ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
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BEHIND THE TIMES.
When the bill to make the office of Ter
ritorial Superintendent of Schools came tip
dn the recent Legislature, many solons voted
it down, alleging that kt would place the
tchcols "in politics,” That this is the veriest
bunk is shown by the fact that until such
officers were elected in the States, the
schools were always in politics. There lis
no way of filling an office quite to good
as letting the people have a say as to who
shall lie employed. —(Seward Gateway.)
Perhaps the Seward Gateway will tell us what
State has taken the schools out of politics by making
the head of the State's oduea.'tlon'al system elective.
It is worth while lo mention that there have been
very few- if any Statu offices made elective for
a quarter cf a century or mere. The State of Wash
ington has created many very important State offices
since the adoption of the Constitution. Not one oi l
them is elective. Some of thorn were made elective!
but that course was abandoned many years ago, and |
now all of t horn are responsible to the Governor of |
the State. There are very fow States now where tlb
Superintendent of Public Instruction is an elective
ffcice, and where it is so it is boca'use of the re
quirement a constitution adopted long ago. The ten
dency >rf the times it; toward the short ballot. The
Seward paper is not keeping uip with development.
There is no mere reason why the Commissioner
of Education should be elective than there is why the
Superintendent of City Schools at Seward should he
made elective. That moans there is no reason at all.
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There Is no lawn in Alaska whose resources are
more diversified than those of Juneau. This plaee|
depends upon no one tiling. She lends as a mining
center ami takes a high place as a center for fish
ing. lumbering and the tourist traffic.
ORGANIZING TO DEFEAT ORGANIZED
MINORITIES.
a* mu ui k«uii£uuuii iv^aKuus, cm iis, eic., iur iiiej
purpose cf counteracting government by organized j
minorities through bines, etc., formed for the pur
pose of pushing tills or that reform or hobby, con
tinues wo are likely to have a 'bloc of American'
voters which will constitute a majority and thus
restore majority government. The latest organization, I
following Samuel Adams' and former Congressman
Gord's ‘T'ncle Sam’s Voters” and General Dawes'
"Minute Men or the Constitution,” comes the "Liberal;
League,” for which I)r. Nicholas Murray Butler, Will
iam D. Baldwin, Ogdon L. Mills and others are!
sponsors.
The Liberal League is a bipartisan organization*
composed of thorn who bleieve that it is i«>»sible to
promote a broader outlook upon National affairs with-!
out interfering with the machinery of the two main
political parties.
Jts declaration of principles follows:
1. To consider with an open mind all
projects lobking to social advance.
2. To renew and build up respect for
law.
2- To halt the tendency of government
interference in every domain of life.
■*• To preserve and foster individual in
itiative to the end that H may better serve
the public good.
r>. To rescue our govrenvnent from the
domination of organized minorities working
in the interests of special groups or classes.
ti. To, *fiert tlie right and duty of the
people's representatives to vote according to
their own Judgment and conviction.
7. To urge an international policy based
upon broad principles of co-operation.
Commenting upon the new organization the San
Fraucisco Bulletin says;
Such a platform should commend Itself
to every liberal, which is to say, broad
minded American. it does not call for a
severance of prerent party ties nor for the
creation cf a third party In (lie national
political sense. On the contrary, it is hoped
that those supporting its principles will work
for their furtherance within the party of
which they are members.
I he Liberal League will not concern it
relf Witt] the naming of a Presidential can
tidatc and it has no Jobs to offer, never! he
ler:- there Is room for it If it can do some
thing-to advance the principles as announced.
All projects looking to social advance
slit uld be considered with an open and not a
party mind. To renew and build up respect
for law has become a fundamental necessity,
and to achieve it there is need to halt the
tendency ot government interference In everv
dcgnain of lite.
, The ye!lew press, the Irreconcilable?, and
the various blocs, cliques and coteries are
not specifically mentioned, but they are
clearly in mind in the statement "to rescue
our government trern the domination of or
ganized minorities working in the interests
if special groups or clasoc.t."
Democracies are menaced by nothing so
much as by organized minorities whose or
organization permits them to defy the un
< rganized majority ,
The Liberal League has uothnig to offer 1
the professional politician. Numerically it
may Heverbe more than a very small min
ority of the nation. But It may prove the
leaven working: for a broader and better
outlook on all problems whose national
character demands a national and therefore
non-partisan consideration.
Spokane, the most important mining; town of the
Northwest, was quick to see the damage that would
result to mining interests in Southeastern Alaska if,
the Land Office at Juneau should be closed.
The F*aper Money Delude.
(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
It requires the mind of an astronomer who is used
to calculations that embrace almost unlimited num
erals, to comprehend the financial statements of Euro
pean Governments, which are holding on to the
inflation policy of unlimited issues of currency.
Russia at the fend of 1922 had outstanding 450,
1)00,000,000,000 paper rubles. That is, she had in
circulation pieces of paper represented to be of that
value. Strong as was the Bolshevist Administra
:ion of Russia it could not make its own subjects ac
cept its currency at its face value. With no gold
hack of the paper ruble to give it value, and although
the majority of the Russian people may not under
stand the theory or practice of the so-called “gold
basis” they could not ibe brought to accept the fraudu
lent currency at par. The money presses of the
Government could manufacture paper covering bndget
deficits, 'but they could no tgive to the ruble a stamp
that preserved its purchasing power. So the Russian
3f today has to pay 15,000,00d paper rubles for an
irtlclo he was able 'to buy for one ruble under the
ild regime. Ho may have more rubles than he had
hen, but they will buy for him only a small part of
vhat he could buy with fewer rubles beforo the os
■cndency of the Soviet and its Bolshevist adminis
rators.
Germany has not progressed so rapidly or so far
is Russia into the paper currency labyrinth. She is,
lowever, close to the six trillion mark output. Whut
he people there could buy with one mark before the
.var they cannot now buy with less than ten thousand
narks. So, if they have ten thousand times as many
T.arks they are worse off.
The Russian experiment has grown into an in
flation saturnalia, with no thought of stabilization of
the paper ruble, with no intention ever to redeem the
outstanding issues at a gold ratio. In Germany the
inflation, which began as a Socialistic heresy that
paper could be made into a circulating medium by a
Government stamp without regard to a certain ratio
if reserve of intrinsic value behind It. developed into
i great national fraud. The whole internal debt of
Jermany has been paid off in these almost worthless
tieces of paper which tile German investor in the!
lecuritiea if his Government must accept at their1
oee value, although his neighborhood grocer demands
en thousand of them for what he once sold for one
nark.
And there are in the United States advocates
if unlimited issues of unsupported paper currency!
5ome of them are In Congress. I
Seals to Pay Tribute.
(Seattle Times.)
Announcement that the Department of Commerce,
which exercises juridsictien over the fisheries of
Alaska, has authorized the killing of 25,800 fur seals
on tile Prilbilof Islands and the marketing of their
skins this year, calls attention to an industry con
stantly increasing in wealth, without counterpart in
tlie world and conducted by the United States govern
ment to the profit of itself, Groat Britain and Japan.
Since the treaty fn 1911 by the United States.
Great Britain, Japan and Russia ionbidding pelagic
sealing, the fur seal industry has been under the
management of tho United States. The taking of
pelts by Federal agents began in 1911, but the yields
were intermittent until 1917, when 5,400 skins were
sent to market. In subsequent years 'the output
lias been regular. In recent seasons the number has
averaged more than twenty-five 'thousand annually.
The price from the sale of the skins since the
Government assumed control of the business have
ranged from $.T1 a pelt in some years to $160 in
others, with aggregate returns for the entire period
af $4,000,000. T'he net proceeds, under 'the terms
>r the pelagic treaty, are distributed 70 per cent to
the United States and 15 per cent, each to Great
Britain and Japan, t'he Britith Government giving Us
lliohment to Canada.
The fur seal played a prominent part in the
iranufer of Alaska from Russia ito the United States
ill 1867. The presence of the sea treasure was
tnewn to Calfiornia fishing intreests when the Ter
ritory was owned by the Muscowvitos, und these
ishing interests induced the California delegation in
Congress to urge strongly the purchase of the North
and.
In 1870, the Alaska Commercial Company, whose
head offices were in San Francisco, obtained from
lie American Government an exclusive sealing lease
'or twenty years In Boring waters. The company,
luring the life of Its lease, reported the taking of
aelts worth $27,253,314. in which the Government
<hared, according to its royalty, to the extent of
15,894,230 and expended for patrol and supervision
6670,000.
In 1890, tlie North American Commercial Com
pany, also with headquarters in San Francisco, ob
tained another exclusive lease for twenty years. It
reported that during the life of its lease it took pelts
worth only $8,485,764, of which the Government
obtained about $3,500,000 and expended $5,000,000
In patrol and supervision, experiencing a net loss of
about $1,500,000.
I ho seal herd when the Government assumed
charge In 1910 had been depleted to 90,000. its
census lust year showed 604,902. The number will
increase despite the larger take of skins because of
the conservation methods in conducting the industry
Of the Pribilof group of islands, only two are of
any consequence, St. George and St. Paul, with a
total or 180 square miles. On the former there are
212 natives and on the latter 125. On 'both islands
there are twenty white persons who are permanent
residents—Government employees, tcachrs and mis
sionaries. In the summer wlhen the sealskins are
taken, the white population 4s augmented by a scar*
pf workers from the States.
On tlie Pri'bilofs are the largest rookeries of fur
seals in the world. The Islands are frequented bv
oe souls in summer, and the pelts are taken from
late in June until late In August. The hides arc
brought to Seattle in an uncitred state. Untiii 1916
they were sent to Dondon, but since then they have
been shipped to St. Louis, where they are tanned and
dressed and sold at auction.
.’rhe '** spent by 'the in subtropical
vatcis. They are on the way north now to pay to
*Irnoo P°WerS " a0!,8on'8 inibute of more than
H,000,000 for protection.
With the marriages still outnumbering the d
■orcers ten to one It Is evident that this countr
sn t a fit place for any decent pessimist to live in -
[Springfield Union.)
Russia is exporting grain to stabilize the rubh
\ bile the ruble is being stabilized who’s to feed th
vussian people? Wo wonder.— (Kansas City Star )
The old song "Only throe grains of corn mother
bP„ nmewlert hy ""-iking out "corn" an
mbstiUitlns sugar."-—(NeW York Tribune,)
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HTT.T,
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
Kids upsod to gp to school to gei
an education, now they go to higt
school to show off their clothes anc
join fraternities or sororities.
The Ananias Club
There is a gossip in our neighbor
hood who never repeats anything bu
good about people.
Exception to the Rule
Blinks: “What goes up must cumi
down.”
Jinks: “That doesn’t hold trut
with my egpenaot."
We Never Cared for Dentists, Eithei
Wo met a man out in the Wes
End yesterday who was sore at Na
ture. Ho had just come from i
dentist, who had separated him fron
a number of his grinders. Now 'll*
wants to know why in the dickens—
(or something that sounded like that)
—Nature didn’t give us permanent
tooth as well as a permanent nose
and ears, etc. It would have suited
us, but we, suppose oven dentists
have to earn a living.
Fool Questions
D R. T. asks: “Can a shoemaker
lose his awl without going into bank
ruptcy?" Are we nevor to hear the
.teat of the poor old shoemaker?
Ouch!
‘tHa! ha!” laughed Mr. Crouch
’there is an account of a Kentucky
girl who thought she wa3 marrying
a Prince only to discover he wa=
nothing but a dishwasher.
“Well," retorted his wife bitterly
“I thought I was marrying a Prince
when I nrifried you, hut you have
made a dishwasher out of me.”
A Safe Bet
"What do you think of this plan
of burning coal twice?" asked Brown
“That the coal men will charge
double for It if they find such a
thing is possible," mapped White.
Leopard Can’t Change rlis Spots
’’Dusty” Miller deelaros nothing is
harder than making a . marrier
woman believe that her husbanc
wasn’t infatuated with about a dozer
silly women all his early life. Bu
what worries ■Her more, "Dusty," h
that she thinks now lire is infatuatet
WIU1 lilac UUI'
If It Fits—
The Princess daughter has to doll
up 'as if sho was going to a part}
before she can run down to the cor
nevr grocery to got a cake of soap s<
her mother can get the dishe;
washed.
A gossip never cares to know a;
awful lot, hut prefers to know a lo
of awful things.
Among the useloss baggage thi
world is carrying are the people wh<
think it is a mark ot' superiority t<
act disagreeable.
No matter how wicked a life a mat
many lead youll find he expects ti
repent and get religion before h
di-os
The difference bolweon a goo
name and a l»d name is it is th
easiest thing in the world to lose ;
good name.
We have no sympathy for a woma:
who complains that she is the Slav
to her house. No matter how mea
1 her husband is he thinks too muc
| of his own comfort to want her t
be that.
When a rreachor comes to tow:
the older ladies want to know if h
can preach, but the younger one
only aro interested in finding ou
whether or not . he is married.
Before they are married it Is jus
too sweet the way sho will fix hi
tio ifor him, but later she just give
it n coupio oi jents ana s-naps ou
HOTEL SEATTLE ^
“Home of Alaskans"
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
R. U HODODON, Manager
It’s all In knowing HOW to do |
flrst-clasa cleaning and dyeing. |
„ CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dysr
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
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THE MAKING OF CONCRETE I
Is a matter of proper materials
together with engineering skill.
Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Tears I
I CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFO.
I COMPANY |
| Willoughby A.ve. Phons 32.
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JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Moves, Packs and Stores Freight
and Baggage.
Prompt Delivery of
LADYSXTTh COAL
Phone 48.
something about what, a helpless old
fool he la.
There la a good dca.1 of talk about
women in business these days, but
you'll find the business of women
still Is getting married.
When a mairriod mm 13 telling
one of his old jokes he never likes
to sit where ha van catch his wife’s
eye.
When people begin To pile up the
dollars they’ll make a show of their
wealth, hut they don’t show anything
as common as sense, you bot.
We ail roast the snippy department
store clerks, but wo guess if we had
to spend our days hauling down the
whole stock on tho shelves for women
wlro never spend anything but their
time, 'to claw over, we would get
that way, too.
Daily Sentence Sermon
You can't do much sleeping if you
want to make your dreams come
true.
News of the Names Club
We'll bet she never U3es one, but
anyway Iona Broome lives in At
lanta, Gu. r. Frizzle is reported
from Pulaski villo, Ohio—what'll we
do witth him?
Aids U. S. to Extradite
Hammer Murderess.
fTh?. Atb"g, tr.4Xu Tide
Ur. Alberta Tides, Foreign Min
ister fo Affairs In Tegucigalpa,
Honduras, played a loading role
in the arrest and extradition of
Clara Phillips, who escaped from
, a Los Angeles jail, where she was
serving a life sentence for the
: hammer murder of pretty Mrs.
Alberta Meadows.
FAIRBANKS GROWS.
There ,is a scarcity of desirable
’ cia/btns in Fairbanks owing to the
' steady increase In the population of
the town. The housing problem
1 promises 'to become a serious one
’ if the growth continues.—(Fair
: banks noite in Nenana News.)
Headquarters ter Uadysmlth coal.
Juneau Transfer Co. Phone 48. adv
AUK BAY STAGE.
Ueav.es U. & I. Cafe for Auk Bay
P. M.. Saturday only, returning
1 6:30. Special trip at any time,
i1 Round trip $2,50. —adv.
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USED FURNITURE |
Bought, Sold and Exchanged
N. R0C0VICH
211 Seward St.
Telephone 441. P. O. Box 111.
ARCTIC BATH HOUSE
l
and Barber Shop
TURKISH. STEAM, SHOWER
AND TUB BATHS
Lower Front St. (Van Atta’i old
•tand) BILLY LOTT, Prop. I
Phone 414.
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ALASKA COAL
FOR ALASKANS
—No soot
—Low in ash
—High in heat units
—Clean to handle
PHONE 412
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
PROFESSIONAL
Dr«. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg.
PHONE 96
Hours t a. a. ts I a.
Dr. Charles P. Jenna
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Vaiuntlns Bldg.
Telephone 178.
Dr. DeVighna
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phonos: Office, 104; Res. log.
Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to • P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Res. 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 $3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
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GEO. I. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Mcnserschmldt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Thone 259.
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Dr. U. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Goldstein Hu tiding
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to (;
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 8t., Seattle
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
erything. J. A. Farnham and
I i Ted Taylor, Props.
DP. P. N. DONAHEY
Same Good Service as in the
i Past
HUTESON DoKAHEf
Optical Company
108 Pike Street, Seattle.
viucr ui me
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tump
days of each month.
At 8 o'clock, L O. O. r. Ha'l
I ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLINO, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
mbohb rs council no.
17<u. Meetings second
and last Mondays at T:M
, r p. m. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chambers.
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, Q. K.
,T. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at > p. m,
Elks’ 'Lodge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Ph^ne 973; O. B.
Mann, Poat Adjutant, Phone 198.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
Bight, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. E. F.
Rodenberg, Dictator; R. H. Stevens
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.
Bender, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
AUXILIARY, PIONEER! 01
ALASKA. Igloo No. 8.
i Meets last Thursday of every
month. Social hour with mem
bers of Pioneer Lodge .to fol
low each meeting.
1 Mrs. Ijottie Splckett, President.
! Mrs. Lillie Burford, Secretary.
I
fraternal Societies •
-Of
Gastineau Channel
O . ILIf
Meeting Wednesday
armings at 8:00
o’clock, Elks* Hall.
Charles P. Jenne,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
I Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freemasonry
1 Scottish Bite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:80 p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
I WALTER B. HEISHL, Secretary,
i. o. o. r.
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. • A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand)
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
-I MOUNT JONEAO COOES
I NO. 147. F. A A. M.
I ; Stated Communication
i Second and Fourth Mondaji
| of earn Month. In Odd Felicia
I well, beginning at 7:*# o'clock.
Homer G. Nordling, Mastor.
Ch:u». E. Nagtiel. Secretary.
WHERE
SUCCESS
BEGINS
The road to success begins at the Savings Window.
How early you attain success depends on how
often you deposit. Many of our captains of industry
owe their success in a large part to the habit of
thrift acquired in youth. Have you started your boy
in the right direction?
The B. M. Behrends Bank
JVHXAV, ALASXJL li