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A DOCTOR OF FOXES (?)
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Going back over our old files
we find an editorial titled “Doc
tor of Foxes.” It was published
at the time when Governor Geo.
A. Parks appointed Dr. Earl F.
Graves to be the head of the Ter
ritory’s investigation of fur farm
conditions and problems.
The editorial follows in part:
“His appointment was the re
sult of the law passed by the last
legislature in their effort to an
swer the problems now confront
ing our fox farmers. The law
carried an appropriation of $15,
000.
Altho Dr. Graves was already
an expert in animal diseases, he
has been taking a special train
ing course at the Experiment
Station of the Biological Survey
in New York Stat,e for the past
several weeks.
. .“His duties, as set forth in the
Act consists of visiting fur farms
of Alaska, the study of problems
found thereon, and to advise and
help the fur farmers in breeding
foxes for commercial purposes.
“The people of Alaska have to
thank the Bureau of Biological
Survey for the loan of Dr. Graves
And yet we cannot help pointing
out the fact that the only hope of
proper management of the fur
and game problem in Alaska lies
in Home Rule as the problem of
the fox farming illustrates. Alas
ka did through her legislature
what had to be done. The Bio
logical'Survey is still cussing or
Discussing the appropriation with
the Budget Director.”
Tends Cows Now
It is not long since Dr. Graves
was in Petersburg, not inspect
ing fur farms and advising with
the fox farmers as to the prob
lems of the industry, but he was
out inspecting dairies and cattle.
Nothing whatever to do with the
fur farming industry. He- did,
at, at our solicitation, write an
article on the need of an experi
mental fur farm and it was his
suggestion that such an institu
tion be established either at Ju
neau or Petersburg but as a part
of the Alaska College.
There is no question but that
the dairies are in need of the
undivided service^ of a skilled
veteranarian. But there is no
denial that the fur farm indus
try has grown to such an im
portant industry that the Terri
tory should give every aid pos
sible to make it more successful.
In spite of the appropriation
of $15,000 for the services of Dr.
Graves, the fur farmers have re
ceived little or no aid in the so
lution of their problems. They
are paying heavily in stock,
money and labor to make any
kind of a success in their busi
ness. Their contribution to the
economic wealth of the Territory
is sufficient that the full intent
of the law be carried—the full
time of Dr. Graves be given to
the industry and further that
an experimental fur farm be es
tablished, one in the First Di
vision and another in the An
chorage Division in order that
the fur men be given every op
portunity to use the facilities of
such an institution.
It might be interesting if the
officials would explain the trans
ition from “expert in animal dis
eases” to “cattle inspector” be
made. Further, it would be in
teresting to the fox farmers to
have the Juneau Gang reprint
their political platforms of 1926
relative to the fox farmers in or
der that the farmers may see
the insincerity of the Gang.
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ALASKAN FISHERMEN TO
BECOME TENANTS OF THE
WATER LORDS
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Under the fisheries reserve
system, reservations for trap
areas, closed areas applying on
ly to seine fishermen with open
trap areas just outside closed
boundaries, there is no longer
competition in fishery nor in the
marketing of fish. The little in
dependence that usually marks
the calling of the fishermen as
independent producers has been
entirely eliminated from the in
dustry and he has become virtu
ally a tenant of the canneryman
and a violator of the laws of the
country. For under the present
system 99 out of every hundred
fishermen will admit to the
charge of securing salmon illeg
ally. , i
Tliis system of parcelling out
waters that has been adopted by
the Bureau of Fisheries for the
benefit of the alien overlords
savors strongly of the tenantry
system of European countries.
The difference being only in the
fact that the Scotch and Irish
landlords permit their tenants to
dispose of the products of their
labor in competitive markets of
those countries, while under the
Bureau’s system the Chicago
water barons compel their ten
ants of Alaska to bring the pro
duct of their labor to the water
lord and the water lord fixes the
price.
The only resentment against
this bureaucratic overlordism by
Chicago, Portland, San Francis
co and Seattle, is the resentment
shown by the Alaska natives,
with a small handful of white
fishermen and a still smaller
group of resident business men.
Are the Alaska Indians still so
uncivilized that they do not re
spect the shackles and stygma of
slavery? Have the resident
business men shown such enor
! mous profits from their foreign
autocratic trade that they can
remain indifferent to the cries
of their customers? Is all the
spirit of the Colonials dead and
the red blood of independence
turned into sluggish dirty water
coursing through the veins of
American citizens that they idly
sit by watching the prostitution
of Alaska’s resources and the en
slavement of its peoples?
GIVE ME “ LIBERTY”
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i Officials of Liberty Magazine
announce they have been served
with papers designed to prevent
them from publishing the life of
Jeanne Eagels, the late actress.
The action was brought by
the mother and sister of Miss
Eagels, based on an advertise
ment of the biography by Ed
ward Doherty which bore the
caption “Jeanne Eagels, genius
and drunkard, poet and genius.”
That this article from a brief
glance at it, does not add any
thing of literary value to that
magazine and is only a sensa
tional exploitation of the life of
a woman now dead, there is noi
question. There are so many |
other worth while things to write1
about that would not hurt rela- j
tives and friends, it seems sense
less that Miss Eagels’ mother!
and sister need go to court to
stop publication of the story. ,
Hew much easeir, and nicer, it
is to say, “Jeanne Eagels, geni
us,” than to add, even if true
the rest of the advertisement.
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Men stumble over mole hills—
not mountains.
CANADIANS RICH PEOPLE j
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At a joint meeting of the Ca
nadian Public Health Associa
tion and Ontario Health officers,
R. H. Roats, Dominion Statis
tician recently placed a valua-!
tion of $175,000,000,000 on the
Canadian people as human be
ings. He explained the basis of
the estimate by giving figures
of value in the case of a man
able to earn $2500 a year at the
height of his working ability.
At birth, he said, such a man
is worth $9000; at 15 years, $25,
000, and at 25 years, $32,000. Val
ue of the female life, he said,
was half as much.
“That,” he explained, “is the
capital value of the asset. It is
your professional duty to main
tain it at its maximum of effi
ciency and dividend earning
capacity.”
PLASTIC YOUTH
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Norbert Lyons, investigating
the problem of juvenile delin
quency declares “Six factors to
be of greatest importance in
causing delinquency: Automo
biles, movies, public dance halls,
liquor and, broken homes.”
District Attorney Tuttle, of
New York, went further when he
mentioned in a speech, “unruly,
emotions, the deep instinct of
self gratification, evil environ
ment, evil companionship and
moral illiteracy” as the cause of
juvenile crime.
I In the study of 500 criminal
j careers by Sheldon and Eleanor
T. Glueck “broken homes” is
; mentioned as one of the chief
causes of juvenile delinquency
and the average age of those who
'left their homes is given as' 1G
I at the time of separation. This
makes plain that the home does
not function as character-mould
ing influence. The changed
standards of parents has an ef
fect upon the lives of children
that bodes no good for the fu
ture.
. .A study of 3000 cases on proba
tion shows that G2 per cent of
+he cases are due to bad com
panionship.
The New York Crime Commis
sion declares “there is no unit
cause of crime.... there are
I many causes and these are large
ly due to failure of society to
ameliorate the conditions which
surround boys and girls at the
beginning of their lives.” Fail
ure to utilize spare time of youth
properly is one cause.
“The fact that leisure time or
spare time is the danger period
in the life of boys and girls is no
longer debatable. Anywhere from
YO to 90 per cent of all juvenile
I delinquency takes place in spare
time after school hours. It may i
be accepted as a truism that a!
sufficient amount of wisely j
guided recreation is a most im-J
portant factor in the prevention
of delinquent behavior.”
It might be supposed that the
youngsters who go wrong are
largely mentally undeveloped,
or that they come from an en
vironment in which religious
training is lacking, but statistics
prove quite to the contrary. The
figures issued by Clark University
show the average mentality of
the first offender is higher than
that of the average non-crimin
al. Moreover, the second and sub
sequent offender passes a better
examination in feats of intelli
gence than the first. It was de
monstrated >that “there is no
decided or pronounced criminal
type, but that the average young
person is the material out of
which the common run of crim
inals is made.”
The problem, of juvenile delin
quency is brought right back to
the home influences and envir
onment where youth develops
into manhood or womanhood.
The preventatives of crime are
in the hands of parents. Too
often that responsibility is shunt
ed off upon the shoulders of the
school teacher. Indifferent sur
roundings of the home, indiffer
ence to respect for law and order
places its mark upon the future
citizen and some day the reck
oning will be brought back to the
very homes. ,
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WOULD CLOSE ROGUE RIVER
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The Directors of the Lane
County Game Protective Associ
ation met recently to consider
the proposal to close Rogue Riv
er, Oregon, to commercial fish
ing. If this proposition meets
with favor and becomes a law in
Oregon, it will mean the clos
ure of Rogue River from the
source to three miles out in the
Pacific Ocean.
The people of Oregon have a
voice in this closure—it is only
upon their vote that it can be
done. Any bay in Alaska may be
changed under the Federal sys
tem in Alaska—without one con
sideration given to the residents
of the Territory.
The only consideration given
is to the packers who voice their
approval or disapproval at the
conferences held by Mr. O’Mal
ley with the packers in Seattle
and San Francisco. Never in the
history of the fisheries of Alaska
has a fishermen represented his
class at these “conferences.” And
the request of fishermen to be
given a hearing by the Commis
sioner o*f Fisheries last year was
curtly refused.
Look for the label on the wrapper and the stamp on
the rind-FRYE’S “DELICIOUS” BRAND HAM-a
safe guide to good ham. And yon certainly can ’t
mistake the savory Frye flavor. Chosen from the finest
of selected young grain-fed porkers and cured by the
mild, sweet, exclusive Frye process.
3c will bring you Frye(s “Meat Guide” containing
187 recipes. Address Frye and Company, Seattle.
Please start singing "God Save
the King” as it is now becoming
the Alaska national anthem. '
"THERE IS NO GOD”
She was but thirteen yeark
old, that Native girl, who with
the sang froid of maturity made
so by a cruel world, said: "It’s
all bunk. There’s no God. I won’t
believe that bunk.” And her
listeners were other little girls, j
nor all Indian girls either.
Who is responsible for the all
wise sophistication of this ig
norant, immature girl? The
home life had considerable to do
with her condition. Her associ
ations have been among men
old enough to be her father and
whose ideas have become im
planted in a mind without un
derstanding of life or of nature
itself.
It matters not what the belief
of any adult—that there is or
there is no God. It matters not.
until that adult starts to put'
such ideas in the mind of little |
children. At least such belief
is elevating and has the tendency j
to exercise conscience. It is a!
crutch to the cripple and to take j
away that Faith, that Hope, is j
to take away the crutch which
would make easier going for the j
little one.
Are those molding that little
life proud of their handiwork?
We wonder.
CANADIAN NEWSPRINT
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Newsprint production by Can
adian mills in April wTas 228,048
tons or 75 per cent of rated ca
pacity, against 207,485 tons, or
68.4 per cent, in March. Four
months’ production was 826,607
tons, or 70.1 per cent against
840,505 tons, or 82.3 per cent, in
the same period for 1929.
With all pulp mills working at
less than capacity production it
is hardly to be expected that
pulp mill construction will com
mence “very shortly” as is prom
ised by the Juneau and Ketchi
kan press. Still such propaganda
makes fine political bunkum and
the American public likes bun
combe. When one gets doubtful
and inquisitive insofar as this
subject in Alaska is concerned,
they are accused of “chasing out
capital.” Bring on those pulp
mills, give ’em the country and
then see v/hat we get!
Indecision is the death «f many
good ideas.
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- JOSEPH O. RUDE
i PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
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