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CQRDQVA ALASKA. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1920 _ PRICE TEN CENTS
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EDITORIAL
DEMAGOGUERY OF
* THE WORST KIND
The Times is in receipt of an aff
j^Je written by one Thomas E. Dray
ton of Seward, with an explanatory
letter that the same was being sent
to many of the largest newspapers of
the United States and would be re
leased for publication outside on Sun
day, May 30, 1920. The Times has
read the article and does not care to
even impliedly endorse the sentiments
contained therein, and therefore we do
not publish it in full. We have heard
of Mr. Drayton before. Articles from
his pen have appeared in Henry
Ford’s paper, the Dearborn Indepen
dent, and such other articles may be
dismissed by stating that the state
ments contained in them about Alaska
conditions are no more accurate than
the few' that will be quoted from his
latest effusion. Suffice it to say, that
this man Drayton seems to have set
himself up as a self-appointed mentor
for this Territory. He speaks with the
voice of authority. His voice seems
;well trained. He selects large and
^nouthfilling words. He has the secret
of convincing editors that what he
says should be published. His voice
is resonant and carries far, but listen
well, dear reader, with all those ex
cellent qualities, he is like a fine
automobile without gasoline to run it,
because what he emits is usually pif
fle. Politically and economically* he
is a Wallingford. Always entranced
by grand ideas for the promotion oi
the welfare of Alaska. His latest
idea is that Alaska should be autono
mous, which means that Alaska should
separate itself from the rest of the
United States, become in fact a sep
arate country, with only nominal ties
to bind it to the federal government.
To play somewhat the same relation
to the United States that Canada and
Australia play to Great Britain.
Mr- Drayton says in one part of his
article: “It may well be doubted if
there could be found a competent stu
* dent of Alaskan affairs who does not
foresee that the future holds in store
for Alaska either virtual independence
or rigorous subjection under a pro
consular despot supported by the
sword alone.” Now what do you know
about that? We free Americans are
to be made slaves despite the 13th,
14th and 1 5th Amendments to the
United States Constitution, and des
pite the sacrifices of the Civil War,
unless we become independent and
cease to be American citizens, but
become a separate people holding but
a nominal allegiance to our Uncle
Sam. He would have us divorce our
Uncle. To cut him off in his old
age, after he had been kind to us,
and helped rear us. O Tempora, O
Meres, O Hell.
Drayton’s passion for hyperbole
cannot be throttled. The sound of
hjs phrase means more to him than
accuracy and devotion to bare facts.
To quote again. “And, also, the dis
agreeable but unavoidable conclusion
forces itself upon the mind that since
flip TTnitpri Statps privprnmpnt rturinp1
a period of boasted ethical virility
unexcelled in history, has forced upon
the people of Alaska a policy of bu
reaucratic oppression such as would
have shamed a Persian satrap to en
force.” Your good old Uncle Sam
worse than a Persian satrap. Help!
The only thing for Alaska to do is
to appeal to the league of nations.
We are in the oppressed small nation
class along with Ireland, India, and
others. Shall we follow their example
and forcibly throw off from our droop
ing necks the shackles of this ter
rible, worse-than-Persian satrap?
Drayton blithely tells us that sixty
f/fer cent of the people of Alaska have
abandoned homes here because of the
government’s failure in arlministraDve
control. This is plain bunk to speak
frankly. Alaska’s population dwindled
with the working out of the rich plac
er camps. This was the main cause.
The working of the bureaus at Wash
ington admittedly has been disheart
ening at times, but it is only fair
to say that they had but a relatively
small part in causing people to leave
Alaska. In recent years, men have
left Alaska because wages tvere high
er in the States, and this could not
be helped. It was an economic con
dition. Drayton says the government
of the United States should be “con
tent with the great but purely ineiden
al advantages derived from a nominal
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WILL INSIST ON
ACCESS TO SEA '
BY ARMENIA
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WASHINGTON, May 29 (by
Associated Press). — President
Wilson will, it is said, insist that
the new republic of Armenia be
given access to the sea through
Batum, which the Allied supreme
council has tentatively decided
shall be a free port.
The state department is pre
paring a memorandum to assist
the president in a determination
of the boundaries.
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NAVY OFFICER
INDICTED FOR
THEFT FUNDS
SAN FRANCISCO, May 29 (by As
sociated Press). — An indictment
charging the embezzlement of $6,000
from the funds of the Battleship Idaho
was returned here yesterday in the
United States court against Evans
Powel, former disbursing officer of
the battleship. Powell disappeared
from the Idaho but was captured later
at Phoenix, Ariz.
WILL WIRELESS
ARMY-NAVY
BALL SCORE
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WASHINGTON, May 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—News of the Army
Navy baseball game will be wirelessed
from San Diego today to Alaska sta
, tions.
JEWELERS OPPOSED
TO BONUS ON GOLD
• USED IN ARTS TRADE
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WASHINGTON, May 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The jewelers’ vigilance
committee and other representatives
of jewelry manufacturers protested
against the proposed tax on gold used
in the arts trade, and declared the
proposed subsidy of $10 an ounce
iwould not assure a greater output
from the mining of gold.
TOO MUCH WATER IS
NOT GOOD FOR BUTTER
SEATTLE, May 29 (by Associated
Press).—Internal revenue officers are
holding 200 tons of butter here on the
ground that it contains more than 16
per cent of water, which is alleged to
be a gross imposition on the public.
HELP THE NEEDY
CLAIMED TO BE
BETTER POLICY
LONDON, May 29 (by Associated
Press).— Some opposition is devlop
ing against a proposal to raise a fund
of $50,000 with which to buy, restore
! and maintain the house in Hampstead
in which the poet Keats lived while
he was writing some of his greatest
work. ' The dissenting element con
tends the money might be better spent
■in aid of poets who have won world
j wide fame, but who are now living in
I deep poverty.
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' COMMISSIONERS
: OF WALLA WALLA
LEASE BIG TRACT
WALLA WALLA, May 29 (by As
| sociated Press). — The city commis
sioners of Walla Walla have leased
a tract of land which will be leveled
and equipped for aviation purposes.
While an aircraft company will have
exclusive use of the field for commer
cial purposes, it will be open to visit
ing flyers at all times. Weekly flights
between Walla Walla and Spokane
have already been scheduled.
GOVERNOR OF KANSAS AND
GOMPERS DISCUSS COURT
OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
NEW YORK, May 29 (by Associ
ated Press). — Carnegie hall was
packed to its doors last night when
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and
Governor Allen of Kansas met in de
bate on the merits of the Kansas court
of industrial relations. Judge Alton
B. Parker presided. Hoover, Butler,
Gerard and Henry Davison occupied
seats on the platform.
Gompers declared that the “differ
ence between the free man and the
slave was that the slave must work
when his master directs, while the
free may stop work whenever he so
desires. Whatever consequences of
suffering may be involved in his suf
fering, and not that of anyone else.”
He declared the right of free man
to dispose of his labor as he saw fit.
and he said this position had been
upheld by the supreme court. Gom
pers declared: “If you attempt to
oxitlaw strikes by legislation, your law
will be futile and you simply will
make criminals and lawbreakers of
workmen who are honest and patriotic
citizens.”
Governor Allen built his argument
on the premises that safety of the pub
lic is the supreme law of the land
and declared Kansas had not forbid
den any man the right to quit work.
“We have merely taken away from
Mr. Gompers his divine right to order
men to quit,” said the governor, and
he denied that any court of law would
deprive workmen of the privilege of
collective bargaining. But the gover
nor declared miners should be given
that right whether they were members
of a union or not.
BOLSHEVIKI
ANDPOLESIN
FIERCE FIGHT
WARSAW, May 29 (by Associated i
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Press).—The Bolsheviki troops are
bringing up reinforcements every
where in the offensive against the
Poles, which is increasing in violence
in the northern sectors, says the offi
cial statement today. Fierce combats
are raging from Dvina oil the north
to the Pripet river on the south, a
difctiince of ”220 miles. Prisoners cap
tured by the Poles include 100 Cos
sacks.
RIOT RESULTS FROM
STRIKE OF STREET CAR
EMPLOYES AT FRESNO
FRESNO, Cal., May 29 (by Associ
ated Press).—Rioting last night in
which one man was shot and another
beaten up resulted from the strike of
street car men to enforce their de
mands for recognition of the union.
An efforts to maintain car service was
abandoned after the rioting.
NAVAL ACADEMY IS
WINNER IN CUP RACE
PHILADELPHIA, May L9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The naval acamedy
won the Shield cup race on the Schuyl
kill river yesterday, finishing a length
ahead of Princeton. Pennsylvania
was third and Columbia fourth.
D’ANNUNZIO ^FORCES
OCCUPY CAVALANNA
PARIS, May 29 (by Associted
Press).—Revolutionary troops of Geb
riel D’Annunzio are reported to have
occupied Cacalanna and to be threat
ening Sussak. The revolutionists con
tinue to advance, with the Jugo-Slavs
preparing to resist.
GRAYS HARBOR
TO VOTE BONDS
BETTER HARBOR
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ABRDEEN, Wash., May 29 (by As
sociated Press).—With the announced
intention of becoming a world port
in the general cargo trade as well
as in the lumber trade Grays Harbor
will vote at its port. district election
in June on a proposal to issue $800,
000 in bonds for harbor improvements.
H. M. Delanty, manager of the Grays
Harbor Stevedoring company is of
the belief that the bonds will be voted
by a sweeping majority. Altogether
he said, the Grays Harbor Port Com
mission plans to expend $2,000,000 in
improving its facilities.
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RECORD SPRING
SALE OF FURS
AT ST. LOUIS
ST. LOUIS, May 29 (by Associated
Press).—The spring fur auction sales
concluded today with sales approxi
mating $23,000,000 for the 17 days of
the auction, the largest on record,
bringing the total sales for the fiscal
year up to 80,000,000 pelts, which in
the present market represent about
half of the world’s available supply.
The prices ranged from 10 to 30 per
cent below the February prices.
RUBBER STRETCHED
TO BIG DIVIDEND BY
GOODYEAR COMPANY
AKRON, Ohio, May 29 (by Associ
ated Pdess).—The Goodyear Rubber
Company today declared a stock divi
dend amounting to 150 per cent, or
overir$81,000,000 It was voted to sell
$10,000,000 common stock of the com
pany and $20,000,000 preferred stock.
The company now has a surplus of
over $43,000,000.
OLE SAYS HE IS OUT
OF POLITICS FOR GOOD
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SPOKANE, May 29 (by Associated
Press).—Ole Hanson, former mayor of
Seattle, told the Chronicle here last
night that he would not be a candidate
for governor of Washington, and that
he was out of politics entirely.
OLYMPIC TRYOUTS TO
BE HELD AT PASADENA
—
LOS ANGELES, May 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Entry blanks for the
Pacific coast Olympic tryouts to be
held at Pasadena June 26 were mailed
today to colleges and other organiza
tions eligible for entry.
ALASKA SALMON IS
SEIZED AT SEATTLE
SEATTLE, May 29 (by Associated
Press).—Two thousand cases of Alas
ka salmon was seized here yesterday
.as unfit for food.
CROP OF BERRIES
BRINGS BIG FUND
NEW ORLEANS, May 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Louisiana’s strawberry
crop this year was worth $7,507,500,
according to department of agriculture
estimates. Record prices were re
ceived. About 7,700 acres were plant
ed.
ALASKA BOY
DISAPPEARS
IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, May 29 (by Associ
ated Press).—Arthur Bolgett,
aged 19, an Alaska youth who
arrived from Anchorage on the
Admiral Evans Thursday having
in charge A. Martin, a blind Fil
ipino boy, has disappeared from
the Seattle Y. M. C. A. Purser
Drury says Blodgett took $20
and two steamship tickets in
tended for further travel of the
two youths.
COMMITTEE IN
FAVOR ANTI
STRIKE BILL
WASHINGTON, May 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The senate interstate
commerce committee has ordered a
favorable report on the Poindexter
bill designed to prevent the interrup
tion of transportation by strikes. The
committee amended the bill by at
taching provisions similar to the anti
strike clause eliminated from the rail
road bill. Action on the Poindexter
measure is not expected until after the
recess of congress.
ARMY BILL NOW
WITHPRESIDENT
FOR APPROVAL
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WASHINGTON, May 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The conference report
on the army reorganization bill was
adopted today by the senate. The bill
now goes to President Wilson for his
approval or veto.
NON-PARTISANPOLICY
IS ADOPTED BY THE
PRINTING TRADES
NEW YORK, May 29 (by Associated
Press). — The allied printing trades
have adopted a resolution endorsing
the non-partisan political policy of
the American Federation of Labor and
recommending the all organizations
affiliated with it have no connection
whatever with the American Labor
party.
WILSON GIVES OEMS
POINTER ON PLATFORM
WASHINGTON, May 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—President Wilson’s in
dorsement of the Virginia state Dem
ocratic platform is looked up5n gen
erally as forecasting his attitude re
garding the national platform to be
adopted at San Francisco.
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TURKS LOSE HEAVILY
Ai NST FRENCH TROOPS
LONDON, May 29 (by Associated
Press).—A French column has fought
its way to Aintab, Syria, after heavy
fighting, and succeeded in relieving
the town. The Turks suffered severe
casualties.
SOLDIER RELIEF BILL
AGAIN BEFORE HOUSE
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WASHINGTON, May 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).— While supporters of
the soldier relief bill won the open
ing skirmish in the house to force
consideration of the measure, they
lacked many votes of the two-thirds
majority necessary to pass the bill un
der suspension of the rules.
HOW FUNDS OF
“Hr JOHNSON
WERE SPENT
• WASHINGTON, May 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Between $100,000 and
$125,000 was raised in California in
behalf of Senator Johnson in the re
cent primaries, Alexander McCabe, his
treasurer, told the senate investigating
committee today.
McCabe said approximately $200,000
had been raised for the Johnson cam
paign by public appeal in California,
exclusive of small local sums aggre
gating a few thousand dollars. The
contributors included Herbert Fleish
acker, $5,000; Wm. H. Crocker, $4,000;
Johnson H. Rossetter, $2,500. Noth
ing was contributed by DeYoung. The
University regents divided their al
legiance between Hoover and John
son.
Two thousand dollars were sent to
Indiana, $2,000 to South Dakota, $5,000
to Montana, $4,000 to Michigan, $3,509
to South Dakota and $5,500 to Ore
gon, McCabe said. He estimated that
the Hoover expenditures in California
w'ere not less than $300,000, while
Johnson’s was about $50,000. Hoover
had 1,600 paid workers in Los Angeles
alone, McCabe declared.
McCabe denied that any Johnson
slush fund had been spent in Cali
fornia. He said 300 students had been
hired by Hoover supporters to stand
at the polls election day.
Frederick William Wile, correspon
dent of the Philadelphia Public Led
ger testified that Crocker and Ros
seier were instrumental in raising an
alleged fund of $85,000 in California
for Johnson. He said his paper sup
ported Hoover.
Eyan S. Harris of Albany, former
democratic state chairman of New
York, said he did not know anything
about the McAdoo campaign or the
McAdoo funds.
VILLA ESCAPES
AFTER CLASH
WITH TROOPS
JAUREZ, Mex., May 29 (by Associ
ated Press).—Troops of the de facto
government clashed with Villa’s tear
guard in the state of Chihuahua, ac
cording to a message received hero.
Villa eluded capture and escaped into
the hills.
VANCOUVER HAS
LARGE INCREASE
IN POPULATION
! WASHINGTON, May 29 (by Asso
! ciated Press).—The census depart
ment has announced the population
of Vancouver, Wash., as returned by
the recent census, to be 12,637, an in
crease of 37 per cent as compared
with the 1910 census.
FOURNIER LEADS
AMONG BATTERS
IN BIG LEAGUES
CHICAGO, May 29 (by Associated
Press).—Fournier of St. Louis leads
the batters of the National league to
date this season with a percentage of
.336. Johnson of Cleveland leads the
American league with .375.
GOVERNOR ALLEN
WILL PLACE WOOD
IN NOMINATION
CHICAGO, May 29 (by Associated
Press).—Governor Allen of Kansas
has been selected to place Major Gen
eral Wood in nomination before the
Republican convention.
FIRST WOMAN TO
BE NAMED FOR
U. S. ATTORNEY
SAN FRANCISCO, May 29 (by As
sociated Press).—Mrs. Annette Ab
bott, the first woman in the country
to be given such an office, has been
named United States assistant attor
ney general for the northern district
of California.