ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITuR AND MANAGER
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CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE MORE THAN
DOUBLE THAT OE ANY OTHER ALASKA NEWSPAPER
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ALASKA AND
OTHER FRONTIERS.
That the Senators and Representatives who are
In Alaska and who will be here this w'eek are anxious
to learn all about Alaska and to make use of what
they learn to aid in the growth and development of
the Territory there is not a question of doubt. That
great good will result from their trip there is hope
and reason to believe. However, the people of Alaska
must not expert too much of them, and there should
not be disappointment if the growth and develop
ment of the Territory should continue to be slower
than we should like to have it. We sometimes expect
too much front the Outside. We too often think of
the rapid growth of other and earlier frontiers and
feel that hidden away sbme place there is an electric
button of some sort that if touched would cause
a new Alaska to spring forth full grown, like Minerva
from the brain of Jehovah. Uut there is no such
button.
This la a different country than that found by
those who crossed the mountains Into Kentucky and
Tennessee, the old Northwest Territory and through
out the Mlt -iesippl Valley and the Gulf Stales. And
the times have changed in the last century.
A family could put its all in a wagon and move
into that earlier frontier and begin immediately to
produce their necessities, and many did. They worked
their way with a team of horses or oxer hitched to a
wagon, a cow or two and little equipment and lived
off the country. They did without luxuries, depend
ing upon the future to reward them or their children
for the hardships, privations and self-denial that
was their lot. Those were the days of large families
and In a few years the family of two became one of
la .dozen, or s i. There was a rapid population gain
and capital followed Hie population to establish
industries and to develop other resources than agri
culture.
It is different in Alaska. People cannot hitch
n span of hon-i to a wagon and move into this Ter
ritory. And twentieth century Americans demand
more than did those pioneers of a hundred years ago.
They do not have to undergo the self denial and
poverty that was acceptable by those of that other
day. and tbey won't.
barge accessions to tlie population of Alaska de
pend upon the development of the natural resources
of the country. The capital must come before im
migration In great numbers. Population will follow
mining, l"»hcries, pulp and paper, fur farming, water
power an 1 other development.
The p<«; ala lion that A’asku now has came largely
the wake ol mining and fishing d velopment. The
greatest potential populating reso.r-oe that wo lave
in Southeastern Alaska is in our timber which has
been proved to be specially adapted to pulp and
paper manufacture. It is estimated that Southeastern
Alaska can produce from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 tons
of paper annually and in perpetuity. That woulU
give employment to 30,000 to 46,000 men, which
would mean an addition or several times that number
to the population, markets for farmers, fishermen,
craftsmen, manufacturers, business men and profes
sinuls. It would eventually mean a great American
eiaie.
There are things that could be done to facilitate
thin development. The agricultural States were de
veloped because the Government adopted a liberal
attitude in the disposal of the lands. Development in
Alaska will be facilitated by liberallly in the disposal
of the natural re.oureeg. It should be made so that
Alarkans may line up resources of timber and
water power, etc., and take them to tlie man with
'capital for development, as they ran with their min
ing prospects. The Government should not depend
upon its ownership of the resources for profits from
Alaska. Its profits will come with their development
jufit as they came from the other States in which
1: never owned any of the resources or disposed of
them without profit to it.
This means, of course, that Alaska will not grow
at- rust, proh- bly, as other sections grew, but It will
grew In population and wealth and value to the
■ Nation if there is the right sort of co-operation.
The New >ork Evening Sun nrcame a mensbet
of the Associated Press this month for the first time
tince Danas quarrel with that organization way back
"in the eighties. ( The membership was acquires
through the purchase by Frank A. Munsey of tht
Globe, which was a member receiving the afternoor
report and its consolidation with the Sun.
CANADA TO HAVE NEW DISPUTE.
Canada is likely to have another boundary dis
pute. Rather, an old di.-pute is likely to be revived
non and conducted with more or less energy. Own
ersbip of Labrador is the matter in controversy. Both
Canada and Now Feundiand have claimed Labradot
for many years, and nobody paid any serious atlen
tion to the matter until gold was recently discovered
in the coastal country south of Hudson's Bay. Now
both Canada, through the Province of Quebec, and
New Feundiand, which is a separate British Dominion
as it has never joined the Dominion of Canadu. are
‘taking a lively interest in the ownership. Most
authorities give Now Foundiand a narrow strip along
the coast of Labrador, while the hinterland is given
to Quebec. The latter, however, declares that her
ownership extends to the coast, and the Indications
arc that there will be a lively prosecuted boundary
dispute,
AMERICA WELL LEAD IN SCIENCE.
American wealth Is bringing most of the art and
literary treasures ot Europe to the United States.
This same wealth will be responsible, in the opinion
of Sir Olver Ixvdge, for giving the United States the
scientific leadership of the world
In an article in The Century .for June, Walter
Tittle, the American art#t/jwho recently made some
sketches of the Englieh scientist, retails some of his
views on this subject. He writes:
Sir Oliver ixpressed the conviction that
America must load in science in the futiue,
as, among other reasons, unlimited money !■
provided there for the furtherance of ?.:!>■ n
tific experimentation in all subjects.
He expressed an envy, with which i had
the greatest sympathy, of American scientists
of his acquaintance who have at their com
mand money in any quantity necessary for
the continuance of their Investigations.
John Moore of the United Mine Workers says we
have too many coal mines iby 4,000 and too many
miners by 200,000. Now If those 200,000 men could
bj Induced to enter some other brandh of Industry It
would relieve the labor shortage situation a lot.
Prohibition Not Popular.
(Valdez Miner.)
Since the passage of the prohibition law one of
the commonest items in the newspapers has been j
charges of graft or participation In the liquor traffic;
by officers whose duty it is to enforce the law. Never j
in the history of the country, If the newspapers are
to be believed, has there been anything like it. Fed
eral and local officials! alike have been implicated in
violations or attempts at violation of this law. Men
who have held responsible positions for years on the
! police force, without the slightest taint attaching
| to them, have gone wrong in connection with the
| illicit traffic of liquor.
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As a matter of fact the prohibition low enforce
ment, despite the propaganda broadcasted by the
i Federal Prohibition Buraeu, is not being enforced
I with any degree of success. The number of persons
! who are violating the law and escape the penalties
] (hereof are far greater than those who are caught,]
and this Is. true of no other law on the statute books. I
The reason for this situation is. plain. The law does|
not meet with popular approval. A majority of the
j people of the country are opposed to it, and will not
I lend their aid to its enforcement. Disrespect for the
prohibition leads to disrespect for other laws; for all
I laws, and the consequences arc bound to be serious.
There are two simple remedies, one being a modi
fication of the present law; probably the easiest and
simplest, and the other to overrun the country with
[ prohibition officers until the traffic is completely
] crushed. Tills plan would according to present indl
■ cations necessitate another batch of officers to watch
] tlie prohibition officers, and another bunch to watoh
! them, and so on, ad infinitum. The advantage cf the
| latter plan is that it would provide jobs for the
greater part if not all of the people of the country.
Base It On Population
(Cordova Times.)
Of the taxea paid into the Territorial Treasury,
; according to the audit of the Territorial finances, the
j Second and Fourth Divisions, with 25 per cent, of the
I population of the Territory, have averaged during the
past six years 8 per cent.; the First and Third Ui
! visions, with 75 per cent, of the population, have
! paid 92 per cent., of which the Third Division has
i contributed 57.7 per cent. Yet under the present
- law, which arbitrarily fixes the Legislative repre
j Mentation equally among the Divisions, those sections
' of Alaska having the fewer residents and paying the
' smallest amount of taxes, have the same voice In the
I making of the Territory's laws as have the two carry
| ing the preponderant burden of the Territory's ex
pense. The manifest injustice and demoralizing ef
fect of this situation was displayed at Che last ses
sion of the Legislature, where the lining-up of the
representation from the two Westward and Northern
! Divisions against that from the other two, created
a deadlock against which it was impossible to effect
any constructive legislation. AgainBt the solid
phalanx presented by the spokesmen of 25 per cent.
| of the Territory's people, those representing 75 per
| cent, of the population and carrying almost the entire
burden of financial responsibility, were unable to pass
; the legislation demanded by the latter. The result
: was a Legislative session characterized by little ae
\ complislunent compared to its cost. There is a pro
posal on foot designed to correct this state of affairs,
by having Congress pass an Act fixing the Legislative
representation according to population. By allowing
ione leprcsenttaive for every 1500 persons, the House
j would be composed B8 follows: One representative
from the Second Division, two from the Fourth, six
from the Third and seven from the First. Both in
principle and in operation this would appear to be
i an equitable division, since etlher or both of the
smaller representations, by effecting combinations
with the other two, could safeguard its own interests,
while the predominating concerns of the two largest
Divisions would have an opportunity to assert them
selves. The Second and Fourth Divisions would then
wield a stronger influence by becoming the balance of
power between the First and Third. A change from
the present system is, at any rate, obviously de
manded, and the system of representation prevalent
elsewhere and based on population, would appear to
j be the reasonable and logical one.
Brigham Roberts Is head of a movement to ron
i vert twelve eastern states to Mormonism. With
New York practically now converted. Brigham
shouldn't find his job too difficult.— (Cincinnati En
quirer.)
Senator Borah has been nominated for President
by the Committee of Forty-eight. As we go to press
he bus not resigned his scat in the Senate in order
to accopt the nomination. — (New York Post.)
A boy was in rharge of the Mayor's office of New
York City for a day, and reports say "things went
along as usual." No chance to upset the Tammany
machine in one day! — (Cincinnati Enquirer.)
It appears that Doc Cook was even farther away
1 from oil than from the North Pole. — I Indianapolis
Star.)
If China fails to obtain the release of those
prisoners. America may declare u boycott on mah
jong. — (Indianapolis Star.)
Germany appears to be under the impression that
inasmuch as she lost the war It no longer concern
her. -(Boston Transcript.)
Mr. Hoover moves that prosperity be made per
manent. Ail in favor say "Aye." It is carried un
animously.—(Philadelphia Record.)
ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
Ono reason why the fools who
used to drive horses instead of cars,
had so few accidents was because
tho horses at least had some sense.
A car hasn’t any more than the
driver.
The Ananias Club
“No,” said Colonel Boozom. of
Kentucky, "I never would go back
to liquor. I have learned to like wa
ter too well since prohibition came
in.”
Would Be Our Guess
Blinks—People need something to
make ‘them think.
Jinks—Yes, and that something |
is brains
Took Him At His Word
Tho smattt motorist shouted: "Take
my dust."
He didn't know the man follow
ing him was the speed cop
Tho cop took him. and next day
Tho Judge took the dust.”—$25
worth.
Making It Intelligent to Present
Generation
Old Man—>Tt took the wind out of
his sails.
His Son—'You mean it took the air
out of his tires, don't you.
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Try Thle On Your Phonograph
Do you remember when the folks
used to dance for the fun of it, and
not for a record?-''Dusty Miller.”
Yes, "Dtitety," and folks used to
play and sing for pleasure It gave
them, but now vthey do It for the S
record and collect royalties.
Hd, Hum!
‘I got tired of hearing the wet3
and drys argue.” remarked Brown. '
“Yes, I wish they would dry up
too.” replied Black.
It’s An Unusual Dog, We'd Say
(Adv. in bocal Paper.)
POlt HADE
CHOW DOG for sale, male or female.
With pedigree. Call Wdbn, 63 Y.
Watson, What Say, Are We Right?
We lamped this one in a Western
paper. A Newton girl tolls a Kan
san she is certain she is the first
girl her fiancee ‘ever loved because
ho hadn't learned any better than to
carry cigars In his breast pocket
Of course you know curiosity once
killed a cat, and we haven’t any
special hankering to got killed, but
we rise to inquire if it doesn't strike
you tho young lady must have had
considerable experience herself in the|
love game to kpew all about this
kind of a test?-jv •
Famous Highs
- school.
--—i pricey
- hats.
-- heels.
-—— low Jick
—•—- old time.
-brldpb.
- skirts.
(Billy Wood.)
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If It Fit*—
There Is one consolation about be
ing a fool, no one can tell you pe
culiar. for you belong with the great
majority.
The bird who mortgages everything
he has to buy a pleasure car won't
ge* fat in life, you bet.
T Tp
Even if morality falls down on Ihej
job it is a cinch H. C. L. Is going
to make monogomy 'the custom of
civilized nations for some time to
come
Our guess is that the girl who
dances 150 hours and keep the man
she marries busy paying the fiddler.
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HOTEL SEATTLE
"Home of Alaskan*”
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
R. lx HODODON, Manager
It's all to knowing HOW to do
first-class cleaning and dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
* THE MAKINfJ OF CONCRETE *
i Is a matter of proper materlale
| together with engineering skill.
Both are our aseets.
Established Twenty Years
T CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFG.
1 COMPANY
I Willoughby Ave. Phons 32.
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JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Moves. Packs and Stores Freight
Prompt Delivery of
LADYSMITH COAX
Phone 48.
—-or the alimony, If you choose. I
When a married woman starts talk
ing about her wrongs you know with- |
out caking that <;he i3 referring to .
her husband. I
When a girl marries a man with
money eel 1 or her relatives get the
doa ho ought to t ike care of them
lor the rest of their lives.
Since abolishing the saloons hasn't
abolished all the cussodness front
die world, a3 tome thought it would
It begins to look as if the only way
:o make tho world safe far the |
saints Is to abolish all of the sin
ters.
Young man. your hippJno-s isn't
going to depend upon what she calls
you before marriage, but on what c
she calls you after marriage; '
You e.ua't always judgo, a mart's j
weight In tho community by his
bank baflenec.
Happy Is the worn .n wil t 13 satis
fies! with junt one wedding ring (lur
ing her lifetime.
Daily Sentence Sermon
Lockout or you will be token in.
News of the Names Club
We hove ju t received the appli
cation of Rapp, of Buffalo. Wo are
all fed up on knockers now.
Wo have ;; lvi.ied Martina Forget
of Chicago, to try one of these mem
ory courses.
Frleendly Philosophy
As no two minds are identical,
therefore duplicate achievement is
not to be expected, but there is
nothing to prevent all persons ac
complishing their respective, individ
ual objects equally as well. J. E.
F.
Old bundles oi newspapers a' ths
Umpire, 26 cent#.
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After Every Meal
mam
Top oil eacb meal
with a bit ol
sweet In the lorm
ol WRIGLEY’S.
It satislies the
sweet tooth and
aids digestion.
Pleasure and
benellt combined.
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SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES
FOR RENT—$4.00 PER YEAR
Wm. D. Perkins & Co.
BANKERS—211 Cherry 8U Seattle
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ARCTIC BATHS
Without exception the best j
Turkish Baths in Alaska.
Give us a trial and you will be
come a regular customer.
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W. H. Lott,
l Proprietor. So. Front St. |
Jl
ELI M00RH0USE & CO.
Certified Public Accountants
| L. C. Smith Bldg., Seattle. |
I I
I Audits and Income Tax Service I
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Annual visit* to Alaeka.
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USED 7URNITUSI
Bought, Sold and Exchanged
W. BOCOYICH f
r Sll Seward St.
I Telephone 441. P. O. Box 111. j
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ALASKA GOAL
FOR ALASKANS
—No soot
—Low in ash
—High in heat units
—Clean to handle
PHONE 412
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
PROFESSIONAL
-i
•ii
Dr*. Kaser & Freebargcr
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bld(.
PHONE M
Hours 9 a. m. t* 9 p. m.
Dr. Charles P. Jenna
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 V awn tins Bldg.
Telephone 176.
Dr. DeVighnc
Malony Building
Hours l to 4. 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Re*, log.
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Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 4 69.
Rea. Phone 271
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physioian and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg,
Telephone 172.
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Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famoua
Dr. P. L. Goddard’s Sanitarium
Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
I-„-——I
GEO. I. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Messerschmldt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phone 259.
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Goldateln Building
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to i;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
Phones: Office, 167; ree., 1672.
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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.
DP n. N. DONAHEY
Same Good Service as In the
Post
HutesonDonahiy
Optical Gynpan/
108 Pike Street, Seattle.
Fraternal Societies
-or
Gastineau Channel
o . mi
Meeting Wednesday
Hkeeinge at 8:00
o’clock, Elk*' Hall.
Charles P. Jenna,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVI8,
Secretary
Co-Ordinate Bodice
of Freemaeomry
Scottish Rite
Regular meeting*
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7: SO p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HEI9EL, Secretary,
I, O. Oa Fa
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. I A.
Meeets every Thursday at > P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Qran4|
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
PERSEVERANCE RTREFAM
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every first and third
Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hell, at
8 P M. FRANCES GUSTAFSON.
N. G. ALPHONSINE CARTER,
Secretary.
MOUNT JONEAS LODES
No. 147, F. « A. M.
Stated Communifatlon
Second and Fourth Mondays
of each Month, In Odd Felices
Hall, beginning at 7:Ji o'clock.
Homer G. Nordllng, Master.
Chas. E. Naghel, Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Ti
days of each month.
I "at 8'o’clock. I. O. O. F. Ha!L
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NOUDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
8EOHB RS COUNCIL NS.
17 *0. Meetings second
and last Mondays at T:M
^ r p. m. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chambers.
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, O. K.
,!. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 p. m.
Elks' ijodge Room. John F. Starr,
| Post Commander, Phone 973; G. B.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 198.
LOYAL ORDER 01
M00SX.
JnneftD Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
■lght, 8 o’clock,
w Moose Hall. E. F.
Rod on berg, 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; Mre. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
T AUXILIARY, PIONEER! OF
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
I Meets last Thursday of every
| month. Social hour with mem
| bers of Pioneer I>o(lge to fol
low each meeting.
I Mrs. Ixtttie Spickett, President.
| Mrs. Lillie Burford, Secretary.
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 V
The B. ML Behrends Bank
xtotkau, alacta. i $
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