resident fishermen are beginning
to make some money. My own view
is that the closed season is entirely
wrong; but if you are not willing
to go as far as I do on that ques
tion. why could you not close down
the traps (all of them) ten days
before the moveable gear are re
quired to close. While in Seattle
1 ‘alked to a number of packers
and they expressed a desire that
this be done.
1 am not ready at this time to
express my views on the regulations
generally as there are obvious diffi
culties, for example, I do not under
stand why the Point Higgins trap*
should be abolished and yet traps
fifteen miles farther inland on
Behm Canal (six by actual count)
near Indian Point and Traitors
Cove should be allowed to remain.
Or why Saginaw Bay should be
closed and the trap at its entrance,
a trap that catches more fish than
twenty seines could catch, remain.
However, the other matters, if
you could justify action such as I
have outlined, would go a long way
toward creating a spirit of hope in
Alaskans. I sincerely wish you
would give these matters your earn
est. consideration.
Your3 very truly,
WILLIAM L. PAUL
JO 11N NY’S READY ANSWER
Teacher: “With steak at 45 cents
a pound, what would four pounds
and a half come to?”
Johnny: ‘It wouldn’t come to our
house.”
NOT TO RE TRUSTED
Some years ago in a Western
State, then a territory, a popular
citizen became involved with an in
fluential and overbearing character
and killed him.
Public sentiment leaned toward
the dejvndant, but the law was
agaiipT him, and, when the day ot
trial came the defendant, his coun
sel and friends held a consultation,
and fearful of the consequences, they
decided that the defendant should
plead guilty and beg the mercy of
the court.
The jury was charged by the court
and retired. Presently it returned
and the foreman said:
‘We find defendant not guilty.”
^he judge viewed the jury in sur
prise and said:
Gentlemen of the jury, how be
it Y This defendant pleads guilty,
ar.d you find him not guilty?”
“Well your Honor, the defendant
is such a liar we can’t believe him
under oath.”—Exchange.
‘Men outlive tlieir love, but the/
don’t outlive the consequences of
their recklessness.”
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