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THE LAUNCHING OF THE
“MISSING LINK
The launching and christen
ing of the gasboat “Missinglink”
was performed with impressive
c e r e m onie s at Hards rated,,
Shumigan Islands, on June 10.
The most popular native wo
man of the neighborhood broke
a bottle of sourdough over it:
nose as it slid gracefully down
the ways and into the water. The
American flag, hoisted on . the
occasion, gave an extra flourish
as she touched the waves, to
.how its appreciation of the
honor of being hoisted on this
occasion.
The “Missinglink” now proud
ly riding at her mooring, the
pride of Hardscratch and the
Shumigan Islands.
The “Missinglink” is only 2i.
feet over all, G feet beam and £
feet draft. She is especially de
signed for salmon fishing 01
salmon poaching, or pirating
which means the same thing
nowadays in this part of Alaska
She is powered with a second
hand 4 horse power, Cliff gaso
line engine, (the Shumagin Is
land fishermen cannot afford to
buy anything new in that line)
and a brand new “Armstrong”
Motor, homemade. The gaso
line engine is intended for use
during clear weather, when the
fish warden, (the enemy) can be
seen at a safe distance, and
before he is able to pick up the
“Missinglink” with its low free
board. In foggy weather, when
the enemy cannot be seen before
he is too close for safety, the
“Armstrong” Motor is used ex
clusively, as fish enough cannot •
be caught outside the limit to
pay for oil and gas.
The model of the “Missing
link” is a cross betwen a dory, a
V-bottom boat and a submarine.
If chased by the enemy, the
shallow draft and submarine
quality of the “Missinglink” en- 1
ables it to run into shallow wr
iter, dive through the breakers,
and % dodge behind reefs and
rocks, where the enemy cannot
follow, and enables the owner to
get home and feed his hungry
family, if he was lucky enough
to get some fish before he was
chased off the grounds.
The designer of the “Missing
link” has another model to be
patented soon to be used when
the enemies are increased, mak
ing it dangerous to go fish pi
rating. A full description can
not be given before the patent
is applied for, but the main fea
tures may be told without any
danger of infringement. The
hull resembles a diving bell, with
two compartments, one for the
operator and the other for his
family. The engine is a new in
vention and its motive is sour
dough. You have to get the en
gine drunk before it will oper
ate. The most valuable as well
as the most complicated part of
the whole mechanism is an at
tachment for regulating the en
gine’s antics after it gets drunk.
This new appliance is intend
ed for the purpose of diving to
the bottom of the ocean, where
there generally is an abundance
of sea eggs, starfish, crabs, cut
tlefish or octopus crawling on the
bottom, for which there is no
punishment in the law for
catching. An attachment, to be
; patented,, will pick up these
; fish by suction, eject the water.
; and pull the fish into the family
! compartment where the owners
can live in security on the fat oi
the land as long as they can sup
. ply sourdough to keep the en
gine drunk.
A temporary colony will be es
tablished on the bottom of the
ocean where the poor fishermer
of Alaska will congregate anc
await the time when the fish
traps have exterminated th(
salmon, and the fish trust ha;
removed their establishments t(
other places on the globe. Whei
! that time comes, if there is an:
> fish in the ocean fit to eat, tha
ri
we will move back to dry land
and take possession ol our form
er homes, and live in hopes of
being free from persecution by
greedy, unscrupulous, millionaire
cannery owners from the States.
NATIVE WOMEN LEAD IN
CLOTHING MODEST V
So says Mons. Conforti, bishop
of Parma, Italy, recently. He
was speaking of the women ol
Somaliland, Egypt, India, Man
churia and the Chinese Eepub
ic, who have a far keener sense
of feminine modesty than their
white sisters according to the
Bishop.
He points out that women ofj
cities and country are adopting
much too short and light frocks,
oobbing hair, unchecked use of
ipstick are evident signs of de
ny in the moral system of to
day's society which only leads to
future disasters and ruin,
He declared it possible for the
women to dress well and even
oe smart without going too fai
md driving morals to the rocks.
He closed his letter by ordering
the priests to deny t he sacre
ment to the “unworthy.” ■
NOW WE KNOW
Where the women folk got the
..clea of the “sun tan.” We went
a) a movie and saw some Afric
ans—women mostly—dressed o:
undressed in native costume—
all with their backs to the sun
and the camera. Really, the sun
an outfits were a pretty good
copy of the African “heathen”
costumes.
And those dances that are
pulled olT these days bring to
mind the Sioux Indian dance,
the African dance—without the
postage stamp embrace. And
c/e remember the time when
such dances were called hootchy
kootchy dances. Ho hum. At
that, modern youth had noth
ing on old Rome.
STRIP POKER
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A few years back woman’s
dress reached from her neck to
rer heels and weighed three and
a half pounds. The dress of the
modern flapper weighs 1 pound
six ounces.
Men wear approximately 10
pounds of clothing, not count
ing his overcoat.
Man weighing 170 pounds wears
9V'i pounds of clothing; woman
jwho weighs 174 pounds wears
121/4 pounds of clothing; flapper
I who weighs 90 pounds wears 1
I pound and six ounces of cloth
| ing. Good thing the girls are
! not getting lighter in weight or
their clothes would weigh less
than nothing .
EAIRPLAY FOIl THE REDSKIN
“Discard all testimony of In
dians unless it is confirmed by
| white officials, and still the
j management of the Indian Bu
ireau is a putrid mess of incom
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jpetence and graft.”
i Senator Burton K. Wheeler of
Montana, just back in Washing
ton. summed up in those words
| the results of the investigation
recently conducted by a Senat
orial sub-committee mad up of
La FoHette, Wheeler and Frazier,
with the latter as chairman,
j “Twenty-five per cent of the
Indians we visited have tubercu
losis,” said Senator Wheeler
“Since most of the families ar<
huddled together in one-roon
shacks, this means that all an
exposed to the disease.
Many of these shacks, perhap
moet of them, have no floor ex
: cept hard-packed dirt—an idea
l condition for spreading the dis
ease.
“On most of the reservation
there is a high percentage o
5 trachoma (an infectious diseas
} of the eyelids, often causin;
t J blindness), and on the reserva
r tions within easy reach of an;
white populatior
t' considerable
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venereal diseases are pretty.
common. |
Why They Are Broke
“The Northern tribes are all
broke, and no wonder.
. .“There has never been an
itemized accounting of tribal
funds rendered to the tribes
which own these funds—never!
There has never been an item
ized accounting of the funds be
longing to an individual Indian,
so far as the committee could
learn.
They talk about, making the
Indian a self-supporting indi
vidual farmer. Nothing has
been done to help him to self
support.
“He gets about a sixth-grade
education in the schools provid
ed for him, with no special
training. Then they put him
out on land so barren that no
white man can succeed on it.
v.iiii no capital, no training, nc
real guidance, and tell him to go
co it.
“Almost without exception,
die land assigned to Indians is
jf the poorest sort, and with 11c
•xceptions at all, every reclama
tion project on Indian lands has
)een a practical failure.
“Then take the Indians that
ire getting what are called ra
dons. These rations are what
■oa can buy with from $1.UG to.
il.20 per month for each indi
vidual.
Forced to Eat Ilorsemeat
“Of course the stuff supplied
for such a sum is unfit to use.
One old Indian told us they had
fed him horsemeat until he
whinnied in his sleep.’
“We asked them for recom
mendations for the betterment
of the service. One of them said
that he would recommend any
thing that would make the In
dian appreciate and be grateful
for what was done for him!
! “Another said his recommend
jation was, “No more investiga
tions.’
“The situation is worse than a
scandal. It is a national dis
grace; and something must be
done to clean it up.”—LABOR.
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