ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
JOHN W. TROY ■ - - EDITOR AND MANAGER
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DECORATION DAY.
•ji.t!n is a day that Americans everywhere devote
to honoring itu Nation'? soldier and sailor dead. The
grave t11. . e who invc or risked their lives in
time of war have been decorated and appropriate
s ; rvici: com meliorating thoir valor have been held
v. lu ri ver there are Americans in sufficient numbers
to perform the offices.
Decoration Day, or Memorial Day as it is officially
knr.vn, wap originally instituted for tiie purpose of
honoring end decorating the graves of those Union
soldier; and s. lor. who were killed in the war be
tween the State- Later it was made to include all
rt.ldins and sailors who had served in any American
war whether they had been killed in action or died
afterward. Long ago, particularly since the Span
i;,h-Anin icon war, the soldiers and Bailors of the Con
federacy were included among those to whom the day
lias been devoted.
In Juneau, a3 In most places, the observances
have been in (.large of the purvfvors of the World
War. Veterans of the Civil War are becoming few
and these of the Spanloh-American War were never
numerous. Aside from the veterans of the World
War survivors of American wars arc spread out
pretty thin.
Tiie observance of Decoration ’ Day is very appro
priate. It is one of the things that have demon
strated that Republics are not always lacking in
gratitude. It is fitting that a gr at people should
devote at leart one day in each year to paying homage
to chore who have served the country at tiie risk of
life in time.! when the Nation was the itake of
conflict. Th'-y hazarded all for the life of the country
| and to them is duo all tiie honor that a grateful
prc<plo, who arc enjoying the liberties and privileges
of citizen: hip in the country (hey saved, can give.
SEATTLE HAS GONE HAYWIRE.
Seattle :oem to have missed the whole point of
the protect that has gone to Washington on account
of the executive order removing the United States
Land Off.ce from Juneau to Anchorage. Not cnly did
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce go ‘'haywire" when
L received the request that it intervene in behalf of
the e concerned, but we find this in the news columns
of llic Seattle Po:- -Intelligencer:
A protest against, the proposed removal,
from the Juneau ("u n.ht ct C( inmorce, re
ceived by the Seattle Uhii.mbet of Commerce,
a ks the local body to seek to ltuve tiie
order held in abeyance until after I lie Presi
dent’s visit. At .« meeting of trustees of
tiie Ala-ka department Wednesday night,
however, the Chamber decided no action
could be taken oil the ground that tile matter
was one local to Alaska.
The City of Anchorage, built b.v the Gov
ernment and now tiie headquarters of the
Alaska Railway and the Road Commission,
bids fair to outstrip in official importance
Juneau, the capitol, with the moving of the
Land c (five.
Alack i town:: are not ‘large but the prestige of
none of them is Involved in an executive order
causing the transfer of four or five salaried Govern
ment employ , i The sole quo lion at issue Is that
ot the welt are, convenience and expense to pros
pectors and ether.- having business with the Juneau
Land Office. More than half of the people of tiie
Territory can be more conveniently served b.v a Land
OfTice located at Juneau than at Land Offices lo
cated at Anchorage, Fairbanks and Nome combined,
which will b, the situation If tiie executive order
is permitted to stand.
Juneau lias not asked that there be no Land
Office at Anchorage or at any other point. She has
eked .only that the present Juneau Land Office be
letained where it is and that another be located at
Anchorage if it is needed there.
PROMINENT PIONEER NO MORE.
The death recently of Charles Edward Darling,
Ned Darling he was at Nome, removed one of the
, leading basinets men of Nome's busied period. For
tcventecn years he was the senior partner in the
hardware bn lne of Darling and Dean, and was
always a leading spirit in all civic enterprises. His
wife. Mi s. Esther Biidsall Darling, o wner of the
famous team of deg racers which "Scotty” Allan
drove to victory in the All-Alaska Sweepstakes over
the 4 12-mile course between Nome and Council, is
known through her pior and verse writing. Her
most fain us production was "Baldy of Nome," a
tiibnte to "Baldy,” the leader of her team of racing
dogs, and a book that takes high place among those
devoted to dumb animals.
Mr. Darling <iuit Nome some years ago on account
c' .bis health and since then has lived in California.
PROBLEMS DIVIDING BOTH PARTIES.
While lie Republicans are having their troubles
over divieiun of ntlment on the World Court pro
posal, the Sol (Hers’ Bonus,, the tariff and other propaai
tiont, the Democrats are not without their troubles.
'The most vexing mattera which confront thorn are the
| League uf Nation*; and the wet and dry controversy
There are Influential leader* who lake widely di
vergent view* on both of these questions and there
la deep-seated disagreement, on both of them aiming
hundreds of thousands in the rank and rtle of the
party.
Both parties have begun tlie discut ion cf tin ir
problems early and out cf a muPtilude of counsel,
and there will be plenty of it. Inure may come wis
dom to one or both of the parties.
The Ketchikan Chronicle truly say* it would bo
more convenient for those of Southeastern Alaska to
do their land business in Washington, D. C.. than lo
be compelled to go to Anchorage to do it. We have
belter mail service both as to frequency and lime
In transit with Washington than with the Westward
town. The sane thing to do would* be to have land
offices at both Juneau and Anchorage, blit under no
circumstance to close the office here.
Postmaster-General New admits that the Republi
can Party is a very much divided organization and in
deplorable condition to rush Into a Presidential
I campaign. He takes solace, .however, in the state
' ment that the Democratic Party lacks unity and
j has wide schisms within it. Of course both eou
I elusions are obviously correct.
A Boost for Hiram.
(San Francisco Bulletin.)
Si lialor Hiram Johnson, as a President!a] aspirant,
has been receive: ng so many knocks from Eastern
ediors, who will persist in making fun of him; from
Henry Ford, his jealous rival, and the President of
the National Kpublican Club, who requested him to
leave the party and join the Democrats, that it is
only fair to give equal publicity to the fact that
there is at least one Eastern editor who thinks he
should be nominated and elected. in a pamphlet
reprinted front The Pc rum of New York Hiram is
i presented to the nation as an ideal President, one
I who would 'be always in Washington and never away
playing golf —lie doesn’t play golf. The Forum writer
j might h'ave added that as President of the United
States Hiram Johnson would not need to bo absent in
| New York practising as a lawyer, and, if out of the
Senate, he could not be accused of being absent dur
1 ir.g the roll-call on the expulsion of a Senator.
But the kindest service of The Forum editor is
j performed in showing that Ford and others are wrong
i when they accuse Hiram of 'being insincere and
changing bis opinions. The changes are admitted,
InH they are explained as perfectly sincere and due
solely to “unconscious evolution.” Says the writer:
“In the meantime, Johnson has steadily strength
ened himself. The stabiMza'tiing influences of the
Sc tut to rehip have ameliorated not only his opinions
on many public questions, ibut have altered equally
his method or approach to public problems. Ho
probably is unconscious of this evolution—and at
times regards himself, and rightfully, as the same
Johnson who campaigned California thirteen years
: ago in a flivver, pouring out fire and slaughter against
i all and sundry of the foes he had set out to con
quer It is not that he is less detromined now,
but that he is more suave. It is not that he Is less
! sincere now, 'but that he' is more experienced. It is
; not that he is less courageous now, but that he is
j more wise.”
innlead of saying that Hiram Inis changed his
principles and lost his tight anti fire and courage,
1 how much nicer it is to say that he has undergone
i an evolution and has become “imore suave,” “more
experienced” and "more wise.”
One Woman’s Organization.
(Boston Herald.)
In these days when the proponents of any radios
i or sentimental bill can gain the indorsement of enoug
philanthropic organizations to make long and in
PTensive lists for use at legislative hearings, 1i is
matter of intercut to observe the growth of an asco
eiuticn of women whose attitude toward lemislatio
Is wholly different.
The Massachusetts Public Interests League, wit
headquarters at 280 Durthmout'h Rireet, Boston, ar
uounccs itself as "an organization of women whoa
objects are, first, to oppose p ernalittic, bureaucrat!
| and rocinlistic legislation, notably such bills as th
I Shepipard-Tow tier and Tcwner-Bterling bills, wliic
l *H:,r " itb unjust ueaMinesa on trie taxpayers cf Mat
| sacbuKcttr; second, to defend the Ccmtitution of th
| United States, the one great safeguard of the people
1 liberties.
The members of the league having studied tli
Jesuits of socialism throughout the world and bein
convinced of its economic menace, rpfuse to join th
ranks of those who demand new and radical laws r<
gardlose of economic conditions. The work of th
league is largely educational, being Carried on throng
lectures, meetings for discussion, and the dlstribi
Don of literature, which is mailed on request Bu
its leaders have also taken a lively part in' man
hearings, both at Waahington and our own Stat
House on bills Which they interpret as paternalist!
or socialistic. They claim already to have saved th
taxpayers of the country nearly a million dollar
tnrough .liscovc-ing and causing to be eliminated
j ittle joker in a bill recently passed at Washins
on Which would have taken that sunt from th
I people r pockets.
There is room, and to spare, for a safe and sail
movement of this kind.
Prince Rupert Wants President.
(Prince Rupert News.)
II Is to be hoped that while he is in the nefgh
I borhood, Prc idem Harding will make It convenient
| to visit Prince Rupert. Every person here would wel
(oine him for he is a worthy representative of a great
■ people. We, as the entailer natitn, have a right to
| yelp a little now and then at the big brother who
! ree’iis a little overbearing at times but that is purely
i.. detail. We all look to the United States as one of
lihe greatest countries in the world and especially as a
nation with problems very like our own. Because of
Miat, and of the fact that we are near neighbors and
Jiliat there is no distinction between an American and
'a Canadian beyond the matter of name, we hope that
| the President of the United States will he able to
hl^ way clear to visit Prince Rupert and let us
, shew hint how we leel. We should appreciate such
a vif.'t as a divinct courtesy, and especially in view
I of the close relationship that must exist between
j Alaska and this port for all time.
Send your messages of condolence to John D.
Rockefeller now. He has only $300,000,000 left,
while Henry Ford has $750,000,000. — (Louisville
Courier-Journal.)
\\ hat seems to puzzle the Grnians most is why
they can t fool the rest of the world as easily aa they
fool themselves. (Indianapolis News.)
It is estimated Unit there is enough undeveloped
oil land to keep the world in gasoline and hot water
for five hundred years.—(Baltimore Sun.)
l.a Follefrte Isn't a gale, lie’s a prevailing wind_
(Toledo Blade.)
Years and years ago, Mr. Newton and the apple
warned these stunt fliers.—(Detroit News.)
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ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
4-i
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
A girl used to sit in the parlor,
j looking pretty ami wasting for the
right man to eome along- Now she
gets a job as stenographer anti grabs
the boss.
And to Think We Kicked About the
Price in Those Days!!!
(Prom “Twenty Yean-s Ago," in
You n g»t o w a Vind iea tor.)
Coal st il going up. Today $5 a
ton.
She Gets the Last Word, as Usual
(From the Bloomington (111.) Panto
graph.)
I WILL NOT be responsible for any
debts t: ntrarted by any one but
myself. Ben Biddle, 1112 S. East
St.
BEN R'lTHlBE never was responsible
for any of any dob:*, as I washed
for a living. Mary J. Riddle, 1412
E- East S.
Budgets Is Budgets, Too
One of the current magazines has
an article on family budgets. In
one of the nurrJhers cited we find
$!*t>0 allowed for eats and just $48
a year for clothes. It doesn't take a
Sherlock Holmes to discover there
were mo flappers in that family. If
there had been the figures would he
just reversed. A mere $48 wouldn't
buy silk hose t'or a year, let alone
silk anything else, nut maybe tlvls
budget was that of a Hottentot fam
ily, who would he going some even
to spend that mutch per year for
! thelirs.
Thrift
"Young iman, are you saving up
■someth i rig for a rainy day?” de
manded tile Busybody.
"Sure!" replied the flippant youth,
“a book to read if 1 can stay in
and a borrowed umbrella If I have to
go out.”
Learn a Few New Things Every Day
(Prom Collection of .School Boy
Mistakes collected by London paper.)
The translations of Smith minor
from dhe dead languages are always
fruitful. De mqrtnis nil nisi bonum
produces on tbs occasion as an L-ig
lish version, ‘"^here's nothing Lc.
I bones lin the iUud;" and Ne plus
ultra. “There’! nothing beyond
Ulster-’’' C* -i t
There are some excellent exampiS3
of miscellaneous ‘information.” "A
grass widow," s|o a«« told, “is the
wife of a dead vegetarian, utuer
specimens are:
■Palsy is a Wind of new w. iter's
dance.
Letters in shaping print are
I hysterics.
Etiquette is the noise you make
when you sneeze.
In the departments of hist).-/,
geography, grammar and lit nature
the following occur:
The French Hevoluti in was won
violently, not by “freedom s owly
broaden'ing down from President to
President,” as Tennyson wrot®
Guy’s Hospital was built t) com
memorate the Gunpowder Plot.
Oceania is that continent w.urli
contains no land.
A mathematical problem is .v-pt
lout of the w y with a -broad g star:'
i in the definition. “Things whi-.n are
i equal to the same tiling are equal
j to anything else,” and “A ctr-la it
| a rounded figure made up ul a
I crooked straight tine bent so as th'r
| ends meet." There 4s, howe* ,r, a
| simple directness about “The plural
of forget-me-not is “forget-us-not.”
If It Fits—
When the members of the Ladi s’
j Browning Club want to keep the or
| ganization going they ditch the
highbrow literature and start pi iv
ing bridge.
When two do try to live as cheap
HOTEL SEATTLE
“Home of Al&skana”
Price* reasonable. European
plan Seattle, Wash.
R. U. HODQDON, Manager
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It’s all In knowing HOW to do
flrst-clase cleaning and dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Mcldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
i i the making of concrete
Is a matter of proper materlale
together with engineering skill.
Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Years
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFO.
COMPANY
| I Willoughby Are. Phone 38.
JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Move*. Pack* and I to res Freight
and lamia.
Prompt Delivery of
LADYSMITil COAX
Ph«M 48. t
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ly as one? it is our bet they never
live as peacefully as one
Listen girls men don't want you
to be like them, they just want you
to like them. So get that "be”
out of your bonnets.
A woman writer says men still
have 'the ad van! ago over women
wilh their ibrute strength. But even
that Isn't such a muchness as an
advantage since thy dear ladies hive
become so playful with the deadly
gun.
The tired business man thinks the
■World never will bo perfect until his
stenograpther l urns to spell as ef
ficiently as she has learned to chew
gum an 1 powder Iter n > o.
Our own cony.ict.ion is ffiurt no girt
should wear gUc iies tor Russian
boots who hasn't a face or figure to
offset them.
A .sui' r stone's idea cf <1 able
trouble is a double chin.
We also have noticed that people
[have no use for you when you won’t
| Bet them use you.
This would die a hard life for
most of the doctors if too dear ladies
were as careful about th-Tr health
as they are a'bout 'their looks.
Daily Sentence Sermon
After Rangers' escape a posse was,
getting you "there.”
News of the Names Club
Wo never taka chances with ’em
j flint lit m.'av intern ;t yon to know that
Will Raffle lives at Youngstown,
Ohio.
AUK BAY STAGE.
Loaves U. & I. Cafe for Auk Bayi
5 P. M.. Saturday only, returning
6:30. Special trip at any time.!
Hound trip $2,50. —adv.'
STOP RHEUMATISM
WITH RED PEPPER
VVnen you are suffering witli
rheumatism so you can hardly get
around just try lied Pepper Hub and
you will have the quickest relief
known.
Nothing has such concentrated,1
iponetrating heat as red peppers. In-’
1 stant relief. Just as soon as you;
j apply Red Pepper Rub you feel the
1 tingling heat. In three minutes It
i warms the sore spot through and
I through. Pros the blood circulation,
breaks up the congestion—and the
old rheumatism torture Is gone.
Howies Red Pepper Rub, made
from red pepperB, costs little at any
drug store, (let a jar at once. I'se
it for lumbago, neuritis, backache,
stiff neck, sore muscles, colds in
; chest. Almost inwtant relief awaits
you. Be sure to get the genuine,
j with the name Howies on each
package. (advertisement.)
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SAFE INVESTMENTS |
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City Bonds, Improvement |
Bonds, School Bonds, First j
Mortgage Loans, County War- |
rants. To net 6% to &% Inter- |
eet. Correspondence solicited, j
t
Wm D. Perkins & Co. j
i
Bankers, Seattle, Waek ’
I
ELI MOORHOUSE & CO
Certified Public Accountants
] I
| L. C. Smith Bldg., Seattle.
I
| Audits and Income Tax Service
I
! Annual visits to Alaska.
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USED FURNITURE
Bought, Sold and Exchanged
N. BOCOVTCH
211 Seward St.
Telephone 441. P. O. Box 111.
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j ARCTIC BATH HOUSE I
and Barber Shop I
I TURKISH, STEAM, SHOWER ,
I AND TUB BATHS |
I Lower Front St. (Van Atta’i old |
I stand) BILLY LOTT, Prop. |
Phone 414. j
ALASKA COAL
FOR ALASKANS
—No soot
—Low In ash
—High in heat units
—Clean to handle
PHONE 412
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
PROFESSIONAL
Drs. Kaser & Freebnrger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Oolditeia Side.
PHONE K
Hour* ) i. a t« > i. n.
Dr. Charles P. Jenna
DENTIST
Room* 8 and 9 Valuntln* Bldg.
Telephone 170.
DR. R. N. DONAHEY
Same Good Service as in the
Past
HUTESOH-POKAHEf
Od t i cal (ompan/'
108 PiKe Street, Seattle.
Fraternal Societies
-OF
Gastineau Channel
0 . ILK S
Meeting Wednesday
Kfcenlngs at 8:00
o'clock, Elks' Hall.
Charles P. Jenne,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freemasonry
Scottish Rite
Regular sicetlngs
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:80 p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HEISEli, Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. 1 A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.f
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Qrand|
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
PERSEVERANCE REBEKAR
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meet* every first and third
Tuesday* In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8 P M. FRANCES OTJSTAFSON.
N. Q. ALPHONSINE CARTER,
Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAD LOOIV
No. 147, F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Monday*
of each Month. In Odd Fallen*
Well, beginning at 7:S* o’clock.
Homer G. Nordllng, Master.
Chus. E. Lagbel. Secretary.
Order ot the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tut*
day* of each month.
At 8 o’clock, I. O. O. F. Ha'L
ANNA DAY. Worthy Matron.
LOIS NOIIDI.ING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OP
COLUMBUS
SEOHB RS COUNCIL ***.
1; H). Meetlnga second
and last Monday a at 7.M
^ p. m. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chamber*.
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, G. K.
J. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meet* fourth Thursday
each month at 8 y. in.
Elks Lodge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; Q. ft.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 198.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meet* every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. E. F.
Rodenborg, 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; Mr*. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
AUXILIARY, PIONEER! OF
ALASKA. Igloo No. 8.
Meets last Thursday of every
month. Social hour with mem
! bers of Pioneer Dodge to fol
low each meeting.
I Mrs. Lottie Splckett, President,
i 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?
The B. M. Behrcnds Bank
7UHZA17, AT.AMTA. 3 TU