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The International Narcotic Conference
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' Forty-seven delegates to the
l.eague of Nations International
Narcotic Conference have con
vened at Geneva Switzerland
and began their deliberations
last week. Each one has his
own pet scheme for breaking
oown the dope ring and saving
the world in general and China
in particular from the indis
i riminate use of narcotic drug.
1’amine stricken China holds
* ut its pitiful hands to the U.
A. begging for our surplus
.wheat which we cannot sell and
have not dared to give away.
>Jhna’s wheat lands produce only
poppies while her people starve.
Aleanwhile, through her inab
ility to police her borders, al
most unbelievable quantities of
India grown opium are easily
smuggled in and our British
cousins are loath to forsake a
commerce so lucrative, demand
ing that the Peisian and Tur
kish product be controlled first.
The world is familiar with the
history of former conferences
and with China’s efforts to rid
herself of the blight and is
somehow losing faith in the ef
ficacy of the League’s opium
activities. And the nar
cotic war is not all over in
China or Switzerland. It strikes
closer home. Vast quantities of
alkaloids and dervatives, mor
phine, codein, cocaine, heroin,
etc. are constantly being smug
gled into our our country where
prospective profits seem t o
temporarily blind inspectors
Whether the traffic can be
brought under effective govern
mental control remains a prob
lem but the world is looking to
Geneva in hope
A National Park in Southeast Alaska
Stewart Fldward White, auth
or and big game hunter, is on
hs way to Alaska again in an
effort to protect the Alaska
Drown bear. Many Alaskans
rhink Mr. White’s sympathy for
the brownies is sadly misplaced
and he has fallen somewhat in
their regard on account of his
proposal to make a game pre
serve of one of the larger islands
in southeastern Alaska such as
Baranoff, Chiehagoff or Ad
miralty. As we understand it,
the proposed reservation is not
so much for the benefit of the
bears as for the non-resident
sportsmen But now Mr. White
suggests a national park and
argues that ‘A national park in
Southeastern Alaska has great
er possibilities of building up
jtne territory than the continued
hunt for gold.” Now that’s dif
ferent. Without going into di
rect comparisons, we admit that
'the tame wild animals in Yel
lowstone Park are an added at
traction to tourists and vaca
tionists. The idea is somewhat
'intriguing but of course it can
i never be made to work out since
Juneau is not on any one of
those islands. We suggest Mit
koff Island as a compromise—a
few more tourists at Petersburg
might help. And if Mr. White
wants the job of taming the
bears and training them to be
chummy with the tourists he
shall have no competition from
us.
Let Us Have No Strikes
Ketchikan Tribune
For some years now the West
has been compartively free from
strikes.
There have been no major
quarrels between capital and
labor.
This condition ought to con
tinue. It WILL continue, as far
as labor is concerned, if labor
continues to receive a square
deal. »
But if any general policy of
wage-cutting is forced into ef
fect by bankers, we are going
to have strikes—and bad ones.
Public opinion is quite disil
lusoned concerning the altruism
of big business and its financial
backers; it is for high wages and
against the greed and intoler
ance that is trying to take from
labor , that little which it hac
won in the past few years.
A3 most every westerner, save
a few selfish ones, wants to see
the standard of living raised;
'ie wants to see labor get a fair
share of the weaTth it p-cvu ■
ie desires more buying power
In the hands of millions.
Strikes injure not only capital
and labor, but everyone else.
Those who cause them, by in
olerant wreckmg of labor’s
buying power, are enemies of
the community.
We need every ounce of
r.hought and work we can mus
er to climb out of this slump,
•’trikes will handicap us badly
—and those who may be con
templating wage cuts and thus
fomenting trouble ought t o
hink twice before they act.
Town Grave-Diggers
—Fairbanks News-Miner.
In nearly every community I
may be found quite a number'
of persons who consider them-j
selves leading citizens, but in
truth are helping dig a grave
for their town.
They do it through their
failure to support the institu
tions which make the town
what it is. They do it by send
ing away for merchandise
which might be bought with
equal advantage at home. They
do i t frequently through
thoughtlessness, but very often ]
through sheer disregard for the ,
welfare of the community of
which they are a part. The i
doctrine of buy at home is not (
advanced solely in the interest i
of individual merchants. It is 1
advocated because citizen of a i
town is to a certain extent de- (
pendent upon every other citi-l
;-en for his own prosperity.
Business men are sometimes as
greatly at fault as anyone else
in the matter of out-of-town
trading.
All the fine talk about civic
rride that we may indulge in
will never build a town, so long
as the life blood of the com- i
rnunity— the cold cash—is ,
rpent elsewhere. A man may ^
make boosting speeches until
ie is black in the face but un- ‘
ess he spends his money where
ie makes it he is a home-town '
^rave-digger. i
Buying at home has a direct s
>earing and beneficial influ- 1
:nce on commercial conditions
n the home town. It directly S
■enefits the city and surround- *
ng country. You run no risk *
»r take no chance when you t
my in the home city. v
SOVIET UNION SALMON
PLANT IN SIBERIA
E. H, Waugh, mechanical ex
pert of the Smith Cannery Mr
chines company, manufacturers
of the “Iron Chink” recently re
turned from Siberia, where he
spent the summer; part on the
Amur river, where a can factory
and experimental salmon can
nery are being put in by the
Centrosoyus, one of the largest
mechanical organizations of the
Soviet Union.
Mr. Waugh describes the
Amur as a great stream with
important fishery resources. It
is something like the Columbia
in magnitude, being navigated
by steamers for a distance oi
600 miles between Nikolaevsk
and Khabarovsk. It contains
over 650 species of fish, includ
ing all varieties of salmon; the
runs of pinks and chums being
especially large, and the chums
or large size and remarkably
tine quality, equal if not su
perior to any found on tiv:
American side These salmo:
Usuries have supported a very
•argo salting industry for many
yeni>.
The Amur also contains an
abundance of very large stur
geon, which were fished thi<
year for the first lime after n
seven year closure. Mr. Waugh
was impressed by the efficiency
of the nation-wide fisheries
control organization in the
Soviet Union employing first
class scientists and maintaining
■aboratories and stations in al
important fishery districts.
INDIAN RESERVATIONS
Proposals are being made foi
the establishment of Indian Re
servations in Alaska. The Ver
stovian registers a protest
against this policy of making
more wards for Uncle Sam. In
stead of this ill conceived meth
od of pauperization, let us have
more attention given the educa
tion and advancement of the
Alaskan Indian as a free man
without boundary restrictions
and limitation of opportunity
by the government.
Development of the Indian in
the States under the reserva
tion system does not compare
favorably with changes and ad
vancement among the natives
of Southeastern Alaska. Fifty
years ago, people of this section
were living in a social state oi
savagery. Superstitution was ev
ident on every hand. The dif
ferent tribes were constantly at
war with each other. Then a
number of years ahead of gov
ernment assumption of respons
ibility for education, came the
Mission School, bringing educa
tional and spiritual enlighten
ment. Later Bureau schools
were established. Progress wa,1
rlow. The Indian overnight was
not willing to cast off his blank -
et and war paint., nor could he
ro easily rid himself of the bonds
of superstitution. However, as
time advanced and as educa
tional efforts met with success,
the native people adjusted then
living to meet the new condi
tions of incoming civilization
Economic independence and cifc
izenship rights have become es
tablished. The reservation sys
tem does not secure these rights
and privileges of the free man
for the Indian under its care
and supervision.
It is true that the Indian of
Southeastern Alaska is far more
advanced in civilization than the
native of the more remote re
gions of the Territory, yet it is
not an untenable position to
bold that what has been pos
sible in developing the people of
this section is also possible for
those, remotely situated. Educa
tion well administered will ben
?flt the Indian of the Interior
md the Eskimo of the far north,
rree and self-supporting citizens
ire an asset to the Territory.
Vards of the government, living
n restricted areas are a liabil
ty. Let us have no Indian re
ervations in Alaska. Rather
et us have more and better ■
chools to promote the best in
erests of the native people
rhich in so doing will promote ]
tie interests of the Territory as I
rell.—Byfihangp 4
A HORTATION
! By Hill Billy Seattle Star,
j Charles Wright of Whitefish,
I Mont., wants to know, as follows:
“My Dear Brother: I am so
fed up with mal-administration
of justice and political blah that
I must have you answer me a
couple of questions. I guess
'you will come as near speaking
your mind as anyone.
“How in the name of justice
can a man be guilty of selling
booze, but the other party be
not guilty when he buys it?
“How can Albert Fall be
guilty of accenting a bribe, but
Doheny rot guilty of giving it?
Jn other words, how can you
have a on^-mon conspiracy?”
My Dear Fellow: You and
everyone else know the answers.
But, bless you, I’ll oblige.
The gentlemen who are
making a living out of the Vol
I stead act, whether they b e
moonshiners, bootleggers of the
Wilsons, the Cannons and the
McBrides, have never desired
to make prohibition effective on
the citizen who buys. They de
sire to build up an oligarchy,
set up a man cf straw, and keep
things muddled.
nny eiiecnve enrorcemenr or
the Volstead act on the pur
chaser. or upon the home brew
er, or the farm cider maker, or
jt.he home wine squeezer, would
find out the majority of the
adults of this nation in jail and
the entire reform business bust
ed for 100 years.
As to Mr. Fall, those who sit
in the G. O. P. howdah-a-how
dah (“protected’ seat for the
cafe riding of an elephant) had
to have a fall guy and who
would better serve than one
named at birth for the job?
Of course, it was hoped at one
time that the sacrificing of the
■lesser goats, like Gaston Means,
might appease the wrath of the
popular gods, but the storm
howled too loudly—what with
another election just ahead—so
they had to have a real big
goat, with whiskers and every
thing.
As to how there can be only
one party to a conspiracy, that
does seem a bit difficult, but it
is being done every day. Scores
of hijackers and moonshiners
"nd rum-runners have been
convicted of conspiracy to vio
late the Volstead, act, while the
| corrupt, but influential, federal
officers who conspired with
them were not even indictedTor
removed from office.
Trusting this finds you about
! the same, I remain, etc, and etc.
P® n*w"R>ngIette“ method of permanent waving
ierevolutionary It i» quite as simple, easy and com
fortable a* a mere marcel. With it there is not the
slightest discomfort, pull or pain. There is no ped
estal - no chandelier —no heavy mass of metal so
(site away the pleasure of having a beautiful wav*.
Too—just one wire is used—that assures you of free
dom of movement throughout the operation—yott
cun writttwalk* or ttlfphont/ItproducerA
Miucml wave—and that with one-tenth of the i»m^I
•mount of heat. This naturally tend* to protect the
hair rather than taka the life out of it* The "Ring
latte" marke a new freedom and new beauty in pea*
manmw-bt among the brat to ago/ tea comfort.
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car, it’s like a gingery
colt—rarin’ to go. Just a
touch of the toe on the
gas and —zingo! she eats
up the road. Get an esti
mate of cost. It’s a sur
prise.
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