ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
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ENCOURAGING SITUATION.
The announcement that Juneau Is to have a pulp
anil paper mill at an early day, accompanied by the
established fact or Improved business conditions in the
country in general and the Pacific Coast in particular,
is cause for optimum in tin: city and section. A large
pulp and paper mill at Thane will restore that town
to Its former glory and add greatly to ihe population
of Gaatineau l haunel and other points in this sec
tion. It will add now blood to the community and
bring money and business in large volume. '
Nat only will a pulp and paper mill require a large
pay roll at the mill, but it will result in extensive
logging operations in the forests and activity for tug
boats and others engaged in transportation.
In addition to this assured enterprise there is en
rouragment in Hie fact that tlsli products are con
stantly increasing in price and the indications are that
there will be larger profits and more people engaged
in that industry next year than for several years past.
Altogether the outlook for this section is one that
should cause rejoicing among those who live here.
A POLITICAL STRAW.
That the tide against the National Administraton
has not ebbed in New V rk was indicated Tuesday
when the 19th New York district, a normal Repub
lican stri nghold, elected Sol JJlo- m, a Democrat, to
Congress over former Congressman Walter M
Chandler, Republican The district was carried by
Samuel Marx, the Democratic nomine'', in the election
last fall, hut it was admitted that the roiult was due
In part, at Ie.it, to the fact that the popularity of!
Gov. Al Smlh, who headed Die Democratic ticket, aided!
materially. New York papers announced that the
special election would be indicative of tile trend ofj
the public mind in it. attitude toward the Admin-:
1st rat ion because the issue: of the campaign were
V oily National in character.
The lesson of the election was emphasized by the1
i ■:> that there wat an Independent candidate In the
Id, running on an arii-Ku Klux platform, who wa
expected la draw votes away from the Democrat be-j
cause of the effect it was believed his platform would
have on the Irish and Jewish voters who, in New!
York, usually support Democratic candidates.
WEATHER EAST AND NORTH.
I,ato newspapers chronicle the fact that railroads]
have be<n compelled lo limit shipping out of Boston!
on account of the severity of the weather which has
made the operation of trains difficult. Heavy snow j
all3 have caused delays in trains to such an extent
hat there i■' a shortage of locomotives and cars at
Boston, and low temperature:! have precluded the
shipment of perishable articles.
This suggests the contrast between Eastern!
weather this winter and that which has prevailed!
in Alaska. In Juneau the thermometer has not been]
nearer zero than 1J degrees during the entire winter,1
nnd there bar, been no mow fall that would interfere
with the operation of a railroad if we had one.
MILLIONS TAKE WINGS.
When Beit's Penrose, late Senator from Penn 1
sylvania and stalwart or the Old Hoard regime, died
in Washington last year it was rumored that he had
left an estate worth well Into millions or dollars. The'
apptalaal cf the Penrose i talc, recently completed
shows tills Idea to have been unfounded. The en
tire estate, which was equally divided between three
brothers of the famous "boH'" of the Pennsylvania
G. O P.. is worth only Jti In,;-,41.82, as shown by the
adjudication filed in court.
Penrose did not seek wealth, choosing rather to be
powerful in !h councils of the party under whose
banner he fought for so many years. His ambition
was not without fulfillment. He w,a the power be-1
hind the machine in Pennsylvania and not a small!
factor In the control of his party's national policies !
The year before Ins death he came into the chair !
mnnnhlp of the Senate Finance Committee, a post1
tie had aspired to for a long time ami which was
apparently a symbol to him of Hie power he wield d
While be may not bo minted by future historian
as one rr America' great- • stal esnian. neither will!
Ihe.v write or him im one who it od his political power:
to areas n forlunc that would not otherwise have'
been his. Perron >1 enrichment lie did not seek
NOVEMBER EXPORTS GAIN.
Exports from Ho t'nited Stnt.-s during the month
of November, 1922. rhrwd a pain of $10.000.000
over those of October, th- a!n b. ln« due wholly tot
larger shipments of "crude materials fer ure in manu-!
factoring" a: that clast ifirati'n i- used by the De
partment of Commerce. This, however, did not apply
to foodstuff Crude materials and food animals in j
the foodstuffs division declined about $7,000,non while!
wholly or partly manufactured foodstuffs arc credited
with a gain of $4,000,000.
Of the total Rain for the month, 10,000,000 was
due to increased shipments to European countries and
of that amount Great Britain look $6,000,000. The
increase was mainly due to the movement of raw
cotton to fill tlie need of English mills. Exports to
South America increased $2,000,000 and to Oceania
and Asia remained practically stationary. As com
pared to November, 1921, a Rain of $62,000,000 or
virtually to per cent, was registered; exports to South
America i11>-• i ■ <1 70 per cent, to North America 21
per cent, and to Oceania an increase of 38 per coni.
Exports to Asia decreased about nine per cent., and
there was little change in shipments to Africa.
The gains in ihe ease of Europe and South America
aro considered . ignifleant, as showing the progress of
economic recovery in those regions. Price fluctuations
are not considered a3 any material factor in the total
gains.
NOBEL PRIZE TO SPANISH DRAMATIST.
The Nobel I’rize for outstanding achievement in
literature for the year 1922 has been awarded to
the Spanish dramatist Jacinto Benavente. The prize
amounts to 500,000 francs. Benavente is a member
of the Spanish Academy and is translator of Shake; -
poare and i- the foremost dramatist of modern Spain,
lie lias been producting plays for more than 30 years
in which time ha lias turned out more than 60, rang
ing from light comedy to tragedy, from the realistic
to the allegorical. lie is tlie second Spanish play
wright to he honored by the Swedish Academy in the
Nobel literature awards . In 1904 Jose Echegary di
vided the pi!/ with Frederic Mistral of France.
Ollier writers who have received the literature
prize are An toio France, 1921; Knut Hamsum, 1 920;
Maurice Maeterlinck, 1911; Rudyard Kipling, 1907;
Henry Sienkiewicz, 1905, and Rabindranath Tagore.
1913. The Nobel literature prize has never been
awarded to an American writer.
Lean Year for Railroads.
(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
With 1 he filing of November reports with the
Interstate Commerce Commission a very close upproxi
mation to the year's net income of the railroads of
tlio United States is possible. For 11 months of 192
net operating income, officially reported, has been
about $693,000,000. Estimating December to bIiow a
weil as November, tho whole year should yield the
railroads aboi t $775,000,000 net. Tills will he 4.2
per cent, on the commission’s, valuation, less than 4
per cent, on tho actual investment, and almost 2 per
cent, less than the lair percentage named in the
transportation act.
Tliis is a great disappointment to the railroad
executives and a greater one to the stockholders,
who are the owners of the roads. The year opened
with every prontir- of better business and more ade
quate earnings. Before six months had passed tho
situation was changed, and hopes were blasted. The
hopmenV, strike, upward adjustment of wages of other
crafts which largely offset the cuits which led to the
strike, the costly curtailment of coal traffic, the in
crease of tlie cost of supplies, the derangement of
general business due to labor troubles, all contributed
In their way to cut down tho net income.
it is plain Mint the return to investors in railroad
securities is not large enough to encourage new ven
tures of capital which is so much needed to put the
roads on an adequate earning basis Something must
happen to increase earnings or to reduce operating ex
penses. There are radicals in Congress who would
accomplish the desired increase of the percentage re
turn by cutting the valuation made by the commis
sion. That valuation, made under a resolution driven
through Congress years ago by Senator EaFollette, un
questionably is low enough, it does not include all
nf actual investment as it stands.
Congress should cease to despoil the railroads
and to do something to rehabilitate them, or tit least
rive them a fair chance to rehabilitate themselves
There is not a radical" In Ci tigress, or a Congress
man of that or any other political tint or texture,
who would be satisfied with the net income from his
business to which the railroads have been subjected
Neither would he tolerate the Interference with his
business such as the railroad managers and owners
have been subjected to or stand for euch crippling of
it, without a roar of protest.
Mining Will Help Whole North Country.
(Prince Rupert News.)
The South is looking for the North for its mining
development; that is clear from everything one reads
and hears. There is a decided impetus toward devel
opment of mining properties. The niece s of a num
ber of mines is having an encouraging effect and be
fore long it would seem as if there would be enough
custom work to keep the Anyox smelter going a good
deal of the time. Continuity Is what is needed and
that Is what seems likely. Prince Rupert is now
surrounded by producing mines. To the north are
Anyox, Alice Arm and Stewart, to the e.ast Hudson
Ray Mountain anil possibly Hazelton, to (lie south
Drum bummon, and to the west Surf Inlet. All these
mines are holding their own and In some cases ther*
is a steady Improvement. The Premier mine, for in
stance, has not yet reached its maximum and it i.
expected that the Dolly Varden and allied propertie
will do better than over when it reopens. Hudson
Bay Mountain is scarcely touched and Dome Moun
tain is simply a rich prospect.
Pofjsibly the greatest immediate development is
likely to take place at Stewart. There a number of
properties will rhip very soon in addition to the Pre
mier, judging from all the reports that come out.
Colon?! Sfcesc Refuses Re Heaton.
(Anchorage Times.)
I.ike John Paul Jonce, Colonel J. O. Steese, chair
man of the Alaska Itoatl Commission, has just begun
t > light for his department. The House, acting on
lhe suggestion of the Budget Committee, appropriated
$465,000 for Alu“ka roads. Not being able to move
tho House from its position. Colonel Stee.se linn nov,
attacked the battlements of the Senate. lie asks
M.090,000 and it is a fair bid that he will emerge
with something better than the House offered. Colonel
'deeeo frankly told the legislature that the overhead
if present road projects often ate up 70 per cent, of
the appropriation, preventing launching new projects
that were in greater need than tome of the old. It
s Colonel Stcese's plan to iinlsh several incomplete
■midways that now serve nobody but which will prove
loons to thoee who need them if completed. Among
he new projects are some calculated to create big,
ndustry. such as the Kanlishna road, where Immense'
if.posits of ha.se ores await transportation to be do-:
.eloped. Such projects also have a material hearing
tpoll the Alaska Railroad in increasing the tonnage
.ultimo. It is to be hoped tlie Senate will grasp Cjl-^
>nd Sleeve's viewpoint and grant his request.
Though Ainericnn travelers are being made to fed
hit• they arc not wanted in Germany, the American
loliar has not complained of any lack of welcome.—
Chicago News.)
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ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
Folks don't visit around like they
used to—they now do it ail over
th telephone.
But Wet or Dry the Air Can’t Make
Money Stretch
The strength and elasticity of
leather are greater when tho air Is
mob* than when it is dry.
—News Item.
Squelched
“Do you go in for sports?” asked j
tho fiippant youth.
“No, nor go out with them," sh<
snapped.
Fool Questions
D. N. asks: “Could one say a year
always Is wall-seasoned?" We’d like
to say .something peppery to him, but
we’ll refrain.
With the Stork as the Party Emblem,
Eh?
(Jack Warwick, in Toledo Blade.)
We may bo old-fashioned, but we
still believe a woman's voice will al
ways sound sweeter when she is:
staging a lullaby to a baby than when
she is shouting an uplift message
from a public rostrum.—Sam Hill,
Cincinnati Enquirer.
You are not only old-fashioned,
Sam, but you have an ear for music
Let's organize a vhird party and para
mount a demand f >r more lullabies.
If It Fits—
Our idea of a dumbbell is one who
thinks skirts were lengthened and
necks made higher because the short
kirt and tlho low n t'k were consid
ered immodest.
The parents of one lone youngster
simply can't keep him from growing
selfish—it takes five or six brothers
and sisters to keen a kid from get
ting that way.
In the Coroners. Court you can
1 -am how dangerous it is to lose
control of the car. In the Divorce
Court you can learn what wrecks are
caused by losing control of the tem
per.
Poor father decides, after lie ha
ps; I for thorn a f w times, that per
manent waves are almost as costly
as crime waves.
People of this generation simply
must 'have their I brills, but they do
not seem to have the patience t i
live together long enough to cx
perienco the fthrill of celebrating
their golden wedding anniversary.
Nothing makes a woman madder
than to have a neighbor agree with
her after she has told said neighbor
vvh.it a no-account, good-for-nothing
loafer her old man is.
We like to lord it over the fellow!
who is not as well off as we are, but.!
gosh, what an awful pipce of cheese
we think the boob is who tries to
lord it over us just because h - hap
pens to have a. little more money or
authority than we have!
Parents never realise how awful
the things, they did when they were
young really were until they see
their own children start oding thcn\.
After he has been married a few
years you m ver catch a man trying
to steal a ki-' from his own wife.
Foresight ; what cause; a man to
buy the thing- when he is flush that
lie can pawn when his luck turns.
We used to think a woman could
not liit a nail on tile head when she
began wielding a hammer, but she
sure.) is more expert when it is a
man s head or a rival's top piece
she is aiming at.
Daily Sentenca Sermon
TIii> silom-i n this old world would
be deafening people got' as tired!
of talking a- other people do ol*
listening to them,
News of the Names Club
Our Januarii-i are anything but
that, but in Detroit you find a Rosiej
January.
T (1. wire- that I. M. Coen lives!
in Pittsburgh, but let him keep on;
Gonn; we won't stop him.
Will Trump, of Dallas, 'says lie al-.
WJ> •' v< -eful, however, never!
to trump . trtner’s ace.
Olo papers tor sate at Empire.
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Total fees, $75; first payment $15.
P ^ou tia good Idea send for,
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bow to get « patent.
HARRY BOWEN,
Registered Patent, Atty., Meeb. En
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DOCTOR'S KICK
MAKES CHANCES
IN ONE CUSTOM
SAN FRANCISCO, Fob. 2. Just a
quarter of a century ago, the late^
Or. T. A. Rottanzi, a supervisor of
San Francisco, stormed the box office:
of the old Baldwin Theatre here, de
stroyed by fire in 18'.i8, and demand
ed his’ money back because the;
"Lady Gainsborough" hots worn by
the women in the audience prevented
him from seeing the late Richard
Mansfield in "A Parisian Romance.”
J)r. Rottanzi refused to lie paci
fied by Alfred Bouvier, then man
ager of Hie Baldwin, and Ralph Pin
cus, then with the Baldwin and Co
lumbia theatres and now manager of
the Columbia Theatre here.
“It'.; an outrage,” stormed the
irate supervisor. "The public cannot
be made t.i pay for something it can
not -?c. I'll have it law passed mak
ing women remove their hats in
theatre !”
But the theatregoers and the press,
ridiculed l)r. Rottanzi, saying that
women had always worn their hats I
in theatres and always would. When]
the physician’s ordinance was intro
duced, it brought down a storm ol j
protest, and after the ordinance was'
par.", d prohibiting women from
wearing hats "in public places,” it
was unanimously stated that women
would never submit to the “hum
iliat Ion."
“At the initial first night per
formance at tlie old Baldwin, after]
Dr. Rottani’s ordinance became a]
law, the audience formed a regular
‘fashion show' of hats," said Ralph
Pi nett in ee.mmenting on the quar-i
ter-cent ury rust twin "Milliners con-!
fidejitly predicted that the law would
bo made a joke, insofar as obedience'
was concerned.
“The theatre was packed and the
tall ostrich plumes waved like a for-'
est of trees in the audience, shutting
out the stage from the view of mere
males. The women sat In defiant
attitude, and just before the cur-j
fain went up, one woman removed,
iter hat. There whs a grasp^f as-j
tonishment in the theatre, and in a
few seconds the other women follow-!
cd suit.
"This wan the start of a custom!
that has now become universal."
GLAD HANDERS FORMED.
EOS ANC-FLES, ren 3.—Organ! |
zation of an official welcoming com-'
mitte-e to make Incoming tourists'
and new residents fee! at home when
they rcacli ix>s Angelos, is planned
hy tlie Chamber of Commerce. New
York City’s “Welcome Stranger”;
Committee is to be taken as a model
for the new organization, which will
bo built around the existing Cham-j
her of Commerce Information andi
Housing Department.
Engraved visiting cards, latest,
styles, at The Empire.
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WITH SULPHUR
Mcntlio-Sulphur, a pleasant cream,
will soothe and heal skin that is ir
ritated or broken out with eczema;
that is covered with ugly rash or
pimples, or i.s rough or dry. Nothing!
subdues ilery skin eruptions so
quickly, says a noted skin specialist.
The moment this sulphur prepara-,
lion i3 applied the itching stops and
after two or three applications, the!
eczema la gone and the skin is do-1
lightfully clear and smooth. Sulphur
is so precious as a skin remedy be
cause it destroys the parasites that
cause the burning, itching or dis
ngurement. Mentho-Suipbvs always
heals right up.
A small e Pct’cs **"n*K
Sulphur may be had at any good
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COMPANY
Rhone 413.
PROFESSIONAL
Drs. Kaser & Frecburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg.
PHONE 56
Hours 9 a. m. t* 9 p. m.
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Dr. Charles P. Jenna
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Bid*.
Telephone 176.
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Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours l to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Re®, log.
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Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
IIourB, 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 4 69.
Ran. Phone 216
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Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
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Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard's Sanitarium
Kates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
GEO. L. BARTON. D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Meeserschmidt Apts.
Office hours.: 10 to 12; 2 to 5;
7 to !) and by appointment.
Phone 250.
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
4 37 Goldstein Building
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to 6;
7 to 8, or by appointment,
licensed osteopathic physician.
Phones: Office, 167; res., 1072.
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.
| It s all in knowing HOW to do
I first-class cleaning ar.d dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
1 C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleanor. Phono 177.
J THE MAKING OF CONCRETE
| is a matter of proper materials
I together with engineering skill.
Roth is our assets.
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFC.
COMPANY
i Willoughby Ave.
Phono 32.
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Fraternal Societies
-or
Gastineau Channel
0 . E I K I
Meetlos Wednesday
Evenlngu at 8:00
o'clock, Elks' Hall.
AItTHUR B. CORE,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodie*
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. F.
SILVER BOW
I.ODOE NO. 1 A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. 11.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Porolle, Noble Grand;
.Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
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| PERSEVERANCE RKRPir a te
I LODGE NO. 2A.
| Meets every first and third
I Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
| 8 P.M. FRANCES GUSTAFSON,
| N. G. ALPIIONoINE CARTER,
| Secretary.
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MOUNT liUNEAU LOOM*
No. 1<7, F. « A. M.
Stated Communication
Sec end anil Fourth’ Monday*
i of e«<.h Month, In Odd Follow*
I 7**11. bvgtnnio* »t 7:10 n'cice*.
Homer .1. Nordling, Master.
| ( has. E. Naghel, Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tue**
days of ea h month.
At 8 o’clock, I. O O. F. Hall.
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
SEOHBRS COUNCIL, No.
1760. Meetings second
and last Mondays at 7:?1
,, p. m. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chamber*
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, G. K
J. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 p. m.
Illks’ l.odire Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; G. E.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER 0*
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o'clock.
Moose Hall. Thos.
B. Juttenn, Dictator; R. H. Steven*.
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.
Rentier. Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
AUXILIARY, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA, Igloo No. 0.
Meets the 2d Monday in Moose
Hail, at 8 o'clock.
ALICE LAUGH LIN, President.
LILLIE RURFORD, Secretary.