THE STORY OF THE HEN
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San Francisco Mining Exchange
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Hard work means nothing to
a hen. She just keeps on digging
worms and laying eggs, regard
less of what prognosticators
say about the outlook for this or
any other year.
If the ground is hard, she
scratches harder.
If the ground is dry, she digs
deeper.
If it is wet, she digs where it
is dry.
If she strikes a rock, she works
around it.
If she gets a few more hours
of daylight, she gives us a few
more eggs.
But always she digs up worms
and turns them into hard-shell
ed profits as well as tender pro
fitable broilers.
Did you ever see a pessimistic
hen? Did you ever hear of one
starving to death waiting for
worms to dig themselves to the
surface? Did you ever hear one
cackle because work was hard?
Not on your life. They save their
breath for digging and their
cacKies tor eggs.
Success means digging. Are
you?
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WHY?
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Congress placed a tax of 1
cent per gallon on gasoline and
4 cents per gallon on lubricating
oils. The oil companies imme
diately raised the ante to 3
cents per gallon on gasoline
without any raise on the lub
oils.
The gasoline consumer does
not kick at the raise of 1 cent
per gallon but wonders just why
the oil companies must raise the
tax two additional cents. Is it to
obviate the cost of collecting
and making returns on the per
gallon sale or is it to make it
hurt the consuming public so
much that they will yell their
heads off and protest the tax
on oils?
In the past it has been a sort
cf a slogan to “Soak the Rich.”
Any time any body of lawmak
ers believe that they are going
to be able to soak the rich
through any tax mediums, they
■uau uei/i/ci just, suaK uieir neaas
in a barrel of gasoline and put
a torch to it. When will the
public learn that it is the ulti
mate consumer who eventually
and finally pays the taxes.
Soak the canner $1.00 per
case for his salmon—and the
consumer pays the tax; soak
the lumber man $3 per thousand
for imported lumber—and the
consumer foots the bill; soak the
coal dealer $2 per ton for im
ported coal and in the end the
raise is paid for the fellow who
burns the coal. As there are
more little fellows on the con
suming end, they pay the big-1
gest share of the taxes.
Soak the rich, may be a good j
slogan but in the end it is a bad
fcoom-a-rang which the poor
fellow has to absorb the extra
costs.
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GUILTY! TWO-BIT
FINE SETS RECORD
Establishing a record for small I
fines in United States courts,
George Hermann, Raleigh, N. C.,
was fined 25 cents for possessing
a pint of whiskey, by Federal
Judge I. M. Meekins.
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Wrong ‘Wife' Saved
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Newspapers told how the hus
band of Mrs. Marian King Buler,
Norristown, Pa., carried his wife
and four children to safety from
a fire-swept house. Everything
was fine until Mrs. Buler went to
court and won a divorce with
testimony that the “wife” he
saved was another woman.
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The function of government
should be exercised to stimulate
not “big business” or little busi
ness.” but all enterprise. Gov
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i4s to the Blindness
Of the Politicians
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Editor, The Alaskan.
With times and economic con
ditions being as they are, does
it not seem strange to you that
our present leaders, or would be
leaders, those already in posi
tions to extend relief and en
couragement—o u r politicians,
office holders and most of our
editors—can be so callous as to
devote so much time talking
about and use up so much good
clean paper printing arguments
about that old, stinking, politic
al red herring—prohibition !
The question as to whether
we shall be privileged to pander
to our grosser appetites, on our
front porches, or must continue
to do so in the cellar has surely,
been a wonderful smudge screen
for our politicians. Of one thing
we may rest assured: When the
question is finally settled, one
way or the other—which of
course it never will be more than
temporarily if our modern meth
od politicians can help it—these
same politicians will mourn it as
a lost brother and shudder in
horror at the death of harmless
political issues.
As I write this, the six Alaska
delegates to the Democratic Na
tional Convention—John Troy—
are speeding across the contin
ent to urge the adoption of a
plank by the Democrats, favoring
a referendum on repeal of the
Eighteenth Amendment and also
immediate repeal of the Volstad
Act. What a relief it is going to
be, two or three years from now,
to be able to get, legally owl
eyed drunk and forget our empty
bellies. It is all right to be a wet
now, we are assured by the
Juneau Empire: John D. Rocke
feller Jr., has turned wet, that
settles it. It would for the Em
pire.
Are the majority of our Alas
ka politicians and editors blind
to the crying need of Alaska, or
is it that they lack the moral
courage to tackle an uphill
fight? We are being promised
the appointment of bona fide
Alaskans to office by one party;
mat snouia wmp tne sycophants
[into line. We are being fed the
platitude of home rule by the
other party. Home rule has its
parts however. The only thing I
have never been able to under
stand about home rule for Alas
ka at present, is who, in the
name of common sense, is going'
to foot the bill. It might, how-’
ever, be poetic justice to acquire
home rule and then hop the tax
on salmon, our largest revenue
producer, to a dollar a case, to
loot the bill. Of course if the
Forest Department could be in
duced to pay taxes on the timber
land they are holding for the
timber barons, they might in
duce Alaskans not to levy too
heavy a production tax on pulp
some day. This tax question has
its possibilities you know. Some
day in the not far distance fu
ture it is going to demand a
practical answer.
When it all simmers down to
actualities; all that is being
done in Alaska to relieve the
economic situation, either poli
tically or editorially, except in a
very few cases, may be summed
up in one word; piffle! What are
the people of Alaska going to do
about it? The Territorial legisla
ture, even if they could agree as
to method, has not the power to
do more than start litigation.
The Federal brigade may be de
pended upon to start smoke
screens ana sit on the lid up to
the very last minute, may be
longer, but Boy O Boy are they
not on a hot spot now.
Here we have Henry O’Malley,
the Federal Commissioner of
Fisheries, who, by abolishing
special privilege fish traps, with
the power in his hands can put
tens of thousands of more men
to work In the Alaska salmon
fisheries. Here we have the Unit
ed States Forest Department
with the power in their hands to
instigate programs which will
attract other hundreds of thou
sands of settlers- and home
builders to Alaska’s forest lands.
As you well know, these are no
new powers, recently vested in
either case; both have held this
power for years. But today we
have a new element entered in
to the scheme of things; today
we have millions of people out of
work and homeless, with lean
; hungry looks on their faces.
Does it not make you smile—
even a grim smile? It should !
E. S. HUNGERFORD
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Washington News Letter
By Will A. Steel
With Congress almost on the
eve of adjournment until the
December session, and having
made all necessary arrangements
io protect Alaska interests, Dele
gate James Wickei’sham, accom
panied by Mrs. Wickersham, is
on his way to Puget Sound. After
a few days in Seattle they will
sail for Alaska, to their home in
juzieau, 1:0111 wnicn location uie
Delegate will make visitations
to the various sections of the
Territory. He will consult with
his constitutents as to their sev
eral needs and at the same time
will give an account of his stew
ardship during the past session,
and explain the efforts put forth
to improve the condition of Alas-.
ka and its peoples. The Dele
gate’s office in Washington,
with Secretary Steel in charge,,
will remain open at all times,
and matters concerning Alaskan
interests before various depart
ments will be given close and
active attention.
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Several more of Alaska Cham
bers of Commerce have wired
the Delegate that they are op
posed to the bill transferring the
Alaska Road Commission and its
activities from the War Depart
ment to the Interior Department
Some of them want the road
work appropriation administered
under the proposed Public Works
bill. |
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After a preliminary survey had
been made of Craig harbor the
Board of Engineers for Rivers
and Harbors states that the
benefits expected to result from
the proposed improvement are
almost entirely local in charac- ■
ter and are not sufficiently gen-!
ml to justify the .improve
ment at the expense of the Unit
ed States. The report on the sur
vey was favorable to the extent
Lf recommending improvement1
if Craig harbor by the construe
tion of a breakwater about 320
feet in length, and a boat basin
about 200 feet wide, 410 feet long
and 11 feet deep at mean lower
low water, with an entrance
channel 60 feet in width, at a I
cost of $46,600 for new work and'
$500 per annum for mainten-1
ance.
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The bill to suspend the annual
assessment work on mining
Cjaims for the year ending June
30, 1932, was particularly urged
by the Representatives from
California, Arizona and other
mining states, but included
Alaska in its operation. Since the
Act was signed by the President
on June 4, various telegrams
have been received by the Dele
gate from Alaska operators,
prospectors and Chambers of
Commerce. Some complain that
the Act will be of little benefit
because most of the work has
been done for the year ending!
June 30th, 1932, and asking
whether it cannot be made to
apply for the year ending June
30, 1933. Others object to the
passage of the Act because it
may deny many prospectors and
miners from securing work from
large holders who have been ac- i
customed to employ them in do
ing the annual assessment work.
A similar bill may come before i
Congress next December andii
prior to that time Alaska should
, be on record as to its general de
sire on the subject.
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The effort of the Delegate to
secure a grazing lease for cer
tain unsurveyed lands in interior
Alaska, has brought forth h
statement from the Commission
er of the General Land Office
that the land embraced in this
particular application was locat
ed on the natural migration
route of wild caribou in that
part of the Territory, which is
also their natural grazing
ground. It seems that the regu
lations under the Act of March
4, 1927, provide that leases will
not be granted for areas which
embrace the natural grazing
grounds or routes of migration
of wild animals such as caribou.
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Delegate Wickersham submit
ted to the House Committee on
Indian Affairs a lengthy pre
amble, ending with a resolution,:
which was unanimously adopted,:
as follows: “Resolved, That a!
special subcommittee be ap
pointed for the consideration of J
the matters stated in the fore-j
going clauses, lor tne investiga- j
tion of all matters in connection i
with the said Indians, their ■
proper government and protec-i
lion, their claims for lands, and
generally their rights and the
obligations of the Government
relating to them; that said sub
committee be authorized to hear
and consider the law and facts
offered in respect to them and
their rights and claims, and that
H. R. 5605 and S. 1196, which has
passed the Senate and been re
ferred to the said subcommittee
for hearing and report to this
committee referred to this com
mittee, be, and they are hereby,
referred to the said subcommit
tee for hearing and report to
this committee with the subcom
mittee recommendation thereon;
that the said subcommittee con
sist of six members of the House
Committee on Indian Affairs, to
be appointed by the Chairman.”
In accordance with the above
resolution Chairman Edgar How
ard named the following mem
bers of the Committee: Robert S.
Hall, of Mississippi, Chairman;
William I. Sirovich, of New York;
Dennis Chavez, of New Mexico; ,
Wm. Williamson, of South Dako- ’
ta; Scott Leavitt, of Montana; j
J Frederick C. Loofbourow, of j
Utah. 1
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' Hon. E. A. Rasmussen, recent
ly elected Republican National 1
Committeeman for Alaska, and 1
who attended the Republican
National Convention at Chicago, I
‘stopped over in Washington last|1
Friday afternoon while enroutei1
to New York to confer with some !
cf his bank officials.
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A mining locator residing in
Fairbanks inquires whether pros
pectors having lode claims in
McKinley National Park are re
quired to record their annual
assessment work. The matter
was referred to the Interior De
partment, whose officials call
attention to the Act of March 2,
1907, which provides that one
hundred dollars worth of labor
shall be performed, or improve
ments made on, each mining
claim in the District of Alaska,
each year. Affidavit showing the
performance of such labor, and
specifying the character and ex
tent of such work, shall be filed
with the Recorder of the district
in which the claims shall be
situated. Such affidavit shall be j
pjima facia evidence of the per- I
fcrmance of such work. But if i
such affidavit be not filed within
the time fixed by this Act the !
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burden of proof shall be upon
the claimant to establish the
performance of such annual
work and improvement. On fail-1
ure to do this the claim shall be- I
come forfeited and open to lo- 1
cation by others.
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Ernest Walker Sawyer, a high
official of the Interior Depart- j
ment, has been giving close at-]
tention and much activity dur
ing the past two or three years
to the suggestions that he thinks
will materially aid in the devel
opment and growth of Alaska.
As Commissioner for the Inter
national Highway to Alaska he
is alert at all times in trying to
awaken interest in both Alaska
and British Columbia to the
great possibilities of this gigantic
enterprise. He has been most ac
tive in California, Oregon, Wash
ington, and many Eastern sec
tions, in bringing to the atten
tion of the traveling public the
beauties and charm of the north
ern Territory for tourist enjoy
ment. And he has been particu
larly interested in trying to bet
ter the condition of the Natives
of the northern section. In Alas
ka there are nearly 30,000 Na
tives and Mr. Sawyer says that
tney are “capable, intelligent,
honest and courageous, and the
time is ripe for the Bureau of
Indian Affairs to outline and de
signate a general policy which
will put these people on a self
supporting basis." He has made
some pertinent .suggestions as tv
health and education and on the
subject of “income” has worked
out some plans that include,
care and education of reindeer,
etc.; for farming, vegetable gar
dening; proper curing and pre
paration of fish, seal, etc.; con
servation of wild life, walrus,
seals, whales, etc.; development
of ivory, totem poles, baskets, fur
clothing, slippers, etc., and stan
dardization of products for ex
port; cooperative associations.
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The report sent out from Se
ward that Governor Parks was
to be replaced by the appoint
ment of Gen. James G. Steese,
former President of the Alaska
Hoad Commission, was news to
the Interior Department, Gen
Steese, and Governor. Parks, and
proved to be entirely unfounded.
The term of the present Govern
or of Alaska will not expire until
October 1933.
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The Department of Commerce,
n issuing additional salmon fish
ery regulations, states that no
irap shall be permitted to oper
ate in the season of 1932 as
follows: Kodiak area: on the
south coast of Raspberry Island;
m the south coast of Uganik Is
and; on Kodiak Island along
;he coast on the west side of
jganik Bay. Southeastern Alas
ka area: on certain points on the
Sast coast of Baranof Island; on
he west coast of Admiralty Is
and between 57 degrees 42 and
A minutes north; on Prince of
Vales Island, east coast, one |
nile northwest of the mouth of j
L'agle Creek southerly to a cer-|
ain point. Regulation 8 is re- j
inded closing the coast of xCup
eanof Island to trap fishing in j
leighborhood of Point Macart
ney. Regulation 9 closing the
oast of Kuiu Island to trap
ishing in neighborhood of Corn
wallis Point, is also recinded.
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“DEAD MAN" PJtOVES
TO BE HUGE STILL
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When a police squad rushed
out to a garage in eastern Cleve
land on a tip that a dead man
would be found there, they found
Joseph Artino, 21, operating a
50-gallon still. Artino said he
had seen no dead man, but
police took him and his equip
ment to headquarters.
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