ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE'
JOHN W. TROY - ' EDITOR AND MANAGER
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2IRCHX,ATION OITARANTEEP TO RE MORE THAN
DOUBLE THAT OF ANY OTHER AIASkn "'TVSPAPEK.
POSTPONE PRIMARY ELECTION DATE.
Beforce it adjourns the legislature should amend
the primary election law.. It should change the
primary date from April to August or September. As
the law now stands candidaets for the various offices
must file their declarations of candidacies in Febru
ary, more than nine months before the election and
more than a year before the meeting of the l.egisia
turo, in which those who are eventually chosen to
tit, meets. This long campaign, followed by four
months of preparation for the meeting of the Leg
islature and then a sixty days’ session make polities
an almost continuous performance in Alaska. It is
disturbing to business and unfair lo the people. The
date for the meeting of the Legislature really should
tie advaneed six weeks or more, but probably the
Legislature would not have authority to make that
change. At any rate the people should bo permitted
to look forward alter the adjournment of the Legis
lature to a year or more of surcease from politics.
Further, people cannot he induced to take a great
interest in Lite personnel of tho next Legislature more
than a year before it. meets. Men who would make
drsirahle members do not always know in Feruary,
the date they have to file their declarations of can
didacies, whether or not they would want to serve
in the Legislature a year from the following spring.
The result is the situation is too often left in the
hands of professional politicians- those who think
tit I work politics all the time.
If the primary election wore held about the first
c September and the declaration:; of candidacies j
inquired to be filed thirty days or six weeks before
that time There would he general interest in the
mutter and it would often, no doubt, result in people
being able lo draft men to stand for the election
rather than to leave the road almost wholly in the
poc'M'iion of office-seekers and politicians.
Such an amendment would make it necessary, of
course, for the parties to select their delegates to the
National Conventions in Territorial conventions,
but they could still solect their National Committee-'
man at the primary eelction. It would he an im-j
provemrnt to choose the delegates In a convention)
anyhow, for there are so many people who cannot
know In February whether or not It will he
possible to attend a National Convention in the
June or July following. If a convention could be
held two or three weeks in advance of the National
Convention it would bo a different matter.
A convention would also serve the purpose of
permitting political parties to reorganize now and
again. The party organizations in Alaska that now
exiEt, or so nluclli of the organizations as do exist,
save the National Committeemen, were formed in
1H16, seven years ago. The Chairman of the Demo
cratic Territorial Committee, the late William T.
Burse, has bean dead for sometime, and the last
heard of the last Chairman or the Republican Ter
ritorial Committee, Oeorge Irving, lie was in Chicago.
The political parties should organize their central
committees and adopt platforms at least once every
four years.
Register now and have it over with. Procrastina
tion sometime.; results in failure.
FOUR CIVIL SERVICE LAWS PASSED BY i
CONGRESS.
Four bills affecting the Federal Civil Service and!
Its) hundreds of thousands of employees all over the,
t'nited State- were passed during the last 24 hours I
cf the expiring Congress. The reclassification bill,
providing -a new employment policy for the Govern
ment and new salary schedules throughout the Civil!
Service, has been the goal of a four-years’ campaign I
by the National Federation of Federal Kinployees. i
A bill continuing the present $240 so-called bonus
until the reclartifiration becomes operative, and a;
customs service measure which removes the statutory!
limit of $840 for customs laborers were adopted usi
measure of immediate relief for the lower-paid em-t
pleyces The fourth hill was emergency legislation I
continuing compensation awards of the United Statesi'
Compensation Committee in cases where Government
employees are ill or have died of disease incurred by I
riaton or their employment. Tills legislation was]
made necessary b> a ruling of Comptroller General '
AleCarl. who refu d payment in all cases not due
to accident in the narrowest sense of the term.
The recla-attention liill is regarded as the most'1
Important piece or civil service legislation since the
original Civil Service Act. It writes into law prin
ciples. and definition de igned to set up a genuine
merit system cf appointment, promotion and dismls- i
eal. Salary rates are revi-ed on the has!.; «f o<|ual pay !
for equal work, instead of the inconsistent, unequal,
hlt-or-miss wage scale thut has prevailed. The now
rates absorb the current "bonus" of 1240 a year, 1
anti in mo. Instances afford an increase besides, more 1
nearly proportionate to the cost of living and the
scale in private indurtry. A central classifying agency j
is created, to coordinate salary scales and establish (
oi" revise the efficiency ratings upon which salaries
depend
..Thu uevy salary schedules will become operative c
July 1, 1!»24. Meantime a complete purvey or the
Held services will be made, and all employees will
be allocated to their appropriate grade in time for
approval hy Congress at its next session.
BIRTH RATE DECLINES.
The Department of Commerce has compiled the
birth rate figures in the United States for the first
nine months of 1922 and issued a circular com
paring them with those for the same period of the
previous year. The compilation shotvs a decline in
the 29 States making returns from 25 per 1,000 in
habitants in 1 !• 21 to 22.8 in 1922. They also show,
as in previous years, the blrtji rate Is higher In the
South t'han the North. There are only five Southern
States reporting and they take five of Olio first six
places in the table. North Carolina leads all the
States with 20, Virginia comes second with 27.7;
South Carolina third with 26.5; Wyoming fourth
with 26.1; Maryland fifth with 25.7, and Kentucky
sixth with 25.5. Washington shows the lowest rate
with 18.3. .Montana with 18.7 'is next above Wash
ington, and California with 20 Is third from the
bottom.
South America represents the next
frontier, as Africa will present the last
frontier. -tSkagway Alaskan.)
Not necessarily the last. When Africa is con
quered it will he time to start all over again in Mon
golia, Central Asia, the cradle of races, long since
reclaimed by superstition and the wilderness.
That practoially all of the Alaska canneries will
he operated this year is now indicated. That means
that business will be good along the Alaska coast
—if the salmon run is large.
Lsurpinjr Government.
(Seattle T’ost-Intelligencer.)
The l)ill lo control Ku Klux Klan and like secret
and menacing activities within the State is sticking
an unconscionably long time in committee.
'Legislators should not be timid or politically
afraid of asserting the right of the State to compel
and impose public order and adhesion to lawful
civilized usages.
There is one, and one only, fountain head of
public regulation, and that is the government, created
and direeled by all of the people.
Interference with this authorized power on the
part of classes organized for selfish purposes is an
insufferable intrusion. No citizen whose opinion and
influence are worth retaining will object to eon
stituted authority Insisting upon its constitutional
rights.
One of flic things that make the United States
secure, responsible and grout among nations is the
unquestioned stability and authority of its govern
ment, and the respect for that authority Inculcated
in the people.
It is obvious that If this nation, or any of its
States, permit tiie alienation of governmental pohver
to groups of clatses it would ultimately mean the
loss of respect for law, and the distintegration of
this republic.
Ambassador Crowder.
(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
General Crowder, as Ambassador to Cuba, should
be regarded a3 an eminently valuable representative
of this country to the developing new republic which
owes it sautonomy and present security ot the friend
ly offices and protective policy of the United Stutys.
.First under President Wilson, then under Presi
dent Harding, General Crowder demonstrated his
peculiar lltness for the honor of the new dignity
which is to be his.
As adviser to the Cuban Government regarding
its finances, he acquitted himself to the fullest sat
isfaction of this Government, and that ho is most
highly regarded by the Cuban Government and peo
ple is evident. He knows the people of the Island.
Ho has been a safe and constructive leader. it is
a tribute to his ability that he has won their friend
ship for tho United States and its people in no small
degree. Suspicion and prejudice have been wiped
iway. Cuba now understands us. This understand
ing is no unimportant factor in the developing rela
tions between this Government and the republics of
Central and South America, which, soon, it is hoped
uui believed, shall crystulize into a momentous unity
next month, at Santiago, Chile, during the sessions
jf the great Pan-American Congress.
Millionaire’s Playground.
(Sitka Tribune.)
Dr. J. H. Condit of the Sheldon Jackson School
.udieves Stika has a wonderful setting for attracting
ourists. He says if capital were forthcoming to
mild a log-cabin inn, with broad fireplaces, fronting
.lie bay or most any of the nearby islands or abat
ing peninsulas, and advertised, it would be a great
iltractlon to tourists. That is true. And as before
•emarked by The Tribune, Sitka is a veritable Mill
ionaires’ playground. Someday it will be discovered
t has health-giving mineral hot-springs, wonderful
jays and inlets to be explored, fishing, hunting and
and and water sports not to be excelled in any part
>f the world, lit alone a historic background which
•caches back into the civilization of the old world and
lever lias been recorded. 'Whether it be health,
tports, research work, geology, ethnology or just
[ileasuring, no other spot offers greater opportuni
ties. Someday millionaires will be alighting here
from their flying machines for a week end at their
summer homes.
If Prsldent Harding saved Congress from file lia
bility of ffie Bursum pension bill, Congress paid flic
debt by saving him from the liability of eh ip 8ub
ddy. it is the fashion to rail against checks and
talances, but sometlimes it looks as if the framers of
ho Constitution were uncommonly well informed
rogardltvg the practical working of democratic gov
ernment.-—.(New York Post.)
Whatever nriy be tlio matter with the League
if Nations it hasn’t grown stale from overwork._
Toledo Blade.)
Red Russia promises to aid the American Relief
VsBociation, possibly because red Russia likes to eat
tecasionaliy.—(Chicago News.)
Utah is now engaged in a vigorous effort to
tnforce its anti-smoking law. Doesn’t the prohibi
ion law make trouble enough? — (Detroit Free
’rcss.)
Sterling exchange is going higher, and German
narks, of course, can’t go any lower.—(Indianapolis
sews.)
Another reason the Turks are so calm in the
ireser.ee of crises is because they’re used to them._
Dallas Nows.)
Cents or 1922, when the mint coined only a few
undrod, are in demand. Also, it may bo remarked,
ents of any kind.—(Boston Transcript.)
America now has celebrated almost everything
xcept Dry Week.-—(Indianapolis Star.)
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ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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Ever Notice It?
In Miis old world you'll find
A Idt of honest fellows
Who think ft Is no crime
To wallk off with umbrellas.
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
What ihas become of the old-fash
ioned folks who thought matches
wore made Uu Hoaven?
The Ananias Club
"N"o;" admitted 'a grocer to us yes
terday, ‘'these eggs marked fresh
are not, but lva/ve been in cold storage
a couido of years."
Reached His Limit
"I'm gonna quit my job," declared
the printer as -ho sitiwtod to take off
his old, ink-stained apron.
"Whassmattdr now!” exclaimed the
discouraged editor.
"Well, I stood for all those heathen
ish Russians, Pdiirih and Other foreign
names, but if they are gonna begin
to dig up a lot Of old Egyptians with
names like Tutankhamen, dern if I’m
gonna stand (for «t. I newer did have
any hankering to <be parked in the
bug house.”
Fool Questions
W. E. asks: “What do they mean
by 'sailing short?’ ” Ask the coal
man, grocer or the filling station
man. We don't know anything about
finances. ”
A Thrifty Sou!
minks'—Jones says he makes a lit
tle money go a long ways.
Jinks—Yes, I hoard tie only gave
a quarter for the missions in Africa.
Is This Vyhy Congress Wanted To
Reduce the Army?
'Because fat mien made too con
spicuous targets an order has ibeen
1stue.i In the United States army that
all officers must reduce excess cor
pulency.—News Horn
Have a Heart, Oh, Mothers
Moyt mothers »po ! their boys, bat
wives are so much more sensible
than mothers.—tSaim Hill.
.Many a mother has spalled her boy
to the extent of disqualifying him
lor a husband.—J. 11. Heed.
If It Fits—
A silk hat doesn’t make a man a
| statesman, but a pair of silk stoc k
rings will make him stare.
Walking just (for a living isn’t so
I bad, 'but tibe reason most of us are
| such nervous wrecks is because we
are working tor a high living.
What we cant understand is why,1
since the ladies now hiavo had the
( verto for several years and the coun-j
| try prohibition ditto, tho world
doesn’t seem to be getting much bet
j tor.
Wo suppose the reason yon never
j sec a married man aliasing around in
l these bell-bottom trousers is because
his wife is always such a horrible
example of ihow freakish people
look who sport t '♦» very latest styles,
he hasn't the heart to put thcon on.
No young girl who isn’t blessed
with an unusual tdegree of patience
should* marry « rich old duffer for
his money, because those old birds
have 'a way of hanging on till the
cows Come homo.
it Is funny, but have you ever no
ticed tho more airs some people put
on tiho colder they seom to grow.
Wo always find it easy enough to
look on tiio 'bright side of tho other'
follow’s troubles.
After giving r.~,t some wives have
to call the r liege lords the once
over wc cant help but be surprisol
that more of them have decided to
become self-made widows.
When you ihoar of a woman boast
ing of her perfect 36 you always
know she is referring to her figure,
and not her age. There ain't no per
feet 36 in ages.
It must grieve the modern child
not ho Ob able to take his parents
over his knees and give 'em what
would be good for thenn.
Nobody over can seem so far away
in times of trouble as our
relatives.
AVo suppose tho '.society reporter
could, if she wanted to. be truthful
In describing one of these “quiet
weddings" by adding “except for the
loud weeping and wailing done bv
'the mother of tho bride and the
mother of the gToom over the way
they were marrying beneath them."
No man is a hero to his valet, but
since n!r»t many men have a valet’
JUNEAU BILLIARD
PARLORS
NEW AND COMPLETE LINE 01 I
CANDIES
Have you tried our new Hot
DrinkiT
We make our own Ice Cream.
We Deliver Phone 94
BEST EVER
MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
Now offers additional attractiv
Disability Benefit feature*
NONE OTHER SO LIBERAL.
ALLEN SHATTUCK
INSURANCE SEAL ESTATE
ESTABLISHED 1898
anyway we Riles* it would bo better 1
to say no man Is any more ot a hero
bo his stenographer than he is to his .
wife.
Daily Sentence Sermon
When you can't get along with
people 'it Is a pretty good sign that
they can get along without you.
News of the Names Club
I. M. Nye . * ro: i.rtcd from Detroit.
What'll we do about him? *
Here's one gleaned 'from the mar- .
rlage license column of a Michigan
paper: A. Wave Savage. The par
ents must 'a been savage to hang a
name like that on him.
Juntos A. Foote, of Ol.naha, also has
tiwM of them. I
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IN SNOW, 15 BELOW
WITH BROKEN LEG
IIUTTE, Mont.. March 20.—
Spending .".fi hours In the open j
with the thermometer hovering be
tween ten and fifteen degrees below |
ere, with a broken leg and, later,
one frozen and one badly frosted
fort, to cay nothing of the prospect
which faced bint continually of
freezing to death, was the exper
ience of Jens B. Jensen, 3 1. a
rancher of the Medicine Dodge Val
ley, about 50 miles southwest of
here. I
After Mr. Jensen Jinally succeed- '
ed In reaching the nearest inhabi- |
(ants, some sheopberders about ten
miles distant at Armstead, he was
taken to Dillon in a truck and from
there by train to this city. He is
being treated at a local hospital
Where-it is thought it will be neces- |
vary to amputate all of (he toes and "
possibly the leg. I
While chasing horses liis own
mount stepped into a ditch covered
with drifted snow and went down.
The rider was dragged several rods!
before he finally freed his foot from
the stirrup. The horse, frightened,
departed and left Mr Jensen lying!
in. the snow, his leg broken in sev- I
eral places. j
Headaunrters for Ladysmith coal.
Juneau Transfer Co. Phone 48. adv
National Forest Timber for 1
Sale. ; ‘
Scaled bids will bo received by the]
Forest Supervisor, Ketchikan. Al
aska, up to and including April 10,
19211, for ail of the merchantable
live timber designated for eating
on an area of 20 acres located on a
lagoon near False Point Pybua near
Gambier Bay, Admiralty Island, Ton- |
• ears National Forest, Alaska, csli-1 .
I mated to contain 50.000 linear feet]1
I of piling. No bid of less than lc
| per linear foot for all piling up to
and including 95 feet in length and j
1 V6c for all piling greater than 95 j
I feet in length will be considered. De
posit with bid $3 75.00. The right]
to reject any. and all bids is re
served. Before bids are submitted
full information concerning the tim- *
her, tlte conditions of sale, and the *
submission of bids should be obtain
ed from the District Forester, Ju
neau, Alaska, or the Forest Super
visor, Ketchikan, Alaska.
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Special $1.00 per box
GI0VANETTTS STORE |
I Corner Calhoun and Dixon In. t
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|ARCADE CAFE
I MARY Y0U8O, Proprietor.
Chinese
Noodles after
and parties.
theatre
I RITTER S TRANSFER |
I COAL, KINDLING. BAGGAGE, I
I HAULING. f
Office Phone 292. I
Residence Phone 279)4.
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I. S. MAKINO
Front Street
I F. 0. Box 218 for Mail Order*
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BRIQUETS
Ideal
fuel for
every
purpose
large (took* on hand
Ladynnitk coal.
Nanaimo oo#\
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
Fkono 411.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr*. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bid*.
PHONE 00
Hours 9 a. m. tc 9 n. m.
Dr. Charles P. Jenna
DENTIST
Rooms S and 9 Valentins Bldg.
Telephone 176,
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Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104} nee. log.
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Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Re*. Phone 276
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
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Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Sanitarium
Rates 13.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
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GEO. L. BARTON. D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Messerschmidt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 5;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phono 259.
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
437 Goldstein Building
| Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to 5;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
Phones: Office, 167; res., 1672.
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All Alaskan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
First Ave. and Pine St., Seattle
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
erything. J. A. Farnhaci and
Ted Taylor, Props.
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HOTELSEATTLE J
“Home of Alaskans”
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
R. Li. HODGnON, Manager
It’s all in knowing HOW to do
first-class cleanfng ar.d dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
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THE MAKING OF CONCRETE
is a matter of proper materials
together with engineering skill.
Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Years
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MKO.
COMPANY
Willoughby Ave. Phone 32.
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fraternal Societies
-or
Gastineau Channel
0 . X 1 K S
MmUe; Wednesday
Evenings at 8:00
o’clock, Elks' Hall.
ARTHUR B. COLB,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freemasonry
Scottish Site
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7: SO p. m, Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HEISBL, Secretary.
I. o. o. w.
BILVHJR BOW
LODOH NO. t A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. It.,
Odd FellowB’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand;
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
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PERSEVERANCE REBXKA1
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every flrst and third
Tuesdays In I. O. O. P. Hall, at
8 P.M. FRANCES GUSTAFSON,
N. G. ALPHONSINB CARTER,
Secretary.
!MOUNT JUNEAU LOOSE
No. 147, F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Mondays
I of each Month, in Odd Felicia
1 Mall, beginning at 7:J» o'clock.
Homer G. Nordling, Mastor.
('has. E. Nagtiel. Secretary.
in jjk
~A
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tues
days of each month.
At g o'clock. I. O. O. F. HalL
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
SBOHBRS COUNCIL No
17 ‘0. Meetings seeoad
and last Mondays at 7:M
^ K p. m. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chambers
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, Q. K.
J. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4,
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at ■ |. h.
Elks’ ~J>odge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; G. B.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 198.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meet* every Friday
night, 8 o'clock.
Moose Hall. Thos.
B. Judeon, Dictator] R. H. Btavana,
Secretary.
WOMEN OF M00SEHEART
LEGION
Juneau Chapter No. 439
Meeting second and fourth
Tuesday of each month, 8
o'clock. Moose Hall. Mrs. C. W.
Render, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
AUXILIARY, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
Meets last Thursday of every
month. Social hour with mem
bers of Pioneer I>odge to fol
low each meeting.
Mrs. Lottie Splckett, President.
Mrs. Lillie Burford, Secretary.
BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE SUCCESS AND
PROSPERITY OF THE TERRITORY.
The sixth session of the Territorial Legislature is now
laying the foundation of the success of the Territory.
By prudent and broad statesmanship it will have an
important influence on the future prosperity and hap
piness of our people.
Your financial success also depends upon a good foun
dation. Wasteful experiments and speculations must
be avoided. By careful husbanding and saving of your
earnings you will build the broad foundation of a
future competence and success. In preparing for the
future we invite you to open an account in our Sav
ings Department. Accounts of one dollar or more may
be opened and you may add to your account at any
time in any amount.
The B. M. Behrends Bank
JUHEAIF| ALASKA! j > R