SAYS THE OREGONIAN
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“The manager of the bureau
of Fisheries is said to have tak
en on hook and line a six-and
cne-half-foot catfish. We have
n’t a doubt in the world that he
did so—but still, move over, fel
lows.”
Yep, we done gone moved over
a long time since. We have heard
some queer tales about fish tails
from these fish bureau manag
ers.
In I hiladelphia a ten-ton
steam shovel was stolen and the
police unable to find trace of it.
What could one expect of mere
murdtr h that city of Bt jthei !y
Love
COMMISSIONER MAKES IIIS
RECOMMENDATION
The Commissioner of Education
<U. S. B. E.) recommends a
[gradual transfer of the actual
[ management of the schools for
I the natives (of Alaska) to other
v gencies. The Bureau of Edu
cation should develop, or at
least approve, the course of
[study to be followed; should set
the standards for teachers and
should certificate them; and
should study and determine the
best methods of teaching of the
natives. In all towns and cities
where schools are maintained
by the Territory for white child
ren and by the Federal Govern
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Fresh Fish Market. See Earl
Before You Sell Your Fare.
Halibut, Salmon,and Trout
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Buying
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Halibut
Salmon
Sablehsh
Petersburg. Juneau and Ketchikan
Buying
Salmon
For Freezing, Mildcuring and Shipment
Fresh at
Chatham and Noyes Island
New England
Fish Company
Est. 1868
“Always in the Market”
Store Departments - Oil Stations - Wire
less Stations at Chatham and
Noyes Island
M. S. “Pacific” leaves Pe
tersburg for Port Alexander
every Friday at 4 p.m.
- Folgers Coffee -
J. B. Caro Company
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Pool and Billiard Tables
At
BRENNAN’S
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Cigars and Tobaccos of all kinds
Phone 17
Smokers Supplies of Highest Quality.
I THE ARCTIC CLUB
HOME OF THE FISHERMEN
;j FULL LINE OF TOBACCOS & CONFECTIONERY
WE Move Anything Loose On One End
reliable transfer
General Hauling
Phones 3 and 12
hnent for the natives a program
1 of consolidation should be in- (
stituted designed to bring both
1 schools under one management.
,Your commissioner would re
commend the development of a
piogram of subsidies whereby
the Territorial School in a given
! community would be reimbursed
I by the Federal Government for
the education of the children of
all nontaxpaying natives. Doubt
less the management of the
| schools in strictly Native villages
|and in the far-flung sections of i
| the west and north coasts will1
i remain a Federal responsibility
for many years. If the Bureau
of Education is to continue with
any administrative authority,
this is its legitimate field. Re
gardless of the authority, ad
ministering native education
there should be a clearcut separ
ation of interests in our so-call
! ed industrial schools. Up to the
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joresent time these schools have
'been primarily orphanages for
young children rather than in
dustrial schools for adolescents.
Jn the future these schools
should be real centers in se
condary-school training, espe
cially of vocational types, for
the native children living over
large areas of Alaska.
Ed. note:. The above is from
the 1929 report of William John
Cooper, U. S. Commissioner of
Education to the Secretary of
the Interior. We reprint para
graph number 4 relating to the
school program for Alaska.. We
add nothing to the recommend
ation.. Nor have we offered the
good Commissioner any sugges
tions along this line.. Nor would
we expect him to give us much
consideration if we did.
SOCKEYE MENACE POINTED
OUT AT HEARING
Unless there is some kind of a
convention between the Domin
ion of Canada and the United
States relative to the joint con
trol of the sockeye salmon fish
eries, this $40,000,000 industry is
doomed.
This was the consensus ex
pressed by representatives of the
purse seiners, trap owners, can
nery men, trollers and other
types of fishing gear at an in
formal public hearing held at
the Chamber of Commerce yes
terday afternoon by Senators
Wesley L. Jones and C. C. Dill,
un the Sockeye Salmon Treaty.
Opponents to the treaty, as it
was ratified by the Dominion of
Canada, agreed unanimously
that some treaty was necessary.
Their objections were lodged
against two provisions as adopt
ed in the treaty, the control and
regulation of gear used on the
high se&s outside of the territori
al limits between the forty
eighth and forty-ninth paral
lels, and the broad powers of the
commission which gives it un
limited jurisdiction over the in
dustry.
Two Points in Controversy
These were the only two
points in controversy outlined
by Guy E. Kelly of Tacoma, at
torney for the Purse Seiners’
Association, in the principal talk
against the treaty. While agree
ing that the treaty was neces
sary, Mr. Kelly declared that
the purse seiners feared that an
attempt may be made to regu
late them out of business entire
ly. He raised the old controversy
between the different types of
gear in commercial fisheries.
Two reservations were suggest
ed covering these points of pro
test.
Both Senator Jones and oth
ers appearing agreed that unless
some action was taken on the
pending treaty all negotiations
would fail and so far as Puget
' Sound was concerned the sock
eye industry would be ended, as
the fish spawn in British Co
lumbia and the nationalists of
that commonwealth would stop
their endeavors to rehabilitate
an industry which under pre
sent conditions is of greater val
ue to Puget Sound,than to Bri
| tish Columbia.
1 Mr. Kelly, Max Johnson of Se
| attle, Sam R. Buck, representing
j a cannery at San Juan; Capt.
j Harry Ramwell, Everett cannery
, man, Harry S. Redpath, attorn
ey representing the hook and
line trollers; Garrison Babcock,
a troller owner, and J. E. Shields
fisheries supply house repre
sentative, appeared as objectors.
Review the Situation
Henry O’Malley, commissioner
of fisheries, Dept, of Commerce;
Edwin A. Sims, former member
of the State Fisheries Board; E.
C. McCord, representing cannery
and fisheries interests, and C.
H. Roth, a “citizen,” supported
the treaty as ratified by Canada.
Mr. Sims made an exhaustive
review of the situation He told
of an agreement between Cana
da and the State Fisheries Board
in 1922, at which time virtually
every provision of the present
treaty was ratified by the State
representative.
Both Mr. Sims and Mr. O’Mal
ley agreed that gear regulation
and the supervision of the deep
sea fisheries were necessary if
the sockeye run was to be reha
bilitated, as the records show j
thousands of cockeyes ar-1 taken j
yearly at se *. ard until the ex
perts could determine where
these fish spawned, in either the
lower or upper Fraser River dis
trict, their taking must be cur-!
tailed.
Senator Jones announced that
the transcript of the testimony
would be carefully gone over by
Senator Dill and himself and
presented to the Senate Com
mittee on foreign relations when
the treaty was taken up.
J. W. PRITCHETT, PUBLISHER
SALUTATORY
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“With a slight trembling of
the knees, but with great pleas
ure, we make our bow.
“By not being afraid of work,
and with the cooperation of the
good people who have so kindly
encouraged us to live here, we
believe that we can make the
Sentinel a paper that shall
worthily represent the beautiful
and progressive little city in
which it is published.”
...* iiim.m—■—
So wrote Jim Pritchett in
1916, and four fourteen years he
carried on the work of publish
ing the Sentinel, aided immeas
urably by a loyal and willing
wife. No call for aid, private or
civic, found Jim Pritchett unre
sponsive, and the publication of
his newspaper, which is to every
newspaperman an obigation sa
cred beyond the conception of
the casual observer, was to him
an opportunity to serve Wran
gell in a way which was possible
to no other man.
Differences of opinion arose of
course, for the newspaperman is
always the especial target of
those who do not see eye to eye
with the policies of the local
press. But the knowledge that
his adherents far outnumbered
his opponents meant to Jim
Pritchett that his efforts were
recognized and appreciated by
the people in general and he was
wise enough to know that no
man can hope to please every
one, and that time would show
his efforts to have been for the
common good.
Jim Pritchett need leave no
regrets behind him in Wrangell,
for his accomplishments remain
to speak eloquently of the work
he carried on. Few indeed are
the advantages and improve
ments which have come to
Wrangell in these years in which
he did not play a part, either as
a private citizen or as editor of
the Wfangell Sentinel.
Jim was a good citizen.—An
editorial from the Sentinel.
HOW FEW
Were the writer of the above
epitaph to spend his time and
energy writing of the living in
Wrangell or any other town in
Alaska, how many of his sub
jects could qualify under the
description ‘he is a good citizen?’
Were each citizen to tvrite up
his own salute just what would
he write of himself and how
would it measure up with the
facts. Were Jim Pritchett to
write his own salute he would
only say, “I have tried to be a
good citizen.” Yet it would not
cover his worth as a citizen. Can
each one of us say as much of
ourselves and measure up to the
mark made by Jim Pritchett?
SALMON GROUNDS IN
BRISTOL BAY
TO CLOSE IN ’35
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Salmon fishing in the waters
north of the Alaska Peninsula,
the famous Bristol Bay grounds,
which at one time were noted
as the most productive in the
Pacific, will be entirely closed in
1935, Henry O’Malley federal
commissioner of fisheries, an
nounces. Mr. O’Malley addressed
the Seattle Kiwanis Club at the
Olympic Hotel yesterday after
noon. He reviewed the work of
the Bureau of Fisheries and told
of the steady and rapid decline
of the red salmon pack in the
Far North.
“The pack at Bristol Bay was
i failure in 1920,” he said, and
the industry started facing de
pletion. In 1925, five years later,
there was another failure. The
reds run in five year cycles, and
the majority of salmon taken
are five years old.
Packers Confer.
“A conference of the packers
! with the bureau was held at
| San Francisco following this
1 failure and it was agreed that
!the packers would curtail their
year, and then if it. was found
that the run was small and a
failure the bureau would close
j ihe fishing entirely. This was to
benefit the industry.
“This year there has been an
other failure, so that in 1935 the
entire north side of the Alaska
Peninsula will be closed to give
the industry a chance for reha
bilitation.”
The red salmon industry has
been a failure this year, the
commissioner said. He discussed
conditions in the various sec
tions of the North, and urged
cooperation on the part of Se
attle to aid in the rehabilitation
work.
Seattle Headquarters.
Seattle has become the scien
tific headquarters for the world
in fisheries studies and investi
gations, and the bureau expects
to break ground soon for the
laboratory to be erected at the
mouth of the ship canal be
tween Union Bay and Lake
Washington, Mr. O’Malley said.
Mr O’Malley urged that the
club members prepare to attend
a public hearing to be held in
Seattle on the Canadian-United
States sockeye salmon treaty,
ratified by Canada but held up
under a protest from this state
in the foreign relations commit
tee of the Senate.
The commissioner asserted
that the treaty would aid in re
habilitating this great industry,
which in 1912 gave 2,600,000
cases with a value of $40,000,000
while last year but 150,000 cases
were packed.
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Alaska’s visible signs of well
being made a deep impression
on W. Erich Lucas, vice presi
dent of the National Bank of
Commerce, who was back at his
desk yesterday after spending
nine weeks in the territory.
“There was little unemployment,
considerable mining activity, a
fair run of salmon and visible
evidence that the country is mi
king remarkable strides in road
construction,” the Seattle bank
er reported.
“On the coast, the Alaska-Ju
neau is handling some 12,000
tons of low grade quartz daily,”
Mr. Lucas said. “In the interior,
the Fairbanks Exploration Com
pany is working eight big
dredges along streams made
famous in early days, including
Cleary, Pedro and Gold Creeks.
Only the fact the season closed
too early prevented a much lar
ger pack of red salmon, while
other varieties ran in satisfac
tory volume.”
Republican First Division Platform
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We, the undersigned candidates for election as Senator and Representatives to the Legis
lature in the First Division, Territory of Alaska, on the Republican ticket, do hereby pledge our
selves if elected, to support the following among other principles:
.1. To work with and support President Hoover and his administration in friendly cooperation,
in all matters for the welfare of the Territory.
2. To aid in, and encourage, the investment of capital in the development and fair utilization of
the natural resources of the Territory.
3. To obtain such legislation as will leave the fisheries of Alaska open only to bona fide resi
dents of Alaska.
4. To secure the enactment of an adequate community property law.
5. To provide for needy Pioneers of both sexes and afford relief for indigent widows and orphans.
6. To give preference to applicants for clerical employment who have been bona fide continuous
residents in Alaska for one year or more.
7. To require all available supplies needed by Territorial activities to be purchased within the Ter
ritory from residents thereof.
8. To provide proper supervision over the expenditures and accounts of all Territorial Offices.
9. To provide for uniform purchase of supplies for Territorial offices under control of a board of
elected officials.
19. To establish convenient and necessary airports. ,’'p'
11. To encourage actual prospectors by aiding them with transportation.
12. To maintain the fish hatchery at Ketchikan for experimental purposes.
13. To continue reasonable appropriations for re-stocking program of game and fur-bearing ani
mals and for control of predatory animals.
14. To secure a survey of the schools of the Territory by some competent authority so the Legisla
ture may work intelligently in getting the greatest benefit to our children out of the $1,000,000
now appropriated by each Legislature for schools.
15. To aid in the construction of the International Highway through British Columbia and the
Yukon Territory, into Alaska, and its connections with our present system om highways.
* We respectfully solicit the support of the voters of the First Division at the election on
November 4, 1930, upon these pledges. .
DIVISIONAL CANDIDATES
TERRITORIAL CANDIDATES
For Territorial Senator:
C. T. (TOM) GARDNER (Juneau)
For Delegate to Congress:
JAMES WICKERSHAM (Juneau)
For Territorial Representatives:
J. E. JOHNSON (Ketchikan)
For Territorial Treasurer:
W. G. SMITH (Juneau)
WILLIAM L. PAUL (Ketchikan) .
For Territorial Auditor:
CASH COLE (Juneau)
W. P. SCOTT (Juneau)
GROVER C. WINN (Juneau)
For Highway Engineer:
JOSEPH ULMER (Fairbanks)
For Territorial Commissioner of Education:
W. K. KELLER (Juneau)