The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 5, 1931, Page 4

i { t i | 4 $aily Alaska Empire JOHfi 'W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER |manufactured by nonlocal or foreign labor. And That the ALASKA PACIFIC SAL- i ——ee v by thel|lOW long would Alaska stand idly. by and see its| MON CORPORATION, a corpora- eve except € ay by the v t ized under the laws of (G COMPANY econd. and Main | salmon es taken from Territorial waters,|tion organize s 0! D "\hx.m\ {PANY at Second and Main - resour.c : the iState of | Delaware! SnARGHE s Juneau, Alaska. o - % oaded on scows and towed to Seattle or clsewhere fied to engage in business in the ered in the Post Offi n Juneau as Second Class ng, thus destroying the canning Industry|Territory of Alaska, has made ap- SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month. ail, postage paid, o following rates: . in_advance, $12 x months, in advance, month, in advance. 5 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity In the delivery of their papers. ) and Business Offices, R OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. Press is exclusively entitled to the The Ass: use for r it or not local ted in this paper and also the ein er news published h CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER N THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION RAW MATERIALS VS. FINISHED PRODUCT. Elsewhere in this edition of The Empire there appears a communication entitled “A Progressive | Movement for the Alaska Logging Industry,” signed by a number of responsible business men of Xet- chikan, including three men who are actually on- gaged in the logging business. Inasmuch as they plead for a direct reversal of one of the major‘ policies of the United States Forest Service nj Alaska, what they have to say is of vital Interest not only to the residents of Southeast Alaska but,) also, to all Alaskans since revenue derived from Alaska’s forest resources is diverted into Territorial | as well as local channels. The issue which this communication raises can | be stated simply and in few words. It is the long- | established policy of the Forest Service to protect | local timbering industries, such as saw mills, by | denying the exportation of logs to British Columbia and Puget Sound points. Certain Ketchikan inter-| ests now demand the abandonment of this policy | and ask in its stead that a new policy be promu]-“ gated which will permit the forest resources of | Alaska to be shipped in raw form to foreign manu- facturing centers. This immediately raises the question: Which is the more profitable for Alaska, to manufacture and | market its own forests in a finished form, or to permit them to be cut and shipped elsewhere to bel manufactured into the various articles of commerce | and marketed there? Upon the correct answer to it depends a great %deal. The propaosition is so elementary that 1t hardly needs arguing. The Forest Service, in initiating its present non-expor- tation policy, considered the query aspects. Its decision was that Alaska would never have any substantial forests products industries if it permitted the exploitation of the raw resources for the benefit of already established industries in other localities. And this seems to be a logical conclusion. At least it is in line with the history of all industrial communities, and is borne out by the development record of other lands. That country is most prosperous and populous which comes nearest to completely transforming into finished products its natural resources, surpassing by far those which strip themselves of raw materials o have them manufactured into final forms some- ‘where else. Some of the arguments of the Ketchikan inter- ests, while based on facts, do not give the whole picture. For instance, the statement, “It is esti- mated the standing spruce timber in Alaska Is ' equivalent to the entire standing growth of both the States of Oregon and Washington,” needs clari- fying. It is true the entire spruce stand in the Territory probably exceeds that of the two States mentioned, but the stands of commercial logging chances are something else again. The spruce trees scattered in the great hemlock forests, in the aggregate containing billions of feet, do not offer logging chances for saw timber. The entire spruce stand of Southeast Alaska is estimated to be 15,800,000,000 feet board measure. Of that amount, about 316,000,000 feet board measure probably con- stitute the logging chances avallable today. The effect upon that supply if it were thrown wide open to logging operations for export would be disastrous. In a decade every stand would melt under the axes and saws and “splitting machines” of the weods gangs and the only gource of supply left for Alaska sawmills would be the spruce mixed in the hemlock growths which could be logged only at a cost so prohibitive as to make it impossible for the local manufacturers to compete on open markets with Puget Sound and British Columbia mills. Currently, as in the past and will continue to be in the coming few years at least, Southeast Alaska sawmills rely in large measure upon their production of clear spruce to enable them to oper- ate at a profit. It can be sold profitably even during slack times because it is a unique product which has no real competitor for certain uses. Should this source of revenue be cut off from local manufacturers their chances for sucessful opera- tion would be seriously endangered. The export of raw spruce would menace this market in two re- spects—by limiting the source of the supply for the local mills and by bringing Puget Sound or other factories into direct competition with them. The latter, being nearer the markets, naturally would have a decided sales advantage over the local plants. The timber industry, including logging, sawmills and box factories, is the source of some $1,500,000 in annual revenue. Ten years of unrestricted expor- tation of spruce logs would wipe out at least a goodly part of that sum and endanger capital in- vested in the sawmilling branch. . . . The comparison made by the Ketchikan interests as to fish and mining are unfortunate for them- _selves. One of the hardest fights ever waged by the business men of Ketchikan, unsuccessfully it is true but in a righteous cause, was to prevent the shipment of American halibut through a foreign in all of its | W ——— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE; MONDAY, JAN. 5, 1931. port. The argument preparing these fish for ¢ and the materials in which ipment was not local, and wiping out irevenue? Yet that is the effect of the suggested policy in relation to the forests The pulp and paper manufacturers who are pre- | paring to come to Alaska are coming here because of the availability of the very resources which it is now sought to export in unmanufactured shape. If the Forest Service, reversing itself as to non- exportation, should throw down the bars on spruce why not on hemlock and invade the pulpwood market at Ocean Falls and Powell River and on Puget Sound? Exportation of hemlock logs or | squares is as reasonable as that of spruce. But to |do so would foreclose forever our chances for a newsprint manufacturing industry. | New | resources. industries can only be based on natural Southeast Alaska's are minerals, fish and timber. Gold, mined here, is likewise milled here. Fish caught here are processed in some form {or other here. Our taxes are derived from them |very largely. Likewise the timber that is cut here | should be manufactured here, creating varied indus- tries which in turn will pay into the treasury of | Alaska their fair share of Governmental ndminis- | trative costs and support their commensurate »ro- portion of the Territorial population. Any other form of development is economically and industrially unsound. We are convinced that the Forest Service’s non- exportation policy is well-advised. In times of adversity, however, even the wisest of policies are| subject to modification. Under present conditions, in order to relieve unemployment among Alaska the local logging companies, a temporary cuspen- sion of the prohibition against log exports :night be advisable. But that should be done with caution | so that rellef will be given to existing interests| and not in such a manner as to encourage the“ establishment of new logging firms and used to| was used that the labor ‘n they were cased was its greatest source of UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, Anchorage, Alaska. Sept. 24, 1930. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN plication, Serial 07472, for a Soldier's Additional Homestead, as assignec |1 PROFESSIONAL | [ Helene W, L. Albrecht | PHYSIOTHERAPY = S Y | Fraternal Societies | | OF f 1 . N | Gastineau Channel ! B. P. 0. ELKS 5, Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 410 Goldstein Building loggers and to remove an abnormal stress from jverse claims within the period of | of Wm. J. O'Neal, a beneficiary | Phone Office, 216 | . under Sections 2306 and 2307, U. 8. Revised Statutes, for a tract of land consisting of apporximately DI 4.02 acres, situated on the west|] shore of Port Althorp, on Chicha~ goff Island, one and one-half miles southeast of Point Lucan, Alaska, embraced in U. S. Survey No. 1809, . e DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER ENTISTS 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. PHONE 56 Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. Phon . from which corner No. 1 MJGC.|, USL:M. No. 1657 bears S. 34° 15 Commencing at Corner No. 1, ! identical with Corner No. 3, |e Dr. Charles P. Jenne 26” E. 3232 chains, Latitude 58°, 08’ 00” N., Longitude 136° 20° 25" DENTIST - W., and which 1. more pamculm—ly( | Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine described as follows, to-wit: B Building H Telephre 176 Graham’s Taxi e 565 STAND AT ARCADE CAFE i Day and Night Service Any Place in the City for $1.00° Meeting every ~ednesday evening ¢ at 8 o'clock. Elks Hall. Visiting brothers welcome. R. B. MARTIN, Exalted Ruler. M. H. SIDES, Secretary. Co-Ordinate Bod- ies of Freemason- | ry Scottish Rite Regular meetings !second Friday each month at ‘{Prompt Service, Day and Night Deep Sea Salmon Company'’s Trade and Manufacturing site, |® U. S. Non-mineral Survey No. 1657, Anchorage, Alaska, Serial | No. 06519; thence north 5.05 chains to Torner No. 2, identi- cal with Corner No. 3, Tongass National Forest elimination, Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Office hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. Evenings by appointment. CovicH AUTO SERVICE STAND AT THE OLYMPIC Phone 342 Day or Night D e USSR | chains to Corner No. 1, the |e | August 22, 1925, thence east || i | | 888 chains to Corner No. 8, |®~ — | identical with Corner Na. 2 g . WATCH Tongass National Forest elim= | ination, August 22, 1925; thenss, || Dr- A. W. Stewart I following the meanders of mean DENTIST & For N high tide line of Port Althorp, Hours 9 a. m. to 8 p. 2. | or Ivexu South 26%° E. 3.02 chains, SEWARD BUILLING | South 60%° W. 4.36 chains Office Phone 469, Res. SMOKER Corner No. 4; thence W. 6. Phone 276 place of beginning. Any and all persons claiming|® adversely any of the above de-| scribed land should file their ad- publication or thirty days there- after or they will be barred by the || provisions of the Statutes. I J. LINDLEY GREEN, Register. First publication, Nov. 5, 1930. Last publication, Jan. 7, 1031, = ————— foster a logging export brokerage business. | We do not in any sense mean to question vhe | sincerity or good faith of the signers of the com- | munication to The Empire. We concede both. Yet | we are convinced that the greatest good to thei largest number of Alaskans will be served by hold-' ing the Territory's timber resources for use by | local manufacturing plants rather than in permit- | ting them to be reaped for the benefit of an m-‘ dustry that is located outside of the Territory and supports some other political unit than Alaska. I | | A bee with a full load, say sclentists, can travei | |as fast loaded as it can light. In that the insect seems to have the better of man, who seldom attains his | best speed when he has a “full load.” | { Mr. Lewis at Stockncim. ; | | (New York World.) There is a great deal of talk about what Mr Lewis said in accepting the Nobel Pize, some of it as to whether he intended to praise America or condemn it, and some of it as to his taste in undertaking to do either. But none of it, so far as we can make out, touches the main point, which is whether it was a good speech. It does not strike us as a good speech. Most of it was stewed-over Mencken: the ideas about our universities, our re- spect for architecture, the American Institute of Arts and Letters, about the immortal and the damned, were all expressed in Baltimore long before they were heard in Stockholm. But with this dif- ference: When Mr. Mencken expresses them they hold a big measure of truth, but when Mr. Lewis expresses them they ring false. The reason is that Mencken, even if he does not exactly have an Olympian view of the human scene; at least has an infernal view. Mephistophelian he may be, but he! is bigger than the personalities he indulges in, and thus achieves a perspective which in such things is the first requisite of life. But Mr, Lewis, trying personalities, gets squarely on their level: as between the abuse he uttered last week and the pettiest attack ever leveled at him by a local booster, there is not enough difference to be worth discussing. In proof of this, it is only neces- sary to glance at his remarks about his private I-| knew-him-when club. Consider, alas, the appalling insufficiency that is revealed by this. Here is a man accorded the highest honor that his craft may win: he stands up with a prepared manuscript, in the, full knowledge. that the world is listening, and| from that manuscript, where it is carefully typed out, he reads a paragraph informing the world that there are a number of people who used to know him before he was famous, and who there- | fore assume that he cannot now amount to ‘much. Was there ever such a puerile piece of informa- tion? The truth, it seems to us, is that at the big moment of his life Mr. Lewis was Mke Chekov’s man who built a house, furnished a library, bought pens, paper and ink and then found he had nothing| to say. The best he could muster was a collection | of gags, anecdoes and complaints, suitable for a literary luncheon: at one point you almost ex- | pected him to say a few words on the copyright law. And that, probably, is the main reason why the country is so irritated by him. Whether he| realized it or not, in accepting this prize he also accepted the job of representing the United States on a formal occasion. And he represented the United States very badly. What Colonel Woods Learned About | Radicalism. (Willlam Tzard, in Review of Reviews.) As Police Commissioner of New York City, Col. Arthur Woods, who has taken charge of the Gov- ernment's unemployment activities, made one dis- covery that perhaps Harvard and Groton helped him to makeé. He discovered that academic free speech is a good, practical police method. He dis- covered that if you will let a red redical talk him- self redder in a public square and then let him go home it produces less red ink in the newspapers and fewer red votes at the polls than if you meet him at the entrance to the public square and break his head. 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