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ENGLAND, LIKE AMERICA, POLITICALLY
RESTLESS.
That Premier A. Bonar Law will retire before
leng from the headship of the British Government,
teems to ho generally accepted, and that with the
retirement there may shortly bo a general election
and a change in the political alignment of the Gov
ernment ret ms probable. Premier Law's health is
admittedly precarious, and the political health of the
Conservative Patty does not seem much, if any, better.
The by-elections have been going steadily against
the Government for the lu3t several months. Three
members of the Cabinet were defeated in as many
elections in one week in March.
There rooms good reason lo believe thut if tjie old
Liberal Party wore reunitid, if Lloyd George and
Asquiith were again working, in harmony, there
would shortly be a change in the party* control.
Tho situation in Great Britain, like that on the
Continent and like that in America, continues rest
less. It has been a little more than a year since |
the Conservative.* achieved a tremendous majority at
a general election in Great Britain, and already the
country apparently is pining for a change. In five
years the American people have seen Wilson reach
the acme of p polarity and tho depths of defeat.
The Democratic Party went front a proud position as
tlte controlling political party during a victorious war
to dire disaster. This was followed by a victory
fer the Republican Party unprecedented in ils three
re years of history, and in two years time we
have seen suspicion and dir. atisfactlon knawing at
the vitals of the great organization of 1920.
Under the circumstances it causes one to marvel
at the length cf time Lloyd Grorge held sway In
Great Britain. It is no wonder that writers of the
situation iln that country are again beginning to sug
gest that people keep their eyes on the little Welsh
man. There ss u feeling over the water 'that he may
be called upon again at no distant day to assume
leadership of a Liberal Party Government.
ABOUT “LAME DUCKS."
An editorial writer very correctly points out that
people arc overworking the "lame duck” appelation.
It has become fashionable to refer to ail those who
have been defeated for office as “lame ducks," and in
a manner that would indicate they have passed their
timo of usefulness.
If there is oclium attached to being defeated for
public office it is odium that has been experienced
by very many of the public men of the country.
Many students of history believe that Washington
would have retired from office a "lame duck” had
he been a candidate for a third term. Both of the
Adamses did retire from the Presidency as “lame
c'tiiks," as did Van Huron, Benjamin Harrison and
Taft Jt.fftrpn was defatted for the Presidentcy, but
‘‘Idnie duck” that lie was lie came back without limp
ing and was President for eight years and practically
dominated the country for a decade-and-a-half after
his retirement. Jackson was defeated the first time
lie ran for the Presidency and repeated Jefferson’s;
performance. 'William Henry Harrison was de
feated for the Presidency before lie was elected by
one of tlie largest majorities over given to a Presi-I
dent. Webster, Cars, lilalne and Bryan were “lamej
ducks’’ who afterward served as Secretaries of State.'
Clay was made "lame'' by many defeats hut was1
never greater <r more influential than just before j
his death. Cleveland retired from the Presidency
once as a ''lame duck” but came back ior the greatest
ol his victerlc". Kooeevelt Anally passed from the!
scent s as a lame duck,'' and Lincoln and Bryan had
lath been defeated for the Senate before they became
Presidential candidates. President Harding was de
flated for the Governorship of Ohio and afterward
was chosen Senator and President in turn.
Jf we takd those who have occupied scarce dimmer
place than the Presidency In the public eye the
record includes scores of successful ‘ lame ducks."!
Governor Cox retired from the Governorship a "lame'
duck'' and was, afterward twice elected to that
ofTice, dividing honors with Hayes, afterward Presi
dent, as the only men ever to serve three terms as
Governor of Ohio. Uncle Joe Cannon was twice a
lame duck, and Anally voluntarily retired from
what would have been a life Job.
Alter all is - kid and done there is no disgrace'
in being a 'lame duck," and the record shows that
nlany ducks refuse to »tay lame.
j ALAIN A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
TWEEDLEDEE AND TWEEDLEDUM.
Mr. Sutherland Is opposed to the principle in
volved in 'the Nelson Game Hill, but says it is (he
1 c:: that can b< * ceured because Eastern conservation
f:>cioties have set their hearts on it, and he favors
1* because lie believes there is an emergency that
demands better game control. Vet lie is opposed,
as n maitter of principle, to the fish reserve* created
by i xrcutive proclamation in order to conserve the
fish supply, until legislation may be provided for that
purpose, and wants them abrogated, not withstanding
that he favors a bill that would give the Secretary of
Commerce exactly the same authority he acquirer
under the reserve system. In one case lie sacrifices
principle in order to meet an emergency. In the other
case the emergency may go hang. To the' average
Alaskan it would seem that conservation of the sal
mon supply is the greater emergency of the two.
SWEEPING CHANGES IN SALARY LIST.
The abolition of all statutory salaries in the
Federal Civil Service by the reclassification act of
March 4 puts the next year’s salary rates of some
20(1,000 Government employees largely into the hands
ef the Personnel Classification Board which was
created by that act. Complete revision of the salary
scale is provided for, net only as affecting the de
partmental services at Washington, but field services
nr well, including customs and Immigration services,
steamboat inspection, lighthouse, pu'blic health, penal
institutions, forest, fisheries, reclamation, public lands,
Indian schools, animal industry, plant industry,
weather bureau, mints, ordnance, quartermaster de
partment", tho custodial service,—In fact every branch
ol the Government service in every state, with the
exception only of the Postal Service, which lias been
reclassified, and the skilled trades.
Tills sweeping change in the Government's em
ployment policy, it is pointed out by the National
Federation of Federal Employees, gives incalculable
importance to the announced policy of the Personnel
Classification Board to welcome suggestions from offi
cials, employees and the public in the working out of
the new salary scales which are to form the basis of
the next year’s budget estimates for Congress.
Cost of Government.
(Cordova Times.)
Poeple who are demanding, and rightly, a reduc
tion in public expenditures and a lowering of taxes,
ought not, lin their meditations, to overlook one very
important truth, and that is that the more govern
ment they liavo the greater will Its cost be. The
great expansion of (government activities began about
a (juarter of a century ago, and it lias gone steadily
forward, until today our governments, national, state,
and municipal, are performing tasks which no one
would in the beginning ever dream of assigning to
them. Public payrolls have grown enormously, and
they are still growing. A few days ago Representa
tive Rainey raid, in an address ibefere a farmers’
meiting in Illinois-, that "every two persons in the
United States engaged in productive laibor have on
their shoulders at least one perron who is supported
entirely by taxes." We iiav emultiplted inspectors,
supervisors, special agentts, divisions and bureaus to
an alarming—and a very burdensome—-extent.
The people might as well make up their minds I
that they can not have a paternal, benevolent, phil
anthropic, interfering, meddling, regulating govern
ment which shall at the same time lie economical. We
could save hundreds of millions of dollars simply by
taking -the Government out of business which it
should never have entered. If the people could be
made to realize all this, the so-called reformers and
progressives who now besiege Ccngrcss and the State
Legislatures demanding new measures of regulation
and control would find the going much harder than
it now is.
There could be no greater reform -than the re
storation of our Government to something like nor
malcy. The re ult would be good in every way.
There would follow a lessening of coat, a reduction of
taxes, an increased efficiency, and a much more self
reliant spirit in the people. No reform that is sug
gested 'today begins to compare in value and import
ance with the reform that would bring such things
to pass. II used to be an axiom that the government
which govern: least governs best. Now the idea seems
to be. that the more a government does, and the more
it cods, the better it Is.
“The American’s Creed.”
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(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
In theca days of the highly commendable return
to tho teaching of the once forgotten principles of
American Government it is gratifying to encounter
a credo, or belief, written by a woman which teems
lo sum up a complete declaration of patriotism and
compendium of the duties of citizenship.
It was written by a nun who teaches in a
parochial school at Ottawa, Ohio, and is recited by
her class every morning of the week. The text of the
"American's Creed” follows:
I believe in the United States of America as a
gi vernment of the people, by tho people, for the peo
ple, whose just powers arc derived from the consent
of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sov
ereign nation of many sovereign states; a perfect
union, one and inseparable, established upon -those
principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity
for which American patriots sacrifled their lives anil
fortunes.
"I, therefore, believe it is my duty to my country
to obey its laws; to respect its flag, and to defend
it against all enemies.”
Flappers of (he Frightful ’50s.
(Now York Post.)
Everybody knows that young people's manners
were never bo atrocious ias today. Dismayed fathers
like the one in Mrs. Atherton's "Black Oxen" utter
comprehensive Culminations against the painting,
inimodcDt dre: lug, drinking, and unchaperoned
parties of the now generation. The young people
litar witners against themselves, fer a whole school
of nowly diplomaed novelists has plunged after Scott
Fitzgerald in picturing the revels of the beautiful
and the damned. What a coni rant to the young peo
ple's world of, say, Miss Alcott and J. T. Trow
bridge!
But is it? Devout believers in the Alcott-Trow
bridge tradition should peruse the chapter of John
I>. Long's newly publiahed diary, “America of Yes
terday," describing his precept orbit i,p in a Massachu
setts academy, 1857-58. The scene was rural Wost
iord. a quiet town of fine old Puritan sotek. Young
Long was scandalized by what he found “Two of
the pupils—-good fellows, but weak—got drunk,”]
runs an early entry. At the evening parties of itlio
tillage he was shocked. "Kissing, talking, bawling,!
squeezing were tile order of the night," he observes
after a typical entertainment. In pity for the per
verted youth he started a lycouan, and rejoiced that
it has turned the attention of the young people
■ lent dancing and kissing parties In some measure
to hotter tilings.'' Not long ago, we recall, the
Saturday Review reprinted. from an issue of fifty
jears part Mrs. Lynn Linton's essay on “The Girl
oi the Period. a scathing indictment of the im
modesty ot mind, dress, and manners prevalent in
the Victorian '70s.
Watching tile shamele e flirtations of “the fellows
and their girls. Long tells us he “wondered what
one of our Merit old Puritan .fathers would say if he
should hear sueli sounds and sec such sights ”
Thirty-five years later he had a chance to learn front
Charles Francis Adams's study of town life in old
New England that Puritan society itself had a seamy
side, if twentieth century Gotham had petting pra
t'es. seventeenth century Now England had bun-'
uling. Thera is a better basis for condemning such I
modern phenomena than faith in the perfection of
the past. |
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
What lias bacomo of the old-faah
ionrd notion (hat a woman was
afraid of a gnn?
No Sympathy for Him
j Blinks: "I sec the cashier who at
tempted to commit suicide after it
was discovered he was nearly a half
million short, may recover.”
Jinks: "But ttie depositors arc
more interested in seeing the bank
recover." i
Fool Questions
G. IT asks: “Who is buying the
$18 silk shirts now?” We don't
know, we never see anybody wearing
them any more, either.
Zero In Accomplishments
Tho most no account old loafer in
town had died and tho preacher who
has been called upon to preach the
funeral sermon was up against it.
He was doing his best to get the re
lieved (net heroav-od) wjdow to help
him out.
“But suroly, madame," he ex
claimed, “ho lmd some redeeming
quality. Kvery one has. Can't you
think of something that ho was good
at?"
‘ Well," replied the widow, wearily,
“he certainly was good at resting and
that is all he ever has done since
wc havo been married.”
Gems From Guide Book to Success
If the ■concern employing you is
not worthy of your loyalty, leave It,
By staying further, you are not only
jeopardizing your own best interests
but those of the concern as well.
—J. E. F.
Ever Feel That Way 'Bout Yours?
S’matter, won't your engine go?"
asked the passing stranger of Brown,
who was talking like a Dutch uncle
to hlis stalled car.
*tNo;” he growled. "I think they
equipped this bus with one of those
blankety stationary engines.”
If It Fits—
Most of its are no: good enough,
but some people arc too good for
their ow'n comfort and most every
body elsc’s, too.
Probably no one in this world ever
gets worse fooled than the bird who
married in the belief two can live as
cheaply as one.
If parents haven’t the heart to
give thoir youngsters the spanking
they deserve no doubt the neighbors
wculd be tickled to death to take
over the job.
Just getting marriod is no proof
of their love—It Is staying that way
that convinces the world.
It is getting so a man can only
guess as to whether his wife will j
get a divorce or he a funeral.
There are worso tilings than being |
an obi maid—just think of the poor j
bachelor with no sweet, little wife to
| look after—and got after—him
Our idea of a happy marriage is
one where the wedding anniversaries
are looked upon n3 joyful days to
celebrate and not as days of mourn ;
ing.
We .■ oppose tile dumbbell who bo
lievo:. money makes him bettor than
other peoplo also bolioves ho can
learn table Qtl<igb|tso -ip an armchair
hash foundry.
Getting a run for your money may
bo allright, but street car riders
would rather get a seat for theirs.
Which reminds* us, we have noticed
no one can be mono bitter In de
nouncing the ungallant men for hold
ing onto thoir toat3 in the car than
the women who always aro standing
up for their rights.
And speaking of worry, it must
nearly give the super stouts nervous
prostration to think of the possibil
ity of bustles and hoop skirts com
ing back.
We have heard of some fairly rich
man, bat we never yet have heard of
one who was "rich beyond the wild
est dreams of avarice."
A wife’s idea of being catty is
for tlie neighbors to pity her hus
band for having to put up with her.
Daily Sentence Sermon
Don’t worry yourself—and don’t
worry your friends.
News of the Names Club
Some of those hung in thp church
steeples are—but what we began to
write was the Isabelle High lives in
■Springfield, III.
He wants ’em to bo good before he
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211 Seward at. j
I Telephone 441. P. O. Box Ml. |
Furnished Rooms for I
Rent
! ANCHORAGE ROOMS j
LILLIAN FOOTE I
Telephone 431
BEST EVER
MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
Now offers additional attracts
Disability Bemefit feature*.
NONE OTHER SO LIBERAL.
ALLEN SHATTUCK
INSURANCE REAL ESTATE
ESTABLISHED 1898
(toes, but anyway, Cash Checks is re
ported from San Francisco,
>1. M. Nigh wo learn, lives at fiose
land, Nob., but that eem3 pretty far
away to us. * t
Headquarters t"r Ladysmith coal.
Juneau Transfer Co. Phone 48. adv
National Forest Timber lor
Sale.
Sealed bids will be received by
the Forest Supervisor, Ketchikan.
Alaska, up to and including April
23, 1323 for all of the merchant
able dead timber standing and
down and all of the live timber
designated for cutting on throe
areas comprising a total of approxi
mately 1 no acres located on Schultz
Cove, Fish Hay and Peril Strait,
Baranof Island, Tongas.; National
Forest. Alaska, esitmated to be a
total of 371,000 feet B.M. of Silka
spruce, Alaska cedar and western
hemlock sawtimiber and 8,300 11 n.
ft. of piling. No bid fi.r loss than
|1.50 per M feet B.M. for Sitka
spruce and Alaska cedar saw timber
and $1.00 per M feet B.M. for hem
lock anwtimber and 1c per lin. ft.
for all piling up to and Including
95 ft. in length and 1 Vfec per lin.
ft. for all piling greater than
95 ft. in lcni'eth will be considered.
Deposit with bid $300.00. The right
to reject any and all bids is re
served. Before bids are submitted
full information concerning the
timber, the conditions of sale and
e submission of bids should be
btained from the Forest Super
visor, Ketchikan, Alaska or the Dis
trict Forester, Juneau, Alaska.
National Forest Timber foi
Sale.
Sealed bids will be received by
the Forest Supervisor, Ketchikan,
Alaska, up to aiyl including April
23, 1923 for all of the merchant
able dead timber standing and
down and all of the live timber
designated for cutting on an area
of approximately 60 acres located
on the north shore of Wilson Cove, j
Admiralty Island, Tongass National;
Forest, Alaska estimated to be 120,-i
000 feet B. M. of Sitka spruce,!
western hemlock and Alaska cedar1
rawtimber and pulptimber and 65,
000 lin. ft. of hemlock piling. Noj
bid for less than $1.50 per M feet,
B.M. for Sitka spruce and Alaska
cedar sawtimber and $1.00 per Mi
feet B.M. for hemtock sawtimber,!
60c per hundred cu. ft. for spruce
pulp timber and 30c per hundred
cu. ft. for hemlock pulptimber, and
lc per lin. ft. for all piling up to
and including 95 feet In length and
1 M>c per lin. ft. for all piling great
er than 95 ft. in length will be con
sidered. Deposit with bid $300.00.
The right to reject any and all bids
!s reserved. Before bids are sub
mitted full information concerning
the timber, the conditions of sale!
and the submission of bids should!
he obtained from the Forest Super-t
visor, Ketchikan, Alaska or the Dis-i
triet Forester, Juneau, Alaska.
| Wm. D. Perkins & Co.
| Bankers
211 Cherry St. Alaska Bldg
Seattle.
DEALERS IN
Municipal Bonds
County Warrants
First Mortgages
Safe Deposit Vaults
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6 per cent to 8 per cent Interest
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PALACE OF SWEETS j
Eat a dish a day of our ice
[ cream. A healthful vitamine |
j food.
I Vanilla, Strawberry. Chocolate,
I Pineapple. |
I We also serve Seattle Velvet l i
1 Ice Cream.
; Large room for dance or card !
| parties.
Ladies’ Rest Room
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TRY OUR
Merchants Lunch
45 Cents
Arcade Cafe
MARY YOUNG, Proprietor.
| JAPANESE TOY SHOP I
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H H. MARINO |
i Pront Street
V 0 Bo* 218 for Mail Order* I
BRIQUETS
Ideal /
fuel for
every
purpose
Large stocks on hand
Ladysmith ooal.
Nanaimo ooo\
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
Phono 411.
j PROFESSIONAL J
Drs. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein lid*.
PHONE M
Hours 9 a m. te 9 p. in.
Dr. Charles P. Jenna
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Valentina Bldg.
Telephone 176.
Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4. 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Rea. ins.
Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Rea. Phone 276
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Ooddard’s Sanitarium
Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
GEO. 1. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Messerschmidt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phone 259.
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Goldstein Building
Hours; 9:30 to 12; 1 to S;
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. L<. HODGDON, Manager
It’s all In knowing HOW to do
first-class cleaning and dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
THE MAKING 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 32.
fraternal Societies
--Of
Gastineau Channel
0 . ILXt
Until; Wednesday
Evening* at 8:00
o’clock, Elk*' Hall.
Charles P. Jcnne,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN ▲. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodiea
of Freemaoonry
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings J
second and fourth!
Friday* each month1
at 7:80 p. m„ Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
SILVER BOW
_LODGE NO. I A.
Meeol* every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows' Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand;
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
PERSEVERANCE RESET AW f
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every first and third
Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8 P M. FRANCES GUSTAFSON, I
N. G. ALPHONSINB CARTER,
Secretary. , [
MOUNT JONEAC LOOM*
No. 147, F. A A, M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Mondays
of each Month, In Odd Felicia
H*M, beginning at 7:S» o'clock.
Homer G. Nordling, Mastor.
C'has. E. Naghel. Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tuem
daya of each month.
At 8 o'clock. I. O. O. F. HalL
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
SBGHB R8 COUNCIL NO.
17 <u. Meetings secov.d
and laat Mondays at 7:IS
p. m. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chamber*.
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen. Q. K.
J. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Poat No. 4.
Juneau, Alaakh.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month it I f.
Elks' 'ivodge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; G. 8.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 194.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. E. F.
Rodenberg, 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; Mra. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
AUXILIARY, PIONEER* Of
ALASKA. Igloo No. 8.
, Meets last Thursday of every
i month. Social hour with mem
bers of Pioneer Ixidge to fol
low each meeting.
1 Mrs. Lottie Splckett, President.
I Mra. Lillie Burford, Secretary.
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You Should Take in the Cabaret Dance
A. B. HALL TONIGHT
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