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“FOOL REFORMERS” WERE AT THE
BOTTOM OF IT.
Harold Phelps Stokes, one of the best and most
conscientious writers on American ploitics and econo
mics, but an Easterner to whom lias been sold the
theory of conservation, writing in the New ^ ork
Test, under a Seward telegraphic date line, says:
This trip of Pre-idem Harding to Alaska
lias, 1 believe, effectively disposed of the no
tion that what was chiefly holding the Ter
ritory back was a Federal Government re
mote. blind, bound itp in red tape, and dom
inated by a lot of fool reformer; who wanted
to lock up its resources forever.
In his last annual report Gov. Scott Hone
officially sponsored tliir docttlne, which has
been sedulously cultivated by Secretary Fail
and his successor, Secretary Work, in their
efforts to center control of natural resources
in the Department of the Interior. Of course,
it was promptly hailed as the very gospel of
ctlvation by ,.il those private interests which
hate the name of Gifford Pincliot, because
they think that he and liis successors in the
conservation movement deprived them of
their legitimate opportunities.
The hypothesis 1 ; peak of was doubly per
nicious because it raised so many falso
hopes . If Government red tape and Govern
ment wrongheaded in s were lesponsible for
the stagnation of the territory that Gov.
Hone likes c.l talk about why then Ibis visit,
of Pro 1 dent Harding would surely work
magic. Ited tape would be cut out, policies
changed and, pre tc, the land would flow
with milk and henry, with gold, silver, and
pulp.
j Of course nothing of the sort is going
to happen and now the President knows it;
and he lias had to go up and down flip
country singing "Oh Ever So” gently and
tactfully that the millennium Is not about to
descend on Alaska; that it, must be a slow’
process of development, that the qualities
of the pioneers co-ope.rutnig with the trans
portation line which has now been opened
he l'.au just driven the golden spike and
wa: moralizing about it——will do more to work
out the development of this wonderland than
anything which the Government of the Enited
Stales could do.
Even as 1 write the President has shut
himself up in his cabin for the afternoon to
prepare hi speech at Seattle, which is to be
something in th way of a report on Alaska.
I can Svell imagine the embarrassment when
he tackle., that task, for he came up here
■with a great blare of trumpets. The Gov
ernment had mismanaged Alaska and every
thing had gone ivrong. He would come up
hero, find out what was the matter and Bet
it right. Now he knows he can't set it
right.
iijiin ami' coma sol it rignt all at
oiiip. not if ho were Rifted with inlinite
wisdom iinri granted unlimited authority, for
the fate of Alaska lies in the lap of those
frodp who work through natural and econ
omic law and they are jealous Rods and
their mills grind slowly.
Pity President Harding, sitting at his
desk there looking out through his porthole
at the enow mountains that ring Resurrec
tion Bay, trying to enunciate a policy and
n program that will fc.-nd those lofty peaks
to his will.
Here is the doctrine I refer to as it ap
pear in the opening paragraphs of the report
ot the Governor of Alaska to the Secretary
of the Interior for the year 19L'2. I have
heard it phrased even more vigorously and
with more emphatic and direct references
to tio\ I inehot and hi -, school by persons
not under the inhibitions of official utter
ance:
Stagnation was Alaska's portion under
academic treatment lor a decade and more.
Theory did net spell progress, but a positive
going backward. Conservation policies en
tailed a blighf. If the argument, sometimes
strongly advanced, that Alaska's rich re
sources should be preserved for posterity be
'alid, it would be equally and increasingly
valid as the centuries roll on and the Ter
ritory remained forever h nneticaly sealed:
but eomnn a -nse answers that hoarding is
not conservation and that nature's laws, ever
beneficient. call for a minimum of artificial
protection and doctrinal acceleration."
I might interrupt this recital right there
to remark that the conservationists them
selves characterize this talk about how they
aie out to lack up Alaska's resources as
downright misrepresentation. They insist
that no respon Ible conservationist from the
days when Mr. Pinchot was Chier Forester
down to date .has ever advocated that tho
n.itiiMl re mrees of Alaska be so hoarded
forever Jic-i metically scaled.
The gr. at natural forests of Alaska are
today open to exploitation and those in
charge of them are anxious to see them
exploited. €1^ Gav. Hone himself points out
elsewhere.
No. Mr. Stokes has it all wrong. Governor Bone
Is atariutley tight. Pinchot conservationists and
a lot of "fool reformers" wero responsible for the
Interruption of Alaskan development. When they
withdrew (lie natural resources of Alaska from entry
they slopped further coal, oil and other development
and stopped the construction of the Alaska Railroad
that was being built inland from Cordova. When
those piivate interests, which "hate the name of
Gifford Pine lot," were deprived of their legitimate
opportunities thousands of Alaskans were set back a
| decade or two. Young men grew old and children
grew to manhood while Alaska waited for the op
! pnrtunitics that were knocking at their doors, for
the development of opportunities by private interests
with large capital multiply the opportunities for the
multitude with small or no capital.
If the trip of President Harding and his Cabinet
officers is to result in benefit to Alaska it will be
because it has caused an awakening of those charged
with the enforcement of the leasing and other laws
and regulations, that have grown out of the conserva
tion policies, to the fact that inducements must be
held out to the "private interests," about which
Pinchotites and "fool reformers" have raved so much,
in order that they may be brought back to do that
development which was interrupted in the long ago.
Years, decades, have gone into the discard, so far
as thousands of Alaskans and those who would have
been Alaskans are concerned, because the activities
of Kastern theorists and busybodiee drove developers
from Alaska. Now the Forestry Bureau is trying to
bring those developers back, and a considerable pro
portion of Alaskans, probably a Majority, The Umpire
among them, are willing to charge off the wasted
yeaia, to pocket the loss of youth and hope of early
prosperity, and co-oporatc in an effort to bring to
Alaska such people as those whom the PinchoUtei
pride themselves that they drove out of the Territory,
No people were ever treated more shamefully than
the t ntorprising men who were investing their money
and those who were devoting their time, ability and
brawn to the development of Alaska at the time pre
tended reformers and silly sentimentalists stepped in
and caused one of the most unholy wastes that char
acterize American frontier history. They did not
i top v/aste of resources, they continued the waste,
because resources are wasted when not used; but
worst of all, they caused men to waste the productive
years of their lives.
At Inst, however, there is promise that these
private interests may be brought back to enable
those whose hair has silvered in the war against
lime to lay up something for old age and to give
the youngsters a chance to do what their parents
ought to have been permitted to do. Alaskans have
accepted that promise in good faith, and if Presi
dent Harding's trip results in the promise being tul
filled there will bo growth and development.
If, instead of stopping development by the Gug
fvenheims, dozens of other Guggenheims had been in
duced to come to Alaska, the situation in this Ter
ritory would have Icon different and there would
not have been need for a costly Government rail
road. If the Forestry Bureau can now Induce large
capitalists, like the Guggenheims, to come to Alaska,
growth, with boundless opportunities for those who
have not capital, will begin again.
Farmers t^nd Union Labor.
(San Francisco Journal.)
Political expediency lias caused the farm bloc and
the labor bloc to figure that if they could combine
j I heir votes they would have strength enough to dom
j inate the political situation. The logic behind this
! view Is mathematical, but not practical. What would
i be the use of having the political strength to win
unless it could bo uspiI to carry out a program that
would be mutually satisfactory? Scarcely any other
two groups in the body politic have less in common
than the farmers and organized labor. Their in-j
I tercsts are fundamentally antagonis tic. On the one
hnnd, the high wages of labor make everything the
farmer has to buy more expensive; and cn the other,
the things which the farmers propose would raise
the cost of living for the wage earner. No common
ground for such a combination can bp discovered.
The farmer is more than ordinarily hostile to the
excessive wages demanded by the crafts. Does it
take any more • skilled labor" to lay bricks or plaster
a wall than it docs to plant, grow, harvest and
market a crop of potatoes? It is harder work and
requires vastly more capital and Involves more risk
to do the latter. Yet it takes from twenty-two to
twenty nine bushels of potatoos to pay a bricklayer
for eight hours work at the Chicago or New York
scale. There appears to be no way of reconciling $2
a day for the farmer with $14 a day for the brick
layer in any manner that will bo satisfactory to both.
I he farmer believes that this disproportionate wage
to the c rafts is the cause of the low returns to him
self. So long as this belief is not disproven there
Is little prospect of any political harmony between
them.
In an ideal society every man of approximately
equal skill and industry would be paid a sum that
would pay for an approximately equal amount of the
necessities and comforts of life. It is not quite just
to compare the plasterer's daily wage with the equal
amount that a farmer gets for a young pig which it
has taken him eight months to raise. Duo allowance
must be made for the fact that the pig does a consid
erable part or his own raising, and in the meantime
| the farmer Is doing many other things. But the
comparison illustrates a principle. It is the net
yearly income that the farmer can make, after al
[lowing for interest, taxes and depreciation, that must
| lie compared with the net yearly amount which the
j craftsman can make, t’nless those amounts are within
| just proportion, there will never be content.
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Ford and the South.
(Springfield Republican.)
One sure effect of Henry Ford's political strength
■ "'ill he the increase in the number of Demrnratic ean
| didates for the Prasidentlal nomination. Gov. Smith’s
candidacy has been announeed as a certainty by Nor
man K. Mark of Buffalo, and the Governor was hailed
a- "our next President" at the Tammany Hall Fourth
(ot July celebration. Senator Underwood's candidacy
.is now being taken lor granted. In multiplicity of
candidates lies the safety of the Democracy against
Ford.
There Is the logic of the two-thirds rule. If
Ford were really dangerous he could be prevented
from obtaining a two-thirds vote In the Democratic
National Convention by having as many favorite sons
■is possible in the running. Underwood may not be
the only Southern candidate if Ford grows more
menacing during the next nine months. The Ford
menace to the Democrats is peculiarly formidable be
cause his Muscle Shoals project has ade him exceed
ingly popular in the South. If Underwood alone is
not strong enough to hold the southern delegates,
aside from those favoring McAdoo. more Southern
candidates possibly would appear. Senator Glass of
Virginia is being considered as a candidate. It is
easy to name one or two others capable of holding
their State delegations.
The difference between Mt. Ktna and Mr. Bryan
(is that one subsides.— (Detroit News.)
Since we don't know what to do with our own
mrehant marine, why seize .foreign ships?— (Cleve
land Titnes-Uonimercial.).
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ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
I kin remember when a woman had
nothing to wear sh ■ would stay at
home.
The Ananias Club.
'No." said the fond,, father, "son
nevi r asks for the car to take the
e *■’* out in the evening, for he de l
Meres If a girl will not ride on the
stieet ear with him he does not I
can to go out with her."
Where He Drew the Line
"Grandpa," who was rich and fool
ish, hail spent three months and sev
eral barrels of money trying to ppr
euade the, giddy flapper to be his
third wife. But while she had en-j
joyed his money she was not as
crazy as she looked, and wanted aj
Sheik who was not giving Methuselah j
a run for the long-distance non-die;
record, so she turned him down cold, j
"But. Sweetie,” mushed the old I
man, “you at least might have been
kind enough to say you would be a
sister tb me.”
“Say," she snapped, “40 years from
now I may be willing to be grandma
to a grandpa, blit not before! But,"
she added, brightening up, "I will be
a daughter to yon."
“Nothing doing." retorted the old
sport, "I can afford a wife, but l
can’t afford another daughter. I've j
six of ’em with husbands sponging:
off me now. Good by.”
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Bertha Took Shook and Now She
Wants to Shake Him.
(Divorce note In Houston Post)
Bertha Shook vs.. Floyd Shook, di
vorce (Sixty-first).
Fool Questions
E. Z. M. asks: "When they are ad
vising everybody in make their mark,
why do they kick because Germany
insists'on making hers?" We are not
kicking, we didn’t buy any of ’em.
Wouldn't It Be Great!
Blinks—It must be great to be
rich.
Jinks—Yes. just think of having
enough money so that you wouldn’t
care a rap whether you kept up with
the neighbors or not.
And Some Are Parked in the Poor
House.
Says Jack Warwick: “All the fliv
vers in the world are not running
around on four wheels.” No, some of
them are sitting around waiting for
“Luck" to come along and pick them
up-’’ _
Just Throw the Alarm Clock Out of
the Window.
<Headline 4n a weekly)
TO PROLONl} YOUR SLEEP.
Change? He's Modest. They Usu
ally Want Your Bank Account.
(Adv. in Gainesville Sun)
Experienced Plumber desires change.
If It Fits—
Discontent keeps a good many lines
of industry busy, especially the in
dustry that provides anti-thin and
anti-fat remedies.
Our guess is that when friend hus
band lets his heard grow three or
four days before he finds time to
wield the razor on it his wife loses
all desire to be kissed.
If a Governor used the veto power
as often as a wife does we’ll bet the
state legislatures would get discour
aged and quit trying to make laws.
No matter how good he is no artist
can beat a woman at drawing con
clusions.
It is the well tilled stocking he sees
at Christmas that appeals to the
small hoy. hut it’s the well-filled
hosiery he sees in the summer time
that makes a hit with dad.
Many a wife, whose husband has
the reputation oj being a "good
sport" down town', wishes there was
some way to prevent the trip home
from changing him into a cross, old
bear.
There is music in every piano, but
it takes an expert to bring It out.
And there is good in every man, but
It takes an angel to bring it out of
some of them.
Women will lie about their ages,
BUT the men will lie about every
thing else.
It is easy enough to do anything if
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HOMPRITT*IT DDAnfTPfna tram
you know how, but <lid you ever hear |
of a man who really knew how to
please a woman? I
Man thinks he is some pumpkins, ^
but he is helpless when he faces a 1
volcano, a tornado, a flood, storm or
an angry wife.
Even If she didn't have a former
husband to hold up to him friend
wife always has had two or three
beaux she can ring in to compare
him to.
One reason why there are so many |
unhappy marriages is because fool
men would rather court a pretty face
than a good cook.
Dally Sentence Sermon <
The past is gone and you can’t
bring it back, and yet nothing can
come back oftener to plague you than
your past. I
News of the Names Club
We don’t know how she got there 1
but Ina Drain is reported from
Mexico. Mo.
As for I. Will Yawn, of Houston,
Texas, we don't blame him this kind
of weather? Everybody’s doin' it.
NOTICE TO MOOSE.
Owing to Friday having been de
clared a Nation's mourning day, due
to the death of President Warren
G. Hording, the regular meeting of
tlie Moose will not be held Friday
night. E. F. KODENBERG,
__adv. Dictator.
• NOSE CLOGGED FROM
A COLD OR CATARRH
Apply Cream in Nostrils To 1 :|
Open Up Air Passages. t
,<n> * . I ■! I I
Ah! What relief: lour cloaeedj
nostrils open right up, the air pas-J
sages of your head are clear and1
you can breathe freely. No more^
hawking, snuffling, mucous dis
charge, headaches, dryness — no
struggling for breath at night, your
cold or catarrh is gone.
Don’t stay stuffed up! Get a small I
bottle of Ely's Cream Balm from1,
your druggist now. Apply a little
of this fragrant* antiseptic cream in
your nostrils, let it penetrate
through every air passage of the
head; soothe and heal the swollen,
inflamed mucous membrane, giving
you instant relief. Ely's Cream Balm
is just what every cold Mid catarrhl
sufferer has been seeking. It's JUst
splendd. (advertisement.)
IN UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.
JUNEAU. ALASKA.
Serials 03766-06965. |
Juno 28, 1923.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That
Lee II. Smith of Juneau, Alaska, I
has submitted final three year proof
in support of his Homestead Entry,
Serial 03756, for lands in HE Sur
vey No. 101, new series No. 1194,
and additional Homestead Entry,
Serial 06966, for lands in U. S. Sur-i
voy No. 1434. Those surveys are
both situated about one mile easter
ly from the mouth of Mendenhall
River, twelve miles north of Ju-j
nonu. Alaska, in latitude 58° 22'
North and longitude 134° 34' West,
and more particularly described as
follows:
Commencing at cor. No. 1, HE
Survey No. 101 whence U.S.
L.M. No. 4 4 F. S. bears North
68° 54’ W. 42.28 chs.; running
thence N. 89° 34' E. 26 chs. to
cor. No. 2, thenco S. 0° 17' E.
60.08 chs. to cor. No. 3, thence
S. 89° 40’ W. 2y.00 chs. to cor.
No. 4, thence, N. 0° 20' W.
60.09 chs. to 'cor. No. 1 the
place of beginning, containing
an area 120.14 acres. Variation
31° 14’ East.
Commencing at cor. No. 1, U.
S. Survey No. 1434, whence U.
S.L.M. No. 381 hears S. 49° 08’
E. 90.24 chs.; thence N. 0° 21'
W. 20.00 chs. along the easterly
line U. S. Survey No. 381 to
cor. No. 2; thence N. 89° 4 0'
E. 19.99 chs. to cor. No. 3 iden- ,
tical with Cor. No. 3 H.E. Sur
vey No. lot; thence S. 0° 36'
E. 20.20 chs. to cor. No. 4;
thence N. 89° 45' W. 20.08 chs.
to cor. No. 1 the« place of be
ginning; containing 40.26 acres.
Variation 31° 15' E.
FRANK A. BOYLE,
Register.
First publication July 26, 1923.
Last publication Sept. 24, 1923.
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CAPITAL DTE WORKS
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Stand Arctic Pool Room
PHONE 444
U & I Taxi Service
PHONE 64.
Nick Lakich, Proprietor.
"We will take you anywhere,
anytime.”
CALL
Berry’s Auto Service
for that seven-pasenger 1923
Cadillac touring car. Stand at
Gastineau Hotel. Popular
prlcse. Phone 10.
Also seven-passenger Sedan,
Day and Night Service
Call 362.
Miller’s Taxi Sendee
I TWO CARS
. Stand Alaakan Hotel -
I' PHONE—SINGLE 0
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. DrVighne
Malory Building
Moon 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office. 104; Rea. 101.
Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, I A. M. to > P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Rea. Phone 176
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Dr. W. J. Pigg
PHYSICIAN
Office—Second and Main
Telephone 18
Dr. W. A. Borland
Phyiician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
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GEO. I. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Messerschmidt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phone 269.
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Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Goldstein Building
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to S)
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
Phones: Office, 167; Residence
Phone 612, Coliseum Apte.
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Drs. Kaser & Freebnrger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Ooldsteia lid*.
PHONE M
Hour* » a. m. ta 9 9. a.
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Dr. Charles P. Jem*
DENTIST
Room* R and 9 VaWntlne Bldg.
Telephone 176.
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Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
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fraternal Societies
-OF
Gastineau Channel
0 . SLIi
Meeting Wednesday
Evenings at 8:00
o'clock, Elka' Hall.
Charles P Jenne,
Exalted Ruler,
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freemasonry
Scottish Kite
Regular meetings
• second and fourth
I Fridays each month
at 7:30 p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B, HEISBL, Secretary,
I. o. o. w.
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. I A.
Meeeta every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellowa’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Qrand|
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAU LODES
No. 147, r. a A. M.
Stated Cornmurrlpatlon
Second and SVmrtn Mondays
of •■art Month. In ndd Wllc—a
«all. beginning at T:*S o'clock.
Homer G. Nordllng. Master.
C has. E. Naftnel. Secretary.
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Order of the
EASTERN STAR
(Second nnd Fourth TiM»
days of each month.
At * o’clock, I. O. O. F Halt
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NOItnUNU, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
hkghb rb council w»
17'*t). Meetings second
and last Mondays st T.M
t>. m. Transient Broth*
ers urged to attend. Council Cliarobrn
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, O. K.
J. L. McCloskey, Socretary.
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AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 9. in.
Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 97 3; O. 18.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 199.
Elks' i»dge
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 9 o'clock.
Moose Hall. B. F.
Rodenberg, Dictator; R. H. Steven*
Secretary.
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WOMEN OF M00SEHEART
LEGION
1 Juneau Chapter No. 439 1
Meeting second and fourth
Tuesday of each month, 8
o’clock, Moose Hall. Mrs. C. W.
Bender, Senior Rogent; Mrs. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary. |
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7 AUXILIARY, PIONEER* Of
I ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
! Meets last Thursday of every
j month. Social hour with mem
I bers of Pioneer Ixxlge to fol
low euch meeting.
I Mrs. Lottie Splckett, President.
| Mrs. Lillie Burford, Secretary.
WHERE
SUCCESS
BEGINS
The road to success begins at the Savin pi Window.
How early you attain lucoeti depends on how
often yon deposit. Many of oar captain* of industry
owe their success in a large part to the hahit of
thrift acquired in youth. Have you started your boy
in the right direction f
The B. M. Behrends Bank
JTOIAtf, ALASKA. . . A