THE ALASKA FISHERMAN
I’ubltaJictl th* I5th u( each month at Ketchikan, Alaska
WILLIAM L. PAUL. ATTORNEY FOR THE
ALASKA NATIVE BROTHER HOOD
•Cntored as second • class matter at the Post Office at
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
.:UUSCHPTION PKICE $2.00 FOIt TWELVE ISSUES
OUR PLATFORM:
ALASKA FOR ALASKANS.
FULL TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
ABOLISHMENT OF ALL TRAPS.
COMPETENT CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Tile June FISHERMAN will contain our cus
tomary review of the members of the legislature
and of the work performed by them.
. .We wish to say at t Ms time that even though
the House of Representatives was overwhelming
, !y in sympathy with the federal machine, the
‘Stubborn .Five” in tl»e Senate forced the reac
. tionaries to adopt some very good laws—not all
that they wished, but enough to give hope and
power to the People of Alaska.
. We enumerate among these the rig’it to elect
an Auditor, a Treasurer, a Commissioner of Edu
cation and a Highway Engineer. Those had all
been appointed heretofore by the Governor.
.The law creating the olfice of Highway Engin
eer abolished the present office of Highway Engin
eer and so Alaska will be without a legal Highway
Engineer until one is elected in 1930. W Vie we
feel sorry for Bob Sommers, the incumbent, still
tiie oversight was on the part of his numerous
1 friends in the House who not only failed to see
that, his oflice was filled but who also failed to
*' make funds available for his salary.
THE FAIRBANKS DIVISION
. Tlie Fairbanks Division Delegation came to
Juneau pledged to vote against tlic Controller
Bill (much desired by the First Division) and ask
ing the legislature for some $260.000—all very ne
cessary, said President Charles Bunnell.
Mr. Bunnell came in person and in his charm
ing manner and style, lobbied for his college, and
Anally got the legislature to give him $105,000.
But the Legislature also created several elect
ive 'offices. We predict at this time that very
shortly, possibly the very next legislature, will
HPFT'SE appropriate any money for this main
industry of Fairbanks. If this occurs, the People
of Fairbanks will have President Charles Bunnell
to thank for the dog-in-the-manger politics play
ed by his party.
Mr. Bunnell is trying to make us believe t"i \t
the Fairbanks College is a Territorial Institution
like the Pioneers’ Home. So long as Fairbanks
tent men to Juneau who gave “Full faith and
credit” to the elected representatives of the Fir;.t
and Third, so long was the First Division at lea L
willing to give Fairbanks its cheap high school
and college (we mean cheap in the sense that the
people who get the benefit don’t have to pay the
bill. That is done by the First and Third Divi
sions); But since Mr. Bunnell has lost all sig'\t
of the just requirements of the rest of Alaska
and gives the federal governor his full support in
return for the governor’s support (the appoint
ment of men to the College Board of Directo \>
who are bound to vote for Mr. Bunnell’s reelec -
tion), then, the rest of Alaska must simply de
clare its independence.
The Fairbanks College
The Fairbanks College is simply an impossib
ility to the balance of Alaska, whether it be Nom \
Cordova or the First Division. The only students
that can go to Fairbanks from the First Division
are those who are subsidized and those who a-c
crazy. Seme who go there arc fooled and have
to stay. But you will notice that they don’t re
peat their mistake.
It take s six days and about $100 in money to
go to Fairbanks from the First Division. Board
and room costs are prohibitive—except to the sub
sidized. An then when you get tliere, you must
live FIVE miles out of town or commute on a one
horse, jerk-water trolley line. Magazines arc
costly, you get only the “movies.” When you get
through with the Fairbanks College, you are still
a “stick.” Compared with the facilities offered
by the University of Washington with its wonder
ful equipment, fine climate, “movies” and legiti
mate shows and operas, th? chance to see and
hear the leading men of the United States wheth
er in politics or the lecture and pulpit platform,
the crowds, and what not, only an insane pe
or one subsidized would go from-the First Division
to Fairbanks. We believe this is true also of the
Third and Second.
The Time Has Come
The time has come wh?n the hogs of the
Fourth Division must rustle their own swill.
SOPHISTRY
Tlie story of the ostrich which thought to
hide itself by burying its head in the sand is not