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AND WHEN WILL THE
MEEETING BE
East is East
And West is West,
And never the twain
shall meet.—
Kipling.
North is North • '
And South is South,
And when will the
meeting be?,
Well dressed (?) ladies in the
East go stockingless now. In
place of hose they cover their
legs with a prepared gold paint.
The ladies have been painting
from the top down for some
little time. Now they are paint
ing from the bottom up.
And when will the meeting be?
W. A. B.
SOME BEAL BUSINESS
Boat Work is Under Way in
Local Machine Shops
Machine shops in Ketchikan
report that they are keeping
busy with boat and other work.
Eat x me Northern Machine
Works and the Enterprise Ma
chine Works' executives declare
mat fail work was never more
brisk.
Usually following the closing
of the season for commercial
salmon, business falls off and a
•dark season begins.
However, this fall is proving
ine exception. This is said to
t-e accounted for. in one respect,
by the fact that trollers and
seiners made money this year
and are using some of the pro
fits to get their boats fixed up.
The Enterprise reports the
: ale of several new engines, and
more work, re-boring, engines
than for several seasons past at
thu time of the year.
“When times are dull,” re
marked one of the officials,
“fisherman get along with their
ermines as long as they wTifl run,
as they cannot afford re-boring
or new engines. The average
fishermen's first consideration is
his boat when he has money to
make improvements. And the
fishing fleet out of Ketchikan is
right up-to-date on every mod
ern device which will assist the
fisherman in his business.”
Much Money Being Spent By
Natives
Heavy orders being placed with
local stores from fishing
money
With airplane rides, brilliant
weddings where no expense is
spared, and parties and dances,
prosperity on the part of the na
tive population from the fish
ing industry this summer is
clearly reflected.
An observer at the Dock street
(Ketchikan) float this week ob
served two native boats tied up
there. In less than an hour, lie s
says, three local stores’ delivery |
machines drove up and unloaded j
a miscellaneous assortment of j
beds, windows, groceries and'
other “plunder” which must
have run into the hundreds of
dollars.
This, he said, is but one inci
dent of the same process which
is being repeated almost every
day.—Ketchikan Chronicle.
FOR ALL WHO BENEFIT
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On another column of this is
sue we reprint stories from the
Ketchikan Chronicle with direct
reference to prosperity of Ket
chikan business houses a result
of the better earnings of the re
sident fishermen.
Throughout all of Alaska, ma
chine shop men. merchants and
other business men are realizing ;
as never before that when the
fisherman makes a dollar, the
benefit is not to him and his i
family alone. That is an Alaskan <
dollar that stays in Alaska and <
the \nachinist, the merchant, i
the banker, the painter, the l
carpenter and even the printer i
receive a benefit. But when
a fishtrap makes a dollar
that is a dollar taken from
Alaska’s resources to bespent be
yond our borders. The fishtrap
has no engines to be re-bored
but it supplants at least eight or
ten boats. It wears no boots or
oilskins. It consumes no bacon,
no coffee , no sugar, no coal—
but the needs of the crews of
tight or ten fish boats together
with their families makes busi
ness for everyone. The trap con
sumes no gasoline, buys no snus
cr cigaretts. Its babies need no
hoes or school supplies nor take
in any picture shows but the
families of fishermen use city
light and occupy houses that pay
taxes. And the best part of it all
;s that people in general are be
ginning to realize these things.
This year the fishermen have not
made fortunes nor even a rea
sonable grub stake but they have
been permitted to participate to
a limited extent in the fishing
and already the business men
realize what a difference a few
ents make, and what a differ
ence it makes if they have a
chance at the business that is
legitimately their due.
The policies of the Fisheries
Bureau have slowly but surely
dioked, stifled and starved the
business man and effectually
m evented the development of
his territory. Never in history
have men risen to better things
except as a reaction to oppres
ion. Alaskans are beginning to
see light.
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BADGE WEARERS
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Responsibility for the bureau
cratic government which has
come into being at Washington
and for the superbundance of in
spections and supervisory activi
ties that are the stock in trade
of the bureaucracy must be
placed on the political proposi
tion that the public must be pro
tected. It is giving the politicians
credit for too much imagina
tion to charge to them the in
vention of the one thousand and
one ways of the bureaucracy to
make new jobs for the reward
of party loyalty.
All for the protection of the
citizenry congress and the state
’egislatures, in the course of a
•datively few years, have pass
ed laws and appropriated billions
in public monies for the inspec
tion of mines, ships, airships,
meat and other foods, buildings,
dumbing, factories, “cellars,”
weights and measures, butter
substitutes, diary herds and
I heir products, homes, babies
and so on adinfinitum.
Now all this government med
d’ing—it often amounts to only
that—could be tolerated grace
fully and the enormous bill pre
sented to the taxpayers, for it
would not seem excessive if it
always accomplished its given
purpose.—Anchorage Times.
KINGING THE BELL
IN PENNSYLVANIA
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Politicians eager to gain in
dependence (FOR themselves,
FROM the voters), are trying to
put an end to direct primary
voting.
. .Any questioning person, how
ever, need only shift his glance
lo Pennsylvania to see the full
merit of consulting the pubic on
nominations.
Lobbyist Joseph R. Grundy,
appointee and protege of the |
Pennsylvania Gang (an organi-'
mtion noted particularly for its!
jnique poll organization, which i
las returned oppositionless votes
:rom Philadelphia precincts, al
ho the law requires the placing ;
>f at least one opposition official :
)n precinct poll committees), is :
iefeated for senatorial nomina- :
ion by liberal Secretary of La- j
>or James J. Davis. 1
Question question: Who wouldh
have won under the old caucus
system?
HAH! HAH! HAH!
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First Division Republicans
Hold Session at Juneau
Heavins, Agnes, listen to this!
The dove of peace has des
cended on W. L. Paul, First Divi
sion G. O. P. leader who has
come out with the slogan: “Vote
the Party Ticket Straight.”
In reporting these little inci
dents of political nature, the
Empire stated discussions were
held at Juneau early this month.
Participating in the political
clinic were:
James Wickersham, nominee
lor delegate to Congress: Cash
Cole, nominee for Auditor; W. G.
Smith, nominee for Treasurer;
C. T. Gardner, Walter P. Scott,
Grover C. Winn and W. L. Paul,
all legislative candidates.
The only Territorial candi
dates not present were Joe Ul
mer, Highway Engineer candi
date and W. K. Keller, candidate
lor Commissioner of Education,
ns well as J. E. Johnson, Ketchi
kan nominee for the House, the
only divisional office seeker not
attending.
There is no secret about the
fact that Attorney Frank H. Fos
ter, veteran Third Division poli
tician and legislator, boosted
along a harmony program dur
ing his recent visit to Juneau, j
Foster also carried his mes- j
sage to the Ketchikan Garcia. J
—Seward Gateway.
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WHAT CONSTANT HAMMER
ING WILL DO
Bureaus of the departments
of interior, agriculture and
commerce in Alaska, in the fu
ture will use Alaska products,
particularly lumber and other
timber products, wherever theyj
are available and suitable. This,
is a policy just promulgated by
the Alaska commission of the
departments named, and each
commissioner has advised the
agencies concerned of its adop
tion.
The commission composed of
Governor Parks. Interior De
partment, Regional Forester, C.
H. Flory, Department of Agri
culture; and United States Fish
eries Agent Dennis Winn, De
partment of Commerce, has pre
pared instructions for several
bureaus to follow.
In part these said;
“Hereafter in preparing speci
fications for structures to be
built and in drafting bills of ma
terial to be purchased, consider
ation should be given to the
available and suitability of
material produced in Alaska for
the intended use. Wherever it
Is found that an Alaska product
will be satisfactory for a pro
nosed item, the specifications |
Should be so drawn as to permit
of its use and the dealers in the
Alaska material should be given
an opportunity to bid in com- j
petition with dealers in Douglas j
fir and other wood from the!
states, as in the great majority!
of cases such outside products
are also suitable for the purpose, i
Where there is ample opportuni
ty to obtain competition among
dealers in Alaska products the
federal agency making the pur
chase shall decide whether or
not it might be to the advan
tage of the government to send
proposal blanks to dealers in
outside products as well.
“When proposals for supply
ing material permit of the alter
native of furnishing either Alas- J
ka or outside products, the list
of dealers to whom proposal'
blanks are sent should in the:
territory who handle such out- i
side timber products, and who
may be able to bid on the order.
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ALASKA AIRWAY CHIEF
AFTER MAIL CONTRACT
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L. Carman,Jr. President of the
Alaska Airways, which operates j
jlanes in Ketchikan and Juneau,
s now in Washington, D. C., try
ng to get an air mail contract
or his company. He proposes to
rive a tri-weekly service from
he states to Alaskan towns in '
lase he can land the contract. J '
RAILROAD INVESTIGATION
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Dispatches from Seward dated
September 5th state that the
special Senate Committee ap
pointed early in July pursuant to
a resolution sponsored by Senat
or Howell of Nebraska, with ex
traordinary powers to investi
gate the operation, economic
situation and prospects of the
Alaska railroad, and to make re
commendations designed to put
that project on a paying finan
cial basis, has completed its in
vestigations in the Territory and
boarded the destroyers, Was
muth and Perry, for Seattle.
The committee is composed of
Senators Howell of Nebraska,
Thomas of Idaho, and Kendrick
of Wyoming, all westerners and
from states which were them
selves territories within com
paratively recent times.
The two weeks which the com
mittee has spent in the railroad
belt have been consumed in
hearings at Seward, Anchorage,
Fairb nks and other points ev
en as far inland as Candle to
determine the extent of the na
tural resources and the possib
ilities of development.
What the general import of
the committee’s recommenda
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tions may be, is at this time a
matter for conjecture.
The Alaska Railroad extend
ing from Seward to Fairbanks a
distance of 543 miles, was built
by the United States Govern
ment at an original cost of fifty
six million dollars, and although
it taps a region of limitless re
sources in agricultural and min
eral wealth, including millions
of tons of coal of good quality,
the road has operated contin
uously in the red, the operation
balance sheet showing a cumu
lative deficit of several million
dollars, though the annual defii
cit has been less in recent years
than formerly.
The project is one of the
greatest experiments in public
ownership and the act of Con
gres providing for the building
of the railway carried a provi
sion which makes it possible at
any time such action shall be
deemed advisable to turn the
project over to private interests.
No effort has been spared to dis
credit the road discredit Alaska
and discredit the whole idea of
government ownership of public
utilities, this attitude on the
part of certain private interests
constituting perhaps the great
est obstruction in the way of
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successful operation under the
present scheme. This attitude
has found divers insidious ways (
of making itself manifest. The
history of the development is for
the most part a story of politic
al intrigue and contains several
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which such enormous quantities
remain untouched, which show
ed by test caloric values higher
than that of Pocahontas coal,
and which could be laid down at
any Pacific coast port much
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