ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
*OHN W. TROY
EDITOR AND MANAGER
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GOVERNMENT AND PAYROLLS ARE
DIFFERENT PROPOSITIONS.
One of the needs of the time is to set people,
wWn considering questions ©f government, to think
bdyond the public' payroll. Governmental questions
reach far beyend the personnel of the public service.
It Is not a question of who does ttie work if the work
is well and honestly performed. The great problem
in Alaska is to get more self-government but that
does not mean more people at the pie counters. It
means mere control for the people over the affairs of
government. The sovereign people should have more
authority over the servants rather than that more
of the people should bo servants.
The Empire believes that when Alaska gets County
government that the law should provide for the elec
tion of a Board of County Commissioners, or Super
visors* and that the other officers, with tho possible
exception of a County Auditor, should be chosen by
the Board. It believes in the short ballot for States,
Counties and Cities as well as for the Nation at
large. And it believer, that the best available ser
vants should be (-.elected regardless of political affilia
tions, place of residence or sex. It does not believe
in the epolls system in any of the political divisions
or sub-divisions of the country.
“INGRATITUDE OF REPUBLICS.”
The final overthrow or every one of the great
rtatr.mrn of the various countries who conducted
affairs during the World War would suggest that
the ‘'ingratitude of republics” is an established
principle among nations. Of course, Great Britain
Italy and Greece are not republics, but they arc self
governing, limited monarchies, and conform to tilt
principle in the mind of tlie suge who wrote aboul
ungrateful peoples. ,
Lincoln's standing in his country lias been cited
to disprove this tradition about ingratitude, but there
is every evidence necessary to prove that it was Lin
coln's arrarslnation that preserved from the beginning
his popularity. If it had not been for that, tiic fiasco
of Johnson’s Administration, which followed, and the
popularity of General Grant the history immediately
following the war between the States would have been
different.
Lincoln expected to be defeated at the time lie
•was renominated in 1864. Ilis administration was
tl.on seemingly satisfactory to none. Even Charles
Dudley Warner, one of the editors of ttie New York
Poet, probably the most influential Republican paper
of that period, writing in the spring of 1864 about
the coming Republican National Convention, said:
Wc are cmoplctely under Dixon’s flst
and the Presldc-nt is to blame. So in Mis
souri, so everywhere. I hardly know what to
do, but I do wish the Lord would send us a
better man, one that we could nominate at
Baltimore. But we might do worse than
Lincoln, slow and stupid as he Is, and with
an Inevitable tendency to such men as he
confides in. The host men in the country
are anxious.
\ If Wilson had been assassinated while he was in
Paris, for instance, who will say that he would not
now be venerated and honored as Lincoln has been
since the moment he passed away in the little brick
house across (he street from Fords Theatre of
Booths bullet wound? The American people would
never have consented to the League of Nations, you
ray. What of it? The American Congress I aimed
ialely repudiated all of Lincoln's reconstruction poli
cies, but that did not dim for a day tile reputation
cf the martyr. Lincoln’s survival of war's upheaval
ddcs not disprove the ' ingratitude of republics."
NEGROES LEAVING SOUTH.
Georgia, Alabama, Mieshsippi, Louisiana and, to
a somewhat loivor extent, the Carolinas, Tennessee
and Kentucky, arc suffering a labor shortage on
account of tile emigration or Negroes to the North.
Larger wage:, prevailing in the Industrial centers
a ml ou the farms in the North arc attracting them.
It; is -feared that the result of the exodus will he ap
parent in the cotton crops this year as in some
eectiousfthere ure not enough workingmen left to
cultivate and harvest the cotton crop.
Georgia la reported to have lost 15 per cent, of
hftr farm laborers within the last year. The Alabama
aid Mississippi losses and those of Louisiana are
f lightly less. Tlte migration is causing genuine
alarm in the South.
One g'-od way to go about a systematic improve
ment cf Juneau is for everybody to niuke a careful
survey of bis own property and decide upon how iis
appearanre may be aided -and then to do all he can
afford toward the desired end.
ONE STATE CUTS EXPENSES.
If is reported that New Hampshire has reduced
her tax levies for the eueuing two yeurs to $2.:i00,00u.
For the two preceding years they were $8,600,000.
In fixing the levies the State Legislature took into
account the reduction in appropriations due in parti
to a ulmplififation of the Government and a reduc
tion in the Stato’a pay-rolls.
That Is a showing that should serve as an example
to other Slates, provided, of course, time shall demon
stiate that the State can gK along satisfactory with
the smaller Income. One of the needs cf the times
Is lower governmental costs.
The National Institute of Social Sciences has giveh
John D. Rockefeller a gold medal as a reward lor
his work for humanity. He was referred to as the
“greatest philanthropist in the world, having given
more than $600,000,(KI0 to education and the further
ance of medical research." He is one of five to have
been awarded gold medals by the Institute.
Every President should be entitled to a
second term, during which he could be free
of the obligation to do the expedient things.
-—(Baltimore Sun.)
Why not make it so there would he only one tern
and then wo should always have a President whe
could be free of the obligation to do the expedient
things?
Bryan seems to have overlooked some
thing in not advising the Governor of Colo
rado whom to appoint.—-(Pittsburgh Gazette-1'
Times.)
No chance. Mr. Bryan overlooks nothing. Hi
asked tho Governor fo Colorado to appoint youm
Mr. Shafroth.
The non-stop dance contests suggest that aftci
all the endurance record is held by the public
The American Piano.
(Now York Post.)
Boston will celebrate next Saturday the hun
dredth anniversary of tlie first piano made by Jona;
| Chickering, whom William Steimway called "thi
! father of American pianoforte making.” A carloai
lor two of women and men prominent in the musica
i world will visit the Hulb <or this occasion. At th
banquet the principal speaker will be Calvin Coolidge
\ Vice-President of the United States, and music is t
| he provided "informlaly” by Elly Ney, Germain
jSchnltzer, Erno Dohnanyl, Guy Mayer, and Lee Pat
tlson. So Boston, after all, is net, as her leadin
critic, Philip llalc, treacherously remarked a fe\
'years ago, "off the musical map.” It may not car
i to hear the Nibelung Trilogy adequately performei
j by a company from Berlin, but it rises nobly to .
I centenary cf the first of its great manufacturers o
musica! instruments. .
Europeans cannot deny that the best pianos ar
I today made in America. No artist from abroad eve
; brings along his foreign instrument, because he kno<%'
lit- can get a better one over here. To be sure, It wa
In Italy and Germany that the first real pianoforte
were made—so called because, thanks to the ham
lr.cr mechanism, one could play on them softly o
I loudly at will. The first of these instruments were
j however, so crude that Bach preferred to stick ti
i ills old clavichord. Improvement was slow bu
steady, but thanks to such firms as Erard in France
| Broadwood in England, Bechstcin, Bluthner, am
| Bosendorfcr in Germany the instrument reached i
stage where American inventive genius could com*
i into play, with the results just stated. To a forcigi
sneer that wo have no native composers as great a
I Bach or Beethoven we can always retort courteousl;
! that we make the bc3t pianos in the world anyway, a
well as harps, though it may not be true that ai
j eminent musician refused to go to heaven unless hi
I felt sure lie could play on a harp made by Lyon 4
i Healy in Chicago.
What Jonas Chickering did—not a hundred year
ago, but fn 1853—to make himself immortal was ti
I combine the overstringing with a metal frame ii
lone casting. This was done in a square piano, whicl
j do did not live to complete. At this point the Stein
ways stepped in and still further improved the ton
j and ection of the piano in their own way. Othe
i firms contributed tfierir inventions, great or small
| thus making the best American pianofortes lncon
i tcstably supreme.
All Alaska Chamber of Commerce.
(Ketchikan News.)
An “all-Alaska Chamber of Commerce" iB shorn
j to take Bhape, states Chas. D. Garfield, head of th
j Alaska Department of the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce, who has just returned from a six-weeks' surve
|of Alaskan conditions.
Thero are few in the Territory but who wll
heartily second Mr. Garfield's suggestion. it js
good one but In all likelihood, not a new one; tm
if through Mr. Garfield's efforts, a practical, efficlerf
and harmonious Alaskan Chamber of Commerce i
brought into being, the News for one, will be pleasei
to say, “well done," and give Mr. Garfield the crcdi
he will so richly deserve.
Clean-Up Week Never Ends.
(Fairbanks News-Miner.)
* C leanup Day” isn’t, no more, nowhere. It\
j Cleanup Time ALL the time—there’s no place t<
!<|uit. Flic National Paint-Up Clean-Up Associatioi
j nas discovered that, after eleven years work at th
“Work " The thing to do is to start any time, am
i *Pn 8tart aKfln tho minute you are needed in tha
j line of work.
I’robably few of tho Territories, now becom
Stales, can boast that while still in their infancy
they were visited by a President and a Congressiona
delegation all deeply Interested in their welfare an
development. If the present plans work out Alaska
youngost of the National family, will be able to mak
j that proud boast within the next four monthB Henc
| we say. Lucky Alaska.—(Valdez Miner.)
The present Territorial Legislature ran point t,
jone fact with pride. It has been one of the *
lwaPyT 'e " the history ot Alaska—(Seward Gate
Did anyone have a notion that La Pollette, Boral
or Johnson would agree with the President?_(Cin
cinnati Enquirer.)
l„ Bvcn if Secretary Mellon succeeds in lowerii
jthe surtax it will merely be a news item to most
I uc.—-(Indianapolis Star.)
In winter Europe suffers starvation
jin summer thinks of war. Something
dene about it —(Chicago News )
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and cold aip
ought to b
When an Englishman says that he will r
; never t>e a slave he shows that he means It by
lug 26 per cent itnSbme tax.—(New York Post.)
And after all
really knows yet
or not.—(Detroit
the sputter and excitement nobody
whether Tut is really in his tomb
Free Press.)
The sound business judgment of
against tho Sterling-Towner bill. _
Dureau.)
the country i<
(Boston News
Just why the Reds met in Michigan to inaugurate
their revolution, when Wisconsin was so near is
not understandable.—(Toledo Blade.)
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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Tip For Joy riding Seaton
ilf you don't care
To be among the missin'.
Then don't forget
To stop and look and listen.
The Ananias Club
' No," emphatically declared the
iprospectlve bride to her mother, “we
niu3t not invite those rich relatives
to tho "wedding, because l do not
want them to gi e me an expensive
present."
Huhl
"This se.iit is worn out,” declared
the indignant * customer
*"Well, you bought it to wear out.
didn't you?” inquired the smart
clothier.
Just a Gentle Reminder
(Wi.borg Car. McCreary County
Robord.)
This is a gotyj time to return those
borrowed tools, neighbors.
Foot Questions
E. T. E. asks: "Does a wife have
to be clothed with authority to give
her husband a good dressing?” An
other indication that tho silly sea
son has arrived. ,t .
Why Shouldn't They Be?
minks -“They say tho Eskimos
1 are the happiest atnd most contented
! people in the world"
* Jinks—“Why shouldn't they he.
1 with no income tax or motor cars to
5 dodge?"
1 Easy Enough to Explain
5 ‘S>i Corntassel thinks it Is foolish
far government experts to waste so
’ much brain power trying to figure out
why a young fellow loaves the farm.
iSi sa'ys it is because he can't take
the farm with him It's simple
^ enuff, Isn't it?
Love That Is Past Understanding
'Notice that a woman who shot
,! her husband last week declared she
] loves him to death. We hope our
’ wife never will love us that hard.
If It Fits—
* Well, anyway, a wife never treats
1 her husband with silent contempt
‘Economizing wouldn't be such an
■ all-fired hard jpb if our friends didn't
* have so manj^ things we'd like to
1 have, too.
! Every girl knows if there is a
1 ladder in her stocking her skirt is
’ sure to climb up when she get3 on
the street car.
’ The marathon dancers haven't im
pressed the world with their endur
ance so much as they have shown
what fools some people can be.
'We don't know what* qualifications
j a girl need3 tp become a clerk in
( ' a department store, hut we are
! pretty sure a knowledge of courtesy
can't bo one of thorn.
, Good looks need to he mixed with
. brains to bo worth anything.
Tho only thing harder than get
' ting up in the morning is getting up
in the world.
* Parents spend itltv first two year!
after a baby is Iporn trying to teact
it to talk, and after that they spend
their time trying to make it shut up
That sad look in a father's eyes
, may be due to tlpe fact that his son
. and heir has turned sheik, and is
, trying to grow sidewhlskers.
If horrible examples made any im
I prosslon on peoplo, a good many mar
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JAPANESE; TOY SHOP |
1. 8? kkxrso
r Front Street
| P. 0. Box »18 for Mail Orden ^
JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Mores,
Prompt Delivery of
LADTSMITil coal
Photic 48.
* It's all In knowing HOW to do
Urst-claas cleaning and dyeing.
! „ CAPITAL BYE WORKS
1 C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
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11 THE MAKING OF CONCRETE
la a matter of proper materials
together with engineering skill.
Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Year*
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFO.
i | COMPANY
Willoughby Ave. Phone 32.
I
riago license clerks would have (o go
to work for a living.
There isn't any blind love after |
marriage.
Some people save up for a rainy |
day, but thrre arc a lot of them
who save up to enable a gat-rich
quick promoter to get rich.
Dally Sentence Sermon
Don't mistake contrariness for
backbone. ,
News of the Names Club
We don't know whit happened to
him. but anyway. Will n. Kinder
lives at Cap? (iirarder.u, Mo
If ho lives .up to his name. E.
Shivvors, of Texas, could win A a
shimmy marathon.
New Prime Minister
Named for Egypt.
Tins is the most recent photo
graph of Yehia Ibrahim Pasha,
newly elected Prime Minister of
Egypt, who will help King Fotiad
in ruling the Kingdom on the
Nile, The King had objected to
having a Premier,' asking su
premo power, hut this was re
fused by the electorate who elect
ed the Pasha.
FORMER FAIRBANKS BOY
GETS OFFICE AT OLYMPIA
iSam I., Crawford, formerly a Fair
banks school boy who began his
j newspaper work on Fairbanks pa-1
i pors, has been appointed secretary |
! of the Washington State Administra-j
| tlvo Board. Sam Crawford is a son
of Ron Crawford, who with Bee
James, who made a fortune as an op
erator on Goldstream Greek, com
poses! the Fairbanks real estate firm
of Crawford & James. The late Sam
uel L. Crawford, one of the early
editors of tho Post-Intelligencer and
afterward senior member of the
Seattle real estate firm of Crawford
& Conover, was young Crawford's
grandfather. Tho new official has
boon engaged in newspaper work on
Puget Sound for the last 10 years.
THORNE ON LONG TRIP
A. R. (“Dfck"> Thome, the Fair
banks motion picture theater owner,
has left for the Outside, and will visit
with relatives at Natal. South Africa,
before returning to Alaska.
Old papers foi sale at Empire
CmpIre Printing Company.
TRY OUR
Merchants Lunch
45 Cents
Arcade Cafe
MARY YOURG, Proprietor. ]
USED FURNITURB ,
Bought, Sold and Exchanged
H. BOCOVICH
211 Seward St.
Telephone 441. P. O. Box til
ARCTIC BATH HOUSE
T
and Barber Shop
TURKISH, STEAM, SHOWER I
AND TUB BATHS |
Lower Front St. (Van Atta’i old I
•tand) BILLY LOTT, Pxpp. I
Phone 414. |
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ALASKA COAL
i FOR ALASKANS
—No soot
—Low in ash
—High in heat units
—Clean to handle
PHONE 412
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
PROFESSIONAL
Dra. Kaser & Freeburgcr
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bld(.
PHONE N
Hours * a. m. te 9 p. m.
Dr. Charles P. Jent
DENTIST
Room* 8 and 9 Vawntlne Bid*.
Telephone 176.
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Dr. DeVighnc
Malony Building
Hour* 1 to 4. 7 to 9.
Phone*: Office, 104; Rea. 10|.
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Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hour*, 9 A. M. to 8 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Rea. Phone 216
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Dr. W. A. Borland
Phyaieion and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
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Sitka Rot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Sanitarium
Kates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
GEO. I. BAKTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Messerschmldt 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., 1671.
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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.
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••"'W'i ’ITTKO
DR. R. N. DONAHEY |
Same Good Service as In the
Past
Huteson-Dokahev
Optical (ompAgy
108 Pike Street, Seattle.
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 large part to the habit of
thrift acquired in youth. Have you started your boy
in the right direction?
The B. M. Behrends Bank
JUMXAU, ALASKA.
i
Fraternal Societies
-or
Gastineau Channel
m
0 . ILKI
MmUii
BFeaingn at •:00
o'clock. Elks' Hall.
Charles P. Jenne,
Exalted Rulsr.
JOHN ▲. DAVIS,
Secretary
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freemasonry
Scottish Bite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:S0 p. m. Odd
Fellows' Hall.
WALTER B. HEISBL, Secretary,
i. o. o. w.
SILVER BOW
LODOB NO. ■ A.
Meeets every Thureday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Orandi
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
PERSEVERANCE REBEKAM
„ LODGE NO. 2A.
MWts every first and third
Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8 P M. FRANCES GUSTAFSON.
N. O. ALPHONSINE CARTER,
Secretary.
MOUNT JONEAO loops
No. 147, f. a a. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Mondays
of each Month. In Odd Felicia
| "all, beginning at 7:10 o’clock.
Homer G. Nordllng, Master,
('has. E. Naghel, Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAB
Second and Fourth Ti»
days of each month.
At 8 o'clock, I. O. O. F. Halt
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLINU, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
C*EGHB:KS COUNCIL NS.
17 *U. Meetings second
and loot Mondays at T:M
y p. m. Transient Broth
rs'uraed to attend. Council Chambore.
■|fth Street. John F. Mullen, O. K,
. L. McCloskey, 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; Mn. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
AUXILIARY, PIONEERS 0T
ALASKA. Igloo No. 9.
Meets last Thursday of every
month. Social hour with mem
bers of Pioneer Lodge to fol
low each meeting.
Mrs. I/ottle Splckett, President.
Mrs. Lillie Burford, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
* Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 |. n,
Elks' ~iyoage Room. John F. Starr.
Post Commander, Phone 973; O. E.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phene 198.
LOYAL ORDEB 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock,
^ Moose Hall. E. F.
Elodenberg, Dictator; R. H. Stevena
Secretary.