Out in Front
With the finest freshest fruits
ON TO-DAYSBOAT WE WILL HAVE
Walermellons, Honeydews, Cantaloupes, Casabas, Plums
*3 ovnatoes, Fresh Vegetables SI rawberries and Cherries,
Sanitary MarKet
The New yorl<
Pool Billiard And Card Room
Dick Kuwata, Prop.
Preserving
Necessities
Fruit jars
Jar Covers
Rubber rings
Jelly Glasses
Certo
Fruit for Canning
Preserving kettles
The Modern Grocery
The Telephone
Is the Open Door To the Merchant’s Es
tablishment. One telephone order to-day
means more in the future.
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Telephone Exchange
Call in at oar shop and inspect the New Tudor
Ford Sedan for The American Legion. You may
get this beautiful car ready to go. - - Otherwise we
will sell you one just like it for - - - $691.50
Fryer Machine Works
Authorized Ford Agents
I leg and the filth of the hdusing
conditions of native workers;
the peon slave contracts; the
slave-resident fisherman who is
working under illegal discrimin'
Qtory regulations are never to
be seen by those who come to
Alaska.
Even when travelling on their
own expense, the congressmen
are taken in hand by the clickers
and clackers and the fishermen
are hard put to even get within
talking distance of those who
would give sympathetic hearing
if they only had opportunity
The Alaskan cares not how
congressmen come to Alaska IE
they are only given time to meet
with the conditions which ere
ate the problems of adversity ir
Alaska. So far those who hav«
come in to Alaska have not been
given a hearing to both sides of
the problems. Let all of official
Washington come to Alaska, but
for the love o’ Lil, let them get
real honest to goodness impres
sions rather than the hi-falutin
varicolored pictures that are
drawn for them by the machine
which only works to perpetuate
itself.
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Excessive Government
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(Seattle Times)
The great northern empire
continues to suffer from excess
ive governmental paternalism.
Alaska has been misunderstood
and abused and hampered in its
development ever since its re
sources began to attract the at
tention of the world. Instead
of framing legislation in accord
ance with the views of eastern
ers who go through the country
on flying summer trips—at Uncle
Sam’s expenseWashington might
for a change, let the sourdoughs
thoroughly familiar with the:
subject, work out their own des
tinies. Alaskans may count up
on Seattle doing everything pos
sible to help in that direction.
A Sure “Red” Cure
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Recently, Senator C C„ Dill
speaking before a large audience
in Spokane, Wn. declared that
“we need have no fear of bol
shevism if we put our house in
order and give the people a fair
share in the profits of their ef
forts.”
Communism breeds in spots
where poverty is most acute anil
it is a known fact that crime is
greater where poverty exists.
The most complacent person o\
the earth today is the laborer
who gets his pay check regularly
and is able to give to his loved
ones those comforts of life that
any person has a right to enjoy.
The Source of Discontent
Speaking before the Womens
Democratic Club in Coeur D’Al
ene, Ida., Senator Dill said:
“The idea is spreading over
the world that the poor ignor
ant and unfortunate are not get
ting their share of the good
things of this life. Unless some
way is found to give the poor
: people more of these things.
Balshevism will soon spread
: outside of Russia, now the sole
: throne of that accomplishment.'
Speaking for publication in
Los Angeles last week, Senator
James Couzens said: “What v/e
need most in this country in
these days of depression, is a
better distribution of earnings
between capital and those who
work — more action and less
| talk.
t “The depression has left the
| United States a very sick pa
\ tient,” said the Michigan Senat
or. We are suffering from an
i over injection of words instead
> of action. It looks dike it is too
> late to revive the patient and we
; will just have to muddle thru.
> “One of the worst things to do
[ now is to reduce wages, for
; thereby *we would only set up a
> temporary relief. No one wants
[ a high peak of prosperity but
! the money grabbers, but we all
! want to return to the days of
l sound business.’
; Uncle Will Pay
\ George Bernard Shaw, Irish
\ author and dramatist, recently
declared that he believes Ameri
\ ca will eventually have to pro
\ duce the funds to save Europe.
Iflfesaid: ‘i
~ “Europe has been heading; to
ward the present situation for a
long time. Nations cannot go on
pacing enormous war debts. The
creditors are painfully aware
that once the moratorium be
comes effective, the suspension
of payments will continue thru
eternity.
What will happen is that Am
erica will have to produce the
money to save Europe.”
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Dr. Poling Speaks On
Economic Conditions
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A “youth crusade, for law ob
servance, evangelism and dis
armament” was proposed by Dr.
Daniel A. Polling, president oi
the International Society of
Christian Endeavor, at that or
ganization’s 50th annual inter-j
national convention held in San
I Francisco recently.
Dr. Polling called upon youth
to lead in “the education and
enlistment of friends of prohibi
tion in maintaining the 18th
amendment and supporting Pres
ident Hoover and enforcement
agencies.
“Prohibition is not the only is
sue, however,” Dr. Polling con
tinued. “We are not interested
in prohibition to the exclusion
of other important issues. Po
litical decisions should not be
conditioned exclusively upon
V/llCtllCJL Ui 11UI Ui V/
and candidates are for the 18th
amendment.
“American democracy rnmifc
find a way to destroy poverty.
The American social and eco
nomic system must accept re
sponsibility for discovering how
to give work to every willing
worker, for making the average ■
man more secure in his savings
and for distributing more widely
the higher privileges of life as
well as the bare necessities.
“The passion of the Soviet to
win a class war must be match
ed by the fervor of American
democracy to perfect ‘this free
dom.’ ”
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JJFrom the"Heathen
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Rev. Henry C. McDowell, Ne
gro missionary from Galangue,
Angola, West Central Africa, in
a speech before the Congrega
tional churches, Seattle recently
said:
“You hear a great deal about
the disintegration of native Afri
can society. I am more concern
ed about the breakdown of the
white man’s ideals and society
I as he comes in contact with
[Africa. In Africa the evils of
| our economic and social order
[have full play. There the in
' herent greed of our industrial
system has full swing at an un
protected peoples. Our simple
African Christians are teaching
us missionaries a great lesson.
They are teaching us the way of
suffering and sacrifice under the
oppression and exploitation of
which you know about.”
Editorial Note: It would ap
pear that the unfortunate peo
ples, the people without the
educational opportunities are
the common prey of the ex
plioters and the rule of the de
mogogues.
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Government May End
Oppression
General Smedley D. Butler,
the marine who recently caused
a furore in diplomatic circles by
charging Musollini’s indiffer
ence about the life of a child he
was said to have run over, again
gets into the spotlight by de
claring in a speech at Gettys
burg that our government was
instituted not only to secure to
the people life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, “but the
right to eat.”
Said General Butler: “They
want the right and means to
earn an honest livelihood, and
the federal government is the
only agency which can open the
avenue to prosperity.”
“Announcement by our gov
ernment of a determination to
see this thing through to the bit
ter end is the only word that
will restore confidence.,
“Hunger can be relieved by
j food and food can be supplied by
i i
charity, but a self-respecting
man, even though his stomach
is filled, is not happy if idle.
“The one object of a govern
ment is to equally distribute the
blessings and burdens of a na
tion.
Declaring that "war is an in
stitution of hell,” General But
ler argued that if the nation’s
resources were mobilized for an
attack on poverty as they are
when a nation goes to war, the
object for which the govern
ment was created would be real
ized.
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Illiteracy in Ohio
-X
Despite all the boasts of its
educational system, Ohio is
shown to have 123,301 illiterates
in 1930, by the Bureau of Census
While the Soviet Union has
nade tremenduous strides in
recent years in reducir^gf the her
itage of illiteracy left by the
'?arist regime, the captihstic
government of Ohio has done
next to nothing for the large
port of its population ten years
and older who can neither read
nor write. In the ten years be
tween 1920 and 1930 the per
centage of illiteracy to total po
pulation has been reduced only
from 2.8 to 2.3 per cent.
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Fibre Containers and
I he tuture
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(Pacific Pulp and Paper Industry
.Seattle).
Introduced to provide straw
for the drowning lumber mills ofi
Southeastern Alaska whicn
claim serious inroads have been
made in their business by the(
wholesale adoption of the fibre
container for shipping canned
fish foods packed in Alaska, the
Alaska territorial legislature on
April 30 apparently thought bet
ter of the situation as a whole
and killed a bill which proposed
to levy a discriminatory excise
tax on the fibre container.
While the plight of the Alas
kan box shook manufacturers is
oerhaps acute, and the salmon
manners were disposed to listen
to reason, it was pointed out ir
hearings that adoption of the
fibre containers was being forced
upon the packers by the brokers,
wholesalers, and retailers of
canned goods. The distributing
group has expressed a strong
preference for the improved fibre
container.
Expressions from the paper in
dustry indicate that defeat of
the proposed tax on fibre con
tainers will eventually redound
to the benefit of Southeastern
Alaska, the lumber industries
there included. In the past few
years two big interests have car
ried out extensive timber and
water power surveys preliminary
to the establishment of two huge
news print mills.
The vast pulp timber resourc
es of Alaska presage a definite
ultimate pulp and paper devel
opment in the Territory. Any
i hostility towards the paper in
' dustry, such as suggesting dis -
criminatory excise tax on fibre
containers, could only serve to
delay the greater ultimate devel
opment with its consequent in
vestment of some tens of milli
ons of dollars and its contribu
tion of sizeable year’-round pay
rolls for Alaska. To kill the pro
pose dtax was just plain good
business.
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Gasoline Taxes
-X
Senator Hess, at the last legis
lature introduced a proposed tax
on gasoline and a merchandise
tax. While in the nature of a
feeler, it is being recognized as
good politics in view of the pre
sent condition of the Territorial
treasury.
It is generally conceded that
this tax will be again presented
two years hence and it will not
be so easily downed.
For the information of our
readers, and others we pass on
the following facts:
Retail gasoline sales are taxed
in every state in the Union. A
few states take 6 cents of the
retail price of every gallon sold,
while others take only 2 cents.
The first tax was levied by Ore
gon in 1919 when 1 cent a gallon
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was levied. Two other states
immediately followed the lead of
Oregon that year. Two other
states followed in 1920 and the
list continued to grow until even
the state of New York followed
in 1929.
Florida, Georgia and South
Carolina have a 6 cent tax; Ken
tucky, New Mexico, Montana,
North Carolina, Arkansas, Louis
iana, Mississippi, Tennessee and
Virginia take 5 cents; Oregon,
Nevada, Texas, Alabama, Col
orado, Idaho, South Dakota,
Nebraska, Idaho, South Dakota
New Hampshire Oklanoma
Ohio, West Virginia. Vermont,
Wyoming and Maine take a toll
of 4C cents.
California, North Dakota, New
Jersey, and Washington call for
3 cents; Delaware, Utah, Kansas
Michigan, Iowa, Illinos and Min
nesota require 3Y2 cents.
Connecticut, New York, Rhode
Island, Missouri, Wisconsin, Mass
achusetts and the District of,
Columbia require only two cents
per gallon of their tax payers.
While the total of 1930 state
gasoline tax collections is not
yet available, the Rio Grande Oil
Review states that 1929 collec
tions were around $431,000,000,
which was 25 per cent of the to
tal k tax receipts of the states.
Individual payments by some of
the large oil companies in 1930
bulk large. Standard Oil of In
diana paid $47,651,000, Texas
Corporation, $37,120,000, ‘Stan
dard Oil of New York $32,234,
000; Gulf Oil $24,190,000; Stan
dard Oil of California, $14,272,
000. The efficiency and ease of
collection it is said “has made
this tax very popular.” In the
states where this tax is collect
ed it isused to build execellent
roads throughout the country.
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ALASKAN SUICIDES IN CAL.
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Thomas S. Scott, forty-five, a
recent arrival in Ontario, Calif,
committed suicide in his hotel
room by slashing his throat wi.h
a razor after a futile attempt to
end his life with a revolver. Mr.
Scott Was a resident of Cordova.
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Petersburg .. .. Alaska
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