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ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE JOH> W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second Main Streets, Juneau, ai—fcs. ________ ■ntered In the Pest Office In Juneau as Second Class SUBSCRIPTION RATES. RsMwerbd by csrrtsr It Juneau. Douglas, Treadwsll and Thane »>.. $1.25 per month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: Otw year, In advance, $12.00; six months, 1n advance, $6.00: dm' months, >h advance, $3.00: one month. In advance $1.26 Subscribers wt confer a favor If they will promptly notify the Bud near Office of any failure or Irregularity In the de >fwy of their papers Telephone 'or Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Fr< «a Is exclusively entitled to the use for rapubltcatlon of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper •"•d also the local news ptib Bhhsd herein UPUnn-ATFON OlARANTKIfP TO BE MOHR THAN rtOTTRT.d! THAT OF ANY OTHER AI.ASKA N .‘".VSHAPFR. SHAVER MFC-LONG FRIEND OF DAVtS. Clem L. Shaver, picked „s Chairman of Ihe Demo cratlc National Committee to manage the. opining Presidential campaign, is a lifelong friend of Can didate John W. Davis. He is .a native West Vir ginian and resides at Fairmount in that State. lie is tiie personal choice of Mr, Davis for the position am! will succeed Cordell Dull about tli time that tiie candidate for the President is formally notified ot liis nomination, which has been set for August 11. Tiie new Democratic campaign boss is almost as unknown nationally as was Chairmen Butler, of file Republican National Committee, when he was first picked by Coolidge. But he is by no mear.l- ah amateur in the political arena. For 40 years hr has been active in West Virginia politics and is said to be a real genius. He was chairman success ively jf tiie County and State committees of his party. He is credited with a long list of successes, one of wlileb was the successful election of tiie pres ent Governor of his State. He has been a Davis' boot ter for many years ami made the uQ i4itik<!ion{ speech when the latter was groomed for Congress in 1913. At that time lie confided to a close. personal friend: "That man will be President some day if the ptople ever gel to know him." Shaver’s crowning achievement so far was the successful campaign he ■waged fur Davis at tiie New York convention. He carried iiis man from lfi votes to 1,098 when he was made the unanimous choice of the party’ oil the 103d ballot. In his long political career, Mr. Shaver has cairned the tltlo of "Sphinx.” Newspaper writers coming into contact with him at New York said the cognomen was not misplaced. One of them1.1 Vofn mentiug upon Itis lack of loquacity remarked that “in a contest for taciturnity lie would give PWs^ideiii Coolidge a strong battle for endurance.” lie sees much and says little but he has managed to Hud high! favor among correspondents for tlie big papers. He Is notisl for quick actions after lie lias made Ills, de-' ctrihis. He is 57 yoars of age; an unostentatiousi man r.f lc than medium height and of slight build Bcforb ho begun to devote himself exclusively to I pel I tics, lie achieved raccess in business, lie is u re-j tired lawyer who devotes his leisure time to a chicken faint. He lias dealt extensively In coal and limber lands and was u successful stock raiser. He neither smokes nor drinks and it is said of him that lie doesn’t talk enough for people to find out whether or not lie is ever guilty of using "cuss” words. - YAKAI.OS COME NEXT. - ’ i Several years ago the U. S. Department of Agri culture, at the Fairbanks farm experiment station, started an experiment in cross breeding of Itvesloek.: It was proposed to < ross specimens of Tibetfaii ^Vinr' with thoroughbred Galloway cattle. Tile initial at-1 tempt was not successful. A later one is said to have had promising results. The crossing of tty t#o t.trains was effected 'but it is too early to say whetflerj it will have any practical results. If the American breeders hope to kee > up ‘ Wftn Canada, however, they will have to move fast. Can adian breeders several years ago in a series-,of ex periments evolved the cattalo, by crossing buffalo i "witj domestic cattle, I be raising of the cro-s —breedi did not prove entirely practical and a further tos.' was determined. For tlie latter the yak was selected foi crossing with buffalo. The result is the yttk-nlrei Tl.ts new type of animal is said to breed true to stock, are very sturdy and well able to forage fori themselves. The que-Don, however, remains to be settled whether they, and the yak-galloway cross. l'k(> the cr.ltalo, are to 1m- of value in stock raising in the north or merely Interesting freaks for tliofee! who find profit In studying unusual animal , types. - WHERE ALL ARE BENEFITTED." - •! Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Co lumbia University, tlie other day in San Francisco dropped the subject of prohibition long enough to comment on the present political situation in the United States. In the Iai Follette movement yjiich culminated in the nomination of Die senor Wisconsin Senator on an independent ticketr he believes -there will bo good derived for everyone, in< Biding the nation as a whole. Among other thing* he said: It will he a great gain for political sin cerity and btralglrtforwardness if those radi cals who are in sympathy with Senutor La Follette. but who have continued to pose as Kepuiblicants or Democrats in other respec tive States or in the Senate and House of Itepresen tat Ives, should cease this cainou- 'ui flage and flock together in a group or party under a name of their own. Undoubtedly It would promote efficiency of Gov ernment if this could be brought about. a great deal of the Impotence of the hurt session of Congress was caused by the failure of the party system to furotion. Members of both Houses, regardless of the labels they bore, demonstrated that they bad used those labels it) their election campaigns for convenience, to get them elected, rather than from any seuee of allegiance or obligation to the party it rep resented. Dr. Butler recognized this, apparently, lcr he contended that We should take a long step forward in increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of representative government if the radicals would group themselves into one party and the liberal minded men and women of the country would group themselves into another. The noted educator believes that the times are working toward that end. He feels that the present party groups are not soundly based and that there is Idas essential difference between the Democratic and Republican partisans today than there exists between either group and the radicals. Upon the fundamentals of government and over the underlying principles of the American Government lie thinks there is little to choose between the two big parties but that a wide and almost impassible gulf separates them from the radical group. There is much to be said for Dr. Butler's con tention. In many essentials he is correct. It may wolf be that the development of the l,a Follette idea in tho next four or eight years will bring about a re-grouping of political partisans. But for the time being. America seems faced with a period of experiment involving a multi-party system. This is contrary to what experience on this hemisphere has proven the best system of Government—the two party •system. Under any other there is grave danger ot minority control through blocs, combinations of cliques representing no broad set of principles and Itrft' to no fundamertal principles of Government | such' as form the foundation of the American | Republic. -——-— We wcndc-r if the assertion of the Los Angeles ■ Chamber of Commerce that the American world Might will be "forever clouded" If it ends in Seattle iajymrt ended as a reflection on Seattle's brand of f weather? Alaska Railroad Expense. — (Fairbanks News-Miner.) A dispatch from Juneau published in an Anehor j age paper eays that Secretary Weeks lias added at) , assi: tant secretary to his staff, who is to have com plete charge of the Alaska Railroad and decide what it, right and what is wrong with it, and that Col. Landis will continue to act us General Manager of tlic system until the .higherup makes his report, i 'l l is may mean any one of three things: (1) That the railroad is to continue to remain in politics, re 1 gaidiets of valuable results from a railroad stand point of Government potlatch; (2) that Col. Landis’ jrptfhsdrs have taken the right step to "show4” the j United States what’s what; (3) that “the boots” ! :ut to be put to unnecessary "overhead," wherever | it ’exists along the railroad, or In its offices. But, j tile railroad is a Government avenue of expenditure i«f .oaiy money, and you never can tell what will happen in politics. One thing remains proven oy tlkgli—the Alaska Railroad can never be u paying institution until all necessary overhead of every kind is; eliminated. Whether the railroad can continue j tJ pack Anchorage with it and exist except at i Government expense is a matter for Anchorage and I the railroad management to figure out. At present. 1 hey see the "answer” from diametrically-opposed points. Doth of them cannot bo right. -— The Issues at London. (New York World.) A( the London Conference France and Belgium ,.itiq negotiating with Great Britain and with the American bankers The point* at issue are these; J■■ ,tv.• tr In or(ler to Put the Dawes report into - , effect investors in America, Britain, the neutral countries, in Europe and France will have to lend Germany $200,000,000, partly to establish the new Gorman bank but chiefly to pay for deliveries to the Allies and for the costs of the armies of the occupation, in order to float this loan the British and American bankers demand security which will appeal to the investor. By security for tills loan they mean (a) that France shall agree not to repeat the Ruhr invasion; (b) that the service of the loan shall have prece dence over all other German obligations; (c) that France shall retire from the Ruhr In accordance with the Dawes plan. ‘ The spokesman of these demands is Premier ;,MacDonald, supported, it may be assumed, by the I Americans. 2. Premier tlerriot, whatever his personal views, Is unable to agree to those demands because his position in the French Chamber Is weak. It is understood that he will prob ably he displaced in the next few months. It- Jlis weakness, accentuated by domestic ■-problems such as the relation between !“.France and the Vatican, especially as af fecting the church in Alsace-Lorraine, has already forced him to yield to M. Poincare's demand that he give no pledge that France ’will not again act alone against Germany. The French, much a» they desire the loan which would materially help them, are un willing to surrender their strangle-hold on Germany. •The issue at bottom, therefore, is whether France "ill agree, for the sake of the loan and the Dawes report, to abandon the use of force against ‘Ger many except when her allies agree with her that lorce should the used. i Phis issue is being discussed under t lie fol lowing main heads: 1. When will France evacuate (he Ruhr? 2. Who is to decide whether Germany is wilfully in default? 3. If Germany i« in default, shall Ger i u,an>' be coerced by France alone or only by the Allies in agreement? ' The reason why these points are debated so I strongly |8 the recognition by every one concerned (that the schedule of payments fixed in the Dawes | W- Is ,t,co, lliRh and cannot be met by Germany. A default is regarded a spractically certain two 1 ui three years hence. When It comes, France will fe t' m that it was wilful; the British will probably i wm « m "’tt8 unavoidable‘ At that moment ;t InLabe, sr en“,l“ly 'to the peace of Europe I whether the question of the wllfulnes* of (he de fault is decided by the .French Foreign Office or ,(un. And it will matter enormously whether France by a relatively impartial outsider, say an Ameri 1 hen free to invade Germany on her own motion Great Britain *“ l° act onIy ln °°ncert with The differenoe between the two points of view ntajv be the difference not only between security at:d insecurity fl>r the loan but between order and onsoriier, even peace and war, in Europe. i ne war -with Japan has been called off; a Jan atiese prima donna sang •'The Star-Spangled Banner" to the Now York convention,—(Philadelphia Record.) Th® Ki“B of Siam is said to be opposed to bobbed hair, but that doesn't scent to make much difference I—- (Boston Globe.) Jt is pretty hard to detine a progressive, but we grtess one doctrine that he absolutely must subscribe to is belief in a personal Wall Street.— (Ohio State Journal.) 1 I . » ■---* j ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR j 1 By I AX ELL I 4- L Home So Different Down pt the office they Call him the manager, But wifey rules the home, and he can't change her. Observation! of Oldest Inhabitant The thing that bothers the modern parent Is trying to find out just what, if anything, isn’t proper for the young people of today to do. The Ananias Club ‘Tve earefuly read and studied both party platforms,” declared the man who never takes lime to register or vote. Helpl Blinks—I see whore a groom came to his wedding in an airplane. Jinks—The bride gets her male by airplane, eh? D’ He Take It To the Barber Shop To Get It Shingled? IPansy Ohio Cor Wilmington News Journal) Oscar Villar3 has put a now roof on his barn. But You Still Can the Waiters Time brings us change. And old things pass, Now it Ib wrong To tip a glass. No Joke “They certainly have made life easier," remarked Mrs. Grouch, who was reading an articlo on modern inventions. "1 can’t see it, money's just as hard to get," growled her husband — Safety First The common 110-volt electric cur I rent is harmless to a person on a dry floor, but may mean instant death to one who touches an eloc trict light as he stands in a bath tub.—News Item. The sensible thing to do then, it seems, is to sit down before you touch one. Safer still, he modest, and take your bath in the dark. “Sorry Figures" Income—$75 per week. Outgo—$100 per vvei k. Fix at the end of the week—$25 deeper in the hole. ( Especially When Company's Present This is the season when It makes me sob To watch dear father eat Corn on the cob. And Things You Ought To Know Half the battle in hot weather is to wear clothing that looks cool.— Fashion note in Chicago Tribune. The other nine-tenths of the bat tle is to wear clothing that makes you feel that way. A Horse and Buggy Hear Mary is So very prim and staid That past nine bells The boys have never stayed. Anyway, He Knows He’s Getting a Peach (Marriage License In Pittsburgh Gasette-Tlmes) ,T. Bon. Walker Blawnox Mary Lemon Pittsburgh Same Old Job "What Is your son doing since he finished college?” asked the friend. “Me,” growled his dad. And That'* That - "Yer out!" yelled tho umpire. j "Out! Out? Y’say?" demanded the ball player angrily. “Yes, out! Out like a light turned off! Out like a girl’s arms In a sleeveless dress! Out Hke a man who’s bought the city hall! Out like the furnace fire. O-u-t, out! Now get out" screamed his umps. More Or Less True There were two places a man al ways felt safe from the women, one was the barber shop, the other was the press *em vyhlle you wait hang outs—there still is ono of them left. A woman doesn't worry about whore her waist is, but what It Is. "As far as the eye can see"—they are silk. The modern girl may not be shrinking—but her clothes seem to be. A wife is the one woman a man doesn’t ever want to see dressed like that. The money, people don't mind spending is that which they spend for luxuries—It's paying for the fool necessities that makes ’em growl. The rlBing generation Is too busy setting precedents to pay any atten tion to the old'’ ones. The women found it easy enough to lengthen short skirts—but there is nothing to do with short hair but wave it and cover it with a net. Probably there Is no more mean ingless kiss than tho one one wo man gives another, unless it’s the kiss some wives get front their hus- | bands. The man who wants to hunt wild | life these days isn't such a fool as to look (ftr it in the forests—he ' hies himself to the roadhouses, where he knows he’ll find it. It must be nice to be a traffic cop and have the privilege of pinch ing the pretty girls without being called down for it. Strange things happen .in this old | world, and we may live to see the time when the Courts will forbid ] parents living with their children In order to keep them from b dug led astray. Daily Sentence Sermon I Pew brains wear out; most of them just rust out from lack of ' use. A train of thought Isn't war!', much if It is made up of M. T ■ News of the Names Club John Issit lives at Staunto t. Ye. Well, John Issit? Porter, the cuspidor, please, harry ^ Spitz, of Pittsburgh, has just b' tvn , In. __ I American Widow Fails in Lebaudy Suit. "TT PROFESSIONAL i—-;-. - '--> ■ — I Dri. Kaur & Fretbnrfir | SKHTBTI 1 and 3 Ooldatcin Wif. PHOn M Boon l i a. to I | a ■. . -HI 7 Nr. W. J. Pig* PHYSICIAN Office ascend and Mata Telephone 18 a Dr. W. A. Borland Phyiician and Surgeon Juneau Music House Bldg, j Telephone 172 » .— -——■ Dr. H. Vance OSTEOPATH I 2ni Goldstein Building | Hours: 830 to 12; 1 to d| 7 to 8 or by appointment. | Licensed osteopathic physician. | Phones: Offles, ldT; Rstfdsitos i Phone <12, Collesuu Apt*. a- - ■ - .— -a a---.—■ i GEO L BABTON, D. C. I Chiropractor 2nd Boor Meueerschml'M Apta. | Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to l| 7 to I and by appointment. Phone 2(8. a-—— — -ii Dr. F. L. Goddard's } Sanitarium j - i Rates $3.00 Per Day and Dp Every Comfort^ .---a Helene Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Swedish Method. 410 Goldstenl Bldg. Phone 423. ■-:-a OUR AIM Meadowbrook Butter Turner & Pease Eggs At Lowest Prices J. M. GI0VANETTI PHONE 385. Home Phone 385-2 ring* YOUR "UNUSED” AdSETS—that typewriter, musical Instrument, fur niture, office fixture or appliance— he classified columns of Ths Empire are marketable, for cash, through .-i jjMRg. FBHUMCE j? KTJ^cmK) This It an exclusive photograph of Mrs. Frances Mendhom, an American widow, whose suit for (100,000 for alleged breach of promise gainst Robert Lebaudy, a Franco-American millionaire, was thrown out of a London court. Le baudy is a brother of the eccentric millionaire, Jacques Lebaudy, self styled "Emperor of the Sahara,’’ who was killed by his wife In their Long bland home a few years ago. See Bully's Carpenter Shop foj Jobbing and Cabinet work. Phone 136. _ —adv # YOUR SHIP WILL COME IN when you send one out. Day dreams seldom comt true. Save today and have tomorrow. Progress in building a savings account in our bank is more satisfying, just as pleasurable, as dreams of fortune. A dollar or more is enough to begin with. __ THE B. M. BEHRENDS BANK Juneau, Alaska OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA --— —.. .. , ■ — _ r. i , —- .) Fraternal Societies ;-OF Gastineau Channel .■*———*—————■————i> B , P . 0 . ELKS „ _ Meeting Wednesday Evenings at 8:0* o’clock, Elks’ Hall. J. Latimer Gray, Exalted Ruler JOHN A. DAVI8, Secretary, Visiting Brothers welcome. Co-Ordinate Bodies of Freemasonry Scottish Bits Regular wi«etlnr» second and fourth Fridays each moath at 7:80 p. m. Odd Fellows’ Hall. WALTER B. HBISBL, Secretary .. O. o. w. ” SILVBlt aow LODQB NO. I a. Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M., Odd Fellows’ Hall. E. M. Polley, Noble Grand; Thomas L. George, Secretary. MOUNT JQNIAf LOMt No. 147, F * A. M. •tatad Communication Becond and Fc th Monday, of aach Month in Odd Fell.—a Hall, beginning at 7:14 n'r1*w» William M. Fry, Master. Cnas E. NagHei, Secretary Order of the EASTERN 8TA* (Second and Fourth Tea*, data at aaah month. At ■ o'clock. L O. O F Hall PEARL. IHIRFORU, Worthy Matroh LOIS NORD1JNG, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUI CVQHBHB COUNCIL Ha ITaa MeeUnga amaS and laat Mondata a.' t:B p. m. Tranalenl Broth ra urged to attend. Council Cbaoihare Fifth Street:. A. J. Forrest, Q. K, J. L. McCloekey, Secretary. AMERICAN LEGI01 Alford Jojin Bradford Poet No. 4. Juneau, Alaska. Meets fourth Thuredaj each month it I | g J W. Kehoe, Pons j Commander. Phone 459; J. H. Hart, | Poet Adjutant, Phone lOu. LOYAL ORDER 01 MOOSE Juneau Lodge 700 Meets every Friday night, 8 o’clock, Moose Hall. George Jorgenson, IMctator; R. H. 3tevene, Secretary. i M- ft Mooseheart Legion Juneau Legion No. 25. Meets first Tuesday of each month at Moose Hall. KARL THIELf, G.N.M. R. H. STEVENS. Herder. .. -k 1 WOMEN OF MOOSEHEART LEGION Juneau Chapter No. 430 Meettug second and fourth Tuesday of each month, 8 o'clock, Moose Hall. Mrs. Mary Hain, Senior Regent; Mrs. A. F. McKinnon, Secretary. ■ - k - - . „ »-• | Home Cooked Meals | I or room and board at tka I | Home Boarding House I Formerly Gen, Hospital I I PHONE 299 f ■-—• «— ■ * «S Adolph Hansen - 1S VIOLIN INSTRUCTOE . CLAIR APARTMENTS Franklin and Fourth i-4 — - - - ----—— I For Good Service I GO TO j Sanitary Barber Shop Expert In Ladle*’ Hair Bobbing and Shingling. Wenzel Leonhard [ J42 S. Front St. I M-k1