of the entire school district.
They payments for maintenance
and operation of the general de
partments of Long Beach, Calif., for
fiscal year ending June 30, 1926,
amounted to $4,850,490, or $51.38
per capita. In 1925 the compara
tive per capita for maintenance and
operation of general departments
was $45.46, the greater per capita
shown for 1926 being largely due,
to increased expenditures for edu
cational purposes. Payments for
the operation of public service en
terpriser (waterworks, gas supply
system, markets, docks, wharves
and cemeteries) amounted to $1,
430,630; interest on debt, $705,
096 and outlays for permanent im
provements, including those for
public service enterprises $5,483,
503. The total payments, there
fore, for expenses of general depart
ments and public service enterpris
es, inetrest, and outlays, including
schools were $12,469,719.
Of this amount $18,231 repre
sents payments by a city depart
ment or enterprises to another on
account of services.
The total payments included
for the schools amounted to $4,094,
560. Of this am,ount $2,245,634
represents the expenses for main
tenance; $299,241, interest on
debt;and $1,549,675, outlays. The
totals include all payments for the
year, whether made from current
revenues or from the proceeds of
bond issues.
The total revenue receipts of
Long Beach for 1926, including
schools, were $10,096,306, or
$106.60 per capita.
(Editor’s note—Those who think
the Alaska Legislature Is too liberal
with her school system should re
read the above. Then it should be
remembered that Mr. Paul intro
duced a law to give our smaller
towns 90 per cent refund for
schools).
A4v«rtlM tm TBS r«HB»MAN
“Low Down On A
High-Up”
Juneau, Alaska
August 15, 1927
Editor The Alaska Fisherman
Ketchikan, Alaska
Dear Sir:
An article contained in The Alas
kan of Petersburg, announcing the
candidacy of Senator Bartley How
ard against Dan Sutherland explains
certain occurrences of the last le
gislative session at Juneau.
I was a close observer of the do
ings of our solons and particularly
of the antics of Senator Howard;
some of his antics are now explain
All
I was present when Delegate
Sutherland addressed the joint ses
sion on the Controller Bill and hap
pened to be watching Howard when
Sutherland said that no doubt some
of the legislators had been told by
the lobbyists that they were the
logical candidates for the delegate
ship or governorship. Howard, who
has no control over his emtions, im
mediately showed his anger at
Sutherland and continued to show
it all through the session.
Howard had surely swallowed the
bait, hook, line and sinker before
Sutherland made his speech to the
legislature and Sutherland’s ran
dom guess cut to the quick with
Howard as he had already sold out
to Troy and Company. One hates
to have his perfidy called to hiB at
tention in the innocent manner that
Sutherland shot it into Howard.
This is why the honorable Bartley
spent most of his time knocking
Sutherland and his friends.
If Senator Howard will now in
form the Alaska public as to where
his funds come from with which to
pay for his political tour of the
Territory, all will be clear.
The salmon canners announced
last winter that they were sick and
tired of financing campaigns against
Sutherland but it appears that
some of them are willing to try
it again. Perhaps Bartley's fund
will not be as large as Marquam’s
on account of the small run of sal
mon this year. At th© time Bart
ley sold out to the cannerymen the
salmon run was in the future and
they had hope3 of a big pack and
plenty of money to corrupt Alaska
elections and hence wer© generous
in their promises.
SUBSCRIBER.
PRACTICAL versus “ARM CHAIR
EXPERT FISHERMEN”
During the month of May The
Alaskan stated editorially that in
dications in the fishery industry
pointed to a very poor season; tl^e
lack of salmon in the Stikine Riv
er and the uncertain and peculiar
run of king salmon had all the ear
marks of the non-run of salmon.
The Empire pointed with pride to
the heavy operations and expense
of the Packers in the spring pre
parations for the canning of sal
mon. The packers themselves were
lulled into the belief of continued
big runs of salmon and by the re
ported “Amazing Increase” made
by Secretary Hoover last August.
The season has vindicated The
Alaskan in its statements as re
gards the unstable condition of the
industry and lack of sufficient es
capement of seed to spawning
grounds. Those who fought the
destructive methods employed by
the canuers were more the friends
of the industry in particular and the
Territory in general than the sub
sidized press which declared us to
be “radicals.” Instead of radical
ism we would declare The Ala3kan,
The Alaska Fishermen and their
supportors to be of the real school
of conservatism.
Did the Bureau of Fisheries and
the industry heed the warning note
of Resident Practical Fi3hermen
rather than to “swivel-chair ex
perts”, the industry would be in
far healthier condition today and
the future of the fishing industry
would be insured.—The Alaskan.