ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
JOHH W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER
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WILL ALASKA USE HER OPPORTUNITY?
The attitude if the Senators and Representatives
in Congrtt who have jurt returned to the States after
u tcur of thii Territoiy causes cne to wonder if
Alaska will tive up to the opportunity that is beck
oning. Tire chief : nor of (lie comment of the Sen
ators and Representatives has been that Alaska should
have a wider measure if self-government. Ah far us
(lucid with tearcely an exception if cne at all —
the.. * members of Congress who have studied the
situation on the ground seem ready to give all —
or a part—of Alaska a full Territorial form of Gov
ernment. That the- other members of Congress will
be disposed to listen to the advice of those who have
viEitcd the country and viewed tilings on the ground
there Is not a question of doubt,
question of doubt.
Now the qm stion is, will Alaska profit from this
(.olden opportunity to present her case to Congress?
Will she a-k with unanimity for full Territorial form
of government or will time b frittered away while
factions quartet ovc details of legislation, tbe per
eonncl of the public rrrvlce and spar for strategic
petitions in the next election?
Delegate Sutherland has said that he favors full
Territorial firm of government for Alaska. He has a
chance to shew that lie means it und to accomplish
something really worth while.
AN OLI) ISSUE RECALLED.
The present exodus of negroes from the South,
the alarm it is causing, and u copy of an old news
pipe* ..punted af Fort Smith, Arkansas, in the in
terert of offleals that liud been «ont to that State to
iccomplir.il reconrtifuctlon, in 1 Stitt, which contains a
reproduction of one of Horace Greeley's editorials on
the Blair Bill providing for the deportation of the
fermor slaver, recalls a question that stirred the
Notion once upon a time. It is raid that even Piosi
dent Lincoln contemplated the colonization of the
American negroes us one of the solutions of the racial
problems that he raw coining In tin* wake of abolition.
The proposal was strongly supported by Senator
Frank P. Blair of Missouri, whose statue is one of
MU-tourl's* two contributions to the "Hall of Fame”
in the National Capitol. At this date the proposition
f.MniH chimerical but many of tlie best minds North
and South in the days following the granting of negro
uiffrage believed in their heart that it was the only
tiling to do.
Almost three seine ycarr have passed since Ap
pamattox and they have demonstrated the wisdom of
me arguments pi t inted in all candor and kindliness
by Horace Greeley in the Tribune at the time, the
Senate of the United States was considering the
Blair Bill.
After pointing out the great cost ot the pro
posal and concluding lliat ft would not be less than
$2,000,000,000- a stupendous sum in that day when
the country was loaded with a war dtbt of $3.<>00,
000,000- Greeley said:
Nor is this all. It would be capital de
stroyed—capital and its increase forever.
The cotton crop, tlie rice crop, nearly all the
tobacco and the hemp and the sugar crops
of the United States were raised by tile ne
groes alone. Now the proposition to ex
patriate tlik blacks means that we shall
throw away tlie vast income derived from
the rale of these great staples. That's all -
ot- part cf it, rather.
The exodus, therefore, would Instantly
deteriorate in lalue all the lanibu lots and
house" In every Southern State, and by its re
action in the Nor 11\ it would destroy mil
lions upon millions of now most valuable
property. So widespread would be the ruin
that the measure would create—If It could
he carried through that figures stagger and
refuse to bear the heavy load that would be
laid up n them in trying to present an ap
proximate estimate of (he devastation in
money value.
It would pay the plunlers of the South
to Import 4,000.000 of free negro laborers
—it would pay them well; but to expatricate
them would be ruin. ruin, ruin, inevitable,
irrevocable and universal.
If the leaders of the South would display
the same energy and sagacity in peace that
they exhibited in war, the "negro element"
would speedily cease to trouble their cal
culations of profit to their dreams of power.
- Let them accept accomplished facts, fully and
with cheerful alacrity; let them bow to the
flat of the age; and let them reinember that
there is no finality in human events -that
other facts can bo speedily accomplished as
well as those of today. By rising up to the
moral cimmit of the era, they could soon
draw millions of workingmen to their terri
tory; white men, if they pleased, intelligent,
industrious and skillful; and thus, without
Infringing on a single right of the black
* race. they could reduce its relative strength
eo low that it would cease to he an element
’ cf strife to any one. This they could do. and
thereby become rulers of richer States, of
a more numerous and nobler people than the
2 Sputh yet known.
I Greclejr'* wag taken. The negroes were not
«
deported. The second thought of tlie South was
against It. While the white immigration to tile
South was slower in coining than was prophesied by the
great editor the negroes remained to do the principal
part of tlie manual labor in creating a greater and
more prosperous Dixie than that which flourished
before the war. Tho skilled artisans finally moved
in and great manufacturing and financial centers
were builded. Today no part of the country is mak
ing grcatei progress than the Southland which, pros
trated and bleeding, faced in thc.-e dark days of
reconstruction what appeared to all, but Greeley
and the most optimistic of those in bis time, ttnsur
mountable obstacles. In a very iarge men ire these
results are due to the fact that the negroes remained
in tlie South to work their way cot of degradation
by hard toil the only way ever discovered that
leads surely upward.
Tammany has decided to follow the procession
and get a ni w home farther up-town. Tlie famous old
Fourteenth Street property has been offered for sale.
It was purchased iti 1867 for $80,006. It is said tlie
hide for It have ranged from $600,000 to $660,000.
Wheat is following the downward trend of stocks,
copper and other things The price for September
delivery on tlie Atlantic seaboard Is quoted at $1.08
a bushel a drop of 14 cents since the middle lof
April. t
A Justified Optimism.
(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
"Uncle Joe" Cannon, greeting 60,000 friends and
neighbors at Danville the oilier day, in celebration
of tbe eighty-seventh anniversary of hie birth, took
occasion to address the following message to them
and to the public of the nation generally:
"To you, to all the people of America, from my
observance of half a century, I bring this message:
'Have faith!' Often you may feel that you detect
a great uneasiness, an unrest, a threatening under
cut-rent in this Government. This is neither new nor
unusual. 1 have learned that America will rise to
meet its problems. I have learned that good will
triumph over evil.
"Have faith in the Government of your fathers,
j "Show your faith by works to support bhat
Government.
"Have faith that right will prevail.”
This is the formula that has been vindicated, in
the ultimate, by all history.
Mr Cannon, dining his long public service, has
seen America meet its problems again and again; we
of the living present, and our children in their turn,
shall observe the same progressive and invincible
tHumph of righteousness over evil.
it there be clouds on the national hroizons they
shall be dissipated. Even tho great war, with all
its cumulative horrors and enduring hardships and
11cmipiexltiee, li ft the world a better world than it
j was before.
Ibis man, who stands on the declivity of life,
looks to the future with faith and confidence. He
believes, in America and in Americans. To him
unload, uneasiness, threatening undercurrents in the
national life are but the symptoms of an immemorial
dlf.ase Which never yet has withstood the applica
tion of faith and works, and which one day wholly
will disappear front the experience of mankind.
it is good to hear such words of optimism at a
time when so many propagandists of evil are abroad
in the land, preaching their scre eds and creeds of
dissatisfaction, social unrest and class hatreds.
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The President’s Trip.
(Seattle Time*.)
In some respects, the journey on which Presidont
Harding starts today is unusual. .It is one of the
Irtngest ever undertaken by an occupant of the White
House. It a purpose is to gain Information about de
pendent territories so as to improve their condition.
On the trip every one of the- distinguished traveler's
addresses will be heard by innumerably more persons
than ever have listened to the speeches of a touring
Chief Executive.
In traversing the continent from the Atlantic to
tho Pacific, going to Fairbanks, in the interior of
Alaska; visiting Vancouver, B. (’., and many of the
larger cites on Ilia West Coast, and returning by way
of the Panama Canal and Porto itico, the President
has adopted an itinerary that, in its main features,"
has no rival among the records of his predecessors.
in making a personal study of problems affecting
Alaska, the Canal Zone and Porto Itico, the Chief
Executive is allowing an interest not evinced by other
Pir: idents in details ot Territorial Government.
President Harding is anxious liis journey shall
not be viewed in the light of partisan politics, and
there is no reason why it should he, for it will not. bp
made tile occasion lor party discussions or conferences
But the Chief Executive’s nineteen contemplated ad
dresses cannot be divested of political importance in
the broader sense or the term, for they will outline
the principles tie believes should govern in the ad
ministration of tlie nation's ufTalrs. 'His opinions
on the International Court of Justice, transportation
issues, farm questions and Alaskan and Porto Kican
reforms are not bused on partisanship exigencies, but
rather on what lie deems the public welfare
His receptions everywhere will be popular, not
political, in their character. For instance, at Port
land. Ore., he will participate in the Fourth of July
celebration; in Alaska, he will commemorate, by driv
ing a golden spike, the completion of the Government
Itailroad, the final rails of which w.ill be laid this
week; bore in .Seattle he will review tba-United States
Battle Fleet.
All the President's addresses will bo carried to
dir taut auditors by radio. His private car and the
halls in which he will talk will be equipped with
wii el cos apparatus and amplifiers. In speaking on his
tnn'u, his vflfiqc will oe heard net only by every
person in nearby throngs but by co«ntless individuals
elsewhere and when he delivers .peaches indoors his
words will he distinct to crowds gathered outside, as
well us in places far away.
... Tht>. Vi“U °r tlle President, who never has been
' la “waited with interest on the Pacific Coast
and In A Jap 14s. He is assured of a most cordial
welcome.
One objection to thin Ford-for-President idru Is
that whenever lie wanted to take a message over to
the Senate and House he would lose so much time
cranking the darned thing—(San Francisco Bullc
France hits 6.non new aircraft ready for war. All
she has to do now is to look around and find some
country that wants to fight them—(San Francisco
Journal.)
Scientists aver that the Ice Ago Is beginning to
return. Most people would welcome the return of
the Coal Age.—(New York Post.)
I)o Europeans never come to this side of the At
lantic just to admire and behold? Alas, not often.
-' Chicago News.)
-i
And the bootlegger's bee* customers are those who
have more in their pockets than under their hats.—
(Dallas News.)
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
a-—-a
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
Sometimes I wonder if the paper
towel is any improvement on the old
fashioned roller variety.
The Ananias Club
“Yes," said the returned tourist,
“the scenery and the hotels were
even finer than .the railroad folder
claimed they were."
Ho, Hum!
“Pa,” said Clarence, "what is
bigamy ?”
“The worst form of insanity," re
plied his dad.
Gonna Give Love 'Nother Trial, Eh?
(Divorce note in Southern paper.) j
Mrs. Maude Love vs. Martin D.
Love, divorce, dismissed.
Fool Questions
E. T. asks: “Could you, by any
stretch of the imagination, call the
straps in the street cars a standing
offer?" They look more like a I
standing order to me.
Horrible Example
"Henry," said Mrs. Peck, “what's
this evolution that man Bryan is
throwing such a fit over?"
“That," replied Henry, “is the
theory that men have developed from
monkeys,” replied Henry.
“Hm," granted his wife, giving
him the once over, "and he doesn’t
believe it eh?” Well, neither do I.
I think they still are.”
The Only Kind She Likes
Said the punster so merry
"It a bore you would nip.
Take him down to 'the ferry
And give him the slip."
—Philadelphia Record.
Bun punster, stop and listen, now
While 1 give you this friendly trip;
If it’s a woman, then, I vow,
You'd better make it a silk Blip.
Successful and Permanent, Eh?
Blinks: "Here's a doctor who says!
dyspepsia has been! cured by eating
popcorn.”
Jinks: ‘.Meaning, 1 suppose, that'
the patient died.”*'
Ouch 1
"This milk is mighty blamed thiu,"i
growled Mr. OrotiCh. who had come
down to breakfast feeling that way.
“Yes," snapped Ills wife, "it’s about
as thin as the excuse you gave for |
getting in just as the milkman left
it."
Inquiring To Know
A. S. asks fhlh poser: "When
there as many filling stations on
corners as there used to be saloons
will they start a movement to pro
hibit the sale of gasoline?
If It Fit*—
Everybody has luck, but the trou
ble is each of us thinks we have
all the bad, while the other fellows
have all the good'.
The love match too often goes out
when it strikes on matrimony.
When a man says he wants hon
est criticism it is all right to give
it to him, if you don’t mind losing
bis friendship or taking a trip to
the hospital.
We’ll say this for fools—they often
"Seem happier than the wise men,
but maybe it is because they can’t
see their finish.
It is time for people to begin read
ing the signs of the time. The un-1
dertakers and doctors are being
worked to death because fools pay
so little attention to the "Dangerous,
Curve Ahead” warnings.
It is easy enough to understand
who other people don’t suit us, but
wp nevpr have been ablt- to figure
out why we don’t, always suit them?
So far the self-service in the
home has been confined to' doing
your own darning and sewing on
your own buttons. But it may not
be long until every home is a little
cafeteria.
If good health depends upon eating
-—-..4-- -
If* all In knowing HOW to do
flrst-claag cleaning and dyeing.
CAPITAL VTE WORKS
C. Meldner. Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
We are expert in
“ORNAMENTAL CONSTRUC
TIVE WATER-PROOF
CONCRETE.”
and the common wet kind alio.
Willoughby Ave.. near Ball
grounds. Established Twenty
I Years. Phone 32
I CONCRETE PRODUCTS MEG.
I COMPANY
JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Movet, Packs and Stores Freight
and Baggage.
Ph«V*8.
spinai li we are willing to admit there
are worse things than having poor
health.
Our idea of the richest man in the
world is tlie one who lias a con
tented wife. But we guess he’d
have to be the rii heat man in the
world before 1: could h. ve that kind
of a wife.
A superman is one whose wife
thinks ten years after tile wedding
ceremony, that he is as great a man
as she thought lie was ten days
before.
Any dumbbell can learn to make
the worst of marriages, lint it takes
a wise bird to make the best ui it
and learn to be happy though wear
ing the yoke.
One reason why parents don’t
teach children more these days is
because they are so busy learning
things from them they haven't time.
Daily Sentence Sermon
A test would probably show most
of 11s haven't more than a halt' of
one per cent of moral courage in
our make-ups.
News of the Names Club
M. T. Head, of Scanton, Pa., isn't
a dumbbell, though IPs name does I
sound like it.
Nprse, bring the hot-water bottle! j
iva Krampe has just arrived from St.
Louis.
PIONEERS MEETING.
Joint, meeting Igloo No. 6, Pio
neers of Alaska. 8 o’clock Thursday
night. Moose Hall.
How shall we greet the Presi
dent? To be decided at this meet
ing. All members requested to be
present. Social hour and supper.
H. R. SHEPARD. Secy.
LILLIE BIRFORD, Sec y.
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES
FOR RENT—J4.00 PER YEAR
Wm. D. Perkins & Co.
BANKERS—211 Cherry St.. Seattle
AUTOS FOR HIRE
Miller's Taxi Service
TWO CABS
Stand Alaskan Hotel
PHONE—SINGLE 0
Blackie’s Taxi
ANY WHERE—ANY TIME
Stand Arctic Pool Room
PHONE 444
Heller’s Taxi
"Anywhere. Anytime.”
DAY AND NIGHT
Heller's Barber Shop. Phone
183
1
Billy’s Taxi
Day and night service.
Stand at the Grill.
Phone 472.
T
U & I Taxi Service
Nick Lakich, Proprietor.
We will take you anywhere,
anytime.”
PHONE 64.
WHEN IN NEED OF A TAXI
Call Collins
Seven passenger touring car
Stand Trinagle Shoe Shine Par
lor. Phone 186. lies. Phone 281
f
:
I CALL . I
Berry’s Auto Service
I for that seven-pasenger 1923 |
! Cadillac touring cur. Stand at \
j Gastineau Hotel. Popular I
| prlcsc. Phone 10.
, Also seven-passenger Sedan, |
Day and Night Service
Call 362.
ARCTIC BATHS
' Without exception the beat
[ Turkish Paths in Alaska.
| Give us a trial and you will be
come a regular customer.
W. H. Lott,
| Proprietor. So. Front St.
ALASKA GOAL
FOR ALASKANS
—No soot
—Low in ash
—High in heat units
—Clean to handle
PHONE 418
PACIFIC i COAST COAL
COMPANY
PROFESSIONAL
Drt. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Golditeia lldf.
PHONE 96
Hour* 9 a m. t* 9 n. m.
Dr. Charles P. Jenna
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Bid*.
Telephone 176.
Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hoars 1 to 4. 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Res. JO*.
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
Phytioian and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bid*.
Telephone 172.
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GEO. L. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Messerachmidt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phone 269.
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Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Goldstein Building
Hour*: 9:30 to 12; 1 to 6;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
Phones; Office, 167; res., 1671.
I-1
T-f
Dr. W. J. Pigg |
PHYSICIAN
Office- Second and Main
Telephone 18
DR. R. N. DONAHEY
Same Good Service as In the
Past
HuTESON -DoHAHTf
OoticaKempagy''
108 Pllce Street, Seattle.
■-■
Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Sanitarium
Rates $3.00 Per Ray and Up
Every Comfort
WHERE
SUCCESS
BEGINS
The road to success begins at the Savings Window.
How early you attain success depends on how
often you deposit. Xany 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 T
The B. M. Behrends Bank
7HHXAU, ATJtara
ilMi
Fraternal Societies
-or
Gastineau Channel
B . P . O . ILKI
Meeting Wednesday
^ KVMlsd at 8:00
*’'</ o'clock, Elke’ Hall.
f Charles P. Jenna,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS.
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodiea
of Freemasonry
Scottish Rite
Regular moetlnr*
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7: SO p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B HEISEL, Secretary,
i. o. o. r.
SILVER BOW
_ _ LODGE NO. 1 A.
Meeeta every Thursday at 8 P. It.,
Odd Fellows' Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Qraod|
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
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PERSEVERANCE REEETam
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every flrst end third
Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8 P M. FRANCES QU8TAFSON,
N. O. ALPHONSINE CARTER,
Secretary.
MOUNT JONEA0 LOOS*
No. 147, F. a A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Moudara
of each Month. In Odd Felicia
; Hall, beginning at 7:*e o'clock.
Homer 0 Nordllng. Master,
fhas. E. NagheL Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
•econd and Fourth Tula
dura of MOk month.
At 8 o'clock. I. O. O. F. Ha!L
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NOItm.INO, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
HEOhi lW COUNCIL Xo.
sBLy' 17*11. Meetings a«co«4
rfc' and laat Monday a at 7:M
^ pc p m Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Charobwe
Fifth Street John F. Mullen, O. K.
J. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thurada)
each month at I 9. m,
Mika’ ix>dge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; Q. ■.
Munm, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER 01
M00SX.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Mall. E. F.
Rodenberg, Dictator; R. H. Stevena
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.
| AUXILIARY, PIONEER* OF
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
! Meets last Thursday of every
I month. Social hour with meni
| hers of Pioneer I^odge to fol
low each meeting.
1 Mrs. Lottie Splckett, President.
I Mrs. Lillie Burford, Secretary.