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Oldest Daily la Alaska _____ Official City Paper
Auibaited an £«cond-class mall matter as a Daily newspaper July 3,
1898, ana entered as Secutid-ciass mall matter, as a tri-weekly August 26, j
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1920, according to the postul requirements.
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ROUMMNG CP THE GRAFTERS
Great publicity does not attend the work of the war-frauds section
of the Department of Justice, but it is making effective progress lu dis
posing of (he fraudulent contracts growing out of the war. Preliminary
investigation has disclosed about 425 contracts in which either civil or
criminal suits or both should be brought. Abcut 250 of them originated
in the War Department. 70 In the Navy Department, 50 in the Shipping
Board, ar.d 30 in other war time bureaus. The total is being added to
from day to day as the investigators continue their examinations. About
150 cases are already fending in United States district courts, and about
25 may be comprom sed. "Legal action will be taken," declares Attor
ney General Daugherty. "In every case in which It has been discovered that
fraud, collusion, or dishonesty was practiced."
EUROPE'S AWFl'L BURDEN
Europe, with an area about equal to that of the United States and
possessions, is maintaining an army more than 30 times as great as out
our military establishment. Latest estimates place the total of Euro
peans under arms at 4.140,000, while the United States army number?
about 137.vOO. In the matter of population the comparison is almost
as striking France, with a population about a third that of the United
States, has an army about seven times the size of ours. Greece, with or.e
seventh the population of this country, has an army more than twice as
large. Italy's population Is one-third that of the Vnited States, but her
army is 60 per cent, larger. In other allied countries the disproportion
is almost equally as great.
The excuse given by France and others for the maintenance of tnnse
huge forces is that threatening danger from the Central Empires, but
we find that Germany. Austria, and Bulgaria together have only 180.00t
nen under arms. Apparently the real reason for the big allied armies
l« not fear of their former enemies, but Jealousies among the allied gov
ernments themselves. The swollen military establishments of Europe,
and the state of mind that tolerates them, are the real difficulties in the
way of European rehabilitation, trie payment of Europe's debt to the
United States, and the refusal of this country to become more intimately
associated in Old World affairs.
Jl lJGK LAXDIS, WILL HAYS AND AGISTIS THOMAS
Will the Newspaper Men Kver Neetl u "Supreme Dictator?"
A few years ago there were signs of waning public interest in big leanue
baseball. Various reaaous for this were offered by different people. Tho
war. golf, dishonest players, big cities "buying penrants" by paying fab
ulous prices for star players; these and other causes were blamed for the
growing apathy toward the national game.
Club owners and managers could not agree. Finally Judge Landis
a Federal Judge, was employed by the major league club owners to be
come high commissioner of organised baseball. He was given final and
unquestioned authority to decide all questions that arose between base
ball rival clubs, and he seems to have the power to enforce his decisions.
Next, the moving picture companies concluded that tney needed a
dictator. If one wise man in complete authority could make baseball
honest and popular, the Juovle men wanted somebody to do similar things
for their industry.
Their choice fell not upon a Federal Judge, but upon a member o(
the President's Cabinet. Mr. Will Hays was induced to resign the high
cfflce of Postmaster General and devote hia splendid energies and talents
to Improvement of the moving picture business.
Now a third industry has palled for a Moses. The legitimate theatei
has been having troubles. Ticket speculation, prurient plays, the Im
minence of a censorship and other problems have been bothering thi
theatrical producers.
These men did not go into the Judiciary of the Cabinet to find their
chief. They selected Mr. Augustus Thomas, a playwright of distinction
and the author of one ot the most charming and readable autobiographie
of a decade.
Mr. Thomas will, undertake to do for the producers what Judge Lan
dis is doing for baseball and Mr. Hays for the Cinema.
Baseball, movies and theaters all needing a czar—a supreme boss on
a handsome salary—to do what?
Before we answer thai question we want to ask another.
Do you notice any striking similarity among these three types of in
dustries?
They are box office businesses.
They are all selling amusement and all selling It to the public, and
all selling It through a little box office.
The public, to these industries, is not a group of men and women with
Joys and sorrows, likes and dislikes. To them the public is a queue in
line before a barred window, waiting to push over money to a hired cashier
in exchange tor *Ups of paper that read. "Admit one.'
To managers of this kind of business, actual contact with the people
Is limited to "checking up the gate" or "counting the house.' ' '
The biggest tiling these dictators can do for the industries they direct
is to discover the public and-make their employers acquainted with the hu
man side ot the folks who buy their tickets.
A crowd acts differently, from the Individuals who compose It. Very
few men act the way a typical baseball fan Is supposed to act, but a crowd
fr— — •
>f baseball fans nets exactly the way a crowd .of baseball fans Is supposed
o act. It is the difference between individual action and mass action.
An audience will roar with laughter, but the individuals do not roar.
They titter or chuckle, or perhaps haw-,aaw.
When a crowd disperses it is gone. it has ceased to exist. But the
Individuals who compose It have not ceased to exist. Back in their homes
these men and women and boys und girls iliiuk uot as part or a crowd, but
is separate individuals.
Ti.ey may have doubts about baseball. They may suspect that after
all that movie was pretty cheap entertainment. They may regret that they
paid so uiuch for those orchestra .seats. And this doubt or suspicion or
regret is not audible as cheers or laughter or applause are audible. So
tlere is a groat surprise-when business suddenly gets bad or unexpected sup
port develops for legislation unfriendly to the industry, or a uew amuse
ment takes followers away from tho old.
.Most newspapers know this. They know that what.their public wants
is not necessarily what the public is patiently paying for.
Unlike the city publisher, the country publisher knows even more. He
knows his readers not in the mass, but as individuals. They pass In re
view before him every day. Most of his readers he knows by their names
He talks to them. He needs no Judge Landis to tell him what is wroni;
with his business.
In the same way. Western Newspaper Union knows the publishers II
serves. We may not know them all as Bill and Harry, but we know them
and they know us. We see their papers and they see our service. We know
when they are making a better paper and they know when we are offerinj
a better service.
It is when we se"b the frantic gestures of Industries that serve greai
; 11 asses of people and yet are out of touch with them, that we can be thank
iul that with all the problems in your business and our business, here a:
least is one that does not vex us.—Publishers Auxiliary.
ALASKA LETTER
Seattle, Nov. 11. — (By Mall).—
The steamship Victoria arrived in
Seattle November 6, being the lasi
boat from Nome this season. bring
ing half a million dollars worth of
gold. 300 passengers and a good ear
go of reindeer meat and minerals.
Passengers coming out for the win
ter report mining operations on the.
Seward Peninsula in better shape
than for years. The treasure ship
ment has nearly half the amount of
gold mined during the 1922 season
in the Seward Peninsula, as the total
production of the district this year
was close to $1,000,000. The metal
was all shippeed from Nome.
H. R. Edwards, manager of the
Hammon Consolidated Gold Fields
Company, which has been operating
two large dredges at Nome, and
Louis Steveuson, superintendent of
the hydraulic operations of the com
pany. arrived on the Victoria. In the
1 purchase last August of the Nome
aold.ngs of the Pioueer Mining com
pany, the Hamuion corporation took
over thousands of acres of ground
in the vicinity of Anvil Creek, the
monetary consideration for wiiich Is
said to have beeu moro than $2,000.
00.
j Representatives ol the Alaska Gov
ernment railway and tne Alaska and
j Pacific Steamship Companies are
working out plnns for a larger tour
ist travel to the northern territory
next year. The steamship company
has recently awarded a contract for
a new million dollar steamship for
the Alaska service, which will give
accomodations to at least a thous
and additional Alaskan tourists next
•season. The company will maintain
a sailing to Seward vta ports, every
seven days and additional sleeping
cars will be ready on the road. An
U'ffort is also being made by the
I -ueatnship companies to lengthen the
;ourist season one month.
A feature of the annual meeting
I of the members of the Washington
I State Press Association, at the State
University in Seattle, January 20.
will be a dinner composed entirely
jf Alaskan products. Governor Hart
of this state will be present and
Governor Scott C. Bone of Alaska,
land newspaper men of the territory
I and adjoining states will be invited.
Practically all sections of Alaska
ave been callcd upon to furnish
food products Tor the dinner, and
the menus will be printed on paper
from the paper company at Speel
River.
Seattle is to be decorated in uniqe
style for the Christmas shopping
season. The entire business dis
trict will be festooned with ever
greens and trees December 1, and
decorative features will make Seat
tle the most distinctive Xmas city
>n the coast. Retail business is us^
ually good in Seattle and several of
the largest stores reported the best
October business in history. 'Return
of Canadian money to par and re
moval of exchange has brought many;
Canadians here to buy.
SCOTCH THRIFT
In a talk on thrift a banker told a
story about a Scotch farmer, who, on
frequent shopping trips in town,
would hitch bis forse on Alain street,
and having securely attached the
feed bag would lift a hen from the
wagon aiid tie her with a stout cord
to one of the shafts, in such a man
ner that she would be able to pick
up every bit of the oats the horse
might drop while wrestling with the
feed bag.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE COURT OF THE COMMIS
SIONER FOR THE TERRITORY
OF ALASKA. DIVISION NU.MBEF
ONE, SITTING IN PROBATE If
SKAGWAY PRECINCT, BEFOR1
HON. JOSEPH J. F. WARD, COM
MISSIONER AND EX-OFFICK
JUDGE.
In the matter of the estate of Georgi
W. Dillon, Deceased,
Notice Is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the ea
tate of GEORGE W. DILLON. De
ceased, to the croditors of, and al
persons having claims against sail
deceased, or against the estate o
said deceased, to prepare and pre
sent them with the necessary vouch
ers, within the time required b
law, to the undersigned at his resi
dence In the Town of Skagway, Al
aska.
GENE. SMITH
Administrator of the estate o
George W. Dillon, Deceased.
First publication, Nov. 14, 1922.
Final publication, Dec. 12, 1922.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOl
V. 8. Land Offic e at
Juneau, Alaska, Nov. 6, 1922
NOTICE is hereby given tha
James Hippolyte doBlondeau, o
Haines, Alaska, who, on October 26
1922.. made Homestead Entry, Nc
04597, for E%NWU. N%NE%,lot
2. 3, 4 and 5, Section 2S, Townshi
30 South, Range 39 East, Coppe
River Meridian, baa filed notice o
intention to make three year Prool
to establish claim to the land abov
described, before R. M. Odell, notar
public, at Haines. Alaska, on th
16th day of December, 1922.
Claimant names as witnesses:
George H. Hlnchman, of Haines, A1
aska.
J. H. Chisel, of Haines, Alaska.
Ed. Adama, of Haines, Alaska.
Jack Rath, of Haines, Alaska.
FRANK A. BOYLE,
Registei
First Publication, Nov. 11, 1922.
Final Publication, Dec. 5. 1922.
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CITATION
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR|
THE TERRITORY OP ALASKA,
DIVISION NO. 1, AT HAINES BE
FORE SOL. RIPINSKY, U. S.
COMMISSIONER AND EX-OSFI
CIO PROBATE JUDGE
In the matter of the estate of
Mary A. McElravy deceased.
It appearing to this, court, by the
petition of A. F. McLean the admin
istrator of the estate of Mary A. Mc
Elravy deceased, duly presented and
filed, that it is necessary, in order to
comply with the. provisions of the
last will and testlnieut of the said
Mary A. McElravy tnat all of the real
property belonging to said estate be
sold, and applied toward the pay
ment of claims against the estate and
for distribution;
It is therefore ordered by this
court, that all persons interested in
said estate, of said deceased, to ap
pear before the said probate court,
on the 25th day of ^November, A. D.
1922, at the hour of two o'clock In
tie afternoon of sa.d day, at the
court room of the said court in the
j town of Haines, Alaska, and show
I cause if any exists why an order
1 should not be granted to said admin
istrator, to sell Lots, four (4), ten
(10), and eleven (11), in block nine
(9), of the said town of Haines be
longing to said estate.
It is further ordered, that this ci
1; tation be published in the Dally Al
> askan, once a week for four (4) con
1 secutive weekn, and that copies be
' posted in three ot the most public
I places in Haines Precinct.
I Dated this 23rd day of October,
. 1922.
SOL RIPINSKY
: IU. S. Commissioner and Ex-oiflcio
rj Probate Judge.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
»
D. 8. Land Office at
Juneau, Alaska, Sept. 18, 1922.
NOTICE ia hereby given that John
William Combs, ot Haines, Alaska,
who, on Sept. 18, 1922, made home
stead entry, No 05302, for lot 4, see
I tion 26 and lOt 5, flection 27, Town
ship 30 S., Range 6J E., Copper Riv
er Meridian, has f«ied notice of In
tention to make taree year final
I'roof, to establish claim to the land
above described, Lefore John J.
Schlitz, Notary public at Delano, Cal
ifornia; and testimony of witnesses
before R. M. Odell, at Haines, Alas
ka, on the 4th da? of November,
1922.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Carl Bjornstad, of Haines, Alaska.
H. 0. Banta, of Haines, Alaska.
E. D. Wood, of Haines, Alaska.
Erik Oslund, of Haines, Alaska.
FRANK A. BOYLE,
Register
| First Publication, Sept. 21, 1922.
i Final Publication, Nov. 18, 1922.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U. S. Land Office at
Juneau, Alaska, Sept. 18, 1922.
NOTICE is hereby givon that Mae
Ragan, widow of Stephen Ragan, de
ceased, of Haines, Alaska, who, on
September. 18, 1922, made home
siead entry, No. 05505, for NW%
NWU and lot 1 section 28; NEU
NE% and lot 5, Section 29, Town
ship 30 S, Range 59 E, Copper Riv
er Meridian, has filed notice of In
teutiou to make Uiree year final
I'roof, to establish claim to the land
above described, berore R. M. Odell,
at Haines, Alaska, on the 4th day of
November, 1922.
Claimant names \s Witnesses:
Ida Mae Vogel, of Iiaines, Alaska.
Elizabeth Barneiie, of Haines, Alas
ka.
[ J. J. Rath, of Haines, Alaska.
| N. G. Hanson, of Haines, Alaska.
FRANK A. BOYLE
Register.
[ First Publication, Sept. 21, 1922.
Final Publication, Nov. 18. 1922.
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meets every second and
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ing brothers cordi&ily welcome.
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Visiting brothers cor>
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