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TRY FIRST AT HOME
From Fairbanks News-Miner.
Nothing sentimental or beg
ging about that request for the
people of this community to
trade home town merchants.
Just a straight out business re-,
quest. If after you have tried
at home and found that you can
do better elsewhere, which we
very much doubt for our mer
chants are ever on their toes to
give the people of this commun
ity good value, then is plenty ol
time to seek other places to
spend your money.
Home-spent dollars remain
here and work for us—a fact
that has been proven time and
again. Anything that we can
do individually to make this
community more prosperous will
help to increase our own prosper
ity. When we spend money at
home we are, in a way, eating
cur cake and keeping it, too.
Without this town as a trad
ing center, it is doubtful if we
would have the schools, the
churches, the good roads that
are an active part of our every-!
day community life. To retain
them and increase their scope
of influence, it is necessary that
we maintain the town that has
made them possible.
Allright Editor Stone. Quit
talking generalities and start on
a specific proposition of patron
izing home industry—and labor
Down in the Ketchikan dis
trict are employed some 3,000
Filipinos and Orientals down to
a wage as low as $80 and a place
to sleep and a questionable diet
of food. Hire more local help
labor with a standard that re
quires more than $80 for three
to five months labor.
Every sawmill hires the same
kind of labor in the spring of the
year to batter down the wages of
resident millmen; they hire Wash
ington millmen in preference tc
residents who, by force of cir
cumstances are thus compelled
to work at the lower wage or not
at all.
Home-earned dollars are home
spent dollars. It does not only
mean that the dollars give the
storekeepers their profits but it
means building of permanent
homes, meaning more cutting of
lumber for the homes, more em
ployment of other labor and an
increasing circle of prosperity.
Without the population you
have no trading center. Without
industry labor centers diminish
and labor follows its market.
Look at the ghost cities of Neva
da—what good all the past glor
ies of the hectic mining days ol
that section. In some of those
old towns may be seen speci
men of humanity that might
have been just as aggressive in a
business way as anyone in Alas
ka. They probably hung on with
ihe hope and expectation of bus
iness to come. But trading cen
ters without population are not
worth ten cents on the dollar.
Yes, begin at home. “Nothing
sentimental or begging about
that request for” the industries
of this country to employ local,
resident labor, “to trade with
home town merchants. If you
have tried and found the cheap
imported labor more profitable,
hire more steamers and bring
them in by the carload lot. “Any
thing we (you) can do individu
ally to make (resident labor)
more prosperous will help to in
crease your own prosperity .When
you employ resident labor you
are eating your cake and keeping
it.
If you support a system which
discriminates against your per
manent resident trade do not
feel peeved when they turn to
competitive mail order houses.
“Whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you, do ye even
so unto them.” If you want re
sidents to spend with you, try
spending a little with them in
the way of wages. ’Tis surprising
how far a fair turn will go.
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O’MALLEYS EXCUSE — CArT.
HUNTER’S AFFIDAVIT — THE
LOG OF THE “BIvANT”
Ketchikan in a hurry to catch
the tide at Wrangell Narrows via
Anan Creek. Did Captain Hunt
er know about this hurry? The
captain apparently defending his
chief because of the entry “11:00
p.m. slow • bell awaiting tide,”
says: “On leaving Ketchikan I
estimated about two hours would
be required at Anan Creek * * *
Mr. O’Malley being in a hurry
stayed about an hour at Anan
Creek and as we had good luck
with tide and wind It put us
about two hours ahead of time I
estimated it would be favorable
',o enter the Narrows.”
Did Captain Hunter learn for
the first time at Anan Creek
that O'Malley was in a hurry?
Apparently so because he now
excuses the stay of only 55 min
utes by saying that Mr. O’Malley
was in a hurry whereas Hunter
had figured two hours.
The tide from Anan Creek to
Wrangell via Zimovia Straits
vould be fair virtually all the
way.
I figured before I got the log
hat the Brant would arrive at
Anan Creek at 7 p.m., showing
that my estimate of her speed
s very nearly correct since the
Srant arrived there at 7:05 p.m.;
’o that I figured that the Branf
vould nr;ive at Pt. Alexander
^entrance of Wrangell Narrows)
ming at normal speed at 1 a.m.
ruly 4th.
..Bear in mind that O’Malley
-ays he hurried away from Ket
'hikan because he wished to j
make Wrangell Narrows. When!
lid he enter Wrangell Narrows? j
He was under “slow bell” at 11
a.m., which would put him just j
n front of the town of Wrangell;
n line of Wovonofski Pt., fully;
19 knots from the Narrows. But1
even under slow bell, he would
arrive at Pt. Alexander Light
at 3 a.m., which I take it is the
meaning of Capt. Hunter’s entry]
‘3 a.m. full ahead.”
What was the condition of the |
Mde at 3 a.m.?
. .The tide was ebbing and at the
strongest stage of the ebb tide.
~o strong that the waters run
ning south thru the Narrows
resemble a river. Low tide that
morning was 4:3G a.m., on a
minus 1.4 tide.
Hunter’s log now says the
Brant was running full speed
shead bucking probably a 5
knot ebbing tide. This would
bring him to the worst point in
the channel at extreme low tide.
What does Mr. O’Malley mean
when he says he was hurrying to
catch the tide at the Narrows?
He actually arrived there at the
very worst stage of the tide ev
en after he had slowed down for
four hours under “slow bell.”
Was it NECESSARY for him
to inspect the weir at Anan
Creek?
Was that duty more important
than the meeting at which 35
boat owners, employers of 150
men to whom some 500 women
and children were looking for
their bread and butter, were try
ing to exercise their right of pe
tition to an officer of the United
States Government, a right guar
anteed under the Constitution of j
the United States?
He inspected the weir! ! What
did he find? What importance
was it? I maintain that even if
the President of the United
States had been on the Brant
and he wished to “inspect” a
fish weir, the President’s curios
ity should give way and be sub
ordinate to the rights of the 35
operators who gathered together •
to protest a regulation which!
struck at their very right to earn
a living—a property right in
deed; to protest a regulation
which was so flagrantly wrong
and indefensible that Mr. O’Mal
ley himself rescinded it in his re
gulations for 1930, which act of
rescinding is used by his sup
porters in Congress as a proof of
nis, “fairness” and “desire to be
fair.” That defense is like the
burglar who, when caught red
handed, in his crime should seek
to escape punishment by offering
to restore the goods.
I think you should inquire of
Mf. O'Malley concerning the ab
sence of ’sg entries from 8 p.m..
of July 3rd to 5:43 a.m., July 4th
taking in the distance from An
an Creek to Mitkof Pt., or about
70 knots (80 statute miles).
I don’t believe the log book is
silent on that.
.. If it is right, there must have
been collusion between Hunter
and O’Malley because it is con
trary to tne practice of naviga
tion. I am very sure that the
Lighthouse Service will tell you
that every light .in the Narrows
is noted by the navigator, and
should be noted: that Lemesurier
Pt., Neal Light on Vanks, Pt.
Alexander, are lights that are
noted even by amateurs.
The only period in which
Hunter fails to mark the usual
log book entries is from Ship Is
land to Mitkof Pt., covering the
only area in which we are inter
ested, and the only area involved
in O’Malley’s excuse for not at
tending our meeting of protest
Every other area is minutely not
t-d in the log book.
A fair hearing by you, Mr. La
mont, under conditions wherein
our poor people could testify
would readily convince you and
every other reasonable man that
we, the Natives of Alaska, have
been wronged by Henry O’Mal
ley; that we are the object of his
studied discriminations; that
O’Malley’s defenses are but af
terthoughts or red herring which
seek to take your attention from
his crimes by calling attention
to my political sins, those sins
themselves born amidst the tra
vail and hunger of my people
driven from their ancient fish
ing grounds, all in the name of
“conservation” and Robert P.
Lamont.
Formerly I believed Mr. Hoov
er responsible for these crimes
and said so. But those crimes
continue and in your name. I am
forced to revise my conclusion
about Mr. Hoover because I can
not believe that two men of such
preeminence would knowingly be
a party to the persecution of my
people. These conditions must
spring out of the deception prac
ticed upon you by Henry O’Mal
ley.
And so I pray for relief.
Yours respectfully,
William L. Paul,
Grand President, Alaska Native
Brotherhood.
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The Open Forum
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EAGLES AND HOME RULE
Mr. Will A. Barrows.
Seattle, Washington
Dear Sir: . i
. .1 have your letter addressed to, ij
the Editor of The Alaskan, also i
a clipping of your letter to the j Ij
Seattle Times, in regard to the ’
eagles of Alaska. There are one
or two phases of this matter on
which I might take friendly is
sue with you, but let us agree be
fore hand that a good natured
discussion, or even honest differ
ence of opinion between friends
can do no harm. In writing this
to you, I take full cognizance of j
the fact that I am addressing a
man who missed more outbound
boats than I have and who has
at least as good a right to his
opinion as I have to mine, but I
would not hail you as a brother
beachcomber after reading your1
remark about the rest of us.
And you should not insinuate j
that Alaskans are unpatriotic,!
but mere words cannot refute!
that charge.
. .About this eagle business, it
seems to me a lot of well-mean
ing folks in the States are per
mitting themselves to get “all
het up and bothered” over a
purely imaginary calamity. In
the first place—the eagle is not .
by any means as near extinction
as folks in the States seem to im
agine. A few days ago, aiong
that bit of shoi’e line between
Ideal Cove and Point Frederick,
in Frederick Sound, a matter of
ten miles of shore line, I counted
from the boat, fourteen eagles, I
There were no salmon as yet this'
season along that shore but!
there were no salmon in other;
places, so it could hardly be!
charged that this shore had
more than its normal quota of j
eagles. And I did not shoot any
of them either, although I have
a fox farm on Coney Island ap- ;
prcximately midway of that ten- |
mile stretch. Perhaps we fox
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51 ^r cent of all the cars registered in the State
of V/ashington during the month of May were Fords.
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