the bureau of frauds. Rather
they raise the smoke that the
nshermen are destroying the
king salmon fishery and regulate
them out of business while they
protect the real ravagers of the
industry.
The Herring Fi:hermen
Fishermen have observed the
operations of the herring opera
tors who come into our midst
for a few short months, milk
the Territory of its riches and
return to the states to build up
communities at the expense of
the Territory. These men dur
ing the past summer caught
thousands of young king salmon
which went into the reduction
plants and came out as oil and
fertilizer. The larger or sale
able salmon went to the buyers,
on occasion. These facts are in
controvertable. For the bureau
oi frauds (fisheries) to attempt
to do so would only betray their
ignorance.
But for all of which Alaska
and its residents pay in decreas
ing population and heavier civic
obligations.—The ALASKAN, Pe
tersburg.
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Some people are too busy
to do anything but talk about
how busy they are.—Exchange.
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BRITONS MARRY OLDER
WOMEN
Nc t vithstanding the surplus
number of women in Great Brit
ain, many men, it is disclosed in
the Registrar General’s report
for 1928, took brides much older
than themselves. Twenty-one
youths of 20 married women of
30, and one youth of 17 and one
of 19 won mates of twice their
own age. Seventeen men of 22
married women between 40 and
51. Other age discrepancies were
Wife 57, husband, 24; wife 55,
husband, 27; wife 63, husband,
29; wife 69, husband, 34. Men of
15 to 50 married women of three
scovc and ten. Truly Great Brit
ain is the old maids paradise.
“WE HAVE WANDERED FAR”
Fo iticc—“The branch of civics
that treats of civil government
and tl'e conduct of state affairs;
the administraticn of public af
fairs in the interests of peace,
prosperity and the safety of the
state: statecraft; political sci
ence; in a wide sense embracing
the science of government and
civil pol:cy.”—Webster.
Taking the foregoing as the
corner definition of the word
“politics,” the country at large
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has wandered far and Alaska is
part and parcel of the country
at large 3#
A port on of Webster’s defini
tion of the word “politics,” the
portion which says: “The ad
mi: iitraticn of public affairs in
the interests of peace, prosper
ity and the safety of the state,”
shou d scak into the craniums of
Ala kans before they go to the
primary e'ections to select can
dida.es .0 run for the various of
fices.
“Peace, prosperity and the
safety of the state,” is a condi
tion which is r.eressary to Alas
ka if she is to develop and real
i e on her God-given resources,
and officials should be selected
who are best fitted to bring
about that condition. In the se
loctiin of those officials party
affiliations should be forgotten
ard men selected for their worth
lather than as a reward for
dirty work.
Only those who are known to
be interested in the welfare of
Aiaska should be supported for
an Alaskan office—Stroller’s
Weekly.
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Orthodoxy is my doxy; hetero
doxy is another man’s doxy.—
Bishop Warburton.
Be swift to hear, slow to
wrath.—New Testament.
What the Puritans gave the
world was not thought but ac
tion.—Wendell Phillips.
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