The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-20

with regard TO fishing IN their
waters. they are entitled y
their heritage 20 broader nights
han We pslefsces.
The treaties protect those
rights BY affording Indians VIZ
tually complete freedom To dis
gard all laws for conservation.
And here's what the Indians are
doing with such envisble priv
ileges
In the first place, there are
only 1900 Indians IN all Of
Washington and oregon who
are qualified under the terms Of
the fishing treaties in question.
II is for their specific benefit
that said treaties provide. The
purport is to assure those ma
tives all the rights Of their an
cestors: All the fish they and
their families can eat-which
after all, is the only reason any
Indian ever caught any fish IN
centuries past.
But instead. here's the abuse
Of rights to which the Poggies
object so strenuously:
With the use of what may az
well be called modern methods,
for want OF a better term, In
dams have taken $50 600
pounds Of salmon and steelhead
from Washington streams alone
during the past five years.
These were sold in the CONNER
cial market for $3.50 600.
An even more accurate view
of the situation is the fact that
Indians take over 1000 900
pounds of salmon and steelhead
from this states streams each
year-whereas and fair and
generous estimate of their most
greedy personal needs would be
something less than 200, 900
pounds a year.
In other words, Mr.. 10, the
poor Indian, is using his old
treaties TO whop sportsmen and
commercial fishermen below
the belt with morbid gusto.
And that's the picture at
which the Poggie club intends
TO take long and grim squint
during future months.
Activity with regard to that
problem, to the increasingly
popular annual derby, conserva-
ton and all other phases Of salt
water sportfishing Will be
guided by:
Dick Youngman. president;
Les Soule, vice president; Shell
don Williamson, secretary; Al
Nelson, treasurer; Ed H. Phil
brook, warden.
Incidental info: There were
314 deaths from all sorts of in
the United States navy during
last year. That's only 81 out
of every 1000 bluejackets land
a 10 per cent improvement over
the year before) and pretty
high safety record. any way you
say II. Oddly enough, IN the
profession OF militarism reput-
eddy perilous, aside from the
sinking of the submarine
Squalls which brought the total
of drowning deaths to 81, big
gest single cause of death was
the automobile, which accounted
for so. Must be a moral some
where therein.
Sometime when we haven I
anything else to worry about,
we are going to become all
wrought up over a certain in
justice 10 merchant seamen
which has just come to our at
tention.
Seamen native 10 our Atlantic
seaboard, who find themselves
beached and stranded on the
Pacific coast because their ship
Is sold or some other reason,
enjoy a special seaman's rate
on railroads returning them
home. The discount amounts
to about 80 per cent.
However. sea men whose
homes are on the Pacific coast.
and therefore Of necessity must
make the identical journey west
bound, don't enjoy such cut
rates.
Point is. when a steamship
company pays its seamen's pas
sage TO their home port via
railroad (the special rate ap-
plies only between seaooard
cities on one coast and the
other) they give them the fare
on the basis Of the "seaman's
rate"
West coast sailors have to
make up the difference out OF
their own skinny purses. Ain
rightly so.