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HARD TIMES
By Bruce Barton
A gentleman, whose name is so
well advertised that we need not
mention It, has predicted that the
United States is about to enjoy 100
years of uninterrupted prosperity..
When that prediction was pub
lished, I happened to be with a man
wise in these affairs.
“Will there be a hundred years
of uninterrupted prosperity?” I
asked.
He shook his head.
“Why not?”
I expected him to show me a
chart or say something about the
“business cycle” or “economic fund
amentals,” or to use some of the
other well worn phrases. But to
my relief , he took an entirely dif
ferent approach.
“There will not be a cannery 01
uninterrupted good times, because
the universe is not arranged on that
basis,” he said. “Wliat is taking
place on this earth i3 a great experi
ment in the development of human
character. The Creator is not inter
ested in money or markets, but in
more enduring men.
“Such men are not developed
when everything is easy. They nev
er come out of countries where the
sun shines every day. Trials devel
op them; problems develop them;
suffering develops them. As long
as the present divine plans continue
to operate, wre shall continue to have
enough setbacks to keep the race
from growing altogether too soft.”
Years ago Roger Babson made a
chart on which wavy lines repre
sented national prosperity and the
other wravy line showed church mem
bership. It wras decidedly interest
ing. When money rolls in too easi
ly and too long men drift away, not
only from their churches, but from
hard work and simple living; they
form extravagant tastes; they take
long chances.
Then comes the panic. Their
easy wealth evaporates. Theu clear
their lives of rubbish and start in
again on the sound basis of econo
my, worship and work.
Sometime the race may develop
to a point where it can stand pros
perity all the time, but in our pre
sent state hard times have still their
needed work to do.
Ignatious, the grand old Bishop
of Antioch, on his way to suffer
martyrdom in Rome, sent this ring
ing message to his younger col
league Polycary, the Bishop of
Smyrna:
“Be diligent. Be sober.. Stand
like a beaten anvil.”
It is the men who “stand like a
beaten anvil” who have done the
big things. But men can’t stand
like beaten anvils if they’re made of
French pastry. Or are wrapped up
always in the gentle softness of
prosperity.—From Red Book Maga
zine.
AN EDUCATIONAL CREED
Reprinted from the Alaska School
Bulletin issued by the Territorial
Commissioner of Education
I believe in the school system
of the United States of America as
an institution of the people, for the
people; conceived by the founders'
of this Republic; nurtured for near
ly three centuries by our fathers;
sustained today by the consent and
support of all our citizens. I believe
in free universal education, equal
opportunities for all children, which
guarantees our democracy within a
Republic established upon the prin
ciples of freedom, equality, justice,
and humanity. I therefore believe it
my duty to the school to love it, to
help my neighbor’s child to have
the same opportunity, and to defend
the school against all enemies.—Dr.
J. J. Tigert, U. S. Commissioner of
Education, Bureau of Education.
“SEWARD’S FOliLY”
(From the Seattle P.-I.)
Obesrvauce of the sixtieth an
niversary of the purchase of Alaska
has been arranged for October 21
by the chamber of commerce.
When William H. Seward, a3
secretary of state, proposed to pay
a Russian czar $7,2000,000 for the
Northern empire, he met in con
gress a blast as chilling as ever
faced by a sourdough on the tundra.
But he “mushed on” and won. The
United States Hag was raised in
Sitka on October 18, 1867.
Seattle’s annual tiade with Alas
ka now i3 several times the amount
involved in the transaction once
known as “Seward’s Folly.”
We are prideful of our modern
material achievements, and rightly
so. But it is a fine exercise once
in a while to forget them for the
moment and pay honor to the
vision and steadfast purpose of
those of another day. We are only
builders. They it was who supplied
the material.
CONSERVATION OF SALMON IN
ALASKA THIRTY YEARS AGO
By AHN-KUTTY
By AHN-KUTTY
The tour of inspection stretched
out to trips to Union Bays, An-Au
Creek, Ratz Harbor, Tolstoi Bay,
Eagle Creek, Whale Passage, Stikine
River (the mouth of Pillar Band and
several lesser salmon regions. That
summer no fences were erected in
Ratz Harbor nor in Whale Passage.
But two or three loads were taken
out of Eagle Creek. The season
was one that ran nearly all fish
streams full, Lake Bay especially,
and there was no need to put in
the number of fences originally
planned. This flush season made it
quite easy to show clean streams in
most of the places. As the official’s
time to depart drew near and the
visit to Lake Bay, after many post
ponements, was next in order, either
McCullough had to quickly clear
this wonderful fishing ground or the
inspector had to be sidetracked. The
latter scheme was decided on. It
happened that we were lying at
An-An Creek and the inspector was
struck with the idea of visiting
Lake Bay before returning to Wran
gell. Thi3 wasn’t according to the
scheme of things. It was too sud
den. At five it was decided that tlie
Arctic had to go back to Wrangeli
to fix up a leaky boiler. But I drew
the line here. I knew quite well
that our visitor was not to see Lake
Bay. I was a party to the proposed
j deception insofar as keeping the
; wheels going around and shoving
the ship ahead on which ever course
they cared to place her. But so far
in the season I had logged around
20,000 miles without incident nor
accident. There had never been
any delays in the vessel’s movements
through machinery troubles and I
didn’t care, then, to log a mishap
that hadn’t occurred. So I object
ed. “Fashion any excuse to go to
the cannery that you may think of,”
I told the skipper, “just so long as
my end of the ship isn’t involved.”
Of course I was wise to the fact
that, right here, time was the big
factor. The aim was to postpone
this Lake Bay inspection to the last
drawn minute. We went back to
the cannery, with a very badly bent
(?) rudder stock. Had our guest
been anything of a sailorman, he’d
have tumbled to this bit of fraud,
for the Arctic’s rudder stock was of
wood and six inches in diameter.
But it worked. We arrived at the
cannery, beached the steamer on
the mud-flats, went through a lot of
hokuspokus under her stern and
after two or three tides we were
ready for Lake Bay. It was sup
posed by now, that McCullough!
would have a fake tamp up and all
ready to receive company.
Well, we steamed into some hole
in wail that I had never seen before,
nor have 1 seen it since. Sure
enough there was a lish camp. A
number of tents had been spread,
seines were racked—-on brand new
racks, and drying in the afternoon
sun, two big seine skiffs, with about
3000 salmon in them—the fish had
been caught elsewhere—a number of
canoes lying under dampened socks
and canvas, on the beach and some
IS or 30 native folk taking life
easy. McCullough wTas absent, but
Montgomery, first lieutenant, was in
charge. The southbound mail steam
er was due in Wrangell early next
morning, so the inspector didn’t
have any time to spare. lie took a
number of photographs, saw that
there was no fence nor had there
ever been one, jutted down a lot
memoranda in a sort of lield book
he carried, bade the populace a
cheery goodbye, and we pulled up
our mud hook and churned out.
So far the visit of our official
friend had been handled nicely.
What the A. P. A. wanted him to
see, he had seen. What they didn’t
desire any one lo investigate, hadn't
been investigated. And, still, the
inspector was leaving the country
with a clear conscience until—.
Now% in all of our galvinating
around the country our official friend
had made the Arctic’s engine room
a kind of idliug place. The quart
ers wrei*e large, there was a big,
comfortable lounge, and plenty of
light. So, as was his wont he came
down and made himself comfortable
directly after we got under way.
With the worries of all this inspec
tion off his mind he became more
loquacious than usual. Laying aside
his field book that he had been look
ing over, he remarked:
“Well, I always had an idea that
Lake Bay wag a much larger and
older camp than it appeared to be
to me. 1 was certainly surprised
at its smallness and it doesn’t seem
possible that such a little stream of I
water can supply so many sokoi:
salmon. Sorry that 1 had no morej
; time to look the place over.”
So he had doubts, after all. There
was a lurking suspicion, somewhere
that all wasn’t right,
i “But. you didn’t see Lake Bay,”
| I lurted out. I don’t really know
j just why, but I got a deal of sport,
at this stage of the performance, in
! tossing a monkey wrench into the
smooth running machine that Mc
Cullough and Babbler had coustruct
j
ed. The inspector turned to me
! with questioning eyes and a lowrer
jawr dropping in sheer amazement.
“ I haven’t been in Lake Bay, j
von mean?” I
“Sure,” I answered. “I don’t
know where we were, myself but by
i the looks of surrounding country I
' should judge we were some place
on Prince of Wales Island, all right
| enough, but not within a dozen
miles of Lake Bay.
j “You don’t know where we were,”
; he repeated. “Not Lake Bay, Say—!”
He grabbed up the stuff lie had
I lying around on the lounge and
went up the iron steps out of the
engine room, as if a derrick chain
had a hold on him.
Straight to the chart room he
went, and later, when I was up on
the boat deck turning one of the
ventilators I saw him and the skip
per bent over charts and talking
loudly. What was said in that chart
room I don’t know. Farrer told me
nothing and I never inquired, but we
steamed right on to the cannery and
then to Wrangell. Nor did I ever
hear what the inspector’s report
amounted to.
All this is ancient history now,
but the slaughter of the smaller
salmon has gone steadily on and the
sokoi is taking up the call of the
dodo bird. It is, practically, a thing
eliminated through greed, awful
destruction and don’t-give-a-damn
for-tomorrow spirit.
What are we going to do about
it? There has to be a drastic turn
in the near future, that’s a sure
thing. Off hand, were I the czar of
Alaska’s fish affairs, I’d make illegal
the use of all small mesh gear for
capturing cannery salmon. Traps
and seines should go, and the catch
ing of humpies, dogs and sokois
would depend upon gill nets alone.
I’d open the bays, but keep the
creeks closed and the seasons would
be long enough for fair packs on
an average of five year runs with
an ample time, closed, for escape
ment to spawning beds. Those de
plored fish was—and tlitre are lots
of ’em—I’d close until they showed
up healthy fish population, be it
one year or a dozen. If creeks
aren’t fished it i3 impossible to fish
them out with gillnets in the bays
and inlets where the streams empty.
Chicago.—Whenever John H. Cit
izen polishes up the old family bus
for, a Sunday jaunt he makes It
easier to heat his home next winter,
unrelated as the two circumstances
may seem.
“The oil burner provides a market,
for oil that is produced in the manu
facture of gasoline,” declared C. U.
i Williams, Bloomington, 111., address
i ing a gathering of motor sales
men. “When you sell a man a car
| you are making it cooler for him
| this summer, and warmer for him
next winter. In making gasoline a
great supply of fuel oil also is pro
duced, and an il-burner designed
i
to consume this cheap fuel thus
| heats a home economically and suc
cessfully.
! “In a half-million homes of the
United States oil heat already i3 in
use, and indications are that 200,
000 more homes will be equipped
. before cold weather comes again.
‘“Advance purchases of oil, and
j especially of the cheap fuel oil which
lean be used in some burners, are
; far in advance of those reported
j for the same date last year, indicat
Iing the rapid spread of oil heating
Prices now are at the lowest figure
f of several years. If they go up at
all late this fall it will be on ac
count of a sudden demand for oil by
home-owners who have delayed too
long in making their purchases.”
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tersburg Friday morning, leaving
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about noon.
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