ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
JOHJT W. TROY - ' EDITOR AND MANAGER
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THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
All of the candidates on both of the municipal
tickets are good men. capable and clean. Nothing can
be truthfully urged against any of them. All of them
art- worthy and the taxpayers and citizens generally
will get good service no matter who is elected. With
out the slightest reflection on a single candidate on
the other ticket, however, 'I^he Em.plre believes the
Citizens' Ticket shohlil be chosen. .
The law contemplates that there shall bo con
tinuity cf municipal government. That is why it I
has been provided that three of the City Councilmen
should hold-over and only three be elected each year. |
There is only one hold-over Councilman this year. On
the Citizens’ Ticket there are three members of the
present Council. There is another candidate on the
Citizens' Ticket who recently served well as Mayor.
These men are fully informed on the status of muni
cipal matters through experience with them. They
know all about the plans of tho present Administra
tion, which has been specially satisfactory, and pur-[.
pc... to carry them to fruition. This includes the!
e'it to compel the electric lighting eompnny to uc
ct [ t the lighing, heating and power rates for elec- 1
tr city specified in the ordinance adopted last year. '
Therefore, the Citizens’ Ticket stands for the con
tinuity of municipal government, the Idea behind
the law which provided for tho election of only three
Councilmen each year.
PRESIDENT JOHNSONS PART.
Thej'o is one man wno played an important role
'in American hktery who never gdt due credit for
1'is part in the purchase of Alaska. Probalbly because
c.f the heat cf the controversy that waged about him
during hi3 official tenure, historians have been slow
to recognize anything that President Johnson did that
was good. However, the fact Is that no Secretary of
State ever received more loyal co-operation from a
President of the I’nited States than did Secretary
Seward from President Johnson, and the ea-operntlon
was newer more marked than it was In the nego
tiations for tlie purchase of Alaska.
Tt might be well to interpolate here that Secretary
Seward and Prcridcnt Johnson were friends and co
workers in making the record of the executive
branch of the Government during the nearly four
years cf President Johnson's Administration. Not
withstanding tlirjt he wan a victim of the assassina
tion conspiracy which resulted in the death of Lin
coln and came near death as the result of an assault
that was made upon him at the same time the
martyred President was mortally wounded by Booth’s
bullet, Secretary Seward was apposed throughout the
whole period to the Congressional reconstruction
policy.
Mere than a dozen years ago, former Senator Wat
con C. Squire who hud made a careful study of
Alaskan hletory, delivered an address in Seattle upon
Andrew Johnson's participation in the purchase of
Alaska. He said the earneotnoss of the President
in ruppr.it of the proposition was one of the tilings
which kept, the enthusiasm of his Secretary of State
nf high pitch until tho transaction was closed. The
President, us well as Mr. Seward, interviewed Sena
tor after Senator to gain votes for the ratification of
the treaty. Senator Squire raid that if it had not
been for this activity of the President it is well
.within the probabilities that tlie treaty would have
dually failed of ratification
TWO MORE COUNTRIES TO SETTL
i* Inland has followed Kurland and has ugreeil to
fund her debt to the United States on the 62-year
payment plan. She pays the accrued interest in
cash and agrees to pay It per rent interest on the
ecmething over eight millions, that she owes us,
for ton years and thereafter fo pay 3% per rent.
Payments on f, he principal will he distributed
throughout a period i f 63 years.
t zccho-Slovakla liar agreed to settle on a similar
basis, excopit that he wants but fifty years in whjeli
to complete her payments.
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BOARDS OF EDUCATION. |
, People very often mistake the purpose of Boards
of Education and other similar organisations. They £
reem to accept the theory that the Boards are selected £
to manage the schools or the institutions over which r
they have general control. This viewpoint is wrong, i
They are selected to provide for the management. C
Prards of Directors do not manage a bank or a rail- t
jroad company or any other business concern*. They 0
.decide upon general policies ami select men to do the
managomerjt. The purpose of 9ehool Boards and
Similar public board* and commit-cions are similar.
The March-April number of the Alaska School
Bulletin contains a etutement by Dr. Leonard P
Ayres which presents the matter clearly Ur, Ayres o
said:
Boards of Education exist for the pur
, . tpore of getting public schools managed, not
for the purpose of managing the schools a
i .. Huin«j)vc9» Xhelr work~im to gut things ti
(tone rather than to do them. When they
overlook this fundamental principle, con
fusion results * * *
It is a fundamental principle of sound
administration of public affairs that poll
' clos should be formulated by boards and put
in execution by individuals. * * *
Too much time has been absorbed by at
tention to details of procedure. The result
is that the scissions of Che Board have be
come routine and detailed rather than pol
icy-making and legislative. * * *
The Board of Education should devote
its energies entirely to the consideration of
the larger aspects of etf uca‘tiona.1 ‘policy; to
the careful appointment of those who are
to carry out its ‘policies; and ito the making
of those general regulations that will re
lieve the Board from the necessary consid
eration of details that can otherwise be dis
posed of.
Among the athletic possible events of the
near future we trust the Trotsky trot from
Russia may be featured with all appropriate
revolutionary jazz trimmings.—(Cincinnati
Enquirer.
We have no objection to Trotsky’s trotting if he
does not trot too far this way.
Former President Wilson, former Secretary Mc
Adoo and former Secretary Bryan have all cast their
ballots on the Colorado Scnatorship. The vote of
Ciovernor Sweet, however, is the one that will make
it Senator, it has not yet been cast.
For Repeal of Alaska Bone Dry Law.
(Ketchikan News. 1
A correspondent at Anchorage 'declares that in
the opinion of its attorneys either the Alaska Bone
Dry Law or the Volstead Aot imint go, as they are
incongruous. It will be difficult to repeal the Vol
dead Act, but as Congress created the Alaska Bone
Dry Act as the result of an expression!! of the voters
nf the Territory, it 1s probable that a similar recogni
tion of the desires of a majority of the voters would
be evidenced in a repeal of the act. There has been
trong intimation that the forthcoming session of
the Legislature will he asked to again submit the
question lo the electorate o film Territory. Some
are looking ahead to the time when the consumption
beer and light wines will not be considered a'
crime and they don’t want, the Act that has been j
especially created for Alaska to stand in the way of
lie enjoyment of any liberalized law that Congress I
ar.y enact for the rest of the country.
Reserve Bank Foresight. ,
(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
It is quite natural that there should he much disv- 1
HiSEion of tile action of the Federal Reserve banks
»f New York and Boston in advancing t'hedr redis- '
:ount rate to 4 Vi per cent. The confusion of opinion
s excusable in part, but In the criticisms directed
against the banks there Is displayed much ignorance
if the money situation and much reckless surmise. 1:
i'll ere are wild guesses that It was done to stop
ipecu-lation in the stock markets, and "Wall Streot":
las been critical. There are wilder charges that it |
s a move of the banks to force deflation of interior i
•redits, and radicals of the farm bloc have fumed,
n view of these criticisms and guesses it is well to
lirect attention to a few outstanding facts.
In the first place, this is the first advance of the
ate of these two reserve banks in two years. Dur
ng this interval the commercial demand for funds
breed the other reserve banks, with the exception
if San Franoisco. to raise their rates from 4 to 4 Vi ;
)er cent. The continued demand for funds in ag
riculture, manufacturing and trade in all ottier i
lections was beginning to cause the interior banks
o increase their calls on the Now York and Boston
aanks for accommodation. It became patent to the in
elllgenit financiers that action must be taken by
hese centers to prevent the dom'and on them attain
ng abnormal proportions. So they raised their rate
o what the interior banks previously were forced to
nake, and, a few days later, San Francisco followed
vith like action. Thus there now is a uniform rate
hrou'ghout the country, i
Tiie wisdom of this action soon will be apparent,
rile uniform rate will prevent any undue conccntra
ion of borrowing on the financial resources of any
ine district and it should tend to prevent dislocation
)f credits by stepping the undue drafts for funds
rom one district to another. Patently, the move is
lot aimed at the stock imarkots particularly, nor at
ho deflation of interior credits, us radicals have
'barged. The best and most conservative judgment i
s that It is intended to effect, as it is likely to do,
meh a balancing of credits as will maintain a steady
uipply of funds for industrial and legitimate trade
iporatiion through tile period of 'business activity that
aromises to continue well up to the end of the year,
n adition, it may operate to conserve banking re
lources -and facilitate the work of the United States
i’raesury in its imperative refunding of maturing ob
igatlons between now and July, which arc estimated
o require $1,600,000,000.
Hy Air to Fairbanks.
(Cordova Times.)
Travel by airline is one of 'the Inevitable devel
ipments awaiting Alaska. It is bound to come, prin-!
ipatly for the reason tliat it is so badly needed. If
here Is a country anywhere in the world that shouts
or travel by air, especially in the summer, it is
Uusrku. The long distance between towns, tly> scar
ity of good roads and the cost of building them, and
be enormous handicap of tundra, make getting aibout
>y airline the logical and eminently practicable
hing. When tho distance between Cordova and Fair
>anks which, under the best of conditions by land
allot be made short of three days, Can be compassed
lirough die air itv as many hours, .there is mighty
It'tle argument left in favor of keeping on the
tround. When time is money, airplane travel is
heap at the price.
A move in die right direction, therefore, is that
nterprise of a group of Fairbanks men in umler
aking to establish an airplane route between Fair
anks and the coast for pleasure and commercial pur
iofcs. It is a stop toiward linking Alaskan towns
n closer business relations that promises much for
he development of tho Territory and the advantage
f all concerned. Cord#vu has been asked to pro
ide a landing place for the service. The town should
et behind the move. It would appear .that a tbor
uglily practicable landing could be made in the vl
inity of tlie ball park. If so, Cordova enterprise
liould not lag behind that of its neighbor to the
orth. The advantages of a direct air route between
ordova, the furthest town south on the coast to be
bus linked up with the Interior, are obvious'. The
pportunity should not be neglected.
There is very little interest in this country in do
icstlc news from Doom, Holland. — (Philadelphia
ecord.)
Eloyd George says he is sorry he cannot read his
trttuary. So are a lot of other people in England.
-(Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
Evidence multiplies that rome Presidential bees
re not overparticular as to what bonnets they buzz
i,—(Springfield Union.)
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
What lias become of the old-fash
ioned girt wlho never knew what i
was to be hugged until after she wa
engaged ?
The Anar.'So Club
“I saved over half of the allow
ante you sent me last month,” wroti
the college boy to his dad, "so yoi
need only send me half the usua
amount for next month."
The Very Ideal III
“What Is the world coming, tc
anyway!” exclaimed the setf-madi
widow, itihro’wing down the paper li
disgust.
"What's the matter now, dearie?'
asked her ifrlend.
“Why, a New York jury has ,ha<
the nerve to convict a pretty womai
>f murder because she shot her hus
band," snapped the Widow.
Such Language
Blinks: “He is hard-boiled."
Jinks: “Yes. I’ve noticed he i:
iwfully raw att Dimes."
Fool Questions
M. J. asks: “Where did they ge
he idea from that old song. Tt’i
;reat to be crazy,' anyway?" Dunno
jut ft wasn’t from meditating on con
iitions in Russia.
OUCH
’Headlines Also Is Headlines
\ X IT A STEWART IS SEPARATEE
(Divorce Note , in Houston Post.)
who disease red it.
Expanding Rights
Our guess is (that the wife win
akes up smoking lays down thi
laming and mending about thai
lime Sam Hill, Jn Cincinnati (Ohio]
inquirer.
Enter pop. tired and sad, hole ir
iis sox, his shirt; to the bad, button
>ff his overcoats but when he says
0 tho Lady of th • Vote, timidly, ol
•ourse and in supplicating tone, as
l© would address till© Queen upon
lor throne: “l have a little mend
ng for you to do that is my love
f it suit3 you,” de ir wifie says, with
■egal tow: “Go do it yourself. I'm
imcking now.” —Tom Darning.
Gems From Guide Book to Success
Telling lihe Truth, and living it
la's never yet left stigma upon an>
nan.—J. E. F.
All the News That's Fit To Prine
Locust Grove (Ky.) Cor. Falmouth
Outlook.)
Perry Mitts made his regular trip
tere Sunday.
John Said bought of Elmer ArnolJ
1 fino cow for $07.50.
Will Makomson, of Covington, visit
sd friends and relatives here Sunday
George A. Updike and Shelby Drap
-r wore guests of J. L. Pike Sunday.
If It Fits—
■Some people seem to reach thoii
lecond childhood way ahead of soiled
tie.
The reason men are more hosplta
>le than wonte:r is because the wo
non have to gotfthe meals and wa3l
he dishes afterward.
A woman wants a man to lie well
rrod but lie usually is content if hf
s just well fed
Not all itllio women you meet an
is young as they are painted, either
df the old hoop skirts do conn
Back thoy will have to have collapsi
hie hoops or the automobiles wil
lave to be changed.
East is East and West is West
Man is man and woman's woman
And no matter haw successful t;hi
campaign tto put men and women 01
in equal 'footing is, wo never expec
■o goo a man at an evening functloi
wearing a suit that has no had
frmii f Vl o lit)
When his? indigestion gets so bai
shat ihe begins to demand they stat
■ating at the restaurant the bridi
;nn kiss the honeymoon good-by.
There .are times, we suppose, whet
svery husband wishes he could glvi
his wife the good, <ild-fashiono<
spanking he thinks she needs.
(Most housewives can forget al
ibout the cobwabi until some busy
body calls and begins to look around
■When a wife keeps up with tin
fashions it makes it mighty hard fo
friend ihusband to keep up with hi
pxpenses.
No man can hide his ignoranci
jy keeping behind the dimes.
The reason some women can enter
ain so attractively is because thei
neighbors have ^uch nice things the;
?an borrow'.
Headquarters tor Ladysmith coal
Juneau Transfer Co. Phone 48. adi
Furnished Rooms (or j
Rent
ANCHORAGE ROOMS
LILLIAN FOOTE
Telephone 431
BEST EVER
MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
Now offers additional attracts
Disability Benefit features.
NONE OTHER SO LIBERAL.
ALLEN SHATTUCK
INSURANCE REAL ESTATE
ESTABLISHED .1898
1 WILSON TAKES ISSUE
WITH SENATOR AYER
Juneau, March 30.
I Td The Editor: Your article in
yesterday's issue, respecting the pres
ent road law, an 1 the proposed law
us embodied in the bill introduced
by myself, conveyed tlie impression
that there is little opposition in .the
Second Division to the present ‘‘co
operative system.” I beg to call your
attention that I have been in nearly
every camp in the Division and have
found a general dissatisfaction with
II the present system. Under present
11 arrangement the Territorial road ap
propriation is simply turned over to
Federal agencies or their superin
tendent, and the term “cooperation"
. is a miisnomer. The chief objection
> to the present law is that appointed
1 officials have little time or inclina
tion to listen to suggestions or re
quests of the people. Requests for
trail staking or , building or repair
I dng of shelter cabins, most urgently
1 needed 'in our Division to safeguard
■ life, usually fill on deaf ears. I have
a number of letters on hand written
by miners and mashers voicing dis
satisfaction with the results obtained
under the proesnt system. One such
1 letter was written by a man shortly
before he lost hi3 life on an un
staked trail.
■A gentleman from Nome is quoted
as saying: “that candidates in the
Second Division who ran on a plat
iform promising a restoration of the
old system were defeated.” Permit
me to say that I had such a plank
in cniy platform, running as an inde
pendent, and 1 received the highest
vote for representative. Representa
tive Decker, who ran a close second.
| also openly advocated the repeal of
.the present system. .Senator Brown,
i who ran imleoendentlv on such a
! platform, received the highest vote in j
the Division. True, the Republicanj
i platform did not touch on the sub
I jet.t. perhaps because the superin
tendent of the Alaska Road Commis
sion at Nome 'is also president of the
local Republican Club.
Out of the six Representatives and !
Senators elected from our Division j
fast fall, but two were Republicans, |
the remaining four being independ-j
ents.
(Signed) JOHN A WILSON, j
(Note.—In justice to Senator Fred j
Aver, of Nome, whose statements up-j
pear'.ng in Thursday's issue of The
Empire are referred to above, it is [I
hero explained that he did not say |
that ail candidates were defeated who
stood for a change in the present
road law. Mr. Ayer did say me
of them were, but 'added that some
of those elected stood for such
change. He also said people in the
Second Division, generally speaking, |
lure satisfied with the present sys- (
I tern of cooperation 'between the Ter
; ritory and Federal agencies.—Ed.)
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ANY REASONABLY - PRICED)
; house or apartment may be rented—,
I through an inexpensive classified ad-j
, vertisement In The Empire. Test the
matter. The “risk” involved is so:
small that tew people would dianir* <
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Tru-Biu
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FRESH
CRISP
I DELICIOUS
Special $1.00 per box
| GIOVANETTTS STORE
Corner Calhoun and Dixon ft*.
| The store tbal saves you money i
| OSED FURHITUR1
I Bought, Sold and Exchanged
If. B0C0VICH
211 Seward St.
| Telephone 441. P. O. Box 2(1.
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! I ARCADE CAFE,
! MARY YOUNG, Proprietor. |
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| Chinese Noodles after theatre |
I I and parties. |
* RITTER’S TRANSFER *
I COAL, KINDLING, BAGGAGE, |
! HAULING. t
| Office Phone 292. I
I Residence Phone 27*04.
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I JAPANESE TOY SHOP I
• 1 !
f i. a. KAino
i I Front Street I
1 F. 0. Box 218 for Kail Order* i
j PROFESSIONAL T
Drs. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bld(.
PHONE 56
Hours I i n. ti I a
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
I
Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. I. Goddard’s Sanitarium
Rates 23.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
s-----.—a1
GEO. L. BARTON. D. C.
Chiropractor
; 2nd floor Messerschmtdt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phone 259.
Dr. H. Vance
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.
All Alaskan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
First Ave. and Pine St., Seattle
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
erything. J. A. Farnham and
Ted Taylor, Props.
HOTEL SEATTLE
"Home of Alaskans”
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash. ,
R. U HODGDON, Manager
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.
COMPANY
I Willoughby Ave. Phone 32.
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Fraternal Societies
-or
Gastineau Channel
0 . 1LKS
Meeting Wednesday
Evening* at 8:00
o’clock, Elk*' Hall.
ARTHUR B. COLE,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodice
of Frecmaionry
Scottish Bite
Regular meeting*
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:30 p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. I A.
Meeeta every Thureday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows' Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand;
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
PERSEVERANCE REBUTAW
LODGE NO. 2A. I
Meets every first and third
Tuesdays in I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8 P.M. FRANCES GUSTAFSON, I
N. O. ALPHONSINE CARTER,
Secretary.
MOUNT JONEAD LOOIV
No. 147, F. a A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Kiurth' Mondara
of each Month. In Odd Felicia
Oall, beginning at 7:M o'clock.
Homer G. Nordling, Mastor.
('has. E. Naghel. Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tu«e»
dura of each month
At 8 o’clock, I. C*. Q. F. Hall.
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDUNG, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
HEOHBRS COUNCIL Nl>.
17 <0. Meeting a aecoftd
ar.d laat Mondays at 7;W
^ p. m. Transient Broth
rs urged to attend. Council Chambcra
rifth Street. John F. Mullen, G. K.
r. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at I y. m.
Elks' lx>dge Room. John F. Starr.
Post Commander, Phone 975; G. ■.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. Thoa.
B. Jutteon, Dictator| R. H. Stareaa,
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; Mra. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
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AUXILIARY, PIONEERS 01
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
Meets last Thursday of every
month. Social hour with mem
bers of Pioneer Lodge to fol
low each meeting.
Mrs. Lottie Spickctt, President.
Mra. Lillie Burford, Secretary.
BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE SUCCESS AND
PROSPERITY OF THE TERRITORY.
The sixth session of the Territorial Legislature is now
laying the 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 y
earnings you will build the broad foundation of
future competence and success. In preparing fr
future we invite you to open an account in our
ings Department. Accounts of one dollar or r
be opened and you mrv add tc jour account
time in any amount.
The B. M. $>e! trends E
JUKKA J, ALAKU.