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ALASKA'S LEGISLATIVE SESSION.
(Cordova Daily Times)
And now that the Territorial Legis
lature is about to convene rumors
come of widely divergent wishes and
desires held by the delegations from
the different divisions. The First Di
vision contingent consisting of two
Senators and three Representatives
of the Paul wing of the Republican
Party, and one representative who ad
mits to being a democrat, desires
nothing much—merely the taxing of
fish traps out of existence, a controller
bill which will place all Territorial
affairs in the hands of an elaborate
machine controlled presumably by
themselves, an industrial insurance
act which will provide a lot more jobs,
the abolishing of the school tax. and
sundry other measures; the Second
division wants $250,000 for the ex
tension of the tramway recently pur
chased by the. Territory; the Third
Division has no particular axe to
grind, and the Fourth Division wants
$200,000 for its Agricultural College.
The motives back of the proposed
confiscatory tax on fish traps are so
plain that all who run may read. Put
the traps out of business and the In
dian will get twenty-five cents each
for his pink fish. This might work
all right if it were not for two fac
tors. First the cannery, and second,
the Indian. At an increased price for
pink fish, how many canneries would
operate? If the price of the finished
product could be advanced enough to
make it profitable, and still pay an
increased price for pinks, what assur
ance would the canners have that the
Indians would not catch enough fish
to meet their monetary needs and then
call it a season, leaving the canner
ies without raw material. The can
ners have been taxed and regulated
to a point where many of them have
been seriously handicapped and addi
tional taxation might force them into
bankruptcy. This means a loss to
the Territory of about $600,000 a year,
or seventy-five per cent of its income
in, taxes.
As to the wants of the Second and
Fourth Division, the cause is worthy
ARE YOU o
GUILTY •
A FARMER carrying an ex
press package from a big
mail order house was accost
ed by a local dealer.
“Why didn’t you buy that
bill of goods from me? I
could have saved you the ex
press, and besides you would
have been patronizing a home
store, which helps pay the
taxes and builds up this lo
cality.”
The farmer looked at the
merchant and then said:
“Why don’t you advertise
your goods and prices in your
home paper? I read it and
didn’t know that you carried
the goods I have here. Pic
tures and prices of your
goods would keep me posted
on your stock.”
Moral—-Advertise
and every effort should be made to
help. But it must be remembered
that the resources of Territorial tax
ation are not unlimited.
The income of the Territory is about
$800,000 per >rear. Of this there are
fixed charges approximately as fol
lows:
Support of ’’Schools . $350,000 j
Support of Ter. administration
Support of Terriotrial Ad
ministration ..... 100,000
Roads . 120,000
Pioneers Home . . 50,000
Old Age Pensions . 50,000
Children’s Guardians and In
digent . 25,000
Miscellaneous Fixed Expense 25,000
Total . $720,000
From the above it will be seen that
unless the revenues are greatly in
creased by additional taxes, and what
there is that is not taxed to the limit
now, there will be a very small mar
gin for special appropriations.
The Agricultural College must be
help surely, and the Nome tramway
is a good thing for Nome, and indi
rectly for the Territory, but we must
remember that the funds are limited.
We hope that this legislature will
adopt some of President Coolidge’s
plans of economy and try and reduce
rather than increase the burden of
taxation. i
ARMY AND NAVY SQUABBLE.
Merry war on paper and by word
of mouth is now going on between
our Army and Navy. Uncle Sam’s va
liant fighting men, having no common
enemy to combat are making a lively
row among themselves.
High ranking officers of both serv
ice are rushing into print to defend
their various contentions and inas
much as the battle rages principally
over aircraft, it may be said that our
preparedness plans are literally “up
in the air.”' Here are some of the
points at issue:
The Army air force declares it can
sink any battleship in a few minutes
and that it is foolish to build any
more capital ships. It also contends
that in the recent tests in sinking
the uncompleted battleship Washing
ton, the Army fliers were handicap
ped by unreasonable conditions im
posed by the Navy which were re
sponsible for the poor showing made
by the fliers.
The Navy resents these aspersions
and hints that the Artny people are
unduly careless in handling the truth.
The Navy also points out that while
the Army fliers got all the credit for
the flight around the world it wras
only through the co-operation of the
Navy in establishing bases for oil
and supplies that the feat was made
possible. As one writer puts it, “The
Navy mothered the Army fliers like
sukling babes during the flight.”
The taxpayers’ consolation is de
rived from the fact that the contro
versy may finally develop the truth
regarding relative values of various
means of national defense and may
in the long run prevent waste of mon
ey on antiquated armament.
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FOOLING THE FARMER.
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Pursuing the foolish idea that Con- *
gress can legislate good times for the ‘
farmer, three bills now before that 1
body propose to conduct the country’s *
agriculture through government su- *
pervision.
inese are the McNary-Haugen bill,
the Capper-Williams bill and the Cur
tis-Aswell bill.
The first provides for an appropri
ation of 200 million dollars and au
thorizes making debts up to a billion,
for a buying and price-fixing corpora
tion—to be run by politicians, of
course.
The second is a co-operative plan
on a gigantic scale, with almost ab
solute power over agriculture—with
a long list of new government jobs,
of course.
The third provides for a monster
marketing board, with large powers
—also with thousands of federal em
ployes.
Farmers are being deceived into a
belief that these visionary schemes
will make good times for them. Every
person of even ordinary intelligence
knows ihat prices must be governed
principally by the law of supply and
demand.
What caused the recent tremendous
i-ise in the price of wheiat? Was it an
act of Congress? Decidedly not.
There is a scarcity of wheat in the
world owing to inactivity in Russia,
and the price is high. When there is
a surplus again the price will drop
and all the politicians in Congress,
with fifty thousand new agents and
inspecotrs on the government payroll
can’t stop it.
OUR ANCESTORS
Honoring our parents or other wor
thy forebears is most commendable,
but the extremes to which some peo
ple carry their pride of ancestry is
somewhat amusing.
It has been pretty conclusively es
tablished by scientists that acquired
characteristics cannot be transmitted
to posterity, and we have unlimited
instances of worthless offspring from
high-class parentage, while on the
other hand, many persons born in ob
scurity have made notable successes
in life, and, departing" left their foot
prints on the sands of time.
The divine right of kings was found
ed on ancestry worship, usually be
ginning with some political or mili
tary upstart. The American “400”'
was founded on the wealth of shrewd,
though uncouth traders and schemers
of the early days.
While in some sections the fetish
of ancestry is still worshipped, it is
becoming out of date and nowadays
a man must amount to something to
be held in high esteem.
As a recent writer has well said:
“Humanity’s sense of justice would
be outraged if descendants of a crim
inal justly hanged, should still lie un
der the infamy of that ancestor. Why,
then, should glory descend to the
worthless ancestor of a hero?”
A clock said to be 200 hundred
years old has just been repaired and
keeps good time. We suspect it is
like The Gateway’s old typesetting
machines. When they were replaced
they do pretty good work.
Government departments flood the
newspaper offices with all sorts of
propaganda, always with the idea of
boosting the bureaucrats who print
and mail it out at the expense of the
taxpayers. Thousands of tons of pa
per are wasted annually by reports
sent out which are consigned to the
wastebasket, where it belongs.
About forty high school boys and
;irls were arrested at a dance in Ok
ahoma City, where it is alleged liquor
was found in the punch bowl. They
were forced to spend a night in jail.
Mayor Cargill declared the arrests un
warranted and turned the children
oose next morning, dismissing the
wo detectives who with a federal of
Icer made the arrest. The mayor de
clared plenty of liquor could be found
n the city without going to school
aarties and investigating the punch
jowl.
Statistics show that one’s chances
)f being murdered are greater in
Memphis, Tenn., than in any other
city in the world. The yearly num
>er of homicides average 65 per 100
)00. The average for the United
States is approximately 8. In con
rast with this appalling record, En
gland, Quebec, Ontario, New Zealand,
Spain, Norway, Holland, Switzerland,
ind some other countries have a ho
nicidal rate of less than 1 per 100,
►00 of population. Truly life is pre
carious under the Stars and Stripes.
Simply as a means of obstructing
egislation, a small bore Senator com
piled the reading of more than 100
rnges of a bill already printed and
>n the desks of each Senator. It con
listed principally in a list of names
ind figures, to the reading of which
10 one paid the least attention. This
exhibition of pettiness cost the tax
layers several thousand dollars in
vasted salaries.
Wealthy criminals must appear with
he common herd at regular meals in
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S LAST CHANCE TO SEE THIS FINE PLAY ■
Sing Sing prison, according to a new
order by Warden Lawes. Heretofore
those with money to buy their own
food had been eating apart from other
prisoners if they so desired. The elite
will probably be shocked by the table
manners of the ordinary herd, who
will not know a salad fork from a
soup tureen, but they will have to
grin and resolve to stay out of prison
henceforth. .
C. M. BROSIUS RETURNS
C. M. Brosius returned on the steam
er Yukon, following a short business
trip to Seattle. Mr. Brosius stopped
at the new Olympic hotel while in Se
attle and says the new building is a
beauty. He states that he found times
bad outside, with many men reported
out of work. At every place he vis
ited he found everyone talking of Sewr
ard, and the prevailing opinion was
that it "was destined to be one of the
leading ports in the Territory. Mr.
Brosius is confident that the pulp mill'
people will protect their interests in
Seward, and are certain to build.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
ANCHORAGE DAILY ALASKAN
AND TIMES CONSOLIDATE
Mr. Frank Knight informs The Gate
way that the First National Bank of
Anchorage, which recently purchased
the Anchorage Daily Alaskan, has dis
posed of that paper and plant to the
Anchorage Daily Times, the merger
taking place Saturday afternoon. It
is understood that the two plants will
be thrown together and the old ma
terial in each plant junked, leaving
one of the most complete plants in
northern Alaska.
The Alaskan was bought in by a
group of Anchorage business men
owning the Times. Mr. A. Shonbeck
is president of the new organization.
It is reported that Sunday’s issue was
the last of the Daily Alaskan.
This leaves Anchorage with but one
paper, again, the field having being
badly crowded the past year. The
Times is one of the best papers this
far north and the merger will add to
its prestige.
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