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MIST WORK XOGhTMKK.
No town.can gro» as it should unless its people work together in its
upbuilding. The history of every city that has rapid and substantial
growth will show that united and enthusiastic work of its people had the
greatest part in making it grow. In towns whet^f* a few live men boost
and work the town’s upbuilding and many are indifferent and do nothing,
the work of city building is exceedingly difficult and the result slow in
coming. If all boost and help to bund up the town it :s an easy matter
to make the town push forward.
I1ASIK FOR rONSlU'KKATION
’The .-Sain Francisco Journal contends that the Volstead Act should
be dtseussed from the* standpoint of the practicability of .t« enforcement.
It starts from the basis that governments derive their just powers from
the consent of the governed, and then asks whether or not the sanction
behind tb** Volstead Act is sufficiently genera) to const:: y: the consent
• of the governed as meant by the Declaration of In dependence. It con
tends that it he question as to the moral or economic value of the law as
•it stands is not the point;at issue
This seems a lair basis for the discussion of the problem as it con
•froute the people. There is no doubt, we believe, but that it would be
wonderfully beneficial if the people would refrain from using intoxicating
liquor to such an extent tha.t there would bo no profit n its manufacture
a,nd sale, to such an extent that there would be no riMd for a Volstead
Act. We believe th«ve is nor a doubt but that the abuse of intoxicating
liquor counts for ineffirtieinoy un.d demoralization. Bui -hat is not by any
means the whole quest!©*—it i*. not now the main question so for as it
concerns the maintenance of the Volste&d Act. in its present form, on the
statute books. The main question is as to whether not the people
have beep educated to the point .that they will sacrifice habit or con
viction sufficiently to give the necessary popular sanction to the Volstead
Act to permit of its enforcement or whether or not the law w.ll con
tinue to be violated so generally that disrespect for all may result. That
snggests that perhaps it would be better so to modif.- he law that its
enforcement would meet with that popular sanction which would he
governed.
There is no dobut at all but that the lawless traffic in liquor as now
carried on In every part of the United States, the more or less open vio
lation of the law by those of all classes in the country, the excessive use
of intoxicating liquor behind closed doors, without the restraints of police
regulation and public observance or the inspection of pure food officers,
has created an intolerable condition, measurelessly more harmful than
would be the lawful use of light wines and beer with proper restraints.
In an editorial the New York World say* Mr. Coolidge is commonly
regarded as a man or mystery, us the greatest enigma turning to the
Presidency'. Tyler had a political career and was w> ll known to the
people when on Harrison’s death he became President. Andrew John
son had been war governor of Tennessee and had achieved distinction in
the Senate before he was called to the White House. Arthur was well
known at least to the politicians, and Roosevelt, of course, had been a j
popular ligure as the Rough Rider and governor of New York. None
of the four was caught up out of obscurity and unexpectedly thrust upon
the attention of the country. If Mr. Coolidge us vice-president, has been
l.;tie in the public eye and has lived a life of self-effacement in \A ashing
t« n, be hus been no different from the average vice-president, whose
functions have been mainly to preside over the Senate and make occas
i.nal public addresses.
Yet Mr Coolidge is no great * n grna to those who have studied the
picture of his taking the oath of office as President in the Plymouth Notch
farmhotise. He is a product of New England, a true New Rnglander with
all the downeaster’s faults and virtues, all his tenacity and grim con
scientiousness. ali his reserve anil deliberation. The country can he ccr- |
tain that he will do nothing rash, 'hat he will not be stampeded into
action of sudden folly.
Mr. Coolidge is no strange tpy. His roots go deep into the soil of
the American continent. He comes of a breed of men who have been
farmers and toilers among his native lulls. From boyhood, life to him
was no easy road to travel, but an ascent to be won by grim determina
tion. The members of the farm bloc and so-called "dirt farmers” will
have nothing to boast of as against this unassuming man who has be
come President. For. the son -f a Vermont former, he was helping i
his old father in the hay fields when h** came into the highest office in
the land. Calvin Coolidge is no "dirt” farmer but a "rock" farmer of
New England, born of a race which blasted mountains to grow their t
, bread. He. the true Vermonter, should easily find kinship with Magnus ;
Johnson of Minnesota.
If Calvin Coolidge seems at first glance to be an enigma, it is be- !
cause no one has studied his background. There is the key to his
character. Quiet, self-contained master of himself he unquestionably is.
v*ith none of the facile arts of the professional politician. He lias never j
been a grand-stander. not. even in the Boston police, strike. The country j
has no cause to worry that he is a man who urges change for the sake ^
of change or disturbances for the sake of noise.
\K\V AM) OLD rl STOMK.
Some merchants seem satisfied to take trade as it comes, trusting
to established customers to keep them in business.
Other merchants, in their efforts to attract new trade all the time,
seem content to let the old customers shift for themselves in the matter
of getting service and satisfaction.
One is about as foolish as the other.
The well-rounded selling and advertising policy keeps constantly in
mind the necessity, not merely of attracting new trade, but of satisfying
—amply satisfying all who respond, whether new or old.
The merchant with this policy does n<*t let his attent'on to his •st.ib
lished trade prevent him from reaching out by every legitimate means
Nor does he let himself or h.s salesfolk neglect a single usti ir>er
To gsuw lax in this resp* ct is sinipiy throwins • •■ls’o.-.iers awn.*.
Ar.d *1« y'iv too preciou- for that
While Admiral Chase is not giving out for publication the purpos*
of his visit to Alaska, it's nature being “confidential.” it nevertheless is
of interest to the people of tin* Territory that he and other distinguished
I officers of the department have been detailed t.. the North during the
past year. Cnder the treaty for limitation of naval armament, the
United States is restrained from further building activities at Guam.
However. Alaska offers a place from which naval defenses might operate
ir the midwest or western Pacific in case of necessity.
In this connection it is noted that more naval vessels mid high offic
ers have been in Alaska this year than for many seasons. it is fair
to assume that It is not all accidental, that the department is quietly figur
ing on something for the future.
In its editorial column headed "News of the Day" the Ketchikan j
Chronicle says: Amundsen, they tell us in the dispatches, will not at
tempt his Arctic flight until next year. The news is overwhelming. For
there is no telling what it will do to the price of flour, beans or gasoline.
Don't it get your goat when you’re trying to make a raise of a four-bit
piece from the wife to think of how some people. Amundsen for instance,
can talk a lot of hard-headed governments and financiers out of funds to
make an aerial flight to the North Pole?
Th' story of Uie 1 *12 fishing .nd.ctments returned o> the rccei
K- trhikan grand jury w ulil give the casua: reader an impression th
the cannery companies are direct, linen! descendants of Soapy Smit
and his gang, with a mixture of ('aptain Kidd arid Jesse James thrown
for good measure. The great number of indictments in this install
v ere brought under a law passed by the la-l legislature which underto
in declare closed seasons on salmon fishing in southeastern Alaska.
The canneries in southeastern Alaska have generally consider
that this law was beyond th" power of the legislature to enact becau
It violated that provision .*f the Enabling or Organic Act. which appea
if Section three thereof and prohibits the legislature from altering, aim*
:ng. modifying, or repealing any of "the game, fish. or. fur seal lav
etc.,’ In refusing to obey this law the canneries were acting under *
advice of their attorneys and in no spirit of law defiance or recklessne
There is a well grounded opinion generally held by Alaskan lawyers tl
the law is invalid.
It ma> be stated that the Bureau <>f Fisheries, the organization
which Congress and the President have entrusted the care of Ala.*
salmon, disapprove this law. If the legislature has the power to pi
this law. then it has the power to undo alt the remedial regulatii
which the Bureau may put into effect. Such a condition can result o
in chaos, and in positive harm to the fishiug industry, and loss to t
best interests of the Territory. The most that can be said about
Territorial law, is that it is of doubtful expediency, and of more dou
ful legality. The canneries cannot b»* blamed for declining to obse
it under th»- circumstances, and no general condemnation should
showered upon them for failing to do so. The law has keen passed
in a test case by Judge Reed of the Firs*. Division, and his decision
been appealed to the Circuit Court c.f Appeals. Should the Cir<
Court hold the law .nvalid. as is likely, then the Ketchikan grand j
will have been tilting at windmills with its 102 fishing indictments. .
they will all evaporate into thin ar. and be heard of no more.
In any event, even if the Circuit Court should uphold the law. a
1 suit that is hardly more than a possibility. Ji Ts more than likely t
Congress will affirmatively disapprove it. and thereby render it null
I void, at the request of the Bureau of Fisheries. The great salmon
| dustry of Alaska is not going to be benetitted by two organizat
j legislating for it along different lines, au<l without co-operation, eit
I friendly or otherwise.
The other conditions complained of in the grand jury report reg
I ing narcotics and immoral conditions in the canneries, may be true in
j Bristol Bay region and in some pontons of southeastern Alaska. It
i be stated, however, that the fishing industry of Cordova and vicinit;
j in much better shape in those regards. The people here, with
I1 canneries at their very doors, do not feel so harshly about the fis
game, as. people in the interior mining camps, and in coast towns w
the canneries have not located. Ingnorance of real conditions is *
, gives thi* demagogue and political spellbinder the right t• > get away
a lot of misstatements, and it is the tactics of such gentry that
without just foundation created the widespread prejudice against
fishing industry in the minds of the Alaska voter.
Every once in a while some editor awakens with an awful gro
He thinks ho ha* reasons f..r hating the whole world. it’s all w
ami the way for him to get back i« to growl at the free publicity see'
for he doesn't dare pan very hard those who are giving him the pri«
the ham and eggs. One itch editor woke up in Iowa th** other day
gave th.* world the following classic as io policy:
"Here you will find a schedule of prices from which no devia
tion will be made, but we hope to donate a certain percentage of
our earnings toward founding an asylum for those feeble-minded
people who believe an editor has a soft snap.
"For telling Excelsior readers a man is a successful citizen
when everybody knows he :s as lazy .is a bench wanner. $2.75.
"For referring to some galla van ting fellow as one who is
mourned by the entire community when he will only be missed
by the boozers. $10.18.
'Referring to .me as a hero and a man of courage and one
who will stand by his convictions when everybody knows he is
a moral coward and would sell out for a dime. $4.13.
Referring to some gossipy female as an estimable lady whom
it is a pleasure to meet and know when every man in tow n would
rather see Satan coming, $S.10.
"Calling an ordinary preacher an eminent divine. 54 cts.
"Lambasting th.* daylights out of John Barleycorn at the be
hest of the local dry forces. $0.77.
"Whooping ’em up for the repeal of the Volstead law in the
interests of the local White .Mule Funnel Club. $0.77.
"Referring to a deceased merchant who never advertised and
who was too stingy to contribute toward needed improvements
as a leading citizen and a progressive resident. $344.Ji9.”
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