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"Annexation, never: but union?
Couched in a vein oi fraternal feelings,
the address of President Harding in Van
couver was full of inspiration made more
imprt::nve by the fact that it was the first
time that a President of the United States
ever made a speeeli in Canada. While de
livered in Vancouver, the address was to the
people of Canada, the President undoubtdely
meaning it as such. Tlte principles set
dow'n are worthy of being followed by Can
adians In cultivating that relation to the
Americans that rhculd exist.
The President dealt with the matter of
annexation. In stating that the annexation
r f Canada was bugaboo that long since
had passed out of existence, he expressed a
fc~ling that has become firmly established in
this country. On the other hand, he opened
up the suggestion of United States' annexa
tion by Canada. Such a suggestion may
seem a trifle novel but it is a suggestion
the effecting cf which is as remote, If
not more so. tli'ii the first suggestion.
Tiie visit of President Harding will have
an effect of cementing the friendship be
tween the United Stater and Canada in a
manner the strength of whicli could have
been established by no other means.—
(Prince Rupert News.)
Of course the question of annexation is a matter
that is not to be seriously considered by Americans
cr Canadians. But .how about union?
Perhaps that, too, is a matter that it were idle to
discuss. Fortunately, however. Americans and Can
adians understand each ether well enough to permit
its discussion without rancor cr fear or sinister
thought-on (ilher aide of the line.
We believe that such a union, If it could be
brought about with the overwhelming approval of
there of each of the countries and the blessing of
Great Britain, would do more to rement the English
i peaking people of the world than any other even
tuality that could pop Ibly occur. We believe it
would be I lie finest thing for the safety and welfare
cf the world that could por-ibly take place. We
believe that because we believe the union of these
two great countries, under the circumstances men
tioned, would bring the English speaking people
into alliance net an offensive and defensive alliance
ruch as history has too often recorded hut an ai
lisnce for peace, : qua re-dealing and world welfare'
that would set an example and present an authority
of power that would make a great war out of the
question. Such a union, too, would contribute im
mensely toward the development or both countries
However, whether there shall be political union be
tween the United Stales and Canada or not. there can i
be no doubt among thinking people that Destiny has'
decreed that there shall be such a union cf thought
and sentiment and such friendly relations between
the two countries that the pres, nt very desirable
rtatus will continue to improve as time progresses.
The interest President Harding shewed in the j
everyday matters that concern Americans Is dls
elescd in a story published in a San Francisco paper
watch says that during his illness when the late edi
tions of the afternoon papers arrived liis first inquiry
wa= a# • -> the ba •. bail news and how the Cincinnati'
Reds had fared.
MEREDITH SAYS FARMERS ALL RIGHT.
Former Secretary of Agriculture K. T. Meredith
declares that the American farmer is not so badly
off as i-emo of the politicians would have him be
lieve, and he points Ills remarks at Senator Brook
hart. whom, he says, never had been known to
exhibit sufficient exertion to get at the facts in
any economic pn Idem lie had attempted to discuss.
Mr. M credit h rays the American farmer will!
receive $50<i,oi)t),<)UO more for his grain crop this |
year than lie received hot year in spite of the slump,
in the price or wheat, lie continues:
There is a conspiracy among certain fac
tion? to misrepresent and discourage the
fai mer. .Jus.t what lies back of this per
ulcious scheme remains to be seen, but one
of the big purposes is to make political
Capital out of this deceit.
If Senator Brookhart were half as anx
ious to get the true facts before tile public
concerning tie* condlticn of the American
farmer its lie is the so-called virtues of the
*'vie: Government, we might accept his
judgment at- coming in good faith.
It will be a great day in the halted States when
larmei and others quit permitting politicians to
stampede them and set about to meet economic prob
lems in a businesslike manner, making the most of
the .‘i-.ualicn as it is . When the California fruit
gt.'werr quit trying to vote prosperity to them
iclvcr and organized for co-operative selling they
s .ved their financial status. The Southwestern
" treat lartniis a: the Wichita conference started
things which ought to make other farmers think
mort of practical things than Government aid when
they decided upon a course of procedure without
arking for Government aid.
I When people grt down t9 hard fact* they will dis
iSt
cover That most ot their ills are not political and
that politics, aftei all, provide few reradeiea that
cure.
Political oratory probably still has its place but,
as Hoover, said, it “spawns no salmon” in Alaska;
and it docs not raise the price of wheat in Kansas.
MR. BRYAN ATTACKS SENATOR
UNDERWOOD.
Mr. Bryan lias launched an attack on Senator
I’ndorwood. lie says the Alabnma statesman repre
sents the views of Wall Street and that he is wetter
than Gov. Alfred E. Smith.
Mr Brayn's attack on the former leader of his
party in the National House of Representatives and
afterward in the United States Senate will surprise
no one who recalls that he has attacked in turn
ail the leaders his party has had—save one, and that
one is Mr. Brvan since he became active in politics.
He began his campaign for leadership by attacking
President Cleveland and Governor Hill of New York
when they were leading. He arraigned Judge Parker
when he was the party leader. He launched an at
tack on Speaker Champ Clark when he was a National
leader and a formidable candidate for the Presi
dency. He quit President Wilson at the first crisis
that rose in his Administration, recanted, apparently,
when lie saw that President Wilson was etill secure
in the hearts of the people, only to renew the attack
again when, stricken and helpless on a sick bed, there
appeared a chance to tinhorso him. At the San Fran
cisco convention, and before, he denounced both Sec
rotary McAdoo and Governor Cox, and during the
campaign that followed, he refused to support the
nominee of his party. He declared that no man could
drive him out of the Democratic party, but acted
like one who remained in it for the purpose of scut
tling it rather than to oppose it in the open.
Senator Underwood's record speaks for itself, how
over. He piloted through Congress the most pro
gre Ive program ever carried to a successful con
clusion in the same length of time. He was the
author of the most successful tariff law the country
has had In half a century. He believes in low tariffs,
efficient and economical government, State rights,
sound money and the Jeffersonian principle that
good governments govern least. He opposed, it is
line, t lie Eighteenth Amendment, but he believes
in its strict enforcement. He favors the modification
of the Volstead Act to make it conform to scientific
fact, in the Interest of law enforcement and, he bo
1 i°ves. belter general morals. But in spite or tills
record and these honest convictions he Is arraigned
as a tool of Wall Street.
Alaska’s Critics.
' (Seattle Times.)
There are, apparently, a few newspapers in the
country that still regard the phrases, "Seward’s Fol
ly" and "Seward’s Icebox,” in use more than a half
century ago, as descriptive of Alaska. Fortunately,
they are not numerous, else there would be little
progress in the republic,
A fair sample of the miEchievotis propaganda dis
seminated by the newspapers that adhere to the
“Seward Folly" Idea of Alaska is found In the July
lid issue of The Boston Herald. In a day when so
much truthful information is available it is difficult
to he patient with glaringly inaccurate statements.
'1 he now. paper that deliberately ignores well
substantiated fac^^nr trusts to a memory of Alaska
a half century old, serves ils readers poorly. in
discussing Alaska The Boston Herald says:
We find a disposition on the part of para
grapliers at the time of President Hardings
visit to Alaska, to point to that acquisition
as one of the triumphs of American policy.
We wis!i we could share that view. * * *
l P to date the situation is discouraging.
The whole area, which wc were told in the
geographies extends ns far west of San Fran
cisco as we arc east of that city, contains
only 60,000 Americans, and this number is
decreasing at the rate of 10,000 a decade.
Wo hear much about the railroad on
which the President traveled. We ought to
hear mucfi. The Federal Government has
spent $200,000,000 on it. There are 3,000
miles of it, apporximately as much road us
from here to San Francisco. Does it pay?
Of course not. The losses which it incurs
are prodigious. Congress did it at the bc
iicrt of the Northwestern lawmakers, osten
sibly to develop the Territory, but in reality
to make business for Seattle, the long
recognized ontreport of Alaska. The Seat
tleans could not bear to ace Alaska go out
of business, and eo they persuaded the Gov
ernment to make this investment in order to
keep Alaska moving. But. compared with
this railroad, the new barge canal across
New 1 ork State is a roaring success. It is
doubtful is there is any transportation
agency on earth in which the percentage of
• revenue to the investment is so disparate as
in the Alaska Railroad.
The most striking thing about this acrimonious
harangue is that tto material statement therein made
Is true.
I he Boston paper knows, or should know, that th
Government did not spend $200,000,000 on the Alask
Railroad. I p to date it has spent $56,000,000.
The paper also knows, or should know, that th
length et the railroad is not 3,000 miles, but approx!
mutely 500 miles. v
It was not built at the behest of Seattle for Seal
ch benefit, although this city is rather proud c
he tact that it had nomething to do with Wiu
worthy enterprise.
„ . ,.he l”s,78 on ,lle operation of the railroad ar
<T Prodigious, but are, as a matter of fact, muc
s than wore expected. With but a small part ,,
the help given the Philippines, Hawaii. Porto Rlc
and Cuba during the las, twenty years Alaska wo,R
ll,‘;1 be a well-populated, thriving State
a, I^osT'T °,f1V'20 K3Ve ,he Population of Alask
w.-" u wh,p" 27’885 were whites and 27,15
'ere natives Indians and Eskimos. It is true tha
i,*r.f f l0* of Population between 1910 an
turned 'hi si'T* ,WO v6arR the tide ha
In he 1," i,VOr Tlle hwindlip; populatio
In he one decade was due almost entirely t„
neglect and indifference of the Federal Governmcn
As to the wisdom of the policy which gave u
Alaska, the records oiter convincing proof Alask
cost tlie United States $7,200,000; since it wa our
chased ft has produced wealth in excess of one hi!
,°en if;,1:;?- That fact <-o„”r«f.r*
110 boundless potential wealth an yet untouched
should convince the Boston paper of its error
rc-n ■•V,i'T.°r th,° Hot,1,)n paper are similar in mos
pw,s 10 tho8e held by some persons in the Eas
oncera.ng the great Oregon country in 1846. Donbt
ni ,hpro ",,rp M,,ne in the Massachusetts Bar Col
ne ’c'," a"A,°Teri "?■ wh" s:'« - *0"d in Con
iieeteut Alaska is the twentieth century frontier
was v?vm n “ a rCCelVP ,he s:ini° consideration a
was given the western Territories, (| would he onl’
, slusrt time before It would bo a powerful unit i,
the sisterhood of States a country well pom, !,!
and contributing enormous wealth to the nation Th.
EPlr.t shown by The Boston Herald and ,I," sour pc,
a mis," concerning Alaska’s future, fortunately ar,
not reflected elsewhere in the coyntrj,
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By RAM HILL
i
Observation of Oldest Inhabitant
The old-fashioned mother who used
to sing lullabys to her baby now has
a daughter who spend* her evenings
lecturing on birth control.
The Ananias Club
“No," declare*! the plasterer, "I
will not worlirtnir $2U a day. Five a
I day Is all J Ltffci ; worth and that is
all I am goin£„t<i accept.”
F
An Idiotic" Question
They had met at the seashore and
were planning their wedding after a
week's lightning courtship.
“By the way, my darling, can you
cook?" he asked tenderly, but an*-1
iously.
“Bay, what in the blazes difference
does that make?’” she demanded hotly, i
"you don't suppose all the hotels and 1
restaurants tn town are going to
close up just because we are married,
do you?"
He ducked.
She sued him for breach of promise.
He paid it. Said it was cheap
est in the end.
Maybe She Means She Wants a Man |
With One
(Classified ad in Sioux City Journal)
LADY WANTS ROOM AND BEARD,
private home. Address 2179 Journal.
No Call for Conversation
Blinks: "What do you say to a
i drink?"
Jinks: “Nothing, I Just gulp it
S down."
root questions
Anxious asks: What's the best
race to bet on?” The last one, then
If, you win you won’t lose on the
next one. Thought we were going to
fall for the old human race gag,
didn't you?”
Maybe, Like That For Olives, It’s
a Cultivated Taste
“Remember, son. It's the early bird
that gets the worm," remarked dad.
"Everybody to their taste, dad," re
torted son, “but personally I never
cared a rap for worms. I always
break a cherry open before I eat it."
Speaking of the Bricklayers—
“Laying bricks at present wages
those birds ought to be able to lay
up something for a rainy day if any
body can.
And By the Way—
Who Is buying $18 silk shirts these i
days besides the bricklayers, plaster-I
ers, plumbers and garage mechanics?!
Them's Our Sentiments
"What would you think if a fellow
told you he had a hen that laid four
eggs a day?" asked Brown.
"1 wouldn't have to think. I'd
know he was a liar," retorted Black.
If It Fits—
A girl with u'shade like Venus and
one with a shape like a bed slat and
ohe with a shape like a barn are
bound to have'different ideas about!
what modesty is.
Every man oifglit so to live that it
will not give him insomnia to hear
that the Grand Jury is in session.
A wife would ff^t. more pleasure out
of her husband meeting her at the
depot oil her return from the trip if
she didn't know he'd left a sink full
of dishps to greet her in the kitchen.
A flat never seems crowded, no
matter how much love you crowd
into it, but it is funny how full it
seems the minute a little trouble
sneaks in.
A fashion nyUtanys the ladies are
to carry oval Handkerchiefs, but at
that we guess they can’t be any
more useless than the ones they
have been carrying.
What’s a fellow going to do. any
way? If he take# a modest, demure
lass to the dance all the other fid
lows pity him. And if he marries a
giddy flapper everybody else is going
to pity him.
They are a heap .more uneomforta- i
hie, but at least a man's evening
clothes don't show as much as Ills
wdfe's do.
When father loafs around the house |
all day it means that mother has to
JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Move#, Packs and Stores Freight !
and Baggage.
Prompt Delivery of
LADYSMITH COAL
Phone 48.
We are expert in
“ORNAMENTAL CONSTRUC
TIVE WATER-PROOF
CONCRETE,”
Hi® common wet kind alio.
Willoughby Ave., near Ball
grounds. Established Twenty
>'ears Phone 32
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFQ.
do a double day's work picking up |
and straightening up after him.
One reason a man promises at the |
altar to love her is because he hasn't ,
yet learned what a crimp her cooking I
is gonna put in his digestive ap
paratus.
Daily Sentence Sermon
No man can have a harder row to
hoe than the bird who starts out to j
please everybody.
News of the Names Club I
They may seem scarce, but you at
least can find Anne Angel in Indian
apolis.
\Ve like to say to Sybil Price Wood,
of Dallas, that if she finds it cheaper
than coal to let us know, and we
will burn it next winter, too. I
HAVE KIDNEYS
EXAMINED Bf ,
YOUR DOCTOR'
Take Salts to Wash Kidneys if
Back Pains You or
Bladder Bothers. I
Flush your kidneys by drinking a |
quart of water each day, also take
ealts occasionally, says a noted au
thority, who tells us that too much
rich food forms acids which almost
paralyse the kidneys in their efforts
to expel it from the blood. They be
come sluggish and weaken; then you
may suffer with a dull misery in the
kidney region, sharp pains in the |
hack or sick headache, dizziness,
your stomach sours, tongue Is coated, |
and when the weather is bad you
have rheumatic twinges. The urine
gets cloudy, full of sediment, the
channels often get sore and irritated,
obliging you to seek relief two or
three times during the night.
To help neutralize these irritating
acids, to help cleanse the kidneys
and flush off the body’s urinous j
waste, get four ounces of Jad Salts j
from any pharmacy here; take a
tablespoonful in a glass of water be
fore breakfast for a few days, and:
your kidneys may then act fine. This!
famous salts is made from the acidj
of grapes and lemon juice, combined j
with lithin, and has been used for j
years to help flush and stimulate j|
sluggish kidneys; also to neutralize,
the acids in the system so they no I
longer irritate, thus often relieving
bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot
injure and makes a delightful effer
vescent lithia-water drink. By ell |
means have your physician examine -
your kidneys at least twice a year. I
(Advertisement.)
IN UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, j
JUNEAU. ALASKA.
' i
Serials 03756-05965.
June 28. 1923.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That .
Lee H. Smith of Juneau, AlaBka, .
has submitted final three year proof
in support of hi3 Homestead Entry,]
Serial 03756, for lands in HE Sur
vey No. 101, new series No. 1194,
and additional Homestead Entry,
Serial 05965, for lands in U. S. Sur
vey No. 1434. Those surveys are
both situated about one mile easter
ly from the mouth of Mendenhall
River, twelve miles north of Ju
neau. Alaska, In latitude 58“ 22'
North and longitude 134° 34' West,
md more particularly described as
follows:
Commencing at cor. No. 1, HE
Survey No. 101 whence U.S.
L.M. No. 4 4 F. S. bears North
68° 54' W. 42.28 chs.; running
thence N. 89° 34' E. 26 chs. to
cor. No. 2, thence S. 0° 17' E.
60.08 chs. to cor. No. 3, thence
S. 89° 40' W. 20.00 chs. to cor.
No. 4, thence N. 0° 20’ W.
60.09 chs. to cor. No. 1 the
place of beginning, containing
an area 120.14 acres. Variation
31° 14' East.
Commencing at cor. No. 1, U.
S. Survey No. 1434, whence U.
S.L.M. No. 381 bears S. 49° 08'
E. 90.24 chs.; thence N. 0° 21'
IV. 20.00 chs. along the easterly
line U. S. Survey No. 381 to
cor. No. 2; thence N. 89° 40'
E. 19.99 chs. to cor. No. 3 iden
tical with Cor. No. 3 II.E. Sur
vey No. 101; thence S. 0° 36'
E. 20.20 chs. to cor. No. 4;
thence N. 89° 45' W. 20.08 chs.
to cor. No. 1 the place of be
ginning; containing 40.26 acres.
Variation 31° 15’ E.
FRANK A. BOYLE,
Register.
First publication July 26, 1923.
Last publication Sept. 24, 1923.
| It'a all In knowing HOW to do
flret-claae cleaning and dyeing.
CAPITAL DTE WORN
G. Meldner, Profeaalonal Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
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AUTOS FOR HIRE
Blaclrie’s Taxi
ANY WHERE—ANY TIME
Stand Arctic Pool Room
PHONE 444
CALL
Berry’s Auto Service
for that seven-pasenger 1923
Cadillac touring car. Stand at
] Gastineau Hotel. Popular
I pricse. Phone 10.
Also seven-passenger Sedan,
Day and Night Service
Call 362.
Miller’s Taxi Service
TWO CARS
Stand Alaikan Hotel
PHONE—SINGLE 0
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. DeVighne
Xalony Building
Hour* 1 to 4. 7 to 9.
Phone*: Office, 104; Rea. 101.
Dr. W. J. Pigg
PHYSICIAN
Office—Second and Main
Telephone 18
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Muelc House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
GEO. L. BARTON, D. 0.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Messerschmldt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phone 269.
Dr. HL Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Goldstein Building
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to l|
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
Phones: Office, 167; Residence
Phone 612, Coliseum Ag>ts.
Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours. 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Rea. Phone 276
Drs. Kaser & FreeHurger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg.
PHONE N
Hours 9 a. m. to 9 *. ta.
Dr. Charles P. Jenna
DENTIST
Roome 8 and 9 Valentina Bldg.
Telephone 176.
All Alaskan Trails End at |
HOTEL ATWOOD
Flret Ave. and Pine St., Seattle
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev- I
erythlng. J. A. Farnham and i
Ted Taylor, Prope.
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Old bunnies or newspapers at th»
Cm Dire. 26 cent*
fraternal Societies
--or
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If
0 . I L K I
Meeting Wednesday
Evenings at 1:00
o’clock, Elks’ Hall.
Charles P. Jenna,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVI8,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodice
of Freemasonry
Scottish Kite
Regular meeting*
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:30 p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HEISBL, Secretary.
1. O. O. F.
SILVER BOW
__ _ LODGE NO. S A.
Meeota every Thursday at S P. M.(
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Qrand|
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
PERSEVERANCE REJEKAB
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every first and thArd
Tuesdays in I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8 P M. FRANCE8 GUSTAFSON.
N. G. ALPHONSINB CARTER,
Secretary.
MOUNT JONEA0 LODI*
No. 147. F. a A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Monday*
of each Month. In Odd relicts
Hall, beginning at 1:SS o’doc*.
Ilomcr G. Nordling. Master.
Chas. E. NagheL Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
ISecond and Fourth T
days of each month.
At 8 o'clock. I. O. O. F. Halt
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
WEOHFR8 COUNCIL Be.
17<U. Meeting* aecoad
and last Monday* at 7:14
^ p. nj. Transient Broth
Bra urged to attend. Council Chamber*
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, Q. K.
I. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 u m.
Elks’ ixiage Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; G. B.
Maun, Post Adjutant, Phone 136.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 704
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock,
Moose Hall. E. F.
Uodenherg, Dictator; R. H. Stevenc
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* OF
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
! Meets last Thursday of every
I month. Social hour with mein
I bers of Pioneer I,odge to fol
low each meeting.
[ Mrs. Ixittio Splokett, 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
owe their success in a large part to the habit of
thrift acquired in youth. Have you started your boy
•in the right direction t
The B. ML Behrends Bank
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