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CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER.
The Board of Education did well when it re-elected
I.ester D. Henderson Commissioner of Education. The
Territory In fortunate that it lias a man of his capa
bilities and executive ability for this important posi
tion. Mr. Henderson has been at the head of the
Territorial public school system since the position
c.f Commissioner of Education was created six years
ago. He has contributed immensely to building the
Alaska public school system up to the high standard
which prevails throughout the Territory. Probably
no State or Territory in the country ever developed
a school syctem of such merit in so short a time.
It is gratifying to realize that for at least two
more years Mr. Henderson will remain at the head I
cf an institution of which all the people have good
reason to be proud and toward the creation of which
he has played a large part.
In those days when business and the industries
effer Fuch attractive rewards to capable men it is
not often that one with the ability and energy
yossessed by Mr. Henderson deliberately chooses
education as a porfession. The work that lie has done
in this Territory since coming here nine years ago
to become Superintendent of .Juneau's public schools
has demonstrated that Alaska, at least, profited when
he made the choice.
INDUSTRIAL INSURANCE.
The Legislature should look well into the cost of
government industrial insurance before It attempts I
to introduce it is Alaska. The industrial pop
ulation of Alaska is small and widely scattered.
The overhead cost of maintaining such a gov
ernmental agency and making it fair to all those who
would be affected by it would be large. All employ
ing concerns would have to he classified, for the
hazard in some industries is greater than in others,
and there would have to he a constant check of the
Payrolls of all companies and individuals employing
labor of any kind. It would be necessary that every I
concern should be enumerated and that tlie author! j
ties should know how many persons are employed
all the time in each of them, otherwise it would bo
!-" possible for the law to tie fairly and equitably
applied. In addition to tills there would be the
medical, auditing and executive branches of the
agency to be maintained.
The result would probably bo that the cost of
maintenance of the Industrial Insurance Commission j
would be out of all proportion to the amount that I
Mould reach those having claims arising under it. j
The Territory might take a chance if it were not ■
that the compensation act now in force is giving!
satisfaction to those who come under its provisions. ]
The cost to tlie employers Is going directly to the |
injured employees, and it is rare, indeed, that a case!
Involving personal injuries ever reaches the courts. !
.STORY WRITING CONTEST.
To further the cause of clean fiction and in an
attempt to discover new talent, Columbia, the Knights
ol (olutiibus official national magazine announces,
in its April issue a short story contest with prizes!
aggregating $f>00 — the largest fiction prize money!
ever offered by a Catholic publication.
The first prize is $200. and there are three'
other prizes, of $160, $100 and $50. In ad
dition Columbia reserves the right to publishing non
prlze-wlnnlng Tories at its regular rates for fiction.
No story in the contest must he longer than lo ooo
or shorter than 2.000 words. All manuscripts must
b. typewritten in English and accompanied by stamp
td return envelopes The contest closes on Monday
Jnly 2nd, and the first prize will be announced and
the story published in the August issue of Columbia.
Nuv. and again one hoar:? someone say that Oov
ernor !1,1<I ,,1(> '"hers on the Territorial Ship*
pln® Hoard at the time wasted »25,00© by conducting
an Investigation Instead of plunging headlong into
Territorial operation of a line of steamships Kvents
have shown that they saved from a quarter of a
million to $ It (10,OHO by conducting the investigation, i
The r.rrtory would have lost the appropration and!
accomplished nothing had it not been for the inves-l
ligation tnat was conducted.
THE PASSING OP THE COMMONER.
The announcement that Bryan’s Commoner will
suspend publication with the April number is not
unimportant The Commoner was established by
William J. Bryan shortly after his second defeat for
the Presidency about 22 year.- ago. He was shortly
Joined by his brother, Charles W. Bryan, in it's
publication For many years it was conducted as a
Meekly, and it was profitable to its owners I.ater
it -was Changed to a monthly. The paper was never
much from literary or artistic standpoints, but it was
always interesting because it was always just like
Bryan—and Bryan is Hiyan, interesting whether one
agrees with him or not. and usually one does not
For many years Brother William lias been too busy
*itll ..politics, lecturing and abusing Iiarwin and his
monkeys to give much attention ot the Commoner,
it is said that ail the profits have gone to Brother
Charlie for ninny years Now the latter has become
so busy being Governor of Nebraska that he, too,
has no time for journalism. So the paper will die.
The Commoner will be missed and its passing re
gretted by those who have liked it and those who
have not agreed with it—and the latter have been
the large majority.
President Harding declared when on his way to
Washington that he was moro keen to get there than
ever before. Wonder if the fact that there was no
Congress there had anything to do with it?
Wo are never really certain of spring until the
baseball scores begin coming over the wires. Now
we know that spring is here, and that it will be
followed, by the good, old summertime.
Disease Conquering Itself.
(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
Medical science, with its powerful weapon of
chemistry, continues to Win battles in the never
ending campaign against disease. Two great victories
already are scored in (his the year marking the cen
tennial of the great Pasteur, the modest Frenchman
who, beyond all question is the world's greatest
benefactor of all time.
But a few' weeks ago from the Rockefeller Insti
tute the cheering word went out of the isolation of
the germ which causes pernicious influenza,., the
plague which killed U5,000,000 human beings while
the great war was raging. With automatic certainty
(he cure may, nay, soon will be promulgated. Now
comes the triumphant announcement of another con
quering feat.
Scientists in the laboratories of the Mt. Sinai Hos
pital in New York have in turn isolated the germ
that produces the fatal sleeping sickness, that takes
its annual toll ol' hundreds of thousands of human
lives. It was while searching for the cure of this
dread disease that Ehrlich found the specific for the
blackest curso of humanity.
While the new germ has not actually been seen
with tlie microscopic eye of the investigatory, as in
the case of the influenza germ, yet they have been
able to cultivate it in a neutral medium arid repro
duce it in a monkey subject. This is but the usual
preliminary. Within a short time there will be
issued to the waiting medical W'orld directions for
the specific serum that will make this deadly lethargy
is harmless as typhoid fever. The transcending prin
ciple of making disease fight itself, Pasteur's immortal
discovery, is merely in Us beginning.
Claim Aleut Ghosts Hold Wild Revels.
(Valdez Miner.)
Some natives of Alaska profess to believe that the
angry spirits of the Aleuts massacred at the behest
of the early Russian discoverers ami traders, Shelikoff,
Baranoff and Chirlkoff. are lurking in the volcanoes
ot the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.
Beneath the thin crust of the earth covering the
lower Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian archipelago,
those spirits, the native assert, are holding nightly
revels and emerging periodically to hurl fire and
smoke and thunder at the heads of the invaders.
The fanciful recital of the natives is that on
Chirilcoff Island, long famed as haunted, a half hun
dred natives were lured into a log compound, ret
upon by savage enemies under the direction of the
Russians, murdered and despoiled of their sea otter
skins. Their spirit., are appearing again in protest.
The eruption of three volcanoes in January is, they
say, a revisitation of there spirits and will continue
until they are avinged.
Yukon Retains Member.
(Dawson News.)
The long expected redistribution bill at last has
been introduced in Parliament, and is of interest to
ever portion of the Dominion. Being a Government
measure, it is quite certain the bill will pass ap
proximately as introduced.
Yukon is allotted one member in the Corymons.
This is good news to Yukon and sets at rest the]
predictions of pessimists who declared that the Ter-]
ritory coon would lose its political identity and be:
denied a representative in the Dominion legislative i
body or be merged with some other constituency. The
Government has taken the wider and wiser view, thus
exemplifying the faith of the King Government in this
outlying portion of the Dominion. Tile continuation
of the member also argurs consideration for Yukon
in other respects. The Federal Government must
have faith in the gold and sliver camps of this re
gion. and in the men who are devoting their lives
to the development of the Territory's resources,
otherwise it would have taken advantage of the
opportunity to now change the status of the Ter
ritory.
Ohio Woman’s Bill.
(Philadelphia Record )
A woman member of the Ohio Legislature, Mrs.
Nettie M. Clapp, has introduced a bill designed to
discourage the morbidly curious who rush to sen
sational court trials. It proposes to give the presiding
Judge authority to bar from the courtroom all those
"horn lie may deem to have no business there. Such
a case is no cure at all. In most courts the Judge
already lias authority almost, as wide as that which
1b here proposed. Besides the thing is wrong in
principle, in which respect it is in keeping with much
other probbitive legislation which has recently become
so fashionable. Morbid curiosity cannot be corrected
in that way. Some other method must be found—
some educational system—that will show the idlers
how ridiculous they are and teach them gradually to
repress their Inordinate appetites.
One reason why everybody exports that the next
Congress will ho a little better than perfect Is because
.Senator-elect Doc Copeland has let it be Known
that It will have a 'the benefits of h'is superior
wisdom.— (Spring-field, Mass., Union.)
Three whales, each a hundred feet in length, have
been reported off Cape May, hut the sea serpent is
not expected to appear until the vacation season
begins.— (New York Herald.)
I'ncle Sam Com pars is well again. He is more
than .1 match lor any flu germ that ever flew.— (Chi
cago News.)
There seems to be a rage for everything Egyptian,
except the thing for which tho Sphinx is famous.—
(Springfield Union.)
Our guess is that if President Harding suited the
Democratic critics the Republicans would have noth
ng to do witih him.—(Toledo Blade.)
Gradually the- news must reach Berlin that the
Mlies came out first in the late unpleasantness.—.
I Boston Transcript.)
One argument for peace is that a modern battle
>hip costs $1 6,500.000.—(Philadelphia Record.)
The last heard of the Sultan, nothing had been
learrt of him.— (Detroit News.)
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
iA woman used to be afraid of t
gun, but never as afraid of it as i
man now is of a woman and a gun.
She Was Planning on Joining Him
Evidently
“Don't take your husband's deatl
so hard, Mrs. Murphy, for just ro
member you’ll join him after death,'
said the 'parson, comfortingly.
"Shure, yer riverence yez didn'
know Pat or yez wouldn’t ixpeet mi
to take any comfort in any sucl
thoughts," wailed the bereavet
widow.
Cornet Leads the Band
(Utica item in Newark (Ohio) Advo
cate, lamped by G. €. Larson,
of Martinsburg.)
Vincent Cornet, of A'ltcna, Penn
is visiting his father here. Cornel
was loader of the Utica band a few
years ago, and is now leader of an
89-piece band in Altona.
He Was Going to eB Boss at Office
Anyway
The exasperated stenographer had
finally told the boss Just what she
thought of him.
Her torrent of angry words made
hint gasp for a minute, but quickly
recovering himself he said sternly:
’’Young lady, you are fired I allow
no one bnt my wife to talk to me
like that.”
Read This and Weep, You Thirsty
Birds
(From the financial page of 8 years
ago )
WHISKEY'—The market was firm
and the demand fair, 525 brls. dis
tillers' finished goods reported sole
upon a basis of $1.35 per gallon.
Fool Questions
F. G. H. asks: "Couldn't you cal
a modern saloon a dry good store?’
You know the answer.
Not Damages, Anyway
He had tried to beat the tralr
over the crossing with the usual (lis
astrous results.
A friend was in the office of th(
hospital to inquire after him
“Oh, I think ho will recover," saic
the nurse.
'iBut I don't think he will,’
snapped the claim agent for the rail
road, who was waiting to interview
him.
Gems From Guide Book to Success
There are no unimportant factors
in Life's 'mart. Even the assurer
success of a strong railroad com
pany is dependent upon the oapabil
ity of the “Pick and Shovel Men" lay
ing the roadbed. J- E. F.
Quite True
Marriage in Now York fell off it
1922. says a news item. And th<
married fell out, too, the divorce rec
ords show.
If It Fits—
The reason a good many girl
haven’t married is because Barki
wasn’t willin’."
There may be a more disagreeabb
fellow in tho world than the bin
who always is right, but we nevei
have met him.
It doesn't surprise us to learn tha
the ladies now are using their hand
kerchiefs as trimmings for the!
dresses. Any married man who eve
has tried to use one of his wire'
little lace squares to help out his owi
supply during a seige of cold ha
been convinced that as handkerchief
they are fine trimming.
A girl often has to help a feUov
out with his courting, and after
ward her father has to help him ou
with his finances,
lia'bz iMartinsburgA(,.Gi.Vgalta78
We'll bet that after a man ha
gotten through tho Court proceeding
he begins to wonder what they mea:
by “Free Love,” anyway
Lights are brighter since we dL
carded the old-fashioned coal oi
lamps for the electric bulbs, but \vi
doubt if people are since they hav<
discarded the old-fashioned ideas o
right and wrong for the philosophy
of the bright lights.
Mother uses rouge and powder tr
make her complexion look like hoi
youthful daughter's, and daughtei
uses ’em to make hers look likf
mother's, and there you are.
In these dry times it has gotter
so a man thinks anything that it
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USED FURNITURE
Bought, Sold and Exchanged
N. X0C0V1CH
*11 Seward 8t.
i Telephone 441. P. O. Box 111. I
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Furnished Rooms (or
Rent
ANCHORAGE ROOMS
LILLIAN FOOTE
Telephone 431
BEST EVER
MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
offers additional attracts
Disability Benefit feature*.
NONE OTHER SO LIBERAL.
ALLEN SHATTUCK
INSURANCE REAL ESTATE
ESTABLISHED 1898
good for the outside must be good for
the inside.
The young people of today do not
want a cheek on their spending, but
they do demand a cheque for spend
ing.
'No daughter likes to see her father
going around in shabby clothes and
that is why the old gentleman has
to sit in the kitchen when she is en
tertaining company in the parlor.
Daily Sentence Sermon
Talk always is equipped with a
self-starter, but what most of it needs
is to have the brakes relined.
News of the Names Club
I We always thought ho lived at
Medicine Hat, but we have just
learneil that Jack Frost lives at
Galesburg, 111.
CRMS WILL ALSO BE CANNED.
The local shrimp cannery which
I has been closed down for the past
few days will resume operations
again next week. Mr. Gingrass, the
owner and. manager of the cannery
announces that he will also put up
crab meat, and will begin canning
this product as soon as he can ar
range to secure the crabs.—Wrau
j gel! Sentinel.)
BLACK WANTS TELEGRAPH
LINE TO MAYO AND KENO
Capt. George Black, Yukon mem
ber of the Dominion Parliament, is
endeavoring to get the Government
to establish a telegraph line to
Mayo and Keno Hill, connecting
with the Dominion line between
Whitehorse and Dawson.
Failing in this an effort will be
made to secure a proper connection
with wireless stations.
JOE iviEHERIN, “SNOW BURNER.”
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Joe Maherin, merchant and broker
of Juneau, who has been making anj
extensive business trip to lie inter- j
ior, will arrive in Seward Saturday |
evening on his way to the eapital'
city . Joe is the original "Snow-j
burner." recently making a trip of|
?8 miles in about 9 hours on snow
shoes. a marvelous performance.—
(Sewar’d Gateway.)
M. D. Berry has engaged Geo.
Mobley as night driver for his seven
passenger sedan. Hereafter car canjB
be had at any hour of the day or -
night.
-adv.,
Headquarters inr umysnmn coal.
Juneau Transfer Co. Phone 48. adv
OUCH! LAME BACK,
RUB LUMBAGO OR
BACKACHE AWAY
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lumbago, sciatica, or a strain, and
the quickest relief is soothing, pene
trating St. Jacobs Oil. Hub it right
on your painful back, and instantly
the soreness, stiffness and lameness
disappears. Don't stay crippled!
Get a small trial bottle of St. JacobB
Oil from your druggist and limber
up. A moment after it is applied
you’ll wonder what became of the
backache or lumbago pain,
is absolutely harmless and doesn’t
burn the skin.
Rub old, honest St. Jacobs Oil
whenever you have sciatica, neu
ralgia, rheumatism or sprains, as It
is &bsoli(tely harmless and doesn’t
burn tho skin.
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PALACE OF SWEETS
Eat a dish a day of our ice
cream. A healthful vitamine
food.
Vanilla, Strawberry, Chocolate,
Pineapple?
We also serve Seattle Velvet
Ice Cream.
Large room for dance or card
parties.
Ladies’ Rest Room
TRY OUR
Merchants Lunch
45 Cents
Arcade Cafe
MARY YOUSQ, Proprietor.
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JAPANESE TOY SHOP
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X. 8. MAHNO 1
I Front Street
| P. 0. Box 818 for Mail Orders ^
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BRIQUETS
every
purpose
Large itooke on hand!
Ladyimitk ooaL
H&naimo ooa'
Ideal
fuel for
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
l rhoae 411.
PROFESSIONAL
Dri. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein lid*.
PHONE fiti
Hour* 9 a. m. t* 9 p. m.
Dr. Charles P. Jenne
DENTIST
Room* 8 and 9 Valentine Bldg.
Telephone 176.
Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Honrs 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Res. 10|.
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Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Rea, Phone 27 6
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
GEO. I. BARTON. D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Mcsserschmidt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phone 269.
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH v
201 Goldstein Building
Hours; D;30 to 12; 1 to S;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
Phones: Office, 167; res., 1672.
All Alaskan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
First Ave. and Pine St., Seattle
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
erything. J. A. Farnhan and
Ted Taylor, Props.
HOTEL" SEATTLE
“Home of Alaskans"
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
R. Li. HODODON, Manager
It's all In knowing HOW to do
first-class cleaning and dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
THE MAKING OF CONCRETE
is a matter of proper materials
together with engineering skill.
Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Years
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MEG.
COMPANY
Willoughby Ave. Phone 32.
Fraternal Societies
-Of
Gastineau Channel
O . ELII
Meeting Wednesday
Evenings at 8:00
o’clock, Elks’ Hall.
Charles P. Jenne,
Exalted Euler.
JOHN A. DAVIS.
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodiet
of Freemasonry
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:80 p. m, Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B HEISEL, Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
SII.V ER BOW
LODGE NO. I A.
j Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
| Odd Fellows’ Hall.
; Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand;
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAO LODSP
No. 147, F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth’ Mondays
of each Month, In Odd Felices
Ball, beginning at 7:J# o'clock.
Hnmer G. Nordling, Mastor.
C'has. E. Nagtiel. Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tut*
day* of each month.
At 8 o'clock. I. O. O. F. HalL
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLING, .Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
heghers council no.
17 <U. Meetings second
and last Monday* at 7;I4
„ y p. m. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chambers
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, O. K.
J. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alturd John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 9 m.
i Elks’ lx>dge Room. John F. Starr,
I Post Commander, Phone 973; G. H.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. E. F.
Itodenberg, Dictator; R. H. Stevens
Secretary.
WOMEN OF MOOSEHEART
LEGION
Juneau Chapter No. 439
„ Meeting second and fourth
Tuesday of each month, 8
o’clock, Moose Hall. Mrs. C. W.
Dender, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
" AUXILIARY, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
j Meets last Thursday of every
I month. Social hour with mom
j bers of Pioneer T/0(lge to fol
low each meeting.
| Mrs. I^oltie Splckett, President.
| Mm. Lillie Hurford, Secretary.
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FIELDS OF THE FUTURE
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Your future is an unplowed field. Whether or
not it is to be productive depends on you. You can
plow, sow, and reap the harvest—or you can let it
remain unfruitful, a barren waste.
Start now to cultivate the opportunities that lie
in front of you by opening an account in our Savings
Department and depositing to it regularly. In this
manner you will reap a harvest of comfort and suc
cess in the future.
The B. M. Behrends Bank
JUNEAU, ALASKA. 8 •