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report goes, he shuts his eyes to
the type of traps used by this
company.
We have heard much praise in
some quarters as to the integrity
and fairness of Mr. O’Malley in
his effort to conserve the salmon
fisheries. Therefore the charge
that is going the rounds of the
fisheries circles is rather diffi
cult to understand.
If it is not true, he should put
himself on record as having
clean hands in his supervision
and regulation of the fisheries
industry. If the charge is true,
be should be removed forthwith.
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•NTENSIVE PRODUCTION AND
HIGH WAGES
Intensive production and high
er wages for workmen was a top
ic under discussion by delegates
to the Fourth International Con
gress for Scientific Management
t Paris, late last June. Many
of the delegates took the posi
ioii that higher wages for work
iignien would destroy the bene
fits reaped by intensive produc
ion. American delegates de
clared that increased pay for
workingmen had made the Am
erican workingman the most
prosperous and most productive
in the world. A letter from Mr
Green, president of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor declar
ed: “Labor has an interest in in
creased production because only
out of increased output can
come sustained rises in the
standard of living. Trade un
ions are ready to cooperate in
promoting economies in produc
tion when there are set up agen
cies that assure them j ustice ana
equity. The American Federa
tion of Labor recognizes that
the interest of wage earners are
interdependent upon the inter
ests of all other groups.II
industry is to maintain produc
tion, if prosperity is to continue
for the community and for the
nation, wage earners and other
groups must have sustained pur
chasing power.
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HIGHER WAGES
LOW WAGES IN ALASKA
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“**If prosperity is to continue
for the community (or commun
ities of Alaska) wage earners
and other groups must have sus
tained purchasing power.”
The entire fabric of the eco
nomic system of Alaska, is based
on fish—halibut, salmon, king
salmon or herring. The earning
power of the fishermen is gov
erened by market conditions and
mle or misrule of the United
States Bureau of Fisheries.
The seiner is hedged in by such
discriminatory regulations that
he is able to get any earnings at
all only by violation of laws and
regulations. What little he is
able to earn during the fishing
season goes to paying part of his
winter’s account and the balance
remains on the books. The time
°omes when he leaves the coun
try and all his acounts for the
businessman to pay. The busi
nessman foots the bill. All be
cause of the indifferent attitude
taken by them in the fight for a
cultural wage.
I HE UNFORTUNATE * • H I II
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. The following f’om tiv .Scut
t’c times is worth thinking over
F.cie, there, and everyvvr ve we
f'.-.d the racial superior tv c< m
x becoming more and more a
; problem. The article de:’. wnh
; the Negro phase. It may wt 11 be
applied to the Oriental, the Nor
dic, the Slav, the Latin—any
race that may be inferior in
number or educational advan
tage or whose environment is
antagonistic to that of the pre
dominating race,
i The Unfortunate South
! One of the most surprising
self-deceptions of some sections
of the South is to believe that it
can advance in civilization by
. oppressing, exploiting and segre
j gating the negro. Booker T.
j Washington expressed a great
^psychological fact when he said:
‘•XI the white man keeps the ne
gro in the gutter, he shall be
compelled to stay there with
him.”
In economic thought, some
places in the South are a hun
ched years behind the civilized
world. Any program of econom
ic betterment that excludes the
negro retards the economic bet
terment of the whole. Economic
justice is a primary condition of
general peace and contentment.
The individual who cannot be
lieve in his own superiority un
less he finds somebody whom he
may safely (as he thinks) look
•sown upon, and from whom he
may demand an attitude of sub
missive inferiority, is too narrow j
minded to be regarded seriously, i
It is this fevered haughtiness |
which, never being treated with
°U the abject worship it expects
worn the new type negro, arous
es proscriptive group hatred.
We commonly think of hatred
as being harmful to the person
to whom it, is directed. Of course,
that may easily prove to be the
mse. But the first and basic
truth to be seen concerning hat
red is that it is ruinous to the
person who engenders it.
Psychology traces all traits of
haracter and heredity and en
vironment and the culture that
•omes out of them. If you culti
vate the spirit of intolerance, you
.ontract such a vicious habit of
nincl as by degrees will break
jut upon those who are your
riencls. This was clearly prov
en when Senator Heflin defied
Senator Robinson of Arkansas
0 come to Alabama and make
1 speech against religious intol
rance.
PLACING RESPONSIBILITY
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At the recent conference of
overnors held at Groton, Conn.,
Governor C. Max Gardner of N.
Carolina declared that fathers
md mothers more than the
younger generation” were to be
jiamed for conditions that lead
to crime.
.‘ if father and mother do not
.now how to behave, how is it
possible to expect that hteir chil
dren shall .behave .better,” he
rsked.. “If father and mother
lave lost all ethical conception,
why should we expect that their
children adhere to .moral .anti
ethical principles?. If family
relationships are to be increas
ingly dominated by nothing
more than the desire for self
gratification and material gain,
s it not reasonable to expect
that honorable traditions will
be involved?
“When you come to think of
it, what is there left for modern
youth to reverence? Our central
interpretation of life is domin
ated by a soulless materialism
and in the everlasting whirl of
things we have lost our sense of
values.”
Ore cf the profoundly disquiet
ing factors of crime in the Unit
led States is “the rapid decay of
family life.”
“It is a misfortune of our age
that little is being done for con
solidation of the family where
as mighty forces seem to be con
spiring against it, seeking to di
vorce the children from their
parents and from society. My
own feeling is that the young
people of today, generally speak
ing, are as fine in every sense of
the word as any generation that
has preceded them.”
SENTENCES HIMSELF
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The law of the Kootenai In
dian of Washington, was death
lor the Indian who ran before
his enemy or flinched under the
torture from an enemy. The
old Indians know and remember
the law.
Kootenai Pete, aged Indian re
cently carelessly made a fire and
thereby started a big forest fire.
Firefighters came to fight the
fire. Kootenai Pete went to
their camp and said: “I have
broken the law. I minded not
my camp fire. I was not a good
warrior. White men, kill me.’'
Not many of any race, would
have the courage to ask the ex
treme penalty for failing to be
“a good warrior”—Indian for
good citizen.
FOIID ON WAGES
Henry Ford recently stated he
expected the $6 minimum day
wage to his motor factory em
ployees as “certain to be raised”
at “no distant time.”
Recently he was quoted in the
North American Review as say
ing: “It is from the $5 a day pay
ment that our real business j
dates. We think a minimum is
safer than a miximum. It pre
vents any possibility of our slip
ping backward, while it does
not hinder us going forward. I
regard the $6 minimum as cer
tain to be raised at no very dis
tant time.”
CHRONICLE RECOGNIZES A
SERIOUS FACT
The Ketchikan Chronicle the
First City’s daily recently declar
ed that:
“Seine boats running out of
Ketchikan have not been doing
well so far this season, making
probably a little better than ex
penses. In some isolated in
stances good catches have been
made. One seiner declared that
the fish are running later and
later each year and that the
closing season cuts off their
main supply of revenue, with
the result that it hardly pays to
keep up the expenses of seine
boats any longer.”
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SELLING OUT
At the height of the 1927 le
gislative session when the grad
uated tax bill was under discus
sion, Representative William L.
Paul declared it was only a mat
ter of time when the independ
ent trap owner would be a thing
of the past.
Today, virtually all of the in
dependent trapmen have sold or
in process of selling their trap
foldings. Their backers—the
canners are forcing them to sell
and get out of the game. This
is made possible by the fact that
the independent men are not
getting enough fish to meet
tfteir obligations. It is a matter
of only a little while and all the
trap holdings will be in the pos
session by people outside ofthe
territory.
Boat Earnings
The seine fishermen have
not earned their expenses to
date, let alone wages. The runs
through the entire Division are
spotty and less than average
runs. The first runs are virtual
ly depleted. Escapement is not
the fifty per cent prescribed by
’.aw. It is useless for any fish
erman to go out fishing during
he month of July. The salmon
just do not come at that time
any more.
The month of August opens
with the second run of salmon.
In the remaining thirteen days
of fishing the traps well do much
better. The local cannery will
be able to put in fuli time and a
fair average pack each day.
The season ends the 20th. The
pack in Bristol Bay section was
over one million cases as com
pared to the million and a half
last year. The total Alaska
pack for 1928 was 6,083,903. It
does not look at this writing
that much more than half that
pack will be put up. Homy
O’Malley predicted that under
his system of conservation that
the annual pack would be stabl
?zed at four and a half million
cases.
WHAT COST FULL?
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Prohibition has brought wealth
to bootleggers, prohibition offic
ers, politicians and what not. It
also brought wealth to one Jake
Timberg of Los Angeles. Joe is
a collector of bottles—empties.
After a recent convention Jake
collected $3800 worth of empty
rin, Scotch, ginger ale, cham
oagne, beer and other bottles
rom 18 hotels with which he has
exclusive concessions.
If the bottles—empty—were
vorth $3800, what were they
worth—full.
ERA OF PROSPERITY
During the administration of
Silent” Cal, we had the slogan
‘era of prosperity” peddled right
and left. During that time more
banks went to the wall than in
everal previous administrations.
Continuing the same era of
prosperity we note that the 31st
Florida bank has closed its doors.
The First National Bank at
Winter Park and the Carleton
National Bank, Wauchula, Flori
da, also failed to open their
doors.
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