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LOUIS F. PAUL,
C. O. PARKS,
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MOTHER S DAY
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Next Sunday is Mother’s Day
and it will make any of us feel
doubly chesty when Sundays sun
arises to know that some little
gift is all ready for her.
Small chance we’d have, in
deed, of telling you what a swell
girl your mother is, so we just
pause for a moment in the
year’s mad rush, to ask God’s
r chest blessing on your mother
and ours.
Mother does not expect ex
travagant gifts, but she may
feel just a little hurt (even tho
we’d never know it) if we neglect
to tender on Mother’s Day, those
token of love and reverence in
appreciation of that abiding
faith and that abounding, un
faltering love which only moth
ers can bestow.
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MOTHER MINE
Contributed
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’Ti- many a long year since
I cuddled up on your lap, sleepy,
tired and hungry to have you
put your loving arms around me
wiping away those tears and
speaking words of comfort till
sunshine in the heart, I up and
ran my way forgetting those
little troubles that were not so
much troubles. Then when I
was sick and you nursed me
and stood long hours of vigil as
no nurse could do, fighting to
give strength to that vital spark
of life which you went down in
*o the Valley of the Shadow of
Death to give life to. And then
when I became what I thought
was a man, you guided me and
chided me and brought me out
into the uncharted waters of
l'fe with a vision of decent man
hood of being something worth
while.
What I am, that 1 am because
of your unfailing love. If I
have fallen short of your meas
ure it was because nature did
not give me more of you. As
thoughtless years turn back I
think more of you and of your
?' If-sacrifice in trying to make
me the man of your ideal.
Mother Mine, I have no gift
for you. You are beyond the
f ■ ct of mere man. My only
hope, my only prayer, is that I
too may measure up that I
may give you joy in the Land
Beyond.
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A KISS IN TIME SAVES NINE
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“Our citizens have a right to
prescribe standards for voting
citizenship, for admittance to
public schools, etc., and it is up
to these who want these privi
leges and responsibilities to
meet the required standards.—
Juneau Empire.
What a contemptible lie!.
Editor Troy knows very well
that no state or Territory has
any right to pre or proscribe any
randards for a special people
that are not of general applica
tion. The Americanism of just
inch creatures as John W. Troy
makes us ashamed that we are
American and makes us look at
Canada’s management of its
Indian citizen^ with a greater
dgree of staisfaction.
We can point to instances
where children of Filipino , Jap,
Mexican and Chinese were ad
mitted to the public schools
while Indian children unsullied
by intermarriage, were refused
admittance to the same schools.
Education is the right of every
child and no man has the right
to say to another, “Your chil
dren shall not have the same
educational opportunity that
mine have.”
Whenever a man of the Troy
type offers his hand in friend
ship, we wonder what he is fish
ing for. What have we that
Troy and his friends want that
they offer us the kiss of a Judas?
„ .Fear is the soul’s tanglefoot.
LITERACY LAWS
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The purpose of the Dimond
Boyle rotative ballot and liter
acy test law is to disenfran
chise the Indian vote. It is not
a literacy test by any means and
it was not passed with any in
tent of protecting the constitu
tional guarantees of every citi
zen. Where was Troy who now
seeks friendship with the In
dian when his friends were pass
ing this law?
We challenged Boyle to intro
duce the New York literacy law,
the most stringent law in any
state, if he wanted sincerely to
sanctify the ballot. He showed
-:.s brand cf statesmanship to
be of the peanut variety and his
purpose only to curtail the vote
of his opponents.
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THE NEW CHIEFS
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When Senator Dimond was
trimming his political sails to
catch the breezes which wafted
the Indian vote, Representative
Ziegler promised, “Doc Walker
and I will deliver you the sup
port of the Indians,” so Dimond
stood without change in his po
sition.
The vote that has been con
demned, the vote which Boyle
would kick out, the vote which
is “cast by William L. Paul,” is
now safe in the pockets of the
good druggist of Ketchikan and
Mr. Ziegler. Mr. Ziegler has
elected himself as chief of the
Indian tribes and he will deliver:
Mieir vote. Don’t make us laugh.'
We want to be serious about1
this. ’Tisn’t every man who can
become an Indian chief but per
haps Ziegler may be elected in
to the Eagle tribe. Certainly
the Raven tribe would not have
him!
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CAPTA iN OF HIS SOUL
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A citizen was talking with an
Alaskan editor whom he chided
for remaining silent on matters
cf principle which was favored
hv the great majority. The ed-j
itor said: “Lots of times I write!
things and through my paper
favor things which I do not be-!
ieve, but I do so because I know
which side of mv bread the but
ter is on.” Yes, “Judas, be
trayed his readers with many a'
kiss.”
It may pay to keep the but
tered side up, but certainly those
who spread the butter have lit
tl? respect for the “buttered.”
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JUST AN IDLE GESTURE
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In line with facts set forth'
relative to the management of
Alaska’s timber resources and
cutting regulations, Represent-!
itive Frank Foster introduced'
the memorial to Congress pray-1
ir»g for relief. Then he forgot;
all about this brain storm andj
let it lay in committee without
report until just before Anal ad
jcurnment, he withdrew the|
bill with the consent of the
House.
He was afraid to get even a re
cord vote on it. And such is the
failing of these statesmen, they
fear shadows, political boogey
men and thereby allow a scant
but blatant minority to continue
dominating the affairs of the
Territory.
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RESURRECT THIS ONE
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Nothing else to fight about or
for in Petersburg, why not re-!
surrect that annual sticker—the
question of better mail and
transportation service?
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He who lies today must lie to
live another day.
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The tax collector may know
our wealth but only God knows
our worth.
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.Small leaks sink great ships..
Washington Newsletter
The Interior Department, un
der the direction of Ernest
Walker Sawyer, has prepared a
new edition of the bookiet giv
ing general information regard
ing Alaska which was publish
ed in November 1929, and which
has been in such demand that
3,000 additional copies had to be
printed within the past month.
The new edition will be ready
for distribution about June 1st
and will have various new feat
ures.
Los Angeles Excursion
While the Los Angeles Cham
ber of Comerce excursion will
be in charge of Mr. Charles Bay
er, a member of the Foreign
Trade Department will accom
pany the party of 200, and will
look closely into the opportun
ities of development in which
the Los Angeles people may be
interested.
District Forester Returns Home
Charles H Flory, District For
ester of Alaska, who has been in
Washington for the past two
months conferring with officials
in the Department of Agricul
ture, will leave for his head
quarters this week.
Investigator Called on to Speak
Since Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Charles P. Sisson returned
from his investigating trip in
Alaska last summer, he has been
more enthusiastic over the great
resources, scenic charm, and
general attractions of the North
land. His fame as an Alaska
enthusiast is generally recog
nized in Washington and he is
frequently called upon to ad
dress some local organizations
that wishes to be informed on
the country to which many are
new arranging to visit.
Seeking Coal Contracts
Bartley Howard, of Anchorr
age, president of the Alaska Ma
tanuska Coal Company, reached
Washington last Wednesday and
will be here a few days confer
ring with the departments, on
matters concerning coal con
tracts.
Secretary of the interior wn
bur har given a decision on u
question raised by Anchorage
people in connection with re
leasing of coal units in the Ma
tanuska coal field. A lease was
canceled by court proceedings
because of a default of the les
see, which left about $8,000 in
labor and bills unpaid. Now that
new leases are under considera
tion it was thought that a new
lessee might be required to as
sume the indebtedness of the
first lessee, on the ground that
the development work done by
♦his labor has proved of value
to the coal units. The Secretary
states that he would be pleased
to see the wages paid, yet there
is no authority of law to require
a subsequent lessee to pay off
the debts of a former lessee.
100 Yaks for Alaska
When Senator Robert B. How
ell was in Alaska last summer,
he observed with much interest
‘he Yaks that were in the
neighborhood of the Agricultural
College, where they were being
cross-bred with Galloways.
There are comparatively few of
these animals in America or
Canada, but they abound in
large numbers in the mountain
ous regions of Tibet. These can
be brought to Vladivostok or
Leningrad, Russia, and shipped
by steamer to New York , and
there transported to Seattle, at
a total cost of less than $500
each. After a study of the situ
ation, Senator Howell believes
that Yaks could be placed in
the interior country east of
t airbanks, where they would
thrive and prove of great bene
fit to the Natives. The latter
depend on caribou for much of
the*.:- livelihood, but the caribou
is not entirely dependable. Yaks
are a domestic animal and sub
sist on the country. It is the
idea of Senator Howell and Ern
est Walker Sawyer that a Yak
herd could be maintained near
Fairbankas and the rapid in
crease distributed possibly on an
apprenticeship basis to deserv
ing natives and possibly others,
hxr the Department of the Inter
ior. The Senator believes that
Cftogress at its next session
should appropriate $50,000 to
ran port 100 Yaks to Alaska,
and he has sought to interest
Delegate Wickersham and oth
ers to the end that an appropri
ation should be made to intro- j
duce Yaks in Alaska on a large
scale.
Interested in Oil
John L. Steele, at one time
I Mayor of Valdez and for many
years a resident of Alaska, came
ever from New York last week
and spent a couple of days^
around the Departments attend-;
ing to business that has to do'
with the development of the|
North. He is particularly inter
ested in the development of oil
| . round Katplla, where he ex
I pccts to go this summer.
Sargent to Come North
R. H. Sargent, topographical
I engineer, United States Geolog
, ical Survey, will leave at the end
of the month to pass his twenty
second summer in Alaska, going
this trip to the neighborhood of
Ketchikan and Wrangell. Mr.
(Sargent gave an illustrated ad
dress on Alaska one night last
| week at a meeting of the Bur
j roughs Citizens’ Association, in
| which he described Alaska as
hand of sunshine and flowers,
i On the evening of Anril S'lth,
I he will give a lecture on Alaska,
jin the auditorium at the Interi
or Building.
No Law to Bay Islands
I Many of the fur farmers in
'Alaska, p articularly in the
neighborhood of Petersburg, are
inouiring why they may not be
allowed to purchase their fox
farm islands instead of leasing
them, from the Government.
Delegate Wickersham took the
matter up with the General
hand Office and was info red
jhy Commissioner C. C. Yrp
I that there is rr' authority of ' e
j under which public lards in
Alaska may be purchased fi ■
rur farming. Leases rr irrd"
in accordance with the Act o
July 3. 1926, (44 star 821T. «'v
regulations contained in Circu
lars Nos. 1108 and l183. It is
probable that islands used for
fur farming in the neighborhood
of Feteisburg are within the
Tongass National Forest and
permits to use same are issued
by the Department of Agricul
ture.
Protest R.R. Construction of
Indian School
A few days ago several con
tractors of Anchorage wired the
Delegate, protesting against the
construction of an addition to
the Indian school at Eklutna by
the Alaska Railroad. They held
that a contract should be award
ed on competitive bids to private
contractors. Inquiry at the De
portment of the Interior brot
out the fact that there had
been some delay in airanging
’his construction, for which the
cum of $36,000 had been appro
priated, and which amount was
only available until June 30,
1931. As a consequence officials
m Alaska had advised that the
work be performed by the Alas
ka Railroad, as the fund would
then’be available for two years.
The matter was taken up last
winter with the Comptroller
General and he decided that the
?35.000 could be transferred
from the Educational Bureau to
the Alaska Railroad, which was
done by the Treasury Depart
ment. The contention now is,
without regard to the wisdom
• f having the work done under
the direction of the Railroad,
that there is not time now to
construct the building by receiv
ing bids from private contract
ors, and unless the appropria
tion is to lapse, the building
must be done direct by the gov
ernment.
Administration Public Domain
A committee on the adminis
tration of the public domain
has just issued its report. It
| s’ v; that ’’p to June 30, 1930
the total area of surveyed land
in Alaska amounts to 1,940,901
acres, and the unsurveyed area
376,224,859 acres. The Nation
al monuments administered bj
the National Park Service in the
North are as follows: Glacier
Bay, approached from Juneau
1.164,800 acres, contains tide
water glaciers of first rank;
Katrnai. approached from Ko
diak, 1,087,990 acres, wonder
land cf great scientific interest
in the study of vo’canism, in
cludes Valley of Ten Thousand
f’raokc': Sitka, port of call for
steamers in Southeast Alaska
r” ar "s, "wt r* gr^at natural
beauty and historic interest
contains 10 ' stem notes of best
riiar wc-\mmf'b,n. The vis
itors to Mt. McKinley NaBona1
Pnrk jumped from 62 in 1924 to
1.000 in 1930, with the prospect
that extension roads and con
s'ruction of hotel in the park
vPl increase fhe number of vis
itors to several thousands an
nually.
At St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
It a pears from the report of
the Superintendent of St. Eliza
beth's Hospital, located at
Washington, D. C., that there
are two patients from Alaska in
that institution. One is Petei
Austin, a retired water tender.
IT. S. Navy, who was raised in
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DON'T FORGET MOTHER
MAY \QtL
Mother can buy candy or flowers
for herself
But she can’t possibly get a photo of you unless you send
it. So come in, “see the birdie”... .then watch
Mother smile when you make the
presentation.
Arrange a sitting NOW and be ready for
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the noitb and formerly had an
uncle at St. Michael. The other
' is George C. Nelson, who was
convicted of murder in Peters
burg on November 1021. He was
Sentenced to imprison men t for
ife at McNeil’s Island, where
I mental wea’ ness developed and
i he was transferred to Caint
Elizabeth’s.
Employment at I’nover Dam
A number of. Alaskans have
, written the Delegate a rung him
to aid them in securing employ
ment at Hoover Dam, near La
Vegas, New Mexico, where work
is new progressing on a railroad
i'or construction purposes, high
way, power plant, tunnels, and
o forth. On .July 3, 1930, an
appropriation of $10,060,000 was
made available, and for the fis
cal year 1932, a further appro
priation of $15,000,000 has been
made. But the work is beine
lone by contract, instead of by
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