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ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at second and Main Streets. Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered 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.no; .six months, in advance, $0.00; three months, in advance. $:* uO;on< month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de livery of their pap* i - Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE MORE THAN DOUBLE THAT OK ANY OTHER ALASKA NEWSPAPER. «v, ■ ABRAHAM LINCOLN. With every approach of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, February 12, comes a renewed sense of devotion on the part of the American people to seek men for public office whose honesty and sin cerity overshadows all other qualities. Able men are found on every hand; in affairs of state, in great corporations and institutions. Kminent and scholarly men and women attain fame and distinction in science and letters, (ienius- abounds in great public undertakings, and creative ability finds expression in the arts and inventions. Hut it remained for Lin coln to combine that quality of integrity with his masterful genius In drawing forces for good that the world can not quite forget. Lincoln, in his time, claimed the respect of those who did not enter into full accord with his policies; and the Lincoln of today—the memory of the man —holds its full share of reverence, and stands as a shining light, to beckon the most humble to attain the marks of good citizenship. FROM ANOTHER SOURCE. Several days ago The Empire carried an Asso ciated Press despatch from Washington which quoted Harlan Fiske Stone, then Attorney General of the United States as saying that law enforcement in Alaska had resulted in a serious situation and he was making a special study of the matter to see what could be done to better it. It also said Dele gate Sutherland had cunferrgd with Mr. atom) hut the latter declined to say what topics were discussed. We hesitated then and do now about placing the re sponsibility on the Delegate for the absurd views broadcasted by the Attorney General. It seems al most unthinkable that any representative, whatever might he his feeling of hatred against political enemies or for more political gain, would calutninate his constituents in such a manner. From an entirely different source than it was re ceived by The Empire, the same story appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Hearst newspaper of that city. These papers, and the International News Service which is the news gathering and disent mlnatlng organization of the Hearst chain of pub lications, have on more than one occasion given evi dence of friendship for the present Delegate and would hardly wilfully misrepresent him or seek to injure him by unfair reports. In the issue of Febru ary d, lust, the Post Intelligencer carried the follow ing account of the same story: Washington, Feb. :s.—<I.N.S.)—Aroused by reports of widespread lawlessness through Alaska, Attorney General Stone tills afternoon announced his intention of launch ing an immediate investigation into condi tions in the North. Special agents will probably lie sent into Alaska. Information regarding rum and elope* smuggling, salmon stealing and other forms of lawlessness lias been laid before the Attorney General by Delegate Sutherland. The charges of criminality arc so silly as to need no denial in Alaska. For Alaskans to issue denials for Outside consumption were n waste of time. This little news desputch we have just quoted will travel farther and do more harm than cun lie counteracted lij facts occupying many times that space in the same papers carrying the original story. It makes no difference as far as the effect upon people who do not know Alaskans and condi tions is concerned whether or not?the Delegate did tell Mr. Stone the things he is credited with having done. The otherwise uninformed reader of that story will give it credit for being true for two main rea sons—the Attorney General of the United States said so and he got his facts from Alaska's repre sentative In Congress. And all the printers' ink in Alaska could he used up in denials without erasing the impression of widespread lawlessness in Alaska that has been made in the country bv this despatch. Alaskans do not fear the result of any further investigation that special agents of the Department of Justice may make. Since Delegate Sutherland has been in Washington, there have been more special representatives of the Attorney General's de partment sent to Alaska than in all the other years combined in the Territory's history. If crime was rampant it should have been discovered months ago Daws are broken in the North about like they are everywhere in the I nited States, except that petty crimes, so common to older and more settled regions are unknown here. In that respect, at least, the residents of this frontier country have a greater respect for law than will lie found in older sections. Alcoholic liquor is more easily procured and at less cost in Seattle and i'ortland than iu Ketchikan and Juneau. A squad of narcotic agents spending weeks in the Territory last summer found no evidence of dope smuggling and had for their time, money expended and work, a handful of Chinese cannery workers arrested for being habitual ilsers of nar cotics. These are the facts but it is bootless to tell others than Alaskans so if Mr. Stone and Dele gate Sutherland say otherwise. NOME CRISIS PASSES. The passing of the crisis in the diphtheria epi demic at Nome will he greeted with rejoicing by all Alaskans whose sympathies have been extended to the stricken city of the North and whose help has been freely offered. That the course of the disease was held so rigidly in check after it had developed tells of efficient methods of quarantine by those handling it. It was regrettable that Nome had no supply of antitoxin on hand with which to cope with the disease when it first appeared and the Municipal authorities there should see that such a lack does not exist in the future. TOO MUCH MUST NOT HE EXPECTED. The rejuvenated Anchorage Alaskan commenting recently upon the return of Noel \V. Smith as Gen eral Manager of the Alaska Railroad, said when he came back North it would be as an "empire builder.” It is right and proper that the Anchorage paper, in fact that everyone in any way connected with the railroad, give Mr. Smith loyal support. There has been too much bickering and dissension in the past over railroad affairs and policies for the good of the road. Hut too much must not be expected of Mr. Smith. Even if he were of the caliber of the late James J. Hill he could not become the empire builder that the latter was. The same opportunities are not present. That he will efficiently manage the Government’s rail property is confidently expected but 'it is not within his province to populate farms, and build industries. If he starts these things he will soon find himself afoul of the "57” varieties of Federal bureaus which are so intimately concerned with the ingredients which go to make up this chow chow we call Alaska. National Wealth and Petite. (New York Times,) A mid-Western humorist, commenting upon our national wealth of $320,000,000,000 as estimated by the Census Bureau, suggested that the informa tion be withheld from the people of Europe. The implication is that the Europeans will immediately set to work to get some of that wealth away from us. More seriously it has been suggested that Euro pean nations in debt to the United States will use our abounding prosperity as an argument for some thing more than generosity on our part. There mar be force in this plea if Europe contrasts our increase in wealth since 1912 with her own actual losses. Figures of national wealth are at best estimates to which a broad interpretation should be given. If to the money values for the present wealth of Great Britain, France and other nations we apply the present price indexes so as to obtain a real comparison with 1912, the relative impover ishment of Europe is established. The one argument that has no force at all is the one, still heard now and then, that while Europe has been impoverished by the war, America has been enriched by the war. Emphatically that is not the case. If we take the Census Bureau’s figures on our national wealth in 1900 and 1912, we get an indicated increase from 88.5 billion dollars to 1X6.3 billion dollars. Since the price index for 1912 was approximately one-third higher than for 1900, the figures for 1912 should be corrected down ward, for the purpose of comparison, to something like 140 billion dollars. But even that would show an increase of more than 50 billion dollars during the twelve years after 1900, or something lil^e 55 per cent. No such rate of increase is evidenced during the years from 1912 to 1922. Professor Wilford I. King, quoted in an article which appears in another section of The Times today, declares that the Census Bureau figures indicate an increase of 11 per cent, in our national wealth between 1912 and 1922. Obviously, then, America did not grow rich on the World War. The wide discrepancy between our real gains in the twelve years after 1900 and the ten years after 1912 indicates, on the contrary, that America would have been richer today if the latter period had not been troubled by four and a half years of war con ditions in Europe and a year and a half of our actual participation in war. Professor King finds our modest growth in wealth since 1912 understand able if we recall that “during two of these ten years a large part of the productive activities of |the nation were devoted to the production of mater ials destroyed in the war.” Reasons exist why a prosperous America should give ear to the pleas of a relatively hard-up Europe. Hut America as a bloated war profiteer is not among (hose reasons. Alaska Summer Outlook. (Railway and Marine News.) Already heard are various reports about the added service to Alaska this year. The Grand Trunk I*a i iflr announces that it will operate steamships from Vancouver and Prince Rupert to Skagway, once a week as was the case for several years preceding the war.. The Canadian Pacific will have its usual service of many seasons past, but with the coming to tills coast of new steamships for the Triangle route the fleet will be so augmented that there will be additional steamships available for the Alaska run should conditions demand The Alaska Steamship Company will have its four large steam ships available for the run to the Westward In going north and returning their route lies through the Inside Passage which is in compliance with popular demand. To accommodate those who wish to take the shorter and less expensive excursion the smaller steamship Jefferson will be in the service Arrangements are being made for the excursion trip to the summit of the White Pass via the narrow guuge White Pass * Yukon Railway from Skagway through to the interior from Cordova on the Copper River & Northwestern, or from Seward on the Alaska Railway. This inland excursion to Fairbanks re quires quite a few days and a lay over between steamships. Passengers can go into Fairbanks via the Copper River & Northwestern Railway thence by automobile from Chitina to Fairbanks returning from Fairbanks all rail to Sward or reversing the trip The Pacific Steamship Company also operates on this route. Every indication points to a banner year in the Alaska tourist trade. Ambassador Moore says there is no tention within the Spanish kingdom. Evidently tliev refuse to tune in when Hlasco Ibanez broadcasts one of his tirades in Paris.— (Indianapolis Star.) European Communists are reported to be re joicing because Secretary Hughes will retire Within a short time they'll hate his successor just as much — (Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.) Cross-word puzzles nre now being added to din ing car menus. Some of us who have tried to figure out the menus will deem it wholly superfluous — (New York Herald and Tribune.) The opponents to Mussolini nre said to number Ho to 1. Nevertheless the odds favor Mussolini for the time being—(Louisville Courier-Journal.) Congress regards a surplus as something to be removed by increasing expenditures, but not bv lowering taxes.—(Greenville Piedmont.) ■-—■ | ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR i By SAM HILL 1---■ Wouldn’t That Freeze You! Red flannel once Was worn—now 'tain’t, Our flappers keep Warm with red paint. Observations of Oldest Inhabitant. I kin remember when a parlor wa« the place where a girl got a hus band. Now it’s a place where she gets a complexion. The Ananias Club. "I have owed him money for a long time but I never try to avoid meeting him," said Mr. Hardup. Zero in Enthusiasm. Blinks—Was he enthusiastic about your proposition? I Jinks—Yes, just like a man who has sat down on a cactus plant would he enthusiastic about sliding I down a cellar door. Does That Make the Third One? (Birth note in Indianapolis News I Birth Returns—At"hnr and Brace Threewits, 434 Addyston street, boy - I Mean Brute. “I nee,” remarked Mrs. Grouch, "that a Filipino 105 years old died just as he was contemplating mar rying. “Huh!" growled her husband, I don’t know whether he was lucky i his life, hut lie certainly was in his death.” Well, We V*ere Stung By It When We Bought Our Last Coal. (Lothair Cor. McCreary County Re cord.) The Thompson brothers, Clarence and Walters, are at Kinmont. Cltr ence is in bad shape, having been mashed up with slate recently. Horrors We Hope To Escape I.’ 1925. A song fore assinine than ' Yes, We Have N’o Hanunas." Foot covering that would look more ridiculous than galoshes. Long skirts. A fad that people will go craz ier over than they have the cross word puzzle. Louder hosiery. Increase in taxes; rents and the price of permanent waves and bobs. A return of the King Tut news and styles. Coal strikes. A fad for the Charles Chaplin mus tache and the Valentino side whisk ers. A bumper carrot crop. Two Things We Hate to Shovel. Snow. Coal. And Thai's That. “Has the cross-word puzzle in creased your husband’s vocabulary?’ asked the caller. "Well.” replied the wife of the c. w. p. fan, “it is one more thing ad ded lo his golf game, his car and the telephone he swears about, but so far I haven’t heard him using any new cuss words,” Passing Thought. It must be a real pleasure for ministers to be called upon to preach the funeral sermons of somr> of their members. Comment Would Be Superfluous. (News Item.) Beauty parlors have been esttih lished at two of Missouri’s Stat1 Asylums for the insane, and two more are to be added to other sinni ar institutions soon. P. S.—Anyway it would seem m woman gels so crazy she isn't crazy to he beautiful. Alimony For Her Now. She loves him l^ss. Site knows him better, 1 infer. For on his desk She found a letter—not for her. — . Speaking of Smiles. He's as popular (wi!h the ladies as a man who shaves himself is with a barber. lie’s as busy us an usher at t. fashionable church on a rainy Sun day. More or Less True Another trouble with the world is that there ure too many people wearing out their dictionaries look ing for cross-word puzzles ami ont enough wearing out their Bibles look ing for rules of living. All we gotta say is that if this report from London that skirts are to he even shorter than ever is true it is mighty lucky the girls have tak ento wearing bloomers. ' I 1_ J i FOR CHARTER Launch Efcrl M Freight and Passenger Service CALL QUALITY STOftB 1---—---■ We’ll bet no husband is so good natured that he won't kick like a Missouri mule when lie sits down to dinner and finds the only vegetables she's cooked are carrots and spinach. The big problem girls have to face is how to get enough clothes and how to wear as few as posible. Life is a funny proposition and it's dollars to doughnuts that the gidd' little flappers and silly sheiks will grow into bettter women and men than their mothers and fathers, n ■spite of the crepe-hangers who pro diet they are going to the devil. A woman is old when .she'll buy rubber overshoes instead of gal i shes. Every woman believes it is lucky to pick up a pin. but no husband has enough faith in luck to stick around when she picks up the roil ing pin. Daily Sentence Sermon. It’s as important to be prepared to live as it is to be prepared to die. News of the Names Club. Flora Washem, of Kankakee, hrs been engaged to do the club's laurd ry work. Mary li. Kinder, of On a ha; Golda Heaps, of Los Angeles, anil Vera Rich, of fincinnati, were reported yesterday. PROFESSIONAL i-—:-■ ■-■ i Drs. Kaser & Freeburger , DENTISTS 1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg. PHONE 56 Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. i- ■ ■ --~P Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Bldg. Telephone 176. ^ Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 4 69. Res. Phone 276 ■ --■ T i Dr. DeVigne | ( Malony Building Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9. I’hone: Office 104; Res. 105. | ■-■ - Dr. W. J. Pigg PHYSICIAN Office—Second anil Main Telphone 18. . _I' Dr. W. A. Ilorlaml ! Physician and Surgeon | Juneau Music House Bldg. j ) Telephone 172. | Dr. H. Vance I OSTEOPATH 201 Goldstein Building. | Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to 6; j j 7 to 8, or by appointment, i Licensed osteopathic physician | | Phones: Office, 107; Residence | | Phone G12, Coliseum Apts. j ■ - B GEO L. BARTON, D. C| Chiropractor 2nd floor Messerschmidt Apts. | Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 5; j | 7 to 9 and by appointment. Phone 259. Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Sanitarium - i i Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up Every Comfort ■ -■ Helene W. L. Albrecht | PHYSIOTHERAPY Swedish Method. 410 Goldstein Bldg. Phone 423. 1 ' i- ■ ' -■ OUR AIM Meadowbrook Rutter Turner & Pease Eggs At Lowest Prices | J. M. GIOVANETTI PHONE 385. I House Phone 385-2 rings ■-■ _ YOUNG PEOPLE GIVEN WARNING Are Told to Beware of Path Trod by Narcissus— Gladiatorial Spirit. LONDON, Feb. 12.—Discourage ment of what was termed the gladia torial spirit, which has been report ed creeping into the British schools, was urged recently by Dr. H. Orich ton Miller in an address to members of the British Association of Physi cal Training on the subject of “Hy giene for Adolescents.” Education alists, lie said, sought simplification of life in generations .and the phy sicial training expert was liable ..o believe that everybody needed phy sical training. Dr. Miller, however, did not believe this to be universally true, and there were certain youths for whom physicial training was bad. Referring to Greek mythology, Dr Miller spoke of Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection in the waters of a spring. There were Narceisians today who made them selves the object of their own love and who cultivated their own bo 1 ies to an extent which was actually dangerous. He challenged the gen eralizations on which he said many physicial culturists based their en thusiasm Dr. Miller contended that generations hence self confidence among school boys would be based entirely upon the values of intel lect and character. Today the physical animal factor predominated, and consequently a great many adolescent boys were go ing wrong in their character deve: opment owing to their physical make up. Dr. Miller advised the associa tion members not to think merely in terms of chest expansion when dealing with individual requirements of their pupils, but rather of char acter. "We have here in London a stad ium accommodating 120,00 persons which has been used for a box ing match that was all over in 00 seconds,” asserted the speaker “This should furnish us something to think about. Even in schools, tile way in which watching a game of football is considered as part of school loyalty far greater than pluv ing the game, is a serious tendenc*'.” Dry leasonec min wood, 16 inch length Juneau Trangier. adT. ?-——-- ~ ——— a I I Our Customer’s Best Interest is the first consideration in all transac ' # j tions. Strict confidence, skill, and speed, so that our customer may receive the i maximum benefit of a modern banking service, is our aim. Every transaction, large or small, receives the same careful attention. _ i i THE B. M. BEHRENDS BANK OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA T-~~—T Fraternal Societies I -— OF - Gastineau Channel —-n B . P . o . ELKS V» Meeting Wednesday Evenings at 8:00 VjSWJr o'clock, Elks’ Hall. , Jp- Latimer Gray, jMBk Exalted Ruler. John A. Davis, ’ Secretary. Visiting Brothers welcome. Co-Ordinate Bodies of Freemasonry Scottish Rite Regular meetings! second Friday each month at 7:30 p. m. Odd Fellows’ Hall. WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary. I. O. O. F. SILVER BOW LODGE NO. 2 A. Meets every Thursday at 8 I*. M„ Odd Fellows’ Hall. .1. H. Hart, Noble Grand; 1’. Brevik, Secretary. ■-■ PERSEVERANCE REBEKAH LODGE NO. 2A. Meets every second an ■ fourth Wednesdays in I.O.O.F H.tll. a 1 8 P. M. MABEL WL. •' N. G. ALPHONSINE Secretary. « MOUNT JUNEAU LOO E NO i!7 F. & A. M. Stated Communication Second and Fourth Monday of each month, in Odd Fellow*’ Hall, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. WALLIS S. GEORGE, Master. CHAS. E. NAGHEL, Secretary. □Older of the EASTERN STAR Second nnd Fourth Tues days of each month. At » o'clock. I. O. O. F. Hall. MARY WESTON, Worthy Matron. FANNY L. ROBINSON, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS SEGHERS COUNCIL NO. 1745. Meetings second and last Mondays at 7:30 p. m. Transient Brcth »*rs urged to attend. Council Chambers Fifth Street. Hector McLean, G. K. H. J. Turner, Secretary. AMERICAN LEGION Alford John Bradford Post. No. 4. Juneau, Alaska. Meets fourth Thursday each month at S p. m. at The Dug-Out. Harry Sperling, Post Commander, Phone :iGU2; J. H. Hart, Post Adjutant, Phone 1852. LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE Juneau Lodge 700 Meets every Friday night, 8 o’clock, Moose Hall. George Jorgenson, Dictator; R. H. Stevens, Secretary. 1 WOMEN OF M00SEHEART LEGION Juneau Chapter No. 439 | Meeting second and fourth | j Tuesday of each month. 8 | j o’clock Moose Hall. Catherine j j llellan, Senior Regent; Mrs. A. j F. McKinnon, Secretary. ■-■ f~~ :==? Auxiliary Alford John Bradford | ; Post No. 4 American Legion | Regular meeting fourth Thurs- | | day of each month in Council i | Chambers of City Hall at 8 p. | | m. President, Mrs. E. M. l’olley. | j Secretary, M. C. Ducey. i ■-■ " AUXILIARY, PIONEERS OF " ALASKA, Igloo No. 6. Meeting every third Wednesday of each month at 8 o’clock p. m. Cards and refreshments. At Moose Hall. EDNA HADONICH, President AGNES GRIGGS, Secrettary. . - —i * THE CAPITAL * | Shoeshine and Chiropodist Par- | | lors for Ladies and Gentlemen. | j Corns and Bunions removed. 62 ; | Front Street next to Sharick's | j Jewelry Store. j Phone 271. W. H. Pittman | | RELIABLE TRANSFER I Phone 149. Res. 148 | Courtesy and Good Service | (Our Motto. : • t