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F V K I. r It O It L K M
WITH A QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS or so in wage earnings
a?one leaving the country every fall, mainly because the present high price
of coal precludes winter mining and* prospecting, and with the industries
of the district at the lowest ebb they have ever been as a result of lack of
production, due principally to that same cause, it behooves the people of
this section to make a determined effort to relieve the condition as speedil>
as possible if they desire to stay here much longer.
As is well known to nearly every one in the district who is in
the least cognizant of its resources, there is an unlimited supply of high
grade coal at Lisburne, within a few hundred miles of Nome, which, i.'
mined and placed on the market would speedily resolve the all important
fuel problem. The coal is there in abundance; it is easily accessible'
and can be loaded direct from the mine into a ship's hold by means of a
cable and tripod; numerous tests have demonstrated that it compares vdry
favorably in quality with the costly Outside product and that it can be
had at a price far below that we now pay.
All that is required is to find ways and means to bring it to Nome
and other centers where it may be distributed to those who need it
With no greater difficulties than this to overcome and with a complete
resolution of our greatest problem dependent only on a little effort, why
cannot we,develop energy enough to make that effort and in so doing
increase our prosperity and add to our industries?
Under the present system of distribution the people of Nome not
only pay an exorbitant price for coal but also put up each fall practica'lj
every bit of the money required to finance the operations of the coal
company through the entire year. With the exception of a small per
centage paid out in wages, every cent of the money leaves the country
immediately and never returns. In this way alone forty or fiftv thousand
dollars slip away from the community each fall which could be retained
here by the simple process of taking advantage of the coal resources
lying almost at our doors. Furthermore, in addition to retaining this
coal money here, utilization of our own coal would provide employment
for a considerable number of people, thereby adding still further t<> the
benefits derived from keeping the money at home.
Realizing that cheap fuel is the key to development and that unless
it is provided it is only a question of a short time before stagnation of*
industry will force most of us to leave the country; realizing too that it
will require no great effort or outlay of capital to obtain this all important
object, can we not make at least an attempt in that direction ? Will
we continue to let industry languish; let hundreds of thousands of dollar-,
slip away from us each year; let .ourselves be gradually forced out of the
country as a result of a condition which it is plainly in our power to
relieve, merely because wj^-will not take advantage of the things that He
at our doors?
We must have cheaper fuel or close up shop- and seek other fields.
It is no use to wait for Outside fuel to come down in price; for it won’t. A
dollar or two, perhaps, but no more. That won’t help the situation any.
What we require is coal at half the price. Unlimited supplies of it are
waiting at Lisburne and if there is any get-up-and-git spirit left in the
community we will go after it. Cooperation will do it. so why not lay
aside our petty animosities and bickerings and scandal mongerings and
open our eyes to worth while things long enough to see that by a little
concerted effort we may obtain* the cheap fuel upon which the future
industrial prosperity of the community wholly depends.
T O WAR.
SECRETARY OF WAR WEEKS declared recently that in time of
war the nation should not only mobilize its man power but also draft
money and manufactures under the conscription law.
With the nation engrossed with the war prevention activities of
the Arms Conference, the Secretary's statement apparently attracted no
great amount of attention with respect to its bearing on the war eradi
ation problem; yet time and events have shown that embodied in the
Secretary’s terse declaration is a more.efficacious remedy for war than
any yet proposed before the great gathering of world powers at- Wash
ington. The reason is this. Not one war in twenty is launched for any
other reason than that It Is highly profitable to those who supply the
Means, the tools, the implements and supplies, by which war is waged
Rem9ve (he prospect of large profits accruing from war, by conscripting
the money and produotive resources of tfie nation on the same basis and |
with the same low scale of remuneration for services rendered""9s is I
teceived by the manpower resources, and war would speedily become a !
decidedly unpopular diversion, .resorted to only when it could not be I
avoided. Facing a prospect of small profits from production, combined
with willy nilly use of private wealth by the government, those who repre- j
sent the controlling interests of the nations would speedily develop~an
antipathy to war which only the most aggravated affronts or aggressions
could remove and which would he a surer preventative of international
struggle than all the treaties and agreements ever devised by man to
that end.
A X r X W H O I. K S O >1 K K X A M I* I. K
VVITIf PUBLIC SKXTIMEXT strongly inclined to ascept the Con
gressional verdict in a somewhat contrary spirit, we should not be sur
prised to find that the democrats are not fur off the mark in expecting
that the confirmation of Truman II. Newberry will result in their winning
control of the Senate. The lean quality of the news service in this remote
corner of the world permits of little insight into the long drawn Senate
battle over the question of whether Newberry should he permitted to hold
his seat; hut enough of the facts have reached us to show that the fight was
based more on the exigencies of politics than on the moral issues involved.
To ail appearances the issue was fought out purely on party lines, with
the question of whether Newberry was morally entitled to the seat, or
whether he attained it by fair means or foul, receiving t>ut little considera
tion. except perhaps on the minority side. The democrats naturally
seized upon the moral question but whether their fight to oust Newberry
vas anuimated by the moral issue or a desire to decimate and discrcdP
their republican opponents is a question only themselves can answer
The fact remains, however, that as a result of the matter being reduce ! j
to a political basis, the nation has been provided the unwholesome exam pie j
of the chief law making body of fh«* land seating a man whom the taint I
of political corruption has made notorious throughout the length and
breadth of the laud. One must indeed bn broadly tolerant of political
misdealings if he does not find in such an example something to regret
Newberry may be all right personally, but at the. same time the revela
tions of the Michigan election fraud trials were not of a character to lead
to the view that he is as immaculate a.« we would like to have those who
set in the high places of the nation. To the mind of most people one
meets it was dun only to that complaisant providence which seems so
often to safeguard wealthy men from the toils of the law that Newberry
did not share the fate of many of the large number who were tried and
convicted for their connection with his election.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
Th** fellow who is willing to “gh ■
you the shir* off his :-.ack" generCh
has hi« coat buttoned up.—Hyd*"
The catch id' heaver and marten
this winter will be unusually larg
in Alaska- but most of the pelts will
come front the caches created durine
the closed season.—Nonana News.
By accepting the appointment a
assistant l\ S. attorney in th.- fourth
division. Senator Collins automatic
ally ceased to he a senator. An*
there any more office holders who
must choose if they will be federal
or territorial officials? If so. it
would be well to step down and out
before your names are called.- Jun
Justice is no respector of color in j
tb* Fourth division of Alaska at
least. Last spring a white man was.
hanged at Fairbanks following a ■
conviction of murder for killing an
other white man. The other day
an Indian was hanged there for kill
mg another Indian. These two ex
ecutions are likely to make gunmen ]
of the interior think more and not
be so quick with the trigger. Jun
eau Empire.
At a moment when the administra
tion at Washington is showing such
an active and helpful interest in Al
aska and really endeavoring to do
something in the development of th«
territory, it certainly seems out of
order—a tactical blunder, to say the
least—for the commercial associa
tion of Juneau to display a spirit of
antagonism toward the first admin
istration measure proposed. Kef
chikan Chronicle.
uated with worldly emit.'
is supplying* many of the:
of mining
being: made about what ihev are
doing, there are many little mining
propositions in this section of th •
territory that are being developed
and are proving of great value and
are destined to become heavy pro
ducers within one or two years. A
big mining proposition is not devel
oped in a day or a year, but several
years and much capital are required
to demonstrate whether it is valu
able. or worthless.-—Stroller's Week
The man or men responsible for
the enactment of the present law a:
lowing an open season for heaver,
evidently has never hunted or trap
peel for a living, or hi* would know
that no act could have been passed
inure detrimental to the propagation
of these land fur-bearing animals
In this division the law allows
these fur hearers to be caught at a
time when the country Is locked in
sordid bands of ice. The trapper
who takes beaver from Xovembe*- to
April will be compelled to destroy
the dams and houses, and where this
is done the animals escaping the
trap or spear will either starve to
death or be run out of their homes
to be preyed upon by wolverines and
other predatory animals.
While beavers have propagated
rapidly during the closed season, one
winter’s trapping under the present
law will see whole colonies starved
—Valdez Miner.
TIIOS. IHtWTON OPENS EIGHT
ON (MHKHNMKNT
Journalist i<- Aspirant for llflt'itiitc
to <‘oiigr«*s« Write* Letter to
(iovrnior Done.
(From the Alaska Dispatch, i
Thos. II Drayton. .-Mask - repre
sentative of Henry Ford, the auto
mobile builder, and active aspirant
for nomination for delegate to ('on
areas in the April prinuir; . has
opened his fight in Alaska. On 0«
tober 2<» be wrote the following let
administration. Governor Gore and
Delegate Sutherland if hetroyingi
the people of Alaska by allowing ;
Colonel Mears to continue as tin
head of the commission building th •
government railroad in Alaska.
The letter of Drayton to Govern »r
Done is as follows:
Seward. Alaska. Oct 20. 10 2!
To His Excellency, the Governor,
Juneau. Alaska
Your Excellency: If you are cot
rertly quoted in interview printed i"
the Juneau Daily Empire of Thurs
day. October G. 1921. 1 wish to enter
a formal protest against the deoep-1
tinn of the public by the publication j
of the false and misleading state- i
ments therein given out as facts. |
You am made to say In the allog !
ed interview that “The government ;
railroad between Seward and Broad
pass is in excellent condition.'* and J
that (you) had heard adverse re-j
ports on this project. Dut I am glad i
to say that they were without jnsti-j
word* were merely a repetition of;
things put in your mind by personal
interested in concealing the facts |
'PliI-j is shown by tin further state- :
road in a special car at night The
subterfuge thus practiced upon you
trained journalist as you are should
have been hoodwinked.
You have publicly declared your
self interested in and kindly dispo- j
ed toward the Alaskan people. I am !
inclined to believe in your sincerity. |
and will now give you an opportunity ,
to demonstrate your good fait’::
which, unhappily, many Alaskan- j
To that end I charge specifically j
that the quoted statements attribu*-I
e^to you are false in fact: that the j
government railroad construction
work is so far inferior in every way 1
that much of the line will have to !>•'
virtually rebuilt to be of any value
as a transportation means: that the j
official statement that it will b 1
“completed" during the present year j
was and is known to be false by the j
men in charge of the project: that
the present attempt to procure a fur- j
ther appropriation from congress is ,
but another of a series to he expect- j
ed. and that such future appeals to j
Congress will he, as in the past, has- ,
ed upon specious pretexts devised to !
suit the occasion and the temper of i
Congress at the moment; and that
the uniform policy of the Alaska on- |
gineering commission has been, and
now is. to prolong the job indefinite- 1
These things I have repeatedly ;
charged in the public press, and I 1
doubt not that you yourself know full i
well that every forecast I have made
on this subject during recent years j
has proved to be true with an exacti j
tude of detail as if made after the
I happening of the events anticipated
| and publicly predicted.
The personnel of the Alaskan en
f gineering commission is a menace to
Alaska and the Alaskan people. Our
delegate in congress. Mr. Sutherland,
has betrayed our interests by es
pousing and supporting those of the
holdover politicians massuerading as
railroad builders. He will ho
brought to judgment at the next
election, but we have no recourse
against yourself if you persist in mis
leading congress and your country
men in respect of this railroad sran
Xow. as proof of your good faith,
i ask you to advise an impartial con
gressional investigation of this pro
ject before more of the public funds
are entrusted to these railroad polf
I am a candidate to succeed Mr.
Sutherland and am confident with
• very present indication that 1 will
be elected. If what I charge prove
false then I will be ruined before the
public. ff my charges he true then
further successful concealment of
the scandal should be prevented.
In either event your position in
public esteem in Alaska requires that
you repudiate that interview or prove*
to be fact what I charge to be false,
and the one place to find the facts In
before a congressional committee
empowered to produce and examine
documents and individuals.
With assurances of distinguished
consideration. I am.
Very truly yours.
THOMAS B DRAYTON'.
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..mong many nations. In China, th^*
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sweet and palatable.
The taste for dog’s flesh is of very
early origin The ancients regarded
a voting and fat dog as excellent
food; and Hvppocrates placed it on
a footing with mutton and pork. The
Romans were fond of sucking-pupp
ies. and sacrificed them to the gods.
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