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AS TO HERRING
There are those who flinch a little
at me heinng question. Tho idea
nils that legisation that would
put tiie reduction »'lants out of busi
ness, would at the mine time, usher
mi somthiug of a financial crisis
There is, also, a feeling that with
so -much capital invested it would
be impossible, if not illegal, to do
anything to bar them, let alone close
them altogether.
As to the first—the possibility of
a money tightness—the territory
would hardly notice the closing of
every one c f the fertilizer manu
fnctuiing concerns at one and the
same time. Their investments, out
side of the shells cf buildings, are
practically all on the outside. Their
payroll is to outsiders, mostly. Near
ly all of the herring fleet is regis
tered in Washington. Their provis
ions come direct from the States.
They buy little here and spend little.
They are takers, not givers.
A Mr. Obit Floe has an article in
the Pacific Fisherman for November.
From the article o;it> is led to believe
that the only way we can do any
thing with +he herring is to spend
a wnole lot of time studing them.
H< maims that so little is known of
the hsh and its habits that it would
be unjust to stop killing them now.
Tim iitt.le ‘liat is really good in the
article is competed pushed in the
shade by this astounding statement.
As to tile possibility and the legal
ity of closing the destroyers of food
fish it should be born in mind that
the herring of Alaska—as well as the
other fish— belong to the territory
of Alaska. We have that to go on.
Therefore, if they belong to us—the
peouie and the territory of Alaska—
we come pretty near having some
th. iig to s;.y as to how they shall be
killed or whether they shall be kill
ed at all. The makers of herring
fertilizer don't belong to the terri
tory, of Aiasica. They are not resi
dents of any part of Alaska. They
live in the States, do business in
the States and vote in the States.
They haven’t asked us anything
about cur herring. But they did see
that there were herring here—lots
of ’em some time ago—so they came,
or hired men to come, put up rough
building and began slaughtering.
So effective!* have tliev killed that
there isn’t one herring now where
there used to be uncountable mil
lions. At this time we|might begin
to worry some at the shortage even
tnough every dead herring had been
prepared for human food, but when
ve open ma eyes to the fact that the
great bulk of the fish captured were
turm d into paint oil and garden
manure, wc certainly have a real
something to worry over.
Should *^e (and we must) put
these food destroyers out of com
mission, we aren’t travelling any un- J
Ira vied ground. Such things hav? |
been done before. Oregon lias junk-|
the fish wheel. It didn’t matter
who owned them. They were found I
to 1 e a killing device that threatened |
the salmon industry. The courts
have, upheld the Oiegon law. How
ever, in broader aspect, we’ll take up
what has been done in Cali
fornia since that not only strikes
effectively at the taking of food fish
fp” commercial purposes, but at the
. catching of them for fertilizer.
In a reprint from the California
Fish and Came, by B. D. Marx
Greene, Executive officer and Attorn
ey. California Fish and Game Com
mission, we quote sections that bear
direotlv on the situation in Aalaska.
‘It seems repugnant to every
right-thinking citizen to see fresh
food fish used for any purpose other
than human consumption. This at
titude caused the legislature in 1917
to pass an act giving the state mar
ket power to fix wholesale and retail
prices on fish and to forbid the use
of fish by market fishermen for any
purpose other than human consump-!
tion, except by pet mission of the di
re ;lor.
“This statute was tested in (lie
court in the ease of Paladini vs. Sup
erior Court, 178 California, 39 0, and
its constitutionality upheld.
“This act however, applied onlv
to market fmhermen and did not af
fect canneries. The abuse by certain
canneries becoming acute, the legis
ailure adopted an act in 1919 to con
trol the uso of food fish by other
than market fishermen in the manu
facture of fertilizer and tisli oil. A
further clause in the statute prohi
bited any cannery from handling or
receiving more fish than such con
cern could actually use without pre
ventable deterioration, waste oi
spoilage.
“At the legislative session of 1921
an amendment (Stats. 1921, p. 459)
was made to the a t. which provid
ed that the Commission could not
allow any cunner to use for reduo- ^
Lem purposes more than 25 per cent .
of the amount which any cauner |
could can or pack or preserve for I
human food during a calendar
month.
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‘ The fi’st litigation rising unde;
tie* ; mended act was in the nature
of on action brought in the Super
ior dour. u. i .os Angeles Con i
the people of the State of California
at the request of the Fish and Game
Commission against the Stafford
Packing co. of San Pedro. Affidavits
were tiled oi.owing .hat during the
month ot January the defendant had
converted SS 0 per cent of all sar
dines received by >t into fish meal
anti fish oil
“in the Superior Court judgement ]
was vendeicd for the plaintiff. This
was revet -;ed by the District Court
i of Appeal, 2nd District, Division 2
(42 Cal. iipp. Dec. 72G-. A hearing
| was granted by the Supreme Court
and the judgement of the District
Court of Appeals vvasDreversed and
jilt*' superior court sustained (193
Cal. 719).
Tl^e court further held that the
GENERAL RIGHT AND OWNER
SHIP OF THE FISH IS IN THE
PEOPLE OF THE STATE, AND
THE STATE HAS THE RIGHT TO
KEGHLATE AND CONTROL THE
TAKING AND DISPOSITION
THEREOF.
The Court also upheld the consti-<
tutionaliPy of all of the provisions
of the reduction act as amended.
This decision was rendered on June
5 in, 19 24.
“oi December, 1924, the act again
went under fire. An independent
reduction plant, at Monterey, uncon
nected with any cannery, commenced
to send boats to sea and bring in fist
far the sole purpose of making fish
meal and fish oil. An action was
brought. The Monterey County
superior court held for the defend
ant (the reduction plant*. An im
mediate appeal was taken to the Sup
reme Court and very promptly, on
March 4tli, 1925, the Supreme Court,
reversed the Monterey court on
every finding and enunciated certain
principles on the- law of conservation
which have now become historic and
are quoted liberally throughout the
I niteo States.
At the time the reprint from the
California Fish and Game came out
there w^re two or more cases pend
ing rclatLe to the taking of fish be
yond the three limit for fish meal
ar.d fish oil. The Commission pro
secuted these cases vigorously, but
wre haven’t the court decisions on
hand at tnis time.
By tho<5e several court decisions
you may get a very fair idea of wdiat |
■an he done right here in Alaska (
once wTe put our shoulder to the
wheel and do a bit of pushing. Don’t
drop the matter now that we’ve
started. It’s vital for Alaska. Either
the reduction plants do Alaska or
we do them. Which is it?
EMPIRE TELES HALF THE TALE
AS USUAL
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In a lengthy editorial of recent
date, the Empire tells that the In
dians! of New York refused to vote
at the recent election and followed
it up that because New York In
dians refused to'* vote, even for
Charles Curtis, Alaska Indians
should do as did the Onandaga’s. |
We print the reason as given thru
the Baltimore Sun and reprinted in
The Haskell (Lawrence, Kansas,)
Leader:
THE'ONONDAGAS WILL NOT |
VOTE
"No member of the tribe of Onon
daga will go to the polls on election '
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day—not even to cast a vote for the j
first man of Indian blood ever to !
have been nominated for the vice j
presidency, the second highest office !
in the gift of the American people, j
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This was the declaration made by
Jessie Lyon, chief of the Onondagas ;
whose reservation lie? in Onondaga j
County, near Syracuse, N. W,
“Senator Charles Curtis’s efforts
old. ined for all Indians of the Unit-’
ed States the right of franchise.
Some of them had it. Some had
not. The Onondagas never had it j
until four years ago. They do not j
want it. They do not exercise it. j
They will not go to the polls even
to ' ote for a candidate for vice
president who is part Indian. Their
position was explained by Chief Ly
on.
“We ourselves are a nation,” he
said. “We accept citizenship in no
other. We were a nation before
tlie white man came. We don’t
want to vote except in the affairs of
uir own nation. We are not of the
Tinted States and never have been,
no more than a citizen of a Europ
ean country is a citizen of the I'nit
ed States.”
LIBERALS AM) CONSERVATIVES
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Serious thinkers discussing the j
present, national election believe it!
means the death of the Democratic
paivv. Well, it should be. Any
party that does not have the confi
d* nee ot the electorate should go'off.
and croak.
Within 1 he ranks of the Republi
can and Democratic parties are two
elementary factors which of them
selves form new parties—liberal
minded and conservative minded
men. Senator Dill is a liberal mind
ed man enjoying 1 lie confidence of
the electors of the State of Washing
ton. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania
iepresents the conservative element,
it is not to be expected that such
men as Senators Borah, Wheeler,
Norris and La Follette, will stand
hobbled to party lines on issues of \
principle. Nor is it let be expected
hat any conservative minded senat
or will swing to the liberal side of
any issue. The * line of demarca
tion is becoming more pronounced,
nside of both parties are men who
are liberal minded—men who con
sider human rights and liberty above
the almighty dollar.
The only hope of the Democratic
Party is in its death and re-birth
as a liberal party.
MORE AFRAID OF PAUL
Now that they have defeated Paul
the Tories are wondering what they
are going to do wj'th him. “He is
more dangerous now than ever.’’
Wot tell! Why worry about Paul.
Elm tions are over.
A printers’ union once turned
down a colored man who applied for
a card—because of his color he was
not admitted. He went to work in
an open shop. Did the union eli
minate his competition when they
turned down his application? Wot
tell? Looks like the Tories are
nuzzled as to what they are going
to do with this man Paul. Sort of
a Republican elephant on their
hard*?.
WE WONDER JUST WHY
We wonder just why two things
are so closely associated in this and
3very other community we ever
knew anything about. These two
fbines do not intrinsically belong
io each other in any clean, pure,
wholesome, beneficial manner what
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5oc';< r. T’n;y should not attach to j
^uc'n othei in any natural mannei
hat we car see, but yet it has been
>nr observation that ever since we,
ar remember, they have been bed-1
I'd lows, and we have asked many ;
people their observations in the1
matter, and without exception the/
say the same.
These two things are the DANCE
and DRINKING. The first,if done
under proper surroundings and hours ,
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is a pleasant and healthful exercise, |
giv:ng social inter ourse and plea-1
sant past-time, and desirable recre- j
ation. The other-drinking- is not
necessary, it is not in any way an
evidence of manliness or womanli
ness. it is no* wholesome physically,
it is rot calculated to help anyone
bu* to hurt., it is not conductive to
tranquility or peace, but does have
a distinct Tendency to make th i
drinker noisy, boisterous, and easy,
to get mad, and leads to fights and
quariels innumerable.
As one thinks back through their
memory, it is easy to recall that the
out standing FIGHTS of the com '
munity in which they grew up were
pulled off in association with drink- !
ing and a d*nce, and many times the 1
thing ended with shooting or cutting
with knives and sometime? death.
The DANCE lias been cut and
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outlawed by many people through
the vears, because it has had to take |
the stigma a'nd blame for 'many a
quariel, and flight and death, that
rightfully d.d not belong to it, but
because some parties got to drink
ing at the dance. It i^ often heard j
i: Petersburg, as in other places, as !
'T,e heard remarked before the big
Masked dance. “Well, I suppose the
real good time at the dance will be
spoiled by same people who will get
d-unk”. We heard different people
remark along this line, and one^ady
said, “I just can’t see for the life of
me why some folks want to get to
drinking and then come to the
dance. Why can’t they stay away?”
I have never believed that there
was or is anything intrinsically about
tbu dance that leads to drinking,
but some hew or other through the
years, drinking has been tolerated at
the dance, and this is where the
trouble has arisen, and grown up in
to practice all over America, and 1
am told in other countries as well
Drinking lias no more right to be
tolerated o,t the dance than at
church, or at the P. T. A. meeting
We honestly believe that the best in
terests of our boys and girls would
be better preserved, and cleaner
Notice
I will be at Carl Jacobson’s Jewelry Store every evening from
T.'iO to 0:00 o’clock, except Sunday and give lessons to those desiring
tc learn to play the Hawaiian Steel Cuitar, accompanyment or Spanish
gwirar, also the ukelcle at very moderate prices.
Special prices for twenty lessons.
Damd Haav
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Every Month
in the Year!
u.uy _t>. May 21 x September
• uary 20 June 20 October ‘M
24 November
il 24 August 28 December
'ances will be made as usual when ie<
ransferred by Telegraph if desired.
The Men’s Shop
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In the NEW location in the
Bank Building. Ready to serve j
its patrons with the latest ha-j
berdashery, caps, shirts, neck-!
wear - Hose, sweaters and ev
erything new and up-to-date.
We also call for and deliv
er yev cleaning and pressing.
animus:
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oett.ei men and women grow up in
he community, if drinking was ab
solutely banned at the dances, and
anyone appearing at ahe dance with
the smell of liquor on their breath,
he not allowed in the dance hall.
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Petersburg Lutheran Church.
Rev. V/. J. Mnakesiad, pastor.
Sunday School at 10:30.
Morning Worship at 11:30. Subject:
“Almost Persuaded.”
Song Service 8M»o.
Eveiyone Welcome
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C. H Sundmacher
Attorney at Law
Arctic Motel Petersburg
Thomas B. hone, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Office Resident
Dawes Bldg. Arctic Hotel
TAXI
62
Phone
Wheeler Drug Co.
Deaf and Dumb Service
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John Fanning
SHOE STORE
Dealer m
Complete line of Silk Hosiery
Best grade of Shoes for men,
women and children.
Best Quality Goods
at very low price.*
Shoe repairing neatly done.
Buy at Star Bakery and Save Money
Fresh Doughnuts, Cup Cakes, Coo'-ii
and Cinnamon Rolls
Always on Hand Fresh
STAR BAKERY
AMERICA FIRST arrives In Pe
tersburg Friday morning, leaving
Tor Juneau via Kake and way ports,
about noon.
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COMPANY
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