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Montana labor news., 1936-03-26
Nonpartisan Legislators
BY w. ]. PRIEST

Not only should the legislature of a
state be confined to one house, but its
members should be elected on a ION
partisan ballot. Our great parties are
divided according to the beliefs of our
people on national issues. The tariff,
the League of Nations, ship subsidies,
and a hundred other things could be
cited to demonstrate this proposition.
With these national questions the legis-
latures of our states have nothing what
ever to do. They should be elected
on state issues, which may be entirely
different from national issues which
divide our political parties. Under pre-
sent conditions we elect a member OF
the legislature because he bears the
label of a national party, and those
who vote their ticket straight" vote
for members of the legislature on tie
same ticket, regardless of the fact that
the voter may not agree with the CALI
didate on any of the state issues over
which the legislature will have iuris-
diction. We are therefore likely to
have a legislature which does not re-
present the sentiment of the states
own people. Such an illogical condi-
ton could be avoided if the members
of the legislature were elected on a
non-partisan ballot. They would then
be free from the issues Of national
politics. They would not be subject
to the influence OF political bosses and
party machines. They would not be
responsible to any party en- a false is
sue, but would be responsible to their
own people upon issues which have a
direct bearing upon the official duties
of the members of the legislature.
A state should be a business insti-
tuition, and not a political machine.
Its government should be .cted
on business principles. 1t should tran
sact its business much as does a great
corporation, with the governor as the
president, the legislature as the board
of directors, and the people as the
stockholders. If politics we're elimin-
ated, the members of the legislature
would not be handicapped by particau
considerations. Under present condi-
tons, the sessions OF nearly every leg
i~slature in the country are fraught
with the game Of politics from beginn-
ing to end. We cannot expect our
legislators, if elected as partisians, to
Montana labor news., 1936-03-26
Trying to Suppress Labor Opinion

Free speech is getting some hard wallops from
Fascists and their like these days. But in the or
gained labor movement one would expect it to
have a sure haven. There are ominous signs, how
ever, that even here dictatorial attempts are be-
ing made to suppress the free expression of
opinion.
Pres. Charles P. Howard of the international
Typographical Union, in a recent statement,
points to such a tendency in the circular letter of
William Green to state and central labor bodies
and local federal unions. He sees in the letter a
"veiled threat" Of penalties against labor bodies
that dare to express their members opinions on
the burning issue OF industrial organization.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-26

close their eyes to the power and in
fluence of the party machine.
Most states elect their judges and
their county and state saperintendents
Of schools on a non-partisan ballot.
Why should they elect legislators be-
cause they give adherence to a - i
cular party on an issue which has moth
ing to do with their official duties, and
then elect judges who interpret the
laws enacted by those legislators, on
a strictly non-partican basis? Why
do corporations have but one board
Of directors? Why should not a city
have two boards of alderman In
deed, why should we not have two gov
ernors of a state instead of one?
To ask these questions is to answer
them. Such a method would be IL
logical and unreasonable, and would
make it possible for special interests
to control legislation and make it I'M
possible for the people to know just
who are responsible for their laws. It
is a fundamental principle of a DEM
ocracy that we are sufficiently civilized
and educated to govern ourselves. We
should have servants who will carry
out our will, and we should have a
system by which we can tell whether
our public servants serve us loyalty or
whether, instead, they serve special in
%terests. The o%ne-house legislature
would clear the atmosphere and bring
us nearer to the ideal OF a democracy
Montana labor news., 1936-03-26
LEGISLATURES TOO LARGE

If every state is to be a business in
stitution, if the evils of p~artisanship
are to be eradicated from state govern
ments, if the legislature is to be a real
board of directors, if the people are to
have an opportunity to know just what
is being done by their public servants.
then the legislature much MOI be so
large in membership as to be unwi eldy.
Upon this question there will be a diff
ference of opinion among honest men,
but it is safe to say that the member
ship of a legislature should not be so
large that it would be necessary at
any time to confer upon a committee
or a small number of members the
right to guide or control its proceed
ings. If this principle is adhered to
it will be found that most Of our legis-
latures are too large.
The important thing is that the nem-
bers Of the legislature should be res
ponsible for their acts. There should
be no way to cover up their tracks.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-26

If the membership is comparatively
small, it will be easier for the people
Of the state to follow their work. Their
positions will become more important,
their individual power will be greater,
and they will take a greater pride in
seeing that their duties are well done
and that their record is above re-
proach.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13
Nakat Corp. Provides Much Off-SeaSOn Work

The large construction program of the Nakat Packing Corporation in renewing three of its canneries Is the dominant feature in the off sea son work in the Alaska Canned Sal mon Industry this fall.
 The biggest job involving the most labor and use of Alaskan ma terials is the renewing of the Com pany's Waterfall cannery. About eighty men, a large proportion of them natives, are rebuilding prac- ticaily the entire plant A new ware house, 60 by 300 feet, new can nery building 60 by 200 feet, a new machine shop, 30 by 40 feet, new bunkhouse and dining room for white help 34 by g feet, new oriental quarters, 34 by 130 feet and 10 new native houses are being constructed here Work at Water fall will continue as far into the fall as weather permits, and will be resumed about the middle of Feb ruary. It is estimated that the plant will be completed around the tenth of July in time for the start of the fishing season.
 About 600,00O board feet of lum- Der for this job is being supplied by Ketchikan and Wrangell lumber yards.
 At the Company's Union Bay Can nery, a new cannery building, 40 by 200 feet, and a new machine shop, 30 by 40 feet. are being erec- ted Work here will continue until about December l. Next spring a new fish house 50 by so feet, and a new warehouse, 40 by 100 feet, will be built. Average employment on this construction is forty men, and about half the total lumber requirements of 350,OOO board feet are being supplied by Alaska lumber companies.
 At Hidden Inlet new marine ways and a new dock have been built. There have also been considerable repairs made about the cannery. Last spring a new fish house was built, and the construction plan for next spring includes a new China house and new warehouse About thirty men have been employed on the construction and repair work atI this cannery, and about 200,000I board feet of Alaskan lumber used.
 In discussing this construction program, Eigel Buschmann, General superintendent of the Nakat Pack ing Corporation pointed out that itI not only gives off season employ ment to a large number Alaskans. wh are employed directly in theI construction work, but also adds toI
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13
LITTER OF COYOTE PUPS
 MEET MYSTERIOUS DEATH

Thompson Duff of Atlin recently found the carcasses of a litter of fourteen coyote pups that had died, nesting together as if in sleep. One pup came to his cabin so weak and docile it would not even snap at a stick poked at it. After deyouring a mess of fish given to it by the trappper the pup fell dead. There was nothing to suggest a cause of death and MT. Duff is at loss to account for the mysterious demise of those canine neighb0rs of his.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13
SPONSORS ADULT
 HOME MAKING CLASS

The Wrangell School Board will sponsor an adult class in Homemak- ing under the leadership of Miss Alice Shields, who is the Home Ec- onomics instructor the Wrangell High School Supt. Axel Rasmussen announced today.
 Women interested in such a course are asked to come to the school building at 7:3O next Monday evening to talk things over. At this preliminary meeting the nature of the proposed course wll be discussed and the time of meeting will be de- cided.
 It is the intention to make this work as helpful and practical aa possible. There will be no tuition charge. Anyone interested is wei come to attend.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13
RE-ORGANTZE
 FIRE DEPT.
 SAYS LLOYD

A meeting of the fire department was held last Monday evening dur ing which Fire Chief Chet Lloyd raked the members over the coals and stated there should be com plete reorganization of the depart ment.
 The deplorable lack of coopera- tion as shown by members in last Saturdays fire was brought out in the meeting While fire threatened the Cramer building there were only two men holding the nozzle while the pressure of the water re quires at least three men Co do the job properly When Lloyd called for more men someone not in authority called for the water to be shut of The water was shut off though the fire had not yet been eXtinguished. Several members of the fire depart ment stood around and watched the proceedings as if they were tourists observing a strange phenomenon. Lloyd charged
 Too many of our members are here just to beat the school tax" said the fire chief, He referred to the fact that members of the fire department are exempt from this tax. \ committee composed of Fred Cunningham. Chet Lloyd and H Wellons was appointed to go over the list of names on the roll and discard those who have not attend ed meetings regularly or who other erwise show any lack of interest in the department. We want men m the department who are not afraid to get their clothes dirty, members whom We can depend upon in an em- ergency." said Lloyd
 It was further passed in the meet ing that the old tower in the fire hall be condemned and that a new one composed of two cedar poles be erected in back of the fire hall to accommodate the fire siren.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13
N0RAH BROUGHT HUGE
 MAIL SHIPMENT N0RTE

One of the biggest mail shipments ever to arrive in Juneau came on the Princess Norah, stated the Elm pire. There were 65 pouches of first class mail and 2,223 sacks of parcel post and second elass, according to postmaster Albert Vile. Nearly D. 500 of the sacks were destined for Valdez, Cordova, Seward, Anchorage and as far north as Nome, he said. The Coast Guard Cutter Morris. was scheduled to load what she could for the Westward. Due to her small size she was not able to take all the mail and may have 10 mako two or three trips unless some other vessel is pressed into service.
 There were 500 sacks including the first class for Juneau and two truck loads for points outside Jun eau, including Tulsequah, the Post master reported. The postoffice at Tulsequah is closed for the winter and the mail for that community will be distributed from the White water Mining company office, he announced, the mail being taken up from Juneau by river boat.
 The Pacific Coast dock looked like the mailing rooms of large city terminal as the Postmaster put on fiur extra persons to help with the sorting and watch the huge ship ment.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13
SIREN WILL
 SOUND AT g
 FOR CURFEW

At g o'clock tomorrow night a short blast of the fire siren will warn all Wrangell girls and boys under sixteen years of age to get home in a hurry.
 Taking heed of the numerous re- quests which have been made for a curfew ordinance the Town Council last night passed such an ordinance It will be enforced on and after Sat urday night, November IA. The council also made provision for GIL forcement of compulsory school at tendance.
 Attractions of the curfew ordi- nance will be dealt with by the city magistrate. First and even second offenses will be considered probably as warnings but for third and sub sequent offenses, the parent or guardian responsible for the boy or girl, will be deemed guilty of a mis- demeanor and brought before the city magistrate for trial
 Conviction will be punished by a fine of $10 or five days in jail or both of the parent or guardian found guilty of not taking care of the boy or girl involved.
 Attractions of the compulsory school attendance ordinance will be taken by city officers to the United States Commissioners Court.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13
Mundy Gives Reason
 For Fish Price Cut

After undergoing much criticism c. c. Mundy, local fish buyer, ex- plained today his reason for cutting the price of salmon caught in Wran- gell harbor to 20-10-and cents per pound. The reason, he said, was not that the fish were of inferior grade but that the extra cost of icing and the labor involved necessitated the cut being made.
 Fish to be mildcured must first be iced in order to draw out all the blood from the meat and to prevent the shrinking which occurs when fresh fish is immersed in cold wa ter. Fish coming from outside fish ing grounds is already iced by the fishermen or packer while that com ing from the harbor is brought in every day and must be iced by the buyer Hence the cut in price
 Mr. Mundy in the past week has bought 800 pounds Wrangell harbor salmon at 20-10-8; 1900 pounds of trypee tnpwater, ghtboukrI Steamer Bay salmon brocght in by the Almarie, Captain Otto Hucke, al 23-12-9 and 2O5O pounds from local trollers at 22-12-S.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13
Chamber of Commerce
 Working for Fish Lab.
lKetchikan Chronicle)

Representing the K etchi kan Chamber of Commerce. Ralph A. Bartholomew and J. w. Mendenhall asked the city council last night to 1 provide a building for the start of a fish laboratory for Ketchikan. that the chamber might press it's fight for a laboratory to better advantage.
 Mir. Bartholomew opened Che is- sue by saying that in 1880 congress passed a bill to establish a bureau here, but no money had been appro- priated, and all that had ever come from the fisheries bureau were ex- cuses.
 He said that giving up hope of federal action, the chamber hoped that something might be done by the territorial government-at least establishment of a bureau with one scientist and one assistant.
 Fishing Pays Big Taxes
 Certainly there is need for such a laboratory Fishing is the life blood of Southeastern Alaska. It pays a huge territorial tax and we ought to develop and protect it to the extent of our ability.
 ''There is a territorial bureau of mines. There is a school of mines at the University of Alaska at Fair banks. To a large extent they are supported by taxes from the fish ing industry declared MT. Barthol- omew
 Mayor Talbot asked about the functioning of the bureau at Prince Rupert. MT. Mendenhall said that the bureau there was following some 12 or 15 lines for development of the fishing industry, and that the bureau had been maintained for years
 Might Solve Controversies
 There are a number of contro- veyrsies in the fishing industry that bureau might point the way to solving" said Mr Mendenhall For instance the trollers declare the herring industry is a menace to their livelihood. A bureau might solve that. There is a fish trap versus the seiners issue. A bureau might settle that problem by seien- tific investigation, satisfactory to both.
 New types of boats could be in vestigated and new methods of freezing and curing fish could be eXperimented upon. Fish by-prod- ucts could be investigated. l un- derstand that Prince Rupert has new method of freezing fish on
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13
Princess NOrah Makes Special Trip To Alaska

The Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Norah on special trip north to relieve the shortage of boats due to the American maritime strike situation, arrived at Wran- gell early Sunday morning with so sacks of mail and eight passengers for this port. A goodsized ship ment of meat for the City Meat Market and a numberf of fresh veg etable and fruit shipments were brought in from Canada.
 Passengers for Wrangell on the steamer were:
 Oscar Carlson, Bob Hurley, Mrs. David Davis, c. Wester, B. Sarfs, Mrs. Ralph Devinney and two children.
 The steamer called in port south bound Tuesday night and took on mail and the following passengers for Vancouver: James H. Wheeler Jr John Coulter, R. Holden. Orlan- do Bakke, P. Bode, Mrs. O. Gunder- son, o. Thynes, Jean Pablo, Der nice Richardson MT. and Mrs. Carl Green, Mrs. Georgia Clark, Mrs, B. Y. Grant
 No more special trips of the Prin- cess Norah are expected to be made. She leaves Vancouver tonight on a scheduled trip which she will make e> cry two weeks until after the first of the year.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13
Bone Fracture Causes
 Death of Geo. MerinO

George Merino died at Bishop Rowe General Hospital on Thursday morning, November 12, from a cere- bral embolism, a blood clot lodging in his brain as the result of a frac- tured femur which he sustained on November 5th in a fall to the beach from the platform of the lot adjoin- ing the Wrangell Garage on Front street.
 Fifty per cent of such fractures of the bone just below the hip, accord ing to statistics, terminate fatally.
 Merino was born 46 years ago in Mexico. He is survived by his wife and six children.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13
TATR A N G ELL w R I N G E R

It seems the Sentinel was in CT TOT last week in its mention of Fed eral indigent funds administered by Judge George F. Alexander. The word should have been Judicial in stead of Federal, according to U. S. Commissioner Richard Suratt, the appropriation being made from Fund c, which is made up of fine and for feits in civil and criminal case In short, all revenues deriving from court cases of any nature whatso- ever are paid into Fund and ex- pended for indigent cases.
 This ought to cheer up all those husbands who have been longing to lead with the left and bash in the skull of their fair life companion. Now they can go on and lead with a clear conscience and when the judge pronounces a stiff fine, they can reflect that it will provide food and medical care for some unfortun- ate. The more court fines, the more beans for a down and outer
 
 H. H. Hungerford says he is keen about the Wringer jokes. Says he kicked the slats out of his cradle the first time he heard them. Well we forgive him the dirty dig. The
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13
WRANGELL YOUNG PEOPLE
 MEET AT SAN FRANCISCO

Miss Mildred Iverson, Wrangell high school graduate, class of '36, is now enrolled in a business college at Sacramento, California where she is staying with her sister Mrs. Paul Wham
 On a recent Sunday, Miss Elna Arola, who is an operator in beau ty parlor near San Francisco, her cousin Ed Arola, a freshman in the University of California at Oak land and Miss Iverson spent a few hours together most happily in San Francisco.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13
JACK URATA ON HONOR
 GUEST LIST AT U. of W.

Jack Urata, Wrangell high school graduate, class of '35. was honored as a University of Washington freshman when he met with Presi- dent l.. P Sieg recently at the Walker-Ames room of Parrin tor Hall One hundred and twenty in vitations were issued to students, each of whom was a valedlctorian or salutatorian of the gradaatinB class in the high school from which they came.
 The meeting between the president and former ranking high school students has been an annual event at the University. This year tea was served by Mrs Sieg and Mrs. Edward NJ. Lauer, wife of the desh of Uni versity College and informal intro auctions were made. In previous years the. president merely spoke briefly and shook hands with the students.
 Alaskans present for the occasion besides Jack Urata of Wrangell were Emma Theresa Ness and Thomas Byrd Stewart, Juneau; Virginia Lucille Berg and Linnea Genevieye Strandberg, Anchorage; s hi r ley Lindsay Keller, Skagway; William Charles Stuart, Sitka and Marie Tropea of Skagway.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13
PROMOTER LATE IN TAKING
 ACTION ON MOUNTAIN LEATHER

Still in doubt as to the conner cial value of his deposit of noun tain leather on Lemesurier island, Joe Ibach, Lemesurier miner, is awaiting the belated arrival of J. J. McNamara, promoter from Chic hagof, who was due to meet Rex Beach over a month and a half ago at Juneau.
 Beach, following investigation of the deposit with Ibach, was forced to leave for Hollywood for s1reening of two of his novels, before hear ng definite word from McNamara. The latter's option on the property will expire within a month.
 B. D. Stewart, Territorial com missioner of mines, is tentatively planning to go to Lemasurier this fall to thoroughly investigate the deposit which he first identified as rIountain leather nine years ago. "Mountain leather is type of as- bestos, and as such has a probable commercial value" Stewart stated to inquiries. Its practical use de- bends, of course, upon ;he extent of the deposit"
 Four analyses of the Ibach m0un- tain leather deposit have been made in the States, each of them showing different results, but all agreeing that the mineral is fire and acid re- sistant. Unlike asbestos. mountain leather may be dissolved and it is considered likely that it might be painted over building surfaces to prevent fire.
 The deposit on Lemesurier island covers an area 20 by 300 feet and runs in veins between rocks.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13

Mrs Bessie Mccullough won the fiye-dollars in trade reward offered by Miss Myrtle Dunkelberger for the best name submitted for her new lunch room. Mrs. McCulloughs sug- gestion was Myrtle's Sugar Bowl. For Rent-2-room furnished down stairs partment. A. VTeatt.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13

With the dismissal of James Cox to his home last night, Bishop Rowe General Hospital is without a patient today for the first time, it is said, since the hospital was opened near ly eleven years ago..
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-13

E. Morke returned on the North land Friday from Juneau where he had been called by Mrs. Morke due to the serious illness of their little daughter Elaine. The child was definitely better by the time he reached there and was well on the way to recovery when he left Jun eau.