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ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE; JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER a Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main streets, Juneau, t Alaska._ i Entered In the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class t matter. < _—- — - — , SUBSCRIPTION RATES. , Delivered ny~carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane tor *1.25 per month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates; One year. In advance, *12.00; six months. In advance, *6.00; three months, 'n advance. *3 110; one month. In advance *125. Subscribers will confer a favor If they will promptly notify t the Business Office of any failure or Irregularity In the de livery of their pnpers , „ Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repuhllcntlon of all news dispatches credited to It or not Otherwise credited In tills paper und also the local news pub lished herein. _ rtlRCltl.ATION GUARANTEED TO BE MOKE THAN DODKt.F THAT OF ANY OTHER AI.AHKA N— .VSPAPER. XV _«_ ALASKA GAINING NOTHING. For more than a h>alf century Alaska'* groat effort in connection with legislation has 'been the struggle toward aolf-governmeut—the sort of self-government that other Territories had in their pioneer days. It •was urged In Alaska as early as 1868. A hill pnnsed the House of Representatives giving us a. Territorial form of Government a dozen years or so later. Then a few years later Gov. Swinsford began a battle for it which ho waged for the remainder of his life time. Special representatives of the people urged It upon Congres from time to time thereafter. It has been the prayer of nearly every political convention, partisan and non-partisan in Alaska for rente two-score years. Yet Delegate Suth erland, who is nearing the end of the long cession of Congress in his second term, has done not a tiling to contribute to the success of the struggle Di fact lie has done nothing at all for the permanent progress of Alaska while in Congress, nothing that will identify him In liistory with a single thing that is fmpcrtant or that will endure. He has fooled uleng with the fisheries question, but har, done noth ing to bring jurisdiction over the.queotion to the people erf Alaska—though one Congressman in effect asked him why ho did not nttompt to do ro. Delegate Calc, our fliv representtaive In Congress to s< rve a full term, did nothing to further the cause of self-government or to otherwise leave an impression that would endure in history. Mr. Cain fcjolcd his time away wtth a commission form of gov cVhnv nt bill that had been written for him by Judge Wickor.ham. Delag’ate Wlekerslium after ^liu h^,l btF?l“ prt tided Into discarding the bill that ‘w*os nob even an imitation of a eclf-gavernnient Measure', did secure the law allowing us a Legislature with oj runny limitations on its authority that we have our imitation Territorial government. That would have been s. it; factory if he had accepted tile invitation of Prerident Talt In his moasiage of 1912 to get us •a full Territorial form of government, an Invitation that wad repeated the next year by President Wilson. Judge Wickersliam also did, very effective work to etcuro the building of the Alaska RalLroatd and he got the legislation which made tho Alaska Agricul tural CoJlogo and School of Mines possible. Thera fero. in vpitc of the circumstance that he was never at beaut in favor of real self-government 'for Alaska and war. foreul to appear, nt least, to support it because of the exegeneics of politics. Delegate Wickershnm't name will bo associated with three Important Alaska me. urea, and some others of les.3 Importance. Delegates Sulzer and Grigsby were unable to ac complish much because of the war and the fact that belli of them had contests on their hands. However Bclegstd Sulzer was in a fair way to secure for the Territory juriidlctlon over the fisheries question until, for political roaeous, a back fire was started by those who protended to be progressives and to represent tl.c manses in Alaska. When the House Committee aaw that thcro would he a contest over the Sulzer Bill, It refused, on account of the press of war mat ters to give the necessary time for the hearings. Mr. Sulzer also introduced a full Territorial form of govonment nictaiure, and there was one hearing on the l object. But it was dropped because of the war. Ilut Delegate Sutherland's record will stand a.) that of a man who devoted his time to making nu (Heine that he tltc light would help him to secure a le-eloetion. --- WE MAY HAVE TARIFF LEGISLATION. Through subterranean channels the noVs comes out of Washnigton that there is a tentative agree ment among Democrats and the ''progressive” bloc of Republicans to rpring a tariff program as soon us tho tax bill is out of t'hc way and to put It through the House of Representatives. It is said that the situation has been canvassed aijd the votes necessary to put the program through the House are available. It was at first tlie purpose, according to this tn formation, to pass a gonoral tariff revision bill, to be Introduced by Representative Darner, ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, the bill to be stylod the "Garner Bill." It is Bald that the plan has ibeen changed, however, and that several bills will be introduced, each removing or lowering taiiff tchodulce. Tho first biH, according to this information, will be one placing on the free list "ail ; articles that the fatmer has to 'buy." Through tho same channels comes, the news that ' tho recent action of the President ;jn • rafslhg the tariff 12 cents a bushel on wheat will be tested in the courts. It is contended by lawyers who have ' been consulted in connection with it that the Presi- 1 dent's construction of conditions wuk not the one ! authorized ,by tho law. and that at most he was only authorized to raise the tariff three cents a bushel It will be recalled that the President’s first pur pose was to raise the tariff on wheat 26 cents per ( 100 pounds or 15.60 cenls a bushel. Father in vestigation caused him to fix the advance at 12 cents a bushel, which was agreed upon as the limit author- r izod by law. o Tho circumstance that the increase in the taritf ~ •as followed by a drop of 11 cents a bushel in the rico of May wheat is said to be one of the reasons ar the proposed attack—which will come from the gricul'tural States. Senators from w'hcat States contend that the ariff on wheat has caused Canadian wheat growers ud mill men to make arrangements for marketing heir surplus in Great Britain independently of Am rican flour manufacturers and dealers, and that they lave undersold American flour and wheat in Europe, musing a fall in the price. Most of the Canadian urplus, it is said, was previously marketed in tho i ’nited States, and sold to European market through be same channels that American wheat moved in iucli a manner that the seller could keep the price Uglier. ^ Tho prohibition enforcement officers have de irmined to make Cleveland dry and remove all (lnptatlon from the delegates who will attend tlie itepublioan National Convention Juno 10. In the I ncantime there is nothing hut Ellc-nce with refer nce to New York and June 24. If Ijicut. Wood made as much money as he is '(puled to have made in his Wall Street promotions le will not go hungry for a while even if he has \ levered himself from the Army payroll. Skagway’o claim of having elected the first woman :o an Alaska Council is not well founded. Mrs. Jennie 3auIson was elected to the City Council of Seward wo years ago and completed her term this year. Spring Is hero or hereabouts. There Is no doubt ibout it now. Junoau baseball players and fails f ire organizing for the coming season. Trotzky is back in Mosrow but he U likely to !h;d tho stats of the mighty are all occupied. 1 Eating Meat. (Heating's, Neb., Tribune.) Scientists tell us thait wo are what we eat. In i that ease, those who eat peaches ere peaches, and those who oat ptunes are prunes. i No dcuht, such in the belie.* of tho majority >f vegetarians. But, be that as it may. the vego .nrlahs have been given something to think about •cccntily by Viihjalmur Stefansson, tho Arctic ex- 1 jicrer who rays that men can live on a strict diet. ] T mc:it in the liand of ice. Stdfansrcn tells of a liundred per cent, meat diet • n tho Airctlc circle, He says that his men ate iciuare meals at first, but gradually lost itheir appe- , until at the end of two or three weeks they were nauseated by the very thought of moat, conse quently they usually went without meat in their menus, sometimes far a day and sometimes longer, it was at this point that the medical school experi menters were prepossessed by the belief that the men were about to die. However, Stefansson said that his view was that this repulsion against meat wa3 ps) cr.lcgical and would in due time be overcome !>y hunger. This Invariably turned out to be tho :a«o. After a more or loss prolonged fast the men "mmenced nibbling, presently they nibbled somo more, and at the ond or a few days they were eating iquare meals again. Within a few weeks they had regained normal weight and at the end of six months they were feeling and looking as well as they ever , did in their lives. 1 It is estimated by Stefansson that out of the l'§WJ ycarc at the polar regions he spent three ' hsocr.nd day on a one-budred per cent, meat diet 1! pf Cf;l|rse, it Is natural that at first ho had a desire lor a change in diet and his appetite craved vege- ' tables. But after the fourth or fifth year ho no longer bad a desire for Crulits and vegetables Too many persons who suffer with rheumatism place the blame at tho door of the butcher. They * ire of the Opinion that meat oreato rheumatism. Li tins were true, Stefanseon would at leust have a louch of rheumatism, especially after his experience ! 3. a meat-eating diet tor so long a period. But he1 ays he has not even had a twinge of rheumatism. 1 bo, it would seem that another theory has bean knocked into a cceked hat. Daugherty’s Successor. (New York World.) In Harlan Fleko Stone the President has found in Attorney General who in character, learning and msec! a Mon is worthy of the office. The sordid c:m nectlons which Daugherty brought to that office tno 1 collection of doubtful persons, wirepullers and political peddlers who surrounded him, all belon o a would with which Dean Stone lias no relation’ LW) > U!kfvW*th ,him U' Washington a cleaner air ..lid the right lo the people's confidence. he ^>n|let,'!ins t0l!s us that ut “mea Calvin whites News ) ^bulary of General Dawes. _(Dallas , - ■ _ . ! How can Bryan find time to Jump on all the'! Democratic candidates to whom he Is opposed this! )eai. (Cleveland Times-Commenclal.) j1 kco‘‘^U!!,r8~Tf0rmHlram'' ann0l,nCM Ll‘e MilwauJ1 *l,ne'i Hlram KettinS any other sort of 1 m"B theix* days?—.(Detroit Free Press.) I „rtJr° demonstrate what speed really is, the Olympic 1 games may stage in the distant future a race beuveon 1 rum und runners.—(Louisville Courier-Journal.) - ^ Dawes and his experts may have coat- 1 rill Hist r1 ° bU' bUt U 'S the same old reparations 1 Pill that Germany must swallow.-(Indianapolis Star, i > rile price cf freedom" perhaps depends mriiv an whether the purchaser insists on loo per^cein * iiirity or is satisfied with a little dilution*^ of the 6 simon-pure.—Springfield Republican.) i A Federal Judge has ruled that buyers of bootleg 1 lie as bad as the seller. In many cases they soon11 .col worse.—(Boston Herald.) 1 ——-—-.—- j . Jn,d00r fiport of the sreat American « ® , a ,nak1n* both ends meet; and as it is played 1 u ail 'seasons, the players are always In form -- c [Memphis Commercial Appeal.) t Heartbeats, it (a said, have been heard by radio it a distance of 1200 miles. Well Samson's hZ! v ^alS'Cl6°batra's heartbeats, and Romeo's and Juliet's ‘ lrC °ch0ittg yot u11 "VC the world,— (Chicago News.) , We wouldn't give up universal suffrago for anv 1 hlng in the world, now that we’ve got it end the I ere privilege of watching an old he-candidate tr ig to appear to have a good time at a musical tea «TSl.,w°"b *" “*■ “««■ •»“ »*■» t'bi. „"J. j THIS DAY IN ALASKA HISTORY By EMIL EDWARD HURJA .PRIL 15, 1819.—Baranof, ruler of Russian America, dies on board ship In Indian Ocean, being buried next day. .PRIL 15. 1919.—Chas. A. Salter, then delegate to Congress fro'm Alaska, dies while being taken from Sulzer to Ketchikan. ' ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR 1 j li By SAM HUL I | I-■ Not More’n One Ton, Anyway. Well, April has arrived. And I am sure you'll find. That Spring can't be So doggone far behind. Observations pf Oldest Inhabitant. 1 kin remember when hosiery was omething to be worn but not seen. The Ananias Club. "I hate to see winter go and hope t will snow aft through April,” re narked the man who is a home gar-! len fan. ] Nuf Sel. ‘‘Why have you never married ?”i iskfcd the ol3 maid. "Because I am a pacifist,” snapped' he old bachelor. Figure it Out for Yourself. A headline says "Rythmic ear is lecessary to dancing.” But nothing ras said about brains being neccs ary. Zero, That's All. What the average man knows about nail Jong: What the average man cares about nah Jong: Add Pests. A doggone crazy nut. On whom I’d like to use a gun, Is he who thinks it’s smart, To come back: “Now I'll tell one.” He Gets Medal for Nerve. Blinks—Ho thinks a good deal of limself. Jinks — Yes, , and he takes no Uances witli himself. Whenever he nakes home brow ho invites his; rionds In to sample it before he'll isk any of it. iosh, Don't the Girls Down There Know It's Leap Year. Mt. Moriah Cor. Noble County (Ark. Picayune.) I think we arc going to have a :ood supply of old maids around Mt. Joriah, If our boys don’t pick up a Ittle more courage. Worth Knowing. Ways of making money. Where to get it. A friend who will lend you five. Which horse will win the race. A pretty girl. Someone who knows the Judge. Just where the speed cops are sta loned. The Exception. "Nobody likes a quitter. They do If he |3 making a tire ome speech. More or Less True. Another love tlint passeth under tanding is the kind tho woman who avs she shot hei' husband because he loved him. A good neighbor is one who docs-1 lot care a tinker’s dam what your msband does or doesn’t do, and will end you her best table linens, china! md silver for the luncheon she isn’t :onn*a be Invited to. Father thinks his old jokes are treat, but that isn't what mother hlnks of her old joke. There may be more women who, rant more love and Ie3s money rom their husbands, but what at east ninety-nine and nine tenthsj or cent of them want is more: loney. Nudo shades may be used for the hings they wear, but most of the kin that shows is jlainted like a ainbow. Everybody makes mistakes, but a >t of people seem to specialize in! i We don’t know whether or not! flss Modesty gets any consolation, ut of remembering, as she gives the idles at an evening party the once-: ver, that its dollars to doughnuts liey aro clothed with authority at ome, anyway. If the authorities can't prevent ives from buying deadly firearms, le tailors are gonna have to put i--1- Z—T— ■■ f Juneau Public Library and Free Reading Room City Hall, Second Floor Main Street at 4th Reading Room Open From 8 a. m to 10 p. m. Circulation Room Open from 1 to 6:30 p. m.—7:00 p. m. to 8:30 p. m. Current Magazines. Newspaper!, Reference Books. Etc., FREE TO AU | ---a bullet-proof clothes on the market for I men. When It comes/to sympathy, a lot | of folks ure so economical they won't . waste any on anybody—but thern ielves. Daily Sentence Sermon. Honors are something that never ’re thrust on a lazy man. News of the Names Club. We don’t suppose anybody ever works any harder than Idell Thomas, of Houston. And for all we know, I M. Fierce, of Webster Grove, Mo., is a timid little bird. Evidently Will Arns, of Los An geles, believes in preparedness. ATTENTION SCOTTISH MASONS. On Thursday evening at 8:00 p. m. the Knights Rose Croix will ob serve the ceremony of Extinguish ing the Lights after which follow the Mystic Banquet. On Easter Sun day afternoon at 2:00 o’clock the ceremony of Relighting the Lights will be observed. Your attendance at '.both ceremonies is obligatory, so please keep both dates open. J. W. LEIVERS, Acting Wise Master -- — -- REBEKAH CARD PARTY. Tlie Rebekuhs Auxiliary will en-1 tertain with a Card Party at the: Odd Follows Hall Tuesday evening! at 8:30. Prizes and refreshments.; Public cordially invited. —adv. Treatment for Boldness, V. Terrell. . .. .. Furnished Rooms I and ROARD at tte Rockland House Opposite Palace Theatre. Phone £36. ( ■- -g a-* Furnished Rooms FO'R RENT New Management 212 Ferry Way DONA McGREW !• •--* a-1 TRY OUR Merchants Lunch 45 Cents Arcade Cafe MARY YOUNG. Proprietor. SPECIAL ORDERS! I Your order for SPECIAL NAMED Easter Eggs, must be received not later than April 16th. S. & F. CONFECTIONS JUNEAU MUSIC HOUSE P. C. C. Stands for “Pretty Clean Coal” Also for PACIFIC COAST COAL Black Diamond Lump (Highest grade of all coals) Briquets (The Ideal Fuel) PHONE 412 Bunkers, Ferry Way R. R. YOUNG, Agent ’ PROFESSIONAL T |-----* | Drs. Kaser & Frecburger DENTISTS 1 and 3 Goldstein Ud*. PHONE M Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. *. i. -a , .-1-—a Dr. Charles P. Jeaat DENTIST Rooms I and 9 Valentin* B14f. Telephone 178. > ■ — --■ Dr. A. W. Stewart > DENTIST Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phon* 4(9. Re*. Phoa* JT« ■ --■ ■.. — ....a Dir. DfVighna Mitlony Building Boms 1 to 4. 7 to 9. i Phones: Office. 10*; Rea t';». I - a-f Dr. W. J. Pig? ! PHYSICIAN Office—Sewnd and Mai* Telephone 18 i_ —1 Dr. W. A. Borland Physician and Burgeon | Juneau Music House Bid*. ! Telephone 172 j a- - --a a-a Dr. H. Vane* OSTEOPATH 201 Goldstein Building j Hours: 9'SO to 12; 1 to 8| | 7 to R or by appointment. ! Licensed osteopathic physician. | Phones: Office, 1(7; RaMilsncs I Phone (13. Ooltseuu Apts. a . a a-.-—a I GEO. L. BARTON, D. C. i Chiropractor 2nd Door Meeserscbm^t epta. Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to l| 7 to 9 and by appointment. Phone 259. a ----—-a Dr. F. L. Goddard’* Sanitarium | - 1 Rates $3.00 Per Day and Dp Every Comfort ■-;-* -- I. J. SHARICK Jeweler and Optician Watches, Diamonds «Silverware - ' Jewelrj L__ a---a OUR AIM Meadowbrook Butter Turner & Pease Eggs At Lowest Prices J. M. GIOVANETTI j PHONE 385. i House Phone 385-2 rings i a- - -■ For engraved or printed calling cards see The Empire. KJgJg-MJV gg viLl.-g tpi g r r. ktS. l.rim ymmnrt IUL JU.gg-inr ~re Jg ffCJEZOa£JR!%j I The Premier jj i Investment § For the man of average income a Savings Account is the best investment: £ It may be opened with one dollar or more. It may be increased by small or large additions at ^ any time. ; It may be withdrawn when needed in part or whole. It is not subject to price fluctuations like other in vestments; but it is at all times available dollar for dollar. It pays four per cent, interest compounded twice a year, which is a liberal return consistent with the safety and the privileges offered. [The B. M. Behrends Bank Atoka's Oldest Bank—Founded 1801 7TTHEAU ALASKA fraternal Societies --OP Gastineau Channel I—— - o . mi MmUii Wednesday Evenings at •:<>• o'clock, Elks' Hall Charleaf P. Jenna, Exalted Rul/,\ JOHN A. DAVIS, Secretary Co-Ordinate Bodies of Ft ee masonry Scottish Kite Regular meeting* second and fourth Fridays each month at 7:80 p m. Odd Fellows' Han. WALTER B. HE IB EL, Secretary, I. O. D. W. BII.VBR BOW LODQB NO. I A Meeeta every Thursday at 8 P. II., Odd Fellows’ Hall. E. M. Polley, Noble Grand; Thomas L. George, Secretary. i-—-——£ . PERSEVERANCE REBET SB LODGE MO. 2A. I Meets every flrst and th.'rd Tuesdays In I. O. O. P. HaJl, at ■ I 8 P. M. MABEL WILSON, I N G. ALPHONSINB CARTER, I i Secretary. I- - MOUNT JUNCA9 LOOM# No. 147, F. A A. M. Jfg Stated Communication floor.nd and Fourth AAondar* . f *ach Ifi,nth. In Odd Felicia i '«■•» h»#inrlni at T:l# o'doc* I William M. Fry, Master. Chas. E. Nairnel, Beciv,,»,-j Uruer of the EASTERN STAR H**cond and Fourth T*ia I... at tut Month. At I o'clock. I. O. O. F. Ball PEARL BURFORD, Worthy Matron. LOIS NORDLING, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ' : enUHEKB COUNCIL. Wu I M* M.-^dne* .teal and laat Monday* a. T.M , p. m. Tranaleat Broth* -ra 'irjfod to attend. Council Chamkar* Fifth Street. A. J. Forrest, G. K., 1. L. McCloskey, Secretary. AMERICAN LEGION Alford John Bradford Poat No. «. Juneau, Alaaka. Meets fourth Tbureda) __ each month at > p. at I The Dug-Out. J. W. Kehoe, Poet I Commander, Phone 459; J. H. Hart, ' Post Adjutant, Phone 100. I---, LOYAL ORDER 01 MOOSE Juneau Lodge 700 Meets every Friday night, 8 o’clock , m Moose llall. George Jorgenson, Dictator; R. H. Steveiis, ; Secretary. ■:-i WOMEN OF MOOSEHEART LEGION Juneau Chapter No. 439 Meeting second and fourth Tuesday of each month, 8 o’clock, Moose Hall. Mrs. Mary Main, Senior Regent; Mrs. A. | F. McKinnon, Secretary. j 1-----■ 1 »■— auxiliary. Pioneer* or* ALASKA, Igloo No. *. Meets last Thursday of every I zncfnth at 8 p. *m. Social hour t with members of Pioneer Lodge i to follow each meeting. : Mrs- Lulu Hunter, President. J Laura McCloskey, Secretary. *----+ 1«-— - I Auxiliary Alford John Bradford Post No, 4 American Lesion j Regular meeting fourth Thurs day of each month In Council Chambers of City Hall at 8 p. m. President, Mrs. E. M. Policy. Secretary, M. C. Ducey. ■ -II .—-■ Visit SITKA HOT SPRINGS Rates $3.00 Per Day and Dp | ( Dr. F. L. Goddard, Prop, £ AUTOS FOR HIRE II --- -. m Carlson’s Taxi Stand—Alaskan Hott' PHONE SINGLE 0 m_pay and Night Servi. ■ I~~ I Jack McDonald 1 TAXI SERVICE « STAND—VAN ATTA BAR* SHOP—PHONE 415 & I Mrs. Trevor Davis * Teacher of the ^_ Phone 30C