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LOUIS F. PAUL,.EDITOR
C. O. PARKS,.BUSINESS MANAGER
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WHAT THE GOLD STANDARD
IS
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Virtually every civilized nation
uses the gold standard of ex
change. It is the security for
the national issue of paper mon
ey which is redeemable in gold
cn demand.
In the recent financial flurry
the Bank of England suspended
payment of its obligations in
gold as its reserve was being
drained.
In foreign exchange the Bri
tish pound sterling dropped way
below the gold parity and so it
became profitable for banks and
others to speculate by exchang-,
ing currencies for gold and ex-1
porting the gold.
The normal value of the pound
sterling is $4,866 Vfe and for some
tiaae it fluctuated between that
figure and $4,85 7-16. On the
New York Exchange it was peg
ged at $4.76 during the war anclj
was held there by security sales!
cf dollars held by British citi
zens. In 1919 the support was
removed and the pound sterling
dropped to $3.19.
During the past week, the Bri
tish pound dropped to a $4 level
and gradually climbed up—the
rate of exchange is still against
British and Canadian curren
cies.
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IN THE HEART OF NEW YORK
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In a fashionable quarter of
New York, the government re
cently seized an enormous still
producing nearly thirty thou
sand gallons of alcohol daily
and actually yielding profits be
tween eight and ten million dol
lars annually.'
Major Campbell, former pro
hibition administrator for New
York, in an article published in
a reliable, standard magazine,
showed pictures of several dis
tilleries in full operation in Phil
adelphia.
The queer thing about the
matter is that these big places
are seemingly never known to
the law enforcement depart
ment. At the same time, some
petty larceny bootleggers are
given the book and then the
keys are thrown away.
The inconsistency in the met
ing justice make for much dis
satisfaction with the laws of the
land.
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ABSURD INTERFERENCE
The limiting of the waterfowl
hunting season in Alaska to the
month of September is another
stupid, long distance interfer
ence in local affairs. It is abso
lutely senseless and unwarrant
ed.—Juneau Empire.
What a lot of hullabaloo over
the regulation made for the pro
tection of ducks and geese. One
would be led to believe that the
entire economic system of Alas
ka hinged around the limiting
of the open season on ducks to
one month.
A few business men and others
are hurt because they can’t go
bang, bang, knocking ducks ov
er to satisfy the killer spirit.
If the Empire and others took
as much interest in the protec
tion of the fishermen’s interests
it would mean more to the Ter
ritory than wasting a lot of en
ergy and breath over a few fool
ish geese which does not mean
bread and butter for the mass of
Alaska’s population.
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“THE LAST FEW DAYS”
It has been the contention of
this publication that the fisher
ies season is all wrong. Our be
lief comes from actual observa
tion and not from arm chair
scientific theories. We have
talked with a number of promi
nent salmon canners and they
all agree with us BUT they lack
the guts of tlieir convictions.
They are afraid to cross the
bow of the Czar of Alaska.
Now comes the “bible of the
Phillistines” and says:
Cook Inlet: “The last ten days
in August, added materially to
the pack of most species.”
Icy Straits: “The Icy Straits
run set in about July 21, larger
than in 1929 but too late to per-J
mit a heavy pack, and the fish
did not school up enough in
either Icy Straits or Chatham
Straits to permit much success
in purse seining, altho traps
generally did well.” —The sein
ers fared badly, in fact, because
they were put on a limit while
nc limit was put on traps.
“Frederick Sound had an en
ormous run toward the close.”
The fore part of the season,
Ketchikan canners secured their
fish from other districts and
“around Cleveland Peninsula
they were seen in great numbers
as the season closed.”
The Conner’s bible does not
say much directly about the^
shortage of salmon in the early
season which their own records
will show as plentiful a few years
back.
There is now an oversupply of
late seed fish and the waste and
destruction of this fish is neith
er wise nor economical.
The canners will agree with us
that the seasons should begin
later and run straight through j
without closure.
A WISE AND GOOD GOVERNOR
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Governor, Rolph of California,
upon the recommendation of
State Fisheries Commissioner
Zellerbach let down the bars in
certain areas to permit fisher
men to operate when it was ev
ident that the fishermen were
suffering from unemployment on
account of the regulations.
The purpose of the White fish
eries law was to protect the fish
eries and to guarantee the right
of fisheries to all men. The dif
ference between the federal and
state control is all in favor of the
state control.
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MAKING FACES
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The Seattle Star has a recent
editorial entitled “Perfunctory!
No end!” declaring “Renomina
tion of Mr. Hoover by the Repub
licans in 1932, says a Washing
ton correspondent, will be “per
functory.’ And the vote Hoover
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1932
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will get in November, 1932 will
be even more perfunctory—what
ever that is.”
And we call attention to the
fact that the average American
voter has a very short memory,
and most of them are as positive
as sheep and at times as puis
sant.
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ODD1TTIES OF THE DAY
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Walter H. Newton, one of
President Hoover’s secretaries,
has requested the Census Bu
reau to give him figures on the
number of men employed in the
brewing industry in 1914, 1919
and 1920.
Alfred Knittle of Bellingham
started suit for divorce from his
wife on the ground that she had
talked to him only ninety min
utes in eight years of married
life and that was during a quar
rel.
Mrs. Duncan P. Cameron of
Portland, Ore., is suing her hus
band, Rev. Cameron of Cottage
Grove, alleging that “notwith
tanding his duties as a minister”
he “surreptitiously sought the
company and association of oth
er women” along with a lot of
othqr complaints.
Col. and Mrs. Charles Lind
bergh found a Japanese stow
away on their plane when they
were about to take off from Osa
ka, to Fukuoka, Japan.
Cal Weddington and two bro
thers, of Redondo, Calif, were
towed 32 miles out to sea by a
618-pound sword fish which they
| landed with regulation gear
' from a small motorboat. They
jhad been out 12 hours and were
j given up as drowned.
The Phillips Petroleum Com
pany of Oklahoma withdrew its
I offer of $1 per barrel for crude
'oil and posted prevaling scale—
I ranging from 46 to 70 cents per
barrel.
After feeding laying mash to
her flock of wfTite India Runner
ducks, Mrs. Ronald Masters of
Los Angeles found a bunch of
young fresh water lobsters in
her backyard duck pond.
Believe it or not, Mrs. Masters
rlgres it this way:
The lobster eggs were in the
laying mash on which the ducks
v/ere feeding and the eggs were
transplanted to the pond when
the ducks went for a drink. Any
way, Mrs. Masters counted six
young lobsters and examined
one which measured eight inches
from pincer to pinccr.—Next!
Winona Frost, Courtland, Kan,
lost a valuable ring while dig
ging potatoes last year and
searched in vain for it for weeks.
Her mothe, preparing a meal
recently, found the ring half
embedded in a potato she was
peeling.
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ONLY FORTY MODOCS LEFT
The Modoc Indian tribe whose
braves frequently defeated Unit
ed States troops in the Indian
wars'Of 1872 and 1873, is almost
extinct, according to Peter B.
Kyne, in an article in Good
Housekeeping Magazine. Only
about forty are left, Kyne says.
He criticizes the government for
its treatment of the few surviv
ors.
“The Last of the Mohicans”
can also now truthfully be
said. It is stated that there is
only one Mohican living able to
talk the language of these peo
ple and none other with whom
he may converse.
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TICKET FOR PARKING
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Cop (overhauling speeding
car): “Say, do you realize you
were going 65 miles an hour”?
Sweet Young Thing: “Sixty
f\e! Don’t be silly! I couldn't
have been going over 30 at the
mosc In fact, I don’t believe I
wa« going more than 25 at the
outt-ice.”
Cop:“Well, maybe you’re right,
i'll just tear this ticket up and
give you one for parking.”
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DILL FOR AGE PENSIONS
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Old age pension legislation is
as important as government aid
to veterans, declared Senator C.
C. Dill,, Washington Democrat ;
before a group of veterans in *
Seattle recently. ;
“Men and women who have
lived upright lives, built homes, 1
reared children and in general !
helped to develop this land of 1
ours deserve the help of the
government, when in old age
they find themselves unfit to
cope with life,” he declared. j
He will use every effort to se
cure such legislation. •
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RADIO SERVICE TO START IN
ALASKA
The U. S. Signal Corps expects
to have radio service in Alaska
i,n full operation in about one1
month, is an announcement1
from the Corps’ headquarters.
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Men do not realize how great
a revenue is thrift.
Washington Newsletter
By Will A. Steel
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PIONEERS WORK FOR A.R.C.
There has been some com
plaint, especially from the Cop
per River district, that the Alas
ka Road Commission discrimin
ates against pioneers in favor of
“white collar boys from the Out
side,” in the selection of men to
do road work. The matter has
been taken up with Major Mal
icolm Elliott, president of the
[commission, who writes to Dele
gate Wickersham: “I am hearti
| ly in sympathy with your idea
that the old time Alaskans
; should be given employment
I where possible. If you were to
go over our roads and personally
see the men at work, you would
be entirely satisfied that we are
observing this policy. I also un
derstand that your constituents
expect you to aid them in recti
fying their grievances, and you
may be assured that all such
cases brought to our attention
will receive careful considera
tion. As you are aware, the
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At present prices, housewives are serving chicken quite 11
regularly.. It is both economical and luxurious! And— ''
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