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A MISSTATEMENT OF FACT.
In an editorial referring; lo the suggestion, fortcrei
by the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce, for a ili
v i.,fon of the Territory at the 141st meridian, the
Cordova Times makes some amusing assertions which
entirely misstate facts so widely known as to be
almost common knowledge and lays itself open to
(barges of either ignorance or wilful attempt to
mislead its readers.
Among other things the Times said:
Southeastern Alaska has always been the
tail that wagged the dog. Dominated by in
terests quite totally diverse from those of
the remainder of tlie Territory, Southeast
ern Alaska has always been infested with
near Alaskans, pending most of their time
and money in the States ahd returning to
Ketchikan and Juneau chiefly to make a new
cleanup, politically, or otherwise. The in
terests of tlie remainder of the Territory
have not concerned it, and the continuous
pull and haul between the two natural di
visions has been inimical to the welfare of
both.
riiireiy no pen on who ciuu parsing nnuwirn^e ui
the prcsrnt method of representation in the Terri
torial Legislature could have made such statements.
As long as such a monstrous system is continued, not
only is it impossible for the "tail to wag the dog,”
but the dog can keep up its persistent plucking of its
"tail” to the great disadvantage of the latter. It lias
been plucked so continuously and with such unvary
ing success during the past decade that there Is
hardly wag left in it.
\Vhc:c an the interests of Southeastern Alaska
ft diverse from those of I’rince William Sound, the
district cf which Cordova is the metropolis? In the
copper mii\Jng industry, which is one of tlie mainstays
ct Cordova's prosperity? Hardly, for copper mines
also exirt and will continue to produce in South
eastern Alatku for years. In the fishing industry?
Assuredly not, for there is hardly any kind of fish
eries development present in Prince William Sound
that does not have its duplicate in Southeastern
Alaska. In forestry? Again the answer must bo
negative, for Prince William Sound is largely in the
Chugach .Vat Ion a I Coro-; ami Cordova received a good
many thousand dollars in Forest Road funds last year
t'.at it otherwise could not have obtained hut for
that fact. What other industry has Prince William
Sound of sufficient Importance to be called "diverse"
from those of ilie Panhandle? Cn 1 ess it be in oil
production and refinery, it has none. That business
cannot as yet bo said to have attained the dignity
of an industry since it does not pretend to do more
tl an supply a purely local demand in a limited way.
It may, and The Umpire sincerely hopes that it will,
glow to a big. major industry; one that will bring
wealth to those who have Invested their money In it
and are still hard at work to achieve success: one
that will bring revenue to the Territory whether it
be constituted as is now the case or divided as i>
suggested and as approved by the Times.
Is Southeastern Alaska, the land of "near Alas
kans'.’" What is tint significance of that term which
is becoming popular in usage among certain Alaskan
tapers? The Times apparently makes Hie definition
clear by saying perrons "spending most of their time
and money in the States and returning to Ketchikan
and Juneau to make another cleanup etc. Certainly
the residents of the Panhandle of Alaska cannot come
within the limits of that definition. This is not the
section from which the annual Fall migrations of
Alaskans, (or shall we say ’'near-Alaskans"?), take
place, nor to which file annual Spring rush is di
rected. Those "birds of passage" who jam the steam
ers twice each year are hound from northern dh
tricls west o! tlie 14 1st meridian and return tlu-rcti
Lverj little mining camp, fishing settlement and rai
road flag-station between Cordova and llnalaska o
the south, northward across the vast interior to non I
cm Seward Peninsula, the Koyukuk. the Chandelai
tnd Eagle, add their quota to the droves or Alaskan
who take out during (lie summer months die when
withal to keep them through die winter months o
the "Outside." Who, then, arc the near-Alaskan
and from where do they come?
Finally, the Times concludes its weird argumen
by paying that the interests of the remainder of tli
Territory have not concerned Southeastern Alaska
la what way lias the latter tailed to e. dibit Its jn
teier? in the welfare of the whole Territory? Whei
Cordova wanted a Federal appropriation lor a court
house and jail, Juneau's hsuine.ro men joined in sup
porting her claims and spent their money in telegram
urging them. When others/were attacking the Qcv
ernment railroad project and appropriations for i
were hampered, again Juneau's business men won
to the front. When Seward asked for a subsidy for ,
i learner rervico in erdi r to get a serviceable vessel 01
the route, Juneau s business men endorsed die pro
position and First Division members of the Legislator
helped put it through. When Cordova members o
the Third Division delegation asked for $1’5,ooo for i
| bridge arms the Nizina River, First Division mcm
jbers helped put it across. When the Fourth Division
! wanted $46,000 from the Territorial Legislature in
1921 to open the college at Fairbanks, Juneau’s busi
I r.eas men .endorsed it and the First Division helped get
the money When the Second Division at the same
| session wanted money to buy a junked railroad, the
]F!rrt Divi-kn Joined in helping it attain its desires.
There in-dances could be repeated indefinitely. All
| of them are of such nature that any person who road
i the newspapers should have some knowledge of them.
Assertions f the kind quoted from the Times an
plainly contrary to the facts.
Then tire plenty of reasons for a division of the
Territory without inventing some that do not exist.
It is unjurt to .Southeastern Alaska to charge it with
shortcoming of which it is not guilty. The desire
of the n' idiots of this part of the Territory for such
division is actuated by a feeling that it has been
unjustly burdened In taxation to keep the. non-de
volopcd sections alive. It Is being hied white by that
process. Those who advocate division believe, and
with sound reasons, the Panhandle could he self
supporting and develop much more rapidly than i
possible under existing conditions. That alone, anil
not fear that it will lose anything as the Times al
leges, is the impelling motive behind the movement
for division. Locally there has been little part taken
in the movement. Governor Iione, in his recent an
nual report said that eventually Alaska would be
divided Into two and possibly three parts. This
bring the view of the Administration, it Is generally
felt that it would be the part of wisdom to make the
division now to the end that the more developed dis
tricts might assume their own burdens and leave the
Fideral Government free to devote all of Its aid to
the undeveloped sections. noth, naturally, would
benefit by such a policy.
The Ku Klux Utopia.
( New York World.)
When. • a predicted by Imperial Wizard Evans,
“the spirit of Klankraft has enwrapped the United
I States" and 'the influence of «he Klan” has “en
gulfed the thought, of the country,” when the last
Negro has been chastized, the last alien sent home
and tlie last Catholic tarred and feathered, when, in
short, the ideals of (he Ku Klux Klan are realized,
we shall present a remarkable spectacle as a Nation
in tfle eyes of the world.
All citizens wil be Protestant, Gentile, native
j horn and masked. They will look out on their fellows
through burnt holes in a sheet, will take their idea
from rrtuals prepared with an eye to a multiplicity
of K's and nt cut by radio to all true believers,
will travel a ft-shod by night and will carry rope and
firearms. There will be no polling-places, the Gov
ernment having been replaced by the Invisible Um
pire; there will he no law except lynch law; no jus-!
tiee save mob justice, no appeal. Every man will be
ufraid that he has not appeared quite Protestant)
enough or Gentile enough or native-born enough, and!
will therefore try to strengthen his position by in-1
forming on somebody else. Every man will be fright-1
; cited (o deuth of his neighbors and will therefore lie1
as cruel as death when he gets a chance at them.
This ought to come about, if the Imperial Wizard'
word is good, "in a few brief years.” Aliens must
go, Jews must go, Catholics might be saved, perhaps,]
If they would consent to spell it with a K. The
| rest, tOO-per-ccnt. intolerant patriots, uro to get I
'rid of all this. un-American competition at the rate
t)l $10 a throw, the Klan to get the Government, and!
the Constitution to be scrapped. Nothing could be
i simpler. And all those in favor will join at ones.
The Hritish Commonwealth of Nations.
(New York livening Post.) I
Sir John Salmond, an internationally known jurist|
and New Zealand's representative at the Washington
conference, has made a report to the New Zealand I
Parliament in which ho discusses tlio constitutional)
and international status of the Dominion representa
tion there. He has no patience with the new doc
tiino, now in considerable vogue in Canada, Aus
tralia, and South- Africa, that since the war the
Dominions have roally become independent states
held to England only by a tie of blood. When the
American Government sent out invitations to the
Washington conference it sent but one invitation
to the British Empire. Thereupon Mr. Hughes the
Australian Prime Minister, said that the United
States had slammed the door of the conference in
their luce, and Smuts of South Africa hotly declared
that if South Africa could not he represented in her
own right she would not l>e represented at all.
Sir John Salmond denies that the Dominions are
independent. What they now possess is a "voice in
the management of the international relations of the
Hritish Empire us a single, undivided unity”—but
i < thing more. They had four representatives on the
Hritish Empire delegation at Washington Hut if
disagreements had arisen as to the policy to be fol
lowed the decision of the throe representatives from
Ureat Britain would have been final and would have
bound the Dominions, regardless of their protests.
Today the Dominions have an active and rome
times controlling part in moulding the foreign policy
ol the British Empire, whether it be through the
Imperial Conference or through Dominion represen
tation at diplomatic conferences. But the actual
machinery for carrying out and finally determining
i imperial policy still remains with the British Gov
ernment. When Dominion representatives c'd
treaties they do it not as representatives of Canada
or of Australia or of South Africa, but of the Brit
ish Crown. Legally speaking, the British Empire i
is much of a unity today as it was before the war
Cndoubtedly the admission of the Dominions into
M’c League ot Nations give them some form of in
r» rnationul status. But this is not a recognition
ot their Independence, since, according to the Cov
enant, "any fully self-governing State, Dominion or
Colony” may become a member.
The old-style British Empire—an empire which
handed over part ot New Guinea to Germany in 188*1
without as much as letting Australia know about it
if a thing of the past. In its place we have the
first democratic empire of history—but an empire
There being no profanity in the Japanese lan
guage the question naturally arises how a budget con
troller in Japan sets out to trim an estimate._(De
troit News.)
Milwaukee is making more soap now than it
formerly made beer. The town is more useful, if not
quite so popular.— (Houston Post.)
The man who says he never has made an ass of
himself probably wouldn’t recognize an ass if he
should see one.—(Baltimore Sun.)
Vineyards of the United States produced a bumper
crop of grapes In 1922. How stupid is Nature not
to have consulted Mr. Volsgead? — (Buffalo Express.)
Paderewski has additional reasons for congratulat
ing himself on returning to the concert platform in
stead of the political.— (Pittsburgh Dispatch.)
' ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR |
By SAM HILL
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Watch Your Step
Poor father slipped on a banana peel
He fell and broke his head;
Then son stepped on the gas, and
now, he, too.
Is numbered with the dead.
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
! I kin remember when a mar
wasn't considered a back numbei
Just because he didn’t trade in hi
old hay burner every year for a new
model.
Ought to Be Nice for Cold Nights
(Sign on a house on W. North Ave.
Chicago.)
Combination stove and bed. In
quire within.
Comes Out of Patient and His Purse
“Well, I have taken out another
big life insurance policy,” remarked
the surgeon.
“Gracious, how are you going to
get the money to pay for it?” ex
claimed his wife.
“Oh, I’ll just take out another up
pendix,” he smiled.
Trouble Ahead For Him
“So you are going to marry yotti
boss." remark^ lc r aunt.
“Yes, I am,” grimly replied the
stenographer.
"You love him, 1 suppose?” hat
aunt queried.
“Love him? Not a chance in the
world! I am marrying him so I can
be in a position to tell him exactly
what I think of him," she retorted
Drat the Luck!
"Almost every stenographer in
Australia uses an American type
writer.”—News item. This kind of
an item is as aggravating as pick
ing up a thrilling novel with the last
chapter gone. Why didn't they go
on and tell us whether they chew
American guiir and use American
pt wder puffs, too!
If It Fits—
"Selfishness” does not sound very
tori ible, but it has caused every war,
every industrial trouble and busted
up more homes than all othur form
of cussedness combined.
It is not very polite to remln 1
the couple who claim they can't af
ford to have children that, they have
a $6,hOO car parked in their garage.
But you can think what you please—
if you are not an advocate to a man
how a timid woman who runs from a
mouse doesn't hesitate to stop and
argue with a traffic cop.
Another way to keep out of the
divorce courts is not to have corre
spondents whose letters are not safe
for your wife to open and read.
We are no pessimist, but we are
frank to admit we expect high prices
and taxes to come down about the
(Imp roosters begin to lay the eggs.
No man thinks It is a grand Jury
if it indicts him, but a pretty woman
thinks any jury is which acquits
her on the charge of murdering her
husband or lover.
Woman may be man's equal, but
we never yet have seen a man who
was equal to a designing woman.
From the looks of things, the po
litical boss of the future Is going to
be the one who bosses the home.
Some girls are as pretty as a pic
ture—and just about as useful. Our
own idea of a pretty girl is one
who is as useful as a hair pin.
Maybe the reason a man, after he
lias been married a while, quits tell
ing bis wife what a wonderful
woman she is. Is because he discov
ers she already knows it too blamed
well.
You'll fiml about 90 per cent of
the population of the earth is not
very busy trying to better the world,
but you'll find them working over
time trying to better their own con
ditions.
It is funny how a man who is
too smart to hunt gas with a lighted
match will go right out and st^p
on it.
It isn'l always the love of another
woman that hi iks up homes. Some
umen^t is due to the fact the man
yet? ■> thinking too much of hi<
Wife's *h us band
American Girls Find
Missing Greek Refugees
ATHENS. Jan. 19—The Lost and
Found Bureau f the Near East Re
lief has receive,| 12,000 inquiries for
missing persons among Greek refu
gees during the uast month. A large
number n! tii -nt came from relatives
in tit1 I’nited States and England.
More tain j.uoo missing refugees
hive been trac I by the Relief offi
cials through the system of semi
weekly 'bulletins issued from the of
fices at Athens, Salonika, Mitylene
and Chios, and posted in the 500
refugee cer ■
One of the most interesting sights
of Athens js crowd of several
hundred pets >ns -.who gather daily,
ft om dawn to dark, about the Ameri
can bulletin I.ids. The Near East
officials in \taens ha/ve been given
1110 rooms formerly occupied by Do
wager Queen Olga to serve them as
ac.dquartcrs. Two American girls.
Myrtle Nolan of Minneapolis, and
Louise Mat hu h],in of Detroit, have
' lul'ge ol the l ost and Pound Bu
’f au.
BRITISH Miners*CONDEMN
OCCUPATION OF THE RUHR
LONDON Jin 19.—The executive
d the British .Miners' Federation has
passed a resolution of protest against
the occupation ,f the Ruhr by the
French, believing that world peace
was again threatened by this display
of military force.
First Woman Court
Attendant in N. Y.
Miss Marie Casey, for 15 years
| connected with the New York City
; Department of Correction, has
i been promoted ! be Court Attend
ant, the first woman so named.
| She is stationed in the Domestic
j Relations Court.
Iceland’s First
Woman M. P.
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Mrs. Ingebjorg Blarnason has I
the honor of being the first woman ji
elected to t'ne upper hctise of Ice
land's Alt hi up:, or Congress. She
lives at Itey Kjavik.
Report on Gold Exports
And Imports Is Made
WASHINGTON, Jin. 19. Imports
oif gold into tho United States last
year aggreeted $275,169.08.) as com
pared to $091,248,297 tho previous
year.
Export - of gold were $30,874,804 as
compar'd to $22,389,137 In 1921.
ALASKAN VEGETABLES
We have an abundance of cab
bage, carrots and rutabagas for
immediate delivery from our
warm storage.
CONCRETE PRODUCTS
MFG. CO.
Willoughby Ave. Phone 32.
BEST EVER
MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
Now offers additional attractive
Disability Benefit features,
NONE OTHER SO LIBERAL.
ALLEN SHATTUCK
INSURANCE REAL ESTATE
ESTABLISHED 1898
briquets
Ideal
fuel for
every
purpose
Large stock* on hand
Ladysmith coal.
Nanaimo coa'
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
Phone 412.
PROFESSIONAL
Drs. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bide.
PHONE 66
Houra 9 a. m. t* 9 p. m.
Dr. Charles P. Jem
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Bldg.
Telephone 176.
Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Res. jnj.
Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Rea. Phone 27 6
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Sanitarium
Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
GEO. L. BABTOIi
(PALMER)
CHIROPRACTOR
I 201 Goldstein Bldg. Phone 259
: Office Hours: 10 to 12 A. M.,
I 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 P. M.
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
437 Goldstein Building
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to 5;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic 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. Li. HODGDON, Manager
I-h
It's all In knowing HOW to do
flrst-class cleaning ar.d dyeing.
CAPITAL LYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
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JAPANESE TOY SHOP i
H. £. MAKING {
! Front Street j
F. 0. Box 218 for Mail Orders I
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0 . ELKS
Sleeting Wednesday
Evening* at 8:00
o’clock, Elks' Hall.
ARTHUR B. COLE,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodie*
of Freemasonry
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:30 n. m. Odd
Fellows' Hall.
WALTER B HEISEL, Secretary.
Fraternal Societies
-Of
Gastineau Channel
I. O. O. F.
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. I A.
Meeet3 every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows' Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand;
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
| MOUNT JUNEAU LOOM
No. 147. F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Second end Fourth' Monday!
of each Month, In Odd Fellows
Hall, beginning at 7:S« o'clock.
R. R. YOUNG. Master.
CHAS E. NAGHEL. Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tuea
duys of each month.
At 8 o’clock. I. O. O. F. Hall.
ALICE BROWN, W. M.
LOIS NORDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
SEGHERS COUNCIL No.
1760. Meetings second
and last Mondays at 7 :J0
p. m. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chambers
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, G. K.
.1. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 p. m.
Elks’ ijotlge 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. Thoa.
B. Judton, Dictator: R. H. Stevena,
Secretary.
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WOMEN OF M00SEHEART
LEGION
Juneau Chapter No. 439
Meeting second and fourth
i Tuesday of each month, 8
o'clock, Moose Hall. Mrs. C. W.
Bender, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
I
" AUXILIARY, PIONEERS 01 *
ALASKA, Igloo No. 6.
Meets the 2d Monday In Mooaa
Han, at 8 o’clock. ' |
ALICE LAUQHLIN, President,
i LILLIE BURFORD, Secretary.
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PERSEVERANCE REBEKAH
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every first and third
Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8:00 P. M. BESSIE MANNING,
N. G. ALPHONSINE CARTER,
! Secretary.
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IS A GOOD INVESTMENT
A
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amount.
fiYour account is not subject to market fluctuations
but is constantly growing.
flYour account is always available and provides an
unfailing reserve for emergencies and business op
portunities.
fiPays four per cent per annum, compounded twice
a year. If you do not withdraw your interest it
continues to earn interest upon the interest, making
the rate better than four per cent per annum.
Accounts of One Dollar or more may be opened in our
Savings Department.
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JUNEAU, ALASKA. «