaining in
another way “separate as the fin
gers,” we chronicle the incident
here, in the belief that it is its own
editorial comment.—Seattle Times.
RED. BED JACKY
lusky Schoettler, editor of the
Marquam Press, has turned “bulslie
vick.” and says that the herring
supply is being depleted. Un
doubtedly the next legislature
will Jake Jasky’s advice and shall
prescribe the use to which herring
shall be put.
We say undoubtedly because the
next House is in the control of Jas
l-y’s friends.
We would like to read an editori
al from the same red Jack, on the
evils of mail-order houses. Why
not? The Juneau Vampire has
done so.
However, the real Vampire miss
es the point.
The real cause of mail-order busi
ness in Alaska is FISHTRAPS.
If you can’t see the connection,
we will explain later.
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SALMON l’At’K I' lLfl IJL;>
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The total Alaska salmon pack for
t! e year is approximately 5,582,700
cases, SO per cent of which has been
sold by the packers and is already
in the hands of the distributors.
The .figures have been compiled by
the Bureau of Fisheries, up to
August 31. The figures show the
following totals:
Reds: 1,845,000 cases.
Pinks: 2,627,200 cases
Chums: 865,000 cases
Cohoes 189,500 cases.
Kings: 5 6,000 cases
The total western Alaska pack is
i ,459,700 cases; Central Alaska is
1,445,000 cases and Southeastern
Alaska is 2.678,000 cases.
I hey will do their part
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The two Camps of the Brother
lood and Sisterhood have their
ninds set on owning a home of their
• wn. None has any money to speak
>f. None has any earnings to speak
>f. There is no work in Petersburg
hat will insure anyone of them put
ing up any sizeable subscription for
he building. They are starting with
lothing but blind faith and hope i
nd determination. <
They llave felt the need of just »
uoh a building as they are planning. 1
Hhers have talked of it even to the i
loint of securing a name for the or- <
;anization and a list of possible sub- i
cribers. But they have all been
tumped for one reason or another. (
These two small organizations— k
be youngest in Petersburg—and £
weakest in point of finances has t
ome to the fore with a plan to £
uild a gymnasium-lodge room. It /
ill be under their control and care. <
t will be open to general use for 1 f
»y legitimate purpose, be it basket- l
nail or mass .meeting or whatnot.
They are gcing to build. That was
p'anned and it is said. The long felt
need of such a building has been evi
dent. Those who backed other pro
positions will have an opportunity to
investigate this and back it. Those
who oppose it will continue to oppose
it. The building will go up, regard
less. I
Tales from the Hills
THE ASSOCIATION OF QUARTZ
WITH ORES
i>y
Ernest N. Patty
Dean of the Alaska Agricultural
Co lege and School of Mines.
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Jack and Larry were plodding
> heir weary way up the trail to their
cabin after putting in a hard shift
in the tunnel. Jack dropped down
on a big rock with the remark: ‘Let’s
take five, Larry. I have been trying
to think, and I cannot walk and
think at the same time—sort of a
single track mind, I guess you would
caM it.’ Larry dropped down near
b:-, picked up a piece of quartz float
iymg on the trail and mechanically
began breaking it between two rocks,
rJien examining the fresh surface for
“colors.” Don’t try to think too hard
on an empty stomach, Jack. Doctor
says it’s bad for the digestion. Well,
go ahead and get it off your chesE.”
“What I don’t understand, Larry
;s why quartz is so often associated
v. ith valuable ores. It seems to be
pretty well understood by everybody
that quartz and ore are almost uni
versally associated but I have never
heard anyone attempt to explain
why. Take one of the eastern sports
men who conie*out here hunting in]
the summers. Now, if one of these
L flows was crawling along on a
1 dge to get a pot shot at a bunch
;<if sheep and he should suddenly
crawl across a quartz ledge he would
immediately forget all about getting
a shot at the sheep and begin look
ing for gold.”
“Some but. not all of them, Jack,
j I have seen some of these hunters
who would rather get themselves
a nice sheep head than be President
ot the First National Bank back in
their home town.”
“You’r dodging my question, Larry
Ih’ther you’re hungry or for once I
have found a subject which that
Irish mind of yours is afraid to wran- i
f,Io with.”
“I’ll admit, that I am good and
Hungry hut don’t figure for a minute 1
;hat you have me stuck,” Larry re
toited. “When I took the short,'
(.' mrse that winter at the College;
we talked about that subject quite j
a bit. Putting the explanation into
my own words it is something like
this: The original home of the ore
minerals is in these igneous intru
Tcns. such as granite and mazonite.
These intrusions were once deeper
in the eartn and were in a molten
condition. The geologists call these
molten areas by the term magmas.
These magmas contain the chemical
elements which rocks are composed
of and they also contain minor
amounts of such metals as copper,
lead, silver, gold, etc. One magmas
may be particularly rich in gold, an
other in copper and some of them
apparently have only very small
quantities of the valuable metals.
Now one of these magmas may be
forced into some area of overlying
older rocks. If the molten material
breaks thru to the surface the lava
ivill be quickly chilled and freeze as
fine grained volanic rocks such as !
•hyolite, and basalt. The quick 1
Teezing does not give any metals J <
vi'ich may be .present time'to col-! <
ect together and they will occur j«
icattered as small traces through the *
tntire mass. Now, on the other;*
mnd, if this intrusion gets within a j ♦
nile or so of the surface and most ’
•f it does not break through the *■
iverlying rocf rocks, it will take this <
;rea of molten rocks years to cool 1
'own and freeze. It. will naturally *;
tart freezing from the outer edge 1
ni the time will be sufficient for \
he heavier metals to sink deeper \
nd collect more or less together. \
ls the magma chills it is a known
cientific fact, that the darker rock
orming minerals, such as mica and *j
lornblende, are the first to crystal- ♦]
ize, The next form are the feldspar
crystals; and then the outer margin
is like sponge, the fibres being made
up of mica, hornblende, feldspar,
etc., the juice iii the sponge being
1 lie still liquid quartz. If this sponge
is compressed some of the quartz
juice will be squeezed upward into
epennings In the roof rocks. The
metals are still liquid or gaseous at
tin's stage and if they haven’t all
settled downwards they will go with
the quartz. That is one of the rea
sons why quartz is often associated
with valuable ores. In other words,
this excess quartz juice and any me
la's which may be tangled through
it are simply ejected upward into
the roof rocks when the molten in
trusion crystalized.
“But Larry you said much of the
r etals settled down deeper into the
infusion as the outer margin cool
ed. What about these metals? Are
they completely lost? If they are,
4nere must be some mighty rich
chambers of ore in the heart of those
intrusions?” ;
“Jack, the best of the experts do
not agree about all of that and they
probably never will because no man
has ever seen more than seven or
tight thousand feet into the earth.
There is« one thing sure, however,
and that is that much of these metals
which settle out are later caught,
and in association with lesser
amounts of quartz, steam and other
ga:es, are squeezed out of the mag
ma. They use fault planes or any
conduits they can find to ascend in
to the overlying rocks. Quite
i ften the orginal quartz vien may
be ruptured several times by fault
fissures and concentrated metallic
solutions used to cement these rup
tures. Take our vein, for example:
You have noticed that right in the
renter of the vein there is a dark
streak about half an inch wide of
mixed quartz and arsenopyrite and
i hat much of our values are concen
trated right there in that narrow
dark ribbon. The history of our
ve’n has been something like this:
First, a quartz vein carrying a few
dollars in gold w\as injected; then,
at a little later date, this vein wras
ruptured and a rich concentration
of quartz, arsenopyrite and gold was
drawn off below and used to heal this
rupture. If it hadn’t been for that
second period of mineralization we
wculdn’t be working here today. If
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th?t paystref k should ever quit our
ve:n then the remainder of the vein
i?ould be too low grade to fool with.”
‘Well, Larry, that was a rather
long-winded explanation and it rais
• ■d many questions that I would like
to ask you about but I am getting
chilled sitting here on this rock, so
let’s get on to the cabin and get a
bite to eat.”
ZELLERBACIf AWARDED MEDAL
FOR COURTESY
I. Zellerbaeh, San Francisco
yachtsman, head of the Crown-Zel
lerbach Corporation, and Chairman
cf the Califc rnia Fish and Galfoe
Commission, won a ‘‘Courtesy Med
al” awarded by the San Francisco
Examiner recently. Each day the
Examiner printed a Story about the
most courteous act reported. The
story about Mr. Zellerbaeh follows:
‘‘The Examiner recommends for
today’s courtesy medal I. Zeller
!<ach, well-known paper manufactur
(r. On a hot day not long ag<4,
while aboard his yacht with a party
of friends cruising the straits be
tween Angel Island and Belvedere.
Zellerbaeh sighted a drifting, dis
abled speed boat.
“On board the latter were two
boys. One because of a broken foot !
in a plaster cast, was unable to
swim. Zellerbaeh halted the cruise,
according to George B. Clarkson of
the State Fish and Game Commis
sion, took the boys on his yacht and
towed their boat to port.—Pacific
Motorboat.
ALASKAN OFFERS PRIZE
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The ALASKAN offers a booby
P°ze to the game wardens who re
cently refused to tow a disabled
vessel a few miles to a point of boat
traffic where they could hire aid.
The prize offiered is a swift con
tact between the toe of ye Editor’s
right boot and their southern ex
tremity when they are headed !
north. »
HOOVER’S WISE REMARK
It was a wise* thing that Herber
Hoover told representatives of the
Republic of Salvadore on his recen
visit to La Union.
“Our international economic re
lations can have but one real loun
daiion,” he said. “They can grov
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poverty or degeneration of any of
u^. Our economic progress is mu
tual. it is not competitive.”
Mr. Hoover has stated the situa
tion correctly We now ask that he
a.lopt the principle in his dealings
with Alaska. To date, Alaska has
existed for the prosperity of for
• igners only. We have enriched Se
attle and other places WITHOUT
fhe equal benefit to ourselves.
The first step in that direction is
.’1T,F GOVERNMENT.
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Attorney at Law
Arctic Hotel Petersburg
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