ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
JOHN W. TROY - - * EDITOR AND MANAGEI
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STUDENTS \\ II.I, CONTEST FOR FOURTH
ANNUAL PRIZE.
For the fourth successive year, high scliool
students (.1 the nation are to be given opportunity U
win the largest single educational award offered in
the I 'tilted Slitter, according to a statement by t lie
Highway Education Board,
The award is the II. S. Firestone Four Years Uni
versity Scholarship, providing not only tuition, but
room, bo nd, books and p eial fees for the student
writing the best c ay in the annual good roads essay
■contest. Tin' assigned subject of the essays to lie
written is "The Influence of Highway Transport Upon
the Religious Life of My Community.”
Announcement of the routerl is being made to
superintendents c*f school.-. high school principals, and
Undents as rapidly a. pc sihle, and all available lit
erature i being listed and tabulated for the informa
tion of llie prospective contestants. The Board an
nouncts its willingness to answer any inquiry
■i Indents and teachers may desire to make, but ii
points cut that all that is necessary is compliant
with the pimple ruler, of the contest, and the prepara
tion of a 7lM) wcnl < say rn the subject, Essay i
should be submilird to the high school princlpa
by May 1.
The contest, known to thousands of student!
throughout the United Stater and Territorial posses
lions us ihe "annual good roads essay contest" i:
the most sustained competition of its kind. Inaug
glinted in 19211, it lias provid'd a college educatioi
for tiirre students, cue boy and two girls, and it
maintenance fr m year to year is assured by tli
donor of the scholarship, Harvey S. Firestone, Akron
Ohio.
This year the- sub jet i is regarded as unique am
unusual, bringing u-p for discussion the relation o
improved transportation to the moral tone or tin
litigious Ilfi of tile community. I.ending churchmet
have exprr: ed tln-ir approval of the discussion tin
(stays are to tiering about, while distinguished edu
iator.i have given JLlieir approval to the contest itself
Jn past years the subjects have been broader, am
-more general, the subject f<.r 1922 dealing with tin
improved transportation and the growth of the coin
Jnunity as a whole.
Previous winners have hi an .Miss Katharine F
Butterfield, Weber, Idaho, 1920; Mies Garland John
ton, Bridgeport, West Virginia, 1921. and in 1922
Karl (1, Pearson, Washington, District of Columbia
Mies Butterfield i in college, but Mies Johnson am
Mr. Pelt. on. net being seniors when the echoiareliii
was awarded thorn, liave remained in high aehoo
itlilil their cruiser are completed. They both wil
enter colhge this year, Mies Johnson, at the Uni
vernlty i f Wert Virginia, and Pearson at -a university
in Kansas, Ilia lion.e stale.
The br-t three cs.- iys from each school are to b<
Submitted tc state beadquarters, whore the best essay
from the commonwealth will be chosen. One essay
fiom each State and Territory will then come to thi
Beard at Washington, I). C . there to be handed n
rational cimmiiUce to be named by I)r. John J
Tigert, U. S. Uciiimi, - inner of Education. The na
fi< mil committee will award the scholarship.
SPECULATING ON DEMOCRATIC
POSSIBILITIES.
Thu fear that hopeless division may follow tin
conflict between tho conservative and radical element
in the Republican Party is causing the interest o
many bin!in:s people throughout tho Last to turt
investigating attention to the Democratic Party uc
eoldins t > Wtnltliiglon correspondents. Lute papen
contain accounts of a conference that was held li
Washington recently for the purpose of cunvuss-iiif
the Democratic situation. The condition recalls vcrj
distinctJy that if twelve y. us ago after the Demo
crnts had carried most of tile doubtful States on ue
count of the ruction within the Republican ranki
-tine to a conflict between radicals and conservative!
ilmilar to that which now seems to he brooding.
Thu Washington conference, it is said, decidei
that Senator Underwood would be the Ideal Demo
cratic Presidential nominee. And this suggests tiia
there is a growing tendency ,t,i> believe that th<
Alabama Senator and former Secretary McAdoo inaj
-Hie the lending con lenders in the national conven
tion of that party with the more c< nservative ele
jnent In the party nrpporting Senator Underwood unii
the element that is more radical supporting Mr
.McAdoo. Many people regard as possible, owing t<
the two-thirds rule that prevails in Democratic Na
tional Conventions, that neither Senator Underwood
nor Mr. McAdoo may b ■ atile to land the nomination
It Is believed thait in case of such a contingency the
McAdoo men would likely turn to Senator Rat. ton
oit Indiana and the Underwood men to former Am
bassador John \V. Davie, now of Now Yort formerly
a West Virginia Congressman. Mr. Davis has be:n
kept very much in the limelight since he returned
from London and located ill New York. Ue is
FrwMwit of the American Bar Association and Presi
dent of the Council Foreign Relations, and is
| frequently called upon to deliver un address on
11important civic and international matters.
| Three of these four men so prominently mentioned
‘for the Presidency tire of Southern birth and the
ether. Senator Ralston, is a native of Ohio. The
;! latter is the eldest of the four—he will he 67 In
I 10 24. Senator Underwood is a native of Kentucky,
i but has been a resident of Alabama since 1884. lie
Ij will be 62 in 1924. Mr. McAdoo is a native of
j Georgia, was educated and spent his first years as
a lawyer in Tennessee, but resided in New York from
'11892 until he located in California a year or two ago.
Ho wll be 61 at the time of the-next election. Mr.
Davis Is a native of West Virginia and will be 5 1 next
year, lie has been a rscident of New York for two
years.
Of course, speculation cn the Democratic result
leave- out Hryan and must take into account the can
didacy of Henry Ford. Mr. Hryan lias announced
1 that he will not be a candidate and Mr. Ford, it is
j believed, will make no campaign. There are rumors
j that Hcatm will within a few months begin a Ford
campaign in his newspapers. It is thought in some
quartets that Hryan will he found in the McAdoo
camp next year. The opinion seems to prevail that
flermer Governor Cox tnay also become a supporter
of McAdoo or Ralston.
Hoover and (he business Cycle.
(New York Post.)
Secretary Hoover's recommendation that the Gov
ernment adjust Itself t,> industrial ooutNtUxns by post
poning its building program is unusually signifi
cant. His argument Is that for the Government to
proceed with construction at a time of immense
activity in such work all over the country would not
be to give additional employment but Him ply to dis
place a certain amount of private construction. Mr.
Hoover would reserve Government building for slack
Intervals, when it would alleviute distress by pro
viding employment for persons who otherwise would
have to await Hie slow revival tf better times. This
It; so clearly a sound policy that it is difficult to
oppose ii. Such opposition as has been made when
it has been discussed in Congress has centered around
the problem of determining when a suspension of
Government building should be ordered rather than
mound the advisability of the policy.
Suopcnrion of Government work when there is a
minimum of unemployment, and its resumption as
unemployment increases, is merely a practical recog
nition of the business cycle. There should be a look
as far ahead as possible, sc that unemployment in
I private construction can be dove*ailed with entploy
j tnent in public construction. Exact adjustment is
not to be expected, but a much closer relation between
'supply and demand enn be attained by a study of the
1 It mint s situation in its course from prosperity to
i depression and back than by guoss or rule of thumb.
I The business, cycle is a fact of which advantage can
| be taken only as it is understood. Secretary Hoover’s
| suggestion regarding- Government building is a strlk
i mg application of the business cycle. It is useful.
1 therefore, not only in Itself hut also in emphasizing
! the value of giving attention to this time table of
I the ebb and flow of file business tide.
The Literacy Test.
(Valdez Miner.1)
Jtcipresentative Foster, of Cordova, rerenlty intro
educed in the lower House of fhe Territorial Legisla
ture a hill prescribing the qualifications of an elector,
i The measure was almost verbatim the law at present
i cn the statute books, but went a step further in that
, it also 'provided that no person unable ito write the
| Constitution of the United States or to write the
Unglish language, unless physically disqualified, shall
he eligible to vote at a g< neral election.
. I This bill was reported out of committee un
j iavcruibly by the majority, hut was accompanied
‘ by a strong minority report, and before the House
the minority report prevailed and the bill was passed.
'J Some of the opponents of the measure held that
i rttch a provision might work? to deny certain nttt
I uralized aliens of their rights, but this stand is not
| well taken. Possible there may be a very few por
"< us of foreign birth in Alaska who were natural
; i;;ed prior to I fit Hi who are unable tc read and write
! HngWsh. but their number must be very few indeed.
I since June I’ll, 190t> the ability to read and write the
;i.nglis!i language has been one on the requisites to
■ obtaining citizenship, hence aliens naturalized subsc
, Quent to that date cannot be affected by the pro
! vision,
1 0,1 t,1(' other hand the several contests which have
, afi?cii over the office of Delegate to Congress from
Alaska have revealed that hundreds of Natives have
voted in the general elections who did not know tho
1 meaning of the term “Delegate to Congress,” "Attor
ney General.” nor were there any words in their lan
j guage b> wlrk-h tin interpreter could explain ihe
j meaning of such terms. The natives admitted they
did not knew for whom or what they were voting,
| but placed in the ballot boxes tickets that had been
| prepared and handed to them. The vote of those
people, cast tor one eide or the other will practically
carry an diction for the party for whom they vote,
and it is, working no hatdship, denying them noth
ing they value by withholding the ballot from them
: until such time as they shall acquire the attain
J meats which are required of oilier voters.
Prohibition in Germany.
(Springfield Republican.)
Prohibition is snaking remarkable gains in Cier
i many, primarily lor economic reasons, the food
. .shortage making necessary the conservation of grain,
u ,!ut another reason is candidly put forward by the
’ i chief prohibition loader. Dr. Melle, in presenting to
tile Cabinet and the Reichstag u petition urging local
option, to which 460,000 signatures were got in a
| week. Hy taking steps toward prohibition, lie argues,
1 the German Government would attract interest and
sympathy abroad, and particularly in the United
states, and in this way the world would come to
understand better the true gravity of the situation.
It is certainly true that for Germany u> go over
j to the side oi prohibition, even, tin economic grounds,
(j would make a great impression on the world. I'n
t doubtedly, too, it would strengthen the growing pro
hibition movement in Great Britain. And how about
France faced by a Germany resolute enough to go
into training by cutting out tile schnapps, the beer
and the Rhiuo wine? In the end. perhaps, a dry
Europe.
; Senator Borah denounces gumshoeing. Here is
: the long-awaiited opportunity for .u third party.
! Nothing could withstand tlie rhetorical impact of a
! platform which declared: “We condemn the twin
'Vile of gumchrwing and gumshoeing." (New York
Rost. *
They are going to make the Ku Klux Klan in
ternational. but what will he done about Russia,
where they have no nightshirts or pillow eases?_
(Seattle Post-lntcllrgoncer.)
Secretary Work Is for the open door in the fuli
| «=t practical meaning of tlie phrase. How our friend
Jiggs must envy the boss of the Interior Department!
— (Cincinnati Enquirer.)
It is to be hoped that W. Hohetwollerti has noted
that a dead Phuroab is a more prominent personage
than a living former Kaiser.—(Boston Transcript.)
ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR |
By SAM HILL !
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i Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
What's bncoimo of the old-fashioned
I blr I Who felt all dressed up in a
paper collar.
The Ananias Club
"My husband doesn’t care a lap
now ■much my hats cost just so they
are becoming to me," said a wife
j to her caller.
Home Rule
“1 see they now won’t let you
smoke in Utah," remarked Brown.
“Why go to ..lit*! !i to be forbidden
to smoke?" growled Henry Peck,
"just marry a woman like Henrietta
and you won’t be allowed to smoke
at home."
Where It Won’t Work
Blinks Have you’ tried this Coue
stuff yet?
Jinks—I tried it on my bills. Every
day 'for a week 1 repeated CO times:
"They're paid,, they're paid." but 1
didn’t get a single feceipted bill*
Foot Questions
T. B. G. asks;' “Aren’t most of the
pieople who live on a mountain on
the level?”
Gtms From Guide Book to Success
Oar thoughts are of hut things i
which always have been, and we. in
thinking, merely teai uw.ny the veil
from that which really is and dis
cover the principle governing tljeir
respective use3.-t J. E. F.
Signs Is Signs
S. F. Seidel discovered thi- sign I
over a garage i» Macon, Ga.:
AUTO BEAUTY PAltLOR.
We iGlve Car Everything But
a Permanent Wave.
We’ll bet, ihowever, there is noth
ing beautiful about the bill they give
you. •
He's Taking an Awful Chance
After reading how i s-kless they
are with guns, we cun't help but ad
mire the nerve at H. E. Earnest, of
Houston, who has just married Miss:
A. Muskett, of that place.
Getting Him Placed
“What kind of a fellow Is Wat-1
json?" asked Black.
"Well,” replied White, "he’s tin
KIIH1 o*l a ifwiow > snails uu m.u
h-e, rocks uhe boat. races a train to
the crossing and looks to see how
much gas there ts in the tank with
a lighted match- Nobody knows why j
lie ha-* iter a able to live as long as
■ he has.”
Or Wrong One3 Substituted
“Evidently the man who marries a
* homely girl is safe. You never hear,
| of that kind shooting their husbands.
Sai.n Hill in Cincinnati Enquirer. 1
Then, friend Sam, some of the pic-1
| lures the newspapers print surely!
are *big liars,—Weimer, in Charles !
I ton (S. C.i News and Courier.
Well. Well!
A news item says: “Sixty years;
ago the women of America were
weiring $2,834,000 worth of white
[wire in their h»6p skirts.
Evidently the old hoop skirts
were almost as expensive as the
, a. :-t skirts of today.
If It Fits—
We are so olil-fashione l that when
■ we hear a girl speak of ther lover as
her "sheik" we immediately intake a
J let with ourselves that if they marry
they never will celebrate their
golden wedding.
If you want to see what a martyr
looks like ask ytmr modern wife to j
dain your so*eks or sew the button-* j
i n your clothes.
We never heard of a girl being so
homely she wouldn't have a dozen or!
two mirrors around the house to
pose before or w*ho wouldn't carry a
vanity case to use while on the
street oar.
We suppose it must make a woman
feel like 30 cents to be told she
looks like 60.
.A blind man thinks nothing could *
he more wonderful than to have his i
sight restored, bu; the blinder love
slays tile more wonderful .the mar-1
'• tied life Is goln.g’Te he.
A wife is one who wonders how a;
| bachelor relieves his feelings when.
I live gel-, home on a day when every*
.tiling has gone wrong at the office.
What you usually get when youj
USED FURNITURE
Bought, Sold and Exchanged
N. B0C0V1CH i j
211 Seward St. |
Telephone 441. P. O. Boa til *
! | Furnished Rooms for j
Rent i
! ANCHORAGE ROOMS
LILLIAN FOOTE
Telephone 431
BEST EVER
MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
Now offers additional attractiv
Disability Benefit feature!.
NONE OTHER SO LIBERAL.
ALLEN SUATTUCK
INSURANCE REAL ESTATE
ESTABLISHED 1898
try to get something tor nothing is 1
—left.
Some men get the idea they .ire .
thrifty just hec.iuse they always let .
the o'lier fellow i>.iy the dinner |
cheeks.
Wo have our gloomy moments,
when it cents to ns the only people
in this world who cully are enjoying
themselves art* those who are doing
the things they ought not to do.
We rather imagine the couples
who elope usually* miss their friends' '
presents at the wedding more than
tth in they do their presence.
A wife never likes to feel she is
the only woman who ran love her
husband, but you call bet your sweet,
life she wants to feel she is the only
woman he can love. jl
Sentence Sermon
You never hear the fellow who
really does big things boasting so
about .them.
News of the Names Club
Will A. Clock, of Detroit. Mich. |
has to carry a watch like the rest of
nr, he says. I
We'd like to give some folks one.
but A. Pointer is reported from In
dependence, Mo.
SULPHUR MINING* PROGRESSING
Tho sulphur mines to the West )
ward, located near Dos' Harbor, is:
presenting an active appearance, uc-|l
cording to those who’have returned!
from a trip to the Westward. The |
company at the present time is min-i
tag much of tlie material and treat-!
lug it at Lost Harbor, later sending!
out samples of the perfected product
to the Slates. it. is expected that
within a short time commercial ship
ments will be made.
BOUND OVER TO GRAND
JURY ON LARCENY CHARGE
Richard Fitzgfbbon was bound over!
to await the ac ion of tho grand jury 1
on a charge of larceny, at a hearing
before II. 8. •r.jnwni.tsioner J. W. j
St .nsfield, March 24 last, at Hoonah.!
Fit zgtbbon was released from cus
tody on a bond of $500.
Fitzglbbon is charged by Charles!
Johnson of stealing a scow with per-!
sonal property and fishing gears, ba-1
longing to tlie latter, March 211 lu te
near Hoonah.
Headquarters tor Ladysmith coal.
Juneau Transfer Co. Phone 48. adv
PALACE OF SWEETS
Eat a dish a day of our ice 1
I cream. A healthful vitamine I
food. | |
I Vanilla, Strawberry. Chocolate, 1
Pineapple. j J
1 We also serve Seattle Velvet I |
Ice Cream. I j
Large room for dance or card
parties.
Ladies’ Rest Rocm
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Frequent Coughs
!a Many do not realize the *
siguilicauce of the all toe
S frequent cold or cough. Care
should be taken to build up 8
the powers of resistance. 0
Scott’s Emulsion
| abundant in health - building i
vitamine factors, I
helps build up a re
serve of strength end
I ill /I resistance. Be sure n
I and ask your drug- jj
■ gist for Scott’s Emulsio:'1 ■
I Scott St I'.ownc. Klootufirld.N J.
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ALASKA RADIO
I Crosley Set ready to Install.
New model Radlotrom tubes.
Makes battery last tour times
i longer. Also Magnavox loud j
! speaker. It speaks for itself, j
Julius Jaeger, ^-4 E. 4th St. |
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TRY OUR
Merchants Lunch
45 Cents
Arcade Cafe
^ MARY YOUBO, Proprietor. |
JAPANESE TOY SHOP
X. 8. MAKIKO
Front Street.
P. 0. Box 216 for Mail Order*
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BRIQUETS
Ideal
fuel for
every
purpose
Laree shook* on hand
Ladysmith ooal.
Xanaimo ooa'
PACIFIC COAST CO*AL
COMPANY
Phone C1L
PROFESSIONAL
GE0..L. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Messersehmidt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 5;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phone 259.
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
2(11 Goldstein Building
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to 5;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
Phones: Office, 167; res., 1672.
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AH Alaskan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
First Ave. and Pine St., Seattle
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
erything. J. A. Farnhaa and
Ted Taylor, Props.
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HOfELSEATTLE T
“Home of Alaskans"
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
R. L. HODGDON, Manager
I
It'B all In knowing HOW to do
first-class cleaning ar.d dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
| C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
1 and Cleaner. Phone 177.
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| the making of concrete
i Is a matter of proper materials
! together with engineering skill.
Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Years
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFO.
! COMPANY
I Willoughby Ave. Phone 32.
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Fraternal Societies
-OF
Gaslineau Channel
0 . 1LK1
liMtli; Wednesday
Kveclngs at 8:00
o'clock. Elks' Hall.
C. P. JENNE,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodiee
of Freemasonry
Scottish Bite
Regular meetings!
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7: SO p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B HEISHL, Secretary,
i. o. o. F.
SILVER BOW
- - LODGE no. I A.
Meeeta every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand;
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAO LODI*
No. Ml. F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Mondays
of each Month, In Odd Fellc-ee
Mall, beginning a I T:SO o’elnc*.
Homer Cl. Nordllng, Mastor.
('has. E. NagTiet, Secretary!
Order of the
EASTERN STAB
Second and Fourth Tues
days of each month.
At S o'clock, I O. O. F. Hall.
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDUNG, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
8BOHFR8 COUNCIL NB.
17 "J. Meeting* second
and last Mondays at 7.M
^ K p. m. Transient Broth
•rfl iiraed to attend. Council Chambers
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, O. K.
J. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 9. m.
ElkB’ Ixjdge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; O. B.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER OF
M0081.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Frida]
night, 8 o’clock
Moose Hall. E. F.
todenberg, Dictator; R. H. Steveni
Secretary.
WOMEN OF MOOSEHEABT
LEGION
Juneau Chapter No. 439
Meeting second and fourth
Tuesday of each month, 8
o’clock. Moose Hall. Mrs. C. W.
Render, Senior Regent; Mri. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
AUXILIARY, PIONEER! OF
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
Meets last Thursday of every
j month. Social hour with raem
i hers of Pioneer Lodge to fol
low each meeting.
I Mrs. Ix>ttie Splckett, President.
I Mrs. Lillie Rurford, Secretary.
FIELDS OF THE FUTURE
You* future is an unplowed field. Whether or
not it is to be productive depends on you. You can
plow, sow, and reap the liarvest—or you can let it
remain unfruitful, a barrdn waste.
Start now to cultivate the opportunities that lie
in front of you by opening an account in our Savings
Department and depositing to it regularly. In this
manner you will reap a harvest of comfort and suc
cess in the future.
The B. M. Behrends Bank
JUNEAU, ALASKA. I ^