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NEW YORK WORM) AND EARLY STATE
HOOD FOR ALASKA.
Commenting ipon the declaration of President
Htrdlns that "in a few years wo can well set off
the Panhandle and a large block of the connecting
southeastern part [of Alaska), as a State; this region
now contains easily 9b per cent, of the white popula
tion and of the developed resources,” the New York
World d dares that "it is profitable to recall tltrt by
the census of 1920 the entire Territory contained only
54,889 lifkablatnts * * * and the population has been
tapidly shrinking.”
The World is in error so far as that part Of
the Territory referred to by President Harding is con
cerned. The population of Southeastern Alaaka gain
ed between 191u and 1920, and it continues to gain.
Not only that, but the developed resources have be
come greater and greater.
With the utilization of the timber resources of
Southeastern Ala ka this section of the Territory
will begin guinlng in population with great rapidity,
and tin producing resources increasing with tre
mendous momentum.
The World continues the expression of its doubts
about the practicability of the President’s pronounce
ment by asking:
* * * Will not the question of cost
detract from the perfect measure of satis
faction? la Alafka prepared to pay the ex
pense of supporting the superior dignity of
Statehood?
The revenues of this section or Alucka Horn taxa
tion aie greater than*, were those of many of the
States at the time of their admis ion—and the rate
of taxation i. not ro high nor the distribution fo
gincial here as in those States at that other time.
A large percentage of the revenues derived from
taxation in this .action of Alaska is used to bear
in part the cart of government and development in
portions of the Territory not. included in the area
designated by President Harding as suitable for
Statehood.
If the conservation policy- the reservation sys
tem -that it: in vogue in AhtEka is to remain with
us, if the Federal Government is to continue to con
trol so much of the resources of Alaska, the people
here would be willing to pay a good price for rep
resentation in tho Federal Government, and that,
dcubtles, Is what was in President Harding's mind
when he declared for Statehood for Southeastern
Alaska at an early date.
COOLIDLE FOLLOWED PRECEDENTS OF
CLEVELAND AND WILSON.
Like former Presidents Grover Cleveland and
Wood row Wilson, President Calvin Coolidge abrev
lated Ills name when he was younger. President
Coolidge was christened John Calvin Coolidge, for
his father. He was called "Calvin,” however, by his
mother who called his father "John." In Ills earlier
youth the President wrote his name, "J. Calvin
Ccolide," but later dropped tho first name entirely.
Prc. ident Cleveland was christened Stephen Grover
Cleveland, but dropped the first name early in life.
Prerident Wilson was christened Thomas Woodrow
Wilson, but discarded the "Thomas."
SHOULD LIKE TO HEAR MORE.
W ' riiould liko lo have more extended testimony
frim farmer Senator and former Secretary of the In
terior Fall ahoat Russia. lie is reported tu believe
that Ru via is in stood Hnanelal condition. We
ehould like to know whether or not Mr. Fall belloves
that a reason for that‘Hnanelal etabllity lies in the
fait tiiat she lias ifsucj so much paper money that
the value of the entire circulating medium has been
destroyed and, therefore, the country Is ahead of the
same to the extent of what she got in exchange for
the worthless ruble Many countries and individ
uals. for t.iat in .tier would be in sounder financial
condition if they could destroy ull tl.eir outstanding
obligations without at the same time destroying
their credit and standing.
IT IS UP TO SAN FRANCISCO.
When all is aid and done ir San Francisco wants
Alaska trad’ it is up io her lo come and get it. All i
tint ('lie has to do is to offer the people of Alaska
better ten ice and trade conditions than people here
can gel any other place. If she can supply the goods I
wanted lure at - cl it factory prices, can deliver them to
the p. ipl ■ as they are wanted and offers Alaskans
betler maikei- than others, i.hc will get the business.;
Tne people of Alaska will meet her half-way and
give her warm welcome.
Sail Francisco has always occupied a warm plaee
In the affc r (ions of tlie people of llie West. She still
hes Lha! pi.tc While those of the North and. per
haps, elsewhere -have not met her and done business
with her much its they did long ago, they would “ad
reure” to renew the old familiar friendship.
San Francisco Is the richest city on the Coast.
She has more men and Institution;’, with large capital
than other Coaei cities. she needs, however, lo
g$iow more of the old San Francisco enterprise and
spirit of adventure. There was a time when she
was behind most of the Pacific Coast development.
She developed Puget Sound's early lumber Industry
and eoal fields, and was in at the beginning of most
enterprises in ail the Northwest. Her Alaska Com
mercial Company and other trading concerns, her en
ergetic shipping Interests and adventurous citizens
started things In Alaska—mining, fishing, shipping,
trade and commerce.
San Francisco was once the center of things simply
because San Francisco money went out and started
things and becausu her business men went out
after trade.
While the dry and warm spring and summer
throughout Alaska has been very pleasant and
profitable to those on the Coast, the people of the
| Interior are paying the tolls, according to the state
i ment of Colonel Steese, who says the gold output
| there will be small on account of lack of water.
If Arizona still views her obligations as she used
to see them that Mexican who was executed the
other day for the murder of a Postmaster only lost
a few days by having his requests for pardon denied,
i In fact, he got two years the better of Judge Lynch
ns it was. That, is more than many Mexicans have
got in the Southwest.
Down in Plymouth. Vermont, the boys of fifty or
thereabouts call him "Rod,” and refer to him as
"Red" Coolidge. The rest of us, however, will con
tinue to address him as "Mr. President,” and speak
of him as President Coolidge.
i Change is the order of the times. In the Provln
j clal election In Prince Edward Island the Conserva
j lives who were overwhelmingly defeated at the last
ilection were successful in winning 26 seats to the
| Liberals' four.
Henry Ford’s Third Party.
(New York Post.)
A strange argument is put forward by the head
of the Dearborn Ford for President Club. Henry
Ford, according to this official, is so popular that a
third party will have to be formed to nominate him
for President. Tills will make the politicians laugh.
They know that anybody who can get the nomination
I from one of the old parties Is not going to indulge
in the elborate futility of a third party. If a man
I Is such a good vote getter that he can win masses
| of votes from both parties, he does not have to ask
I ills friends to organize a third party for him. Like
' Gcv. Smith, he runs one of the old party tickets
and mashes party lines. The very announcement
| that a third party is to be forced to nominate Mr.
Ford is a confession that he cannot hope to win
I tile Republican or the Democratic nomination. Com
! ing simultaneously with the latest figures from
| Collier's poll, which show Ford leading the field by
i a wider margin than ever, this action at Dearborn
I is an interesting commentary on the significance of
! straw votes.
What Is in the minds of the Dearborn enthusiasts
is shown by their reference to a letter from the
Citizens Non-Partisan League of Akron, O. This
letter states that the League is composed of 2,764
: Republicans and 1,936 Democrats and that a can
• vans discloses that 95 per cent, of them favor Ford
for President. With these figures as a springboard,
the loader of the Dearborn Ford for President Club
| jumps to the conclusion that Ford at the head of a
■ third party would sweep the country. But before
| Mr. Ford gives up his house in Detroit let another
i canvass be made of the Akron organization. Let
its members bo asked whether in case Mr. Ford is
| nominated by a third party they will desert the
nominee of the party with which they are at present
affiliated and vote for Mr. Ford.
There was a man named Theodore Roosevelt, who
always ran on a Republican ticket but polled a good
[many Democratic votes. On one occasion he Was
[defeated for t lie Republican nomination for the
! Presidency and ran on a third ticket. He knew it
| was a desperate chance and privately said so. The
j result confirmed Ilia words. Yet he had the advan
j thkc of heading a third party which took over a
considerable part of the Republican Party to begin
i with. Mr. Ford would have no such advantage.
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“Ultimate Statehood for Alaska.”
(New York World.)
President Harding's suggestion of “ultimate State
hood" for Alaaka is given the force of a more than
remote possibility by his accompanying statement
that “in a very few years we can well set off the
Panhandle and a large block of the connecting sou th
ee tern purt us a State; this region now contains
easily 90 per cent, of the white population and of
the developed resources,"
If Alaska is eventually to be carved up into
Slates, of which it is large enough territorially to
furnish a baker's dozen, no doubt the logical place
t> begin i= with the Panhandle.
Yet it is profitable to recall that by the consuls
of 1920 the entire Territory contained only 54.889
inhabitants, of whom 27.888 were white, and the.
papulation has been rapidly shrinking. The white
population is thus only a little more than one
third as large as the population of Nevada. And
ai respects the President's theory that Statehood
would be the greatest single Impetus we could
possibly give to the right kind of development,"
is Nevada a convincing example of how this kind
ot political Impetus stimulates development?
The potential promise is no doubt flattering to
the patriotic pride of Alaskans. To gain two Sena
tors, a Representative and an elective judiciary, be
sides all the official machinery of a State Govern
ment. for the population equivalent of a New York
Assembly district would be alluring. Yet will not
questions or cost detract from the perfect measure
of satisfaction? Is Alaska prepared to pay the ex
pense of supporting the superior dignity of State
hood?
The prospect is one that will be viewed from
numerous angles, not only as it concerns residents
of the Territory but also as it would affect party
divisions in Congress.
Argentine wheat has knocked out Kansas wheat,
say tho economists. Something else from the Ar
gentine likewise knocked out something else from
Kansas. (New York Post.)
The Government in Berlin has prohibited the
gambling in murks. That isn't gambling; it’s a
total lose. ( Louisville Courier-Journal. )
Italy has Mt. Etna and Vesuvius and America
has Senators I.a Follettc and Hrookhart.— (PitBburgh
Gazette-Times.)
Let's not have any more limitation of armament
until their airplane factories catch up. (San Fran
cisco Journal.)
The French occupation of the Ruhr seems to be
getting nearer and nearer to permanency.—(Phila
delphia Record.)
You can recognize the approach to Rasy street
>>' 'he easy marks lying trimmed at the side of the
rood- (San Francisco Journal, i < ■>•**..**
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ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR
Bj 8 AX BTT.T.
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Observation* of Oldest Inhabitant
The world has made 9 lot of pro
gress, hut so far nobody has been
able to improve ipj the old-fashioned,
devoted wife, who ruled the house
with love instead of a gun.
The Ananias Club
"I will not wear these rainbow
shoes and hosp/jdeclared the flapper,
"because 1 hat* lihythlng that draws
attention to^niy shapely calves and
little feet.”
Knocked Him for a Goal
Blinks—Gee, old man, you look
seedy. Been sick?
Jinks —No, I just got back from
my annual two Weeks' rust.
It's a Libel on a Mighty Good Word
If there is anything lower in the
scale of tilings that live than a
skunk it is the cuss who writes a
poison-pen letter or some sarcastic
criticism and then signs himself "A
Friend.” Our idea of zero in con
structive criticism is the kind hand
ed you by a fellow who hasn't the
courage to sign his name. Give us
an enemy every time to that kind
of “friend.” Heaven save the mark.
New Model of an Old Timer
The modern sheik
With oily ways,
Is just the dude
Of other days.
Oh, Girls, Isn’t This Just the Love
liest News!
Cigarettes which will not drop
their ash over the clothes of the
smoker are a new invention.
Education is Education
If you can't d'ecldo just where to
send your boy this fall to finish his
education, we would like to call
your attention to the fact that they
have opened up a school for grave
diggers in Brussels.
Ho< (Hum!
“Pa,” said Clarence, “what is a
joiner?"
"A preacher, son,” replied his dad.
What’s the Fare to Richmond?
E. J. F. reports seeing this sign in
the window of a Richmond (Ind.)
store:
3.1% Off Throughout the Entire
Women's Department.
Nothing Withheld.
Things We’ve Never eSen
A boy on a hunger strike.
A woman who didn't like pretty
clothes.
A man who didn't think, he was a
lady killer. ' "'j
A car that w^s as good as the
salesman said it was.
Needs No Words
“I always can tell whether the
home team won or lost by the way
my husband comes home,” said the
wife of the dyediin-the-wool fan.
"How so?” asked her neighbor.
“If they win he comes home in
good spirits, ap^ if they lose he
comes home'with bud spirits in him."
It’s Love All For Her
At tennis she’s
A dub, but just the same,
She's simply great
At playing the love game.
If It Fite—
The only kind of a "tub dress” a
lot of wives ever get are the kind
they use when hanging over the sta
tionary tubs.
Before he is married a man makes
a fool of himsplf over a girl and
after he .marries Her he continues to
make a fool of hUnself, but not over
her.
We suppose nothing depreciates
quicker than a new car after you
have had it a week, unless it is the
husband after the honeymoon has
gone glimmering.
We'll bet our great, great grand
children will liav'e great grandchil
dren of their own before the average
girl will get to the place where she
would rather heave her hat into the
ring than slip her finger into one.
Now that wom'Mi have discarded
corsets, they are recommending them
for men, but if the manufacturers of
the straight-jackets Just have to live
we advise them to take up plastering
or bootlegging—the men have not
gone crazy yet.
A man may have to lie in the bet?
m- »
It's all In knowing HOW to do |
first-clans cleaning and dyeing. |
CAPITAL DYE WORKS I
11 C. Meld nor, Pskfesslonal Dyar |
and Claaner. Phone 177.
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JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Moves, Packs and Stores Freight
and Baggage.
Prompt Delivery of
LADYSMITH COAL
Phone 48.
he makes, hut he'll lie out of It If
he possibly can.
About the only organ In the human
body that never seems to wear out,
no matter how rough you treat it,
is the organ of speech.
There are all kinds of people in
the world, including the woman who
I feels flattered to be asked to take the
I place at bridge of one of the invited
| guests who couldn't come, at the last
j minute.
| Sometimes we wonder It there is
anything like a new pair of silk
stockings to make a girl sitting in
the stre -t car want to cross her
knees.
[ there ought to lie an amendment to
the constitution prohibiting wives
from telling their husbands disagree
able truths.
As we g t the reformers, the
trouble with the modern flapper is
that site lets her mirror do ail the
reflecting for her.
Daily Sertence Sermon
Tile grand trouble with the world
today is that everybody wants more
than their share and wants to do
less than their share.
News of the Names Club
Your garden Isn't the only place
to And wi°ds. A. Weed tan always
be found in Burlingame, Cal.
They nay girls never are. but we
have learned you'll always find
Ernestine Still at River Rouge, Mich.
Maybe he just sir/ the garage
man’s bill for repairing his car, any
way !. Sobh is reported from Los
Angeles.
TURN HAIR DARK !
WITH SAGE TEA|
If Mixed With Sulphur It Darkens
So Naturally Nobody
Can Tell
The old-time mixture of Sage Tea
and Sulphur for darkening gray,
streaked and faded hair Is grand
mother’s recipe, and folks are again
using it to keep their hair a good,
even color, which is quite sensible,
as we are living In an age when a
youthful appearance is of the great
est advantage.
Nowadays .though, we don’t have;
the troublesome task of gathering!
the sage and mussy mixing at home i
All drug stores sell the ready-to-use
product, Improved by the addition
of other Ingredients, called "Wyeth’s
Sage and Sulphur Compound.” It
Is very popular because nobody can
I discover it has been applied. Simply
I moisten your comb or a soft brush
! with it and draw this througn your
I nair. taking one small strand at a
jcime; by morning the gray hair dis
appears, but what delights the la
dies with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphurj
| Compound, Is that, besides beauti-j
I fully darkening the hair after a
j few applications, it also produces
that soft lustre and appearance of
I abundance which is so attractive.
—(Advertisement.) [
' IN UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.
| JUNEAU. ALASKA.
Serials 03756-05965.
June 28, 1923.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That
I Lee II. 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. 1434. 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.
i L.M. No. 4 4 F. S. bears North
68° 54’ W. 42.28 chs.; running
j thence ,N. 89° 34’ E. 2* chs. to
cor. No. 2. thence S. 0° 17' E.
i 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, IJ.
S. Survey No. 1434, whence U.
S.L.M. No. 381 hears 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’
K. 20.20 chs. to cor. No. 4;
thence N. 89° 4 5’ 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.
AUTOS FOR HIRE
Blaclde’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
] pricee. Phone 10.
j Also seven-passenger Sedan,
. | Also seven-passenger Sedan
for stormy weather.
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Miller’s Taxi Service
TWO CARS
Stand Alatkan Hotel
PHONE—SINGLE 0
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PROFESSIONAL
Dr. DeVighna
Malony Building
Bonn 1 to 4, 7 to 0.
Phone*: Office, 104; He*. 101.
■-1
Dr. W. J. Pigg
PHYSICIAN
Office—-Second and Main
Telephone 18
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg,
Telephone 172.
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Dr«. Kaser & Freebnrgcr
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg.
PHONE M
Hour* < a. m. t* 9 9- a.
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Dr. Charles P. Jeano
DENTIST
Room* 8 and 9 Valentin* Bldg.
Telephone 176.
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All Alaskan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
First Ave. and Pine St., Seattle
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
erything. J. A. Parnham and
Ted Taylor, Props.
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EVERYTHING IN COAL
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COMPANY
PHONE 412
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fraternal Societies
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Gastineau Channel
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Meeting Wednesday
Evenings at 8:00
o’clock, Rika' Hall.
Charles P. Jenna,
Exalted Ruler,
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freemnscniy
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. F.
SILVER BOW
_ _ LODGE NO. I A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall,
Chnrles E. Perelle, Noble Qrand|
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
1 PERSEVERANCE REJEKAM
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every first and th.lrd
I Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8 PM. FRANCES QUSTAFSON,
N. Q. ALPHONSINE CARTER,
Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAO LODE*
No. 147, F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth' Mondays
of each Month, In Odd relic—*
Hall, beginning at 1:11 o’cloctr.
Homer G. Nordling, Master. .
( has. E. NagbeL Secretary. *
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tine
days of each month.
At 8 o’clock, I. O. O. F. Hall.
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
hbcihbrs council we.
1710. Meetings aecoad
and last Monday* at 7:8i
^ p. m. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chamber*
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen. □. 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’ lxmge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; Q. U.
Maiwi, Post Adjutant, Phone 198.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
7unean Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o'clock,
Moose Hall. E. F.
Rodenberg, Dictator; R. H. Stovsnc
Secretary.
WOMEN OF MOOSEHEART
LEGION
Juneau Chapter No. 439
Meeting second and fourth
Tuesday of each month, 8
o’clock, Mooee Hall. Mrs. C. W.
Bender, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
AUXILIARY, PIONEER! 0V
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
Meets last Thursday of every
month. Social hour with mem
bers of Honcer Iaidge to fol
low eoeti meeting.
Mrs. Isittle Splckett, President.
| Mrs. Lillie Ilurford, Secretary.
WHERE
SUCCESS
BEGINS
The road to lucceM begins at the Savings Window,
llow early you attain success depends on how
often you deposit. Many of our oaptains 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. Me Behrends Bank
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