LOUTS F. PAUL,
C. O. PARKS,
^la/kan
- EDITOR
BUSINESS MANAGER
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KILLING THE FREE FORT OF
RUPERT
For a long time certain fish
ing interests have sought to
close the port of Prince Rupert
to American Fishermen—that is
to force by legislation the sale
; f Alaska caught halibut in A
merican ports forcing the clos
ing of the port of Rupert. The
halibut fishermen are opposed
to the closure of the Prince Ru
pert Port. Competitive markets
alone have made possible the
life of the halibut industry in
Alaska. This new stab in the
oack and in the dark had best
be watched by the fishermen
whilst they yet have chance to
voice a protest.
“Loss of Fish Business Feared”
From Juneau Empire.
British Columbia is worried
lest the United States Shipping
Board may take action to over
turn present transportation I
practices in connection with
the cold storage industry which
will result in a loss of American
fish fares to its ports. This fear
is founded on a comment made
by the Shipping Board last No
vember to the effect it was in
vestigating the practice of ship
ping American-caught fish in
Canadian bottoms between two
Canadian ports after the fish
had been sold in Canada and'
put in bond for re-shipment to
the United States.
The custom has been for A
merican fishermen to take their
fares to Prince Rupert where
they are purchased, frozen, put
in bond later transported to the
United States and admitted
duty free as American goods.
The Board’s investigation seeks
to determine whether the ship
ment between Prince Rupert and
Vancouver and between Van
couver and American ports con
stitutes a violation of the Ameri
can coastwise shipping laws.
Uneasiness is apparently felt
in Prince Rupert over the effect
on the fish business generally
if the Board’s decision is that
the shipping laws are being vio
lated. In that case it might be
that shipments so made would
be declared dutiable. It is ad
mitted that if they were subject
to duty, the tariff would have to
come out of the price paid to
fishermen. Under present prac
tices, American fish bring bet
ter prices at Prince Rupert than
rhose taken by Canadians and
landed there, the differential
representing the duty imposed
by the United States on foreign
fish brought into the country.
RATES OF ALASKA RAILROAD
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Issue is being taken with the:
Senate Investigating Commit
tee’s report on the conduct of
ihe Alaska Railroad and its re
commendation that the rates be
raised to equal that of other
roads operated in the Territory
and in Yukon Territory.
Says one publication: “The
recommendation of the commit
tee that freight rates be raised
50 per cent and passenger fares
66 2-3 per cent is fraught with
seriousness to those sections of
the territory dependent almost
wholly upon the railroad for
transportation facilities. As a
policy it is not designed to ac
complish the very thing which
the comittee points out, and
correctly so, as the object to be
attained—namely the building
up of outgoing traffic. It can re
sult only in handicaps to devel
opment which will work not on
ly to prevent tapping of exist
ing industries and add to rather
than decrease the much dis
cussed deficit. Thus it is the
very negation of the broad poli
cy that has long been recognized
as the fundamental require
ment for transportation systems
seeking to open up pioneer
land.”
The charge is made by the
Committee that the rates on the
Alaska railroad were far below
that of the White Pass and Yu
kon Railroad and the Copper
River and Northwestern and the
only proper thing to do is to
raise the rates to equal the rates j
charged on the privately owned
railroads. Certainly the only
fair thing to do is to set a rate
not lower than the othe- roads
even if the Alaska Railroad is
owned and operated b/ the
Federal Government.
The first thing to do is to d
velop the resources which wil*
produce a freight revenue The
first being the Alaska coal,
which has proven to be equal1
to if not better than coal j
brought to the Pacific Coast j
from the Atlantic seaboard. As
a user of coal for its navy, the
government should be the best
customer. Buying the coal from
the producers along the railroad
will produce a tonnage over the
line that would raise the per
mile tonnage, give employment
to many more men in the mines,
add to the train schedules and
employment on the road and!
tarn a losing proposition into
one that is a revenue producer
and give new hope to the in
terior country for other de
velopment.
The proper handling of the
timber resources on the Southern
Coast should bring to the terri
tory a new migration of labor
and capital and its overflow
would naturally drift westward
into the farm and coal country
and further traffic be added to
the railroad. The equitable dis
tribution of earning power in the
Ashing industry also would give
‘urther employment and earn
ing power to the population in
the Southern end of the country
which naturally will overflow
into the railroad belt.
The failure of the railroad
management to produce a re
venue producing road is not en
tirely the fault of the manage
ment even with the inefficiency
diown. While the government
on the one hand is trying to
build up the Territory, its vari
ous bureaus are doing their ut
most to drive out resident citi
zens by favoring only the vest
ed interests. While the local mill
men and loggers are staggerinr
along under handicap of bureau
regulations which cannot but
smother their efforts, the bu-j
reau of forestry turns around
and virtually gives away five
out of six billion feet of timber
to two foreign concerns in the
hope that they will eventually
build mills in Alaska and em- J
ploy “probably” a total of 12001
men in corporation owned towns.)
It is unfortunate that the
Senate Investigating Committee
did not have the time to make
an intensive study of the cause
of the failure of the raihoad to
be a revenue producer. It is un
fortunate that, it was not point
ed out to them that an enrich
ened labor population in the
First Division would add to the
wealth, revenue and income of
the railroad belt. And it is to be
hoped that the Senate will seni
a committee to Alaska once
again this time with broader
powers of investigation in order
that the failure of Alaska to de
velop rapidly might be brought
out.
So long as the publications of
Alaska wink their eyes at the
'‘inefficient” management of the
road and so long as they use the
road for a political plaything
and a thing to become enriched
off of, it will not be the empire
builder that it was hoped and
planned for in the days of its
inception.
SOCKEYE PACT NOW
OPPOSED BY SENATOR
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Ihe fisheries interests do not
want the sockeye fisheries con
trolled. They do not want honest
conservation in any sense of the
word. They are willing to let
the subject remain in the hands
of the gods of finance and that
hey take their little dividend
today rather than insure the
j perpetuity of the industry by
honest regulatory measures. And
thus it will ever be—the control
ling factors of fishery regula
‘ion—the Associated Packin'
Combine—insist in their hybri:
! publications that they are in
favor of an honest conserva
tion of the sockeye and other
I fisheries but whenever there is
a real measure put forth which
will protect the industry, they
j oppose that measure. History
i will bear out this statement a*
! being a fact.
The following is taking from
The Seattle Times:
Junes ana dim lake Stand
Against Salmon Treaty
Awaiting Ratification
With Senators Jones and Did
(standing beside Governor Hart
ley in opposing ratification of
(the sockeve salmon treaty, the/
(document seems destined to lie
on the shelf of the Senate com
mittee on foreign relations for
an indefinite time unless its
friends succeed in forcing ae
: lion on it.
Senator Jones, who was active
in promoting the negotiation o
the treaty, in a letter to Hartley,
given out at his office, inferen
tially accepts or at least acquies
ces in the suggestion that the
cockeye salmon problem may b.
“dealt with properly” by offi
cials of Washington State and
British Columbia. It appears that
Senator Jones recently solicited
the views of Hartley.
Jones Sends Pledge.
The governor responded with
a brisk.attack on the treaty
asserting that the people of the
state will expect their senators
to defeat it.
It is in response to this that
Jones sends his pledge to pre -
vent ratification. His letter says:
“I feel that you are just as
earnestly interested in the per
petuation of the sockeye salm
on supply as anybody can be.
“You know the conditions con
fronting this phase of the in
dustry as wrell as anybody in the
state, and you are particularly
familiar with the relations of
I your state officials wdth the of
ficials of British Columbia.
Interested in Same Thing
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feel that your judgement a? tr
what should be done in a mat
ter of this peculiar character
and of its relation to the state,
should largely guide us in such
matters. We are all interested in
the same thing, and that is the
perpetuation of the supply of
the sockeye salmon. While I
can see the difficulties of proper
control of the waters affected
because of the fact that they are
partly in Canadian territory
and partly in our territory, I
know that you also appreciate
this situation.
“If the situation can be han
dled and dealt with properly by
^he officials of British Columbia
and our state so as to increase
and perpetuate the supply of
.sockeye salmon, this is all that
anybody can ask. No more than
you, do I want to see the state
control of its fisheries interfered
with or taken away by the na
tional government.
“We probably will not be able
!o have the President withdraw
this treaty. But I think I am
justified in assuring you that the
treaty will not be ratified by the
Senate.”
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CAPITAL BUILDING
FOR JUNEAU
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With all of the plans made
for the dedication of the new
capital building in Juneau, it is
being suggested in certain quart
ers that the building is for
Juneau and Juneau alone. True
[ enough, they have invited the
I various organizations and Cham
bers of Commerce to take part
n the dedicatory exercises. But,
.he date set for the exercises are
so close to the opening days of
the Alaska Legislature that it
would be more fitting if the date
were again set forward till the
Legislature meets and can take
part in the exercises. The legis
ature is truly representative of
the people of Alaska and their
official connection would make
the dedicatory exercises more
appropriate. The only thing that
is being said about the exercises
now by a large proportion of the
population is that Juneau is
accepting a Territorial building
for its own use under its own
| scheme of things. Juneau should
show the generous spirit at this
time.
WOLF BOUNTIES
Two years ago, Mr. Stewart,
predatory animal hunter lobbi
ed through the Legislature a
bill providing for appropriation
f a neat sum of money to be
used by the Biological Survey in
he extermination of wolves in
Alaska. At the same time the
bounty paid by the Territory to
piivate citizens was cut down
from fifteen to ten dollars.
The Territory paid out more
money for the extermination of
wolves in the past two years
than it ever paid out prior to
that time and the results have
been most disappointing. To say
hat the expert hunters of the
Biological Survey had killed 100
wolves would be stretching the
[truth considerably. They set
poison out on the lines, tried
trapping and what not. Mostly
experimental work with no de
finite results to show for the
money appropriated. In the
neantime the cut in bounty paid
o resident Alaskans has been,
only to the benefit of the Bio
logical Survey.
Unless it can be shown that
1he predatory animal hunters
are really doing a work that
brings the Territory value for
noney expended, then it is time
to call a halt on a lot of foolish
ness paid for by the taxpayer of
the country.
AIRMAIL IN ALASKA
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The airmail from Seattle to
Alaska is a matter receiving
general support from every or
ganization in Alaska. There is
no opposition from Alaskans
whatsoever to the idea. The
Postal Department is none too
willing to give its sanction to
the plan and not a few Alaska ms
are liable to die of old age be
fore anything is done about it.
It might not be a bad idea at
all if the Legislature set aside a
sum of money subsidizing the air ■
’ines to Alaska to insure year^
around service with fast mail,
freight and passenger service.
This might be something for the
Chambers of Commerce to look|
up. ■
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GENERAL BUTLER TO
THE FRONT j
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General Smedley D. Butler,'
fighting marine is again in the
limelight. First, because ordered
under self-arrest, the army au
thorities were hard put to secure
a court of officers ranking him.
He is charged with talking out
of turn and thereby insulting
the dignity of Mussolini, dic
tator of Italy.
The argument is set forth that
if General Butler’s statements
anent the killing of a child by
Mussolini and Mussolini’s state
ment thereto, were made as a
private citizen it would not mat
ter but coming from him as an
officer it was all wrong and he
should apologize to Mussolini.
A recent editorial says that
the “question of fact was n^t an
issue” in this case. Correliir
Vanderbilt is credited with hav •
ing told Gen. Butler of tl e cir
cumstances leading to the gen •
eral’s statement and others are
said to have the same knowledge
as set forth by Vanderbilt. Con
sidering the source the General’s
statement must be true and it Is
not a question of fact but it is
a matter of fact. Making the
general apologize to the domi
neering dictating bulldozer of
Italy is not only an insult to an
American officer who has earned
his distinguished servic * medals
in the World War, but it is an
insult to every free born Ameri
can. May the court which tries
General Butler find him guiV.
of being a real American
WHY THEY LOVE ANDY
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While Secretary of Treasury,
Andrew Mellon is oblecting to
jthe early payment of war insur
ance to veterans of the World
War, he is busy giving back to
rich corporations a lot of taxes
that they have never missed.
“Uncle Andy” made cash re
funds to very rich taxeayers to
Ihe amount of $126,836,333.22.
He paid interest on this amount
| to the tune of $37,971,711.75. In
| a single year “Uncle Andy” gave
j a total relief of $164,808,044.96
' cut of the Treasury to very rich
| tax payers. And Congress and
i Hoover quarrel over a mere
i twenty-five million which would
, he used by the Red Cross for the
'relief of starving citizens in the
drought area.
But Look at these Figures
Here is the relief work of
Uncle Andy Mellon during the
year ending June 30, 1929:
Cash refunds • .. $190,164,359.48
Interest on same .. 40,905,057.84
Credits and abatements.
. 228,775,275.00
Total relief . 459,844,692.32
The Associated Press tells us
that the following were the poor
starving companies which were
on the list of Andy’s relief corps:
United States Steel.. $15,205,343
Swift & Company- 6,993,516
Libby, McNeil & Libby.
. 3,693,361
Eastman Kodak Co.... 3,416,218
Philadelphia Corporation.
. 2,791 250
C. B. & Q. R- R. 1,781,601
A. T. & S. F. R. R.. .. . 1,645,435
Public Service Corp. N. J.
.1,379,268
Southern Pecific R. R.
. 1,334,907
Pullman Co.1,147,284
Central Steel Co. .... 1,058,121
United Fuel & Gas Co.
.1,016,7501
These corporations all make
huge profits on their war opera
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Petersburg ... Alaska
lumber:
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BUILDING
MATERIAL
Factory Lumber
Boat Lumber
Mouldings
Shelving
Milwork
Shingles
Veneer
Doors
Sash
Lath
Fir
Cedar
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Hardwood
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Concrete Products
Patent Shingles
Chimney Blocks
Building Paper
Plaster Board
Balsam Wool
Wallboard
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Nails
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