ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE1
JOHN W. TSOY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER
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NOVEL ARGUMENT I OR LONG DISTANCE
(i()\ ERNMENT.
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Many peculiar ideas concerning government have
been advanced in I his democratic America, but it re
mained for Urn New York Post to urge absentee
end long-distance government as distinctly preferable I
to self-government by those on the ground and offer]
as a reason for it that the long-distance government
would cause the local people to roar but roar in vain.
Discussing the Alaska fisheries question, advising
that tiie Government leave it till to experts, the Post
declared (the editorial in full appears in another
column):
If the Government will act upon expert
suggestions, making its rules fall as lightly
as possible upon the fishing industry a* at
pretent constituted, it will have done about
all it can do. No matter what course is
pursued, there will he roars of disapproval —
hut Washington is a long way from Alaska,
Tiie elemi nt of distance, which makes the
red-tape problem to difficult, ought to aid in
a stern, prompt and sensible solution of tiie
sqlmou difficulty.
It is not often that The Empire prefers tiie reason-j
ing of the New York Herald to that of the New |
York Post. However, we cannot refrain from asking
the Post to read and ponder Hie editorial in the
Herald of July 5, which clous with this paragraph:
Alaska will never be satisfied until it
gets "the American chance." Some day the
Federal Govenimen must take the risk that
Alaskuns will know how to run Alaska and
dispose of its resources. It is better that
men grow through self-government than that
tilings should be saved for the.ir descendants
through the holding power of a paternalist
' government.'"
And while the Post ponders, let it remember that,
the people who live in Alaska arc* Americans who;
were taught to regard highly the principles of gov-j
• tnrnent which lie at the foundation of our country,
including the declaration that ‘governments derive
their just powers from the consent ol tho governed." j
‘‘SAVE I S FROM 01 R FRIENDS.”
Prank A. Pattison, chairman of the Committee1
of 48, which recenily nominated Senator Borah for
President and began an active campaign for him, in'
a recent circular lot ter. discussing a statement that!
Senator Borah had not left tlte Republican Party and'
"'as reeking the nomination for Senator in Idaho j
• at the hand of that party, declared:
Furthermore i: in an open secret that
Senator Bcrali cannot possibly obtain a re
nomination from the Republican Party In
Idaho under their present convention sys
tem without deliberately making a trade
with the Republican machine in that slate.
This, however is one of tile crimes with
which I do not understand Senator Borah
lias yet been charged oven by his enemler.
Senator Horuii probably appreciates the position
of those who would bo saved from their friends. !
EXPLOITATION BY FEW IMPOSSIBLE.
Jn an editorial which appears in another column .
the Richmond Tlmos-Dlspatch, speaking of Alaskan:,
resources, say :
* * * * The chief need of the Territory
is not that its resources be thrown open to
tile exploiting capacity or a few hut elim
ination of rod tape which strangles the ef
forts of many individual settlors, who wish
to live and thrive anil develop the Territory.
Nothing could belli r illuFtrate tlie folly of Fed
eral landlordism and the need for scf-government
thun the comment cn Wi stern affairs one reads
iH the editorial columns of Pattern papers. They
make is so plain that non-residents of the country are
ignorant concerning the whole matter—-and there
cannot be satisfactory government through absentee
authority wlren those in authority do not know what'
they are trying to do.
In tile lirst plirce it would be absolutely Impos-;
tible for a few people to exploit Alaska The area'
ot tin country, the v.iritcy of its resources and iket
lact that mj many of them remain undisclosed ought
to demonstrate that to any one. Further, it would |
be impossible for those who might get possession of
the resources to make profitable us,, 0f t|iem without j
developing them, and development is what is heeded.
—that is what would be useful to Alaska and the1
country.
People who live in the Hast seem unable to under
hand that there is no danger to the public weltare
from the development of leeources by private capital as
long as the people have the control of their govern
ment through the bi llot. Tile people have learned j
how to protect themselves from any attempted im
position by capital. In fact they have used their
pcwe.r so effectively that it is often harder for the
capitalists tu gat a square deal Ilian il is for the
people to make them tote square. The talk of the
dangerr, through capitalistic exploitation has no ter
rors for tho.se who live where there are resources to
develop. The thing' that sometimes causes terror to
the spirit of the frontiersman is the task of inducing '
private capital to come West for the puriawe of ex
ploitation. Capitalists have been cinched ao often
»HM they hesitate before submitting their money to
the caprice of Western electors.
It is time that the residents of the older States
understood that they ought to risk something on ttie
assumption that (lie people in the West know how to
govern themselves. They ought to me earlier chap
ters in their own history as lessons in government.
Alaska is no: troubled half as much from red tape
as from the principles of absentee uverseelsm, a prin
ciple tliul is approved, apparently by the Richmond
paper. Homesteaders, mine locators, timber buyers
and others have their wants promptly attended to.
Those Eastern conservationists who would lock
up .all the Western resources to be held for their;
grandchildren are like the felow who was so patriotic
that he was,, willing that all his wife’s relations
should go to war. They would like to have the West
ern resources tied up so that they might he available
for future generations and. Incidentally, to make sure
they will not compote with developed natural re
sources that are in the private ownership of the
Easterners.
William R. Hearst added the twentieth newspaper
to his string when he recently purchased the
Rochester, N. Y.. Poet-Express. This iB the second
‘‘Up-State" New York newspaper, the other being at
Schenectady. Hearst now lias papers in.ton States
and the. District of Columbia—New York, Massachu
setts. .Maryland, Illinois, Michigan, V/isconsin, Geor
gia, Texas, Washington and California.
Suppose Westerners would begin a campaign for
a law that would permit the Federal Government to
condemn for Federal reservation purposes all the
undeveloped naturai resources ot the East—coal lands,
timber lands, water power and water power sites, oil
lands, etc.—and lands that would be useful for animal
and bird reservations, for its scenic beauties and other
attractions In which tlie public might be interested!
Wliat would the Eastern conservationists have to say?
"Lord Curzon rejects the twelve-mile limit.” How
about a two-bit limit?
Alaska Progress.
(Richmond Times-DiBpateh.)
The report of the Chief Geologist of the United
States Geological Survey regarding the mineral re-,
sources of Alaska and the progress being attained in |
their development affords interesting reading. A 1 it-1
fie more than half a century ago Alaska was acquired,!
by purchase from Russia for a consideration of $7,- j
000,000, It was money well invested. Its mineral ,
resources alone are of incomputable value, to say j
nothing of its various other resources of potential
wealth.
According to the report referred to, $18,000,000
worth of minerals was taken from its minis during
10^2. This makes a total of 1500,000,000 the mines
of Alaska have yielded 97 per cent, of this coming
front the deposits of gold, silver and copper. So far,
as everybody knows who has any knowledge of the
country's potentialities admits, the surface of the Ter
ritory is scarcely scratched; vaster resources still]
are hidden there, and they will be enriching civlli-1
zation long after the present generation has disap-’
peared.
In his report, the Alaskan get logist declares that1
the metal industry has been handicapped by the lack
of fuel, but adds that the coal mining done during j
the year has supplied the most urgent need for1
cheaper fuel along the Alaskan Railroad. The coal
deposits in the Territory are exceedingly rich, and
nice they are made available by a more liberal policy
of exploitation supported by the Federal Government,!
including, of course, adequate facilities for cheaper I
transportation, they will prove a veritable mine of i
wealth.
While all this Is true as to the vastness of Alaskan
resources, the chief need of the Territory is not that
Its resources be thrown open to the exploiting capac
ity of a few, but elimination of the red tape which
strangles the efforts of many individual settlers, who
wish to live and thrive and develop the Territory.
Alaska’s Premier Industry.
(New York Post.)
Alaska has two outstanding problems. One is j
an excess of governmental red tape and the other is!
depletion of tier greatest natural resource, salmon, i
1’lie President and members of bis Cabinet who ac
company him Have already outlined several hopeful !
suggestions for simplifying Alaska's government by
bureau. They understand red tape, and good should
result from their survey of the situation.
The salmon problem Is much more difficult and
note important because the economic value of salmon
s greater than that of all other Alaskan Industries
ombined.
About half a dozen different methods of catching
mlmon account for upward of 90 per cent, of the
innual yield. The testimony of men with years of
■xper^ence in the biisinoss fails to agree on the very
mint of the whole matter: what methods are most
larmful and destructive. if the remedy lies in re
t rioting the amount of the catch and the number
it fisheries or fishermen, monopolies result. In fact, I
he few halting and uncertain steps thus far taken |
uive already led In that direction, with consequent
lutcries of disapproval from those who were re-1
U rioted.
A situation ot this sort, it occurs to us, makes
lie testimony of disinterested scientists much more
Import int than the testimony of Interested fisher
men whom the President and his party seem to have
taken chiefly into counsel. Since the salmon speak
In unmistakable language to tile Ichthyologist, the
:>n!y possible course, it would seem, U ui hear what
Iho fish experts have to say. They probably already
know which method of caching is most likely to be
lest motive and what should be done about it.
I! the Government will act upon expert sugges
tions, making its rules fall as lightly as possible
upon tlie fishing industry as at present constituted
t will have done about all it can do. No matter
what course Is pursued, there wijl be roars of dis
approval but Washington Is a long way from Alaska
The element of distance, which makes the red-tape
pt obi cm so difficult, ought to aid in a stern, prompt,
and sensible solution of the salnihn difficulty
Hmv would you like to have the 'worries heaped
un your shoulders that Pol. J. a. Steeso Is under-!
eolng at the present time? The safe conduct over
the Government Itailroad of the President and his
Hatty is more or a job rtian the layman imagines and!
Alth one special following on the heels of another
ie situation is further aggravated—(Seward Gate
way.) c
The
talf wet
iplnion
t dry
juirer.)
President says this country cannot endure
and hall dry . We're not going to risk an
on that until we have a chance to see how
policy works somewhere.—(Cincinnati Kn
The reason Ideas get into some of
slowly is that they have to be wedged
jrejmli<,es.-r-(Seward Gateway.)
our heads
in between
Now Senator Borah says there will be no tl
>arty. Then, will the Kepubltqan lUkei be Hard
md Boi all?—(Houston . e-w- i
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
'At's Real Luck.
Though finding a horseshoe
They say Is lucky still
It’s better lurk -to find
A twenty-dollar bill.
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant.
They used to pity the girl who
went astray because she had no
mother to guide her, but now a lot
of women seem :to pity the mother
who has no daughter to lead her
astray. '
The A’tqrflas Club.
"Yea,” said the former saloonkeep
er who is now retiming an ice crefim
parlor, ‘.‘the men Brink just ns much
soda as they once did booze and they
seem to enjoy it even more than
they did the highballs I used to fix
for them.”
Huh?
“They say a Chinaman sends his
fiancee a pair of. geese and they are
looked upon as'emblems of conjugal
fidelity,” remarked Mrs. Grouch, look
ing up .from thej paper she* was read
ing > ' i j
“And over here a flapper and her
sheik are a pair of geese, hut 1 don’t
know- that you exactly would tall
them an emblem of conjugal fidelity,”
growled her husband.
Send on the $100,000 P. O. Q.,
Eddie, We Need it.
Eddie Bok—yeh. the ladles know
ail about him—has offered a $100,000
prize for a plaja that will establish
real world peace. That's easy enough
and well feel like we are swiping
the well-known kid s candy in taking
hla money, nut a JIOO.OUU is a tiou,
OOd and we have 100,000 ways we
could use it, solwe are going to spill
the only hones t‘to-good ness, sure-fire
plan. Here it is: Just force eacdi and
every country to amend its constitu
tion (backed up by a few Volstead
type laws) compelling everybody to
live up to the Golden Rule—and boy
Old Mars would - dig in so deep he
never could be unearthed and the
Dove of Peace would settle down to
Htay longer than* (the poor relations i
who visit you. Awl we'd like to seei
any scheme that will last any longer
than the w. k. snowball in the super 1
heated regions ift it' isn’t based on ]
that old Golden Rule.
A Backward Look.
One year ago today—we were
kicking about the weather.
Five years ago today—We were
kicking about the weather.
Ten years ago today—We were
kicking about the weather.
Twenty-five years ago today—Wo,
were kicking about the weather.
But it Wakn't Stationery.
“How's your business?” asked the
first man in the smoking compart
ment.
“Going ahead by leaps and hounds’’
replied the second man.
“By the way, what business are
you in?" inquired the first man.
"My business always has been and
I think always will be stationery,”
grinned No. 2.
If It Fits—
What we can't understand is that
if there Is so much promiscuous kiss
ing among the young people why we
don't hear of more cases of painter^
colic among the sheiks.
There's no use crossing a bridge
until you come to it. but if hoop
skirts do come hack the ladies who
are going to occupy the back seat in
a one-door model sport car are going
to have to dress so that they will be
prepared to raise the hoop skirt to
their necks when they can squeeze
between the front seats.
It would be pretty hard to convince \
the poor fish who is unhappyily mar-j
lied that there is- no hell—or the!
fellow who has a ,.devoted wife and j
hunch of healthy kids that there is!
no heaven.
One of the best things you ran do
is to use your head and one of the j
worst is to use your friends.
It is getting so a woman feels that1
to have her gray hair respected she1
has to boh it and then dye it a
henna shade. .
We guess, at that, it is easier to
insure your li^ than it is to insure I
your happiness.
It would he a waste of,-time to I
kit. .
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Prompt Delivery of -
LADYSMITH COAL
Phone 48.
JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Move», Packs and Stores Freight
and Baggage.
T
We are expert in
“ORNAMENTAL CONSTRUC
TIVE WATER-PROOF
CONCRETE.”
and the common wet kind also.
Willoughby A vo., near Ball
grounds. Established Twenty
Jears- Phone 32
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFO.
COMPANY
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give Home wives this scopolamin,
they're already too good at telling
their husbands the plain, unvarnished
truth as it is.
Some girls like to dress to attract
attention, attention being another way
of saying men.
it is all right to urge some people
to "paddle their own canoe," but we
know a lot of lords who don't need
it- they are already too blamed effi
cient at helping themselves.
Sometimes we feel that women
must like to . nffer. otherwise they
wouldn't buy the tight shoes they do
or marry (lie l;:nd of men they do.
Tin re are plenty of dumbbells who
simply wouldn't stand for a Pi hour
day, vet who don't mind putting in
a 14-hour night.
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Daily Sentence Sermon.
A fellow lias fo be bright if he
expects to shine in‘this, old world.
News of the Names Club.
Ite ought to tie a preacher or
Justice of the Peace or something but
anyway Ty A. Knott is reported from
Detroit..
We'll have to put Hose (Irowe, of
St Louis, In the c lub's flower garden
and aee if she will.
NOTICE.
The Martha Society of the Pres
byterian Church will hold a "tioodis
Dale," Saturday, July 28tli, in the;
Maiony lildg., next door to Mrs.;
Cleveland's Store. —rdv I*
Important to all Women
Readers of this Paper.
Thousands upon thousands of
woman have kidney or bladder
trouble and never suspect it.
Women’s complaints often prove
to be nothing else but kidney
trouble, or the result of kidney or
bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in a
healthy condition, they may cause
the other organs 10 become diseased
You may suffer pain In the back,
headache and loss of ambition.
Poor health makes you nervous,
irritable and may be despondent;
it makes any one so.
Hut hundreds of women claim
that Ur. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, by
restoring health to the kidneys,
proved to be just the remedy neeaed
to overcome such conditions.
Many send for a sample bottle to
see what Swamp-Root, the great
kidney, liver and bladder medicine
will do for them. By enclosing ten
cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bing
hamton, N. Y., you may receive
sample size bottle by Parcel Post.
You can purchase medium and large
size bottles at all drug stores
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Twelve Btoriei at Solid
Comfort
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Headquarters for Alaskans.
EYES FITTED
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Same Good Service m» in th*
Peat
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108 Pike Street, Seattle.
It's all In knowing IiOW to do
Artt-claae cleaning and dyeing
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
j C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
AUTOS FOR HIRE
CALL
Berry’s Auto Service
for that seven-pasenger 1923
Cadillac touring car. Stand at
Gastineau Hotel. Popular
prictte. ■ Phone Yd*.
Also seven-passenger Sedan,
Day and Night Service
'' Call a62.
Miller’s Taxi Service
TWO CARS
Stand Alaskan Hotel
PHONE—SINGLE 0
Regular trips to Auk Buy Sat
urdays 5:30 P. M., Sundays
9 A. M. and 5:30 P. M.
PHONE 64.
U. & I. Taxi Service
Blackie’s Taxi
ANY WHERE—ANY TIME
Stand Arctic Pool Room
PHONE 444
v • a’d **r 1 1
PROFESSIONAL |
Drt. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 GoldsteLa lldf.
PHONE N
Honra » a. m. U> » f. a.
Dr. Charles P. Jean*
DENTIST
Room! 8 and » Valentine Bldg.
Telephone 176.
Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Honn 1 to 4, 7 to 0.
Phones: Office. 104; Kea. 10S.
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Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Houra, » A. M. 'to » P U.
NBWAKI) BUILDINO
Office Phone 48».
Hen. Phone 276
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Dr. W. A. Borland
Phyiician and Surgeon
Juneau MuhIi: Houae Hide,
Telephone 172.
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QEO. L. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Meneersohmldt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to a and by appointment.
Phone 209.
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Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Ooldsteln Building
Moure: 9 20 to 12; 1 to I)
7 to 8, or by appointment,
licensed osteopathic physician.
Phonen: Office, 1 B7; Residence
Phone 612, Coliseum Apts.
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Dr. W. J. Pigg
PHYSICIAN
Office -Second and Main
Telephone 18
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All A|askan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
First Ave. and Pine St., Seattle
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
erything. J. A. Farnham and
Ted Taylor, Props.
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FOR ALASKANS
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—Low in ash
—High in heat units
—Clean to handle
PirONE 412
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
For good printing phoue 874.
WHERE i
SUCCESS
BEGINS
The road to success hegins at the Saving* 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 f
The B. M. Behrends Bank
JVNY.AU, ALASKA. 1 13
Fraternal Societies
-OF
Gastineau Channel
o . mi
Meeting Wednesday
Evealngs at 8:OU
o'clock, Elks' Hall.
Charles P. Jenna,
E-talked Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodie*
of Freematoary
Scottish Rite
Regular steel Inga I
second and fourth
F'rldaye eac.h month
at 7:SO p. m. Odd
| Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HE1SBL, Secretary,
i. o. o. r.
SILVER MOW
monte no. i a.
| Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. It.,
j Odd Fellowa’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Orand|
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEam loose
NO. 147, F. a A. M.
Stated Communication
Becond and Fourth" Moodaya
of each Monlh, In **dd Fellc-a
HkII. beginning nt 7:S* o'clock.
Homer O. Nordllng, Master.
C'has. E. Naghet, Secretary.
Order of the
FASTFRN STAR
R««*«.ruJ and Kourtta Tua»
da<r« of eaofti
At 8 o'clock. I. O. O. V. Han.
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
DOIS NOflDLJNG, Secretary.
KRIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
MKOHR K8 COUNCIL. W«.
17-tU. Meeting* »ee<.»4
and laat Monday* at 7 M
^ w p. m. Tranaleut Broth
rs urged to attend. Council Chambers.
Fifth Street. John S'. Mullen, U. K.
j. L. MeCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4. ,
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at S 9. m,
Elks’ ix>dge Koom. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; O. ■,
Maun, Poet Adjutant, Phone 19#.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 9 o'clock,
Moose Hall. B. F.
Rodonhcrg, Dictator; R. H. Steveur
Secretary.
WOMEN OF M00SF.REART
LEGION
Juneau Chapter No. 439
Meeting second and fourth
Tuesday of each month, 8
o'clock, Moose Hall. Mrs. G. W.
Bender, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
AUXILIARY, PIONEERS 01
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
Meets last Thursday of every
month. Social hour with mem
bers of Pioneer Ixidge to fol
low each meeting.
Mrs. Ixttle Splckett, President,
i Mrs. I,Mile Burford, Secretary.
■-;-M