The· Älasjskap !
A. N. B. PUBLISHING COMPANY
Louis F. Paul.... Editor and Manager
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The Alaskanf per year . $4.00
Application entered as Second-Class Matter July 16, 1926, at the Post
Office at Petersburg, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
PROFIT AND LOSS
The difference between prolt and
loss of Mr. Average Businessman
in Alaska depends upon the earn
ings of the fisherman. But Mr. A.
Businessman is lulled to sleep by
the siren song of wonderful packs
put up from trap caught fish. When
the fisherman has had a successful
season he spends more, freely and
gets for his family those things that
will insure winter comfort. The
greater earning power is followed
by the greater spending power.
This in turn gives the business men
a greater turnover. The larger the
turnover the quicker earning power
of money invested. Cost is there
fore powered by quick t urnover.
When the earning power of the
** fisherman is cut down as this sum
mer, he in turn sends to cheaper
markets in order that his wages
will have greater purchasing power.
The local businessman is thereby
brought up against the competition
of the mail order house. When.the
wages of the fisherman has been
spent he turns again to the local
businessman and asks for and is
given credit until the next seasonal
earning opportunity rolls around.
To keep his own head out of the
waters of bankruptcy Mr. Average
Businessman adds certain percent
that must insure his own credit with
the wholesaler. This is the margin
that becomes the burden for in the
end it is the ultimate consumer who
pays.
We are looking fr the solution to
the problem of keeping the spend
ing power of fishermen in Alaska.
We declare that the system of keep
ing the earning power of fishermen
down by and through the use of
traps to be the primary cause of a
disrupted economic system in the
Territory. If anyone has a better
solution to this vital problem we
will be pleased to pass it on.
NOT SO GOOD
“Well Pete, how did you make o*t
this summer?” was asked an old
time gillnetter recently. “I made,
nothing fishing king salmon until |
a week before the closed; season,
just enough to make expenses. I
did not break even on sockeye. I
am plum disgusted with fishery coa>
divions and regulations. It does mot
pay us to put in new gear. As soon
as all my gear is gone I am. thnu
fishing in Alaska. I have >een. a
resident of Alaska for over twenty
five years, own my hoir« and pay
my taxes right here. My place is
for sale right now.
“What did you do? this summer,
Joe?” I did nothing I saw that
the regulations and, conditions were
such that one epiUd not make any
money. I did not even bother to
take my gear out of the shed. I
have not less than a thouand dollars
worth of gear for sale cheap.”
“What did you do for your
country this summer, Jack.” 1
will have cleared $135. counting
part of the boat share. Enough to
pay my way to Seattle where I will*
be able to make a better living.”
“What about you Will? i madfe
$144. counting in my boat share.
I planned on sending my girl to
school but with what little I earned
this summer I do not see my? way
'tear to pay up my boat billsi”
“How did the boys around Ketch
kan make out?” “Very poorly.
Many of them did not make enough
o pay their grub bills let alone
ounting on wages.
“Bill you must have made lots of
noney. I hear that your cannery
ut up 125,000 cases.” “We got
9ss than 20,000 salmon altogether
his summer. We did not malce
mges even if our cannery did get a
scord pack. ^^hen the run ~wa&»
feood they stopped us and took only
trap fish. We are thankful we had
even the chance to fish for that out
fit. Just think we helped them, put
up over 100,000 cases of fish this
summer. Another year and we will
thank them for letting: us live and
breathe God’s own free air."
Who is going to pay the bills this
winter? Does anyone hav© more
than vague promises of pulp in
dustry to help keep these resident
Alaskans on a cash basis and there
by cut credit costs in the stores?
THE ROOT OF PROSPERITY
Staunch cooperation 'between em-;
ployers and employed, according to j
Edsel Ford, “is the root of prosper!- I
ty of the Ford industries.”
Staunch cooperation between em- j
ployers and employed is as a mat-!
ter of fact at the root of the na
tional prosperity of any people al—!
though until recently^ few have
been willing to admit It . I
Henry Ford made a great dis
covery when he found that he in-i
creased his own income by raising '
wages and lowering prices. Pre
viously too many had believed that!
iow wages and high prices marked!
the road to prosperity.
The Fords and other pioneers
found that high hvages and low*
prices make new markets. They
learned that increasing the buy
ing power of wag e workers was as
valuable as opening up a new con
tinent to trade.
The man wh o thinks that there
is an irreconcfitf .ble conflict between
the interests of employer and work
er, or buyer- and seller, belongs to
the dark va^es. The great successes
have been* t von by those who res
pect the rif.hts of their employees,
their erapic yers and their custom
ers.
Spreading realization of this
truths, is the. best assurance for the
concrinued prosperity of any busi
anci of any nation. In the
«rueible of time decency has been
t costed and .has proved to be gold
|-Collier’s Weekly.
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Beach Combings
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By AHN-KUTTY
j There’s one town, at least, in the
V- S. that boasts no potters field,
'or a pauper burying ground. Milton
Mass., has a beautiful cemetery and
for the asking anyone may select
his lot.
The; telephones of London, Paris,
Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, and Rome
don’t equ al those in the cty of New
York.. Ej ther they are given less to
I chatter across the pond or the hel
low system isn’t considered the con
vendjemc e it is here.
June 26th, the fastest and
Lhestt passenger steamer in the
vonM was launched at the Cramp
|3hipyj ird, Philadelphia. She is the
MaJol' o-“flying fish” in Hawaiian
hntf Jis owned by the Matson Com
panjy to run between San Francisco
nndt .Honolulu. There was an audi
ences of 20,000 people in the ship
yard’ to witness the launching.
Jk.cc ording to the American Ma
rin e I Engineer, the right of sailors
to ent er suit for damages, in per
sonal injury cases, in the State
Courts under Secton 20 of the Sea
inenfs j. Act of 191g as amended by
tie Me rchant Marine Act of 1920,
i.T. upfM dd by the United States
Stiprein* Court in decision handed
<iown Ji une 7th.
Tf had an income running up
Co the' sn m it costs the government,
E*ach yea r, just in the redemption
of worn and damaged currency,
we’d be wearing diamonds the size
of water pails. Last year the U.
?. Treasury received 1,200 tons of
ragged paper money and it cost in
replacement and hauling $5,000,
000.
In the Michigan high schools it
is up to the boys to take courses in
cooking. We wonder if, after awhile
there’ll be no more pies and cakes
like mother used to make, but in
stead the things that dad concocted.
Any way, since we’ve got to eat to
li\e, and since cooked food is bet
ter for us than raw stuff, it is well
that both boys and girls be given
instructions in the art.
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1700 years rearward there was
c,uite a gold rush and stampede by
the Romans to the swamp lands
near Cairo, Wales. Just what these
diggings turned out in yellow metal
ut that time, we don’t know, but
through local disturbances of the
period the mines were abandoned.
Since the Romans haven’t done
aDy assessment work for some
time, the claims have recently been
jumped and mining operations are
again under way.
Water from the river Jordan was
brought by airplane from Palestine
to London for the christening of
the daughter of the Duke of York.
We don’t know whether or not the
waters of the Jordan are any bet
ter for christening purposes than
the ordinary liquid you draw from
the city main. We do know, how
ever, that the Jordan river stuff is
n’t near so potent as the Old Jor
dan that used to be on the market
n 32 ounce bottles under cork and
green stamp.
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Who wants to be a man in the
Amazon country? A youth, in
that latitude, can’t be admitted
into the tribe of his father’s before
going through the * ordeal of hav
ing his arms incased by hollow
bamboos containing a multitude
of big tucandeira ants/ These ants
have a bite that is excessively irri
tating. If the lad can stand the
gnawing of the crawling things he’s
O.K. for admission and in line for
the full dress costume of his elders
consisting of two bone anklets and
I [ .M III I. .nil....
an air of suprioritjj.
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The first Deisel engine in the U.
S. Shipping Board’s conversion pro
gram has beein built and tested,
it is the start in the installation of
internal combustion machines in
a number of ocean freighters and
is something’ of an experimental
’ enture. The engine recently tried
out is of 2900 horsepower and is
four cylinders, double acting with
thin steel bushed with ilght cast
iron walls. The government con
tract required that the engine
should be operated thirty days con
tinuously under full load at 95 re
volutions per minute. The engine
came through the test in good
shape, with piston rings free, no
interior carbonization and without
adjustments made to the piston
rod packing. The lubrication oil
consumption was well below the
euantity required for machines of
rhis power, being 15 gallons per
2 4 hours. It is the Worthington
Deisel system.
The Belgian Minister of Labor,
keeping cases on the results of the
eight hour law working ip his
country, has of record some very
interesting statistes. Since the
eight hour working day went into
effect, the attendance of trade and
technical schools has notably in
creased. Unemployment throughout
the kingdom has dropped to 4 y2
percent and public houses and
drink establishments have decreas
ed by 110,000. Agricultural pro- |
duction has wonderfully improved.
The minister says in part relative
to the adoption of the shorter work
period: “When industrialists grasp
the fact that the eight-hour day,
like compulsory education, is here
to stay, they will have to turn their
tl.eir attention increasingly to im
provement of their works. The
eight-hour work day, therefore, is
not in danger; it is a factor in so
cial progress.”
So it is here, but the stiff necked
and hard boiled in politics and in
dustry won’t admit it. Nothing
would please the overlords of in
dustry more, in this country, than
to be able to tack onto every work
er something like the average Alas
ka contract wherein every employee
I-loyee sells himself for a miserably
small stipend for twenty-four hours
per day,if called to work that
length of time. In many instances
the bosses of today are still the
slave drivers of old. And remem
ber this: The political bunch seek
ing office under the non-descript
banner, and calling themselves “In
dependents” have no more love for
the working class than a society
belle has for a skunk. The ex-gov
ernor Riggs attitude is still ram
pant, in this respect, and is part
and parcel of the “independent”
make up. To be sure, it wants your
Our Guarantee
Under resolution adopted in Convention at
HYDABURG, ALASKA Nov., 17, 1925
The Grand Camp of the Alaska
Native Brotherhood guarantees all sub
scriptions and bills of the A.N.B Pub
lishing Company.
Frank D, Price, Grand Pres
Sitka, Alaska
The Alaskan is not an experiment. We are not here
with suit cases only.
Our Aims—Public Service and Development of Alaska
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James Truitt & Capt. 1
W. E. McNelly- Their
1 Officers and men
1 Who helped dredge the Wrangell Narrows
S. of N. Hall
Saturday Night August 28th
All Cordially invited to join us in showing
our appreciation of their work on the
Narrows
American Legion
vote, but. it doesn't want any back
chatter with it. It, also, wants the
results of your labor in industry,
but it desires that you give it ser
vilely.
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“Say it with Ice Cream” in a
cozy booth at the Totem Pole.
John Fanning has them-Arch saver
snoes.
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DAN E. STANDARD, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Office in Wcrth Block
SITKA HOT SPRING
HEALTH RESORT
Rate $3.00 per
day and up
Dr. Goddard, Pro.
ALASKA CAFE
George Kim, Proprietor
Meals at all Hours
| Good Services, Fair Prices
We Solicit Your Trade
When in Town Stop at
H [TATI
First Class Rooms
Reasonable Rates
| CARL ROGER, Pro.
Try
Hudson's
Baths and Barber Shop
CLEANLINESS
BEST SERVICE
FAIR TREATMENT
We Solicit Your Patronage
Sanitary Market
A Roast you’ll like
The Very Choicest Beef
Mutton and Pork
Vegetable in Season
i minus
Dr. Rae L. Carlson
EYESIGHT SPECIALIST
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
Home Service Mending
of Laundered Goods
We give full value for your
money.
H.OYAMA, PRO.
SKYMAN’S
Barber and Beauty Shoppe
Busy all the time. ;;;
There’s a reason why
Opposite Post Office
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j SUPPLY CORPW. \ j2T
WANTED—Round bottom boat In
good condition. Must be 12 to 14
feet in length. Address P-111,
The Alaskan,