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Do you realise the importance of getting your advertising copy pre
pared early?
You know our old friend procrastination. He's a cousin to the cow's
tail.
Why follow, when you can lead?
Supposing .ill your customers left their shopping In your store until u
half hour befojo you were closing up at night, what would happen? You
know. It woulii»inake great confusion, you couldn't give service and your
customers would leave the store dissatisfied.
Well, iu a way, that's what you often ask the newspapers to do. You
wait until the ninth hour to prepare your copy, and when it reaches the of
pce you expect the compositors to do two hour's work in one.
It can't be done.
The result is that your advertisement Is slapped together In great
haste. with chance for errors and without proper display. It can't be oth
erwise.
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the last minute to send your copy to the newspaper office.
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You can see the logic of It. It will ineaii better ads, better service and
better results. ,
That's what you want. That's why you advertise.
Give the newspaper a chance.
Apply the Golden Rule.—Stroller's Weekly.
GOOD OFFICIAL RESIGNS—The Territory lost a very ahle official
when J. H. Davies of Ketchikan resigned from membership on the terri
torial fish commission. Mr. Davies is a pioneer of Southeastern Alaska. He
has served the public faithfully as a deputy United States marshal and later
a? the only Republican member of the house of representatlvse from the
First Division In the 1919 legislation. For the last several years he has
Wen engaged successfully In business at Ketchikan. He was appointed to
the territorial Qsh commission by Governor Riggs in 1921, succeed.ng John
P. Beegle. He is a man of the highest integrity and excellent ability.
—Ketchikan Chronicle.
KKVISIOX OK THK CODE—One of the important matters for the
next legislature to consider is a complete revision ■ ( the laws of Alaska.
The civil and criminal codes and the code of civil proceedure were
suloyted by Congress mainly from the laws of Oregon in the year of 1900,
and thereby made laws for Alaska. Since that time many of these laws
have proven inapplicable to conditions in Alaska. Also the code contains
many omissions in the matter of proceedure. and the probate laws should
be amended. The revision should not be piecemeal as will result from
legislature considering particular defects in existing laws. Th erevision
should be thorough, complete and carefully considered in advance. In
<<tder to accomplish this, the next legislature should appoint a commission,
its members representing each judicial division In the Territory to revse
the code and submit their work of revision to the next succeeding legisla
ture. Care and painstaking work only can accomplish such a nimportant
ui dertakiag.—Valdez Miner.
"Melting Pot? Strike That Pet Phrase From
Your Political Vocabulary"
By PROF. H. M. B. MOENS of Holland, in N. Y. World.
Melting pot? Strike that phrase from your political vocabulary
It is misleading, untrue, mischievous in the extreme. Zangwill admitted
that it »as a catch phrase shortly after he had dazzled the imagination of
the world with it.
You may have a melting pot. But it docs not melt. It does not melt
because there is no fire under it. Light that fire. Light it by getting rid
of your prejudices, by living up to the splendid principles enunciated in
vour Declaration of Independence and in your Constitution.
President Harding said a few days ago that America is not yet a ra
cial entity. That is scientifically and politically true. Then why should
one race in America set itself up in assumed superiority over any other
race?
Every race has something of value to contribute to American civiliza
tion and American humanization. You cannot afford to reject any of
these contributions to your common store and the common store of the
world.
Avail yourselves of all these contributions. Tear down the barriers
of prejudice and isolation with which certain elements are showing a ten
dency to surround you as with a Chinese wall.
Then and only then will America be able to fulfill its manifest des
tiny by producing out of this vast mingling of races the mixed race that
shall contain the perfect man, the fifth and supreme classification of man
kind in its progress ttoui the protoman—the composite of the best of all
races of humanity.
INDIAN DRUM
iviWillicim AlacHarq and Edwin Balmer
Cbfxjriqhf by Ec*wu»T3a I me' ■—
Afun. as lie Ifstt'ned, censed con
sciously to separate the priest's voice
from the sensations running through
him. His father was Stafford, dying
at Corvet's feet while Corvet watched
the death of the crew of the Mlwalca;
Alan himself, a child, was floating with
a lifebelt among those struggling In
tl.e water whom Spearman and Corvet
were watching die. Memory; wis It
that which now had come to him? No;
rather It was a realization of all the
truths which the priest's words were
bringing together and arranging right
ly for him.
Ainu's father died In the morning.
All duv they stayed out In the storm,
avoiding vessels. They dared not
throw Stafford's body overboard or
that of the engineer, because. If found,
the bullet holes would have aroused
Inquiry. When night came again, they
had taken the two ashore al some wild
spet- and buried them; to make identi
fication hurder, they had tuken the
things that they had with tliein and
burled theni somewhere else. The
child—Alan—Corvet hail smuggled
ashore and sent away; he had told
Spearman- Inter that the child hail
died.
I 'Teaop—rest.'" m trier i-erron sum
In a deep voice. "Peace to the dead!"
Hut for lite living there luicl been
no pence Spearman hint forced Tor
vet to make him his partner; Corvet
had tried to take up his life again,
but hud not been able. Ilis wife,
aunre that something was wrong with
htui. had learned enough so that she
had left him. Luke had come and
come and come again for blaekmall.
and Corvet had mild him. Corvet grew
rich; those connected w.th him pros
pered; but with Corvet lived always
the ghosts of those he had wafhed
die with the Mlwaka—of those who
would have prospered with Stafford ex
cept for what had been done. Cor
vet had secretly sought and followed
the fate of the kin of those people
who ' had beeu murdered to benefit
him; he found some of their families
destroyed: he found almost all floor
and struggling. And though Corvet
paid Luke to keep the crime from dis
closure, yet Corvet swore to himself
to confess it all and naike such restl
( tution as he could. But each time that
ithe day he had appointed with him
self arrived, he put It off and off and
paid Luke again and again. Speur
Iman knew of his intention and some
times kept him from it. But Corvet
I had made one close friend; and when
that friend's daughter, for whom Cor
vet cared now most of all In the world,
had been about to marry Sjieurman.
Corvet delicti the cost to himself, and
he gained strength to oppose Spear
man. So he had written to Stafford's
son to come; he had prepared for con
fession and restitution: but, after he
had doue tills and while he waited,
something hud seemed to break in
his brain; too long preyed upon by
terrible memories, and the ghosts of
those who hail gone, and by the echo
of their voices crying to him from the
water, Corvet hud wandered away;
he hud come back, under the name
of one of those whom lie Uad wronged,
to the lake life from which he had
sprung. Only now and then, for a
few hours, he had Intervals when he
remembered all; in one of these he
had dug up the watch and the ring
and other things which he had taken
from Captain Stafford's pockets and
written to himself directions of what
to do with tiieui, when his uilnd aguin
failed.
Anil for spearman. strnnc acainsi
all that assailed Corvet. there hud bwn
always the terror of the Indian Drum
—the Drum, which had heat short for
the Miwaku. the Drum which had
known that one was saved! That story
came from some hint which Luke had
spread, Corvet thought; but Spear
man, horn near by the Drum, believed
that the Drum hud known and th.it the
Drum had tried to tell; all through
the years Spearman had dreaded the
Drum which bad tried to betray him.
~ So It wus by the Drum that, in the
end. Spearman was broken.
The priest's voice had stopped, as
Alan slowly realized; he heard Shef
rlll's voice speaking to him.
"It was a trust that he left you,
Alan; I thought It must be (hat—
a trust for those who suffered by the
loss of your father's ship. I don't
know yet how It car be fulfilled; and
we must think of that."
"That's how I understand It." Alan
said.
Through the tumult In his soul he
became aware of physical feelings
again, and of Sherrlll's hand put upon
his shoulder In a cordial, friendly
grasp. Then another hand, small and
firm, touched his, and he felt lis warn)
tightening grasp upon his fingers; he
looked up, and his eyes tilled and here,
he saw, were brimming too.
They walked together, later In the
day, up the "hill to the small, white
house which had been Caleb Stafford's.
The woman who had come to the door
wu* vwlUug iw show them through the
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house: It had only five rooms, imr
of those upon the second floor was
so much larger and pleasanter than
the rest that they became qiiil^ sure
that It was the one In whlcH Alan
had been born, and where Ills young
mother soon afterward had died.
The woman, who had showed them
about, had gone to another room and
left them alone.
"There seems to have been no pie-'
ture of her and nothing of hers loft
here that any one can toll me about;
but," Alan choked. "It's good to be
able to think of her as I can now.
"1 mean—no one can say niiythlng
against her now!"
Alan drew nearer her. trembling.
"I can never thank you—I can never
tell yuu what you did for me. i>mn<*v
"Constance!" He Caught Her. Sh»
Let Him Hold Her.
Injf In—her and In me. nn matter lion
things looked. Ami then, coming up
here as you <1I<1—for me!"
"Yes. It whs for you. Alan!"
"Constance!" He cnuglit her. Sh«
let him hold her.
The woman was returning to there
now and. perhapst. It was as well;
for not yet, lie knew, could he ash
her all that he wished: what had hap
pened was too recent yet for that. But
to him. Spearman—half mad and flee
ing from the haunts of men—was lie
ginning to he like one who had nevei
been: and he knew she shared thli
feeling. The light In her deep eve«
whs telling him already what her an
swer to him would he: and l!f«
stretched forth before him full of 1»t«
and happiness ami hope.
(THE END.]
NOT ALL BEER AND SKITTLES
| Englishman Has Somewhat Lengthy
List of Drawbacks to Life in
the Turkish Capital.
An English business man bulked me
Into a comer in a Constant, i."pie club,
looked at me sternly over tin: top of his
brandy and soda and addressed me as
follows:
"When you write about this town,
old chap, 1 hope you'll tell your peo
ple what a beastly place I' Is, what?
A chap can't make a mors, >011 know,
without some one asking h<-n to have
something. Look here, old chap. In
a court of law, you know, a clmp Is
ordintirlly supposed to be sober after
9 o'clock at night, what? Here It's'
the opposite, by Jove! A bit thick, eh,
what?
"Look here, make a note of this,
what? They celebrate five Christmas
es and five New Years In this rotten
town. OU. at least five. On my
honor, old ehap! English, Armenian.
Greek, Russian, Turkish. Jewish—real
ly, old chap. I become fearfully In
coherent when I try to remember
what they are. By the time the last
New Year Is over one can Just totter
around. Oh, absolutely, I give you
my word I And then there is the Itus
slan Easter, which Is fearfully nerve
racking. It lasts from - one to two
weeks, and one Is obliged to do a fear
ful amount of drinking. While It
lasts one goes up to any one and says
'He Is risen' and kisses him three
times. It's done that way. old chop.
1 give you my word, everybody does
It. One hunts for a pretty girl and
says 'He Is risen' and kisses her three
tlmes.» and. by Jove. It's considered
quite all right. Oh. quite. In a way*
old chap. It beats egg rolling on a lawn
all hollow, what? A bit thick, by Jove,
•but a bit of all right, what?
"But of course there's a fearful lot
of good feeling and one must ever
lastingly be buying a drink for some
one. It cuts :nto one's work fearfully.
You just tell all that to the chaps at
home, and they'll see that living In
Constantinople Isn't all beer and skit
tles, by Jove! What?"—Chicago Dally
News.
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MILLION VOICES
IN ONE CHORUS
'Washington, D. C., Aug.—"The
next number on tonight's program
will be a Jiiccolo imitation entitled
'The Whistling Chorus,' by the Rocky
Mountain Marmot Singing Society of
one million voices."
Such may be the announcement to
astonish the ears of any number of
listening radio fans in the near fu
ture, if a proposal before the Na
tional *Park Service of the Interior
Department is carried through. It
will be possibly the most novel trear
that the numberless radio amateurs
could ask, whose apparatus would
catch and transmit the shrill whist
ling of these small dog-like animals.
Within fifty miles of the park, in
the northern part of Montana near
the Canadian border, resides the
largest colony of the animals on the
North American continent. It is
estimated there are close to a million
of them, living in dense population.
On still nights, the wonderful shrill
ing chorus of the piccolo-like voices
is carried miles on the rare mountain
air, and toursts in the camps enjoy
the evening programs immensely.
It has been proposed that a re
ceiving set and broadcasting station
of 200 watt capacity, sending at a
3fi0 meter wave-length, be installed
close enough to catch the voices
clearly. Such power would be cap
able of sending throughout a radius
of 1300 miles, and could be picked
up almost from coast to coast.
The perfection of the radio now
suggests the idea of broadcasting
this volume of wierd, whistling music
which has at one all its own, to
radio receivers as 'ar as the waves
will carry.
When the full cnorus is on, it
sounds as if a whole city of people
were playing piccolos in concert.
The radio fan who is lucky enough
[ to listen in will not have a bit of
| trouble in recognizing the marmot
! voices even though no preliminary
announcement is made from the
broadcasting station. ,
(URL SEVERELY BURNED
PUTS KEROSENE OX I IHI
Miss Thelma Wiitanen, sister of
Mrs. Fred Lynch, of Juneau, is suf
fering with severe burns 011 her right
arm and limb and the furnishings of
the kilchen of the Lynch residence
are badly scorched by flames, fol
lowing an explosion of kerosene when
Miss Wiitanen use! the liquid, by
mistake, in starting a (Ire in the
| kitchen range at 9:30 o'clock this
morning. When the kerosene explod
' ed. it threw flames over Miss Wiita
j nen and about the room.
Miss Wiitanen dropped the con
tainer and rushed out of the house
screaming. CIarci.ce Benson, who
lives next door in the Drown apart
ments, and W. J. Thompson, hearing
1 er cries, immediately rushed to the
house. She was taken to the Benson
residence. Benson turned in the fire
I alarm and with Thompson rushed to
i the house. The windows and doors
of the kitchen were closed and so
j draft circulating the flames had
made little headway. The two men
cxiinguished the blaze before the firo
I department arrived. Besides being
I badly scorched, the furnishings were
I not injured.
I Miss Wiitanen's injuries are be
ing treated by Dr. DeVighne. Her
[condition is not serious.—Kmpirc.
I LOST—Pair bone rimmed glasses.
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