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Application entered as Second-Class Matter July 16, 1926, at the Post
Office at Petersburg, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THE VOICE OF A FRIEND
It was late in November a few
years ago in a midwestern State. A
heavy snow blizzard was falling
The cattle and other animals were
in their stalls and the birds o
the air were under cover. A man
going to and fro on his farm
heard the lone call of a goose, as if
the call of a bird that was' lost
from its mate. Putting his hands
to his mouth and facing upward
ue called, “Here chukkee, chukkee
chukkee, here chukkee chukkee
chukkee.” Several times he repeat
ed the call when suddenly the cry
of the goose changed, answring the
man as it were. Finally the call
of the man brought the tired bird
down to his feet. Talking kindly
to it, the man 1 ed it' to the
barn where he fed it. The next
morning after feeding and water-,
ing the bird, the man opened the;
door and led the goose out where-J
upon with a happy honk it raised
in the air and flew south.
Th0 man was Jack Miner, known
throughout the world as the friend
of birds. His farm of 200 acres i
the resting place of thousands o
migrating birds each fall an
spring. Thousands of people visi
this bird haven each year to se
the wonderful sight of myriads o
wild birds resting without fear on
this farm. The birds seemingly all
know that Miner is their friend; j
uiey &.11UW ms voice and mey uo
not. fear nor distrust him.
We are giving away a little se
cret when we tell this story. If
th alleged independent party would
secure the Indian vote all they
need do is treat them as Miner
treats his birds. Play the game
fairly and squarely and kindly and
they will play in the same way in
return. They certainly must be
given credit for having as much in
telligence as the geese that know
and recognize the voice of their
friend.
The steamship Alameda which ar
rived in port from the south last
night was the third ship from the
south this week to reach Alaska
without any mail. Of course it is
the fault of Delegate Dan Suther
land. ” —Ketchikan Chronicle.
Following the logic,if you will
call it such, then it is the fault of
Delegate that the Northwstern does
not stop at Petersburg, that the
Yukon and the Alaska do not even
bother to blow their whistles when
they pass in front of our growing
port. Don’t forget that it is the
fault of Sutherland’s that the
Canadian boats only throw their
waves at us andit is also the fault
cf Dan’s that Petersburg and
Wrangell lost the mail contracts
to Ketchikan. And while we are
at it we might as well blame him
for the wrecking of the Princess
Sophia and the wearing of the
buckets on our hydro-electric. He
didn’t have any influence else he
could have gone and corrected all
these things.
“If Tom Marquam were now de
legate •* ** !!! ? ? ? If our aunts
were men they would be our
uncles.
A LEGEND
Many, many years ago there liv
id on the West Coast of Prince of
Wales Island a powerful tribe of
:eople. They had roamed and hunt
in til they had accumulated great
wealth. Amongst these people waa
he beautiful daughter of a great
hief, who was just coming to the
.ge of young womanhood. Accord
ng to the custom of the people of
hose days she was put in the care
f her aunt and not permitted to
ven talk to her own men relatives
ntil given in marriage.
The room where she # was kep
was at the back end of the house
with no opening except througn tae
main room. She had been there fc* |
some time when a worm bored it
way through the flooring into th
room. Instead of being afraid o j
it and killing it, she took it and
led it and nursed it until it be
came monster in size. The problem
oi feeding it became acute. She
therefore showed it where the main
supply of winter food was kept*
It fed to its hearts content until
there was no food left. When the
people needed that food and open
ed the cache they discovered that
there was no food left so for want
of it the whole tribe died of hung
er.
There is a moral to this story
told by the Indians and it can well
be applied to some communities in
Alaska.
Illiteracy in the U. S. ranges
from 21 percent in Alabama, down
to 1.1 percent in Iowa.
Seven National Forests in Mon
tana, Idaho and Washington hav
been closed on account of fine! haz
z^rds. Fred Morrell, Dstrict Foeste
said: “The forest situation, ha
reached such a stage that drastic
action has become necessary both
for preservation of the forests and
safety of the public.
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Beach Combings:
By AHN-KUTTY
i Petersburg has the reputation of
using the most expensive town to'
live in between Skagway and Mjaryi
Island. The consumer has to pay;
from five to twenty-five percent'
more for commodities here than!
he can buy them in any, other S-E.l
Alaska town. Even in outlying and
isolated ports the retail prices are'
less, albeit the freight tolls are I
double. We don’t know the reason,!
bioadly speaking, but “all the traf >
fic will bear’’ is mighty poor Imsi-I
ness anywhere any time. It hurts1
a town, turns a big flow of trade
to mail order houses and builds up
a feeling of being gouged. Goods
I riced right means more home
trade and more home pull.
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The following is made- up of
chunks of burnt tin roofing that
fell in the vicinity of the fire Sun
day morning. ).
That the number of men on the '
street, and who promptly answered <
th/. alarm, goes to prove, consider- *
ing the early hour,, that Petersburg 1
has an owl soeietjr of no small mem- 4
fcer8hip. 1,
Earl Ohmer was an early and j
willing helper. He didn’t take time ]
to lace up his shoes until the last ♦:
wiggle of smoke had died away. j ♦!
Had it not been for a few very *j
early strollers the blaze would
have turned out fatally for some
of the upstairs lodgers. ♦!
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The restaurant on the lower ♦{
floor, didn’t open for business af
ter the fire because the soup was *\
too thin and coffee too weak. It 4
appears that there was a whole lot
of leakage through the ceiling. j J
The nozzle manipulators of the *!'
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second hose line were erratic in
their aim. Once in awhile they’d X
hit the fire; other times they’d $
squirt down the necks of the fire- 4
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lighters on the opposite side of the X
l-uilding. j $
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Stedman, of the Gift Shop, did- $
i’t know there had been a fire un- J*
;ii all of the excitement was over. *•*
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He said that he found his big totem
standing at the shop front door,
lust about suffocated.
Some of those who came upon
the scene after the water was turn
ed off and the fire out, were strong
on telling how it happened.
The smell of burning blankets
led one fireman to believe that one
|-or more- of the tin sparks flying
around had lodged in his hair.
Chris Tveten didn’t get a poke
in the eye from anyone. That
black circle along side of his nose
came from a charred stick he ran
foul of in the line of duty.
When the concrete chimney was
knocked over, off the barber shop,
it came very near spoiling the hat
of a spectator who was standing
almost directly underneath.
No one passed a bottle to the be
smudged and wet firemen on the
wind up of things. This was be
cause the police were present, pro
bably. But a steaming pot of cof
fee would have been a welcome
substitute. May be some of those
who look on will think of this the
next time there is a fire.
All in all, it was a threatening
fire well handled. Promptness in
turnout and good fighting spirit
put a crimp on what would have
been a disastrous conflagration.
The blunt nosed ship isn’t al
ways the slow ship. It isn’t the
water broken ahead that retards
speed so much as it is the dead
water dragged astern.
And. so in life. Musty precedent
mouldy ideas, ancient customs and
melancholy memories are drags in
fbe wake astern. They retard pro
gress, they veer t he course and
ake dismal the horizan. So trim
your ship. Trim your ship, if you
want to be moving on, to a smooth
wake and you’ll be more able tc
buck in and splash aside the many
objectionable seas foaming menac
ingly ahead. In other words, don’V
draw too much water aft.
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The papers are full of war debt
statements and the strife they’re
causing. We thought we had play
ed pretty fair in that overseas
fiasco, but it seems that France,
anyhow, has a different slant.
When Germany hadher bayonets at
the throat of France, when she had
England whipped worse than she
had been whipped in 500 years,
when she had the soldiers of the
Czar up againtst the quitting post,
when Italy was just about all in
and Belgium flat on the dirt, what
was the cry? “Come, America,
come ere we die! Come with men,;
money, ships, food and guns!!’’
And we came with all they asked
and more, and did our part even
though any number of 100 per
centers, dollar-a-year men and su
per-patriots sucked like leeches on
the mad stream of things and
bloated fat on the tragedy. Now
the accounting. France, the most
i.eedy one in the conflict, is today
' 1 lie supremea whiner. We firmly
believe that if all the war debts,
bearing on the world war, were
cancelled in Europe, Uncle Sam
: would wipe his slate clean of
1 claims. The U. S. is asking mighty
' little, anyway, in return oempared
to what she put in.
Since the struggle wasn’t of our
making, how about the 300,000
dead? How about our shell torn,
bullet marred cripples. France can’t
put the taste and breath of life in
to those who went over he top for
her and are now forever gone gone
beyond our ken. She hasno sooth
ing hand nor sympathetic word for
those who stopped German lead
that she might live, and who came
out maimed for life. And for the
wealth we gave? “Oo-la-la! Scratch
it off. Wq don’t pay zee one cent.”
Still, we don’t have to go clear ov
er to France to find all the causes
of debt juggling and payment ob
jections. Our own little Wall
Street hangout of financial buc
caneers has its velvety claw on the
ioparation pulse, and the more
tardy France is with the U. S.
claims, the quicker it’ll realize on
its private loans. What’s flag and
country to this free-booting strong
hold? i
Some time back the plastic sur
geon, Dr. W. E. Balsiger, put a new
nose on on Jack Dempsey. Now
there is some argument between
scalpel wielders as to whether this
proboscis of Jack's is any good or
not. Well, Jack knows about his
nose and he, also, knows enough to
keep it out of the truculent reach
of one Harry Wills.
The Italian dictatorship, butting
into things industrial, has com
manded Italian workers to go back
to a nine hour work day. The
workers kicked, and in this kicking
there’s a good sign there was
spunk enough, left under Facis1
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has tilted' his salary to $1,000,000.
He isn’t worth, it eiher to his coun
try or its people. But let him draw
it while he may for the time is
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