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DAD’S PRAYER _
A Methodist preacher was sick,
and as usual the’ finance committee
was way in arrears with his salary.
The deacons of the church gathered
at his bedside ohering prayers for
return of health auid the Lord will
ing that much needed salary be se
cured. in the midst of fervent pray
er, came a loud knock at the door.
Oue of the deacons going to the
door saw a small boy who said,
' Dad didn’t have time to come
but he sent his prayers” and there
on the wagon was much need vege
tables, other food and some cloth
ing to help the Mid preacher over
the rough spots.
Your sympathy for the movement
i.o give the town of Petersburg ad
equate gym facilities, expressed in
good round dollars or yellow green
backs will give an added asset to
the town and bespeak your civic
pride. Likewise being the “prayer”
of citizens of the town for the in
suring of the completion of the hall.
LITERACY TEST FOR VOTERS
The much heralded literacy test
tor voters; the political ammuni
t on of the sexless political party
finally passed the House of Repre
sentatives. The House did not see
fit to disenfranchise voters of Alas
ka therefore amended the law to
pr vide that any one who had ex
orcised his right of franchise should
not lose that right.
Tt is only right, and The Alaskan
is on record to this effect, that their
be an educational requirement be
for the right of franchise shall be
elected. But it is and has been the
contention that the law should be
made equally applicable to any and
every citizen presenting himself for
the election of his rights.
Under the White Bill as written
by the attorney for the Alaska Pack
ers’, a qualified voter under the laws
of New York could be disqualified
in Alaska but upon his return to
another State could again elect his
franchise. A principle of law which
proponents of the White Bill re
fused to consider was the prin
ciple of not making a law retro
active. However, the fairness of
REAL Americans in Congress would
not permit the political pewees of
Alaska to run their shinanigans
through national legislators.
The Alaskan predicted but recent
ly that the Literacy Test for Voters
m Alaska would have hard sledding
in the Senate. It conceded that un
der the “gag” rule in the House it
could pass. However this is now
a political issue in the discard and
it is .well for the voters of Alaska
settle down to real issues of vital
import to the Territory.
WE STAND CORRECTED
Mayor Locken in the Press cor
rects us as follows relative to a
statement credited him at the last
P. T. A. meeting and mentioned in
our columns. He says:
“As I believe that every tax pay
er has a right to krow the finan
cial condition of the Town, I made
the following statement: ‘The City
is in better financial condition to
day than it has been for the past
• our years. I will not say what tin
next City Council should or will
do but it is my opinion that if suit
able classrooms and a gymnasium
can be erected for a sum between
510,000 and $15,000 that during
ihe coming year the council may be
able to devise ways and means to
make that amount available.”
The purported statement publish
ed in. our columns crediting the
Mayor as having promised such an
amount for the building of a ^ym
and classrooms.
The statement as published was
brought to the Alaskan by a mem
ber of the P. T. A. who attended
the meeting in question and lie
quoted to Ye Reporter as he under
stood the statement.
Having inadvertently done Mr.
cken an injury, The Alaskan here
makes amend by correcting the
statement by quoting Mr. Locken as
above.
WASTE OF MONET
The Bureau of Fisheries, thru
its head, Commissioner O’Malley re
cently asked Congress for an appro
priation of between $400,000 and
$000,000 for hatchery work, “to
further cooperate with sportsmen
m supplying streams with game
nsh.
The last Legislature appropriated
some $80,000 for the maintenance
of fish hatcheries in Alaska. For
many more years private hatcheries
owned and operated by the packing
interests have secured return of
taxes based on the number of sal
mon fry released.
■“Ves Bay hatchery after many
years of operation on one of the
great sockeye streams of Alaska
can only point to a stream depleted
of salmon. The same may be said
of Naha, Loring; Hecata hatchery
on the West Coast of Prince of
Wales, McHenry’s Inlet on Etolin
Island.
ASKS MORE MONB&
The Bureau of Fisheries asked
for and received $50,000 for a
hatchery on Puget Sound; and it
i< safe to say lobbyists will ask for
a hundred thousand to squander on
the little fishes in the next two
years.
As a business proposition, Mr. J.
R Heckman would not invest 11
cents of his own money in fish
hatcheries, but he would have the
Territory squander almost a hun
dred thousand in a proposition in
which he has no faith himself.
INVESTIGATE B. C. HATCHERIES
In 1922 the British Columbia
F’’sh Commission met and after se
rious study made a report and re
commendations which it might be
well for the American commissions
to study.
1 welve hatcheries were in opera
tion in B. C. at an annual cost of
between $130,000 and $140,000.
CLOSED PERIODS
^With two nights a week closed to
fishing it was estimated that an av
erage of 120,000 fish escaped to
spawning grounds. As high as 80,
too salmon had escaped in one
night, beside the many that are
able to get by the nets during the
week. Therefore in 10 weeks of op
eration 1,200,000 fish escape cap
ture and proceed to spawning
giounds.
Reference to Canadian hatcheries
t may well be applied to Aaska hatch
ewes: “It appears to us that hatch
eries were built and operated in a
very blind and unmethodical way,
and evidently for the purpose of
making this service an important
one. This is borne out by the fact
chat the Bon-Accord hatchery in the
Traser River district was found, af
ter 30 years operation, to be useless
owing to its situation and closed in
1914.”
Canners and fishermen were in
complete accord that hatcheries
cid not meet with the situation and
was a useless expenditure of money.
“The heads of. a canning and gen
eral fish business in New Westmin
ister said the past hatchery methods
have proved a failure.” Heads
of other large companies said it
would be better to depend on natur
al propogation; no results in sock-,
eye hatching; improve spawning
grounds; nq results apparent.
“It was evident to us that the old
hatchery methods were of little
commercial value. It was made
equally plain that the retaining
pond system which is still in the *
experimental stage and expensive by
reason of the feedings of the fish,
has, as yet given no proof of its ef
ficiency. * * Consequently, we urge
that before the service is extended,
some definit eexperimental tests
should he carried on for a series of
years. We make the condition,
however, that the operations be car
ried on and observations made di
rectly under competent scientific
supervision, not under fishery offi
cers or hatchery officials alone
who have no scientific knowledge.
“We also recommend that more
attention be paid to improving the
spawning places by ridding them of
tncmies of the salmon, and clear
ing streams for the passage of the
fish, and by taking such other meas
ures for the passage of fish as may
be deemed prudent in the premises.”
In view of investigations, the
committee was opposed to the fur
ther expenditure of any large sum
| of money for the operation and
maintenance of fish hatcheries until
'we have more satisfactory proof
that the industry and the country
13 receiving some return for the an
nual expenditure of more than $130,
000 in B. C. alone.”
It would be well for legislators
and others interested in expenditure
of territorial moneys for the pro
pi gation of salmon to get the com
plete report of this committee and
apply its principles to the industry
in Alaska.
LEGISLATES FOR CLUBS
Commissioner Henry O’Malley,
discussing the fisheries situation of
Alaska before the Merchant Ma
rine and Fisheries Committee re
cently said: “last year the Bureau
found itself in a positioan of not
fil ing able to meet the demands of
the fishermen throughout the coun
try. Only through various clubs
which cooperated with the Bureau
m the distribution of fish was the
Bureau able to meet the situation
well as it did.”
Now The Alaskan just wonders
why, if the policy advocated by Mr.
O’Malley were fair, was he unable
to secure cooperation of fishermen
and why must he needs turn to clubs
not dependent upon the fisheries for
their living for the support of his
policies.
SALMON ESCAPEMENT
The Bureau of Fisheries re
cently made a report as to escape
ment of salmon to spawning ground.
The count over the “hump” of the
falls at Anan Creek, back of Wran
gell from June 12 to August 31 was
121,787.
A sad commentary on the effi
ciency of the Bureau of Fisheries
for it was but a few years ago when
150,000 salmon could be taken from
the vicinity of the creek; when
hauls of ten to thirty thousand sal
mon could be made; when one crew
alone caught and brailed fish from
a haul that totaled over fifty
thousand; when the Alaska Pack
ers put up sixty-seven thousand
cases before the 30th of August,
without counting the thousands that
were taken from their trap to Bor
ing, along with other thousands
that were caught from the same
stream by the Lake Bay, Santa Aria
and other canneries.
Many more thousands of salmon
escaped than now indicated by the
preservers of the Alaska salinon in
i j
dustry in Washington.
And yet Mr. O’Malley and others
interested in the regulating of the
industry would have us believe that
depletion is not present.
IN A FREE COUNTRY
Webb Bellue and John Alford of
finite county, Mississippi, were re
lerently indicted by the federal!
grand jury of the abduction and
sale and enslavement of five ne
groes.
The men sold an aged negro
whom they took from his sick bed,
and his wife and three children,
under twelve years Of age, to a
farmer for $20. The negroes were
forced to work under armed guadrs
without pay.
A case almost as ebad in thS
Ketchikan is that of a married iria& j
with children attending school in
It e. First City going to work for one
of the canneries an earning by his
seining operations just $12. over
his “eating” expenses. And the
crew had boiled flsh, baked fish,
fried fish, fish roasted by the camp !
lire and then some more for a;
change. Out of the $12. he earned 1
over his fish eating expense, he ex
pected to pay $5. for his school tax
and be compelled to send his chil-1
dren to the Bureau school, pay his
property tax and help maintain the
t-muicpal government of The City
that Packs the Most Salmon in the
World, buy his groceries and cloth
ing and indirectly help pay the tax;
r f his merchants, go to the movies j
and maybe buy a Rolls-Noise to i
lake his family for a joy-ride.
\ FED STORAGE FOR REINDEER
. .Five thousand and eighty reindeer
carcasses and 170 live animals were
shipped from the Seward Peninslua
and Northwestern Alaska districts
last year, according to E. L. Raines
chief of the Bureau of Education’s
reindeer service in this area, in an
interview given to the Cordova
Times.
Local storage facilities and freez
er transportation are at present the
log handicaps to more • extensive
shipments of carcasses, Mr. Raines
said. The Bureau of Education
and private owners of large deer
herds have only a limited storage
sraco for animals, and the steam
ship cold storage facilities are not
capablt of meeting th demands on
it. —Anchorage times
J Fred Struthers, former mana
ger of the Waechter Meat Company
of Fairbanks was found guilty of
embezzlement of funds from his
employers. He was found guilty on
four counts of his indictment.
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book say about cook
ing rice?
Add it to the boiling water
a little at a time, so as not
to lower the temperature.
Hills Bros, follow a similar
principle of control in roast
ing coffee. Only a few
founds at a time are roasted,
so that every pound gets an
equal amount of heat. Uni
form flavor is the result.
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is no
satisfactory
short-cut in
roasting coffee
'Roasting coffee in bulk can never
produce the rich, flavorful goodness
that Hills Bros.’ patented process of
Controlled Roasting creates. Only
'a few pounds at a time} in an even
temperature—that’s the secret,
just try a can of Hills Bros, and
* you’ll be amazed at the superb aroma
and flavor in every cup. Ask for
Hills Bfos. by name and look for the
Arab on the vacuum tin. Send for
free booklet, “The Art of Entertain^
• ing.” Address Hills Bros., 2 Har
f rison Street, San Francisco, Calif.
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Always on Hand Fresh
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tersburg Friday morning, leaving
for Juneau via Kake and way ports
about noon.
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HEALTH RESORT
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