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lishing Company at Petersburg, Alaska.
Entered in the Post Office in Petersburg as Second Class Matter.
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LOUIS F. PAUL,.MANAGER and EDITOR
A THLINGET LEGEND
Raven (called Ye’l by the
Thlingets) the Creator and Be
nefactor of mankind was walk
ing along the beach with his
servant Cormorant (called Whis
key-bottle for a nickname be
cause they sit on low rocks and
look like whiskey bottles—but
called Yuk by the Natives).
They came to a town and were
told that there was plenty of
halibut out in front of the town.
80 Raven and Yuk decided to go
fishing.
It seems that Yuk being a
real fisherman caught all the
halibut and Raven caught noth
ing. As they were returning,
Raven figured a way to hide his
disgrace from the townspeople,
so he said to Yuk: “My partner,
what is on your tongue? Stick
out your tongue so that I can
look at it.” Yuk obeyed his mas
ter and stuck out his tongue. In
those days the Cormorant could
talk just as well as anybody else.
Raven now seized Yuk’s tongue
and pulled it out. Then Raven
said “Let me hear you talk.”
Yuk tried to talk and was only
able to say “Wah-h-h-h.” Raven
then said “That is fine. You
talk much better now than you
used to,” and Yuk believed it.
Mince that day, Yuk has never
said more than just “Wah-h-h”
for the Thlingets claim the
Cormorant lost his tongue at
that time.
When they came to town,
Raven appropriated all the hali
but. taking his time, lifting the
halibut out in full view of the
crowd of people who had gath
ered to watch such a successful
fisherman. Yuk was frantic and
tried to stop him. He called t"1
the people that the halibut was
his, but nobody could under
stand him. Finally when Raven
lifted a great, big halibut up.
Yuk made that queer noise
which attracted the people’s at
tention. Raven however explain
ed to the people: “This is the
one, about which he is telling,
this big one. When I hooked it,
a very hard time I found.”
And thus it has ever been. The
means of speech or the control
of the press, has meant that the
servant who has indeed caught
the halibut is cheated. The per
son or group of people without
the power of telling what they
have done can be robbed.
BLOOD, TEARS, AND WAR
By James R. Little
War’s worst feature is not the
slaying of the bodies of men, for
we all must die some day, but
the slaying of souls of men—its
destruction of the life of trutn
and beauty and justice. That is
the first great crime of war. It’s
second is its vast and senseless
economic waste, its wanton wip -
ing out of wealth it has taken
the race centuries of patient
thought and labor to upbuild.
Those are the two worst fea
tures of war—civil as well as
rational. From these two great
crimes of war flow innumerable
lesser evils that improverish
and degrade men; for, when
men see their homes destroyed
and justice made a mockery of
hate enters their hearts for all
mankind. They are no longer
capable of neighborliness, their
will to co-operate is numbed,
and, in their madness, they
reach out for plunder tho they
must loot the milk from babies’
bottles to buy limousines. Wit
ness what is going on in the coal
fields of the United States to
day. This goes on especially af
t ~ great national wars until
men arrive at a state where
greed so obsesses them that
millions are willing to die of
hunger in the midst of abun
dance rather than surrender,
their “right" to exploit their.
r»eighbors and fellow workers
for their private gain.
War thus brings about a con
dition that destroys the very
base on which human society
rests: For after all is said and
done, man is a social animal.
His whole welfare, nay his very
existence on the planet depends
on his ability to associate with
his fellowmen in co-operative
thought and labor. War, es
pecially war in this industrial
age, makes free human associa
tion impossible—and so. war or
civilization must perish. There
is and can be no compromise
here. Lastly, no one ever saw a
trained militarist whose sense
of justice was not blunted, who
did not condemn beauty, who
i did not fear truth, who did not
despise labor, who did not mock
liberty, and who did not hate
democracy. Yet take the love of
these things from the minds of
men, and they become less than
the beasts of the field. Losing
these “illusions,” as the “great
warriors” have called them.
Men do what beasts and birds
risk their lives to prevent—they
quietly submit to see their
young die of hunger with moun
tains of food piled up all around
them. War not only slays the
souls of men—it atrophies the
strongest instinct which the
preservation of the species de
pends—the protection of the life
of its young. War is the enemy
of life and love—it is death and
hate organized. Famine is its
first born child and despotism
its last. There i« nothing good in
war. Materially and spiritually,
t bankrupts men and nations.
The only “good war” is the
war on war. Let us begin it,
brother and sister undermen;
for verily, I say unto you that
either war ends or we are dumb
and slaves once more.
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WHY SOME TOWNS ARE
TAXLESS
Seattle Star
Like to hear about a town
with no local taxes?
Okay. Vermilion, Alberta, Ca
nada.
How come? Vermilion has its
own power, light and heating
system. Rates are lower than
those charged in nearby cities
by private corporations.
But the profits more than pay
for running the city.
Want to hear about another
town?
Okay. Easton, Maryland, USA.
Easton put just $30,000 into a
power plant. It has accumulated
a net profit of $198,000 in 14
years. No local taxes.
Want to hear about a couple
of northwest cities?
All right: Spokane and Ta
coma, Washington.
Spokane is booned with pow
er-combine power; Tacoma rolls
her own.
, Industrial power that costs a
Spokane firm $113 would cost it
just $40 in Tacoma.
That’s enough for one day.
See you again some time.
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83 TONGUES SPOKEN
IN SOVIET UNION
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Europe, second tinest of the
five continents, has thirty-four
different countries wherein no
less than 120 different languages
are spoken. Out of these eighty
three alone are spoken in the
Soviet Union.
Nearly eighty-one million peo
ple speak German as their na
tive language. Russian is talked
by seventy-one million, and the
English speaking number forty
seven million. It is interesting
that there are more Italian
speaking people in Europe than
French, namely seventy-one
million and . seventy million, re
spectively.
DEER EATS HUNTER S
LUNCH OUT OF POCKET
Make place for N. K. Hays of
New Castle in the ranks of the
tellers of tall tales.
Hays went deer hunting with
a friend. For three hours he
tramped the mountains ana
saw nary a deer. Wearied, he
sat down at a deer crossing,
v/aited and dozed.
Three deer passed, stopped,
looked musingly at the still
hunter. Bolder than the others,
one stepped over and nibbled at
a package of sandwiches Hays
nad in his hunting coat pocket.
Waking, Hays leaped wildly to
his feet and fired but missed the
deer.
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TORTURER GOES TO JAIL
A father was convicted at
Bowling Green of torturing his
10-year-old son with a hot stove
lid-lifter, because the lad ate
sugar which the parent had for
I bidden.
The father, John Bates, was
{sentenced in probate court to
! serve 60 days in jail and was
i fined $100, after the boy, Ralph
told of the punishment.
Ralph’s school teacher dis
covered the cruelty when he ap
peared in school with burns on
his face.
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TRANSFER OF U. S.
WORKERS ADVOCATED
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All civil service employees
should be placed under one a
gency with power to switch them
from one department to another,
as the volume of the work de
mands, the United States civil
service commission recommends.
Such an arrangement, the
commission stated in its annual
report, would relieve overwork
ed departments without in
creasing expenditures.
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HARD TIMBERS BROUGHT
TO SEATTLE FOR NEW SHIP
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Two timbers of Australian
zronbark brought to Seattle bv
|he steamship Golden Rod will
be used in construction of the
225-foot Alaska school supply
ship at the plant of the Berg
Shipbuilding Company.
The timbers were imported by
the D. A. Johnson Hardwood
Company and are the largest re
ceived here since the World War.
They will be used in the largest
wooden ship built on the Pacific
Coast since the World War. The
timbers are 20 inches by 28 in
ches, 30 feet long and 24 inches
by 24 inches, 24 feet long.
The ironbark will be used in
the stem and stern post of the
vessel. The timbers contain 2,500
board feet of wood and weigh
19,000 pounds.
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BOOTLEGGER ASKS HIS
CUSTOMERS TO
REMEMBER FAMILY
An Indian bootlegger sat in
! jail at Muskogee, Okla. He
| wondered if his appeal to his
“friends and customers” would
be heeded.
M. M. Kidd, known as a “big
hearted bootlegger,” sent a let -
ter to a newspaper. It was ad
dressed to his “friends and cus
tomers” and asked that they
“see that my three children
have real Christmas.”
He said his friends and cus
tomers were scattered over a
large territory and that he used
the columns of a newspaper “in
hope of reaching them all.”
PASSENGER AIR RULNG MADE
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Airplane owners, who carry
passengers for sight-seeing trips,
must be bound by the liabilities
of common carriers or refuse to
make the flights, according ta
an opinion of Justice Ira F.
Thompson of the District Court
of Appeals.
The opinion was given in an
appeal from a $2,000 judgement
recently awarded to James W.
Smith, airplane passenger, a
gainst Lloyd O’Donnell, Long
Beach aviator, who carries pas
sengers for hire.
MAN WINS REVERSAL
OF RUM CONVICTION
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The state supreme court of
Minnesota ruled that a Minne
apolis city ordinance against
the possession of liquor applies
only to cases where the liquor is
proved to be for sale or trans
port. The decision was handed
down in the case of Oscar Tre
mont, who had been found guil
C. R. BELL
General Merchandise
and
Fur Buyer
Kake.Alaska
EUREKA TRADING CO.
Dealers in
General Merchandise
Kake.Alaska
ERNEST KIRBERGER
General Merchandise
Kake - - Alaska
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Highest Prices Paid for Furs
KAKE CAMP
Alaska Native Brotherhood
Meets Every Monday
8 p. m.
President, Peter Hanson
Secretary, Thomas Skeek
ty by a lower court. Tremont’s
conviction was reversed.
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ANCIENT DYNAMO FOUND
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A dyanmo, constucted nearly
a century ago by Joseph Saxton,
has been brought to light at the i
Franklin Institute. Presented to (
the Institute in 1835, it was dis
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Hauling and contracting
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R. E. BAUMGARTNER,
Attorney-at-Law
Office rbove People’s Dr us
Petersburg .. .. Alaska
1931
November 17
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1932
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l ei ruary 10
March 15
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August 23
September 20
October 18
November 22
Advances will be
made as usual
when requested
Transferred by tel
egraph if desired.
Special Sales held
on request of Shipper.
Seattle FurExchange
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Out Of Town Laundry will
Be Taken Care Of In The
Shortest Possible Time.
Everything Back But The Dirt
CITIZENS STEAM LAUNDRY
Russel York Proprietor
Prints 17c per yard 6 yards for $1.00
LUNCH KITS 79c
Women's Silk Fibre Hose pair 29c
FLEISHMAN’S YARN 49c SKEIN
Green Glassware Tumblers 6 For 23c
Women’s ALL WOOL Sport HOSE 49c
B(fining January First 1932- We are going on a strictly Cash Basis.
By this means we will he able to give our customers greater values
than we have heretofore.
The SMART SHOP
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covered in the basement by Dr.
Howard McClenahan, institute
'ecretary.
And business is so poor on the
STew York stock exchange that
?rass is growing in the middle
)f Wall Street.
Why expect a statesman to
know what the public wants
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HAINES
Mrs. Peter Erig was arrested
charged with violation of the
Alaska Bone Dry Low. She
pleaded guilty and was given 30
days in jail.
BETTER
Coal in the Bin
THAN
Cold in the Head
Chris Tveten
Coal Dealer
The Telephone
Is the Open Door To the Merchant’s Es
tablishment. One telephone order to-day
means more in the future.
Telephone Exchange
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Lower deck $57.50; Upper, $65.50
e Alaska does not stop at Peters
burg Southbound but will bring and
'■take out mail.
Pass. & Freight to S.E. & W. Alaska.
unris Tveten, Agent
Passenger accom
odations on all the
Admiral Line Ves
sels have been
completly and ma-j
terlally improved. ^
You will find them
very attractive and
comfortable.
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