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’1BCUI.ATION fil'ARA NTKIT' TO RF.
nOITBt.E THAT OF VNY OTHER ALASKA
MORE THAN
NEWSPAPER
PARTY AFFILIATIONS SEEM NECESSARY.
'live uncertainty a:i to ’lie political channel into
which the "Ft rd lor President” campaign will be di
lected in the end is still disturbing reme of - the
puplr. .\lr. Ford's brcther-ln-la'w says it be runs at
i.ll it will be as a Democrat but Mr. Ford's brother-in
law I. » dyed-in-the-wool Democrat and "the wish may
be tlic father of the thought." Mr. Green, the bead
of the Fcid for President movement, has an idia of
having Mr. Ft;d' name piacd on all the primary
ballots: of all the parties and accepting any or all the
nerain.itirnr that can be vycn. Failing to get any
i art ot a nrniln.ition. Mr. Gr< en declares iliat he will
nominate Ford as an independent.
This is not the first time that the political affilia
tions of minerim f prLmituncc lias caused those who
indulge in the game of helping to make Presidents
worry. Only Uirec y at ago both Democrats and
ill publicans were sparring for Herbert Hoover. Tile
uncertainty about his politics: continued so long that
lie war, actually entered in the primaries of belli
panii •. In Michigan lie won a plurality In 1 lie
Democratic primary, #Ho finally, however, proclaimed
himself a Republican. About twenty years ago the
politics of Admiral D< wey was a matter of very
odious discus ion. He finally said that lie had never
been what would be called u partiian but that he Duel
voted for Cleveland for President two cr three times
end had never voted for a He publican Presidential
candidate. However, lie got no nomination because
the Democrat at that lime could see no one but
Iliya u General Grant was. first urged lor the Demo*
cratip (Jit-.'d ,nt i a I nomination, and he, too, had never
voted for a Republican for Pro-idem. He hud voted
lor Buchanan in 1858 and had bet n a member of a
Dougtag club in I860. Ilis sympathies, were with
Lincoln in 1864. It was after tin leaders of both
parties had given Dim such assurances that he felt
certain that ho could have either nomination thut lie
decided to taHe tile Republican offer. (What would
have Ik n the effect on Ann rican history had the
decision bent the other way? Ho would huve been
ilcctcj, cf c urse, and we might have had a recon
struction of the South diroctid by Ihtyard, Thurman,
Kendall, Hendricks, Cox and their associates instead
ft one under the leadership of Morton, Wade, Cam
eron, Colfax, Wilson, Blaine and their associutes
a reconstruction in which the South would have
participated, i
Never :iuWashington have we had a President
who was not a recognized member of a political party
when lie was ihcted. Twice, at the second election
• fit Monroe in 18l’u and the election of John Quincy
Adams in 18LM, there was no organized party in op
pofiition to tlie Republican Party (later called Demo
cratic!. And twice w< have had Presidents who after
their election became alienated from tho party on
whose ticket they were elevated, but both of them
hud been chosen to t he Vici-Presidency and succeeded
to the higher office upon the death of the President.
Tyler wu elected Vice-President on the Whig ticket
with Harri n fu 184o, but he soon allied himself
viitli the Democratic Party, lie had been a Jeffersonian
mm couid 110! ugroo With till! old Federalist element
in the Whig Party. John: i n war chosen Vlce-Prcsl
duit on the ifcket with Lincoln in 18t>4, and soon
after hi: elevation to the Presidency lie became a
Democrat. returning to the party of which he had
been a member until the war between the States
broke cut.
History offers very little encouragement to those
who wculd ilk - to have a President not attached to
tome political party.
Doc any one rent ntber when the treasury surplus
tv as bothering Pre idont Cleveland and Secretary
Manning? rheiv is no danger that the executive de
partment if tlie Nation or any Slate will have that
tau: tii vvr.’ty about attain. Cnngr -s and the Stale
Liairlatuii will •, to jt that all the funds collected
are appt apriated.
. WE WONDER!
P is nc often that we find perfect agreement
between Arthur BfUbane and the financial papers of
N< w ^ ork and Pi non When we do we wonder.
The Horten Nh we Buri.ru ami the Wall Street Journal
have recently contained editorials telling why men
r.t tile in ad of gigantic institutions earn the large
i ilariee liiat are paid to them. It is contended that
by wire management they save their shareholders
much more thuti they arc paid, and they make their!
Inctltutionr i.a u tfui to the public that it. too. is more
than repaid. \c:\ wi-11 and probably true. How
ever, we would expect that argument from tire sources:
when it ccmcs.
But here comes Arthur Brisbane, who writes more
or radical dope fi r the more or less radical Hearst i
papers, raying: i
Senators are shocked to learn thu Alfred
C. Bedford and Walter (V Teagle, presidents
of two of the Standard Oil Companies, are
/paid 1125,000 each per year.
I hTtvot inurti Jti>r men who cap. hand.e
1* hutinc. s i mining into hundreds of millions
Five minutes of intelligent thinking in any
.sSisEv
one depiiimen! would soon make a different-!
of (too throe times over. •
li i> to be hoped that Hoekefellers allow
tin in mi opportunity to make u little "some
thin!; on (he side."
[ And w rider. We wonder if the circumstance
j that Mr. II shalle draw, a salary that Is probably
ilatger than hat of any railroad President or bank
i’ll idem in the country, lancer by Jo per cent, than
ihe Stanila; d nil Presidents referred to, had any bear
inf. on his i uiiclitslon!
EDISON ADVOCATES HARD WORK.
Thorny Kdison, who celebrated his Tilth birth
day annivei .;tv the other day, admits that he is
slowing up lly finds it difficult to work more than
Osteen hems a day now, and cccasionaly he does
not reacli lii- office until b::hi a. m. On his birthday
he artivid at hi- office shortly before 9:00 a. m., took
25 minute 'iff for lunch and left for home at 5:3o
with a grip full of blue print*/to work over during
the night.
Mr. Kill i ti says lie lias kept his health good ami
his mind clear through hard work during long hours
daily. Wok is his reeeipe for practically all the
ills of liety, industry, business and government.
He ray- it the people would work hard there would
soon be no problems that would not solve themselves.
It cannot be i aid that itlie great inventor does not
practice at he preaches.
Mayor Itig Hill Thompson, of Chicago,
will retire for hii health. Hig Bill hasn't
been in politics for Ills health. — (Houston
Post.)
But politic- became unelialthy after Hig Hill
got iu and lie is probably seeking a more healthful
place.
Militarism Not to Be Tolerated.
(Prince Rupert News.)
Militarism is something that we all dislike. It
cannot bo tolerated as a system which might possibly
interfere with the rights of the people. At the same]
time every nation should tie ready to defend itself.
A standing army Is always a danger in any country.
It is demoralizing to the members of the army and
has a had effect on the country. Military training
for the people is another thing. An efficient militia
system under which the young people are trained
sufficiently to enable them to undertake military j
duties, if it should be necessary, in defense of their j
country, seems to be the right thing. Here we are cn i
the borders* < f Asia. Tin time may come when an
enemy may invade our shores. We, as a people, arc:
insisting on discriminatory action against the Oriental. I
it is natural tliai t lie time may come when the'
j Oriental may resent this and there may be conflict.,
[To sit hack and tru-: to moral suasion at such a time!
i would he useless. It would not keep the hordes of |
I Asia from over-running our coasts as lias been the1
| case in other countries. It did not keep Japan from
enter!Ilf Korea and subjugating the people so that
| even today they arc governed as a subject ruce from
1 Tokio.
We all believe in peace and abhor war. We all
I would like to be able to sit hack and say: ‘Tram
Mills time on we shall lake nc more part in world con-'
[flirts." The fact remains that us long as there are
i military nations left we have to he able to defend
[ourselves against them. We cannot afford to place
I ourselves at the mercy of the Turks or any other
similar naticn. While avoiding militarism, we must
1 1:1,1 lorget that cur children may have to defend!
therm elves and tiny cannot do this unle.-s they are
a strong and re lurceful generatlen, and are taught
to be not afraid.
Shall Ruhr Re Fed in Idleness?
(Detroit Free Press.)
The food supply in the Ruhr is admitted on all
hands to be low, and the t'rikere who are now trying
to balk the French plan for collecting reparations
will soon bo going hungry unless all the* correspond-!
ents who have discussed the situation arc in error.
A small quantity of food for the Ruhr |s reported’
to have gone forward from this .country already, and |
it has been said that charitable organizations in the
fulled States will soon be asked to fet'd a large part,
of ‘he population of the industrial district which
France is trying to control.
On the other hand a Puris dispatch quotes a!
" ' iter in La Liberie ns saying: “Let the miners cross
their Suns; let the railroad workers halt the trains:
without doubt we don’t get any coal, but neither!
will i lie Germans, and ir the workers don’t work how \
will they eat? Certainly we shall not be so naive
as to feed them.”
The heartlessness of the program indicated in that
quotation cannot represent the feeling of the humane!
people of France; but on the other hand hew can
French logic consent to a policy which demands that
(he miners shall work while it supports the strike by!
(ceding the strikers or by permitting outsiders to*
maintain the strike with American food? If all <f the1
passive resist.ers In the Ruhr are allowed to live in
teleraible circumstances upon doles from any source
it will go a long way toward making the tremendous
machinery of occupation ridiculous.
The problem so raised is one for French states
manship to solve, but it is difficult to see how any
completely satisfactory policy can be found, and that
is about what one would expect trom the fact that
the occupation itself is not a sound policy when
viewed from the economic standpoint.
But It Works.
t Fairbanks News-Miner.)
Good food is perhaps a more powerful means of
keeping children at home than we realize. Sixty I
cent :’ worth of materials will give boys and girls a
jtlly time in the kitchen Saturday evening making!
fudge and cookies, and you know where they are !
I-t the boys crack the nuts and mess around and :
they will enjoy is us much as the girls. Never mind
if it means a lit of clearing up for you; it is easier
10 clean the kitchen after an evening’s innocent
pleasure for hair a dozen young folks than to clean
t* soiled reputation.
Know where your children are and whom they are
witli. ul>d you will spare yourselves many sleepless
nights and anxious moments, and the only way to
ilc it is to keep them home by ipaking it the hap
piest place In the world, a place of freedom and
laughter, of good food and good humor.
Henry Ford is alleged to have said that the dis
tribution of the world’s wealth is all wrong. As we i
ccnti mpl’ute Henry’s pile, none of us will feel in-!
dined to disagree with him.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.)!
Again the Bolshevist chiefs are sending out a*
delicate hint that the United States can come along
and feed a Tew millions of their sorts until next har
vest time.—(Detroit Free Press.)
An award of 50 per cent, accuracy lias been mad>
to the European authority who said that diplomacy
required many crooks and turns.—(Cincinnati En
quirer. )
The Turk wants it distinctly -understood that he
‘Vi 11 not behave any better than ho lias to.—(Indian
ipolis Star.)
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ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR j
By SAM HILL
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
The oldushiojpd man who use I
[to name all the Presidents of tit*'.
United States and till what they dill
now has a son who knows all the!
baseball stars and < n tell you their1
batting averages for tile last five!
years. '
Ouch!
“You don’t look a day older than i
you did when 1, saw you last time,"|
mid flic Fresh Thlnv.
“FV^ftorer!" simpered the Old
Thing.
“No," continued the Fresh Thing
"you look at least 1" years older.”
A Warm One in Paris, Ky.
January is alw. apposed to l>e]
cold, but Paris (Ky i has Mayor K. Ii ;
January, known a tlie warmest Jan-j
uary all year round —Reader.
Modern Meaning
“Did your wife miss you?"
"Yes, by a hair breadth. The bul
let Just grazed my ear.”
Make Your Comment on This One
(Real Estate Transfer in McCreary
* 'County (Ky.) Record.)
Levi and Ida Hollers to WiHlam!
Foster, tract on Lick Creek.
Gotta Keep Going
Staying on the job is what gets a I
follow somewhort Sam Mill. lt|
moans something more than just!
sticking around. .1 11. Reed.
If It Fits—
It isn't necc3sni> for a man to be;
on speaking terms with his wife, all!
edio asks of him i t to listen while i
she does the speaking.
A child may be backward in other
ways, but it never is when it conics!
to asking for money.
Two ^ secrets every woman can
keep are her age and her weight.
Not every man has a head for tig
tires, but there ; ■ mighty few of
them who haven’t an eye for them.
A good many ancestors, who ar'j
bragged about, ate lucky they die I
before they had, to say anything
about their descendants.
You can’t expect a couple to make
much of a succes in marriage whan
they prefer a baby grand to a grand 1
baby. j r
Many a young fellow is hugging a ;
delusion, but he doesn’t get wise to
the truth until after he has married I
Ht.
The length of a woman’s skirt1
doesn’t worry her as much as tho!
length of lime she has to wear it
before she can get a new one.
A wife’s idea ’Of charity is giving
away her husband's other suit to
tile needy beggar.
This world never will be perfoct'
until it Is possible for a man to
stretch bis salary as far as he can
iiie truth.
.Many inventors mistake the needs
of the world and invent something*1
it does not want instead of some -
thing really useful. The world is |
just desperate tor a muffler for thej
fool talkers running around loose
and yet an idiot went and invented a!
voice amplifier.
We hear a good deal about pay-j
roll robberies, but every householder ,
can tell you how the profiteers have
been robbing the pay envelopes ever
since the war tarted.
Daily Sentence Sermon
Iyife Is too hort to worry over
what is in the pa3t.
News of the Names Club
Edward FT. ik is an undertaker in
Chicago and w 'll bet lie gets a
chance to bin a lot of them up
there.
Old papers lor sale at Empire
tlce.
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make ctrrngth. There are
thousands of easily-ab
sorbed, health-building
globules of vitamine - bear
ing cod-liver oil in every
bottle of
Children or grown people,
rundown in body or
vitality, should find
Scott’s Emulsion a
strength - restoring
food-tonic of great
value. It is taken easily
and assimilated readily.
Scott & Bowne, TUootnfield.N. J. 22-21
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I
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i
Wktter C. T<2Asd«« ;
C. Exzc&iorvJ'. *»*S
United Stales Senators, wlio
have to struggle along on $7,500 j
a year, wen; just tickled pink j
when they learned, during a sub
committee investigation of tIse oil
industry, that Mr. Rockefeller j
pays his hired men fairly well,
•with many drawing between $50,- j
000 and $125,000 a year. In the j
latter class are Alfred C. I: Iford.
ef the Standard Oil Company of
Now Jersey, and Walter C. T agio,
Chairman of the Board id' the !
name concern. Hut Arthur Brir
l.ane editorially "hopes the Rocke
fellers allow them an opportunity I
to make a little something ‘on the :
side.’ ”
If l ’s advertises It’s of TIMEI.Y
NTEREST. That's something to re
’.ember—to your profit.
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PARLORS
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Have you tried our new Hot
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We make our own Ice Cream.
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General Hauling, Baggage. i j
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COMPANY
Moves, Packs and Stores Freight
and Baggage.
Prompt Delivery of
LADYSMITH COAL
Phone 48.
POTATOES, APPLES,
CABBAGES,
in our ail-concrete nre-proof
storage.
Concrete Products Mfg. Co.
, Willoughby Ave. Phone S2. | |
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fuel for
every
purpose
Large stock* on hand
Ladysmith coal.
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Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Sanitarium
Kates $3.00 Per Day aud Up
Every Comfort'
GEO. L. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Messorschmidt Apts.
, Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 5;
7 to a and by appointment.
Phone 259.
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OSTEOPATH
437 Goldstein Building
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to 6;
7 to 8, or by appointment,
licensed osteopathia physician.
Phones: Office, 167; res., 1672.
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‘‘Home of Alaskans"
| Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
R. L,. HODQDON, Manager
It’s all in knowing HOW to do
first-class cleaning ar.d dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
| C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
THE MAKING OF CONCRETE
is a matter of proper materials
! together with engineering skill.
Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Years
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFG.
COMPANY
! Willoughby Ave. , Phone 32.
fraternal Societies
-GP
Gastineau Channel
o . mi
Mtetlij Wednesday
Evenings at 8:00
o'clock, Elka' Hall.
ARTHUR B. COLE,
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. w.
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. S A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows' Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand;
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAU LODES
No. 147, F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Mondays
of each Month. In Odd Fellows
Wall, beginning at 7:50 o'clock.
Homer G. Nordling, Master.
( has. E. Naghel, Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tues
days of each month.
At S o'clock, I O. O. F. Halt
ANNA HAY, VVorttiy Matron.
LOIS WORIH.ING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
hjROHE R8 COUNCIL No.
17 “J. Mc.-e tings second
and Inst Mondays at 7:M
^ p. m. Transient Broth
rs urged to attend. Council Chambers
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, Q. K.
I. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Pest No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at I p. in.
I'.’lks’ Ixidge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; O. B.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDEB 0>
MOOSE. *
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Frida?
night, 6 o'clock,
% Moose Hall. Thee.
3. Juckson, Dictators 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.
AUXILIARY, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA, Igloo No. 6.
Meets the 2d Monday In Moooe
. Hall, at 8 o’clock.
ALICE LAUOHLIN, President.
LILLIE BURFORD. Secretary.
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