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MEMORIAL DAY FORGOTTEN
Exceptt for closing of the sev
erftl stores and places of business,
and pleasure trips by local people
on the 30th of May, it could not be
said that there was such a day as
Memorial Day, a day to cominem
morate the spirit of heroes of the
past and in remembrance of those
things for which tthey sacrificed
their all.
it is a disgusting fact that too
many Americans look upon our na
tional holidays as days upon which
they must make “good money” from
the trade; days upon which to speed
up and drum up business rather
thau days in which to stop in re
uospection; and days especially set
apart by national enactment to keep
alive the spirit of those who had
made their supreme sacrifice.
In some quarters Memorial Day
whose lives have been given to keep
alive those ideals which which have
been passed down through the years
It meaus a day when we hallow the
memory of the honored dead by
placing upon their graves a wreathe,
a flower, a flag and upon the water,
a wreathe for those who had honor
ed the country and flag.
It is to be hoped that this purely
American custom will not be fore
gotten in the hurly buriy, scurry
of life of these days.
BlHEAUCRATS ABOVE THE LAW
When the law contravenes the
w’hirns of the buric rats, the make
effort to sweep the law aside. That
wras made plain when Governor
Parks made effort to change the Or
ganic Act wrhich prohibits specific
ally the payment of territorial funds
fo a federal employee.
It is further evidenced in the
hushing up of game law violations
by the brown carpet bag.
it was made plain wrhen the dis
trict attorney himself not a resi
one year as required by law, w'ent
hunting with Brown and others on
the U. S. Marshal’s boat Helmar.
It is made more pronounced wrhen
residents are prosecuted and per
secuted for minor violations—the
same violations of carpet baggers.
A United States marshal can kill
or have killed for him any kind of
deer ^>r number of deer with im
pumty; he can feed it in a federal
boarding house” but if the restuar
ants or private boarding houses do
it, they must be prosecuted.
Justice be damned when the
machinery of the courts is perverted
to the personal benefit of imported
carpet bag Broken Arches who spend
Territorial tax moneys for supplies
wholesale in Seattle because local
dealers “charged to damned much”
for their goods—as did Mr. Brown
when he purchased more than $150.
worth, from wholesalers in Seattle
fn one lot alone last fall.
When will it end, where and how
is the question that Alaskans ask
when they learn of all these fool
tricks by professional imported,
broken arch gumshoers.
Another chapter in this story will
be written later. It will be hot stuff.
Watch for later editions if the bat
tle continues and the Broken Arch
calls for more.
“THY BROTHER’S BLOOD
Human life in America is cheap.
Conviction for homicide in any sec
tion of the United States is mighty
uncertain. We have the doubtful
honor of leading all nations in homi
cide. It is not even denied.
A survey of 30 cities recenttly
made by Frederick Hoffman, statis
tician for the Prudential Insurance
Company, show conclusively that
sense of reverence for human life
has been measurably dulled. The
trend of homicide rate in the United
States is upward rather than down
ward as it becomes more civilized.
In 1900 the rate was 5.1 per 100,
000 and increased to 11.00 per 100,
000 in 1925. It is shown that mur
der in the United States is no longer
crime of "passion.” The hiring of
gunmen, "killers” and so on, is now
a matter of commercialism to get
the other fellow out of the way.
And such gunmen do not come so j
aigh as has been shown in records I
Chicago which is one of the worst
sump holes of crime in the United
States shows 563 criminal homicides
during the year 1925 and only 103
were received in various penal insti
tutiosn having been convicted of
murder, and 48 for manslaughter.
Some of which convictions, it is sale
to say were not committed during
that year.
Blocking of justice by legal tech
nicalities has become a most effect
ivc means of defeating tthe aims of
the courts by shred criminal law
yers. Witnesses die, jurors become
reluctant to serve for various inex
cusable reasons , publicopinion wranes
and the delays thrown in the way
serve to defeat justice.
There were only 48 convictions
for murder and and 26 for man
slaugnter in Cook County, Illinois
during 1925. Out of 563 murders
committed in Chicago, 71 were com
mitted to various penal institutions
to pay their debt to society for their
ci ime.
1 his matter of murder in the Unit
ed States has become a real prob
lem. And it will not be solved un
til the parents teach to their chil
dren a reverence for law and God
and love of country and further in
stil respect for the dignity of the
law of the law.
A COMMUNICATION FROM CHINA
Shanghai, China
April 25, 1928
Editor Petersburg Alaskan:
Petersburg, Alaska
Dear Sir:
Herewith is a copy of my Chris
tian Almanac. It may interest you.
] send a Chinese fire-god. His
name is "Ho-zwen-bu-sah.” He rules
fire. When he’s displeased with
people he sets their houses afire. Ho
nwen was a Taoist priest; but dur
ing a great battle he changed him
self into a giant with three heads
and six arms. He has three eyes,
one in the middle of his forehead.
He has red hair and he has a fiery
disposition. He rides on a fiery
horse which snorts flame, and fire
flashes from his hoofs. In the god’s
six hands he carries a heaven-wide
flasning seal, a wheel of five fiery
dragons, a gourd enclosing 10,000
fire crows, and two swords, and a
thousand-mile smoke screen filled
■rith swords of fire. No wonder he
can scatter fire everywhere and do
untold damage when on a rampage
People in whose house he starts a
fire are not welcome in other homes
ast, in so doing, they bring Ho
•rwen’s wrath upon themselves also.
People where a fire starts hurry fo
the temple and plead with Ho-zwen
to leave their house at once. When
he leaves they thank him for punish
ing them. Ho-zwen-bu-sah is much
feared, also, because of the danger
to the one in whose house the fire
starts, for if it spreads to other
houses and he is found, his neigh
bors throw him into the fire fo:
bringing loss tto tern. So he run*:
away and is not seen again or comes
back only after a long time. When
the houses are rebuilt the old rub
bish is put on his lot!
You would be greatly interested
to see a Chinese fire and the fire
fighters at work. Crowds of fire
men come each with a long name
banner. These banners are left in
tine against the walls of the narrow
streets near the fire. One set of meu
are carriers having poles with a
bucket on each end of the pole.
‘OUT FISHIN.’ ”
A feller isn’t thinkin’ mean,
Out fishin’
Hts thoughts are mostly good and
clean,
Out fishin’;
He doesn’t knock his fellow men, j
Or harbor any grudges then;
A feller’s finest, when
Out fishing.
The rich are comrades to the poor,
Out fishin,’
AU brothers of a common lure,
Out fishin’;
The urchin with the pin and string
Can chum with millionaire and king, !
Vain pride is a forgotten thing,
Out fishin’.
A feller gets a chance to dream,
Out fishin’,
He learns the beauties of a stream.
Out fishin’;
And he can wash his soul in air,
That isn’t foul with selfish care,
An’ relish plain and simple fare.
Out fishin’.
A feller hasn’t time for hate,
Outt fishin’,
He isn’t eager to be great,
Out fishin’;
i He isn’t thinkin’ thoughts of pelf.
Or goods stacked high upon a shelf.
But he is always just himself
Out fishin’.
A feller’s glad to be a friend,
Out fishin’,
A helpin’ hand he’ll surely lend,
Out fishin’;
The brotherhood of rod and line,
Au’ sky and stream is always fine,
Men come real close to God’s design,
Out fishin’.
A feller isn’t plottin schemes,
Out fishin’,
He’s only with his dreams,
Out fishin’;
His livery is a coat of tan,
His creed: To do the best he c an,
/V feller’s always mostly man,
Out fishin’.
Ahead of each carrier runs a mail
with a gong beating w'ildly to
make way for the carrier as he
orings the water from a creek or
canal or well near by. He dumps
the water into the hand-pump which
forces the water up a spout on to
the fire. This pump working re
r inds one of an old railroad hand
jar. Wealthy men often keep a
hand-pump in their own home; but
lest the fire-god give the pump
vork to do there is written on it.
Be-r-peh-yong”—prepared put may
'i not be used. A fire in China is
a noisy, exciting and very primitive
thing in its method of extinguish
:ng, but fierce in its burning.
While tthe fire is burning some
times theatricals are held on the
street. These are to please the god
of-fire and get him to go back home.
At other times, when people fear
troubles are coming, they buy a
paper image of the fire-god and
burn false money, incense, an 1
candles before it and then burn the
image itself. This is sending him
home with spending money and fra
grance to keep him from starting
other fires. ' k
I asked the Chinese if the fire
god lit a recent fire on a ship. They
answered, “If there was a fire on
the ship the fire-god must have been
there—at work.” We have towers
in Shanghai where men watch for
fires. When one is discovered the
fire-bell is rung. When the old Cus
tom House was built a large clock
was placed in its tower. For some
weeks after this clock began to
strike the hours there were few if
any fires. The Chinese said it was
because the fire-god thought that
every time the clock struck there
was a fire announced so he could
rest without helping. All these
things seem ridiculous to us but
they are very real to the Chinese.
Chinese life and atmosphere is chuck
full of such superstitions. Chinese
are never free from them and the
anxiety they bring—like a super
stitous man forced to spend the
night in a haunted house. When
the Gospel comes the believer goes
free. For he knows the Truth that
makes him free indeed.
Yours in Christ’s glad service,
(Rev.) H. G. C. HALLOCK. ,
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TOO MANY TROLLERS
Tt is reported that more than 5,000
trollers will be at Port Alexandei
this summer. Evidences is now at
hand indicating that every other
trolling ground will be well crowd
ed with trollers—migratory, fly-by
night birds from Puget Sound. And
these trollers in turn backed by a
strong organization is crowding the
local fishermen out of the field.
These non-resident trollers are
protected by “resident laws” in the
States of Oregon and Washington.
a a Alaskan may not go to either of
those states and fish unless and un
til he has qualified by residence of
one year in those States. The men
from those States come to Alaska
and by intensive fishing, deplete the
waters of salmon, take their earn'
ings to the States and leave Alaskan
trollers and businessmen holding au
empty sack.
’iiie curtailed earnings of resi
dent fishermen makes living condi
tions for them harder; the residet
businessman must carry the troller
through a hard winter; wholesale
houses in the States are compelled
to clamp dawn on credits and in or
dei to protect himself Mr. Business
man adds to the cost of operation
and the resident foots the bills.
Fine business—NOT.
The Republican Candidates up for
election next November are pledged
to work for a “resident law” for
fishermen and a prohibitive tax on
those who migrate up this way with
the birds go south with same.
A vote for this ticket will be a
vote to better conditions in the Ter
ritory.
MORE ABOUT BANKS
law.
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It would be interesting to know
where these banks are located for
business conditions there must be
exceptional in that it appears very
large amounts, exceeding $100,000
in each case, is invested in bonds
and warrants; this is highly desir
able from a bank safety view-point,
since it operates as a substantial
secondary reserve, but the commun
ity business loans run into relative
ly very small figures, so that the
banks can hardly be of much local
service. The law requires a 20%
reserve against demand deposits, and
conservative banks aim to carry
that cash reserve against ALL de
posits, as well as some high class
bonds as secondary reserve in event
of sudden and unexpected withdraw
als. Frequently such bonds are in
fact in use to secure certain of the
deposits.
FIRST STATEMENT
Shows demand and time deposits.. !
. $39,56.01 1
Individual and savings deposits..
160,659.32
. 200,228.32
Total .200,228.32
Against these depositt liabilities
be bank appears to carry a legal
reserve in shape of Cash on hand
>f $50,145.09 including cash items,
so that it has apparently a full le-1
gal reserve, 25% in fact, and a very
high secondary reserve amounting to
$122,000 in bonds andl warrants.
SECOND STATEMENT
Shows Demand Deposits of.
. 176,605.35
Time Deposits of.
. 192,457.81
Total . 369,063.16
Against which it appears to have a
legal reserve in shape of cash on
hand .
.. 18,541.00
Due from other banks, and cash
items . 84,438.98
Total . 102, 979.9S
or well over 30%, and more than
$128,500.00 invested in bonds and
warrants, offering a rather unusual
ly high secondary reserve.
Both the statements are so un
usual as compared with the average
Commercial bank statement that
Itie business public must be either
poor in the midst of plenty or rich
beyond the dreams of averice as the
statements appear to lean toward
extremes in a number of respects.
Yours very truly,
WILLIAM L. PAUL.
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