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GOOD-BYE SALMON
The Libby company is sending an avia
tor north to Bristol Bay to spot salmon.
Much food. At the present time salmon are
supposed to be scarce in Alaska and the
question has never been solved. No more
salmon have been taken out of Alaska wa
ters now but still restrictions remain in or
der for propagation of the sea food. What
has become of the salmon? Could it be that
Alaska waters teeming with steamships are
annoying this fish and routing them to other
waters more peaceful? There is logic in
the statement—still the Libby company is
sending their plane north to spot salmon, an
annoyance greater than what ten steamers
could do, judging by the noise they make.
We would venture to say that by the time
that plane soars Bristol Bay waters once all
the salmon in that district will be looking
for another playhouse and the canners will
again broadcast their howl that Alaska’s
fishing industry is on the wane and the gov
ernment in turn tack on some more restric
tions.
WRITING UP A WEDDING
Most newspaper men shrink from the
task of writing up a swell wedding, and pre
fer to pass that responsible duty to a fe
male society editor. Yet there are excep
tions. Occasionally an editor is found who
can paint word pictures of nuptial events
that any lady reporter might envy.
We just discovered one like that, who
appears to be hiding his great talents in an
obscure Kansas town, while he ought to be
holding down a big city job. Here is a sam
ple of his literary ability, which proves our
point:
“It was a wonderful wedding. The girl
was as sweet as any girl who ever lived, but
modern. As she walked up the aisle on her
father’s arm, her lips lightly tilted at Hie
corners with a happy smile, she was a pic
ture of modest beauty. Her filmy wedding
gown and gossamer veil floated around her
fair blonde head like a halo. She was as
nearly an angel as girls get to be in this
world. At the altar as she passed from her
father, the man she had always loved, to the
other man to whom she would devote the
rest of her life, her dainty slipper touched
a potted lily resting on the floor and turned
it over. Smiling again, she turned to the
dear old pastor waiting at the chancel, and
said: ‘That was a hell of a place to put a
lily\”
AIN’T IT THE TRUTH
As one star differeth from another
star in glory, so also doth one preacher dif
fer from another regarding conditions in
Alaska. Rev. Thomas Philip Graham of
Seward, according to an article produced
in the Seward Gateway, evidently looks for
the good, the beautiful—the roses—and
finds them, while another evidently looks
for the wickedness, the vice—the devil clubs
—and finds them. Both find what they are
looking for.—Stroller’s (Juneau) Weekly.
The Methodist preacher who stated
at a recent conference in the East that “The
more intelligent a man becomes the less he
attends church,” started something that is
^resulting in many letters of denial of the
truth of the statement to newspapers thru
out the country.
IS IDAHO AN INDIAN GIVER?
Idaho is one of the youngest States in
the sisterhood and like other daughters of
fathers ^ith comfortable bank accounts,
she has not been backward about accepting
largess from Uncle Sam m her efforts to
catch up with her sisters in the matter of
material prosperity. Indeed, when it comes
to funds to aid irrigation, Idaho has been
more generously treated than any of the
sister States. In return for the generosity
of her avuncular relative Idaho consented
that a portion of her terrain might be trans
ferred to the control of the Department of
the Interior as part of the Yellowstone Xa
I tional park. It happens that the northeast
! ern corner of Idaho, which is now the north
; western corner of the Yellowstone park, is
! the most beautiful section of that wonderful
playground, and furthermore it is the seo
! tion of the park through which the majority
of visitors enter the Yellowsotne reserve.
But commercialism is raising its greedy
; head and demanding that the Idaho portion
of the park be restored to the jurisdiction
j of the State, in order that a great dam may
| be built to impound the waters of the Falls
river, so that additional water may be avail
able for irrigation and power purposes.
There can be no dams in national parks. The
promotel's want the State to become ‘‘an In
i dian giver,” because they see an opportunity
; for profit in the sale of water rights. The
fact that their scheme means ruin to the
1 most attractive portion of one of the great
! est national playgrounds of the world means
I nothing to these men, and they propose to
s force an amendment to the national parks
bill, to restore to the jurisdiction of Idaho
that portion of the Yellowstone which the
| State consented should oecome a Federal re
serve forever.
It is inconceivable that Congressman
j Smith, who is one of the two representatives
of the State in the House, and chairman of
the committee on public lands, will permit
the demands of a few promoters to outweigh
the right of the American public to enjoy
all of the Yellowstone National park.
PASSING OF THE BANANA
Just as the United Fruit Company is
congratulating itself upon the result of its
campaign to create a worldwide demand for
benanas comes distressing news from Paris.
Statistical reports of the exports from the
or three years there has grown up in Eu
West Indies show that within the last two
rope a steadily increasing demand for this ;
food staple of "the Caribbean. The news now
comes from Paris that the boom in the fruit
has “busted.”
Only a few months ago The Post took
occasion to comment upon the activities of
the banana boosters of Boston, who inaug
urated a campaign which promised to result
in placing a bunch of bananas in every pan
try in war-torn France, and even to induce
the Teutons to substitute the ‘‘most deli
cious thing in the world,” as described by
Benjamin Disraeli, for the course “sauer
kraut and speck.” which forms so large a
portion of their diet. Yen’ naturally the
Bostonese banana boosters assumed that
the'demand had been created by the propa
ganda which they had been conducting.
But the demand is one the ebb, and with
its disappearance is dissipated the supposi
tion that Boston is entitled to the credit for
that demand. No, it was not due to the
mercenary work of he Hubites. It was the
1 heart-wrenching appeal of that classic com
i position, “Yes, we have no bananas." accord
ing to the Associated Press, which created
the demand. Now, alas! the vogue of the
lyric has waned, and with it disappears the
I fruit itself. 0, fickle muse!
The man arrested for breaking into the
Boston zoo and killing a vicious ostrich in
a knock-down and drag-out tight could have
cleaned up a fortune with ringside tickets
at $10 per.
The New’ York Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Children decides that
Daddy Browning isn’t through with his ju
venile courting.
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