ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
M)KN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER
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SEATTLE C HAMBER DISAPPOINTS
SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA.
The refusal of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce
to Riant Juneau's request that it endorse the appeal
Of this City to the. Secretary of the Interior to post
pone the order closing the Juneau Land Office until
after the President and tile Secretary of the Interior
can vkw the situation on the ground was neither
gracious nor w^s:e. It wuold be different if Juneau
were attempting to sl ip Anchorage from having a
J.and Office. She frankly admits that such an office
is needed there, though the need is not so great as
that fir an office at Juneau. All Juneau asks for is
that hrr Land Office he permitted to remain where
it is. In support of the reasonableness of its position
it has cited the fart that more Land Office business
01 iglnates in Southeastern Alaska than all the rest
of the Territory com bln: d and the further tact that
Anchorage could b< attached to the Fairbanks l>is
trict until a more satisfactory arrangement could be
secured with lets disturbance to business than would
follow the closing of the Juneau office.
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce went a long
way to tortue Uhls situation into an intra-Tcrrltorial
controversy. Juneau urged a course that would give,
everybody a square deal. The Seattle Chamber oi
Commerce i, willing that a large section of Alaska
should he punished.
On the other band Juneau will not soon forget
the rcadiinet s and eugenic s with which San Fran
cisco and Spokane came in her assistance when the
matter was put up to them in the same manner that
it was tub ml Wed to Seattle.
I baseball season open.
With four baseball teams In Juneau and one u!
Douglas there should he some good exhibitions of the
great North American outdoor athletic game. There
is probably no one thing that does more to give
wholesome entertainment than baseball. It is a
fine, robuEt, manly sport, helpful both to those who
play and those who watch it played. Baseball is
played In the open. It requires both good team
work and efficient Individual performance, and it Is
played to that the auditors can see and judge each
play on its merits. it offers short shrift for pre
teure. It lias no place for a four-flusher. On the other
hand the difficulties to he overcome to meet each
chance without error cr mistake arc visible and ap
preciation or the effort quickly voiced. It is a game
which takes people into the open air and is a
healthful tonic, mentally and morally as well as
physically. \
MEET AT SAN FRANCISCO.
San Francisco ha« raised $250,000 us a Conven
tion Fund and lias ofTerrd to divide it equally be
tween the Democratic and Republican parlies if lliey
will hold their National Conventions in Hunt city.
The National political parties could not do bettor
than to accept the invitation. San Francisco Is a
natural convention city. She lias a generous Western
population, comfortable climatic conditions, beautiful
ewnery, ample h el accommodations and she lias not
acquired the profiteering spirit that afflicts other sec
tions of the country.
In every way except the .ubsequent results prob
ably the most slice ssful National Convention ever
held in the United Slates was ithe Democratic con
vr title n at Sail Francisco in 1920. The delegates
there were ace plod by the people of the < ltv, without
regard to the political affiliations of the Westerners,
as their guerts. Every citizen of the greatest of Far
We,tern cltltr, seemingly, felt personally responsible
to see that the visitors enjoyed every minute of their
stay.
Further, there tiro always among the attendants
•at National Conventions a great many influential
people who do not travel except on basin .-s. A great
political convention at San Francisco requires that
people from all sections of the Nation traverse the
continent. and it would h well If more of those of
.the Bait could "ce the great country that lies bet ween
them and the Pacific and the Pacific country It
self. It would add very greatly to their compre
hension cf the Nation and make them more useful
,us pofUiciamv and state.-men.
Hoth the Democratic and Republican National
Conventions should bo held In San Francisco. She
lias everything ncctssary 10 make her the greatest of
Convention Cltner. I
PLANNING CHANGES IN IMMIGRATION
LAWS.
Wacjilngtm curie p ndents believe there is likely
to be a du . •m-liied move rt the next s seion of Con
6,e‘ to rai e the limit on Immigration, and permit
mote people to ccano to the United States from
Europe It is iieleved that Senators and Representa
tives from the o ^cultural States- -particularly the
Sourhern States will join hands with those from the
Industrial centers in asking for regulations that will
bring more laboring people to this country. Tho
wnl(ftajlon of Negroes from the cotton States to the
Industrial centers is said to be working a marked
change in the altitude of the South toward immi
gration.
For the first time in many years a sentiment is
developing in favor of changing the contract labor
haw. It is contended that the best labor and that
which would be most easily assimilated would be
that which would be selected for employment before
leaving Europe. 1: is net proposed by those who
would ri - tore tlie contract labor aystom lo relieve in
the least the restrictions as to the character, mentally,
educationally or physically, of the immigrants who
would be selected in that way. They declare that
the employment of limited numbers of people in
Europe would be the scientific way to .increase the
immigration to the country of the more dedreable
people.
The Land Office.
(Ketchikan Chronicle.)
| Juneau is about to lose the office of the Chief of
the Field Division of the General Land Officoi and
| also the office of the Reglaetr i f the Land Office,
I upon an executive order of the President, which di
j reels their transfer to Anchorage. Residents of Ju
neau are making protests lu Washington and are re
questing tiic people of other towns in Southeastern
Alaska to do likewise.
Everyone in the First Division should join Juneau
In this protest for the reason that it is going to be a
matter of considerable inconvenience io the First
Division to he compelled to do business with the
Land Office at Anchorage because of the infrequency
of the boat and mail service to nhe Westward, es
pecially in the winter months. It would be even
more convenient for Southeastein Alaska to do busi
ness direct with the National Capital than with i
Anchorage, and month in, month out, commun.ica-!
tions would he better.
Should the register of the Land Office at Juneau !
be compelled to move to Anchorage it would bring!
about a strange situation in Alaska in that there'
would then be a Register of the Land Office located
| in the Second, Third and Fourth Divisions, tlie total
j population of which is littlo greater, if any, than
the First Division. Thus half the population would
'have three land goices conveniently located to handle
! their business while the other half would have none.
Now it may be that there is simple Justification
; for the establishment of a Register of the laind Office
at Anchorage. There is much activity in that sec-!
tion and undoubtedly the homesteaders, miners and!
protpocVtrs for oil would ho greatly beuetitled, but;
In such case a new land office should he created so
that there would he four instead of three land
office registers in Alaska.
While it is true that a largo portion of the First !
Division is in the Tongass National Forest, never-1
i helot a, everyone who applies fer ipatent to a home-j
stead, to a mlllelte or for a manufacturing and trad
ing site must do so through the Register of the
i I .and Office.
! If would appear that whoever recommended the
changes which are incorporated in the executive
| order failed to consider all the consequences and it is
I hoped that it may be brought to President Harding's!
ncTico niAnciently forecully to bring about a post-1
ponemeut of the order until ufter the visit of the!
J chief executive to Alaska. If then in his judgmout j
t he order should be carried out as originally promul-]
I gated the First Division must accept with good!
i grace. However, ft is more likely that the clhief1
i executive would then hack a proposal for a fourth
; 'an(l office rather than the removal of one of those
j now in existence.
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Knute Nelson
(New York Post.)
| Tlie crowning triump<li of the late Senator Nelson's
j long political career caitne with his election to the
| Senate for his fifth term in 1918. Although he was
a Republican, President Wilson appealed to the voters
of Minnesota to return him to Washington, and the
Democratic party of the State indorsed his candi
dacy. Thus ho was serving hris last iterm as the
representative of tile citizens fo Minnesota without
distinction of party. Noting could have been more
fitting, for Senator Nelson held the balance between
loyally to party and Independence of party with rare
discretion, lie called hii.mselt' a party man; yet he
did not hesitate to speak and vote against his party
in the Senate. It is net easy to maintain a position
j of independence within a parity. If one is sufficiently
indepentent to make himself conspicuous, he is likely
| IO scent a nrnn of no party at all. Senator Nelum
: managed to avoid this extreme. Ncbody thought
I of litm as lacking In loyalty to his party; at the same
j time nobody thought of him as sacrificing his indi
; vidual judgment.
It would not he too much to say that Knute
Nelson Was the ideal party matt, fer by his loyally
lie won support for h is party juul by his inde
pendence he did what :he could to keep his party
worthy of support. This is a notable accomplish
ment. In a country in which parties are the force
by which government is made to function much de
pends upon the attitude of a public man towards
his party. The private citizen can give his vote
Indifferently, now to this party, now to tliait, wtth
! out jeopardizing himself. For a public man such
» course is perilous. Not the least of Senator Nel
lie n s services to the country was Ills demonstration
; that a man may occupy one of the highest places
I in the national Uovernmeat without yielding his pri
j vote opinion or Imperilling his official position. One
| example of this possibility is worth tens of argu
i ment.
The credit for Ihrs achievement must be shared
l "iih Senator Nelson's constituency. Minnesota proved
1 herself worthy of such a repreeentat ive by regularly
j re-electing him. liar reward is two-fold. She profited
. by the service of an able and conscientious official
[and she has the satisfaction of knowing that site
I gave of her beet to the service of the nation.
The head of the Krupp works bus been sentence.)
I lo fifteen years in jail and a fine of 100,000,000
marks. Payment of the fine, we suppose, will knock
1 two or three days off the time lie has to spend in
Jail. — (New York Post.)
it is said tit at Germany wants to sell the Berlin
to-Bagdad Railway to tlie United States. Sure—she
wants somebody else to have all her worries.—(Cleve
land Plain Dealer.)
Paderewski has won a great triumph. He hus
earned as much in six months as a champion prize
fighter gets for a single performance.—(New York
Post.)
Boss Murphy, of Tammany Hall, says Woodrow
Wilson "didn t do me any good." Wilson can say
the same tiling of Murphy.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
It is almost incredible that any one cpuld hate
the Democratic party so vindictively as to wish Da
Follette, Borah and Johnson on it.—(Springfield
Union.)
Many sounds escape the human ear, scientists
say, and that's something else for which to be thank
f tl.— (Indianapolis News.)
Prophet says we'll have a war with Japan In
■■925, and that it will last eight months. Let's fool
him.—(Cleveland Pain Dealer.)
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ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
! What has become of the old-fash-j
lonod mother who never would let
her daughter go out with a young
man unless they had a chaperon? '
The Ananias Club
"I am just as well satisfied when 1
come home uiiHl find my wife is serv
ing a salad with lettuce sandwiches
instead of having bothered about
getting up* big meal," declared the
man who had an appetite like a
horse.
Had Its Disadvantages
‘‘Wo never used to have so much
trouble keeping servants," sighed
Mrs. Oldtimor, “A girl would stay in
one place for 10 or 20 years."
"But dear tne, how on earth could
you find out about ail the scandal
dn other people:, homos if you
weren't always getting servants who
had worked for them?" intjtilrt 1 Mrs.
Liketoknnw.
Hint to Mothers
Every kid has a chance to grow
up und become famous except a
"mamma’s boy."
"No Trade." Sounds Like a Good
Reason
(Prom Decatur Herald, via Helper
I. B.)
HARDWARE STOCK FOR SALE—A
real opening for t live wire in up-|
to-date town. Stock will invoice
about $6,500, On new hard road.
NO TRADE. Good reason for sell
ling. Address P 771, care Herald.
Could You Speak of This as "Split
ting Hairs,” All Right!
(Divorce Note in Houston Post )
Nancy K. Hair is Thetnas F. Hair,I
for divorce.
More Record Stuff
“He used to boost that lie could
go 16 miles on a gallon of gas.”
"Yes, and then lie went into tliej
next world on a half pint at moon
shine.”
Inventions You Aught to Know About
A safe whf.oii.'mutoma.tlcally chloro
forms a burglar when he attempts
to open it has been put on the mar
ket by an Austrian firm.—News item.
If It Fits—
Wo guess that Chicago economist
who thinks a 16-year-old pirl should
dross on $-4 a month never saw the
bill her father gets every month for
the cosmetics and powder she uses.
A husband doesn't think it is neces
sary to caf.l the doctor just because
his wlife isnt' feeling well, but just
let the old car show the least sign
of trouble and he'll send an S. O. S
for tho best garage man in town.
No father thinks It is wrong for a
boy to flight 'If. his kid can whip
every other kid in the block.
Our guess is that the girls who
have gone back to tho long skirts
are the kind that also have to buy
bathing suits that are intended to be
used in the water and not for posing
on the beach.
Father can go out and buy 10
cents worth of cleaner and fix up
last year's straw hat so he can wear
it another year. But mother wouldn't
go out of the house unless she had a
new $2."> lid to show off.
Married ftife for a man ia not
*°nly giving up. but also giving in.
We are willing to wager a few of
our 'hard-earned slmoleons that if
the manufacturers of cotton hosiery
expected their business to pick up
after long skirts ca.me buck they got
sadly left.
Modiical science has done some
wonderful things, but If can't do hu
manity any greater service than by
discovering an antitoxin that will
knock the divorce germ for a goal.
HOTEL SEATTLE
"Home of Alaskans"
Prices reasonable. European
plan Seattle, Wash.
R. U flODODON, Manager
T
It's all in knowing HOW to do
Orst-clase cleaning and dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleans^; Phone 177.
* THE MAKING OF CONCRETE
la a matter of proper materials
together with engineering skill.
Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Yearn
I CONCRETE PRODTTCT8 MFQ.
I COMPANY I
^ Willoughby Ave. Phone 32. |
JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Mom, Packs and Stores Preiffc*
and h(p|«
Prompt Dellyoty of
LADYSMITH COAL
PhoM 48.
-sn_i
It may not l).? possible (or you to
become popular, but one way not
to become |»>-iiivcily unpopular is to
attend strictly to your own business.
A divorce lawyer never wastes any
lime Betting acquainted v.Itn a man
who gets as much pleasure in spend
ing itis money on her 10 years after
ward as he did when li t was courting
her
Some energetic at iti.stician might
toll ns how many factnrle, could be
run by the energy wives waste every
year moving the furniture around
just for a change.
It. is n«>r> ’ - f i) or b i tineas, but we
often wondi r whether girls wash
bfoer ears as often .•* they would if
thpy didn't keep them covered all
the time.
Daily Sentence Sermon
It is easier to start talk than to
stop it.
News of the Names Club
He is not a mustard plaster, of
course, but Will mister is reported
from Saginaw.
And speaking of jus' names. Mrs.
Iceland Se.iggs and E. 1J. Aubuehon
were married in St. Louis last week,
according to a Mound City pap r.
Sees Prosperity Ahead
for Philippines.
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X:W.
^| Br'.ff-Gert.Fra.ttfc.K^Ccryr"]
Brigadier-General Frank A Mr- j
Coy, U. S. A., lias returned to !
America from the Philippines,
where lie is assistant to Governor
Genera! Leonard Wood. General
McCc.y declares the islands are
rapidly recovering from the after
war depression and that the peo
ple are prosperous.
AUK BAY STAGE.
Leaves U. & 1. Cafe for Auk Hay I
5 P. M. Saturday only, returning,
0:30. Special trip at any time, j
Round trip $2,50. —adv.!
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I SAFE INVESTMENTS |
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I City Bonds, Improvement |
| Bonds, School Bonds, First |
j Mortgage Loans, County War- |
| rants. To net 6% to 8% Inter- |
j est. Correspondence solicited, j i
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Wie D. Perkins & Co. ! i
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| Bankers, Seattle, Wash.
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| ELI MOORHOUSE & CO.
Certified Public Accountants
I L. C. Smith Bldg., Seuttle.
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| Audits and Income Tax Service
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i Annual visits to Alaska.
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USED FUENTTURI |
i Bought, Sold and Exchanged
r H. BOCOVICH 1
>11 Seward St.
I Telephone 441. P. O. Bos >11. |
ARCTIC BATH HOUSE
and Barber Shop
TURKISH, STEAM, SHOWEB
AND TUB BATHS
lower Front St. (Van Atta’a old
I atand) BILLY LOTT, Prop,
jPhone 414.^
ALASKA COAL
FOR ALASKANS
—No soot
—Low in ash
—High in heat units
—Clean to handle
PHONE 412
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
PROFESSIONAL
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Dr«. Kaser & Freebnrger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bid*.
PHONE 50
Hours 9 a. m. t* 9 p. m.
-H
Dr. Charles P. Jenna
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Valentina Bldg.
Telephone 176.
2
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Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Honrs 1 to 4. 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Rea. 10*.
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Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. 1C.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Re*. Phone 276
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Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
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Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Sanitarium
Rates 23.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
GEO. L. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Me.sserschmidt 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 t;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
Phones: Office, 167; res., 1672.
A11 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,
a-g
DR R. N. DONAHEY
Same Good Service as In the
Past
HutesonDohahe*
Ootical(omp«n)^
108 Piko Street, Seattle.
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fraternal Societies
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Gasiineau Channel
0 . ELIS
Mm tin; Wednesday
Btenlngs at 8:00
o’clock. Elks' Hall.
1 Charles P. Jenna,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Oidinate Bodiea
of Freemasonry
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. m.
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. I A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. 11.
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand!
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
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PERSEVERANCE RWtETaw ,
LODGE R0. 2A.
Meets every first and third
, Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8 P M. FRANCES OU8TAFSON,
N. G ALPHONSINB CARTER,
Secretary.
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MOUNT JUNEAO LOOM
No. 147. F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Monday a
! of each Month. In Odd Felicia
I ”*"• btalnnln* at 7:JS o'clock.
Homer 0. Nordllng, Master.
ClrtH. FJ. Naghel. Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second end Fourth Tuts
dava of each month
At 8 o'clock. I. O. O. r. BatL
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLING, Secretary.
or* anted to
Fifth Street.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
sBOHfc ltS COUNCIL NO.
It'd. Meet! nan a«co*4
and laat Monday a at 7 I*
p. m. Tranalent Broth
attend. Council Charabwm
John F. Mullen. O. K.
J. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Aliurd John Bradford
Poat No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 p in.
Elks’ Lodge Hoorn. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; Q. ■.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o'clock.
Moose Hall. E. F.
Dictator; R. H. Stevens
Secretary.
WOMEN OF M00SEHEART
LEGION
Juneau Chapter No. 439
Meeting second and fourth
Tuesday of each month, 8
o’clock, Moose Hall. Mrs. C. W.
Bender, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
AUXILIARY, PIONEERS 0V
ALASKA. Igloo No. 8.
Meets last Thursday of every
month. Social hour with mem
bers of Pioneer I/Odge to fol
low each meeting.
Mrs. Lottie Splckett, President.
Mrs. Lillie Burford, Secretary.
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WHERE
SUCCESS
BEGINS
The road to success begins at the Savings Window.
How early you attain success depends on how
often you deposit. Many of our captains of industry
owe their Success in a largo part to the habit of
thrift acquired in youth. Have you started your boy
in the right direction?
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The Be M. Behrends Bank
nrHEAU, ALASKA. 3/' l