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ALASKA DAY
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""" Alaska Day, October IS, murks the fifty-fourth anniversary of the
transfer of what is now the Territory of Alaska from Russia to the United
States. This vast empire, containing approximately 600,000 square miles
of territory, was purchased for $7,200,000. representing less than two
cents per acre. The total mineral production of Alaska from the date
of purchase to the year 1920, was more than sixty times the purchase
price. The fisheries during the last decade alone have yielded more than
forty times the amount of the purchase prWe. There Is every reason to
believe that neither of these great industries has reached the peak of pro
duction. The coal and oil fields are practically unexplored. Those who |
know state that the coal fields of the Matanuska and Nenana river val
leys are more than equal in extent to the original coal fields of West Vir
ginia and Pennsylvania. Timber for use in the paper and pulp industry is
being utilized for the first time in the history of the territory. Billions of
cords of wood are situated at points which are readily accessible to pres
ent or possible mill sites. William II. Seward certainly caused Uncle Sam
to sow seed which was destined to bring forth many an hundred fold when
he urged and consumated the purchase of Alaska.
But Alaska Day should have a broader significance than as the anniver
sary of the addition of a vast mount of wealth to the United States. As
we celebrate the day we should see beyond the great extent of territory,
beyond immediate and future treasure. The observance of the day should
Inspire in every man and woman, every boy and girl, a love for and loyalty
to this great Northland and to the nation of which we are a part, and
should make each realise anew what it means to be under the influence
of American ideals and a citizen of the greatest republic in the world..—
Alaska School Bulletin.
TARIFF AM) CANADIAN" POLITICS
Premier Meighen of Canada, announcing a general election this fall,
points to the tariff as "the big imperative question." Tariff was side
stepped by the last session at Ottawa, but is cannot be evaded much long
er. Premier Meighen and his Coalitionist supporters are for protection,
opposing any reduction of the present tariff and even favoring some in
creases. Behind them stand Canadian manufacturers, most business men.
and the bulk of labor. The United Farmers, led bv Mr. Crerar. are for
a low tariff. Mr. Mackenzie King, with most of the old Liberal party be
hind him. has Indicated that he favors a mi-'dle course. Recent low-tanff
utterances of his are regarded as an effort to pave the way for alliance be
tween Liberals and United Farmers, but he is careful to give Premier
Meighen no opportuniy to attack him as a t'r"e trader.
Canada has never approached an election with an outlook more un
certain. for Canada has never before seen the field divided by three well
matched parties. The United Farmers make it almost impossible for either
the Liberals or Coalitionists to score a clean-cut victory. After their vic
tories In Ontario and Alberta they are regarded as sure to have from 60
to 100 seats in a chamber which, following the post-census redistribution,
will aggregate about 250. Probably some new coalition will follow the
election, and the chances seem best for a United Farmer-Liberal coalition
to revise duties downward Americans would welcome such an outcome.
They should especially welcome a contribution to low-tariff sentiment in
Canada by abandonment of the preposterously steep Fordney program.—
New York Post.
MAIN STREET," A USELESS LIItEL
Erervbody is supposed to have read "Main Street." the "novel of the
year." If you are wise you will let it go at that—and not read it. That
old theory that you must read a book merely because "everybody" is
reading It is wrong. "Everybody" doesn't seem to pet any smarter or
more contented after reading all these "best sellers" of the hour, whereas
the reading of genuine literature is something which is a perpetual source
of improvement and enjoyment.
"Main Street" is a wholly unjustifiable book. It purports to portray
life in a typical American small town—the town being located in Minne
sota. The writer of it evidently has no sympathy for tliti small town, and
his attitude is that of a cannibal dissecting his captured enemy. It has no
logical ending either good or bad: it maunders along and gets nowhere;
it has no moral; it merely stirs up the rubbish in the gutter, and then
leaves It there.
It is basically morbid and bad. The author has romposed a wicked
libel on the American small town and has done all he could to disgust the
public with rural life.
Life in the small town is pictured as hopelessly dull sordid and ugly.
This is a false representation. A large proportion of our people live ill
small towns, and as Lincoln once said. God must love such people "be
cause He made so many of them."
If American rural life Is rotten, then America is all rotten, for it is
to the country that we must look for the fresh young blood which is to re
generate the jaded population of the cities and preserve our institutions.
Anyone who takes such a morose and jaundiced view of rural life as the
author of "Main Street" docs, should at least refrain from writing about
it.
We are not surprised to learn that the town of Alexandria, Minn., has
banished this book from its public library. It may or may not be thai Al
exandria is the town which the author luid mainly in mind when turning
his spleen loose. But it Is not any particular town; it is the whole country
that has been libeled. The author must have been in the war and got
•'shell-shocked"; that is the most charitable diagnosis we can make of his
case.—The Pathfinder.
Alaskans Paid
Freely On Incomes
Federal Personal Taxes Show North
Paid for Nearly Every Yot->r
III the I.aiul
IX LEAD IX CLASSIFICATION
Heads last in Percentage of Popu
lation Killns Federal Income 'lav
Itetunis; Increase Is Steady From
Year to Year.
Federal personal income tax re
turns tiled in Alaska in 1919 reach
ed a total of 9.427, which was 1$
per cent, of the entire number tiled
in the United States, according to
a statement just released by David
J. Williams, collector of internal re
venue. The total net Income report
ed by these returns was $18.>62.
U34, while the tax paid on them was
$357,783, which was 3 per cent of
the total personal income tax paid
in the entire country.
In the nation at large 5.3 per cent,
of the people filed personal Income
tax returns, while in Alaska. 17.17
per cent, filed them. The average
net income per return for the Uui
ted States was $3,724.05. and m Al
aska it was $2.000.S5. The per
sonal income tax per capita for the|
United States amounted to $11 i'v
and in Alaska It was $6.52. The
a.-erase amount of the personal in
come tax per return in the United
States was $23$.03. and in Alaska
it was $37.95.
Alaska's position in the order of
magnitude as to a!l the states and
territories in the Union, in the per
cent of population tiling returns was
first, and 51st in the average net
income per return. Its position as
to per capita income was 24th, and
51st in the average amount of tax
per return.
The number of personal income
tax returns filed for the years 191
1917. 191S and 1919 in Alaska, as
well as the amounts of net income
and tax. are shown in the following
table:
Number Net Total
Year returns income tax
1916- 243 $ 1,878,419 $ 17.022
1917 4,570 10.549.506 132.769
1918 7,606 15.434,987 316.859
1919 9.427 IS. 862.0,34 357,7S3
A Jl'NK.U F.V1K
A movement was launched at a
meeting of the Juneau Commercial
association having for its object the
establishment of an annual fair in
Juneau covering virtually all indus
tries of the district. Following dis
cussion of the project. President Al
len Shattuck was authorized to ap
point a committee of three members
to formulate plans for such a fair.
Chairman E. S. Hewitt, of the ad
vertising committee, reported that
plans are being formulated for
boosting next season's tourist trade
in Juneau. The two big problems
must be solved before the tourist
business in Alaska will amount to
anything material. The first and
most important is the question of
transportation and the other is of
fering attractions to tourists after
they arrive. Steamship accommoda
tions next season, he said, will in
sure approximately 17.000 tourists
coming to Alaska. Three Canadian
Pacific steamers will be able to take
care of some 7.000 passengers while,
American steamers will have accom
modations for about 10,000.—Em
pire. i
MANY WINDOWS RROKFN
BY IIKaH WINDS IN JUNEAU
Windows in residences of many Ju
neau homes were broken last night
during the repeated heavy gusts
which raged around 9 o'clock. The
part of the city in which the most
damage ocurred was on Kennedy
and East strets, between Fourth and
Sixth streets.—Juneau Empire.
cwa:. cits freight rates
In a recent test shipment of 2,000
boxes of oranges and lemons from
1,08 Angeles to Philadelphia via the
Panama canal, it was proved that
citrus fruits can be shipped by boat
across the isthmus without refriger
ation and delivered at Eastern ports
in excellent salable condition. In
the test some of the fruit was kept
under refrigeration and some was
stored with air ventilation alone.
Evcfrv hour the boxes were examin
ed to see how the fruit was stand
ing the hot weather of the canal
region, but on arrival both lots were
found to he in the same state of
preservation.
The big fact proved in the exper
iment was that it costs about 50 per
cent, less to transport by water than
to send direct by rail. During 1920
Pacific coast fruit-growers paid out
$25,000,000 in freight charges for
transportation of 47.000 carloads of
fruit to Eastern markets. If all this
had been sent by water there would
have been a saving of about S1A -
000,000. Far-sighted railway man
agers foresaw the present condition
years ago and tried to prevent the
construction of the canal. Rut the
canal was completed and its com
petition has seriously disturbed the
railroad magnates The situation
must be faced, however, and If rail
roads hope to handle any more
Western fruit for Eastern markets
they will have to cut their rates in
half to compete with the Panama
canal.
Practically all commodities have
decreased in price from 40 to 50 per
cent during the last year, but trans
portation costs have increased about
4rt per" cent. The average freight
IX THE PROBATE COIRT FOR
HAINES PRECINCT, FIRST JU
DICIAL DIVISION, TERRITORY
Or ALASKA.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE]
OF
S. J. WEITZMAN, derailed.
Notice of Hearing «»n Final Ac
count
Notice is hereby given that Jo».
H. Chisel, as administrator of the j
estate of S. J. Weitxman. deceased,
did on the 5th day of September.
1921, file In the above entitled court1
his final account and report of his
administration of said estate, and
the hearing of the same has been
set by said court for the 5th day of
November, 1921, at the hour of two
o'clock p. m. at the courtroom of |
said court at llsines, Alaska, at
which time and place all persons
are required to file any objections
they may have to said account and
report, and to show cause if any
they have, why said account and re
port should not he allowed and set
tled.
Dated this 5th day of September.
1921.
JOS. H. CHISEL,
Administrator.
First insertion—Sept. S, 1921.
Final insertion—Nov. 10, 1921.
Catarrh Cannot Tie Cured
with LOCAL. Al'I'Ui NS. a* thcr
can no! reach the »• at f th< c:sea»®.
Catarrh is a local dts* e. preatly in
fluenced by constitute 'renditions. and
In order to cure it : nust take an
Internal rem -tiy. Ha .tarrfc Medi
cine i* takec internally and acts thru
the blood on i*ie muc. > . of the
system Hall's Ca;. rri. M-Jume was
prescribed by nne <t tl « -t physicians
n|l •
pose* of ? of the r. ? known.
omMtHd with best M id#
purifier.* of
the lnsT'm'.ntS) t^rrh M«»dl
cine is ".iut rr worflerful
results in catarrhal s Sesd for
testimonial- free
F J. CHUNKY a C~ Toledo. O
All DrcjrgH i
Hall's Fain;.: 1. tux stipatloa.
rate on wheat at present from . 5
to 195 per cent, above the rates of
1912. On corn the market price at
present is nine per cent less if.in in
1912. while the freight rates are
about i<>0 per cent, higher. Oats
bring 92 per cctt. of the 1912 pric
es while ihe freighi rate* are from
;
tics show that with the exception of
livestock, grain triffic nets the rail
roads the highest returns tlie ager
age profit being over 11 per cent
on such shipments
imoniK I* mimsti i; to mim
Washington. Oct. 4.—Kdward K
Brodie of Oregon, has been appoint
ed United States minister to Sian^
THK RK,*<;\VAT
Pioneer Dair\
H. F. 8EEMAN, IVnp
THt SAttlTARY DILI (MUCH
Th* larpot iih) but con
dortrd ilalry In AJ*»ka.
Pally chjpmenta of purr
milk ita<1 cream to all
p»inia on Whll* Pan* A
Yukon Rons.
Big Game Guide
Sportsmen who are Interest
ed In hunting big game In the
lxmi»r Yukon country are In
Tilcd to call on me. .1 have
lived for many year* In the At
lin country, and ran guarantee
hunting partJe* flnc mwcirnm*.
I have a go«*! power lionf
for lake hunting and fi«hlng. .
For informali(»n call or ad
drfM -I
Tom Williams
AT1JX B. C.
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ple® and began to itch and burn.
The pimples would fester and pee.
off, and became very sore when I'd
scratch and dig at them. My face
looked a sight, and I wms ashamed
to go out or meet my friends.
"The trouble lasted for nearly
three months. I read an advertise
ment for Cnticura So*p and Oint
ment and tried them, and after usmc
one cake of Cuticura Soap and one
box of Cuticura Ointment I tra*
completely healed." ^Signed Mi*:*
E. Wood, R. F. D. 3. Box 1S5.
Lents, Oregon, Aug. 26. 1920.
Use Cuticura Soap. Ointment and
Talcum for all toilet purposes
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