ALASKA DaiLY EMPIRE
JOHN W. TROY - - • EDITOR AND MANAGER
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CIRCULATION CSUARANTEEI > TO BE MORI' THAN
DOUBLE THAT OF ANY QTHMit ALASKA NEWSPAPER.
CLOSER RELATIONS WITH ALASKAN
PORTS.
There is no good reason why Canada and
Alaska should not have very close business
and social relationship one with the other.
The C anadian National Railways Is really an
international railway, for part of the system
ds in the I'nited States. Many American
citizens an employed on the road and Am
erican capital is developing the resources of
Canada and especially of British Columbia.
Many Americans live here, and many Canad
ians have gone to reside permanently in the
Stator. Day by day in every way we are
getting to know each other better and hel
ler. Vet between Alaska and British Co
lin tibia there teems lo lie a barrier, a false
barrier ant up by tile transportation com
panies and other interests for fear Alaskan
business might conic this way instead ot
helping to fill their coffers.
It is foolish for citizen* of tilber country
to allow barrier- of thin kind to exist. The
ideal would hi to have perfectly free trade
m-iwh.'ii ini' i wo countries out mat being
impureiblc juH now, the next best thing is
to prevent irritating legislation on either
(title which might t nil to cause tril lion and
interfere with the natural course of trade.
There is a freight and passenger ferry
about to be established between Ketchikan
and Prince Rupert. That should be of bene
ilt, to both cities and will tend to draw us
closer. Divisions are usually caused by
f --Hark of knowledge. (Prince Rupert Now* »
We gunpeet that it ho condition complained of is
more a local condition than general. It may be that
there is not a groat deal of intermingling between
those who live in the News' particular Canadian city
i-ud any particular Ala kan town. If that lr the ease
it will he changed when t ransport ution liners con net
the places more direct!) and people begin to move
back ami forth act the lir.e more froel.v. There
is no lack of cordiality between Canadian and Alas
kan towns where there is such connection. The
people of Skugway and Haines and tltose of White-’
liots.e Atkin and elsewhere in that vicinity, or be
tween the people of Dawson and those of the Lower'
Yukon, understand and enjoy each other. They
are so cordial that one in any of those sections does
not often think of International boundaries.
The Empire unite agrees with the News that
there should be free trade between America and
Canada, but the lack of it does not seem to cool the
^v.arm friend: lop that exists wherever ctreumMancos
cause the people, to intermingle. And we can as
sure our neighbor that Americans, at least, do not
feel strange or lacking comradeship when they are
in Prince Rupert or other British Columbia towns_
end it is not always due to the cause that probably
suggests Itself.
Build the passenger and freight ferry system
■between Prince Rupert and Keach!kan and use it and
then note the growth of cordial relations there.
The condition that the News mentions is one
that frequently ih.ins between Alaskan cotnmunl
lies or, probably, betwei a Canadian towns, but it is
one that always succumbs to satisfactory transpor
tation or business and social connections.
A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWEEDLEDEE!
AND TWEEDLEDUM?
Delegate Sutherland rays the Ketchikan Grand I
Jury report is jtractlcally an endorsement of the
White Bill w4th the Sutherland amendment, and adds
that is what he has been after all the time. The
\\ hlte Bill would «ive the Department of Commerce?
complete jurisdiction over the whole flali erica in
dustry in Alaska with jxwer to make any sort of
regulations it would divide to be necessary, with
certain limitations rgeurding traps.
That i. the power the Department of Commerce
acquirer, through the creation o-r fisheries 'reserves.!
iu other woixls the Doportmcnit of Commerce is ac-j
quiriug jurisdiction over the fisheries industry with1
power to make such regulations as it may decide to*
liu necessary through the executive action of creating I
reserves. i lie Delegate thinks this is very wrong, I
uiul he has acemed the Department of being in a cun
apiracy with the Big Cannery Interests through it.
However, he thinks it would be the proper thing if
it acquired Jurisdiction to do exact), what it is doing
.through an Aet of Congress.
If anyone can explain why regulations made by j
the Department of Commerce acting under jurledic- I
tiun acquired through the creation of fish reserves '<
would he injuriously favorable to the Big Cannery
Interests while the same regulations made by the
pame authority acting under jurisdiction acquired !
through loftiefatlon would not he so we should like '
to hear it.
Is there, after all. a difference between tweedledee i
and tweedledum?
^GOVERNMENT RAPS FAKE ADVERTISING. f
• Honest advertising is io come under tiu* protec
tion of the United States Doparment of Agriculture, k
*0. D-orn a statement issued from the Sec-re- v
tary's office. The subject of tlie statement is "Fak
ing: the Blueberry Business.”
The Department tells of sixteen years' successful
effort in Washington and at. a testing plantation at
VVhitesbog, N. J., in order to learn the requirements
of the cultivated •blueberry, and to establish it as a
commircial crop The need for an acid soil, instead
of for the usual alkaline util, is especially stated out
of this experience.
Now. protests the department, in the face of all
its care and effort, a few unscruplous nurserymen
"are taking advantage of tlie work that has been done
in the domestication and improvement of the blue
beiry to deceive the public by advertising blueberries
in u very misleading manner.”
One advertiser Is mentioned particularly. He has
been using, the Department says, "an illustration of
a hybrid blueberry taken from a publication of the
Department of Agriculture issued in 1!U6. The il
lustration Is used in such a way as to lead the reader
to believe that this firm lias for sale blueberries of
the kind shown in the illustration, when as a mat
ter of fact ordinary wild blueberries, first trans
planted to a nursery are furnished in response to
(lie advertisement
All tlie European natt.ions have against
tbe (.Tilled States is that the I'nited States
is a success. (Toledo Blade, i
That Is very often the foundation of a grudge
against countries and individuals.
I)r. Hornaday has no terrors for the Alaska Leg
islature . The Dimoiul bill raising ithe bounty on
eagles from GO cents to St lias passed both houses.
Progressive Net-Back.
( Philadelphia Bulletin.)
Senator Brookhart, tlie rising chieftain of the
farmers’ bloc, nut the late of many a prophet in his
own country when the Iowa State Senate turned
down tile hill of a Presidential primary, introduced
by the Senator's brother at the former's request.
But the disappointment is not entirely personal.
The hope of the Progressives—Senator Johnson and
others: have been grounded in securing Presidential
primaries in a RiilHeient number of states to guar
antee an influential bloc of votes in the next Re
publican National Convention, and lew a has been
counted on to do its part. Hopes ran high because'
cf the victory of radicalism in the election of BttOok-1
hart. Hut the State Senate's action sltows that the;
conservative Republicans are not without strength j
and disposition to make a stand again t tiltra-Pro-1
gr ess ivi atn.
Iowa, in fact, is not radical in ilte sense that I
North Dakota is now, or Kansas occasionally Iras!
been. Senator Brookhart is ntuoh more radical than !
the rank and file of the disgruntled voters who have
sent him to the Senate.
New Relationship.
(Chicago Tribune.)
The completion of the Aral treaty between Canada I
and the United States ever written without interfer
ence by the Brill h Foreign Office should be of great!
lilt ere.-a to the people of this continent as the first!
etep toward an important new relationship.
In S ' tar as it means the Independence of Canada i
in its affairs on this continent it forecasts a much
ilosei relationship with the United States for mutual!
benefit. It should bring the two countries closer
together In all matters of common defense and jxi 1 - j
it y. Independent, Canada's interests are those of!
( anada. It the independence of decision, action and
sithst ciueut iespcusability indicated by the signing of
ibis treaty means anything it means that, the domin
ions problems In the Pacific, and perhaps in the!
Atlantic, are almost identical with those of the1
United States.
That makes a closer alliance wise for both eoun
trieb. Such an alliance should begin with the break
ing down of economic barriers. Economically the
continent should be one. When we realize that our
economic Interests are common it can be one. it
ought not to be hard to convince either Canadians
or Americans that these interests are common, and
that the economic relationship between the dominion!
and the United States is inevitably closer than that1
between the dominion and the United Kingdom, or!
any other unit in the British commonwealth oft
nu! ions.
Imst year we bought $305,422,177 worth of goods'
fnm Canada while the United Kingdom was buying'
$300,363,193 worth of goods. We sold $516,105,107!
worth of supplies to Canada while the United King-!
dom was selling $117,134,576 worth. And that des-!
pite the fact t hut our tariff barred various imports I
tiom Canada and influenced Canadians to buy from
England.
We could do hotter than that, and Canada could
do better than that With reciprocity'. As an economic
unit it might even pay to revise our coast shipping
laws in such manner as lo assure Canada identical
rights with us between our ports. Many improve
ments iu economic and social relationships would bei
possible afid advisable.
The Canadians should not he frightened off, as!
they have been in the past—notably by the late!
Cliatnp Clark—-by Intimations that we seek to use!
an economic alliance to force a political alliance upon !
'he.ni. This is not the idea. Wo can and should be!
business associates without marrying into the family.
Freeing the VV;ir Prisoners—When?
l*New York Post.)
H is shocking to liberal citizens to think that •
alter five years fifty-three men imprisoned under the
espionage act are still in jail. Some are literally I
rotting there, tor two have just been medically certi- I
fled to be in advanced Sr»ge of tuberculosis. A
third, accused of malingering by the authorities, re-1
centl.v suggested that they were mistaken by dying !
Charles W. Morse and K. H. Nobbe had no difficulty
in getting out ot Federal prison on the plea of ill !
health. A et wo have the best of evidence that many
>f these war prisoners should never have been put
there in the first place. Senator Pepper months ago
carefully examined the cases of twenty-eight. He
i ream mended to the President an unconditional par-J
don, giving as one reason the faot that "they were
convicted when public sentiment was such that it
really prevented a lair trail,"
Kumpean diplomat says: "Any fool Van* make
■\ur," and it is also true that any war can make
i lot of fools.—(Seattle Post-Intelligencer.)
There is one thing to he said of the "bloc" sys
em of legislation. It is a combination of logrolliug
nd legislative blackmail. — (Houston Post.)
The recent experiences of Knglish royalty on
lorseback indicate that Richard 111 didn’t know Uis
uck, -(New York Fosl.)
Smoking is now discovered to be beneficial, but
onfirmed smokers will keep right on just the same.
— ( New York Post.)
I-ot-P of people get spring fever before the weather
ives them an excuse.— (Chicago News.)
Headline says:
Jury Gives Nurse $20,000 for a
iss." Well, it is worth that to kiss some juries
e've seen.—(Seattle Poet-Intelligencer.)
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
Ami just think, girls once were so
silly that in cold weather they would
wear high shot's to the dance and
change to their pumps after they got
there.
The Ananias Club
"So, chunks," said Willie, “I don't
unnt another piece of pie. 1 think
one Is all I ought to oat ”
Too Conservative, Entirely
Blinks—It says here there were
7,937 fa toll res in th tailed Stales
in 1920.
Jinks G'wan! You can't tell me
there were not more fellows than
that who fell down trying to make
home brew.
Fool Questions
T. C. VV. asks: "What do th ay
mean by 'Good a.s pic'?" Not much!
If they are -pealing of the modern
bakers' plies we buy.
Well, He Aught to Know, If Anybody
Does
(Pcrstmal ad in Kan as City Stair.)
Everybody knows the Greek liar.
Somebody say I married in old coun
try. I want him to prove it. 1 never
married in toy life. Gregory Itigos.
One on Pa
"Pa," said Clarence, “what’s a
hypocrite?"
“It's a man who tells his wife that
she looks batter in her last year’s
hat than her neighbor does in the
new $n0 one she's Just bought,"
swapped ilia, with a moaning glance
In pa's direction.
Paste This in Your Hat
You never hear the follow who
does big (things boasting eo about
l)h< m. Sain Hill. luttle things re
quire boasting if attention is to b • at
tracted to them.—J II. lt( ed
Radio Broadcas>sg Ciations Ought j
Not to Overlook This Cow
(Classified ad in Now I’oii Richey j
(K*1 a. > Paper.)
Wanted—A steady, respectable
young nun to look after a garden
and caro for a cow who lias a good
voice and is accustomed ij sing in
the choir.
Gems From uuide Book to Success |
'Revenge is a hard taskmaster, it j
brights tho hours of its anticipation
and cures those < f its realization,
t s influence is penalizing to both
victor and victim, and no mailer how1
apparently successful tho outcome,'
the sequence U utter defeat. No,I
revenge is not -Areot; it is hitter as!
gall. -d. E. F. ;
If It Fits—
Tiro girls aro showing their ears:
now, but wo don't hear as mu. h l'a-|
varablo comment on tho earrings |
they decorate them with as we did
on tho silk hoc,** in tha days th?i
short skirts.
Just when tho girls wero beginning
to dress and tret like boys, along*
com os a fashion note drclaiiing the
idd fashioned type of coy maiden isj
coming back, if you aro a girl, you j
never kn ow what’s gonna happen j
next. It must bo quite thrilling,
though.
The trouble with most parents is
they think their children ought to
have more sense than they have.
Wo sometimes are optimistic
enough to believe the young people
of today would appreciate good music
if they would quit listening to jazz
long enough to hear what good music
sounds like.
A man can’t think of anything
mors useless around the house than
a guest towel.
We suppose the reformers feel that
in donning ‘long skirts, the girisi
have put off the evil day —of sliort
skirts.
The people who get on our nerves|
ars 'those who always are stepping|
on cur corns.
We r.'ever yet have seen a man who]
couldn't keep as busy as a little bee
by tending strictly to his own busi-'
ness. 11
When a married woman hears aj.
man bragging about keeping cool in;
time of danger she knows his feet'
woro chunks of ice and a shivverj
was running up und down his spinal
column.
In tho old days when you turned
the horse Howard home he would al
ways priced up, but 1t is different!
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with motor cars and husbands— ;
sometimes.
It is simply a waste of money to ,
give the modern girl a thimble. The ,
only kind of needle she uses goes on |
the phonograph.
Some people seem to get so much
enjoyment on: of posing as martyrs
wo can't understand why they should
sxpect any one to pity them.
Hark in the days when children
only were allowed 'tu road books like
‘Pilgrim's Progress, " father would I
have used the tongs to carry a racy
novel, such, as the modern young
sters eat up, to the fire if it had
skipped into the house.
Daily Sentence Sermon
Talki ng make* a poor : ub.-Uiluie I
for doing. j
News of the Names Club
Iva Shutter is reported from Lans
ing. Automatic? Thats' • the kind
nearly all the ladies use these days.
Declares Sunday Schools |i
Teach Children Sedition i
LONDON’. April 9. A petition with
more than 1 .(MM) signatures lias been
presented to tlie present parliament
asking that tHo House of Commons
explore the existence and growth of
What are known as "proletarian San
day schools." wliTh. in th • opinion
of the petitioners, ar ■ “fast becoming I
a menace to the lability of the con
stitution of this c nintry, as well as
to our national character. moral
standards and horn life."
The petition charges that these j
Sunday schools are engaged in the*
teaching of 'Commune t principle.-, so
dirion and blasphemous ideas cm alii
religion.
NOTICE.
After April 10 r.o telephone
rentals for the month of April
will be accepted at a discount. All
remittances by mail must bear post
mark of not later than last discount
date. Please be prompt.
JUNEAU & DOUGLAS TELE
-adv. . PHONE CO.
Headauarters inT Ladysmith coal.
Juneau Transfer Co. Phone 48 adv
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sealed proposals for constructing
the Ginlwotxl-Cio\v Creek National '
Purest Road project located within |
or partly within the Chilgach Na
tional Forest. Territory <f Alaska,
will be received by the District En
gineer, Bureau of Public Roads, U. j
5. Department of Agriculture, at j
Juneau, Alaska, until 10 o'clock A. |
A1. on tlu 10th day of -Hay. 1921!, at i
which time ami place they will be!
publicly opened and read. The right]
i- reserved to reject any and allii
bids, and none will be considered
ew.ipt those from contractors ascer-!
taintd to be experienced and re-'
sponsible. The length of project]
to be constructed or improved is
i'pproximately 7.0 miles, and the
principal Items of work are approxi-j
mutely as follows: 33.3 acres clear
ing: 16.62 acres grubbing;, 5618:
eu. yds. rock excavation; IX103 eu.j
Vile, common excavation; 1561 lin.
ft. culverts; 1590 cu. yds. surfac-j'
ing; 133 lin. ft. trestle decking.
The work embraced in this contract:
shall be completed within 1501
weather working days following the!
execution of the contract by the!
Secretary of Agriculture. The con-,
tract form and the maps, plans, 1
specifications, and estimates of i
quantities may ho examined by re-!
sponsible contractors at the follow
ing 'addresses: Room 3.16, Post Of
fice Building, Portland, Oregon, at
the office of the Bureau of Public
Ronds, Juneau, Alaska, and at the
Forest Ranger Station, Anchorage,
Alaska. All proposals must be made '
r.n forms, and in accordance with
instructions, forming a part of the
specifications above referred to, and
must be accompanied by a proposal
guaranty in an amount at least
equal to five (6) per cent of the
total amount of the proposal. C. W.
OHEATHAM, Acting District En
gineer.
ALASKA RADIO
Orosley. Set ready to install.
! Now model ltudiotrom tubes.
Makes battery last four times
longer. Also Mugnavox loud j
' speaker. It speaks for itself.
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45 Cents
Arcade Cafe
^ MARY YOUNG, Proprietor.
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Front Street
^_P. 0. Box 218 for Mail Ordcre ^
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Luxe itoeka on hand
Ledyunitk coal.
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DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldsteia Bldg.
PHONE W
Hours 9 a m. t« 9 p. *.
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Dr. Charles P. Jenne
DENTIST
Room* 8 and 9 Valentine Bldg.
Telephone 176.
Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Rea. log.
Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Rea. Phone 27 6
Dr. W. A. Borland
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Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 17 2.
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Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard's Sanitarium
Kates $3.00 Per Day ami Up
Etfery Comfort
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GEO. L. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor MesserBchmidt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phone 259.
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Goldstein Building
Hours: 3:30 to 12; 1 to 5;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
Phones: Office, 167; re3., 1672.
AH 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 and dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
I THE MAKING OF CONCRETE
! Is a matter of proper materials
I together with engineoring skill.
Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Years
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFG.
| COMPANY
I Willoughby Ave. Phone 32.
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Fraternal Societies
-OF
Gastineau Channel
0 . 1LKS
Meeting Wednesday
Evenings at 8:00
o'clock. Elks' Hall.
ARTHUR B. COLE,
Exalted Ruler,
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
3o-0rdinate Bodies
of Freemasonry
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
ecu ml and fourth
Fridays each month
it 7:30 p. m. Odd
'ellows' Hall.
WALTER B HEISEL,
Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. S a
leeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
idd Fellows’ Hall,
harles E. Perelle, Noble Grand;
lerle P. Morgan, Secretary.
PERSEVERANCE RERVTaw *
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every first and third l
! Tuesdays in I. O. O. F. Hall, at I
8 P M. FRANCES GUSTAFSON,
N. G ALP110NSINE CARTER,
Secretary. i
40UNT JUNEAU LOOK
No. 1«r, F. a a. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth' Mondays
f each Month. In Odd Felices
'all, beginning *t 7:S« o’clock.
tomer G. Nordling, Master,
'has. E. NagTiel. Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tues
day* of each month.
At 8 o'clock. I. O. O. F. HalL
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLINC, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
—,u—SEOHE R8 COUNCIL Nn.
17 'u- Meeting* second
and last Monday* at 7.It
>Q p m Transient Broth
's urged to attend. Council Chamher*
Ifth street. John F. Mullen, Q. K.
. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month it t ). u,
?lks’ Ixtdge Room. John P. Starr,
'cat Commander, Phone 973; O. B.
lann, Post Adjutant, Phone 19$.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. E. F.
todenberg, Dictator; It. H. Stevens
iecretary.
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WOMEN OF M00SEHEART
LEGION I
Juneau Chapter No. 439
Meeting second and fourth
| Tuesday of each month, 8
1 o'clock, Moose Hall. Mrs. C. W. |
Render, Senior Regent; Mrs. A
P. McKinnon, Secretary.
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' AUXILIARY, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA. Igloo No. «.
Meets luRt Thursday of every
month. Social hour with mem
; bers of Pioneer T»dge to fol
low each meeting.
Mrs. Lottie Spickett, President.
Mrs. Lillie Burford, Secretary.
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. Behrcnds Bank
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