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FRIDAY. JTJXEC2,-1937
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WANTED—SOME ACTiOV—
(The Alaska Weekly)
Oh May 20, Delegate Dimond made an exceptionally
able speech iir the House of Representatives in which he
added his weight to that of other informed and vitally
interested people to the mounting-demand that something
bt done and done at once to remove the Japanese menace
to the Alaskan fisheries. The Delegate pointed oat that
the question did not affect a few thousands of Aaska’s
citizenship alone but that it was important to the entire
United States and involve! a; question of nationa policy
of vital importance.
In one of his closing paragraphs he stated the exact
attitude of our State Department when he said, “Of
course we can yield to this threat. We can say to toe
Japanese, ‘Please go away, but if you do not go away
you can have the Alaska fisheries. Please do not touch
the fisheries of Puget Sound and the Columbia Ri' ert
but if you must have them, tike them and we will do
nothing about it' ” it hfie the Delegate is altogether
too politic to so state, he could not have more ably des
cribed the milksop attitude of our “goon neighbor” policy.
If left to the feeble protests of the State Department
the fisheries <rf the Bristol Ray area will- be as extinct
as the hairy mammoth before-the whisper is even heard
in Japan;
Senator Scbweflenbacfffof Washington has done his
best. Senator Bone has ably -seconded his colleague's ef
forts, Delegate Dimond has done everything possible to
interest the Mouse, and representatives of' the salmon
packing industry with the able help of such authorities
as Edward Allen have been bombarding Washington with
information and warning—with a net result to date of
exactly nothing so far as concerns action.
It may be that only labor may gain the ear of the*
powers that be and halt the -onrush toward the i.fe
more abundant” for a sufficient period of time to save
one of the great industries-of the Pacific Coast and main
tain -the dignity and territorial integrity of the United
States of America. If that is the case the latest protest
may have some slight effect, for the officials of the Al
aska Fishermen’s Union-are now wiring protests to
Washington concerning the 26 big Japanese boats and
numerous small boats-which are now fishing close to
shqre in the Bristol Bar^area—taking the fish spawned
in American waters and free from all the restrictions by
which American fishermen- are bound.” This union also
-wired to the Maritime Federation of the Pacific now in
session in Portland requesting that cargo originating in
Japan be boycotted until the Japanese menace bo their
jobs was removed.'
This is no question- calling for a treaty. Either we
own and control these:fisheries or we do not. If we do
not then all restrictions should be removed from our
packers and fishermec-to give them something of a break
with the little Drown brothers and let everyone hop to
it for the two or three years remaining before these,
fisheries pass into History. If we do own them our -posi
tion can easily be made-clear by either legislative action
or executive order-and Japan car. be instructed to get
out and stay out—and any timid- sou! who thinks that
wouM mean war a a IT wrong, for Japan is not ready for
that for some titne td-corne
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ONE ON DAD
Tommy—“Please. ia«rm, is water good for a watch"?"
Teacher—“Why, .aa, water will rust the works and
spoil it_”
Tommy: “Tbfrc wof -did papa say he had hia watch
m soak*"
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Beach Peace—‘If must have taken a lot of courage
to rescue me the wav you did. ’
“Smiles” McGiir—“You bet it-did; I had to knock
drwa three other sailors who wanted to do it."
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SIXTEEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
(TAKEN FROM THE FILES OF THE KUSKO TIMES)
John Dunn arrived- Saturday night j
coming down on the Thor from Ta
kotna.
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Carl Shnttler returned a couple ofj
days ago from a trip up the West,!
Fork of the Nixon.
Herman Hinsche, well-known old
timer, arrived in McGrath a couple;
of days ago, coming from some dis
tance up the North Fork of the Kus-;
kokwim. He will remain here for a
few days before returning home.
The launch Aloha, Captain Joe
Wills, arrived Saturday evening from
Takotna. Coming down on the Aloha
were Charlie Woods, Jack Mutchler
and Carl Fosberg.
The Thor. Captain Joe Oates, ar
rived in McGrath from Takotna last
night.
Frank Monkman, Martin Clancy,
Magnus Rud and Fridhtjof Hoen ar
rived here last Saturday evening
coming from Berry Landing.
Jack Mutchler received a telegram
from his brother Jake, at Iditarod,
informing him of another arrival at
Jake’s home and that he had already
been named John. And Jack smiles.
Dempsey Wins in Round 4—
SEATTLE, July 2—A flash, just
received here, considered most au
thentic, states that Dempsey knock
ed Carpentier out in the fourth
round.
Dave Clough’s Pioneer Pool Hall,
with fresh, sanitary paper on the
walls, billiard tables and other para
phernalia newly polished, presents a
most cheerful up-to-date appearance,
refreshing for the new arrivals as
well as tie old-timers.
A. Higgins, Takotna merchant,
who arrived on the Tana with a large
stock of general merchandise for hi3
up-river establishment, was a pas
senger on the Quick-step yesterday
for the Nixon Forks, the transfer
point- They are waiting for him at
Takotna, where the stock of food
supplies is practically exhausted.
S. Holm and Pete West man came
in Friday from Candle.
Charles Nystrom left today on hit
launch Red Wing for Takutna. being
accompanied by Joe Oatgs.
A1 Thorn, Chris Peterson, Herb
Kearney and Charles Carlson arriv
ed from Takotna on Thursday, all
waiting for the arrival of the Tana.
H. E. Carter, local manager of the
X. C. Company, returned here Sun
day on the Tana from Bethel, after
having made the trip down river .n
his own launch.
Bert Eldridge has just completed
a good sized addition to his place of
business giving him just that much
more room to give attention to h.s
patrons. It is a real improvement,
two quite noticeable log structures
at the upper end of town, names of
the owners not learned, are also
about completed.
MATTERN TO RETRACE
NORTH POLE FLIGHT
OAKLAND. June 25—James Mat
tern, veteran world flier, today an
nounced plans for a non-stop refuel
ing flight from here to Moscow over
the same route flown by the Russians
who ended a hop over the North Pole
at Vancouver, Washington last Sun
day.
A new $100,000 monoplane has
been completed at Burbank for the
hazardous flight, Mattern revealed
after lunching with the Soviet fliers
and Ambassador Troyanovsky.
Because the plane has a cruising
radius of only 5,000 miles, it will be
necessary to refuel while flying prob
ably at Fairbanks. Mattern said he
planned to use a robot pilot.
“I am making the flight to demon
strate the United States development
in aircraft and to show my apprecia
tion to the Soviet fliers who saved me
when I crashed in Siberia in 1033,’’
Mattern said.
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DEMOCRACY AND DICTATORSHIP—
(New Y'ork Times)
The fact that M. Leon Bum was able last week to
round out a full year as Premier of France—despite the
prediction freely made, when he took office, that France
was headed for a dictatorship—is no doubt largely the
consequence of M. Elum’s own qualities as a good tac
tician. a man of principle and a timely advocate cf so
cial reform. But this in itsflf is not enough to "’ain
why the prophecies of a dictator hip in France have
gone astray. A year's buffeting has shown that, d n-oc
racy in France, for all its periodic crises, rests on a much
more secure foundation than the prophets of its downfa’l
were prepared to believe a year ago.
To this day dictatorship has failed to convert, to its
own cause a single nation experi nc d in the ways of
democratic government. Where has it scored its victor
ies? In Russia, which lived for centuries under political
absolutism and now has returned to it. after a brief in
terlude. lacking any means of measuring the loss of
something it never really had. In Italy, which had fifty
years of national unity before the war. but comparative
ly little success in achieving a stable parliamentary sys
tem. In Germany, where democracy before the war was
always something of a screen concealing the authority of
those in positions of real power, and where democracy,
after the war was a makeshift device ordained to failure
by the adversities which beset a vanquished nation. It is
no great triumph for dictatorship to have established it
self in these three nations. It is no real triumph when
dictatorship gains the upper hand in some South Amer
ican State which has had little training in the ways of
democratic government. But it would be a very great
triumph for dictatorship if the people of some nation
which has really known the meaning of democracy were
to deliberately scrap that system in favor of dictatorship
This has not happened in ar.y one of the nations in
which the ways of democracy have been put tt> the test
of experience: in France or Belgium, in Switzerland or
Holland, in Britain or any of her great dominions, in
our own country, in any of the Scandinavian nations.
What do these countries see, in the present exper
ience of nations living under dictatorship, which could
lead them to believe that they have something to gain
by swapping systems? They have been told that by
ridding themselves of the superfluous custom of consult
ing the electorate they will discover a new means of or
ganizing industry for production and achieving a new
national unity. But what does this mean, in terms of
personal value, to the trade unionist who would lose his
right to strike, to the farmer who would become a cog
in the machinery of State, or to the business man who
would find himself exterminated, under a dictatorship of
the Left, or ordered about at every turn, with a steadily
dimir.i-hing margin of profit, under a dictatorship of the
Right?
On the basis of the record it has written thus far,
dictatorship has nothing substantial to offer as compen
sation for the sacrifices it involves. Soviet Russia, con
centrating primarily on the problem of converting an un
developed country into an armed camp, has its impressive
army, its few large mass-production industries and its
few great power plants; hut the real wages of the skilled
Russian workman have not reached a point which enables
him to approximate the earnings of the unskilled worker
in the democratic nations. Italy has accomplished many
ambitious public projects under the aegis of Fascism,
and conquered an empire in Ethiopia, but it is still the
rea1 problem of Italy to raise the standard of living of
the great masses of its people. Germany has st muluted
her war industries by the device of inflating credit; hut
there are twenty million people in Germany who need
food cards to obtain meat at manageabel prices, ar.d tho
boom in the war industries has been aptly described a*
a process of using all the means of the present, pledging
much of the earnings of the future and spending the
capita] inherited from the past. To this point, the ev
idence in favor of a switch from democracy to dictator
ship is not impressive.
left my pass at. home.” said the lady to the sentry.
“But I’m one of the regimental commanders’ wives.”
“Lady," said the sentry. “I’m sorry, but I couldn’t
let you pa.->s even if you were his only wife.”
Guest—“I want to thank you for putting that glass
of water beside my bed last night. I woke up and drank
it.” Farmer’s Son—“Gosh! You've gone and swallowed
my tadpoles!”
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“I understand that Bill Smith is another man since
his operation.”
“Yes. he’s calling himself BiB Jones to avoid pay
ing the hospital bill.”'
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