the action of your warden in placing
the “dead line” at Salmon Bay a
distance of 1000 yards from the
mouth of the creek as marked by low
tide is UNLAWFUL.
Your statement that it was so
placed without thought of discrimi
nation against any fisherman may
satisfy your conscience, but fisher
men will see in your agent’s unlaw
ful act, a continuation of your gen
eral discrimination against the little
fishermen. As for the opinion of
Senator Jones and Cong. Hadley and
Com. O’Malley that the line should
be still farther out, I cannot find
anywhere in the law of 1906 under
which you operate anything that
would indicate that prohibited dis
tricts for fishing should be deter
mined by the opinions of these getle
men.
Yours truly,
WM. L. PAUL,
Grand Secretary.
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DOES A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCA
TION PAY?
Much has been said about the
value of education in character build
ing, culture, health, and all that goes
to make up a well rounded life.
Aside from the idealistic trend, the
value of education in dollars and
cents is something well worth lock
ing into.
It is coming, more and more that
a man’s chances in life are poor in
deed without the formal training
given in the public educational insti
tutions of the United States.
Mr. James M. Dodge, former pres
ident of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, calculated
the financial value of different
grades of education by comparing the.
earning capacities of common labor,
shop-apprentice ! trained men, trade
school graduates and technical school
graduates. He found the education
of the common laborer worth $10,200,
that of a shop-apprentice $15,800,
that of a trade school graduate $25,
000, and that of a technical school
graduate $43,000.
Studies at Springfield, Mass., and
Brooklyn brought out the facts that
uneducated laborers earned on the
average $500 a year and that high
school graduates earned on an aver
age $1,000 per year.
Computed on a basis of forty
working years the high school edu
cation added $20,000 to a man’s earn
ing power. Since there were 2,160
school days involved, each day was
worth $9.02.—Selected.
A Letter
U. S. Department of Agricultura
Bureau of Biological Survey
Washington, D. C.
Sept. 29, 1‘23.
Mr. William L. Paul, Esq.,
205 Bank Building,
Ketchikan, Alaska.
Dear Sir:
Receipt is acknowledged of your
letter of September 14, in regard to
the blue fox regulation, more parti
cularly in regard to the seizure of
blue fox skins against which you
protested in previous correspondence
with the Bureau. This matter was
referred to the Solicitor of the De
partment and he rendered an opin
ion under date of July 5. A copy
of this opinion was forwarded to
Chief Fur Warden Walker with in
structions to advise you. It seems
possible that Mr. Walker overlooked
it.
The sum and substance of the
opinion of the Solicitor is as fol
lows:
“Where the proof is clear and
readily available that skins were ta
ken illegally, the’ Government’s
agents may seize them if in doing
so no breach of the peace is com
mitted, and may dispose of them in
any lawful manner, usually, I would
say, by sale for the benefit of the
Federal Treasury; that where the
proof is not clear, seizure should
not be made, but an information in
the nature of a libel for seizure for
condemnation and forfeiture should
be filed; that where it is deemed
not advisable for any reason to in
stitute criminal proceedings or file
an information in the nature of a
libel, seizure should not be made;
that wdiere seizure has been made
and it is deemed inadvisable to in
stitute either criminal or civil action,
the skins should be returned to the
person from whom they were taken;
and that where the skins have al
ready been seized, but the evidence
of illegal taking is not clear, a libel
should be filed.”
Since our previous correspondence
the fur law regulations have been
completely revised. I am enclosing
herewith for your information a copy
of the new fur regulations which be
came effective September 1, 1923.
Very truly yours,
W. C. HENDERSON,
Acting Chief of Bureau.
WHY I TEACH
By Louis Burton Woodward
Because I would be young in soul
and mind
Though years must pass and age my
life constrain,
And I have found no way to lag
behind
The fleeting years, save by the magic
chain
That binds me, youthful,. to th<
youth I love,
I teach.
Because I would be wise and wis
dom find
From millions gone before whose
torch I pass,
Still burning bright to light the
paths that wind
So steep and rugged, for each lad
and lass
Slow-climbing to the unreveaied
above,
I teach.
Because in passing on the living
flame
That ever brighter burns the ages
through,
I have done service that is worth
the name
Can I but say, “The flame of knowl
edge grew
A little Brighted in the hands I
taught,”
I teach.
Because I know when life’s end I
reach
And thence pass through the gates
so wide and deep
To what I do not know, save what
men TEACH,
That the remembrance of me men
will keep
Is what I’ve done; and what I have
is naught,
I teach.
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MORE PUNISHMENTS BY THE
POWERS
Four members of the Order of
Pioneers of Wrangell who were em
ployed as stream watchmen last sea
son by the Bureau of Fisheries have
been notified that their services will
not be required this season.
These men had the courage to
join with other members of the
Wrangell Pioneer Igloo in protesting
against the fishery reservation sys
tem and as a consequence they lost
Iheir jobs. It was always thus and
always will be as long as twenty
two caliber, short slug individuals
are permitted to supervise the Al
askan fisheries.