The AGREde
LOUIS F. PAUL,
C. O. PARKS,
- EDITOR
BUSINESS MANAGER
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YOU PAY FOR WHAT YOU GET
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Every individual making a
purchase, whether it be cash or
credit, eventually pays for what
he gets. He makes his own selec
tion, takes his choice and then
pays for it. The choice may be
good, bad or indifferent, out it
is bought and paid for and theie
is no returning of the article cf
ier it has been used and found
wanting. And so it is in the af
fairs of the city—the tax payer,
the elector picks his candidates
for city office and if his choice be
good in the end, it is less expen
sive; if it is poor, the cost will
be evident in the taxes declared
and collected and in the amount
of money the town may be in
debted to the banks.
In the present city election are
four men running for council
position—Robert Allen, Charles
Groenaa, incumbents and Chet
Pechette and A. B Holt. There
are only three vacancies to fill.
One of these candidates will
be an also-ran on Wednesday
r.ext while the other three men
will sit in council and direct the
affairs of the city for another
term.
The times confronting Peters
burg, the activities of the town
calls for the best that the town
can get. A town that picks its
directors without thought to the
serious phases of city life wil
ray for its choice in muddled af
fairs of the city; in the subordi
nating cf city affairs to private
affairs, it is always the city’s af
fairs that are hurt. Therefore
the electors cannot afford to se
lect any candidate who by force
of circumstances cannot be a
iree ana maepenaent agent
working disinterestedly for the
common good of the whole town
Slackness, indifference, com
promises in the selected civic
leaders will not promise a
lealthy administration which ic
vhat the city demands at all
'mes. Stop, and look over the
candidates qualifications; lister
to their program and their rea
sons for running for office; look
the field over with the view tc
selecting the one who will give
to the city his best, undivided
effort, and you will make n
mistake in your choice if you
fofiow the dictates of your owr
conscience.
You pay for what you get and
3rou get only what you pay for.
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FOLLOWING
RECOMMENDATION
Governor Parks has recom
mended, along with Mr. Breue
late commissioner of education
that the office of commissione
be taken out of the hands of th
voters and placed in the hand '
of a commission with the govern
or as its head.
Following right along this l;nr '
of thought, why not have a com
mission nominate and appoint ■
the treasurer, auditor, delegate
to Congress, secretary of the ter
ritory and every other elective ‘
office.
History points to the fact that
officers directly responsible to
the people are more responsible
to the will of the electorate and
when under appointive commis
sions they lose sight of their re
sponsibilities to the electorate
and become tools and puppets
cf political machines.
Mr. Breuer, who made a bid
for the position when he went
before the electorate last fall,
shows poor form in declaring to
^he electorate that they do not
nave sufficient intelligence to
elect a commissioner of educa
tion. Removal of that office
from elections and placing it in
the hands of a commission does
not remove it from politics not
withstanding the recommenda
tions of Governor Parks and Mr.
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PRIMARY LAW
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If any effort be made to
change the primary voting law
It. should be to strengthen it. Il
is very true that dishonest poli
ticians in Alaska have urged and
advised party members to vote
in the primary elections of the
opposite party in order that
only machine candidates shall
be nominated. And it does not
take many elections to point
out the verity of this statement, j
If any effort is made to change ,
that law it should be made
stronger by compelling the voter
to register before the election
and to enter the primary in the
party for which he registered. To
enter the election of an opposing
party after registering in anoth
er is not just exactly honest—in
other words, past elections have
not been honest elections. And
these politicians who have been
yelling “sanctity of the ballot”
and “purify the ballot” have
been the greatest offenders.
By all means—change the
orimary law BUT do not go back
to any semblence of the old con
vention system. A system wheie -
by Shackleford through his tools
and puppets bought and sold
proxies as you would buy catUe
By all means—change the pri
mary law so that a few men
Oehind closed doors of their
favorite hotel in Juneau, drink
ng “fine Canadian goods,” and
unoking big black cigars, shall I
cot name candidates for bothj
Republican and Democratic i
parties while a gullible public j
oelieves that IT is naming +he J
men who shall serve the people1
in public office.
BONUS FOR THE BOSSES |
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Eugene Grace, president of i
Esthlehem Steel Corporation re-!
’eives a salary of $12,000 a v;ar. j
His bonus check has averaged :
5815,000 a year since 1918. >_& t|
/ear, a depression year, he rc - j
aeived $1,015,591. George W Hili.j
president of the American To- i
racco Company received $2,2?i,-'
)00 in salary and bonus for last
i/ear. These two corporations » <,y j
their labor at lower wages the r. j
most of the industrial concern j
n the United States. Stock.iold-j
ms have gone to court, challeng
mg the right of the companies
o give such enormous bonuses
o the presidents, ft is hara for
he average person to anpreciut"
vhat services one man car. .'iv
o a corporation to make °n ex
penditure cf $2,231,000 in one
rear worth while.
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POPULATION OF ALASKA j
According to government sta- j
istics the population of Alaska
n 1880 was 33,426; in 1930, it was j I
19,278, an increase of approxi- ! 1
nalely 25.000 or an average in-Is
:rease of 500 per year. Of the to-! <
al population in 1880, it could
>e safely assumed that less than j
1.000 were of the white race. (t
The division of racial proper- j i
ion in Alaska is declared to be i
16.000 Indians and 23,000 white t
>eople which is in fact a de- i
rease in total white population
rom other years.
It is well, always, to remember
hat the Indian population re
lains in Alaska and does no' ^
ligrate to and from the stater s
allowing labor markets. Thai c
ae cause of the lack of increase ]<
l Alaska’s population is due to r
ae fact that labor cannot find 11
utlet for its energy with any $
ope for reward. There must be ]<
reason for this and it is well
iat every Alaskan give serious
lought to the reasons for this
lilure of Alaska to grow in pop
lation while other sections o'
ie country are showing heavy
lereases.
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OVERTY AND PLENTY, >
TO BE SUBJECT OF STUDY t
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World-wide unemployment and
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conditions responsible will bo
discussed at a congress to be:
held in Amsterdam, Hollo nd.
next August. World-wide unem
ployment begins with local un
employment. Find the solution
locally and the other units or
sections will solve themselves. In
Alaska, industry employing local
labor will take care of its own.
But if it employs foreign labor,
it still has its local problem The
crux of the whole problem isj
stated by Frank A Vanderlip asj
follows: “Capital kept too much
and labor did not have enough)
to buy its chare of things.” Giv
en sufficient to buy ordinary ne
cessities of life, including educa
tion and pleasure, labor places
in circulation sufficient to stabi
lize industry. The more labor
earns, the more he is able to
spend and as his wants increase
production of necessity must in
crease. Why go to Amsterdam to
find out the cause of unemploy
ment.
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AT LAST
Mai S. Daugherty, brother of
former Attorney General, Harry
M. Daugherty, is in prison—pay
ing the penalty for having loot- ,
ed his own bank. The bank|
which played such an important i
part in the “Ohio Gang’s” loot
ing of the government during
Tie Harding administration. The
bank through which booze per
mits flowed, permits for tight
pictures, alien property swindles
frauds that robbed crippled des
titute, blind and other ex-ser
vice men; which did not stop
even at murdering one of its own
henchmen, Jess Smith, reputedly
a suicide; which stole every
thing it could move from Wash- |
ington; the bank which was the!
clearing house for every crooked j
move of the men entrusted with
the affairs of the country. The
bank lived by looting and it died
oy being looted and its looter,
.he man whose fingers were mix
ed in v/ith every crooked deal
which cost the government hun
dreds of millions of dollars now
pays a part of the penalty and
will remember that “the way of
• he transgressor is hard.”
WANT A SLAVE ?
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Under the “Situation Wanted”
column, of a newspaper in Rush
vil’e. Ind., is the following ad
vertisement: “Wanted—A mas
ter. White, able-bodied man.
willing to work, will sell himself ■
into slavery for his keep. I have
?ot to eat. State price.” Here’s1
i/our chance to get something,
for a price, and cheap in the
bargain. For shame, that any
men shall offer to sell himself
into slavery in these United
States, the land of the free, thei
borne of brave, and country,
Df liberty and justice for all. Itj
is unbelieveable. In Russia this \
man can at least work to eat ! |
DELIVER ITS FROM EVIL
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“Ibid,” as of December 4, 1928
•aid: “The next few years should
jring the greatest boom in the
ilstory of the country and with
)ut precedent in its wide and
general distribution of prosperi
;y. Some minor readjustments
ire needed, but there is no
:hance of a repetition of 1920-21
„nd 1907.”
If what this country has gone
hrough the past year is “some
ninor readjustments” to bring
is a “Wide and general distribu
ion of prosperity.” Lord deliver
is from the major adjustments '
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POSTAL LEASE SCANDAI
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For the past session of Con
ress, Senator Blaine of Wiscon
in, has been prodding the Post
iffice Department, declaring j;!
sases for buildings had been i <
lade at exorbitant figures and! |
hat the Government was paying;I
16,000,000 a year for postal | j
ases and that probably 60 per
ent of this sum is unwarranted.
Judge Stone, Circuit Court of
ppeals, St. Louis, recently de
lated that the rental of $120,
D0 a year paid by the govern
ient for building lease in St
aul, Minn, was “outrageous.”
:e further confirmed confisca
on of the building by the gov
rnment under condemnation
roceedings. This building the
alue of which was appraised at
loss than $400,000, was leased tc
the government at $120,000 a
year, befor° ii was even con
structed. The owners of the
ground and lease, sold budding
bonds and constructed the build
ing and have since receiver!
more than 37Vi per cent annual
ly on the actual appraised value
of $317,560.
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