servations and other octupi
which have destroyed the virility
and manhood of the State In
dians, they had better disallu
sion themselves. For as soon as
the Indian Bureau shows itself (
to be a millstone in Alaska, there \
will be one concerted clamor for,
its abolition and for entrance in
the public schools. And perhaps
then the editors of the Empire
will show their true colors.
The Alaska Indian is not be
ing fooled as much as some of
the politicians believe. Some
have been fooled, some will be
fooled—but in the end—there
will be an accounting.
Out of the Pot—Not 'Slumgullian'!
The political pot is simmering, j
Simmering and boiling with the
lid on. Silently, swiftly and vie- |
iously the campaigns are swing- j
ing. The Democrats are hopeful,
that their entire ticket will be j
elected from top to bottom—
nationally and Territorially. The
Republicans are sanguine of the
re-election of President Hoover
and hopeful, though not so op
timistic of the election of their |
entire ticket.
I
Two years ago was organized
a “harmony” party. Last year
was re-organized the Republi-!
can party in Ketchikan—but in
the reorganization, some very
important factors were ignored:
Only certain desirable elements
were present at the convention
in Ketchikan; only candidates
for office were present to control
the convention. Why the mis
takes—why the switch of place,
was never explained but that
“re-organization” was a flop.
Since the return of E. A. Ras
muson of Cordova and Albert
White of Juneau, effort has been
made to get together the many
ragged and warped ends of Re
publicanism. And ragged and
warped they are. Each man for
himself and without so much
regard for party or party prin
ciple.
“Was Is Hell”
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It took a Yankee general to
give a definition of war about
as tersely as has ever been given.
It took another Yankee general
to tell the people of the United
States that they were living un
der conditions worse than war. I
General Pershing was not far
from wrong when he declared
that present America is living
under conditions of war and
worse.
When men have given the
best months and years of their
lives to their country “to pro
tect democracy” for one dollar
a day—to return home maimed
and crippled and with physical
and mental disabilities that dis
qualify them from further en
joyment of life, they are en
titled to better treatment than
has been accorded them by the
richest nation in the world.
When those men are fired
upon and gassed while progress
ing in an orderly manner—just
because they demand that their
government take care of their
immediate needs instead of
waiting until 1945, then some
thing is radically wrong 'with
the government.
The men were given paid up
Insurance policies—due in 1945.
The government recognized the
obligation to those men and met
that obligation in that way. The
stress of the times made it im
perative so the government al
lowed those men to borrow up
to one-half of their policies and
*c pay a rate of insurance which
would eat up the balance. With
conditions growing worse, the
demand that the government
give them the balance grew
stronger. Hence the Bonus
Army in Washington.
A victim of the greed of the (
capitalistic forces lies buried in |
Arlington Cemetery — b u r i e d j
with full military honors. Buried I
in -a plot set aside by our gov- j
ernment for its war heroes. No!
civilians are buried in that ceme- j
teiy and very few presidents.
That government which permit
ted the killing of this veteran of
the World War by its last acts,
recognized that this victim was
a hero.
For and many others, the
Out of the muck and mire
the Divisional and National
Committeemen are trying to
weave a strong party. And it is
hard to make a garment of pure
wool when everything else but
wool is offered instead.
John Rustgard, candidate for
ro-election as attorney general
wants to be leader in his own
way—and mostly for himself.
Judge Harding has developed an
antithesis for the office force o:
Albert White, divisional Com
mitteeman and it is generally
said that the Ohio judge, unable
to get out in the open as any
ether ordinary man would, is
directing knife thrusts at the
back of the committeeman. And
with the Judge are his district
attorneys and it is said that he
has the backing of not a few of
the federal force—appointed by
direction of a Republican ad
ministration.
Out of the chaos will come
harmony. Out of the tangle of
loose, warped and ragged ends
will come a woven piece of real
•worth. The scum and scourings,
the hangers on of party in pow
er only, the things that are
neither Republican or Demo
crat in principle, will be thrown
into the discard. For in no other
way can there be a party—Demo
crat or Republican.
wreathe to honor his death.
And yet, it is not wreathes and
honors after death that they
want and need—their cry is for
bread, for food, for clothing for
their little ones. “If thy son ask
thee for bread, wilt thou give
him a stone?”
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Breaking Even
-x
A fisherman operating in the
Wrangell district writes in: “We
have just about managed to
make our gas expenses and that
is all.” What about the grub
bill, Mr. Business Man? Who is
going to pay that? The Bureau
of Fisheries? The trap system
which has been and is robbing
Alaskans of their right to Lib
erty and the Pursuit of Happi
ness? Who foots the bill in the
end?
Stick a pin into yourself and
wake up. You have been lulled to
sleep for so long a time that your
hypnosis is like unto death.
You will awaken with the tables
bare, nothing to eat and only
slow starvation ahead of you.
Whether you like it or not,
coming from this “scandal
sheet” you will have to take the
kind of medicine that Doctor
O’Malley is giving you.
-A
Will It Be a New Deal?
It has oft been said that a
new broom sweeps clean. It is a
known fact that when new offi
cials are placed in office, they
begin to look around to make
their machine run the smoother.
Not much hope was to be had
under the Lamont administra
tion. He did not lend a sympa
thetic ear to the problems of the
fisher folk of Alaska. He be
lieved that the sun just about
rose and set in Henry O’Malley
and that Henry was a real ro
seate himself—the latter view
is generally admitted in Alaska.
Anyhow, any appeal for a
change in administration of the
fisheries in Alaska directed to
Secretary Lamont received
courteous replies from his sec
retaries and on occasion when
facts too specified for denial
were placed before him, he curt
ly sided with the Honorable
Fish Commissioner of Alaska.
Just what hope is to be had
for a change under Mr. Chapin
is problematical. However, he will |
have a chance to give an expres- j
sion as to the maladministra
tion of Alaska’s big resource by
Henry O’Malley.
The Spell of the North j
By James R. Little
-x
I want to see the Yukon's i
sunset. Leaving behind it a clean j
sKy, where stars twinkle brilli-1
antly in the dark blue heavens;
where it pales and vanishes
making way for a glorious dawn!
And the soft, June twilight that
floats down on the River in
myriad lights and shadows,
which make vague all things ex
cept those nearest at hand. Oh,
the beauty of those hills! The
gray and the green and the blue, j
The countless hues of flower and j
bird, that’s where the portals of j
j dreamland open for me! That’s j
j what always makes the Sour
I dough folks go back to the North
(land.
The Eternal Stwegle
“As It Looks To Me”
By James R. Little
-x
As long as we breathe there
ran be no peace. Peace implies
satisfaction, and a state of rest.
I suppose. The only spiritual
peace is a state of war. I have
a Sourdough friend who writes
that I must find central peace."
I reply: “Give me struggle, toil,
hardship, new dim. long, long
trails to trod. I ask no peace, j
Cnee a man is satisfied that he!
has found peace, I think that he |
begins to lose out in the fight
toward the Grail.”
How shall a man find peace
when the world is chock-a-block
with suffering?
I might be a bum guide. But
what I mean is, don’t fuss about
finding spiritual peace. I rather
think that there is a hand upon
cur shoulder whose owner knows
what lies within our hearts. The
tie of one’s greatest peace is in
the thick of the fight.
It’s the only peace worth a
man’s consideration at all. War
as long as we are here—and!
what comes after is none of my
business to fuss over. For my
part, I wish to Heaven I could
grow up and learn to be a real
man. God steps along beside
you, anyway.
I was raised up, dear friend,
where nothing could be done well |
enough. There was never satis
faction in attainment for the
reason that there was always
the need to go one better yet.
Life must be gone at bare
handed, without gloves for our
fingers, or ointment for our pick
and shovel-cracked palms. Life
is a hard job. Life is a ship at
sea. No polish upon her brass- j
work is polish bright enough. It
must be yet further embellished.
Satisfaction is a rotten egg—
a maggot in our sourdoughs.
Well, it gives me great delight if
I can give anybody pleasure, ;
but I cannot give them pleasure i
enough. Most of all I like to give!
a boy pleasure, I think, remem- j
bering what a tale of adventure
used to mean to me 35 years ago.
I’d like to send a thousand boys,
a week from their homes to;
seek for virgin yellow gold in
Alaska. Boy Scouts seeking gold, {
what a kick they would get out
of panning for colors!
I had a letter from a man
yesterday saying—“Durn you, |
my boy wants to go to Alaska
prospecting for gold.” I wrote
back and said—“Let him go!” I
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The steamship inspection ser
vice and the bureau of naviga
tion have been consolidated
according to a report from the
office of the Secretary of Com
merce. The new division of the
Commerce Department will be
known as the Bureau of Navi
gation and Steamboat Inspec
tion. The director of the new
feniean lias not yet been named.
Polititicians Benefit
From Relief
-x
Describing “a 11 politicians,
high and low,” as the chief bene
ficiaries of the “relief racket,”
Reger W. Babson, economist,
Silver Bay, N. Y., told members
of the Silver Bay Institute that
tiie United States today is as
much on a dole as England and
asserted that until public at
tention is focused on men in
stead of money “the world will
continue to suffer.”
“Money,” said Mr. Babson,
“will no more succeed in get
ting us out of the depression
than it succeeded in keeping us
out. Nor does the solution lie in
building nonproductive public
works, but in getting the un
employed back to their old pro
ductive jobs.”
“Organized relief,” he said, “is
benefiting the politician more
than the distressed unemployed.
It is the biggest racket in the
country and all politicians, high
and low, are its chief benefici
aries.”
Mr. Babson urged a “quota
plan” for bringing business back
to normal and pointed out “the
real task” was to balance pro
duction and consumption so as
to get everyone back to work
He said a simple remedy would
be to quota the unemployed a
gainst employers and those .al
ready employed.
“This could be done,” he said,
“by having each community
budget the number of its unem
ployed and quota them among
corporations, partnerships, fami
Les and individuals at a wage tc
be fair to all parties concerned,
This would be only the reverse
of wartime practice—drafting
men into industry instead of out
cf it.”
-x
Misery Brings Unity
-x
Racial prejudices have been
wiped out by the depression and
replaced by a tolerance born of
mutual suffering, Mayor Dore
of Seattle, told an audience re
cently.
“Out of all the misery caused
by the depression comes the re
deeming feature of kindness and
tolerance,” the mayor said. Never
before have we seen such wide
spread determination of all
classes to unite in caring for
the victims of unemployment.
“People are beginning to real
ize that there is something wrong
with our social and economic
system which permits a calami
ty of this extent and they are
v/orking to correct- the evils
which exist.
“The average man, the for
gotten man of whom Gov.
Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke,
does not receive his just share of
the plenty which abounds. Peo
ple whose fortunes have been
wiped out are beginning to real
ize that every man is entitled to
a comfortable living and realize
the fallacy of struggling for
more money than they can
spend.”
Red Cross Relief Work
-x
Red Cross disaster relief work
ers are on the scene extending
relief to families made homeless
by recent floods in Kansas and
Texas, A. L. Schafer, manager of
the Pacific Area, announced on
receipt of advices from the St.
Louis Branch Office.
Kansas and Texas chapters
immediately started raising re
lief funds which were augment
ed by substantial contributions
from national headquarters at
Washington, D. C.
Floods swept 75,000 acres in
the valleys of the Neosho and
Cottonwood Rivers in Kansas.
Seven hundred families in the
flooded area were affected. A
great majority of them lost crops
and livestock, including cows,
thickens, pigs and work horses.
The appeal to Kansas chapters
Cor help in the flooded districts
I followed by two days an appeal
for relief of families affected by
a tornado at Washington, Kan
sas.
J Unprecedented floods alonj
,the Guadalupe, Neuces and Frio
'Fivers in South Central Texas
'caused extensive destruction of
crops, homes and other build
ings. Five hundred families were
victims of the high water. Losses
'of crops and livestock in the
! Texas section are placed at
; $500,000.'
x
Red Cross Survey
! -x
Red Cross chapters through
out the Pacific Area have been
(asked by A. L. Schafer, manager
of the Pacific Branch Office at
,San Francisco, to make a sur
jvey and determine the needs of
each community in providing
cotton cloth and wearing ap
parel for people in distress.
The action follows official
word that President Hoover has
signed the bill authorizing the
transfer of 500,000 bales of gov
ernment owned cotton to the
American Red Cross and that
plans for its distribution are
now being considered.
In addition to ascertaining the
supplies that may be necessary
for a six months period, the sur
vey will* determine the number
| of volunteers that may be mobil
ized to produce garments and
| what machinery is available. Mr.
'Schafer says:
“Every Red Cross chapter dur
jing the World War had its Pro
duction Committee in sewing
and knitting thousands of gar
ments for the soldiers. Many oJ
them have continued with the
production of garments, baby
' layettes or surgical bandages for
I hospitals.
“In many cases the war-time
groups have remained intact. In
all cases the Red Cross chapters
have the nucleus for starting
Iwork on clothing, especially for
women and children, and in a
very short time these organiza
tions can be expanded as far as
jthe need of each community may
! require.
“Some 300 chapters in Alaska,
Arizona, California, Idaho, Ne
vada, Oregon, Utah and Wash
ington are participating in fami
ly relief by distributing Red
, Cross flour milled from govern
ment wheat. Preliminary reports
'from field representatives indi
jcate there is a need in some lo
calities for bedding.
“The chapter survey will give
authentic information to guide
distribution of clothing in addi
tion to flour.”
-1
The son of a Rome, Ga., color
ed man has named his son Hoov
er Depression Clarke. The house
physician of a Chicago hotel is
named Dr. Payne. A Mr. Kaiser
advertised for Warveterans.
Monte Bay Fool Hall
-X
Candy - Cigars - Soft Drinks
A place to meet you? friends
Yakutat, Alaska
Ben Petersen - - Prop.
Juneau Melody House
F.C.A.-Victor
Records - Phonographs - Radios
Mail orders promptly filled
Sales FORD Service
Hardware - General Supplies
Draying
Haines - - Alaska
Erick Oslund - - Proprietor
Carl Bjornstad
General Merchandise
Groceries
Shoes - Gents’ Furnishings
Haines - - Alaska
l Hollywood & Beach ;
J SHEET METAL - HEATING ?
PLUMBING - STOVE REPAIR*
Sitka - Alaska £
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(Mrs. Jack Wilson)
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Permanent Waves
The most painstaking professional artistry and individual o
attention is given to each customer. $
Valentine Building, Juneau, Alaska ''