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A. N. B. Publishing Company,
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The Alaskan, per year, $4.00 Louis F. Paul, Editor-Manager.
MAKING PROSPERITY
The Quinaults are said to be
averaging $50 per day from their
fishing operations on their riv
er, the Quinault. Who benefits
by their prosperity? The butch
er, the baker, the candlestick
maker, all share in the earnings
of the fisherman. He buys his
suplies at home and buys more
of them; he spends more of his
earnings for the nice little things
dear to his women folk; he gets
a new and. bigger boat and en
gine through the local dealer. Ev
ery dealer has a crack at his
earnings DIRECTELY or INDI
RECTLY. The community boasts
of its prosperity and the bank ac
counts and balances of dealers,
lawyers, doctors and fishermen
are all in healthier condition.
This is all that this publication
works for. Opportunity for every
man to earn a decent wage in or
der that he may clothe himself
decently; that he may feed his
children and their feeding will
not show malnutrition; that ev
ery child may have an education
al opportunity co-equal with the
laborers in the States.
If there is anything wrong
with this effort, we have an open
forum column and every reader
is at liberty to use that column
to express his or her views. We
care not whether they are in ac
cordance with our views or not.
We believe that many who are in
opposition to our effort, when
they honestly express themselves
by written word, will refuse to
have it published (1st) because it
is not their sincere conviction;
(2) they have not the nerve of
their conviction—one way or the
other.
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WOULD CLOSE ROGUE RIVER
The Directors of the Lane
County Game Protective Associ
ation met recently to consider
the proposal to close Rogue Riv
er, Oregon, to commercial fish
ing. If this proposition meets
with favor and becomes a law in
Oregon, it will mean the clos
ure of Rogue River from the
source to three miles out in the
Pacific Ocean.
The people of Oregon have a
voice in this closure—it is only
upon their vote that it can be
done. Any bay in Alaska may be
changed under the Federal sys
tem in Alaska—without one con
sideration given to the residents
of the Territory. I
The only consideration given :
is to the packers who voice their,
approval or disapproval at the .
conferences held by Mr. O’Mai- •
ley with the packers in Seattle1'
and San Francisco. Never in the
history of the fisheries of Alaska
has a fishermen represented his
class at these “conferences.” And i
the request of fishermen to be .
given a hearing by the Commis
sioner of Fisheries last year was
curtly refused.
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ANOTHER OF .THE EMPIRE’S
“UNCONSCIOUS” ERRORS
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Upon many occasions, it has
been a source of much regret
that the Juenau Daily Empire
has deliberately misrepresented j
facts and sought to create a
false impression that has tended
to the injury of innocent indi- \
viduals. Whether this is done
through carelessness or with
malicious intent, the unhappy ,
or disastrous effects are in many
instances beyond recall.
Altho most reprehensible, it is|i
nevertheless expected that the
Empire will misrepresent a mat
ter of partizan politics. This is
made clear in every political
campaign. A most glaring ex
ample was the publication of a
“malicious lie” sent out by Tom
Marquam from Washington, who
stated that the bill introduced
to give the Indians of the First
Division of Alaska the right to
bring suit against the govern
ment, had been “killed” by the
House Committee on Claims in
Congress.
But it is not well enough—or
bad enough—that the Empire
should pollute its own columns
with untruths, but that news
paper is the Juneau correspond
ent of the Associated Press,
and as such, it sends items to
the other dailies of tne Terri
tory and also sends to the great
Outside its own interpretation
of NEWS A most u':fortuna .?
and damaging srtic1? was r e
lished in the form of a local
write-up, as a bereaved widow
passed through Juneau.
The Anchorage Daily Times
was one of the innocent victims
of the Empire correspondent,
with the result that they pub
lished the following article in
that newspaper:
“Mrs. Thyra S. Merrill, who
left Anchorage several weeks
ago for a visit with her parents
in Oregon, declares the story of
a purported interview with her
sent out from Juneau, when she
passed through there, was false
and full of misinformation and
in a cablegram received from
her today The Times is asked
to correct the erroneous impres
sion created by the story.
“The message from Mrs. Mer
ril dated at Vancouver, March
3, is as follows:
“Referring to Associated Press
dispatch reprinted from Juneau
dated January 31, would appre
ciate your publishing the follow-.
ing
“I did not say nor do I believe
my husband fell asleep at the
stick of the plane on the day he
was lost. I did not say he had
been flying almost continuously
for forty-eight hours without
sleep. I made no statement re
garding my flying experience or
plans. The article is absolute
ly false and obviously full of
misinformation. I realize The
rimes is not responsible since
the purported interview was
merely reprinted but it creates!
in erroneous impression of Rus
sell’s flying ability and the re
flection on his memory grieves
me deeply.
.. It was after publication of this
imported interview that the
Empire printed a lengthy ed
torial on the honor of the pro
fession and its ethics. But it
acks the honor that impells cor
rection of false interviews and
nterviews “obviously full of mis
nformation.”
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ILLITERACY IN THE UNITED
STATES
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In the year 1920 there were
1,913,905 illiterates in the Unit
ed States. An illiterate is any
>ne “ten years of age or over)
vho cannot write any language.” j
A movement has been started!
)y Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary1
>f the Interior, to study the
problem and to secure nation-!
vide action to reduce the vast
lumber of Americans who can
leither read nor write. In some!
States campaigns are in active
iperation.
.One must not imagine that il
iteraey Is commonest In the ,
backwoods. On the contrary it
is commonest in States that wej
imagine are well educated. In
Massachusetts, tor instance,
there are 146,607 illiterates. 135,
720 of these are foreign-born
white persons. There are morei
illiterates in Massachusetts than!
there are in North and South
Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, Mon
tana, Oregon and Nevada to
gether. Contrary to expecta
tion, the overwhelming number
of illiterates are in our great
cities. In the cities of Massa
chusetts, for example, there are
141,584 illiterates, only 5,023 be
ing found in rural communities
In the city of Cambridge, under
the very shadow of Harvard
University, there are 2,736 per
sons who can neither read nor
write.
We need not comfort ourselves
with the thought that illiteracy
is decreasing. It is not. It is in
creasing. There were 5,066 more
illiterates in 1920 than there
were in 1910.
This presents a tremendous
problem, which can only be solv
ed by united action all over the
United States. We not only need
better education, but obviously
we need more education.
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WILL WIIIPSAW WASHINGTON
G.O.P.
The recent convention of the
Washington Republicans was
almost evenly divided on the
prohibition question as a part of
their platform. They voted for
modification.
This naturally creates a dis
ruption within the ranks of the
party which the Democrats are
not slow in grasping.
..Senator Dill, Democrat, coun
sels his party to leave the pro
hibition question alone and go
to the electorate with questions
relative to economic issues. By
avoiding the prohibition issue it
will be possible to hold a united
iront within the Democratic
ranks and thereby insure elec
tion of their candidates—if the
Repuolicans remain split on the
prohibiton queston. •
Outsde of Alaska, the Repub
Icans disagree during the pri
maries and yet seem to be able
to get together with a united
front in the November elections.
The reason for which bemg the
fact that they are not dominat
ed by men who continually play
politics both ends to the middle.
PRESIDENT VETOES SPANISH
WAR VETERANS PENSION BIL
President Hoover vetoed the
Senate bill to fix a new basis for
pensions to Spanish-American
War veterans pension increase.
Congress immediately came back
and over-rode the vetoe.
REPLY TO STEWART EDWARD
WHITE’S ARTICLES IN POST
By William L. Paul
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Ketchikan, Alaska
May 24, 1930
Stewart Edward White,
Burlingame, Calif.
Dear Mr. White:
Let me refer to the subject of
the brown bear first, because my
interest in them can be disposed
of in a few words. You made the
statement that Alaska was cre
ating an open season on brown
bear.- My exception is no quibble
as you suggest, because from
your several articles your praise
goes to the Bureaus in Washing
ton and your strictures go to
Alaska Every word that a writ
er with the public which you
have utters in praise of the Bu
reaus fastens their chains upon
us more tightly. I felt that you
should have been consistent and
[should have placed the blame
where it belong.s If the credit
belongs in Washington, why not
the strictures? That was the
entire point of my letter. I am
not in touch with the brown
bear controversy and choose not
to be drawn into it.
It is quite different with the
fisheries.
I have supposed that your ar
ticles would not be printed unless
you praised Mr. Hoover and Mr.
O’Malley, the United States
Commissioner of Fisheries; and
so I was willing to overlook your
very evident ignorance of the
history of the fishery controver
sy. But if I am mistaken in
that supposition, and if you are
planning other articles on Alas
ka, you should either study that
phase of the question or else
somebody should educate you. 1
will grant that on the basis of
my letter to the Post, our differ
ence seems to be a mere matter
of opinion in which of course we
are privileged to differ. But my
opinion, at least is founded on
years of experience in Alaska, an
intimate knowledge of the sub
ject matter, and an extended and
continuous contact with the Bu
reau of Fisheries antedating Mr.
O’Malley’s reign.
My conclusion that the Bureau
is fundamentally wrong in their
administration of our fisheries
is not mere opinion, but a con
clusion that is borne of facts and
supported by time.
I will not go into previous his
tory except to say that I predict
ed the causes and resultant de
pletion of our fisheries as early
as 1904. This was my conclusion
after watching the efficiency of
the fishtrap at Anan Creek.
While we watched that famous
creek dying, we protested to the
Bureau of Fisheries, but nothing
was done until the annual catch
That original savory flavor, the natural
piquancy of this meat delicay, is always
there in FRYE’S “DELICIOUS” BRAND
3c to Frye & Com- BACON— because it comes to you in the
shortest possible time from the great Frye
pany, Seattle, will . ,
r J 9 curing houses.
bring you Ftye’s Just slice Frye’s “DELICIOUS” BRAND
“Meat Guide” with BACON and see how firm its texture is.
187 recipes See how crispy it fries. Learn for your
self that it does pay to get it fresher
by days.
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was virtually nil, having drop
ped from an annual catching of
1,000,000.
In 1922 Secretary Hoover cre
ated his fish reserve system in
the identical language recom
mended by the Alaska Packers’
Association as shown by their
published minutes. During the
intervening period, (1906-1922)
the Bureau of Fisheries never
recommended a fishery bill for
Alaska although it gave its ac
tive support to bills which were
written by the attorneys for the
big packers; of these the infa
mous Alexander Fish Bill is typ
ical. These bills had in common
the recognition of title to fish
trap sites and the prohibition of
fishing by any gear whatsoever
within a certain distance, usual
ly one mile, laterally from the
fishtrap. Any fair-minded citi
zen can see where the Bureau of
Fisheries stood.
Since the principal credit for
the conservation of our fisheries
goes to Mr. Hoover because of his
reservation orders, let me say
that we opposed these orders for
two reasons, first, all the permits
to-fish (with one or two excep
tions) were given to the author
ized canneries of each reserved
district, and individuals were ob
liged to petition each cannery
superintendent for their right
to fish, which right could be re
tained only on sufferance from
that cannery superintendent. I
told Mr. Hoover that we objected
to that as being unAmerican and
that it put us at the mercy of
these canneries, virtually a sys
tem of peonage.
These reserves were clearly il
legal for there is no power in the
Secretary of Commerce or any
body else to parcel out the wa
ters of Alaska; the so-called au
thorization was founded on the
law of 1910 ratifying the timber
and coal reserve order of Presi
dent Roosevelt, and related to
lands, not water.
Our second objection was this
—while Mr. O’Malley created the
reserves with the sanction of Mr.
Hoover ostensibly in the interests
of conservation, the permits
issued to the preferred canner
ies were far in excess pack of
these same canneries *even in
their best years. Delegate Suth
erland in his speech of February
2, 1924, where he showed that the
tota Ipack for the Cook Inlet dis
for the Cook Inlet district au
trict authorized by Mr. O'Malley
was 208,000 cases, and the actual
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