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PREPARE FOR THE WINTER
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Spring days are coming on
We address this urge mostly to
the Indian people of the Divi
sion—others may read it and
follow it or not—it is timely
advice.
One year ago we predicted an
era of famine in Alaska for
three years and the year has
borne out the correctness of oar
statement. Next winter will be
worse. To alleviate some of the
hardship which will be due to
scarcity of food we urge the na
tive people to immediately start
the seasonal preservation oi
food. Halibut season is now on
us—dry it as did your fathers;
salmon, clams, meats, berries
will be in season—dry them,
smoke them, salt them and can
them as did the old grandfathers
and then use also the modern
canning methods,—hot and cold
packs. In season, start your gar
dens and plant potatoes, ruta
bagas, turnips and other vega
tables whic h can b e kept
through the winter. Only in this
way will old Man Hardtimes be
licked. To hope for help from
want and distress through the
kxndly action of the salmon in -
dustry—to hope for even fair
treatment from the salmon
packers and their henchmen in
the Bureau of Fisheries is hope
less. It is not human interest
that they care for it is dollar
interest and common Alaska
citizens do not add to the inter
est dividends of the packers.
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ASK TRAP PROHIBITION
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Charles Greenaa, owner of the
Sanitary Market, suggested re
cently in a Commercial Club
meeting, that the organization
go on record as favoring the
closure of all salmon traps this
year in order that resident fish
ermen and labor may have op
portunity to earn a living. Which
action would tend to alleviate
the stress of financial depression.
After considerable discussion
it was decided that the Club
would not take action on this as
it was believed that the idea is
presented too late for favorable
consideration by the Departmen'
of Commerce, in re the salmon
packing interests.
Trade journals already indi
cate that price of pink salmon
will not exceed two cents pei
fish—15 to the case—30 cents
worth of fish per case. The aver
age catch these past several
years has been 25,000. At l\'2
cents per fish, the total earnings
of the fishermen would average
$375 for five men—six shares
including the boat or $62.50 pe:
share for fishing operation
from July through the 20th oi
August. Out of which the fisher
men must pay an average ol
$150 per share for grub and
personal supplies. Leaving him
minus double nothing to feed his
family and children on.
Abolition of the trap system
for the one summer, putting up
ordinary packs, would permit
greater escapement spawning
areas; permit a greater earning
power by the resident fishermen;
would permit payment of bills at
niercatile stores; permit educa
tional advancement which is be
ing retarded by the present sys -
tern which has driven out pri
vate independent trap operators
and has left only a few scattered
seiners in the field. Unless the
fisheries industry and the Bu
reau of Fisheries does something
this year, the Editor of this
publication predicts that next
year will be the worst in Alas
ka’s financial history—not even
barring the hard days of Cleve
land’s administration.
Strong competition in city
politics augers well for the good
of the town. It shows a healthy
interest in civic affairs.
STANDS ON ITS MERITS
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Delegate Wickersham intro
duced a bill which would pro
hibit the wanton waste of salm
on and other commercial fish.
The Juneau Chamber of Com
merce quotes him as follows: He,
Wickersham, “did not know
when he introduced the measure
that, it was not favored by Com
missioner O'Malley. He has since
! learned of the Commissioner’s
| position and informed the
Chamber he does not intend to
press it for hearing and pa:>
sage.”
This bill stands or falls on its
merits. Its merits are not guaged
by the favor or disfavor of Henry
O'Malley. It is a good bill or a
bad bill and it is supported or
opposed on those sole grounds.
The Pacific Fisherman indicates
the opposition of its trade and
advertisers and the opposition
of the Bureau of Fisheries. The
Petersburg Chamber of Com
merce and the Wrangell Cham
ber of Commerce are on record
in the office of Delegate Wick
ersham as being in complete
support of the measure.
Any bill opposed by Henry
O'Malley indicates a bad thing
for Alaska; any bill favored by
O'Malley is so full of “niggers in
the wood-pile” that it is a bad
thing for Alaska. Any bill for
Alaska opposed by O'Malley is a
bill for the general good of the
territory and for the honest
conservation of the fisheries and
population; any bill which he
tries to force on the territory is
bad for it is viciously discri
minatory and only to strengthen
the special privileges to cor
porations.
There is no possibly “har
mony” between the people of |
Alaska with Henry O’Maliey, the ]
v.cious tool of a plundering fish
trap system. There are syco
phants who bow and kow-tow to
him in Alaska but they are in a
gieat minority. When O’Malley
jives Alaska fair and honest
reatment, he will make many
li lends—but so long as he op
posed the wishes of Alaskans, he
nas no possible chance for sup
port.
There is no compromise with |
O’Malley. The bill to prohibit
■.he wanton waste of herring is
good or bad. If it is good, the
support of Delegate Wickersham
is urged, regardless of O’Malley’s
altitude; if it is bad, his op
position is urged without any
-hought of O'Malley. After all, it
is Alaska—not O'Malley that is
most effected by passage or
failure of passage of such mea
sures. And already, political
material is being made of this
sill.
WAR SCARES
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The good Mayor of Seward re
cently had broadcasted in the
Associated Press his fear that in
event of war between the United
States and Canada, Japan would
open her campaign of aggression
jn the United States via Alaska.
Perhaps all very true. We re-'
fuse to become jingoists and to
be stampeded into war talk. We'
are not pacificists but we just1
cannot see anything to talk war
about.
However, we offer a sugges
tion to the good Mayor of Se
ward: If the United States will
sell Alaska to Canada and take
m exchange some of the Great
Lakes Territory in exchange,
perhaps the Japanese will not
have reason to attack the United
States via Alaska.
The scare of war jingoists will
be passed out of the picture,
America will be in one unit un
divided by waters, Canada will
be the buffer between the Orient
and the United States and the
Alaska fishermen would earn
considerably more than they are
Incidentally the population of
the territory would grow by
leaps and bounds for the ham
pering restrictions of the 57
varieties of bureaus with their
5,360 employees would be out of
the way and citizens would be
able to log, fish, mine, farm, etc ,
without fear of having some
petty official trying to get him in
tne hoosegow.
We are interested in the de
velopment of Alaska and the de
velopment of its resources. The
fisheries are now the property of
special privileged interests so
that the resident Ashing popula
tion are beggars who subsist up
on the crumbs which drop from
the over-Aowing tables of the
salmon packing interests.
We do kpow that the Cana
dians are managing their fish
eries in a manner which meets
with the favor of both packing
and fishing interests. That their
laws, not dissimilar from tl\e
American, yet their administra
tion is eminently more fair than
the American administration in
Alaska. Those Alaskans who arc
starving for an opportunity to
earn a decent living in Alaska
v ill welcome the opportunity to
earn their living under the Ca
nadian government.
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DOES CRITICISM HELP?
Ketchikan Chronicle
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It is unfortunate that so often
the Alaskan plea for home rule
takes the form of bitter critic
ism of the bureau of fisheries,
the forest service or any other
federal agency that operates in
the Territory. * * * Once it was
definitely shown that Alaskans
almost unanimously desired the
retention of the present (cable)
system, the matter (of selling it i
was dropped.”
we ao not understand now
contemporary editors classify
the U. S. Signal Corps with the
federal bureaus, which have
multiplied like the lice in Egypt,
in Alaska. The cable system, sale
of which was advocated by the
interdepartmental bureau, is a
part of the war equipment of the
U. S. War Department ^md not
subject to the political bureaus
in the territory. A casual study
of the gross income will show
Alaskans that several stations in
the territory do not even pay the
wages of the men employed—
that the great burden of tolls is
not paid as they represent inter
departmental messages. There
has been no criticism of the
management of the signal corps
and that army function has co
operated with the people of the
territory, remaining outside of
territorial politics.
There is ample cause of critic
ism of the several bureaus. When
any bureau functions fairly and
impartially, it receives full co
operation from all sources. When
any bureau assumes extra-legal
functions without authority and
by its ruling discriminate against
Alaskans, it may well expect t.o
have the wrath of Alaskans de
scend upon its heads. When the
people become so subservient as
i o cower like cringing curs when
the bureauheads crack their
political whips, it is time they
got out of the territory. When
the several bureaus assume the
attitude that they are above
criticism and that the citizens,
of Alaska are presumptious in i
criticising the bureaus they are
assuming the attitude of dicta
tors, czars and kings. So long as
cur nation remains a republic it
is the right of American citizens
to demand that their rights and
prerogatives be left untrammell
ed. If the mouths of Alaskans
would be closed from criticism,
the bureaus should undertake to
perform their , duties honestly
for the good of' the territory
without discrimination ' toward
the people. In no other way can
this criticism be stopped.
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BANK FAILURES
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We have had eras of prosperi
ty and eras of depression since
inception of the American gov
ernment. The eras of prosperity
saw bank failures as well as
failures in other commercial
fields and the eras of depression
multiplied bank failures to as
tounding figures. Look at the
following and weep:
From 1911 to 1920, inclusive
there were 720 bank failures, or
an average of 76.2 per year.
From 1921 to 1930, inclusive
there were 7,160 bank failures
and 1931 saw 2,298 banks fail.
January alone of 1932 totaled
334 failures. The period of re
verse prosperity—1911-1930 there
was an average of 716 bank
failures. The total failures 1921
1932 was 9,458 or an average of
945.8 per year.
In the face of such disasters,
where millions and millions of
dollars invested by small wage
earners and small business op
erators, the loss is sufficient to
destroy the financial structure of
any country. The wonder is that
tire people of the United States
have any faith in the banking
tystem,
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CANADA MAY LIFT
RESTRICTIONS ON
FRASER FISHING
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Refusal on the part of the
United States Senate to further
consider the proposed sockeye
salmon treaty negotiated after
five years of conferences be
tween this government and the
Dominion of Canada for the
preservation of these fisheries,
may result in Canada removing
all further fishing restrictions
on the Fraser River spawning
beds.
Complete obliteration of the
sockeye in the Fraser and a
scientific building of new
spawning beds in more Northern
Canadian waters is planned by
the joint fisheries boards of the
Dominion of Canada and the
Province of British Columbia,
Associated Press dispatches from
Victoria announce. The proposal
by the British Columbia fisheries
interests is that eggs be remov
ed from the Fraser spawning
grounds to other Canadian wa
ters further north, so that in the
future fish reared here will re
turn direct to the beds without
passing through Puget Sound
and Washington State waters.
The Canadian plan is in this
way to develop new sockeye
spawning grounds, to replace
I'raser River losses and inciden
tally stop sockeyes from passing
into this state which in the past
has taken the major share of
rhe sockeye pack, the salmon
being trapped or seined while
passing through the lower
reaches of Puget Sound and the
Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Treaty’s Provisions
The treaty now pending in the
Senate was negotiated for the
purpose of conserving the sock
eye, the pack of which in this
state is estimated to reach $4,
000,000 annually in value. To
this end the treaty provided for
a joint commission with broad
powers to control not only the
gear to be used, open fishing
seasons, but would have super
vision over the waters at the
entrance to the straits. The two
governments would maintain
under the treaty salmon hat
cheries onxthe Fraser, and would
limit the catches so that the in
dustry of both nations would
take the same number of cases
yearly.
Gov. Roland H. Hartley led the
opposition to the treaty when it
was submitted and the Senate
'refused consideration of it be
cause the chief executive of
Washington, the only state vi
tally interested, was opposed to
the measure. Recent efforts to
bring the treaty out of commit
tee failed at Washington, and
the Canadian interests now are
preparing to carry out a threat
made when the treaty was first
ratified at Ottawa, that if the
United States rejected it or fail
ed to ratify, there would be no
further negotiations and Cana
da would stop its efforts to per
petuate the Fraser fisheries.
No Official Word
Charles R. Maybury, director
of fisheries for the state, de
clared he has received no official
vord of contemplated action by
Canada. The proposal to remove
Fraser River restrictions and to
move the spawning grounds to
more Northern waters, he be
lieves, would be a large task,
i nd take many years.
The sockeye run on Puget
Sound is the most valuable pack
in these waters.
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