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PROTECT THE GRIZZLY BEAR
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Steward Edward White is re
ceiving a nice sum of money
from the Saturday Evening Post
far an attack on “office chair
heroes'’ of Alaska who condemn
t lie advocation of making Kodiak
and Chicagoff Islands grizzly
bear reservations. Mr. White’s
contact with the grizzly bear of
Alaska has been in the open
liejds and along open river j
banks. He has not stepped up on
a sleeping grizzly with cubs or
startled the bear feeding in the
brush. Like other tourist of the
country he saw many bear and
they are such nice, pretty tame
things, so useful to mankind and
such a potential aid to the devel
opment of the country that he
insists that they should be given
every protection by law and es
pecially- by creation of island re
serves for them.
Alaskans who condemn the
policy he advocates are cowards.
In the words of Mr. White: “I
had always looked on Alaskans
as hardy pioneers, able to take
care of them selves anywhere.
They appear scared of bears.”
And while believing that Alas
kans are “able to take care of
themselves anywhere,” which
includes their own country, Mr. |
White wants to be their mentor j
insofar as the bear are concern-,
ed.
In spite cf the several hundred
letters written by “high officials”
and others, the people of Alaska
are a unit in their opposition to
creation of any more reserva
tions-—even for the grizzly bear.
If Mr. White and others wish
creation of such preserves, why
not transplant a couple dozen of
the bear to the Yellowstone,
Mount Rainier, and other parks,
more or less infested with tour
ists and game bugs? At the same
time it might not be amiss for
Mr. White to advocate a bounty
on Alaskans, creation of reser
vations for blackbear, wolf lynx,
crows and seagulls. They would
be just as useful as his reserva
tions for grizzly bear and would
meet with a lot less opposition
from Alaskans. He might even
start a grizzly bear farm.
Official Cowards
Speaking of some who endorse
his position, (high officials) Mr.
White says: “They express them
selves as heartily in accord, but
request me not to quote them,
because they imagine their use
fullness might be impaired.”
Doublecrossing officials— men
who demand bounty on grizzly
bear when talking to Alaskans
and who secretly, lacking intes
tinal fortitude to back their con
victions, write Mr. White sup
porting his urge that grizzly bear
reservations be created on Ko
diak and Chichagoff Islands.
And such is the calibre of the
men who “high in official life”
dominate the political affairs of
Alaska. Those are the Ala'd-uns
who lack “guts” and those are
the ones needing influence of
men of the reputation of Mr.
White. We do not believe <ntcr
men belong in Alaska and we do
not believe Mr. Wrote admires
those men or their ilk. Even it
'.e does use them as proof >f hi<=
contention that AM.skam agree
»i;h him that the grizz-v bear
she. id be protected
‘ Rouse mit em! ’ Let £h<» le
gislature put a bounty or> the
bear and thereby make Alaska j
safe for the Democrats.
Tkir: cats?aw
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The Deep Sea Fishermen’s
Union and the Fishing Vessel
Owners’ Association are at
swords point and seemingly are
unable to reach any kind of
agreement. The union wants the
division of catch to be based on
one-fifth to the vessel and the
balance to the crew. In event of
accident through no fault of the
fishermen the hooks are not
cast, the fishermen contend that
the owner should pay all ex
penses of the trip, if hooks are
put over the side and no fish
caught and something occurs
which sends them back to port,
• he fishermen are ready to pay
their share of the trip. Expenses j
consisting in the main of gaso-i
line, food and gear.
The owners declare that cost
of operation has gene up so]
much that one-fourth of the!
catch should be deducted before'
division is made with the crew,!
)f the owner must stand for
“hole” charges on a trip.
This in the main is the pic
ture of the controversy between
1 ire two classes of fishermen—
the boat owners and the crew.
What Results
While the laboring men are
fighting each other and calling
each other all kinds of hard
| names, the buyers have made a
I change in the grading limit—70
| pounds head on” or about fifteen
per cent decrease in the weight
of the first grade fish.
The men are too busy fighting
with each other to give any
thought to the cut which the
buyers have made. Their gross
income will be cut, the buyers
benefit and the fishermen—
owners and union are at such a
variance in their contentions
that they are unable to meet
the attack from the buyers To
add to the misery of the fisher
men the buyers declare that if
they do not get any local fish
(Alaska caught) they will im
port the product from Japan.
The fishermen of Rupert have
taken up that gauntlet and will
not accept the terms of the
buyers there and they are in
sisting that other fishermen do
likewise. With the injection of
this new issue in the halibut
fishing situation it is not im
probable that the Vessel Owners’
Association will awaken to the
fact that they are just common
fishermen after all only that
they have better tools to work
with than the Fishermen’s Union
“WHAT DO WE GAIN”
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nie poison brigade carries
on! To just what goal it hopes
to attain we are not certain—
mo*t assuredly to one of an
nihilation and destruction un
less those who foresee inevitable
results and put a stop to such
a fool hardy enterprise. * * * It1
is ridiculous, an insult to the,
mental faculties of the average
man, to have the Biological
Survey attempt to make it a
general belief that the “poison
baits” (strychnine placed in
cubes of fat or meat) distribute! 1
for hundreds of miles through
out the country, often coveiing
areas of 5,000 square mile? v; M
be picked up by coycte and cats
only. That, evidently, is rise im
pression that they wish to con
vey. Every animal and bird
within the vicinity is in dangcr
of the deadly poison; Coyotes,
cats, lions, foxes, bear, squirrels,
insectiverous birds, game birds,
beneficial hawks—everything
that comes within range of the
line, and the boundaries are not
small. The trapper who makes
his living from the few pelts
that the country now affords
him, sees the handwriting on
the wall: the “poison brigade” is
taking the bread from his hands!
And what do they say when ap
proached on the matter? “Trap
ping is rapidly becoming a com
mercial farming enterprise—so
it doesn't matter very much.”—
Hunter-Trader-Trapper.
In Alaska
In Alaska too this “poison
brigade” has been operating,
me agent of the brigade set out
oison bait in Duncan Canal,
feku Straits and Zarembo and
before he had gone around to
! to pick up the bait, if any was
j left, he was called to Juneau to
lobby a bill for the brigade. Re
sidents of Kake found traces oi
the poison, dead crows, mime and
land otter in a couple of places;
the same was true of Zarembo.
It has been stated in our hear
ing that what little game was in
Duncan Canal was cleaned out
by the “poison brigade.”
And this “poison brigade” will
want more funds from the le
1 Mature to spread its poison
throughout the counti*y on the
pretext of getting wolves.
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MAY SEARCH WITHOUT
WARRANT
Under the “poison brigade’s”
bill passed by Congress last week,
any warden or officer in the em
ploy of the Biological Survey
may enter into the home, house,
cabin, tent, raft, float, scow or
boat, and without warrant
search for fur or game out cf
season.
In the past they met with such
opposition from the people of
Alaska when they made their
illegal searches that they went
1,0 Congress to have their acts
legalized by law.
But
If Congress will by law declare
that any member of the A’aska
“poison brigade” has the legal
righMo enter into a man’s homo,
cabin or boat without proper:
search warrant, then what is to
hinder the department of justice
from using a precedent estab
lished by the “poison brigade.”
If it is legal and proper ffir M
Terhune’s gang of animal pm
eoners to go into your house
your home or boat without a
search warrant, will it stop
there? Can’t a deputy marshal
or a prohibition agent travel a
! round with Mr. Poison Brigade
and also search your house and
boat for liquor—whether you
have it or not?
Two wrongs do not make a
nght—but we are right up ou
our uppers in declaring, that we
will contribute toward the de
fense expense of any one, man
enough, who will throw the poi
son brigade out of his house or
boat unless the man enters with
proper search warrant. We do;
I not believe the law constitutional;
and will insist that it is not con-'
stitutional until the courts set
our mind at rest on that subject
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A grouch is a public poison, a
private pest, a neighborhood
nuisance a domestic evil.
The Openjorum
A Pertinent Discussion
About Conservation
Editor Alaskan
Dear Sir:
It gave me great pleasure to ;
read in your paper last week the !
article by Glenn Frank. It en- i
courages me to continue my ’
letters when a man holding the
position of President of the Uni- 9
versity of Wisconsin tells us that.
“Conservation is something j
more than planting a few trees *i
and protecting a few fish * * * <
Conservation has a wider, a so- j
cial, significance.”
When he tells us “we should 2
exercise some degree of public
oversight of forest lands, even
when privately owned, to insure
a continuing productivity” hr
hits the weak spot in our na
tional Conservation activity and
when he says: “I do not mean a
paternalistic interference in pri
vate enterprise, but simply some
p iblic method of insisting that
in return for state or federal as
sistance, the forest lands in
question be kept productive,” he
offers us a common sense solu
tion. We can have private own
ership-Americanism and still
have our forests.
It is not necessary to hold our
timber land from settlers who at
the best, will use- but a veryj
small percentage of it for other)
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than the growing of timber. It
’s not necessary that Southeast
ern Alaska smother all desire
lor development along lines
other than pulp mills. We fcan
have our land and still practice
.1 orestry.
We can have our twenty mil
.ion acres put to work at de
veloping this country with better
than an even chance of a popu
lation of a million or more,
twenty years from now and still
not be out of bounds with our
conservation program.
We don’t have to turn over all
the profits of our timber rais
ing to pulp corporations. We can
turn down those 9,600 jobs so
glibly promised us by the Forest
Service, and insist on one him
jdred thousand settlers, and still
be in line with the best brains
| uf the country.
We can rest assured that even-:
•ually pulp mills will settle in
cur midst, whether the land be
publicly or privately owned. The
B oreat Service is doing nothing
for us toward hurrying pulp
mills to our rescue. The law of!
supply and demand is the only'
hing that will bring them. We'
will have to wait until they get
ready to come regardless of the
oropnganda of the Forest Ser
vice.
Is it not sensible that we put!
our house in order and be ready
o profit by their advent
Mr. Frank tells us very plain
ly: “A successful venture in re
forestation will stabilize and di
versify the economic life of a
state. We already know a hun
dred wrays, and shall doubtless
find a bewildering number of j
new ways, to utilize the by-pro
ducts of the forest, and thei
state that succeeds in reforesta-1
don programs will find that'
they have not only a great
lumber industry assured, but;
many new industries arising out |
of the use of by products.” We;
nave, or will have, if we are
ever able to shake off the “Pat
ernalistic interference in private
enterprise” of the Forest De-j
partment, an assured future
timber industry Let us look to|
our by-products.
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