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I OUIS F. PAUL,
C. O. PARKS,
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“My Party—Right or Wrong”
We were asked the other day
just what, specifically, as a peo
ple, we have a right to expect of
our government and of those
whom we, as political parties,
may designate to administer the
functions of government for us.
Our answer is, whatsoever we
desire for ourselves as a nation
or as a state we must accom
plish through the agency of that
visible government which rep
resents the people as a whole,
not merely those of any parti
cular political faith. Since the
days of the inauguration of the
spoils system *here has been a
lamentable tendency to carry
cur fidelity, or active opposition
a? the case may be, on past
election day and to mistake pol
itical partisanship for patrio
tism. Party loyalty is a com
mendable thing up to a certain
point but the welfare of the
nation as a whole must be plac
ed ahead of any portion of it.
A political party must be re
garded as a means to an end,
never an end in itself. Those
who have been chosen to sit in
high places have a measure of
responsibility for and to all
citizens of whatever stripe, and
we as citizens owe the fullest
measure of support to those
who have been formally dele
gated to represQnt us, regardless
of which banner they may have
ridden under before the elec
tion, unless by their own action
ihey prove themselves unworthy
of our confidence.
There are partisans who seek
to blame all of the ills and woes
of the business world onto the
president. In several South
American and European coun
tries a similar unrest has led
to political revolutions and new
factions have made political
capital out of conditions which
were by no means confined to
their own countries. In our
country some congressmen seem
more anxious to put the pres
ident in a hole than to help the
country. Them personal glory
or that of their party is deem
ed more important than the
welfare of the nation and its
people. There are those who
loudly blame the president for
their empty pockets with little
or no conception if .fust what the
president may have to do with
either bad times or the good. We
rhould not tansfer our fealty
unthinkingly or without reason
able assurance that a change
would be constructive, any more
han a sick man should try a
dose of this and a dose of that
without any knowledge of the
properties of the remedies with
which he experiments.
We think the ru,e should be
made to work both ways. Great
parties have been charged with
a tendency to shield and pro
tect weakness and inefficiency,
even gross corruption and crim
inal malfeasance on the part of
Dublic officials for the party’s
sake We would hold this to be
un-American, unworthy o f
right-thinking citizens and not
to be countenanced. Such
charges may do much to break
down and dissipate the respect
which all citizens would en
tertain for the party of their
choice They may even under
mine national nride. No leader
ever won the whole-souled res
I ect of the great American peo
ple under a slogan of “My partv
• ight or wrong.” Let us rathe?
be brave enough to condemn,
fearlessly and unflinchingly,
that which is faulty, even
ithough the offender may have
I paraded under a banner of
l which he was not worthy, up
holding at the same time those
who strive conscientiously plac
ing the state’s interests aheac
of those of any party, thus com
manding respect for our politi
cal affiliations whatever they
may be.
Discontented Patriots
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Senator R. W. Means of Col-j
orado, touring the west, says
there is “less unpatriotic dis
content in the United States
than anywhere in the world.”
There is—ahd we think all of
us have a chee’- coming because
this is so. Certainly, the past
two years have given us enough
cause for discontent.
The hopeful thing, of course,
is that we are determined to
work out our troubles on the
American idea of democracy.
We’re not going up Communist
alley or Fascist avenue lookinf
for Better Times highway.
We are discontented, but i<
.s a healthy, patriotic discont.
ent; a realization that it’s ou
cwn fault things aren’t better:
a determination to adapt ou;
own system to changing needs o
the times.
Every great name in Ameri
can history is the name of :
discontented mtriot who work
ed and fought to make tru
Americanism a success.
- Seattle Star
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Stewart Edward White's Complex
Last year M.- White blew off
considerable steam about the
brown and grizzly bears in Al
aska and the need of creating
bear reserves. Forthwith went
un from the territory a protest
by no means mild. The Juneau
Chamber of Commerce had
written a reply to Mr. White’s
brainstorm but it never got be
yond the editor’s waste basket
Now he shows his hurts in The
National Sportsman.
/ The idea of reserves is to set
aside areas to protect Indians,
fish, birds, bears, timber, coal,
oil or anything the selfish may
wish to control when they can
not own it thpmselves or when
other means of domination
would be expensive. Alaska is
a mass reservations. The Bu
reau of Fisheries, Forestry, and
vhat not, control the destinies
oi Alaska, and with the growth
of the power of these organiz
a mns we note the decline in
wl ite population in this last
frontier where game and fish
and natural resources abound.
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Under the present Bureau o
ITVheries the late May an'
June runs of salmon are n
| more. Under th e Forest Depari
ment the sawmills have becom'
bankrupt and the logging
camps have closed while mil
lions of feet of over-ripe timbe
are wasting away. Under the
Biological Survey the fur game
has become virtually extinct
and they have secured a law
which premits searching o f
homes, boats etc., without
search warrant contrary to the
guaranties o? the Constitution,
/laska’s coal was tied up, like
wise its oil, so that development
stopped forthwith.
Now comes Mr. White with his
plea for more reserves for the
protection of an animal which
has no value to anyone save
the man with more money than
brains who wishes the territory
to set aside reserves for the pro
pagation of bears in order that
he may engage in the noble
sport of killing them.
' In order to motert this infant
industry the sportsmen and the
bears must not be molested,
end if they kill a few Alaska
residents what’s the difference
—they are only poor Siwashes
or moneyless damphools who
tyould make homes in the wild
erness.
If you will make a record of
:he depredations of this pet of
Mr. White’s you will find at
least two deaths a year in the
past ten years from these
“harmless animals” and many
more badly mauled. Certainly
Alaskans tread the hills of Al
aska more times in a year than
Mr. White will in the next hun
dred years, and they know from
Utter experience that this bear
‘needs not the nrotect’on of the
I government. To wander along
i the edge of the woods when the
'salmon are running and the
tear are sluggish with feed is
no trick, and if Mr. White’s 35
bears are actual fact it was at
such streams he saw them. But
I did he go tramping through the
I woods on legitimate enterprise
land startle this animal? Oh
Ob'! That’s something else.
^ We may have hysteria in Al
aska, but it is unanimous, and
whether it is r,oal or oil or fish
or bear reserve.l*. .ns, we want
no more of them.^Tf Mr. White
propagate tho^p animals we
suggest he take them to Maine
or the Adirond^ks or to Yellow
stone and turn them loose
there. We brought the bison tc
Alaska because we wanted them
in Alaska. Let the sportsmen
take the grizzlies to the states
but don’t foist on us anothei
law which we will have no in
tention of keeping. Public
opinion makes laws and breaks
them but in the breaking o1
Them the citizens become crim
inals. Enough criminals we
have now without deliberate^
legislating us wholesale intc
lhat class.
and other
wish tc
MAY PERMIT FISHING YU
KON RIVFR NEXT YEAR
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Various people living along
Yukon river have written thd
Oelegate askincr that he exerl
his influence with the Bureau
r f Fisheries to the end that fish
ing operations might be con
ducted at the mouth of the
'iver. After a very satisfactorj
conference with Commissionei
Henry O’Malley last week the
Delegate received a letter frorr
the Commissioner reading as
follows:
“Confirming our conference ol
today regarding the opening ol
he Yukon to a limited amounl
>f fishing: For a long while 1
rave been favorable to an open
.ng of the legal area of 50 yards
off the mou*h of the rivei
where gill net fishing can be
conducted, but I feared that ii
it were thrown open and the
salmon market became stabilis
ed, operations might become sc
extensive as to be harmful tc
ihe river.
“After our discussion, I have
arrived at the definite conclu
ion that fishing operations car
be permitted on the basis of al
lowing 50,000 to 60,000 Kiris
aimon to be taken. This ir
nv judgment, will not encour
ge any large canneries to gc
nto that field but will permil
he local people to sell and ship
cheir product to the states.
‘I shall, therefore, recommend
o the Secretary of Commerce
m the regulations that will be
issued in December, 1931, that
ihe river be opened to King
salmon fishing limiting opera
tions to King salmon gill nets,
and limiting the season to the
time when the bulk of King
"aimon are running. There wil
«ndoubtedly b e some chum
salmon caught but only a limit
rd number, in my judgment
and will not interfere with the
people living along the river
who depend on catching salm
on to dry for their own food and
that of their dogs. I hope that
this action will bring about a
small industry at the mouth of
the Yukon, conducted by local
people. You may give this such
publicity as you desire"
ILLINOIS JUDGE JOLTS
RENO DIVORCE INDUSTRY1
Superior Judge Rudolph F.
Desort of Chicago recently pres
ented the Reno lightning di
vorce mill with an Illinois legal
jolt. In issuing an injunction
to restrain a Chicago husband
and father of six from securing
a Reno divorce th^ judge serv
ed notice that a Nevada decree,
granted a citizen of Illinois, can
be held invalid here.
“If the grounds in Nevada
were the same as those of Illi
nois,” the judge said, “the de
1 fend ant, according to the com
plaint, could not secure a de
cree of divorce. He has left the
jurisdiction of his state for the
' sole object of evading its laws
-end depriving his wife and chil
dren of the opportunity of pro
1 tecting their interests, which
j they could do were action
brought here.”
} The injunction was granted
Mrs. Edith Sylvan against
Joseph L. Sylvan, head of a
| :adio company. They have
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FO TAKE PROFITS
OUT OF WAR
Heavy taxation rather than
price freezing was advocated to
Ihe war policies commission by
Walter S Gifford, president of
the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company, to take
' i he profits out of war.
i The plan for freezing all
prices proposed by Bernard M.
Baruch, former chairman of the
i War Industries Board, was high
11\ commended however, by J.
I eonard Replogle, New York
steel manufacturer.
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^OURT UPHOLDS CfWfIVfON
LAW UNION
Although a common law mar
riage is not legal if consummat
ed in Washington, Nels Michael
son and Donna D. Starr are
husband and wife, even though
their marriage ir Seattle in
'917 was not valid at the time,
according to Superior Judge
MacFarlane.
The judge denied efforts of
Michaelson’s attorneys to break
Mrs. Michaelson’s resistance to
a suit for annullment on the
pleading that Mrs. Michael
’hen Mrs. Starr did not have a
final decree of divorce at the
time of their common law mar
riage. The court decided that
when an unmarried couple have
lived as man and wife for six
months or more in a state which
recognizes common law marri
ages they would thereafter con
■ idered man anti wife even in
states which do not otherwise
recognize such marriages. The
Michaelsons lived in Idaho two
years where common law mar
liages are valid. Under this
ruling Michaelson cannot claim
immunity. He must sue for
divorce and grant a property
settlement.
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COLLEGIANS NOT CAUGHT
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According to a survey com
pleted by Miss Dorothy Boss
hard, only one of the 954 in
mates of the Oregon State Pen-^
itentiary has received a degree
(from an institution of higher
1 learning. The percentage of
collegians at large is far great
er. Whether they have escaped
prison through honesty or sheer
cleverness does not appear.
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