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The Alaska fisherman., 1927-06-15

The Editorials in the last four issues (of Sitka Progress) including this not only the senti- ments of the editor but indeed the truth
 Is it possible that the Editors sentiments and the "actua truth be the same? At least, the itor argues, it is ''in the last four ssues'
The Alaska fisherman., 1927-06-15
EXPOSING THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES
COMMUNICATION

he made his wants known to the gentleman in the swivel chair, the first question fired at him was:
 Are you a member of the Pack ers' Association?"
 "No," said the Cordovan; What has that got to do with the request for a copy of the fishing rules?"
 "Well," replied the officeman, "No one except members of the Packers Association can see the rules until they are issued to the public." And take notice this took place in a Government office, in the office of the Bureau of Fisheries which is supposed to make no dis tinction between classes of soci- ety, no distinction between Capital ist and Laborite, no distinction be- tween the outside big packer who belongs to the Association and the little fellow in Cordova who fs struggling to make ends meet.
 The Cordovan then went down
The Alaska fisherman., 1927-06-15

to see a business friend of his, and one of the first things he saw in the friends office was a pile of Bull letin No. 291.
 Can I have one?" he asked.
 Are you member of the Pack ers Association'' the friend replied.
 "No, I am not"
 "Then I cant let you have one; but I know your a good scout so if turn my back ,and you take a copy we'll, I won't know who stole it."
 I've told this true story so that you can understand the relationship that exists between the Autocratic Packers and the Bureaucratic Bu- reau of Fisheries. One is evidently the puppet of the other, and the Packers are not the puppets by any means. This Bulletin is issued at the Skinner Building, Seattle. What an appropriate name for it's place of origin?
 Glancing through Bulletin No.
The Alaska fisherman., 1927-06-15

ed advocated before Congress by him. On the con- trary Ralph Lomen and Tom Jenson worked against every such measure
 Common honesty would require these men to re- pudiate Sutherland and run On their own platform.
 Tom Jenson, Ralph Lomen, Gaffney and Amer Rydeen are today the hope of nonresident cannery and mining interests They fought against every that sought to protect the residents
 The vote on the Home Rule bill, the Workmens Compensation Act (not the written by the AL aska Juneau Mines attorneys and supported by Gaff- ney,) and the Monthly Pay Bills will that Richard Sundquist was the only from the Second Division who supported the Sutherland measures, while the Lomen-Jensen- -Gafney crowd were just as re- actonary possible far beyond even the demands of Capital"
The Alaska fisherman., 1927-06-15
Cordova, Alaska

Cordova, Alaska Editor The Alaska Fisherman
 Ketchikan, Alaska
 Dear Sir:
 I have just had look through the Alaska Fishery Regulations for 1927, contained in Bulletin Mo- 291. It makes most interesting pleading for any fisherman altho it appears that the fishermen them selves, have no say whatsoever, in the forming of a set of rules gov erning their own industry.
 Now it's very difficult job for the ordinary citizen to give this Bulletin the once over. Some peo- pie apparently guard this document as if 1t were secret treaty between the great powers. A gentleman from Cordova recently paid a visit to Seattle. He called at the office of the Bureau of Fisheries to pro- cure copy of the fishing regula- tions for the current year. When
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
Wednesday Is
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With These Savings
on Baby Things

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
"ClObe" Gas
Ranges
Whole Stock Reduced

"A January Sale with unprece-
denied values-offering the we'll
known and popular Globe Gas
Ranges at lower prices than they
will probably ever be offered again.
Come to the sale and take advan-
tage Of these savings
$3.50 Models, Now $49.5O
$3.50 Models, Now $3.50
$77.5O Models, Now $64.5O
$139.5O Models, Now $3.50
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-12-09
Berlin's Many Mills

The Berliner on the whole knows
little about his drinking water except
that it ranks among the best and
purest of any capital Most people
living there think 1t is taken from the
many lakes surrounding Berlin But
this Is not the case With the excep
ton of 8 per cent. writes a Christian
Science Monitor correspondent. the
eitire water supply of Berlin is oh
tanned from wells, some reach as far
down into the earth as 100 meters.
The consumption of water in the
summer reaches 100000 cubic meters
daily, but the water works are capable
of supplying even more than that
namely. 100000 cubic meters daily. so
that an emergency can easily he met
Next year they will even be in posi-
ton to produce SOOO0O cubic meters
daily.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-12-09
Conceit and Tinidity
Bars to Advancement

Henry Ward Beecher once called
conceit 1.-The most incurable disease
known to the human soul"
Conceit, however is not to be con.
fused with pride, self-respect or self
confidence. There is merit in these
qualities and many man of limited
abilities has stamped and pounded his
way to the seats of the mighty.
But the conceited man moves in
quite different realm. His Is simply
an unreasoning, unfounded opinion of
his own Importance. He is a giant in
world of pygmies.
Many men fail because of timidity
and modesty. They secretly tell them
selves that they don't amount to
much, that they are mediocre and that
nobody is interested in their words or
deeds. They stink into the hidden re.
cesses of obscurity of complete fail
ure.
There Is sane middle ground upon
which those who get anywhere worth
while in life must ever stand. Neither
conceit nor timidity will carry anyone
very far.
Honesty Is the best policy even In
appraising ones own talents.-Thrift
Magazine.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-12-09
UP TO THE MoToRIsT

In the, case of Goodman VS.. the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the U.
S. Supreme Court holds that liability
for damages in driving onto a rail-
road track is on the motorist.
The highest court has again de-
cided that motor car drivers who
venture upon railroad track do sc
entirely at their own peril.
In this case the heirs of the man
killed sued to recover damages be-
cause the view of the oncoming train
was INSTRUCTED. He could hear the
opcoming train, but could not see it
Justice Holmes (inclined lin all
HIS decisions to be conservative
held. when man goes upon q
railroad track he knows that he goes
to place where he may be killed il
a train comes upon him before he is
clear of the track. He knows he
must stop for the train, not the train
stop for him.
The decision against the heirs
holds that the man in the car was
not justified in trusting to hearing
alone, but must also see that the
way is clear.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-12-09
MARYLAND CLUB BOY WINS
FARM PAPER PRIZE

Stanley B. Sutton, OF Chestertown
Kent county, has been announced as
one of the winners in the All lead
ership contest for which the Farm
Journal of Philadelphia offered
prizes totaling $1,000, according to
word received by E. G. jenkins,
State boys club agent
The award carries with it but $40
in money but the honor is signifi-
cant inasmuch as there were entries
in the contest from thirty-tive states
and Hawaii Young Sutton placed
fourth among the boys.
Stanley Sutton has record in All
club work in Maryland that dates
back to 1917 when he first became
interested in growing an acre of
pupebred corn under the direction of
County Agent H. B. .Rerrick. From
this modest beginning he has\ built
himself reputation as grower of
good seed corn throughout the
county.
His activities, however, have not
been confined to the production OF
corn. In 1921 he became interested
in Dairy Cattle judging and the fol
lowing year acquired purebred
Holstein heifer that became the nu-
cleus of a small herd he later built
up.
In 1924 under the direction of
County Agent Derrick, Stanley und-
ertook the production of an acre, of
tomato plants, producing for the
growers of Kent county approximat-
ely 100000 tomato plants which
were sold at $1.50 per thousand.
The plant bed was said to be one of
the best in the State and was used
as a demonstration of the methods
of growing high quality tomato
plants in the open.
In 1925 he was one OF the winners
in the State dairy cattle judging
contest at Timonium and was a mem
Der of the State team which won the
national Judging contest at the Ma
ional Dairy Show. AS a result OF
this victory, the team was sent to
England to take part in the inerna-
ional judging contest at the English
Royal Stock Show.
He is one of the best known club
members in Maryland and last sum
mer was chosen chief OF the All Star
group of club members during CLUB
Week at the University of Maryland
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-12-09
27O CHEST CLINICS IN
MARYLAND LAST YEAR
MADE POSSIBLE BY
CHRISTMAS SEALS

Two hundred and seventy free Chest
Clinics were conducted throughout
the state during the fiscal year ending
September &c. according to informa-
ton released by the Maryland Tuber-
culosis Association, from its state
Offices in Baltimore.
For nearly four years these clinics
have been conducted by the Clinician
of the State Association, in co-opera
ton with the official health agencies
of the state and counties This year
total of 1882 examinations were
made, resulting in the disclosing of
1883 manifest cases Of tuberculosis,
and 22O heart cases. More than six
hundred practicing physicians in the
state either attended or referred cases
to the clinics for diagnosis "This,"
says Mr.. w. B. Matthews, Managing
Director of the State Association,
SHOWS the wonderful cooperation the
Association has had from the local
doctors, and the official state and
county health authorities"
The twentieth annual sale of Christ
mas Seals which will end on Christ
mas Day, will give the opportunity
again to the people of the counties to
assist in the continuance of these very
necessary and successful Chest
Clinics,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-12-09
TELEPHONE INVESTMENT IN
MARYLAND

Investment in telephone plant and
Equipment of the Bell System of
which the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company of Baltimore
City, operating in the State of Mary
and is an associated company, is
low more than 5000 200. Ir
Maryland the investment OF the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company is S4O,795,6 1851, according
TO statement just made by w. A.
Condit, vice president. ,..&
It took forty-one years after the
telephone was invented to build up
he first billion dollars in Bell Sys-
tenn plant investment. The billion
dollar mark was passed during the
rear 1917. 1t took six years to add
the second billion dollars. 1t was
turing the latter part of 1928 that
Bell system plant and equipment in
vestment passed the two billion dol
lar line. 1t has taken less than four
The present huge total includes
among other things, the investment
in such items as exchange and toll
ines, central office equipment, sta
ton eqripment, land and buildings
and general equipment. The invest
tent in the latter equipment alone
amounts TO over 100000, o.
which some $22,000,000 is repre-
r.anted by Office furniture and fix
lures, S1S,000,0O0 by general stable
and garage equipment, and Sl2,-
G0e 900 by general tools and nipple
ments. 1t is estimated that the Be-
system will expend during the cur
rent year for new additions to tele
ph one plant in the nieighborhood o.
S270.000,000. Thus, in one year
alcne there will be spent for net
want additions one-half again as
much as the entire investment in
Bel! System plant at the end of 1900
(Which it had taken the previous 25
years to acquired
The Bell system has thus expend
d over three billion dollars for tele.
hone plant and equipment since the
ivention of the telephone In 1875.
tho rate of one dollar minute,
would take over five thousand
seven hundred years to expend an
,mount equal to the present invest
ment of the Bell System. This in
vestment. however, has been built up
in only fifty-one years.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-12-09
SUPREMACY OF NEWSPAPERS
RECOGNIZED

Marconi, radio wizard. thus com
pares the field of radio and news
papers: 1.-THE newspaper has this
distinct advantage: 1t is a record
You cannot paste radio announce
ments in scrapbook: Newspapers
put the news down in black and
white.
"Of course, the radio has it's ad
vantages. A radio impulse can ira
vel around the world In one-seventh
of a second, and news can be trans
mitted almost instantaneously."
The newspaper cannot give the
world the splendid musical programs
available through the radio; but the
press, he feels, will always be the
big power in the world for expires
sing opinion->by rulers and states
men, and for the big events Of news
While the famous inventor does
not exactly say it, the press is origi-
nal and constructive instead OF being
largely repeating agency.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-12-09
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1927
THIS MAN HAS A PAYING CROP

Does it pay to thin woodlot?
The answer is simple because of the
completely of the problem. Try it
and find out the results! There are
extremely few men who try it out
on a fair basis. and it is safe to say
that hundreds of thousands OF cords
of wood rot annually on the Eastern
Shore, when a large part of it might
be placed ON the market to bring in
fair to excellent returns.
1t does not always pay to thin out
an overcrowded stand Of trees, three
or more inches in diameter, but how
many men know this from exper-
fence? If you own woodlot on the
Eastern Shore ask yourself that
question. Here is what one warden
succeeded in doingi
In 1915 he purchased 1876 acres of
loblolly pine and hardwods, two to
five inches in diameter on the aver
age, for 81, O00,-good purchase val
lie for land alone, not to mention a
coming crop of wood. Instead Of
waiting twenty or thirty years to get
returns on his investment, this man
hit the happy medium squarely on
the head by blending the science of
tree growing with sound business
principles. A forester would go
through the woodland and say the
thinning was too heavy to be ideal.
A lumberman would look the stand
over and probably say, "A lot OF this
could be taken out to bring in good
money" Neither of the two could
critic severly. The forestry man
finds thrifty stand of almost pure
pines, bit open, but the trees put
ting on wood at a rapid rate on &C
count of this uncrowded condition.
The lumberman would examine the
records and find this: ,ss- : 4 S.s
IL. Cost of thinning and cutting,
$500 per cord; 2. Hauling from
woods and saving into stovewood,
$500 per cord; 8. Delivery and sell
ling costs, $500 per cord; Total
Expenses, $500 per cord. Selling
price, Of pine and hardwood. mixed.
amounts to $1,000 per cord. Profit
per cord, $500.
!. In eleven years he has removed
approximately five cords per acre in
trimmings. His annual cut of cord
wood amounts to a total of fifty to
one hundred cords at the" present
time, $500 to $500 clear annual in
come on an investment which orig
inally cost $1,000 eleven years ago.
OF course we must take out a bit for
taxes on the property, but the chanc-
es are there will be little bit left
over for the owner.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-12-09
Books Must Have Air

Recent tests by the United States
bureau of chemistry analysing larg,
number of worn leather bookbind
ings, show that leather books need
pure air and deteriorate when ex
posed to harmful sulphurOus and acid
ic impurities. Backs of leather books
deteriorate quicker than the sides
because ordinarily they are more ex,
posed to light and impure air. the
tests reveal. To prolong the life OF
treasured leather bindings. steps
should he taken to prevent their
deterioration through the absorption
of atmospheric impurities. the bureau
advises. Certain. cOatings and fin
ishes, notably heats foot and castor,
oil, are stated to be excellent for the
purpose.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-12-09
LET'S KEEP THIS BLACK LINE GOING DOWN
TUBERCULOSIS
KILLS FIVE DAILY
IN MARYLAND

Statistics recently given out by the
State Health Department show that
in 1926, eighteen hundred and eight
individuals died from tuberculosis in
the State of Maryland. This means
that approximately five people each
day die from the white plague in our
State. For each death, it is esti-
mated that there are at least nine
active cases indicating that at pres
emit there are in Maryland more than
sixteen thousand active cases Of
tuberculosis.
The white plague appears to be the
most serious menace in our family
and economic life, despite the prog
ress made in fighting it. Closely al
lied with this program Ii the united
effort of the Maryland tuberculosis
Association. cooperating with the offl.l
cial health agencies in the prevention
and eradication of this disease.
DR.. R. H. Riley, head of Commune
able Diseases of the State Health De.
partment, says 1.-THE work against
tuberculosis must be enlarged If the
disease is to be brought entirely un.
der control, and eventually stamped
out. The State Department of Health
Is deeply interested in this fight, and
has always given its stamp Of ap-
prevail to the activities of the Mary
land tuberculosis Association, and
the annual tuberculosis Christmas
Seal Sale.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-12-09

to their sorrow that Cheapside is
"cheap" only in name.
Cheapside was the principal London
street market, when retail trade was
carried on around old st. Paul's cathe-
dral. The names of many of the
thOroughfares leading into the west
ern end of Cheapside as, for instance,
Milk street, Broad street, Wood street
and Honey lane, are reminiscent Of
this period.
"Cheape" was the old English name
for market In the Sixteenth century
the form Chepessyd appears, from
which the present spelling originated.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-12-09
Weird and Wonderful
Eiskra Girls Dances

In Riskra one hears the sound Of
the African toln-toms and the playing
of pipes, the tapping of the drums. all
night long, writes Lillian Genth. In
the American Art Magazine The
street of the Ouled Nails is moi only
the most interesting street in f,iskra
but the most interesting street ! have
ever seen in my life. The green over
hanging balconies. the many notes of
color In the dresses of the girls. the
CLEAN of the gold coins on their bodies
and the clank of their ankiets and
bracelets as they walk down the street
make barbaric spectacle.
AT night when the girls have their
dances in the little coffee houses in
the street of the Ouled Nails. il Is a
most interesting sight. Every one
seems absorbed in the dance. The at.
PENDANTS and the audience sit around
in a ring on their launches slipping
mint tea and coffee. calling to the
girls and dancers who sit on plat
form before you.
Each awaits her turn to com, down
to her dance with the confidence of a
prima donna on the opera stage. The
dance is very wonderful First the
gyrations of the neck. the rest of the
body held absolutely rigid Then the
quivering of the shoulders with the
rest of the body rigid. The hum and
A.
exciting. These Ouled Nails dancers
daughters of the Nile. are often muir
dered for their gold.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-12-09
RUSSIAN PUBLIC HEALTH PRO-
GRAM
BY Anna ]. Haines

Moscow representative, American
Friends Service Committee.
Public health in Russia is show
ing marked Improvement. Under
the Czaars, conditions were very
bad. In 1913 more than one-fourth
a year old. tuberculosis was rife,
and there were frequent epidemics
of smallpox. ~A
The new government is meeting
the situation with vigorous public
health program. Doctors are now
civil servants, and medical service is
free, just as the public school sys-
TEN is free to citizens of the United
States. The doctors work together
in clinics, where each is free to spec
ialize, but when together they can
enjoy much better equipment than
would be possible for a doctor work
ing by himself.
Although the government supports
these institutions for the cure of di
s,ase it is the program for proven
tive medicine that has been entered
-pon with sven greater enthusiasm,
Infant welfare stations, where peas
ant and working-class mothers may
receive instructions in caring for
their babies, have been started not
only in. all the cities, but in many ru-
raj reighborhoods Day nurseries
for the children of working mothers
the assignment of doctors TO examine
and care for the health. of sehoo
children, the medical inspection OF
factory workers and the sanitary in
spection of factories-all of these ser
vices are new in Russia Young
peasants taxing their course of mill
tary training are taught to be teach
4rs to their home villages lin such
elementary hygiene as the danger t.
health in the whole famiiy's eatin:
from a common soup bowl, in the
possible spread of infection through
drinking water obtained from barn
yard wells, in the fallacy involved
m believing thHt The presence of the
body lous.a on person is a sign OF
good health.
To combat tho peasant prejudices
grounded on centuries of illiteracy
i-olation from progress, is one
of the greatest tasks of the Russian
Department of Health. Realizing
some of these difficulties it has in
troduced into it's courses of instruc-
ton for doctors as we'll as for mid
wives and nurses, a larger number
of social service classes than we have
in our curricula. The workers Of
the Friends Service Committee, who
have lived in the primitive regions
of Russia and know how much need
there is for medical program devot-
ed to humanity rather than to pure
science. have much sympathy with
this new attitude for health work.
1t is already resulting in a lowered
death and disease rate, epidemics
which were so prevalent a few years
ago are almost unheard of, and very
gradually household customs OF long
standing are being modified.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-12-09
Inexcusable Mistake

There is delightful old Irish WON
an who keeps corner fruit stand IN
a Western town. One day gentle.
man disposed to be facetious took up
fine melon from her stall. and said
gravely: "You have pretty gond ap
Piles in this state; hut where come
from we have them twice that size"
The old lady looked up from her
stool, surveyed the joker coolly and
replied in a tone of pity: "Ah, what
for should l be wastin' me breath to
talk to wan that takes our gooseber.
ries for apples"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-12-09
Hard to Duplicate

In Colorado town was a man too
poor to indulge In any luxuries other
than superabundance of children
After the coming of number of sin
giles and doubles loving hut unrea
sonable wife presented him with trip
lets-three girls-and he sought fOl
some family to adopt them.
A neighbor was rather inclined to
take them, but his good wife thought
one would perhaps be emo Ugh They
were talking ii over before their lit
tie daughter, who said: "Why don't
we take one of them-or 1on't they
want to break the set?"