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$19 a year, or a little over 1 pei
cent.
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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
First Class Tailoring
For Laches And
Gentlemen
Fall and Winter Samples
Suits from $25. up.
Latest model cleaning and
pressing machine
M. A. Missick
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ij ufacturers increased from $4,330
per worker in 1927 to $5,368 in
• 1929, a gain of $1,038 a year, or
24 per cent.
The average worker produced
, $1,038 more for his boss and got
$19 more for himself. He in
creased the value of his output
24 per cent, and increased his
own gains 1 per cent.
Taking the industry together,
the value of output was increas
ed $10,000,000. and the wage bill
loss tnan $400,000. Wages and
numbers employed are practical
ly stationary while output
booms
There is the basic reason for
hard times in the United States.
The workers produce more, bat
do not get wages enough to buy
more increased output, combin
ed with stationary wages and
and produce more unemploy
ment.
A system that employs ma-«
production must develop mass
consumption, or be crushed ai
der its own output. Higher w
es and shorter hours are the « r -
lv salvation of a machine age,
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HISTORY OF NATION IN 500.
« WORDS
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Professor W. W. Sweet, of A
nerican Church History at the
University of Chicago was de
clared the winner of The Chica
go Tribune’s contest for the best
history of the United States
written in 500 words or less. The
prize-winning history follows:
“The Crusades first aroused
European interest in Oriental
| products, while Italians, whose
[ships carried the later Crusaders
to the holy places, became the
principal distributers of Eastern
wares. Italy taught navigation
to all Western Europe, and ex
panding trade led to discovery of
new lands.
“During the sixteenth century
Englishmen were trained to the
son, the seventeenth saw estab
lished Englands American colo
nies, while economic and religi
ous conditions in Britain and
Western Europe were responsible
for furnishing colonists. Graoua
]y similar governments developed
among England’s thirteen colon
ic, and almost without her knowl
edge a great colonial empire was
arising in America, carrying on
its affairs with little interference
from the mother country.
“Following a century of war
fare between France and Brit
ain for the control of North A
merica, in which the English
were victorious, England for the
first time became fully aware of
her growing colonies, which de
termined her to attempt larger
control over them.
“Such a policy met strong
colonial resistance, resulting af
ter ten years of increasing agi
tation in a war which eventual
ly brought independence.Achiev
ment of independence meant
ihe overthrow of the old forms
of control and made new gov
ernments necessary.
M. S. “Pacific” leaves Pe- f
if
tersburg for Port Alexander
every Friday at 4 p.m.
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People’s Drug Co.
DAHL and SKEI, Owners.
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LOAF CAKES
trench Cream Lemon Cream
Mocha and Devils hood
THE STAR BAKERY
“The first Federal Constitu
tion proved too weak to bind tht
thirteen States into a strong na
tion, but the crisis thus createc
served to bring forward the bes1
minds of the infant republic. P.
second constitution was formu
I lated admirably suited to rneel
the nation’s needs, and in April
1789, a new government was
launched with George Washing
ton at the helm.
After the Revo utlon
‘Four decades of conservative
leaders of long experience con
trolled national affairs,'. Cred
it, destroyed by war and weak
government, was restored and a
wise foreign policy adopted. Be
ginning with Andrew Jackson,
new forces began to manifest
themselves, arising out of the
newer sections of the nation,
created by the vast movement of
population westward, while ad
vocating policies growing out of
the needs of a rapidly expand
ing frontier.
“Slavery, thru the mighty im
petus given cotton culture, fast
ened itself upon the South and
by the middle of the nineteenth
entury had become the chief po
litical, economic and religious
issue before the nation. Out of
this situation developed section
alism, and by 1861, Civil War
could not longer be avoided.
Then thru four years of terrible
struggle, Abraham Lincoln, the
world’s ideal democratic ruler,
guided the nation to peace.
“There followed two decades
of political and economic ad
justment, which brought to the
South greater humiliation than
even defeat on the battlefield.
Then ensued an era of unprece
dented economic development,
characterized by monster cor
porations and vast individual
fortunes, to be followed by a war
with Spain which gave to the
United States new possessions
and new world responsibility.
“Germany’s failure to respect
our neutral rights led the United
States to enter the World War.
This threw the baalnce in favor
of the Allies, brought defeat to
Germany and her associates and
gave to the United States chief
place and greatest responsibil
ity among the nations of the
earth.” .
THE GIRL I USED TO BE
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She came to me as I sat alone
This girl that I used to be.
And she gazed at me with earn
est eyes,
And questioned reproachfully.
“Have you forgotten the many
plans
And the hopes that I had for
you?
The great Career; the splendid
Fame
And the wonderful things to do?
Where are the mansions of
stately height
With the grounds surpassing
fair,
The silken robes I dreamed for
you,
And the jewels for your hair?”
And as she talked I was very
sad
For I wanted her pleased with
me
This splendid girl of the shad
owy past—
This girl I used to be.
And silently rising I took her
hand,
And guided her up the stairs, ;
Where peacefully sleeping my,
little ones lay . |
Innocent, sweet and fair.
And I told her that these were]
my only gems
And precious they are to me,
My silken robe is my Mother
hood—
Of costly simplicity.
And my mansion of stately
height is my love
And the only career that I know,
Is serving each day in its shel
I • tering walls
For the dear ones who come and
go.
And as I talked to my shadowy
guest,
She smiled through her tears at
i me,
And I know that the woman I
am now,
' Pleased the girl I used to be
i —Anonymous.
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SALMON NOT SEAL FOOD SO
SAYS O’MALLEY
Henry O’Malley, commissioner
,' of Fisheries while at Ketchikan
'mentioned the fact that in the
examination of hundreds of seals
ivery seldom were any salmon
J found in their stomachs, ex
ploding the theory, he said, that
the seals feed on salmon and
therefore could be classed among
I the chief enemies of salmon.
'. .Mr. O’Malley’s contentions are
borne out by Capt. Anedrson of
the Bureau ship Penguin which
was in Ketchikan recently.
Capt. Anderson said the seals
have been followd from Mexico
to the Pribilof Islands and ex
amined and very rarely have any
salmon been found in their
stomachs. Furthermore, he says
the seals do not feed while they
are breeding.
OH YEAII!
The seal do not feed when they
are breeding and that was when
they were examined by the bu
reau officials. Their conclusion
is therefore the seal do not feed
on salmon because department
representatives did not find any
salmon in the stomachs.
The conclusion is wrong be
cause drawn from wrong obser
vation. The time to make exam
ination of the stomachs of the
seals is when they are feeding.
Then if no salmon is found they
will be warranted in drawing con
elusions as reported.
The Sitka seal hunters killed
seal this spring with salmon in |
rhe stomachs—their conculsion ^
was that the seal was a salmon
eater.
We suppose then, following the
O’Malley statement that the
seal do not eat salmon, therefore
they must be feeding on clams,
mussels, abalone and barnacles
—especially barnacles.
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BIG DUMBS
By Hill Billy in the Seattle Star
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In 2,000 years the human
brain has not grown a cock-eyed
molecule; indeed, man is funda
mentally dumber than he was in
the Golden Age of Greece.
I’ll admit that the mob intel
ligence has been raised a bit;
that natural-born, humble slaves
like yours truly, can attain com
fort, and can even bother their
lords and masters; I can go out
from my hills and make it un
pleasant for Brother Insull. He
is God and tells ambassadors
what to do; I’m a mere wage
serf, but I can cost Insull a
couple of power sites, and save
them for the people; not only
can, but did.
..That merely proves my argu
ment. If I a mere slave under
the wheel, can cut the aristocrats
off at the pocket then the hu
man brain has not gathered
either wisdom or efficiency in
more than 2000 years.
.. This is a perpetual challenge
to the big boys; they cannot
keep the proleteriat in hand; de
spite all the Rotarian slush, the
sad fact remains that the bosses
can’t figure this chore of keep
ing the serfs contented; the
smartest international bankers
today art not so sure that they
have solved the problem. Since
the war the entire world has
been turned over to the big boys,
and altho they have made plenty
of money, they have neither ac
quired security nor personal con
1 tentment.
.. Two thousand years ago the
Greek citizens knew how to
achieve personal beauty in liv
ing, and they knew the art of
[ keeping the slaves contented.
iThe ruling classes today know
neither of those arts.
Indent a machine and sell the
product on time, a nickel a week
and a nickel when you catch the
fellow, and if he doesn’t pay to
get a lien and have him fired.
Buy a city attorney, grab a
power site and think the poor
dumb citizens will drink river
*,vater forever. It isn’t going to
?l>e like that a’tall; even so dumb
, a slave as myself knows better
(than that.
i The ruling class has no brains;
j it never had much, but there has
been a progressive degeneration
since Socrates.
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NOW, ISN’T THAT QUEER
■ According to the observations
| of A. J. Anderson of the six-man
seine boat Carolen, (published in J
the Chronicle), of which he is j
the owner, the main run of sal- j
mon will flood the rivers and the
'streams after the season closes
!for canning-in this district.
He says he made a prospecting
trip to Gravina Island and other
places and is certain that most
of the fish are still in the ocean,
nearing land, but have not yet
set in toward the spawning
streams.
“Unless I miss my guess,” said
Capt. Anderson “and’ I am not
alone in that belief, the streams
will be jammed with the biggest
run which has been experienced
in years when the salmon fish
ery will have been officially clos
ed to the canning plants.
Capt. ^ Anderson said despite
the large number of seine boats
in Icy Straits this season, he
made good average returns with
his boat. However, he says the
.seine boats in this district (Ket
chikan) are not doing much as
the main run has not set suffi
ciently to have the fish school
up.”
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BREEDING LATE FISH *
This publication stated with-!
out qualification that the run of
salmon during the month of
August would be heavy—a na-(
tural consequence of the pro- (
tection of the fall run of sal
mon. Proving that proper pro- (
tection of the different runs will j
rehabilitate our fisheries; prov
ing that any run of salmon may J
be built up Proving that “breed
late fish and you will get late
fish.” A natural biological re
sult. A logical proof of the
statements of this publication.
CANADA’S CONSERVATIVE
ELECTION
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The recent rejection of Liber
nl candidates and the election of
Conservatives by the Canadian
electorate is a direct slap at the
American tariff law enacted dur
ing the past sessions of Congress.
Canada has been our best cus
tomer so that when we slap pro
hibitive tariff rates on their pro
ducts it is but human nature
that they retalliate and enact
reprisal tariff laws or boycott
American products. Her eco
nomic reprisals were felt to the
of $30,000,000 last year and indi- j
cations are that they will be felt j
even more keenly another year. ] I
This at a time when the Ameri
can producers can ili-afford to j
lose any more trade. The solu- j
tion is in a tariff law that is not \
a legal boycott in favor of cor- j
porations which do not need that j
protection.
WHERE’S YOURS
The Treasury Department es
timates show that this country
has $4,426,611,703 in circulation.
This is equivalent to $36.48 per
capita and represents a loss of
$2.86 over the corresponding pe
liod last year and about 83 cents
less than it was last month.
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Labor is a duty from which no
man living is exempt, without
forfeiting his right to his daily
bread.—Thomas Wilson.
Dig for facts—don’t jump at
conclusions.
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No man can grow by letting
others make his decisions.
Confidence is the companion
of success.
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“The Whole Town’s Talking”
Excellent Cast Petersburg Players
. SEE WHO’S HERE !
Cast in order of their appearance
Mrs. Henry Simmons Ellen Hasbrouck
Annie Jessie Anderson
fAmos, a taxidriver,
Henry Simmons
Chester Binney
'Ethel Simmons
Roger Shields
Sally Otis
Lila Wilson
,'Donald Swift
Letty Lythe
Sadie Bloom
And neighbors and friends.
C. C. Clausen
Sanford Dodge
Guy T. Skyman
Irene Runstad
Trygve Strom
.Henrietta Dahl
.. Mildred Johansen
. .Henry J. Hasbrouck
.. JuliaWasvik
.Nellie Harris
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August 26th and 27th.