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From Anchorage Times
Word comes from Fairbanks
that Indian Beaver must die be
cause of his violation of the
white man’s law while under the
influence of liquor which the
white man taught him to drink.
President Hoover to whom a plea
was made for executive clemen
cy has refused to intercede and
has refused to intercede and
there appears to be little more
that can be done to save the life
of* the young native who is un
der sentence of death in the
Fairbanks jail, without friends,
'without funds, without any un
derstanding of what it is all
about.
There are worse men in the
world than Indian Beaver. There
are thousands of men in the pri
sons of the United States doing
easy stretches for far worse
crimes than that which Beaver
committed and the courts of the
country daily are freeing crim
inals who are less entitled to the
right to live than he. The scales
of justice surely are unevenly
balanced against this unfortun
ate aboriginee.
If it could be shown that the
taking of Beaver’s life would
have the effect of discouraging
offenses of like nature in the fu
ture, there might be an excuse
for exacting the extreme penal
ty. But no such promise can be
held out. Capital punishment
does not reform the white
man and in spite of the threat of
the gallows, hootch-crazed In
dians will continue to kill, each
other occasionally, just as their
more enlightened white broth
ers do. Humans, no matter what
their color, do not count the con
sequences when minds are heavy
with alcohol and anger.
CHURCH BUILDING IS A BIG
BUSINESS
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Dr. Albert F. McGarrah, di
rector of the department of
building fund campaigns of the
Presbyterian Board of National
Missions declares that one of the
biggest businesses of the United
States today is the church-build
ing enterprise. He has just
raised $3,500,000 in three and
one-half months for 50 church
es.
The money raised will be used
for the erection of new buildings,
improvements to present build
ings, or for the payment of debts
and it is in addition to funds at
hand or paid out in construc
tion.
This average income of one
million dollars a month is an in
dication that there is no let
down in the church building
movement which has been on
an upward trend since the
close of the world war.
HEADS AND HATS
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One must have a good opinion
of his head to treat it to a $500
hat. it would seem, but that is
what thirty or more Americans
are doing this year according to
the style committee of the Hat
Institute in New York, which al
so declares that the well-dressed
man must have a minimum of
three straw hats this summer.
The headgear prescribed in
cludes a yacht sailor for business
wear; a Panama, leghorn, man
ila or any of the body straws for
sport, country and resort wear,
and a China split for evening.
The aristocrat for this layout is,
of course, the Panama.
But Panama belies its name,
as it does not come from Pana
ma at all, but is made in South
America, being woven by hand
from the stemless screw pines
that grow wild in Ecuador and
Colombia. Expert weavers often
spend a year in making one hat,
and when it is perfect in every
detail it sells in this country for
$500, where a market is found
for about 30 each year.
Extravagance of women in the
matter of hats has been the sub
ject of many jibes in the past,
,but it appears that they have
* nothing on the fastidious male
in this respect. Possibly a nifty
hat is a useful adjunct in enab
ling one to get by with a medi
ocre head.
The Alaska Panama may be
purchased ot the local stores ot
75 cents per, and are guaranteed
to hold water out—and in—and
to otherwise give service rather
add to the appearance.
INDIAN MUST HANG
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Constantine Beaver, Indian,
sentenced at Fairbanks last
February by Judge Cecil Clegg
at Fairbanks for the murder of
another Indian during a drunk
en brawl, wes refused executive
clemency by President Hoover
and must hang after the 19th of
August.
Governor Parks granted a re
prieve so that application for
commutation of sentence could
ibe placed before the president
District Attorney Hurley has
filed amotion for fixing date of
sentence.
There is the possibility that
the president does not have a
clear understanding of the Beav -
er case. He is wrought up over
the crime situation in the
states and clearly is not inclined
to intercede in cases where men
have been found guilty beyond
any question of a doubt. The
president knows that crime con
ditions have made America the
most unsafe place in the world
in which to live and he is aware
of some of the difficulties the
courts are having in obtaining
convictions; he does not want to
add discouragement by coming
to the rescue of those who fail to
prove their innocence. But it
.seemingly lias not occured to him
that the situation may be just a
little different in Alaska.
Sending Beaver precipitately
to the happy hunting grounds
will not help matters in the
least whereas it would be pos
sible through imprisonment and
training, to show him the error
of his ways and to turn him back
into the world eventually an
enlightened and useful citizen.
Alaska should follow the ex
ample of those states where cap
ital punishment has long been
abolished and where the extreme
penalty is not enforced. Statis
tics seem to show that it is safer
to live in those states than in
sections of the country where
the “eye for an eye” policy is
still practiced.
WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND
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Why Leopold and his friend in
Chicago, with their millions and
in spite of brilliant scholastic re
cord, commit such a dastardly
crime as they did and escape the
“eye for an eye” law of heathen
age.
We cannot understand why so
many others who have commit
ted murders have been granted
executive clemency—cases where
the crime wTas deliberately pre
meditated and far more hein
ous than the murder in drunken
anger committed by Indian
Beaver.
; As guilty of the crime, for
which Indian Beaver will pay
the extreme penalty, is the man
who furnished the liquors which
for the moment made a maniac
of Beaver. The seller is as guilty
of the murder as Beaver for it
| was his influence which was the
first cause and the murder was
,the effect.
THE LAST WORD
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j Every day you hear a lot of
noise about the Post Office De
partment—their deficit—incon -
sistent ruling s—inefficiency—
competition with printers—and
,a lot of other things. Yes, and
we guess they’re mostly true.
Every printer in the country
suffers, whether he knows it or
not, from competition by the
'Post Office Department.
Anybody can buy stamped en
velopes and have the Govern
ment print on his corner card,
A merchant in Dakota can buy
»500 envelopes, with his name im
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fice. The order is sent to Wash
ington and from there to Ohio,
where the envelopes are manu
factured and printed. They are
packed in a container and deliv
ered by Parcel Post. The charge
to the merchant for printing is
just 12 cents for 500.
If 500 envelopes can be print
ed and shipped to any part of
the country for 12 cents, a lot oi
printers we know should be
worth millions. As it is they car.
hardly pay their bills.
We believe that the Post Office
Department would lose less mon
y ~f it got out of the printing
business. And even if the fig
ures in the ledger didn’t black
over night, the Post Office has
no right to take business away
from any group of private enter
prises. As one printer asks, “A
Government printing office, why
not a Government shoemaker?"
New the Post Office Depart
ment is faced with the problem
of paying the railroads more
money. Do they throw out
their printing service? No! They
force the burden back onto
printers and the public by re
quiring bundling and mailing by
states and cities of third-class
permit mail—regulation 135\'2 P.
I;, and R. Yes, the printer is the
goat! —Printing Industry.
THE SONG AND DANCE
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Several businessmen have said
ro us “We can get our envelopes
-o much cheaper from the post
office than we can get them
from Alaskan printers.”
We agreed with them. We re
fuse to even attempt to compete
with specialty houses which are
virtually subsidized by the gov
ernment.
But, these same men ask us
to preach the doctrine of “Pa
tronize Home Industry” and we
do. But wonder how Home In
dustry would fare if all Alaskans
patronized specialty mail order
houses “just because they can
buy cheaper there than the re
sident industry purchase and
deliver the same article in Alas- j
ka.
THE “JOKER” IN THE COL
LEG E APPROPRIATION
The Senators “Five” of the
last Legislature refused to grant
in appropriation to the Fair
banks College, thereby permit
ting that institution to receive i
benefit of agricultural experi
ment station Act. The Empire
and other papers condemned the
Senators for slicing off the ap
propriations and termed them as
reactionaries working against
•he best interest of the Territory.
The following letter is indicative
or why that bill was rightfully
thrown into the discard
Washington, D. C.
May 31, 1929
Dan Eugene Davenport.
University of Illinois ,
IJrbana, Illinois.
Dear Dean Davenport:
Your letter an dtelegram of
May 14 relative to the College of
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Agriculture at Fairbanks, Alaska,
were duly received.
As you doubtless know, this
Department has operated an
igricultural experiment station
at Fairbanks since 1907, and has
conducted investigations on
mops, rotations, etc., to deter
nine practices adapted to that
'egion. The President of the
College is very anxious to have
his Station turned over to the
College and an Act of Congress
vas passed that will ultimately
ming this about and extend the
/arious Federal Aid Acts to the
Territory. No appropriations can
be made under this Act “until
annually estimated as to funds
and amounts by the Secretary of
Agriculture; the estimates to be
based upon his determination of
the ability of the Territory of
Alaska to make effective use of
the funds.”
We have gone over the matter
hilly with the President of the
College and have agreed that the
Institution will need about $10,
h00.00 to $15,000.00 to begin with
rom the Territory to enable it
to meet the requirements.
We are hoping that the Col
lege will obtain the financial as
sistance from the Territory to
suable them to comply with the
requirements of the law.
Very truly yours,
Secretary of Agriculture,
ARTHUR M. HYDE.
WANDERING TUBERCULOSIS
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Wandering tuberculosis suffer
ers in states of the West and
southwest are becoming an in
creasing financial problem, Miss
Jasmine S. Whitney, New York
statistitian for the National Tu
berculosis Association, declared
recently in San Francisco.
There are 10,000 people suffer
ing from the “white plague,” who
bach year wander thru the states
bf Arizona, California Colorado
New Mexico and Texas, she said.
“This problem is still the lead
ing social problem in the tuber
culosis campaign in the United
Slates.” stated Miss Whitney if
counting members of families
devolved the total would reach
10 non pnol/nan’
If the burden for any one of
these individuals could be con
rned exclusively to any one lo
cality the problem would be
easier she said. The fact that
bey make an oddyssey all over
he country, coupled with the
ract that add a heavy burden
to states having relatively small
populations, complicates the
problem.
Miss Whitney pointed out that
Colorado Springs has had an in
creasing load in the number o
relief given to migratory cases
despite the fact that the actual
death rate from tuberculosis has
recently declined about one
third.
A man isn’t licked until he
begins to complain about the
rules.
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Most people having nothing to
do make the mistake of doing it.
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