THE ALASKA FISHERMAN
Published the 15th of each month at Petersburg.
Alaska, by A. N. B. Publishing Co.
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HOW TO DEVELOP ALASKA
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The following article appeared in a recent
exchange in the States and gives an interesting
account of Congressman Edward T. Taylor’s opin
ion as to how to bring about development in the
Morthland. The article follows:
It would pay the United States to pension
every white resident of Alaska $i,000 a
year for life and let him live in this
country.
That startling statement is made by Con
gressman Edward T. Taylor, veteran re
presentative from the western slope, after
a thorough survey of Alaska with fellow
members of the appropriations committee
of the House covering also 10 States. The
idea is a new one, but, Mr. Taylor has
figures to prove his words and also has a
remedy which he thinks will be effective.
“Alaska costs the federal government 12
and one-half millions a year in direct ap
propnauons oesiaes several otner millions,
including one million to keep the railroad
running 450 miles with one train a week
in winter and two trains in summer,”
said Mr. Taylor. “We have over 1,000 gov
ernment employees in Alaska, and the
dwindling. Agriculture there is none, and
white population is only 28 000. It is
99 per cent of foodstuffs are imported.
“I am going to suggest to President Hoov
er a remedy that might prove effective.
That is to suspend our immigration lav/s
as concerns Alaska and import 2,000
farmers from Norway and Sweden who
are accustomed to climates similar to
Alaska. They are the kind of people who
made our great northwest. There are ag
ricultural valleys in Alaska where every
thing can be grown, although the season
is short and the ground thaws out only 18
inches on the average. We could give them
free lands and supplies and establish
them as permanent citizens restricted to
Alaska alone.”
Mr. Taylor and his conferers asked for
suggestions from Alaska people for means
by which Uncle Sam can help them, but
the result was negligible. The fishing in
dustry dees little for Alaska residents, for
it is all handled by imported Japanese,
Chinese and Filipinos. Mining is in the
hands of a very few, and the reindeer in
dustry has no market. Freight rates are so
high that products cannot be shipped in
competition with the mainland.
THE WA-WA-WA BOYS
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Miss Llewellyn Miller, a clever young lady who
reports the going-on of Hollywood, tells the story
of two film extras who were fired.
The girls were employed in a talkie scene.
Society people were supposed to be standing about,
chatting brightly.
The director, standing at the receiver, heard
seme funny noises that didn’t sound to him like
bright chatter, or even Hollywood chatter.
So he investigated and discovered that the
two extras, utterly unable to emit sensible noises,
were merely repeating: “Wa-wa-wa-wa” to each
ether.
So he fired them.
There’s no moral to this—except for politicians.
The public is getting a bit tired of their con
tinue “Wa-wa-wa-wa”—and unless some of them
start to talk sense pretty soon—
Well, look what happened to the extras.—
Seattle Star.
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SENATOR BORAH SAID IN CONGRESS
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It has always seemed a strange thing to me
that those who are most sure of the correctness
of their own point of view are apt to be those who
will least tolerate any discussion of it. It ought to.
be natural for one who is sure of himself to. wel
come every chance to present his point of view in
an open argument against the opponents.
That was the theory of Jefferson and of Lin
coln. Yet at present the chief argument of those
who assert their belief in our institutions is to