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DON’T ROCK THE BOAT
The new council takes office in
a short while. Every member
fully understands the problems
which must be met, faced fairly
and squarely with a positive as
surance that the solution pre
sented is for the best of the com
munity.
No one clique, clan or faction
can afford to hope for personal
gain at the expense of the com
munity. No single faction can
hope to derive any special bene
fit without the la wof recom
pense to face at some time or
other.
There is always an accounting,
be it in harbored grudge or in
social or business life. And in
the paying the scales are usually
well balanced. So in the affairs
of the town, the problems which
are so well known obviating the
necessity of repitition, the in
coming council will have to use
its ingenuity to put the affairs of
the town on a stable basis to the
benefit of the whole town.
MAN, MOUSE OR LOUSE?
Take an inventory of yourself
and your neighbor. Are you a
man or a mouse? Have you the
courage of your convictions?
Are you afraid that public ex
pression of a stand against Bu
reaus in favor of the best inter
ests in Alaska will put you in
bad with the powers that be?
Are you doing your duty as an
American citizen when you al
low present conditions to con
tinue without public protest?
CONTEMPT OF LAW
There are many citizens who
would resent being classed with
law breakers and abettors of
criminals feel themselves free to
scoff at prohibition enforcement
and to express unholy satisfac
tion at its many violations. They
are obsessed with the strange
delusion that by encouraging
contempt for this particular law
they can bring about its abroga
tion. They do not seem to see
by disregarding one law they
are pursuing a course which, car
ried to its logical conclusion,
leads to anarchy. They do not
understand that they are de
feating the object they have in
view, the creation of public sen
timent more in line with their
personal desires.—Exchange.
ALCOHOLIC DEATH RATE
The Metropolitan Life Insur
ance company reports 599 deaths
from alcoholism among its in
dustrial policy holders in 1928, or
a death rate of 3.3 per 100,000.
In 1927, the number of deaths
from this cause was 603, and the
death rate was 3.5 per 100,000 in
sured.
Canada offers a startling con-1
trast. There were in 1928 only)
seven deaths from alcoholism
among the 1,200,000 workers of
that country who carry indus
trial insurance.
Deaths from wood alcohol
and denatured alcohol poisoning
are not included in the above.
Even Supreme Court judges
make mistakes is evidenced in
a mild controversy between a lit
tle girl and Judge Taft. Judge
Taft in swearing in President
Hoover used the words “Preserve,
maintain and defend,” while the
Constitution provides that the
oath shall be “preserve, protect,
and defend.” A girl in New York
called Judge Taft’s attention to
his error and he replied and in
sisted that he was not incorrect.
The sound reels from the “mike”
proved him in error.
THE HOOTER GROUSE
By G. J. Hildebrand
Tis a hoot, hoot here, and a hoot,
hoot there,
With a hoot, hoot over yonder;
When the blue grouse starts his
spring lore song,
He sure does hoot like thunder;
Sits up high, in a tall spruce
tree,
And blame me, pard, he’s hard
to see.
He hoots and hoots with all his
might;
He don’t come down for drink or
or feed,
But swallows spruce needles and
gulps spruce seed..
Now, if you happen to have a
grouse appetite,
And want to get one and do it
right,
I’ll tell you a secret, just what’s
the dope.
You best go hunt him with a
telescope
And when you see one and you’r
sure it’s him,
And not some moss or gnarled
up limb,
Just take your gun and aim
durned fine,
You may not hit him the very
first time,
He’ll stay right there so just
keep on shooting.
For take it from me, he’ll sure
keep hooting.
And when you finally hit him,
And he comes down kerplunk,
And you take him home and
cook him,
You’ll find that he’s the bunk.
Put him on and fry him or cook
him fricassee,
He’ll still taste when you eat
him like an old spruce tree.
Editor’s Note:—To mitigate
the above squak, young half
grown grouse is one of the great
est known delicacies, even ir
Alaska, the land of plenty. Foi
now, under the Migratory Birc
Treaty, it is unlawful to kill that
bird during the hooting seasoi:
and thereafter until the wintei
months.
WE ARE SOLD ON CITY
OWNED PLANTS
Municipally owned water and
electric plants have yielded ne1
profits of $1,500,000 since the>
were purchased by the city ol
Manitowoc 18 and 15 years age
respectively.
• Not only that, but public own
ership has made possible three
reductions in electric rates anc
one cut in the water rate.
In net profits alone the plants
have returned more than three
times their purchase prices tc
the city.
The original cost of the elec
tric plant was $150,000. It was
bought in 1914 and has netted
the city $984,897—more than sis
times its cost. The water plant
has turned over $496,824, oi
about twice its purchase price.
Extensive improvements and
and enlargements, which the
private owners claimed could not
be made, have been accomplish
ed.
The residence lighting rate is
6 cents a kilowatt-hour for the
first 20, and ranges downward
to 3 cents for all in excess of 100
kilowatt-hours a month. Power
rates run from 4 y2 cents to 1
cent. The heating and cooking
rate is 2 cents.
One does not have to “talk”
municipal ownership to the resi
dents of Manitowoc. The tax
payers and consumers are tho -
roughly “sold” on the proposi
tion and they are starting the
piovement for the purchase of
the local gas works.—LABOR,
Washington, D. C.
A Lifted Editorial
LEARN FROM THE LOWLl.
SARDINE
.. Experience of Japanese Fish
erman Points a Valuable Moral
For the Unorganized American
Workers
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A philosophic friend and sub
scriber writes the following note
from San Pedro, California:
“Free and independent” Am
erican workers might well take
a lesson from the lowly sardine.
Everyone knows that by itself
the sardine is a “poor fish,” but
with 1,999,999 others acting in
unity he is quite a good sized
whale.
Recently eight Japanese fish
ermen here were out seining for
mackerel. Unknown to the fish
ermen, 2,000,000 sardines filled
the nets and when efforts were
made to draw it in, 300 tons of
sardines “sounded.”
Before the nets could be cut
free, the 50-foot boat was drawn
under and sunk. The crew sav
ed their lives with difficulty.
What would happen to the
“open shop” employers if labor
would follow the example of
these sardines?”
It seems to LABOR that the
moral which the correspondent
draws from the fish story is,
sound, practical and wise.
To be sure, the sardines prob
ably acted together because they
were scared. BUT THAT IS
BETTER THAN SCATTERING
BECAUSE YOU ARE SCARED, j
Workers do not need fro ‘sound’
that is, dive for the bottom,:
when menaced by the seine of j
' the “open shop.” THEY ONLY1.
NEED TO STAND TOGETHER, j
Let all the members of any t
craft move as unitedly as did:
those sardines, and they can
sink any boat of any hard-boil- |
1 ed. employer or group of em
ployers.
No net, not even when weight
‘ ed with injunctions and floated
by industrial spies, can stop thej
: “poor fish” who have learned to
act together.
A CHANCE TO GET TOGETHER
1 The Chamber of Commerce is
: sponsoring a move to get an
1 adequate gymnasium for the
L kids of the town. In the past
1 several .years, .various .parties,
■ factions, cliques, clans and fans
got together in an effort to get
sucli a piant built. But friction
f’-om one source or another due
to bullheadedness, selfishness oi
simple contrariness has always
puncture^ the hopes of thOje
I iv whom the p.;il moved to g‘ *
L 'uch a building bu’lt
7 Never were conditions more
II ripe than at this time; every
> factional difference is buried for
the moment in honoring the
- boys. Everyone is ready and
; wmmg to give a nuie ratner;
1 than to hold doggedly for their|
own preferential proposition. In
3 the spirit of the moment the ;
j plan will become a complete suc
) cess by a harmonious, united '
front, «
If not, then the community •
5 may as well forget such a thing •
l as a gymnasium for several more j •
[ years. '
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ALASKA JUNEAU’S PROFIT •
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[ Against a deficit of $151,788 in •
5 1927, the Alaska Juneau .Gold ;
- Mining Company’s 1928 state- ;
. ment showed a net profit of $781, j.*
106.
* Washington. The control of the ,♦
| liquor problem by states is the
( solution of the liquor problem ;
. suggested by the Association ;
against prohibition in a pamph- j
' let report which has been issued j
| called “Scandals of Prohibition j
! Enforcement.” • ! *|
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The Western Hardware and**j
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Steel, Ltd., of Vancouver, recent- ;
:
ly delivered to the Pacific Sal
vage Co., Ltd., for use on the *:
Salvage King, a tow line of 2,000 >;
feet in length and two inches in %
diameter. The weight of this *'
line is said to be over six tons.
REGULATIONS AFFECTING
Salmon Trolling in Southeast
ern Alaska
sire to assist you in conserving
the king salmon, but we insist
that the means adopted should
not hurt us if that is possible to
avoid, and we wish to say here,
that if no other way remain^
we will submit willing to be hurt.
But why is the first conserva
tion measure one that contem
plates “curtailing” our “opera
tions ” Suppose you could ac
complish the same result by pro
tecting the king salmon from its
predatory enemies? We call at
tention to the protected sea
lion which not only exceed in
number the entire trolling fleet
but also destroy more king sal
mon. One of our committee has
had as many as nine king sal
mon eaten off his hooks during
one day. Others of us have been
surrounded by six and seven sea
lions at one time. These anim
als during the king salmon sea
son, live almost exclusively on
king salmon, passing up cohoes
and other kinds of salmon.
Our already large herds of sea
lions are increasing due to the
fact that the British Columbia
Government is warring on these
animals, equipping patrol boats
with machine guns and battling
the animals at their very rook
eries, killing many and driving
others to our waters where the
United States government pro
tects them. It seems to us re-1
prchensible that this condition
could exist, destroying as it does
hundreds of thousands of pounds
of king salmon without getting
even a protest from the Bureau
of Fisheries. There is no closed
fishing season for these thou-1
sands of animals during Janu
ary, February and March. And !
j yet, consider how many salmon
these seals must have each day
to maintain their tonnage. We
could go on.
We are appealing to you for
I fair play because you are cur
government. Our government
• has no right to hurt us needless
ly. In good faith, we have cri
ticised your closing order call
ing your attention to the fact a
trolling year even now consists
of only 167 eight hour days, and
to the further fact that the fish
ing in April would wipe out
whatever advantage you might
gain the first three months; wc
have proposed a substitute, and
j now advise you of the menace of
j the sea-lions which destroy more
! salmon than are caught by oui
entire fleet.
Respectfully,
.. Alaska Trollers’ Association,..
Eric K. Johnson,
President
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OWN YOUR OWN HOME '
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By E. S. Hungerford.
Under its powers, there has
been withdrawn from entry and
private ownership, practically
all of the remaining desireable
land in the United States and
Alaska, some 150 million acres
of timber, coal and oil land. It
has plunged the Federal Govern
ment into private business,
which never has been and never
can be a government function.
The administration of this
land has caused more embar
rassment to Federal officers,
and more doubts to be raised in
the minds of the people as to
the honesty and integrity of our
high officers than any bill or
statute ever written and so long
as it remains in force will be as
a vile rat gnawing at the foun
dations of the American people
in their government.
It is as a slap in the face to
the pioneer spirits who subdued
and settled this great land and
Thomas B. h hone, ML D.
Physician anti Surgeon
Office Resident
Daives Bldg. Arctic Hotel
John Fanning
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Dealer m
Complete line of Silk Hosiery
Best grade of Shoes for men,
women and children.
Best Quality Goods
at very low prices
Shoe repairing neatly done.
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AMERICA FIRST arrives in Pe
tersburg Friday morning, leaving
tor Juneau via Kake and way ports
about noon.
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