TO MISTER CRUST OF THE
‘*1 want to know,”
Said the Sourdough,
“And I think it’s only fair
“That Mr. Crust,
“Of the herring trust,
“Should give us a statement
square.
“I want to know
“If it isn’t so:—
“Will Mr. Crust reply?
“Alaska’s ear
“Is tuned to hear
“Today, not by-and-by.
“Do the herring play
“As of yesterday
“In a vast and silvery show,
“Or have they gone,
“And refuse to spawn,
“As they did some years ago? ....
“Are they coming soon
“To the salt lagoon?
“One year, two, or when?
“Is it a tale
“That nary scale
“Will ever return again?
“Do your hands drip blood
“From the gory flood
“Of a billion herring slain?
“Do you sleep at night
“W’hen their souls take flight
“From the grip of a Dago seine?
“And do you call
“Those herring, small,
“The runts of the species prized?
“Does Nature make,
“Just for your sake,
“Such hordes of undersized?
“Is a herring meat
“That is fit to eat,
“Or is it of substance poor
“That swims, a clod,
“By the grace of God
“To be ground into manure?
“And what do you bring,
“With the breath of spring,
“To this Land of the Northern
Light?
“Is it a heart
“To pay in part,
—“Or a stab that’ll bleed us white?
“Where do you go
“When the North winds blow?
“What have you left behind,
“But a boarded shell
“With an oily smell
“And a litter of bone and rind?
“Is Alaska’s load,
“On its rocky road,
“A burden for you to share?
“Or is it a yoke
“Fcr Alaska folk
“To suffer alone and bear?
“We’ve done our part
“With hand and heart;
“We’ve bucked the wild and cold,
“And what to you
“May look as new,
“To us ip sear and old.
“And the greedy hands
“On sea and land,
“Of which we feel the heft,
“Are going to slip,
“In their crooked grip.
“We‘11 keep what there is left.’'
Ahn-Ivutty
The officers of the Hydaburg
Sisterhood for 1920 are as fol
lows: Mrs. Emma Tom, President;
Mrs. Katherine Wallace, Vice-Presi
dent; Mrs. Elsie Douglas, Secretary;
Mrs. Sarah Grant, Treasurer. The
date on which their charter was
granted by the Grand Convention
was Nov. 20, 1925, at Hydaburg
The Ketchikan Camp of the A.
N. B. elected the following’ officers
for 1920: William Andrews, Chair
man; William Brown, Vice-Chair
man; George Haldane, Secretary;
Joe Brown, Treasurer.
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