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CHEERING WORDS
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Those were checting worm wncn Colonel Greeley,
Chief Forester of the United Slates, declared at the
hearing conducted by Secretary Wallace at the City
Hall, discussing the terms of the contracts for the
sale of timber for pulp and paper purposes: “We will
bring pulp and paper mills to you; don’t be afraid.'
There was none who heard Colonel Greeley but
that was glad to hear his declaration, mude with
the evident approval of Secretary Wallace, and who
did not believe that he meant exactly what he said.
Let us hope that l.i purpose may be quickly con
eliminated.
Representatives of Juneau who made statements to
Secretary Wallace and Colonel Greeley attempted to
make it plain that it was their belief that the amount
or revenue that the Government got from stumpage
was a small matter in comparison with what it would
get through the utilization of the timber and wntei
power cf .he Terriotry, and that the question of the
terms of the contracts offered for the use of timber
terms ot the contracts were not so much what the De
partment or individuals would think to be reasonable
as it wan whether or not the contracts were such
that money could he secured, with them ns a basis
for development.
For Instance, Secretary Wallace referred to the
grpat nunvbpr of premits for the use of water power
that have been Issued since the water power law was
enacted. That Is a favorable indication, without ques
tion, but the acid test In that as in the case of
timber contracts will con.n when wc shall he able to
enumerate the number of them that have resulted
in actual development. The test does not necessarily
«ome with issuance of permits or granting of leases
but with the success or failure of those having permits
or lease contracts to get money upon them for de
velopment.
It was thie phase of the situation that was put
up to the Secret :. y and Forester, and it was then
that Colonel Greeley made the premise, "we will
bring Hie pulp and paper mills to you."
There is no other one thing that would bring so
many new people to Alaska to locate here and to
make possible the development of the Territory into
a State as the creation of a pulp and paper industry.
TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT.
While Americans generally will not agree with
foimer Senator Beveridge in his opposition to the
World Court and the equities of the controversy that
preceded and accompanied the Revolutionary War,
there will, or at least should be, agreement with him
when he declares that "all Government in the United
Stats should be restricted. In a recent speech, the
former Indiana Senator, declared:
All Government in America should be re
stricted in every direction. Government
supervision of and interference with human
life and activities in the United States bids
fair to break down our entire experiment
in popular self-rule.
Considering the appalling fact, one adult
perron out of every twenty persons engaged
in burlness or industry in this country Is a
Government agent, official or employee I
mean, of course, all Government —County,
City, State and national. * * * Today all the
gold known to exist in the whole world
would barely pay the total cost of Govern
ment in America for only a single year. * * *
Another astounding fact, twin sister of
the firs:!, is that Americans are forbidden
by law io do more things, and by law
forced to do more things, than were the Rus
sian people under the Czar or the German
people under the Kaiser. All of these re
pressive, oppressive and autocratic laws and
regulations have been forced on the statute
books by selfish minorities of whom our
law-makers and administrators are In terror.
-Mr. Beveridge's declaration was both wise and
timely. There is too much Government in this
country. Government is going too far in suppressing
individual!; in and making people subservient to intol
erant majorities which arc brought about through the
political generalship of bloc leaders and organized
minorities.
The change of the program which took the Presi
dential party to fikdgway, the historic old town that
Is -a firmly associated In the mind with the great
Klondike gold stampede of 1897 and 1898, is pleasing
to those of this town who have lived so long on
terms of neighborly friendliness with those of the
Gateway City, and no doubt it lias added a lot to
the plearure and profit of the entire Presidential
party.
THE FIGHT WAS A GOLD BRICK.
While there may be no connection in the instances
it is significant that three banks have failed just
after the financial failure of the great Uempsey
Gibbons prize fight in Groat ' Kails and Shelby.
Whether or not the bank failures were caused by
the financial disaster to the two small cities which
financed the little encounter, tliero is no question
but that the communities were hard hit. It will prob
ably bo a long time befor a small town will again
invest n half million In a prize fight. A half million
dollars is a lot of money to a sparsely settled section
of the country.
STILL KILLING GENOA DELEGATES.
Premier Stanvboullsky of Bulgaria is the fifth
rtato.--.man among there who participated in the Genoa
Conference of April. 1922, to meet violent death.
Three pant lei pa tits were assassinated, these being Pre
mier Narutowitz of Poland, Foreign Minister Walter
Ratheneau of Germany and Valvaz Vorovrky, Russian
Soviet diplomatic agent. The fourth victim was ex
Premier Gounanls or Greece who was executed.
It is noted further that the delegates to Genoa
| of mot of the western powers have been dropped
! front office by their respective governments.
European statesmen have a rocky and uncertain
road to travel,
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“Eleven deaths from heat and five from light
ning." reads on Associated Press dispatch from Chi
cago. Alaska's weather may not always behave as
we would have It when Presidents and other high
officials are here but it does not kill.
The circumstance that Mexico occupies so little
space In the newspapers II an argument In favor of
recognition. No Mexican news is good news.
At that Juneau did not make half as great hit
I with the newspapermen of the Presidential party as
! the hit the newspapermen made with Juneaultes.
A Virginia Princess.
—
'New York Post.)
It was the hope of the English-Speaking Union,
in searching for the remains of Pocahontas, to rtupli
cite the exploit of Oen. Horacs Pa.ter in dDcevering
the body or John Paul Jones in Paris in 1899. It
also had been lost, though it was known to lie some
where in an old Protestant cemetery covered with
houses. Identification was complete, for the body
was in a remarkable state of preservation, and in
1905 it was brought back to Annapolis by a fleet of
j American warships. Pocahontas, the wife of John
Rolfe, died of smallpox in March, 1917. She had bene
1 presented at court by Lady Delaware and heaped
with attentions by the fashionable world, but she
pined for her Y’irginia woods and was on the eve
ot tailing when stricken. The Gravesend parish
register contains an entry saying that on March 2 1
I “Rebecca Wrothe, wyffe or Thomas Wrothe, Gent. A
Virginia Lady borne, was 'buried in the Chancell.'
I Whether this refers to Pocahontas has been ques
j tioned, and tradition names a corner of the church
| yard as the burial place. Three centuries after her
death, and two centuries after the burning of the
joriginal church, it is not strange that the first search
i for her bones has proved fruitless.
Could Pocahontas be restored to her native soil,
! she wuold come back as a figure whose romantic at
j tributes have fairly triumphed over a generation of
1 historical doubters. The famous story of her rescue
j of Capt. John Smith in 1607 was universally credited
j until Charles Deane in 1859 attempted to show that
I it was a fabrication. Science has robbed history of
1 many an ornament placed there by myth. But no
i less an authority on myth-making tendencies than
’ John Fiske came briekly to the defense of Smith's
{account. His argument, based on much corrobora
tive evidence, on the fact that Smith’s enemies In
Virginia, who did attack other asertions of his, al
I lowed this one to stand, and on the occurrence of
! similar and well-authenticated episodes among the
! Indians, lias been supported by many scholars—
Arbor. Lyon G. Tyler, and others. Henry Adams
in “Chapters of Erie” attacked the story, hut the
Admanes were ever a little antipathetic towards Vir
ginia institutions and traditions
At any rate, the friendship ot Pocahontas for the
Virginia settlers, her Christian devotion, her personal
beauty and dignity, are all unquestioned. Her blood
lias run In the veinB of many aristocratic families in
both Virginia and England, of one of our most pic
turesque statesmen, John Randolph, and of one mis
tress of tlie White House, Mrs- Woodrow Wilson.
She, Massmoolt, and the Lonnie Lenape who signed
Penn's treaty stand in the first pages of our history
as the finest type, of a race which we cruelly
wicngi4- from first to last. it would be fitting to
have her grave at Jamestown, but If her bones are
! iort it Is only the fate that has overtaken those of
j almost all her people.
Harding and Labor.
(San Francisco Bulletin.)
In pledging himself to oppose organized efTorts to
cripple organized labor, the President takes a stand
that will be Indorsed by the vast majority of the
American people. The safety of the nation depends
to a very great extent upon the co-operation of labor
tree to organize for Its welfare. Where workers are
denied the right to organize openly there is the op
pression that promotes radicalism and anarchy.
, Organized labor in America is the most powerful
of all the forces working against radicalism. The law
itself is not mote powerful. Oalbor defeats radicalism
by refusing to support it and by showing that or
ganization secures for the workers far more than
could lie obtained by unlawful methods.
The Communists of Russia are starving; the law
fully organized workres of the Unltdc States are the
highest paid and most prosperous in the world.
At each and every convention of organized labor
j lor several years radicalism hap been repudiated by
| resolution.
If only for these rcusons President Harding Is
justified in announcing that he will use his efforts
to prevent any attempt to crush organized labor.
For the law, the whole law and nothing but the
! law, while it is the law, is the Harding slogan.—
| (San Francisco Bulletin.)
Men are creatures who cut down great trees to
make room for a city and then plant little saplings
to beautify it.—(San Francieco Journal.)
I.ondon suspects a diplomatic leak in Washington.
Doesn't London know that Washington is dry?_
(Detroit Free Prepp.)
The President of China is missing. Maybe some
one took him for a rich foreigner.—(Indianapolis
News.)
Reports from Russia now are to the effect that
Premier Lenin is rupldly recovering from his last
death. -(Detroit News.)
Some folks Beem never to learn that turbulence
Is a mighty potent factor in bringing on the am
bulance.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
Out in the districts whore life is raw fewer
deals are. (San Francisco Post.)
In these days there is many a slip 'twixt the shore
end the ship.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL |
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And Her Sheik Has No Car!!!
The modern flats
All have so little space
Poor daughter finds
Sle has no sparking place.
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
After listening to the modern Jazz
I am not surprised that you never
hear the young people of today sing
ing that old hymn “For there's mu
sic in my soni ■ today.”
The Ananias Club
"Yes," confessed the big business
man, “I rose up to my present high
position by laying down on the job
when I was an underling."
You Know Him
"Did your husband start a garden
this year?" asked the guest.
"Oh, yes," replied his wife, “John
starts a gardah every year.”
“What does he grow?" inquired the
guest.
"Weeds,” was the larconic reply.
Another Marvelous Invention
A wheelbarrow that climbs stairs
Is in use in Shanghai, China. It is
| worked on a series of wheels. The
wheelbarrow often carries as much
as 400 pounds up steps, seesawing
from wheel to wheel.—News Item.
That'll Do It
Blinks: “How come you don’t
own a car and ride around the
way your frleyds do?"
Jinks: “Itfs having to foot so
i many bills thsrt keeps me on foot.”
Firm* Is Firms
They say a rolling stone gathers
I no moss, but did you know that
MOSS AND M"ONEY
keep a store at Spencer, Ind.—Local
Contrib.
Friendly Philosophy
Staying “In the Rut" is a sure in
dication of one's inability to climb
out of the channel of negative
thought. J. E. F.
; Helpl
"They say a doctor claimR people
| get lo look like what they are,” re
I marked Brown.
“If that Is true," replied White, "I
hope I do flbt meet a confidence
man right now, for we have been
1 living on Spring greens for a couple
! of weeks.”
Claude Must Be a Bird, All Right
(Shiloh Cof. McCreary County
Record.)
Claude Freeman winged Erah Wer
ley homo from’ church last Sunday.
Wisdom Acts As If It Had Ton
silitis* Or Something
It Is easier for a man to hide his
wisdom than Kts foolishness. — Sam
Hill. Foolishness announces itself
with a megaphone and is hard to
suppress.—J. H. Reed.
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If It Fits—
Our wages for today Is that trou
bles that come In disguise are
more apt to fcet a warm welcome
than blessings that come that way.
The wind may be tempered to
the shorn lamb but the girls who
bobbed their hair last, summer have
looked in vain for some sort of
j consolation that will fit their case.
Of course socks ought to he darned
hut we guess if us men would put
ourselves in the woman's place we
would rather play bridge than darn
’em, too.
They wouldn't be wasting time try
ing to invent new religions If peo
ple only were living up to the old
one.
Nobody ever gels worse fooled
than the young man who thinks be
cause his girl is dieting she Isn’t
going to eat much when he takes
her to a swell place for dlnne.r after
the show.
All a woman has to do to make
her husband think she is an ideal
It's all in knowing HOW to do
flrst-clase cleaning and dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
We are expert in
“ORNAMENTAL CONSTRUC- I
TIVE WATER-PROOF
CONCRETE,”
and the common wet kind also. I
I Willoughby Ave., near Ball- |
' grounds. Established Twenty j
I years. Phone 32
I CONCRETE PRODUCTS MEG. |
COMPANY I
JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Moves, Packs and Stores Freight
and Baggage.
Prompt Delivery of
LADYSMITH COAL
Phone 48.
wife Is for her to make him think |
she thinks he is ideal.
After she lias rehashed his faults |
for the steenth time a man begins .
to wonder what on earth his wife
ever married such a no-account, sin
ful old fool Iik<> him for, anyway.
"If at first you don't sucreed, try,
try. again” doesn't do any good when
you are trying to annex wealth via
the get-rich-quick schemes.
The thing that appears to worry
the reformers most is that when the
dear ladies are most in style they
appear to be least In their clothes.
Every age has its own trials. It
used to be they would insist on the
daughter who couldn't sing any more
than a rooster could play a saxi
phone. entertain (heaven save the
mark) you with her vocal crimes.
Now they make you want to commit
murder by compelling you to listen
to their whole supply of jazz rec
ords.
Nature may keep your grave green
hut it takes an optimist to believe
anybody Is gonna keep his memory
green after he has been dead a
few months.
One thing we always hav- wanted
to know is this. Do the women who
shoot their husbands, or lovers, as
the case mav be, aim at them or do
they, to make sure of hitting them,
aim somewhere else.
Daily Sentence Sermon
The foolkiller knows that sooner]
or later he'll have to attend to the j
case of the bird who always trusts
to luck
OUCH! BACKACHE!
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Don’t, stay crippled! This sooth
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magical, yet absolutely harmless,
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Nothing else stops lumbago,
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AUTOS FORHIRE
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Heller’s Taxi
PHONE 183
Day and Night Service
Stand Heller's Barber Shop
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j CALL
Berry’s Auto Service
for that seven-pasenger 1923
Cadillac touring cur. Stand at
Gastineau Hotel. Popular
pricse. Phone 10.
Also seven-passenger Sedan,
Day and Night Service
Call 362.
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U & I Taxi Service
Nick Lakich, Proprietor.
"Wo will take you anywhere,
anytime.”
PHONE 64.
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I WHEN IN NEED OF A TAXI !
Call Collins j
Seven passenger touring car. I
Stand Trinagle Shoe Shine Par
lor. Phone 186. Res. Phone 281.
I Miller’s Taxi Service
I TWO CARS
Stand Alaskan Hotel
PHONE—SINGLE 0
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Blackie’s Taxi
ANY WHERE—ANY TIME
Stand Arctic Pool Room
PHONE 444
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1 ARCTIC BATHS
1 Without exception the beat
| Turkish Baths In Alaska.
Give us a trial and you will be
come a regular customer.
W. H. Lott,
I Proprietor. So. Front St.
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ALASKA COAL
FOR ALASKANS
—No soot
—Low in ash
—High in heat units
—Clean to handle
PHONE 412
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
| PROFESSIONAL
Dr«. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg.
PHONE M
Hours t a. m. t* 9 p. a.
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GEO. I. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Meseerechmldt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phone 269.
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Goldstein Building
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
DR. R N. DONAHEY
Same Good Service as In tho
Past
HuiXSON -DoNAKEf
Optical (ompajp^
108 Pike Street. Seattle.
All Alaskan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
First Ave. and Pino St., Seattls
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
erything. 1. A. Farnham and
Ted Taylor, Props.
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Fraternal Societies
-or
Gastineau Channel
o . ILKI
MMtlis Wedneaday
Evening* at 8:00
o'clock, Elks' Hall.
Charles P. Jenna,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodiea
of Freenutonry
Scott kb Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Friday* each month
at 7:30 p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HEISfDL, Secretary.
i. o. o. r.
SILVER BOW
LOIXIB NO. ■ A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. li.(
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Oraadl
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
PERSEVERANCE REBEKAM
LODGE NO, 2A.
Meets every flrst and third
Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8 P.M. FRANCE8 GUSTAFSON.
N. G. ALPHONSINB CARTER,
Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAO LOMS
No. 147, F. A A. M.
Stated Comnumjpatlon
Second and Fourth Monday*
of each Month. In Odd Felicia
Mall, bcjrlnnlnff at 7:S0 o'clock.
Homor O. NordllnK, Master, j
('has. K. Nagtit el. Secretary. '
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tuea*
dare of each month.
At § o'clock. I. O. O. r. Hall.
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLINO, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
SEGHHRS COUNCIL He.
17*11. Meeting, second
and last Mondays at 7;*6
^ w p. m. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chamt
Fifth Street John F. Mullen, O.
J. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at B f. m,
Elks’ t-oage Room. John F. Starr,
Post Comniiindor, Phone 973; G.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodffe 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. E. F.
Hodenhorg, 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.
Bonder, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
F. McKlnaon, Secretary.
. T AUXILIARY, PIONEERI 0V
1 ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
Meets last Thursday of every
I month. Social hour with mem
I bera of Pioneer Ixulge to fol
low each meeting.
! Mrs. Lottie Splckett, President.
I Mrs. Lillie Burford, Secretary.
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WHERE
SUCCESS
BEGINS
The road to success begini at the Saving! Window.
How early y<yi attain inccesi depend* on how
often yon depoait. Many 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
JVWTAU, ALASKA. 1 J