ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
JOHN W. TROY - ' 2DIT0R AND MANAGER
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WHY MAKE AN ISSUE OF SEX?
It has beeH suggested that It might be
a good idea to elect one or two women
mtinbers of the next City Council at the com
ing municipal election.—(Cordova Times.)
Why wouldn’t it tie a good plan to elect the best
available material you have to the Council regardless
of rex or occupation or anything else? Why intro
duce the bloc system in municipal government? And
why attempt to make sex a basis for blocs?
Ih selecting municipal Council men or members of
a School Board or members of Congress or those for
any office it ought to be a question of getting the very
beEt public service possible. There is no reason why
rex should lie involved in the matter at all. If a
woman can be induced to accept a public office who
would serve the people better thru any man who
could he induced to : ccept the office could or would
nerve, then the woman should be chosen. If it is
tlie other way about, the man Should be chosen.
It is the justice of the conclusion that women are
entitled to equal standing with men in public matters
that brought about woman suffrage, and to do that
Is the purpose of woman suffrage legislation. The
legislation is not in fact or spirit a treaty between
different peoples calling for representation of those
with conflicting tutored?. it is simply legislation
ito establish equality—fo put men and women on the
Mine footing. And that is where they are. Tliry
have the same interests exactly. Why subtsltute sex
blocs for this desireable situation?
JUNEAU AND THE “FIFTH DIVISION.”
The Seward Gateway rays First Division politics
are 'manipulated" from Seattle. That is far from
correct. There is probably no section of Alaska over
which Seattle has less influence than Juneau and the
First Division. People in ALnska have for years re
ferred to Seattle as the "Fifth Division." Those
who are responsible for that statement are probably
familiar with the people living in Seattle who are
most active in Alaska political matters. Can they
mention more than a single one who formerly resided
in Juneau or the Pin t JJivieion? The fact is that Ju
neau from the beginning has depended loss for
political idea, on Seattle, probably, titan any other
important town in the Territory.
THE MAKERS OF THE CONSTITUTION.
"Washington and Jefferson knew what
they were doing when they framed' the Con
stitution," says Representative Tillman of
Connecticut. Is litis an attack on the his
torians of the Constitution? Jefferson was in
France when the Constitution was framed.—
(Ketchikan Chronicle.)
Yc3, but Jefferson, more than any one else, was
responsible for the first ten amendments, the so
called “Virginia Bill of Rights," often called the "soul
of the Constitution."
Madison, probably more than anyone else, is the
author of the Constitution as it was adopted. Apple
ton's Encyclopedia of American Biography callH hint
the "Fattier of the Constitution." Of course, Dickin
son of Delaware and Wilson of Pennsylvania and
others were very large contributors.
Hamilton and .Madison we're the leaders in the
battle to secure it ratification by the separate States
oiler its adoption by the Constitutional Convention.
It is time the voters of Juneau began thinking
of preparedne s for the municipal election next month.
The first step toward preparedness in this case is to
register. Th • registration books are now open. Only
those men end women who are registered cart vote.
“MOLLY MAKEHELIEVE” UP-TO-J)ATE.
Scientists arc writing a lot these days about minds
that never mature. It is set forth that a very large
percentage of the people of ripe years possess minds
that belong to the youth)ul period of life. A con
siderable percentage, it is contended. do not
develop beyond the 14-year-old stage, and some re
main permanently at an even earlier age than that.
One does not have to draw unduly on the Imagin
ation to roe the Terrible Han on a stick horse, with
drawn tin sword, charging up and down a dusty curb
Piaylng Makobelieve-Teddy-Koosevelt — and such a
conception of tjlc indomitable Colonel!
“PINAFORE” PERKINS WAS RIG MAN IN
HIS DAY.
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When former Senator George C. Perkins, of Cali
fornia, died last week there ended the career of one
who in his day was the most influential politician on!
the Pacific Coast. '‘Pinafore" Perkins, he was dubbed !
when he first went to Washington, and ho carried the!
name throughout his active political life. The title j
of a popular marine opera was give him. on account
of his connection with the re a, of course. He begun
life as a sailor and had been ail over the world when
the ship of which he was one of the crew dropped
Into San Francisco Bay in 1855. lie became a mer
chant, miller, miner and banker. But he could not
i&y a way from the sea and be became a partner of
the shipping firm of Goodall, Perkins and Company.
For many years the firm operated the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company of wlilgh it was the principal
owner. It also Introduced steam whaling in the
Arctic, it was the loading shipping firm on the Pacific
for muny years, operating vessels everywhere from
Alaska to Panama.
“Pinafore” Perkins entered politics in the late
'60s and became Governor of California in the late
'70s. serving four years. In 1893 he became United
States Senator, where he continued for 22 years before
his retirement in 1915. He was in his 84th year when
ho passed away.
What is said to be the largest single day's banking
transactions in any bank in the history of tlie world
occnred one day recently w'hen the cash turn overs
oi the National City Bank of New York exceeded
$300,000,000. Of this amount $173,000,000 received
was payment for bond3 of the Anaconda Copper
Company.
No matter what we may think of the wisdom of
the French invasion of the Ruhr, the French army
went into Germany in accordance with the treaty
of Versailles that both countries signed while Ger
many had to scrap treaties to send her awny into
Belgium.
The courts have begun work on tlie Ku Klux Klan
in several parts of the United States. May they, like
the mills of the gods, grind exceeding fine!
Mrs. John A. Logan.
(New York. World.)
. The death of Mrs. John A. Logan removes a notable
feminine figure in American political and social life
of the period Including and subsequent to the Civil
War. The wife of a distinguished Union General,
she was herself a valiant r.oldicr in the war in all but
actual army service. She materially influenced Union
sentiment in Southern Illinois at a critical time, in
spired her husband's devotion to the Northern cause
and in his later career as Senator and candidate for
the Vice Presidency was his competent adviser. Her
labors to promote the welfare of veterans and to
advance the interests cf the Grand Army of the Re
public were untiring. To Mrs. Logan the country,
among other things, owes the observance cf Memorial
Day.
Mrs, Logan in her later life gained a certain repute
as author and editor. But her peculiar distinction
was due to her leng and ardent devotion to the mem
ories and traditions of the Civil War. She was a
striking personage of an era preceding the development
ol feminis m along its characteristic modern lines.
Senator Hrookhart’s Hides.
(Nenv York VV'orId.)
Senator Brookhart's prophecy that Congress will
soon be controlled by the farmers' bloc, a labor bloc,
a soldier bloc and a mothers’ bloc may be a pri
vate hope of the Senator's or a public promise or
a partisan threat.
But whatever else it is, it is a prescription for
bringing our eyotem of government to a stand
still,^ It is hard enough to work a two-House Leg
islature, plus an independent Executive, plus an in
dependent judiciary, in a Federal system with two
par tie.:. Whenever the two Houses and the President
do not happen to belong to the same party tire Gov
ernment at Washington is in the doldrums. The
checks and balance produce an utmost perfect
paralysis.
But under Senator Brookhart's system no bloc
would ever have a majority. The best it could hope
lor was to hold the balance of power among tire
other blocs, and tho dhances of finding a bloc that
would at one and the same time be in control of the
Senate, House and Presidency is a problem that the
Senator might well consider. For he assumes that
these blocs have divergent interests. Otherwise they
would trot be blocs. But blocs have leaders. And
leaders have to make themselves conspicuous. Ami
therefore the only way to do business with blocs is tc
log-roll everything.
Virginia Salutes North Carolina.
(New York Post.)
The story Is told cf a man who. being asked
! where ho came from replied, "From the vale of hum
iliation. North Carolina, which lies between those twe
mountains of conceit, Virginia and South Carolina.’
There was rivalry enough between North Caroling
and each of her two neighbors to afford a basis foi
the epigram. They still contend over which of then
did more for the South in the Civil War. Nortl
Carolina has condensed ' her claims into a sentence
"First at Manassas, furtherest at Gettysburg, lust a
Appomattox.” It is somewhat surprising, therefore
to read a newspaper published In Virginia this
tribute to North Carolina: "The simple fact is tha
North Carolina la so far ahead of Virginia in almos
everything except shrines of Colonial, Revolutionary
and Civil War history that the two Stales are, as ou:
friendly enemies the English put it, not in the sami
street."
What is the reason for this disparity? Answer
ing Its own question, the Norfolk Ledger-Dispute!
explains til at North Carolina has got away from tin
old tradition that still holds Virginia in its grasp
tho traditin (that the well-to-do niuEt not be "pun
islied" by the Imposition of taxes for the advance
ment of the masses. Hence the outcry against i
bond Issue for good roads, for instance. The lat.
Walter H. Page once said that i,t was a misfor.tum
I for North Carolina that the quurrel with Georg,
i 1,1 happened to turn on the question of taxation
lit. instilled so great a dread of all taxes. But Nortl
Carolina has succeeded in overcoming her dread o
•axes to such an extent as to make Virginian,
ashamed, when we are conscious of it, of Nortl
Carolina’s infinitely superior roads, of her consid
erabiy superior schools, of her three times as grea
contribution to her State university.” This is dolm
pretty well for a State which only a few years age
was near the bottom of the list in education.
After carefully pondering unfortunate condition*
throughout tho world, we have arrived at the con
elusion that If all the wives settled down and all th<
husbands settled up everything would he all right.—
(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
We learn from an observing contemporary that a
rood deal of the Christmas jewelry already is turning
green. Luckily St. Patrick's Day is'at hand.—(Cincin
nati Enquirer.)
Bunar Law has made a remarkable discovery He
rays. "If war can't be avoided It must come."—
(Nashville Tennesseean. )
What the world Is waiting to see Is what the
Turk will dp when he runs out of ultimatums_
(Pittsburgh Post.)
That poem about the beautiful snow- probably was
not written In the winter of a coal shortage —
(Boston Transcript.)
PerhaRs Isadora Duncan has gone back to Vodka
because It has a kick equal to her own.—(Cleveland
Commercial.)
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ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
I kin rcm ember when there al
ways was a big demand fnr lightning
rr Is, baby buggies and high shoes.
How About It?
"Pa," said Clarence, “could you?"
“Could you wha'f. son?” asked his
dad.
"Call the 'bill Tor bleaching a girl’s
hair a bill of fair?’
Electric Lightning
“Poor father decided, after he has
paid for 'thorn a few tiroes, that
permanent wa/ves are almost as cost
ly as crime wan -." -Sam Hill in
Cincinnati Enquirer At any rate
they prove that 'lightning does Strike
twice, 'thrice and even more often in
the saime place.—Weimer in Charles
ton News and Courier.
Speaking of the Candy Kid!
(Birth Note in St. Louis Globe
Democrat.)
BOYIS—W. and E. Candy. 1UA
North Hamilton.
No Downward Revision There
The fashions brought skirts down,
But that's not why I'm blue;
Pm soro becatfse they failed
To lower prices, too.
Gems From Guide Book to Success
Greatness Is never measured by
volume df sound, as 'proven by the
loud talker and the tin horn.
—J. E. F.
Here’s Bumper Crop of Apples
(Pique Cor. Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
Miss E. Apple, daughter of Uriah
Apple, of Bloomer, married Alva Ap
ple, son Of William E. Apple, also of
Bloomer.
If It Fits—
However, there isn't any love that
1 is as blind as sel/flove.
The necessities most of us simply
have got to have are the luxuries our
neighbors are enjoying.
All a lot cf wives need to sweeten
their disposition is an occasional
box of candy and now and then to
be called Sweetheart again.
Although her tootsies may be like
a couple of chunks of ice in silk
ones and pumps a girl doesn't get
cold feet and don woolen hose and
! high shoes.
At that, we guoss when a man has
j an empty head h > finds It pretty
hard to “keep it under his hat.”
The girls who still wear the short
skirts probably pay more for their
silk stockings than they do fnr the
skirts—but they have tiwo very gbod
reasons for doing it.
About the only time some people
■are fast is When they are fast asleep.
A fashion writer Informs us that
i pretty clothes are conducive to good
i health, but we guess she intentional
ly omitted adding that Che bills for
i them were pretty apt to make father
| silk.
Daily Sentence Sermon
Anybody can tell fortunes, but it
i takes a devil of a 'lot of hustling
! to make one.
News of the Names Club
And hero's another one we'd like
| to see in' charge of 'the coal busi
, ness—meet Mr. Down Price, of Evans
' ville, Indiana
Daily Sentence Sermon
"Ke«p pegging away,” is another
> old-timer that has gone into the dis
card. Even the modern shoemaker
realizes he has to keep hustling and
installs modern imaohinery.
She hasn't a double one, but you
may be interested to know that Lot's
Chinn fives at Eureka, Kansas.
We learn from Georgo Bailey’s
pu.per that Pink Hill ami Frances
Flowers have Just been married at
Houston. We understand the groom
■ is tickled Pink a*t 'the Flowers he
N got.
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Discards Shoes for
Diamond Screens Now
—
j OROVIU-E, Cal., March 12.—Joe
i Davis, the village blacksmith at
! Cherokee, high in the Sierras, site
I of the famous Cherokee gold mine,
; near here, has retired to enter a new
J field, the manufacture of diamond
screfcns for prospoctors who are
gathering in this vicinity in quest
or rough diamonds- *
The rush of prospectors was pre
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Harry Thaw On Leave
to Visit Mother.
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This is thr latest plioiograph of
Harry Thaw, slayer of Stanford
I White, on Madison Square Garden
j roof, In New York City, who has I
I been temporarily released from the |
I Pennsylvania Hospital for the In- I
I sane, in Philadelphia, in order that
| he may pay a ten-day visit to his
j mother, in Pittsburgh, He will be
j escorted by a keeper.
eipitnted by the discovery of a few
diamond specimens near the Chero
kee gold mine a few months ago.
The largest of those specimens was
presented in the rough to Mrs. Wil
liam Gibbs Me Ad co while she was
j visiting here su Ihe Orange and Olije
' Show, an annual affair.
“Diamond talk is all I hear," sai l
Louis Vintin, owner of tho Cherokee
mine. "All the old prosipectors have
seemingly forgotten there is such a
deposit as gold. They're all looking
for diamonds and are all optimistic
as the ’34ers."
PAINT UP AND CLEAN UP
Juneau, March 10.
To The Editor: Every spring we
see a warding In the paper about
cleaning up. We want the city to
lock nice to- the tourists. That Is
fine, <bu't 1 <1o nnit see anything about
tho Governor's mansion or the Gov
ernor’s office. Now. as the writer of
this article happens to be an auto
driver that takes the tourists over
the city sight-seeing, I know what
1 am talking about- When I tell
the tourists that I will take then;
to see the Governor a mansion and
other places I mention, I generally
get a load, but when 1 show them the
mansion I am ash aimed of it. ' I
have to tell them wbat. “they” are
going to do. When tl t .v ask me to
take them to the Governor's office, I
take thorn ‘to a ‘ barn," which is
called the “Governor's office.” Not
a word do I hear from the tourist un
til we come to the school house,
which is the only -building they are
Interested in. After they have seen
tho Governor’s mansion, court house,
city hall and cithers.
Now, we have one of the host men
that ever ramie to Alaska for our
Governor; he is not only working
hard for Juneau, but for the entire
Territory as well. Why should not
his house be painted ansi everything
around the house beautified? If wa
cannot have a new Government build
ing, why not ipaiint up the old “barn"
and at least make it look clean. I
do not know how to get results, but
those that do should get busy and
see that the paint brush is used free
ly not only on the government build
ings, but others as well. If you
want others to spe.vk well of Juneau,
things should be brightened up so
those that do wish to speak well
of Juneau can be proud of what' they
are talking afoout and can Inspire a
feeling in thpse lourl3ts that they
will carry home with them.
ROBERT L. TURNER.
| ARCADE
I MAKY YOUNG,
CAFE
Proprietor.
Chinese
Noodles after
and parties.
theatre
I RITTER'S TRANSFER
I COAL, KINDLING, BAGGAGE,
I HAULING.
| Office Phone 292.
Residence Phone 27*04.
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JAPANESE TOY SHOP
S. 8. MAKINO
Front Street
F. 0. Box 218 for Hail Order*
BRIQUETS
Ideal
fuel for
every
purpose
Large itocka on hand
Ladyamith ooel.
Nanaimo oo#V
PACIFIC COAST
COMPANY
Thoie 412.
COAL
"_PROFESSIONAL ]
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Drs. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg.
PHONE 56
Hours 9 a. m. te 9 p. m.
M
Dr. Charles P. Jenne
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Bldg.
Telephone 176.
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Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Rea. ins.
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Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Re*. Phone 216
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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 $3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
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GEO. L. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
] 2nd floor Messerschmidt Apts,
i Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phone 269.
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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. Farnham and
Ted Taylor, Props.
’ HOTEL SEATTLE
“Home of Alaskans”
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
R. L. 1TODQDON, Manager
a-1-——1
It’s all In knowing HOW to do
first-class cleaning ar.d dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
11 THE MAKING OF CONCRETE
is a matter of proper materials
together with engineering skill.
Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Years
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFG.
COMPANY
Willoughby Ave. Phone 32.
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Fraternal Societies
-or
Gastineau Channel
B
<rr j.te
O . ILXB
Meeting Wednesday
Evenings at 8:00
o’clock, Elks* Hall.
ARTHUR B, COLE,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freemasonry
Scottish Bite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:30 p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B HEISEL, Secretary.
I. o. o. w.
SILVER BOW
_ LODGE NO. I A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble (/rand;
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
PERSEVERANCE REBEKAK
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every first and third
Tuesdays in I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8 P M. FRANCES GUSTAFSON,
N. O. ALPHONSINB CARTER,
Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAO LOOSI
No. 147. F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Secr.nd and Fourth' Mondays
of each Month. In Odd Felicia
r»all, beginning at 7:l« o'clock.
Homer G. Nordling, Master,
('has. E. Nagnel, Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tuee
dttya of each month.
At 8 o'clock, I. O. O. F. Hall.
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
B BORERS COUNCIL NO
17*0. Meeting* »eeon,4
and last Monday* at 7:18
p. m. Transient Broth
"ced to attend. Council Chamber*
Street. John F. Mullen, G. K.
McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaaka.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 9/ m.
Elks’ ~lx>dge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; G. B.
Mann, Tost Adjutant, Phone 198.
LOYAL OBDEB 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meet* every Friday
night, 8 o'clock.
Moose Hall. Thoa.
B. Judeon, Dictator; R. H. Sterna,
Secretary.
WOMEN OF M00SEHEABT
LEGION
Juneau Chapter No. 439
Meeting second and fourth
Tuosday of each month, 8
o’clock, Moose Hall. Mrs. C. W.
Bender, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
AUXILLABY, PIONEEBi 01
ALASKA, Igloo No. 8.
Meets the 2d Monday In Moom
Hall, at 8 o’clock.
ALICE LAUOHLIN, President.
LILLIE BURFORD, Secretary.
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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
JUKEAU, ALASKA