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Published every Friday by the A N B. Publishing Co., Petersburg,
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you PAY THE FREIGHT
The past two years in the ad
ministration of the affairs of
the city has gone from a sub
stantial bank balance to one
with an illegal indebtedness of
seventeen thousand ($17,000.)
dollars. In other words wehave
gone in the hole more than
nine thousand dollars a year.
It is time that the taxpayers
awakened to the true state of
affairs and voted out the pre
sent administration and vote in
men whose “no” means NO ancf
not amenable to every little eco
nomic pressure.
DANGER AHEAD
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The main line water pipe from
the city dam down to Front
Street is hanging together by
wire and shoe tsrings and ready
to give one glorious bust any old
time—and most probably just
when it is needed most. It will
be absolutely neecssary to face
' this problem before two years
have gone by. And replacement
with a twelve-inch pipe will be
at a cost of approximately $40,
000.
Mortgaged Taxes
The indebtedness of the town
is $150,000 bonded indebtedness
plus an illegal indebtedness of
$17,000. Principal on the bond
ed indebtedness must be met
this year plus interest; principal
on illegal loan must be reduced
and interest paid before the fis
cal year is ended. The income
of twenty-odd thousand dollars
on assessed valuation of proper
ty is about three-fourths mort
gaged before the new adminis
tration gets to meeting the vari
ous deficits of the present ad
ministration. In event some tax
payer goes before the court and
petitions for an injunction to
prohibit payment of the illegal
debt the credit of the town
would be hurt; and the council
men who indorsed the notes wi
be compelled to mortgage their
souls to meet the debt.
City Repairs
Have been at a stand still ex
cept for patch work in the worst
r-pots. Some of the streets have
been nailed up and closed by Mr.
Nelson because he deemed it un
safe to permit traffic to continue
over them and a waste of money
to continue such patchwork.
The new unit of the hydro
electric is useless as additional
power until a new water mainj
is connected to it and to con
nect the new main is senseless
until the level of the dam is
raised to give additional pres-i
sure. The power lines in the
city to a large degree were in
stalled sixteen or more years
ago and should be replaced;
poor transformers have caused
no little annoyance to the radio
fans and cracked insulators
along the power line and waste
of power by leakage over the
the entire system is a waste
which under ordinary conditions
would be indefensible.
*A Thankless Job
The new administration if a
change is made will be a thank
less perplexing problem for those
who are willing to assume the re- <
sponsibility. It will take posi- j
tive action by each member of £
the council with the support of i
a mayor in sympathy with a con
structive policy.. Changes will \
have to be made in the business s
administration. Competent as- f
sessor will have to be secured as a
was done by Juneau, Ketchikan e
and Wrangell from whose list i>
and appraisals a budget must be
drawn to meet the financial p
problems which must be immedi
ately met.
'me system of acocunts of the
town is one of bunching ac
counts from all sources of reven
ue and drawing from the city ex
chequer to meet the emergency.
The hydro-electric, water-works
and tax income snould each
be a separate account. The hy
dro-electric should pay for its
depreciation, reduction of prin
cipal indebtedness and interest
when due. A depreciation fund
should be set aside to take care
of that item of expense.
All water revenues should take
care of that end of the town’s
business. When any department
is unable to take care of its own
expenses, then transfers may be
made from one acount to anoth
er with proper credits and debits
given.
We Stand for
An administration of strict
economy and the meeting of all
of the city’s obligations without
incurring further obligations.
We urge every citizen to look in
to the civic affairs and demand
an administration that will get
the affairs of the city on a sound
basis.
Further dilly dalling around
because of fear of hurting the
feelings of any person or persons
will only be to the hurt of the
community and delay for great
er expense.
AN ITEM OF INTEREST
Another item of interts for the
tax payer to think'' of' is a' com
petent assessor and an efficien
cy expert to get the cities’ af
fairs on a sound business basis.
The work of such-a man would
be to investigate city depart
ments and the general condi
tion of city business. His re
commendation should be follow
ed. After which the city manag
er plan should be given the seri
ous thought of every citizen of
the town. Worse might be done
and anything along construct
ive lines will be for the good of
the whole town.
“HOCUS FOCUS FROGRAM”
Once again the people of the
Territory witness the spectacle
of a Legislative assembly gum
shoeing itself into i Office an$
then springing surprise legisla
tion that was not the product
of a political platform or dis
cussed by the individual mem
bers while canvassing for office.
This assertion and "prediction is
based on former custom ana pro
cedure. We shall watch with
interest those legislators who did
pledge the electorate a program
—Seward Gateway.
As we remember it the Demo
cratic ticket had a lengthy de
bunking program during the
recent campaigin in which was
promised among numerous oth
sr things “full territorial" form
of government and relief from
the machinations of the U. S.l
Bureau of Fisheries. The out
come of their pledges are being
watched keenly throughout the
Division. j
SOMEBODY LIED
We can’t land our vessel at the
locks without endangering them
ind causing us to lose our license
:ay some of the captains of the
Uaska line.
Capt. Glasscock landed his
esse I at both docks this week on ;
- minus runout, moved away
rom the docks before lowwnter
nd anchored in midstream'for j
nough water to get out of the|
rarrows. *
The Alaska could not stop hi J
ort and di dhesitate down at ]
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Scow Bay long enoug hto load
on two scowloads of fish ana
freight.
The Alaska went thru north
bound on less than half tide
when the runout was a four foot
minus tide and yet is unable to
stop in this port on a full aver
age tide.
The recent mishap of the
Alaska hitting the beach at the
north entrance was due to poor
judgement on the part of the
captain trying to get through
on a minus tide with not enough
water .to float his ship. Then
the port is blamed for the poor
navigation of an officer.
The Northwestern, Alameda
and Queen are all able to stop
in this port tho each one of
them is harder to navigate than
the Yukon or Alaska.
The companies blamed the
Narrows before it was dredged
and since it was dredged they
say it is worse. It is presumed
that when the work on the Nar
rows is finally completed the
steamers won’t even blow their
whistles when going by.
APOLOGISE FOR THEIR OWN
PAPER
A recent attack by the Seward
Gateway on Representative Tar
water has provoked the severe
criticism of the Seward Cham
ber of Commerce. The Club in
a letter to Representative Tar
water state that the Gateway
does not express the sentiment
of the people of Seward.
Evidently the people of Sew
ard are not in' sympathy with
the policy of their paper if one
is' to judge from the political
policy of that paper and the
lection returns of the Seward
precincts.
A MATTER OF GEOGRAPHY
A writer in a Chicago paper
called the Journal of American
Medical Association, predicts
that the white race will eventu
ally turn brown. That writer
has probably made a. trip tc
Alaska where streaks of brown
in the white race or streaks ol
white in the Brown race are not
unusual!—Stroller’s Weekly.
We rather think Stroller got
his geography slightly mixed,
The mixture of the white with
brown in Alaska tends to the
white. The mixture of the white
with the brown * of Georgia,
from whence comes Your Uncle
the prolific story teller, is to
show various streaks from yel
low to dark brown—in either
race.
RUBBER STAMP APPROVAL
Friends of Commissioner Les
ter D. Henderson wired Thos.
Elsemore, asking for endorse
ment of Henderson for re-ap
pointment as commissioner. The
School Board wired back its en
dorsement and then asked the
P. T. A. for its approval. The
whole thing was done so quick
ly that before anyone realized
what had been done, the P. T. A.
was on record as approving him
for reappointment.
Henderson has been called the
Federal Messenger boy for their
political work in Alaska. Hen
derson is the man to blame for
a state of affairs in school fi
nances that hurts Petersburg
and other towns. The joker in
the 1927 law was put their and
now he condemns the law and
tries to blame others because of
his.own joker.
Mr. Henderson has been using
the Teachers’ Conventions for
political' purposes and now is
doing the same thing without
the organization realizing that
it is being used as. a political
catsphw.
The proposal of the legislature
is to make the office elective; to j
appoint a man to that office and
his successor to be elected at the
next general election. Senators
Steel, Anderson and Frame op
pose his.renomination and they
dominate the Board of Educa
tion.
Many citizens of this town at
this time question the right ox
the P. T. A. to endorse the sanc
tion of Mr. Henderson by the
school board without the matter
being first thoroughly aired.
OUE UNEVENLY DISTRIBUT
ED PROSPERITY
New York papers Saturday
told of a woman who turned on
the gas and ended her own life
and that of her six children.
No doubt she was insane; but
apparently, financial worry
helped to make her so.
Her husband works from 8 at
night until 7 in the morning as
deckhand on a Lackwanna fer
ry. At 7 he goes to a pool and
lunch room which he and his
brother operate, and works
there till 11.
But the family lived in a four
room tenement, the children
lacked* clothes,- and when the
police entered to trace the gas,
there was only half a loaf of
bread and some vegetables in
the house.
Prosperity hasn’t been passed
around as completely as profes
sional optomists would like us
to believe.
The Lower House at Juneau is
dying o fennui.
MINERS WIN BUTTON DEMAN
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A remarkable example of uni
on loyalty was recently given by
7,000 miners employed by the Le
’liigh Coal and Navigation Com
pany at Panther Creek, Pa.
The union regulations require j
that buttons indicating paid up'
dues shall be periodically dis
played.
A few of the miners, evidently
encouraged by the company, re
fused to obey the rule, where
upon the men in one of the
mines quit work, taking the po
sition that a man without a
button was “scabbing” on the
union.
The company countered with
an announcement that it would
shut down the “struck” mine
and the miners retorted that
they would finish the job by
closing all the mines.
That settled it. The company
backed down and the mines are
operating full blast.—LABOR.
Washington, D. C.
i “Over 23,000 millionaires have
j been created in this country
j since 1914,” says a writer. A lot
of us will, with the Philadelphia
Inquirer, thank goodness we
have managed to keep out of
such class.—Exchange.
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A public hearing was held by
the Territorial Senate to consid
er the cannery sanitation meas
ure presented by Senator Will
Steel. This measure is largely
identical with one proposed by
the legislature of 1927 and as
it was amended by the House,
declared by Senator Hunt as be
ing meaningless. The bill has
some very good features and is
supported by some of the most
substantial of the canning in
terests.
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