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THE COW
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Alaska in its relation to Seattle
is the joint owner of a fine milk
cow. We cwn the front half and
Seattle owns the back half. The
milking is done in Seattle; Alaska
taxings the whippings from the tail.
Whenever Seattle thinks that we
ure almost starved, she kindly shoots
one squirt of milk at our mouth and
if we miss it, we are told that it is
cur fault.
The worst of this ownership is
the fact that we are compelled to
feed our half of the cow. In over
coming our resistance, Seattle has
tl.e support of the federal governor,
the Bureau of Fisheries, the Forest
ry Bureau and virtually all the fed
eral employees, all the public press
except the Petersburg ALASKAN
and The ALASKA FISHERMAN.
Lven the commercial clubs assist
Seattle.
The only organized resistance is
the ALASKA NATIVE BROTHER
HOOD often referred to as the “il
literates.M
The Trollers and the Halibutters
are showing signs of resisting, but
not as a matter of principle; rather
because recent acts of oppression
by the Bureaus have hurt them.
‘Misfortune is a mighty leveller.”
A STRANGER IN TOWN
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A stranger came to town recent
ly and to help pass the time away,
be walked north as far as he could
go and then south quite a stretch,
lie saw the town and heard not a
few of our citizens talking on the
streets, and our children at play.
Of the scores that he heard, only
two were ta’king English, the lan
guage of the United States, and
these two wcie children at play.
We tried to tell him that things
aie not half so bad as he imagined
and that our people love their adopt
ed country truly. But he went away
unconvinced.
NOT SO BAD
Just after publishing advance re
tort of the 1929 fishery regulations
several fishermen were bemoaning
tne unjustifiable throttling of her
ring for bait operations. One of
the old time fishermen, described
by the boneles8 Sc6tt governor as
“radical” spoke uif*and said: “Don’t
you worry. Those "regulations are
uot going to stand long. Don’t you
think for one moment that they are
going to do anything to hurt those
big corporations by shutting off their
%-nld storage supply of bait. No,
>oa will see, just as soon as they
And out where they made a slip,
tney will send out supplementary
regulations to permit the herring
fisherman to deliver his bait without
any hurt to the “industry.”
WE WERE SKEPTICAL
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We have been told that Henry
O'Malley is an honorable man and
has only the “best interests” of the
territory at heart. We did not wish
to think that he was owned body
and soul by corporations so we de
clared that he (Mr. O’Malley) made
certain prohibitions against the
small herring fishreman in sincerity.
He did. May be he didn’t. That is
the bone of contention now. Any
way, supplementary regulations are
out. A herring pond is not a net.
H is not a trap. It is just what you
might call it, depending on whether
you axe a herring seiner or salmon
seiner.
ONE MILE TRAPS
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We have run by traps that we
swear to goodness are most a mile
long from timber line to the end of
tie apiller. Has anyone heard Mr.
O'Malley making any regulations «
cutting ’em down a fewr hundred
fett? Not so you’d notice. Yet how
much more benefit it would be to
Y’aska were those traps cut down
as to length and production than the
hullshevik discrimination against a
lousy seine boat that barely ekes
out a living for its Alaska owner.
PAGE HENRY O’MALLEY
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We are asked to print a list of
closed bays and areas in this district
land Division. The list is too long
and would not be read by 95 per
cent of our readers. To anyone de
siring a list of fishing waters and
areas, we suggest that they write
to Commissioner of Fisheries Henry
O’Malley for a list of bays and wa
ters that are open to fishing. That
is a much shorter list and easier to
compile. Such a list would be right
'Tandy in the pilot house of the man
• razy enough to go fishing these
days.
CLOSING OF TRAPS WOULDN’T
HAMPER TOMAN OPERATIONS
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There is at least one Anchorage
cannery which would not be serious
ly hampered by the closing of Cook
Inlet to trap fishing. That is the
plant erected last summer by J. F.
Toman, a one liner, at the outer end
of the cannery dock. It could be
kept busy very easily, Mr. Toman
says, with the use of nets exclusive
ly, it being estimated by him that 50
nets would provide all the salmon
needed; so he is not worrying about
‘be new fishery regulations which
were made public at Washington, De
cember 20 by Commissioner Henry
O’Malley and concerning which there
has been much argument locally as
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the result of conflicting cable re
ports relative to the intent of the
regulations in the matter of trap
elimination. It is expected that cop
ies of the regulations will reach An
chorage in the mail due here on Mon
day .
While admitting that the larger
canneries -would be crippled by any
radical curtailment of trap opera
fions, it is the opinion of Mr. Toman
that the Cook inlet district as a
whole would be helped by the clos
ing of all the traps in the area, a
step that eventually must be taken,
ho thinks, to prevent the depletion
of the salmon. More general use of
nets, he points out, would attract a
Permanent population of fishermen
to inlet towns and many small can
neries would take the places of the
big plants which now depend upon
traps and which annually import a
lot of cheap foreign labor..—An
chorage Daily Times.
DODGES REAL REASON
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Says the Seward Gateway: Once
more the Chicago Tribune takes a
dirty wallop at the Alaska Railroad
this time centering their attack on
the alleged “industrial slump d’s
l ive the railroad.” The salmon .fish
eries show a falling off, they say.
tut fail to point to restrictions and
curtailment by the government may
have had something to do wkn this
production.”
An old timer says: “When I first
came to this country I went up a
email stream near Douglas and was
enable to get a trout hook into the
water on account of the humps
which crowded the stream.”
The real reason for the slump in
Alaska industries is due to lack of
proper restrictions and curtailment.
Depletion will continue until fewer
salmon are put into cans.
The Community League will meet
at the Church on Tuesday evening j
it eight o’clock. Mrs. Ole Holm, I
\frs. John Campbell and Mrs. Maak- '
js’ad, hostes.
1 ROM THE ALASKA JOKE BOOK
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“That Juneau, the Capitol of the
territory, is the hotbed of the bu
’•euucrats in Alaska, there is none
! o deny. The real Alaskans residing
there have been so long under the
Don heel of Federal officials who
swarm around there, that the Alas
auns not imported have become ser
vile condoners of all the conspira
cy s concocted by the bureaucrats to
rob the Territory.
“Whenever the imported stock
ask for a little additional salary to
he paid by the Territory in violation
of law, these Juneau people smile
.erenely and say “thank you.”
“They have peddled out Territor
ial offices to legislators for a surrend
er of our personal rights as Ameri
can citizens until there is nothing
but the shell left to the Organic Act.
our Territorial Constitution. So fa
miliar have voters of the First Di
vision become with this deplorable
'•ondition of political affairs in the
eapitol city -i resident of Juneau,
nominated for a public office, is
heavily handicapped as a candidate
tor the people of the First Division
v,ell know <hat the Alaskans resid
ing in Juneau long ago became ser
viel sycophants of the imported Fed
eral bureaucrats and offer no resist
ance to their conspiracies to bleed
■;lie Territorial treasury and domin
eer over our legislative officials.
The Juneau timber for official use
of any kind is “punky,” crooked,
easily bent and in most cases, abso
lutely rotten.
Look well to your ballots and note
whether any of the candidates on
your ballots are “flocking” or “roost
ing ” with the buric rats who are
up here with the sole purpose of
•trawing a monthly check.”—John
Frame-up, rstwhile Democratic-Re
publican National Committeeman.
DON’T DO AS 1 DO But
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Do as I preach ,seems the doctrine
«.f the political cliamelon who mas
eparaded as a Republican and was
Honored by the Territorial Repub
licans as their National Committee
nan.
WE CORRECT OVERSIGHT
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Through error credit for author
ship of the following article contin
ued from last week was not duty
credited. YvTe make amends with
our apologies at this time.
ALL TOGETHER NOW
By
.. THEODORE HUNGERFORD ..
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The answer, at least here in
Southeastern Alaska, is LAND. We
have no land. It might be well at
this point to state that from here on
l write of conditions in Southeastern
Alaska.
Don’t get the idea from the above
statement about land, or rather, the
lack of land, that we all live on boats
edor go about over a country that
i-2 eternally covered with snow, over
lying a vast held of ice.
Here is what we have. An area
roughly 300 by 100 miles in extent,
i: most places heavily forested. This
land consists of an immense group
of islands with a narrow strip of
I mainland.
It cannot be classed as agricul
tural land. It is timber land, pure
and simple, all directly available to
sad. water transportation.
One of the most accessable and
valuable stands of timber in the
world today.
Roughly 20 million acres with a
stand of virgin timber estimated at
75 billion board feet of saw' timber.
More recent cruises and estimates
place the total milch higher than
ihis. But these figures are impress
ive enough. On the subject of
this land and timber, I am perhaps
a little fey in the minds of some. I
do not admit it.
To begin with—Land is the natur
al habitat of man, it is for his use
and enjoyment, it is the first love
of all settlers and people.
To withhold idle land from peo
ple who wish to improve that land
md build themselves a home on it !
is criminal. More particularly so 1
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when it is done by a government.
It is of vastly more importance to
any country, that any citizen, wbo
dreams a dream of building him-!
self a homo and improving a piece
of land, shall be given that chance
on any available piece of unoccu
pied land, regardless of what others
may think of the venture, than any
possible future profit the govern
ment may derive from holding it.
13ut when this same mah/ after
having been refused a piece of va
cant land, in a place where he aches
to build himself a home, s^es this
s.me land offered to the ravages of
a corporation for a pitiful 80 pieces
f silver, what are his thoughts?
Does he retain his love apd re
spect for his country’s government
and institutions?
Does lie feel that he Is getting a
square deal, or does he feel like
going out and shooting a potbellied
government official or robbing a
bank? I ask you.
The land here in Southeastern
A’aska or at least the greater bulk
oi it is held as a National Timber
Reserve, styled “The Tongass Na
tional Forests.” ; ' - •
The reserve is patrolled arid su
pervised by the Forest Service, un
der the head of the Department of
Agriculture. i
Absolutely no settlement is al
lowed on timber lands within the
boundaries of this reserve.
One of the most criminally cruel
aud unjust burdens that this, or
auy other country or people, have
*<ver been called upon to shoulder, is
this hocus pocus of National For
ents.
The only National Reserves justi
fied are those creating parks and
playgrounds.
When the Act of Congress, creat- ;
iny, National Forests went into effect, '
it was not particularly obnoxious to
the States because practically all of
what was at that tiinie desireable
iand, had already passed into the
fwndB of private owners.
But, with a virgin country like
Southeastern Alaska it was a death
blow to settlement. It sounded the
death knell to thousands of homes
--homes of fishermen, of fur farm
ers, of miners and of timhermen.
Houses tucked away in each bay
end inlet, in some sections, quite a
community, each in a small clear
ing for the growing of the gardens
which yield bountifully here. The
permanence of each backed up by a
claim of virgin timber land, which
would some day, bring its reward to
ihe sturdy pioneer who made it his
home.
Don’t get the idea that I think
the life would be easy or that they
would be getting something for
! othing. Fav from it. Perhaps on
ly one in ten who made the venture
•vould stick. It would all depend
cn the man. But I will say that the
man who did stick would be a man
iv.ell worth having as a fellow citi
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But no. That is not the policy
of the Department of Agriculture.
Through its agents, the Forest Ser
vice, it tells us to this effect: “Why,
M r. Private- Citizen-W h o-Is-Crazy
onough-t o-want-t o-live-in- Alaska,
you are crazy with the heat. You
can’t make a'living here. You would
etarve to death if we gave you a
i iece of land here and you tried to
live on it.’’
Maybe wc would. But I rear
1 vglit up here and now to state,
lhat, if they give me and 100,000
more like me a chance at 160 acres
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