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The Alaskan., 1931-02-20
WHAT DO WE GAIN"

pression that they wish to con- vey. Every animal and bird within the vicinity is in danger of the deadly poison; Coyotes, cats, lions, foxes, bear, squirrels, insectiverous birds, game birds, beneficial hawks-everything that comes within range of the line, and the boundaries are not small. The trapper who makes his living from the few pelts that the country now affords him, sees the handwriting on the wall: the poison brigade" is taking the bread from his hands!
 And what do they say when ap- preached on the matter? Trap ping is rapidly becoming a com mercial farming enterprise so
The Alaskan., 1931-02-20

The poison brigade" carries on! To just what goal it hopes to attain we are not certain most assuredly to one of an- initiation and destruction un- less those who foresee inevitable results and put a stop to such a fool hardy enterprise. It is ridiculous, an insult to the mental faculties of the average man, to have the Biological Survey attempt to make it a general belief that the poison baits" (strychnine placed in cubes of fat or meat) distributed for hundreds of miles through out the country, often covering areas of 5000 square miles VII be picked up by coyc Je and cats only. That, evidently, ls i..:e i'm
The Alaskan., 1931-02-20
T14E CATsPAW

each other all kinds of hard
 names, the buyers have made a
 change in the grading limit-7O pounds head on" or about fifteen per cent decrease in the weight
 of the first grade fish.
 The men are too busy fighting
 with each other to give any thought to the cut which the buyers have made. Their gross income will be cut, the buyers
 benefit and the fishermen owners and union are at such a variance in their contentious that they are unable to meet the attack from the buyers To add to the misery of the fisher men the buyers declare. that if they do not get any local fish (Alaska caught) they will i'm port the product from Japan. The fishermen of Rupert have taken up that gauntlet and will not accept the terms of the buyers there and they are in sisting that other fishermen do likewise. With the injection of this new issue in the halibut fishing situation it is not i'm probable that the Vessel Owners Association will awaken to the fact that they are just common fishermen after all only that they have better tools to work with than the Fishermen's Union
The Alaskan., 1931-02-20
1t doesn't, matter very much. "- Hunter Trader Trapper.
 In Alaska

In Alaska too this poison brigade" has been operating .)ne agent of the brigade set out
 olson bait in Duncan Canal
 <eku Straits and Zarembo and before he had gone around tc to pick up the bait, if any was left, he was called to Juneau tC lobby a bill for the brigade. Re- sidentS of Rake found traces ol the poison, dead crows, mink and land otter in a couple of places the same was true of Zarembo It has been stated in our hear ing that what little game was ir Duncan Canal was cleaned out by the poison brigade"
 And this poison brigade" vii want more funds from the le- islature to spread it's poison throughout the country on the pretext of getting wolves.
The Alaskan., 1931-02-20
The Open Forum,
A Pertinent Discussion
 About Conservation
Editor Alask an

Editor Alaskan
 Dear Sir:
 It gave me great pleasure to read in your paper last week the article by Glenn Frank. It en- cOurages me to continue my letters when a man holding the position of President of the Uni versity of Wisconsin tells us that, "CCnServation Is something
 more than planting a few trees and protecting few fish x Conservation has a, wider, a so- cial, significance"
 When he tells us i've should exercise some degree of public oversight of forest lands, even when privately owned, to insure a continuing productivity" he hits the weak spot in our na- ticnal Conservation activity and when he says: q do not near a p2ternaliStic interference in pri- vate enterprise, but simply some public method of insisting that in return for state or federal as- sistance, the forest lands in question be kept productive" he offers us a common sense solu- ton. We can have private own ership- -Americanism and still have our forests.
 It is not necessary to hold our timber land from settlers who at 1 the best, will use. but a very small percentage of it for other
The Alaskan., 1931-02-20

than the growing of timber. It $ not necessary that Southeast ern Alaska smother all desire for development along lines other than pulp mills. We can have our land and still practice forestry.
 We can have cur twenty mill lion acres put to work at de- yeloping this country with better 'han an even chance of popu- lation of a million or more, twenty years from now and still not be out of bounds with our conservation program.
 We don't have to turn over all the profits of our timber rais- ing to pulp corporations. We can turn down those 9,600 jobs so glibly promised us by the Forest Service, and insist on one hun dred thousand settlers, and still he in line with the best brains of the country.
 We can rest assured that even
 ually pulp mills will settle in our midst, whether the land be publicly or privately owned. The Forest Service is doing nothing for us toward hurrying pulp mills to our rescue. The law of supply and demand is the only thing that will bring them. We will have to wait until they get ready to come regardless of the propaganda of the Forest Ser vice.
 Is it not sensible. that we put our house in order and be ready 10 profit by their advent
 MT. Frank tells us very plain ly: "A successful venture in re- forestation will stabilize and di- Versify the economic life of 3 state. We already know a hun dred ways, and shall doubtless find a beWildering number of new ways, to utilize the by-pro- ducts Of the forest, and the state that succeeds in reforesta- tion programs will find that they have not only a great lumber industry assured, but many new industries arising out of the use of by products" We nave, or will have, if we are ever able to shake off the Pat ernalistic interference in private enterprise" of the Forest De- partment, an assured future timber industry Let us look to our by-products.
 Continued on page 3
The Alaskan., 1931-02-20

The Deep Sea Fishermen Union and the Fishing Vessel Owners Association are at swords point and seemingly are unable to reach any kind of agreement. The union wants the divieion Of catch to be based on One-1ifth to the vessel and the balance to the crew. In event of accident through no fault of the fishermen the hooks are not cast, the fishermen contend that the owner should pay all eX- penses Of the trip. If hooks are put over the side and no fish caught and something occurs which sends them back to port, he fishermen are ready to pay their share of the trip. Expenses consisting in the main of gaso- line, food and gear.
 The owners declare that cost of operation has gone up so much that one-fourth of the catch should be deducted before division is made with the crew, if the owner must stand for hole" charges on trip.
 This in the main is the pie ture of the controversy between the two classes of fishermen the boat owners and the crew.
 What Results
 While the laboring men are fighting each other and calling
The Alaskan., 1931-02-20
PROTECT THE GRIZZLY BEAR

Steward Edward White is re- cciVing a nice sum of money from the Saturday Evening Post for an attack on office chair heroes" Of Alaska who condemn tie advocation of making Kodiak and Chicagoff Islands grizzly bear reservations. MT. Whites contact with the grizzly bear of Alaska has been in the open fields and along open river banks. He has not stepped up on a sleeping grizzly with cubs or startled the bear feeding in the brush. Like other tourist of the country he saw many bear and they are such nice, pretty tame things, so useful to mankind and such a potential aid to the devel- Opment of the country that he insists that they should be given every protection by law and es- pecially by creation of island re- serves for them.
 AlaskanS who condemn the policy he advocates are towards. In the words of MT. White: T had always looked on Alaskans as hardy pioneers, able to take care of them selves anywhere. They appear scared of bears" " And while believing that Alas kans are "able to take care of themselves anywhere" which includes their own country, Mr. White wants to be their mentor insofar as the bear are concern ed.
 In spite Of the several hundred letters written by high officials and others, the people of Alaska are a unit in their opposition to creation of any more reserva- tions-even for the grizzly bear. If MT. White and others wish creation of such preserves, why not transplant a couple dozen of the bear to the Yellowstone, Mount Rainier. and other parks
The Alaskan., 1931-02-20
MAY SEARCH WITHOUT
 WARRANT


 Under the poison brigade's'' bill passed by Congress last week, any warden or officer in the em- ploy of the Biological Survey may enter into the home, house, cabin, tent, raft, float, scoW or boat, and without warrant search for fur or game out of season.
 Tn the past they met with such opposition from the people of Alaska when they made their illegal searches that they went 10 Congress to have their acts legalized by law.
 But
 If Congress will by law declare that any member of the Alaska poison brigade" has the legal rightto enter into mans home cabin or boat without prope- search warrant, then what is to hinder the department of justice from using a precedent eStc,b- lished by the poison brigade " If it is legal and proper for N Terhune's gang of animal poi soners to go into your house, your home or boat without T search warrant, will it stop there? Can't a deputy marshal or prohibition agent travel a round with MT. Poison Brigade and also search your house and boat for liquor-whether you have it or not?
 Two wrongs do not make a we are right up on our uppers in declaring. that we will contribute toward the de- fense expense of any one, man enough, who will throw the poi con brigade out of his house or boat unless the man enters with proper search warrant. We do not believe the law constitutional and will insist that it is not con- until the courts set our mind at rest on that subject
The Alaskan., 1931-02-20

more or less infested with tour ists and game bugs? At the same time it might not be amiss for MT. White to advocate a bounty on AlaSkanS, creation of re5er- vationS for blackbear, wolf lynx, crows and seagulls They would be just as useful as his reserva- tions for grizzly bear and would meet with a lot less opposition from Alaskans. He might even start a grizzly bear farm.
 Official COWards
 Speaking of some who endorse his position, (high off1cials) MT. White says: 'They express them selves as heartily in accord, but request me not to quote them, because they imagine their use- fullness might be impaired Doublecrossing officials men who demand bounty on grizzly bear when talking to Alaskans and who secretly, lacking intes- tinal fortitude to back their con- victiOns, write MT. White sup porting his urge that grizzly bear reservations be created on Ko- diak and Chichagoff Islands. And such is the calibre of the men who high in official life" dominate the political affairs of Alaska. Those are the Alaek ans who lack "gutS" and those are the ones needing influence of men of the reputation Of .1r. White We do not believe SJrio men belong in Alaska and we dc not believe MT. White aimires those men or their ilk. Even :t lc does use them as proof 'f his o.'n.ention that Ai.skans agree si;h him that the grizz"v bear siiCuId be protected
 Rouse init em!' Let the ie- gislature put a bounty on the bear and thereby lnake Alaska safe for the Democrats.
The Alaskan., 1931-02-20

A crouch is a public poison, a private pest, a neighborhood nuisance a domestic evil.
The Washington times., 1931-08-03

Yes, if he was anywhere he
would be there.
1t wouldn't hurt to go and
see. The place was near and
she could slip in and out in a
moment. The trip would salts
fly her if Tony wasn't there.
Swiftly she walked along and,
in the lighted doorway Of
Monaco's, hestiated. She could
hear the music. haunting, waltz
music. A few couples passed
her, their faces eager, their
bodies already swinging into the
rhythm of the music.
Spying, that's what she was
doing. And she had never spied
before. Silly. She shouldn't go
in. 1t was wrong. What if
Tony were up there? She
couldn't do anything about it.
Then she saw them, Tony
and Babe. Babe, eyes closed,
her lips on Tony's dark coat.
At one time in her life the
knowledge that Babe and Tony
were here dancing would have
stabbed her, panied her. Moth.
ing could have made it up to
her but Tony's arms around
her, his lips whispering the
words that he loved her, and
only her
AS she started out again, she
The Washington times., 1931-08-03

Dee-to think of that. I was
just about to tell Mr.. Likely
that I thought she was out with
him."
Dee left soon after and
walked by herself to the street
car. Could it be possible that
Tony had called Babe and that
Babe had gone out with him?
No-probably Ray Forrest had
phoned, and Babe, her usual
selfishness predominating, de-
cided to go with him, neglect
ing, when she went, to tell her
mother that she was expecting
Marvin Likely. Perhaps, Babe
had forgotten her engagement
with Likely.
A Sudden Thought
Downtown the girl was about
to change cars, when she
stopped suddenly on the steps
Of the car she had entered and
quickly got down. Tony would
go out to dance-that is, if he
had done what he said he was
going to do. And he liked
Monaco's better than any place
in town. He might be there.
The Washington times., 1931-08-03
By FAY KING

what he had threatened. He
would do it to spite her. To
force her to give up her visits
to Phil. :.
The door bell rang. and Mrs.
Bradley answered it. She smiled
at Marvin Likely as he came in,
although Dee could see that she
was embarrassed.
Mr.. Likely seemed pudgier
than ever to the girl who rose
to greet him. He was dressed
in dinner clothes, which fitted
his short, stout figure without a
wrinkle. His face was more
pink than ever from the cold.
Babe was going to marry him.
Very Much Surprised
He suffered a little when he
shook Dee's hand, and showed
his surprise that she was here.
Evidently, he thought he would
never see her again.
Probably thinking of all the
publicity she had had, Dee
+ thought bitterly.
rs Babe ready, Mrs. Brad
ley?' he asked, turning from
Dee quickly. He was all smiles
again when he addressed Mrs.
Bradley.
"Why-er-"
Dee knew what her mother
was trying to say. Knew that
Babe must have gone out with
someone else, and she was try.
ing to save her daughter in the
eyes of Marvin Likely.
That Babe had had a date
with Mr.. Likely she was posi-
tive. Else he never would have
come here for her. Like Babe
to rush away and leave the en-
tire burden on her mother.
Thoughtless of her not to men
ton that she had changed her
mind about going out with her
fiance.
Babe is i'll, Mr.. Likely Dee
said quickly. That's why I'm
here. She told me to call you,
but 1 forgot. She'll be furious"
Tip" Likely's face paled a
little. De knew for his con-
Germ that he really loved Babe
very much. More than that,
that he adored and worshipped
her. Poor fellow.
Can I see her?" he asked.
"She's asleep now, but I'll
tell her you came. Tired out
I guess"
Have you had a doctor?"
NO"
"1'll send mine up immedi-
ately!" Likely picked up the
hat he had placed on a chair.
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"Please-Mr. Likely, no. If
she needs a doctor we'll call
one. She's tired out, that's all.
Needs a good long rest" Dee
lied.
Far From Satisfied
Likely was far from satisfied,
and kept insisting he should
send his physician. How Dee
finally got rid of him she didn't
know. He would call every
hour, he said, through the night
to see how she was. And he
would call tomorrow morning.
OF course, MiSS-er-Mrs. Cur
tbs was right. He wouldn't
awaken her tonight, when she
was sleeping. Good that she
was sleeping. That was fine.
Dee and Mrs. Bradley looked
at each other when the door
closed after him. Dee laughed,
but her mothers face was
flushed with forboding.
How can Babe do such
things?" Mrs. Bradley asked
angrily. Il thought she was
going out with Mr.. Likely. How
could I know? She said moth
ing to me.
"whom did she go out with
them"
"I don't know. Someone
called her and she hurried into
her clothes-she was in the
bathtub when the call came
and flew out. like she always
does, without telling me a
thing. She never does. I as
sumed she was going out with
Mr.. Likely, and when he came
I was so surprised I couldn't
say a thing. She's no business
to do things like that when
she's going to marry a good
man, a man of Mr.. Likely's
caliber!"
well, he thinks she's sick, so
you tell her in the morning,
and when he comes let her
make her own excuses"
That was very nice Of YOU
The Washington times., 1931-08-03
The Marry-Go-Round

cigarette in a restaurant was
promptly and coldly ordered
by the head waiter to extin.
guish it, because ladies" were
not permitted to smoke in
proper" places.
When a girl who dared to
touch up her hair with henna
or peroxide was called
"bleached blonde" and sus-
pected of being at bit fast"
When ladies wore pads on
their hips, in order to give that
rotund effect so essential to
beauty. And girls wore starched
ruffles under their blouses to
produce that pleasantly plump"
effect, which men so much ad-
mired. Ha-ha!
When, if a man sent you
anything except books, candy
or flowers, you promptly re-
lu11lCu Az Will d 81 AdCAOuo, 4C"
gretful note. But, if he sent
you orchids and a five-pound
box of Huyler's or Maillard's
you began planning the we'd
ding decorations and picking
out the bridesmaids. And, if he
had sent you a pair of silk
stockings, your brother would
have shot him.
When q man in love would
walk to the office and go with
out lunch for a week, in order
to buy a girl bOx-Seats and
vintage champagne on Satur-
day evening.
When every high school boy
had a definite goal and am
bition in life, and expected to
make good" get married and
settle down. Ho-hum!
The Washington times., 1931-08-03
By Helen Rowland
The Time When

The Time When
Again we pause to wonder
what the young modern would
think if they could remember
the time
When the bold "R Amy
Daisies" shocked the world and
Mortified Mrs. Grundy BY walk
ing brazenly down Main Street
wearing skirts way up almost
to their shoe-tops.
When the boy friend was
called best beau" and brought
a box of chocolates instead of
a pocket-flask. And father
came down and wound the
library clock and politely sent
him home if he stayed after
IL o'clock.
When a girl took almost an
hour to do up her hair" in
stead of just running q comb
through her bob or her perma-
nent, and Dragged that it came
down way below her knees.
When every woman sham
pooed her own hair on Sunday
morning, and hung it out of
the back window to dry. And
the back view of an apartment
house looked like a conclave
of mermaidS.
When a girl who could be
kissed on short acquaintance by
a man who had no serious
intentions" was looked upon as
slightly shady" by the boys
and snubbed by all the mice
girls"
When a woman who lit a
The Washington times., 1931-08-03
Your Health
and Diet
By DR.. Logan CIendening

Domestic animals suffer most
of the same chronic diseases
as man-Such as hardening of
the arteries, stones in the kid
ney, etc. These are, however,
fortunately not contagious.
There are some contagious
diseases that are absolutely
peculiar to animals-distemper,
for instance, which seems to be
much like human influenza or
measles, but which is never
contracted by man.
Infect Apes Only
On the other hand certain
human infections never afflict
the domestic animals-the COM
mon cold being the most con-
spicuous. When experimenters
tried to find an animal to study
the common cold they diScov-
cred that none but our blood
brothers, the apes, could be
innoculated.
There are, however, many in
fections which both man and
beast can have. Within the
year prominence has. been
given in the press to parrot
fever-psittacosis. Several epi.
denies were reported, most of
them being traced to infection
of a human who fondled a sick
parrot or parakeet.
These diseases may occur IN
man and animals under several
different circumstances. The
disease may be common in AMI
mails and without difficulty
transmitted to man and vice
versa.
Carried In Milk
In septic sore throat the ami
NAL is hardly sick at all, but
human beings are very easily
infected, become very sick and
death may occur. The disease
is carried in milk, and is caused
by a SteptococcuS, a SpherlcaE-
shaped germ of which there
are many varieties. The variety
which causes septic sore throat
is streptococcuS epidemicus.
The germ is normally a
human infection and is trans
mitted to the udders of the
COW by human contact, PROB
ably by the hands of a dairy
worker. A curious and baf-
fling feature of these infections
is that the cows udders, or
milk bag, may not be evidently
diseased or sore at all, but the
germ may become implanted
in the milk ducts and enter
the milk in enormous quan-
titles.
The Washington times., 1931-08-03

down. And he has lots of
money, you know. Babe says
I can live with them, and have
everything / want. Or if I
don't want to do that, I can
have q house of my own some
place, any place I want!" So
that was the bribe!
"I don't think Babe will be
any. more settled with an
older man. Neither do you,
mother. You're only fooling
yourself"
Maybe She's Jealous
Indeed I'm not! Babe wants
money, too--it will be splen-
did thing for all Of us. I've
always wanted money enough
to do what I wanted to. Dennis
never had it," she said bitterly.
can the same. Mr.. Likely is
older than Dennis. Much older.
The Washington times., 1931-08-03
What Do You
Know?

AnsaUers To Today's Test
Questions On Editorial Page
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3. CaiSsons. 4. A daring villain.
S. Spillway. 6. To act for an
other. 7. Abraham Lincoln. 8.
A species of iris. 9. Theodore
Roosevelt. 10. X-ray. IL. A
Vice President who became
President. IL. Second Cover
nor of Plymouth. 13. Succeeded
President Taylor. IA. Debated
with Lincoln. Is. Father of
New France.
Copyright. 1881. King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
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love him. Didn't mother re-
aliZe that love was something
to be considered?
Love will come-in time"
Dee knew there was no use to
argue so turned the converse
tion another way. A safe way.
Her thoughts, however, were far
away from the table where she
was eating. Far away from Mrs.
Bradley. Tony had said he was
going out-with someone. Now
he was probably with a girl
eating with her, dancing with
her. Perhaps, though, he had
just threatened, and would be
waiting for her when she re-
. turned home. Perhaps he might
come for her there. Surely he
couldn't have meant, what, he
had said-that he was going out
with someone"
Yet the more she thought
about it, the more convinced
she was that Tony would do