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Repeal As Well As Enact
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There are a number of ordin
ances on the City’s books tha
should be brought up before thi
Council for consideration anc
then wiped off the bboks. Ther<
is no sense in passing laws an<
ordinances and then forgettini
them. Legislatures are prone t
pass laws and then forget ti
wipe off those that nave becom
obsolete and the same is true o
cities. In one state it is a crim
to sneeze on Sunday; in anothe
a woman may not walk a tigh
rope except in a church o:
Sunday; in one state sheets o:
botelroom beds must be nin
feet in length by six in widtt
The laws are not observed bu
they are allowed to remain o
the books cluttering them up.
Several years ago an ordin
anCe was passed making it
misdemeanor for any one to ex
pectorate on the streets. It di
not stop the spitting on tt)
streets nor was anyone arreste
for violation of the ordinanci
Another council passed a pur
rood law in spite of the fact ths
the legislature had a mor
stringent law on the Sesslo
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action taken under this law
Later on still another council
passed an ordinance which
forced closure of local dances
by one o’clock. Whenever anyone
wishes to run a dance on to two
or three o’clock, all they had to
do was to get permission to do
so. The dances went on past the
hour set by the council. There is
the law which allows employ
ment of but one person as
street-commissioner and city
marshal, but two are employed.
It is time that obsolete or
dinances were wiped off the
books and effort made to live up
to those which are worth keep
ing. By this procedure the city
may command respect for those
ordinances which are on the
books. Certainly it can be only
the butt of jokes when it has
ordinances which p,re never kept
and there is no intention of
keeping. And Petersburg is far
enough along in years now to
take unto itself a bit of dignity
by keeping on its books ordin
ances that do not belittle it in
the minds of the citizens of the
town.
Crying Now Is Too Late
There is a spirit of pessimism
running though Alaska. Every
where one turns the question is
asked “What are we going to do
to earn money this summer and
what will we do next winter?"
The question is being asked by
laboring men, by fishermen, by
businessmen. All are beginning
to realize that they are in the
same boat.
Why worry now about the fu
ture? The time to have met the
situation was during the past
ten years when the situation
could have been so met that the
people of Alaska would not now
be wondering what they will do
to get sufficient to purchase food
and clothing.
For a number of years this
publication has urged the abol
ishment of fish traps and the
employment of fishermen in-i
stead. While every person we
have talked with agrees that we
are correct in our demand, only
a very few have the courage to
stand up and say that our con
tention is correct.
Hood Bay cannery is going to
operate but they will not operate
any seine crews. Those chambers,
of commerce which beg the fish
operators to employ local labor
are the ones who will suffer
most ultimately. The resident
population has been drawing up
on its belts until the naval
battle is on with the backbone.
The business men are just now
coming to the same point of
starvation. Their investment is
now being jeopardized and their
loss in the end will be greater
than the fishermen’s.
If the territory would get back
on a sound economic basis in the
shortest possible time, it should
abolish the fish traps and em
ploy only fishermen to put up
the salmon packs. Canada with
a salmon pack equal to only one
third of the Alaska pack still
employs 9,000 fishermen or more
than three times the number
employed in Alaska. According
to which figures, Alaska should
employ 27,000 fishermen. The
earnings of these fishermen dis
tributed among all the fishing
towns of Alaska would put
money into circulation which
would wipe out the stagnant
condition and the long faces of
depressed spirits would be turn
ed into happy smiles.
striking risherman
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The gillnetters of Columbia
River have abandoned all plans
for a strike for better prices.
They made every effort to ob
tain 9 cents per pound for king
salmon and they have agreed to
sell their catches to the can
ners on the open market. In
other words they will sell to the
canners who finance their sum
Tier’s operations.
While no prices were quoted
it is believed that the best
grades of salmon will bring 7
cents per pound.
King salmon may be purchas
ed in the butcher shops today at
10 cents per pound. What the
prices on the trolling grounds
will be has not been announced!
However those who follow the j
commercial end of the business]
believe that large reds will
bring not more than 5 cents a
pound and whites, 1 cent a
pound if and when they are
bought. But it will go lower!
With the price of meat, eggs
and chicken at a low maximum
it is futile to attempt to hold
the price to inflated values. To
attempt to force up prices by a
concerted strike would be a
wasted effort.
The buyers are short of. mon
ey and find It difficulty 4o «s
cure loans for their operations.
The consuming public can ab
sorb only so much fish at high
er prices. The greater mass jf
consumers are unable to pur
chase halibut or salmon at 25
30 and up to 50 cents a pound.
They can purchase meats at 3
cents a pound and naturally
they turn to the lower priced
commodities.
The outlook for the resident
fisherman this year is certainly
nothing to be optimistic ovei.
It is no better for the halibut
fisherman or the seiner.
Already the fishermen are
talking of living on the beaches
putting up small gardens, fish
clams and meats. Following the
law of self-preservation they
will have to follow such a pro
gram.
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TOUGH PROPOSITION
George Griesbach of Shawano,
Wis., recently wanted to die. So
he swallowed his stick pin, cuff
buttons, some safety pins, glass
and other materials, whilst in
Jail on a forgery charge. Out
side of a little stomach ache
there appeared nothing much
wrong with him, except perhaps
bis head.
The Ideal Citizen
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An ideal citizen is the one who <
sees clearly and ever something
good in the. city and never loses
the opportunity to spread that
good news abroad that others
might derive the benefits there
f 1 om, whose unselfishness
prompts him to want others to
share opportunities, health and
pleasure which his home city
offers.
Loyality is the first requisite
for the ideal citizen. The love for
the place and his neighbors
v/hich dismisses the thought of
self interest or policy and re
solves itself into the knowledge
of duty when he does all in his
power to make the city a better
place in which to live.
There are three distinct at
titudes which a citizen may as
sume toward the place in which
he lives, which furnishes him
food, shelter and association for
himself and family, to boost, to
remain quiet or to knock. The
booster is that ideal citizen who
is never forgetful when any
movement is launched which
might tend to the advancement
of the interest of the city. While
others see darkly, to him good
is visible at all times. The quiet
?*tizen is satisfied tc let the!
neighbor do the work and con-1
lent to lull the city asleep and1
let it rest. The knocker is the'
nan who is without a countrv.
rhere is no room for him any
where, his presence dampens the
Dnthusiasm of every man or
Sroup of men who unfortunate
ly come in contact with hirr
Having no faith in his own
ability to go forward, he na
turally lacks faith in his homo
city to do so.
You have the chance to belong
to either of the three classes. If
you are a booster, your neighbor
knows it and will boost you. If
you are aligned with the quiet
class, you will not be regarded
one way or the other, for the
man who selects to steer the
middle of the stream, gets no
support from either side. If, un
fortunately, you are a knocker,
get ready to be knocked, for
eventually it is coming to you.
As you give, so will it be meted
out to you.
Cordova would be an ideal
city if only there were more
ideal citizens. Let us have them.
— Cordova Daily Times.
Setting a Good Example
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In announcing that the firm
is prepared to purchase this year
up to 15 tons of local grown po
tatoes at running market prices -
Seattle cost plus freight to Se
ward—and that they will en
deavor to handle all local grown
vegetables, head lettuce, beets,
cauliflower, carrots, cabbages,
spinach, cucumbers, turnips etc,
the Brown & Hawkins Corpora
tion is setting an example which
should be followed by every gen
eral merchant in Alaska and
especially in the railroad zone.
In support of this effort to
keep dollars at home and at the
same time encourage self-reli
ance in the Territory, every citi
zen should make a solemn re
solve to demand local products
wherever possible of supply.
This should go farther than
vegetables. Local store shelves
are loaded with imported spider
crab meat, while Cordova is can
ning Alaska’s excellent Dun
genes crab and offering it at
a lower price than the imported
article. Smoked and salted fish,
canned salmon and various
jams, especially strawberry and
currant, are imported from
California when the berries may
be grown in abundance in the
railroad zone. Local canners are
preparing clams which likewise
are sent to Seattle and returned
>:o Alaska for sale.
Approximately $850,000 worth
of products are shipped to the
railroad zone which could be
produced within it. This $850,
000 would give each person in
the area a fairly yearly income
of $1,000.
Here is a chance to make the
home garden not only supply
the table but give a return in
dollars.—Seward Gateway.
When Is a Theft
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“Good old Thomas Aquinas
set down the principle that
things existed for persons, and
that it was not stealing for any
man to appropriate food for his
own use, though it belonged to
another.—The New Outlook.
To stated objections to the
above quotation, the New Out
look declared: “If the law cannot
be made to fit into the situation,
so much the worse for the law.
Our correspondent thinks there
are terrible risks in talking this
way about things, but are there
not terrible risks in undertaking
to follow Jesus in anything?”
In a leading editorial the New
Outlook pointed out that the
question was settled by Christ
when he condoned the taking ol
shewbread from the temple by
‘ David and his fellow free
booters” and also when He en
couraged His hungry disciples to
take wheat from another man’s
field.
The New Outlook may be right
in its contention. However, it is
difficult to follow the doctrine
that the world owes every man
a living. The world owes no man
any more than he puts into it.
whether it be labor or capital,
he receives interest only on his
investment. The world does owe
it to man to permit the free
exercise of his labor at a fair
return. If he is willing to sell
his labor he should not be hind
ered by the selfish interests
which demand only large divi
dends at the expense of labor. As
soon as the world recognizes the
right to sell labor and permits
the free exercise of it, that soon
will the ecoriomic situation right
itself.
Inconsistent Politicians
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In the past elections the mis
ruling political faction has con
demned the Indians for partici
pating in elections. Condemning
them as unfit on account of
illiteracy. Every effort has been
made to break the solidarity of
their forces. Their leaders have
been called demagogues and
declared to have enriched them
selves at the expense of the or
ganization. There has been a
steady and persistent effort to
discredit the leadership through
distrust. In some sections they
have succeeded in a small mea
sure.
In the past election these
Indians voted the Democratic
ticket in the West Coast of
Prince of Wales Island and
Ketchikan and in some of the
larger precincts. The Juneau
leaders of the opposition which
condemned these illiterate votes
were glad to receive them and
they have not condemned their
entrance into the Democratic
ranks.
As a leader at Klawock, Frank <
J. Peratrovich stepped forward
and accepted the support of the
Democrats. They had promised
support to him, if not directly
still sufficiently to warrant en
trance in their ranks as a
candidate.
The election showed their
insincerity. George Grigsby de
clared “All factions of the De
mocrats are united in support
ing this man.” The support of
the Empire was said to have
been thrown that way. Still
Peratrovich was thrown off the
ticket and J. W. Kehoe elected.
Some 500 Indian votes went in
support of Peratrovich all of
which did not go to Kehoe. In
ether words if the 500 votes did
not swing that way Peratrovich
would have stood only 900 to
Kehoe’s 1400 votes.
This fact is pointed out to the
people of the West Coast that
;hey might think upon the
/agaries of the Democratic
eaders of Juneau who make
promises they have ho intention
it keeping.
Protecting Homes
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Recently Mayor Hague of
Jersey City served notice that
while the present economic de
pression exists, no homes in that
city will be sold for taxes, and
no municipal employee will be
dismissed or reduced in salary.
Said Mayor Hague: “ Jersey
City will not take the homes1
away from its people. If the
American people can declare a
moratorium on money owed us
by Europe, we can afford to de
fer the sale of property for de
linquent taxes owed the city Dy
our neighbors who have not the
means to pay. And this is no
time to dismiss public em
ployees or reduce their salaries.”
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Prevailing Wages
Comptroller General J. R. Mc
Carl recently testifying before
the House Labor Committee de
clared that he saw no reason
why the government should not
pay prevailing wages on con
struction projects. The govern
ment requires private contract
ors to observe the lav/ as to pay
ing prevailing wages in any dis
trict and certainly is not above
the law itself.
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That is a good book which open
ed with expectation and closed
[with a profit.—Alcott.
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Liquor Sales
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A reduction in liquor sales in
the province of Quebec of 40
percent during the last six
months of 1931 has been noted
by the officials of that province.
The profits from the liquor
business in Quebec will be a
round $5,500,000 instead of $10,
000,000 for the year previous.
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PITY THE RED BROTHER, TOO
The paleface American is not
the only victim of bureaucratic
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Figures produced by the In
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dian on the Osage reservation,
for example, is getting $377.13
worth of bureaucratic supervi
sion each year.
Of this amount, tribal fund
Haines Camp A. N. B.
President, Judson L Brown
Secretary, Joseph Jackson
Meets every Monday
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