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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 1922 0 Issued Dally Except Monday by -v TW5 STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPA2IT ' 215 8. Commercial Et, Stlem. Oreron (Portland Office, ill Board ot Trad BaUdln. JPhoM Aotomatlc . - . . 11-93 ,V- ' . U3IDEIt OF TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS Th Associated Press Is exclnsirely entitled to the use tor publi cation, of an oews dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited ta piper and also the local news published herein. ft. J. Hand ricks Manager Stephen A. -Stone ". Managing Editor Ralph Glorer Cashier Frank JaskoakI . .-..Manager Job Dept. TELEPHONES: V Business Office. 2 S Circulation Department, if t Job Department, 681 - Society Editor, IOC Entered at the Postof flee In Salem, Oregon, as second class matter I, T THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALASKA "The development of Alaska is a problem with just two ' W A- - J - . ! i actors; ! . "J. A nation-wide campaign of .education, telling the truth about the climate and the actual facts of production, cutting out hot air, boosting or lying. ; "2. -r A determined war on government strangulation pol icies.; The opposite of the policies pursued for the past 20 years,; that have denuded, robbed and depopulated Alaska. T"ll ILa ...1J A. 4 1- 1.1 A XI j.cu me wuriu w tuuie iu Aiasiut un me same ivnns uiai mey were invited to settle Oregon. Washington and every western territory. Bureaucracy only strengthens the grasp of mo nopoly and crushes the indivduaL' - - j : The above are the conclusions of Col. EL Hofer of Salem, who is making a summer tour of Alaska, and who has writ .. i -.U..i. 1.1- J .(...,1 tL.i . I aJtabCBUiau auuui ins ii aiiu auuuk mat icintuiy auu lis he has been telling the average reader things he did not . know concerning the part of his country that stretehes in far-flung expanse, to. the west till it touches the shores of the - old East. . ? After the enactment' of the protective tariff bill and the placing on the federal statute books of a law providing for an .American merchant marine to carry the trade of this country to the markets or tne world .."And the doing up of a lot of other chores at Washington .i It would be a fine thing for the Harding administration to turn its attention to Alaska. U 'That territory needs a million people, instead of its pres ent 64,000 ? : ; Can support a million people and more optimistic men .than Col. Hofer wll say it can support several times that number 1 ' ' . But a million would be a good mark to set; and that many people, working in Alaska and developing the great resources of .that vast country would help materially in the progress of the entire Pacfic Coast; the entire United States. The cutting out of all the beaurocratic red tape that now pre vents the develooment Of that country would be a worth S II" a m A 1 TY IT , 3 7 ? J if i ' . wane, uisk lor ine xuumug auminisiraiion : The paving of the way for such an increase of the popu li&LtJIk til LIIJ1L Lfl I 1LIII V. I H I.M III II ill Lilt? Ill III NIX Lllllla I.IIf - dignity of one of our greatest 'states, would be creditable to rthii Jidministrauon and to this ' country 'f "'h "" And one can conceive that the time might come when such n cfota thiia witiiotorl mtnrhit' ma Ira rsra rf fha htirhfbaf otoru on our flag; one of the stars shining with the greatest bril liance; representing a most important and most valuable and immensely strong link between the Orient and the Occident. I I'i! 1 M A A 1 1 V vitally important to the United State3 and the world. RESULTS IN ADVERTISING J The wise and prudent advertiser takes counsel of the experts and roogh weather. But when in Ua Annxr tiowcnanor nffiVoa hn hnni in thpir rlionf c' I OU remember tnat tttese Doaw Ska A 1 ( W MM1 J UU.'V VS.SWJa W WSMlSj W -M-yLV I problems fresh vision and disinterestedness, which Weigh mightily in the balance in business where prompt decisions must be made and important action taken fhiladelphia Press. Salem is to put her best foot forward and try to get that pro posed Yeomen's, home. It would be a great stroke. A strike is a form of war. In dustrial peace means the abolition of strikes, just as international peace means the abolition of war. Both forms of war will go when the world gets civilized. and others make; these trips for thonsands of miles up and down the Alaska coast summer and win ter, and that they know the chan nels and the tides as perfectly night and day, in snow, rain or land is produced by various out- fog, as a blind man who has been landish towers and bizarre colors raised in a house knows his way of roofs. Approaching Sitka, bar about that house, a whole lot of ship picks its way through a thou- your (ear of the voyage to Alaska sand islands that as you sail north ranishes. Here; is the greatest grow more numerous, more per-body of still water In the world If all hands wha can will gire .be short- . .handed loganberry growers a lift at once, for few, lays, they will catch up and can finish the harvest with .their 'reg ular forces. It is very important. They are kicking on the qual ity of some of the peers that are being decorated in England. It is said that baronies have been created as recompense for cam paign contributions. That has a familiar. ring in this country, but it ia shocking that in the British empire a peer should not be jidered the peer of his peers. fectly green and more perfectly round and seen from', the ship they seem floating an.d circling In all directions. Just, outside of Sitka is the open sea and the breakers of the Pacific. ' .t Besides the Greek cathedral the Sheldon Jackson' school with its) church and museum, .there is a public park, and collection of tot- etna "that is quite notable. The Indian' population here shows the result of successful industrial ed ucation. Here the skins taken by the sealing fleets are soM and ex peditions reach to the Arctic cir cle. The natives formerly sold fur seal as low as five or ten dollars. But those days are past The Indians and mixed ' bloods who take seals as a business are These land-locked inland channels ire like great winding canals, j irom one to 10 miles wide. The only rough water going north was n crossing Queen Charlotte sound ind coming back our ship struck some- long gentle swells over San Iuan straits, but our party sat up front in the observation parlor and played five hundred all the ay - across. Not Boosting Alaska I am not writing any of this matter for The Statesman to in duce anyone to come to Alaska. You hear and read about the com ing Empire of Alaska, about it becoming a great agricultural country, about unlimited coal and oil fields, and that the territory was bought for seven million dol educated and before selling they urs and that eight hundred mil- Legally, men have a right to stop work when they please. Mor ally, to cease production is wrong. The right of men to do wrong will never be established in a world in which men are interde pendent: Los Angeles Times. SAVE T1JK DOUGH President Harding urges his de partment beads to use the prun ing knife on making up . their estimates for the budget. He might go further and insist on using the axe onsome of them. SYMPATHETIC STRIKES Workers In China are indulg ing in sympathetic strikes in or der to indicate their attitude to ward the particular revolution with which they happen to be momentarily concerned. The pa triot may not take up arms, but he can at least lay down his monkey wrench. The Chinese have learned a lot of things through their contact with the Occldept. v-f After his experience in Africa, "Chinese" Gordon was asked bow ho was able to accomplish so much with the na tives. His reply was: ' i ; "The only way to deal with an alien people is to put your self into thehskins' " f- f It Is the only way to deal with any people l ; The orator who speaks over the heads of his audience soon f ind3 himself talking to empty benches. The advertiser who "rushes in where angels fear to tread" is extravagant and wasteful. He has not counted the cost. COL. HOFER SENDS A THIRD LETTER He Gives Interesting Infor mation and Tells Needs of That Territory wire to New York or London for market prices, and. skh bring from 120 to J46. An Old sToIdt Mime At Juneau I left the crowds that took . motorcars to' Mendpnhall glacier and crawled .up Gold creek canyon, literally agoing on all foursat some places in the bed or the roaring stream of ice cold snow water. This creek carried the gold dust and nuggets that made this place famous as a min lions has been taken out of there, etc. You hear that the sailing charts used- at present were made by the great English navigator Vancouver, and that the navy has neglected Alaska, and yet navi gators told me that light houses ind channel lights and bouys were better maintained by American of ficials than by British officials along the channels and harbors of British Columbia. Thera is much that might be done, but if c, n 1 foun Part8 of thw generally speaking the transports Sitka, Alaska. July 10, 1922. Editor Statesman: This is the old capital of Rus sian Alaska and yort really feel that the atmosphere has a touch of the Byzantine as you see the green dome of the Greek cathe dral with its bulbous spire lean ing a little to the north. This feeling that you are in a foreign old flume and the riffles built of vertical wood, blocks of the famous Last Chance mine, late, capitalized as the Tualpa, selling millions of stock. In the canyon are also the ruins of the Boston Group mines. I worked my way on up against the roaring stream until I could go no farther, only to find a real miner down in the bed of the stream panning out golddust. He had a half ounce in a little buckskin bag. He had little tin scoops from half an inch to three inches wide to work the fine gravel out of the crevices in the rock. He was wet up to bis waist and indifferent to the fact that it was Sunday, but stoppel long enough to have a chat and a smoke. Farther up the canyon is the Perseverance mine, closed up last fall. Tunnels of the Alaska Oold Mining Co. come out to the surface several miles farther up. Very Safe Navigation Captain Landsturm of the Spo kane, on of the Admiral Jln't steamers sailing from Seattle every Monday morning atu 10 oclock. said he had been making the Alaska trips for 23 years and had never met with an accident ur naa a shipwreck. This is a wonderful record when it is con sidered that this is supposed to be land of everlasting ice and snow FUTURE DATES July 27, Thurdy AmerictB Lefin contention beSint at The DIW, r n"ly "? 20- Friday and S.t.rd.y fallal Roond-up. a,,!"1' Z9i ?'day Marios oo.nty Sunday school picit at fair tronada. August 1 to 18 Boy Scouts' Summer camp on the Santiam river September B. S and 4 LkeTiew Koond-up, LakeTiew, Or. September 13. Wednesday Oreren Methodist conference meets in 8alem September 81, 23 and 28PendleUa ronna-np. September J5 to 80 iacluhr Oregon St est fair. tMIO?aiber r' Tue,d' Gsawsl elec tion facilities, docks, ports, har bors and surveys and charting are far ahead of the demands of traf fic and population. Halibut and Shellfish There is a great industry on these two lines. , Trainloads are taken east on the two Canadian railroads and from Seattle. The halibut trade is monopolized by the New England Ice company that operates with glacier ice and also manufactures, and has plants on the Atlantic coast as well as here.; Shrimp are taken in trawl ers or nets dragged along the bot tom in from 100 to 300 feet of water, cleaned and put up in one gallon cans and kept in cold stor age. Petersburg has a large plant and supplies this coast to Los An geles. The shrimp are boiled and cleaned by hand by Japanese and native Indian labor. These peo ple make from two. to 10 dollars a day at the cleaning tables. Has Alaska a Future? Giving every good proposition the benefit of the doubt, wewill say it has. But the question re mains. With an estimated pop ulation of 64.000. well informed northern travelers and students of western conditions estimate that at the outside Alaska might sustain a permanent population of one million. But when will th territory have a million people? How shall they be got here? The industries are few: fishing, min ing, forest products and fur. The towns are a hundred miles apart. Agriculture, beyond truck farm ing, is not believed possible. Fish eries are depleted and mining is declining, as large operations with low-grade . ores have demonstrat ed, i What Are Possibilities? I talked with a man who has sunk millions in mining,-has tak en out millions of gold and has sailed these waters from Ketchi kan to the shores along the open Arctic ocean a score of times. He told me that Alaska tied hand and foot with government red tape can never be developed. The pop ulation has declined to 70 per cent of 10 years ago. The general pub-1 lie has nothing but illusions aoout Alaska. Coal and oil are too tar away and too completely handi capped by departmental regula tions. Alaska has been Pincho- tized to death. There are no pos sibilities for agriculture and lum bering north of Ketchikan is out of the question. Paper pulp pos sibilities are unlimited. There is enough spruce timber standing here to supply our country with paper pulp for a hundred years to come. Keiorestation is natural. There is one small mill operat ing a 10-ton plant. If pulp did not come in dutry free from Cana da, and if paper and pulp could not be shipped in from all coun tries of northern Europe, the pap er pulp industry would boom in Alaska. At present American cap ital goes into lumbering and paper mills and pulp mills freely in British Columbia on account of absence of restrictive legislation and regulations. Take off the shackles and people and capital will pour Into Alaska. One Thriving Town It struck me that Petersburg was a sample of what might be done in Alaska. The halibut mo nopoly by the New England Ice company has hurt even this town, where nine-tenths of the people are Norwegians. But if is a thriv ing town that has sprung up in 10 or 15 years. It has canneries and shellfish Industries. There are hundreds of new and well painted houses for the fishermen. They are painted red, yellow and blue in true Norway style, and if they could get any more glaring and incongruous colors they would put them on. But they paint them over and over. The white man and the Indian are satisfied to go without paint up here. But sons of Norway have come to stay. They have churches and school houses, and a community hall and a co-operative store and they are clannish as against all other races. They can live on codfish and pota toes the year around with pickled fish on Sunday. But from Nova Scotia to Delaware the civilisation of New England was built on cod rish and spuds. To a large ex tent . that is the principal diet, with pumpkin pie added, ot the people on the Atlantic Coast to this day. It is healthy food. Immigration Hard to ' Get With our present immigration exclusion laws it will be difficult to fill Alaska with people. Amer icans with American families and demanding all the comforts and advantages Of American modern community life, with its jaw. movies, motorcars and paved high wars, will not make homes In Alaska or stay there very long. It is not capitalistic exploitation that Alaska fears. Capital has sunk two dollars for every dol lar taken out ot there. People who will BticK are what Alaska needs more Swedes, Norwegians. Finns, Russians, or Icelanders and less government officials to tell them what they may or may not do. In some places settlers have been arrested for picking up an armful of stove wood, you are told. It is probably not true, but it expresses the fear and the dis trust of officialism and bureauc racy. Just how much of that nightmare afflicted the Pilgrim fathers or the ox-team immigra tion that came to Oregon t But Oregon was filled with people vho suffered privations, compared to which the means of getting into Alaska are like wandering down the golden streets of the New Je rusalem. Comfort on the Ship The Admiral line is an admir able sample of the New American merchant marine. The ships are clean and managed above criti cism. The stewards are ladles and gentlemen. The officers are trained seamen and take no chances. We anchored four hours in a pretty bay north of Seymour Narrows, a difficult passage ex cept at ru'.I title. Near us float ed one of the Canadian liners ad vertising to the world that they. were equally careful In threading these dangerous passages. All arthind were the snow mountains, with an occasional iceberg float ing by in the main channel. There was music and laughter and danc ing on board both ships. The passengers live well. There are three regular meals and you can order all the waiters can carry. Early coffee Is brought to your cabin with hot biscuit. At night a plate of fruit is handed in. At 10 p. m. a cold lunch with hot beans, tea, coffee, or chocolate is served in the mess ;room. Six times a day you feed if you like. Thus do the managers seek to be guile your time and make yon for get that you are Bailing among Is lands, channels and waters, many of them not yet even bearing i name on any chart. I Alas- kad had a more Immediate f tore. It is to our country ht t hnge regions carrying thirty mo tions of population are to Et, rope. If we could only get oi million of that thirty to come aid make hornet in Alaska how ; tkf country and those people would prosper! I heard one editor lath the immigration from Norway. fiV said they were close and clanniih , They were tight with their moopy and yon could hardly get anything out ot them for a popular t scription and some of them wire, evens saving up money to en4 over and bring more. . J t The development of Alaska 1 a problem with just two factory 1. A nation-wide campaign i0f education, telling the truth abonf the climate and , the actual "tact of production, cutting out hot air, boosing and lying. , . ix - 1 4 2. A determined war oa gov. eminent strangulation policies. The opposite of the policies p. . -I it . m a - . . . ueu ior i lie pasii'v years, mat have denuded, robbed and depouVj lated Alaska. Tell the world lo terms that they were Invited t settle Oregon, Washington ari every western territory. Bureocr. racy, only, strengthens the cra; of monopoly and crushes the tp. uiviauai. t uoi. E. Hofer; There Is no way. la which a bib can be meaner than by, being ot. U terly selfish. 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Dangef - signal ' are,, nsed all over the worWfVlunier trap pers. woedrmenv'ioboes' an4 yegg men, as wellj s Indians and . all primitive peoples, bave.itecret slgr nals of warning for, each" othed. ; Hbo: signs are. .interesting. -A . circle carelessly chalkea on a fence, as-though some little. 1oy ' had been scribbling there, means that a hobo has passed and left fr other tramps the warning, no ure traveling this way," An Inverted pyramid indicates that the field is already crowded with tramps, and. therefore "rpolled." 'A. rectangle with a fence Inside of It ays "bad dog here.f A heart vpslde down! means that a bad person or enemy of hoboes lives In the neighborhood j , f Equally interestingvare signs . Used by the: underworld. Fonr slanting line?; with two parallel llnesdrawh through them are a warning that a crime -has recent lv ..teen, committed 'nearby, TMnd DANGER CiGXALS. , 4 . that it 13 not a safe 'place to be caught.. A diamondshaped figure ith a sort of stem to It, means "be prepared to defend yourself."! A ' parallelogram with a dot in the eenter is a general danger sig nal, usually used o Indicate the presence of some dangerous man. " "Three Mean- Danger In the .woods a "three" Idea Is used in -all the signs for danger. Three stones piled on 'one an other; three stickf driven in the ground; three wisps of grass each with ends , tied together; three smudge fires burning all these say to the;, woodsman: ' "Help Needed." . - '-j ;; Indians remove bark -near the butt of a tree to indicate , bad luck. All the I bark ; removed around .the tree5 means a very grave situation, j usually starva tloh.'s A r-M ; , s ;' 'A - ' These danger signs, developed by primitive people are. the sim plest form of code.' It is a long way from them to. such code as the telegraph code, but they were both worked out for the same purpose to send a message In such a way that only the person you want to can read it. Once you get onto the trick of making codes, yon should be able to make Sherlock Holmes scratch his head in bewilderment. (This is the end of the series on "Secret Codes." Next week will be published ttoe first article of an equally interesting series, en titled "Fortune Telling." It will reveal the secrets ot palmistry.) f THE SHORT STORY, JR. THE REFORM OFTHE V1XDEX The VIndex had seen its best - or rather Its1 worst days. When the park commission bought it, it was no use for seagoing any more. It lay. there In the sunshine with the waves tumbling against it and felt very sad and lonely. : I wish I had a chance to do things over again." sighed the boat. Td be very different. I'm sure. But it's too late now to make good. .'I got a wrong start when I was young," mused the boat, "and never got back on my feet again. First 1 smuggled Jn slaves. . I'll always regret that. And then I was a kind of pirate ship for a while down there in the West Indies. "It's a wonder I wasn't sunk then. I had o good many narrow escapes. . "And I smuggled opium and I made all kinds of secret trips to get by custims Officers. Night after night I've stolen up to some rocky shore; all lights out,v and stolen as silently, away again... Then I sunk to bting.a.Jow- down tramp steamer. Seemed as If I couldn't get anything' re spectable to do any more. My chance was gone. I was too old. And here I He. No use any more. And such a life! Such a record! The old boat rode restlessly at its moorings. And as it lay there in the sun shine a, couple of strange men came aboard. "Yes." said one' "It's just the thing. Looks queer and interesting. I bet it's had quite a history. We'll fix it up and fasten It securely to the shore and it will make a fine place for the kiddies in the" park to play. You know how? they like to pre tend they're sailors. We'll have some ine there in charge. 111 bet It makes a big hit." And that is bow the VIndex got his chance. 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