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'"•IwrtTT \TTON* OrARANTEFD TO BE MOIlfi THAN!
POUTUsE THAT OF ANY OTHER A E A SK A NK W S P A PER |
SOLUTION TO FUEL PROBLEMS UNFOUND.
The possibility of anotner coal miners' .strike next
April seems to have been pretty well obviated by the
wage agreement reached this week at the miners and
operators' conference in New ^ oi k. Relieved of the
bugaboo of partial industrial shutdown, disorganiza
tion cf transportation, serious unemployment and wide
spread sufferings frem fuel shortage, the nation will
make better headway in the next few weeks than
would have been possible had the agreement been
delayed until the last minute. It ia significant that
there is no agency in existence which can prevent
such a situation; that the minors and operators alone
can determine whether or not coal shall lie produced,
li was this phage of the coal mining Industry which
led to the appointment of a United States Coal Com
mission Bcmctinie ago by President Harding. it
has begun its labors but so far lias evolved no plan
for handling the situation.
A preliminary report was laid before Congress sev
eral days ago by the Commission in which attention
was called to some of tlie outstanding problems that
must bo solved before a satisfactory settlement of the
entire question is reached. Tlio Commission said it
must have more time to study the industry before sug-v
grating any remedy, it pointed out that instability
in the bituminous coal mining industry is the funda
mental causo of high prices and the fuel shortage
which has menaced the American public repeatedly
in recent years. I.abor troubles, transportation dif
ficulties:, and overdevelopment cf the industry in
mines and manpower to a point where it is mucli
larger than necessary to supply tlie public demand for
Its product—if operations were continuous—were all'
three assigned as among primary causes for the con
dition. The exact bearing of each of these upon the
existing situation will be made llie subject of future
Study by the Communion. It expressed its con
fidence that an agreement would lie reached soon
that will avert any wide-spread cessation of mine op
erations in union fields on April 1.
Six members of the Commission, .loliu Hays Ham
mond, Chairman, Dr. Ooorge Oils Smith, Cark Howell,
foimer Viet-President Marshall, diaries P. Neill and
Dr. Edward T. Devine, signed the report, while Fed
eral Judge Alschuler, whose judicial tenure prevented
him qualifying for service on the investigating body,
attached a memorandum approving the views of bis
colleagues.
In concluding the report said:
There have been so many and such com
plex factors operating in the coal industry
to prevent the free play of economic forces
that a very detailed and comprehensive in
vestigation is required before a valid con
clusion cun tie reached. The Inquiry involves
the whole question as to what is best for tlio
people, free competition, government or pri
'ate ownership, regulation or control in the
coal industry * * * The problem is of so
great moment, with reference! not only to
the theories of government but also to the
economic life of (lie republic, that the view
of the commission must bo left to its final
report.
There can be no satisfactory agreement
as lo wage rates, and no lasting peace be
tween operators and men, unless steadier em
ployment can be provided. There can be no
satisfactory solution of our transportation
problem so long as the railroads are sub
jected to sudden peak loads of coal traffic
at the season when the demands of agricul
ture and industry ure at their heighth.
The Commission believes that the public
inlcroEt in coal raises fundamental questions
of Hie relation of this industry to the nation,
and cf the degree to which private rights
must yield to public welfare. It may be that
both private property in an exhaustible re
source and labor In a public service indus
try mm L submit to certain modifications of
their private rights, receiving in return cur
tail guarantees and privileges not accorded
to purely private business or persons in pri
vate employ.
With anthracite coal problems, the preliminary
report dealt only briefly. Search would continue, it
was said, into ttie reasons which left tho United
Slates, though "Hch beyond all other nations in its
wealth of coal resources" with "a national coal bin
too often depleted,'' with prices "higher than seem war
ranted by tlio woalth of coal available” and with
general public concern and du-atisfacticn as to fuel
supply. It continued:
There lia.> been profiteering in the In
dustry In tlie same sense that grossly exorbi
tant profits have been taken at times by
many operator,, brokers, and retailers;
profits that have been disproportionate to the
cost of the coal. Hut this Commission lias
nc! yet obtained the figures specifically re
quired by the act in order to settle this
question. A thorough examination of profits
• * * ie already under way.
Runaway markets for mal in Ifil’O and
1922 followed prolonged cessation of mining
operations due to I in* disagreement between
. employers and employees, but high prices
also rilled from August, 1916 to March,
1918, and for that period some other ex
planation of the high prices and distress
must be found.
The responsibility of settling disputes
ri ts primariy upon the industry. The
Commission therefore warned miners and op
erators alik*' that the country looks to them
to settle their own disputes and to reach
an amicable agreement when the present
contract expires.
In the future, it was added, the Commission would
go into causes of the disruption of industrial relations
that has so frequently hampered the conduct of the
Industry, and the report set forth claims and counter
claims of both employer* and employees in reference
to controversies in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Inability of railroads to transport coal produced, it
was added, lias frequently bum suggested as a pri
mary cause of scarcity and high prices, and further
investigation to be made In conjunction with the
Interstate Commerce Commission, was said to be neces
sary to allow a conclusion to be formulated on this
point as well as to the labor disruptions.
Jn the over expansion of the industry, the Com
mission concluded, was to be found the reason for
the fact that till ominous mines operated only 149
days during the whole working year of 1921, when no
strikes intervened. This condition, it was further
found, had tended to get worse in recent years, for
i:i 189h its figures indicated that miners over the
country worked 213 days out of the year. The in
vestigation had early disclosed, it was added, the"
existence of "too many mines and too many miners."
Seasonal character of part of the demand for
bltumlous coal, with consequent inequality cf de
mand tiyough the year for service of workers and
of transportation equipment, the possibility of storage
in ameliorating theee conditions, and the necessity for
studying methods of improving distribution systems I
were points emphasized as under study. With all of
these avenues of inquiry, the Commission, indicated,
it would deal more fully in the future.
Where the Nation Gained.
(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
What is most satisfying in t lie confirmation of
Pierce liirtlcr, of Minnesota, to be Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States, is the
accompanying demonstration of the independence of
the United States Senate of the group of soft-handed
malevolently minded internationalists who inspire
much of the radicalism of this country and who pre
tend to be intellectuals of the forward-looking type.
Those false beacons on the shore of political
economy were disregarded by the members of the
Senate when it became apparent that Justice Butler
was being opposed solely because, as a loyal American,
he purged the University of Minnesota, of which in
stitution lie was a Regent, of those who, during the
war, under the guise of freedom of speech, taught
treason. Upon this incident alone was built the
charge that ho was temperamentally unfit.
The shrill and sour criticisms that arise from the
pages of the counterfeit liberal periodicals since the
defeat of the Shipsteads, ha Eollettes and Frasier;
in their assault upon the new Justice's character,
merely go to confirm the Senate's wisdom of action.
Because these printed allies of foriegn influences have
abandoned ail other accusation,s and howl, hyena-like,
over this one alleged defect In his record.
They realize, with rome “sorrow and anger, that
a prop lias been plp.ced under the organized social
system they s ok to topple down, thereby making
their task all the Jiardcr. The sonorous Latin of a
well-known maxim might be employed here as a
comment, but the vernacular will do quite as well:
"It is tile hit dog that howls.”
New Alaska Cable.
-(Seattle Times.)
While rceonsti action cf the Alaska cable is re
<1 uiie«l to facilitate business between the States and
tlio Northland, the relaying of the line is of import
ance from a military viewpoint. The firs; replacement
work will be done between Seu"Tile and Sitka, and
plans then call for the substitution of the stretch
between Sitka and Seward. Further extension is
regarded as possible to Dutch Harbor, and from there
continuation of the system, either direct or by way of
Yokohama or Shanghai, to the Philippines has been
a matter of frequent discut; ion.
The first piece of Alaska cable was laid between
Juneau and Skagway in August, lfttn. The line be
tween Seattle and Sitka was put in operation in
August, 1904, and the extension to Valdez was made
later in the same year. The system was completed to
Seward in 1905. All together, main line and branches,
it has a length of 2,800 miles.
With the $760,000 made available in the War
Department bill, now before Congress, a new line can
be laid between Seattle and Sitka. To obtain the
material and do the work would require a little more
than a year, and then the next Congress would bo
expected to appropriate a similar amount for recon
struction between Sitka and Seward.
Extension of the system from Seward to Dutch
Harbor, a distance of GOO mles, will be certain if the
Aleutian seaport Is selected for a naval station. Dutch
Harbor, because of its proximty to the Astatic coast
is under under investigation by naval officers, it is
distant about 4,000 miles in a direct lino from the
Philippines, and 2,000 miles from Yokohama.
Heller cable facilities are needed between the
1 uited States and tho Far East, and recently the
report was current that tile company owning the
Pacific cable might lay an extension to Japan from
Dutch Harbor if the Federal authorities should con
tinue their system to that port. A private corporation
however, could not he, expected to construct a line
from Dutch Harbor to the Orient and divide with the
government tolls on through business. Rather the
company could better afford to lay its own cable for
the entire distance.
Whatever the outcome of tho tentative and rather
remote plans of I ho Army Vul Navy for a Far East
extension, early reconstruction of the Alaska system
will greatly aid business here and in the northern
territory.
Borah’s Resolution.
(Buffalo Express.)
Senator Borah has introduced a resolution calling
I-r another International conference to consider eco
nomics, financial and business problems, including
German reparations.
It was Borah who fathered the resolution asking
•or the conference on the reduction of armaments!
Ami when he found that it had succeeded in bring
ing the naval powers to an agreement to reduce arma
ments. lie turned around and fought Ihe treaties.
Is Borah now trying to aid the economic rehabili
tation of Europe or is ho merely looking for more
treaties to oppose?
Mussolini is rapidly working to the point where
Aununelo will probably fetch a scries of lectures to
this country.— (Houston Post.)
Russian Communists propose to burn the Deity
;I! effl#y- Thp Communists themselves win bum
“:er but not in effigy,—(Philadelphia Record )
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ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
When you tell children to come
home early those days they seem to
think you mean early in the morn
ing.
Pa's Guess
"Pa," aid Clarence, looking up
;'"on, his Ulitory lesson, "who wa3
that said we haven’t started to
fight yet?"
“A Lride and groom who were still
on their honeymoon, I guess,”
growled his dad.
Maybe Hennie Heard Eli
(Divorce Court Note in Houston
Post.)
Hennie Heard vs. Eli Heard, di
vorce (Eightieth).
Does Seem Strange, Doesn’t It?
"What impressed you most during
your two years in Frantre?” asked
the Sweet Girl.
How those darn poilus could talk
i - each other in French and under-i
^tanil what they are saying,” sadly
■plied the former doughboy, who
had tailed to master the language.
Fool Questions
G. ('. I), asks: * How do the clerks
keep from catching cold when there
ire so many drafts on n bank?"
We have so little to do with banks
we can't answer him.
Oancc-Raisor
(Owen County (Ky.) Democrat.)
Wayne Dance, of Switzerland coun
ty, Ind., and .Miss Elira Itaisor, of
Owen County, were granted license
to wed by Count) Clerk Fotherglll.
Phamous Phrases
"Under the green w.>od trees.”—j
Many a t.trd rolls home with a bill
full and does the snore solo under;
tiie hall hatrack.
• Up and down old Brandywine."
Soon to be censored by Bain Barrel |
Wheeler because it has two drinks in
every verse.
"Tell me not in mournful mini-;
bers."—iA popular song written;
about mutuel tickets on losers.
“The flowers that bloom in tire
spring, tra la." An old bromide
■used by sporting writers at spring
training camps.
“ Tis not in our stars, but in our
selves, that we are underlings.”—
Recently plaintively paraphrased by
Mlllor Huggllns to read: "It's not
in myself, but in my stars, that I'm.
etc., etc."
"Man does not live by bread
alone.” Ask any liootlegger!
"Tlie Cord forg! me for lying!"
An obsolete prayer, unspoken since
the first politician.
“O monthly scribbler of some low
lampoon.”—.Most any popular author.
“Strong and free, strong and free."
U is usually red, always bum
the throat, is now stronger, but
much less free —J. W. L.
We're Still Prom Missouri
(Greenville Piedmont.)
Sam Hill says there are no super
men in the world. .Mr. Hill, meet
Judge Landis and Will Hays.
Then They Come to Bat
The only time some people take
any interest In religion is when some
preacher becomes the center of some
scandal.—®am HIM, in Cincinnati En
quirer. They bat 1.000 on the ”1 told
you so" tuft' on such occasions.—
"Dusty" Miller.
We’ll Say You Said a Mouthful,
There, Jack
(Jack Warwick, in Toledo Blade.)
If a man's food and wife agree
with him tie has no excuse for not
being happy Sam Hill. Cincinnati
Enquirer
And if lii< food doesn't ngiee wiith
him iie will iir io mean that his wife
can't.
If It Fits—
Most every husband could tell his
wife a few hlnss—if he had the
:icvw.
After she !i i been married to him
i While a wo nan finds It is just as
harn io love and honor a man as it
would be to obey him.
Wives who enjoy waiting on their
husbands are just as scarce as hits
bands who enjoy waiting for their!
wives.
Many a gir! tots like the dickens
jus! because ■ he thinks she' looks
like u movie (, ■ en.
If an old m j had only gotten a
at.a,land of b own she would not j
irivt so much ae to waste worrying
over ine husbands of other women.
We don't nr;.eve a woman ever
could learn to , ujoy a pipe. About
the time it began to get nice and
strong she would take It out and
boil it in soil ; water, the way she
does the coftb pot. and then give
it a perfume bath.
About the only way some wives!
ean ever get their husbands inside
of a churt\ is by holding their fune
rals there.
While father n m is straining every
nerve io get the Christmas bills
paid mother trying to got up her1
nerve to ask fur her Easter bonnet ^
which, like ho magazines, now!
eomrs out a couple of months ahead .
of time.
A Rood muni people can't tell you j
why they -ever irot married, but they
have no trout. (> jn giving the Judge
plenty of rou.ion* why they should
be divorced.
One of the eldest things in life i.i
seeing how e.o a weak, little wom
an can wrap a m eat, big. strong man
around lrer finger.
The rpason i yau^g man tells his
The real contralto is » rara avis and
for that reason the vocal gift* of
Elizabeth Lennox are more and mora
appreciated by critic* and public
whether she appears as a recitalist or
on the whirling disks Miss Lennox
says: 'A singer murt be finished in
voice emission, phrase definition and
text articulation to be understood and
to be an artist one must add one s
heart and character to the tong "
*?irl lie always will love her is be
muse he hasn’t y t sampled her
cooking m;r seen t.h ■ way she co nes
down to breakfast.
Daily Sentence Sermon
We never look up to a man who
look, down on us,
News of the Namos Club
Eva Mae Show ::o, wait a min
ute, that's her name, and she lives
at Dallas.
Another Dallas <• debrtty is Victor
Oddo, but lie vv iVt do us, you bet.
Pronislaw Huberman, the Polish vio
linist. has returned to America ioi
o concert tour. This eminent artist
is a friend and fellow countryman oi
Paderewski Mr Huberman will re
main in America until next June.
YOl'R ,,UNrSED" ASSETS that
typewriter, musical instrument, fur
niture, office fixture or appliance—
are marketable, for cash, through
the elas-dtied columns of The Empire.
BRIQUETS
Ideal
fuel for
every
purpose
Ijirge itocki on hand
Ladyiraith coal.
Nanaimo coa’
PACIFIC COAST
COMPANY
Fhcne 412.
COAL
PROFESSIONAL
Drs. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Blag.
PHONE 6S
Hours & a. no. t1, 0 p. m.
Dr. Charles P, Jennt
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Bldg.
Telephone 178.
Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 0.
Phones: Office. 104; Rea jog.
Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M, to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Reo. 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
Hates J3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
GEO. L. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Messerschmidt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 5;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phono 259.
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. Farnhnm and
Ted Taylor, Props.
HOTEL SEATTLE
"Home of Alaskans”
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
R. U HODGDON, Manager
It's all in knowing HOW to do
first-class cleaning ar.d dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
| THE MAKING OF CONCRETE I
j is a matter of proper materials j
j together with engineering skill, j
Both is our assets.
! CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFC.
COMPANY |>
| Willoughby Ave. Phone 32. I
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WHY A SAVINGS ACCOUNT
IS A GOOD INVESTMENT
fiYou may add to the account at any time in any
amount.
flYour account is not subject to market fluctuations
but is constantly growing.
fiYour account is always available and provides an
unfailing reserve for emergencies and business op
portunities.
flPays 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.
fraternal Societies
-OF
Gastineau Channel
O . EIXI
Meet In; Wednesday
KYenings at 8:00
o’clock. Elks' Hall.
ARTHUR B. COLE,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary,
Co-Ordinate Bodiet
of Freemasonry
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7: SO p, m, Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B HEISEL, Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. S A
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows' Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand;
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
ANCE REBEKAH f
SE NO. 2A. f
ery iirst and third f
I. O. O. F. Hall, at J
PERSEVERANCE
LODGE
Meets every
Tuesdays In
8 P.M. FRANCES GUSTAFSON,
N. G. ALPHONSINE CARTER,
Secretary
i
MOUNT JUNEAD LODI*
No. 147, F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and FnurtH Mondays
of each Month. In Odd Kellowe
Hall, beginning at 7:S0 o'clock.
R R. TOUNG. Maater.
CHAS E. NAGHEL. Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tues
days of each month.
At 8 o’clock. I. O. O. F. HalL
AI.ICE BROWN, W. M.
LOIS NORDLINQ, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
PEC5HEUS COUNCIL N«.
176U. M-ctlngs second
and last Mondays at 7:S*
p. m. Transient Broth
ers urged 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 p. m.
Ixtdge Room. John F. Starr,
Po3t Commander, Phone 973; G. E.
Mann, Poat Adjutant, Phone 196.
Elks
I j*A4sfi'. .‘."ft'fhd LOYAL ORDER OF
WsTiif MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, S o’cloek.
Moose Hall. Thoe.
B. Jutteon, Dictator; R. H. Stevens,
Secretary.
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i WOMEN OF MOOSEHEART
LEGION
I Juneau Chapter No. 439
| Meeting second and fourth
j Tuosday of each month, 8
: o’clock, Moose Hall. Mrs. C. W.
j Bender, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
i F. McKinnon, Secretary.
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AUXILIARY, PIONEERS OF f
ALASKA, Igloo No. 6.
Meets the 2d Monday in Moom
Hall, at 8 o’clock.
ALICE LAUGHLIN, President. 1
LILLIE BURFORD, Secretary.
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