from the fishermen to make a
decent living, it is also taking J
from resident business its pro-,
fits. The Wrangell Narrows can-!
nery at Scow Bay will leave a
sum of money in this town that)
will crowd $50,000—home labor.,
no traps. A real prosperity for
those who benefit by the opera -1
tion of this Alaska-owned, Alas-j
ka operated cannery.
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“AMATUER COMPETITION”
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Liberty Magazine recently ran
an article by Grace Robinson,
under the caption “Amateur
Competition.” Going into po
lice statistics from New York
City, she proved that denizens
of the restricted districts had
dropped more than fifty per
cent. Said drop being due to
competition of so-called decent
girls driving proffessional piosti
tutes out of business.
We hold no brief for any re
stricted district. But far better
such a district, better that the
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lust of man be served in the flesh'
pots and dregs, than to have
girls just reaching the age of
puberty furnishing competition
for such districts.
We speftk in point—it comes
direct to this office that certain
children are going the pace for
both business and pleasure. We
are no reformers but we do ob
ject to seeing ignorant youth
and future motherhood offering
themselves and being used as
“amatuer competition.” Several
good spankings are in order.
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EVERYBODY’S DOIN’ IT
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The Kenaii and Susitna Val
ley Mink Breeders’ Association
are laying plansfor a fur show to
be sponsored probably in De
cember. The Anchorage fair
held each fall holds a fine ex
hibit of animals from that sec
tion; Juneau holds its South
east Alaska Fair with exhibits
of all sorts. And these towns
have found that such fairs are
paying propositions not only as
lairs but for the various mer
cantile establishments and oth
er allied bussinesses.
Petersburg has been overlook
looking a bet—there are line
possibilities for a fair right here
in Petersburg. Give it a thought.
PULLING A BONER
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The Dora Shadesty property,
more generally known as the
Nicholson property, has been
sold by the city for non-pay
ment of taxes. On the city piat
this property is designated as
•Indian Possessions” and title is
vested in the United States gov
ernment—title has never been
issued to Dora, her mother or
her heirs.
. .Indian lands are taxable—
that ijS Indian lands which
have received title from the gov
enment. A case—from the Osage
—the Supreme Court held in
that case that the taxability of
he case applied only to lands
\vhere patents 'in lee had been
issued or where the Indian had
purchased tire land. The law
as relates to collection of taxes
on lands not alienated by the
government is very clear—no
title, no owner. To whom then
will the tax notice be issued—
the Government? It holds the
“Indian Possession” in trust and
the Indian may or may not oc
cupy that land as long as he or
she wishes. A bill of sale for
such lands is cs valid as a bill of
sale issued in Petersburg to some
gullible, for the town of Wran
gell.
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SALMON TROLLERS REAPING
HARVEST
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“Juneau, July 30.—Salmon
trollers of Chatham Straits are
reaping a rich harvest, returns
being reported as high as $300 a
day per boat in some instances.
A heavy run of choice fish is re
ported.” A.P.
A news report in the Juneau
Empire about that date said
“$300 a day, $3000 every week.”
Such buncombe can mean no
good to the troller who works all
he is permitted to work and yet
the great majority of .whom do
rot make $3,000 in a year. Some
few of the real “hard-boiled”
fishermen run up to and above
those earnings for the year—
but they are few and far be
tween. An occasional catch may
run up to $300 in a day—and
jthat troller may run a month
without making that gross in
that time.
. .The boats that are making
$3000 every ten days are a curi
osity—or the vapid imaginings
of a man told for a purpose
propaganda.
STREETS
It has been some several dayj
since the City Gang went over
the streets washing them down
They look it. Evidently a great
many citizens have forgotten
that the Business Womens’ Club
of Petersburg put garbage cans
at strategic points along the
main pipestem for a purpose:
Lest we forget.
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LOST HIS NERVE
Press report received last
week said that Commissioner of
Fisheries Henry O’Malley was
;.oing to recommend the cios
uie of the Bristol Bay area UN
TIL 1935. This was first pub
ished in the KPtchikan Chron
icle and received in Petersburg
on the 7th of August; it was al
so published in the Juneau Em-j
pire, received in this office on
tie day following.
. . The press of the 8th now says
that O'Malley is going to re
commend the closure of the
Bristol Bay section for the year
1935.
. .This sudden change of heart
was net unexpected—in this of
fice. Direct statement of a fed
eral official to an accredited As
sociated Press reporter is not
carelessly garbled so that the in-'
terviewed is said to mean that
which he did not. We take it
that Henry’s intentions were
good as long as he saw and thot
nf the Bristol Bay fish and
spawning section—but when the1
power of the corporations began (
to protest the five year closure
—that’s another thing.
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CLOSE HARMONY
Indications in the Fairbanks-'
News-Miner, a Lathrop paper, j
are that the Alaska Republican;
National Committeeman is go-'
ing to put the full weight of his
influence in support of the Judge
for Delegate to Congress. Re
ports from Juneau indicate that
;he Juneau Republicans are will;
ing, yea anxious, to bury the
hatchet, in the interest of party
harmony. All very good, but
this writer personally prefers
not to bury his tomahawk—just
a matter of self-preservation—
in event some unexpected turns
develop.
DICE GAME OR LIFE
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Because he broke and ran when
policemen raided a dice game in
Los Angeles, William Teeams, a
colored youth of 17 summers
was shot and killed by Police
man L. R. Wyant, recently.
The authority of the law too
often goes to the head of those
delegated to enforce the 50,000
cr more laws on our statute
books. That any one delegated
to enforce the law should take
a minor infraction so seriously
as to snuff out the offenders
life would indicate that that of
ficer should have his head ex
amined. There is something
wofully wrong with that head.
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FRANCE HAS NEW INSURANCE
PLAN
Two years ago, France passed
a social insurance law of the
most gigantic scope ever at
tempted by any nation. As a
result of this law, today
. i
before confinement and six
weeks after.
The insurance is compulsory
and applies to all workers whose;
annual wages range from $600
a year to $700. j
The insurance pays a sick
worker one-half of his wages up
to six months, and then if a two
thirds disability is established,
he receives 40 per cent for as
long as five years.
Forty per cent of the man’s
wages go to the old-age pension
er who begins to receive beenflts
at 60 years. Death benefits come,
to 20 per cent of all wages earn- !
ed while insured. Half wages
are paid to all mothers six weeks
bfore confinement and six weeks
after. !
. The workers pay about 9 per
cent of their wages toward the
cost; employers pay an equal
amount and the national gov
ernment makes up the balance.
The Government’s share for
the first year totals $21,600,000,
and will increase to approxi
mately $32,600,000 by 1933.
Considerable criticism is being
made at this time by the work
ers who claim that they are
carrying the full burden of the
plan.
BIG SHIPMENT OF FOXES
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What is believed to be the larg j
est single shipment of live foxes J
ever delivered in Seattle will be!
shipped to Seattle early in Sep- \
tember on the W. M. Tupper of
the Santa Ana Steamship Co.;
The shipment is going forward
irom the Kuskokwim district
and are from several ranches.'
100 foxes and 250 head of live
reindeer are going forward with
the shipment. —Seattle P.I.
Shipments from single ranch-j
es in the Petersburg section have
exceeded this number of foxes
several times. Who holds the re-!
cord?
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SQUAWKING NOT SO BAD
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Don’t laugh at the lowly hen
as she squawks her way across
the road in front of some farm j
house. According to the Depart- i
ment of Agriculture she is the i
“mother” of an industry that;
produces an income of $1,175,- j
000,000 each year, or about 10,
per cent of the total-farm in-(
come.
More than one-third of the
world’s total poultry industry!
is in the United States, the de-j
partment says. About five
fowls are raised each year for!
each person.
. Over 500,000,000 chicks are
hatched each year and are
eventually sold for $458,000,000.
In 1928 the income from eggs
alone amounted to $717,000,000.!
The combined income from
eggs and chickens was larger
than that from the nation’s
wheat crop.
WHY WE HAVE ‘HARD TIMES’
From LABOR
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The Department of Commerce
takes a census of manufactures
every two years. Its report on;
what happened in the linoleum
industry from 1927 to 1929 shows
in miniature what is happening
in practically every industry of
America.
. .The number of establishments
making linoleum remained ex
actly the same.
..The number of employees in
creased from 5,364 to 5,514, or
3.4' per cent.
The average wage increased
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