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.ATION GUARANTEED TO BE MORE THAN
ILE THAT OF ANY OTHER ALASKA NEWSPAPER
A MOST HEARTY WELCOME AWAITS THE
PRESIDENT AM) THOSE WHO
ACCOMPANY HIM.
Before another issue of The Empire shall reach
Jtg readers the people of Juneau will have welcomed
as guests President Warren U. Harding, Mrs. Hard
ing, Secretary Work. Secretary Wallace, Secretary
Hoover, Mrs. Work, Mrs. Hoover, other high officials
of the Government and distinguished citizens, in
iladiug more than a score of representatives of the
great news-gathering organizations and newspapers of
tl#e country. Never before has Alaska been so
iifcnally honored.
It. will net be necessary to assure the visitors
that Alaskans appreciate in full measure the courtesy
fhat is being shown them. While the primitive con
ditions and lack of the facilities tiiat obtain in the
large cities and centers of immense population may
make our entertainment seem crude, the welcome
will be a genuine American welcome. President
Haidlng is our President just as lie is tHe President
of those who live in Ihe States and participate in
the Government of our country, and he is as popular
here as he is tHere. Other Presidents have taken great
interest In Alaska and have listened when Alaskans
spoke, but,, it remained for President Harding to take
sufficient Interest in tin Territory to visit it to come
and see for himself, and to meet the poineer people
ot the imtr frontier in tHeir home environs.
Unless \ve make it plain to the great man who
Is President of the United Stales and those who
accompany him that wo greet him and them as fellow
countrymen and tHut we feel deeply the honor that
he and they are bestowing upon us in laying down
for the time Hie large affairs which occupy them at
the Natlonul Capital to come here and see wliut they
can do for us we shall fail to give expression
to that w’hich is our hearts.
The Oliver Administration in British Columbia
will propose a reduction of the number of the mem
bers of tlte Provincial Parliament from 47 as now to
30. Economy is the motive, and the Government
contends that the lesser number will make an equally,
at least, efficient legislative body and give all por
tions of the Province representation.
THE DIFFERENCE IN CONSERVATION BY
STATES ANI) THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT.
In his signed editorial in the Philadelphia Public
Ledger Gov. Bcctt C. Hone said tliat conservation as
i pplied to a highly de. loped State like Pennsylvania
is unsuited to a primitive and pioneer land like
Alaska. "COnrervi.tion of undevelpoed resources is
tuch only in name." added the Governor.
That is true, but the greater difference is Hint
conservation in Pennsylvania is applied by Penn
tylvania and Pennsylvanians. In Alarka the people
most concerned have no control over the conserved
resource.-. In the one case the sovereignty of the
State is not Involved; thcro is local self-government,
conservation HV the people who are concerned. In
the other there is a government within a govern
ment a non-resident government within a govern
ment. A State or Territory lias no jurisdiction or
control over lands and resources owned by the fed
eral Givernment. They buve no power to levy taxes
upon them or to expand the contributions the federal
Government voluntarily makes in connection with
them, except under the restrictions imposed by the
federal Govcrnmi nt. They add not a cent to our
financial standing or basis for credit.
The que-.tlon of sclf-govornment is involved In the
ownership of the soil. When the title of the federal
Government is appropriated, when ownership of lands
and resources cornea into private hands, then
the people hate control over them. They may levy
taxes upon them and make regulations for their use.
It is said that 98 per cent, of the resources of Alaska I
aie held by the federal Government. As long as that 1
condition remain there will be but two per cent, of
stlt-governmi nt in Alaska.
What is true in Alaska is true elsewhere. There
Is a large percentagj cf the lands in many of the
public loud States li. Id in reservations by the fed
eral government, and self-got eminent in those Stales
is limited to that (gtent. This condition is not so
noticeable nhero a;r in Alarka simply because so much
of ike lands an.I natural n sources there have passed
lpto private or State ownership that they have a
large mcarure of self-government.
: It has be» n ubout three decades since the late |
Shalor John T. Morgan of Alabama urged In a very,
able argument In the I’nited States Senate that the;
United Stales Governin' nt should present to each !
State all the lands and natural ra-ources it possessed |
to the separate States in which they were,
Situated except to much as it would need for federal
purper-es. Me coni ended tliat such action would mean
tty* administration and disposal of those lauds by
tlfoee who knew most about the practical uses to
Whiclf they could be put and that it was necessary
la order to carry out In full measure the American
principle of self-government. Senator Morgan wus
*T P*mle interests acijiiU-in* oon
tlfl ofB gUM# and u,lk '‘igh wumUas
language about monopolies. Experience in tUe Want]
has demonstrated that the people need not fear
private ownership and monopoly when they have the
power of the ballot in their hands. When people have
self-government and the ballot box they can protect
themselves against oppression and favoritism, and
they do so.
, SENATOR BEVERIDGE AND THE
REVOLUTION.
In a speech delivered recently at Boston by former
Senator Albert J. Beveridge, in which he took strong
ground against the proposed American participation
in the World Court, the indianian declared that if
we had had such an international tribunal in 1776
the decision would have been against the United
I States.
lie said that inasmuch as the British Government
hnd aided the American colonies, defended them
against French attacks, before the Hevolution it
was only fair that the Colonies should bear their
just part of the cost of the war.
He continued:
If anybody denied that an international
court must and would liuve decided against
us in the beginning, can anybody doubt that
such a tribunal, or any form of peaco
league, must and would have held us to be
in the wrong wlieu we scorned the British
advances in 1778?
llr. Beveridge goes a long way to arrive at his
| conclusions. The American Colonies at their own
| expense contributed a very large proportion of the
soldiers and effort that won the war against the
French and determined that those parts of America
north of the Spanish possessions should be English
and not French. The Western country was won
mostly by the Colonial frontiersmen, and Colonial
troops were in practically every engagement which
brought about the great decision—even on the Plains
of Abraham. Great Brituin got tier pay for iter ex
pense when Canada was made British territory to
temain so until now, contributing greatly to the
wcrid-wide British Empire, insuring England’s mari
time and commercial supremacy among the powers of
Europe, and aiding immensely in the late World War.
And Mr. Beveridge seems to forget that the “Brit
ish advances in 1778“ were preceded by an unholy
i alliance between Briton and the Indians as a result
| of which Americans by the thousands, men, women
jaiul children, were murdered and scalped and the
jtiicli applied to their peaceful homes, by red savages
; in the pay of the Redcoats. So atrocious was the ac
tion that the Great Pitt^deelared that were he an
American as he was an Englishman tie would never
lay down his arms and lie was supported by Burke
and Fox.
Is it likely that a world court would have decided
against the Americans when such Englishmen as
Pitt and Burke and Fox supported in Parliament our
people against their own country?
History will not support the contention of Senator
Beveridge.
If Senator Beveridge would read the Declaration
of lndpeendence oftener perhaps he would not have
to many misgivings about the Justice of the eonten
; lions of the Revolutionary fathers. Also, he should
I refresh his mind by considering the verdict of world
public opinion of tiiat day; it was not against
j America.
Prosperity also depends upon psychol
ogy. Watch your psychology.— (Chicago
News,)
Don’t watch so hard that you cease to work.
President’s Tour.
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(San Francisco Bulletin.)
I So great is the popular success of the President’s
i speaking tour that the yellow press is greatly
(U'armed. Already it has a special correspondent on
ithe job trying to distinguish between the applause
| given impertonally to the President of the United
States and that marking appreciation of the personal
opinions of Warren O. Harding. Naturally there Is a
great deal of both, but it suita the anti-world court,
anti-everytiling-constructive yellow press to make it
: appear that while there is an ovation at every stop
ping place for the office of President, there is a
bored indifference to the indivdlual occupying (hat
office.
I lie truth is that President Harding is gaining
political ground as well us covering territory. His
speeches are being well received as expressions of
opinion on vital national and international issues.
The storm that was expected to break after he had
spoken at St. laiuis has failed to materialize. Senator
lined and one or two others have offered criticisms
lull it is the opposition to the court that is being
received wtili Indifference. President Harding left it
nothing to say. He took the ground from under its
teot and it has not yet recovered its breath, it is
practically speechless and probably will remain so
until Hiram returns from Prance.
Irish Nation Will Advance.
(New York Post.)
Irisii unity, of course, will be like the unity of
every other nation, new or old. That is to say, it
will not be perfect. There will be irreconcilable* In
Ireland, us everywhere else. Some of them will
dream of absolute separation from Great Britain,
just as there are Frenchmen who dream of a restora
1:011 ot *i)e Umpire. But the presence of such el
ements of discord will not seriously interfere with
the rapid advance of the Irish nation to the position
which this country hopes to see if occupy.
National Commander of the Amreican l.eglon de
clares hint;elf flatly In favor of President Harding’s
World Court policy. The men that fought in the
war are not like the irreconcilable politicians--they
know what warfare means.— (San Francisco Bulletin )
There is more room for a third party in a Ford
than for a Ford in a third party.—(San Francisco
Journal.)
A specialist says locomotion °n all-fours will
save us ill-health. But it would come awkward in
traffic,—(Dallas News.
If all men attended to their own business history
wouldn't be much more exciting than a market re
port. (Baltimore Sun.)
Europe may take heart. During the Civil War a
pair of shin's in this country cost $100—but we got
over our war.— (Cleveland Tlines-Commercial.)
Disbanding the militia In Wisconsin leaves only
Iai Follette as a protection against invasion.—(In
dianapolis News )
Moonshine is a preface to lie hospital, the blind
usyluni and the morgue.—(San FranciHco Bulletin.)
'low keeps silent,says a headline. Astonish
ing, true.—(Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.)
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ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR I
By SAM HILL I
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They’re the Limit
The world is full of wonders. Bo,
And many strange sights. 1 have
seen.
|But nothing quite so startling as
Those shoes of. red and blue and
green.
Observatisns of Oldest Inhabitant
The way wives have taken to shoot
ing husbands^ leads me to inquire
what has become of the old-fash
ioned woman who thought she was
marrying a man to protect her?
The Ananias Club
“I am overbidding my hand." con
fessed the pinochle player, "because
I do not want to take your money.”
No Joke
Blinks: "The world is running
to wheels.”
Jinks: “But the pedestrians are
running from them."
Heat What Am
You may think it gets kind of
t^arm up here, but Fred Brunner
has just received a letter from a
friend down in Mexico and he writes:
“it is so hot dowm here we have to
feed the chickens cracked ice to
keep them from laying hard boiled
eggs. "Boy, bring our overcoat,
with it down to 9 in the shade we
feel chilly.”
All the World Has Learned From
the Great War
It Is a heap easier to „win a war!
than collect the Indemnity.
Saves Cost of Presents, Anyway
“Do you keep birthdays at your
home?" asked Uie friend.
"Yes," replied, the father of sev
eral unmarried daughters, “a secret."
Summer Health Note
The surest way to keep from
drowning is not to go near the
water.
Firms is Firms
Art Gang has just received a let
ter from an English firm, and the
name on the letterhead was:
ALLDAY & ONIONS, LDT.
Great Western Works
Birmingham,
England.
Prohibition Note
Hops grow about 400 pounds to
the acre.^News Item.
Joke
Didjevver hear the one about the
man who was so hungry that he
went Into a cafeteria and ate off
the arm of a chair? We won't tell!
lit, then.—Barrie Payne.
Yes, but it isn't being so dog
gone hungry that makes him eat
I off the mnntlepieee, Barrie.
’Twas M»’s, Anyway
“Pa,” said Qhkrence, “what's the
•Last Hope?’ v ™
"Trying to reduce by music, I
guess,” ginned t>a, as he listened
to the window rattle while Ma
was taking her daily dozen with
the phonograph.
Friendly Philosophy
The unresourceful are the most
resourceful when it comes to find
Wm. D. Perkins & Co.
Banken
211 Cherry 3t. Alaska Bid*
Seattle.
dealers in
Municipal Bond*
County Wart-ant*
First Mortgage*
Safe Deposit Vaults
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i 6 per cent to 8 per cent Interest i
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It’s all In knowing HOW to do
flrst-clase cleaning and dyeing.
CAPITAL DTE WORKS
C. Ifeldner, Professional Dyer
end Cleaner. Phone 177.
We are expert in
"ORNAMENTAL CONSTRUC
TIVE WATER-PROOF
CONCRETE,"
and the common wet kind also.
Willoughby Ave., near . Ball
grounds. Established Twenty
I years. .. Phone 38
I CONCRETE PRODUCT8 MPQ.
I COMPANY
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JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Mores, Packs and Stores Freight
and Baggage.
Prompt Delivery of
LADYSMpH COAL
Phfcffi:- • *
Ing reasons for not doing the thing
that they should have done.
—J. E. F.
If It Fits
Our guess for today is that a man
in love is in no condition to take
an intelligence test.
Another way a man can escape
trouble is for hint to confine his
kissing to a single woman espec
ially if he is married to he .
A man proposes once and then he
is through. After that he does what
his wife proposes.
It takes two sensible people and
not, a lot of money to make a
Happy marriage.
VVhpn we meet people who think
they are better than we are we get
a lot of satisfaction out of thinking
how much better we are than they
are.
A cynics idea of the two things
needed to make an ideal husband
are a pair of good ears and a will
ingness to obey.
A farmer fells us the two hard
est things to raise are children and
money.
As time goes on we are becom
ing more and more convinced there
never will lie a war to make the
streets safe for pedestrians.
Children going to school get their
rulers at the book store, but when
they grow up they'll get them at
the marriage altar.
The present style of dress the
girls are wearing makes the dear
things look as if they were losing
their clothes. The short-skirted'
style made them look as if they had.
fgjily Sentence Sermon
There's no speed limit on the
road to ruin.
For engra'. e<1 or printed railing
eards see The Empire
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I SAFE INVESTMENTS I
I City Bonds, Improvement |
| Bonds, School Bonds. Klwt | .
| Mortgage Loans, County War- j
| rants. To net 6% to 8% Inter- |
' eet. Correspondence solicited. (
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Wm D. Perkins & Co. J
Bankers, Seattle, Wteh '
AUTOS FOR HIRE
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Blackie’s Taxi
ANY WHERE—ANY TIME
Stand Arctic Pool Room
PHONE 444
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a---k
Heller’s Taxi
PHONE 183
Day and Night Service
Stand Heller's Barber Shop j
i!
Auk Bay Stage
Leaves U. & I. Cafe for Auk
Bay 5 P. M., Saturday only,
returning 6:30. Special trip at
any time. Hound ti ip $2.60
Billy’s Taxi
Day and night service.
Stand at the Grill.
Phone 472.
WHEN IN NEED OF A TAXI ,
Call Collins j;
Seven passenger touring car.
Stand Trinagle Shoe Shine Par
lor. Phone 186. Res. Phone 281.
CALL
Berry’s Auto Service
| for that seven-pasenger 1923
j Cadillac touring car. Stand at
Gastineau Hotel. Popular
pricse. Phone 10.
Also seven-passenger Sedan,
Day and Night Service
Call 362.
Miller’s Taxi Service
TWO CARS
Stand Alaskan Hotel
PHONE—SINGLE 0
ARCTIC BATHS
Without exception the beet
Turkish Baths In Alaska.
Give us a trial and you will be
come a regular customer.
W. H. Lott,
Proprietor. So. Front St.
ALASKA COAL
FOR ALASKANS
—No soot
—Low in ash
—High in heat units
—Clean to handle
PHONE 418
PACIFIC COAST COAL
, ■ COMPANY
PROFESSIONAL
Drs. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg.
PHONE M
Hours * a. m. t* t p. a.
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Dr. Charles P. Jens
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Vniwntla* Bldg.
Telephone 176.
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg. |
Telephone 172.
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GEO. I. BAETON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Messerechmidt Apt*.
Office hour*: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to 2 and by appointment.
Phone 259.
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Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Ooldeteln Pudding
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to I;
7 to 8, or by appointment,
licensed osteopathic physician.
Phones: Office, 167; Residence
Phono 612, Coliseum Apts.
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Dr. W. J. Pigg
PHYSICIAN
Office—Second and Main
Telephone 18
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DR. R. N. DONAHEY
Same Good Service a* In the
Past
flUTESON-DoKAHEf
Optical (ompagy'’
108 Pike Street, Seattle.
All Alaskan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
First Are. and-Pino St., Seattla
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
erything. J. A. Farnham and
Ted Taylor, Props.
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Fraternal Societies
|-or
Gastineau Channel
O . nil
Meeting Wednesday
Evening* at 8:00
o’clock, Elk*’ Hall.
Charles P. Jenna,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodiee
of Freemaaoanr
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7: SO p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HEISBL, Secretary,
I. O. O. F.
SILVER BOW f
_ _LODGE NO. I A.
Meeeta every Thursday at 8 P. M.(
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Qrand|
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
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PERSEVERANCE REEEram
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every flrst and third
Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8 P M. FRANCES GUSTAFSON,
N. G. ALPHONSINB CARTER,
Secretary.
MOUNT JONCAO LOOM
N». 147, F. « A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Mondays
"f »“ch Month. In Odd Felicia
HaU. beginning at 7 :l» o’clock.
r~u> "Tiuoinf at 7:1# o’clock. -FFi'J
Homer O Nordllng, Master. WW
C'has. E. Naghet, Secretary. ' >Nr'
Order of the
EASTERN STAB
Second and Fourth Tim#>
days of each mooth.
At 8 o’clock. X. O. O. ». Halt.
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDUNO, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
mbohhks council ms.
17 to. Meetings aocofcd
and laat Mondaya at T:H
^ p. m. Transient Broth
er# urged to attend. Council Chambers.
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen. O. K.
J. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMEBIC AN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
I'oat No. 4.
Juneau, Alaakh.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month it 8 f. m.
Elks’ l/oage Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; Q. If.
Mansi, Post Adjutant, Phong 196.
LOYAL OBDEB 01
MOOSE
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
sight, 9 o'clock.
Moose Hall, E. P,
Rodenberg, Dictator; R. 11. Stevena
Secretary.
WOMEN OF MOOSEHEABT
LEGION
Juneaa Chapter No. 439
Meeting second and fourth
Tuesday of each month, g
o’clock, Moose Hall. Mrs. C. W.
Render, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
F. McKInson, Secretary.
AUXILIABY, PIONEEBS 0V
ALASKA. Igloo No. «.
Meets last Thursday of every
month. Social hour with mem
i hers of Pioneer Lodge to fol
low each meeting.
! Mrs. Lottie Splckett, President.
! Mrs. Lllllo Burford, Secretary.
WHERE
SUCCESS
BEGINS
The road to success begins at the Saving! Window.
How early you attain success depend* on how
often you depoiit. Many of our oaptaina 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. Behrends Bank
nmiAU, ALASKA. ..
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