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ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE JOHN w TBOY I I I EDITOR ANB MANAGER Published every evening except Sunduy by tl»e EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. ____ SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Daily seed by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, In advance. $12.00; six months, in advance, $8-00; three months, in advance. $I>.00; one month, in advance $1-26. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de livery of their papers. . Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 3<4. "" MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Ass^'Med Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republtcatlon of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. __ CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE MORE THAN DOUBLE THAT OF ANY OTHER ALASKA NEWSPAPER. BRITISH POLITICS. The announcement that there will tc no coalition of tho Liberal and Labor Parties in the new British Parliament, if adhered to, leaves one of two alteriiR-i tlves in the political situation in Great Britain. Therel must bo another Liberal-Conservative coalition or] there will be another election soon. In view of the terrific attacks on the Government made by veteran Literal leaders, Asquith, Lloyd George, Winston Churchill and Sir John Simon, who got together only a short time before the election. It Is not easy to conceive of further union between the two old parties. If last week's elections meant any one thing above another it was the defeat of the Con servative Party and tho rejection of the Baldwin policies. What would be the result of another election it would bo folly for an American to predict. How ever, the unorganized condition of the Liberal Par y, It was said before the camaaign ws half over, made it 60 that tho great speeches of the tremendously superior Liberal campaigners were aiding the Labor Party more than they were the party of Galdsfono and Campbell-Bannerman. It is among the probabili ties that the Liberal Party would fare much better in an election in one, two or three months from now than it did last week—possibly enough better to capture the Commons, and form a Government of Its own. The time of the election, set at a date oo early that it provonted the reorganization of the Liberal Party's machinery so an to reach the voters, was one of the things attacked by Asquith, Lloyd Georgo and the others. It was conceded that so far as time liness wac concerned the Conservative Party had the bettor of things. That Is a matter that would be, remedied before another clootion could be held. In the meantime no party has a majority in Great Britain and the eituatlon for a stable govern ment Is not promising. DISCUSSING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF UTILITIES. Advocate? or public ownership contend that de velopment of public utilities is cheaper under State and municipal ownership titan by private owner ship because State and municipal bonds are exempt from all sorts of taxation and, therefore, sell more readily. The Montpelier, Vermont, Argus retorts, and to the point, that by the same token the publicly owned utilities are not assessed for luxation and therefore the public has to pay the taxes they escape paying. '1 he Toronto Financial Post disputes, however, that the publicly developed utilities Rro more cheaply financed. A? evidence It points to the circumstance that the Niagara Falls power on the Canadian side, developed by the Government, cost live times as much per horre power to develop as the privately owned Niagara Falls power on the American side. It addB that. Canadian industries must either pay a much higher rate for power than the American Industries with which they are competing or else the burden will be upon the general taxpayers. President Coolldgo, when Governor of Massachu setts. discussing public and private ownership of' Utilities said: The alternative to private ownership and control Is public ownership and control. Broadly extended, this is cominanlsm. The government and Its agents are not in pos E-fjjion of any resources, ability, wisdom or altruism except that which they secure from private llfo. * * * Where the people are the government, they do not get rid of ■their burdens by attempting to unload them on the government. IN UTOPIA LAND. Serge bssininc. a poor poet, and some companions In a cafe complained of the ••adversities of peasant poets aa compared with .the flamboyant prosperity of profiteers,” and were thrown In jail. They were released from Imprisonment only after they adduced proof that they had not criticised the Government but were speaking in an abstract souse. No. friends, this did not occur in a capitalistic Anglo-Saxon or Latin country. it was In Moscow, the great Capital City of that commonwealth ordained and hallowed by hto lovers of liberty and the common people—Soviet Russia! RESULT IS SATISFACTORY. A Westward newspaper says there was consider able indignation at Juneau when it was learned that the Government had accepted a pica of guilty of murder in the second degree from Harry “Battling” Johnson, who confessed to killing two women in Juneau. If there was any indignation anywhere on account of it The Empire has not discovered it. As far as we know there is general satisfaction with the .treatment of this case by the officials of the De partment of JunMce—both with the District Attorneys pcceptance of the plea and with the sentences Imposed , ,by Judge Reed. When all the circumstances are taken into account there is every reason for congratulation that within afbout two-and-a-half months from the time fc the crime was committed the gultly man is in' the jl penitentiary, where there ia little chance for him to do further harm, serving a life sentence. There would be more enthusiasm over the an nouncement that the men held in prison on convic tion for violation of the Espionage Act may soon be released if it wore not for the persistence with which they are referred to as “political prisoners.” If they are released it will not be because they were not properly convicted of real crimes against their country but 'because of the belief that they have expatiated their crimes and will not offend again. Minus 65 is Great Britain's answer to Baldwin's high tariff proposals. The English people learned well tho lessons taught them by Bright and Cobden. For nearly a century the “tight little island” has stood steadfastly for sound money and free trade and she has weathered every wind that has blown. For the useless literature championship we com mend tho canned editorials that are being sent out by tho Democratic and Republican National com mittees. it would be a help to Hiram if he could only get Magnus Johnson of Minnesota to change his name.—(Springfield Republican.) Seems lo be a case of too much Johnson. Uncle Sam’s Sealskin Surplus. (New York World.) When the Government years ago s-.i up its mon opoly in goal-fur production through proprietorship of the Alaskan islands, it did not take into account the changes in fashions. To Us loss it Is now learn ing how fickle arc women's ways In matters of dress. It was to save the reals from extinction thar pelagic sealing was prohibited in agreement with other nations. Tho Pribylov and other islands were to bo o'oiely guarded, the ntimber of animals killed each year was fixed in advance and the Government rx.ld tho skins, charing the profits with its partners In tile treaty. It was a profitable arrangement, the seals multiplied, the catch ran as high ob from 25.000 to 30,000. Dart year only 12,000 seals were killed, and next year tho number is again to bo cut in half. It is all ithe women’s faults. They are not buy ing sealskin for wear as they did in other years. Other furs have taken their fancy fer reasons no one explains. So the Government has a large sur plus of sealskins left on its hands, and no bidder; offer to lighten its load. Store them it must, for want of other means to dispone of them. Possibly If might throw them on the market and take what they will bring, as the farmers had to do when surplus crops depressed prices. There should be women willing to wear sealskin ’•'at:- if they were so cheap that they could afford them. It might be an experiment worth trying. But '• it is to bo barred, then nothing Is left for Secretary Hoover to do, in the exercise of his discretion, but 'ppeal to American womanhood a3 a matter of patriotism to return to tho lavish ure of sealskin a* any price. Proclaim Sealskin Week, and call on the mothers and daughters of the land to buy two ealskin wraps where one did before anti help the Government in its distress. \ Payrolls Needed. (Seward Gateway.) The Important factor in building up a town In! the Northland is being overlooked. This factor is )tbs for the workingman. Without some kind of per manent payroll it is hard to Induce workingmen to locate here. We must have industries which run the year round. Seward has two sawmills. Why not manufacture box shooks for nearby canneries? Why not briquet the sawdust? It makes' the finst kindling I in tho world when pressed into bricks with melted | resin. Why not start a tin can manufacturing plant | to run during the winter months, A wood splitting! machine is badly needed in town. With one of these machines every knot and twisted piece could be made into stovewood. There are millions of ptarmigan. Why not can them for winter ues, when they are at their best? There are many ways cf starting a small payroll, if we only get at it. The workman is the bone and sinew of a town. Without him there would be no stores, no theatres, no business of any kind. Therefore they should bo provided with the means of gnining a livelihood. British Columbia in Fifth Place. (Prince Ilupert Nows.) Those who Imagine that British Columbia is going to the dogs should take time *o study this Province’s income per annum from all sources. According to an estimate recently published by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, British Columbia’s total income for the year ending March 31, 1922, was $229,138,933, or an average of $437 for every man, woman and child in the Province. From a further study of statistics it will therefore be gathered that British Columbia ranks fifth in the list behind Ontario, Quebec, Sas katchewan and Alberta, and ahead of Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. We are sort of glad, on the whole, that Governor Pinchot doesn’t live here in the bituminous field to settle anything that might happen.—(Ohio State Journal.) William J. Bryan, wnose present residence is Miami, Fla., says he sees no reason why a Southern candidate can’t be elected President. —(Detroit News.) Something is wrong with public life in America when a sojourn in Moscow is necessary to tit a rtateeman for Washington.—(Cleveland Times-Com mt-rclal.) , Men are of two classes—those who do their best work lonay and forgot about it, and those who prom ise to do their best work tomorrow and forget about It.—(Moniteau County (Mo.) Herald.) It is getting so that the church is about the only ~afe place to go to on Sunday.—(Boston Shoe and Leather Reporter.) ’’Bananas have suddenly gone up 3 per cent," says ‘he Nov.- York Herald. So they did have some, after ill.— (London Punch.) It's remarkable how few of the persons killed at grade crossing on Sundays are on their way to iliurch.—(Little Rock (Arkansas) Gazette.) The Invisible Empire was characterized by aston rhlng visibility on election day.—(Cincinnati En luirer.) It is not stated whether the alliance between | Isquith and Lloyd George is only for the duration if • the war against Stanley Baldwin.—(New York *ost.) Our Irreconcilable Senators have been that way I rfore. And have tired of it.—(Pittsburgh Gazette-1 imes.) i >-e—m ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR I lj I AM WTT.T. ( I a-« i - Saver Firemen a Job Her "flame" came round To call on Mayme, But her old dad Put out the flame. Observations of Oldest Inhabitant The reason old fashioned parents didn’t need to read books on the science of bringing up children was because they always kept a switch behind the dresser. The Ananias Club “No,” said thp woman next door, "I don't want an electric washer. Working over the old fashioned tubs does me mere, good than all the daily dozens I could take.” Her View Of It “Do you tak3 this man for better or for worse—” the preacher said. “For better,” snapped the grass widow bride, “he couldn't be worse than the last one I took.' ’ So That's What They Make Bootleg Liquor Of, Eh? The United States consumes more than one third of the world’s total production of turpentine. — (News Item.) Memory Tests Who wrote ‘The Star Spangled Banner?” Who wrote “Yes. We Have No Bananas"? Times Have Chanqed “Dusty" Miller asks: “Do you re member when a laborer was worthy of hire?” That was a long time ago; all ho does now is stir up the boss’s Ire." Old One Revamped Yes. 'twas a harrowing experience, plowing through the giant waves, and, believe me, we had to keen our feet firmly planted on the deck." “Huh! What did you raise.” "My dinner." Hard Thlwgs To Keep Your peaeo. A secret. Money. •* A family. A car Umbrellas. Tern per. Budgets. Ahead of your expenses. We're Not Up On Etiquette R. M. C. asks us If Its proper for a man to pick them up when a girl “drops her eyes.” Just off hand we'd say It would embarrass her less If he dropped his too. That Wat Somethinq Else Aqain He was rather slow, though she had hinted rather broadly that she didn't object to being kissed. “S’matter, are you afraid to kiss me because you fear the germs lurk ing on my ruby lips?” she teased him “No-o," he retorted, as he edged a little further away. “I never was afraid of auv germ that ever existed —but 1 can’t say as much for your father, who has been peeping In the door." More Or Less True The wonderful colors of our glor ious sunsets probably never had a rival until our dear little flappers took to painting their faces. No matter how hard they try some women just can't make themselves look young, but they are successful enough when they begin to act like babies, you bet. Another thing the old fashioned woman used to do that her daughter ean’t, is using the worn out undies for scrub rags. Applause is something a woman gets very little <pf at home. Stirring up a hornet’s nest is a mere picnic compared to what you stir up when you blab out your wife’s age before a catty neighbor woman. The reason most men don't pro pose on their knees is because that is where the girl is sitting. Zero in places to borrow Is from the people who only lend their pres ence. When it starts to go nothing can go faster than money, unless it’s love. Any fool thing, such as finding r Tj It'a all in knowing HOW to do | flrat-claes cleaning and dyalag I CAPITAL DYE WORM C. Meldner. Profeaalonal Dyer I and Cleaner. Phone ITT. -i JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY Move*, Packi and Store* Freight had Baggage. Prompt Delivery *f LADYSMITH COAL Phong 48. old King Tut's tomb or an Idiotic game like Mah Jongg, can influence the fashions, but we guess we'll never live to see the day when Com mon Sense will have any effect on them. News of the Names Club Since he Just was married to her last week we can't help but hope that Calvin Quitter, of Houston, won't live up to his name and quit 'er. And speaking of Houston wed dings, having wed Elsie Goodbe, James Cowart Is pretty sure he won’t be stung. Now, you stop! Yes, we mean you. Margaret Tickell—she lives ,in New Orleans. Old papers for sale at The Empire. DEPARTMENT Of THE INTERIOR G. S. L.AML1 U( FIOE Anchorage, Alaska. October 22, 1923. Notice is hereby given that George C. Burford, of Juneau, Al aska, as assignee of Leonard Lewis, has filed application. Serial 05526, for patent under the provisions of Section 2306 Revised Statutes, for a tract of land embraced in U. S. Survey No. 1451, situated about two miles northwest of Juneau, Alaska, n latitude 68° 19’ 05" north, .ongitudo 134“ 27' 07" west, and nore particularly described as fol ows: Commencing at Corner No. 1. M.C. on the line of ordinary high tide of Gastlneau Channel, whence U.8.L.M. No. 7 bears I north 48“ 49' 30" west 77.47 chains; thence meandering said line of high tide of Gastlneau Channel (1) south 25° 52' east 2.47 chains; (2) south 4“ 62' east 1.01 chains, to Corner No. 2, M.C. on the line of ordinary high tide of Gastlneau Chan nel; running thence east 4.30 chains to Corner No. 3; thence north 4.33 chains to Corner No. 4; thence west 3.53 chains to Corner No. 6. on the southeast line Juneau Administrative site U. S. Forest Service with drawal, dated June 30, 1916; thence south 61° 07' west 1.76 chains to Corner No. 6; thence west 0.58 chains to Corner No. 1, the place of beginning, con taining an area of 2.00 chains, variation 32° 30' east. Any and all persons claiming ad versely the above described land are required to file their adverse claim: In the U S. Land Office, at An-! chorage,' Alaska, within the period of publication or thirty days there after, or they will be barred by the provisions of the Statutes. FRANK A. BOYLE. Register. First publication, Nov. 8, 1923. ■ast publication, Jan. 8. 1924. a-1Z—— j BEAUTY CULTURE ] Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday | Residential Calls Thursday, Friday, Saturday | Appointments at Parlors. ; Special appointments made for I | ’ Sundays and evenings. I Violet L Terrell Formerly with Mrs. Fry. | Cliff Apt. No. 4. Phone 427 | ■-- --■ FRESH OYSTERS Eastern and Olympia Oysters at the U. & I. Cafe | T PROFESSIONAL T ■ - ~ Dri. Kiser & Frecborger DENTISTS 1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg. PHONE M Hoars 9 s. m. ts 9 ». as. •-= — • —- ■. " - _ ■ — Dr. Charles P. Jesse DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Vaientln* Bid*. ^ Telephone 176. ^ ■ . ' ' --■ Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours. I A. M to » P ML SEWARD BUILDING Offles Phone 489. Ren. Phone 878 i .- ■ ■■ ■ --a . Dir. DcVighne Mielony Building (tools 1 to 4, 7 to 9. Phones. Offles. 104; Res in*. j I a .—— -a I f-I Dr. W. J. Pigg PHYSICIAN Office—Second and Main Telephone 18 a.-6 T ~~br~ W. A Borland Physician And Surgeon I Juneau Muelc House Bldg. ! i Telephone 172 | *----8 | Dr' ll. Vane. OSTEOPATH 201 Qoldsteln Building Hours. 9 ■ 30 to 12; 1 to 8| i 7 to 8, or by appointment. Licensed osteopathic physician. Phones: Office, 187; Residence Phone 813, Coliseum Apts. «.. -.—~ * ---a GEO. I, BARTON, D. C. Chiropractor 2ud floor Me8eerschm*,*t Apts. Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to E; 7 to 9 end by appointment. Phone 269. 8-—-a }- B | All Alaeknn Trails End at HOTEL ATWOOD Phrsl Ave. and Pine St., Seattla i Popular Prices Nearest to Kv ] erything J. A. Faro ham mod Tad Taylor, Propa. • --a! ---; -1 DIAMOND BRIQUETS $16.00 PER TON Delivered I PACIFIC COAST COAL COMPANY PHONE 412 (30 Years in Juneau.) Irim jrnjm 'mnTt rtvwTrvmiF! mlsv JECJI5 I I An Easy Way j To own your home or to get started in a business of your own is to make weekly deposits with thi3 bank. One dollar or more will start the account. Each week you add a little more. This together with the interest we add will bring you to your goal in a surprisingly short tiije. 0 . 1LII Meeting Wednesday Evenings at 1:0* o’clock. Elks' Hall Charles P. Jenna, Exalted Rut/ /. JOHN 4 DAVIS Secrot.ry •• —— i -- -1 " ■■ Co-Ordinate Bodies of Freemasonry Scottish Bite Regular meeting’ second and fourth Fridays each month at 7:80 p m. Odd Fellows’ Hall. WALTER B. HEIHBL. Secretary -- I. O. O. P. SILVER BOS* LODOn no. I 4. Vieeeta every Thursday at I P. U.a Odd Fellows’ Hall. Charles E. Perelle, Noble Orandl Thomas L. George, Secretary. • —-----~m PERSEVERANCE REBEESB i LODGE NO. 2A. | Meets every Srst and th.'W , Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, ar | 8 P.M. FRANCES GUSTAFSON. I N. G. ALPHONeONB CARTER, j Secretary. MOUNT JONCAB LOOM No. 1ST, F. A A. M. Stated Communication Second and fourth Monday* uf each Month. In Odd feilc^* «*ll. beginning at 7:t« o'tloufc Homer O Nordllng, Master Cnaa. E. Natfhel, Secretary - — Order of the EASTERN STAX llecund and fourth rue lari Of DMta At S o’clock. I. O. O. r. BalL ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron. LOIS NORDLINO. Secretary. KNIGHTS OF C0TUVRH8 SBUhlMl COUNCIL Ne 1 / ■*% U-et1nga aacoeS and Irjt kotidiyi a. f :*• 0. m Tranalent Broth ►»rs urged to attend. Council Chaco hr i a Fifth Street. A. J. Forrest, G. K.. J. L. McCloskey. Secretary AMERICAN LEGION R Alford Jonu brail tor* Pom No. 4. Juneau, *.x»k< Meets fourth Thtirade) each month it I |. a Flks’ lyodge Room. John F biari Poet Commander, Phone 973; 0. ■ Manat, Post Adjutant, Phone 19%. ' •a OH DEB 0> MOOSE jUJit-BU Lodge 700 s >*-<.* ■♦vary Friday •i> v- -»i 4 ('clock , Hall. B. r. Roden berg, Dictator; R. H. gteveu* Secretary. • B WOMEN OF M00SEHEART LEGION Juneau Chapter No (39 Meeting second and fourth Tueeday of each month. 8 o’clock, Moose Hall. Mrs. C. W Bender, Senior Regent; Mrs A F. McKinnon, Secretary ■- (I B AUXILIARY, Fi'JNEERB 0V ALASKA. Igloo No « I Meets last Thursday of every | month. 3acia! hour with mem | bers of Pioneer Lodge to fol low each meeting. I Mrs. Lottie Splckutt, President. J Mrs. Lillie Burford, Secretary. •-—- ..B Auxiliary Alford John Bradford Post No. 4 American Legion Regular meeting fourth Thurs day of each month in Council Chambers of City Hall at 8 p. m. President, Mrs. Robert Simp son; Secretary, R. C. M. Shepard. «--4 AUTOS FOR HIRE -a Blackie’s Taxi ANY WHERE—ANY TIME Stand Arctic Pool Room PHONE 444 B-—-4 B-■ Miller’s Taxi Service TWO CARS Next to Nugget Shop PHONE—183 -—-« CALL Berry’s Auto Service for that seven-pasenger 1981 Cadillac touring car. Stand a* Qaetlnsau Hotel. Popular prices. Phone 10. Also seven-passenger Sedan for stormy weather. T. & W. Tiri f 7-passenger Studebaker Day and Night Service Stand—62 Front Street PHONE 271 Chae. Moeby, Driver. -- -* lost something? Tou can gM It >ack by using the “Lost and Found" rtumn of The Bmpira, Tll ■... ♦ 4.. ,