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April 11, 1932
The Alaska Fisherman,
Mr. Louis F. Paul,
Editor and Manager,
Petersburg, Alaska.
Gentlemen:
In the issue of your pamphlet
of April, 1932, Vol. 8, No. 12, at
Page 13, you intimate that I am
supporting and campaigning for
Jack White in his candidacy for
the position of Republican Na
tional Committeeman. That is
not correct.
While I have nothing against
Mr. White, I have known and
have been friendly with Mr.
Rasmuson ever since he was in
Yakutat, and I am personally
supporting him for the above
position.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) R. E. Robertson
EDITOR’S NOTE—Our informa
tion from certain quarters indi -
cated that Mr. Robertson had
written Jack White’s platform.
It was so published in The Fish
erman. Mr. Robertson states his
ppsition as to his support of
Republican National Committee
man. We make amends insofar
as we stand corrected.— The
Editor.
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Eternal Vigilance is the price
of liberty. The gods madden
those designed for destruction.
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Republican Candidate For Representative
In the Primaries, April 26th, 1932.
I favor Direct Primary and Community Property Laws
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John W. rrame
CANDIDATE FOR
Democratic National Committeeman
PLATFORM
I pledge the people of Alaska, that if elected
Democratic National Committeeman, I will not
recommend any man for an appointment in
Alaska who is not first approved by the people of
the Territory and by those residing in the vicinity
where such appointee is to serve.
RE-ELECT
William K. Keller
Republican Candidate For
Commissioner of Education
Unopposed in the April Primaries
YOUR SUPPORT WILL BE APPRECIATED
Primary Election General Election
in April! in November
VOTE FOR
J. E. Johnson
Republican Candidate For
Territorial Senate
7 Stand On My Record At The Last Legislature*
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Dimond Favors Boss-Ruled System
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Under date of February 8th,
the Cordova Daily Times pub
lishes the following:
“The president then introduc
ed Senator A. J. Dimond who
compared the working of the
primary system and the conven
tion system in nominating can
didates. One of the ardent
supporters of the primary at its
inception, he believes is not the
reform its advicates had hoped
for, and favors the convention
system as one which more near
ly fulflills the American ideal of
party government ”
The advocates of the abolish
ment of the party primary sys
tern now appreciate the fae
that it was a tactical error in
trying to foist upon the Terri
tory the old convention system.
This was fought out on the con
vention floor in Petersburg when
the democrats held their con
vention here. The reaction of the
women and the pioneers of the
north was very unfavorable to
the effort to return to the old
system which permitted sale of
proxies like hogs and cattle and
gave control of conventions to a
small coterie of men who held
star chamber conferences and
force upon the electorate can
didates not in sympathy or
harmony with the public.
The primary law became a
failure only when the federal
demogang of Juneau found that
they could no longer control the
primary elections by swinging
! from one party to another in the
spring and then back to their
own party in the general elec
tions. The waning of power of
the political highbinders forced
them to adopt tactics which
'^sure retention of that power—
hence the effort to force aboli
tion of the primary law by elec
tion of men so pledged. The Ju
neau candidates for the legisla
ture have been painfully silent
on this subject despite the fact
| that their leaders are now deny
ing any desire or effort to repeal
I the law. “By their works shall ye
judge them.”
A Funny Joke from Juneau
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The voice of the Demofeds oi
Juneau in an editorial says:
“Voters ought not to permil
politicians to fool them inic
thinking the primary clectior
law is an issue in the present
campaign. It is not so in thc
least, and won’t become such. * *
The voters of Juneau, men anc
women, are not so silly as to be
affected at all by hysterica:
screeching about non-issues, anc
v/e do not believe those of othei
towns will be. Alaska voters are
not as foolish as some agitator?
seem to believe them to be.”
The only truthful part of the
above statement is “Alaskr
voters are not so foolish as some
agitators believe them to be.”
The definition of “issue” is a?
follows:
A matter of which the result?
is to be decided; that which is tc
be determined by trial or con
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tention; a conclusion; held in
abeyance for consideration or
debate; a choice between alter
natives; as the Issues of the
day; a dead issue. “Thus was
raised a simple issue of law to
be decided by the court” or the
voters.
The Juneau Empire denies
the primary law repeal is an
issue but its candidates are
strangely silent on the subject.
There has been effort to repeal
the law; its leading candidate
declares it has failed of its
purpose and urges return to the
convention system; the Peters
burg convention of the Demo
crats incorporated the plank in
its platform advocating repeal
of the primary law. It is an is
sue regardless of all the denials
made by the political mentor, on
the Empire, of the demigods of
Alaska.
The Failure of the System
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Information from Washington j
is to the effect that Charles W.!
Hawkesworth, Acting Chief of
the Indian Bureau activities in
Alaska, will not be appointed
permanently to the position.
Unsolicited, he had the endorse
ment of every town and village
where the Indian Bureau has
any activities. He has the un
qualified endorsement of a peo
ple who do not promiscuously
express their friendship—su2h
friendship must be worthy, sin- i
cere and unrestricted.
After many years of labor
among the Indian races of Alas- ,
ka, Mr. Hawkesworth knows,
them intimately, collectively and !
individually. He knows their |
problems and has been kindly,
sympathetic in helping to secure
their proper solution. He is en
titled to the reward as Chief of
the Department’s efforts i n
Alaska.
The writer has had many
years of contact with the acti
vities of the United States In
dian bureau. He declares that at
no time in the entire history of
Russia was any bureau system in
that country as rotten, as mis- (
managed, as full of graft, rape ,
and virtually every crime in the
calendar, as the United States ;
Indian Bureau for the past ■
quarter of a century. With each
succeeding Commissioner of In
dian Affairs, the Indians and (
their friends view the future oi T
these people with high hopes |
only to have them relentlessly (
dashed to the earth. Today in
the States the Indian Bureau
filled with incompetents, misfits, ^
characterless, servile creatures j
who seek only their paychecks
without regard to the worthiness t
of the work for which they are j
engaged. Only a small minority |
are worth while; are honestly ,
Peking to find the proper solu
tion to the Indian problem. j
This system is growing in
Alaska. Already “They are never
fired; nor do they resign; until
they are dead.” The system is
filling up with, incompetents
ivhom the Acting Chief finds it
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impossible to remove. The sys
tem is becoming the field where
political obligations of politi
cian are paid—where their
stink rebounds to the hurt of
the Alaska citizens.
There is only one solution to
this problem—Out with the bu
reau of Indian Affairs. It is
time that the Territory awaken
ed to the fact that it is the duty
and obligation of the Territory
tc educate every one of its citi
zens, regardless of race and
color. It is time that the politi
cians quit dodging the issue and
face it like honest men so
that the Territory may benefit
the sooner from the greater and
more rapid education of these
people.
We do not make many prom
ises and when we do, we usually
make them to be kept. We make
this one now: If the Indian Bu
reau system tends to the man
ner of conduct of the States
system, the Indians of Alaska
will throw off that yoke by any
means possible to assert their
nherent independence and
manhood. They will not allow
he system to become the politi
cal burial ground of incompet
ents and misfits. The sooner this j
s understood, the better will the
Department get along with thej
[ndians of Alaska.
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DAD: “Look here, my dear. I
3on’t mind your sitting up late
vith that young man of yours,
mt I do object to him walking.
)ff with my morning papers!”
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Two little urchins stood with
heir noses pressed against a
jarber shop window.
“Gee, Mickey, look at that
me!” said one, pointing to a
»arber wielding a singeing
aper: “He’s lookin’ for ’em
nth a light!”
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teats the Milkman.—A local
lan has discovered a method of
etting to work early each
lorning. He has made arrange
lents with his daughter to call
im when she comes in.—Exc
hange.
Alaska's Spring Is Calling Me
By James R. Little
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I hear the honk of wild, glad geese,
And scent the fragrant air;
It seems as tho that spring’s announced,
The signs are everywhere.
I view the things that heralds spring,
They show Eternal care;
And seems to whisper - “Lakes and streams
Commune with nature there.”
So I must yield unto her voice—
Most recognized in Spring;
And hie away to rippling streams,
And God’s most wonderous things.
Therefore I’ll take my old gold pan,
And mush out for some stream;
And be enfolded in the arms,
Of her that never weens—
Her suckling children from her breasts;
Or ever turns away— \
The ones who seek the nourishment,
She gives both night and day.
It may be thro the moonlit trees,
Or sun-beam-tinted crags; «
O’er towering pines above mountain streams,
That swiftly creeps or drags.
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School Suffer When Family Abdicates
“Abdication” by the family
and the church of their educa
tional responsibilities has re
sulted in a younger generation
with bad manners and careless
dress and habits, according to
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia Univer
sity.
Dr. Butler, in his annual re
port, also criticized youth’s lack
of interest in political affairs,
for which he blamed the coun
try’s political parties.
Dr. Butler praised the univer
sity’s new athletic policy as one
intended to make sports “an im
portant and legitimate part of
academic life and work,” as op
posed to the policy based on
gate receipts.
Youth’s bad manners, Butler
stated are caused by “unconcern
for standards of excellence,
overconcern for the quick satis
faction of one’s own immediate
personal conveniences and de
sires, and the antiphilosophies
and psuedo-pyschologies which
are so widely diffused just now.”
These factors, he said, are hav
ing “deplorable” effects on
training.
“The virtually complete abdi
cation of the family as a pri
mary and controlling factor in
education, together with the
substantial collapse of the edu
cational influence of the Pro
testant Churches, have combin
ed to put upon the school a
burden which it cannot bear and
should not be asked to bear,” hr I
went on.
“The truth is that the school
draws upon itself criticism not
so much by reason of what it
fails to offer or accomplish in its
own proper sphere, but by rea
son of its inability and incapa
city to do the work of the school,
the family and the church com
bined.”
The Judgement of the Court
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'Judge Jennings of the District
Court for the First Division,
several years ago rendered a
decision in a case before his
court. When we lose word con
tinuity we turn back to this
, master piece of sarcasm.
“The affidavit is so puerile, it
is so assinine, it is so farfetched,
that really it fails of its purpose.
To say that the Judge of a
court because he is a friend of
the Governor of the Territory,
because he belongs to, the same
political party that the Govern
or of the Territory belongs to,
cannot fairly decide a case
which does not mean one cent
to that Governor—a suit, too,
brought against a person who
will not have to pay personnally
one cent if the case is decided
against him—is, to my mind, so
ridiculous, so absurd, so much
the mark of those whose mental
horizon is limited and whose
moral bankruptcy is imminent. '
and the testimony adduced here
in explanation thereof is so ^
plainly the mark of a paranoic,
filled to overflowing with his '
selfsatisfied sufficiency, and of a
brain of mush and a heart of a j
crook,a disordered fancy and a
twisted tongue, that it really
merits very little consideration.
That this affidavit was intended ]
as an insult to the Judge of this
court I have not the slightest
doubt in the world; but speak-j1
ing of insults; the question as to'
whether an insult is conveyed |1
depends as much upon the
character and standing of the]
would be insulter as it does upon '<■
the language employed. John 1
Randolph of Roanoke said, “A
gentleman will not insult me, £
and no other can.” It is perfect- f
ly obvious that a knave cannot “
really insult an honest man,—
be may irritate him and annoy “
dim, but he cannot insult any- c
3ne. A weakling and an idiot t
with no moral backbone andja
with only a thimblefull of brains
cannot insult any one, the only
person such characters can in
sult are their inferiors, and as
there are no inferiors there are
none for them to insult. They
themselves are at the bottom of
the pit, and they cannot look
below—self-satisfied paranoiacs,
liars from pure love of the lie.
canting hypocrites, attempting
to cleanse their hands with in
visible soap, defamers of men,
slanderers of women, assassins
cf character, sneaking, cowardly
curs—what do they among de
cent men? Why such objects on
the fair face of the earth? Their
place is not on the earth but in
the earth—in the privies of the
earth. The station in life, in
human affairs, of such men as
that corresponds to the position
svhich “the foul bird of Pata
gonia” is not the buzzard that
feeds on the carrion—it is a
smaller bird that perches on the
Back of the buzzard and by con
;inually pecking causes the
suzzard to vomit forth the car
'ion that it has fed upon then
iops down to the ground to eat
he vomit which the buzzard
las spewed from its foul belly.”
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Country Constable: “Pardon,
niss, but swimming is not al
owed in this lake.”
City Flapper: “Why didn’t you
ell me before I undressed?”
Constable: “Well, there ain’t
10 law against undressin’.”
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The man was in the hospital
fter his first serious attempt to
mock a train off the tracks.
“I fear I can be of very little
ssistance to you,” he was com- j cl
ortably assured by the doctor,
I’m a veterinary surgeon.”
“Ah,” exclaimed the victim,
you’re just the man for my
ase. I was a jackass for al
smpting to cross the track
head of that train.”
Washington News Letter
By Will A. Steel
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INDIAN BUREAU
HEADING COMING NORTH
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Dr. W. Carson Ryan, Jr., exe
cutive assistant of Indian Af
fairs, and David E. Thomas,
Chief Clerk in the office of the
Alaska division, expect to leave
Washington in a few days and
sail from Seattle on the steamer
Yukon, April 23, to go to the
Juneau headquarters of Indian
Affairs, to consult about various
pending matters. Mr. Thomas
will likely extend his trip to the
westward. Various suggestions
are under consideration by the
Bureau, one of which is opposed
by the Nome Chamber of Com
merce. They have wired the
Delegate protesting against a
change that would replace six
district superintendents o f
school and replacing them with
three traveling inspectors. The
appointment of a permanent
Chief of the Alaska division is
under consideration, but will
probably not be made until after
Dr. Ryan’s return from the
north.
COMPETITION
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Those who are engaged in cod
fishing along the Aleutian Is
lands complain that they are
unable to sell their catch at a
profit. This is attributed to the
low tariff on the fish and the
fact that Japan floods the Pa
cific coast markets at a price
that the Alaska fishermen can
not compete with.
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NOT SO FUNNY AFTER ALL
A former Alaska fisherman
writes to inquire whether he
can pay his own fare from Se
attle to Bristol Bay and to make
the effort there to get employ
ment as an independent fisher
man without being placed under
arrest. He seems to forget that
men are not placed under arrest
in Alaska for merely seeking
employment.
Editor’s Note—This man must
have been reading the hearings
on the Welch Bill.
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CIVIL SERVICE
In reply to a suggestion that
a certain man might make a
very acceptable foreman of road
work the Engineer Officer of
the Alaska Road Commission
writes that employees in that
grade are now under civil ser
vice and positions must neces
sarily be filled from the civil
service register.
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OPPOSE SALES TAX
The Ketchikan Chamber cf
Commerce has passed resolu
tions, and forwarded them to
mfficials in Washington, protest
ing against a sales tax or any
additional burden cn canned
salmon. This organization, how
ever, does favor placing a duty
ipon the importation of pulp
ind newsprint “at such a rate
is will insure the early utiliza
tion of Alaska forests for the
nanufacture of paper and
lewsprint.”
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:ORDOVA POSTMASTER
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The nomination of William J.
Shepard as postmaster at Cor
lova was sent to the Senate a
ew days ago and will be prompt
y confirmed. A post office is
ikely soon to be established at
tniak, on the Kuskokwim river,
rith Thomas L. Johnson as
’ostmaster.
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LLASKA duck season
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Senator Wolcott’s Special
Committee on Conservation of
Vild Life Resources held ses
ions during three days of last
reek, at which over 100 sports
men were present from various
tates in the East, South and
Zest as far as Idaho. Various
ifferent opinions were express
d as to the shortage of wild
ucks. In some sections the
tiortage does not seem to be
ronounced and it is urged that
me three months shooting sea
mn be restored. In other sec
ons there has been a great