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Office at Petersburg, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
"WHO PAYS THE BILLS
Press reports from the north in
dicate that the salmon pack at this
time is from 20 to 40 percent over
that of the same time last year.
The pack this year is a trap
pack. Fishermen in this division
so far have not made wages. So
long as present regulations are in
force they will not make wages.
We have personally canvassed the
situation from Admiralty Island to
Ketchikan and we have yet to find
the seiner who has made wages or
who has any prospect of making
it in the next three weeks. We
have not limited our inquiries to
Indian fishermen hut have obtained
our information almost wholly
from white fishermen.
The regulations promulgated by
Commissioner O’Malley, Czar of
our fisheries for the conserva
lion of salmon prohibits the opera
tion of seines in practically every
bay wherein there is a salmon
stream. To impart the idea that
it was the sincere intent to con
serve he passed the regulation
whereby traps were prohibited
from operated less than a mile
apart. To one not aquainted with
the manner in which traps
are operated this sounds like a
real conservation measure. As a
matter of fact it is trap protective
measure. Heretofore it has been
the policy of the trap interests to
set just within legal distance, a
“dummy” whose only duty it was
to keep the real working trap from
being “corked.’ The expense of
this “dummy” has been, eliminated.
It can then be shown on paper that
the new prohibitions have eliminat
e a half almost of the traps. The
efficiency of the system has not
been impaired. The destructive
methods and conservation remains
the farce it always has been under
the Bureau of Fisheries. The poor
resident alone bears the full bur
den.
The efficacy of the traps is three
times that of the seines. Were the
trap system removed it would re
quire more than 1500 seine boats
with an average of five men to the
seine. This would mean a spending
power of more than 7,500 men as
against the pesent spending power
of 1,500. That local business would
benefit goes without saying. With
a greater spending power of resi
dent fishermen we naturally can ex
pect greater business, greater
freight traffic, greater natural de
velopment of the Territory.
Which will it be and which do
we want it to be.
As no true work since the world
began was ever wasted, so no true
life since the world began has ever
failed.—Emerson.
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A FAULTY MAJOR PREMISE
Oliver Wendell Holmes, in the
“Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,’’
quotes the famous Dr. Johnson as
expiessing disappointment in the
effect of one of his pamphlets. “I
think I have not been attacked
enough for it,” he said; “attack
is the reaction; I never think I
have hit hard unless it rebounds.”
Judged by this standard THE
VERSTOVIAN should be pleased
with the Empire’s frequent refer
ences to it and its position on the
native political situation. Sheldon
Jackson School and THE VER
STOVIAN welcome publicity.
In its issue of May the fourth
the Empire complains that the In
dians are not becoming “Compe
tent Christian Citizens” and advis
es that as a proper step to this de
sirable end they get out of politics
altogether. To all of which we en
ter a demurrer.
To begin with The Verstovian
does not affirm that all Indians
are becoming competent, Christian
citizens. But we will not permit
the Empire, without challenge to
avow that SOME Indians are not
becoming such. It is the province
of the Sheldon Jackson School to
put such native young people as
come within the circle of its in
fluence on the road to Christian ci
tizenship. Its success or failure
in attaining this end is largely in
the future since competent, Chris
tian citizenship is a high ideal and
nt attaned. Would the Empire as
sert that all white voters are “coin
petent, Christian, citizens? Woul
it even affirm that AIL white vot
ers are on the road to becoming
such? Have white voters attained
independence from “bosses” and
“class interosts” and “racial self
fishness,” even in Alaska?
As THE V7RSTOVIAN has be
fore asserted the Empire’s advocacy
of “a white man’s party” deliber
ately organized to put the Indan
out of poltics entirely is a mons
trous proposition at utter varience
with the fundamental principles of
democratic government. Such doc
trine is of the very essence of that
“class selfishness” which the Em
pire so vigorously denounces in
the Indian.
The Empires admonition to
teachers and missionaries to in
struct their charges to stay out of
politics until they can qualify by
“gradually assuming the responsi
bilities of citizenship” reminds us
of the famous daughter who was
not to go near the water but must
learn to swim nevertheless. The
present controversy while unfor
tunate, is after all encot:"agini: as
indicating growth and progress. It
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versy than to be unworthy of no
tice. Granted that mistakes are
being made they are the sort that
a child must experience in learning
to walk. We do not whip the child
and put him to bed for not walk
ing without falling.
The Empire enumerates many
sins of ommision and commission
in the teaching program of the
missionaries and Bureau of Educa
tion representatives. To this The
Verstovian can only reply that in
the Sheldon Jackson School the
same standards of morals, educa
tion and physical development are
maintained as pertain to the educa
tion of other Alaskan young
people in the Territorial schools.
We do not teach the Indian to be
selfish; to be ungrateful; to be
vain; to be lazy and improvident.
Our young people are being in
structed in the grace of gratitude
The Empire’s classification of ALL
natives as well as ungrateful is in
line with the hyperbole of the en
tire editorial.
The Verstovian is happy to find
one point of agreement in this ed
itorial, vis, “Indians ought to be
an asset to Alaska.” We oven go
further and assert that they actual
ly are an asset o Alaska. And it
will continue to be the goal of the
Sheldon Jackson School to trajn
Indian young men and women to be
“Competent, Christian Citizens.”
Reminds us of the fellow up
north out trapping for mink who
put up the sing: Notice to Marten:
You are hereby borbidden to ent
er my traps as you are protected
by law.
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Large new line of Dennison goods *
just arrived at the Totem Pole. *
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Beach Combings
By AHN-KUTTY
Comes now the report tha
Queen Elizabeth has been seen pa
rading the grounds around Wind
sor Castle. ’Tis evident the Bri
tish rum runners have left enough
at 'ome to see things.
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New York society girls have dis
carded stockings. We have an ide
the bare leg would be as appeal
ing as one in a flesh colored sock.
Still even now it’s a bit late for
the fad to become popular in Pe
tersburg this season.
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A country that is good enough
to raise a family in; to do businss
and make a home in, is good
enough to be respected. And it’s
flag is enough for anybody.
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The big, seven ton carrying ca
pacity Boeing airplane, P. B. 1,
pulling out from Seattle recently
on a non-stop flight attempt to San
Diego, was forced to hit the grit
in less than two hours after start
off. This is the same machine that
made the unsuccessful effort to
reach Hawaii last year. Were the
airshipa thing of the sea instead of
the air the sailors would claim her
hoodooed and dolefolly shake their
heads if asked to sign on.
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The mothers of a number of fair
daughters in Portsmouth, N. H.,
raised strenuous objection to the
bucks mate methods of discipline
handed their offspring at a select
swimming school. Come to find
out, the rough house instructor
was a woman not much older than
her pupils. Didn’t Kipling remark
one time, that the female of the
species was more dangerous than
the male?
It isn’t the fish that “cuts the
ice” after all. We’ve been in on
the catching of more than one
hundred whales and never a line
of type about it. We saw a fisher
man work and land an eighty
pound king salmon and nary a
drop of printers’ ink was shed over
it. But President Coolidge snags a
two pound pike and the world
knows of it in a fat half column
write up. Now, honestly, is that
fair?
Troy—eleven ounces— has it that
Dan Sutherland healthy vote
comes through so many electors
failing to cast their ballots last
primary. Funny, this.
The big men of the town aren’t
those who bloat up like toy ballons
when elected dog catchers
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And the U. S. Submarine S-51
gives up its dead. Out of the dark
ness they’ve been taken; out of the
s.'ime and ooze of the cold sea
l ed. No voice have they to tell us
what their pain, not how they died,
but where they gasped their last
there were their posts of duty.
As heroes alj they’ve crossed the
uncharted, their last words a se
cret of the tides. God be with
them.
This from the Seattle Union
Record of July 12th, an editorial.
“ANOTHER BOOM—BUT IT
WAS DYNAMITE THAT BOOMED.
A negro school, to cost $400,000
was being erected at Miami, Flo
rida, and threats made against
placing it too near the white resi
dential section. The construction
of the building went on, but, late
in June it was nearly ruined by a
charge of dynamite. The charge
went off at 10 o’clock in the
forenoon, injuring eight working
men who were at work on the
building. j
Clarence Darrow told the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People at its con
ference in Chicago, that there is
great need of an association for
the advancement of white people—
and that’s the truth, for so long as
white people entertain prejudice
against any person because of his
color they are in need of advance- ^
ment. —We would suggest that |
Troy, Morrissey and their tribe go \
*-0 Chicgo and there learn American I
ideals from real Americans and |
perhaps find just such an organi- j
ration for their advancement.) 1
MORE PROSPERITY
Out of Atlanta ,Ga., comes the j
report that 49 State banks have j
shut their doors and quit. In the j
North Dakotas the Non-Partizan ]
Party was blamed for the failure of <
so many banks in that State. Who j
do we blame in Georgia?
Orange Crush and Lemon Crush
served icy cold at the Totem Pole.
Let’s try a Rainbow Special at
the Totem Pole.
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