THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1919
U. S. FRENCH IN FRANCE
•‘Jonah Vark" some call the Maid of
Orleans. Still others -, but that
is the story. ‘‘French as it is spoke”
is a weird and wonderful thing among
American soldiers in France, but they
are rapidly developing into linguists.
An American troop train bound for
the front had stopped in a city of
France. The soldiers were light artil
lerymen. Their guns, cunningly paint
ed in the latest style of camouflage,
were blocked on flat cars, each car
bearing an escort of Yanks. Other
■cars were laden with caissons and
“show” wagons, while a number of
box cars scattered through the train
housed yet more olive-drab fighters.
The whole outfit was jubilant that
their training days were over and they
were at last on the way to where their
grim pets could bark defiance to the
enemy. Cheers and shouts rang to
the station roof and the French waved
back and wished them bon voyage.
“What’s the name of this place?”
yelled the soldiers. But the passen
gers didn’t understand the query.
In a few minutes a Y. M. C. A. man
came into view and the question was
howted at him.
“Orleans,” he replied. “You’ve
heard of the Maid of Orleans? Well,
this is the place.”
“The Maid of Orleans? Oh, you
mean Joe-Anne of Arc,” spoke up the
historians of the party.
“Joe-Anne of Arc. Where do you
poor fish get that stuff, anyway? Have
you’ve been in France three months
and don’t know how to pronounce a
simple name? It’s “John Dark,’ ” and
the soldier speaker leaned back and
lit,a. cigarette with a flourish indicat
ing that the’ amazing ignorance of his
companions bored him insufferably.
But the opposition had numbers, if
not knowledge, on its side, and the
superior one was quickly buried under
a barrage that had him grasping,
“We’re talkin’ about a lady, not a
man,” was the chorus.
"Fall off and wake up! Who ever
heard of a girl being called John!”
was the final clincher.
Then the diplomat of the party
chimed in.
“What difference does it make how
you pronounce the name?” he queried.
“Wasn’t she the girl that stood the
invaders of France on their beans?
And ain’ts we on the way to do the
same thing?”
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SWEETENING THE FINANCIAL
POT
The cumulative effect of small indi
vidual savings, when multiplied by a
hundred million, is astonishing. Take
sugar, for instance—if ymir memory
fails you not, you doubtless remem
ber'when Uncle Sam forced you to
subsist for a whole month on two
pounds of sugar—that is, two pounds
of sugah in addition to the other few
foods you could afford to buy. That
forced sugar amounted to a 50 per
cent reduction, for the normal con
sumption of sugar, according to the
Chicago brokers, is four pounds a
month.
Now, at the market price, the sav
ing of two pounds of sugar in thirty
days by one individual seems hardly
to be worth while. Sugar, even at war
prices, is not as costly as diamonds
or even beefsteak. But when you add
the two pounds saved by Mrs. Jones
to the two pounds saved by Mr. Jones
and by Susie Jones and by Johnny
Jones and by Angelina Jones and by
Baby Jones and by all the Joneses
and by all the Smiths and by all the
Olsens and by all the Cohens and by
all the rest of the more than one
hundred million persons lnhabltatlng
continental United States—you have
some pile of sugar.
As a preliminary to the fifth gov
ernment loan campaign, by way ol
showing all his citizens just how eas>
it is to pile up money with which tc
pay for bonds, Uncle Sam is figuring
cut just what a month’s sugar restric
tion last fall meant in savings. The
households of Chicago, as a result ol
the rule, saved in the month of No
veipber last sugar with a market valut
of $500,000. For the Seventh Federa
Reserve district the sugar mohey foi
November amounted to $1,500,000 ant
for the nation to between $20,000,001
and $30,000,000.
Taking the middle figure for tht
national sugar saving of a singh
month and we find that the few cent!
saved by each individual, if added t(
the few cents saved by every othei
patriotic sugar consumer in the na
tion, would have bought and paid foi
one of the following considerabh
items of equipment for the Americar
land and sea forces in the recent wel
known war with kaiserism:
Fifteen sea going destroyers t(
chase submarines, or
One thousand two hundred and fiftf
combat aeroplanes, or
One thousand large battle tanks.
And to think that all this was pos
sible from an individual saving of bu'
a few cents.
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ALASKA FISH
BIG SOURCE OF
OUR WEALTH
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(By Wright Wenrich)
Statistics are, as a rule, dry read
ing, but those dealing with Alaska
waters, what they have produced in
tangible wealth and are capable o!
producing for generations still unborn
if given half a chance, absord a por
tion of the moist subject from which
they are derived and are overflowing
with interest.
With much less hardship than those
engaged in exploiting the land area
are compelled to suffer, and far more
certain profit to the capital invested
there has been $347,207,259 worth ol
product taken from the water touch
ing Alaska’s 26,000 miles of coast line
during the past thirty-four years;
while from the land area, embracing
approximately 590,000 square miles
produced $427,913,165 worth of ex
ports during the same period of time.
Duringt the past two years, the sea
products have totaled $97,504,402
while the land area has produced but
$78,873,256 worth of export wealth.
Good Revenue Derived
There are 429 plants engaged in
preparing fish in Alaska for Outside
markets, according to statistics fur
nished by the Alaska bureau of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and
from the tax on these fishing indus
tries the territory derived, during the
years of 1917 and 1918, approximately
$730,000 of the $1,266,000 collected
under the territorial tax laws, or
about 60 per per cent. Dater addi
tions to the territorial funds will aug
ment the amounts collected from sea
products.
Yet the territory has not, as yet,
spent any portion of this sum except
$7,482 in prospecting the industries
from which such a large proportion
of territorial revenues are derived,
Nor has the federal government ever
seemed to consider or make appropri
ations for Alaska on this basis.
Assistance Is Needed
It is not that one begdudges one
nickel of the sums appropriated and
spent for railroads, trails, surveys,
and other developments and aids there
to, without which no country, how
ever rich in raw resources, can be
made to yield profitably; on the other
hand, it is hoped the federal govern
ment will see its way clear to extend
much greater aid in the same direc
tion; but the point is, and one worth
consideration, that the most acces
sible, profitable, and deserving in
dustry in Alaska has not received its
full share of care and attention.
Salmon have been, are, and prob
ably will continue to be. if given
half the care anu protection they de
serve, the most valuable of sea prod
vets. But numerous as they have
been in the past, they .are diminish
ing in numbers so rapidly as to starcie
even the old toggles who thought the
salmon of Southeastern Alaska as per
petual and ,ever abundant as the
water which falls from the clouds.
Must Put Something Back
Neither have the hatcheries, which
have releosel countless millions of
young fry, prevented the decrease of
salmon in any perceptible degree.
With* the most approved methods, to
tlieir way of thinking, and they have
been fully alive to the danger, the
British Columbia authorities, with all
their hatcheries, have #not been able
to prevent the red salmon pack on the
Fraser river, once the greatest red
salmon stream in the world, from fall
ing around 235,000 cases in 1913 grad
ually down to less than 20,000 cases
this past year of 1918.
The practice of continually taking
something out and putting nothing
back is against the law of nature.
■ Even the ocean would finally yield to
such treatment and its deepest canyon
bottoms would become dry land if
this practice were continued for a suf
ficient length of time.
The serious problem of replenish
ing the depleted salmon supply com
i pels the serious attention of every
Alaskan. It is as important to those
■ living in the Interior regions as those
■ on the coast, insofar as the territorial
: revenues are pooled, and not collected
and spent in the district which alone
have produced them. Fortunately,
however, there is a sunbeam of hope
i for a successful method of replenish
ing the salmon supply in Alaskan
waters. They are to be found or seen
in the results obtained from experi
ments which the Alaska Fish and
Game' club has been conducting dur
ing the past thirty months in the
little hatchery at Juneau and on the
barren streams and lakes around Ju
neau, Skagway, and other parts of the
First and Third divisions.
Wau Do i r\4arl
With A. J. Sprague as their source
of inspection and guide, first with a
few dozen, but now with around 500
representative men of the territory as
members, every one enthusiastic over
the facts they have seen demonstrat
ed, the club has, working almost with
out funds, showed that the eyed eggs
of salmon and trout, as well as the
young fry, may be placed in lakes now
barren of fish life and that these fish
will make a growth of several times
more rapid than those of the same age
kept in the hatchery troughs and
given as careful attention as it is pos
sible to give them there.
The features of the club’s plan,
which give rosy hopes that the natur
al salmon hatch may be increased ap
preciably is that the young salmon
grown in these barren lakes will not
only be able to find their own food,
but in doing so they will not lose their
natural instincts of self preservation
which they do lose when hand fed in
the hatcheries, 'rtiis means that when
they return to the briny deep they
will not become the easy prey to their
many enemies, of which the sea gulls
and Dolly Varden trout are not the
least, as it is well known the hatch
ery raised fry do. " j
Get Good Results
Furthermore, these barren waters
being free from Dolly Varden trout
and other enemies of the salmon eggs
or fry, the percentage of live young
salmon, from the eggs fertilized and
planted should be upwards of 75 per
cent. The cost of providing feed for
salmon in the barren lakes will be nil,
whereas it amounts to thousands of
dollars for each hatchery conducted
under the old method. Since the
young salmon can feed themselves
and without a dollar of expense, it is
planned to hold them in these lakes
until they are of sufficient size to eat
the Dolly Varden trout eggs, and even
the smaller trout, instead of the trout
eating them, as heretofore.
Were there only a few acres of these
lakes along Alaska’s 26,000 miles of
coast line, the number of salmon that
could be propogated under those fav
orable conditiones might not seem
anywhere near adequate to the occa
sion. But there are known to be many
thousands of acres of such waters,
which are barren only by reason of ob
structions at the mouths. There are,
no doubt, many other lakes of this
kind of which the club has no knowl
ftdee.
Will Settle Mooted Question
No one is certain whether the vari
ous species of salmon return to the
streams in which they were spawned,
but when this experiment has been
carried on a sufficient length of time,
that point will be settled beyond all
reasonable dispute; for if salmon of
the species planted return to that
hitherto barren stream the evidence
of their being fish released from that
Stream Is strong, if not positive proof.
Furthermore, if they return, the time
of their return will be settled defi
nitely. *
The club is also taking notes and
securing information concerning other
food fishes in Alaskan waters and
working out Plans for the protection
of these fish. All game, too, receives
its proper attention, and the members
working earnestly to conserve and
protect it.
Conservation without preservation,
constructive plans carried out con
servatively, but on new lines if need
be, sums up the Alaska Fish and
Game club’s work and intentions with
in Its field of action, "Fish and Game.”
—Juneau Empire.
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