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CIHOUT-ATION GUARANTEED TO BE MORE THAN
jKHJBl-E THAT OE ANY OTHER AEASKA NEWSPAPER.
THK COPPER STOCK SLUMP
Follcwtng the drc ,i in the price of copper from
17M: to la'a cents there lias been an average shrink
age in tiie price of copper stocks of about 22 per cent.
While it is believed the decline in the price of cop
per ir. tiie direct cause for a slump in copper stocks
tlie Boston Nt wf Bureau intimates that one must gc
further for the reason for such a marked falling off
it thinks ihe French occupation of the Ruhr, decreas
ing the capacity of German consumers to purchase
metal, is probably accountable for the extent of
the drop.
The Bor.v. n N't tvs Bureau points out that, not
withstanding the drop in the price of copper, tilt
rtatietical position of the metal is stronger than ut
; ny time since the w ar demand ceased. The stir
plus stock of refined copper Is now only a little over
200,000,00 pounds against 750,000,000 in 1919. in
oilier words tile supply at tiie refineries is equal tc
c.nly five weeks’ requirements for export and domestic
consumption.
It adds:
Just the same the market price has had
a set-back of 2 cents, probably tiie reflection
of continued paralysis of German co-pper
uiing industries in the Ruhr. With the
American copper producing Industry nor
mally depending upon Europe to take not
less than 50 per cent, of our total output
and Germany our biggest single export cos
tumer, it is very plain that the French
occupation is raising havoc with the plans
of tiie American mining interests.
DOCTORS' USE OF ALCOHOL.
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Judge Knox's decision that Congress had
no power to prevent a physician from pre
scribing more than a pint of liquor for a
patient in ten days in doubtless good law.
It Is certainly common. sense. Prohibition
means prohibition of alcohol as a beverage.
It does not mean interference with the use
of alcohol for other purposes, if it did, the
Eighteenth Amendment would be very poorly
drawn. There are differences of opinion
upon tiie value of alcohol as medicine, but
this is no reason why Congrets should as
sume Ito ray what amount may be harmful.
That is a question for physicians to decide.
Fer Congress ;o lay down an arbitrary limit
in such a matter ts not to conserve tiie
luaitli of hie people Imt to endanger it. In
imposing inch a ymit ^ ongrers took a re
sponsibility that physicians themselves would
dfdine to take and. thus confronted them
wiith the possible ohoice of breaking tile law
< r refusing relief to a patient. This dilemma
Judge Knox demolishes. (New York Rost.)
For Alaska Congress and in many * States thi
l.egl.'lutuirs have gone a great deal further that
, the Eighteenth Amendment or the Volstead Act
They have declared that physicians cannot prescribe
liquor in any quantity for their patients. In many
States where they have •bone dry laws" the Legis
latures have not only regulated the use of beverages
but they have pi seed themselves above file physicians
and declared Unit liquor cannot be used us medicine.
Oi course, doctors frequently prescribe liquor in in
fluenza and ot her bases but when they do eo they
violate the law.
THE INVISIBLE TRADE BALANCE.
We are hearing of lute more about the invisible
trade balance against the United Stutcs in our com
mercial relations with Europe. This is explained
to Include money remitted to Europe by Europeans in
this country, money expended by American tourists
In Europe and money paid for freight and insurance
ca .our exports and imports that are shipped in for
eign bottoms. 1: is estimated that these items amount
approximately to $75,000,000 a monh -or $900,000,
000 a'year.
EUROPEAN.REHABILITATION AWAITS
ABANDONMENT OF CHEATING.
There is email chance for industrial, financial
slid commercial rehabilitation on the continent of
Europe until the people of the most populous coun
tries there abandon inflation. As long as Russia
and 4ia\ many continue theif apparently sleltnlloly
accepted policy of debasing their currency, thus
cheating their own people and those who have been
a ufficlently fruitful of their governments to purchase
their securities or take their paper money, there is
no ahance that the world will have sufficient faith
to engage in bn.-linw-s with them on a basis that will
develop into large traffic. There may lie some ex
change of commodities and credits oil a barter and
(ale basis, but there cannot bo a restoration of bunk
ing arrangmentf .hat an necessary where businoss
is pnrootrtcted.
Rcicola and Germany have cheat ed their own
people who held public eociiriteis by paying off their
obligations witli dx-barod money and they have con
tinued that fraudulent process by jeeuitig paper money,
getting value for it and then destroying the
-mo^££ paid by smothering it with Iurlher issues
(from thg pcinUng. prerres. People do not care to do
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business with countries that have no higher regard
for common honesty.
All of this suggests that the United States should
look toward the South and North for business ex
pansion. Latin America is largely undeveloped and
has unlimited natural resources and tlho iMisslbilltles
in Canada are almost as great. Let American capital,
organising genius and energy be directed toward home
development and development of other regions of the
Western Hemisphere, and ithere will soon be a market
for the products of our shops in countries where
“honesty is the best policy" Is si ill accepted as a
truth.
Again Henry Kurd denounces Wall Street. The
! experts of New York’s financial center figured out
that among the $760,000,000 assets of Henry Ford
| was $153,000,0,00 In cash. Henry Ford says that Is
j false because lie has more than *t'OO.Ooo.Ooo cash ou
> hand.
Co.Tee boiled in New Torn was still hot when
| drunk by aviators who had carried it across the
lcontine.it to San Diego. New York lias long been a
; hot old town aiiU her heat always carries far.
At that Admiral Sims’ speeches have caused his
own country far more worry than his professional
ability has caused* to any of its enemies.
For the Father of Rubber Industry.
(Boston News Bureau.)
A monument to Charles Goodyear?" Why not?
j Uo not the men who found vast industries deserve
j as well of the race as the men who command its
armies? If Millet earned his fame by painting "The
Man with the Hoc" hard at work wresting a living
from the soil, does not the 'tnan who made the reaper
deserve the gratitude of the race he delivered from
fear of famine? The pioneers merit the monuments
erected in their names, be they statesmen, writers,
architects, explorers, scientists, or the inventors and
industial geniuses who made the 'way for the conquest
of nature James Watt was one of the founders of
modern civilization j. he deserves many memorials, yet
the majority do not think of him as one of the great
benefactors of mankind. Goodyear deserves his monu
nunl; he did for tile vast rubber industry what
i Kdir.on did for electric lighting, what the Wrights
i did for aviation, what William H. Perkin did for
uniline dyes.
A century ago rubber was sticky and bad smell
ing in hot weather. The fastidious would have noth
ing to do with the unpleasant stuff. It tended to melt
at. anything above a very moderate temperature and
| to lose all its spring. Kven the heat of an ordinary
August day made it flabby and inert. Men dimly saw
the commercial posslbilties of rubber, but these draw
backs teemed fatal. Get rid of the odor, keep the
i elasticity, harden the stuff yet preserve its pliability,
; and then what marvels might be wrought with what
!men called India rubber" because a chunk of it was
! gcod for rubbing out pencil marks,
j Charles Goodyear, a Connecticut Yankee, solved
, that problem. A German chemist discovered in 1832
i that the gum could be hardened by treating it with
I rulphur dlsolvo-J In turpentine. Goodyear adoped that
j hint. Ten years in ull lie toiled over tile puzzle.
; lie had no money. Ills lather’s business went to
smash in 1830. In 1836 he found that nitric acid
I would take away the exterior stickiness. That helped.
I He found a real demand for the rubber shoes he began
to manufacture in Rhode Island. But under the eur
i face of tlie “Goodyear rubber" the old trouble re
mained.
Then a "lucky accident" befell him. On a day in
183!) he happened to drop a mixture of rubber and
j sulphur on a hot stove in his kitchen laboratory.
In amazement he watched while the two things fused
into a now thing, lie now had a tough, elastic, solid
thing, the very thing that has abolished much of the
j clamor ot the world, made man’s footing safe, and
i made possible the motor car industry. He hud found
I vulcanized rubber. And lie could vary it at will,
. by adding a little more or a little less of the sulphur.
I He died too soon to realize what a great boon
, lie had conferred on the race. That the possibilities
| o' rubber were almost endless lie knew but he could
: not have dreamed of the swift and silent wheeling
of today. Probably the greatest thing he ever saw
; was a hospital cut fitted out for Civil War use with
i three tiers of pallets suspended ut the corners by
j stout Hug's of rubber to neutralize the jolts of travel
; and deliver ihte boneaplintered patients from the tor
tures they must otherwise have endured.
A monument lor Charles Goodyear?" Certainly
j Perhaps In Boston, for here he made his discovery;
lor in Akron, the city founded on his discovery oi
I In New York, which feels itself to have a Vlain
, Heeause Goodyear there dlncovered his nitric acid pro
icess. The nows comes from London of the sugges
l t.on of a Goodyear monument there also. He did
much for the race; he deserves to be remembered
ami honored by such a memorial.
Nations Must Be Righteous.
(San Francisco Bulletin.)
The way of secret and lying diplomacy loads
ultimately and inevitably to destruction, no matter
what it« temporary gains.
Hgihteoutnesa exaltetli a nation, and in interna
tional Intercourse righteousness means truthfulness.
I lit honesty in nations rails for honesty in
their leaders, and it ia the luck of truthfulness
m leadership that is the parent evil of so mam
troubles.
In 1HH a powerful nation believed that It wa>
strong enough to set aside the Ten Commandments,
and to put the will to pbwer in their place It held
that -Thou shall not kill." "Thou shalt not steal"
and Dion shult not bear false witness" did not ap
ply to a whole people that believed itself divinely
urged lo conquer and rule the world.
Today that nation Is in misery, and is begging
for mercy of those that it set out to enslave.
After more than four years of wanton bloodshed
it learned the ele.nal truth that "Thou shalt not
kill is not only a divine command, but expresses a
divine law, and those that break it must pSy.
Mr. Bryan doesn't seem to be able to run am
better in a Presbyterian General Amenably than hi
used to run when he thought he was a politica
sprinter.—(Cincinnati Enquirer )
frlolvie V °f Jap;ins confidence fu Russia':
tilenuly advance* cun be judged by the fact tha
when the Japanese iishing fleet sails toward the Si
“ <0nve'v of SUttboats goes along.
(Detroit Free Press.)
This is a wonderfully productive country, and tl
indications now are that within ten vears we sha
have 110.000.000 law*.—(Cleveland Commercial.)
Uilh no Congrosa. no Legislature and no
in the immediate offing, there is nothing t
about but the weather. — (Detroit Free Press )
election
o worry
How Is Europe going to balance her budget when
y.ie can't balance herself without holding onto Uncle
Sam with lioth hands?—(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
Instructions in golf is now given by radio, and
this may explain the games put up by some players
— (New York Herald.)
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
The old-fjintoned man who thought
he was being robbed when he had to
pay $3 a day for labor for lrt hours’
work now has a atm who grins when
ho pays plasterers $20 a day for
spending five hours a day on the job.
The Ananias Club
“I'll go to jrttls dance on one con
dition, “declared her husband, "and
that is I dancf>;aatiy writh you and not
be made to npeml-411 evening tripping
around with a lot.of pretty girls."
Russians Are Out 'a Luck
Blinks- d have just read that Rus
sia Imported 264 motor car t last year.
Jinks Croat Scott.' Can't they
kill 'em off fast enough over therei
with machine gnu without resorting
to the juggernauts.’
Ever Notice—
That long ta5Jt.' nearly always are
short of Ideas?
No Wonder She Was Frightened
She waa trembling like a leaf and
her face was while as the proverbial
I sheet.
“For heaven’s sake, what’s the mat
' ter? What ha3 happened?" exclaimed
I her alarmed husband.
“Oh! Oh!" I Just saw- a ghost. Tills
house must ,be haunted and 1 won’t
stay here another night,” exclaimed
the Spiritual medium.
Fool Questions
F. R. asks can a cook be arrested
for taking French leave? Depends
altogether on what he took besides
that.
Always Leave Your Address Before
You Die
(Personal lamped in Chicago Trib
jihe.)
Personal An * one knowing the ad
dress of Howard Hippie, died May
Is, communicate with Win. Piske, 150
N. lies PI.Hnes.
V thorough understanding of one's
self and the courage to do the right
thing, no matter what the conse
quences, is the best assurance of a
| successful future. —J. E. F.
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^Compositors Ought to Write the Fun
ny Columns
Writing of a woman who had been
|very popular in a certain town, and
i who had recently died, an editor
i said: It is feared her husband will
; he unable to hear her demise. Un
fortunately this was unwittingly al
lerod by the compositor to: It is
feared her husband will be unable
i to wear htfti chAmise.—.From News
| for Women. ’ 3V citfucmporary.
If It Fits—
Constant frictioa never wears off
I the rough edge- ftf married life, you
j.bet.
If she is Just pretty a girl can
catch a man, but she has to be pretty
smart to hold him.
Most men arc modest but now and
then you find ono who thinks the
secret sorrow of all the women he
knows is that they didn't ge,t the
chance to many him.
The poor fish, who is love sick will
get over it all right, 'but there isn't
i much hope for tho poor fool who is
i sick nr marrlagfij;
Nothing makes the 'modern girl
| any more indignant than to have her
i mother try to apply her grand
i mother’s rules for bringing up chil
dren to this generation.
We guess it' w^iuld be a heap easier
to got the people of today to boy
cott a necessity than it would be to
got them to boycott u luxury.
It is a mistake to say a, woman
wants the l»yi word. You should
make word pltaral.
When we hear some .people hrag
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HOTEL SEATTLE
“Home of Alaskans"
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
| R. Li. HODQDON, Manager
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It’s all In knowing HOW to do
flrst-clase cleaning and dyeing.
i CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
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“ the makino 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 82.
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LAD
YWxi
PI9U 48.
lliYWY of
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JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Mores, Peeks ted Stores Freifht
sad leffiffe.
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ging about the things they have we |
always are tempted to ask them how
many installment collectors call dur- |
lug the week
■So far we have failed to hear a |
single Woman who tips the beams at
150 or over, advocating the general
use of knickers for women
We nave often wondered how the
officiating preacher could keep a
straight face when 'the little sawed
off piece of humanity she ;s marrying
promises to protect the big husky, 1
hatchet-faced bride. I
Daily Sentence Sermon
Working way into the dead of
night has made many a man a live
•one. j
News of the Names Club j
H. .VI . of Seattle, sends us word
that he met ,.n itinerant preacher
In a small town near that city named
A Howler, 'N’uff sed.
Will H. Hardup, of Harrisburg, is
earnestly hoping his name doesn’t
mean anything. I
NOTICE.
Willoughby Avenue closed be- j
tween Cole's barn and Femmer j
dock. J C. W. BENDER,
-adv. Street Commisioner. !
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Furniture moved and stored.
Heavy hauling done. Phone 48. Ju
neau Transfer. —adv (
IF BACK HURTS
BEGIN ON SALTS
Flush Your Kidneys Occasionally I
by Drinking' Quarts of
Good Water.
No man or women can make a1
mistake by flushing the kidneys oc
casionally, says a well-known auth
ority. Too much rich food creates *|
acids which clog the kidney pores soi
tdiat they sluggishly filter or strain
only part of the waste and poisons
from the blood. Then you get sick.
I Rheumatism. headaches, liver i
trouble, nervousness, constipation, j
i dizziness, sleeplessness, bladder dis-|
i orders often come front sluggish;
kidneys. ■*
The moment you feel a d|ill acho'|
in the kidneys or your back hurts.1
or if the urine is cloudy, offensive, I
full of sediment, irregular of pas
sage, or attended by a sensation ofi
scalding, begin to drink soft water i
in quantities; also get about four!
ounces of Jad Salts from any re-!
liable pharmacy and take a table
spoon in a glass of water before *
breakfast for a few days and your (
kidneys may then act fine.
This famous salts is made from
the acid of grapes and lemon juice,'
|combined with lithia, and has been;
used for years to help flush clogged!
kidneys anti stimulate them to activ-!
ity, also'to help neutralize the acids;
I in the system so t'hey no longer
[cause irritation, thus often relieving!!
! bladder disorders.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and can-!
not injure; makes a delightful ef-|
fervescent lithia-wuter drink, which!
everyone can take now and then to!
help keep the kidneys clean and the!
blood pure, thereby often preventing;
serious kidney complications. By allj
means have your physician examine,
your kidneys at least twice a year. ;
(advertisement.)
SAFE INVESTMENTS j
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City Bonds, Improvement
Bonds, School Bonds, Pint
Mortgage Loans, County War
rants. To net 6% to i% Inter
est. Correspondence solicited.
Win D. Perkins & Co. j
Bankers, Seattle, Wash t
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ELI MOORHOUSE & CO.
Certified Public Accountants
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| L. C. Smith Bldg., Seattle.
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| Audits and Income Tax Service
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, Annual visits to Alaska.
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USED FUBJUTURl
Bought, Sold and Exchanged
H. »0C0VICH
111 8eward St.
Telephone 441. P. O. Box 111.
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ALASKA COIL
FOR ALASKANS
—No soot
—Low in ash
—High in heat units
—Clean to handle
PHONE 418
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
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PROFESSIONAL_J
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Dr*. Kaser & Freebnrger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bldf.
PHONE N
Hours 9 a. m. U I t. a
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Dr. Charles P. Jenna
DENTIST
Rooms 8 sod 9 Valentins Bldg.
Telephone 176.
Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Hee. 108.
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Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 ‘P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Rea. Phone 216
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House bldg.
Telephone 172.
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Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Goldstein Building
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to I;
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. Farnham and
Ted Taylor, Props.
DR. R. N. DONAHEY
Same Good Service as In the
Past
HuTESON DOKAHEtf
Ootical Company^
108 Pike Street, Seattle.
Fraternal Societies
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Gaslineau Channel
0 . 1LKS
Meeting Wednesday
Evenings at 8:00
o’clock, Elks’ Hall.
Charles P. Jenna,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodiea
of Freeing to nry
Scottish Kite
Regular meeting*
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:80 p. m. Odd
| Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary,
i. o. o. w.
SILVER BOW
_ _ LODGE NO. > A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. U.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Qrand|
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
PERSEVERANCE mi!r«l
LODGE HO. 2A.
Meets every llrst and third
, Tuesdays In L O. O. F. Hall, at
! 8PM FRANCES GUSTAFSON,
| N. O ALPHONSINB CARTER,
I Secretary.
MOUNT JUNKAO LOOat
No. 147, F. « A. M.
Stated Communtfatlon
Sectnd and Fourth Mondars
of each Month. In Odd Fellc~s
| Mall. beginning at 7:JS o'clock.
Homer O Nordling, Master,
('has. E. Nagnel. Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth T
ar 'NA days of each month.
At 8 o'clock. I. O. O. F. Ha’L
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLINU, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OP
COLUMBUS
MKOHk HS COUNCIL MS.
17 <u. Meetings second
and last Mondays at 7:M
pro. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chambers
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, Q. K.
J. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 9. m.
Elks' i.oage Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; Q. M.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 198.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o'clock.
Moose Hall. B. F.
Rodenberg, 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.
Bender, Senior Regent; Mra. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
AUXILIARY, PIONEER! 0V
ALASKA, Igloo No. 6.
Meets last Thursday of every
| month. Social hour with tnem
i bers of Pioneer Lodge to fol
low each meeting.
Mrs. I/Ottle Splckett, President.
Mrs. Lillie Burford, Secretary.
WHERE
SUCCESS
BEGINS
The road to success begins at the aJ^j^Wjndow.
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
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