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LOUIS F. PAUL,.. - EDITOR
C. O. PARKS,.BUSINESS MANAGER
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EDUCATION
Mark Hopkins sat on one end of
a log
And a farm boy sat on the other.
Mark Hopkins came as a peda
gogue
And taught as an elder brother.
T don’t care what Mark Hopkins
taught—
If his Latin was small and his
Greek was naught—
For the farmer’s boy he thought,
thought he,
All through lecture time and
quiz,
“The kind of a man I mean to be
Is the kind of a man Mark Hop
kins is!”
Philosophy, languages, medicine,
law,
Are peacock feathers to deck the
daw.
If the boys who come from your
splendid schools
Are well trained sharpers or
flippant fools.
You may brag of your age and
your ivied walls,
You great endowments, your
noble halls
And ail your modern features,
Your vast curriculum’s scope ^and
reach
And the multifarious things you
teach—
But how about the teachers?
Are they men who will stand in
a father’s place,
Who are paid, best paid, by the
ardent face
When boyhood gives, as boyhood
can,
Its love and faith to a fine, true
man?
No printed page nor spoken plea
May teach young hearts what
men should be—
Not all the books on all the shel
ves,
But what the teachers are them
selves.
Far education is: Making men;
r'n it is now, so was it when
Mark Hopkins sat on one end of
a log
And a farm boy sat on the other.
—Arthur Guiterman
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FILLING PUBLIC DEMAND
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There are no more copies of
The Gateway carrying the edi
torial about the Alaska Railroad
"snooper.” The demand was ex
traordinary, unprecedented in
fact. We would have run off sev
eral thousand if we had -known
the popular appeal. There have
been many felicitations but no
new subscribers. If you like our
paper, subscribe to it; then you
won’t miss anything.—Gateway.
Editor’s note:—Every so often,
the Alaskan bumps into the!
same situation and finds that it!
would have sold a considerable!
number of papers more than)
were run off. But those whocheer |
one play oftimes forget, and;
soon, that it takes team work to
win any game. So we are rather*
"leased to note that our con
temporaries bump into like situ
ations.
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CANADA SHOWS BARED FISTS
“If the United States Senate
refuses to approve the agree
ment, (Sockeye Salmon Treaty
between U. S. and Canada) there
■s about only one course Canada
can take to bring the selfish in
terests to their senses, and that
’\s to abandon the treaty alto
gether and tell our Canadian
fishermen to fish to their heart’s
content and let the future take
care of itself. This policy seems
to have the approval of Govern
or Hartley and Senator Jones,
but it will mean the end of the
sockeye canning industry of
Puget Sound.”— The Victoria
(B. C ) Times. y
The Fraser River is admitted :
bv all of the fishing industry, to :
be the spawning grounds of the
sockeye salmon. For a number :
of years there has been a decid- <
ed decline in the production of ;
salmon from that area. The pro
duction of sockeye salmon in the
Washington area is negligible as
return of salmon in the district
depends upon the propagation of
salmon in rhe Fraser River area.
The American pack is taken
from the salmon in the Straits
of Georgia and that area tribu
| tary to the Fraser River. In oth
er words, the Canadians are
breeding the sockeye salmon for
t the American packers and fish
' ermen. This is not only recogniz
ed by all in the industry but a
clarion call has been sounded
for enactment of a treaty be
tween the United States and Ca
nada to protect and conserve
this species of salmon. This has
the support of the Pacific Fish
erman, a number of the Puget
?ound packers and the United ■
States Bureau of Fisheries. The
treaty has been presented to the
Senate by the Canadian Gov
ernment, for ratification, suffi
cient pressure has been put a
gainst the trety by American in
terests to prevent its ratifica
tion.
Without the British Columbia
spawning area the industry
would long since have been des
troyed. The American spawning
area can take but small credit
for the continuation of this in
dustry. The only credit that the
Americans can take in this fish
ery is its rapid depletion through
(intensive fishing. Neither coun
try can build up this industry
| without the help of the other.
On the cne hand are American
'interests selfishly holding up the
treaty in order that they may
continue to secure dividends on
(capital invested at the expense
of Canadian propagation and
cost of propagation; on the
other hand we find a Canadian
fisheries department that is
making every honest effort at
conservation of what was once a
flourishing industry.
| In event the Canadians take
off all regulations which now
preserve the industry it will only
;be a matter of time when there
will be no more sockeye fisheries
about, which to make treaty.
Ratification of this treaty b;y
the United States Senate wil]
nut, the °ntire industry on a par
with the Canaditan system of
regulation Certainly the Cana
dians will not lower their stand
ard of conservation to that of
fbe American system therefore
ff, is natural to expect that the
American system of regulation
iviuo* then be raised to that of
t^e Canadians’. For winch rea
son it would be a mighty good
thing for the Senate to ratify
the treaty at an early date.
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“COLLEGES FOR CRIME”
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Dean Roscoe Pound along with
various crime commissions and
social reformers have declared
that prisons are “colleges for
crime.” Young men and boys
under 21 years of age shunted
off into penal institutions com
rr!=,e 75 per cent of the inmr't'os
of prisons convicted four or five
times. The unfortunate condi
tion in the prisons is the non
segregation of first-timers with
case-hardened violators. A great
deal of criticism has been direct
ed against this system which
throws crime recruits in with
hardened criminals. The latest
to add his voice in protest is Asa
Keyes, former Los Angeles dis
irict, atfornev serving a sentence
ef 14 vears on a charge of a'v
’epting bribe. He speaks as fol
ows:
“Knowing thmsrs that I do, it
s genuine tragedy for me to s°e
more young men sent here.
Without facilities for proper seg
•egation of prisoners, you are
umpiy sending in new recruits
for California’s growing crime
irmv. It might help if the gov
ernor and the members of the
;tate legislature came here and
I
looked over San Quentin's popu
lation. They would see mere
boys—more than a third of San
Quentin’s population, thrown in
to daily and deadly association
with confirmed and hardened
criminals. There can be only one
result—nine out of ten of them
go out of here smart and crafty
crooks.”
Duty to Youth
Oft times youngsters with an
over-abundance of pep and vi
tality get into trouble and are
thrown into the class marked
“no-good.” Oft times kindly ad
vice and help and direction will
straighten out young lives which
would otherwise go on the rocks
of moral destruction. Instead of
some “big brother” taking hold
cf these instances we hear that
“they ought to be sent to the
penitentiary or to the reform
school.” And there the duty to
society is ended. But not the
lesson. Such course of action is
merely the evasion of the respon
sibility of properly meeting a
situation in the life of the
youngster and the sending him
to damnation.
Evasion of a responsibility is
an answer to a question. It is the
dodging of a responsibility and
throwing that responsibility up
on others who care not much
about the individual cases which
come under their direction.
It is much better to be a “big
brother” than to “just send em
to the reform school” where in
most cases the tender young
lives become schooled as “smart
and crafty crooks.”
“NOT OF VITAL IMPORTANCE” 1
It was reported that the spil
!er regulation is not of vital im
portance to local canning inter
ests. Practically all of the traps
in this district already make
use of the hemp spillers. It is
understood that not more than
three or four traps in the north
end of the district would be af
fected. In the southern end of
the district, however, there are
many traps heretofore using
wire spillers Some of the trap
men, according to information
received here, have already i
placed orders for wire for their!
wants next season. The cost of
lie hemn spiller is said to be a
bout $150 more that that of the
wire spiller.”—Juneau Empire.
Why Bother, Then
If the “spiller regulation is not
of vital importance to local
canning interests” then why
bother with raising objections
against the new regulation? In
stead of objecting to the hemp
spiller the canners should thank
O’Malley for Ordering that kind
of a sniiier. It is a distinct sav
mr. to the operator for a hemp j
soiller may be used for three j
seasons at one cost while the
wire spiller is made new each
season. In other words, while
the hemp spiller costs the opera
tor about $150 more to make
fhan the wire spiller, the opera
tor must make three wire spillers
during the life of the hemp spil- j
ler. A real saving to the industry j
which should thank rather than
condemn Mr. O’Malley.
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BELIEVE IT OR NOT
Says a contemporary in Peters- j
burg, Indiana, “Your weather j
; -n Petersburg, Alaska, should I
make a good feature in Ripley’s j
| “Believe It or Not.” This was in \
veply to our recent comment on |
the mild winter which has been |
the pleasure of Petersburg this J
year. S
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While snow storms and bliz- «
zards are raging in the east
middle west and southwest
Southeast Alaska has been en
joying file mildest sort of winter
that could be hoped for in any »|
part of the United States. Except
for the short cold snap in the
middle of November and a wee 3
bit of snow on Christmas day
the weather so far has seemed 3
more like late September or( J
parly October weather in most of (
he western and eastern states, j
Slight silver thaws which nevej-'
Tasted more than a couple of
days, no snow on the mountains
to speak of and no cold weather;
m Petersburg at all has marked,
the year so far.
But listen to this in New*1**
at it
York Oil the 7th Of January
there were “huge drifts of snov
which blocked roads to the north
paralyzing motor traffic. In Buf
xcuo, New | York -'Heavy snow
storms and high winds kept traf
fic in western New York almost
at a snail’s pace today. Both
motor and air traffic were affect
ed.” The North Pole evidently is
closer to New York and to the
middle west than it is to Alaska
—“Believe It or Not” Mr. Ripley
can just make that assertion
and have the verification of the
entire district of Southeast
Alaska.
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| Dr. A. B. Kearsley
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c Wrangell - - Alaska
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