tile cannery workers to make
any money will mean that much
less business for the business
men who » depend for their own
existence upon the laboring
classes of Alaska. Eventual
bankruptcy faces almost every
business man in Alaska. We
suppose that is another justifi
cation of the O’Malley fishery
policy.
If the starving out of fisher
men and cannery workers, if the
bankrupting of the business
houses is the aim of Mr. O’Mal
ley, we will agree that his policy
is justified. And as soon as th?
fishermen and the businessmen
agree that starvation and bank
ruptcy are the ultimate aim of
fishermen and businessmen and
the aim of Mr. O’Malley, we wiil
agree that his discriminatory
policies are justified.
Going among the laboring and
fishing classes and meeting with
a number of business men dur
ing the past week, we have not
been able to find a single per
son who will agree that the “O’
Malley policy is justified.” And
we will not limit our opinion to
the fishing and laboring classes.
We will assert with positive con
victions that 80 per cent of the
cannery men are in accord with
this opinion. But, because of fear
of reprisals from the Czar of
Alaska, these men do not come
out in the open to make their
expressions of condemnation of:
the O’Malley policy.
We would urge that our con-!
tempararies get out into the
field among the fishing class
where they can make their ob
servations first hand. It will
have some real worth if that is
done and it will mean more to
the country than to try to give
praise to the god of the cannery
trust.
A Brilliant Chinaman
x
Recently it was called to our
attention that a letter written,
in protest of the O’Malley regu
lations, to prominent friends in
the East was shown to Mr. Ward
T. Bower, assistant commission
er of fisheries in Washington.
He declared instantly, “That
letter was not written by Mr.
Johnson (Frank G. Johnson,
president of the Alaska Native
Brotherhood), “but by William
I.. Paul. He is the only educated
Indian in Alaska that can write
such a letter.” The friend not
knowing Mr. Johnson’s record
could make no reply. But, Mr.
Johnson is a graduate of the
University of Oregon, with a
degree of B.S. and he has had
two years of medical school
work. Plenty able to write let
ters to Ward T. Bower or any
other official in Washington.
Popular notions of people
ether than the Caucasian races,
their character and intelligence
are often given shocks by con
ciete examples. We mention a
few: The valedictorian of the
Haines High School this past
June was Judson Brown, Indian
lad. His scholastic record during
the four years of high school
stood better in every respect
than any othe” student; the
next two ranking students in
that same school were other In
dian children. A Japanese in
Seattle was honor student in one
of the high schools; another
Japanese was honor student in
the University of Washington;
a Chinese was honor student in
West Point Military Academy:
The most recent shock to the
Caucasian literati with the sup
eriority complex is Dana Yung
Kwai voted by the senior class
at Yale as its “most brilliant
member.” He stood second a
mong the “most versatile.” He
stood among “those most likelv
to succeed.” As a freshman he
won.prizes in history and chem
istry, as a sophomore he won
prizes in drawing, mechanics,
physics; he won his “Y” as a
member of the swimming team.
He was captain of a cadet com
pany at a Washington High
School nd won a medal there.
In athletics the races other
than the white Caucasian long
since demonstrated their equali
ty and superiority. Carlisle In
dian School with a scant num
ber of men to draw from, hard
ly sufficient to make two teams
to work with—met the great
university teams of the East and
West with thousands of men to
draw from and defeated every
major university in the East
and every major team it met in
the West. Eddie Tolan, the
Michigan wonder, has equaled
the world records in the 100
meter races and clipped a tenth
cf a second from the 200. A Jap
anese is the world’s best hop
skip-and-j umper.
Why go on? Given equal op
jportunity any race will develop
| champion athletes; wonder
'students. No race has a corner
on brain capacity; no race has
a corner on chmpion athletes.
Did You Know That
-x
Charles A. Lindbergh is the
only person in whose honor the
American flag has been flown
over the Statue o fLiberty?
That Ephriam Scroggs, States
ville, N. C., started a fire in his
home on his wedding night 50
years ago and it has been burn
ing continuously ever since?
That George Washington
made a broad jump that ,stood
as an American record, unbrok
en for 120 years?
That more field records were
broken in the recent Olympic
meet than in any other single
Olympic meet?
That trap caught salmon is
sanitary and the only method
to catch fish in Alaska?
That those interests which
make such an assertion this
year packed 2,500,000 cases of
salmon with moveable gear and
without the use of a single trap
and that according to their own
• statement this Bristol Bay pack
Tor 1932 is not clean and not
sanitary? Believe it or not!
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Contemptible Creatures
-x
Any man who will stoop to
mean, contemptable, dishonest
tiicks in order to feather his
own pocket book is not any bet
ter than the foul bird of Pata
gonia. Mean characters, dis-^
honest characters, contemptable j
characters are generally born J
that way—born with a twist in
their brain due perhaps to some
spilling of taint in the forebears.
Decent honorable men have no
use for such creatures. Those
men who use such creatures
themselves have no respect or
regard for the poor things that
so willingly lend themselves to
such uses. There is no guage by
which to measure the worthless
ness of such things. It is dis
gusting to even get down to the
level of such minds and hearts
to have to talk about them. They
might be pillars of society—and
society is thereby contaminated.
They might be of the lowest
dregs to society—but their sta
tion in life—be it low or high,
does not mitigate one bit their
condition. Heaven deliver us.
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ELECTIONS COST
DRYS $278,253
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Expenditures of the allied
forces for prohibition formed a
year ago to support dry candi
dates for national office, have
amounted to $278,253, according
to campaign reports on file with
the House Clerk.
During the period from June 1,
1931, to June 10, 1932, the or
ganization received $280,520.
Daniel A. Poling of New York
is chairman of the organization
and Orvin R. Judd, treasurer.
The Insulting Turk
Called O'Malley
-x
In Ketchikan, Henry O’Malley,
Czar of all the Alaskans, said
that he was pleased at the out
look for the fish business this
year and that he “is particularly
anxious that all of the inde
pendent traps and seiners make
a satisfactory catch and that
they are able to dispose of their
catches at a fair profit ”
Is the Czar of all the Alaska
becoming a demagogue?
Is he anxious only for the “in
dependent traps and seiners?”
or does he already know that the
big cannery traps will mak'e a
satisfactory profit? Why now
'worry about the independents
and the seiners? Has he had a
change of heart since he closed
down special locations to re
sident trap owners and then
secretly released the same loca
tions to the fish trust?
Does he intend to open the
numerous bays now closed to
seiners? Will he close down the
|Tenakee traps or the Saginaw
Bay traps, or the Kasaan Bay
, traps, which take their toll of a
million salmon each and open
these seining grounds so that
| the seiners can make a “satis
factory” profit?
Not a bit of it.
Mr. O’Malley is the tool of the
'fish trust, and far from con
! serving the fish of Alaska, he is
hired to conserve the special
i privileges of the self-same trust.
“Satisfactory profit” at l1/*
cent per humpy while the trust
takes all its own salmon from its
own traps is a cruel term of a
heartless Turk. Even now the
| fishermen are dumping their
j catches because there is no
'market.
Indians Would Have
Own Discipline
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A purely Indian court of jus
tice, following in detail the
white man’s court, may be an
actuality in the Klamath In
dian reservation soon, according
to Wade Crawford, chairman of
the Klamath Indian business
committee.
The committee, Crawford
states, plans to have four In
dian braves patrol the more
than 1,000,000 acres of reserva
tion as law enforcement agents,
bringing thei rprisoners before
a court of fellow tribesmen to be
I tried for breaking the white
man’s law. Offenders sentenced
to jail will be put to work on re
j servation roads, according to the
jplan, and all fines will be turned
into the common tribal fund for
distribution among the 1300 In
dians living on the reservation.
This plan has arisen over the
situation created in local law
enforcement circles when con
gress cut the law enforcement
budget for the reservation to
$2000 yearly. Crawford himself
was intrumental in bringing a
bout the cut, when he was* sent
to Washington, D. C., early this
year by his tribe to plead that
smaller sums be taken from the
tribal funds for the administra
tion of the Klamath agency. The
tribal funds have sunk low the
last few years, as their chief in
come has been from the sale of
timber and grazing rights on the
reservation.
Crawford claimed that a bu
reaucracy had been developed
that supported many unneces
sary employes at the agency
headquarters, spent too much
money on beetle control and
other items at the expense of
the Indians who shared in the
distribution of the common
tribal funds.
With law enforcement appro
priations cut to $2000, Louis
Mueller and V. G. Klock, special
federal officers, were transferred
to other reservations. Mueller
already has left and, Klock will
go shortly.—Oregonian.
Wanted: An Interpreter of Dreams
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I
When I first laid out the se
quence and substance of my let
Iters to the ‘Alaskan ’ this one
i was listed as one of an altogeth
er different character; merelyl
| a reiterance of cold blooded '
! statistics and facts. Instead, I
I find myself impelled, while my,
impressions are fresh, to try to J
relate a recent, rather unusual, i
j experience. My personal experi
jences are of course of no im
jportance, but I thought that
| this one, if properly related,
might carry a message.
j A few days since, I rigged a
| trolling line and went out to
try my luck with the king salm
jon. There was nothing new qr
| strange about that. Having done
considerable along that line in
i years past, I am no stranger to
the art of stirring up an ash
breeze to furnish motive power
i to tow a herring around by the
nose. In my recent venture,
which was of course confined to
the waters in front of town,
; there was only one thing notice
ably different from former years,
j The reward of my efforts! How
ever after exercising my wiles
for two days without tangible
reward, unless lame arms and
wrists might be so considered.
|on the third day I struck the
I right combination and my per
severence was finally reward
led. Bing bing bing! just like
that and I had three fish in the
boat. They were small, but for
my purpose; canning and eat
ing, they were very satisfactory
and welcome.
!
I am very fond of salmon but,,
unfortunately, so constituted
;that an over indulgence in fresh
salmon does not always set well
on my ’tummie! To this fact
coupled with a very delicious
| roast of salmon for dinner, I
attribute my strange and un
! usual experience. Of course
there can be no doubt that my
| previous three days of musing
ever the fisheries problems of
Alaska and the scarcity of her
iring in the inland waters as
Compared to former times when
the herring schools maintained,
an inland water king salmon
fisheries, the frailties of a Com
missioner of Fisheries who is
1 deliberately intensifying t h i s |
I condition by supporting the
operation of stink plants and
various other angles to the same
'question had some influence
over my mental reactions, even
while asleep. I had and have no'
excuse for dreaming the dream
that I did except the old saying
“Dreams always go by con
traries.” In this instance at
least there certainly is founda
tion for asserting the truth of
this old saying, for never was a
dream more at variance with
conscious thought or bred by
expectation. But let us preceed:
| The night of the big salmon
feed I went to bed, seemingly
perfectly normal. About two
O’clock in the morning I awoke
myself, my wife, and the chil
dren in the adjoining room,
from a sound slumber, by sit
ting up in bed and cheering a
^ the top of my voice. With as
sound a sleeper as myself this j
(is very unusual, but the strange
,part as I look at it, is the fan
tastic dream which called forth
[the unusual demonstration.
| Here it is, as nearly as I can
remember it.
It seemed that I had been out
of town for some days and of
course out of touch with hap
penings. The vivid part of the
dream starts as I was making
' my landing at the Citizens float.
, There was a big crowd of people
(out on the dock and bands were
playing. No steamer was in and
I was at a loss to account for the
(celebration. Interest seemed to
be centered on the Forestry
float on the other side of the
dock from the float to which I
was landing and to which the
Bureau of Fisheries boat ‘Brant’
'was just tying up at the
t
same
time as I on my side was making
try own lines fast.
I certainly was a puzzled guy
as I made my way up the slip on
to the dock. Just as I reached
the dock level everyone seemed
to go mad with enthusiasim over
something or somebody on the
Forestry float. There seemed to
be three bands on the job, al!
playinig at once. Where they
came from, I would not under
take to say but I seemed to be
familiar with the faces of many
of the players who seemed, at
that particular moment, to be
more interested in noise from
their instruments than melody.
The same with the crowd. I will
admit that I have never seen
anything like it in my life. It
was a joyous, noisy outburst of
friendly feeling. Streamers of
serpentine were flying every
where. Just imagine the state of
mind of any Alaskan walking
into a celebration like that with
no cause other than a Bureau
of Fisheries boat in sight an ’
you can imagine my puzzlement
at that stage of my dream.
Everyone was so busy making
a racket that I could not find
anybody to tell me what it was
all about. But finally, by dint of
some unmannerly crowding I
gained my position of vantage,
a man, and it only adds to the
absurdity of the whole thing
when I say that he was a rather
heavy set man, wore glasses, was
led-headed, and was some
what inclined to swagger, step
ped down onto the float and
shook hands with another man
whom I recognized as the may
or. At this point the crowd
seemed to go even more crazy
than before. Thinking my eyes
had deceived me, I yelled in
to the ear of my nearest neigh
bor. “Who is that?” He took time
otT to yell back at me, “Commis
sioner of Fisheries!” There is no
doubt that I must have regis
tered a vacant expression, for
without further questioning my
neighbor yelled, “Where you
been? He published a statement
that next year no traps would
be fished in Alaska!” No! I can
not tell you what happened from
then on. That is the point in my
dream where I woke myself, my
wife, and the children out of
sound slumber by sitting up in
bed and cheering.
Of course the above is mere
piffle, but it gives us something
to think about. There certainly
must be rewards for man’s ef
forts other than the satisfaction
cf serving of grOed.
(Editor’s Note)— Commission
er O’Malley comes to our Alaska
towns without ballyhoo and
sneaks out like a guilty criminal.
His only gang of boosters is in
Juneau where is fathered -, the
“Alaska rule of fisheries idea.
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