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JEFFERSON ANI) THE MONROE DOCTRINE
The New York Post, on Jefferson's birthday, con
tained a lot of historical data to prove that the man
whoso career gave life and substance to Ameri
can democracy was the real author of tlie Mon
foa Doctrine. Monroe was a political pupil and per
sonal protege of Jefferson. His education was planned
on suggestions from Jefferson in whose office and
tinder whose eye and direction he later studied law.
Jefferson was his mentor and the achltoct of his
political career. He went to Paris as a Jefferson ap
'pointoe to negotiate the Louicinaa Purchase, and he
continued to receive high political honors. Including
four terms as Governor of Virginia, at Jefferson's
hands. When Jefferson’s right hand man, Madiscn,
became President, Monroe, Jefferson's protege, was
the natural selection fer Secretary of State. During
his eight years in tile Presidency Madison constantly j
consulted Jefferson ab iut every important thing, and
Monroe, as of course, followed the precedent. Jef
ferson's frequent reference'to the time when America
should set down the doctrine that European theories, I
political mot hods and active interference must not be!
permitted on the American continent naturally led |
Monroe to confer with him about the enunciation of
the long contemplated principle. Answering a letter |
from President Monroe on the subject, Jefferson wrote
the President from Monticello, October 24, 1P23, as
follows:
Our first and fundamental maxim should
be never to entangle ourselves in the broils
of Europe. Our (pccond, never to suffer
Europe to intermeddle with cis-Allantlc af
^jjter.ica, North and South, ha* a set ^
of Interests distinct from those ot Ruropc
und peculiarly her own. She should there
fore have a system cf her own, separate
and apart from that of Europe. While the
last is laboring to become the domicile of
despotism, our endeavor should surely be to
make our hemisphere that of freedom.
The Mooroe Doctrine was set forth in the Presi
dent's message to the Congress which convened on the
first Monday of tile following December. It is con
tended, probably correctly, that John Quincy Adams,
I
Monorot*'s Secretary of State, regarded then as the
most adroit^of American diplomats and international
phrasoologists, rewrote the paragraph into the lan
guage of his cult. 4
While tho Monroe Doctrine has well served Its
purpose, it must he conceded that if the phraseelogy
of Jefferson's letter had been used there would not
have been cause for so many Interpretations of the
Immortal document.
UNCLE SAM’S VOTERS.
"Enlightened voters wiii rule public affairs and
unenlightened voters will he misguided, led and con
trolled by demagogues." Recognition of this fact Is
the basis of a new organization for the development
of enlightened and active voting at all elections.
Direct participation in governmental affairs by
every citizen, old or young and without distinction
of sex, is the object of Uncle Sam’s Voters, a national
non-prrfit federation that lias just been organized
■with headquarters in Washington, l). ('. It is de
signed to aid in the solution of local, state, national
and international problems by bringing the collective
Intelligence of the country to bear upon them. As
a fundamental step in this process, the organization
plans to establish throughout the United States, local
assemblies based on the idea of the old-fashioned
town meeting.
Governors of all the 48 states will be asked to
serve on the advisory board, and representative citi
zens, men and women, from every walk of life will
round out that board to a total membership of 100. j
In addition to the present voters, special efforts will,
be made to reach young men and women approach-!
ing voting age, and aliens eligible for citizenship.!
The organization is pledged to visible and popular
government and to the development of an enlightened
electorate.
Samuel Adams, < f Chicago, widely known as an
editor of farm publieattnos and as President of the
American Agricultural Editors Association, has ac
cepted the post of director general of the Uncle)
Sants Voters. VVtlh hint will be associated many
other prominent Americans, Including Ira Nelson!
Morris, Who has resigned as United States Minister
to Swedtyi to become Pro Ident of Uncle Sam’s Voters. I
James W. Good, formerly Congressman front Iowa,!
and now a leading lawyer of Chicago, is Vice Presi-j
dept; G. B. Woo land of Virginia, is Secretary. The!
women are represented by Mary Lee Adams as Vice-;
President, and many other women of note will he on1,
the advisory board.
Samuel Adams, a descendant, by the way, of
Samuel Adams of Massachusetts, who contributed so
mtich to the cause that culminated in the American
Retolution, discussing the objects of the new or
ganization, eald;
Our nation came into being largely
through the work of the New England town
meeting, and Uncle Sam’s Votres will re
vive there local assemblies, where citizens
came together to discuss and to settle their
J political, social and economic problems. Th#
• need has never been greater than today for
I
clear thinking, and I believe firmly that
nothing can do so much to promote it as
local assemblies based on the principles of
the town meeting.
The words of Samuel Adams of Revolu
tionary days, spoken in 177 2, are as applic
able now as then: "Let us converse to
gether and open our minds freely to each
other Let every town assemble . Let asso
ciations and combinations be everywhere
set up to consult and recover our just
rights."
Uncle Sam's Voters will also organize
among the boys and girls of high school age,
as well as those who are already voters.
While the organization is political it is in
no sense partisan, its aim being to promote
the common welfare by bringing every mind
to that service.
Juneau should not permit the Clean-up and Palnt
ip spirit to terminate with the campaign week. Juneau
is too large a town to clean-up and paint-up in one
week. Let the good work go on until this City is the
most beautiful town in the North.
New Light on Smoking.
(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
Science and alleged morality again aTe in con
flict. This Is but another way of saying that chem
istry has ascertained the fact that tobacco is not the
wrecker of healtli it is asserted to be by latter-day
reformers. These peculiar people, when they are
seized with the impulse to assault a personal habit or
ndulgencc, begin by declaring it to be immoral and
apposed to religion. The use of tobacco is being
treated after this method.
After exhaustive experiments a French chemist
makes the anneuncement that moderate smoking, far
from being unhealthful, should act beneficially on
the health. From certain epidemics smokers rarely
suffer, among them that of the ibaleful eerebro-spinal
meningitis. The investigator found that from ten
grams of ordinary tobacco he could get liquid nico
tine that would kill a large dog. A similar amount,
burned as it would be in a pipe, produced a liquid,
not nicotine, which failed to kill a two-pound guinea
pig and had no effect upon a grown dog.
Incineration had transformed the nicJhne into
other substances which are helpful to prevest the
development of microbes that require oxygen to mul
tiply. It will be observed that nothing is said of
the deleterious effect of tobacco chewed or snuffed,
rhoso practices uro never attacked by the reformers,
who are centering their attack supon cigarettes for
the greater part, and cigars and pipes thereafter. ’If
they must find immorality and irrellgion in the to
bacco habit it is suggested that they abandon their
present tactics and, redressing their lines, whirl about
and" go after plug, scrap and snuff. Realities and not
vain imaginings should guide them.
Senator Nelson.
(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
In the appraisal of human values many things
must be considered, but in contemplation of Senator
Knute Nelson one Is tempted to fanciful specula
tion, to think more of the man as a type of the true
Nordic line than to give attention to the man as a
public servant and statesman. Senator Nelson came
from the race which set up strong gods and bred
strong men.
Senator Knute Nelson undoubtedly should be
recognized as one of the most outstanding, both in
personality and ability, statesmen of foreign birth
who have been Identified with the affairs of the
nation. Well for the country If men as sturdy of
devotion to the principles of democracy in the- future
shall serve as faithfully and efficiently in Congress
as did this American in whose veins coursed the blood
of free Norse ancestors.
Senator Nelson will be missed. Whether as Gov
ernor, Congressman or Senator, he made good in the
best sense of the expressive American interpretation.
He was a conservative, but he did not foolishly op
pose inevitable and valuable progress along political
lines. Always he was to be found, firm and steady,
in his opposition to anything even remotely sug
gestive of a challenge to our system. He was cour
ageous and unedmpromising. Ills two-score years of
public service well emphasize the value to America
of men born over the seas who become Americans in
the fullest meaning of that phrase which distinguishes
the host among us: THe was a one-hundred-per-cent
American.” Knute Nelson was that.
Harvey on the Ladder.
i urn world.}
There is, after all, a more serious side to the
scries of silly speeches which Ambassador George
Harvey is making in England. It concerns those
who are most Interested in friendly relations between
the English-speaking peoples.
It is a pretty widespread conviction in America,
r.ot without basis in experience, that Ambassadors
at the Court of St. James’s become intoxicated with
social ambition and start to climb by flattery. George
Harveys speeches are hardly calculated to remove this
feeling. They are just about the high-water mark for
highfalutin foftsoap 'Where a man of humor and
tact would be amiable and courteous to a friendly
nation. Mr. Harvey, perhaps a little self-conscious
about his own ascending but not arrived social posi
tion. Just lays it on iby the ton with a steam-shovel.
If any Britisher came over here and fawned on
us this way, there would not 'be a man, woman or
child who wouldn’t he asking next day what gold
brick ho was trying to sell us. Fortunately, the Brit
ish are politically wise, and they know that in tills
instance the only gold brick Mr. Harvey has to s 11
is George Harvey himself. But for all that, they
cannot possibly like the sort of buncombe which
Harvey of Peacham pours into their tired ears.
For. as a correspondent femarked during the war,
the delightful thing about the British Is that you
do not have to be pro-British when you are with
them.
Sun Yat Sen failing back. Poor old Sun, he never
eliines for very long. He should take a leaf from
the hook of V’illa, strike a good bargain and stay put.
— (San Francisco Bulletin.)
Tlie floor of the Pacific Ocean Is reported to be
riring. Undoubtedly part of a Japanese conspiracy
to put our heavy-draft 'battleships out of business.
— (New York Post.)
And now they have rescinded the ruling that
permitted returning travelers to 'bring in a quart in
ease of sickness. We were being swamped by a flood
of invalids.—(Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
From the news dispatches we gather that there
are timer when old Doc Einstein really thinks he
understands his own theories.— (Springfield, Mass
Union.)
Debs says that Lenin is the greatest thing that
has come out 'of the World War. What—greater
than poiBon gas? — (San Francisco Bulletin.)
Don’t be impatient; it only makes people about
yo|i .uncomfortable and doosn’t hurry tbinga a bir._
(San Francisco Journal.)
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
i
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
The old-fashioned wife used to
knead the dough to bake bread. The
modern one neM- it tc buy bread.
Dad Was Ready for Him
The farmer's son. who was away
at college, had written home that
he had learner! to fence.
His dad immediately wir d back:
“Glad to hear it. Come home at
once- We are ju3t starting to put
one around the lb-acre pasture la:.'
Ouch!
Sheik (enthusiastically: “Yo)
dance divinely. What do you say we|
try to brealk t%e record for long
distance dancing?”
Flapper (anything but enthusias
tic): "I'll do it on one condition.
Sheik (eagerly); "What is tna* V
Flapper (frigidly): “That you do
your dancing oti the floor instead of
on my feet.”
Whaddya Make of It, Watson?
(Osgood Cor. Cold water (Ohio)
• Chronicle.)
Harry Romer, of the Romer
Brothers, undertakers, St. Henry, at
tended the social here last Sunday
evening.
‘ (If it Was one of those socials
where they serve wood alcohol cock
tails it shows he knew where to
look for business, all right).
Fool Questions
T. U. T. asks: "Since they only
speak'of one room of a house as |
the living rotom are we to understand I
the others are dead?” No, some of I
them only are sleeping.
Here, Too
Blinks: “If you fhad your life to
live over again would you go through
college and take up the same lino of
work you have?"
Jinks: “N’o, I'd learn the plas
terer's trade and retire after a
couple of years"
Safe Guess
Establishing a long-distance danc
ing record may be the most import
ant tiling in the world today, but
we'll 'bet our latest borrowed um
brella against a tbillion Russian rubles
or German marks that the couple
who m'allces it isn't going to crowd
George Washington or Abraham Lin
coln out of 'the Hall of Fame.
If It Fits—
Nobody can make a man feel cheap
I er than one of the dear girls.
| After ho has been married it
I doesn't take a man long to find out
| who’s who and what's what.
A wom'an reaches the point of des
| perat,fon when she Is willing to buy
I a comfortable pair of shoes rather
■than have her (feet hurt so In a styl
I lab pair.
A writer of the gentler sex is urg
1 ing straight, thinking by the dear
j ladles, but nobody seems to have
I thought it necessary to urge them to
do any more straight talking.
Apropos of nothing .in particular
! we'd like to remark that we notice
Uhe passing of tho short skirt still is
attracting a good deal of notice
| from the men.
in an'osvcr to a questionnaire a
good many wo life n admitted they
had done more or less spooning be
fore they wero married, but we sup
pose they woulcj also admit there
has been [blamed little of it since.
The man who wouldn't think of
hunting for a gas leak with a lighted
match, or racing a train over thp
crossing, or reeking JJio boat, goes
and marries a rid-headed widow.
Honesty may be tho best policy,
but wo havo noticed that nobody
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Prices reasonable. European
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R. L HODODON, Manager
It’e all In knowing HOW u> do
Unt-claes cleaning and dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WOEM
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
THE MAKING OF CONCRETE
Is a matter of proper materials
together with engineering skill.
Both are oiir assets.
Established Twenty Team
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFG.
COMPANY
Willoughby Ave. Phone 38.
JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Moves, Fkoki and Stores FreJffkt
prompt Delivery of
LADYSMITH COAL
ran l»c any more disagreeable than
nne of these very frank people.
And when mother gets to broad
casting father knows there isn’t
any such thing as static around.
Dove flies out the window when
friend wife discovers It is only a
husband's money, not a husband, a
woman needs.
Our own etiquette note for the
day is that it isn’t until after she
has 'bought Jilin to his knees that It
la proper for her to sit on them.
We’ll fret it is mighty hard for a
wife to understand how a pretty
nurse has the nerve to marry a man
after she has seen what a fool and
unbearable old crank he is when he
is sick.
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Daily Sentence Sermon
Wisdom never enters a man's head
through an open mouth
■
News of the Names Club
Front Erie, Penn., rentes Wilha
mena Dye. Of course, »; don’t know,
but probably after her hair begins to
show too much gray, she will.
Joseph Will fy'Kik, of Galveston,
Texas, says he sure will.
USE SULPHUR TO
HEAL YOUR SKIN\{
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Broken Out Skin and Itching
Eczema Helped Over Night
For unsightly skin eruptions,
rash or blotches ojt face, neck, arms
or body, you do not have to watt
for relief from torture or embarrass
ment, declares n doted skin special
ist. Apply a llBtle Metho-Sulphur
and improvement shows next day.
Because of Its germ destroying
properties, nothing has ever been
found to take the place of this sul
phur preparation. The moment you
apply it healing begins. -Only those
who have had ynslghtly skin
troubles can know the delight this
Menfho-Sulphur brings. Even fiery,
itching eczema is dried right up.
Get a small jar of Ttowles Mentho
Sulphur from any good druggist and
use ft like cold cream.
(advertisement.)
I
Women Need Swamp-Root
Thousands of women have kidney
and bladder trouble and never sus
pect It.
Women's complaints often prove
to be nothing else but kidney
trouble, or the result of kidney or
bladder disease.
3
healthy condition, they may cause
the other organs to become diseased.
Pain in the back, headache, loss
of ambition, nervousness, are often
times symptoms of kidney trouble.
Don’t delay starting treatment.
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, a physi
cian's prescription, obtained at any
drug store, may be just the remedy
needed to overcome such conditions.
Get a medium or large size bottle
immediately from any drug store.
However, if you wish first to test
this great preparation send ten
cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bing
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Dr. Charles P. Jenna
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Vaiuntlne Bldg.
Telephone 176.
Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office. 104; Res. log.
Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours. 9 A. M. to 9 P. 1C.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Res. Phone 276
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Muetc House Bldg,
Telephone 172.
Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Sanitarium
Rates 23.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comjort
GEO. I. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Messerschmldt Apts.
Office hours: 19 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phone 269.
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Goldstein Building
Hours: 9'30 to 12; 1 to I;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physlcltyn.
Phones: Office, 167; res., 1672.
All Alaskan Trails End at
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First Ave. and Pine St., Seattle
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
erything. J. A. Farnbam and
Ted Taylor, Props.
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DB. R. N. DONAHEY j
Same Good. Service as in the
Past
HUTESON-DoKAKEf
Optical (omp®C>^ 1
108 Piko Street, Seattle.
fraternal Societies
-OF
Gastineau Channel
0 . ILXI
HMtlit Wednesday
Openings at 8:00
o’clock, Elka' Hall.
Charles P. Jenna,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodice
of Freemaaonry
Soottiih Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:SO p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HEI8EL, Secretary.
i. o. o. r.
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. I A.
Meeets every Thursday at I P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Nobis Grand)
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary,
PERSEVERANCE RERET AW
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every flrat and third
Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8 P.M. FRANCES GUSTAFSON,
N. Q ALPHONSINB CARTER.
Secretary. ,
MOUNT JUNKAO LOOSI
No. i«y, g. a a. m.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Mondays
of each Month, In Odd Felicia
Hall, beginning at 7:JS o'clock.
Hnmer G. Nordling, Master,
(his. E. NagheL Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tuei
days of each mentis.
At S o'clock, I. O. O. F. Halt
ANNA HAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
WKGHSRS COUNCIL Me.
17<U. Meetings aacoad
and last Mondays at 7;M
v p. m. Tranalent Broth
urged to attend. Council Cham Iters
th Street John F. Mullen, O. K.
L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at > y. a.
Elks' ixxifie Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; G. B.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. B. F.
Rodenbcrg, Dictator; R. H. Stevena
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.
T AUXILIARY, PIONEER! 01
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
Meets last Thursday of every
month. Social hour with mem
bers of Pioneer Iiodge to fol- '
low each meeting.
Mrs. Lottie Spickett., President.
Mrs. Lillie Burford, Secretary.
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WHERE
SUCCESS
BEGINS
The road to success begins at the Savings Window.
How early you attain success depends on how
often you deposit. Many of our captains of industry a
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
TUTOAV, ALASKA.