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MHT DUCt'SSKK .ILA8KA FLSHKfUHK.
The question of the perpetuation of the Alaska Fisheries has be
«ob« a favorite topic for discussion and comment among: the newspapers
<rf the East. -Several papers recently have contained long: articles on
the subject, and they have elicited not a little comment. The Boston
Herald recently contained a whole page, with several illustrations, (riving
a fairly accurate review of the situation with a history of the salmon in
dustry beginning with the Sacramento River in the ’60s and coming
aorthward through Oregon and Washington to Alaska says the Cordova
Commenting upon the article and the action of Secretary Hoover
In setting apart reservations in certain parts of Alaska, in an editorial
leader, the Herald says:
The commission of the Federal Bureau of Fisheries reports that
last year the salmon canneries of Alaska packed and distributed thruout
the United States and Europe over 250,00ft.000 cans of salmon, requiring
for this huge product, and also for local and chilled demand, not less
than 70,000,000,000 of large fish. Of course it cannot be expected that
this tremendous and increasing drain upon the finest game and com
mercial fish of either ocean' can continue without affecting the supply.
Elsewhere in this issue of the Herald will be found a startling
story of the approaching extinction of the Alaskan salmon, due to the in
satiable demand of the canners, unless Congress acts promptly to estab
lish systematic and rigid control by the Federal Government so as to
regulate the catch and protect the spawning fish. Thus far. held back
by various selfish interests, on the Pacific Coast, each one bent only on
present profit. Congress has been slow to act. An “investigation” has
been ordered. Investigation is all right. It is the favorite indoor
spo^t of Congress and generally leads nowhere. Meantime the canner
ies grow In number and capacity and the salmon decrease.
A few years ago the paters of Puget Sound and the Columbia
River were alive with salmon. That region furnished nearly all the
canned salmon demanded by the country. From these waters the
salmon have now vanished-so completely that of last season's total pack,
th© coasts of Washington and Oregon furnished less than 2 0 per cent.
Now the slaughter has moved on to Alaska. Commissioner of Fisheries,
himself a West coast man and a specialist in salmon fisheries, predicts
only three more years of large pack from Alaskan waters and the-n the
rapid decrease of fish toward extinction. This is a serious business for
the whole nation, for which, and especially for crowded Eastern cities,
canned salmon is a staple food.
Secretary Hoover, true to his noteworthy record as a food expert,
appealed to Congress a year ago for an adequate law to establish super
vision by the Bureau of Fisheries over the number of salmon to be
caught and to protect spawning. Congress failed to act. and the Presi
dent, at the Secretary’s request, declared a limited area of Alaskan waters
a Federal reservation; established the total catch therein and apportion
ed this amount among ca-nners. Of course complaint was loud, principal
ly because no newcomers were allowed.
The President acted none too soon, but his proclamation is limited
to one year, and immediate legislation is «ecessar.v. Unless a well
known law is promptly passed the Alaskan salmon will practically dis
appear before 1930. Congress should pass an effective bill and should
pass it quickly.
The editor of the Cordova Times calls attention to the fact that
The Boston Herald Is in error in one particular. The reservations estab
lished through the President’s proclamations were not limited to one
year, but stand until abrogated by competent authority.
rilKl'lT OK WAR GKAFTKKS.
Another set of suits started to recover mofley unlawfully obtained
from the government by war contiactors is proof of the sincerity of the
present administration in its attitud * tovard the colossal zraft that
scandalized the world, says the Omaha lice of recent date. This lime
!h** men who profited inordinately at t’t* expense of fh»* public In cor.
•tructing camps for training troops are piled to account.
Excepting possibly the air craft scandal, no part of the war pre
paration was more tinctured by the idea that Uncle Sam was fair game
and should be plucked while the plucking was going on than the building
I of ihe camps. Not all the blame for ’his rests on the contractors, hew
« ver. Some portion rightfully belongs to the men in authority, who saw
•he reckless waste going on under thei- . yes and made no effort to check
Ample publicity was given at the time. Newspapers ami periodi
cal of various kinds carried accounts of the prodigal expenditures that
went on wherevpr a camp was constructed; some of this was referred to
with pride, a^ showing the energy and capacity of Americans; sometimes
it was treated lightly, as if the waste of public money was a good joke:
tometimes seriously, because patriotism regretted the weakening cf the
moral fiber of the nation that accompanied such wholesale disregard of
sound business principles and common honesty.
Eighty or ninety millions of dollars mentioned by the Department
of Justice as possible of recovery from contractors represents but a part
> of the sum involved. These contractors can be reached : it will never be
possible to reach all who shared in the loot, from the man who took wages
he knew he did not earn to the man who received pay for goods he did
not deliver.
If the suits succeed in driving home even a part of the responsibil
ity they, will be of service. Americans have been lenient, even lax. in
dealing with those who dissipate public funds, and who turn a public
trust into a private snap. Yet a sterner morality is coming to govern
If a bonus is to be paid the soldiers in the shape of adjusted compensa
tion or whatever form it may take, it should be supported on a better
| basis than that the men who fought were deprived of the privilege en
| joyed by those who stayed at home, that of looting the Treasury of their
j Americans owe it to themselves that they stand clean before the
World, and they will not be clean until the war
grafter has received hi<
THKI.lt PAPER AXI) OITR ('ASH.
For what wt* furnished the allied nations during the war we
hold their paper promises to pay. For whai the allied nations furnished
us they hold our cash. No cancelation scheme that he yet been proposed
suggests that the cash be handed back in return for the wiping off of a
like amount of paper promises. The allies find it convenient to refer
to the material we furnished as being for the common object of winning
the war. intimating that we should expect no pay for it, but the services
and material furnished by them for the use of the American army has
already been recompensed with good American gold. There is no sug
gestion of the common object for which that was used.
NO ONE STOPPING HIM.
The chaplain of Columbia University says it would be a practical
application of the charity of Abraham Lincoln to remit the Allied debt
to this country. He is wrong. The transaction would involve breaking
faith with every taxpayer and Liberty Bond owner i-n the country, and
the saddling of an additional burden of $11,000,000,000 upon the public
Treasury. That was not Lincoln’s brand of Americanism, neither did he
extend charity at the expense of his countrymen. If the learned Colum
bia divine wishes to do his part toward the cancellation of the debt he ca<n
send his Liberty Bonds to any of the debtor governments, but he should
not urge others to do the same.
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