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CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION
LOUISVILLE, Miss., June 14 AP
—Two negroes accused of killing
Clarence Nichols, sawmill superin
tendent, were seized, paraded thru
the streets and then taken a short
distance from town and tied to a
telephone pole. Several cases of
gasoline were poured on them. One
of the mob struck a match and the
flames leaped up, burning the men
to death in a few minutes.”
TOKEN FROM
BERGENS TIDENDE
Translated from the Norwegian by
Rev. S. Sydness
Our country is so situated that
a great part of Norway’s population
must seek its means of livlihood
from the sea. The enormously long
coastline, the fjiord and island, on
one side, the mountainous regions,
the plains which are poorly fitted
for cultivation on the other side,
makes it a necessity to concentrate
all our abilities on the one thing:
How we may be able to make use
of the richecs that i3 hidden in the
ccean.
The statistics tell how many peo
ple make their living from the sea,
and also of the quantity of fish that
is taken out of the ocean, the value
of it and many other things. One
thing is certain, that the big num
bers and statistics shows, gives to
the world an imposing array of fig
ures as to what the fish and fishing
industry means to us. However, it
is only partly the truth, because
in the statistics, no place is
given to the daily home fishing that
goes on along the coast of Norway
where the small farms are located.
Hundreds and hundreds of thou
sands of these small farms, located
among the islands and fjiords of
Norway, would have been deserted
if it had not been for the lift this
‘Homefishing’ gives to the settlers
who have settled downt where the
country shows its most austere
face.
The Aaceon assists, but it is a
help, (to help himself) and it takes
a little patience and hard work
for the one who is going to make
a success out of it. When a per
son goes out on the fishing grounds
and witnesses the hard work and
the many heroic deeds, the well
planned cooperation of personal in
itiative, one cannot help but be
filled with admiration over these
brilliant qualities that here modi
fied itself daily.
To every one who has anything
to do with the fishing industry, and
especially to those who catch fish
It is of great interest to know some
thing about the nature and habit of
the fish .in the sea, and especially
is that true where the fishing is
poor or a complete failure, or when
the fish does not act as it usually
does.
Therefore a correct knowledge as
possible about the fish, (its natural
history and possibly habit) and
those causes that influence the life
of the fish must always be of great
importance in the discharge of me
practical achievement as in the
work that is carried on by the gov
ernment in order that the different
fishing industries may be organized,
and regulated in a feasible and
practicle way.
Because of this the different
countries have caused to be stud
ied the life history of the fish. At
present a thorough scientific in
vestigation is carried on anent:
codfish, sei herring, bristing, etc,
and also over the crayfish or the
feed which the fish feeds upon.
Likewise the outer relationship, the
currents in the ocean, how the salt
ness in the sea is decided, the tem
perature, etc., that may have in
fluence upon the fish and as to then
behavior.
Since the cod and the herring for
a long time has been the most im
portant for the Norwegian fishing
industry, it is natural that these
species were early subjects for
study. Later on othor species have
been added such as Sei, Hyse, sar
dine, Bristing, redsnapper ,etc.
In this and the following articles
I shall try to show a little of the
natural history of the herring, that
is as far as we know in Norway.
Of course it must be taken for
granted that any complete, thoro
documentation is not to be consid
ered in a daily paper. The present
ation must also be limited to the
herring that is found around the
Coast of Norway.
About sixty years ago no one
could have spoken about the herring
found off the coast of Norway as
belonging to one family without
having met strenuous opposition.
In this expression have they prac
that is found on the coast of Norway j
Mossen, Bladsild, Fetsild, Storsild
and Voorsild. At that time they
were not aware of the fact that dif
ferent kinds of herring represented
the different stages of development
from the birth to old age of the
same kind of herring. Thus that
Mossen develop into Bladsild, the
Bladsild in toFeldaild and Feldsild
to waarsid and storsild. In the
second place they were not aware of
the fact that this different kind
of herring constitutes a sepcies by
of herring constitutes a species by
itself that was sharply separated
from the other species of herring
that lives in the North Sea.
It was the Honorable Assian Lars
the Nestor among the Biologists of
Norway, who through a few ob
servations, came to the correct con
clusion as to the relationship be
tween the different species of her
ring in the Norwegian waters. He
noticed that the minor herring
(Smaasilden) and and the fat her-j
ring (felsilden) was not full grown,
but had reached a certain stage in
the development. The bigger her j
ring (storsilden and vaarsilden)
had fult developed roe. At present;
this may seem trivial, but at that
time it caused quite a stir and con
troversy.
The one to whom the honor is
due so far as having differently
proven that the herring is divided
into families, belongs to the Ger
man Heincke who is still alive and
active in his work. He got the
idea of taking a lot of measure
ments of the herring hq studied.
He took the measurement just as
a tailor would when taking meas
urement for a suit, only more par
ticular, because he cut the herring j
open and found out how many ver- j
tebra there were in the spinal col- j
umn; counted the spouts in the!
fins. When he then compared all
the numbers that he had collected,
he found out, that there was some
monal?? differences from the her
ring in Norway, from Island and
from the North Sea; while on the
other hand it was just about the
same when it came to the different
kind of (vaarsilden) from Norway.
Heincke himself has in this par
ticular line done a great work.
The method has also received his
name. The work is still carried on,
and especially to make clear and
definite how it is with the herring
lhat has its home in the North Sea.
Regarding the herring that keeps
itself on the coast of Norway, he
says, that it belongs to the sharp
est defined family.
Practically all progress in the
scientific world has come about in
this way: that they have been able
to work out a method based on one
or several facts, either old "estab
lished facts or newly discovered
facts.
it cannot, be said deiiniteiy who
first became aware of the racis
regarding scales of lisli, and also
knuckles. One thing is a certain
ty, by skillful examination of the
iwo scales and the knuckles, it
gives a great deal of very interest
ing information regarding the life
of the fish. In this connection it
is of little importance who it was
that first became aware of it. How
ever, it was in the beginning oi tne
twentieth century that the exam
! illation of the 'scales and knuckles
became of great importance in tne
work as to the natural history oi
the fish. It is due to this circum
stance that the coldblooded fish
liver is stamped by the change of
the seasons in the sea, thus that in
the bone substance, mark's ot the
seasons one found something simil
ar to the marks we find in the tree
trunk. By investigation it has oeen
proven tnat the vering during the
priod from the Fail to the Spring
the herring takes little or no nour
ishment; furthermore during this
time it does not grow, and that it
even consumes the surplus of fat
which it has laid by during the
summer months. As a result of
this period of hunger and stagna
tion, marks are found both on the
scales as well as in the inner
knockles. By investigation one
may find out how many winter per
iods the herring has lived thru and
.thus lind out the age of the fish.
Let us take a young herring Mosso,
examine its scale and see what we
can find out. The Mosso is about
10 cm. long (one inch equals 2.54
centimeters). As to the scale there]
is nothing remarkable, that is if the
Mosso were caught in the month of
December. But if it were caught
in the spring we would find that
the herring was 14 centimeters
long and changes had taken place
as far as the scale went. On the
scale we find a dark ring towards
the outer edge. 0ut3ide the ring
is a belt similar to the inside of
the ring. What does it prove? It
proves that the Mosso is one winter
old. It was hatched in the month
of March or April. Scales can
stand for the summer-the ring for
the winter and the ero outside the
ring for the summer they have al
ready begun on.
If this one were caught in the
month of November, we would
find that it ha3 grown and become
18 centimeters long. The scale
with its winter ring on, the outside
ero of the ring is. wide, this ero is
summer ero. The herring is no
longer Mosso but has developed in
to what is known as Bladsild. If
that herring was left to grow
another year, when measured, it
would be 21 centimeters—would
have two dark rings— winter rings,
and the ero known as the summer
ero—or summr belts.
The scales of the herring then
confirm its age. It functions a3
a natural birth certificate. True
enough, it is not always equally
vi3ible but by the expert it can as
a rule be explained.
In the next article I shall try to
make plain how this peculiarity of
the scale of the herring is made
use of in the investigation that Is
carried on, and also the result of
the work.
(Continued Next Week)
POLITICAL STRAW VOTES—1027
A nation wide poll was recently
conducted by 2000 papers served by
the Publishers Autocaster Service
wherein 632,000 votes were cast.
President Calvin Coolidge was first
choice of the Republicans and Gov.
Alfred E. Smith, of New York, first
choice of the Democrats for the
Senator Reed was a close second
on the heels of Smith while Govern
or Lowden was second to Coolidge.
As Others See The
Bureau of Fisheries
As time rolls along the work an 3
schemes of the Secretary of Com
merce will be laid bare, they—fool
“some of the people all of the time
some of the people part of the time
but can’t fool all of the people
all of the time. Evidence of this
fact is brought to light from time
to time. The latest of which is the
expose made by Herbert K. Vertrees
Secretary of the Pike County
Chapter of the Izaak Walton
League of America, entitled “Shall
We Have Real Conservation..’’
“Unrelenting and wholesale fish
ing for thirty-six years has played
great havoc, which demands that
really sincere and efficient efforts
he directed to these fisheries with
out further delay. *** Our people
have been mislead by false reports
which have appeared in the large
city newspapers. Many of them
published in 1923. They gave very
flattering and misleading reports
of work which, it was published,
the Bureau of Fisheries was doing
in our pearl fisheries. It is a fact
that the Commissioner of Fisheries,
Henry O’Malley ACTUALLY KNEW
OF THESE MISLEADING RE
PORTS which were being published,
yet continued to receive these un
merited garlands of praise, while
he concurred in silence, and omit
ted to object to these erroneous
and misleading reports.”
THE ALASKAN will publish from
time to time other exerpts from
this interesting expose of the cupi
ity and deliberately misleading and
erroneous reports and statements
set forth by the Bureau of Fisher
ies and other pupupets of the Fish
Barons 'of Portland, Seattle and
San Francisco.
Here On this rock and on this ster
ile soil,
Began the kingdom not of kings,
but men,
Began the making of the world
again.
Here centuries 'sank, and from the
hither brink
A new world reached and raised
an old world link,
When England’s hands, by wider
vision taught,
1 Threw down the feudal bars the
Norman brought,
And here revived, in spite of sword
and stake,
The ancient freedom of the Wapen
take.
Here struck the seed—the Pilgrim’s
roofless town,
There equal rights and equal
bounds were set,
There all the people equal-fran
chised met,
Where doom was writ of privilege
and crown,
Where human breath blew all the
idols down,
Where crests were naught, where
vulture flags were furled
And common men began to own the
world.
—John Boyle O’Reilly.
CELEBRATION CLEAN-UP
It cost the City of New York the
sum of $16,000 to clean up 1,800
tons of waste paper and confetti
hrown from the windows during the
Lindberg welcome.
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ASK LICENSE FOB POWER
The Kasaan Gold Company, of
Seattle has made application for a
minor license for a constructed pro
ject on Harris Creek near Ketchi
kan, according to a report by the
Federal Power Commission
The project is located in the Ton
gass National Forest and consists
of a timber crib dam which ponds
161,000 cubic feet of water, a flume
1,286 feet long, a powerhouse and
transmission line.
The installed capacity is estimat
ed at 200 horsepower and the prime
capacity at 100 horsepower. The
power is used for mining purposes
EFFORT MADE BY BUREUA
EDUCATION GET HOSPITAL
Receipt of the Memorial passed
by the recent legislature in regard ’
to the establishment of a tubercular
hospital in the Territory has been
acknowldged by Jonathan H. Wag
ner of the Bureau of Education, Mr.
Wagner writes that estimates for
the establishment of such a hospi
tal for tubercular Indians in South
eastern Alaska have been included
in the report to the Bureau of Budg
ett for next year, as well as for the
extension of the medical relief
work among the Natives.
. FOURTH CAR OF SALMON .
The Gorman Packing Company:
announred yesterday that it had j
shipped its fourth carload of sal- i
mon to the headquarters of the i
company in Seattle, this year.—An
chorage Daily Times.
Evidently the salmon run to the
Westward will be a lot better than
in the First Division, according to j
present indications.
Salmon hauls are reported as
having increased 25 to 40 per cent
in kings and reds over the same
date last year in the Copper River
district according to agents of the j
Bureau of Fisheries in that district.j
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The gray scout of the south wind
Comes in from the sea
In the velvet shoes.
Silently he strings silver beads
On the branches of trees,
The eaves of houses,
The rigging of ships
And the taut wire nerves
Of the city.
Then he creeps
Into the black canyons of the hills
And sleeps.
PIE ala RADIO
A trusting bride asked her hus
band to copy the radio recipe one
morning. The husband did his best
but got two stations at once. One
was broadcasting the morning ex
ercise and the other the recipe.
This is what he got:
Hands on hips, place one cup of
flour on shoulders, raise knees and
depress toes and wash thoroughly
in one half cup of milk.
In four counts raise and lower
the legs and mash two hard boiled
eggs in sieve. Repeat six times.
Inhale one half teaspoonful of bak
ing powder and oik, cup ol *uuu?.
Breathe naturally and exhale and
sift.
Attention! Jump to a squatting po
sition and bend white of eggs back
ward and forward overhead and in
four counts make a stiff dough
that will stretch at the waist.
Lie flat on the floor and roll into
the size of a walnut. Hop to a
standstill and boil in water, but do
not boil into a gallup.
Afterwards, in ten minutes re
move from the fire and dry with a
towel. Breathe naturally and dress
in flannels and serve with fish soup.
IT MAKES US LAUGH
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It has never failed to support the
government or any of its agencies
in legal efforts to enforce the law.
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