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THK HOME TOWN
The Mrrvhunts in This Community
Hid you ever give the subject of I he local merchant and you any serions
thought?
Perhaps you are a loyal citizen and patronize local shops and stores as
a matter of loyalty, but as this is uot a lecture it wtll do no harm to read
this anyhow.
If you are one of the misguided folks who imagine you can do betier
elsewhere, by all means read this!
Your local merchant is first a c listen, a resident of your community the
saf e as you are.
He lives in your community, pays taxes along with you for the upkeep
and improvement of your community: he raises his family and sends his
children to school—schools which he helps, with you. to maintain.
If he is a butcher, he buys clothes and shoes for his family from a fel
low-merchant. No matter what h.s line of business, he spends money with
other business men of the community.
He banks in local banks; he takes his family of an evening to the local
shows.
Summed u». the money he makes in the community is spent In tt.
Were It not for your local merchant, there would be no schools, no ppv
ed streets, no public buildings, no progress nor prosperity. He is here a:iy
in and day out. rain or shine, giving his time and energy and nione* to
whatever will benefit the district, taking part in the administrations of t; e
-.■Miniunity or aiding to regulate the administration for the best iutore»t»
of the community by his vote.
HE IS A CITIZEN!
Is he not entitled, then, to consideration?
But there is something more than a call for your loyalty to him as citi
zen to citizen—neighbor to neighbor.
Living here as he does, he comes to know his customers. They are to
him not "Just customers." but "fellow citizens"; "good neighbors." As he
will be here tomorrow and the next da> at;d next year, meeting his custom
ers face to face, day after day, his business gets nis personal attention—
every transaction is a personal dealing between him and the patron.
He is not your huge store where thousands flock in daily, many for the
one time only. He is not your fly-by-night get-'ein-once-and-gousie-'em
govd fakir.
He is your neighbor—your fellow citizen, building for tomorrow and
next year, and fully cognizant that the or.lv way to build is to sell good
goods at right prices.
Your local merchant is In himself a guarantee of his goods and prices
and services because he is alwa>s at the same stand meeting largely the
same customers.
He cannot exist upon the patronage of transients—his livelihood comes
from permanent residents: his aim is to make permanent residents regular
customers. He must do this—hence his wares, his prices and his service
ere all and always arranged and held to this end.
You never heard your llve-w.re, wide-awake home merchant say, "Oh.
well, one customer more or less tiakes no difference." Every customer, to
htm. is important: a new customer is eagerly sought, and a customer less
—well, your local merchant will not let it happen if anything just and rea
sonable under the sun will prevent such a thing happening.
So not alone out of a sense of loyalty to your community, but for your
own sake—for the sake of your purse and the satisfaction of being given
personal attention and service—buy of our home merchants.—Excha; ge.
ItRITX.F. OVER (i.\STI\K. VI ( H.WNKL
During the past week petitions have been circulated both in Juneau
and on Douglas Island and generally signed in both places, urging upon the
government the desirability of connecting the island with the mainland,
which it is proposed be done by constructing a bridge over the narrow
point in the channel where the light and telep«one towers are constructed
and where only a comparatively short span would be required.
The same proposition was given considerable attention six years ago.
but when the states became involved in the war it was dropped and has
remained inert until the present, when it has been revived and is being
gone after in an intelligent manner Governor Bone favors the movement
and has assured those active in it of his hearty cooperation. District For
ester Flory. from whose department much of the cost of constructing a
bridge would probably come, is also encouraging the movement and is co
operating with the view of taking it up with t:ie heads of the Forestry Bur
eau.
The proposed bridge connecting the island with the mainland would
provide an outlet for Juneau in the matter of building sites and would, at
the same time, benefit the towns on both sides by permitting closer bus -
nesa relations which, under existing conditions, is almost exclusively con
fined to passenger traffic. At the same time and with the increased popu
lation that will naturally follow the construction of a bridge—which in
crease is bound to come in the near future, bridge or no bridge—the ferry
business would be stimulated and property values be enhanced on both
side* of the channel.
Also, now that officials' eyes at Washington are directed toward Alaska.
Uiat she is beuis looked upon iu a kindly manner and lLal there is a d.s
position to help her in every way possible, the time »s propltlons for ttsttTic
for the proposed hridpe and other pnhlic improvements that will tend to
rescue this territory from the skunk cahhafe-frinmsi slough of dlspair and
despond in which she has so long floundere d—Stroller's Weekly.
IF HK FA11KO, W HAT
I He is a Japanese renter on »n excellent farm in one of Oregon's bent
i agricultural counties. He lives on salmon and eats it with a stick. He and
I his wife, as all Japanese do. work day and n;gbt, practice frugality to at'
thincs p.no seire upon ererv chance by »h.ch to fret along in the world
They failed to n.ake a profit thm year The other day the husband en
tered his landlord's office In Portland and said he would have to make a
living in some other way. It was a conclusion that the kindly owner of the
farm had already reached, and, on hearing the tenant's statement, he «t
.•nct< sliced off a portion of the annual rent.
And here is the moral of the story It on their low standard of tiring
and their known skill and energy in farm life, this Japanese couple cannot
niake things go. how about American farmers?
And if the profits of agriculture continue to decline and American
farmers continue to move to town, as they will, and if, in consequence. Jap
anese and Slavs and aliens from Southern Europe take the place of the
American farmer, how much goods will the merchants then sell to the agri
cultural population, and who will constitute the domestic market for Am
erican manufactured output?—Oregon Journal.
\K\A\A STIOKXTS PIBLISH
HK.H SCHOOL XKWSPAPER
i The Venana School Star, a news
1 paper ec'iicd and printed in its en
1 tirety by students 5f the Franklin
K Lane high school, made its In -
i tial appearance recently. fresh
I from the printing plant recently (n
! stalled at the scheol under the di
rection of Supeiintendent A. T)
[ Philips The pap-*r is a six-paie
i edition and is ren.arkablv neat :n
I appearance considering the fact
that the work was new to the stud
ents and the equipment more or
| less improvised There are on The
! N'ews' e\c!iange taLle. real, honest
to-goodni-k- newspapers which do
| not look or read as well.
, M.ss JesSit> Motschman is editor
I in cMef of the t»w publication,
i Walter Teelatid is business manag
er. and Superinterdent Thillips oo
irupies a place on tlic staff as critic.
In howinc its w^y mio the news
paper world, the £'«r says cditor
i ially:
"Wiih this Issue of the Star. we
start a new page in the history of
S
the initial appearance of this paper
and with this edition t? have sev
eral thir.es to brine 10 the aiteii
tion of the readers.
"In the first place, tho this Is the
first issue, every bit of the papet
was editf d. wr'ven. corrected.'
printed and d strihuted by the stud
lents of tie Nenai.a High School
I The following points are the thing!
we wish to emphasize:
j "'(ll Nenana High School is the
) smallest His'i School in Alaska
| "<2> Nenana High School is the
1 only high school in Alaska that pub
I lishAs a paper monthly.
| "(3) Nenana H gh School is the
| iralv high school in Alaska that
| teaches printing as a branch of in
I dustrial arts.
1 "<4> Nenana H!gh School ts the
only high school in Alaska that has
I 3 regular printing equipment wli. -
in the high school building.
"(5* Nenana H.gh School is the
I only high school in Alaska that has1
| a monthly paper eoited and tnanap
cd by students of tne high school '
I —Nenana News.
two NKW .vnumoxs
TO SCHOOL ORCHESTRA
Under the personal direction of
| Miss "Happy" Elliott, the AncMorace
I high school orches.ra is now hold-1
ing practices twici a week The'
' following now comprise the pane of
mnsic manufacturers: Happy 'El
liott. 1st violin and directress: Har
old Sogn. saxaphon.-: Winfield Irvir '
2nd violin; Arthur Frodenberg. sax
aphone; I.avton Schell and Well Ir
vin. trap drummers: Ophelia How-t
| urd. Martha Irvin and Myrtle Wend
| ler. piano.
| The directress is .low on the look-i
nut for new material and several I
} promising ones hare been sighted ,
Included in the promising material
1 are LeRoy Retd uid Maurice An-1
| derson. who have c school-wide re
| ptltation as masters of the Jew* |
harp and cow bells, respectively. On-1
I ly after a great deal of persuasion '.
and at great expense have this pair •
! been induced to join the orchestra I
and the school feels itself lucky in-•
deed to have these two noted musi
cians with us. With this worthy!
addition the orchestra will soon ap
proach the best to be found in any j
school.—Anchorege Times (School;
Notes).
ORGANIZER ALASKA
EXPRESS COMPANY DIED IN I
SEATTLE YESTERDAY i
Seattle, Feb. 16.—Nathan Beman.
the organizer of the Alaska Express
company, d.ed here todu.<\
Colonel Gotwals
Boosting Alaska
\S<1ST\\T TO COIXVTCI. STEESE
TAKES ornMisnc VIEW
OK OCTLOOK
Alaska In 1S2J will "undergo a
great revival in mining and reneral
prosperity." said Cal. John C. Got
wals, engineer officer of the Alaska
lioad commission. in Seattle on his
way to enjoy his first leave of ab
sence in six years "lo Fairbanks."
he said, "more peo.de are wintering
this year lhar. in fonr years, which
indicates a most healthy sign for
mining revival. These people will
take t!.e first opportunity of weath
er to start operations Already
t'<e upper Kuskcknlm distr ct if
very prosperous. One dredge in.the
McGrath district this past season
took out Jl.OOC.OOO worth of gold,
ard three more di edges will be 1c
operation there th.s winter An
other outstanding event In Alaska
during the past tmjlve months was
a great Quart i Ltrlke on Copper
Mountain. Kantishna distr.ci."—
Anchorage Times.
A dollar a month will bring the
Alaskan to vour door
PREPARING TO ITT NEW
TKSSKI.S ON Al.ASKA
The Aln«Va SteamaMp cm, r-anv.
anticipating increased 'rafflr to »!•
ask a, ii preparing to put a number
of new vessels In nerrioe in the near
futnre The Cordova, the latter
part of thia month, will rail vh,
a toil canto and a list of pass-n
pera. oonafMing of c number t>f ran
nery hands hound tor Son'*ieaM«--n
Alaska points Early in^u i><
dicate that a Icrjfer nutnhc of AU«
Vfir, canneries will <a* operaiine :lit«
year than last, wfcm only 2®** of
Lhe Northern terriory plants were
ope rased.
IVjumwnl of the Interior
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE
JoiiMi. Alatkn.
January 25, 1*21.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN l fit
the Maine* Packing Company. a cor
poration organlied onder and bv
virtue of the law* of the Territory
of Alaska, through ft» attorney in
fart. H. L Kaulkser, Junnan. Al
aska, has fiied application, serial
P4CIS for a patert for lands em
braced in lot I. section 1#. T. SI
S . R 60 E.. Copper River Merid
tan. containing an area or 25,75
acrea, under the trovision of sec
tion 10 of the act iA May 14, 1*9!>
(30 Stat. 414).
Any and all perrjns claim ng ad
versely any of the above land,
should file their adverse claim with
the Tailed States I^and Office, at
Juneau. Alaska, within the period of
publication or thtity day* thereaf
ter. or they will be barred by tl-e
provisions of the Statute.
FRANK A BOTLE.
Register.
Date of first pnhl'cat on. Feb 14
Date of las; publication. April IB
Bi? Game Guide
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Ita country. and ra» guarantor I
hunting ptrUo H*> •BHrnm
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for lake honttng Aahlnc. .
For Information raXi or ad
Tom Williams
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Make This Your 1922 Slogan
"Try The Home Market First
As a Northerner. a Pioneer. an Cpbuilder of Alnska von are
peeved every time you h«r of the appointment of a ' c*n«ell>accer
to fill one of the political office* of the territory, because to-: know
that there are capable and efficient men Hrins In the terr
could fill the offices with perfect saiisfaction, who are e pi: c to
build up the territory and make it a worth while place in *hicb o
live.
Ts Is a parallel cane when Northerner* send tbelr tr>oT><-v out
Hide for supplies that may be boupht rifrht here at home a: .. (rive
better satisfaction than the "carpethamper" stuff imported from die
States.
Is It not a fact that we are all working to bnfld tip tb« North
to make it a worth-while place in which to live, and bi "trytrp jocr
home market first" yon are Ftrenpthenlnit the foundation for thai
building?
Here's A Suggestion For A Starter
TRV THK AUSKAVS JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT *TRST. l (v 1\.:
WITH MODERN MACHTNKRT AND MATERIA!* A VP Km<TT NT
ARTISANS ARK IN CHARGE OF THK WORK