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LOUIS F. PAUL, . ..EDITOR
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OH YEAH!
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“Sockeyes Saved the Day but
Now Sell About Same As Reds”
says a Westward contemporary.
And what is the difference be
tween a sockeye and a “red?”
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PLAN FINE CLUBHOUSE
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The Seward Athletic Club
plans a $50,000 clubhouse which
it is said will be equipped with
hot and cold water in every
room and a private bar. The new
gymnasium will be an acre in
extent and will have padded
walls. (Like a crazy house?) The
building is to be Seward stucco
and will be built from funds
taken in at the Thanksgiving
Eve Dance. Any moneys left over
are to be expended in laying
out a private avaition field, for
the instruction of club members.
—Seward Gateway. Now, are
they just spoofin' or dreamin’ or
just mean business?
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GIVING CHRISTMAS CHEER
In the Pioneer’s Home at Sitka
are a group of men who have
been more or less misfortunate
in their financial affairs during
their life in Alaska. They are
men who have come from all
walks of life and professions and
trades. They came to Alaska in
their youth and vigor and they
spent that youth and vigor in
developing or trying to develop
the resources of the Territory.
In the struggle with the ele
ments of the North, backed by
vears of hardship, they have lost
in that struggle and have been
unable to carry on. So aged, de
crepit in many instances, and
without the wherewithal to face
the world they seek the haven ol
the Home for their declining
years.
To bring them cheer at this
time Mr. David Gross of the
Coliseum Theatres, has institut
ed a Christmas Fund for the men
of the Home. Which-fund is be
ing gathered in Alaska and in
Seattle, sent to the Behrends
Bank of Juneau with a list of
aonors and amount given and
this money is sent to the men tc
the Home in cash and currency
and equally divided amongst the
the men at Christmas time.
The people of Petersburg in
particular are being called upon
at this time to do their bit to
ward bringing cheer to these
men who have been beaten by
age and the elements of the
North. No one can be too gener
ous and no one can give too
much. Perhaps some little act of
one of these men has made it
possible for other more fortun
ate citizens to remain in Alaska
and to accumulate an economic
independence. And aside from
that, the joy of giving and see
ing the appreciation of these
men is worth at least a thought
and consideration. And Christ
mas time is one season of the
year when we can all afford to
he generous not only to our im
mediate family and friends but
to those who are less fortunate
in families and friendship.
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REAPPORTIONMENT MAY
BE QUESTIONED
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Court action to test the con
stitutionality of the legislative
reapportionment law of the
State of Washington may be tak
en before the legislature con
venes on the 12th of January.
The unfair apportionment of
representation in Washington is
a matter which has created no
small amount of political dis
cussion in that state. Thirty
three of Washington’s thirty
nine counties are waiting for one
of their number to bring a suit
challenging the measure.
Nationally, Democrats made
much fuss over the failure of
Congress to make a reapportion
ment of representation in that
body. Some States had more
congressmen than they were en
titled to and others did not have
the representation to which they
were entitled. But the old ma
chine, composed of the reaction
ary leaders of both parties re
fused to consider the matter of
reapportionment which was
mandatory by provision of the
Constitution of the United
States. However, last year the
reapportionment was made and
under the last elections the pop
ulations of the states are now
more equitably represented.
The Alaska Situation
Stroller’s Weekly comes now
with a cur-like whine because
The Alaskan brings to the at
tention of its readers the fact
that Nome with its six hun
packer attacked the provision of
the legislative act which he
claimed was confiscatory was a
right of the Territory.
The situation is now chaotic
and will remain so until the Su
oieme Court has made its deci
sion in the matter. Which situ
ation is brought on not only by
the trollers of Washington, but
by the Alaska Packers’ Associa
tion which has been a consistent
friend of the Democratic powers
that be in the Territory. Which
party and persons premised so
much to the electorate in the
way of control of its fisheries but
which is now idly sitting by
while the will of the Territory is
nullified. It will be well for the
electors to remember that the
game of these politicians is to
wmpsaw mem at every opportu
nity, pulling wool over their eyes
for the purpose of catching votes
and then using the invisible
government to defeat the very
premises which they make dur
ing e’ection times.
The question that should be
asked of the successful candi
dates is what plan do they have
now to protect the resident fish
ermen of Alaska? Just wait for
i decision of the Supreme Court
or will the majority party (De
mocrats) give to the Territory
'aws which will be in accord with
their political platforms of the
past election?
It was Liner’n who once said:
“You can fool some people all of
he time; seme of them part of
the time but you can’t fool all of
the people all the time.” And the
day of reckoning does now ap
jcroach when political promises
will be remembered and which
whl be very embarrassing for the
successful candidates to answer,
dred voters has as much say
about legislative matters effect
ing the entire territory as the
First Division. In fact, it has
more to sav than the First Di
Td~ior> in reaards to matters ef
fecting the First Division alone
and which have no influence or
bearing upon the life of Nome
citizens.
Nome is distinctly a mining
country, it has no fish, exeunt
ne’-h^ns a few bullhead and cod
fish. Yet its four representatives
"nd one senator line up against
♦he First Division in fishery me
ters and their votes defeat the
wishes of over six thousand peo
ple represented by four repre
sentatives in the same legisla
ture.
Nome has its four representa
tives. Allied with them are the
Democrats elected from the
First Division, making six re
presentatives for the Nome D;
j vision as compared to the two re
presentatives for the First Divi
jsion. For political purposes the
i Democrats have always aligned
!themselves with Nome and Fair
banks and have ruled the legis
lature and have in every in
stance worked to defeat the
| wishes of the electorate as ex
pressed through their represent
atives of the First Division.
The reason for the whine of
Stroller’s Weekly being due to
the fact that it does not want
the electorate to understand just
how Nome with its six hundred
votes can override the wishes of J
six thousand votes. It does not
want the electorate to under-;
stand that while it works as a
Democratic mouthpiece for cer
tain progressive legislation, it.
helps to elect candidates who by j
their efforts defeat that same
legislation. The progressive Re
publicans who have been elected
on certain progressive measure;
have had their efforts nullified
by Nome with the help of men
elected by and through the ef
forts of the Juneau Empire anc
Stroller’s Weekly. The Stroller’
Weekly has conscience enough to
be ashamed of its political ma
chinations and therefore it"
whine about the story last weel
of the unfair apportionment
of representation.
There is only one corrective
measure to this: Elect men-four
representatives and one Sena
tor from the First Division who
will stand solidly for those
things which are right regard
less of the blarney of the other
Divisions. And even at that, the
First Division with its six thou
sand votes should not be blocked
in its desires by the machina
tions of four minors who don’t
even know hove to eat fish.
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THE GIFT WITHOUT
THE GIVER
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At this season ot the year we
are reminded of that beautiful
poem. “The Vision of Sir Laun
fall” by Alfred Tennyson. It is
most appropriate at this time
j when gifts are being made back
land forth. Some little tokens
carry with them the whole
heart, soul and love of the giver
and some of the rich and costly
gifts come as a mere idle gesture
to give satisfaction to the giver
alone.
| That story of the search for
jthe “Holy Grail” the lost cup
| from which Christ was said to
have drunk at the Last Supper
joic-ures most clearly the proud,
haughtiness of youth which
flung and flings its gold to the
unclean leper by the roadside.
Unable because of his infirmity
to touch the gold he said “The
gift without the giver is bare.”
Years roll along, the proud and
haughty knight seasoned by the
°d versifies, pains and sorrows of
tune, wanders back home to see
I again the same leper at the
[ roadside, again asking for a bit
j of charity. The once haughty
knight takes from his knapsack
a crust of bread, goes to the
creek and fills his tin cup with
water and shares his last bit of
food with the leper. When lo,
a wonderful light surrounded the
leper who turned out to be the
Christ himself and a voice clear
and. powerful said “Inasmuch as
ye have done it unto the least
of these my brethern. ye have
done it unto me.”
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LAWYERS AND JUSTICE
The recent murder in Portland
of a woman for which her mil
lionaire husband and his para
mour are charged has filled
many a column of news space in
the Coast papers. In the Port
land Oregonian is a question put
forth by a citizen as follows:
“Is it not true that no attorney
will defend a person accused of
murder or lesser crime if said
attorney knows that the accused
is guilty? (2) In any case, would
not any attorney worthy of the
name of America demand that
his client tell the whole truth to
the court regarding the crime,
regardless as to whether it was
in his favor or to his detriment?
(3) If the legal profession did
not demand the whole truth
from their clients, would they
not be incubators of iniquity and
a menace to society? (4) Would
a decent attorney object to his
client giving information to po
lice officers or prosecuting at
torneys, whether he were pre
sent of absent? (5) If any per
son is innocent, what is there to
fear in answering any and all
questions by the government’s
representatives? (6) Would not
evasion of questions be primal
facie evidence of guilt?”
The reply of the Editor of the
Oregonian is quite lengthy and
very much to the point but as its
length is almost prohibitive in
our columns we give excerpts, as {
follows:
“The duty of an attorney for
the defense, as well as of prose-:
cutor and of the court itself, is
to bring about Justice. In de- «
fending an accused person, the j
attorney’s direct responsibility is,j
to see that his clint gets a fair
trial, whether guilty or innocent.
No lawyer is worthy of the high
profession that he follows would
subvert justice by concealing, or
encouraging his client to con- !
peal, guilt. Unfortunately, there
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