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Use the Miiror as an Object Lesson.
By ZARAH E. PREBLE.
Little Robert came tramping into(
the room where his mother ami I
were talking. She took one look at i
the messy little figure and exclaimed
angrily—"Robert! You are a niaugh
ty, bad, dirty child! 1 told you not
to get dirty, and now look at you
I don’t love you any more.”
The child looked down at himself
and his month quivered at his motn
er's words and tone. “I'm not dirty,;
Muwer—ea my hands, see!" lie
held out two grimy little paws. Hej
was honestly sincere in his denial,;
but his mother was too upset !;< see,
that fact.
“Don't lie about it," she said very '
grimly.
He looked at her piteously, and ,
tears came into his eyes. "I'm not
dirty, Muwer,” he repeated. "Jes
roy hands and I can wash ’em.”
His mother glared. I felt that ;
punishment-unjust punishment, for,
the child was not, aware of his o -n 1
condition—was in the air. i rqftikl |
not help Interfering.
“Robert.” T said gently, talcing one
of the dirty little hands in mine,
and leading him over to th m.error, i
“Stand up on this chair and ''t'i
play a game. You look in the glass j
and then tell me quite truthfully!
what you think about that littls boy
in there.”
He looked, half fearfully, but my
smile reassured him.
“Is he clean or dirty?" I asked.
“His faee is dirty,” he replied,
“and his hands are dirty."
KALTAG SURVEY
NOW POSTPONED
Territorial Road Commission
Defers Examination of
Yukon River Cutoff.
No survey or the 1'nalakleet Ka!
tag portage will be made tills season,
according to an announcement made]
today by Gov. Scott C. Bone. At a j
meeting of the Territorial Road Com
mission, held in the Governor's of- j
fice yesterday, it was decided to]
postpone this undertaking until the
season of 1921.
Provision for the survey for the j
purpose of determining the. feasibil
ity of constructing a tram or wagon ]
road over this portage was made j
in a bill passed by the Territorial
Legislature last Spring. It carries'
an appropriation of $:!,000 for defray
ing the expenses of the investiga
tion. It was introduced by Repre-1
aentative John Wilson of Nome.
No immediate necessity exists for |
making the examination. No fund i
Is provided for (he construction of a
tram or wagon rond if such construct
lng ftiiould be found to lie feasible
and the only action required follow
ing the survey Is to make a report
covering It to the 1925 session of!
the Legislature. Ry making the
examination next season, all data I
can be assembled for the Legislature
which meets the following year.
"Mow about his rompers and his
knees?” I asked.
"They're dirty, too,” he admitted.
"All right. Now, who's the boy?
What's his name?”
He smiled shamefacedly up at my
i:nagi in the mirror. "Robert.”
I nodded. "All right. You see
you just didn't know you were so
dirty, did you? Not until you saw
yourself. But mother could see you,
and she knew you were dirty, and
that was why she thought you were
not telling the truth. Now you know
the truth, so you can go and tell
her that you are a dirty boy, but
that you are sorry.
He nodded, and started to cl.mn
down from the chair, when he hap
pened to glance once more into the
mirror. "You have a lot of powder
on your face,” he said.
I laughed. “I guess I ought to
have looked at myself. Thank you,
Robert, I'll take some of it off.”
His mother smiled quizzically at
me. “Your lesson hit three ways,”
she said. "I didn't stop to think
that he couldn’t see anything but
his hands. I'm sorry, son, that I
said you were lying to me. Now go
and wash yourself, and put on a
clean pair of rompers.”
“You will find the mirror better
than punishing,” I said. "And don't
call the children vain, and make
them self-conscious, when they look
in it to see if they are all right.
Just teach them to criticize that
image, and fry to Improve upon it.
ZEY MAY BE IN
BIG RACE TODAY
CINCINNATI, June 30.—The final
big stake event for three-year-olds
runners to cojneUp for decision is the
$15,000 added Latonia Derby, to be
run at Latonia today. There being
no conflicting racing event, it is be
lieved the Rancoras stable will send
Zev, winner of the Kentucky Derby,
to compete in the event.
Under the conditions of the* La
tonia Derby, the winner of the Ken
tucky Derby, if successful at La
tonia, receives an additional $5,000.
Should Zev accomplish Ihis feat, the
race will net his owner approximately
$21,000.
By reason of their respective vic
tories In the Preajknoss and Ken
tucky Derby. Virgil and Zev must
carry scale weight of 12G, non-wln
ners of a race of $25,000 value, five
pounds less; non-winners of $5,000
eight pounds less, and maidens, 12
pounds less than the scale bores.
Other eastern horses that hav>
been nominated for the Latonia fea
ture are Martingale, Chickvale, Rial
to. Enchantment. Hud Lerne.r, Nas
sail, Hobgoblin. Little Celt. Cherry
Pie and Wilderness. These will
fage the best of the Kentucky han
dicap division.
A. Min,anl, superintendent of the
Sanborn-Cutting Company, is in Ju
neau today on a business trip.
LABOR UNIONS
NOT ATTACKED
SAYS HARDING
President Declares Adminis
j tration Is Not Trying to
Overthrow Labor.
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port unity of shaping the lives and
minds of their children "
Asks Support.
At the conclusion of his pre
pared address President Hardin*
asked the people of Montana to
1 ‘ give their influence" to bring about
'the membership of America in the!
; World Court to the end that war
; might be avoided among the na
! (ions.
Laying aside his manuscript, 'lie
I President enumerated the costs of
i war end declared tiiut "it is in the
I heart of every American that we
! never want war again."
The audinece loudly applauded;
i and the cheering lasted for /several,
1 minutes.
! During his prepared speech. Hard-:
ing’s declaration against “deflation!
of labor and the overthrow of labor
! organizations" evoked applause as
did his declaration for universal con
scription in war time.
SPEECH IS ASSAILED.
| WASHINGTON, June JO.—Samuel
jGompers, in a statement today as
sailing some cf the statements made
by President Harding in his Helena
speech yesterday, , declared that
"labor requires more than a man's
speech to balance against the acts
that have gone before.
“We believe the President is sin
cere in nVt wanting labor unions, de
stroyed. No r.ane person would want]
any such catastrophe but we cannot!
indulge in any tumults of applause!
because the unions themselves saved
the day and have done it In spite
of official acts of some of the Presi
dent’s leading advisors."
PICKS FORD TO WIN
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DETROIT, June 30.—Senator
James Couzens, Republican, de
clares that Henry Ford will be I
I elected President of the United
| States If he Is nominated hy
| the Democratic party.
COL. O. B. PERRY WILL
VISIT YUKON BEFORE LONG
Col. O. B. Perry, former general
manager and chief engineer of the j
Yukon Gold Company, but since the
war in charge of the placer tin oper
ations of the Guggenheims in the I
Straits Settlements, will visit Daw
son and the Mayo district this sum*
iner. He will look over the dredg
ing operations of the Yukon Gold
in the Klondike and make, a thorough
Inspection of the same company's
operations at Keno Hill and else
where in the Mayo district.
SENATOR BROOKHART SEES
PROSPERITY FOR RUSSIA
CONSTANTINOPLE, Juno 30. —
Senator Smith M. Brookhart, who
has arrived here from Moscow, says
! Russia will have good crops this year
and will be a benefactor }n the world
markets next year through the ex
portations of foodstuffs. '
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j SUCCESSFUL MEN BEST MODELS FOR BOYS IN BUSINESS
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CHICAGO—The office boy’s rule
for success is to pick out one of
the men above him who is making
a big success and to study that
nan in everything he dots. This
nds was given to the 220 office boys
•f Marshall Field ft Company at
the firm's Boys’ Week luncheon.
Eight executives with terms of
ass vies with the hou_j totalling 234
Mars attended the boy’s luncheon.
J£acfc of these executives had start
«d with the fins as errand boy.
W. & Clark, fifty years with the
fens, superintendent of shipoing
fat the wholesale branch, told the
w that nearly every important
of the house, including
James Simpson, had
tit
as an er
in the world to see bow men suc
ceed," said Mr. Clark, "Study the
men above you. Pick out aome
JUDGE RENDERS JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON.
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Judge Joseph David, In Municipal Court, in Chicago, was
forced to.render the Judgment o: Solomon when he awarded to
Mrs. Julia Warznu Pribylski Mi • custody of 5-year-old Leona Fa
llcia Warzna and pronounced her the real mother of the child.
Mrs. Nicholas Lenz. who also claimed the child, collapsed. Mrs.
Pribylski claimed the child was born to her in Poland in 1918.
Mrs. Lenz asserted the child was born to her In Chicago as the
result of a Carsarian operation the same year. Judge David as
serted there had been much perjury in the case.
WHO WILL BE
“MISS LIBERTY"?!
CLOSE CONTEST
Miss Hendricks Only 14 Votes
in Lead of Miss Oja—Con
test Closes Midnight.
. Who will reign as ‘-Miss Liberty"
in Juneau July Fourth? With only
until midnight Mnight when voting
will cease the question hangs in the
balance betweeu Miss Daisy Oja and
Miss "Sandy" Hendricks, contestants
In the American Legion contest.
At noon today Miss Hendricks was
in the lead by 14 votes, having a
total of 779, Miss Oja's being 765.
However, this lead signifies littleHn
the final outcome.
“Miss Liberty1* will lead the fes
tivities of the Fourth, starting in
the morning at the head of the big
parade to ha. Mp&cli She will be
enthroned on a float of beauty, es
pecially designpii and constructed by
■the Legion. Her gown will be one
of the most 'beautiful silk and her
friends will be her ladles in waiting.
Throughout the day she will be rec
ognized as the Queen of the Day
and be accorded honors in defer
ence to her position.
This honor win go cither to Miss
Oja or Miss Honrfricks and will be
decided by the people of Juneau in
the final voting today. Friends of
each of the fair contestants hold out
for their favoirUp9ian.d||the polls will
be ihc muin meeting place of many
at midnight.
The winner will be announced in
Monday’s Empire.
ALMA WILL MAKE TRIP
TO TAKU TOMORROW
An opportunity to view the beau
ties of Tnku Inlet and Taku Glacier
will be afforded excursionists who.
leave Gastlneau Channel at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning on the
Juneau Kerry .'AuNavi gat Ion Company
already booked Jo go and tickets will
be on sale untffv tlie time of depart
ure. The boat • is scheduled to re
turn here at 4 o'clock tomorrow af
ternoon.
As on every excursion conducted
by the company, coffee will be served
aboard ship and the excursionists
need only bring lunch for them
selves.
boat
FUNERAL, OF RANKER
WILL BEHOLD TOMORROW
The funeral services for Erwin
Danker, who was (Downed at Speel
River ' last'week, will be held to
morrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at
Moose Hall, under the allspices of
the local Moose lodge, of which
Danker was' a ’member. Mrs. Si
gurd Wallsteailwi 11 preside at the
piano and Leslie White will sing a
solo. Interment will be in the
Mooose Plot, Evergreen Cemetery.
The pall bearers will be: Pete
Masci. John Pa>tl, Oiaf Bolding,
Sam Rosenborg. Lloyd Ritter, Thom
as Hanson and Thomas Darby.
TOURING ON YACHT
The yacht Westerly, owned by the
Ames, of Ames Ship Builders, Se
attle, arrived in Juneau last even
ing with a party aboard, touring^ in
this district. The boat remained an
chored off the Admiral Line dock
until this afternoon, when it left.
DEPARTMENT MAKES RUN
TO FIRE ‘ ON BASIN ROAD
An alarm turned In shortly after
3 p. m. today took the fire depart
ment to a small blaze on Basin
Road out beyond the water tank at
the top of the hill, it was reported
to be a fence fire causing little-dam
age.
MILWAUKEE TAKING
STEPS TO ELIMINATE
CITY’S PUBLIC DEBT
MADISON, Wis., .June 30.—The
gradual elimination of Its public
debt with a consequent reduction of
taxes, is to be undertaken by the
city of Milwaukee as the result of
enactment by the Wisconsin Legisla
ture of a bill creating: a public debt
amortization fund. The Wisconsin
city is said to he the first in the
United States to take such a step.
Under the new Milwaukee plan
the city is compelled annually to set
aride $250,000. This growing fund
is allowed to accumulate with com
pound interest until it reaches an
amount equal to three-fourth of the
city's bonded indebtedness. After
: that time, the law provides, three
j fourths of the annual income front
the accumulated fund is paid to the
city treasury, with the principal
; still allowed to grow by the amount
of the city's contribution and one
fourth of the interest.
To start the plan the present ad
ministration has deposited $400,000
in the amortization fund. Another
$250,000 is to bo deposited next
| January 1. With this rate contln
| uod, it is estimated that Milwaukee's
I debt will disappear in 40 years, and
j the city tax rate will have been re
; duced one-third..
EDUCATION OFFICIALS TO
ARRIVE HERE ON ALASKA
U. S. Commissioner of Education
1 John J. Tigert and Stipt. W. T.
J Lopp, of the Bureau of Education
; for Alaska, left Seattle today on the
steamer Alaska for Juneau. It Is
expected both these officials will
remain here several days.
Com-mii-sioncr Tigert has called a
confagGnce of the five district su
pervisors of the Bureau in Alaska
to be held in Anchorage on July
15th. They will discuss problems
j arising in connection with their work
I and general policies of the Bureau.
■ Both officials, it is understood, will
j visit Fairbanks.
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! UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE MAKES
GREAT STRIDES IN ENGLAND
j London, June 30.—Esperanto
ithe universal language, is making
j much headway in England among
] the commercial classes. The Brit
I ish Esperanto Association, organized
in the interests of furthering the
language in Great Britain, has
grown by leaps and bounds.
The association has about 15,000
active members, and classes are held
in IJbndon seven times a week.
[englands quest of letters.
I I ..Off DON, June 30.—In the 12
i months Just ended the British post?
I office handled the enormous number
lef 3,300.000,000 lettdfs, 500,000,
! 000 postcards. 1,500,000 printed pa
j pers, 175,000,000 newspapers and
120.000. 000 parcels. The total iB
5.050.000. 000 pieces of mail.
Of the 120,000,000 parcels no,
fewer than 30,000,000 were wrongly
j addressed, or not addressed at all,
while., thousands of tons of letters
were not delivered for the same
reason??.
SIBERIAN FLAX TO COMPETE
IN MARKETS OF WORLD
VLADIVOSTOK. June 30.—Ener
getic steps are being taken by the
government to increase the number
of acres under flax in the Primorla.
The country is pre-eminently suited
for this fibre, and It is hoped thus
to win back the markets which Rus
sia once had.
The Russian authorities state that
three fifths of the former flax used
in the markets of the world was ex
ported from Russia and, with the
[vast amount of land at present lying
I uncultivated in the Russian Far
I East, flax can be produced so cheap-[
lly here that it will be able to com-i
I pote favoably with tli'e output of|
1 all other countries.
MARBLES’ WATERPROOF MATCHBOX
Take cnc along on your next fishing trip.
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1 JUNEAU HARDWARE COMPANY I
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WASH WITH A SMILE I
Let the SUNNYSUDS ELECTRIC WASHER do
your next washing; it’s cheaper than elbow grease.
Cost of operating less than 2 cents per hour. ,
SOLD ON EASY TERMS *;
ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO.
PHONE 6 JUNEAU, ALASKA.
Home of Radio Phone Supplies and Edison Madza Lamps. —
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CHILDREN CRT FORlTI
They want our electrically cooked V
bread and pastry. Tou will all Uk*
It Try It. Three loaves 25 cents.
Also groceries at cheapest price.
Phone 393. We Dellrss
American Bakery and
Grocery
"The Baker Who Bakes." ■ ■ >* *'
UNION MACHINE WORKS
MINING AND MARINE
MACHINISTS f
G. W. SINCLAIR
Shop Telephone 331. Residence Telephone 227
FOUNDATION FOR A SUCCESSFUL TEAR
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The cornerstone of a building is Arm and
lasting. But the corner stone of a savings ac
count in this bank—a dollar bill—is more than
that. It not only lasts, it grows I
Lay the cornerstone of your snooese today—
at this bank. ,
Interest at the rate of four per oent paid ’
on savings deposits.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
JUNEAU, ALASKA
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Dress Up Your Home
‘—with gardens and lawns I
that are appropriately!
beautiful.',
And to keep your grounds
looking theirvbest7you*
will need this"qualitye
hardware.
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