LOUIS F. PAUL, -
C. O. PARKS,
.EDITOR
BUSINESS MANAGER
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WIIAT KIND OF A YEAR?
We were asked what kind of a
year do you expect in the fishery
this year? Frankly we said “rot
ten.” And what kind of a year
do YOU expect, Mr. Business
Man?
We Are Not Hollering
For several years we have said:
“Conditions in Alaska will not
improve until they get worse.
More will have to feel the need
of cinching up on their belts be
fore they will do any hollering.”
An army crawls on its belly—
and labor crawls on its belly also.
So long as the belly is full, it is
hard to make it discontented
with conditions. But when the
belly begins to become empty,
when the cinching up on the
belt does not reduce the pangs of
hunger, and the rags do not
cover to give sufficient warmth,
then the brains—of a large pro
portion of our citizens—begin to
function.
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CANADIAN SALMON OUTPUT
FOR 1030 SETS NEW RECORD
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All record for salmon produc-l
tion in Canada were broken in
the 1030 peak which totaled 2,
175.000 cases, of which 98 per
cent was canned in British Co
lumbia according to a bulletin
issued by the Department of Im
migration and Colonization of
the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The 1030 salmon pack is 817.
000 cases in excess of the 1929
production, the bulletin set forth,
and 74.000 cases more than the
output in 1926, the previous high
record pack.
The biggest percentage of Ca
nada’s annual salmon pack is
exported to the United States
and sold over the counters o‘
grocery stores and delicates
sens, the report concludes.
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YE GODS!
Mr. Post, formerly cashier of
ihe First National Bank of Ju
neau and more recently a resi
dent of California, is now said
to be aspiring to push Marsha’
Albert White out of office. Mr
Post, unusually fortunate in his
investments while in Juneau is
said to have hit some top gradf
reverses in California banks fail
ures recently and wants a fa’
job to ease off the rough punch
es of a cruel world.
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“GREATEST PERIOD OF
PROSPERITY”
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Passenger car registrations ir
the first thirty states reporting
for November showed a decrease
of 37 8 per cent from Octobei
and 37.1 per cent from Novem
ber 1929.
November net operating in
come of first nine railroads to
renort totals $13,304,000, a de
crease of 46.5 per cent from Oc
tober and 28.1 below November
1929.
TJ. S. Smelting and Mining first
11 months of 1930 net $2.30 per
•hare on common shares as
against $4.97 in a like 1929 peri
od.
The Producers Association pro
poses two-year tin export re
striction affecting principal pro
ducing centers of the world.
U. S. Steel ingot production in
week ending December 22 at 41
per cent of capacity against 44
per cent for week previous and
64 per cent a year ago. Independ
ents at 30 per cent against 3°
per cent and 62 y2 per cent re
spectively.
Chairman Legge sees danger
of wheat being imported into
this country if price in foreign
markets goes much lower.
Sears-Roebuck sales decreas
ed 22.4 per cent from like 1929
period. The year’s sales de
creased 11.4 per cent. A general
slash is being made in catalog
prices in an effort to raise the
sales percentage for this year. ^
I Ford Motor Company has re
ceived an order for 1,000 Ford
cars from Swift and Company to
be delivered from time to time
through the several Ford agen
cies. Fifty thousand men nave
been re-employed in Detroit by
the Ford company which has
I made cuts in prices of cars in an
! effort to speed up sales and pro
duction.
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| SALMON SURPLUS NOT
! ANTICIPATED
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Possibility of a surplus in the
record-breaking salmon pack for
British Columbia in 1930 is scout
iod in statements by Maj. J. A.
Motherwell, supervisor of fish
, eries.
i Review of the complete export
situation reveals that the esti
mated world pack for 1930 was
300,000 cases below the estimat
ed pack for 1926, a year in which
markdt absorption of the catch
[left nothing to be desired.
It was in 1926 that the pre
vious record pack for British
Columbia wras marked up. a to-'
tal only 157,000 cases below thej
1930 figure.
Extension of markets, parti-:
cularly in Great Britian and
France, is being systematically
undertaken by the packers and
rrade commissioners to offset
the reported drive of the Jap
tnese and Russian packers.:
Major Motherwell also an
nounces that a survey leads to
the belief that the pack for 1931
vill not equal last year’s mark,
especially in the catch of pinks.
MUTTON CANNED IN SALMON
MACHINES
The MacCleay Estate Com
pany of Gold Beach, Oregon, is
jutting canned lutton on the
narket as a delicacy. It gives
he company a chance to make
i greater profit from its farm
operations for mutton in cans
han if the sheep were sold on
die hoof. The company is using
its salmon canning machinery
t its factory at Wedderburn
near Gold Beach.
\LASKA PRODUCES FEWER
MINERALS THAN
WASHINGTON
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Seattle has been a Boswell so
ong, singing the greatness of
]aska, that it is going to be
'mething of a surprise to learn
hat the mineral production of I
he State of Washington, ac- j
ording to the last governmental
eports, is greater than that of
he territorial empire to the
lorth.
The fact of the Evergreen
state’s mineral supremacy over
Alaska was brought out at the
ipening session of the fourth
•nnual Mining Institute at the
'College of Mines, University of
Washington, recently when Prof
'oseph Daniels of the College of
Mires noted that the last official
•eport from the national capital
showed Washington’s annual
jroduction of minerals was valu
■“d at $22,119,541 while for the
ame period Alaska’s production
imeunted to $14,024489.
’30 Almost as Great.
This was for the year 192°
he reports for 1929 and 1930
vere not available at this time.
Towever, estimated productions
T the earth’s yield in this state
and throughout the Northwest
mdicated that while the 1930
"onnage production was almost
js great as that of 1928 the value
M the product, because of lower
irices for minerals, was much
ess in 1930. However, mining
companies kept their plants, in
he main, in operation all last
year.
In the Northwest, Montana led
!n mineral production with a
year’s output valued at $74,752,
309. Others followed with Brit
ish Columbia, $65,372,583; Idaho,
$28,589,221; then Washington
and Alaska and finally Oregon
with $6,686,98b.
Professor Daniels observed
that a good sand and gravel pit
in this state was potentially big
I ger than a gold mine.
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The Open Forum
Petersburg, Alaska
Editor The Alaskan,
Petersburg,
Dear Sir:
j In your issue of the 9th inst.,
you printed an editorial “What
Would You Do”? I cannot re
frain from touching on the sub
ject.
The case in point was that of
a degenerate who took little
white gins last year, and two
young native girls during the re
cent holidays, and stripped them
°f all of their clothing and did
other unspeakable things to
them—the first instance he was
able to do so because of the ex
treme helplessness of the little
girls and the latter case because
fhe native girls were so filled up
with bad liquor that they had no
idea what was being done to
them. Now what would I do to
such a beast who so far forgets
that his own mother was also a
woman—I would give him the
b'mit under the law passed by
the Legislature in 1929 which
provides penalties for anyone
contributing to the delinquency
of a minor. That is not sufficient
to cover such degeneracy. In
[ some communities in the states
men have been lynched for such
! indecent degenerancy.
But what of the example set
before our younger element in!
the states as well as Alaska. Can ;
mothers and fathers so far for- j
get the sancitity of the marriage
vows and the moral and civic
lows without their children do
ing as their preceptors? Can
we have “house parties” where
men exchange wives and wives
exchange husbands and expect
our children to remain pure and
chaste? Can our motherhood
go from the arms of husband and
father to the arms of her
“sweetie” and still be able to
raise children who will abide by!
the laws of decency? Can friend
husband entice Indian girls and
father their children expecting
that his sons will know nothing
of his illicit doings? Can they
hope to develop character and |
decency?
In my several years in Peters
burg and other Alaska commun
ities I have been called upon to
protect young girls from the ra
vages of man’s animalism. I
have seen little girls enticed by
men whose children were older
than the innocent victim. I
have had other native girls ap
peal to me for protection from
degenerates who would use liquor
to get control of their intended
"ictmio. I have had clean and
decent Indian girls tell me that!
they are constantly approached}
■ >y men at night, yet these same |
men ignore these women at any
othei time.
I give these instances of man’s
inhumanity to man to show that!
cases like you mention are so1
common that the law should be j
allowed to take its full course j
in order to protect others in the:
future.
Very truly yours,
Subscriber.
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ALASKA TIMBER SITUATION
REVIEWED BY
ALASKA LOGGER
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Editor The Alaskan
Petersburg, Alaska
Dear Sir:
I have recently been ask-|
ed by a number of leading citi-'
zens Why I have not contributed |
to the Open Forum of The Alas-!
kan on the subject of timber j
and land* in Southeastern Alas- J
ka? „ . j
The reasons are several: A
mong others I am ashamed to
-ay has been the attitude of the!
very citizens referred to above.!
These men, men of standing in
ihe community, men whose
words carry weight, agree with,
me. Firstly that Southeastern
Alaska would be infinitely bet
ter off with our land and tim
ber under private ownership,
even with government supervi
sion of cutting to prevent waste;
Secondly, That there is no con
servation,. merely an obstruction
of the natural flow of commerce
and development with a grave
possibility of something worse in
the present policy of the Forest
Department. Yet these men
re either hypocrites, moral
cowards or lacking proper con
ception of the subject and its I
| importance.
They seem to be anxious that
T continue to pan the Forest
Service Bureau and agitate for
timber land for settlers. Some
v. hat the attitude of a spectator
at a dog fight. But when I ask
them to peel off their coats and
give the good work a boost, to
come out in the open with their
support, that is a different mat
ter.
They seem to be under the imJ
pression that something dread
'ul would happen if we took ac
tion which would make it a
political issue or call our fellow
citizens’ attention to our protest.
Just what in their estimination
would happen, I have not been
able to find out. Something pret
ty terrible at the least.
A candid discussion of the
pros and cons of the question in
the nations papers and maga
zines would result, I admit. It
would be embarrassing to be in
the nation’s eye, to have big
black headlines jump out at us.
‘People of Alaska claim conser
vation a myth,” “People of Alas
ka claim people more important
than trees,” “What’s happening
in Alaska.” or some editor more
original than the rest might use:
“Poor fools in Alaska want to
build properity and population,”
or “Alaskans turn down 9,600
jobs,” “Absentee landlord and no
profits ask instead 100.000 own
ners and part profits.” We might
even have handed to us: “The
Worm has turned in Alaska.”
It would be, T will have to ad
mit, when I pause to think, ter
ribly embarrassing to have
Southeastern Alaska get the re
putation of being populated by
people who have been educated
to the point where they do their
own thinking.
These men are neighbors of
mine. They love their children.
Their main business in life to
day is cherishing and providing
for them. Very few of them will
be able to lay away enough of
the world’s goods so that their
"hildren will be free from the
necessity of making their own
living. Most of them will be no
doubt more or less dependent on
these same children in their old
age. What I cannot understand
is how these men consider they
are doing their duty by their
children when they hand down
to them a country so ravished
as is Alaska.
The American people ha’.c
been living in a country of tre
mendous wealth under a form of
government admitted by stu
dents and authorities to be the
most stimulating to progress ancl'
the most equitable ever designed
by man. It s weakness lies in
corrupt, ind*f:erent or inefficient.!
leadership, and a tendency cnj
the part of the people to endure
a wrong rather than muster up
the energy and courage neces
sary to demand its removal. Lc'u
you may thir'c I am tackling aj
pretty heavy subject, H. G Wedsj
is responsible for the above pa-!
ragraph. H ; advocates educ -j
tion as a remedy for existing
evils.
Richard Washburn Childs, on*
of America’s foremost thinkers
and writers, tells us that propa
ganda has become a fine art anci
is being used extensively to fur
ither projects both good and bad
jMany writers, subsidizing their
pen regardless of the right or
vrong they may do. It drives us
to the conclusion that a seeker
after an education along the
lines of truth and justice mir:*,
do considerable thinking not on
ly along the lines which the a u
thor leads us but to study other
angles of his subject.
The Forest Service has a bu y
propagandist in the person o'
B. F. Heintzelman striving i>|
justify the pulp sales and tin
rotten deal that is being hand
ed Alaska in the name of “con
servation.” I wish to cail your
attention to two articles credit
ed to Mr. Heintzelman, publish
ed in the “All Alaska Review ’
! published by the Cordova Daily
| Times last year and draw a fev
j comparisons in the hopes thee
| you will publish this letter in Ol
iver that some of our dormant
American citizens may see a liu
. tie light.
! These articles covering the
subject of water power develop
ment and the timber industry
1 of Alaska give us a very com
plete picture of the pulp sales
; and their ultimate benefit to
; Alaska as seen through the eyes
of the present administration.
, He draws us a very complete
picture of the cost of pulp mills
and the benefits *o be derived
therefrom. Each plant with an
initial investment of ten million
dollars. A payroll of six hundred
in mill and woods He credits
each plant with an ultimate ad
dition of two thousand to out
population. He do..s not mention
what we stand to lose.
The forests here are credited
with 85 billion feet of timber. To
each pulp project is to be allot
ted five of these billion feet with
the land on which it stands.
Sufficient to insure a continu
ous supply indifinetely. Let’s see!
With 85 billion feet of timber we
have room for seventeen pulp
I projects. Mr. Heintzelman speaks
j of taking care of local demands.
I At present these call for some
fifty million feet a year, or at
least they did before our salmon
box business went on the blink
So we will have to hold out
some of the scrubbiest and most
inaccessible and call it sixteen
pulp mills.
Let us summarize! Sixteen
pulp mills at ten millions each
is a total of 160 million dollars
invested.' Sixteen payrolls of six
hundred each is 9.600 men. These
men are not lumberjacks or
transient labor, they cannot be
if they add 32,000 to our popula
tion. Each must have a wife and
one child, some of them two
children. These are Mr. Heint
zehnan’s figures. To a popula
tion and industry hungry coun
try they may seem very rosy. We
will accept them as the best the
Forest Department has to offev
and authentic.
BUT!
We must remember, we are
the people who are making this
deal. Let us look into the sub
ject. Is it what we want? Is it
what our children will want?
The Forest Service is merely our
agent. I know that we and they
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April 14 August 18 Dec. 15
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