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Daily Alaska Empire
JOHN W. TROY - - EDITOR AND MANAGEI
Published every evening except Sunday by th(
EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Malt
Streets, Juneau, Alaska.
Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Clasi
matter.
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local news published herein.
ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER
THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION.
WELCOME TO SENATOR NORBECK.
Senator Nor bock's Chamber-^! Commerce speech
yesterday was highly gratifying to Alaskans. What
he said and the way he said it were decidedly en
couraging to the people of this City. The fact that
he committed himself on no specific policy for the
Territory is evidence that he came here with an
open mind to learn of our needs. The further fact
that he has lived under pioneer conditions where
people were vexed by long distance government is a
token that when he understands conditions he will
favor real remedies for such ills as he may see.
Senator Norbeck has been welcomed by the people
of this City, and he will find an equally cordial
welcome wherever he might go in the Territory.
Juneauites who have met him have recognized a
kindred spirit. It will be the same at Fairbanks,
Cordova, Kodiak, etc.
The Empire is pleased to join in the greetings
to the South Dakota Senator and to assure him
that we are glad he is here, that we hope he will
make his visit as long as possible, and that he
might come again and again.
PREPARING FOR STATEHOOD.
Alaska's struggle toward the stars will
some day attain us a place beside the
stars of sister States in the Union, but
not before Alaskans themselves get behind
the land of their adoption 100 per cent.—
(Seward Gateway.)
The first step toward Statehood for Alaska
ought to be a full Territorial form of government
such as the other Territories had before their ad
mission as States and such as Hawaii now has.
Alaska ought to have counties and local self-gov
ernment. The other Territories before admission
to the Union had practically all the authority of
government that they have enjoyed since admission
except participation in Presidential elections, and
representation in Congress. Self-government as a
really and truly American Territory would make
the very best possible preparation for Statehood.
Alaska ought to have been a Territory in the
same sense that Washington, the Dakotas, Minne
sota and all the other Territories were long ago.
LESSON OF THE FIGURES.
Col. Woodcock, high chief of Federal dry laws,
offers figures to prove that Prohibition is working
satisfactorily and successfully. His proof:
For the record of his first year in office,
which ended July 1, Woodcock listed a
total of 75,365 cases prepared for prosecu
tion in Federal and State courts. Of these,
he said, 58,173 cases were terminated in Fed
eral courts and convictions obtained in 50,
334, with 29,372 jail sentences imposed. In
addition, he said, there were fines aggregat
ing $5,497,566.
Think of it! A law that in one year in time
of peace sends more than 76,000 people into the
criminal courts; that sends nearly 30,000 to jail,
that imposes fines aggregating five-and-one-half
millions in fines! Think of the uncivilized nerve
of one that calls such a law satisfactory and suc
cessful !
To any sane and practical economist these figures
la themselves prove that the system ought to be
changed. No law that causes such havoc is worth
enforcing.
Particularly is that apparent when we consider the
magnitude of the outlawed traffic that Col
Woodcock's organization does not even touch. Chair
man Wickersham’s late commission found that the
illicit liquor traffic in the United States amountec
to more than three billion dollars a year—one ol
America's major businesses.
How long will a a tax-ridden, suffering publie
tolerate this childish nonsense?
CANADIAN HALIBUT FISHERMEN
WANT RELIEF.
Olof Hanson, Prince Rupert’s member of th.
Dominion Parliament, is urging the passage of i
law to give Canadian halibut fishermen a subsid;
of two cents a pound on their halibut catch. H
says the subsidy is necessary to permit the fisher
men to compete with American fishermen who ar
proected by a two-cents-a-pound tariff, and he says
the only halibut market is in the United States.
The measure is supported by the people am
commercial organizations of Prince Rupert' am
elsewhere along the British Columbia coast.
A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
LESSON.
Down at Prince Rupert parents of youngsters Jus
graduated from the public school declare that loca
business men ought to provide the graduates witl
employment so that If may not be necessary fo:
them to leave the town to find work The Princi
Rupert News says the parents' of many of thesi
youngsters have done most of their purchasing ir
southern towns. It says if the people would al
patronize local stores and Industries there would
probably be enough work in Prince Rupert to give
employment to their local boys and girls who are
now out of school.
This is only one more illustration of the influence
of home buying in community development. If it
is true in Prince Rupert it is true everywhere.
Senator Norbeck sees a great future for Alaska
as a playground for tourists. The dispatches on
Thursday said the temperature at Aberdeen. South
Dakota, was 114 degrees in the shade. Possibly
there is some connection somewhere in these facts.
| Probably those 'German radicals are fighting the
moratorium not because they think Germany doesn’t
need the money but through fear it will prevent
political revolution at an tarly date.
Former Mayor "Big Bill" of Chicago ought to
investigate Seattle. They just recalled an English
born Mayor in the Puget Sound metropolis and
elected another Englishman to succeed him.
Now comes another ray of light that shines
brightly. Canadian mining interests are becoming
attached to the Taku District.
The Divine Sarah.
(Manchester Guardian.)
Manchester may well take a warm interest in
the celebrations that are now beginning of the
centenary of Mrs. Siddons. For if the divine Sarah’s
career had been left to the mercy of London man
agements it is doubtful whether she would have
lived to be painted by Reynolds as the Tragic Muse,
to fire Hazlitt, Scott, Byron, and even Dr. Johnson
to rhapsodical encomiums, and to dominate the
English-speaking stage as no woman before her.
Her future seemed secure enough when Garrick gave
a chance at the age of barely twenty to play Portia
at Drury Lane. It was a great opportunity for thv
irrepressible girl who had insisted on declaiming
Shakespeare and Milton in the servants’ hall of
the Warwickshire establishment where she was en
gaged as lady’s maid. But her first London season
was an unmistakable failaure. It needed the more
bracing airs of the provinces to waft Sarah to fame,
and she was not long in finding a favorable gale.
Her Manchester debut in 1776 was her first experi
ence of a whirlwind acclamation, and for some time
after she moved like a young queen from one to an
other city of the North, playing to adoring crowds
in Liverpool, Manchester, and York. London had
to wait to experience the full force of a per
sonality that could send members of an audience
off in a faint by the anguish of a mad scene, and
so impregnate a theatre with tragedy that the
players who had to follow in a farcical piece com
plained that they could not recover their spirits.
What was the secret of a dominance that has had
no equal? The contemporary critics were apt to
be more lyrical than helpful. Hazlitt’s "Power was
seated on her brow, passion emanated from her
breast as from a shrine” reads rather like an ex
tract from the high-flown nonsense with which
Sarah herself used to pack the "addresses” she loved
to deliver to her audiences. But those who deigned
to be more coldly analytical make it clear that in
her cadences and intonations, in her sense of
rhythm, both of diction and of movement, she cast
a spell as potent as the theatre has ever known.
In these days, when naturalism is the note, would
the old magic survive? Could she have dealt
triumphantly with St. Joan? Perhaps it is well that
the experiment cannot be made.
Higher Politics.
(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
Senator Harrison, of Mississippi, one of the fore
most among leaders in the Democratic Party in
the Nation, gives the country and the world an
illustration of broad statesmanship. He proposes a
political armistice during the Congressional discus
sion of the President's program for a year's sus
pension of war debts and reparations payments.
He gives unstinted praise to the formula and urges
for it a wholehearted support from the minority
in both Houses of Congress. He sees in the pro
gram a rational plan for the restoration of world
wide confidence and economic stability. He would
like a short session to be held before the formal
opening of the Congress.
Whether there will be called a short session
or not, the main proposal of the Senator from
Mississippi is indicative of an intriguing breadth of
political view, one which recognizes the worthless
ness and futility of partisan expediency in time of
great crisis. The Senator sees the interests of the
United States endangered by the collapse of the
economic structure of Germany. He disregards the
delinquency of the former empire's proximate
neighbors, their ineptitude and indifference, realiz
ing that in the present instance the United States
is presenting a moral as well as a practical over
ture that should go far toward the rehabilitation
of Germany and Europe.
In this attitude he rises above all small partisan
considerations, giving to the world a most gratify
ing example of wholesome statesmanship.
Let’s Have State Pension for All?
(Seattle Business Chronicle.)
An elderly man who has fallen into hard cir
cumstances in Montana was urged by a relative
living on he Pacific Coast to move to the coast, the
argument being that living conditions are easier
here. The Montanan's reply put an end to the
argument. He said that the Montana Legislature
had just passed an old age pension, so he would
stay there, knowing that if his circumstances did
not improve he could obtain a pension in his de
clining years. The Incident suggests a possibility
with respect to old age pensions at State expense
which has not been discussed. Why not feed most
of our property posssessions into State pension
funds via the medium of taxes, then give every
person a pension based somewhat upon the record of
contributions, when retirement age is reached? Under
• this just scheme no one would have to worry
i about the future—at least not so long as any prop
r erty remained in private ownership.
Representative Dyer says that licensing of beer
, would add $1,000,000,000 to the income of the United
States. Of course, that doesn't take into considera
’ tion how many millions would be lost to the boot
leg industry.—(Washington Post).
It is the Department of Commerce estimate thai
Canada's retaliatory tariff rates will hurt us to thf
extent of only $26,000,000, and what is that com
pared with the preservation of a sacred principle?—
(New York Times).
A1 Caprone is charged at Chicago, with violatior
[ of the national prohibition law. This is a serious
charge to bring against a citizen. The public should
not be too hasty in Its judgment—(Seattle Times).
Chairman Fess of the G. Ov P. also mounted
i to the stratosphere when he enthusiastically predict
ed an overwhelming majority for the reelection of
President Hoover.—(Milwaukee Journal).
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TO PUBLISH
RECORDS OF
ALASKA TER.
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Dr. Clarence E. Carter,
University Professor,
Assigned to Work
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 6.—
'Special Correspondence)—The of
ficial records of the Territory of
Ala.ka and of all states when they
were Territories, will be assembled
and published under the direction
of Dr. Clarence E. Carter, profes
sor of History at Miami Univer
sity, Oxford, Ohio. He has been
appointed editor of territorial pa
pers, Department of State, under
the provisions of the Ralston act
of 1925. He will assume his du
ties of Aug. 15. Dr. Carter has
made a special subject of Terri
torial organizations and his work
will mean the collaboration of all
records of Alaska as a Territory.
In compliance with a petition
from the residents of Homer word
has been received from the Acting
Commissioner of Lighthouses that
O. D. Olsen will be permanently
employed as caretaker of the Be
luga Lake Light.
Since the Navy has abandoned
their radio station at Sitka resi
dents of that little city have re
quested the privilege of establish
ing themselves on the property,
and fishermen want the right to
establish their homes on Japonski
Island, near Sitka.
Various inquiries have been made
as to the address of Hon. and Mrs.
Dan Sutherland. Until September
they will be at the Ogontz White
Mountain Camp, Lisbon, New
Hampshire.
Residents of Lake Minchimina
want their community included in
a mail contract that will soon be
awarded for carrying the mail be
tween Nenana and Plat and inter
vening towns.
SEISMOGRAPH,
HOME MADE, IS
REAL MYSTERY
BELLAIRE, O. July 18.—A crude
seismograph, consisting of nothing
more than a butcher’s steel used
for sharpening knives, which hangs
on a nail driven into a heavy post
imbedded into the earth, has been
beating college and government
stations in detecting earthquakes
and has aroused scientists of this
state who are unable to explain
its workings.
Discovered quite by accident in
the home of Mrs. Charles Bick
meier, the steel has given accur
ate registration of several recent
quakes. Although unable to regis
ter the vicinity of a quake, the
“seismograph” always swings and
Jingles against the pillar at the
first tremor.
Attempts to make the steel
swing by shaking the house have
proven fruitless. Even the blast
of a stick of dynamite near the
home failed to budge the steel
Yet, when New Zealand was rock
ed by a tragic quake this year,
the "seismograph" registered a
series of distinct shocks several
hours before the quake was re
ported from college instruments.
Those who have investigated
the phenomenon explain a possible
solution in that the Bickmeier
home is situated on the top of a
high hill, perhaps a huge rock
extending far into the earth. Any
vibration of the earth, under these
conditions, it is said, would cause
a vibration of the rock which in
turn would cause the pillar to vi
brate.
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exponent of the Dunning SysU m
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LOYAL ORDER OF
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Ralph Reischl, Dictator
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meets first and third Tuesdays
G. A. Baldwin, Secretary and
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DOUGLAS AERIE 1J7 ?. O. E.
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