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ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE ___ I JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month. Bv mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year in advance. S12.00: six months in advance. three months, in advance $”00; one month, in advance, $1.~5. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irrefiularity in the de livery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, .171 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repulilirntion of nit news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper ami also the local news pub lished herein. _ CIRPI 'RATION r.UARANTEEB TO III' MORE THAN DOl’BRE THAT OF ANY OTHER ARAKKA NEWSPAPER. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALASKANS. Commissioner of Education L». It. Henderson sug gests that one of the handicaps under which Alaska is laboring is that too many people who live in the Ter ritory know too little about it. have too little regard for it and not sufficient belief in the value of its lesourccs or their ultimate development. Which means, in short, that there are too many residents of the Territory who do not look upon Alaska witli that pride in homeland that It is an essential element in the development of a country—and when wo speak of de velopment in tliis sense we do not mean solely material development, development of resources and industries, but the development of citizenship and community character. And vvliat Mr. Henderson says is trnc. Too many people look upon Alaska as a country to be exploited, a country in which to earn a slake with which to go to some other country where there is pride in home land. There is no other section of the country that would, for instance, tolerate for a fraction of a sec ond the attempts of people pretending to lie Alaskans, but who refuse to live in the Territory, to run her affairs just for the glory or profit there might lie in the running. 1'he tiling above all else that would help to do velop Alaskan character, that would aid in creating a pride in residence In the Territory, would be to give the people full self-government. Let Alaska and her government belong to those who reside here and the people would-commence to think more of the Terri tcry. As long as the Territory is managed ‘by those vvlicj have the strongest pull at Washington that lorn will the man who lives outside, and whoso claim io b< an Alaskan is mere pretension, he at a premium. Let the actual residents possess Alaska and pride and love of the possession will naturally follow. While we have too many Alaskans and pretended Alaskans who do not know the Territory and who have- lift lo of the real, home-loving faith that build com win weal His, we have enough Alaskans who do understand the Territory, who actually live here and expect to continue to live here, who believe in it and the greatness of its possibilities and Its people to make this a great Territory if they will only pro perly assert themselves. Mr. Henderson's plan to develop faith and prldi in homeland among the children of Alaska is, indeed praiseworthy. To those who spend their childhood in this Territory Alaska is and always will be home They will be the mainstay of the country In the year that are to come, and they cannot know too mucl about it. have too much confidence in it or love i too well. There is much for Alaskans to develop here ir the North, but the greatest of them all is to ceveloi Alaskans. CAPITOL BUILDING SHOULD COME SOON That a general public buildings bill will liav< to be passed by Congress at an early date there seen no reason in the world to question. There hoc beer no such bill passed for nearly six years, and tin pressure for more housing for Government offices i pressing in scores of cities in the United States. 1 many of them the sites for tlie needed building, have been secured, in a groat number of instance* appropriations have been made, but not in sufficient amount to meet the needs, just as iu the case of tin Juneau cap!to! and the Cordova building. Among those cities which require more Government build ir.gs is Seattle. The Federal building at that piae. is wholly inadequate. A postoffice building is needed there and a site for it has been purchased by tin Government. It is contended that even that wouh not be enough to supply the needs of the Fedora offices in that city. They are now scattered through out the town in rented quarters. It has been sug gested that in addition to a postoffice building then there should be still another building to be occupied by the customs, immigration and, perhaps, the in terual revenue offices, in other cities the situation is similar to that in Seattle. Senators and Represen tatives from all parts of the country are interested i: this matter While there has been no public buildings bib passed since 19l.r>, the Senate and House Public Build iuga Committees have been functioning. They ha\ considered the individual bills as they have been introduced and the needs of the country's bushiest in the premises. The chairman of the House Publi< Buildings Committee about three years ago said tie Committee had been keeping up the gener,! Publh Buildings Bill just as it would do if one were to In introduced at eaeli session. lie said that within a week after Congress should decide to consider such a measure a completed lull could he introduced Fivi years ago the general Public Buildings Bill, that was rever reported, carried $38,000,000. Three years ago the items in the Bill totaled more than $40,00o,ooo The chairman said if a bill is not introduced pretty soon it may carry $50,ooo,noo hi appropriations when introduced. Among the items that had been favorably cousideerd was one for the additional appropriation for the Juneau capitol. The Chairman said that Item was regarded as one of the emergent needs, and that It would be kep^ in the measure. It will be kept there if Alaska's Representative is on the job, and | presses the matter whenever it shall be decided to j take up the bill'for consideration by Congress. That Delegate Sutherland will take such action as may bo necessary in case the Bill is taken up during his term, as it in all probability will be, there is no i reason to doubt. This does not mean that an effort should not he made to make the money already appropriated avail-1 j able for immediate use. However, even if that effort I should fail, there is no reason to doubt but that work, j on a Juneau capital building will he started within; j tho next year or two—possibly earlier than that. SAN FRANCISCO EMPLOYERS ANI) LABOR REACH AGREEMENT. Industrial peace and industrial progress in San I Francisco have been reasonably assured by a perman Jer.t arbitration agreement which has just been signed 'by the San Francisco Building Trades Council, rep resenting ihe workmen, and the San Francisco Build ers Exchange, representing the employers engaged in the building trade. Under this agreement, wnicn was orougnt anoui through tlie good offices of the industrial relations! committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Com merce, composed of C. H. Bentley, J. B. Levison, Paul Shoup, Allred I. Esberg, S. B. McNear and Miles Standish, the building contractors and the workmen have voluntarily set up a permanent Board of Arbi tration and have bound themselves to submit to thi? Board of Arbitration for final decision all questions j involving wages, hours and working conditions. The members of the Board of Arbitration are the Most Reverend Edward J. Hanna, Archbishop fo San Francisco; Max C. Sloss, former Justice of the Supreme Court of California and George L. Bell, con sultant in industrial relations and management. All present and ail future disputes in the building trades in San Francisco will be submitted to this Arbitration Board for adjudication, and its findings and judgment will be accepted as final by the parties to the agreement. The Arbitration Board is non-partisan in char acter; each of the three members being held to represent, impartially, the Interest of all parties in volved—including the employer, the employee and the general public. Under the agreement the Arbitration Board Is given the widest latitude in the matter of initiating 1 investigations into all conditions affecting the build ing trades, and is empowered to call for copies of | contracts or agreements touching ; ny phase of the ! building situation. Tbo hearings held by the board will be public. I except as the board may decide otherwise, and the I expenses incurred by the board in its work are to be borne equally by the parties to the agreement. First Pulp. * (Douglas Island News.) The Alaskan pulp industry became a reality on January 24 last, when the first pulp to be manu i factored in the Territory was made at the Speel River plant of the Alaska Pulp and Paper Company land became a visual fact when W. P. Lass of the j company arrived in Juneau on Wednesday with several .tons of the product for shipment. Wliat was. believed, when it was first mentioned, as tieing a visionary scheme lias" turned out to lie a reality, and what is destined to bo one of the greatest of Alaskan industries has been launched in a modest :vvay to prove conclusively to the world that the j .Northland is a land of wonderful resources. Now that the manufacture of wood pulp lias been! | demonstrated to be feasible, who can doubt that within a few years paper and pulp will bo two great I products of tlie Territory, rivalling fish and minerals. I As one travels along tho Alasakn coast line for hun dreds of miles, all that can bo seen is timber and | water power—the two tilings that go to make pulp and paper. The supply is unlimited and easy to get. From the modest beginning made at the Sped River mill will now grow a great industry that will date its inception from January 24, 1921. The Offering of the Farmers. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) There is a spirit at work which draws humanity toward tho ineffable goal of brotherhood as irresis' ibly as the lunar influence comples the obdeienee of tiie ocean tides. Some time, perhaps far down the 1 vista of fuutre centuries, the Golden Age will come, i Its advent is hastened by every good thought, by every < gentle, unselfish act. There are children starving in Europe, women; suffering, broken men struggling to buffet the waves of adversity. Countless pleas have been made in theirM behalf. Noble lias been America's answer to these], pleas. But among the generous responses of our! people, perhaps none could he considered more helpful than the voluntary offering of the farmers in 37 states] to supply practical aid to Europe's starving millions ! President J. R. Howard, of the (American Farm Bureau, speaking before the members of the Illinois Agricultural Association recently, said: Farmers in 37 states have authorized me as their President to offer enough American-grown corn to feed the starving millions of Europe, China, Ar menia and other famine countries.” He promises that the farmers will bring their ■ fierings to the points of shipment. This treasure will come in voluntary gifts of from 5 to 3,000 bushels. Many big farmers have promised 3,000 b rebels. One point is insisted upon by the farmers: the com must, not be sold and the money applied to relief purposes; the corn must go straight to the people who need it. The American farmer is having a hard time of it just now. If he voluntarily in such a cause gives lo the limit, then the rest of the nation should he ■'■■.lily, willing and glad to do likewise in the matter ■ l inoncv, transportation, &c. The good in tiie world overbalances the evil. All boner to the farmers who through their generosity thus honor their country. One Bolshevist says Bovietism will not gain much ic.ol»a> in this country because of its great number >f bath tubs And Saturday night is more faithfully 'bscrved than the Sabbath. — (Houston Post.) If. as Dry Commissioner Kramer says, "booze" tocks were consumed like lakes in a desert during 'he lirst year of prohibition, why insist upon calling * prohibition?—(Pittsburgh Dispatch.) Some of (lie visitors at Marion, Ohio, are suspected issuing advertisements, "Advice Given,” when what 1 ey really mean is "Situation Wanted.”—(Charleston Vows and Courier.) ) ' -— ---— Mure* people are killed by people’s stepping: on ' ?ras than by their blowing: it cut. (Minneapolis Tribune ) i It i.sn t true4 that men will do anything for money. 1 ’ot:i*4 won’t work for it (Pittsburgh Gazette-Times ) 1 lie I nited Static eertainlj is a tough place for L pessimist.— (Indianapolis Star ) BITS OF BY-PLAY By Luke McLuke Copyright by Cincinnati Enquirer Our Joe Miller Contest A Brooklyn fun claims the oldest joke is the one about the man who j listened to another man toll a call ya rn. "Do you know what you remind me of?” asked the man. "No,” replied the story teller, i "What do I remind you of?" "You remind nte of a man who rives lamb’s wool,” replied the man. “Only he's a lamb dyer, and you arej something that sounds very sim-, liar.” _ By Hek! You may have some fair to mid rllin scenery in your neighborhood. But you can Seymour Meadows in Berkley, West Virginia. Gosh. H. S. went into a hotel in College Corners, Ohio, and got soup, roast pork, three kinds of vegetables, bread and butter, prune pie, pudding and buttermilk for 50 cents. He felt so elated that he slipped a quartet tinder his plate for the waitress. While he was putting on his over coat the waitress came over and handed him back the quarter. And j this is what she said as she com-j pelted him to take hack the quarter: “Vittles is high am! there ain't no, use eatin' up a pockctbook at one1 sittin’. ” What's the Fare To Middletown? William Apple and Ira Demon are the ticket sellers at the Big Four; passenger station. Middleton, Ohio. Betcha If Hud Kipling had it to write over again, he might say it this way: “Take me somewhere' in the U. S„ Where a man can raise a thirst! ’ Famous Horses Man o’ War. -—on Me. Old Rosebud. -on You. Sir Barton. and -. I Charley - Imke McBuke. Very Simple! Tlie Kentucky State Tax Comnii.' sion is wrangling over ihe question: j “la a hears a passenger vehicle or a truck?” Under prohibition we'd decide that a hearse was a pleasure vehicle. Is That So! Luke McLuke says that a man thinks a heap of his new wife and! his new automobile for a while, toil | he might have added that they both! have to be painted o.ver about tlie*.| second season.—Wihainglon News Journal. Firms Is Firms Tlie Roach Restaurant. A. Roach, Proprietor, Liberty, Indiana. Correct! Charley Hadley informs us that the chief aim in life of some folks i3 not to miss anything that go on or off. — Our Daily Special Overtalk Hurts You More Than Overwork. Luke McLuke Says A man will get Highly Indignant if you suggested that he make a Wife of his Cook. And ho’ll get Highly Indignant if he can’t make a Cook, of his Wife. When the phono rings you'll have to give a woman at least thirty sec onds to guess who it is before she answers it. There are a whole lot of men in the world who are satisfied to Sec ond the Motion aiW ho Among Those Present. If the Doctor ha3 to take three) stitches in a cut, it is a sign that tlie patient is going to tell every-) body that, it was thirty stitches. What has become of the o. f. wo man who used to use an army sabre for a hatpin? One of the redeeming features of these here times is the fact that he men are not getting Effeminate the way the women arc getting Mas culine. Kodak and Photo Supplies NORTHWESTERN KODAK SUPPLY CO. Eastman Kodak Co. 1415 Fourth Avenue Seattle I H. R. SHEPARD & SON, (Incorpo rated) ? Anything ia 3 runrar.ee Fire, Life, Accident, Karine, Automobile, Tacrist, Ba^afe, Ponds, Gas Boat Insurance. Compensation We Insure a match or cawmlll, a nail or a stamp mill, o. her ring or cannery plant. la your life Insured? Do you carry accUent Insurance? Kir* lo»* es aro adjurted according to coet of replacement, not the original coat of construction. ARH YOU FULLY COVERED? Thirty-Fire Years Iiperieaoe. We lollclt Y'cr Patrons#*. CIRCLE CITY HOTEL lias a Heal Home Atmosphere CLEAN, COMFORTABLE, And Within Your Means. ALL OUTSIDE ROOMS, BATX AND SHOWERS. Rooms 60c., 75c., and 91-00. See For Yourselfl William Short, Prop. CIRCLE CITY HOTEL DINING ROOM NOW OPEN Family Style. Tables for Ladies. Breakfast—7:30 to 10; Din ner—11:30 to 2; Supper— 4:30 to 7. Your Patronage Solicited. M. S. BOTELHO, Proprietor. Hurry Up Two 5-room houses, very close in, at $1750 and $2000. Owner lives Outside and wants to sell at these prices, which are very attractive, (assessed value, $5000) For a home or an invest ment you can’t beat this. Alien Shattuck NO ROOF TROUBLES — When covered with CONCRETE TILE. Easts a life time; no re pairs. Imposing appearance, ab solutely lire, frost, wind and water proof. Let us talk it over. G. E. KRAUSE Manufacturer of concrete tile, brick, block and other building material P. 0. Basement Phone 439 l PROFESSIONAL i Drs. Kaser & Freeburger DENTISTS 1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg. PHONE 58 Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. i , — -_ Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Bldg. Telephone 176. I Dr. L. 0. Sloane Office Phone 18 House Phone 297 I Dr. DeVighne Malony Building Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9 Phones: Office, 104; Res. 101 I Seward Bldg. Paone 469 Drs. White & Stewart X-Ray Dlagontisclans and General Practitioners of Dentistry. Hours 9 to 6 and Evenings 7 to 9. Dr. Daniel S. Neuman Practlco limited to disease* of th< EVE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT Office hours 1 to 4 and 7:30 to 9 p. m. 432 Goldstelr Bldg. Phone *#T Visit the FamouP Sitka Hot Springs Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Sanitarium Rates $2 60 Per Day and up Every Comfort Rossclle Studio Modern and Classic Discing. Classes Mor.day and Thursday. Private leBsona by appointment. Phons 4622. Res. 1(82. Juneau Public Library and FREE READING ROOM City Hall, Second Floor. Main Street at 4tk. Reading Room Open From a a. m. to 10 p. m. Circulation Room Open From 12 m. to 6 p. m. — 7:00 ». BL to 8:30 p. m. Current Magazines, Newspaper! Reference Books, Eto. FREE TO All DO YOUR SAVINGS EQUAL THE AVERAGE? According to Government reports one person in every ten in the United States has a savings bank account with an average balance of $440.00. Where Do You Stand? Have you a savings account? If not, begin saving today. One dollar will open a savings account. THE B. M. BEHRENDS BANK. The oldest and largest bank in Alaska. ,5£TTt.ttS lATTb CaR» ATTRaGTTbD lb HEADtMG Re^DS aBoltt Re AOS A0i»oT RumnjuOC, £e*T lb B+jXOV MORNING ABoOT CnPONCINg old Cco.Sii^c a*.l maao -STReeT Cars Paver..TW*s it »luc laws Smovws ©*- AjnlDav c-xccvt Rj caorch A VRBTTV* OOoO Wo«lT> £o(/w© f=Ot-*< A^TeR ACV P* iSP*Tff ©P $OME DiSAGR.ee.ablf Th fN G 9 ^jOAATijH ApPeiM RdADS ABOUT RCAD6 ABOUT The R£/^t>*5 ^BOuT tmG . *Cr . . # • . *C< CLOSING all PLACES Ppoh.B'T.okj of all CloS<n3& of al l Golf A^Pwvce of amosemeiJt onj Pleasure motopirg coo«?ses( "Base "Ball, ^ r •Suwpay or The Sabbath Pay Tsrm-S— EVERY f«'N6 ^VC? ^ g That people wawt *YY ^SZ--?* /? aaip enjoy* _ s \ DUDLEY G. ALLEN Alaska Representative