go to California or Eastern schools.
21. Why do your bright and ener
getic boys and girls seek employ
ment and homes elsewhere?
Ans. For the same reason that
you quit your $3,000 job in Alaska
and took the $5,000 job in Seattle.
22. Why are there two docks?
Ans. For convenience of business.
One is a bonded dock. The other
dock was too small to accomodate
the business.
23. Why is such a small portion
of your people up at eight in the
morning?
Ans. That depends on the time
of the year. In the summer they are
ail up at five or better. In the win
ter, we find the winter passes faster
while we sleep, and we can make it
on two meals a day.
24. Why are there not more kit
chen gardens, flower beds and lawns?
Ans. These plants grow only in the
summer. At this very time, the
population is busy from dawn
till dark trying to make enough to
keep them during the winter. Too,
tery many of the people are out of
town.
25. Why are there so many pleas
ure boats and so few workboats?
Ans. That is not true. Even what
appears to be a “pleasure boat” is
a work boat. The term “pleasure
car” has been dropped, you know.
Looks are very deceiving sometimes.
26 Why are the streets so nar
row and the trucks so wide that the
pedestrian has to get off the road?
Ans. That is merely the “Seattle
Spirit.” As to the trucks, we will
Fpeak to the manufacturers about
that.
27. Why is there not more tour
ist and other travel up the Stikine?
Ans. See answer to question 16.
28. Why do you not attempt re
gional cooperative publicity with
other communities in Southeastern
Alaska?
Ans. See answer to next ques
tion.
29. Why not through your repre
sentatives ask the legislature to ar
range for and support general pub
licity for the Territory
Ans. We found that such meas
ures can only be passed if managed
Ly the federal governor and his ma
chine and are used not for adver
tising the country, but for giving
their henchmen a job. That was
what was done when Alaska had an
official publicity department. Stroll
er White was given the job at
$5,000. He wrote a few pamphlets
and spent his time abusing the Na
tive races of Alaska. Even such a
worthy institution as the Territorial
Museum is debauched for political
purposes. We have a good curator,
lut an absolute ignoramus for his
assistant. Her spirit of “assistance"
is shown by a statement she once
made, “Why do I have to work?
This job is given me because of my
husband’s political work.” The
last legislature tried to give and
Thought it gave the right of selec
tion to the curator, but alas, the
Governor said “Hire her again” and
since the Governor can fire the cura
tor, what could he do? Territorial
publicity would mean territorial
subsidy to the enemy newspapers
that now fatten in our land because
of federal patronage. You have
seen Republican newspapers without
any public printing while the Demo
cratic newspaper got the printing
WITHOUT BIDDING FOR IT. Again
when bids were let, we have seen
the competitors of the Democratic
paper thrown out for trivial reasons,
such as “no return date was speci
fied,” but never thrown out when
the Democrat got the bid even at a
price of 50 per cent higher than
war prices.
30. Why is the whine of the sea
gull and the croak of the raven
heard in your midst instead of the
the noise of hammer and saw?
Ans. Because the seagulls and
The ravens stay in Alaska; and be
cause 90 per cent of the fish caught
(or about 70,000,000) are caught
by Seattle residents in their fish
traps. We cannot go there and fish
nT^iftBa we become citizens of Wash
ington (12 months residence is
quired for that). But they co
here by the thousands, about 15,(
fishermen every summer at pri
much greater than are paid lo
residents. In Bristol Bay, out
3,000 fishermen, only two w
Alaskans. Canneries give these i
signers “run money” and guar
tee their net earnings, usually 13
Therefore, when the heavy run
on, our local fishermen are laid
'•.’hile the foreigners catch the i
They must earn their guarant
you know, Mr. Garfield. Some c
aeries in this Division DID N
BUY ANY FISH from a local fist
man, getting all their fish fr
i.heir foreign owned traps. Supp
Mr. Garfield, all the fish in Alai
were caught by Seattle reside]
what would become of the towns
Wrangell, Petersburg, Douglas, p
cf Ketchikan, Sitka, Hoonah, Hail
Angoon, Killisuoo, Kake, Craig, 1
daburg, Klawock, Sazman, and o
t':l* towns?
It is the business of catching 1
that keeps up the fishing towns
the First and Third Divisions. (
of every ten fish caught in Alas
NINE are caught by foreign
who bring all their supplies in t
take all their earnings out, buy
only gasoline in Alaska.
On top of that, these cannei
have large stores which they i
“commissaries.” They get tl
freight into Alaska for $5.00
ton, while the local merchant p
from $8.50 and upward, so that
cannery merchant competes w
our local merchant and has all
best of it. Seattle saw to it that
Jones Marine Law prohibits us fr
using Prince Rupert and gett
through rates.
if the people of Alaska ever Wi
lip to what the SEATTLE SPII
does to us, the “whine of the a
gull and the croak of the rav«
will be heard in the Alaska Dept
ment of the Seattle Chamber
Commerce, and the buzz of the t
and the noise of the hammer,
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