ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
TQHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER
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SIGNIFICANCE OF LIBERTY BOND
DEPRESSION.
The circumstance that most of the issues of lib
erty Bonds are quoted below par is not a bad indica
tion as many pi pie seem to think. It means simply
that money inverted in other securities and used In
business is producing more than money invested in
i.iberty Bonds and that the other securities are re-1
garded ns safe. Business depression nearly always
causes people to view, securities of industrial and
business concerns with suspicion and they turn to
Govenmenl bond:., for rale investment. Tills causes
Government bonds to rise.
The situation also exemplifies the childishness ofi
the contention cf inflationists that Rood faith de
mands that the Government should always maintain
I.iberty Bonds at par. It would be an impossible task
unless the Government would accept Che responsibil
it cf redeeming the bends at par whenever asked
tc do so. That would mean that it would have to
i. ue bonds, bearing a higher rate of interest, when
ever bonds drop below par to get tlie money with
which to make the redemption.
Bu't if that were the case, tile Government should
have tiie right to cull in the bends whenever they
So about par. It may readily be seen that the
finances of the country would .be in a condition ol'
con'itant flux.
Of course the only obligation on the Government
is to pay in gold or its equivalent the interest and
principal when they are due.
WOMEN, JURY SERVICE AND CONFUSION.
The questions cf woman's rights and woman sul'-j
frage are not invoYved to the slightest extent in the
jury bill that is pending in the Legislature—nor is
there any principle of government Involved. There
is no connection be,ween jury service on the one
'..uni or anybody’s rights or suffrage on the other.
Jury service is not a righit at all. It is un obliga-J
lion required of some of the people. The only right
in the premises is that of litigants'and those charged
of crime to a trial by jury. It is a duty of the
people to give thorn that right. Therefore certain;
.people are, roquired to do jury duty.
The question 'before the Legislature now is
whether or not women shall be required to render
jury service or whether they shall be promitted to
volunteer for that, fluty a question of whether they
shall be conscripted as some of the men are or
whether service shall be optional with them.
Not all men are required to servo on the jury.
Many classes of them are given the option as to
v hettier they will or will not. serve. A large pro
portion, if not a majority, of the women want the
right .cf exemption thut is gi^ien to men over a cer
tain age and those of the exempted occupations.
Certainly the Senate .measure which permits a
woman to notify the officer who servos her with a
Eubpoena, before any expense lias l> cm incurred, that
she claims her rtgln of exemption would cost the'
Oovernintnt and t ho woman served less than it
would cost to have the woman excused by a merciful
Judge after she had been brought into court.
It murt be admitted that the referendum waft sub
mitted by the last Legislature on the basis or “re
quiring’' women to serve on the jury. Approximately
1.500 women voted—two-thirds of them to ''require*'
'the service and one-third against it. However, many
of those win voted for the preposition to “require”
the-.Service did ro on the premise of the Alaska Fed
eration cf Women’s Clubs and the Alaska W. C. T. U.
that the measure when it passed would make service
eipticnai. No authority to make any such promise
was vo ted in there organizations and they should
have uracil that the proposition be voted down if
they did not like it as. It war put to them. Hut it is
a condition and no: a the: :-:, that is before ^he Leg
Mature. .The condition is that a very large por
es inage or the women perhaps a majority do not
want compulsory service.
• Under the circumstances The Umpire believes the
Legislature has two com res open to it. One of them
would be to pars the bill as if passed the Senate mid
the. other to vote tiie whole tiling down. They could
resubmit tlie queUion if they want to do so. The tact
that bo lew votes wore cast on the ,proposition and
the obvious confusion that existed and exists among
Hit re who did would Justify the Legislature in 4isre
^arding the referendum.
FOX FARMING RECOGNIZED INDUSTRY.!
Alaska fox farming is becoming one of thei
reoognied industries of the country. That more)
capital will go into it after further investigation,
seems to be assured That Bueh is the judgment of j
the Department of Agriculture Is apparent from the
care with \vhich it is following its progress.
A recent bulletin of the Department of Agricul
ture says: k
Fox fanning In Alaska utilizes material
itiwm oalmon canneries that would otherwise
be waste, according to the Biological Survey,
United States Department of Agriculture.
— ' The beads and tails of salmon, of which the .. .
flesh is canned, are fed to blue foxes and is
much relished by them. Much of tills tood
is lalted for preservation and some of it is
omoked. Many fox farmers believe that the
fexes prefer the raw fish, after the salt has
been taken out of it by soaking. The fox
farming industry which is being fostered by
the Biological Survey, is thriving along the
coast.
The Goodyear ana otner rubber people have de
cided, acording to the Boston News Bureau, that
the proposal to develop rubber raising in the Phil
l'ipplncs is chimerical, and they have rent experts
to Arizona to look over the field in that country.
The Goodyear people have many thousands of acres
oi land in the Salt River Valley, and it is there
the first experiments will ho conducted.
Are the enlightened people of Alaska to permit
the development of a situation where self-government
will moan government by tbe thousands of Indians
who, voting cn bloc, control the Situation, Are our
schools and the education of our youth to be turned
over to such a power?
Lord Livorhulmo slays any man can earn $500,000
a year if lie wants to. Well, maybe, but some of
them would have a heck of a time collecting it.
Potential Alaska.
(Seattle Post-Initelligencer.)
In a matter-of-fact statistical way, a recent re
port of the Collector of Customs at Juneau, Alaska,
furnishes unmistakable proof of the material pro
gress of the great Northern Territory, and suggests
tlie greater accomplishments in store in 'the years
to come.
Alaska is so great in area, so raw in it# natural
slate and so undeveloped in its natural resources
that the progress so far made appears only as a fair
scratching of the surface of things. But. the^ evi
dences cf its potential wealth bristle on every hand.
Its great mineral resources are coming back after
the war reaction—-a million dollars greater produc
tion in 1922 than in the preceding year. Its great
tirniber resources—perhaps the greatest virgin forc.ts
on the continent—are only beginning to he com
mercialized. Lumber is now being exported direct
from Alaska ports to Europe and Asia. The fishing
industry last year came into new value and promin
ence. A huge buslne. s in canned clams is developing
—and clams arc almost as thick upon some of its
beaches as the sand and gravel. Oil, too, is in sight
a : a great Alaska industry, and the Territory is now
supplied largely from its own deposits. Exports will
(time later. Wood pulp for paptr-ntaking is another
large industtiy junt making a beginning in Alaska.
The pioneers of the North have served the genera
tion well in merely catnip ling the Territorial riches.
They have pointed out the possibilities of the future,
and the Federal Government has done something tc
the human swarm. Public interest is turning to the
North. Last year 20,000 travelers entered Aiaska
from the United States and British Columbia. This
season the number will greatly increase. When Alaska
farms begin lo show their possibilities the human
tide northward may reecmble the Klondike rush.
RoportE of Alaska’s present progress are but
promises for the future. And of that the world will
hear more as development progresses.
Our $7,500-a-Year Congressmen.
(New York Post.)
Representative Upshaw, introducing a bill to in
crease Homo salaries from $7,500 to$10,000, shrewdly
remarked that it would accomplish little except tc
subject him to harsh criticism. His Georgia con
stituents wi-kl certainly tlnink $10,000 excessive.
It is one of the most time-honored of our repub
lican traditions that we Chou id wax angry over any
proposal to increase Congressional pay. When the
first Congress in 1780 fixed the scale at $6 a day
an indignant uproar attested our love of simplicity.
Six dollars for sitting on a cushion, with nothing
to do but vote!—why, the Government was going tc
cost £ 900,000 a year! These pampered Congressmcr
would be supporting a theatre with their riches
Henry Olay was just once In his career threatenec
with -defeat in his Ashland district. That was it
1810, when he voted to raise the pay of lionet
members from $0 a duy to $1,500 a year. Senator
elect Bruce of Maryland tells us in his life of Joht
Randolph, just published, that Randolph wrote ve
hemently in defense of the same measure. “What
man can live here on $5,000 a year?” he demanded
“He may breathe on it, but who can keep a family
rent a house, furnish it, and keep an equipage, giv
and receive entertainments on that annual amount?’
The storm over this outrage caused a repeal of th<
law in 1817, and the pay was made $8 a day. Hatei
tho same question gave birth to one of the twe
crimes of 78. The lesser tjjpime, the demonetization
of silver, was not taken up in earnest till the nine
tic's. Tho greater crime, the so-called “salary grab,’
was aesailbd so fiercely that the next Congress hur
riedly repealed the increase.
It is evident (hat a salary of $7,500 would com
many more in 1916 than in 1988. Yet there an
inadequacies of pay in our national service far mon
glaring than those of Representatives and Senator;
We are just taking action to raise salaries in our for
cign service. Tho shatbby stipends of $4,500, $5,000
and $6,000 paid to bureau chiefs in the exeeutivi
departments urgently demand augmentation, and n<
Congress can properly raise its own pay until 1
attend to these ill-requited officers.
Senator Hiram Johnson’s visit to France is sale
to l)e causing some worry to officials who may have
to receive him and scorn to ibe afraid that he is ex
plosive. They should be assured that it is juHt hii
way when he is among the home folks. — (Kdtchlkai
Chronicle.) v
Ohioans have wen all tlie honors ill'll ho horse
she pitching con tests in Florida. But there's always
a II\ in the ointment. Some of our folks have beei
shamefully skinned at poker down there this season
*—(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
American wive# should not carry the pastime ol
shooting their husbands to sthe point where every
man charged with wife murder will ty^ automatically
turned loor.o cn an assumption of self-defense — ( K in
oas City, Star.)
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We have always found professional criminals to
be ulmost, if not quite', (U3 unpleasant to associate
with ub professional reformers. — (New York Tri
bune.)
All evidence points to Hie fact that this North
west, In line with nearly the whole country, is nicely
squared away for an indefinite season of real pros
perity.— (Seattle Post-intelligencer.)
If h man won't listen whiio^hls liver tells him to
stop drinking, nothing Ills wife and the eighteenth
amendment have to say will be of any weight.—(New
York Tribune.
What's 'become of the old Kopulblicun and Demo
cratic -blocs which us. d to divide Congress?—(Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.)
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ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
Tho ol<l-fashtoned bird who used to
keep his wife from finding out how
much he made now has a son who
is trying to .keep :the government
from finding that out.
The Ananias Club
“Our trains always are behind and
our service fc the worst in the
world," tha railroad advertisement
declared.
It Isn't Always Safe
Blinks—‘'Did you always tell the
truth?"
Jinks—“No; I want a few friends,
thank you."
Strait-Trotter
(Marriage iLicenso in .Memphis News
Scimitar.)
E. L. Straight and Marylea Trotter.
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Fool Questions
F A N. asks: “When a baseball
player runs over the base does he
ever seriously injure it?" No, Dumb
bell ; but the game may suffer as a
result of it.
Is Ranging Any Worse Than Raging?
(Eastern Johnson County Cor. Big
Sandy (Ky.) Advertiser.)
Tho flu is still ranging in this
section.
Batts-Cotton
(Marriage License in Houston Po t.)
Earl Batts an<l Gertrude Cotton.
Life Doesn’t Change Much
“I used to have a hard time sneak
ing away from home to go to the
circus.”
‘■Yos?"
“And now I have an even harder
time 'sneaking away to go to a poker
game.”
We Dont' Believe We Care to Buy
(Adv. in Chicago Tribune.)
j LOOKS LIKE NEW
At this exceptionally low price this
! car should not last over Sunday. Call,
see this 'beautiflul bargain and be
convinced. Terms arranged. Joseph
G. Glaser, 1144 48 Michigan Ave.
If It Fits—
A happy home is one where the
wife respiocts 'her husband; an.un
i happy one is where -she suspects him
| 'Some men seem to think it is less
! expensive to como across for a
broach of promise suit tihan to pay
alimony later.
No matter how small their flat
j may be, most married couples find
plenty of room for argument in it.
} A pessimist is si man who thinks it
i is going to rain just because he has
j had his shoos shined,
j Another great trouble with the
world is that there are so many peo
j pie who arc so much bettor supplied
I with hindsight than they are with
j foresight.
A 'Court may demand proof of
wrongdoing, but "people say” is all
the proof the gossips ever demand.
A great need of the world today
| is tho kind of wedding ring that will
stay put.
Beforo marriage a glirl is every
thing to tho 'man she loves, and
afterward she demands that he get
her .everything.
With most people remorse is just
tlhe chagrin of being caught, and
helps tho 'situation about as much as
I a banquet would the man who has
starved to death.
Tha pi eh may list paying a big
Inconio fax R3 one of their ehiief sor
rows, but it looks like a 'blessed priv
ilege to-a small-salariod man.
When a wife loavos for a trip,
[ho reason hor husband never urges
her to write is ‘because he knows slip
will every time she needs money,
Mhieh will ho Spfton enough.
Well, even if another no longor can
•ontrol the children, she gets a lot
f satiistaeEon out of knowing she
can piako father walk chalk.
till
Daily Sentence Sermon
The tortoise won one race; the
hare lias won all the rest.
News of the Names Club
We haven't soon any since we be
gan buying coal, but Merry ,Winters
’ lives in Kansas <‘ity.
He's taking an awful chance these
days if ho due*. but, anyway, E,
I Drinkard is reported from Dallas.
Daily Sentence Sermon
Good habits have to be cultivated,
but bad ones will grow like weeds.
Headquarters to? Ladysmith coal,
Juneau Transfer Co. Phone 48. adv
Old bundlet of newt papers at the
Empire, 26 cent*.
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Women Demand Passage
of Narcotic Bill.
wl s' '
j Seagate*’ *lu-'£| ■
Senator Shortridge, of Califor
nia, is shown with Mrs. William
A. Fitzgerald. of lx>s Angeles,
President of the Women’s Kedera- i
ition of Clulbs, of California, and j
head of the Anti-Narcfttic League,
who went to Washington to urge
the Senator to support the Anti*
Narcotic bill in the next session
of Congress.
FORMER DAWSONITE KILLED
Ed Campbell, formerly a Klondike
minor and prospector, was killed in
an accident in Norway, his native
land, to which lie ah 1 returned tor
a visit, according to word received
■at Dawson. He was in a boat with
his father, brother and sister which
capsized. Ail perished. Notwith
s' nding his Scotch name, Ed Camp
bell was a Norwegian and one of the!
j host known of the Scandinavian min j
ers of the Interior. Ho was 41 anlj
unmarried.
YOl’R “UNTja^Tr*” ASSETS—that
typewriter, musical instrument, fur
niture, office fixture or appliance—
are marketable, for cash, through
i the classified columns of The Empire.
PATENTS
Total fees, $75; first payment $15.
If you have a good Idea send for
a free Conception Blank, which will
protect It temporarily und explain
how to get a patent.
HARRY BOWEN,
Registered Patent Atty., Mech. En
i ginetr. Pantages Bldg., Senttle
| Wm. D. Perkins & Co.
| Bankers
| 211 Cherry St. Alaska Bldg
| Seattle.
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DEALERS IN
Municipal Bonds
County Warrants
First Mortgages
Safe Deposit Vaults
6 per cent to 8 per cent Interest
USED FURNITUM
Bought, Sold and Exohnnged
9. JIOCOVICH
211 Seward St.
Telephone 441. P. O. Box til.
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j ARCADE CAFE
MARY YOUNG, Proprietor.
| Chinese Noodles after theatre
and parties.
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JAPANESE TOT SHOP '
K B. MAHNO
f Front Street
l P. 0. Box ai8 fQT Mail Olden
I BRIQUETS
i Ideal
j fnel for
| every
j purpose
Luge itocki on hnnd
Lodyunith oooL
Nanaimo eoe'.
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
Phone US.
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PROFESSIONAL
Drs. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bldf.
PHONE 06
Hours 9 a. m tc 9 p. «.
Dr. ChaHes P. Jenna
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Bldg.
Telephone 176.
▲11 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.
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1 HOTEL "SEATTLE '
"Home of Alaskans"
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
R. U. flODGDON, 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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THE MAKING OF CONCRETE
Is a matter of proper materials
together with engineering skill.
Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Years
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFG. j
COMPANY |
Willoughby Ave. Phone 32.
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Fraternal Societies
-Of
Gastineau Channel
i.
O . Ills
Uietli; Wednesday
Evening* at 1:00
o’clock, Elk*’ Hall.
ARTHUR B. COLB,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodie*
* of Freematonry
Scottish Rite
Regular meeting* j
second and fourth!
Fridays each month*
at 7:80 p. m, Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HBASEL, Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
8ILVBR BOW
_ LODGB NO. • A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.(
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand;
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
MOUNT JIJNEAO LODE*
No. 147, F. * A. M.
Stated Communication
fleer, nd and Fourth Mondays
] of each Month. In Odd Felicia
1 Hall, beginning at 7:J« o’clock.
Homer G. Nordling, Mastor.
C'has. E. Naghel. Secretary
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tut*
day* of each month.
At 8 o'clock, I. O. O. F. HalL
j ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLINO, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OP
COLUMBUS
aBOHBRS COUNCIL H*.
17 ‘U. Meetings seeoad
and last Mondays at 7:H
^ v 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 I p. m.
Elks' I/Odge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; G. ■.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER 01
M00SR.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 9 o’clock.
Moose Hall. ThoU.
B. Judeon, Dictator; R. H. BtlTIH
Secretary.
BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE SUCCESS AND
PROSPERITY OF THE TERRITORY,
The sixth session of the Territorial Legislature is now
laying tlii foundation of the success of the Territory.
By prudent and broad statesmanship it will have an
important influence on the future prosperity and hap
piness of our people.
Your financial success also depends upon a good foun
dation. Wasteful experiments and speculations must
be avoided. By careful husbanding and saving of your
earnings you will build the broad foundation of a
future competence and success. In preparing for the
future we invite you to open an aocount in our Sav
ings Department. Accounts of one dollar or more may
be opened and you may add to your account at any
time in any amount.
The B. M. Behrends Bank
jnMSAU, ALASKA.
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