Palisadian., 1925-10-09

that day the United States will have "a population
Of 200OOO,0OO of which 160000.0OO will be town
and city people and 100000 farmers
Moreover, philanthropists founding insttu-
tions for agricultural research "that man may not
starve." Stanford university is preparing to take
Luther Burbanks experimental farms that
his work may go uninterrupted Chemists
discussing the probabilities of synthetic food. The
Navy department is planning a scientific investiga-
tion of salt water fish life congressional
committee is nquirng into the complaints of the
livestock men of the West of dwindling herds and
of the management of the grazing in the national
forests. The federal government is displaying
much interest in Alaskan reindeer herds
w. 7. Lopp chief of the Alaska division of the
United States bureau of education for thirty-one
years, has left his home in Seattle and gone to
Baffin land, the big Canadian island between
Greenland and the North American mainland, to
organize the reindeer industry for the Hudson's
Bay company. What of it? Why, this is bit
of news of real Importance 1t not only proves
that the world does move but also points out the
direction in which ii Is moving.
Ofhand the news reads more like joke than
a sober fact Imagine the Hudsons Bay company
doing thing like this-Hudsons Bay company
chartered in 1910 by Charles II of England and
the biggest and most efficient monopoly the wosld
ever saw With power of life and death and
monopoly of trade, 1t successfully barred all prog
ress. H. b. C.-"Here Before Christ" as trans
lated by the oppressed-was on its banner. Teach
er, missionary and settler were anathema to its
rulers. Pro pelle Cutem-"skin for skin"-was the
motto on its great seal and it took the skin from
the Indian. skinned him in the trade, reduced him
to slavery and kept him there Not even post
factor was allowed to make garden lest he give
the lie to the inhospitabe wilderness" The "free
trader" in furs was killed off, 1t ignored the ex-
ploring obligations of its charter, set up few
scattered trade posts and made the Indian to
them. 1t piled up enormous profits in secret and
successfully stood off investigation by parliament
1t was not until 1870 that the British government
forcibiy released its strangehold British North
America.
Fifty years of Canadian progress have made
ii. Is. c. richer than ever, owing TO the value of
the land 1t retained-land which for 200 years it
insisted was unfit for the habitaton of the white
man. This half century of progress has also
forced complete face-about in policy H. b. c.
is now selling its fertile" lands and is running
chain of department stores in the thriving cities
that have developed since Its monopoly was
hroken. H. b. c., what its sins against civilization,
has always made great profits SO If 1t is going
in for reindeer promotion in Baffin land-why that
Is proof positive that the reindeer business has a
big future
Nevertheless the fact that a. b. c. is taking
an expert from outside" to manage the business
las its humorous aspect; in the good old days"
outsiders who attempted to get inside were In
danger of growing old. Another point to the Joke
Is this: Had H. b. G. carried out the terms of its
charter, Alaska would not be ours but would
be in all probability British territory
And here's an amusing situation in connection
with our own reindeer in Alaska. According to
the schedule of "official duties" of the executive
departments of the federal government the com
missioner of education chief of the bureau of edu-
cation of the Department of the Interior. ''has