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HERE AND THERE
-x
Senator George W. Norris of
Nebraska pointed out in the Se
nate recently that a farmer in
his state with his family worked
160 acres and earned $143, net,
last year.
Last summer the average fish
ermen in Southeastern Alaska
did not earn $100 and lived on it
during the past several months.
This winter, one family in
Petersburg lived on straight salt
salmon given them by local fish
ermen. If you think that straight
salt salmon, without other ne
cessities is a good diet, just try
living on it for a couple of weeks.
The average Alaskan is just as
bad off as the laboring class of
the states but they are able to
cover up their want and destitu
tion. Another few months and
they will be unable to cover their
needs and as they become more
destitute the merchants and i
tusiness men will have greater
problems to meet than just poli
tically fighting and opposing the
fishermen who only ask for a
chance to earn a living.
-x
TEN DOLLARS A THOUSAND
-X
The salmon canners will pay
$10 per thousand for pink salm
cn this coming season—if an 1
when they buy it from the fish
ermen.
Last summer the fishermen
were unable to make a living
wage with salmon selling at $40
a thousand.
Last year the price cf $40 a
thousand included oil, gasoline
and fuel for the boats. The
price this year is $10 straight
without gasoline, without lubri
cating oil; without fuel.
The average catch last year in
Southeastern Alaska was 25,000
—at $10 per thousand the earn
ing of the average crew will be
$250—gross. It costs the average
fisherman $100 to outfit for the
season—not including his family
expense. With five men to the
boat, the initial expense to outfit,
would be $1,250—or $1000 more
than the total earnings of the
crew.
“BUT WE WILL EAT”
-x
Said a fisherman, “We will
not be able to earn any money
this summer, but we will eat
anyhow.” Conditions have come
to a pretty pass in this rnh
country of ours when men look
ahead to a season’s work “just
to eat.” With such an outlook
ahead, it is no wonder that the
business men are growing pessi
mistic. But whose fault is it?
The fishermen who have insis
tently, persistently and consis
tently pointed out the damable
discriminations of Henry O’Mal
ley in his administration of the
fisheries—or is it the fault or
,the toe-kissers, the sychophants,
the beneficiaries of the Bureau
of Fisheries and Mr. O’Malley?
The Alaskans will eat—ani
when they make preparations to
get .food making no noise or fuss
about it, then must the ruling
class beware. Nero fiddled Whilst
Borne burned—t h e average
American business man is no:
any better than Nero. Until too
late did the Czars of Russia dis
cover that they could well have
followed another course and yet
lived.
-x_
THIS IS A NEW DOCTRINE
-X
“The depression and unem
ployment, after all, may be a
good thing for children. Adver
jAbj keeps parents In closer con
tact with their progeny... With
adversity the homes takes its
more normal place.” Ray Lyman
Wilbur, M. D., President of Stan
ford University, Secretary of the
Interior.
The depression and unemploy
ment with attendant suffering
and misery, with thousands dy
ing throughout the land through
sickness directly attributable to
lack of sufficient food and nour
ishment, is a good thing for
American children. Because
their adversity keeps parents in
closer contact with their chil
dren and can see the little ones
die by slow degree. They can see
physical development retarded,
mental development halted and
moral development destroyed. It
is a good thing, according to the
Secretary of the Interior, that
there is depression and unem
ployment-fine for the children
and the parents especially will
enjoy it.
-x
BUNKUM ECONOMY
The road appropriations for
the Territory were cut by Con
gress from $650,000 to slightly
ever $350,000 for the next year.
Mr. McDuffie, the good repre
sentative from Alabama made
effort to have that appropriation
cut out altogether in the inter
est of “economy.” It was a waste
of good tax money to invest in
road development in Alaska
v/here the population was sparse
and only 28,000 out of the 60,000
was of the white race.
Did you hear the Representa
tive from Alabama protest the
waste of tax money in the sub
sidizing of the Rooseveit-Morgan
line between Baltimore and
Hamburg? No! The United Stat
es is paying that “little” com
pany $6 per mile or $24,462 for
every trip between Baltimore
and Hamburg or $1,272,014 for
the year to carry a few pounds
of mail between the two ports.
The company has a ten-year
postoffice contract at those
figures or in that time it will
cost the government $12,272,014
to pack the small amount of
mail between Baltimore and
Hamburg. Already this year the
government has paid to the
Rooseveit-Morgan line over
$800,000 on their contract—a far
greater expenditure with less
possibility of return on invest
ment than the $650,000 asked for
Alaska roads.
When Mr. McDuffie talks
about wasting money on roads
in Alaska he and other congress -
men should not be taken serious
ly for there are other wastes
and “subsidies” far worse than
any ever thrown Alaska's way.
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THE ORGY OF WASTE
-X
President Hoover is opposed to
the bond issue in the sum of
five billion dollars which speci
fically is to be raised in bonds
and to be expended in road and
other construction for the em
pioyment of labor. Ths President
holds that the thing *s wrong in
principle and that instead of the
money being handled in this way
it should be handled through the
Reconstruction Finance Board.
Outside of lending money to
railroads which immediately
paid their obligations to certain
large banking interests, we do
not know that the R. F. B. has
done anything noteworthy that
would justify its existence.
And anyhow, the R. F. B. has
bad its chance to bring back
prosperity and seemed to have
made a real successful failure in
its effort. Perhaps if the govern
ment would now expend some of
the finances through labor, iz
will gradually seep into those
channels where confidence will
be aroused and a new lease o 1
life taken whereby the present
distress may be overcome. Might
be worth trying, anyhow.
-x
A FUNNY WORLD
-x
Lieut, and Mrs. Massie have
returned to their home in Ken
tucky where they are trying to
hide from the spotlight of pub
licity which has been centered
upon them since the murder of
a half-caste Hawaiian, alleged
to have been one of a group of
men who attacked the woman.
The towns people are showering
them with gifts and commisera
tion for the trials and tribula
tions and publicity they endured.
In Hawaii a representative in
the legislature has proposed a
measure to appropriate $5,000 to
the family of the alleged rapist
to compensate them for his
death at the hands of the
American officer and two sea
men.
Need there he any comment?
-x
APPLY THIS TO ALASKA
-x
“Ours is a government of all
people, created to protect and
promote the common good, and
when the claims of any group oi
cias^ are inconsistent with the
welfare of all, they must give
way.”—President Herbert Hoov
er.
The claims of the fish trap
men are inconsistent with the
welfare of all Alaskans. The re
gulations promulgated by the
Commissioner of Fisheries are
and have been distinctly to pro
mote the welfare of a certain
class and group to the hurt of
all the people of Alaska.
The citizens of Alaska have a
fundamental right to make a
living from its resources which
right has been deliberately stol
en from them by the machina
tions of a federal bureau set up
to protect the resources of the
territory.
The whole administration of
the fisheries of Alaska is concen
trated in the hands of the large
fishery corporations and their
object and effort is to control it
in such a manner that they will
make the most profit regardless
of the welfare of the people of
Alaska. The whole principle of
fisheries administration in Alas
ka is not consistent with the
principle laid down by President
Lincoln. Alaskans will appreciate
more real action toward the pro
tection of the common good.
High-flown and bombastic ora
tory will not procure for Alas
kans the ordinary necessities of
life.
-x
ILL-ADVISED ECONOMY
N
-X
Attempting to eliminate from
the army supply bill an item of
$354,310 allotment for Alaskan
roads and trails, Representative
McDuffie said that Alaska’s bud
get estimate this year amounts
to more than $4,000,000. “I doubt
if the amount of income from
Alaska to the federal treasury
amounts to anything like that,-’
he observed, sagely.
It would be interesting to
learn how much revenue the fed
eral treasury expects from the
creeks “improved” with funds
from the rivers and harbors pork
barrel.
Since 1889 Alaska’s creeks have
produced $400,000,000 in gold,
her mountains have yielded
$225,000,000 in copper; more
than $175,000 000 has been re
ceived for her furs and more
than $900,000,000 for fish taken
I from her waters. She has pur
chased more than $800,000,000
worth of merchandise from the
States.
Wealth to the extent of almost
two thousand million dollars has
been contributed by Alaska to
the people of the United States.
If the federal treasury did not
get its share, its officials have
'been guilty of aa unusual over
sight. ,
Seattle has a particular and
most lively interest in the de
velopment of Alaska. But in view
of the stream of wealth which
the Northern Territory pours in
to the United States as a whole,
parsimony in appropriations fo~
continued opening up of Alaska’s
resources must appeal to all as
ill-advised economy. -Seattle P I.
-x
SMALL TOWNS DON’T DIE
THEY COMMIT SUICIDE!
-x
Towns do not die, they com
mit suicide, said a newspaper
recently. And it is true.
If everybody who makes his
money in this community would
spend his money in this com- 1
munity the home town would
double in population in a few
years and everybody in and
around it would be prosperous.
Why are filling stations out of
(proportion to every other line
|of business in number? Because j
! people buy almost all of their j
gas and oil at home.
It is really inexplainable, why
people will persist in spending
money out of town needlessly,
when the results of this practice
are so costly. We know of one
individual in the city now out of
a job. This particular individual
■arely spent a cent in Eaton
Rapids, even when he could have
saved money. Some two or three
years ago this person was in
formed that if his practice of
spending money out of the citv
continued, he would work him
self out of a job entirely. And
that is just what has happened.
How can the business men, or
any one else, hire employees if
they have nothing for them to
do, or any money to pay them?
When you spend a dollar out
side you take it right out of the
pockets of some local citizen.
And speaking of the “penny
wise and pound foolish” policy,
this is it. Save a few cents by.
spending your money in some j
other city, and then in the
course of time find your husband
out of a job because business
conditions here will not war
rant his remaining in some one’s
employ.
The fight is on in all smaller
cities. This does not only apply
j to Eaton Rapids. It is becoming:
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