PIONEERS OPPOSE CHANGE
ALASKA GAME LAW
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Pioneers of Anchorage have
raised their voices against the
proposal of the Alaska game
Commission to invade the rights
of prospectors and trappers by
subjecting them to search with
out due process whenever and
wherever it is desired by an offi
cial of the commission to con
duct such a search. The bill now
pending before Congress which,
if passed, would give game and
fur wardens unlicensed privilege
in the matter of search, was call
ed to the attention of local Pio
neers at a meeting of Anchorage
Igloo No. 15 a week ago, and de
finite action was taken at a
largely attended meeting of the
oldtimers last evening at Pioneer
Hall, in the adoption of a reso
lution prepared by the resolution
committee.
The resolution, which was
adopted without a dissenting
vote reads as follows:
Resolution
Whereas the principles of per
sonal liberty declared in the first
ten amendments to the Consti
tution of the United States are
firmly established in our system
of government, and
Whereas the personal rights
preserved to our people of the
United States by those amend
ments must, of necessity, be the
foundation of the idea of free
dom upon which any govern
ment of the people, for the peo
ple and by the people is based,
and
Whereas any laws which are
designed to nullify, postpone or
obscure the operation of these
amendments as a protection to
the primary personal rights of
the people are dangerous legisla
tive experiments in a field which
offers little promise of success:
Therefore be it resolved by Ig
loo No. 15, Pioneers of Alaska
that we protest against any
change in the law respecting the
game and fur bearing animals of
Alaska which deprives the peo
ple of the protection afforded by
these amendments, and particu
larly the change proposed in H.
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R. 9726, now under consideration
by the Congress of the United
marches and seizures of camps
searches and seizures of camps
outfits, sleds, boats, pack an
imals, packs, au omobiles, etc.,
without search warrant, and
without the procedure required
in the case of suspected violation
of other laws.
Igloo No. 15 Pioneers of Alaska
By JAMES CLTMIE, President.
Dated April 19, 1930,
Attest:
,R. G. South worth, Sec.
NOW THAT THE POLL IS OVER
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The Literary Digest’s great
poll on the liquor question is ov
er. Both the Wets and the Drys
claim victory by virtue of the
Modificationists.
A similar poll taken by the
Pathfinder is strongly “dry.” The
issue in Pennsylvania was wet
and dry opposing each other and
Mr. Davis, a dry, wais nominated.
Nomination in Pennsylvania
for senator on the Republican
ticket is election. What will
that mean on a vote on prohibi
tion.
Looks like the Digest needs to
take a poll among the Modifiica
ticnists to see how they stand on
repeal and enforcement.
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OLD LAND MARK GONE
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Do you remember when the
Rainier-Grand Hotel, Seattle
was the most famous hostelry
west of Chicago; when the elite
and the famous stopped there
and it was the meeting place of
those making state and national
history? Then stop for a moment
sand picture in your mind that
famous hotel of the days of ’98
| for in but a short while it will
| only be a memory. It was put
I under the auctioneer’s hammer
; last week and it will be razed by
I a group of business men to make
.room for a new federal building
j The building was constructed
in 1889 by Montana copper kings
!and for many years was the
meeting place of Alaskans go
ing and coming. Many a story
could it tell, did its four walls
talk.
INDIAN GIRL DELEGATE TO
LONDON CONFERENCE
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A performance by the faculty
of Mount Holyoke College, South
Hadley, Mass., was recently stag
ed for the benefit of Verna Nori,
who is a sophomore in that col
lege. The following paragraphs
are from the local paper: “Miss
Nori, for whom the faculty thus
mustered its talents is a Pueblo
Indian. For two years before
coming to Mount Holyoke, she
taught in the normal training
department of an Indian school,
specializing in primary work. Shej
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Alaska
plans to return to this work Dur
ing the two years at Mount Hol
yoke, she has been particularly
active in the work of the Cosmo
politan Club, of fhich she is now
the secretary, and in the student
Y. W. C. A.
“One of a group of 12 students
selected from the entire country,
including a representative of the
American mountain whites, Miss
Nori will attend the British Stu
dent Movement Conference at
London and Swanwick from July
10 to 23. The remainder of the
itinerary includes Brittany, Pa
ris, Geneva, Munich, and attend
ance at the religious celebration
at Oberammergau. Everywhere
they will be met by students and
live in the homes of students.
Her Fritz Beck, director of the
Studenthaus at Munich, will con
duct the visitors to Oberammer
gau and the Passion Play, which
they will see as his guests, con
tinuing as their guide on a
“youth-movement tour” of Ba
varian Alps. Miss Nori goes as a
representative of the college
community and the Y. W. C. A.—
Haskell, Indian Leader.
Miss Nori is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Siceni Nori, both
graduates of the famous Carlisle
Indian School in Pennsylvania.
She is also the r.eiee of Farnk
Hudson who signed hotel regis
ters as “Little-Man-With-Cun
ning-Toe.” His skill at drop
kicking in football games in the
late ’90’s and early 1900’s was ex
I celled only by Crowell of Swarth
more. A little man, not weigh
ing over 140 pounds he played
on the Carlisle team as quarter
back against the big universities
.when the gruelling, smashing
■gaurdsback and tandem plays
iwere in style and when light
teams with open formations were
not even thought of.
Miss Nori is fortunate in more
ways than one.
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JOS STODDARD’S VIEWS IN
The Seattle Times
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Monday we received a copy of
an editoial from the Okanogan
Independent, sent to us by the
editor, O. H. Woody. He com
mented on the political upheav
al in King County, closing his
cogitation as follows:
I “Whatever Seattle and King
County may think of the nation
al administration, the world
court and prohibition issues
when the remainder of the state
is heard from there will be a
different story. Efforts to push
King County resolution at the
state convention will meet with
stubborn opposition.”
“Bring on your opposition,
boys, for the King county resolu
tion is going to be pushed. Po
litical expediency is good for the
soul, and that is what some of
the delegates want an opportun
ity to do. They want an honest
expression of sincere convictions.
Political skyrockets are being
shot in the air, preceding the
Republican state m convention.
Many of them will return to
mother earth without showing
much illumination.
July 1 candidates will start fil
ing for the primary election to
be held September 9, and these
skyrockets are feelers to see if
the road looks open.
With the direct primary every
candidate for a party nomina
tion has an even start. That is
the feature that the political
bosses . do not like, and
some of them want to ask the
legislature to amend the law so
as to give .party endorsement.
Candidates would not then be
wondering how the people feel
about it, but how to get the sup
port of bosses. We prefer to
have them looking to the people
rather than to the bosses.
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With the length of women’s
skirts going back to normalcy we
note that men are trying to go
back to the short stockings and
knee pants of kid days. Even a
college education does not make
one grow up—mentally.
THE PRIMARY IN ALASKA
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The primary in Alaska comes
mighty near to being owned and
controlled by the Federal Bloc
and the Democratic leaders of
Juneau. They agree among
thmselves, in the interest of De
mocratic party harmony, to have
only one candidate for each and
every elective office. They then
have no contest and are able to
enter the Republican primaries
to pick off and defeat any can
didate most dangerous to their
political chicanery and machin
ations. The defeat of Senator
Will Steel is an illustration in
point. Had the Federal “bloc”
stayed in the Democratic pri
maries where they belonged and
where they play their game year
in and out, Steel would have
been nominated and battled for
the place in the Senate in the
fall with the full strength of the
electorate—a large proportion of
whom being out fishing did not
have opportunity to vote.
Food for thought—this same
“mass voting federal brigade
and henchmen of the Juneau
plunderbund, look with disfavor
upon the Alaska primary system.
They would sooner have it as in
the days of Shackleford, when
proxies were bought and sold by
“elders” of churches and when
the wishes of the electorate were
given less consideration than
would be given a dog going to the
polls to vote. By this system
the gang of political highbind
ers with their “bloc’ voting en
! masse, they could nominate and
elect their candidates with cer
tainty.
That the literati with their
bloc of federal mass voters will
work to defeat the primary sys
tem in Alaska, there is no ques
tion. They have tried it in the
recent years unsuccessfully. With
absolute control of both branch
es of the Legislature, watch and
see the fulfillment of this predic
tion
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WHERE IS OUR DEMOCRACY
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Has bureaucratic officialism
become the great American men
ace?
. .President Hoover, when Secre
tary of Commerce, said that
there were more than 200 Feder
al bureaus, boards and commis
sions which are empowered to
make rules and regulations
which have the effect of law. Aye
greater effect than law, for one
may go into court and there
challenge the constitutionality
of the law whereas one cannot
go back of any regulation of the
bureaucrats. *
A case in point is the regula
tion by the Forest Bureau which
forbids export of Alaska timber.
The law passed by Congress puts
| no prohibition on export timber
(Alaska timber. By regulation the
Forest Bureau forbids exporta
| tion. The logger cannot go back
of the action of the Bureau; he
he has no recourse. And so the
right to dispose of Alaska logs by
foreign export is blocked by the
exercise of autocratic contraven
tion of the laws of a democracy.
The power of the bureau exceeds
the authority of that body which
created the bureau and feeds it
with funds and appropriations
to keep it alive
This trend of bureaucratic
lule is increasing and no mat
ter how much we talk of indi
vidualism and democracy, we are
headed | straight toward com
munism. The citizen has less to
do with regulating his business
and social life; the official has
more and more. We are all be
coming more subject ^ to the
whims of the egotistical little
men who are seeking to make a
show of their brief authority.
And we are all becoming more
subject to the whims of a
spreading bureaucracy.
The average citizen gets off in
a corner of a poolroom, or behind
the warm stove of a grocery
store or on the floats alongside
the gasboats and protest private-;
i
ily. Yet they elect political de
! mogogues seeking dictatorial
powers and a torrent of bureau
cratic regulations of all kinds.
Then they damn as futile the ef
forts of men honestly and sin
cerely making effort to bring our
government back into the con
trol of the people rather than to
add to the authority and power
of bureaus.
In the past twenty-five years,
so-called constitutional rights
have been abrogated on a whole
sale scale. The right of trial by
jury, even the right to be heard
in court denied Alaska citizens;
even the freedom of speech has
been threatened by the action of
some of the courts in the states,
the most reecnt of which is the
arrest of the editor of the Record
of Los Angeles, for criticising the
action of the district attorney
and the court in the infamous
Julian Petroleum case—a criti
cism that did not obstruct jus
tice but that tended to a strict
er and more severe action by the
courts.
American citizens have been
made criminals by bureau regu
lations and courts made a party
to the usurpation of constitu
tional liberties.
Will the people let democracy
fall? Will autocratic bureau
cracy continue unchecked with
their hunger for greater power
over the citizens of the country?
Is the United States of America
still the “Land of the Free and
tlr Home of the Brave?”
GIVE HIM PLENTY
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They tell a story of a man who
defiied a constable to do his
i worst. He was arrested for park
. ing his car in front of a hydrant.
“Didn’t you see that hydrant”?
asked the constable.
“Oh, yes.”
“Don’t you know it’s against
tne law to park your car here”?
“Oh, yes.”
In court he was equally unper
turbed. “Sixty days on the jail
farm,” said the magistrate,
sternly. “I only wish I could give
you more.”
..“Go as far as you like,” said
the culprit. “I’m a ‘lifer’ in
Kingston; the warden asked me
1o drive him down.”
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The supreme test of courage is
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.Sweet mercy is nobility’s true
badge.—-Shakespear.
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