ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
JOHN W. TROY
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TOURIST OUTLOOK GOOD.
General Manager Knickerbocker, of the Alaska,
Steampehip Company, in an interview recently given|
a representative of The Empire confirms previous re
ports; to the effect thal the tourist travel to Alaska
next season will be materially larger than it was in
1922. Ho bases his prediction on inquiries as to ac
commodations which are already beginning to reach
the transportation companies in considerable numbers.
The fact that prospective travelers are making in
quiries eo eai'ly in the year is a good indication of
the increasing interest b ;ng manifested in Alaska as
a land for summer journeys.
Experienced men in Ihe tourist business, who
have made the Alaskan trip, have been almost a unit j
in declaring that the tour Ir without a peer among
all the r.scan tours in the world. They have told
Alaskan business men that a source of much revenue
ia being overlooked in the failure to stimulate tourist
travel to the North, emphasizing the necessity for
reaehiig the individual prospective tourist before he
hooks his reservations if it is expected to divert him
from a mere steamer trip to a longer trip including
• tcpoveiit at points of scenic cr other interests. Alaska,
as a whole, gets but little benefit from the round
trippers. It is the tourist who stays within the
gates of the town for a time, who takes time to make
the Eidetrips not available cm the large steamers that
make the tourist business profitable.
With on increase of hundreds and possibly thou
sands predicted for this year's tourists, an effort
should bo made to attract as many as possible to
viett Juneau and make it the center from which slght
nfeeing, fishing or hunting expeditions can be taken.
A small amount of money, Judiciously expended at the
proper time, should bring in returns far in excess ol
the original investment. If such an effort is to be
made, it should start now. A few weeks more will
find many tourir.tr to have already made their reser
vations.
OUTPUT OF COPPER INCREASES IN 1922.
Tho smelter production of copper in 1922, uc
cdtding tr the United State* Geological Survey, as
compiled fi(in reports of the smelters covering; the
actual production for 11 months and the estimated
production In December, was about 981,000,000
pounds, an increase of 475,000,000 pounds over 1921.
Productive werk was resumed by practically all the
large mining; companies except the United Verde Cop
per Co. by or during April, 1922, one year from the
general shutdown of the copper mines. The smelter
production of copper for December, as estimated by
the producing companies, was 103,300,000 pounds, or
a' the rate of about 1,240,000,000 pounds a year.
The fetal production of new refined copper from
domestic sources, determined in the same manner as
Cue smelter production, was about 897,000,000 pounds,
338,000,000 pounds nitre than lu 1921. The refinery
pi duction of new copper obtained from domestic and
foreign sources. Including the Imports of refined cop
per, was about 1,398,000,000 pounds, lu addition to
tlie output of new refined copper, about 112,000,000
pounds of secondary copper was produced at the re
fineries, making the tolal output of the refineries
rbout 1,510,000,000 pounds.
Although the new tariff art placed no duty on
copper, ji affected the records of the Department of
Commerce, in which a line of division was drawn on
September 21, when the new tariff became effective.
Lp to that date the total imports of copper in ore,
concent rules, matte, blister, and refined copper
amounted to 363,443,226 pounds, of which 75,556,217
pounds was refined copper and 192,050,397 pounds
v as blister copper. The exports for the first ten
months amounted to 834,501,861 pounds. ‘
Tim stocks of refined copper in the hands of do
ru( tie refineries on December 31. 1922, as estimated
by the refining companies, were about 277,000,000
prunde, cm pa red with 459,000,000 pounds on De
cember 31, 1921. The stocks of blister copper and
material in prccc .■ of refining, in the hands of the
r.inclters, in transit to refineries, and at refineries, on
Dcccmiur 31, 1922, were estimated by relining and
tuieltiwjf companies at about 352,000,000 pounds, com-!
pared-sr.ith 283,000,000 pounds no December 31, 1921.
NEW YORK OUTSTRIPS LONDON.
Census figure*- giving population cf Greater London
at a 'new high of 7.480.201 invite renewed com
pariron with New York Figures for Greater London
i ignere political subdivisions nicli as city of London,
county of London and all kinds of adjoining county
divisions, but. of course, there are no state lines in
volved, such as separate New York City from Jersey
City. *
There is in the Urilieh Metropolitan District an
administrative area known as registration County of
London. It is the collective area of larndon parlia
mentary boroughs and is tire area covered by regis
tration of London vital statistics, it contains about
120 square miles and rarried in 1921 a population
of 4,521,685, against Greater New York population in
the same year of 5,751,859, both estimates being by
bureaus of vital statistics, rather than national census
authorities.
Area in outer ring" of l-ondon, *r>ntrolled by
1-ondon police, fcr which new census figures ur ■ given,
is 693 square miles—approximately a radius of 15j
miles from the Mansion House. A radiur of 15 miles!
from Now York City Hall wiuld take in retreral!
hundred square miles cf upper and lower bays. Long
Island south and tho Atlantic.
However, by action of New York and New Jersey
lcgii laturi and Congrcr, a new commercial, indus
trial and financial demafkation recently made ignores!
political lines and for certain business purposes con-'
etitutes the Port of Now York Authority.
The land area cf Port of New York Authority is a
little largi r than land area included in the “outer
ring'' of London. Limits were set chiefly to afford
direct railroad access to water front for all industrial
towns immediately tributary to the port. Some of tin
industrial c liters are nearly 20 miles from City Hall;
but a radius of 15 miles from a proposed railroad center
tn Hackensack Meadows would include practically all
The comparison is really for differently shaped
areas of about equal surface, representing unified in
dustrial, commercial and financial activities of New
Ycfl-k and I-ondon spheres of local activities. In the
land area so included in Port of New York Authority
there was in 1920 a population of 7,770,495. as fol
lows: Greeater New York, 5,620,048; contiguous New
Jersey 1,887,356; contiguous Weetdhester County,
263,092; total Port of New York Authority, 7,77*1.495.1
London “outer ring" figures of 7.480,201 pcpnla-!
tlon are for 1922. Allowing 2 per cent annual
giorwth for New York from the 1920 census,present popu-!
tation for Port of New Ycik Authority ring would be
over 8,000,000. To bring London as defined physically
by the “outer ling" and'Now York as defined by Port
of New York Authority into comparative balance of
population it would be necessary to drop the inhabi-i
tants of Buffalo into the London “outer ring.''
"Automobile Dealers to Diseurs Used Cars." (Head
line) Most people omit the “dls" when they refer
to them.
American Helpfulness.
(Springfield Republican.)
The official attitude in Washington fill is that of
a sympathetic pectator. friendly to all parties to the
trie ip. and with American good offices and economic
strength available at any time to Allied leaders it they
tan Hud a way of reaching out fer American helpful
ness.—Associated Press Despatch from Washington.
American helpfulness may be difficult for Euro
peans to understand. It has thus far since the armis
tice manifested itself In nine different ways:
(It Refusal to acknowledge cr assume any re
sponsibilities or obligations in connection with the
World War, the conclusion of which was shaped by,
t nited States armies and United States resources.
(2) Refusal to join tlie League of Nations ere- ,
ated by the President of the United States.
CM Refusal to join in any guarantee of France's!
security agaimt aggression, even for a five-year
period.
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(4) Refusal to appoint an official member of the
Reparations Commission, as contemplated by the
separate peace treaty with Germany.
(5) Refusal to send an official delegate to any
European economic or ctlur conference, at least six
in all, trom Brussels to Lausanne.
(6) Refusal to summon an economic conference
under American auspices.
(7) Refusal to kc p an American military force
n the Rhine (Senate resolution), although asked to
by both Franco and Germany, tj
(8) Refusal to forgive any of the war debt of the
European allies, to the United States, or to discuss
forgiveness in csnnestlon with German reparations.
(»> Refusal (in advance) to offer the least guar
antee that German reparations, if reduced by France
to conform to Ameiican ideas, would ever be collected.
these nine refusals lump up into the great refusal
and it takes more than French. English, Italian, and
German acuteness combined to see where American
helpfulness could come in, save in a certain
generosity in advice costing nothing.
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Prohibition Agents and Patronage.
(New York Evening Post. I
William Dudley Eon ike goes entirely ton fur when
»ie charges that tho Anti-Salocn l>eague “bought the
Volstead bill with Congressional patronage." This
statement gives the impression that Congress was
indifferent or opposed to the Volstead measure, but
pas' ed It for the sake of the jobs It created. Mr.
Eon Ike can hardly mean to eay this. Ho might as
well allege that the income tax law was bought with
Cc-ngresaional patronage. In both cases Congress
was severely to blame fer refusing to place the
new nffios under the mer^ r.vstem. On this point
Mr. Eou'ke is absolutely right. No small part of
the difficulty that has been encountered in enforcing!
prohibition has been due to the Incompetence or the'
dishonesty of some of the enforcement officers.
Iietfer officials would have been obtained under
a properly administered civil service, but this is by
no means tho whole trouble. In view of the extraor
dinary temptutions which beset a prohibition enforce
ment officer, even the merit system could not have
been rolled upon to supply officers of the necessary
quality. Enforcement of a law which is so bitterly
fought as the Volstead law requires a superior type
id enforcement official. The salaries of these men are
too low, but raining their pay would not solve the
problem. What Is needed is a set of officials who
look upon their task ns a patriotic duly and oppor
tunity- Such men will be immune to all temptation
and will bring to their work an unwearying per
sistence which will bo more than a match for the
most determined boedlegger.
Undo Sam begs to acknowledge the receipt of
$15,000 bail bond for Big Bill Haywood, and might
add that, under the circumstances, it was a fair
bargain.—(Detroit News.)
Germany might be stole to And some com I or t In
thinking that she ought not to pay tho reparations,
if she didn't happen to know that Erance thinks she
lias got to pay them.—(Springfield Union.)
Russia is not discouraged. Quadrillions, quin
tilllons and sex till Ions follow the bourgois trillions
in which ^t is new counting rubles.—(Chicago News.)
Even if the Lausanne conference does come lo
nothing Lloyd George will doubtless be able to bear
up under the disappointment.— (Indianapolis News.)
That Connecticut tramp who goes begging in an
automobile carries the rcanon for his poverty with
him as proof, we suppose.— (Nashville Tennesseean.)
Bonar Low says America found her soul in the
A’ur. The profiteers found their nerve—(Toledo
31adc.)
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
Girls don't entertain their beaux
n *the parlor any more. If he hasn't
i car the welcome sign is taken
down and the nobody home sign put
up.
“Pa. what is an optimist?” asked
Clarence.
“A man who marries a three-times
grass widow and expects to live hap
pily with her,” replied his dad.
This Is Raw
'Why do you say lie is a rare
bird?" asked Blinks.
“Well. 1 never hear any one roast
ing him," replied .links.
We Will Now, “Dusty”—the Styles
Have Changed
(“Dusty” Miller in Wilmington
News-Journal.)
Sam Hill, of the Cincinnati Kn
:iHirer, admits lie finds it hard work
to discuss high-brow subjects with a
girl that has on short skirts and
roll-downs, with jeweled garters, and
wo suggest that Sam stay in and
work on his column, wiiere he be
ongs.
'The Party Is Known and Will Avoid
Trouble, Ac., Ac.
(Ad. in Newcomerstown <Ohio) In
dex.)
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY —A I
[imminent local citizen lias asked the
index to request the party who bor
rowed his ladder a year ago to
dense return It, as he now has an
iproTtu.ni.ty to loan it for two years.
In This Silly Age
‘ Bui why do you want a divorce?"
isked the perplexed lawyer.
“Oh, everybody is getting thani." |
■eplied the pretty doll, “and besides,
lack wrote mo such sweet love hi
rers that I am just crazy to
hem in print. They are so much
llecr than these tha papers hav
icrn publishing."
Gems From Guide Book to Success
i have tio-ver yet. met with a r rally i
.ucesorful chap who let tha . thor1
allow do his thinking for him.— j
i. E. F.
Fool Questions
S. A. asks: "Does it hurt an ac
tuaintanco to drop him?” Depends
>n kind of a fellow you are, old top.
If It Fits—
We guess not even a willing horse
s ever more overworked than a sym
uthetic ear.
There always i- the douce to pay
vhen you lose control of the steer
ng wheel - and >our temper.
There are too many couples hits
ling up to the altar who believe the
areacher only Is sentencing them for
10 days instead of for life.
Now a London woman doctor |
.vants to put the world in reverse
md have the men do the cooking,
scrubbing and other feminine tasks,
out -still, we suppose even if she i
■ould -bring this about, so far as the I
children are concerned, the man will!
ilways have to remain the papa.
It is getting so self-respecting peo !
pie %-ho ai" particular about the1
•ourtany they keep Just won't have
their names and pictures on tlvej
front pages of the newspapers any
nore.
The local librarian says there is a
great demand for books on etiquette.
What do people use them for, to
press flowers in, or something like
that? You can’t prove they read
them by tile wav they act.
No one in this whole, big, wide
world can look more bored or aid j
more impatient than a man who has
Id accompany his wire on a shipping
tour.
A woman will follow the fashion,
no matter where it leads. They'll ;
wear ’em long or bob 'em off at the
knee, wear i dozen petticoats or
none—anything so it is In style.
Men are just as big fools in their |
way, but we'll bet if fashion decrees;
side whiskers again nobody but the
cake eate rs and toting» lizard will j
wear ’em.
When a woman is expecting a man
guest she devotes all her energies
to the meal, but if a woman Is com
ing she cleans the house from gar
ret to cellar. Any woman can give
you the answer to this.
The folk.; who tell all they know
are awful bores, but it is the fools
who tell more iban they know who
cause the ma trouble In tills world.
We hear a g <1 deal about beauty
secrets, and after giving the average
run of girls the once over we are
convinced they fill arc secrets.
It doesn't require any brains to be!
a gossip All >u need is a pair of j
acute ears and ,i sharp tongue. Gos
sips never hav. any use for brains,
and people with brains never are
gossips.
If,you think you need to under
stand a subject t i talk about it. just
consider the number of people who
talk about politics and women.
Daily Sentence Sermon
Tlie ether end pf the “Easy Way”
s not so well pived.
News of the Names Club
Me guos.; ha Penny, of Houstor
,R better ofr llt that, than Lott
Marks, of Mai an.
(■ O. Round is reported fron
Pitts burgs, but ;1S he is an elevato
operator he d more going up am
down than G. (i. Round.
Rose May Hloom lives in Mav
vilh*. New York
Former Slave’s Son
Is Prosecutor.
wniunfT 11. Clark, a negro, has
been appointed Assistant District
Attorney of Brooklyn, New York.
Tit" ran of a f tmer slave and Self
educated, Clark lias long been
identllied with civic affairs.
Poisoned Candy Sent
to Home Secretary.
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w. i . Dnugeiiiau, nrittsh Home
Secretary, in charge of all police j
affairs, has received a package of
poisoned candy containing arsenic, ]
the same poison that was placed
in the candy that made Sir Will- j
lam Horwood. head of Scotland i
Yard, s > ill recently.
More than on.- thousand librarians ;
and trustees of public, college, school ;
and other libraries are expected to j
atltend the annual conference of the
American Library Association, which
is 'to be held here the last week in
April, next year.
The as.- >: iation has in its member
ship mi.re than 6,000 librarians and
library trustees in almost every sec
tion of the country. I't has for its
nurpose the advancement of the
library profession uni the establish
ment and development of libraries
everywhere.
Next year’s meeting is being
planned alt the request of many
southern members of the association
who feel that the publicity resulting
from such a meeting will help to for
ward the library movement in that
section of the country.
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DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bide.
PHONE 56
Hours 9 a. us. to I p. s,
Dr. Charles P. Jcnne
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Bid*.
Teiephone 176.
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DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Rail. Phone 27 6
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
I Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Saritariura
Kates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
GEO. L. BARTON
(PALMER)
CHIROPRACTOR
291 Goldstein Bldg. Phone 259
Office Hours: 10 to 12 A. M.,
2 to 6 and 7 to 8 P. M.
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
437 Goldstein Building
| Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to 6;
| 7 to 8, or by appointment.
1 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 ot Alaskans”
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
R. Li. flODGDON, Manager
It’s all in knowing HOW to do
first-class cleaning and dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phono 177.
; THE MAKING OF CONCRETE
J is a matter of proper materials
| together with engineering skill.
Both is our assets.
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFC.
COMPANY
| Willoughby Ave. Phone ‘.32.
fraternal Societies
Gasiineau Channel
O . ELKS
Wednesday
Evenings at 8:00
o’clock, Elks' Hall.
ARTHUR B. COLE,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freemasonry
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:30 n. m, Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B HEI8EL, Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. I A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows' Hall.
Charles E. Perolle, Noble Grand;
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary,
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PERSEVERANCE REBEKAH T
LODGE NO. 2A. f
Meets every first and third ji
Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at I
8 P M. FRANCES GUSTAFSON. ]
N. O ALPHONolNn, GARTER, |
Secretary. I
MOUNT JUNEAU LODII
No. 147. F. * A. M.
Stated Communication
Secrnd Hnd Fourth" Monday*
of each Month. In Odd Fellow*
1 Hall, beginning at 7:JO o’clock.
| R R. YOUNG. Matter.
' HAS E. NAGHEL. Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tues
days cf ea?h month.
At 8 o'clock. I. O O. F. Halt
ALICE BROWN, W. M.
LOIS NORDLI NO, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
SEGHfcRS COUNCIL No.
1760. Meetings second
and last Monday* at 7:S«
p, m. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chamber*
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen. G. K.
r. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
_ each month at 8 9. u.
Elks’ Ixidge Room. John P. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; G. E.
Manta, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. Than.
B. Judson, Dictator; R. H. Btevenn,
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. McKinnon, Secretary.
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AUXILIARY, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA, Igloo No. 8.
Meets the 2d Monday in Moose
Hall, at 8 o'clock.
ALICE LAUGH LIN, President.
LILLIE BURFORD. Secretary.
WHY A SAVINGS ACCOUNT ,
IS A GOOD INVESTMENT
JiYou may add to the account at any time in any
amount.
flYour 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.
ftPays 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.
The B. M. Behrends Bank
JUNEAU, ALASKA. *