LOUIS F. PAUL,.EDITOR
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THE BROTHERHOOD
IN POLITICS
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Certain interests have decried
the fact that the Alaska Native
Brotherhood took active interest
in political affairs in Alaska.
Their chief objection being that
the political action of the organ
ization has been opposed to the
objectors. Proof of which lies in
silence, almost painful on their
side, at the defection of Klawock
and Metlakat-la and the joy they
express at counting those pre
cincts lost to the Brotherhood.
Heretofore, direction of the
political action of this organi
zation was in the hands of the
Executive Committee, composed
only of past-grand presidents.
This committee of seven turned
to William L. Paul for his re
commendations and findings.
This year, the convention ap
pointed a committee of three—
President Frank Johnson, Kake;
F. D. Price, Juneau and Louis F.
Paul, Petersburg—which com
mittee is instructed to look into
the fitness, honesty and integ
rity and capability o f each
political candidate and report to
the camps their findings and re
commendations. There is no di
rection in their recommenda
tions—the camps are left free to
accept or reject the findings c:
the committee.
Just where this is going to put
the organization in politics is a
matter cf serious conjecture to
students of Alaska politics. The
political situation is more acute
now than when the leadership
of the organization was vested
in William L. Paul. For under
his leadership, the organization
was primarily Republican anc!
now under the amended resolu
tions, the organization may sup
port any candidate it sees fit.
And it will always support only
such candidates as are fit, cap
able and honest. So that in the
forthcoming primaries, regard
less of what politicians may
think or wish, the Alaska Native
Brotherhood is in politics, and
its weight, one way or the other
is going to be the final balance
of power. It has no ticket to ad
vance and perhaps will advance
no candidates for any office.
But it will have considerable to
ray at election times as to its
choice of the men running fo
cffice. Perhaps, the old guard of
either party, will wish they had
left the political affairs of the
organization as it used to be
rather than under the new order.
Fcr under the new order
many things may occur—and
now what do you think?
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THE DEMOCRATS ADOPT
PERSONAL PLATFORM
OF WILLIAM L. PAUL
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The writer sat through two
readings of the Democratic Di
vision Convention’s political
platform. And as the reading
progressed we were drawn back
to various issues of The Alaska
Fisherman, published at Ketchi
kan by William L. Paul. The
only difference between the vari
ous planks of the Democratic
platform and Paul’s various
platform lies in the weakness of
the imitation by the Democratic
platform. But, read the platform
and you will be convinced that
the Democrats, perhaps some
honestly but a greater number
only for political expediency,
copied the platform of that In
dian they did their best to drive
out of the Territory. And so,
during the next political cam
paigns, the Democratic platform
will be referred to as a weak
imitation of the Indian’s plat
form.
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FOR POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY
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The plank referring to the
Community Property Law drew
considerable controversy. “Doc”j
Walker, earnestly, vehemently j
and sincerely demanded that the J
women be premised simple (
justice in the distribution of
goods acquired by man and wife.
Under the present law the Alas
ka law says: What belongs to
Mr. Smith is Mr. Smith's and
what belongs to Mrs. Smith be
longs to Mr. Smith. And various
instances are on record where
the woman has been virtually
cheated out of her life's work
and accumulation by the work
ings of the Alaska law.
Not a small portion of the
convention opposed Walker in
this matter bitt “for political
expediency’’—in order to hold
the women’s vote, th? plank was
allowed to remain.
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THE YOUNG AND THE OLD
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Sitting as an interested spec
tator, watching the various
forces and combinations at work
in the Democratic convention,
the tricks played to win and at
times the ignorance displayed—I
or was it deliberate misunder-l
standing—by men otherwise J
supposed to be highly intellec- i
tual, the writer secured no end
of “kick” out of the proceedings, j
On the one hand were the!
Empire Troy and Pegues, O’Con- j
nor old guard: the triumvirate1
of Democratic iron-fisted rule,
against the younger generation J
exemplified in Doc Walker and j
A. H. Ziegler. We saw the fight j
to continue waning power of,
the old guard and its effort to,
return to the damnable conven -1
tion system and the fight for'
the retention of the primary law. j
And for the moment the Empire
crowd won; but at what a cost--]
for after all the fight was move;
than just the primary law—itj
was for the nomination of can-j
didates and the convention sup-1
port of the nominees.
And at the Fairbanks convep-1
tion in December will be shown!
the hand which directed this'
fight—it will be Dimond with |
the Empire crowd of Juneau
versus Ziegler of Ketchikan
with, perhaps, George Grigsby
also running in an effort to save1
the Democrats from themselves. I
But insignificant as it might j
seem, there was a decided rift
in the harmony program of the
Democrats and the break, as far
as we can see at this time is
irreparable. j
FOR SHAME
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We blushed for the leadership
of the Democratic party at one
cf their sessions. Said Mr. O’
Connor, national committeeman:
“The time has come when we
must stay within our own party
ranks. The record in the past
shows that we crisscross back
and forth in party ranks. We
nominated Mr. Rustgard, Tom
Gardiner and Tom Scott and
defeated Will Steel and Will
Paul. The record shows it, and
then in the general elections we
[turned around and defeated the
men we nominated in the Re
publican primaries.”
And while we believe that Mr.
O’Connor was blushing for his
[party, as did a few others, the'
most of the Juneau crowd did
rot have it in them to have
the grace to blush.
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ILLITERATES ?
In Virginia, W. S. Cox, Demo
cratic candidate for the office
o f Commonwealth’s Attorney,
who died several weeks ago fol
lowing an operation, received
7,230 votes. His name remained
on the ballot.
Get your Christmas mail in
early. j
STAfe bust FROM THE
A. N. B. CONVENTION
A new Alaska organization
was born at the convention—
“The Gunnysaiek Club” whose
membership is composed only of
bachelors. Louis Shotridge oi'
Sitka and Boyd Nakatla were
named president and vice presi
dent, respectively.
Several handsome young men
eloped to Setuck river with one
of the Sister delegates for which
they were fined $1. This went
to the Haines Home. President
Shotridge was fined five dollars
for failing to respond to the ad
dress by the Yakutat Sisterhood
president; a second group of
men, “The Out-of-Luck Club”
were fined for being late to a
session. A tax of one dollar per
delegate was assessed for the
“Kiddies Kristmas tree” at the
Haines Home—along with the
fines, the total reached $83.00.
The “Spirit of Yakutat” was
a challenge to the entire dele
gation—the arrow of brother
hood has been shot from Cape
Fox to Mount St. Elias and there
if has stuck these several years.
Will the membership pull that
arrow out and shoot it on to
Cordova and on to other west
ward towns?
Not a drunk on the entire
trip—not even the whiff on the
breath of any delegate or visitor.
Alaska should be proud of such
a group of men and women. A;
passenger on the steamer, acl- j
dressing the high school students
of Sheldon Jackson School, said:!
“You should be proud of your;
organization and its leaders. The;
whole territory should be proud
cf them and you should prepare
yourselves to step into their ;
places with a better leadership.”!
For-the first time, politics asj
politics were discussed on the,
floors of the convention.
A political resolution propose^
from Juneau, urging special
land and water reservations met'
with short shrift when one of
the younger men moved to table1
it indefinitely. The land reser-1
vations proposed was similar to
the last reservation of 625
square miles made near Cor
dova and the water reservation
proposed was to be similar to the
Annette Island water reserva
tion. The position assumed a-!
bout the latter was that it was
not a legal institution in that it
v/as reservating navigable waters
contrary to the Bill of Rights;
laid down in the Magna Charta.'
S200 FINE FOR
- KILLING WHALE
Edward O. Lessard and his!
son, Joe, were fined $200 each
in the District Court at Port -
land, Oregon, for killing a whale
which traversed the 114 miles of
fresh water from the sea and
appeared in Columbia Slough on
Columbus Day. The whale fro
licked to the delight of thou
sands until it sank with two
harpoons in its body. The charge
c n which the men were .convict
ed was “killing a fish with a
harpoon and spear.” The case
will be appealed to the supreme
court.
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OLDEST LOCOMOTIVE
PRESERVED AS RELIC
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America’s oldest locomotive,
“John Bull,” which made its
maiden run over the pioneer
Camden & Amboy railroad one
hundred years ago, has been
placed in the Hall of Transpor
tation of the Smithsonian Insti
t ution at Washington, D. C. Still
in good working order, the old
engine spins its wheels and blows
its whistle.
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j Four large airplanes now being
i 1: uilt by General Motors Corpor
ation will inaugurate a through
|‘ sleeping car” service on a 19
jhour schedule between Chicago
and Los Angeles. The line will be
operated by one-of the railroads.
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ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE
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Governor Theodore Rooseveh
of Porto Rico, confirmed some of
the weird stories which deal with
his early attempts to master the
Spanish language on the* island
to the point where he could
make a speech in it.
For instance, the time he was
on the platform trying to tell a
few thousand Porto Ricans that
he had four children and only
succeeded in assuring them that
he had “given birth to fou
children.”
Whereupon, according to the
governor, President Sanchez
Morales of the Porto Rican se
nate* broke in and shouted:
“All things are possible in the
tropics!”
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JUST A LITTLE
MOUNTAIN TOWN
By James R. Little
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Among the dreams that come
to me, is one that reveals the
wish to go away to “some little
mountain town,” where is salt
water, pine and spruce trees, and
virgin green ferns. It is a sort
of wish dear friend! We are giv
en in wishing when we Sour
doughs, know Alaska as she is.
When our wishes are not for
wealth, nor renown, nor for
Plight so inconsiderable as these,
but are for happiness and health
and the zest cf living. The win
ter wishes, down here in the city,
are, you must surely know, vain
and fretful. They are tinctured
all with a dark eagerness. Bid
the wishes of spring in Alaska’s
little mountain, originate more
definitely in the heart, how like
they are to the simple true
wishes of children. Each of them
is such a wish as this, or one
that is comparable—for a little
town in the mountains like
Petersburg, Alaska, where time
is an unhurried element, and
there are pine, hemlock and
spruce trees, and beautiful green
fern and water gleaming in the
ever changing Narrows; where a
friend understands and shares
your joys, your sorrows, and
yrur tearsi! These are'the vital
instincts that persist. The breath
of salt water and the mountains
is generous and quickening. In
the clear coolness of it, wet with
spray, the heart is uplifted as
a seagull is borne, and the vision
cannot weary of that changing,
mystic sameness of sea water.
For the crests curve like wild
moose that. plunge, and the
headlands thunder to the tide,
and the secret and illimitable
sea takes one to herself as she
has ever taken. It is in this man
ner that the valleys, broad
beyond our vision, speaks inti
mately to those who have an af
fection for little mountain towns.
Golden and green the wild can
yen, gorges and valleys unfold to
1be very verge of the sky. With
out trail, without home, without
haven, and the water fowl are
talking to the sun. Cupped in its
shallow swales dream the name
less strange lakes with a broad
garth deepest green to circle
each, and to these the flocks
come on the south wind—th ?
wind that is possessed by the
valleys as her own. For not any
where else, by land or sea is the
south wind so v/elome, and of
such fleecy, living softness as at
spring time.
It is freedom to be there in
the little mountain town of
Petersburg , Alaska, where pines
and Sitka spruces grow, and
where the clefts and canyons
7ig zag up purple shadows, .tress
ed with wild flowers. It is free
dom and peace to be there, at
this time of year or another, and
1 often wonder if they who dwell
in such charming places as
Petersburg, Alaska, looking down
to the valley—who dwell where
the streams have their origin,
and no taint is on the wind,
prize as they should the great
privilege that is theirs. For they
are lifted above the world as a
bird is lifted, and all their flow
ers are mountain flowers, and
they have, too, the resinous
mountain air. And whether this
drouses without wind or wakes
to make a harp of the trees
there is no air like it elsewhere
for joyousness, for healing, and
for widening one’s arms to have.
For one might fall asleep in
the valley to open one’s eyes
where nature is gnarled and
burnished, and the water in the
Narrows twisting through hills
and valleys a long, long ways be
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