run money) was $14,260.38.
The trap fish had a value of $80,575.86.
The $14,000. was spent in Alaska.
The $S0,000. WAS SPENT IN SEATTLE.
DOWN WITH ALL FISH TRAPS.
THE “GOOD AUTHORITY” ON FISH
From the Juneau Empire we gather the following
headline and editorial. We make comment first. It.
is very natural and right for Mr. Timson, head of the
Alaska Packers’ Association to praise the Bureau of
Fisheries. Ever since ine famous reservation order was
made in Bristol Bay, the Alaska Packer s have been
making the fish regulations, not for the benefit of the
fish or the population of Alaska, but for the benefit of
his company, which spends annually about ten million
dollars in San Francisco preparing for the fishing sea
son in Alaska.
What makes Timson a real authority on fish?
Simply the fact that he is backed by millions of
dollars. Alaskans will not be satisfied with such an ex
pert, for to Alaskans an Expert is one who has the
knowledge and courage to use it for the benefit of the
common good.
“(iOOl) AUTHORITY ENDOSES FISHERIES BUREAU'*
The Ketchikan Chronicle quotes William Timson,
head of the Alaska Packer’s Association, as crediting
the rigorous regulations of the Bureau of Fisheries fo;
the big salmon run in the Bristol Bay country this year
Mr. Timson is competent authority if there is compe
tent authority. No one has followed the salmon game
with closer application or greater intelligence than in1
lias, and no one is more likely to express his forthiighi.
conclusions.
While we have felt, and still believe, that it is prob
ably too soon to determine whether the regulations of
the Bureau of Fisheries are helping the situation, we
are free to admit that there would be a lot of comfort
able assurance in the premises it it could be proved
that the question of the permanent supply of salmon
had been solved.
TIIOIBLE WITH WORKERS WITH
BRAINS
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A certain agency organized to
handle industrial problems for pri
vate firms on a fee system reported
that it was called in on a strike in
a texlile mill somewhere in New
England. This association of indus
trial psychological experts found
that the strike in this mill was caus
ed by dissatisfaction in a certain
department of the plant employing
women exclusively, that one or two,
other departments had gone out. 5n
sympathy but had stated no griev
ance of their own. These experts in
terviewed the strikers, and found
that about 25 per cent of them were
very intelligent women who were
employed to do automatic, very mo
notonous, and unintelligent work.
These were perfectly furious in their
demand for higher pay, shorter
hours, etc.; 15 per cent were indif
ferent, had simply gone out be
cause the strike was called, hut thot
they could use a dollar or so more
a week; 60 per cent, when inter
viewed privately, were entirely sat
isfied, according to the report, thot
everything was alright and were
ready to go back to work. This as
sociation of experts therefore in
formed the firm that the trouble was
in hiring people with too much
brains to do brainless work, offer
ed to furnish a sufficient number of
morons to take the places of the un
duly intelligent ones, and closed the
deal. This was done, and the asso
ciation of experts brags about it.
IN BULL IN THE CAIHXET
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It is unfortunate that, the Senate
is net in session so that it could
promptly reject the appointment of
Rov O. West of Chicago as secretary
of the Interior.
It is difficult to imagine how a
more unhappy selection could ha'\ o
been made. West has been intimate
ly aS30Ciated with Samuel Insuil,
power magnate of Chicago, over a
period of 30 years, and has large
holdings in Insuil companies.
Insuil, it will be recalled was the
man whose reprehensible activities
in the Illinois primary of 19 2 G
caused the senate to refuse to seat
Frank L. Smith.
Further, he has been a leader in
organizing propoganda machine of
the power interests, the activities of
which, exposed by the federal trade
commission, have been so widely
condemned. It was this propoganda
machine that organized the lobby to
defeat the Walsh resolution. It has
spared no effort to defeat the Bould
er Dam and Muscle Shoals bills, to
forestall federal regulation of pow
er, and to defeat public ownership
New we find a close associate of
this man Instill sitting in the cabinet
and the post he occupies is the one
which has the most to do with pow
er matters.
As Interior Secretary, West will
direct activities of the newly-form
ed commission to investigate the en
gineering aspects of the Boulder
Dam project, which power interests
are trying hard to undermine.
He also becomes an ex-officio of
the federal power commission, whose
duty it is to issue licenses for the
de\elopment of water power on
navigable streams.
He also controls water power sites
on Indian lands, and the granting
of rights-of-way across public do
main.
It is obvious that his connection
unfit him for the post. There should
he no Insull influence in the most
important job in the government,
relating to power at this juncture,
when power is perhaps the most im
portant of the issues confronting
the country.—The Tribune.
Teacher: “What is the interest
on $500 for one year at 2 per cent?
Moses, pay attention.”
Moses: “For 2 per cent I’m not
interested.”