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. of morality and personal conduct, 4 \ R Daily Alaslm Emptr; JOEN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY ut Sccond and Main Streets, Juneau Alaska Entered In the Post Office in Jun s Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau Douglas, Treadwell and, Thane for $125 per month. | By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $5.00; eme month, in advunce, $1.26 Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Busincss Office of any failure or irregularity in the de Mvery of thelr papers sphone for Editorial an d Business Offices, ENMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. | The Arsociated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for) republic.. all news dispatches credited to it or not| otherwise credited in this paper aid also the local news| published hereln | ALASKA CIFCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE, LARGER| THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATIC = | [ | | \ WICKERSHAM'S PEEVISHNESS BREAKS l)l T | Judge Wickersham's suit to prevent payment for work the law requires to be performed in the offices| of the Governor and Territorial Secretary and for work done and that must be done by stenographers, and others in connection with the legislative session just ended is simply an outlet for peevishness that| followed the defeat of his effort to make himself| an Alaska Mussolini. If he cannot run the Terri- tory it must not run if he can prevent it It should be borne in mind that the appropria-| tions that Judge Wickersham has attacked are in| every way similar in purpose and amounts to appro-{ priations that have been m by the last ! dozen or more Legislatures. The present Legislature| departed in no particular from the proce that has been followed for more than a dec The | appropriations were made to meet needed payrolls. | “ELMER GANTRY.” [ “Have you 1 ‘Elmer Gantry?'” The question seems to have gucceeded “Good morning” among those who keep up, or pretend to, with the scason’s *‘best sellers.” Probably no novel since Mrs. Ward's “Robert Elsmere” appeared has created sueh furore among theologians and church workers as this latest pub- lication of Sinclair Lewis, though the books are vastly different in subject and treatment. They are alike in that “Elmer Gantry,” as was the case with “Robert Elsmere” nearly forty years ago, has jarred church methods and theological doctrines through its instantaneous acceptance by the public and lm»l mense sales. It is said that the first sixty days of | “Blmer Gantry” produced a demand for a million| coples or more and that the publishers are more than 200,000 copies behind in their deliveries to purchasers. Mrs. Humphrey Ward lived to see “Robert Elsmere” in practically all of the libraries, from which it was excluded when it was young, and “accepted” by many theologians, It is not likely that Mr. Lewis will be so fortunate, no matter how long he might live Said one critic, “God took Sinclair Lewis at his word and struck him dead, artistically speaking, be- fore he wrote,” and, the me critie, ** ‘Elmer Gantry’ is worse than murder.” Yet this critic, the member of a committee to select the book of the month for a club of 40,000 or 50,000 members, voted with the * other members of the committes that “Elmer Gantry" was the outstanding new book. It is difffeult to how he could have done otherwise Boston, Kansas City and other places have put the ban on “Elmer Gantry,” refusing to permit it to be sold in the bookstores. That is not strange. Many a cleaner book has been treated that way. The author is brutally frank in the way he calls a spade a spade. In fact, one sometimes thinks Lewis could have made his point and put over his story without making Elmer so rotten—or so ruthlessly exposing his rottenness and telling it all so brazenly, Yet “Elmer Gantry,” like with all of Sinclair Lewis's books, is well donc The character painting is clear and unmistakable. The men in the book, mostly preachers, do the inevitable. Satire, irony, sarcasm, wit. and humor perform their parts in the author's best style. The story rushes from cover to cover with lightning speed, save for a very few dull spots and they serve to permit the reader to catch his breath. It satisfies the average book reader's demand for an interesting plot thrillingly revealed. It is a great book regardless of what one may think of whether or not it ought to have been printed. Of course the book is much over-done. All satiric books ard over-done. Yet, as one critic says, there must be something of truth in it or it would fall flat. “Elmer Gantry” has not fallen flat. Dr. John Roach Straton says there has never heen an Elmer Gantry or Sharon Falconer. We not so sure about a Sharon Falconer, and we have seen “bellowing bulls,” as one critic calls Elmer, who have “cavorted” as “apostles of righteousness” from obscurity to bear- ing false witness in high places in their efforts to satisfy ambition for political power and leadership among men, Of course the Reverend Elmer Gantry, D.D., is not representative of the cloth. It is unthinkable that the author meant him to be such. However, in spite of all of its absurdities, exaggerations, and irreverence, Sinclair Lewis's book is a terrific indict- ment of those ambitious ministers who would grab are | are _{ing i politics, |give us a and not wait for an outraged public to insist upon it. |serve {and | the |of ja Catholie. THE DAlLY ALASKA EMPIRE SA'IURDAY MAY % l927 at the head of lobbying committees and move- ments that have no connection with religlon, while in a minority, are doing a lot to diseredit the churches, and it is quite evident that these are the preachers against whom the shafts of the very tal- ented Sinclair Lewis are directed. The dedication of his book to Henry L. Mencken would ifidicate this, "and its perusual makes it conclusive. He slaps tull (in the face those ministers who would save the world en masse through legislation and strong arm methods 'rather than through preaching the Gospél to sinners. The great majority of the ministers of the Gospel rand the mass of the church members of the country Christians who want to follow their Savior rather than to make their churches political organi- zations. However, strident successes of the “bellow- bulls” who think more of secular ahd political leadership and the spotlight than of bribging indi- viduals to recognize personal obligations to God are having a devastating effect on both preachers and congregations, not to mention the general public. It is no wonder that one of the leading denom- inational publications, the Watchman cently said: When our Churches, far and near, realize that evangeliem, the saving of souls, the preaching of the pure evangel of our Lord, constitutes forever and forever the primary, vital, central, incomparable and everlasting business of the Christian man and the Christian Church, there will be Jless talk about keywords, mottoes, chromos and slogans. The Christian men and women of the country ought to insist that their church organizations eschew quit trying to save mankind by law and force, and carry the religion they profess to the s‘-pumt'o individuals of the country. They should complete separation of Church and State Examiner, It is as Inconsistent for the Church to attempt two masters as it is for an individual. be both political and religious. and good will extended by of Commerce to the Forestry been earned by fine public Mr. Floty, Mr. Heintzleman the others in the friends and we like them. It cannot The congratulations the Juneau Chamber Service officials have service. Col. Greeley, Mr. Merritt and Service are our good world to know that want the we About the time President straightened with Mexico the in Nicaragua, “hell and Argentina. Coolidge gets and puts an breaks lose"” out end to war in Chile The World and Gov. Smith. (New York World.) Callahan of Louisville, Ky., porter of Mr. McAdoo and a distinguished layman, has issued a statement liberate efforts are heing made by The New York World to insist that Gov. Smith be nominated for reason he is a Catholle.” Mr. Callahan s mistaken. The World is not now insisting and never has insisted upon any such absurd thing. He will search these columns in vain for corroboration his charge. What The World does Smith shall not be refused a nomindtion because he is a Catholic. That is a very different thing from insisting that he must be nominated because he is The World asks only that Gov. Smith be judged on his record and his national which no doubt Gov. Smith will make known well in advance of the convention. If those policies are not acceptable to the convention, if a man with as good or a better record can be put forward, if the opponents of Gov. Smith can give a convincing dem- onstration, as they so stubbornly refused to do in 1924, that they believe in the American theory of tolerance, The World will be quite content. But it will not be content, nor ean the Democrats at large be content. with any decislon of the convén- tion which does not make it Unmistakably plain that the Democratic Party is umcontrolled by re- ligious prejudice. Patrick H. a sup- Catholic charging that ‘‘de- insist: on is that Gov Milwaukee Railroad Rehabilitated. (Seattle Business Chronicle,) State of Wisconsin just prior to the adjourn- ment of its Legislature last March paid a unique compliment to its first rallroad by passing a special bill reducing incorporation fees and providing for non-par common stock. In such manner it paved the way for a rechristening of that rallroad at Madison April 1 became Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific. Exactly 80 years previously Wis- consin had granted its first railroad charter to the forerunner of the present mighty system. Today the “Milwaukee” comprised 11,000 miles of main trackage. At first it was the Milwaukee & Waukesha; 2 years after the Civil War it reached St. Paul by through line; in 1873, Chlcago; In 1882, Council Bluffs; in 1887, Kansas Clty; in 1906, Rapid City. In the following year this great system started its Puget Sound extension from Mobridge to Seattle and Tacoma; and it opened this extension July 1, 1909, making a record not yet passed in speed of construction. By means of this extension the *Mil- waukee” has provided transportation and has opened markets for settlers on many thousands n! acres of productive soil. The friends of thé “Milwaukee” are legion, just as its parent State has been felendly and loyal to this transportation line from {ts inception to its present-day development as one.of the greatest among American enterprises. 3 Now that it has been lndwn that agents of Moscow stirred up much of the anti-forelgn senti- ment in South China, those super-wise Senators who derided Secretary of State Kellogg for saying that the Communist Internationale intended to use Mexico as a base for spreading Bolshevist propaganda are strangely silent.—(Seattle Times.) People wondering how Europe will get dollars to pay its war debts to us overlook the hundreds of millions American tourists carry over every year. —(Pittsburgh Gazette-Press.) 1t time playing Gazette-Times.) looks like the Chinese were spending little mah jongg these days.—(Pittsburgh political power and make themselves emperors of a super-government, through association in Anti-Saloon Leagues, Boards of Temperance, Prohibition and Pub- lic Morals, etc., where they would dictate the rituals select the public service personnel and direct what laws to enforce and what not, instead of living and preaching the ex- There is not a doubt but that the preachers who i '.kln‘ political forums of their pulpits and ‘» use fame gained through political activities to The French Academy of Science reports that the helicopter has been perfected. What, again?— (Detroit Free Press.) When the Americans and British say it with bullets, the Chinese have less difficulty understand- ing.— (Indianapolis News.) We hope all the foreigners will get out of China and then tell a curipus public why they went there.—(Toledo Blade.) re-| to} Forestry | things| policies, H which ! ALONG LIFE’S ODETOUR 1y 8AM HILL J r— With Apologies to Longfellow And little drops of water, when They get together, As they oft' do this month, Some dern wet weather. give us Observations of Oldest Inhabitant The old-fashioned woman who de- bated about what color to paint the kitchen now has a daughter who wastes a lot of the druggist's time picking colors for her face. The Ananias Club “Yes, sir,” said he, “I got my false teeth put in and then went right out and ate a big dinner just as easily as if they had been my old teeth back.” | Help! “She’s kept at it until she has re- duced enough to have quite a pre- sentable figure.” “Yes, hers Is now a waste of time and money."” Variation 7114423 They buy their bread, Although [ know, Her husband makes A lot of dough. B-r-r-rt Bob: “What kind of a reception {did she give you when you called af.| |ter breaking that date?” Jack: “She was so frigid that when I left both my ears and nose wasy | frost bitten.” Passing Observation No mother-in-law can be as bad as most mother-in-law jokes. A Dose of Bromide To let things worry you You surely ought'en, I've got them all s¢ wo Their hair is turning Norman Ralston, Urbana Democrat Which Are That “REVIVING BOULDER DAM." - | Headline. Well, most all the damnsg are 50 overworked in these davs of static, flat tires and bum gold that it is surprising more of them are not in need of the pulmotor or swmelling salts. What Every Wife Knows must be nice to have a the house,” sighed the man 0ld “It avonnd Maid. | “Oh, yes, very,” snapped the old Married Woman, “if you like to slave in the kitchen and &pend all yonu ‘gpare time following him around to pick up the things he throws down and clean up the mess he makes of the house.” More or Less True Most every girl wants to be some man's wife—but she draws the line at being a housewife. A wife's idea of a miracle is leav {ing something in the oven to watch while she goes out:.for awhile and {not coming back to find it burnt to a crisp. It is getting so now if a man gives up smoking for his wife it is be- !cause the budget doesn't allow enough for both of them to smoke. The reason an old married woman would rather run upstairs and gei what she wants herself s because i takes too long to straighten up every drawer in the dresser her lesser-half took an hour to mess up looking for what she wanted. Some couples after they are mar- NOTICE OF AFPLCIATION FOR PATENT Serlal No. 06350 |In the United States Land Office for the Juneau Land District at An- chorage, Alaska. In the Matter of the Application of J. M. DAVIS, of Juneau, Al- aska, for a Soldier’'s Additional Homestead. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That J. M. DAVIS, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Juneau, Al- aska, has filed applidation serial No. 06350 in the United States Land Office at Anchorage, Alaska, for patent for a tract of land embraced in U. S. Official Survey No. 1565 situated on the east. shore of Gas- tineau Channel, approximately four (4) miles northwest.of the Town of. Juneau, Alaska, in Latitude 58 deg. 20' 10" N. and Longitude 134 deg. 29 W., and particularly described as follows, to-wit: ‘‘Beginning at cormer No. 1 hence U.S.L.M. No. «.4 bears . 26 deg. 26° W. 26.88 chains istant; thence E. 19.09 chains 0 corner No. 2; themce 8. 5.74 ghnlnu to corner No. 3; thence y meanders along the line of mean high tide of Gastineau Channel as follows: (1) N. 69 deg. 40° W. 2.28 chains 1 (2.) N. 82 deg. 68" W. 10.39 chains (3.) N. 73 deg. 17" W. 2.22 chains (4.) N. 64 deg. 00’ W. 3.03 chains (6.) N. 61 deg. 05’ W. 1.95 chains (6.) N. 31 deg, 00’ W. 0.57 chains to corner No, 1 the place of beginning, co! ning an area of 7.124 acyes.” Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the above described land should file their adverse claims with the Register ot the U. 8. Land Office at Anchorage, Alaska, within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter or they will be barred by the provisions of the 'lutute Dated at Ancho , Alaska, this "1. 3. LINDLG¥ OREEN., T, IFiret publication April 3, 1921. Illth day of March, {Last publication June 8. 1928 For one year after they'll All be forgotten & —Sam Hill, Cincinnati Enquirer. They do not worry me, But bill collector: s 'iea get over kmmg almost as quick- F. tly as a kid gets over chickenpox or the measles. The ladies now march into a barber shop just like the men, but the wors. won't happen until they have learned "to tell those barber-shop stories. | A good many divorces could be pre- | vented if sis's boy friend would bribe her small brother to tell him what kind of a girl sis is when there just the family around. The guy who first tried to make a gi'k purse out of the porker's listen- ers didn't tackle any harder job than a lot ofswives who are trying to make gentlemen out of their boob meal tickets have. One of the best ways of wasting sympathy is to feel sorry for the girl who has gone riding with a strange young man and had to walk home. Some of everything work Some of the legs we see convine? us that nobody has a keener senss of humor than Dame Nature. I Daily Sentence Sermon The man easily led is always led in the wrong direction, News of the Names Club wives and the but want house- modern children F. M. gends word von can find a lotta Iicks on a farm near Bee Rock, Kentucky ———————— HOME OF QUICK SERVICE Suits pressed from 15 to 20 min- utes. Phone 576, JORDAN'S VALET |SERVICE. —adv. P ERCFSIS Crushed rock delivered to any place in Junean. Call Service Trans- ,ter. Phone 389. —adv. B ] | Service Transfer Co. | | WILL HAUL SAW MILL WO0O0D | AND COAL | | Office Phone 389 | .\ Residence Phone 3501 | ] [ Robert Mmpbon. ()pl D. | | Graduate Los Angeles College ! of Optometry and Opthalmology | Glasses Fitted | Lenses Ground —— Miss Caroline Todd PIANO—HARMONY Claes and Private Instruction Sixth and Gold St. Phone 5703 | anenllnes “Optical Department R. L. DOUGLASS OPTICIAN and OPTOMETRIST Room 16, Valentine Bldg Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. and by Appointment PROFESSIONAL ——— ] Fraternal Societies o¥ — —— Gastincay Channel Drs. Kaser & Freeburger B. R 0. ELES DENTISTS Meeting - Wednesd.y 1 and 3 Goldstein Bidg: ) gveningg ‘at 8 o'cloch PHONE 56 GEO. B. RICE, Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m, Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Bldg. Telophnns 176 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. SEWARD BUILDING Fxalted Ruler H. SIDES, M. Secreta Visiting Brothers welcome, i Co-Ordinate Bodies of Freemasonry Scottish Rite Regular meetings second Friday each month at 7:30 p. m. Gdd Felluws' Hall. WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary. LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE Junea: Lodge No. 700 Meets every Monday aight, 8 o'clock, Moose Office Phone 469 Res. Phone 27¢| | Hall. J. A. Davis, Dictator; R. H Stevens, Secretary. MOUNT J UNEAU LODGE NG 147 e 2 a Dr. W. J. Pigg TRlacas Office—Second and Main Telephone 18 r ol FAXIC mod Tu5 of each month In Odd |"Pl- lows' Hall, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. RALPH C. MIZE, Master. CHAS. E. NAGEL, Secre- 1 | tarry. Order of EASTERN STAR Dr. H. Vance Second and Fourth Tues- Osteopath — 201 Goldsteln Bldg. days of each month, at 8 Hours: 10 to 12; 1 1o 6; o'clock, 0. to 8 or by appointment SAE “WILITAMS, "W orthy Licensed osteophatic physician Matron. ALICE BROWSN Phon3s: Office, 167; Residence Secretary. Gastineau Hotel > i | BB HR Al TR i ST RO | KIIIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. - Dr. Geo. L. Barton CHIROPRACTOR Hellenthal Ild'. Office Hours 10 to 12; 3 to §: 7 to, and by appointment. CHIROPRACTIC 18 not the practice of Medicine. Surgery not Osteopathy. Phone 259 PHYSICAL THERAPIST Medical Gymnastice. Massage Electricity Goldstein Bldg. 423, 410 Pl sne—Office: Bl e DR. ANNA BROWN KEARSLEY Physician and Surgeon Office: 420 and 422 Gold- stein Buiding, Phone 582 . i = Helene W. L. Albrecht » 0ld papers tor sale at Corner 4th and Franklin St. Tue Caas W, CARTER MORTUARY “The Last Service Is the Greatest Tribute” Phone 136 STARTING " PREPARE YOURSELF Start With A"ny Amount THERE IS NOTHING DISAGREEABLE ABOUT STARTING A BANK ACCOUNT It Only Requires The Will To Act A GREAT MANY PEOPLE think they should have a hundred dollars before they oan open a bank account $1.00 WILL DO IS THE SECRET OF ACCUMULATING THE First National Bank OF JUNEAU THE SOWER Now is the time to save. The abundance of the harvest depends upon the seed falling on good ground. Care in saving part of your earnings and placing them where they will multiply contains the seed of your future financnl success. As you sow, so will you reap. One Dollar or More Will Open a Savings Account The B. M. Behrends Bank OLpEST BANK IN ALASKA The Empire. e Meetings second and Monday at 7:30 p. m. Tran- sient b others urged to at- ond Counel! (“hambers, Filth Strect. EDW. M. MCINTYRF G K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. 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