and profession in the
community.”
‘‘The Rotary Club demands fair dealings,
honest methods, and high standards in business.
NO OBLIGATIONS, ACTUAL OR IMPLIED
TO INFLUENCE BUSINESS EXISTS IN
ROTARY. Election of membership therein is
an expression of confidence of the club in the
member elected, and of its good will toward
him. As his business is an expression of him
self, he is expected actively to represent it.”
‘‘Membership in the Rotary Club is a privi
lege and an opportunity, and its responsibility
demands honest efficient service and thought
fulness for one’s fellows.”
“Service is the basis of all business. He pro
fits most who serves best.”
The foregoing and many similar rules have
been adopted by Rotary Clubs.
A LITTLE ADVERTISING
We run across expressinos like this from busi
ness men: “If Paul has anything to do with
that business, then we will not support it;” also
“I have have nothing against Paul, but I am
tied up with others who will cut my throat if
they should find out that I am giving him busi
ness.
We have heard of such statements coming from
t^c mrnager of a large shingle mill, and also
fvcm a large shipper of mild cured salmon.
And 3ret the shingle man takes his reduction
in the unfair tax cn shingles with thanks little
dreaming perhaps that the adjustment of the
tax on shingles was entirely due to the work
of William L. Paul in the \ait Legislature.
Year after year the shingle men have paid a tax
on their logs of four times the rate charged
lumber mills until th;s so-clled “wild man”.
Indian or “Siwash,” as Tripp calls him, got
into the Legislature when this so-called “enemy
of business” by his knowledge of business and
sense of justice got the unfair tax reduced so
that now, the shinglemen pay the same rate of
tax as other handlers of logs. “Give the devil
his due.” ~ ~~
The other day we caw ;hat Mr. Schrey of
Sitka had shipped 27 terces of salmon away
and we smiled for we remembered that the e
normous tax of 15c per 100 lbs on red kings and
5c per 100 lbs. on whPe kings was reduced !to
5c and 2 l-2c respectively by the same William
T. Paul. The reduction in taxes comes to about
$1.00 per terce so that the above Mr. Schrey
of Sitka was ahead jus": $27.00 thru the know!
edge and work of this “Destroyer of business."
A number of shippers in Alaska ship over 1000
terces of mild cured salmon out each year—
■S10OQ ijt taxes are saved to such as these, and
yet these men ,and ^companies refuse abso
lutely to give the least credit to the man who
made this possible. Rather some of these are
doing everything in their power to destroy the
usefulness of Mr. Paul -in the future.
It is true that Mr. Paul did not get these
taxes reduced to win the special favor of these
producers. He did it because these taxes were
unjust. An acquaintance of ours shipped 800
terces of salmon in 1924 and paid a tax of over
$1100.00. There is no more hazardous business
than mild curing. And yet no business is of
greater importance to the permanent residents
of Alaska. On this industry depends the several
thousands of trollers who make ;towns like
Ketchikan, Wrangell and many others possible.
Then why tax them out of all proportion?
“Give the devil his due.”
“HE COULD NOT READ OR WRITE”
The first protest ever made against the abso
lute waste of herring was made by an old Indian
named Chief Joseph, otherwise known as Jos
eph Lewis of Wrangell Alaska. A number of
years ago, he rowed a distance of forty miles
to complain to the authorities that Joseph’s
Bay, used as a natural pound by herring fish
ermen, was literally covered with dead herring,
and wanted to know if there was not a way to
stop this wicked waste of a fine food fish. This
was before the days of the White Fish Law,
and nothing could be done. Poor Joseph could
not understand that, but we had to tell him
that that was his fault because he “could not
read or write.”
GOVERNOR GEORGE A. PARKS
We wish to commend Governor Parks at this
time for his prompt attention to matters of
vital interest to resident Alaskans.
In fishery matters he is handicapped by a
Burer.u of Fisheries that is either brainless or
else cowardly and afraid to get the facts in
telligently and fearlessly.
Let big capital as represented by the salmon
rnd 1 erring packers get out of politics. It has
happened that Bureau officials who have done
their duty have been “transferred for the good
of th e cause.”
On April 28, 1925, Edward G. Morrissey wrote
an editorial entitled: “It appears somebody did
lie.” This was following the report of the April
grand jury whitewashing the Ketchikan Creek
district.
We are now awaiting an editorial from the
same person to be entitled: “Somebody did
NOT lie,” since the October grand jury has
corroborated the speeches of Sutherland, Paul
and Runt?