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ALASKA'S BRIGHT FUTURE.
The Philadelphia Public Ledge- each day uses
one or more signed editorials, written by prominent
people, on live topics, Recently the following signed
editorial, from the pen of Gov. Scott C. Bone, pub
lished under the head given above, appeared on the
editorial page of the great Philadelphia newspaper:
Dovelop Alaska! This has been the uni
form demand for years of practical-mindod
men familiar with the Territory and its po
tential resources.
Conserve Alaska! Such is and long has
been the insistent outcry of well-meaning
people interesting themselves in the Terri
tory's keeping thousands of miles away.
Why not both development and conserva
tion? Logically they go hand in hand. Al
aska has had little development. Of its 590.
000 square miles, withi one-sixth thereof
suited to agriculture and grazing; with
cuntlees districts on the mainland und islands
rich in known mineral wealth; with 20,000,
000 acres of overgrown forests along the
coast in reserves and doomed to decay with
out harvestration .and with the eolossal Ter
ritory as a whole, save the glaciers and moun
tain peaks fitted for some use to mankind,
only an infinitesimal fraction has been de
veloped.
To real conservation Alaska is -actually
a stranger. It has experienced nothing
worthy the name. A locking up of its re
sources has belli d that term. Hoarding Is
not conservation.
A shortsighted attitude of "hands off"
toward would-be investors and settlers, born
of restrictions encountered on every side,
the outgrowth of long-range rule by depart
mental bureaus, has spelled stagnation and
retrogression for Alaska.
For fifty-six years since the Seward pur
chase from Russia and the hoisting of the
American flag at Sitka, Alaska has occupied
a position of aloofness unparalleled by any
ether domain on the face of the globe. It
has been an unknown, misunderstood land,
unable to command and hold public atten
tion. Popular ignorance or misconception
of the Territory hus been its heaviest handi
cap.
Hawaii, tiring of Lfliuokalani and mon
archical reign, held out Its hand to America
for aid thirty-odd years ago and was taken
into the fold and put upon a basis of great
growth and development. The war with
Spain, n decade inter, focused attention upon
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines; and
these island::, under American guidance, have
thrived and made marked material progress.
Lven little Guam has become a miniature
possession of importance.
Alaska, meanwhile hus been out of the
Picture, its light, figuratively, hidden under
a buohel. its voice unheard and its appeals
unheeded. It has been dealt with academic
ally, theoretically, spasmodically, intermit
tently, incoherently. No fortuitous clrcum
rtance, or chain of circumstances, has con
trived. as In the cases of our semi-foreign
possessions, to give Alaska an operative sys
tem or government, or otherwise meet Its
just demands and needs. Vet it is American
territory—-American to the core—and in di
mensions and strategic situation holds in
finitely more of Importance to the future of
the United States than the islands of the
teas.
A paternalistic government, a generous
Uncle Sam, hue done much lor Alaska. Many
millions have been exponded in maintaining a
complicated system of government and in the
building of roads and trails and finally in
constructing a railroad penetrating the very
heart of the vast interior. But all this out
lay has been ungulded and unsupported by
any defintie policy of development. Hence
the Territory has languished. Now, however,
a new and better order of things seems sure
ly within right and reach. First-hand
knowledge gained by the President, members
of the Cabinet and leaders in both branches
of Congress during the summer cannot fall to
bring about administratvie refotms and a
constructive poliiy that will make for the
early redemption of thsi long-neglected land.
Should Warren G. Harding's Administra
tion succeed in opening up and developing
Alaska and making the resources available,
adequately safeguarded, for the benefit of
mankind, it will place to its credit a con
structive achievement second to none re
corded by any of its predecessors. it will
be epochal and mark the building of an
empire in the Northland.
A simplified and centralized Administra
tion. cr-ordlnatoU and brought closer home
to Alaska, is of paramount necessity. Once
this is provided and authority and responsi
bility defined and definitely fixed kindred /
und collateral problems can and will be read- '
ily sMved. Condemnation of bureaucratic
rule doeA net imply condemnation of bureaus
constituting'•the system. They are equipped
to sender and do render special and expert
service.! of value. Hut collectively, exer
cising administrative functions at long range
under teveral departments at Washington,
their activities make lor lost motion and
are productive of confusion, complication
- " “—' ■ " • ' J~
t <! iy. Efficiency and expedition mani
ly become impossible.
■..i ervation principles and ideas as ap
plied to a highly developed State—-Pennsyl
vania for example—are wholly unfitted and
unsuited to a primitive, pioneer land like
Alaska. Conservation of undeveloped re
lourecc is such only In name. Development
with conservation is possible, practicable and
profitable; conservation without development
is paralyzing and resolves itself into a
hoarder's dream. If the theory be valid that
Alaska's resources should be preserved for
posterity, it will be increasingly valid as the
years and centuries roll on, and Alaska
thus be kept hermetically sealed until the
end of time. But this theory Is untenable
and inconceivable. Certainly the investment
by the Government of $56,000,(100 in a rail
road in the wilds was predicated upon no
such theory.
This year of our Lord. 1923. will be the
most memorable in the Territory's history
since William Henry Seward closed his won
derful bargain with Russia and should, and
I believe will, be the beginning of an era of
great development In the Northland At any
rate, the immediate outlook is bright with
promise. SCOTT C. BONE,
Governor of Alaska.
There would be fewer shooting scrapes if there
were less gun-toting.
Forest fires this year in New Brunswick have done
damage to timber, it is estimated, amounting to
$5,000,000. And the hot weather Is yet to come.
The Fourth of July is over. The Brooklyn Eagle
tour has come and gone. The next important event
will be the entertainment of the President of the
United States, members of his Cabinet, the members of
their families, a lot of Government experts who ac
company them and, not least, two dozen or more
newspapermen.
Secretary Davis says 30,000 Chinese are in Cuba
awaiting an opportunity to be smuggled into the
Unfltod Staf^i He says they are willing to pay
from $100 to $2,500 a head to get into this country.
In spite of all things our Bolshevist residents and
the radicals of foreign countries say about the United
States people from everywhere seem to want to come
here.
I)r. Edith Wharton and Others.
(New York Post.)
Yale's award of honorary doctorate this week
to Edith Wharton, which honors Yale more than the
recipient, is another evidence of the general academic
recognition of our women authors. Mrs. Mary Rob
erts Rinehart has just been similarly distinguished.
Half a dozen years ago the University of Nebraska,
which in the closing days of Cleveland's Administra
tion had granted a diploma to an undistinguished
co-ed named VVilla S. Cather, welcomed her back as
nne nf our most famous novelists for tier Litt.D.
if the University of Wisconsin neglects the oppor
tunity to impress upon the world in the same way
the lact that Miss Zona Gale Is Its daughter, It will
do itself an injustice. Dorothy Canlie'd was made a
Doctor of Letters by Mlddlebury College in 1921. No
figures accomplish more for American culture than
our principal novelists, and in the processions of busi
ness men, statesmen, and scholars receiving academic
Honors they should hold a leading place.
Edith Wharton never attended a college, yet she
stands more than uny other American novelists now
living for certain qualities which the colleges like to
emphasize. Her long shelf of novels and short stories
does not mirror American life so broadly as the long
shelf written by Booth Tarkington. Class is empha
sized in her books, she has little democracy of spirit,
and evon her geographical range is narrow. But the
perfection of her form and the beauty of her style
give much of her work preservatives againBt the in
roads of time which other writers may well envy
her. No college class in literature need hestitate to
study "Edith Frome” in the same spirit In which it
studies "The Scarlet Letter.” In brief, her best writ
ing has that stamp of classicism which centers of
learning should be alert to recognize in contemporary
as In dead authors.
Borah Uses Rancor, Not Reason.
(San Francisco Bulletin.)
Senator Borali wants to be taken seriously, hut
it Is very difficult. Hia fury is not the measure
of his honesty, and is far more amusing than con
vincing. 'Ho rants and raves and roars until the
air seems to be cyclonic, but it is merely a local
atmospheric disturbance. Some that listen to him may
mistake his vehemence for argument, but in cold type
the next day It is seen to have been nothing more
than tlie same old Borah shouting the same old things
In the same old way.
In opening his campaign against American partici
pation in the world court he was, as usual, all heat
and no light. His words were superheated, but when
allowed to cool they were found to say nothing
calculated to advance his cause.
He cays he wants a world court, but not this
kind of a world court. In the same way he said he
would welcome an association of nations for peace,
hut not the kind of association then before the Senate.
Always he wants something that is not within reacli
and always ho rejects whatever is presented—pro
vided he lias not presented It himself.
A few months ago he wanted the nations to out
law war, but when the world court plan of out
lawing war was dffered by President Harding Senator
Borah straightway set himself to oppose it.
Borah's main objection to the court is that he
believes it to be bound hand and foot to the league.
He offers no valid argument to that effect, but in
stead, says that because the court must and will
adviso the league, therefore, it is under league dic
tation.
The court will advise the league, but only on
matters of dispute between its members, and in the
came way as it will be prepared to advise all other
nations prepared to submit their differences for ad
judication.
But the crowning absurdity of Borah's illogical
attack was when he drew a parallel between the
court and tho loagne and the Depratment or Justice
in its relation to tho White House. If that parallel
was drawn seriously and honestly then Senator Borah
must have even less intelligence than Is to ho assumed
rtom his speeches. He says: "What would the Presi
dent think of Attorney-Oenerul Daugherty if he
should ask him for advice upon a serious matter, and
should be told that Daugherty was not a part of the
administration, but was just an adviser on spasmodic
md?"°n* *nd n0t resl,on8ible for what the President
When Borah went seeking for a purallel why d
he not think of the White House and the Suprci
CuortT
The Department of Justice is under the contr
ol the administration, but the Supreme Court is m
The Supreme Court is Indepnedcnt—so Independe
that It rsometimos declares the procedure of the D
partment of Justice to be unconstitutional.
By the way. who kept the Democratic party
straight before Bryan took over the Job? — (Springfield
Union.)
ALONi
G LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant.
I kin reinember when a fellow
rould kiss a girl without running the
chance of getttlng painer's colic.
The Ananias Club.
“Alas.” sighed the college graduate,
College only has taught me how
Utttle 1 1 now. and I dread to think
I of all I’ll have to learn before I will
he able to get anywhere In the busi
ness world."
It Helps, You Bet.
"Happiness comes from within" said
the Philosopher.
“I'll admit It is hard to find happi
ness without—money," retorted the
Cynic.
An International Alliance?
(Lamped by J. F. In Local Marriage
License Column.)
Tobe Dane, Covington, and Mary
Scott, Cincinnati.
Oh, Wise Judge.
Judge (sternly): You must have
been under the. influence of liquor
to have had such an accident”
Victim (sadly): “I never touch a
drop Judge. I was simply under the
influence of n» wife, who was driv
ing from the back seat.”
Judge: “Case dismissed.”
Inquiring to know.
When you got back from your va
cation last year, you made a vow
that you would save up a dollar or
two every week to help finance your
annual spree this year. Just how
much have yotf'jjot saved up? Oh,
well, you’ll fiqd about 25,000,000 other
poor boobs iff the same fix.
Adapts Ads.
If. W. Payne, of Newport, lamped
this one in a Ippal sheet:
WANTED:
BOYS
1 Two bright colored boys,
j He is anxious to find out whether
: they prefer red or green. Of course,
| if it was girls they wanted, it would
| he easy enough to find plenty of
i bright colored ones.
Where Lot of 'Em Are Headed.
| Blinks: Now that you have bought
i that swell, new touring car, where are
1 you going?
i Jinks: Straight to the poorhouse,
| I think.
But With Other Old-Time Pictures.
It Has Been Moved to the Attic.
I (Jack Warwick in Toledo Blade.)
Sam Hill, of the Cincinnati Enquir
I er, remarks: "The modern youth
i thinks the Virginia Reel was a pic
, ture show.” Well, it was a moving
picture, at that.
If it Fits—
There may be Nuch a thing as an
'ideal hqsband but did you ever meet
! a wife who would admit she had one?
| Neither did we.
I Just how long do you suppose the
i girl who goes in for a non-stop danc
| Ing record would last at an old-fash
! ioned spelling bee. That's our guess,
| too.
I The difference between the man
) who Is too free with his own money
I and the man who is too free with
other people's is that one lands in
the poor house and the other in jail.
In the pursuit of happiness a lot
of people manage to un a lot of bills.
It intoxicates him to have her talk
to him Jiefore marriage but after
wards the talking she gives him
drives him to drink.
A lot of girls are more Interested in
what goes into their vanity cases than
what goes into their heads. To make
this apply to men substitute Btomachs
for vanity cases.
A train wreck or tidal wave may
seem like a tragedy to some people
but not to the woman who gets her
new swell gown just before the party
and finds It doesn't fit.
The world is composed of two class
es of people, those who are afraid
the newspapers won't print what they
JUNEAU TRANSFER
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"yon doing, and those who are
afopffl they will.
>Ve never like to do a favor for‘a
man who acts as If ho was dolhg^tis
a favor by letting ud do' It*
A man thinks he could live better
with himBelf than ho can with hla
wife, but he changes his inlnd after
she has been visiting for a week.
Home to some men is where they
can go and talk to the family the
war they'd like to talk to the boss.
When a man says he distrusts the
courts he always tonvinces us that
he is afraid they will give him what
is coming to him.
Dally Sentence Sermon.
It's accomplishing, not being ac
complished that counts.
News of the Names Club.
We don’t suppose Harry Oarlock,
of Pataskalt. Ohla, ever worries about
his old bus being stolen.
E. A. Puthoff, manager of the W.
U. at Moddletown says he hat a mes
senger named Frank lgo. Hut hbw
fast does he go? E. A.
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You naturally feel secure when
you know that the medicine you are
about to take is absolutely pure and
contains no harmful or habit pro
ducing: drugs.
Such a medicine is Dr. Kilmer’s
Swamp-Root, kidney, liver and
bladder remedy.
The same standard of purity,
strength and excellence is main
tained in every bottle of Swamp
Root.
It is scientifically compounded
from vegetable herbs.
It is not a stimulant and is taken
in teaspoonful doses.
It is not recommended for every
| thing.
It is nature’s great helper in re
lieving and overcoming kidney, liver
and bladder troubles.
A sworn statement of purity is
with every bottle of Dr. Kilmer’s
Swamp-Root.
If you need a medicine, you
should have the best. On sale at all
drug stores in bottles of two Bizes,
medium and large.
However, if you wish first to try
this great preparation send ten cents
to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Ringhamton,
N. Y., for a sample bottle. When
writing be sure and mention this
paper. (advertisement.)
AUTOS FOR HIRE
Heller’s Taxi
PHONE 183
Day and Night Service
' Stand Heller's Berber Shop
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i
Auk Bay Stage
! Leaves U. & I. Cafe for Auk
I Bay 6 P. M., Saturday only,
returning 6:30. Special trip at
| any time. Round trip $2.50
Billy’s Taxi
Day and night service.
Stand at the Grill.
Phone 472.
WHEN IN NEED OF A TAXI
Call Collins
Seven passenger touring car.
Stand Trinagle Shoe Shine Par
lor. Phone 186. Res. Phone 281.
CALL
Berry’s Auto Service
for that seven-pasenger 1923
Cadillac touring car. Stand at
Gastineau Hotel. Popular
prlcse. Phone 10.
Also seven-passenger Sedan, j
Day and Night Service
Call 362.
Miller’s Taxi Service
TWO CARS
Stand Alaskan Hotel
phone—single o
Blackie’s Taxi
ANY WHERE—ANY TIME
Stand Arctic Pool Room
PHONE 444
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1 ARCTIC BATHS ‘
Without exception the beet
Turkish Baths In Alaska.
Give us a trial and you will be
come a regular customer.
W. H. Lott,
Proprietor. So. Front St.
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ALASKA COAL
FOR ALASKANS
—No soot
—Low in ash
—High in heat units
—Clean to handle
PHONE 412
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
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PROFESSIONAL
Dm. Kaser & Frecbarger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bide.
PHOm M
Hours » a m, t« a p. ra.
Dr. Charles P. Jesse
DENTIST
Rooms R and 0 Va»«ntlna Bldg.
Telephone 170.
Dr. DeVighn'e
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Use. 10$.
Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 4(9.
Res. Phone 276
Dr. W. A. Borland
Phyucian and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bids.
Telephone 172.
GEO. L. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Menserechniidt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 5;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phone 269.
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Goldstein Building
Hours: 9:20 to 12; 1 to I;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
Phones: Office, 167; res., 1672.
Dr. W. J. Pigg
PHYSICLAN
Office—Second and Main
Telephone 18
DP. R. N. DONAHEY |
Snme Good Service as in the
Past
HUTESON-DOKAHEf
Ool»calG»*nP®B>^ 1
108 Pike Street, Seattle.
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A. 11 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.
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Fraternal Societies
-,—or
Gastineau Channel
r
0 . Kill
Meeting w-*1n«sday
Evenings at 8:00
o'clock, Elks' Hall.
Charles P. Jenne,
Exalted Ruler,
JOHN A. DAVIS.
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodie*
of Freemasonry
Scottish Bite
Regular meetings
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. ■ A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand)
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
PERSEVERANCE REBEKAM
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every first and third
Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8 P M. FRANCES GUSTAFSON.
N. O. ALPHONSINE CARTER,
Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAO LODES
No. 147, F. E A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Mondays
of each Month, In Odd Felices
Hall, beginning at 7:M o'clock.
Homer G. Nordling, Master.
Chas. E. P.agDel. Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and' Fourth Tuew
dare of each nth
At S o’clock. I. O. O. F. HalL
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron,
LOIS NOUDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
SB0HB:RB COUNCIL We.
17 ■‘•J. Meetings second
and last Mondaya at T:M
^ r p. m. Transient Broth
re urged to attend. Council Chambers,
fifth Street. John F. Mullen, G. K.
. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4. ,
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month it I ). a,
Elks' Lodge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phono 973; G. M.
Man®, Post Adjutant, Phone 19#.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. E. F.
Rodenbcrg, Dictator; R. If. 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. McKlnson, Secretary.
AUXILIARY, PIONEER! 0V
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
Meets last Thursday of every
I month. Social hour with mem
| bers of Pioneer I/odee to fol
low each meeting.
I Mrs. Lottie Splekett., President,
j Mrs. Lllllo Burford. Secretary.
WHERE
SUCCESS *
BEGINS
The road to success begins at the Savings Window,
llow early you attain success depends on how
often you deposit. 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!
The B. M. Behrends Bank
JUHKAIT, ALASKA. 11