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BEAK BAITING
(Seattle P. I.
Two large Alaskan bears, tak
en from their native haunts to
g, town in Virginia, became eras
ed by the heat, broke their
chains, and terrorized the town
until one was recaptured and
one shot to death. Poor things!
Try to imagine, if you can, the
suffering of those noble kings
of the North when transplanted
into a heat wave of the Southern
States. Man, with his unneces
sary slaughter of wonderful
animals, and with his aimless
cruelties, is dangerously near to
bringing the Age of Mammals to
an end.”
Oh, yeah! How much the Se
attle editor knows about Alas
ka bear. Amazing' Indeed, it
is surprizing that so much knpwl
edge can be absorbed even by a
Seattle editor.
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DOUBLE STANDARDS
Just as the country had be
come used to seeing women
wearing pajamas anywhere, any
time, any place, the militant fe
male residents of Rockaway and
dgemere, N. Y., protested that
men should not be allowed on
the boardwalks at the beach re
orts wearing the garments once
used for sleeping. The protest
was taken “under advisement”
by the police and traffic com
mittee.
Why should any man want to
parade around town in pajamas
anyhow.
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NICE REVENUE
It is reported that the seal
take from the Pribilof rookeries
is the greatest since the govern
ment took over control of that
industry. O’Malley reports 49,51}
seals killed this year,
i The only concern to benefit
j from the seal take on these is
1 lands is the Fouke Fur Co., of
St. Louis.
When only one corporation
benefits from an industry that
takes almost 50,000 seal this
year, it is time that they quit
that business and £urn control
over to the Territory. If it did
not make a better dicker than
the Bureau of Fisheries, the seal
had better be left alone.
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2,000,000 SLAVES SET FREE
Ras Tafari, empreror of Abys
sinia and last of the world's
large slave owners, will shortly
.elease 2,000,000 slaves within his
territories.
In a letter to the Anti-slavery
Society and Aborigines’ Protect
ive Society, Ras Tafari declared
his intention to abolish serfdom
in ancient Ethiopa. An official
of the society said: “It is by no
means an easy task to free 2,
000,000 slaves. There are many
obstacles. The king has had to
pacify the many slave-owning
chiefs, but after months of dip
lomatic negotiation, he has at
last succeded.”
This is saying a whole lot
more than can Ije said of the
“free people of America.”
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YOU FIND WHAT YOU FIND
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You will always find what you
are looking for—except a job.
Recently John Barton Payne,
chairman of the American Red
Cross, after discussing with Pres
ident Hoover plans for furnish
ing relief next winter, emerged
from the White House to say
that the “unemployment situa
tion is bad but not alarming.”
The Washington “Star,” one
leading conservative paper of
the National Capital, sought to
enlighten Chairman Payne on
that point.
It reports that one of its re
porters and three officials of the
District Employment Commit
tee, disguised as members of the
army of jobless tramped
the streets, visiting every con
struction job and interviewing
every possible employer, without
locating a single job. Every
where they went, they reported
they “got the well-known gate.”
Washington is said to have
suffered less from the depression
than any other city in the coun
try. The government has under
way a building program running
up into the tens of millions of
dollars. Yet, according to these
I ihvestigators, jobs are non-ex
istent here.—LABOR, Washing
ton, D. C.
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THE AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
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Whenever we begin to consid
er the ignorance and illiteracy
of “heathen nations” our good
people are trying to educate,
christianize and civilize, we gj
into statistics which cannot be
evaded nor denied.
There are today in the United
States of America, the land oi
freedom and equality, tne land
of opportunity 12,000,000 Illiter
ates. Not one of them ever
read a newspaper. Many of
these unlettered folk are pretty
low grade, degenerates, feeble
minded, morons.
According to surveyors, this is
the poorest 25 per cent of all
illiterate adults and sub-adults.
There is another group, the
semi-literates—those who can
read simple passages slowly—the
bunch that school teachers pass
along to higher grades to “get
rid of them. This number of
semi-literate is said to number
between 12,000,000 and 18,000,000
or approximately 15.000,000.
Then there is estimated anoth
er 35,000,000 who read little save
that class of magazines which
appeals to the sensuous and
leaves little to the imagination.
However, the ability to read
well and to learn from what one
reads, is the surest single mark
of intelligence.
But a failing of many students
of the subject of illiteracy is the
conclusion that because a per
son is illiterate, he is ignorant.
We have seen highly educated
Mexicans, Filipinos, Japanese,
Chinese, and others races, de
clared “ignorant” because they
were unable to read the English
language or “talk United States.”
When as a matter of fact, their
education in their own civiliza
tion gave them every bit as
high a culture and intelligence
as is given by the average Ameri
can institution of learning. And
the same is true of the Indian
races of North America—their
system of training or culture
gave them an insight into hu
man nature, philosophy, and an
understanding of problems oi
life that is not within the com
prehension of the educated ego
ist.
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WANTS FILIPINOS TO DROP
UNITED STATES
The Insular Legislature, Phi
lippine Islands, convened recent
ly and after being organized,
heard Governor-General Dwight
F. Davis urge the people of the
Islands to turn their efforts from
political to economic problems.
The political problem in the
Island possessions, like it is in
Alaska is an economic problem.
The struggle to secure sufficient
' o purchase simple necessities of
life, food_ and clothing, forces
the people to turn to the only
weapon at hand—politics—and
through its use secure enactment
of legislation that will make a
decent living possible. It was
the economic problem that forc
1 the railroad men to organize
their famous Brotherhood; it
was the economic problem that
gave birth to thel. W.W.’s of the
logging camps on Puget Sound
And when^this organization se
cured decent wages, decent hous
ing, decent food, decent working
hours, the strength of the or
ganization dwindled down until
it became a negligible factor as
an organization in labor circles.
When the economic problem
in Alaska is solved to the point
where Alaskans may secure a
decent cultural wage, commens
urate with their labor the politi
cal problem will adjust itself to
the old battle between the pro
fessional politician and profes
sional office holder. And what
is true in Alaska is true of the
Phillippine Islands where the
problem is more aecute because
greater numbers of people are
affected by the adverse economic
conditions.
The problem in both the Is -
lands and Alaska will not be
solved by Federal appointees or
bureaus—the solution can come
only through self-government.
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CONDITION OF U. S. NEGROES
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The Bureau of Census reports
; that the Negro population of the
United States increased 11.5 per
cent between 1920 and 1930. This
is nearly twice as fast as the
rate of growth of the same race
from 1910 to 1920; winch was
G.4 per cent.
The general population gained
xu per cent from 1920 to 1930
The Negrc therefore, is still los
ing ground relatively to th*
white. In the 46 states for
which tables are completed, the
Negroes gained 1,100,000, and the
whites nearly 16,000,000.
Better education and better
sanitation environment are
credited with reducing the death
rate.
The Census Bureau finds that
Negroes are moving from farms
to cities and from the South to
more northerly states.
Immediately following the Re
bellion of the Southern States,
Hie Negroes were placed under
the Freedman’s Bureau, which
functioned somewhat under the
same general plan as the Indian
Bureau. In the course of time
the benevolent, paternalistic bu
reau was eradicated am* the Ne
gro thrust upon his own respons
ibility with great benefit to him
self. He was fortunate in that
no had no “possessions” lior
treaties writh the United States
Government , else the Freed
man’s Bureau would have re
mained in existence even as it
has been a drag upon the pro
gress of the Red Man.
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BUSINESS IS GOOD—WHY?
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Business is good. What makc^
it good? Money is “easier” they
say. It is the same money that
was “tight” six months ago.
What has made it “easier” now?
Do you really want to know
what has made it easier? Then
here is the answer: A group Ox
jmen wired and phoned to all
Federal Reserve centers in the
early part of May 1920—“The
tie-up comes on the 15th.” Thai
is exactly how “deflation” came
by the decision and order of »
private group. It was not a
“deflation of currency” but a
deflation of the people. These
same men recently said, “Let s
ease up a little; tell them to
come in and oorrow some mon
ey.” And then, all of a sudden.
‘ business is good.” The business
was always there—waiting. Men
materials, need, all there; but no
money. The money all there,
too, but not “easy.”
Some people rub their heads
when they try to understand
the Money Question. Let them
be warned; don’t try to under
stand it; no one understands
it; our present system is so ir
rational as to baffle rational
minds; financiers themselves
don’t understand it, they only
play it. If the Money Brokers
can induce you to try to under
stand the Monetary System,
then they have you tied up for
the rest of your life—Exchange.
The money system of today" is
not easier to understand than
back in 1920. You have it or
you don’t The entire buying
power of industrials is tied up
or it is in good buying health.
In the meantime, the little wage
earner has or goes without the
ordinary necessities of life.
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JUVENILES MARRY
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An increase in child-marriages
among the pupils in the public
schools of New York Ctiy has
been reported by the superin
tendent of schools.
In the last academic year 552
boys and girls dropped from
school because of marriage, as
against 483 in the preceding
year. Only four of the 552 were
boys; 373 were girls in the com
pulsory continuation schools.
Among the girl brides, one was
only 12 years old, three were 13,
48 were 14, 133 were 15. The 16
year-olds were most numerous,
344 being in that classification.
The report disclosed that the
classrom standing of many of
the brides was not high.
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FOR SALE—16 h.p. Frisco
Standard, two propellers, shaft,
stern bearing, stuffing box, At
water Kent ignition system and
new 110-gal. tank. Engine is in
excellent condition—$250.—Geo.
Sumption, Wrangell. »; ]
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of the Circus
Last time tonight
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in
“Flirting Widow"
FOR SALE—Four-room house
and one two-room house. In
quire at Hogue and Tveten.
FOR RENT: Two and three room
furnished apartments. Inquire
at this office.
FOR SALE: One outboard motor
boat, built by J. Davis & Son, of
Metlakatla, Alaska. For infor
mation call at this office.
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New low price on Indian out
board motor manufactured by
Indian Motorcycle Co. 10 h. p.
S125. F. O. B. Petersburg. Powei
and service is the motto.—Chas.
Diven, agent.
SEE HOLLINGSTAD if you wish
to place your orders for local
chickens, meat, butter, milk and
sweet or sour cream.—Adv.
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NOTICE
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
OF THE INTERIOR UNITED
STATES LAND OFFICE
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Anchorage, Alaska,
July 9, 1931
Notice is hereby given that Ja
*cob Hallingstad, entryman, to
I gether with his witnesses Ed Nil
’ sen and Clifford Roundtree, all
of Petersburg, Alaska, has sub
mitted final proof on his home
stead serial 06915 for a tract of
land embraced in H. E. S. No.
221, New Series No. 1967, located
on the east shore cf Frederick
Sound Forest List 8-15, from
which corner No. 1 U.S.L.M. No.
91 bears S. 355 degrees 58 min
iutes E. 222.98 chains, containing
! 108.08 acres, and it is now in the
files of the U. S. Land Office
Anchorage, Alaska, and if no
protest is filed in the local land
office at Anchorage, Alaska, with
in the period of publication or
thirty days thereafter said final
proof will be accepted and final
certificate issued.
J. Lindley Green,
Register
Date 1st Publication Aug. 14, ’31
Date Last Publication Oct. 9, *31
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NOTICE .
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
.OF THE INTERIOR, UNITED
.STATES LAND OFFICE.
Anchorage, Alaska,
June 15, 1931.
Notce is hereby given that Ed -
ward Oliver Ramstead, entry
man, together with his witnes
ses, Andrew Ask and Carl Adolp l
Swanson all of Petersburg, Alas
ka, has submitted final proof on
nis homestead eptry serial 0659"!,
for a tract of land embraced in
U E. S. No. 201, located on the
east shore of Frede’ick Sound
r ear Point Agassiz containing
120.85 acres, from which corner
No. 1, U. S. L. M. No. 91 bears S.
47o 20' 33" E 203 44 chains, For -
est List 8-81, longitude 132o 52'
W. latitude 56o 55' 43" N. and
u is now in the files of the U. S.
l and Office. Anchorage. Alaska,
and if no protest is filed in the
local land office at Anchorage,
/daska, within the period of pub
lication or thirty days there
after, said final proof will be ac
cepted and final certificate is
sued.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Register
F’ist Publication July 3, 1931
Last Publication August 28,193J.
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