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ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published ev. ry evening ex Id Sunday by the EMPIRE PK1NTINU COMPANY hi S I 1 .ad Alum Strei ts. Juneau Ahjkn _ gw-id In the Post Office In Juneau n» Second Class o»i«r __ SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered fcy curler In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane ter $1.25 per month. By mail, postage pa: I at the fallowing rates: One year. In advance. $12 •• ix in nths. in advance, $6 00; three months n tdt.ai.ee, 5 ■ I in advance, $125 tiubeerih, rs Will confer a In-r if lint will promptly notify Business < I ft I. • lit any failure or Irregularity tn Ihu de livery of their trailers. Telephone for Editorial mid Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for rsmibllra!Inn of all news dispatches credited to II or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news imblinhod heroin. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION _\\_■_ SENATOR HI NT'S EXPLANATION IS TOO THIN. Senator Hunt saiil, when he returned to Ketchi kan. according to the Ketchikan Chronicle, that he would have voted for the Grier Literacy Bill in its original forte if it had come to the Senate that way. lint coming only a week before tlie adjournment he voted against restoring the original provisions o( tlie hill in place of the amendment which provided that all who have legally voted ill the past shall continue to he legal voters whether literate or illiterate. Sena tor limit is further quoted as saying that there were oiilv COO Indian votes cast in Alaska and that not more than 60 them were illiterate. Senator Hunt re trained from commenting upon his votes again t tlie Moody Ballot Hill and the Sherman Canvassing Board ltill. designed to protect the purity of elections We would like to believe 11i.il Senator Hunt spoke truthfully. We do believe that if left solely with his own conscience he would have voted to restore the Drier Literacy Hill to Its. original from and that lie would have voted for the Moody and Hhennan meas * ures. But the evidence is very dear that Senator Hunt was) a creature of the rule or-ruin political machine that is endeavoring to control Ala.if. i for selfish purposes—the machine to which he owes liis re-election to the Senate to permit the acceptance of his statement as explanatory of hi:-, rediculour procedure. In the first place. Senator Hunt admits that the Drier Bill came to the Senate a week before adjourn menf Bills coming to the Senate from the House later than that were amended, sent hack to the House and became laws. The Drier Bill had been dis cussed for weeks. All tlie members of both houses were familiar with all phases of the measure. Senator Hunt was nearing the end of hi third session in the Legislature. lie knows very well that many measures have gone to a conference committee on the last night of the session and agreement been reached and the measures passed. If tlie hill had come to the Senate on the la: t day of the sc; cion there might he a disposition to give him the benefit of the doubt. Hut under the circumstances we must believe that Senator Hunt was opposed to tlie original Drier Hill. Otherwise he would have supported Senator Dimond's amendment to restore the original form. Senator Hunt's roaord on the Moody and Sherman measures also contradicts tiis explanation of his position on tlie literacy question. Those measures were pasesd by the House and sent to the Senate for the purpose of correcting tlie mistake made in amend ing the Grier Bill, and to enable Alaska to have honest elections to protect the purity of the source of govennient. There was no danger that there would he any sort of a tangle if lie had voted for these bills, because, as said, they had already passed the House. Senator Hunt’s statement that only 60(1 Indians voted in tlie election last fall and that not more than 60 of them were by illiterates is too absurd • to discuss. There were more than that number of votes east in the Indian villages where tlie voters were almost exclusively Indians Then Indians voted in large numbers at Sitka and Wrangell about 100 in each town and at Skagwav. Haines, Cliilknt. (ias tineau ( hannel. Petersburg, Ketchikan and elsewhere in the Division The estimate of 1.000 is approxi mately correct- perhaps too small. And it is safe to say that more than half of the Indians would have been barred by an adequate literacy test. Senator Hunt's explanations are too thin. The evidence is too clear that he was in league with, or subject to dictation from the gang which does not want a self-determined ballot cast in freedom and honestly counted as the voter would have it counted. UNLAWFUL LAW ENFORCEMENT. One of the Mams that prohibition in the United States is developing disrespect of law is the law less methods the enforcement unit adopts to enforce the law. They violate the Constitutional rights of citizens to aid them enforce the particular part of the Constitution in whic h they are interested. They in vade the homes of citizens without search warrants, they listen into private telephone conversations and examine private mail and telegraph correspondence contraiy to the law. they use tire arms without war rant or excuse, frequently wantingly wounding and even Itllliug people who are either innocent of crime or. at worst, guilty of misdemeanor. They deprive people of property without process of law Almost daily in their prohibition enforcement work at some place in the United States thee commit crimes far more heinous than prohibition violation Not only, that, but if an offh ia! of the Depart ment of Justice, mindful of Constitutional guarantees, attempts to^ guard a Constitutional right of „ pr)vatp citizen, the prohibition enforcement officials alul the entire Anti-Saloon League begins a political cam paign against him for the purpose of procuring bla removal from office. It is no wonder that President Coolidge, Chief Justice Taft and others who are interested in the i on t .tut,mi as a whole favor the tram ferrenee of piohihil n i-nfon ement to the Department of Justice, lli ;■ tii i that the enforcement should be in the Hands of those who are regardful of the law and the rights of American citizens. Unless the change is made there is danger that a condition of near anarchy may develop. Every day that the change is delayed causes greater disrespect of law. II it time that we had government in the United Slates under the law rather than at the hands of l.inatlcal crusaders who, to satisfy their prejudices and bigotry, seem willing to sacrifice every part of the Constitution except the Eighteenth Amendment. Florida lias rejected the proposed Child Labor Amendment to I lie Constitution. But perhaps Mr. Hryan lias lived in the South long enough to waive that “issue." The Mew York Times says the President is seriously thinking of adding Senators Howell and Norris of Nebraska to the Republican outlaws- -who now include Senators T.a Follette, Brookhart, Ladd and Frazier. Senator Borah had better watch out. In New York the Governor is given thirty days after the adjournment of the Legislature in which to sign or veto hills. When Gov. Smith got through with the appropriation hills it was discovered that lie had saved the taxpayers of the State more than $20,000.1)011. It is said the State will have a sub stantial surplus as a result. Newspapers and Crime. l \>w York World.) More data on the alleged depravity of news papers is furnished by a survey conducted by the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of ttie Cniversity of Pennsylvania. Fo# this survey, news appearing on the front pages of eight leading East ern newspapers was classified and tabulated over a period from IM1 to 1015, and from October, 1924, to February, 1025. The results are interesting. News of politics and government occupies 38.5 per cent, of the fornt-page space in these newspapers. Foreign news occupies 12.5 per cent. Accident news, including ail stories of great disasters and the scientific comment which they inspire, occupies 14.5 per cent. IlusinesH news occupies 5 per cent. News of art and sch-nce, 3 per rent. News of society, religion, sports and obituaries, 1 per cent. In each instance. There is left something leas than a quarter of first page space, 22.5 per rent., wjiich goes to news of "crime.” lint this 22.5 per cent, includes not only stories of the commission of crime itself but of its investigation and its trial in the courts. It includes a I no accident eases involving a certain amount of incidental crime: news which in no wav stimulates those passions which find room for play in murder stories. Actually, therefore, a good deal less than any 22.5 per cent, remains in estimating the first-page pace which goes to "crime;" and this conclusion checks ui» with what many of us have suspected. Newspapers arc not preoccupied with crime. They are really interested in it far less than the news column spare, small ns it is. would indicate. For beyond printing it a3 news, they pay little attention to it. Except when civic principle is in \olved, il .seldom is noticed on editorial pages; it is left out of that body of phiiosophy which news papers champion and ask their readers to make their own. Crime unquestionably is "news.” It is more new " than absence of crime. That lias always! been the case, newspapers on newspapers. And al-! ways, because there are readers who look for crime! news hml remember crime news and ignore and forget I everything else in their newspapers, there will be an emphasis on crime out of all proportion to (lie1 space which il actually occupies in the columns of the press. I’eaceful Invasion. (Cincinnati Enquirer. > Japan is overpopulated. This is one reason for sol much war talk. A nation must have an outlet tor its surplus peoples. Japan's possible outlets are few and precarious. What is she to dp? There- is an im perative necessity that Japan should increase the yield of her agricultural products to meet the grow ing demands for her swollen and increasing popu lation. it should seem that here would he a most ex cellent held for militant endeavor on the part of agi tated and zealitas crusaders for eoereise birth-control. .Not yet. however, has Malthas been proved to lie greatly mistaken. lint a progressive Japanese en gineer at present is in 111 is country to study eco nomics and social conditions, and it is his view that the agriculturalists of the Island Kingdom could lie educated adequately to enlarge the country's food yield by equipping them with modern• American farm machinery ! Supplanting man-power by efficient machinery] undoubtedly should serve greatly to increase tile' yield of needed foodstuffs and the suggestion will] he received l»y American manufacturers with feel-1 iugs not altogether antagonistic to the proposal but the introduction of farm machinery would not reduce the man power of thp empire, and man-power must eat. To eat it must earn the money with "huh to pay tor its food. Japan conspicuously is not industrial, though tiew activities, in time, might lie invented that would give to her multitudinous hands the opportunity for remunerative toll. Every inch of tillable land in the empire should he properly cultivated, of course; the world-chang ing plow, harvesters, mowers, reapers—all the imple ments of the American average farm—could and would work wonders. I5ut would even this revolution solve the hitter basic problem? Would it appreciably tend to allay the impulses to ‘war? Scarcely. In dustrial activities must be diversified. The farmers “1 Ja>lan alone cannot save the nation. Science, reason and ethics here must play a part. Kittle does the Itev. Joseph Fort Newton realize what I he dimensions of this broad land are when he nay . "There is room for all things in America except hatred, bigotry and inhumanity.” — (New York World.) Among these who arc anything but wildly en thusiast,.' about President Coolidge's economy no Vono "urp nlp *,lp '•""2 «'Ierkn who have' been dtopped from (be Government pay roll.— (Cincinnati Enquirer ) Yes. we want Europe to get on her feet—not un ours.— (Cleveland Times-Commercial.) Mi Hryan calls It a jazz-mad world At that, ;P far aH country is concerned, it seemed a whole lot crazier in 18 96 than now—(Toledo Blade.) If the President were more of a gambler, one If these days when he Bees a thousand hands before nm be might offer to shuke them double or netti ng.— (New York World.) / a--—■ ' ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR | i i I By SAM HILL | I _ t I Paradox. He gives his word But makes no hit Because folk know He won’t keep it Observations of Oldest Onhobitant I kin remember when ,i dollar bill looked like money. Hair Tonics Failed Dad. Blinks—His son goes around with out anything on his head. .Jinks Well his dad wasn't anything on his head either, that's why he always wears a hat. On Their Way. Tlie “Sweet' Girl Graduate.” The “.June Bride." And more expense. Now What Was the Clerk? “No Madame." snapped Hie clerk, ■ | cannot exchange that dress.” “But when I bought it you told me it was a changeable silk." she declared. Try it Next Time. One way to get your best girl’s lips in kissable shape is to have her say "Prunes." Norman Ralston, in ITtjua Call. That may lie. Norm, but our idea i of getting some those we see into I kissable shape is to have a lot of flie paint cleaned off them. Shame on You Bill. "Some shingled tops are on the Hap tiers,” said This carpenter. Bill Brouse "But as the bartender once would remark, This one is on the house. Ouch. “Ears are about the only thing a flapper doesn't show." "Well, there are brains." A rare Bud. Let's speak o word For Old Man Blake Give him an inch. Thai's nil lie'll lake. Detroit Free Pres... We greet Old Blais lie's fine- hni h well. There's Gragg, who'll lake Both inch and ell. Kind They Usually Send. Brown I see by the paper., this fellow Karolyi says lie believes in the theory, blit not til ■ practice i I prohibition. Black—Karolyi! Karolyi! Don’t be lieve I know tiny Congressman by that name. What dry district does he represent. Mere or Les^ True. One mystery father can't fathom is what daughter does with tin ! money she gee from him with which ■ to buy clothes. Skirts are not the only l him that are holier. Sweetie is sli <;fei than sweetheart'-, and the time lie • stays married to her is shorter, also The reason some couples live ! ■ gether long enough to celebrate their golden wedding is because she was the poorest card player in town and the best cook. From the looks of them some of the girls evidently thought two pounds of clothing entirely too modi and have reduced almost a pound al ready. Up to a certain time a woman s biggest job is raising a fatniiv, after that her biggest job is to make In r self look like she hadn’t The only Be bigger than lhe one he tells when he swears she is the only girl he ever loved is the one he tells when lie swears slip is the only girl lie ever will love. A flapper hates dishwater almost as much as some men hate drink ing water. There would he fewer remarks made about them if girls wore mor. clothes, but that doesn’t seem to he any inducement for them to burden themselves with any more. The first co-ed school was mar riage. But now. according to ru mors. young people can learn almost as much at any co-ed school. If they ever try to enforce a “tell die truth week,” most men will want to spend it in some fur off wilderness. Daily Sentence Sermon. One way to become unpopular is to go around with a grouch. News of the Names Club. P. G. T. reports Lizzie Lovi. of Pittsburg. Write your own wheeze. -- ♦ ♦ Keeps Nerve i-mi' * PROFESSIONAL ■-■ -»; i i Drs. Kaser & Freeburger DENTISTS 1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg. PHONE ^6 Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. --■ ■ - f Dr. Charles P. Jenue DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Bldg. Telephone 176. ■ ---a I_ \B-■ j Dr. A. W. Stewart \ DENTIST Hours 9 a. id. to 9 p. m. | SBWARD BUILDING Office Phone 46 9 Res. Phone 27 6 | ■ . ..■ t --? 1 Dr. DeVigline I Halony Building Honrs 1 to 4. 7 to 9. ' Phone: Office 104; Res. 105. | I ■-■ --— ! ■'-" | ' Dr. W. J. Pigg j v PHYSICIAN Office—Second and Main 'i'elphone 18. a---■ Dr. II. Vance I OSTEOPATH 201 Goldstein Huildlni?. | Hours: 0:30 to 12; 1 to 6; | 7 to 8, or hy appointment, i Licensed osteopathic physician | Phones: Office. 1G7; Residence I Phone 612, Coliseum Apts a---■ ■-----;-■ GEO L. BARTON, D. C| Chiropractor 2nd floor Messerschmldt Apts. Office hours: 10 to 12, 2 to G; 7 to 9 ami hy appointment. Phono 2G9. ■-■ Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Sanitarium i Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up Every Comfort ; ■----■ I _ ■-0 Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Swedish Method. 410 Goldstein Did*. Phono 423. : -- • ■ .° MAY 12TH—NATIONAL HOSPITAL DAY I Visit Your Hospitals I ! — I | J. M. GIOVANETTI | PHONE 385. | ' House Phoue 335-2 rings I I I ■-■ * TRY OUR " Merchants Lunch ! 45 Cents ! Arcade Cafe ' MARY YOUNG, Proprietor. | I----■ I PQjgtm V ■ ERKlJgrg Dorothy Perkins, seventeen year Old girl who is rharged with the slaving ef her sailor, Thomas Tem pleton, in New York, sa s the pra ter ting spirit of the dead youth who loved her would save her from the rleetrie rhalr. The girl 13 alleged to liavo killed Templeton after a row with h r father over an older man with whom she had been going out. ANDERSON *IJiAVES EOR WRANGELL ON ALAMEDA I. G. Anderson field representa tive of Pieros and t'a'd ,on, Spokane contractor:-! and builder.- who are interested in Alaska read tonal ruction was expected to leave this after noon on tin' Mane 1I1 for Wran.yedll. He will go from there to Ketchi kan and then to Spokane Mr. Antler non ha I • 11 iu charge of eom tnu lion wink on (Harder Highway for the im 1 Iv.o .-.ear The firm 1 ill lie.; some Work to be dont on the Eagle River ei-tUm of Hit; route. This will lie in < barge of I. Kriken. Mr. Anderson plans to b-avi- Keiehikall oil the Alaska late this week. He will return here next month sometime. NOTICE TO PAY DOG LICENSE Notice is hereby given that all dogs in the city of Juneau are sub ject to tax in the following amounts: Males . .. J 1.00 Females . ti.hu The above tax being for the year 1925 is payable on or before June 1st. 1925. JOHN A. DAVIS. —adv. City Clerk. Bundles of old newspapers at T he Empire, 25 cents n bundle /——— --- — --- * VISIT YOUR HOSPITALS / w. • TUESDAY—MAY TWELFTH—NATIONAL HOSPITAL DAY .f * i. - 9 JLl . tT Fv The local hospitals will keep "open liouse" on f'£ ff g that day and extend you a cordial | V t invitation to call. St. Ann's Hospital— 2:00 to 5:30 Government Hospital—10:00 to 4:00 THE B. M. BEHRENDS BANK OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA % ^......... V T ""TT T Fraternal Societies | - OF - Castineau Channel I ■-:-■ P~ 0~ ELKS , Meeting Wednesday Evenings a: 8:00 o’clock, Elks’ Hall. Hr. G. E.Freeburger, Exalted Ruler. John A. Davis, Secretary. Visiting Brothers welcome. Co-Ordinate Bodies of Freemasonry Scottish Bite Regular meetings second Friday each month at 7:30 p. in. Odd Fellows’ Hall. WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary. __ t-i I. O. O. F. SILVER BOW ! i LODGE NO. 2 JL I Meets every Thursday at 8 P. M-; Odd Fellows’ Hall. J. H. Hart, Noble Grand; P. Brevlk, Secretary. * PERSEVERANCE REBEKAH " LODGE NO. 2A. Meets every second and fourth Wednesdays in I.O.O.F. Hall, at 8 P. M. MARY BAVARD, NT. G. ALPIIONSINE CARTER, Secretary. ■-■ MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 14? / F. & A. M. Stated Communication Second ami Fourth Monday of each month in Odd Fellows’ | llall, beginning at 7 :.i(J o’clock. WALLIS S. (JEoUGE, Master. CHAS. H. NAG11EL, Secretary Order of the EASTERN STAR Berond And Fourth Tutia daye of each month. At S o'clock, I (>. O. F. It 'll. MAItY WESTON, Worthy Matron. FANNY I*. ROBINSON, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS SEGHERS COUNCIL NO. 1745. Meetings second and Inst Mondays 7:31 p. m. Transient Bmth altend. Council Chamber! Hector McLean, G. K» Turner, Secretary. AMERiCAN-lioiON Alford John Bradford Post. No. 4. Juneau, Alaska. Meets fourth Thursday each month at 8 p. m. 'at The Dug-Out. Harry Sperling, I Post Commander, Phone 360!; J. H. | Hart. Post Adjutant, Phone 1852. LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE Juneau Lodge 700 Sleets every Friday night. 8 o’clock, m Moose Hall. Georgs Jorgenson, Dictator; R. H. Stevens, Secretary. m WOMEN OF M00SEHEART LEGION Juneau Chapter No. 439 Meeting First and Third Thursdays of each month, 8 o'clock Moose Hall. Catherine Ilellan. Senior Regent; Mrs. A. | F. McKinnon, Secretary. ■-■ 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. E. M. Polley. 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 RADONICH, President AGNES GRIGGS, Secrettary. ■- — ■ ■ —-■ FIRST CLASS DRY OR STEAM CLEANING CAPITAL DYE WORKS C. Meldncr, Professional Cleaner and Dyer. 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