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C. O. PARKS,.BUSINESS MANAGER
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A REAL OPTIMIST
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Sir Gilbert Parker, British
Novelist, recently said: “Prohi
bition alone is responsible for
the leading industrial position
in the world . I predict within
kO years the present lawbreaking
will have ceased.” The optimism
of Sir Gilbert is sadly discredit
ed by the reports of the Depart -
ment of Justice.
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“BUY NOW”
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A few years ago economists
were telling us to “save’ ’ and
have a nice little bank account,
today these same economists
are telling us to “Buy Now and
Help bring back prosperity.”
A few years back the average
man was able to spend and
save. Today his earning power
is apparently below his purchas
ing power. In thousands, aye,
millions of instances, the aver
age man has nothing with which
to “buy now to help bring pros
perity back.”
The solution then is for those
who have employing power to
utilize idle labor to give it the
earning power to “buy now” and
this w.'ll bring back prosperity.
LITTLE ONES SUFFER
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Grace Abbot head of the Chil
dren's Bureau of the Depart
ment of Labor has issued a note
in which she says:
• Our experiences in the last
period of depression show that
the children suffered most” the
cost of unemployment not only
in terms of privation, and hard
ship. but in health and lives.
“With little or no money to buy
food, the children’s milk supply
was cut down, and in many
cases cut off entirely. Thou
sands of children were under
nourished, and their health per
manently injured by the short
age or lack of proper food. The
same thig is happening today,
and national economy makes it
imperative that we come to
the relief of the children before
it is too late.”
And the cost of unemploy
ment and cheap labor in Alas
ka have the same effects as
they do in the states. It is the
little ones who are made to suf
fer Just bear that in mind
and those little ones are not
all Indian children by any
means. Which is something
else to think about.
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CIVILIZED AMERICA
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There was a marked increase
of crimes in general and par-!
ticularly of murder in the Unit-1
ed States during the first nine
xnontlis of 1930. A survey re
cently made public by the De
partment of Justice reveals that
the average of murders has ris
en from three per day at the
beginning of the year to five
rser day in September. Chicago
]ed the cities of the United
States by having 282 or an
average of one murder a day,
Philadelphia, the City of Broth
erly Love had 109 during the
same period; Detroit, the home
of modern transportation was
a close third with 104. The re
port. reveals that there were an
average of 150 burglaries dur
ing this period with an average
of more than 50 hold ups every
24 hours. • ;
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BUILDING UP WAR SPIRIT <
J. S. Woodsworth, leader of <
the labor group, in the Cana- <
dian House of Commons, in a i
speech recently delivered in 1
Toronto, Ont., declared that mil- g
itary parades on Armistice Day i
foster and glorify the spirit of <
war. He deplored the fact that <
50 per cent of Canada’s nation- 1
al income was spent for war t
purposes, while only one perJc
cent went for industrial rela
tions, scientific recearch, old
age pensions and foreign rela
tion.”
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THRESHBILL PRICE
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Rye reached the threshbill
price last week in North Dakota,
says an exchange. This when it
hit seventeen cents per bushel.
Which means that the farmer
still has a large reason to kick
And to the ultimate consumer
regret that he does not benefit
from the price paid the farmer
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BORAH SOUNDS WARNING
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I venture the prediction there
will be political chaos in 1932,”
said Senator Borah, recently. “I
have just one thing to say about
that election. I never have
known so little party spirit
among the people. The people
are more and more voting for
individuals and less for parties.
There is a widespread belief that
parties no longer keep pledges
as parties, and therefore voters
try to elect individuals in whom
they repose their confidence.”
WASTED $60,000
The Republican spent $60,000
in Nebraska to defeat Senator
George W. Norris for reelection
to the Senate. William Ritchie,
Jr. Omaha attorney, testified
before the Nye Senatorial Com-*
mittee recently that the purpose
of this expenditure was to de
feat Senator Norris. From the
election returns it would appear
that this money might just as
well have been thrown over
board for all the good it did to
Jward defeating the progressive
Senator.
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ILLITERACY IN THE STATES
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| Illiteracy decreased in thej
State of Delaware 33 1-3 perj
cent since 1920. There are 7,8051
illiterates in that state accord-j
ing to recent figures made pub I
lie by the Federal Census Bu-!
reau. There are 1,896 white il-l
literates and 3,496 Negro illiter- j
ates in Delaware and 2,392 for-'
eign illiterates.
If all of the states made such j
a showing in overcoming illiter-/
ncy, it is pointed out that more;
than one half of the five million'
illiterates i the United States
would have learned how to read
or write in some language. So1
far illiteracy in the United j
States has been reduced from(
six to four per cent. And still j
other foreign countries stand
way ahead of the United States
in the matter of literacy. This
in spite of the vaunted civiliza
tion and educational advantages
of this country.
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AMERICAN LANGUAGES
There are 76 root languages a
mong the American Indians in
the United States and 400 dia
lects. This aside form the sign 1
language. In Alaska there are 1
five distinct root languages—j1
Tsimpean, Haida, Thlinget,Aleut J1
and Eskimo. The first three :
have very little variation within ‘
the tribal limits—though collo
quial expressions may be pecu- 1
liar to each locality.. The Aleuts t
speak the Russian language orj*
ts variations and the Eskimos f
aave variations of the root '
angua^e in their several tribes. 1
rhe difference between the r
Eskimo languages is very
strong in that tribes but a short v
listance from another cannot t
mderstand the language of t
heir neighbors. With the Thlin- c
let the language is universal s
rom Cape Fox to Yukatat and c
Hordova. The Indians on the s
Hopper River and on the Stikine v
liver to a limited extent carry
he Thlinget language and un- V
lerstand it when spoken to. a
“LADY GODIVAS
The angel city of California
has been having an epidemic of
Lady Godivas riding horseback
m their city park. Bridle paths
of one of the large parks have
been the courses of garmentless
riders who were even a bit more
daring than the gentle Godiva
—for she had ankle-length
tresses with which to cover her
charms and the girls of the
angel city are bob-haired. And
then too, other undraped young
'women have been found in the
I park who did not even have the
'horses to ride. All of which is
[made public by the park com
| mission of Los Angeles,
j Says the report signed by
j Joseph S. Young,-foreman of the
playground and transmitted to
| Ills superior: “The lack of cloth
ling by these young women is
I not the thing we are primarily
J interested in. though that’s bad
| enough,” says the report of the
Engineer in charge of the park
system which plainly disclosed
that he did not think it en
hances the landscape. “We are
most vitally concerned in the
fact that they were smoking
“We don’t want a disastrous
forest fire in Griffith Park.
What we are asking for is a bet
ter patrol for the park. Either
it should be closed up tight at
sunset, or else patrolled during
1 he later hours.”
The foreman’s report disclos
ed that he recently encountered
'wo young women and two
voting men nude, riding horse
back through the park and
smoking. Previously, they had
been bathing in the public nool
at the boys’ camp. On another
occasion, he wrote, he found
“two nude, itoxicated young
ladies in the park, who had been
given liquor by two young men
and left in the park.”
Yes, Alaska is plenty good
enough for us. When the nude
habit reaches this neck of the
Northland, we propose to move
up among the glaciers where we
nan enjoy God’s beauty without
befouling our minds with the
indecencies of mankind.
WHERE ARE THOSE PEI P
MILLS
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Now that elections are over
we do not see the pulp mill press
telling us any more stories of
pulp mills coming to Alaska. We
nave noticed in the past several
elections that the Juneau Vam
pire has sung the song of pulp
mills prior to each election and
warned the voters not to vote
for men who would drive the
pulp mills out before they enter
ed the territory. The pulp men
are still investigating whether
not they can get all their
power rights, lands and timber
for nothing before they will
spend a dollar in the country,
[n the meantime their program
is for the government to
Tet every cent it can out of the
little logger and mill man. Still
these little felows will vote to
support the Vampire ticket of
aunkum artists.
The occasion of the remarks
aeing caused by the following
lews note taken from the Seat
tle press:
Contract Let For Pulp Mill
Contract for construction of a
nodern 150-ton bleached sul
phite pulp mill at Longview for •
he Weyerhaeuser Timber Com- :
?any was awarded yesterday to :
2hris Kuppler’s Sons, Seattle
tnd Port Angeles contracting
irm.
This was announced yesterday
>V W. R. KuDo^er, member of j
he firm, with offices in Seattle, t
Construction work will start j
arly in December and will pro- j
ide work for between 100 and 1
50 men over a period of ten |
lonths. :
Details of the plant plans j
fere not disclosed by the con- !
racting firm. It was learned, I
owever, that the plant will be *
f concrete construction, along t
'milar lines to the numerous *
ther pulp mills erected by the |
ame contractors in other North-! £
restern cities. 1 £
In awarding the contract, the fj
Weyerhaeuser company fulfilled f
statement of several months I *
SOME IMPRESSIONS OF AN
A. N. B. CONVENTION BY
AN OUTSIDER
C. O. Parks.
On November 11 to 18 inclus
ive was held at Ketchikan Alas
ka the annual grand convention
of the Alaska ’Native Brother
hood and its auxiliary, the Alas
ka Native Sisterhood.
Probably nowhere else in the
world can another such organi
zation be found. Primarily a
fraternal order with its active;
membership restricted to in
clude only persons descended]
from the aboriginal races of
North America, its aim and pur
pose is to uplift all native peo
nies and to improve their condi
ion physically, morally, politi
cally, intellectually. Hence the
order must concern itself with
"inch matters as compulsory ed
ucation; curricula and qualifi
cations of teachers in the feder
al bureau schools; denomina
tional schools; industrial
chools; theright of native chil
dren to attend territorial |
-chools; publications; sanitation1
and hygiene; law enforcement,!
especially of liquor laws and
the establishment of proper fa-!
cilities for law enforcement in
the various villages (sevei’al of
which are towns of 300 to 400
neople and 40 to 60 miles by gas
boat from the nearest physi
cian, U. S. Commissioner or de-;
puty marshal); enactment of
nrooer game laws and trapping;
'aws, and the securing of rea
sonable fisheries regulations for;
' he conservation of both popula-!
tion and fish. Another activity!
which was not contemplated
from the beginning but which!
circumstances have forced on
the organization is the investi
gation of nominees and the
“lection of such officials as are
believed to harbor no prejudice.
This phase of the work, how
ever. must always be merely a
m°ans to an end, never an end
’n itself. Such investigations
are continuous and constant
and the native peonle are ex
tremely loyal to those whom
they can accept as friends. The
convention recorded its senti
ments in a number of serious re
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solutions, a fair synopsis of
which was published in these
columns last week. The com -
plete text o fthe resolutions w/Lj
be printed later either in t '.is
paper or in the Alaska Fisher
man. These resolutions rr.-rit
the serious consideration of
every citizen. And it would
seem quite fair and just to
judge any organization by the
character of the problems it
tackles and its attitude toward
them.
Three sessions per day were
held throughout the convention
period and it was my good for
tune to attend all but the first
two days’ meetings. The Red
men’s Hall had been elaborately
decorated for the occasion in a
combination of Sisterhood col
ors (blue and white, for loyalty
and purity) and Brotherhood
colors (red for the battle, and
gold which symbolizes Alaska to
the world at large but which is
found most abundantly in the
Hearts ot her people). These
were combined with evergreens
and a series of penants repre
senting the towns of Juneau,
Kasaan, Klawock, Kake, Kluk-j
wan, Haines, Saxman, Angoon,
Ketchikan, Petersburg, Craig, j
Hydaburg, Hoonah, Douglas, |
Wrangell, Yakutat, Sitka, the!
penants being later preesnted as
souvenirs by the Ketchikan
Camp to the towns whose names
they bore. Over and above all1
these stands out a great hand- j
wrought banner presented by!
the people of Saxman Camp, j
consisting of the Territorial flagj
motif (Polaris and the constel-j
lation of Ursa Major) superim
posed on Brotherhood colors..
The meetings were public and
many outsiders dropped in, usu
ally out of curiosty but remained
because they found the discus-!
rions exceedingly lively and in
teresting. All business meetings
are conducted under strict par
liamentary practice. I have at
tended many business meetings
of many kinds of organizations^
but I have never before fallen
into such a group of parliament
ary lawyers—all sticklers for
?trict formality. A number of ■
serious battles were waged in j
this convention but never was
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