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tee the resource, and those who now fight me would marvel that they could have been so dumb.
 If you come to Alaska again, call me up. I shall be glad to exchange views, for I recognize in you the possibilities of valu- able friend, one who is in the position to correct the system if you could find the facts.
 Yours very sincerely,
 William l.. Paul.
 Grand President
 Alaska Native Brotherhood.
 P. s. You stated, T cannot find that in my article I mentioned the Alaska Indians in any way" See page IT, Saturday Evening Post of December IA, 1929 under title Getting ready for the run"
 In that same paragraph you state that flor the local custom is to get by all winter, if possible, in order to bring the full accu- mutation of engine trouble for FREE fixing at the cannery." In your letter to me, you again re- peat this statement.
 There is not a single cannery in Southeast Alaska that repairs any fsherman's engine free" They simply do not do it, not ev- en under the pressure of compe- tition. I would challenge your statement. Further, every can nery furnishing free" oil or gear pays the fishermen a lower price for the fish he brings in.
 "To judge by my correspond ence, which includes many let ters of commendation of my ar | ticles, in many cases from Gov- ernment officials, and only one other besides yourself in opposi- tion" you state, that of course, I do not speak for the people of Alaska.
 1 I will not back down, but will repeat, that my views truly in i terpret the overwhelming Senti- ment of the people of Alaska who are affected by fishery leg islation.
 For my part I have heard doz- ems of people discuss your ar ticles and these wholly condemn your praise of Henry O'Malley, <; but praise your own proposal as far as it goes. As for the Gov ernment officials, who is there outside of the Bureau of Fisher ies, whose opinion is worth a continental. Don't overlook the fact that the employees of the Bureaus in Alaska all belong to one association called the ASSo- >tion of Federal Employees. As for the federal employees of the complimented you, they only prove that they are a brainless lot, for, by and large, your ar ticles are a severe condemnation of the reign of Henry O'Malley in this-the things you point out e%@o~%%%e%%@e~@%@@e%@Se~@~s Supplies and Sundries at {
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fisherman shall not be permitted to catch all the fish and thus de- prive you, an upper fisherman, of your share, but that my gear shall be so regulated that there shall be no eScapement for you, an upper fisherman. That is why those Barons prohibited fixed engines" for catching fish, (another name for fish traps); that is why, today, the British regulations and the Irish regula- tions require that in what few traps they do have, there shall be a free passage in the lead of the trap so that boats and fish may pass through; that even as to the movable gear some part of the gear shall always be held in the hand.
 Tell me, MT. White, what is Alaska but a (saltwater) stream? And why should the trap owner at Cape Spencer or at Cape Cha con or along Chatham Straits be allowed to catch all the fish to the detriment of the Upper" fishermen, say at Wrangell, the Taku or the Chilkat?
 In conclusion q intend to add a postscript because I find I fail ed to note two Strictures in your letter) I wish to say that the handling of the fishery prob lems of Alaska is mere child's play in thiS-that it is in no sense of the word difficult. can do it. I have been right on this question for twenty-five years. m every movement to conserve our fisheries, I have anticipated the evil result itself, and have been years in advance of the Bu- reau of Fisheries. I hope to live to see the day when the Bureau will publish regulations embody- ing my proposals.
 The first objective should be to prohibit all fish traps.
 The regulations which this proposal would put into force would follow naturally, namely removal of restrictions as to sea- ison, length and depth of seines, gill-nets, and trolls and other such regulations.
 The trouble with O'Malley must be this-he doesn't have a scientific mind, mind that can recognize facts, correlate these facts, and he lacks courage to deal with the problem merely as a problem, but rather he consid- CTS the facts as he knows they will please or displease his real advisors among the big packers.
 I would like to be fish commis- sioner for Alaska. With that eventuality, there would dawn an era of prosperity. harmony and contentment among the resi- dents of Alaska. the fishermen, the business men, the canners themselves, for I would guaran-
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ed with hundreds of witnesses, so you must know all about this. If you don't, then you had no busi- ness writing such an article for The Saturday Evening Post.
 : (3). Spacing ot fish traps. In the southern district of South eastern Alaska, the traps are re- uuired to be one mile apart. In the Icy Strait District, the in tervals must be one and one-half miles. Can you or anybody else give a sensible reason for this? The two areas are identical in all their problems. What was the difference? Simply this-that in Icy Straits, Henry O'Malley was dealing with a bare half dozen companies and it was not ditf1- cult to adjust" the traps ac- cording to the new regulations. Tn the southern district, there were too many companies and so one mile was used.
 But what about the result?
 Have you found anybody who has had the least practical ex- perience who would say that there was any decrease in the trap catch? Iwould like to know his name if there is.
 What was the real purpose of this regulation?
 Simply this that the compan- ies no longer had to build "dum- my" traps to safeguard the real fisher. With the former rule of 1900 feet between traps, every canneryman would build a trap Cn each side of the real f1SheI, %aid trap a dummy because it was not built to catch fish but to keep competitors away from the real fisher. I have known cases where the employees of the cannery would throw salmon in to the dummy trap so that they could say that they brailed fish from it. With MT. OMalley's help, no such device is needed. But was there any decrease in the trap catch? Absolutely none! Fewer traps caught the same number of fish. The wider spac- Ing of traps is not a conservation measure because it affected nc decrease in the number of trap caught fish.
 | (4. Curtailment of seines, gill-nets and trolls. The argu- ment defending the fish trap is based on "effciency," as if eff ciency were an end in itself. We must grant that the fish trap is the most effective device now in use, except the weir on the Kar- lux. But why decrease the inef- fciency of the seine and other movable gear? The seine is linn tied to ten fathOms in depth
 You might say that is deer enough. The trouble is ten fath- oms hung straight would be all right, but we have to purse which
 reduces the depth to about one third. The fish trap however drops it's lead down to the bot , tom. The limit of the seine's , 25O fathoms, (15OO feet)-plenty , long enough, the swivel-chail fishermen would say-but the eff , fectiveness of the seine is deter l, mined by it's diameter, in sucE , a case, of course, it is only 50( , feet. All of this is done to de ] crease the efficiency of the seine , but why not decrease the eff ciency of the trap? MT. O'Mal ley may say that he has limited $ the floating trap to 900 foot lead l However, this limitation wa e placed thereon because of tn 3 protests of the pile trap owner who could not build their trap in waters having greater deptl than 100 feet. That is why tn . 1inoitotiO n0f Q00 fant iS n1acn,
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It lat we shall recognize that eV- cry stream has it's own capacity of spawning area, and that over Spawning is just as bad for the industry as under-spaWning. This being so, every fish not needed in keeping up the run should be caught for utilization. How shall this be done? It shall be done by creating districts of such length that a district ward en can cover it in one day. Un- der him shall be placed stream watchmen to guard the dead line" Fishing shall then be pro- hibited until an adequate supply of salmon shall have ascended the stream. The dead-line should be so placed that enough salmon shall be protected for planting" the stream and all ov- CT that shall be caught if requir- ed. This might mean that today the deadline would be at the mouth of the stream; tomorrow, 500 yards away; the day follow ing, one mile away; etc. Tn oth- | CT words, We would have a nov able deadline placed in relation to the contents of the stream.
 This idea is the basic idea of the Canadian reglations. Per- haps unknown to you, you copied i the idea and announced that it Twas your original idea (page 173, Saturday Evening Post of De- cember IA, 1929).
 The trouble with your idea is that it is not complete. That is the reason why I believe it is the result of your own investiga- lions. Your idea does not con- template the variations of the runs of the same species of sal mon. nor the variations of the different species. If you would add my idea of the movable deadline, your proposal would be complete. I am surprised, how ever, to read that you ''have not yet met a fish man who offered any fundamental objections" It is certainly fundamental not to permit a sufficient escapement of the different runs of the same species to say nothing of the early and late species
 The ALASKA NATIVE BRO-
 THERHOOD will perhaps be credited with having a small
 amount of brains now that you
 have endorsed their resolution
 of 1928, as well as their resolu-
 tion of 1929. I would be surpris
 ed if in your talks with the Blu
 reau of Fisheries they did not
 tell you that we had proposed re-
 gulations based on very startling
 differences of principle from
 theirs. I say, 1T would be sur
 prised." No, I would not, for that is another matter which shows their stupidity-they have made
 no study of this question. They
 have no library or place where
 proposals of this kind are kept
 In fact, theys seem to think that
 by ignoring proposals of this
 kind, they are answering the
 conservation question.
 But after all, I have been sim
 ply dealing with the surface o1
 the problem, still not with the fundamentals" of our fisheries When Congress legislates, it doe! so with it's mind on the "funda. mental" law of the land, namely : the Constitution. This Consti | tuition, the unWritten one we cal Common Law" It is all baset , on principles as distinguishes } from the mechanics of the law 5 The principle is easy to state 5 but having the principle in mind l the details should conform to tn } principle, and when tested by tn l vardStick of the fundamenta
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prospect of getting out of Haiti if MT. Hoover does not weaken; but if there is another substan- tial achievement to put to the credit of his administration, it is hard to think what it Is.
 What is the explanation of this political bankruptcy? To our mind it is a double one. Partly the situation is due to the de- fects of MT. Hoover's own mind and character. Partly it indi- cates the hollowness of the po- Htical system that he represents.
 During the whole of MT. Hoov- CTS public life, he has shown an incorrigible tendency to -substi- tute words for action, to become a hero by publicity, not by deeds. The disappointed millions who today still worship their image of the Hoover of the far-OH days of Belgian relief might well re- member the blistering words with which MT. LefflngWell greet ed MT. Hoover's appointment as food controller on our entrance into the war. Never, perhaps, has any other person had a per sonal publicity machine as pow erful and effective as the one that made Herbert Hoover presi- dent of the United States. Laud- ed as a great engineer with a broad knowledge of economic facts and a deep understanding of economic principles, he has displayed consistently a con- tempt for facts and an ignorance or indifference in respect to prin- ciples that would have disgraced a sophomore.
 When MT. Hoover entered the White House we were bound head on for a business smash due to insane stock speculation. The facts were notorious; even at that time it was not too late to avoid @the worst effects of the speculation mania; the machin- cry of control was at hand in the Federal Reserve System; inform ed and conservative men in the banking world itself had been urging it's us. No more imperi- tive duty could have confronted an intelligent and economically minded president than to help put backbone into a weak Feder- al Reserve Board. For eight wild months the president did nothing, and then the catastrO- phe came. We do not say that President Hoover could have pre- vented that disaster. We do say that he did not lift a finger to prevent it, though he had,by vir- tue of his position and reputa- tiOn and reputation, unique opportunity and responsibility.
 We are now in the seventh month of business depression consequent on that smash. What has been the contribution of the administration during that peri cd? First, a series of spectacular and enormously advertised con- ferences with business leaders out of which was to come an i'm possible stimulation of conStruc- tion that would have been eco nomically unsound if it could have been brought about. Second a deliberate suppression of the facts of depression and unem- ployment, and a deliberate at tempt to persuade the country that things were going well. Give the president full credit for be. lieving that that is the way t. make them go well, his theor. and his action are still those O the publicity man, not of thu economist and statesman; the, bring scant comfort to the em barrassed business man or tn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30
Carolina EDITORS
/. TO HEAR SULLIVAN
Noted Political Writer on
Program of Newspaper
Institute.
BY the Associated Press.


CHAPEL HILL, N. c., December 3d.
The program for the next annual News
paper Institute, which is to be held at
the University of North Carolina here
January IA, Is and 16, has been viz
tually completed.
Among prominent newspaper men
from outside the State who already have
accepted invitations TO speak are Fred
Fuller Shedd, managing editor OF the
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and pres
ident of the American Association of
Newspaper Editors; Mark Sullivan, noted
political correspondent, and Mark Eth
ridge, managing editor Of the Telegraph
News of Macon, Ga, who has long been
prominently identified with the South
ern Newspaper Publishers Association.
Merle Thorpe, editor of Nations Bush
ness, also has tentatively accepted an
invitation to address the North Carolina
editors and publishers.
Discussion Planned.
Mr. Sullivan will speak at the opening
session, Wednesday night, January IA,
along with President Frank Graham of
the university and j. w. NOEL, president
of the North Carolina Publishers ASso-
citation. Mr.. Shedd will speak at the
Thursday morning session and Mr.. Eth
ridge will speak Thursday afternoon.
A number of prominent North Caro-
lima editors are scheduled for addresses
or to lead discussions. There will be a
round-table discussion on Facing Pres
ent Conditions" led by Don Elias of the
Asheville Citizen-TimeS; r. E. Price OF
the Rutherford County News, j. T. Fain
of the Hendersonville Times-News and
Roland Beasley of the Monroe Journal.
This will feature the Thursday morning
program, which will be cllmaxed with
on address bv Prof Albert Coates of the
University Law School on Criminal
Law and the Press"
For Thursday afternoons program the
institute will be divided into two groups.
Lee B. Weathers Of the Cleveland Star
will preside over the weekly group and
John A. Park Of the Raleigh Times over
the daily group.
l. SulIivan's Address Feature.
Mr.. Sullivan's address will be the fea-
ture of the Thursday night session,
when a buffet supper will be served at
the Carolina Inn, to be followed by a
complimentary performance Of the Car
DINA Playmakers.
Friday mornings session has not been
definitely arranged.
The institute is being held under the
| Joint auspices of the North Carolina
Press Association and the University OF
North Carolina.
The committee arranging the program
is composed of ]. w. NOEL, president of
! the Press Association; John A. Park,
vice president; Miss Beatrice Cobb, Sec
rotary; w. C. Dowd, jr.; j. l.. Horne, jr. /;
| H. A. Dennis, r. e. Price and w. c.
Manning, representing the Press ASSo-
citation, and r. r. Grammar, NJ. F.
| Vining, r. w. Madry and Oscar Coffin
Of the University Of North Carolina.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30
TnnAY,s AMUsEMENTS.

Shubert- Belasco-"Bird IN Hand" at
$50 pm.
NatiOnaI-"It's wise Child" at 800
pm.
Gayety-"Girls From the Follies," at
2:15 and S:l5 pm.
FOx-"Tom Sawyer" at 1890, 2:4o,
STA, 7:55 and 1929 pm.
CoIunabia-"Hell's Angels" at 1920
am, 1890, PAS, 1850, 7:05 and 9:l5
pm.
RiaIt0-"The Cohens and Kellys in
Africa at 1850 am, so, $3.50, $50,
7:50 and $50 pm.
PaIace-"War Nurse" at IL am,
1908, 1922, 5:32, 7:42 and $3.50 pm.
Earle ismet," at IL, 2:10, 4:45,
TAO and 10 pm.
R-K-O Keith's-"Hook, Line and
Sinker," at 11:40 am. and lao, $40,
$40, 1888 and 9:40 pm.
MetrOpOIitan-"Sin Takes Holiday
at 11:10 am, 1880, 2:35, APO, COS,
7;5O and 9:35 pm.
"Kismet," at 6:15, 7:55
and 9:40 pm.
Central-"Remote Control" II am. to
II pm.
TivOIi-"The Bat Whispers" at 2:30,
sis, 6, 7:45 and GAS pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30
WILL PROVIDE FUND
FROM CHURCH LAND
Vestry of Parish Asks That Sale of
Property Be Ordered
by Court.

Acting under petition Of the vestry
Of Christ Church Parish, filed through
Attorney George c. Gertman, Justice
Jesse c. Adkins has authorized the sale
of the church property at Fourth and
M streets southeast, and appointed Mr..
Gertman trustee to make the sale.
The vestry informed the court that a
part of the land was donated in 1878
and that clause in the deed required
the property to be used forever for re-
ligious purposes, under a penalty of re-
verter to the donors upon failure so to
use it. They explained that the prop
erty is no longer suitable for religious
purposes because the parishioners have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30

John G. Payne, an employe Of the COM
pany, who was injured at Union Sta
ton August 4. The commission had
awarded $14286 damages to Payne, and
the company says its action was illegal
because the law does not apply to its
employees.
Attorneys Hamilton & Hamilton rep
resent the plaintiff, and raised the same
Commissioner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30

all removed from the vicinity of the
church.
The decree authorizes a fund to be
set aside from the proceeds Of the sale
and the income to be used for religious
purposes in place of the donated land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30
ABOLISH CHINESE TAX
Inland Levies Removed by Man
churian War Lord.

SHANGHAI, December 80 P.-
Tientsin reports from JananeSe sources
today said that Chang Hsueh LANG,
Manchurian war lord, issued a decla-
ration stating that abolition Of the
likin or inland levies and similar taxes
will be effective in Chilli on January
/. The decision regarding Manchuria
in this matter must be delayed pending
the forthcoming financial conference
in Mukden.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30
INJUNCTION is SOUGHT
AGAINST INJURY AWARD
Terminal Company Claims It Is
Exempt From Washington
Comnensafion T,aw
Compensation Law.

Asserting its claim that its employees
are covered by the employers liability
act of 1908 and not by the provisions
of the District of Columbia workmen's
compensation law, the Washington
Terminal Company today fled in the
District Supreme Court an application
for an injunction against Robert j.
Hoage, Deputy Commissioner of the
Compensation Commission, to prevent
the collection of an award allowed to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26
Golf Gossip
BY BERT DEMBY
United Press staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, July %. - Johnnie
Lehman, Chicago, former Purdue
university star, angular master OF
driving, went out today as favorite
to defeat Ira Couch, Chicago, in the
final match of the western amateur
golf tournament. Lehman, good
enough to eliminate Don Moe, Port
land, Ore, winner of the title last
year, achieved his favoritism by his
surprising 8 and 7 victory over Phil
Perkins in a semi-final match Fri
day. Perkins previously had shot
a SO, for a new course record. The
former British amateur champion
looked a sure winner. But Lehman,
who has overthrown such men as
Lloyd Nordstrom and George Daw-
son, refused to be cowed by any
records and went out determined to
win from the man who was run
ner-up in the American amateur
tournament of 1928 to Bobby JonCI,
the super golfer.
Couch won his way through the
lower bracket by defeating such
golfers as Don Anderson, st. Louis;
Homer Joy, Colorado Springs;
Charlie Fish, Rockford, Ill, and
finally Bob McCray, Trans-Missis-
Sippi champion.
Lehman has played consistent
golf throughout the tournament. He
was co-medalist with Chick Evans,
Chicago, with a score of lat for the
two qualifying rounds. To achieve
that score he put together 70 and
"a and he has played low 10 golf
throughout the tournament.
Perkins, who had eliminated Jack
Westland, Chicago district cham
pion in his previous round, was no
match for Lehman Friday. Johnnie
took the lead on the second hole.
The Englishman was able to square
the match several times, but could
not get the lead.
Lehman, instead of playing
against his opponent, played against
par. AS a result he turned the first
nine holes with a lead of one hole in
his favor. On the eleventh he went
two up by playing a great iron shot
through the trees. That lead was
increased when Perkins three-put-
ted the fourteenth and Johnnie was
down in par.
Perkins got hole back on the fif-
tenth when Johnnie drove into the
woods, but lost it again when his
ball became covered with mud and
caused him to three-pttt. Lehman
got off a great 325-yard drive on
the eighteenth, the first time any
one has achieved that distance in
the tournament, and he was down in
four to end the first eighteen holes
five up.
Lehman won the Friday feature
by signing Perkins on the twenty
fifth and twenty-sixth holes, which
he won. They halved the next three
and the play was over.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26
Indians Resume Home Action
Tonight Against Columbus
Tribe Wins One in Finale at Toledo Friday and Escapes
Cellar; Tucker Slated to Play.

Corridenites were not to be denied.
Nine straight defeats were enough.
They were overdue to win and
cashed in, led by Pete Monahan
with four hits in five official times
at bat. And Charlie Dorman socked
a home run in the big third round
when the Hoosier rallied and scored
four markers.
Long Home Stay
Memo Leibold's Senators will sup
ply the opposition here tonight,
game starting at bells. On Sunday
the teams will return to daylight
ball and then resume night action
Monday, free Tor women and chill
dren. The Tribesnen are home for
long stay and will be bolstered
in the game tonight by Ollie Tuck
er, obtained from Buffalo, where he
knocked the dayhghts out of the
ball during night pastiming, the
Bisons having TUNED to the after
shutdown game some time ago.
1t will be interesting to note how
we'll Bill NarleSky covers the short
field compared with the swift man
ner in which the popular Rabbit
Warstler protected that territory for
nearly three years before receiving
the big league call from the Boston
Americans.
Remember the Colonies!
And here's another item of i'm
portance. BY winning at Toledo
Friday while Milwaukee was losing
to Minneapolis, the Indians crept
out Of the A. A. cellar and climbed"
into seventh place, leaving the Brew
erS in sole possession again of the
dark and damp league basement.
The Corridenites went to town"
not long ago and knocked of the
league leading Colonies three out Of
four, and maybe home park scenery
and roofing will move them to an
other burst of triumph.