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EXPECT INCREASED REINDEER SUPPLY
The Department ot* Agriculture, in a bulletin
just issued, declares that a larger supply oi‘ reindeer
meat from Alaska is expected to be on the market
this year than heretofore. The Bulletin says:
Although^nly about 90 tons of reindeer
meat were shipped from Alaska to this country
in 1923, indications on July 1, 1924, were that
there would soon be a ripid increase in the quan
tity shipped. In 1923 the entire number of
reindeer in the Territory numbered about 241,
000, according to estimates made in 66 herds.
The increase in the number of reindeer in Alas
ka each year runs from 33 to 45 per cent, of the
total number of animals in the herd. This per
centage can be raised by a better understanding
of herd management on the part of the Eski
mos and other owners, and better business meth
ods in marketing the meat will result in a high
er output. The Biological Survey of the United
States Department of Agriculture conducts im
portant investigational work in Alaska in the
interest of the reindeer industry, including stud
ies of diseases and parasites, feeding experi
ments to determine the nutritive values of dif
ferent types of native forage, poison-plant prob
lems, herd management, and breed improvement.
Through the establishment of corrals herd
owners are improving conditions in their herds.
Cooperative handling and management of some
of the herds has been practiced with good re
sults. An additional impetus has been given
to the industry by two American companies
which are now operating refrigerating plants to
receive reindeer carcasses for the purpose of
shipping them to markets in the United States
through Seattle. One of these companies oper
ates refrigerating barges which can move from
one point to another, mainly in the rivers, and
the other company has several small cold-stor
age plants along the coast.
There is a house shortage because houses won’t
make sixty miles an hour.
NEW ALASKA BOOKS
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Two publications of special interest to Alaskans
recently came from the press of the World Book
Company, Yonkers, N. Y. They are the “White
Sox” by W. T. Lopp, superintendent of education
for Alaska natives, and formerly chief of the Alas
ka division Bureau of Education and superintendent
of the Bureau’s Reindeer Service in Alaska, and
“On Pacific Frontiers” by Captain Carl Rydell,
superintendent of the Philippine Nautical School.
The author of “White Sox”” is an authority
on reindeer. He knows their habits as well as
those of their caribou cousins from personal con
tact and observation. “White Sox” is an account
of a number of interesting events in the life of a
reindeer fawn. The book is written in a charming
and entertaining style which attracts and holds the
attention of readers young and old. It is especial
ly suitable for the use of children enrolled in the
fourth, fifth and six grades. The department has
ordered copies for use as a supplementary reader in
grade five of schools in districts outside incorporated
towns, and would recommend that superintendents
and principals of incorporated town school purchase
copies for the use of fifth grade pupils. The rein
deer industry in Alaska is of considerable import
ance at the present time and is destined to play a
large part in the territory’s development. It is
desirable, therefore, that the schools utilize every
means for the dissemination of information on the
subject and the arousal of interest in reindeer.
“On Pacific Frontiers” is a thrilling tale of a
portion of the life of a seafaring man, Captain Ry
dell, the author. It should be in each Alaskan
school library. Approximately two-thirds of the
subject matter is devoted to experiences in Alaska
and in Alaska waters. Such subjects as salmon
fishing, fur seal and sea-otter hunting, life among
the Aleuts, the Nome gold rush and life of Nome,
ice cruising in the Bering Sea, experiences at Sit
ka, Council City, Unalaklik, and St. Michael are
covered in an entertaining and illuminating manner.
Alaskans who are familiar with may of the inci
dents related vouch for the authenticity of the book,
and designate it as not a romantic tale, but a truth
ful record of adventure.
“ECONOMY”
“Economy, and more economy,” voiced in one
of his previous messages, is the burden of the annual
address of President Coolidge to congress in short
session. While the president discussed numerous
other subjects vital to the welfare of the nation, his
emphasis on retrenchment shows that he still re
gards the interest of the taxpayer as being immed
iately paramount.
“We have our enormous debt to pay,” said the
president, “and we are paying it. We have the
high cost of government to diminish and we are di
minishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation
to reduce, and we are reducing it.”
Yet in spite of the spectacular reductions that
have been made during the past four years, the na
tional debt still is $21,000,000,000—compared with
about $26,000,000,000 at the highest peak of the war,
—and we still are paying out $3,500,000,000 annu
ally for all national functions. This, as the presi
dent points out, is an average of about $27 in taxes
for each inhabitant of the country. But it is less
than one-third of the cost of government, for the
combined cost of local and national government is
shown to average $100 for each inhabitant, and “it
is an ominous fact that only the national govern
ment is reducing its national debt.”
The record of the administration in reducing
taxes is shown in the fact that one-fifth of the na
tional debt has been paid off since 1919 and the an
nual tax burden has been practically cut in two
since 1921.
The establishment of the national budget has
been an important contributory factor in the admin
istration’s economy program, but this has been sup
plemented by a will to reduce the cost of government
by effecting savings without impairing any import
ant federal function. President Coolidge now rec-<
cmmends that a reorganization of governmental de
partments be effected as a means of supplementing
the budget system, and while it does not seem proba
ble that much progress can be made during the pre
sent session in enacting his suggestion into law, there
is good reason to believe that it will be taken up and
dealt with intelligently by the new congress, next
year.
One of the reasons that President Coolidge’s
candidacy appealed strongly to the voters this year
was that he had shown that he was affirmatively
interested in advancing the interests of the average
taxpayer and lifting the burden of expense which
the war laid upon the people. His message shows
that to be a continuing policy, and, carried to its
logical conclusion during his four more years in the
White House, the close of his next administration
will witness something like a real return to the much
discussed conditions of economic normalcy.
PRESIDENT TRAVELS AS “ORDINARY
PASSENGER”
President Coolidge set Washington agog last
week when he boarded a Pullman car and traveled
as an “ordinary passenger” to Chicago. It was
the first time in many years, or decades, that a pres
ident had not traveled in a private car. Washing
ton was divided in its opinion as to the propriety of
this innovation, but as usual Mr. Coolidge, having
made tip his mind, went ahead without calling for
a capital plebiscite. His reason for traveling as
other Americans travel was in the interests of his
program of economy, which he not only preached
but practices. The cost of a private ear would
have been more than $2,000. By taking his party
without the de luxe frills, he saves about $1,700, and
he hopes to be able to turn back to the treasury a
considerable part of the $25,000 set aside annually
for the president’s traveling expenses. Nine Am
ericans in ten will applaud the president’s prece
dent—or rather his motive. It was not prompted
by a desire for “democratic simplicity” or for th
spectacular, but by a determination to be consistent
in his policy of cutting down the high cost of gov
ernment.
We wonder at times how a grouch would man
age to enjoy life if all the undesirable people were
killed off.
A wise father said to his son who was just start
ing out in life: ‘ ‘ Take a good look at this ladder, my
boy, and remember that if it were possible to get to
the top at a single bound there would be no need
of the bottom rungs.”
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