ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
IOITN W. TROY
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1R.TT.ATION r.PARtNTKED TO ™ MO^E THAN
ritTBLE THAT OF ANY OTHER ALASKA NI AN . PA I Mt.
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NEW CABLE SEEMS ASSURED.
Inclusion by the House Committee of an Hem for
$750,000 for beginning the rehabilitation of the
piCBent cable section of the Alaska Military < able and
Telegraph System is an earnest showing of the will
ingness of the national lawmaking body to (leal
fairly with the Territory. With admonitions pouring
in on Congress from all sides to be sparing in mak
ing appropriations, requests front the President urging
every possible economy. It would not have been
■greatly surprising had the item been eliminated by
the committee. That it. did not testifies to the ef
fectiveness of the fight made for the item by friends
of AlaBka.
The amount reeommended will not replace the
entire cable section of the system with a new one.
It Is expected, however, that it will cover I lie cost
of such replacement of the stretch between Seattle
and Sitka, which tinder existing conditions, will prob
ably bo all that can lie accomplished during the next
twelve months. By thaj time It should be possible
to secure additional funds to complete the jot), giving
the syilem entirely new installation from Seattle to
Sitka; Sitka to Wrangell. I’ ter. burg, Juneau and
Ketchikan; Juneau to Skagrway; Sitka to Valdbz and
Seward, and Valdez lo Cordova.
There should he no serious difficulties encountered
In either the House or Senate in getting the recom
mendation of tin committee enneted into law, inas
much ns it had the approval of the Budget Bureau.
Tiie money should tie available not later (ban July
3, and if it is assured on that date, preparations can
be started ,for actual installation before that time so
that work will not he delayed.
PARKER MAKING GOOD.
Press despatches received every day prove that
John Parker, Governor of lxniisluna, Is making good
his statement to President Harding several weeks ago
that the State authorities were able to cope wiTh the
Kn Kittx Klnn situation in Louisiana. The measure;!
adopted to insure a thorough investigation at Mer
Ilouge and steps taken to protect the citizenry which
lias aroused itself under Governor Parker’B leadership
to break up organized mai ked outlawry are strong
evidences of his sincerity and determination. Had
Governor Parker been inclined to temporize, it would
have been easy. The Mer Hogue killings were per
petrated several months ago, so long. In fact, that
piost people outride cf Louisiana had forgotten, if
iiey ever knew it, that they had taken place. A
weaker man might have allowed them to remain an
nsolved mystery anil the Klnn, or those men in
Ulan regajia. who, last August killed Watt Daniels
nd Thomas Richards permitted to go undetected and
npuniehed. Such crimes are natural results of al
empts to set up an "invisible government" outside of
fITe law and to enforce its decrees In secrecy under
the cover of disguises. Tile courageous stand ot
Governor Parker is the typical American answer to
sudli attempts and ex preroes the will of patriotic
citizens to keep inviolate the real and tangible Gov
ernment that guarantees to nil races and creeds equal
rights.
REAL CONEERENCE TO GOME.
Tho real conference with State executives Presi
dent Harding referred to in his message to Congress
early last month is yet to come. The meeting between
the Pro. ident and fifteen of the Governors Del<1 at the
White House on Dccwrtber 18th, last was a sort of I
preliminary meeting for discussing the President’s
proposal for a conference of all the Governors or (In
state- and Territories on the question of prohibition!
enforcement.
The Governors at the December meeting had been
in session at White Suphur Spring-, Virginia, In ac
cord with an annual custom of meeting for the
diceucskm of mutual problems. The President had!
already made up his mind about the conference when
he heard ol -the White Sulphur Springs meeting. P
was suggested to him then that the session might bel
utilized for holding hi- proposed prohibition enforce
ment conference. On looking closer into flic matter,!
however, it was discovered that moat of the Governors
who would attend the meeting in Virginia would
shortly retire from effice. As a result, the President
merely invited the Stale executives to luncheon and;
the discussion there was largely informal and did noil
go docpl} into tli - subject propo-ed for the formal!
ccnfertnc°. Tills is expected to be called in the near
future when a much larger attendance will be sought'
titan war prerent at the December meeting.
FRANCE SEIZES GUARANTEES.
While the seizure of the Ruhr district of Germany
by France and Belgium may not bo the wiest tiling
that cculd have been done viewing tho reparations
situation as a whole from att economic standpoint, it
Is a most natural action for tho French to take. The
German policy of passive resistance, which could be |
continued forever to the disadvantage of her creditors,
defeated the whole of tho French postwar program
and left France almost in the position of a conquered
instead of a conquering nation.
Germany, defeated, agreed to certain settlements.
It makes little difference whether or not there was an
alternative left to her. Some of the requirements are
now admittedly impossible of accomplishment. But
not only h she failed to attempt them, she failed
to make the ettlements which it is known she could
have done. Promising much, she did nothing. As
Franco views 'lie situation, she has merely stepped in
and taken nia intecs, which she considers the Ruhr
district with Ps valuable industries, to hold in pawn
for security of the debts owed by defaulting Ger
many.
There is nothing in such a procedure which is
new iu governmental or commercial finance. When
Germany tentatively approached American bankers re
cently for a huge loan it was refused because she
could offer im adequate guarantees. If France scoki
a loan from the same hankers, the first question to
be settled Is whether or not French bonds offer a
satisfactory auarantoo to make the investment a
reasonable one France is not seeking securities for
a loan made willingly but for a debt owed by Ger
many for damage done, much of it wilfully, in u war
fought largely on French soil. The seizure of the
Ruhr may be a selfish act on the part of France, but
from tiie French viewpoint it is selfishness based
on a conviction that it was the only procedure left
to insure national preservation.
Woodrow »iison at 6G.
(New York Evening Post.)
Tomorrow is Woodrow Wilson's sixty-sixth birth
day. It is to 1)0 signalized by the announernent that
the success of the Foundation which bears his name
is assured. The million dollars whicli those organiz
ing the Foundation set out to raise had been so
nearly reached . ome days ago that. the books are to be
closed tomorrow. We trust that the letter which
we print In an adjoining column will lead many of
our readers to add their gifts.
Mr. Wilson's birthday is being signalized in an
other way. It is made the occasion for anticipations
of his return to political activity, coupled with specu
lation us to tlie direction such activity may take.
These anticipations, are the result of Mr. Wilson's
improving health; they testify to the strong hold hoi
.retains upon the imagination of the country. Upon i
both of those facts the Evening Post joint most
heartily in extending congratulations to Mr. Wilson '
Tlie question of what form Woodrow Wilson's1
possible resumption of political activity will take is
of peculiar interest. While tlie problem of what to
dr. with our ex-Presidents was disposed of long ago
by the ex-Presidents themselves, every ex-Prosident
solves the problem in liis own way. Most of them
have chosen to stay out of politics and to assume
tlie unique position which we accord cx-Preeldents
who are content with the place—the position of hav
ing tlie ear of (lie nation for whatever they desire to!
ay without the slightest official responsibility.
One cannot be an ex-Prosident of this kind, how-|
ever, and also engage in the rough and tumble ot
politics. Roosevelt's experience is fresh in the public
mind It was constitutionally impossihe for the!
Colonel to be an "ox” anything; lie .was never quit-!
| ting a job, but aways beginng one. Even Cleve-1
hind sacrificed hs immunity from partisan animosl-i
tics the moment lie attempted to guide the parly of
.which as ex-President he was the tutelary divinity.
Woodrow Wilson is intimately associated with
n" ifieal and a policy — the ideal of international
concord and tlie policy of international co-operation.
-rhis is not the ideal or tlie policy of a party. How
p'n the fact may be obscured by the passions of the
moment, this ideal and tills policy are the common!
possession of Democrats and Republicans and inde
pendents alike. They are an ideal and a policy which
h.ue been exemplified in countless instances—from
i lie unfortified frontier and the undefended waters
that separate us from Canada to the open door in
I hina. Wilson is but the latest of American states-,.
'"L'n 'vho saw in the union of tho States the future of
i lie world. Tho question for him as he feels the glow
01 reviving strength is how lie can best further tills
ideal and this policy. Can he do it best by throwing
himself into the melee of party struggle; by making
international concord and Internationa co-operation
the football of politics?
1 be alternative is one to which any ex-President
our history might aspire—to seize occasions for
impressing his countrymen irrespective of party with
H e great and solemn opportunity that beckons tlie
gu nt of tlie Western Hemisphere; to rekindle in
I heir hearts the old faith in tho mission of America
l<> carry the ideas of peace and freedom across the
se.i Mr. Wilson need not he concerned with the
term that our mission shall take. While President he
fought for a specific program, ns a statesman must
do. in his freedom from ofTice his task is at once
rim pier and loftier—to arouse in us tho will to play
on l ho world stage a part suited to our capacities.
Oi co we recognize our opportunities and our duties wo
ball not be long in finding an appropriate method
ol procedure.
Movie Famine.
(Exchange.)
I he world of the movies is so notoriously exempt
irom many of the natural, economic, and moral laws
'hat operate in the real world that one more ex
ception ougiht to make little difference. Nevertheless,
It is Mart ling to loam that in the realm of the silver
'■fi'vii the well-known law of supply and demand
' '*s gone askew. Everywhere else demand almost
automatically calls forth supply. In the movies the
tun , s of production are incapabe of keeping up
vitli tiie forces of consumption.
Business men of the film declare that the present
' "Picsslon in I lie movie industry, which has wrought
h.noc among the smaller concerns, is due to an ex
hau.-:iIon of movie material. There are not enough
pi' ts even movie plots—to feed the public. Fiction
and history are apparently being sucked dry. The
".-'Mar theatre lias to satisfy a public which for the
country at largo scarcely averages a visit once a
"••k to the theatre. The movie must supply a twice
"cck public, a thrice-a-week public, and the six
d...'s-a-week habitues, of whom there arc apparently
myriads. The imagination of the screen writers Is
tracking under the strain. That is why film plays of
generation ago- a film generation would bo about
li\ yearn—are being revived or rehashed.
B is, after all, a small world; Its recorded history
only about ten thousand yours old, and a large
pen outage of its inhabitants are devoting themselves
1 other occupations than writing scenarios. Hence
tiie famine.
Tin
Irish Free State lias executed seven train
wickers, thus doing more to slop that murderous busi
i • than many nations which have had their freedom
a good deal longer. (Indianapolis News.)
Coles may have no difficulty in pronouncing their
new President’s name, but if Mr. Wojciechowlcki
visits America tie will have to answer to “Say.”_
t Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.)
ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
However, the girls today do not
sawder their noses any ofteaer than
die. old-fashioned young man used to
wirl his mustache. Remember him?
Service
“Ho is an up-to-date bootlegger, all
right.” remarked Brown.
“How so?” asked Black.
“He sells an antidote with his
stuff to be used as a chaser," re
plied Brown.
Gobs of Gloom
How' to pay ’em! How to pay
em! That's the big problem before
:he country today.
Divorces Is Divorces
(A few of tho cases recorded by
the Docket.)
Casebier vs. Casebtor, 238 3. W.
)66.
Alifreo vs. Allfree, 162 Southwest
ern Reporter 650.
Albert J. Papa va. Mary Papa, San
Francisco.
Live and Learn
“Can you drive a car?” asked the
Eoreman.
“I used to could. Boss, but not
any more," replied the applicant for
a job. \
“What do you mean by that?” de
manded the foreman.
“Well, de traffic cop done say I
don't know no more about driving a
car dan a mule know about the
Eickenstcln theory, and de Judge
suspended my right to drive for six
months. So, while I kin drive a
ear, I kan't."
Pool Questions
It A. 7/7.7,. Halts: “H they called
the gold-hunters the ‘Forty-niners,’
why not call the bargain hunters the
'Ninety-eightors'?" Will the ladies
please write; we don't dare answer
it.
Gotta Draw the Line Somewhere
Says a news item: “Many a rich
Chinese merchant of today Is waked
up by an American alarm clock, talks
over an American telephone and
rides in an American motor car.”
But we’ll bet he balks at eating that
famous American decoction known as
chop suey.
Gems From Guide Book to Success
The man who used to scoff at the
idea of the flying machine is now
the father of “the ace” in the Avia
tion Corps. When ridiculing that
Which you do not understand the
fault lies in your understanding, not'
in the subject. J. E. F.
If It Fits—
Some men have all the trouble
they want ami Olliers court two girl)
ait the same time or go In for
bigamy.
it is getting so It is easier for a
woman to get a seat on the bench
or in th® political councils of her
party than in a street ear. But most
of them would rather have the sett
In tho street ear.
About all you ca.n get into some
people's heads is a cold.
'If the ladies ever do get so they
understand the tariff we know a lot
of men who would like to have it
explained to them.
And every day in very way a lot
of dumbbells get better and better
at showing what dum fools they are.
Tile tronhle with a lot of men
who are so good at making love is
that they don’t know how to make
the kind that will stand the acid
test of matrimony.
The ambition of most people is to
own a car. And after they get It
their ambition is to own an open car
for summer and a closed car for
winter.
Tho most distinguished girl In the
country today is the young miss who
wanted a nice pair of silk hose to
wear with her low shoes, but whose
Pool parents give her woolen ones
instead.
You know a woman has reached
the don't-care age when she will buy
a pair of -hoes that are comfort
able instead of the kind that look
small, hut set every corn on her foot
lumping.
The troublo with annexing a past
is that it too often cuts you out of
having much c f a future
IT a man is jilted only his pride ■
suffers. But if he does the Jilting'
it is ills pockethook that Is knocked i
for a goal.
Daily Sentence Sermon
Hie reason a lot of birds never
are given a place of authority is be
cause they never have learned to
rule their own tongues.
News of the Names Club
We want to he a long ways off
when she does- but what we started
to say was that Kate May Throw1
lives in Detroit.
Old papers toK sa.T =1. The Umpire.
ALASKAN VEGETABLES
We have an abundance of cab
bage, carrots and rutabagas for
immediate delivery from our ;
CONCRETE PRODUCTS
MFC. CO.
Willoughby Ave. Phone 38.
Georgia Senators Call on
the President.
fferutfov Geof^, $ 1
rjanafet’ Hafi1^ /«rc.|
Senators George and Harris, of ,
Georgia, wore recent callers on I
President Harding at the White j
House.
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For Better Relations
With Chinese People
iPORT ARTHUR. Manchuria, Jan.'
13.—'Baron I j u in. governor of Kwan-I
tung. called his diplomatic officials I
hero to advise them as to the man
ner he wished :hc Chinese resident
of the leased territory to he treated.
“It must bo borne in mind,” he
said, "that the territory of Liaotung
Peninsula, Krantnng, Province, be
longs in reality to China and that
Japan has merely acquired a least
tor this district. For that reason
serious consequences .may be brought
about in Japan's diplomatic relations |
unless this fact is always taken into :
consideration."
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Wm. D. Perkins Sc Co.
Bankers
211 Cherry St. Alaska Uldg
Seattle.
DEALERS IN
Municipal Bonds
' County Warrants
First Mortgages
Safe Deposit Vaults
^ 6 per cent to 8 per cent Interest I
JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Moves, Packs and Stores Freight
and Baggage.
Prompt Delivery of
LADYSMITH COAL
Phone 48.
BEST EVER
MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
Now offers additional attractive
Disability Benefit features.
NONE OTHER SO LIBERAL.
ALLEN SHATTUCK
INSURANCE REAL ESTATE
ESTABLISHED 1898
BRIQUETS
Ideal
fuel for
every
purpose
Large stocks on hand
Ladysmith ooal.
Nanaimo oooV
PACIFIC COAST
COMPANY
Phone 412.
COAL
PROFESSIONAL
ii
Dr*. Kaser & Freeburger
dentists
1 and 3 Goldstein Bid*.
PHONE 56
Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. E.
Dr. Charles P. jennc
DENTIST
Booms 8 and 9 Valentine Bide.
Telephone 176.
■--— -——
Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Res. 1«*|.
Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Res. Phone 27 6
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bid*.
Telephone 172.
Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Sanitarium
Hates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
■
GEO. L. BARTON
(PALMER)
CHIROPRACTOR
201 Goldstein Bldg. Phone 259
Office Hours: 10 to 12 A. M.,
2 to 5 and 7 to 8 P. M.
m
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
437 Goldstein Building
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to 5;
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.
HOTEL SEATTLE
“Home of Alaskans”
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
R. U flODOUON, Manager
It’s all in knowing HOW to do
first-class cleaning ar.d dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
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JAPANESE TOY SHOP
H. S. MAKIN0
I Front Street
I P. 0. Box 218 for Kail Ordert
fraternal Societies
-or
Gastineau Channel
0 . XL K I
Meeting Wednesday
Erasings at 8:00
o’clock. Elks' Hall.
ARTHUR B. COLE,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freemasonry
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:30 p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
SILVER BOW
I.ODQE NO. I A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Merle P. Morgan, Noble Grand; Frank
O'Brien. Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAU LOOS*
No. 147, F. * A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Mondays
of each Month, In Odd Fellows
Hall, beginning at 7:111 o’clock.
R. R. TOUNO. Master.
CHA8 E. NAGHEL. Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tuei
duys of each month.
At 8 o’clock, I. O. O. F. Hall.
ALICE BROWN, W. M.
LOIS NORDLING. Secretary.
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KNIGHTS OJf
COLUMBUS
SEOHFRS COUNOII. Me.
176U. Meeting* #«ro >4
and last Monday* at 7:'<i
r p. m. Tranalent Broth
er* urged to attend. Council Chamber*
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen. U. It.
j. L. McCloskey, Secretary
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford J u Bradford
Post No. 4
Jur ;a i, AU-ka.
Meets ourth I hared f
each uoutb at i i>. tn.
Elks’ Lodge Rot n Vohn Sti,rr,
Post Commando ' one !■ Tft • (i is
Mann, l’o&t Adjutant, ■ ne 1
LOY/X O1*
Y
Jnnef r
Meet
nigh
Moo
| B. JikIbod, Dictator;
Secretary.
I
WOMEN OF MOOSE
LEGION
Juneau Chapter No.
Mooting second and.
Tuosday of each mt ?
o’clock, Moose Hall. Mrs
Bender, Senior RegenjKT
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
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AUXILIARY, PIONEERL
ALASKA, Igloo No. 6.
Meet* the 2d Monday In Mi
Han, at 8 o’clock.
In Moose Hall, at 8 o’clo
ALICE LAUGH LIN, Preside.
LILLIE BURFORD, Secretai
PERSEVERANCE REBEKa
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every first and third
Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8:00 P. M. BESSIE MANNING,
N. G. ALPHONSINB CARTER,
Secretary.|
WHY A SAVINGS ACCOUNT
IS A GOOD INVESTMENT
JjYoa may add to the account at any time in any
amount.
flYour account is not subject to market fluctuations
but is constantly growing.
flYour account is always available and provides an
unfailing reserve for emergencies and business op
portunities.
J[Pays four per cent per annum, compounded twice
a year, If you do not withdraw your interest it
continues to earn interest upon the interest, making
the rate better than four per cent* per annum.
Accounts of One Dollar or more may be opened in our
Savings Department.
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The B. M. Behrends Bant
JUNEAU, ALASKA. a