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FREAK LEGISLATION
It is customary for freak bills to be introduced in
all legislative bodies. Some of them have for their pur
pose the enlivenment of what might become the monotony
of legislative work, in that the ludicrous nature of the
measure brings opportunities for indulging levity, or even
fiilibustering. As a rule these measures emanate from
an individual who has been compelled to make a promise
to gain a few votes, and are not taken seriously by him
self or anyone else but the man who believes he has a
cure-all for political ills.
But when a measure of the nature of the labor bill
comes before the Legislature backed by what should be
the best legal opinion of the Territory, it takes on a serious
aspect that must be taken note of. This bill was recom
mended by Attorney General John Rustgard, whose duty
it is to advise the Legislature on legal matters and pass
upon the constitutionality or regularity of laws sought to
be made. Either Mr. Rustgard is having some fun with
the Legislators or with the public. He surely cannot be
serious in his advice that the Territory of Alaska intrude
itself beyond the limits set by the most radical labor union
which demands the right to drive a bargain without the
aid or interference of the governing power.
Trained labor men have long recognized the futility
of relying upon legislation to meet the exigencies of re
lations existing between employer and employer. There
are limits to which the law-making power can go. When
it begins to go beyond these limits the entire matter of
labor legislatnon becomes chaotic.
If it is possible to dictate both contract, working con
ditions, minimum wage, etc., as they affect canneries, the
same rule must hold good with respect to all other labor.
There can be no discrimination between employers. This
fact is known to, or should be known to every member of
the Legislature and is known of a certainty by the At
torney General, who also must know that the law infring
es the constitutional right of freedom of contract between
individuals. Were such a law in force, even the placer
miner might not enter into a bedrock agreement; a hali
but fisherman would not be permitted to make a private
contract even on a co-operative basis, nor could any other
business man and his employe make a labor contract or
agreement without coming into conflict with the law.
It is hoped that the bill introduced at the suggestion
of the Attorney General is merely facetiousness, for it
would be poor advertising for Alaska if investing capital
were informed that on entering Alaska, both the charter
terms and the method of conducting business along with
the class of habitation, business prerogatives, etc., were
matters fixed by law, granting him and his employes no
say in the matter.
Who remembers when good ladies tried to reform old
soaks by getting them to sign the pledge?
FROM OWE GROVES
TO IRCTIC SNOWLINES
WASHINGTON, March 16. (jp)—Se
quoia National Park, says the Nation
al Park Service, received a phenome
nal influx of visitors during the last
fall months. Here in a distance of 15
miles one may pass from the balmy
climate of Southern California and
orange groves, to anow and arctic
. I
■weather and scenery and see alng the
weather and scenery and se& along the
the slopes. During October and No
vember 1,850 automobiles carrying 6,
500 passengers drove over the Geuar
al’s highway to Giant Forest, an in
crease of 85 per cent over last year,
for the same period.
NATIONAL PARK SLICE
MlfllEK OLD
WASHINGTON. March 16. (JP)—
Since the Park Service was inaugu
rated the number of parks and mon
uments have been increased in num
berfrom 14 of the farmer and 18 of
the latter to 19 and 32 respectively,
and fore more parks have been au
thorized by Congress.
The use of the parks by the public
has increased by leaps and bounds.
Over two and a quarter million per
sons will visit the parks and monu
ments this year, which is nearly
eight times as many visitors as they
had in 1916.
Ton read It in The Gateway first.
DREAM OF EMPIRE
BUILDER, J. J. HILL
CONSOLIDATION TAKES ROADS
THAT CROSS AND FOLLOW
FORMER TRAILS
ST. PAUL, March 16. (/P)— Rails
that cross and follow the trails over
which Lewis and Clark fought their
way through trackless wilderness in
to the Pacific northwest more than
a century ago are comprehended in
the proposed merger of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific rail
ways.
Through forests, along streams and
over mountains never before trav
ersed, Lewis and Clark pioneered in
the early years of the 19th century
to blaze a path which opened the
great northwest.
More than half a century after
them came James Jerome Hill, rising
from a laborer’s job to empire build
er. Jim Hill visioned the vast north
west, then an uninhabited waste with
miles of unfilled prairies blooming
with life and commerce. He sent
ribbons of steel across the plains
and over the Rocky Mountains to the
Pacific coast. Two of the railroads
he fathered are the Great Northern
and .the Northern Pacific, which will
be joined in a giant system.
Advancing westward from St. Paul
and eastward from the coast, track
layers, wrho often found themselves
explorers too, met to drive the last
spike in the completed Northern Pa
cific line at Gold Creek in Montana’s
Hellgate Canyon on September 8,
1883, and ten years later, on January
6, 1893, to finish the Great Northern
in Washington.
The Lewis and Clark trail, which
followed the Missouri river into
Montana, is crossed by the Northern
Pacific at Mandan, N. D., and Clark’s
returning route is the railroad’s path
for a considerable distance. The
Great Northern follows the Lewis
and Clark trail through much of
Montana and runs parallel, for a way,
to the homeward course of Lewis.
Should the union of the Northern
be carriedr^through the merger will
control operated mileage exceeding
28,000, with a $1,500,000,000 valuation
and a capital investment of $650,000,
000—for although the consolidation
does not plan to embrace the Chica
go, Burlington and Quincy lines,
more than 97 per cent of that road’s
stock is owned jointly by the two
roads.
Northern Pacific mileage is 6,682
and that of the Great Northern 7,092,
subsidiary lines bringing the total to
15,550. The combined lines have
some 2,700 locomotives, 2,200 passen
ger cars and 115,000 freight cars, .
and operate in Wisconsin, Minnesota,
both Dakotas, Iowa, Montana, Idaho,
Oregon, Washington and the Canad
ian province of Manitoba and British
Columbia.
U. S. TONNAGE GROWS
WASHINGTON, March 16.
American foreign trade during the
fiscal year 1926 Increased 1,174,000
long tons over the preceding year, and
denotes the “quantitive growth of Am
erican foreign trade in recent years,”
the United States Shipping Board has
just announced on the basis of a re
port prepared by Commissioner Phil
lip S. Teller, of the board. '
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JETTA GOULD
MARY BRIAN in
A great picture play adapted from the famous novel,
"PERE GORIOT"
By BALZAC
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e DANCE IS SMED
WlCRHlEn
BROWNVILLE, Tex., March 16*.
ff>)—Tiring of the strenuous acrobat
os of the Charleston and the Black
bottom, the Rio Grande Valley has
urned to a dance of its own, the
Spanish Shawl. %
A terpsichorean artist recently
risited the valley, saw some of the
Mexican dances and straightaway in
dented the Shawl, which is rapidly
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out-distancing the other dances in
popularity.
The new dance combines jazz with
the softer, gentler movements of the
Latin motif. Some describe the
Shawl as the Mexican interpretation
of modern dancing.
Two halibut schooners arrived in
port today; the Sunset, Capt. Hen
sen, discharging 12000 pounds of hal
ibut; Constitution, Capt. Maurice
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Mulyer, discharging 6,000 pounds of
halibut.
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