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PQUBLE THAT OF ANY OTHER A1 .ASKA NEWSPAPER
ADDED COST OF PRODl CTION DOES NOT
CONSERVE.
The salmon supply of Alaska cannot be scien
tifically conserved by Increasing the cost of produc
ing canned rclman. The cannera have approximately
$76,000,000 invested in tlie salmon canning industry
In this Territory. The investments are of such a
character that they cannot be removed. They must
he used or aibondoned. Naturally those who own can
neries will do all within their power to utilize the
plants, equipment and prop* rty which represent this
immense capital and make it pay a profit on the
Investment, if the Territory should, through exces
sive taxation, add t<» the cost of production the can
nere would be forced to add the cost to the price of
the product, if possible, and if prevented, through
competition with British Columbia, Washington and
other Pacific Htates producers, and the Asiatic product,
ficm doing that, they would have to make up for it
through other economies or Increased production,
Tlit' only sane way to conserve the salmon supply
is to limit tlie pack just as t lie Department of Com
merce is attempting to do it through the jurisdiction
it has acquired under tlie Presidential reserve pro
clamations or in some other direct way. The pack
rhc.uld be put up under the most economical and scien
tific conditions. The interest of those engaged in tin
industry, tlie consumers and tlie Territory can he besl
eervedi in that way.
The tax on tlie fishing industry in Alaska, like
the tax on ail other industries, should ho for tlie
purpose of raising revenues to hear tlie cost of an
tceAiguiicallV airrtrluirli rc d government cl' the slmplesl
end most Inexpensive practicable form. Taxes levie*
for other purp es constitute unneeosury taxation and
"unneeet: uy taxation is unjust taxation."
MIXING PARTY POLITICS AND
GOVERNMENT.
The bill pending in me uexlslailire to make the
nominee of each party for Delegate to Congress the
member.-: of the National Committee of his party for
Alat-ka is both redieulous anil pernicious. It consti
tutes unwarranted legislative interference with politi
cal organizations on the one hand and on the other
It forces the Delegate* to Congress, chosen to repre
sent the people of Alaska in Congress, into intru
pnrty politics.
One of the best promises made by Delegate 8uth
cland during his first campaign was that he would
not. if elected, h • a politician and devpte his time
to the distribution of the spoils of victory but that
lie would give his whole time and atentlon to repre
i l uting the people of Alaska in Congress and before
ttic various Departments at Washington.
For nearly fifty years t lie American people have
been trying to make t'lieir government, the law-mak
ing branch of it particularly, Independent of the ap
petites of political pie-chasers. For that purpose
Mncng others was e-taibliabed the classified civil
service two score years ago. Not only was the idea
bdiind civil service legislation to get efficient public
service but it wus to make It so that we might choose
men for Congress, or other high offices on account of
the things for which they might stand and their quali
fications for tlie offices for which tiiey might be
candidates.
It would be a backward step if we should make
li so the voters, would choose a Delegate to Congress
Item the viewpoint of those who think of distribution
of patronage as the main object of government.
Tiiere are far too many people who cannot see
anything in government beyond the personnel of the
public payroll and nothing in politics beyond pat
ltnage and persons.
COPPER MAY GO TO 20 CENTS.
Pi edict ions uro freely made by financial papers
that copper will teach 18 cents within a very short
time almost any day, perhaps and that it will go
to 20 cents before the year is over. These predic
ts are made in face cf tile rapid increase in pro
ducts n botli in tlie Fulled States and South America.
The Heston News Bureau said leeently that an effort
will be made to stabilize tlie price at 18 cents a
Pound tot a while, but it is admitted that it will be
hard lo do that when producers have a fixed belief
that It will reach 20 cents before the upward move
ment stops.
Never before was t'ae copper outlook in the'
country better than it is at tlie present time. The
big companies are strengthening their positions and
preparing for u long period of profitable production.
1 he Anaconda reduction mills are relining copper
ui tlie rate of 700,000,000 pounds a year, flail Cop
p« r has increased its output to 12,000,000 pounds
a month, and Butte and Superior is figuring on a
10,000,000 pound monthly production with its new
copper discoveries opened up and operating. This
will make this Butte properly a copper mine rather
than u zinc, though it will continue to produce the
white metal as of yore.
iVhjJtj the larger demands for copper are for Am
erican consumption, the European demand continues
firot and the indications are that it will continue
|so, though it is admitted that a considerable part
j of the European purchases at the present time are
j speculative, purchases made on the assumption that
the metal will continue to advance for the remainder
of the year.
This year has been characterized by large copper
; property and copper stock deals, and readjustments
I of property control. The largest of these since the
purchase of the control of the Chile Copper Company by
Anaconda from the Guggenhelms is that under way
which may give Kennecott control of Utah Copper.
Stockholders of Utah Copper are exchanging stock
with the Kennecott company at the raio of 1 shares
of Kennecott for one share of Utah. The plan is to
make Colonel Jack Hug, who becomes a member of
the Kennecott boat'd, chairman of the KennecotL
operations committee and Hayden and Stone financial
agents for the company.
That. Juneau appreciates the action of’ the House
I of Representatives in passing the Polley Bill making
an appropriation for the Alaska Musuern and His
torical Library goes withoutsaying. The museum
contains a collection that could not be duplicated and
it will become more and more valuable as time goes
on. It ought to be housed in a fire-proof building,
and it ought to be located in the Territory where
(lie greatest number of people will have opportunity
to view the exhibits.
When prohibition enforcement officers are not
making trouble for bootleggers they are making
trouble for other prohibition enforcement officers.
Planting Gardens.
(Prince Rupert News.)
Tiie work of planting a garden is something that
becomes a liatutul impulse in the spring. People
like to see things grow. Nothing gives as much
pleasure as planting seeds and watching them break
through the ground, day by day making progress
upward until they finally mature. Flowers brighten
the place wonderfully and anyone is a public bene
factor who sows his garden and makes it productive.
America First.
(I-os Angeles Times.)
Rubber cultivation is being encouraged in the
! Philippines and vast concessions of lands are being
| made to planters. Climate and conditions are said to
i he exceptionally favorable on the Island of Mindanao
and it is promised that in a few years the Philippines
j will be able to supply America with all the rubber
i needed. This, by the way, is more than is used by
all the rest of the world put together. We are not
rubber-necking for nothing.
Anent Newspaper Reporters.
(Dawson News.)
The most efficient teachers of today, says E. W.
Howe, veteran Kansas publisher, are newspaper re
porters.
In a recent address at Northwestern University
the Atchison sage voiced his belief that many of the
host educations of this new age are obtained from
newspapers.
Of the average good newspaper reporter this may
be said without exaggeration:
His viewpoint is essentially broad.
11 is judgment is impartial and free from per
sonal prejudice.
He is, because ol the character of his work, better
informed on matters of general interest than is the
average business or professional man.
His knowledge or human nature and his ability
lo judge men and women surpass that of any other
person.
The experienced newspaper reporter may, and
probably does, become somewhat skeptical. At times
lie may even be accused of syntcism, but he is never
a pevlmist.
The newspaper reporter is necessarily honest.
He is essentially wholesome in his thoughts and ac
tions. lie hears and sees With discrimination and
lie writes without exaggeration.
He keeps latih with iiis newspaper, with the pub
lic and with himself.
• Yes, the newspaper reporter is an efficient teacher.
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War on Pneumonia.
(Philadelphia Ledger.)
Pneumonia its the scourge of winter, as every one
knows. It belongs to what might be called "the
fatal five diseases'—ithe others being heart disease, 1
kidney disease, cancer and tuberculosis. In 1922 1
thete were -,78k deaths in Philadelphia from pneu
monia and broncho-pneumonia, evenly divided, and
most of them in the winter months. Only heart
j disease exceeded it as a cause of death in the mortal
ity reports.
The virulence and commonness of the disease have
focused medical attention on both its prevention and
cure. Now has come a serum, product of Philadel
phia research, which has cut in half the ordinary
death rate trom lobar or true pnuentonia when ad
ministered in the early stages of the disease. If the I
general experience of hospitals and physicians ini
I private practice bears out the results obtained in1
I experiments made with the serum at Bellevue llos-j
pitul. New ^ork, we may congratulate ourselves on i
one cf the greatest advances in medicine since the'
serum treatment of diphtheria was perfected.
In Bellevue Hospital tile death rate from pneu-I
moiiia was reduced to 13 per cent, in a group of I
patients to whom the serum was given. The dis-1
coveror of the scrum. I)r. F. M. Huntcon, plans to!'
continue his researches, aiming at even more remark
able results. No one dare prophesy, of course, that
the disease has been conquered. At the same time
no one should grudge or stint the praises that the
scientist’s work deserves.
One by one diseases which of old scourged their
thousands Inlo untimely graves have yielded to the
might of the laboratory worker of the santarian
Bubonic plague, yellow fever, smallpox are practically
eradicated. Typhus, or camp fever, has been kept 1
In control in spito of war and its aftermath of social I
breakdown. No one need ever get typhoid fever
again. Tuberculosis, for which no specific has been
round, is yielding slowly to prevention. Cancer re
mains, yet there are glimmerings of discovery on the
scientific horizon that presage a lessening of this I
plague. If pneumonia can be put in the category of
conquered diseases.
The tourist business to this port is likely to be i I
an important factor in development. It should add ■
very much to the future upbuilding of the cltv_|
(Prince Rupert News.)
Russia lias served one good purpose. She has
made us a little better satisfied with our own brand
of freedom.—(Indianapolis Star.)
Speaking broadly, if it doesn't broaden, strengthen
and secure human liberty, it's not democracy.—(Hous
ton Post.)
There is a rumor in Washington that Lg Follette
will be among the candidates for the nejrV Republi
can nominee for President, but so far nobody lias bet
inythiug on him. — (Indianapolis Star.)
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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The Ananias Club
‘‘I am giving you this thrashing,
not because you reserve it, but to re
lieve my own feelings," declared the
angry parent as he proceeded to lay
on the strap.
The Complete Radio
‘ Have yen a radio set In your
home?" asked Jones.
"Well,” replied Henry Peck, "we
have a broadcaster and a receiver.
Henrietta does tire broadcasting and
I do the receiving "
Welcome to That
According to the Docket an old
man living at Kenton Center was so
afraid his son, whom ho had dis
owned. might get some of his money
after he was dead, he wrote the fol
lowing letter to the local Probate
Judge:
Kenton Center, Jan. 22, 1922.
Dear Judge Hill: Clive all that I
got together in this life to my poor
aid woman without no lawyer strings,
and If our son contests this here will,
give him HEDL. James Hines.
(Witnesses.)
Come Seben
Mose: "Rastus, wliat’s youli all's
idea of paradise?”
Raatii3: “Pair a dice? Tuh! A
pair what'll listen to muh when Ah
talks to 'em ”
Fool Questions
S. R. W. asks: "What's a synonym
for marriage?" The answer is fur
nished by Henry Peck. He says it's
trouble.
Gems From Guide Book to Success
The Liar can also add to his at
tributes both FoajrWind Cowardice, as
the three are inseparable compan
ions. J. K. F.
We Suppose They Also Swear at
Russia
Says a news ft%m: ‘'The Polish
people never swear in their own
language, but always in Russian"
Sounds worse in Russian, eh?
Calls tor Extreme Penalty
Blinks: "1 see where a follow in
New York has Invented a sound pro
jector that will magnify the human
voice 12,000 timeo.”
Jinks: ‘‘And yet some people want
to have capital punishment abol
ished!"
Now He May Have Grounds for
Complaint
(Apple Tree (Ivy.) for. McCreary
County Record.)
Last week G. D. Coffee traded his
torso ami buggy for a car.
?r It Fits—
The best way some husbands can
lelp their wives during house-clean
ng time is to stay as far away from
Lome as they can until it is over.
It Is Just barely pousible the rea
on men keep their seats in the street
ars is because they are made to
land around so much at home.
It often looks as if It had taken
lore money than material to make
he diseases some of the girls wear.
The trouble with a good many
oung fellows when they marry is
hey count on getting a father-in-law
vho will help thorn out, but overlook
he fact they also will get a mother
u-law who will boss them.
It >is funny how good a wife Is at
ememberiug the Lhing3 her hufrtu-nd
as forgotten. •
A welcome, like a bathrobe, should
ever be worn ouf.
If man spent as much time trying
control himself ms he does trying
control tho airj the sea and the
nd, our guess is you’d never hear
l.vbody asking if life was worth
ring.
No matter how good friends she
madders the rest of the party, no
t nan likes to he the first to leave
e afternoon bridge club.
Knowledge isn't always power The
l-l who knows she is pretty, soon
sos her influence?
Having a good opinion of your
df is ail right it you can get any
xly else to share It with you. But
hi usually can’t
It is no.sign a -wife and her hus
ind get along nftely together just
‘cause she likes ‘To find fault with
rhe modern girl can dress with
USED FuKHITUil® |
| Bought, Sold and Exchanged '
N. BOCOYICH I
211 Seward St. |
I Telephone 441. P. 0 Box Ml
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Furnished Rooms for
Rent
ANCHORAGE ROOMS 1
LILLIAN FOOTE
Telephone 431 ^
BEST EVER
MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
Now offers additional attractiv
Disability Benefit features.
NONE OTHER SO LIBERAL.
ALLEN SHATTUCK
INSURANCE RSAL ESTATE
ESTABLISHED 1088
| little clothing, but sho can’t dross
on little money, you bet.
Daily Sentence Sermon
The trouble with butting in is that
you are liable to be kicked out.
News of the Names Club
It may interest the Prohibition
■sleuths to learn that Iona Still is re
ported from Hartford.
England Has a Famous
Violin Maker.
~cy~,T G> 11 be fl"
.1. .1. Gilbert, of Peterborough,
England, has boon malting violins
for fifty years, for thirty years of
I that time experimenting and de
veloping the exact form of his in
struments. lie has turned out 320
violins, and their quality and de
sign are recognized as the he t
made by any modern maker.
PAIN GONE!RUB
SORE, RHEUMATIC
ACHING JOINTS
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Stop "dosing” rheumatism.
It’s pain only. St. Jacobs Oil will
istop any pain, and not one rhen
Jmatism case in fifty requires, inter
nal treatment. Hub soothing, penc
jirating St. Jacobs Oil right on the
tender spot, and by the time you say
Jack Robinson -out comes ttie rheu
matic pain and distress. St. Jacobs
Oil is a harmless rheumatism lini
ment which never disappoints, and
doesn't burn the skin. It takes pain,
soreness and sliffness from aching
joints, muscles and hones; stops
i sciatica, lumbago, backache and
neuralgia.
Umber up! (let a small trial bot
tle of old-time, honest St. Jacobs Oil
from any drug store, and in a mo
ment you'll he free from pains,
aches and stiffness. Don’t suffer!
Rub rheumatism away.
(advertisement.)
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES
FOR RENT—$4.00 PER YEAR
Wm. D. Perkins & Co.
BANKERS—211 Cherry St., Seattle
PALACE OF SWEETS
Eat a disli a day of our ice
cream. A healthful vitamine
food.
Vanilla, Strawberry, Chocolate,
Pineapple.
We also serve Seattle Velvet
Ice Cream.
Large room for dance or card
parties.
Ladies’ Rest Room
TRY OUR
Merchants Lunch
45 Cents
Arcade Cafe
MARY YOUNG, Proprietor.
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JAPANESE TOT SHOP
S. B. MARINO <
Front Street
F. 0. Box S18 for Mail Order* i
BRIQUETS
Ideal
fuel for
every
purpose
Large (took* on hand!
Ladyunith ooal.
Nanaimo ooa'
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
nm 41*.
PROFESSIONAL '
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Drs. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bide.
PHONE 56
Hours 9 a. m. t« 9 o. m.
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg
Telephone IV 2.
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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 MeHserschmidt Apts.
I Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to y and by appointment.
Phone 259.
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Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Goldstein Building
| Houtb: 9:30 to 12; 1 to 5;
7 to 8, or by appointment,
j Licensed osteopathic physician.
; Phones: Office, 167; res., 1672.
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All Alaskan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
| First Ave. and Pine St., Seattle
| Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
j eryttilng J. A. Farnham and
Ted Taylor, Props.
HOTEL SEATTLE T
“Home of Alaskans"
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
R. L. HODGDON, Manager
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It's ail in knowing HOW to do
first-class cleaning ar.d dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
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* THE MAKING OF CONCRETE T
Is a matter of proper materials
together with engineering skill.
Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Years
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFC.
COMPANY
I Willoughby Ave. Phone 32.
FIELDS OF THE FUTURE
Your future is an unplowed field. Whether or
not it is to be productive depends on you. You can
plow, sow, and reap the harvest—or you can let it
remain unfruitful, a barren 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.
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fraternal Societies j
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Gastineau Channel
O . UK!
UmUij Wednesday
Evenings at 8:00
o’clock, Elks' Hall.
Charles P. Jenne,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freemasonry
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7: SO p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HE 18EL,
Secretary.
i. o. o. r.
BILVBR BOW
_ _ LODGE NO. | A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. II.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand;
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
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1 PERSEVERANCE REE ETC AM
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every first and third
I Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
| 8 P M. FRANCES OUSTAFSON. 1
| N Q. ALPHONSINB CARTER,
I Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAD LOOM
No. 147, F. A A. M.
Stated Commurdfatton
Second and Fourth Mondays
| of each Month. In Odd Kellers
1 H*H. beginning at 7:M o’clock.
Homer G. Nordllng, Mastor.
C'has. rE. Naghel, Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tu«
days of each month.
At 8 o'clock, I. O. O. F. HalL
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
SF.OHE RS COUNCIL NO.
17 *0. Meetings second
and last Mondays at 7:M
^ w p. m. Transient Brotta
. rs urged to attend. Council Chambers
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, Q. K.
J. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at I ». m.
Elks’ Lodge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; Q. B.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 198. .
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. E. F.
Rodenberg, Dictator; R. H. Stevens
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.
Render, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
AUXILIARY, PIONEER! 0V
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
| Meets last Thursday of every
month. Social hour with mem
bers of Pioneer Lodge to fol
low each meeting.
| Mrs. Lottie Spickett, President,
j Mrs. Lillie Burford, Secretary.