COMMUNICATIONS
CANNERY & CIRCUS
You have seen a circus coming to
a town. What great excitement. An
imals, clowns, the fakers. They take
everything out of a town in the
money line; many a home is left
broken-hearted.
Canneries in Alaska are the same
way. They come to operate in sum
mer. Bring with them everything
that will cause excitement. There
is the phonongraph, radio, jewelry,
and other things that can be raffled
at sight. There is the punch board,
dice, card tables, moonshine, every
thing to get the mighty dollar back
after payday. When everything is
taken every mother’s son leaves
Alaska, leaving behind them broken
hearts. Stores are open on Sunday
doing business.
Mr. Paul, did you ever look at
the cannery from that standpoint?
FAIR PLAY
There are men who believe in dog
fights, and believe in fair play. The
two dogs must be evenly matched.
But the very think the white man
disCain in sports amongst beast Mr.
Whiteman exalt and idolize in busi
ness among men.
Mr. Whiteman calls it competi
tion. Instead of smashing bones and
drawing blood, Mr. Whiteman breaks
hearts and dwarfs souls. Dogs fight
for their life. But. Mr. Whiteman
fights to see who gets the best of
living. Instead of fighting his own
battle he has committees fighting
for him. He knows the man who
loses in the battle of competition
must starve. But what is that—as
long as he wins the fight.
INDIANS
George Howard of Sitka died on
October 5th of tuberculosis at Ju
neau. He was one of the early grad
uates of the Sitka Training school.
He has been a credit to his country.
Boat-building was his business. He
was a member of the Alaska Native
Brotherhood.
Andrew Wanamaker, member of
the Sitka Camp of the A. N. B.,
will resume his work at Klukwan
where he has been the missionary
in charge of the Presbyterian church.
He has been serving during the
summer in Petersburg where he says
he found the climate very, very
wet (?) indeed. He would warn his
successor, Frank Mercer, member of
the Juneau Camp of the A. N. B.,
to be very careful when he arrives
in Petersburg or he will step into
a barrel of mash.
The papers report that Lester D.
Henderson, commissioner of educa
tion, was still in Nome on the tenth
of October.
O’MALLEY MAKES REPLY
TO PAUL ON FISHERIES
Henry O’Malley, the short-sighted
statesman who is the duke of Alas
ka’s fisheries, is seldom right either
in practice or theory.
Business men should awaken to
the dangers into which this man is
taking them. Ponder deeply over
his interview printed in the Juneau
Empire.
He is quoted as follows:
“Serious consideration is being
given to the formulating of a regu
lation that will enable a longer
weekly closed period and terminate
the season ON THE SAME DATE
in ALL sections of Southeastern
Alaska.”
Wiangell must close with Ketchi
kan; the West Coast with the East
Coast of Prince of Wales Island.
No consideration for the fact that
in various districts the rui s may be
from ten days to fourteen days apart
in starting.
The Ketchikan canners rather
like the closed season idea because
THE DATES ARE SELECTED TO
SUIT THEM. And the canners
around Wrangell, Petersburg and
North Prince of Wales who twist
and squirm and struggle privately,
simply swallow their lump and say
they like it.
Mr. O’Malley says that Mr. Paul’s
criticisms are of “such broad gen
eral character and does not cite any
specific case wherein my regulations
are causing a loss of millions of
dollars to the canning industry;
therefore I can only assume that the
regulations which have been promul
gated by the department are pre
venting the capturing of large num
bers of salmon and permitting them
to escape to the spawning grounds
for reproduction purposes, thus as
suring the territory of a permanent
industry.”
O Ala I ley assumes that the entire
problem of fisheries is “to save the
fish.” That is only one-half of it.
The entire problem is “To save our
fisheries and «ur population from de
pletion.” O’Malley will not concede
that Congress is alarmed at the
steadily decreasing population of
Alaska. If it keeps up much longer,
Alaska will be Indian country in
spite of the Juneau Empire.
We will cite the instances for
which O’Malley calls.
First: Every increase in the es
capement of salmon provided for by
the regulations of the Bureau of
Fisheries has been by curtailing the
catch of the bona fide residents of
Alaska almost entirely. O’Malley
has placed this sacrifice entirely on
the small fisherman.
He has failed in every instance
to lay any part of the burden on
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