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CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER, IS. VJ.I7.
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MAKING USE OF ARCTIC.
With the tremendous demand
of meat and fats growing fas
ter than it can be met, it is our
duty to mobilize the Arctic, as
serts Christian Leden in a re
cent number of the Outlook.
The animal fields of the North
•are rich, he says. The Eski
mos who live there excel in
killing these animals and in
procuring the fats and meat
from them. The Eskimos pre
serve the meat by drying it.
Their methods are primitive,
but, they produce results.
Eskimo hunters kill great
numbers of caribou, storing
only as much meat as they will!
need for the winter, using the
rest as bait for wolves and
foxes hunted for their fur. Be
sides caribou, they hunt the
sea for the great walruses and
u i
whales. One walrus furnishes
about 1500 pounds of meat, 1,-J
000, pounds of oil and 500
pounds of leather. The white1
whale furnishes much more of
these greatly needed products.
Then there are great quantities
of salmon which the Eskimo is
an expert in catching. j
Mr Leden has figured that
by mobilizing as hunters only
a few of the tribes he has visit-1
■ed in the North, we could add
to our present production 3,
000,000 pounds of caribon
meat, 300,000 pounds of cari-i
bou fat, 9,000,000 pounds of1
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i-,wu,wu puuiius
«-rif baluga or white whale meat,i
1,bCtf),000 pounds of salmon,!
13,000,000 pounds walrus, seal
and whale oil, 3,000,000 pounds'
of walrus leather and 4,000,000
pounds of whale leather.
In reply to the objection that
transportation facilities seem
inadequate for carrying even
the products near at hand, the1
writer emphasizes the fact that
dried meat equals in nourish
ment five times its weight of
fresh meat. To transport the
dried meat, then, would require
only one-fifth the tonnage used
in carrying an equivalent
amount of fresh meat.
People in this part of the
world aren’t accustomed to
eating walrus and whale meat,
but they could probably learn
under pressure of necessity. At
any rate, it’s somewhat cheer
ing to know that new resources
are open to us as the old ones
approach exhaustion.—Ex.
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ESTIMATE OF WOMAN
A celebrated American oi
letters once remarked that
■“the test of civilization is th(
estimate of woman.” He wai
thinking of America, of course
and of the wonderful race o
women that would spring fi’on
her soil. In his mind’s eye h
saw that some day America
was to become supreme, bj
virtue of the'splendid attain
ments of her womanhood. Thi
was no idle fancy. Other Am
ericans shared his ideals. Th
civilization that they liav
reared is of a singular socia
order, in which the “estimat
of woman” is clearly reflects
in all its liberal customs an*
institutions. The souls of Am
. erican women are soaring tc
day in sphere^ that seei
strange to the women of ever
other nation. Their aspirations
and achievements have been
one of the most inspiring move
ments of all ages, and through
it all they have continued to
command a wholesale respect
in the opinions and sentiments
of men
America’s estimate of wo-'
man recently found expres
sion on the battlefield in
France. One of the boys In
khaki was court martialed and
shot for conduct unbecoming
a soldier of the Great Repub
lic The thought that a woman
of France was subpect to in
dignities and abuse by a man1
wearing the American uniform
is not a pleasant contempla
tion. It was an unhappy inci
dent. Soldiers in strange lands
are sometimes careless of their
obligations of honor and com
mon decency, and the rule is to1
be generous in judging their
acts. But Americans have a
high regard for women the)
world over and unlike several
of the other nations at war,1
when women are assailed, they |
cannot reconcile themselves to
the deed on any pretext what
soever. Our ideals in this res-|
pect were enunciated in stern
and unmistakable language
when our soldiers first set foot
on foreign soil, and General
Pershing has made his word,
good. He has vindicated an
American ideal, and his splen-j
did conduct in this matter will
go far towards reassuring the;
French people that their faith!
in the honor of our men in uni
form lias not been misplaced.
SUSPEND THE LAW.
The Gateway believes that
not only a portion of the eight
hour law in the territory
should be suspended, but, for
the duration of the war, the
entire law should be shelved.
This statement is made not
not against unions or others
who believe in the eight hour
law, for the editor himself is a
supporter of the eight hour
| day, but for the sake of secur
' ing sufficient man power to
! combat the extreme labor
| shortage.
The eight hour law, as pass
1 ed by the last legislature of
| Alaska, prohibits employment
of more than eight hours a day
' of any man or woman in any
■ industry. This is prohibitive
of overtime work, if men oi
women should so desire-. There
is the rub. Take for instance
I the report of the Alaskan En
j gineering commission: “A
• shortage of labor is anticipat
! ed.’’ Being a government pro
, ject only eight hours are sup
'j posed to be the limit for daih
1 employment. Take the mines
? the eight hour law has been en
forced for some time by mam
■ of the corporations but tin
placer operator is now brough
3 under the eight hour law, ant
- although the season is a shor
? one in Alaska, labor scare*
3 the operator canot work hi
1 men more than eight hours ou
? of every twenty-four and th
1 men are equally prohibitei
1 from working more than eigh
- hours. Take every busines
- practically in Alaska, wit
a lack of labor and prohibiten
j from working employees mor
thn eight hours, scores of em
ployers will suffer and many
employees will suffer also.
Much money is made in extra
work. Many people add to
their “rainy day account”
with the overtime money, but
this is now denied them. It is
not a question of will you work
overtime hut you can’t if you
could.
The country at the present
time is calling men from stores,
shops, mines and fields by the
thousands. Next month, when
the selective draft drawings
are held, hundreds of men now
in Alaska will answer the call
to the colors and they will
leave the north creating a
further shortage in man pow
er for this territory.
At the same time the gov
ernment is urging production
of certain articles needed for
the war, to the limit. Alas
kans will be unable to do their
bit on account of the eight
hour law. Double shifts will
perhaps ho necessary in many
industries in Alaska—hut
there is a labor shortage even
for the one shift.
Tt is for these and many oth
er reasons that the Gateway
believes that the eight hour
law should be suspended un
til after the war and men and
women in Alaska be permitted
to work overtime if they
choose.
Overtime is necessary in
small towns far removed from
points of labor sirpplv, and it
is not in the intei-est of the,
employer or the employee to'
prevent occasionally working
overtime, for extra par, if it is
the desire
The Alaska eight lwror law
is so drastic that two partners
cannot work more than eight
hours in each twenty-four.
There is a heavy penalty at
tached to the one found guilt;#
Suspend the eight hour Tjnv;
entirely for the duration of
the war.—Seward Gateway.
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