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The Alaskan, six months,. $2.50
The Alaskan, per year . $4.00
Published every Friday by the a. N. B. Publishing Co., Petersburg
Entered in the Post Offlce in Petersburg as Second Class matter.
TOWN GYMNASIUM
Much has gone on in the athletic
world in Petersburg in the past
years and yet never has the town
been able to turn out a consistently
winning team of baseball, basket
ball or even marbles.
Many schemes have been worked
up to develop winning teams but
never any thought of the necessary
daily practice. “Practice makes
perfect” yet the Petersburg teams
n.ostly through their supporters
seem to think that all that is neces
sary to win is to organize thfe team,
be it for basketball or pingpong.
The local high school has for the
past thfee years faced very dis
couraging conditions for playing.
The first being a charge of a dollar
and fifty cents, the hour for any and
all practice games. At this rate
the boys are precluded from spend
ing the hours necessary to acquire
the skill and stamina necessary to
the game. When they meet any
stiff competition they crack under
the Strain; in fact, the psychology is
against them for they go on the
• floor expecting to be beaten and are
already mentally defeated.
The P. T. A. has been making a
sort of effort to acquire a gym
as an adjunct to the public school,
^t a recnt meeting of the organiza
tion Mayor Locken is quoted as
promising them $15,000. from lo
al funds to defray the cost of a 60
by 100 two story building; the low
er floor to house a gym and the up
per floor to furnish additional school
rooms. The temper of the tax payer
will not stand for any further in
debtedness until something has
been done to liquidate some of the
present indebtedness of $150,000.
Promises made should be kept and
under the conditions today we do
not see the advisability of adding to
$150,000 another $15,000 at the
least and when final figures turned
in find that we have been saddled
with a hill considerable larger than
estimated. There is a limit to the
load of taxation and Petersburg is
mighty near that limit right now.
The alternative plan offered by
the Petersburg Athletic As,saciation
strikes us as being the more prac
tical plan. Secure a lot centrally
located, subscribe or bond the build
ing, donate the labor. Quit talking
about putting a building up. Just
start in with what material and fi
nances are at hand and give the
boys place to practice in. The thing
is to do it now and not live on
vague promises which are not
meant to be kept,
THE INDIANS AND
THEIR PLIGHT
There is good reason to believe
that there will be a further attempt
during the coming session of the
territorial legislature, to provide
territorial aid for the releif of In
digent Indians. It is not disclosed
whether aid will be sought through
the pension fund, by amendment of
that act, or through direct legisla
tion. but it seems quite certain
that the matter will be brought
before the legislature in some form
or other. The Alaskan, official pub
lication of the Alaska Native Bro
therhood, published at Petersburg,
insists that the pension law, is
an attempt to “discriminate against
the Indians,” and deplores the fact
that officials of the territory re
fuse to provide relief where ft is
urgently needed among the Indians.
The case of a crippled mother, with
several children and an invalid
husband is cited and the paper won
ders “what the territorial board
will do about it.” So far theboard
has refused to do anything about
it, having left the case to be taken
care of by the indigent fund under
control of the district court.
The question demands attention
and some sort of settlement. The
ing their problems increasingly dif
'ndians of the Territory are find
ficult of solution. The coming of
the whites to Alaska has upset the
i«'nor of their ways and each year
finds need of more liberal porvi
sirn for the care of those who a?.* 3
been enfeebled by age or disea -v
It is the white man,s burden to see
that the Indians are taken care of
in their declining years! because it
is the white man who has robbed
them of their heritage—driven
them from their hunting grounds,
encroached upon trap lines, crowd
ed them out of the coastal waters
with fishs, undermined their health
and introduced them to a civiliza
tion which makes Impossible a re
turn to tribal vrays. The whites
have done all those things and the
time is Close at hand when the
whites must make amend by assum
ing a fuller measure of responsibl
ity for the well being of the In
dians,
By that The Times does not mean
that the Territory should undertake
to extend financial aid to those In
dians who may be found in need.
The income of the territory will
not permit the assuming of such
magnitude. But there must be re
cognition of the problem and an
effort made to find a satisfactory
solution.—Anchorage Daily Times.
NO SUCH PLAN
During the elections last fall The
Alaskan stated that it knew of no
plans for a “raid” on the Territorial
treasury. We reiterate, we know
of on such plans at this date. The
pension laws as they stand today
are legally applicable to every citi
zen of the United Sttes. As we un
derstand it, every school system of
the United States is under some ob
ligation to the Bureau of Educa
tion. For the Bureau spends many
thousands of dollars for the disemi
nation of information relative to ed
bcation. The moment a child enters
a school which has received benefit
from this bureau, that child is pre
cluded from being a beneficiary of
teriitorial funds. Not only Indians
being beneficiaries of said bureau.it
would appear proper that the legis
lature make its own amendments. I
There will be no effort to amend
but we assure the world that there
T*'ill be effort to prevent any further
unfair legislation.
A KNIGHT OF YORE
“Back to the feudal days, say we,
back to the mercy of the king. To
say nothing of assistant prosecuting
all orneys and assistant attorney
generals, or the kings coiinselers.
There can l>e no defense of crime
and corruption, but between prosti
tution and usurpation of the rights
or' the citizen as laid down by the
framers of the constitution, we' hold
that the former is the lesser of the
two and certainly the older of the
tvils. ****
‘ Let them close their bawdy
houses if they will. Let them com
bat crime as they will, but let offi
cials, high or low, beware of invad
ing the rights of the people. As the
lowly of old rose up and gave theiu*
lifeblood for the Magna Charter, so
in the days to come will the people
rise to bring back to themselves
those conditions of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness which the
forefathers of America handed
clown.”—Ketchikan Chronicle.
The above is a quotation from the
Chronicle in protest to the recent
abatement proceedings brought in
to the district court to stop the traf
fic in the flesh pots of passion. It
is no worse, and no better than we
expected from Sir Edward, the
duughty knight of Ketchikan.
SECURES COLLEGE DEGREE '
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The B. S. degree has just recent
ly been conferred upon Prank John
son, better. known to us as “Doc”,
by the University of Oregon at
Eugene. This high honor has been
won by “Doc” by his own persistent
effort to get there and we heartily
congratulate him. By his own con
genial manner and most friendly
way he has won for himself many
friends and we know that when he
starts out for himself as he expects
to do at the end of this school year,
he will make many more.—Che
mawa American.
“Doc” Johnson is one of “those
illiterates at Kake who votes at the
dictation of William Paul.” Strug
gling through high school, some
how making his way through the
University of Oregon. He is plan
ning to take up the study of medi
cine and return to Alaska to prac
tice. Those “illiterates” are sure
persistent as well as insistent.
HEAL AMERICAN SOMMERS
The First Squadron, Fourth Cav
alry, Ft. Meade, South Dakota, now
numbers among its personnel 25
full blood Sioux Indians. All of
uiesp recruits are very promising
young soldiers. Twelve of the young
cavalrymen came from the Standing
■Rock Agency, one of them, Cleo
Oow Ghost, being a grandson of
the famous Sitting Bull. Others
are from the Rosebud and Pine
bidge Agencies.
MIGRATING BULL—FROGS '
. The press is carry despatches to
the effect that bull frogs migrating
from one swamp to another near
Houston, Texas halted traffic recent
ly. It was stated that it was vir
tually impossible to get through the
jam at certain places.
At. Bakersfield it was reported
that the town was overrun with
rats and mice and the city was try
the. pests.
There are worse spots than Alas
ka.
FLU IN EUROPE NO
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
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There is little cause for alarm in
the United r States in connection
with reports that influenza again is
prevalent in Europe, Dr. Mattias
ISirhoH, Jr., State Cmmissioner or
Health says in a report just sub
mitted to the United States Public
flealth Service.
The present outbreak of the dis
ease in Europe, the report states
is considered by Dr. Nicoll to be re
latively mild. He advised, however
that the one thing for a person who
has a feverish cold to do is “to go
to bed immediately and stay there
until he. is well.’'
MAYOR SUBPOENAED TO AP
. PEAR BEFORE SENATE
Mayor W. Freeland Kendrich and
other officials of Philadelphia have
been subpoenaed to appear before
the Senate Investigating Commit
tee wit hballots of the last election.
The contest which is bein gstaged
bv William B. Wilson, Democratic
candidate senator from Pennsylva
nia, is protesting the seating of
William S. Vare, Republican candi
date. *'
Several truck loads of ballots,
dul.) sealed, weer shipped to Wash
ington where the investigating com
mit ec will make a recheck of the
election. It is stated that the re
check will run into the summer
months.
The American newspaper is, by
ivs very nature, its own communi
ty’s mirror, voice, market place and
leader. Some one has desteribed
the newspaper, and it’s a great
newspaper that can tell truthfully
claim to be all this implies.-Ex.
CHILDREN HARD OF HEARING
- A preliminary survey made re
cently by the American Federation
of Organizations for the Hard of
Hearing, at the suggestion of the
Unuited States Bureau of Education
indicates that the hearing of ap
proximately 3,000,000 school chil
dren of the United States is defec
tive.
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