ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
JOHN W. TROY
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long neglected action taken.
The bill recently Introduced In Hie lower House
hy Delegate Sutherland providing for the full exten
sion cf the Federal Highway Act to Alaska is one
that should stand on its own merits without fear of
terios opposition from anyone. Every argument that
cm be advanced for Federal aid in the construction
rf highways and trails applies with particular force
to tills Territory. In fact it is ridiculous to speak or
‘Federal aid" in connection with the construction of
toads in this country where at least it8 per cent, of
the land and resources are ownod by the nation rather
than by private interests. Federal aid implies that
tho national Government is extending assistance to
the States in carrying cut activities of primary benefit
to the latter. While there is no doubt that Alaska
would receive direct benefit from the building of more
roads and trails, it: share would tie loss than that
accruing to the Federal Government Itself.
in a single ent rprise the national Government
has invested $56.(too,non. That enterprise, u rail
toad, depends entirely for success upon tho con
t (ruction of ro.tds and trails, opening up mineral
districts tributary to it. Frotp Soward to Fairbanks,
a distance of 467 miles, there are,fewer roads than
can be counted on the fingers of both hands. For
tlie prerent, and in all probability until a great many
roads arc constructed tapping mineral districts which
are potential traffic reservoirs, Congress must appro
priate approximately $1,000,000 every year to meet
the deficit between operating expenses anil revenues.
T1 e bill introduced by the Delegate offers a ready
a- tree of road funds without violating precedents
or establishing a new ono. It merely seeks to apply
to Alaska principles already recognized in current
io..d building relations between the Federal and In
dividual State governments.
Action in this matter has been long delayed for
some unfathomable reason. It should have been taken
two years ago when the original Federal aid measure
was introduced. An opportunity was again presented
last June when tho original Act was extended for
a period of several years. On neither occasion was
any effort made on behalf of the Territory. Now
that the effort is being made, It i. to be hoped that
tlie Delegate will lenve nothing undone that can se
cure a proper consideration of the bill and Hint it
will l»c enacted into law before Congress adjourns
c.it March 4th,
LIKE OUTRIVALS FICTION.
Truth it stranger than fiction, runs an old proverb
that In u household saying familiar in all lands. Every
day or so there ccmes tome striking evidence that
life, indeed, moves ever ahead of fiction.
Fifty years ago John G. Shedd started with Mar
shall Field, one of the greatest mercandlBing houses
in the country, as a $10 a week clerk. The other day
ho retired from the presidency of the firm. He was
ruceceded by James Simpson, who started as an office
boy. Prior to his ascendency to the head of the
concern, Mr. Simpson had risen to the vice-presidency.
Hie successor in that cfTice is John MacKlnley, an
other ofTIce boy.
An even more striking illustration of the way life
beats fiction at its own name is the recent selection
of F. Edron White to bo President of the great pack
ing heme of Armour ti Company. He will not only
direct the destinies of the Illinois corporation with
its yearly burinese of more than a billion dollars, but
be will also control the activities of Armour A Com
pany of Dcltw^re, the recently organized subsidiary
of the main corporation, which, it Is reported, will
take over the business of Morris A- Company if that
deal is consummated. Thus Mr White will become
the active head of the greatest packing industry over
created.
He is loss Ilian 50 years old. He started in the
“slime and dirt of Puckingtown" less than H3 years
ago, and without any "puli'’ except that exercised
b> natural ability, has arisen to a position of com
manding eminence. Mr. White received a public
school education at Peoria, Ills. At the age of seven
teen years he went to work on the killing floor of a
Peoria packing house Five years later lie went to
Ciiieago to enter the employ of Armour & Company
as an Inspector ol a car route department. A year
liter he organized and became the head of the sheep
fltfat tment. Within ten 'ears from the time lie wetil
to work tor Armour, lie was made assistant to one of
the vice-presidents. In 1912, the company made him
a director and just two years later he was rewarded
with a vice-pre idency. In nine years, he rose from
that post to the presidency.
•Mr. White is too young yet. and much too busy!
to take time to tell how he “arrived.” Hut judging
from his career, ho made up hi. mind early where lie
was going, got a job and struck to it without watch
ing the time clock and wishing for the chief or hi
depaitincnt to resign or die ro that lie might have n
chstxte at the resulting vacancy. The rigid from the!
'killing Bear of a little packing house to the presi-l
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leni's desk in the world's greatest packing Industry
3 too long and too difficult of passage for a clock
watcher and time-server to ever negotiate it suc
jessfully.
SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD OUTPUT GROWS.
Settlement last year of labor troubles in South
African gold mines and reduction of operating costs
effected by economies adopted by the operators have
resulted in stimulating the gold output of that dis
irict. This year will show a substantial increase in
the output of South African mines, according to the
American Trade Commis: icner for tlit- district.
Every month since the strike was settled, produc
tion was increased. Last November the total output
of the district was 764,476 fine ounces of gold. Mining
costs have; been reduced and greater efficiency de
veloped. The labor situation in the mines is satis
factory. A total of 173,173 natives were employed
at the end of November as compared with 176,129
for October but tile output for the former mouth was
the,larger. The Mining Industry Board has made its
report which is favorable to the operators and man
agers. No wage increases were recommended and
the action of the companies in putting economies
intc effect was uphold.
Another thing that Congress might do to cn
courago sale of farm products after it gets through
with its farm loan program—provide for the exten
sion of credit to consumers.
Britain's debt mission is returning home. Wonder
Senator Borah may not be the “white-headed boy"
of the Administration, but he is the lad who gets most
of the publicity the^e days.
The Stanford University professor who said that
the intelligence cf the race is decreasing must have
been reading Alaska election returns.
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A Soldier’s Message.
(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
Washington and Grant extolled the blessings of
peace. The soldier, realizing the horrors and tragedies
ot' war through intimate contact, appreciates more
than the civilian the desirability of human accord
and peaceful arsoclaticns. He knows war for what
General Sherman proclaimed it to be. His eyes have
teen, hin ears have heard things that he gladly would
forget if nc could, lienee General Pershing, in his
recent message, tpok*’ from his soldier heart with
nil tlie fervor born of experience in the world’s lists
of tremendous conflict. It is a mt s.igc worth pre
serving, a proclamation appealing to all that is best
In the pubic consciousness. Reccnty, at Schenectady,
lie said:
"With each New Year comes a new hope and ours
(should lie for peace, without which we can have
neither happiness nor prosperity. May the New Yea,'
bring to every American a deeper appreciation of his
obligations as a citizen and a greater activity in the
exercise of hie duties and privileges as such.
“With the Ten Commandments as cur religion
and the Constitution aft our political creed, our
country should move forward to the fulfillment of tin
glorious promises of cur past. As a nation we can
serve civilization in nc finer way than by giving
to the world the living exumple of u free Govern
ment of law and order founded upon the great prin
ciples that were the Inspirations of our forefathers.”
Surely in i e is an appeal Hint should serve to deep
en the patriotism of every man worthy to enjoy the
duties and privileges of citizenship. Surely here is a
proclamation to tho malcontents, the doctrinaires, the
radical revolutionaries, and to the restlets, surging
evil political and uncial influences throughout the
world, that tho salvation of righteous civilization
may be assured’ only through devotion to the funda
mental principles of democracy, religion and hu
manity.
Intolerance.
(Editor and Publisher i
There are a great many persons who beemoe
greatly involved, in* their logic when they enter into
a dtocu4pon of the rights under the guarantees ot
free speech. This Includes some newspaper men.
The men who placed the first amendment in tiic
Constitution of the Untied States knew from e\
pirienco and intolerance of one man for the opinion
of another and of one group for the opinioi oi
another.
After drafting the Constitution to hind the original
States in a perfect Union their first concern was t.nr
preservation of the right to reason and proclaim, in
order that the truth might be found and be the basis
:>n which lasting political unity was to he built. The
tuen who drafted our guarantee of free speech knew
from experience the bitterness of intolerance at the
hands of others.
Human nature has not greatly changed since 17!H
intolerance against the opinions of others is preva
lent everywhere today. Kansas and Memphis, Tenn.,
luivo this year supplied tho outstanding attacks
against freedom of speech.
George Bernard Shaw has written a great defenst
o' free speech In a single sentence that should havi
its place on every editorial room desk:
"Our whole theory of freedom of speech am
opinion for ail citizens rests, not on the assump'lor
that everybody is right, but on the certainty that
everybody is wrong on some point on which some
body else Is right, so that there is a public dangci
in allowing anybody to go unheard."
l)o not dismiss that sentence with a single reading
—It is worthy of study. Many of us need that
guidance, and especially when it is the other fellow’s
opinion that is being smothered under a wave of
temporary Intolerance
Sauce for the (iander Also.
(New York World.)
Attorney General Daugherty simply expresses a
piirpc e of enforcing even-handed justice as between
employing associations and labor unions by his rul
ing In the care of the San Francisco Builders- Kx
rhange. Action along this line will be as timely, as
undoubtedly it will be well grounded on the con
st iracy sections of the Federal Anti-Trust Laws.
The United States Supreme Court has decided in
'I Duplex Printing care that labor unions cannot
lawfully carry their efforts to extend the closed shop
to the point of refusing to handle in a union plant
goods or machinery made in u non-union plant. No
more can the builders or other employers of San
Francisco or elsewhere in the United States carry
' oil efforts to establish the open shop to the point
making' agreements not to cell material to con
tt.triors or. others who give preference to union labor
I t hiring help.
"h:t is sauce lor the goose ought to he sauce
f< the gander. The action of the machinists in the
Duplex Printing case constituted a secondary boy
cott of capital b> lat>or, which Itas come to be uni
!■ rmly and rightly condemned by tie law and the
'"•ft*. I he action of the San Francisco Builders"
Exchange is equally a secondary boycott turned tile
Biter way around und equally to be condemned.
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ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR j
By SAM HILL I
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
Styles in hats change so fast these
days the ladles no longer bother
using hatpins to hold 'em becaus
they have to taka 'em off before
■they get a chance to get them an
. bored.
Now Left to Their Fate
Blinks—They used to say the Lord
' rook care of fools and drunks.
Jinks—That was before fools and
(,1'imks began to drive motor cars.
Gems From Guide Book to Success
The phantom Fear on mischief bent,
Into the house of wisdom went.
When none his works would enter
tain,
i Abjectly Fear crept out again.
J. E. F.
Huh! Eatin’ Quail in Ohio Is For
bidden by Law
(Marriage license in Jittsburg Ga
zette-Times.)
John O. Quaill—West View.
Frances L. Eaton Bellevue.
Fool Questions
F. D. S. asks: “Why is it that
people are so slow picking up hints
when you drop them?" We’ve often
wondered about that ourselves.
That’s Easier to Do
Fite—Can you tell fortunes with
cards?
He— No, but I lost one at them.
The Modest Man at His Best
No matter how modost a man may
think he is he is absolutely con
vinced the woman who gets him will
draw the biggest prize in the matri
monial lottery.—tSam Hill in Cincin
nati Enquirer.
A man may bo modest, as modest
as can be, the modestest man of
the earth, but he wants no mistake
on the part of Ills girl, she must
oelieve in hiis worth; she must be
lieve him the greatest man in the
world, a regular hero, as it were;
indeed, she must be mindful of i., >
great honor he confers by bestowing
hi.' name upon iter.—Tom Denning.
If It Fits—
i T<i(; most espensive tour you can
I take 'long about tills time of year is
a shopping tour.
Thi3 life never will be perfect un
I til It is as easy t > make money as it
is to spend it.
When a young fellow plans t >
marry he never stops to count tit •
cost. And afterward he doesn't care
what a divorce costs, just so he
gets it.
London doctors are wasting a lot
of time trying to find why ladies
smoke. The answer is just “Be
couse.” That's the only reason
ladies over have for anything they
■ do.
Tlie women are pretty sure to shop
early, but their husbands wish they
would not think they had to shop
I late, too.
The last baby born is tlte iuc'c.f.st.
It does not get kissed so much and
by that time the book on scientific
raising of infants, that rarher
t-ought just before the first one ar
1'i'ed, has been used to help start th i
furnace fire.
Frubably no one in ail this wide
I'voild enjoys suffering more than the
wile who thinks she is a martyr.
All that any doughboy who was
disappointed at not being shot dur
ing the World War has to do to it re
edy the oversight is to get mixed up
in one of these eternal triangle-.
e suppose the reason mor tit-n
Ian women have their lives insured
is because on wife wants to lea re ail
that money for some brazen snip of
■a girl to enjoy after she is go..-".
The egotistical .bird who thinks he
Is some heart breaker can’t under
^tand wl^v all the girls .veom he
slights go off and marry nicy sen-i
ble fellows instead of committing
suicide.
II never worries the bird who
/ likes to hear himself talk that he
never has more than one listener.
Doctors say you can judge the
health by the state of the hair, and
we guos; you can judge the age
pretty will, too, by the hair 'that’s
parked on the dresser.
We like a woman to be accom
plished, but personally we would not
care to have any one as handy with
the hammer and saw, as a certain
Western lady is, around our house.
Daily Sentence Sermon
They may speak well of the dead,
but never of a dead one.
News of the Names Club
Lotta Paint, of Cambridge, informs
ns while she has that kind of u name
she uses very little of it.
Otto Sohute, or Louisville, is la
gunsmith.
British Liberals May
United to Guard Funds
^ LONDON. Jan. 22.—The Asquith
Grey Liberals are casting a covetous
eye upon the Lloyd George party
funds, which aro said to amount to
more than two million pounds sterl
ing.
Their argument Is that the sub
scribers to the Lloyd George fund
gave their money to he used as Lib
era! propaganda, and not for the
use of any one section of the party.
This is said to be one of the im
pelling motives for reunion of the
two branches of the party.
The Asquith-Grey Liberals liavt
turned down the suggestion made b.t
some of the subscribers to have the
matter taken into court.
Judge Morris Is Called
Bootleggers’ “Terror.”
This is the first photograph of
Federal Judge Page Morris, of Du
luth. Minnesi in, who tins become
known as the bootleggers' ''terror”
because lie imposes long prison
terms on violators of the Volstead
act. He has filled 13 jails with
bootleggers and is working on the
fourteenth. In the first two hours
of his day in St. Patti he sent 120
dry-law violators to prison and
collected $17,000 in fines. Judge
Morris is bitterly opposed to being
p holographed.
Quits Will Hays Over
Arbuckie Pardon.
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; the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, has requested Will
i Hays. Director - General cf the
Movies, to withdraw his name
! from the roll of the Executive
| Committee of Advisory Bodies. Mr.
Barnes dechm ; lie was not con
| suited concerning the pardon of
1 “Fatty” Arbuckle, to which lie
I would not have consented.
MRS. LEONHARDT HERE.
Mrs. Samuel C. Leonhardt, wife
of the ship's surgeon, on the U. S.
Coast Patrol ship t'nalga. arrived in
Junoau last night on the steamer
Admiral Watson. Mrs. Leonhardt is
a pioneer of Alaska, having spent a
number of years in Junoau in the"
early days of the town. Slip is a
sister of Miss A. Campbell and Capt.
Jack Campbell, both of Juneau.
Mrs. la-onhardt is a guest at the
Hotel Zynda.
ATTENTION EASTERN STAR
Regular meeting Juneau Chap
ter No. 7. O. E. S.. Tuesday evening
Jan. 23. Business meeting. Visiting
members welcome.
1XHS NORDUNG,
—adv. Secretary.
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Front Street
P. 0. Box 218 for Mail Orden l
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MUTUAL LIFE
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Now offers additional attractive
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NONE OTHER SO LIBERAL.
ALLEN SHATTUCK
INSURANCE REAL ESTATE
ESTABLISHED 1898
Large stock» on hand
Ladysmith coal.
Nanaimo oca1
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
Pkone 412.
| PROFESSIONAL "
Drs. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Side.
PHONE 50
Hours 9 a. tc. u> 9 p. m.
Dr. Charles P. Jenna
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Bldg.
Telephone 176.
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Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Ree. ]ng.
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Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. Af to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Rea. Phone 27 6
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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. 1. Goddard's Sanitarium
Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
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GEO. L. BARTON
(PALMER)
CHIROPRACTOR
201 Goldstein Bldg. Phono 259
Office Hours: 10 to 12 A. M.,
2 to 6 and 7 to 8 P. M.
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Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
437 Goldstein Building
| Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to 6;
| 7 to 8, or by appointment.
1 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.
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1 hotteST Seattle 1
"Home of Alaskans”
| Prices reasonable. Etiropean
plan. Seattle, Wash.
| R. Li. HODGDON, Manager
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It’s all in knowing HOW to do
first-class cleaning and dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
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7 the making ok CONCRETE I
j is a matter of proper materials I
| together with engineering skill. |
Both is our assets. |
i CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFG.
COMPANY j
I Willoughby Ave. Phone 32. •
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0 . ELK!
Meeting Wednesday
Eveslnga at 8:00
o'clock, Elks' Hall.
ARTHUR B. COLE,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary,.
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freemasonry
Scottish Bite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:30 p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
W ALTER B HEISEL, Secretary.
fraternal Societies
-OF
Gaslineau Channel
i. o. o. r.
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. I A
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand;
Morle P. Morgan. Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAU LOOSt
Nc, 147, F. & A. M.
Stated Communication
Sectnd and Fourth* Mondays
of each Month. In Odd Fellowa
Hall, beginning at 7:30 o'clock.
_ R R. VOTING, Master
CHA8 E. NAGHEL. Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tuee
duys of each month.
At 8 o'clock. I. O. O. F. Halt
ALICE BROWN, W. M.
LOIS NORDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
——SEC,HE RS COUNCIL No.
X *'£*1**^ 1760. Meetings second
and last Monday* at 7:30
'\j p' 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
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 p. m.
Elks’ ix>dge Room. John F\ Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 9715; G. E.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER 0*
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. Thoa.
B. Judeon, Dictator; R. H. Steven*
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.
T AUXILIARY, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
Meets the 2d Monday In Moooe
Hall, at 8 o’clock.
ALICE LAUGHLIN, President.
LILLIE BURFORD, Secretary.
PERSEVERANCE REBEKAH
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 *i
IS A GOOD INVESTMENT ' (
fiYou 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[Fays 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.
The B. M. Behrends Bank
JUNEAU, ALASKA. i*