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Daily Alaska Empire
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ALASKA OlRtT’LATI* »N Cl AKANTMI'T TO BK LAKCKIt
THAN THAT OF ANY oTHFU PI 'BLI* ’ATiON
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ALASKA IS NORMAL.
With the northeastern section of the country;
paralyzed by severe cold, rivers, lakes and harbors
locked in ice. Alaska the "home of the iceberg," is
warm and comfortable. At s a. in. yesterday but i
one town in the Territory recorded a zero temperature |
and two recorded I- above Six out of the eleven
stations reporting to the Weather liureau had tom-|
peratures above freezing. One, Nome, reported zero, j
One was two degrees below freezing. Another ten |
degrees under the same point. Three others ranged!
from twelve to sixteen degrees above zero.
Tills is not an uncommon condition of the weather!
for the Territory. Normally there is little unusually
severe weather in most of the Territory. Hut it is
more than difficult, it is next lo impossible, to make
the rest of the nation realize it. Official reports,
showing actual statistics of thermometer readings,
cannot hope to vie for popular opinion with the j
movies. And the latter will inevitably continue to
depict Alaska as a land of Ice and snow, where
he-ntun heroes light the villians and emerge triumph
ant over the handicaps i f wind and weather.
WHAT IS MONOPOLY?
Delegate Sutherland, :n an interview just re
ported from IlnlUmore, charges that the Coolidge
government, controlled by the Department of Com
merce, or Mr. lloover, is trying to turn over to the
"Salmon Trust" all of the fisher tea of Alaska. During
the late campaign he had a number of things to
say about such a trust hut on no occasion did
he offer any evidence of such a trust. Surely if
there were In existence a corporation which con
trolled all, or even a maior portion, of the salmon
fisheries of Alaska some proof of its corporate
being could lie found.
A trust, in the popuinr conception of the term,
is a business concern which has a monopoly. A
monopoly is an exclusive right, privilege or power
of selling or purchasing, or both, a given commodity
or service in a given market. That is the definition
given by Webster's unabridged dictionary. It is an
organization which has no competition whatever, so
far as the buying or selling market Is concerned.
It dominates its own field absolutely, controlling
supply and fixing prices. Its word as regards the
commodity or service which it handles is absolute
and final.
Is there any such super-power in the Alaska
salmon packing industry? Is there any packer or
corporation in Alaska whose business is packing and
selling salmon which can either buy its fish, or
catch them for that matter, and sell them without
competition? Alaskans know there is not. Anyone
familiar to any degree whatever with the salmon
packing industry even in Southeastern Alaska knows
that competition is so keen that there have been
times when certain canners have been charged with
unfair tactics in securing fish trap sites and, in
some instances, in the manner in which tile fish
they packed were caught. In fact, it has been such
a cut-throat game at times that for years on end
no one made any profit.
In recent years, by agreement or otherwise, ef
forts have been made to perfect a sort of selling
organization which includes a large-scale program
of co-operative advertising by means of which a
wider market and a greater demand for their products
might he developed. Only through such means can
a profitable industry lie maintained. Hut there is noth
ing in such a program whic h smacks of monopolistic
methods. Rather to the contrary. Every packer,
even though it be one who does not subscribe to the
advertising fund, is a beneficiary. A more general
demand naturally means hotter prices for the cannery
products. Thus, where a higher price is obtained
for pink salmon, every packer of that grade of fish,
and there are many of them, will receive that price
— not merely the packers who contributed to the
advertising fund which made tile increased price
possi hie.
Hut there is no such co-operative agreement in
catching or buying fish The fight for favorable
locations is Just as keen now as it was ten years
ago. The buyers are just as eager to purchase from
the t rollers and seine heats us ever. The lluselt
mann's, Burckhardts, Pacific American Fisheries, As
toria & Puget Sound. Petersburg Packing Co., Alaska
Packers, Sunny Point Packing Corporation, and many
others in Southeastern Alaska operating individually
compete with each other in the matter of securing
fish. And the same holds true of Central and Western
Alaskan districts.
Nor is the field limited to those Individual run
ners or companies already in the field. Anyone
with the capital to Invest—and is willing to risk it
in such a hazard as the salmon canning industry In
Alaska is today—can get in without having to resort
either to a court of law or the cracksman’s tools.
He can compete for the fish in the same manner
as those already in the field. He will be subject
to exactly the same government regulations, the J
same penalties fur their violations, as those are who
proceeded him here.
If there is any monopoly in such a situation then
the term has lost all of its original meaning. And
the real fact is that there Is not now and never
was in Alaska any monopoly In the salmon packing'
Industry. i
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TIMELY TRICHINOSIS WARNING.
"Cook pork well" is the seasonal warning of thel
t'nitcd States Department of Agriculture. I'ncooked;
or poorly cooked pork may result in the serious illness]
known as trichinosis. This disease, which is pain
ful and frequently fatal, is caused by a small parasite j
that sometimes occurs in pork. I
Hogs that harbor the parasites of trichinosis
show no symptoms, and pork containing the parasites
looks exactly the same as other pork. The most prac
tical means of preventing the disease is thorough
cooking of pork products. The heat of cooking de
stroy the parasites. Hence well-cooked pork is safe
and trichinosis cannot be acquired If the simple rule
is followed of cooking pork well before it is eaten.
Outbreaks of trichinosis are generally most com
mon during the holiday season when various special
raw pork products and delicacies are consumed. The'
trouble also is likely to occur after the customary]
winter hog killing on farms, when raw products are
eaten, hence the timeliness of the present warning.
The ma n point to remember Is to cook pork well.
Kven should Congress approve of Postmaster
(tenoral New's recommendation of imposing the death
penalty on train robbers, we suppose it will still he
necessary to catch the robbers before putting it
into effect.
Must He Theocracy?
(Cincinnati Enquirer, i
A writer In the current Forum condemns the
"tendency on the part of modern churches to ini.tale!
medieval Home." He finds that Dr. Wilson and liisj
Hoard of Temperance, Morals, *c., "are indisputable!
agents of Almighty God," in their own assumption,'
and that "the simple truth, as revealed by Dr. Wil l
son. is that any government which hasn't got a
King to hold it together must lie a theocracy if ill
is to endure."
The writer, however, points to the fact that tliisj
"revelation" broke down <177!>>, "just like the one-j
horse shay," strangly being rejected by Jefferson and!
other hopeless "doctrinnaires" who dreamed of a
democracy.
Students and observers of the present situation,
as illustrated in the political campaign just con-1
eluded, must be impressed with the ecclesiastical in
vasion of the political field -and ominously impressed,
let it be hoped.
Asks the militant churchman: "If the church |
docs not promote morality, who will?"
"That's just the point," answers Dr. Wilson's
critic, adding, "Why isn't the church busy preaching
and teaching righteousness instead of stampeding
constituencies and frightening legislators?"
These advocates of the church’s place in politics
meaning, of course, the various divisions of the
Protestant, faith which claim the right to lie rep
resented actively in that field, according to Dr. Wil
lson's views in the view of the Forum writer make
i tills mistake: "Their reasoning is shot through with
, the assumption that the work of their organizations'
i is unquestionably God's work."
is there a possibility that they might be inis-i
taken? Would they admit as much? It is not all
all likely. j
As the writer puts it, "The real issue is. just
what have religion and morals to do with politics?
Of course they ought to have a good deal to do-with
i politics, but to our mind that means that politicians
i should be good men, not that men who think they
j are good should organize boards under the name of
la church and try to influence bad politicians to be
I good in their particular way.” ;
| It properly is said that American government
becomes a joke when we elect A, B and C, yet
I know that the Government will not be as they, our
| representatives, might of themselves make it, but will
be us some religious group dictates. Calling itself
religious, it is organized carefully for secular pur
poses.
Dr. Wilson says, with refreshing frankness, "Our
preachers have forgotten how to preach tile tem
perance sermons,” and that they "have trusted to law
j and government ."
Here we have it — where Hie mind and heart
I of the claiming church is; on political, not on re
ligious, affairs. That is the why of a “National
i Headquarters" in Washington. It is also why the
I American people should begin to rouse themselves to
j combat the assumptions and evils of clerical encroach
ment- the fell influence which blackened the story
! of the Middle Ages, and from which we had thought
j America well was freed until within a few years ago.
Only a New Word.
(San Francisco Bulletin )
Tile latest coinage of the psychologists is
I •'empathy," meaning tile habit of permitting imagina
jtion so to Intefere with observation that the rils
j Unction vanishes and the victim tells of having
i actually seen things only imagined.
Dreams are said to be a fruitful source of
empathy. '
It Is well that mental experts make every Justl
i liable distinction between the various processes of
the human mind. It is also well to select a suitable
label for each distinctive characteristic, but let us
not lie deceived into thinking that every new name
stands for a new thing.
I There were empathizers or victims of empathy
; long before Professors Fryer and Shaw of New York
j ('Diversity made their discovery and gave it a name.
| Long, long ago a popular entertainer of his day
delighted audiences with an amusing recitation cn
| titled, "How Bill Adams Won the Battle of Water
loo." Poor old Bill bad about as much to do with
the winning of Waterloo as Jack Dempsey had to
do with winning the World War, but he had
thought about the battle so much and got himself
so mixed up in it imaginatively that in the course
of time he came seriously to believe that he had
been there on the spot and given the advice respon
sible for the victory.
Old Bill had the worst case of empathy, but
he died without ever having heard what was wrong
with him.
It is greatly to the credit of the congregation
of Salisbury Cathedral that when it was announced
from the pulpit that a £ 1,000 bank note had
been found In the offertory bag nobody claimed
to have put it there in mistake for a three-penny
bit.—(Loudon Punch!
With four killed in one day. Detroit is making
a bid for the honors recently relinquished by Chi
cago. (Cincinnati Knquiror.)
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ALONG LIFE'S
DETOUR
Ily SAM HILL,
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
The "good old days" were those
when women had more flour on their
hands and arms up to the elbow and
less powder on their faces.
Ho, Hum!
"It s awful" said the First Married
Man. “the way men are held up on
the Htretls."
"Yes," growled the Second Ditto,
"It's almost as awful as the way
they are held down at home.’
Not Ecen Onion Will Do That
"An apple a day keeps lit" doctor
away," ((noted the Bromide Hound.
“Huh!" growled the victim, "tell
me something I can “.it that will
keep the installment collectors
away.”
How Old-Fashioned
PKTTICOAT DIPLOMACY Head
line in Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Passing Observation
About one "premonition" in every
m i 1 ion materializes.
Well, It Was in the Ananias Depart
ment
I'm all out of breath." said the
Flaming Youth, "from running so
hard to get away from temptation
— This Column.
Sam. didn't you make a slight ty
pographical error in this statement 1
Shouldn't the last "from" he (hanged
to “with?' Ann.
She Was Willinq
"Let's get married," lie pleaded.
"Yes, let’s," she replied, “as soot
as I find a rich man and you find a
rich girl. In that way we both can
tie happy and keep out of the poor
house."
Football
I sent my boy to college
With a pat upon his hack
I spent ten thousand dollars
And got a quarterback.
I sent my hoy to college, too.
And gave him too much jack;
He spent it all on orange-gilt.
And always was a fullback.
American Legion Councillor.
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My college boy 'bout spending jack
I never need reproach.
Prom him I often borrow coin.
For lie's the football coach.
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Cursesl
' Hig Chief Did you." search that cat
| for a bottle after thv wreck?
I Dry Sleuth Sure;! Searched it hr
I fore I ever called the ambulance m
j send the injured to Ihe hospital.
' Dig Chief Well, did you find one''
o'omi h—'Yes.
Hig Chief But 1 see no records ol
| your having made any arrests.
| Dry Sleuth No, t lie bottle hap
! petted to bo it nursing bottle filled
| with milk for their baby they hail
with them.
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More or Less True
A discovery that is going to conn
as a great shock to a lot of collegi
hoys after they marry is that tin
girls who thought their old fliwci
j wrecks were simply great will abac.
lutely refuse to ride in anything bn:
I a six-cylinder limousine.
I A 'husband has lo wait until lib
wife makes up her face before goitu
anywhere with her. and until sin
makes up her mind before be can tie
cide anything for himself.
It Is getting so (lie housemaid ii
about as independent and as much ol
a lady as daughter, and if it wasn't
for father mother wouldn't have an.
body left to boss.
Another proof that women are pool
listeners is the fact that so many til
them can’t tell a story straight aftet
hearing their husband's or the gos
sips tell it.
Some wives demand their hus
bands’ undivided attention—and un
divided salary.
Nothing makes a man madder that
winning the prize at a mixed bridge
party and having to tote the dart
fool plant home on the street car.
Three things needed to make th<
women of the world happy are idet.
husbands, flesh builders that will hi
on all six, and reduction dopes tha
will accomplish something beside:
making the druggist rich.
Twenty-five years ago it wouh
have caused just about as much ex
citement among the girls of the na
tion to have been told they had qui
making silk hosiery as now would hi
I for them to hear they have quit mak
ing brooms.
A girl might break a date will
her boy friend because he was brokr
but we never heard of one breakini
a date with Iter’s just because 'n
doesn't suit her parents.
Things about even tip in this oh
world—the poor who miBsed turke;
on Thanksgiving miss haBh and tar
key soup for the next week.
Daily Sentence Sermon
No memorial services ever an
held for chronic kickers when the;
die.
News of the Name* Club.
Miss A. Profit Is reported froit
Forest Hills, Mo.
Dressmaking, alterations, reason
able prices, first class work. 221
Seward St., next door to Shattuck'i
Office. —adv
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
GENERAL land office
Anchorage, Alaska,
February 4, 1926
Notice is tiereuy give* that Fluids
M«'.thcv.", widow of William E.
Matthews, together with her wit
nesses. all of Skagway, Alaska, has
j submitted nnal proof on her home
1 stead ep*ry, Serial 051U7, for lands
I situated on the west shore of Ilyea
River, Alaska, U. S. Survey No
1405, Latitude 59° 30’ N. Longitude
135° 21' W. and is now in the IUob
of the U. S. Land Office, at An
chorage, Alaska, and if no protest
is filed iD tlie local land office
, at Anchorage, within the period of
1 publication, or thirty days there
| 1ftet, said final proof will be ac
:epted and final certificate issued.
J LIMJLEY GReEN,
Register.
j First publication, Nov. 5, 1926.
| Last publication, Jan. 15, 1927.
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1 The B. M. Bchrends Bank 1
j| OF JUNEAU, ALASKA 1
1 At the Close of Business Oct. 8th, 1926 |
1 RESOURCES |
1 E Loans and Discounts .$ 632,453.81 ~
,= Banking House . 59,685.37 =
jS Real Estate . 63,559.67 =
, = United States Bonds .$ 185,112.50 |
. l£ Municipal and oth<jr Bonds . 1,073,439.56 §
;§ fioni Bank.- 454,iI4.&7 |
; E Total Cash Resources . 1,713,097.03 £
“ 1 $2,468,795.88 |
1 LIABILITIES 1
i£ Capital and Surplus .$ 150,000.00 E
E Undivided Profits . 39,430.44 s
S Reserve for Interest and Taxes . 19,000.00 E
E Deposits . 2,260,365.44 =
| $2,468,795.88 |
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E B. M. BUHRENDS, President 1
5 J. F. MULLEN, Vice President |
| GUY McNAUGHTON, Cashier £
| GEORGE E. CLEVELAND, Asst. Cashier. |
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harry sperling.
Exulted Hula
JOHN A. DAVIS.
Serr«tai-f
Vinltlrig Brothers welcome.
Co-Ordinate Bodief
of Frcsmasonry
Scottish Bite
Regular meetings
iM»cnn<] Friday each
-»nth nt 7:30 p. m.
I Odd Fellows' Hall.
I WALTER R. HEISEL. Secretary
LOYAL ORDER OF
MOOSE
Junei-j Lodfte No. 70C
Meets every Monday
night, 8 o’clock, Moose
Hall. J. A. Davis. Dictator; It. II
Stevens, Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 14*
* A. M.
Stated Ccfnmu«icatlon
Second and fourth Monday
of each month In Odd Fol
low a’ Hall. beginning a'
t :.Ui o'clo?k.
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| Order of
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AMY GUERIN. Wort a.
Matron. ALICE BROWN
' Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
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Monday at 7:.'<i p. in. Tran
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Fifth Shot KT)\Y. M. M»I NT VKK, U.
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