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WILL ALASKA SECEDE?
The question asked by the above caption is put
by Theodore M. Knappcn, staff correspondent for
the Sunset Magazine in a story nent by him from
Washington, D. C., and appearing in the above pub
liraton for January. If reports have reached Wash
ington, as the carrcvpondent indicates, that secession
ist sentiment is ripe in Alaska, an interesting ques
tion arises as to their source. Who made such a re
port and to whom was it made? If Mr. Knappcn
desired to be enlightening, he should have included
this information in his brief article. If be got bis
information, as is often done, with the understanding
that the rourciv: be protected, lie might at least have
indicated if I lie reports are official, semi-official or
merely rumors.
One cannot believe people in any part of the
United States are so woefully ignorant of Alaskans as
to believe they have ever conlsdered the adoption of a
policy of ‘•becoming* the Ireland of America." If
there Is any one subject cn which there Is a common
agreement, it is on the loyalty and patriotism of
the residents of this Territory. One is rather inclined
to suspect that Mr. Knappcn is writing on space
terms and, being "hard-up" following the holidays,
put "something nve>" on the editors of the Sunset.
It must be admitted that from I he present until after
March 15th, there may be a whole lot of hard things
said about the Government by a good many Alaskans.
The remarks made will be Identical with (hose made
by come millions ol red-blooded Americans all over
the country, and the source will alto bo identical
the income tax. The general unrest ro noticeable in
agricultural sections ot the country does not extend
to Alaska. The people of this Territory are anxious
for more local self-government but have no thought
of attempting lo gain it by force. Any reports to the
contrarj- are just so much plain bunk.
Mr. Knappea's rinusing contribution io the Sunset'
' follows:
I* AlaKkii to becomt* me American Ire
land? Reports have reached Washington in
dicating that unleas Oongt'ess soon adopts
remedial legislation, as the Alaskans con
sider it, they will proceed to establish a com
monwealth with the same sort of relation to
the American republic that the Irish Free
•State lias to Hie United Kingdom. The new
pt Utica! entity would ruthlessly take posses
ticn of all the public natural resources of
the Territory and would assume entire con
trol of local government, but would be will
ing to recognize Itself as a part of the Am
eiican group In the international system and
refrain from establishing diplomatic relations
with other,nations, leaving all its foreign
affairs to Washington.
It was about a year ago thrt the first talk
of a modified form of secession of Alaska
was heard—but little attention was paid to
it. New the secession talk proceeds from
more responsible quarters. Disappointed that
the development of Alaska has proceeded so
slowly and that hope has been so long de
ferred or repeating the spectacular growth
of other sections of the United States, the
Alaskan settlers are represented as being con
vinced that they must make a coup of sotno
sensational naturo that will result in homo
rule. Alaska can not follow the example
of Texas and revolt against a foreign gov
ernment. to get into the United States, so it
talks of revolting against the government
at Washington in the hope of injecting it
srlf into the United States. The Fascistl
have captured Italy on a bluff, and the Alas
kans may get Alaska by talking of starting
secession. At least that is what those who
are df.drtous of throwing Alaska wide open
would have us believe Is about to happen
THE FAITH OF COMMON SENSE.
In a framed enclosure, there at one time hungi
in the Wall Street office of Gen. U. S. Grant a para
graph front a letter by James Monroe, Fifth President
of the United Stale.-, to a friend in Virginia, who
had inquired how the world fared with the establlsher
of the famous Monroe Doctrine. In answer the former
President had written:
I have indeed two fixed articles of faith.
And the lirst is that in private life, for in
dividual welfare, there is one certain reliance
—over and above any and all human re
liances. 1 hie confidence does not permit me
ever to doubt far less to whimper. And al
most equally 1 believe that in public life
there can be reliance upon public support
when and where there is public service. For
service, like prayer, has the quality in Itself
of consummation. Every day this is im
pressed on me for a truth.
Beside this quotation, in a twin frame, hung in
General Gran’t offiep two autographed lines:
Tlie faith of James Monroe is the faith
of common sense.—U. s. Grant
Next December after tome $200,000 lias been ex- i
pended in the acquisition and restoration of the
New York home that was President Monroe's, it will
be dedicated us a memorial to him under the auspices
of the Sulgravo Institution. 11 it is possible to find
these two statements, they should be enshrined in the
memorial along with other articles that are necessary
to bring about a proper restoration of the home as it
was when Monroe lived there.
GREAT BRITAIN RELEASES BOXER
MONEY.
Following the lead of America and Japan, Great
Britain has decided to release for purposes of mutual
benefit to itself and China some 11,000,000 pounds
sterling that would revert to the British treasury from
the Chinese customs revenue under tlfe Boxer indent
nity terms during the next 25 years. This money
will be used to provide funds for the education of
Chinese students in British universities which will be
of direct benefit to China and indiroctly to (treat
Britain.
Competition between America and Japan is said
to have caused (treat Britain to follow their’ lead.
It is certain that this action by the British will
tend to strengthen their position, both politically and
commercially in China. Tho Associated Chambers of
Commerce of Great Britain took the initiative in
bringing about the decision and succeeded in con
vincing the Government that, some ten years in the
future the most powerful political factor in China
will bo the students who have acquired education
abroad. Their numbers are increasing yearly. Since
1914, America has more than doubled her Chinere
trade and Japan’s trade with China is increasing so
rapidly that it threatens to overtake that of Great
Britain.
A Year of Letters.
(New York Evening- Port.)
In looking back over 1922 we see no such out
standing constellation of titles as illuminated 1920,
when Conrad's "Rescue,” Edith Wharton’s "Age of
Innocence,” Howells' "Vacation of the Kolwyns,"
Galsworthy’s "In Chancery,” Sinclair Lewis’s "Main
S1 reel,” Well's "Outline of History,” and the letters
r,r the Adamses and Henry James, to name only a
few, appeared. Without a Conrad or Galsworthy
novel, without, anything from Wells, Bennett, or Mrs.
Wiharton approaching their best, fiction has had to
fall back upon a very few successes like "Babbitt."
Yet by this feebler light we are justified in trying
to traco such currents in contemporary letters as
we can. The assertion of literary beginnings and
endings is always misleading; every division of lit
erary history, as of any other history, is unreal in
proportion as it is precise, because the new is always
rooted in the old. It is particularly risky to define
tendencies without the aid of time's sifting process,
but it is at least stimulating.
In what particular year about two decades ago
the historical novel and Ruritanian romance began
markedly to decline it would be hard to say, so large
was their early vogue and «o tenacious their hold.
Hut we can affirm that the much weaker grip which
the "spiritualistic” element had upon fiction was
definitely relaxed during 1922. Without the Taintest
pang, readers may search their memories in vain for
a recent novel in which the protagonists exchanged
souls, or Hie hero has a dual personality, or other
psychic materials are employed. We can also hope
that tho psychoanalytic element In fiction, as in
history and sociology, is taking tho downward path.
When Mark Twain was so ruthlessly psycho
analyzed it was a small and hardy band which de
manded why Hie school which Mr. Van Wyck Brooks
represented, so cynical, critical, and agnostic in its
attitude towards all the older critical canons, should
not bring a little criticism and doubt to bear on
i lie psychoanalytic formulae. That band haj grown,
while tho psychoanalytic twist In sex fiction ha»
lest Us originality. Tho war’s effects on literature
cannot yet be oven vaguely plumbed. Perhaps oven
the new taste for ultra-frank autobiography is a war
product reflecting a demand for stark realities. But
v-e may hope that in the next few years one result
of Hie war, tho literature exhibiting its unsettling
influence, its destruction of moral, spiritual, and
social pole-stars, may decline, while the literature
exhibition the hope Tor a sane reconstruction grows,
All literary periods are periods of transition, but
tills is probably one in unusual degree. Among neither
Hie younger British nor the younger American
authors ato really dominant personalities and in
fluences yet established. That may be the work of
the next few years.
Divide Hie Territory.
• (Cordova Times.)
Considerable agitation lias been carried cn of late
by Anchorage and Ketchikan newspapers, favoring the
division of the Territory of Alaska. Irrespective of
the capital question, which Is. just now inspiring it.
the agitation should meet with a hearty response from
Cordova. Southeastern Alaska has always been the
tail that wagged the dog. Dominated by interests
quite totally diverse from those of the remainder of
the Territory, Southeastern Alaska- has always been
infested with near-Alaskans, spending most of their
time and money in the States and returning to Ket
chikan and Juneau chiefly to make a new cleanup,
politically or otherwise. The interests of the re
mainder of the Territory have not concerned it, and
the continuous pull and haul botween the two natural
divisions lias been inimical to the welfare of both.
Under the proposed division, making two territories
grow where but one lias grown before, tlie boundary
lino would an extension of that between Canada
and Alasku, cutting down to the southwest to a
point between Icy Bay and Yakutat. This would
Southeastern Alaska bo severed from the rest ol' the
Territory and free to develop its own interests largely
under tlie direction of tile Bureau of Forestry, which
now virtually controls It. Alaska, on the other hand,
with its oil and coal lands, its mines, its fisheries and
Its agricultural resources, administered as Is fit and
proper, under the Department of the Interior and
v.ith its own governor, would he freed from the
trammels of the conflicting Interests of the Tail, and
would bo able to ‘ mush" along in its own way to
Its ultimate destination. The plan is a practicable and
sensible one, and has tlie added and unique virtue ol
being favored alike by Southeastern Alaska and the
remainder or the Territory. It is one of the few
proposals on which the different sections of the Ter
ritory aro undoubtedly agreed, and the agitation of
Southeastern Alaska, fearful of losing its capital, will
he heartily seconded by the rest of the Territory for
Jther and better reasons.
General Pershing expresses feelingy his view of
C.; vernor "Den” Small of Illinois. The General’s view
i- tile general way.— (Louisville Courier-Journal.)
Prince Andrew of Greece escapes with his life- -
»ud the repuiation of being the worst General that
>ver led an iirmy.—(Kansas City Times.)
The former Crown Prince is anxious lo visit the
,‘nited States, but he does not yet threaten to lecture.
— tPhiladelphia Record.)
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ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
Then; is very little home cooking
these days, bill it is different about
home brew.
Was No Joy Ride
"Gosh! I am glad lhat ride is
over,” exclaimed the timid man, "i
am just about exhausted."
"Why? Wo only went about five
indies!" said the reckless driver,
"and you didn't do anything to ex
haust you."
"Oh. yea 1 did,” retorted the timid
man. “I am simply all in from jam
ming on tin imaginary emergency
brake every time you turned a cor
ner sir passed another m,Vr-'.irne, and
i never said so many prayers in so
short a time in all my life before."
Boy, Page the Reformers and
Uplifters
(Easton (Md.) Star-Democrat.)
John 1). Williams has a carload of
fine wicked furniture ho is offering
at reduced rates.
A Billion Dollars
(From a Question and Answer De
partment of up-state contemporary.)
“How much is a billion dollars?"
"In the United States and Franc,
i billion is one thousand millions,
inil in England a billion is one mil
lion million's."
A kid asked his father the same
I (tut stdon and got a licking in school
| next day for giving his dad's answer.
His dad said it was a hell of a lot,
land cither a thousand millions or a
j million millions looks that way to us.
Men Are More Interested in the
Architecture of Women
(Headline in Pittsburgh paper.)
WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE
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Got Even With Him
"You certainly kept me in sus
pense before you proposed," remark
ed Mrs. Grouch, wh was in a ro
mantic mood.
“Yes, and you have kept me in hot
water over since I did,” growled her
lnislund, who was not in a romantic
mood.
Gems From Guide Book to Success
Great successes are the result of
j many "little things"—each well done.
I Every towering mountain is formed
I (if minute graiins. — J. E. F.
if TTFits
Women may not have a sense of
1 humor, but just the same it pays to
i humor them.
i After a man and woman have been
made one you always will find the
j man becomes a “me too.”
When we hear a man boasting
! (bout his authority around home we
know he (Show's it there by kicking
'he cat or maybe slamming the door
when he goes out.
Living with memories, at that, may
I be more pleasant than it would hav
I been to have lived with the dream!
j girl who rejected you Memories
! never call you down for tracking up
the house or messing up the living
room carpet with cigar ashes.
We don't know what kind of
troubles a bachelor can have, buti
tlie statisticians declare more bache
lors than married men commit sui
cide. Evidently there are a heap
worse things than being married,
after all.
i ■> v "wiiu uni- tu iif neauny.
j weafthy and wist* and HAPPY. We
I know a lot of men who are
healthy, some who wire wealthy and
j n few who atre wise who are a Ions?,
long ways from lining haippv.
It Isn't because she believes in the
laying: “Laugh and grow fat" that
a wife does not laugh at the old
jokes her husband tells. They are
too thin to make anyone laugh
enough to increase their avoirdupois.
It Iwn't as important to a lot of
men to find how many miles they
can go on a gallon of gas as it is
how many .more seasons they can
go on year before last’s overcoat.
Kvery married man knows if he
j wa» Pi'bl regular rates for all the
hours at has ;tood on the corner
; waiting for his wife since they have
been married he now would he inde
pendontlv rich.
In a good many of the hospitable!
homes of tills great land everybody;
but the istork is welcome.
Before marriage a man and a wom
an like to be alone, so they go otf1
h.v themselves and after they have!
been married they still want to he
alone, so they get a divorce and go
off by thorosolves.
Daily Sentence Sermon
WHiat you borrow may not break'
the friend, but it's pretty sure to
break the friendship.
Heed Lotts, of Harrisburg, says
he does, but draws tho line at the
Congressional Record and Outlines
cf History.
O. Howe Swede, of Duluth, being a !
man. we pass him on for the girls
to rave over.
ALASKAN VEGETABLES
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We have an abundance of cab
bage, carrots and rutabagas for ;
immediate delivery from our i
CONCRETE PRODUCTS
MFG. CO.
Willoughby Ave. Phone 32.
Girl Brave in Face of
Chinese Bandits.
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Miss I/c1h Bailey, daughter of a
San Francisco grain man, ii|>on
her return to America told the
story of a raid hy Chinese bandits
on a river boat on the Vangtse
Kiang ltiver. Her calmness in
maintaining order set such a good
example that the rest of the pas
sengers succeeded in routing the
bandits.
Blames Haig for Delay
in War Victory.
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General Tasker H. Ulis3. I'.S.A.,
retired, formerly Chief of Staff
and during I ho World War Ameri
can military representative in
France, in a recent magazine ar
ticle charged that Earl Haig,
commander-in-chief of the British
Army, delayed Alliod victory by
refusing to submit the command
of his troops to a Supreme Com
mander. Americans from the first
insisted on a Supreme Commander,
and it was only when defeat was
staring the Allies in the face,
General Bliss decarea, that Haig
permittid FoCh to assume com
mand of ail armies
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BRIQUETS
Ideal
fuel for
every
purpose
Large stocks on hand
Ladysmith coal.
Nanaimo cos'.
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
Phone 412.
PROFESSIONAL
i,,
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DENTISTS
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PHONE 58
Hours 9 a. m. U. 9 p. s.
Dr. Charles P. Jennt
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Bldg.
Telephone 17G.
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Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4. 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Re*, jog.
Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Roe. Phone 27 6
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
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Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
j Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Sanitarium
Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
GEO. L. BAB.TON
(PALMER)
CHIROPRACTOR
201 Goldstein Bids. Phone 259
Office Hours: 10 to 12 A. M.,
2 to 5 and 7 to 8 P. M.
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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.
Ail 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 of Alaskans”
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
R. L.. 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. Phono 177.
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F. 0. Box 218 for Mail Orden
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fraternal Societies
-or
Gaslineau Channel
E .
0 . ELK*
Meeting Wednesday
Evenings at 8:00
o'clock, Elks' Hall.
ARTHUR B. COLE,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodiei
of Freemasonry
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:30 p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
i 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. Perolle, Noble Grand;
Merle P. Morjran, Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAU LOOSE
No. 147. F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Mondays
of each Month. In Odd Fellows
Hall, beginning at 7:JB o’clock.
„„ R, R- TOUNG. Master.
CHAS E. NAGHEL. Secrotary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tuos*
duyo of each month.
At 8 o'clock. I. O. O. F. Hall
ALICE BROWN, W. M.
LOIS NORDLINO. Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
SEOHBRS COUNCIL No.
176(1. Meetings second
and last Mondays at 7 :J(I
^ r p. m. Transient Brolh
i ers urged to attend. Council Chambers
' Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, G. K.
!j. L. MeCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juueau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 p. m.
Kike’ I.odge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; G. E.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER 0*
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock,
Moose Hall. Thoa.
B. Judeon, Dictator; R. H. Stevens,
Secretary.
WOMEN OF MOOSEHEART
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. 6.
Meets the 2d Monday In Moom
Hall, at 8 o’clock.
ALICE LAUGHLIN, President.
LILLIE BURFORD, Secretary.
PERSEVERANCE REBEKAH
LODGE K0. 2A.
Meets every first and third
Tuosdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8:00 P. M. BESSIE MANNING,
N. G. ALPHONSINB CARTER.
Secretary.
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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.
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
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