The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-31

tllre on which we stand ana elJoy to this day?
 Fifteen centuries before Christ U,as horn the Greeks, the globe-tro ters of antiquity. were spreading fheir culture from the Hellespont to the Pillars of Hercules, or, tt express it in modern definitions. from the Dardanelles to the Strait of Gibralter. In their small vessels, mannedby slaves, without being able to take fooG lor more than TWO days they rowed along the coasts of the Aegean and Adriatic Seas out for conquest of distant lands Ii was an undertaking more stupen- dous than the achievements of Cor tez in Mexico, or Pizarro in Peru; wherever the Greeks landed they usually encountered pirates and say age tribes. How then could the Greeks expect to conquer?
 The sea they sailed was their provision and place of safety Being expert fishermen. as the Greeks are to this day, they threw out thelr nets at night and selected for eat ing. a special species which enabled them to do without any other food for days. Without this fish species which must have been very nutriti- GUS. they could never have endured or established that vast chain of flourishing colonies spreading from the Black Sea to the shores of the Atlantic. Even Tangiers, Algeciras, Lisbon and Bordeaux were origin ally settled by Greeks who arrived in row boats, subsisting evidently on fish containing vitamins to give them resistance"
 In different parts of the world one finds many varieties of 1000 fish. all good, but usually there ls one of outstanding food quality Oi them all there is none to surpass, and few to equal, the food value oi the salmon of the Pacific Coast ot North America, having as it does, a rich and delicious oil content which has in it all the necessary substances to replace meat, and in. addition, that most important of all the vitamins, the precious Vita min D. so important in our diet for healths sake.
 Feeding World Market
 From the mountain-fed waters ot the Columbia, up the coast to the far-flung areas of Bristol Bay in Alaska, this most important of all food fish comes each year from its home in the pure, sparkling waters of the sea, following the age-old cosmic urge to replenish the race; and then it is, when in the very prime of life, they are caught and prepared for the worlds markets. Some are Salted, some pickeled, some smoked. but by far the greater portion of the catch is taken to the salmon canneries, situated close to the main streams of the country, where all it's goodness and rich ness is sealed up in sanitary cans be- fore being cooked, thus preserving every bit of food value-and goes forth to the markets of the world az the Twentieth Century exponent of the doctrine of the great Lucre- tius.
 The march of time and progress I1,.t,, ol, n Q we have sooner or later to submit: and the scientists of today are tell ing us that the pollution of the wa ters adjacent to the large cities and factories, the building oi power dams in many of our most impor- tant rivers, are already rokirg se- rious inroads into the lifa Of f''N salmon, and that in time we will have to face the ultimate destruc- tion of the species.
 While we are willing to conced that this may be so in the rivers that empty into the sea along the Ore gon and Washington coastline we feel quite safe in making the asser- tion that as far as Alaska is con- cerned this may perhaps be prob lem for our childrens children, but not for us
 From Dixon's Entrance to the AL eutian Islands on the Pacific side, and to Bristol Bay on the Boring Sea side of Alaska, the waters fair ly teem with this life-giving food fit for the gods.
 The salmon industry today is by far the greatest asset the Territory has, paying as it does, over 70 per- cent of the entire revenue received by the Territory from taxes.
 What it Means to Territory
 Here are few figures that give some idea of what the industry does mean to the Territory:
 It gives seasonal employment tc over 5000 resident Alaskans each year.
 It pays to resident Alaskans ir wages and for fish purchased. ir round figures, S3.750,000 each year and
 It spends in each season, in tho purchase of supplies within the Ter. ritory, nearly s1.00oOO0 each year
 The establishment of two wir' netting factories in Ketchikan is of course, entirely due to the use O fl,air flroducfc hv the fichariac