ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
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NO TIME TO CLOSE LAND OFFICES.
Probably there should he a Land Office at An
chorage, and If bo one . hculd be established there.
We ha Vo a Land Office at Fairbanks and one at
'Nome. It has been the custom of the Government
t > establish Land Offices wherever needed. II has
not bc.'U a long time since they had them in the
s-.inie of Washington, for instance, ui Seattle, Olympia,
Vancouver. Spokane, VVaterville, Colfax and Walla
Walla, and perhaps at other places In that State.
It «as so in all the Western States in the days when
the publii lands were being appropriated.
Thlt fact doer not at all warrant the closing of;
the laind Office at Juneau. The facts show that there
is greater need for one at Juneau than*at Anchorage.
Therefore, if there is need for such an office at
Anchorage there i.; double need for one here.'
The Land Office at Anchorage if one should be es- i
tablished there should take in all that country inland,
from the coast that is tributary to Anchorage and tho!
Government railroad. Juneau is far more convenient
fir the buzine along the coast than Anchorage.
This upplies to that country along the Coast west of
the Alaska Hailway es well ns that eaat of it. More
than SO pot cent, of the Cold Hay oil lands busi
ness comes from the Staten, and most of it is tran
sacted by mail from there.
Lot Anchorage have her Land Office, if the De
partment thinks she needs it, but do net close the;
one at Juneau. Do not close any of the Alaska Land
Offices. All of them are needed, and as time gees on
there ought to be still more of them.
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SUTHERLAND STILL CONFUSING.
Delegate Sutherland, addressing the people of
Anchorage on the fishirles and the effect thereon of]
the recently created reserves, said:
The modification of allotments recently
announced by the Hureau of Fisheries where
by certain disappointed individuals have
been given an enlargement of exclusive
rlgnt to tie'i does not rectify I hi1 situation
in the slightest digree us this enlarged right
only serve.- to curtali the right of some
other individual who desires to fish, but is
net permitted to do so.
Obviously the number of pc rmits to pre
pare fish must be limited by the supply of
fish and when the amount of the supply is
exhausted by permits there can be no room
for new and additional operations. If a
iishormau should wish to prepare fish oil ills
own account a relinquishment front those
who have permits would be required and it
is doubtful il' the Hureau ef Fisheries could
compel this relinquishment. Certainly no
packer of salmon would be disposed to give
up any privilege he had received.
Tl)e average fisherman is always am
establishment fur himself, but under t tic
reservation .-yrtem it will be Impossible
for him to do to. it 1-. quite evident that an
abnormal run of salmon will be required In
order that the pack limitations fixed by the
Bureau taay be reached and therefore the
supply must be greatly increased before any
independent packer can enter the held It is
not a' all probable that any such increase
will be seen in Alaska salmon waters, but
< n the contrary it is probable that with pack
limits in excess of the pack of pant seasons
further depletion will take place, it must
be expected that every cannry will strive
to pack its limit and thus intensive fishing
where the fish are concentrated in greatest
number must tend to reduce the general
supply.
< The Delegate is simply confusing the people on
the question. To those who understand anything
at all about the conditicns and circumstances his'
Speech answers itself, lie complains that under the
leicrvati n system tlicie would not be any chance!
for ambitious fishermen to become canners of sal-1
mon. lie s <ys the limitations and thus he admits
that the pack has been restricted—it would require^
tin abnormal run of salmon before there would be:
rcom for an tndpendent packer to enter the Held !
Is it not obvious, therefore, that If there were no
limitation of the packs. If the runners were permitted
to pack all they could, thut there would be less
chance for room for an independent packer?
He says the pack limit In the reservation district
this reason has been fixed higher than thut of last !
L;l: t season (he pjck limit was placed at I
fivw 50 to 00 per cent, of t lie»capacity of the can-,
tserleu. Notwithstanding that permits were Issued)
this year Tor new canneries- for all that were applied,
for, as far as we knew it war decided that parts of
the district would permit of more intensive tishing
this year than was practiced lust year.
There at lots of farm workers in the Mississippi
Valley and the vullcyr. of the Pacific Coast who would
like an opportunity to take up homesteads and be
come fartpers in their own right in the country In
which they live But tiiat is impossible because
the lands, the heritage of all the people in tile be
ginning,, have all been appropriated bv the Federal
(ftivej'fltuent. If the caupeties on tlie ground are
packing ail the $ oh that the supply will allow there
Is mo good reason why additional canneries ahould he
permitted to no Into the field and destroy investments
already there. By restricting the catches now. and
the reservation system offers the only means for re
striction until there is legislation on the subject, there
is a chance lo build up the supply to a point where
additional canneries may be practicable.
The President Jackson has broken the trans
pacific record by covering the distance between Yoko
hama and Puget Sound in nine days, five hours and
ten minutes. This cuts two hours off the previous
record which was held by Uie President Grant. Both
Ships arc operated by the Admiral Line and both are
living up to their names. There was nothing slow
about either General Jaekson or General Grant.
Borah does to the Republican Party about
everything that Bryan does to ours except to^
run for office.—(Houston Post.)
So! How did Senator Borah become a Senator
without running for office? Is not the difference
that Borah runs for an office to which he can be
elected?
The Virus of Discontent.
(Cordova Times t
It is a common experience of Alaskans who. after
having lived in the Territory for some time go Out
tide to engage in some business or occupation, to
find themselves confronted with situations to wi tch
they lind it difficult lo 4djust themselves Making a
living is discovered to be a strenuous affair. Com
petition is tierce. Conditions there are man-made,
and every man is challenged to meet ‘he sktll of
some other man. Environment offers nothing for
nothing, and all that one gets is what he o.rr,e bj
the quickness of ltis wits and the energy c! h'.s bod>
The Alarkun is likely to find himself unfit: d tor •
contest. Life in the North - a different sffat:
Competition here is virtually nil If he choos # a
men may live largely oft the countrj and he
does. A minimum of effort will earn him an ordinary
livelihood. There is ne great need for money because
there are relatively few ways of spending it. The
standard of living averages below that of the Outside
in that comparatively few requirements suffice, And
jet the Alaskan, in his environment, lives well.
SometimflB h live* too well for what it costs him.
It is never the best thing for a man to find life too
easy. He becomes extravagant of time and flabby
of purpose. And "Satan finds some mischief still for
idle hands to do." Unfortunately there are sections
of Alaska where tnis is too true So-called fishermen,
propectors. Summer vagabonds, who work just enough
in a season to earn a grubstake, and then "hole in”
for the remainder of the time, living “off the coun
try” for nine months of the year, are not citizens of
firm fibre. Loafing, sleeping, hunched over a firi .
guzzling "white mule” and playing Pali, they become
the ready prey of moroseness and discontent. 1 Ha
con tent Is infectious. Carping criticism is easily in
dulged. And the man that lias too much time on
his hands is likely to get "taken" by both. He
apt to forget what lie owes the country he lives ofT,
what are the decencies of citizenship, the ordinary
oollgations of .manhood. Instead, lie becomes meat
for the demagogue and the agitator, and because
it Is these that make the most 'noise and create the
most disturbance, it is their vioces that are heard in
the land.
It is all a bad thing for Alaska. It gives tlie
country the name of being infested with Bolshevism,
a hot-bed of agitation. It succeeds, in remote places,
in controlling elections to the point of putting into
office radicals and dastructionists, against whose
wrench in the machinery the substantia! and con
structive element can do little to make the wheels
go round. A small minority in the Territory, it is,
nevertheless, these neer-dc-works, living too easily
and wit it too little exercise of elbow-grease, that
buckle the cogs.
II would be well for Alaskans and the Territory
they live in if they had a stiffer competition, if the
wheels or industry revolved to keep the idle man
alertly on his job. There is no satisfaction equal
lo that which comes of work well done, and the busy
man has no time for discontent. On the contrary,
he is happy in (he consciousness of a general well
being. As Elbert Hubbard used to say, "Blessed is
the man that haB found bis work!”
Poincare Tasles His Own Medicine.
(New Vork World.)
The French army of 2fi,000 men in Syria, to
which M. Poincare i3 hastily sending 20,000 rein
forcements, faces a Turkish army which Frenchmen
helped to train, advise ant arm. The French Uovern
ment which last September left the British to face
the Turks alone at Chanuk is today nskini the Brit
ish to relieve t ho pres cure in Syria by massing troops
in Mesopotamia.
There Is a certain ironic justice in this dramatic
reversal. After all, it was something less than hon
orable to make a seerot treaty with Angora behind
ihe back of Great Britain. It was something less
than honorable to help arm ex-enemy troops that
wi re threatening the troops of Prance’s ally. It was
something lees than honorable to leave the British in
peril at Ohanak.
The Poincare Government played this underhand
game with the Turks In Ihe hope of concessions and
a diplomatic triumph over Lloyd George. But the
Turks have no prejudices. They would just as soon
scjl out the Prench as any one else. And M. Poin
care can hardly complain. lie is tasting his own
medicine.
Carnegie Corporation gives $1,075,000 to the Am
erican Law Institute "for the clarification of court
decisions in the various States " A lot of money,
hut It is u big job. Court decisions over flip various
States are almost us contradictory as some of the
laws.—(Sun Prancisco Chronicle.)
In picking sturdy Britlsners ter mates cf Png
laud's Princes and Princesses the royal family is
believed to he clinching its hold on its job at the
rick of snubbing the remnant or continental royalty.
— (Cincinnati Enquirer.)
If femininity continues lo progress along certain
lines, we assume that we soon shall read In the
society columns: "The hride wore the latest mode!
automatic.”—(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
1 row many of these Old World political, social and
religious prophets would come over here to savn us
if there were no money In it?—(Detroit Free Press 1
Gray hair is said to be coming into fashion on the
continent, where there are a great many things to
gtt grayhaired about.—(Detroit News.)
Anothe- headline announces that Harding Is
Assailed by La Pollette. Bully for Harding!—(l,ouis
ville Courier- Journal.)
Mexican land owners must not have more than
12,000 acres. But what a lot of radishes a man could
raise on a Mexican estate!—(Chicago News.)
Archaelogists find only the tombs of Ethiopian
Klngt.—uo Queens. Ethiopia was too early for tlfe
feminist movement.—(Philadelphia Record.) 1
That’s One
"Pa, what's a secret sorrow?” asked i
Clarence.
"A secret a woman can't broadcast. |
son." replied hi' dad ^
Thia Meant Something—But What? i
tdassified Ad n Chicago Paper.) |
BY KEF1XBD. EDUCATED MA11R '
COl'PUB--sRtiirt>and envp . wife will!
asss: with has exchange hus-l
band rat , Nl Ad W. SI.
Now G s. WiU You Drest Modestly,
and Oe~nrtwljr!! 11!
tFYv>ni aa t**ic triaded on us by the!
AssiV'.arkm of'tiTt*? * ork* ,1 Underpaid .
Di-'hwu,*feiujrHeia«c * .ves.)
The younger the girl the longer Is
.. ss ~t she'we ■ The wearers of.
0. thf-5oa*th skirts are now. usually,
satjr-i u-~ nwws i s., spinsters andj
wover, -of .’.averts n age; often of Eli-,
r.’-. pes^im r of European j
peas.,rr. bora p. Nr:.!5, lacking in,
knowledge wist. •oatitiites proper!
1. pc® ifcv wrv*. . n the United j
of Aenrrit t This class "bob ■
the hair. > one mi., the ear*, bare the!
bust, expose t he gs and wear furs •
in the s-anttner itiss.e
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Gfs-s From Ou jt Boo* to Success
True, life is p- >':v rniatical, but it 1
i we would put frr'h _ae same amount!
j of thought and e: ••• n accompjiah-1
[men; of the goo-! as we do in the!
performance of wrong, what aj
wonderful future we would •build.!
Just think of it:—J. E. F.
What Would Be Your Comment on
This One?
T C. Wray, of Winslow, Ariz.,|
i sends in word that 1. Whybrew is a I
telegrapher at Tm on, Ariz- His
| name sounds like the plaintive ques-j
j cion of a fellow whose home brew
I have proven pretty much of a fizzle.
But then, again,'maybe 'he has found
• a way of getting "the real sttuff.
Even Worse
“I't doesn't keep you very busy
arresting' drivers of those electrics!
for speeding, does it?” inquired the
pedestrian of the traffic cap, as an
electric limousine went dashing by
! at five mile-t ait hour.
I "No," snapped the cop, “but every
I one of the 'blan-koty blank drivers
should be arrested for blocking traf
fic the way they do.”
If It Fits—
Maybe another reason why there
are so many divorces is because be
fore mlarriago a girl spends so much
time calling him up and afterwards
spends even nuvre in calling him
down.
You can't always judge the family’s
wardrobe by wtytt they wear at a
party. The dress suit father is wear
ing ni»y be rented, and the frock
nrotboi is slportim may be returned
to the store next day as unsatisfac
tory. V
Every girl w',14 thinks df a young
man as the light of her life should
get wise to the ;fa* t 'that after they
aro married her light will develop
a fondness for ibeing out nearly
every night.
A lot of people who don't know
any more about thrift than a rabbit
knows more about the Eintseln
theory at leaeft have a saving sense
of humor.
If this practice of shooting hus
bands becomes any mo-re popular we
predict the fashions for men will, in
the 'future, incltid'tj steed helmets and
buUetjpro>of vests.
Ttie mistake -most of us, who now
are having such a hard row to hoe,
made was .in ibringing up our boy to
be President when be 'became a man
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It's all in knowing HOW to do
flrst-clase cleaning and dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS f
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
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T THE MAKING OF CONCRETE
Is a matter of proper materials
together with engineering skill.
Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Yearn
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFQ.
COMPANY
Willoughby Ave. Phone 32.
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JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Movei. Packi and Stores Freight
end Baggage.
Prompt Delivery of
LADYSMITH COAL
Phong 48.
Instead of stilting him Into the
movies a' $500,000 a year when he*
was still a 1,k1.
We hear a lot about ana-king mar ]
rinse harrier as a cure for the di
vorce evil, tbut it looks to a maa up
a tree us it that would be the surest
way (ft making divorce unanimous.
Probably no one in this world
looks funnier to other people than
the bird who Is taking himself too
seriously.
The Knickerbocker -craze lasted
about as long as the v/erall craze,
which goes to.jibow the world Hasn't
gone clear rfazy— yet.
The reason mothers don't call down
their daughters for sticking to the
ultra-short skirt* and Using so much
paint and pjwde-r" ts because the
mothers are living in glass houses.
Daily Sentence Sermon
There are Units when a fellow
has a right to get as mad as blazes,
but that Is not usually the way to sol
the world on fire.
“House of David”
Inmates Testify.
iY j
Vies. Etftci MUJ?
lta.rr\£.t DWaXkesr.&e/o*)
Harriett Bauw-hke Walker,
known as the "fashion plate” of
the “House of David,” “Kins”
Benjamin Purnell's amazing re
ligious cult, at Benton Harbor,
Michigan, was summoned before
the Grand Jury investigation, in
St. Joseph, of the charge of grots
immorality in the colony. Her
stylish clothes, in contrast to the
poor gurb usually worn by the In
mates, draw a charge from the
prosecuting attorney that she had
been bribed by "King" Benjamin.
She is said to have been one cf
his pets. Mrs. Estil Mills alleged,
at Detroit, that she bad been be
trayed to "King” Benjamin by
her own sister, Edith Meldrum,
"female pillar” of the cult.
For good priming phone 374.
HOTEL SEATTLE
"Home of Alaskans"
| Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
| R. D. HODGDON, Manager
TRY OUR f
Merchants Lunch
45 Cents
Arcade Cafe |
MARY YOUNG, Proprietor.
USED FURNITURE |
Bought, Sold and Exchanged j
n. aocovicH
211 Seward St.
Telephone 441. P. O. Box Ml i
ARCTIC BATH HOUSE
and Barber Shop
TURKISH. STEAM, SHOWER
AND TUB BATHS
Lower Front St. (Vac Atta’a old
stand) BILLY LOTT, Prop.
Phone 414. t
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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
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Drs. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein lldf.
PHONE 96
Hours 9 s. ns. t* 9 p. m.
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Dr. Charles P. Jenae
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 VaSvntlns Bldg.
Telephone 176.
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Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hour* 1 to 4. 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Res. log.
Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 0 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Res. Phone 276
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Muelc House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
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Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard's Sanitarium
Hates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
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GEO. I. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Me^serschmldt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 io 9 and by appointment.
Phone 269.
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Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Goldstein Building
Hours: 9 30 to 12; 1 to 6;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
Phonos: Office, 167; res, 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
I Ted Taylor, Props.
DP. R. N. DONAHEY
Same Good Service as in the
Past
Huteson-Dohaket
OoticaKompag)^
108 Pike Street, Seattle.
Fraternal Societies
-CP
Gastineau Channel
O . 1LIS
Meeting Wednesday
Evenings At 8:00
o’clock. Elks' Hall.
Charles P. Jenna,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS.
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freemasonry
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:30 p. m, Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
BIT,VEH BOW
LODGE NO. I A.
Meeets erery Thursday at 8 P. II.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grandi
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary,
MOUNT JUNEAO LOOS!
No. 147, F. a A. M.
Stated Communication
Sect, rid and Fourth’ Mondays
of each Month. In Odd Felicia
Mall, beginning at 7:M'o'clock.
Homer O. Nordllnk, Master.
Chas. E. Naghel, Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tuts
days of each month.
At 8 o'clock, I. O. O. F. Hall.
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDI.INO, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
mbohers council n».
17 “J. Meetings aecuird
and last Monday* at 7.1*
p. m. Tranalent Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chain bora.
Klfth 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 I ». m.
Elks' ixmge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; Q. KL
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 6 o’clock.
Moose Hall. E. F.
Kodenberg, 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.
T~ AUXILIARY, PIONEER! Of
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
! Meets last Thursday of every
! month. Social hour with mem
I hors of Pioneer Dodge to fol
low each meeting.
! Mrs. Dottle Splckett, President.
Mrs. Dilllo Burford, Secretary.
WHERE
SUCCESS
BEGINS
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The road to success begins at the Savings Window,
^low 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
tlilift acquired in youth. Have you started your boy
in the right direction?
The B. M. Behrends Bank
jtjieau, atasta. j