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JOHN W. TROY • - - EDITOR AND MANAGER
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NEWSPAPER.
SENATOR JONES ACCEPTS THE
JCNEAU IDEA.
Senator'Jones stated at the meeting at the City
Hell last Friday that ho would t»e willing to and
would urge. If necessary to got the pulp and paper
industry started in Alaska, that tho Government soli
timber on fifty year lease- at live or ten cents a
cord, provided the reforestation regulations were car
ried out. He accepted the principle that the bene
fits to the Government and tho people of the" Nation
accruing from the natural rseourccs should come in!
profits thrrugh their development and use rather,
than front stumpage, royalties, rentals, etc., incidental
tj the ownership.
In other words Senator Jones is In favor of at-1
tempting to adjust conservation to the principles the
application of which led to the development of the
United States. The rapid and substantial growth
of the nation was due to the fact that the Govern
ment parted with the ownership of the lands, min
erals, water power and other natural resources at
nominal prices, tickling up the prospect for “un
earned Increment" as a prize to induce men with
capital, ubility and energy to enter In and develop.
If it had not beon that the early settlers on the
lands and, In many Instances, those who invested
money in the development of water power and other
resources had l et believed that the lands or rights j
tequired from the Government would some day be
worth a great deal mere than they were at the time!
cf their appropriation settlement and development
would not have bean so rapid.
Senator Jones accepted the Juneut idea on the
forestry question, a compromise he properly called
ft. which would not deprive capital or individuals of
the prospect for the "unearned increment” prize on
the one hand but that would, on the other hand.!
provide for use without waste, the perpetuation of
the fore-ts.
A LESSON IN FINANCE.
An Associated Press Berlin dispatch says “the
scarcity of money i causing serious trouble." The|
icmatndcr cf the dispatch lolls about the killing
and wounding of scores in the impromptu war that is!
waging in Germany because of this "serious trouble.” j
Yet German presses have been printing marks at the*
rate of two trillion a month. They have printed!
■cs many that marks have ceased to bo money. Those
who have taken them as money have been gyped
cut cf billions in labor, the products of labor and
t,ced money they have given for them. Germans are
now paying or tho dishonest financial methods of'
tbeir government. Sound money is an essenital for
stable business and permanent prosperity.
JUNEAU LOSES GOOD CITIZEN.
The departure of Mr. M. B. Summers and his
estimable family from Juneau is a matter of mingled!
regret and pleasure to the pople of this city. The
regret at losing u capablo official and u tine citizen
is very real in its nature and is only compensated
for by the pleasure that ono so deserving lias been
promoted in his professional career.
The real work of the Weather Bureau in Alaska
was inaugurated under the direction if Mr. |
Summers. In the performance of his duty he lias!
visited nearly every section of the Territory, and tile1
telegraph reports that come daily from thirteen)
points have put Alaska on the weather map of the
country.
Juneau will long remember Mr. Summers and ills
work in this Territory and will wish him well
wherever duty may take him.
In the meantime there will be a warm and cordial
welcome to Mr. Mize, v.lio succeeds Mr. Summers.
IS Tyis PROCESS TO CONTINUE?
—
Fanners all over the I'nlted States are seriously
considering cutting down their active acreage—re
ducing the volume of production in order to bring
higher prices and fewer hired hands. The Wichita!
wheat farmers decided to cut the volume of wheat ;
ploduction in the t utted States 200,000,11(10 bushels)
a year. Cotton planters have adopted a similar
course. In Virginia the recommendation lias gone
forth that planters sow their acres to grass and
raise a few rtivk. This is also recommended by the
cotton planters and the wheat farmers.
In many parts of the country in the vicinity of |
large industrial centers people are abandoning the!
farms to find employment In the cities. They have
decided that the wage earning end of the game is
bettor than the employing end.
What will lie the result? Will it not end in an
agreed upon reduction in production among those
who produce for the farnn is? If farm population
is reduced through restricting the acres tilled farmers
will not consume so much.
Labor is fast being organized so that too many
workers do not mean a reduction in wages. Presi
dent Harding in his message to Congress a year ago
:bowed that the high cost, of coal mining is due to
tjie fact that there are 200,mjo too many coal miners,
fhey distribute the work so that meu may make 1
it living by working two or three days a week. Work- I
ingmcn must live and such work as they get to do
must produce the living.
If thiR process continues it cannot result other
wise than in abandoning foreign markets to wiser
competitors and restricting the home market.
Lower tariffs and more immigration would make
product ions costs less, extend the foreign markets
and increase home consumption. If we produce more
the producers will consume more raw materials and
give employment for more labor and the more people
we have the greater will be the consumption of food
stuffs. automobiles, etc.
That the farmers of the West have awakened to
tills situation is evident from the fact that all
parlies in the late Minnesota election asked for a
low tariff. The demand is being echoed by manu
facturers.
Mr. Steinmetz, the great engineer, urges the
country to elect Ford President as an "experiment."
The Presidency of the I'nlted States is rather a large
matter to experiment with. Experimenting usually
precedes important use.
Arthur Brisbane, editorial writer for the Ucarst
newspapers, is probably the most successful, finan
cially, of all salaried newspaper writers He has
just purchased a New York home and paid a half
million for it.
A New York of 29.000,000 People.
(New York World.)
In the year 2000 A. I). the City of New York,
according to the Committee on Plan of New York
and Its Environs, will have a population of 29,
000,000, The year 2000 is a long way off. but not
so far away that a child horn In 1923 may not easily
live to see it. If the metropolis grows at the rate
predicted, men now in the prime of life will see
the city more than doubled in size.
The prospect is not entirely alluring. Realestate
dealers will like it; dealers in nearly everything will
look with tolerance at least on the arrival of now
potential customers. But for those who have to live1
and work in this community the promise of further!
congestion amounts to a threat. Bryce once expressed I
un opinion that cities of more than 300,000 were In
efficient as political units. looking out over the j
municipal Governments of the t'nited States one Is
Inclined to agree with him, yet that is not the worst |
of the prophecy.
The difficulties and inconveniences of local public |
service are already enormous. Transport, on the stir-:
! face ans underground, has most of the characteristics
I of a nightmare at some hours of the day; actual
country Is almost inaccessible for commuting; term-1
inal facilities and food and milk supply have about |
j reached a limit of entanglement and complication.
The machinery has a chronic air of being on tfjc
I point of clogging and coming to a full stop.
All this, we are assured, is to get worse, and still
I go on. It is then to get very much worse, and con
tinue. There will he simplifications and inventions,
of course; the race will not smother itself by trying
to dunce all at once on a pinpoint on the map.
But New York haH all the appearance of being quite
large enough already for its ability to meet tome of
Its most pressing daily problems. Still. It could not
! stop growing it if tried.
A House Divided.
(Anchorage Times. >
Wo of ordinary mold look back and marvel at
! the manner 111 which our great men have bridged
j time and apace with wonderful minds. Sixty odd
j years ago. Lincoln stood before a little audience and
| made a speech that crystallized a controversy, created
ja cause, brought freedom and unity out of the (lames
of a civil war. And as the sublime common sense of
! genius knows neither age nor race, he took for his
jlrvt the words of another great, man. "A house dl
| t ided against Itself cannot stand."
We of Alaska have strong and good friends; un
. limited possibilities; no enemies save ourselves. The
Igroai American government seeks answer to our
l problems; a President goes half way around the world
.to hear the wlsoes of a little handful of people—and
j gives up his litc in our cause! We have the center
'of the stage; it is the morning of our day.
( an tve not then forget our little jealousies; for
set that we are of Anchorage, or Seward, or Fair
banks, and say "We are Alaskans!" Or must we
quarrel like greedy children over a few rotted
windfalls, while barrels of rich ripe fruit hang within
reach overhead?
Surely there is "glory enough for all!”
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Nebraska’s Saurian.
(San Francisco Bulletin.)
Hay Springs, Nebraska, has sent to Boston an
order for a harpoon, line and whaling gun with
which to destroy tome sort of pre-historic monster
that is said to have its habitat in Alkali Lake.
I he animal is said to be 40 feet in length, in
cluding Jiead and tail, and to be “either dull gray or
brown in color.” It is alleged that it has preyed upon
livestock and frightened campers and aufoists.
Such monsters are rare, but are occasionally found
in various parts of the United States.
They are divided us to species, there being two
| distinct varieties. The first Is known as Putuson
themapibus and the second as Hereyou'llbndastlllibus,
anil their presence is due to either a brilliant and
; imaginative press agent or a corn whiskey factory.
gueer people, those Spaniards and all Latln
Amcrlcans! They dote on hull-fights. The crowd
which roared satisfaction as Criqui's wounded mouth
spurted blood Thursday night can’t understand the
phychology, of the spiggoties. — (New York World.)
Human legs, which the scientists told us a few
years ago were going out of existence owing to the
motor car, arc coming back now, being useful once
more as means of locomotion between the place of
business and t he parking station.— (Kansas City
Star.)
It looks like a "break up" of the old political
parties in the West unless tile managers.cf the Big
Shows put out hiore attractive “paper.'' The old
“gags" will not draw a crowd. — (Nebraska City
Press.)
We shudder and groan at the thought of what
may fill the Anierca’s cup if Sir Thomas Upton this
time succeeds in taking il back home with him_
(Springfield Union.)
No danger that scopolamin, which makes who
ever lakes it incapable of telling a lie. will ever
become a habit-forming drug. —(Toledo Blade.)
lawlessness lias developed to such an extent that
we now read of lawless enforcement of law.—Kear
ney. Neb., Hub.)
The more you think of the fly the less you should
tbink of it.—(Hastings. Neb., Tribune.)
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Omj-C'bjpptlon to making Alaska state is two more
Senators.— (Detroit News, 1
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By bam ott.t,
i
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
It doesn't seem possible that young
people ever read '“Pilgrim’s Progress"
and "Fox's Hook of Martyrs” and
really enjoyed them.
The Ananias Clug
“No," declared the flapper, "I do
not wear summer furs. I do not be
lieve In making myself look ridiculous
by dolling up in every freaky fashion
that comes along."
Huh!
“Pa,” said Clarence, "the title to
this picture is Still Life.' What do
they mean by still life?"
“Not married life, son. In fact, still
life these days Is mostly moonshine,”
replied his dad, dryly.
Touching Is Good
There is a touching son,
You'll hear on land and sea;
The words are simply these:
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!"
That’s a Corking Ad For His Busi
ness; Eh, What!
[Sign seen or a ftalllmore, (Ohio)
Restaurant by a Reader]
CLOSED— GONE TO DINNER.
He Won’t Give Up As Long As He's
Living There.
[Hopeful (Ky 1 Cor. Boone County
Recorder]
Milton Beemon, who has been ill
some time, does hot improve.
Not So Good
! “Well, I see you're back, and I
suppose you ha^vo crime hack full oft
| pep,” remarked THe boss to Jones. j
“Nall!” Full of chlggers!” growled.
Jones, who had spent his vacation ini
the country, as he continued hlsj
! scratching.
Fool Questions
I !T. S. asks: “If a farmer can cure
|his hay, why can’t he cure his hay
fever?”
Meditation of a Boarding House
Keeper
An idle roomer pays no board.
If It Fits—
It's strange, when a fellow’s girl
Is away he'll use a whole box of note
1 paper every day writing to her, and
; after he Is married he simply writes,
I "Check enclosed; glad you're having
ia good time;" and signs it. “Yours In
haste.”
Many a wife who wouldn't think of
' getting a divorce feels that if. in the
| course of human'Tvents. her present
mate should get #tis t,ticket to Join
' the angel choir, she would use a lot
i more judgment lit picking out her
next, meal ticket.
! Mother may he sporting red shoes,
j but the price is so prohibitive that
poor old father can’t afford a red
nose any more.
Some way or other.' every time we
read of a boss issuing a decree against
the girls In the office appearing in
clothes that make them look like near
September Morns, we have a feeling
his wife was <l<yU -Ahe <luy before
looking them overt
When a strong Allied woman mar
ries a meek little thing in trousers,
I It would be easier to convince a Jury
I (bat she had kidnapped him than it
; would be to convince it that he had
! done the proposing.
When Kauai Rights gets to hitting
on all six. we men can also turn
the Job of getting up in the middle
of the night to go down stairs and
look for burglars^ over to the missus.
A good many Jjpdijg men have lost
out with the girts because they have
insisted on blowltffc their own horns
Instead of singing the girls' praises.
The average village gossip may he
shy of brains, but we never saw one
who wasn't equipped with a perfectly
marvelous imagination.
Change or occupation may he rest,
as the old bromide broadcasts, but
the hardest job a wife has is to con
vince her poor, tired hubby that It
would rest him to wash the dishes.
One reason a lot of car owners are
I very careful to obey the traffic laws
1 W. H. CASE
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i EASTMAN KODAK SUPPLIES [
I j Amateur Finishing Our Specialty
PHONE 311 I
i * r-*
I It‘a all In knowing HOW to do |
I first-class cleaning and dyetug I
1 CAPITAL DTE WORKS I
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer j
and Cleaner. Phone IT7.
JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Morei, Packs and Store* Freight
and Baggage.
Prompt Delivery of
LADYSMITH COAL
is that they simply can't afford to
pay fines and buy gas, too.
News of the Names Club
A lot of women do, but what do
you think of Edward Dye, of Detroit?
To A. D. Vance, of Valley Park,
Mo., all right; go ahead.
Princess Toils Over Dolls
in American Factory.
. Dressing (lolls in a Utile fac
tory of the famous and dingy Hast
Sale of New V irk City is the
way Princess Mecr Damndy, of
Persia, is studying sociology. The
Princess, wealthy member of the
Safavic IJynastv of Persia. goes
to work at 9 o’clock in the morn
ing uml works until 5 p. m. to
study her American working sis
ter. In I hr Fall site will enter
Wells College Aurora, N. Y.. to
take a course in sociology and
economics. Following this site
will tour America to pet a gen
cral view of the American women.
She intends to use nil slip can
learn here to better the condi
tion of the Persian wocen.
YOUR "UNUSED'’ ASSETS -that
typewriter, musical Instrument, fur
niture, office fixture or appliance
are marketable, for cash, through
the classified columns of The Empire.
Rargaln hunters always read The
Empire’s classified columns.
IN UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.
JUNEAU. ALASKA.
Serials 03756-05965.
Juno 28. 1923.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That
Leo H. Smith of Juneau, Alaska,
has submitted final three year proof
in support of his 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. 1 434. These 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,
and more particularly described as
follows:
Commencing at cor. No. 1, HE
Survey No. 101 whence U.S.
L.M. No. 44 P. S. bears North
68° 54' W. 42.28 chs.; running
thence N. 89° 34' E. 2* 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, thenco N. 0° 20' W.
60.09 chs. to cor. No. 1 the
place pt beginning, containing
an area 120.14 acre’s. 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'
W. 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 H.E. Sur
vey No. 101; thence S. 0° 36'
E. 20.20 chs. to cor. No. 4;
j thence N. 89° 45' W. 20.08 chs.
I 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.
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TO BE WELL GROOMED
Has much to do with one’s
success. Perfectly pressed
clothes add to the dignity of
every man. We press the Hoff
man way. It’s sanitary and
lengthens the life of all gar
ments. PHONK 394.
THE RENOVATORY
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AUTOS FOR HIRE
Day and Night Service
Day 386—PHONK— Night 451
Day 386—Palace of Sweets
T. & W. Taxi
7-passenger Studebaker
Chas. Mosby, Driver. Juneau
Blackie’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
Oaatlneau Hotel. Popular
prlcee. Phone 10.
Also seven-passenger Sedan
for stormy weather.
Miller’s Taxi Service
i
TWO CARS
Stand Alaikan Hotel
PHONE—SINGLE 0
PROFESSIONAL
—
▲11 Alaskan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
First Are. and Pine St., Seattle
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
erything J. A. Farnham and
Ted Taylor, Props.
EVERYTHING IN COAL
BRIQUETS
COMAX
LADYSMITH
ISSAQUAH
NANAIMO
BLACKSMITH
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
PHONE 412
Old bundles or iicwsiutperg at tb»
iCmolre. 2S cents
Fraternal Societies
-or
Gastineau Channel
If
o . mi
ltMtlll Wednesday
Evenings at 8:00
o'clock, Elks' Hall.
Charles P. Jenna,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freemaaouy
Scottish Bite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:80 p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary,
~ I. O. O. P.
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. I A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows' Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand |
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
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PERSEVERANCE REXXKAX
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every flrst and th.Nrd
Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8 P M. FRANCE8 GUSTAFSON,
N. Q. ALPIIONSINB CARTER,
Secretary.
MOUNT JONCAV LODSI
No. 147, F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and fourth Mondays
of each Month. In Odd Felices
Hall, beginning at 7:I» o'clock.
Homor G. Nordlinft, Master.
Chas. E. ’Laurel. Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tua*
dare of each month.
At 8 o'clock. I. O. O. F. Ha!L
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDUNG, Secretary.
knights of
COLUMBUS
_ HBCIHFRB COUNCIL MS.
V%jragBK7 1740. Meeting* aecoad
and laat Mondaya at 7:M
XI V P- m. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chambers
Fifth Stroet. John f\ Mun«n, Q.
J. L. McCloakey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursdaj
each month at 8 ». m.
Elks' trudge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; G. ■.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
eight, 8 o’clock,
^ Moose Hall. E. F.
Rodenberg, Dictator; R. H. Stevenr
Secretary.
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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. McKInaon, Secretary. t
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AUXILIARY, PIONEERS 0V
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
Meets last Thursday of every |
month. Social hour with mem
bers of Pioneer Ix>dge to fol
low each meeting.
I Mrs. Ix>ttio Spickett, President.
I Mrs. Idllle Burford, Secretary.
Chautauqua brings you good entertain
ment at a reasonable price.
The program at Juneau this year is better
than any previous one.
You can’t afford to miss a single one of
the five programs.
Season tickets sold at:
The B. M. Behrends Bank
JUKLAU, ALASKA.