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CONSCIENCE,
The writer of this article once
wore a star. Four long months he
carried this emblem of the law ( !)
pinned to his vest, and in that four
months he learned many things. The
shiny badge wasn’t voluntarily affix
ed, it was something of a forced
put, out anyway it made us a police
man—a bull. There wasn’t a
minute of those 120 days that we
relished the position, but, at that,
it didn’t hinder us lrorn Keeping
our eyes open.
VVa learned, from the start, that
to be a successful lead blackjack
wiolder one must your bis con
science into a jug and cork it up
and throw it to one side. One s
beurt had to be seared and frizzled
to a mere dried up bit of nothing
ness. One had to keep his eyes
looking to the right while taking in
everything going on at the left. Ono
had to kowtow to the big-wigs anJ
be a glad hand artist with the riff
raff, the scum and the underworld.
One’s eyes must be tuned down to
picking up a needle on the street <•!
a dark night and totally unable to
vision anything of a bright day. One
had to be a stinker, a man of the
street and a police court gentle
man (?). We found out that graft
ing was perfectly ail right, provid
ing it didn't go beyond the grafter
and graftee. One was instructed to
“leave hands off” those of the upper
social strata, but to keep the police
blotter full with down-and-outers,
the night wanderers, the luebriauu
sailor or logger, the lassies of the
tenderloin, the vags, tae pimps auu
the inacques. From the seamy side
the money came. Those who stepped
outside the law, among the upper
crust, contributed little or nothing.
We had so little respect for the
job that we tossed it, and since then
we have always looked on the aver
age "bull”, gumshoer, marshal,
black night hitter and uniformed
“law enforcer” as both political
bellycrawler and lazy moron. Where
ever we have rambled—and we have
scouted around considerably—we
haven't yet ran across anything to
cause a change of opinion. Even
Petersburg .o .iu exception. Or, rath
er, the “law and order” force of
Petersburg is no exception.
There have been several very
clear illustrations of tbe above
schedule of requirements pulled on
before our eyes right here in town,
and one of the rawest was the
arrest, conviction and jail deal of
•*Tex” Gill.
We are not dwelling on this mat
ter because the victim happens to
be “Tex” himself. It might have
been any one else in the same cir
cumstances and with uo more pull.
The whole affair was obnoxiously
HAW. Technically, there was no
law violated and the arresting force
knew it, but they constituted a
judge, jury and prosecuting body
and sent up a sick and harmless in
dividual for life. We could mentiou
a dozen men off hand right around
here who, had they been arrested
for the same offense (?) realry
wouldn’t have been arrested. Noth
ing would have been 3een, nothing
heard. Everything would have gone
on serenely. But “Tex” was looked
on by the bulls as a desirable jail
bird. He was without funds, with
out any pull from the powers that
>e and his name on the list of of
enders successfully prosecuted (per
secuted) would add to the laurels
)f the ferrets and the “law n order”
eague.
They— the prosecution,— showed
iust as much heart in this case as
you’d find in a mongoose killing a
cobra. There was the same amount
ot human emotion as you'd sss la
a shark glutting a fistful of raw
beef.
“Tex’s" crime was so heinous, so
offensive to society, that he couldn t
be jailed locally. There was no
room in Juneau. Anyway, what
did it matter? The sentence was
practically for life, so send him as
far away as possible. Sure, send
him to Skagway where the wind
whistles down the valley marrow
chilling and life destroying. He
was no good. Kill him. And they
did.
Have those who were the ring
leaders In this bit of human torture
any conscience? Is there anything
that pulls at their heart strings and
keeps them awake at night. Did
they dream uneasily of “Tex" in
that cold hole at Skagway suffering
from illness, from lack of butter,
from sugar, from all those things
that go into an every day common
meal? Did they cut the sentence
one minute for good behavior?
No, they forgot him. it was just
another successful case prosecuted.
Another victim of the bulls. Anoth
er item that would eventually drift
to Washington and go of record to
prove how wonderfully well the Pet
ersburg drag net was working. On
the blotter of the city it is another
mark of efficiency and a proof that
a bull was on the job. Humanity—
none at all. Heart—not in evid
ence. Conscience—absolutely nill.
Friends of “Tex" gathered up a
few shekels and gave them to him
just before he was exiled. But for
those bits of money and the good
will behind them “Tex" would have
been brought home dead—or
thrown in the rocks back of Skag
way town to fester and rot.
We are not able to put a finger
immediately on the rotten ofilcialism.
We shall have to wait until we get
home government. We shall have
to wait until we have gumption
and guts enough to break down th*s
"law n order" clique foisted upon
us from the outBide. We shall have
to wait until we, ourselves, are the
power. Then we’ll be able to kick
clear across to the Sea of Myths
any one who doesn’t live up to fair
dealing, honest endeavor an:i square
methods.
But we’ll not come into our own
without laboring, without an up
hill pull nor without common sense.
We shall have to work for those
who—in office—will help us.
We don’t want any more "Tex”
affairs. They don’t stack up at
all good. We don’t want any more
vindicative performances, but even
though we don’t want ’em, we pre
3ume they will be pulled off now
and then to keep the police blotter
from getting rusty.
As this is written there is a
movement among the prominent and
the ordinary in town to arrange
transportation and admittance to
the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka for
"Tex’’, and it is hoped that the en
deavor will be successful. A letter
has been mailed to the Governor re
lative to the matter and word will,
undoubtedly, be received from
Juneau in a few days.
SEDIMENT SETTLING
The other day when the U. S. S. S.
Cedar was slowly steaming into port
she grounded on the gravel and
sand close to the Standard
Oil dock. The tide was flood
ing at the time and the ship was
soon free. She ran on the bottom
where there was supposed to be a
dredged channel. It is probable
that this water-way, dredged dur
ing the summer of 1926, is rapidly
Ailing. Perhaps some of the fill is
a crumbling of the channel walls
into the dredged area and some from
the shifting sands that fake plaee
Ham is at its best just as it comes from the smokehouse, and with
the great Frye curing plant in the heart of the territory it serves,
FRYE’S “DELICIOUS” BRAND HAM conies to your table with all the
savory aroma and mellow goodness that lias made it so truly “Every
thing the name implies.”
! in strong running tides. It ma;
l-equire the dredging of two or threi
seasons to eliminate the wall cav
ing, but the settlings of loose fin<
stuff will take place just as it dl<
before. All dredged places call fo
more or less attention unless the;
are rock cut and even then then
are settlings if currents are slack.
COURT SNARLS
A federal judge, in New Orleans
on the 24th of February has de
cided that prohibition agents shoulc
not be allowed search warrants tc
private houses in quest of liquor
This is precedent that is important
and rather far of reach and tends
to tangle all the more the booze
question of the country. It sc
happens that the judge, in this
matter, is a dry, but he doesn't loofc
on this home searching idea wit!
favor. In that we are with him
but the decision goes, indirectly,
farther than mere home invasion
It is leading us to ask:-just whal
is the real Volstead law?
In the U. S. Court of Appeals,
San Francisco, a recent decision is
to the effect that “privately owned
liquors, unless sold or held in vio
lation of the law, cannot be seized
by federal prohi agents."
This is another severe rap at Vol
3teadian rigidity. In bare fact it
throws the liquor question out in
the street where, we presume, the
scrap will continue to wax merrily.
The Volstead law as a whole may
be rather difficult to fathom through
so many seemingly, at least, vari
ances of construction. Anyway, ou„
of the mire and maze of things it
is becoming clearer that a man’s
home is his castle, and farther and
farther into the background are
pushed the miserable snoopers, fer
rets, gumshoe artiste, flat-foot sneek
ers and that scum who make a liv
ing prying into the domestic life of
the nation.
Eric Larson is back from Juneau
with his new speed ship. It rns well.
A LABOR HOLLYWOOD
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The formation of a country-wide
chain of 1,500 movie theaters, own
* cd and operated by organized work
ing men is a proposition put forth
7 by the studio electricians of Holly
wood. This isn’t altogether a new
move. It was undertaken some
years ago—before the war—if we
remember rightly and money bags
and Dig wigs got busy at once and
, suppressed it. They had the censors
. on their side along with the three
minute men, the dollar a year con
| tingent and the non-fighting pay
triota. The movie shows of the la
bor organizations were killed a born
ing. This move may be more suc
cessful since all those super pay
triots have been seen in their pro
per light and haven’t the power the}1
once had The movie show is a
great educator and if correctly
handled would lift the producers of
the country’s wealth to higher stan
dards, clearer understandings and a
closer knit body.
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About half the sufferers from a
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“For five years I suffered from
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er take calomel. My health is bet
ter in every way and this, I am
glad to say, 1 owe to Chiropractic. ’
—W. T. Terry, Chiropractic Research
Bureau, Statement No. 1329-H.
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