subject by E. S. TTungerfo"ri, a
logging operator, it is poiid^d
out that th .1 forest, regulations
are so unfair and discriminate'3
that the logger cannot hope to
operate at a profit or even to
sell to the mills, decent timber
A prominent millman stated
to the writer that “twenty-five
per cent of the timber that f
buy is decayed, checked and sc
*notty that it is imposible to get
even deecnt box shooks out of it.
it costs just as much to cut a
rotten log as a sound stick T
cm thereby penalized by the
^orest Department just to per
mit me to operate”
Taxing A Sick Industry
In order to permit the saw
mills to operate with a hope ot
profit, Representative Zicglei
proposes to compo1 the canners
through taxation, to use Alaska
box shooks or pay the higher
rate on fibre containers.
If a doctor prescribed iodine
for a stomach ache, he won! i
be the laughing stock of the
medical fraternity and he would
ase all his patients. The tax on
hbre containers to secure relie
from pains of the lumber indus
try due to unsound, discrimina
tory regulations, is application
of iodine for a stomach ache
The only real cure for the ak
ment is removal cf regulations
that are unsound in busi UoS
and which only penalize the m
dustry.
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PIONEERS PROTEST CHANGE
IN ELECTION LAWS
After having gene on record
at their meeting a week ago as
opposing the recommendation
of Governor Parks to make the
offices of Commissioner of Edu
cation and Highway Engineer
appointive instead of elective,
Anchorage Pioneers put their
protest in the form of a resolu
tion last evening and the docu
ment has gone forth to Juneau,
with a request to the members
of the Third Division delegation
sion to change the present law.
The resolution follows:
Resolution
W nereas, The Pioneers of
Alaska believe in a republican
form of government and that as
far as possible the people o..
the Territory have an inalien
able right to choose by ’cr Hot
their own officials and servant
r,nd vehemently decry bureau
cracy in any form, as subvert
.'ve of the principles of demo
cracy; now therefore,
Be it resolved, That Ieji^o No.
>5, Pioneers of Alaska, earnestly
protests against anv <. ;tempr
rn the part of the Territorial
Legislature, now in session at
Juneau, to repeal or to amend or
alter Section 1 of Chapter 115
Section 1 of Chapter 114, the last
paragraph of Section 2 ofChap
ter 118, and Section 12 of Chap
ter 118, of the lows of 1929, or
any part of said laws herein spe
cified, in such manner that the
offices created and provided for
■ herein and thereby shall here
after be filled by appointment
rather than by election.
—Anchorage Tillies.
Outride of the few politicians
whose policy and practise it is to
betray Alaska’s interests to the
federal bureaucrats, there is no
call nor desire to throw thos^
elective offices back to the ap
pointive powers of officers not
ibemselves responsible to Alas
kan control but subordinate only
io official Washington.
This protest and the protest
of all other voters was ignored.
This was a foregone conclusion
and was predicted by this pobli
cation.
CENSUS OF ALASKA
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The Director of the Census
has announced the population
of the Territory of Alaska class
ified by color, nativity, and sex,
as returned in the 1930 census,
together with the number of
persons 21 years of age and over,
and the foreign-born white po
pulation by citizenship. The
total population of the Territory
on October 1, 1930, was 59 c78
comprising 35,764 males and
23,614 females, or an excess of
>2,250 males over females. There
were in the Territory 28,640
white personns, 29.983 Indians,
>-78 Japanese, 164 Filipinos, 136
Negroes and 77 other races, in
cluding Mexicans, Chinese, Ko
leans, and Hawaiians. As com
pared with the number in 1920
-.27,883) the white population
..hows an increase of 2.7 per
cent, while the Indian popula
tion (which numbered 26,538 in
1920) shows an increase of 12.9
per cent. The white population
included 18,460 persons of na
tive birth and 10,136 persons of
foreign birth.
The population 21 years of
age and over, number 33,074,
or 60.9 per cent of the total.
Ihe foreign-born white popula
tion 21 years and over amount
to 9,952 of which 1,411 were re
returned as alien.
If the rate of increase in the
next decade remains at the pre
sent rate of increase—12.9 to
2.7 per cent—the politicians
will be hard put to pass legisla
tion of discriminatory nature as
they have up to and including
•his year. The rate of increase
is limited only to the rate of
educational development and
each year a larger number of
Indian youths are entering and
graduating from the various
schools.
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Crooks are generally those
who were not taught to go
straight early enough.
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God gives us hardships to
keep us from growing soft.
Some prefer being soft to meet
ing hardships.