The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 29, 1928, Page 4

QAR KR e 4 -i)'(u'rlvrAluskn i‘fmin'ro JOHK W TROY Pmnm ed EDITOR \ND MAHP(:ER the | Mai Delivered by catrier r Thane for $1 By mail postae § One year, In edvance $6.00; one month, In ady Bulecribera will confer wi, or leregularity a fav notify lhel Business Office 211 helr B Peteshone Tor Editoria) asn Oftices. 374 R OF ASSOCIATEL FRESS. Associated Press iz exclusivoly entitled republication of all news in t The to the use for it or not otherwise ¢ d 'oul news published bere NTEED TO BE LARGER ALASKA GIRCULATION o SUBLICATION __THAN THAT OF ANY THE CAPITOL WILL BE BUILT. have evidence that of the long the Alaska the tentatively the six-story building that 200 feet by 130 feet on the bloc by Fourth, Fifth, Main and Se ward Streets, quarters of a million dol for the cons! of the building been authorized and or $250,000 of it made immediately available This that of the will this year will be to completion as rapidly as possible. It has taken many years to bring about thi tion. At times the campaign has shown gress that it required a superlative optimism not to feel that it futile to for results from Washington However, battle has will be realized that the labor well worth while It will be a show building Juneau It will capital the here where dispute our will serve a felt want in both the and Territori At last we fruition of campaign the struction pictures of ounded Three uction has construction Capito] that it means begin and consum little amount labor 80 pro- of was been won Soon it for it have commanding anchor the none the been for Territor) ht to it, and it the activ of 1 Governments The immediate effect of the beginning construction will be to. add the this City, and to bring men and equipment h that will further building: it is earnest of times that coming of long of to payrolls in encourage the good EDUCA Tl()\ l~ ‘\ILURE. expert on that is attracting It has felt, contention much The uM as an education seussion hfliu subject the eéountry. merit “in the to cover thoroughness. C by authorities pire does methods, a throughout , that there we are attempting at the expense of this contention is advanced very careful and conscientious con- that too ground tainly that deserve sideration. It is with this thought in as a complete endorsement of the sentiments’con- tained in it, that the following editorial the Wall Street Journal, which abj the heading, “Our Education Failure,” i duced mind, rather repro- In an article contributed to the New York Evening World of March Presi- dent Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin, says When 1 say that I think the ideal citizen wiil maintain a utili- tarian attitude toward education, do not mean he will think only vocational education and technica training for bread and butter wor 1 mean only that he will insist th our educational system shall seek to fit men for living and working in the America of 1928, rather than following blind the conventional objectives of education that have come down to us from the Middlé Ages. But lost the What oughly the plain fact is that ewe have heritage of the Middle Ages. taught then was taught thor- and the knowledge stuck. The one essential of all education to fit a man for continuing to learn throughout life was present then and is lacking to- day. The child was taught the disci- pline of learning. Any employer who has seen a school graduate spend half an find a word in the dictionary or in the telephone directo made the surprising discove child was never taught the alphabet, “parrot fashion,” knows what this al- Jeged modern education is worth. Only the other day a lad of seventeén sub- mitted four answers to a simple sum in arithmetic, every one of them wrong, He thought his employer could tuke his choice, and it appeared that he had never been taught the multiplication table. * b In the Middle Ages, if by that elas- tic term Dr. Frank means the period preceding the Renaissance, there was little Greek taught but plenty of Latin because the college or schools invariably were conducted by the church The Latin was thorough if it was not very clagsical. But what the pupil knew he knew thoroughly. 'Today we +try teach him a hundred things without the slightest real semse of their proportion- ate worth, We allow the pupil to lay out his own program before we haye taught him the things which are the backbone of all knowledge, Only the other day the unfeeling President of Harvard read the Riot Act to' some #mug schoolmasters who had ted the University to temcn what should have been thoroughly drilled in Jllfllll the earlier part of thc high | course. The high sel b them- complain that the ild comes 12“ from the elementary ‘ch 0! @nu; high hour to a name and has that the promptly | epatches credited to| s paper and aiso the| $200,000 on issucs ver 1[drove nim a pushed | will| ¢, Federal | and an|City who than | from | | under | | ele THE DAILY ALASKA hMPth, lHURbDA\ MARLH 2‘) i [ no s unding in ling, spelling [ and ietic. ; From the kindergarten | the class water col | al thless tripe aper offico his head with he him what for tl possess it What versitie last in the jerk iis ment nutrimer Is a Whe he with some re it is usually cultivated parents, from inherited hi tamina, has the could not, most part they did not themselves the school: vant for that cutting out of th p of another faeval” mess to edu- comes because whom giver educators because or the matter, is a drastic e dead wood, the scr uni- courses of one restoration of ghness and kind or the “med- occasional with d thoro aeval | | | in | ound thrown in | have the ey a tock sales every after retired ving the dditional evide at pe than w world, has twenty That i rewards ander en he comply about having nc ) conquer Bor Answers Reed. has beem put on dential campaign is the questionna Jorah 1 to the Pr Cincinnat with Senator vit Reed, of Now Dr. ¢, A. L. questions with League hardl an com answered The Ant loon The Senat The a blunt fwill be Senator h No. pleased wers *in favor of the p government as An ue, by the Board of Temperance and Morals of the Methodist and by Ku-Klux Kla The Senator Qisqualifics himself for delegate to the ence of representatives of that super & to be opened at St. Petersbur a., March 4 His second o commits him to opposition 5 any religious denomination heing established Washington “for the purpose of dictatorship over all “branches of our |stitutional government, as the Methodist Church now openly assumes to exercise” | The Senator's third “No” |against the nomination of anyone emanates from the and who, if elected, would be the agent Anti-Saloon League in’the White House may be assumed that the who himself bilities - with stionnaires make them disclose their attitude toward prohibition amendment and the Volstead against what the sup srgovernment of the Saloon League which is somewhat ation for enforcement of act. and prac by inciples exemplified not uper Saloon L Church pla confer the in commits him at Kan ernment, the Therefore, it ator from Idaho, Bresidential | pa of the amendment and the Lucky Canada. (Buffalo We Express.) that “‘no Lugky Canada! read comparable in in population a armaments as the Dominion is.” With a consisting of eight small ships, the largest which is a destroyer, and a standing army less than 5,000 men, the question is not which causes trouble to the Canadian |tatives at world conferences on the trying subject of disarmament In, the last fiscal year army, navy and air services $18 the cost of one of the heavier built today. Of this amount the |takes more than $9,000,000. It is the policy |of the Department of National Defense of Can- ada to maimtain a small permanent force chiefly |for training and ceremonial purposes. highly specialized body, which is expected direct most of its activities to the training |the non-permanent militia hich the National Guards of the United States. The department also keeps alive by so free froem the expense of of Canada spent 350,000, on or about the traditions of famous regiments such Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Regiment, the Royal Dragoons, the Strathcona Horse, and the Gary Horse. While the officers of these lishments are out of normal proportions ranks, the; ¢ kept highly trained by staff courses *in Great Britain and of the British Empire. But don’t they ever talk at Ottawa |lack of means of defense? Don't they ever ex- vant of preparedness? Don't high military office tell how the army is starved and how the means on hand for de- stroying others would last only for a day? Don't naval officers pro the need of ‘“‘parity?” Don’t the airmen ex how inadequate is the |supply of bombing planes? Don’t they cry out {with fear that their cities may be lajd waste by an imagined enemy? [ If not, then again, Lucky Canada. | “Alcohol takes varnish off furniture, and that shows what alcohol will do,” said a dry. “The rocks of + Falls are gradually wear- ing aw and that shows what water will do. == (P! ||X]«lhlhl]lhl Inquirer.) to frequent other some of us as the type who cry from the gallery to sit with you, brother!" and take anapolis News.) \\'lllix st interpret a as “We're (Ind | Mr, would down a bow. | With religion in politics, and two low-priced ears fighting for public favor, it looks like a |good year for arguments.— (Akron, Ohio, Beacon- {Journal.) e b | started | News.) isn’t a question of getting Tom again. He's Heflin plum automatic.—(Dallas best, probably, not to let the dwell long on Indiana.—(Toledo Blade.) i — “Nlagara Almost Dry,” says a headli ne. Not on the Canadian side.—(rm«. Tlmen-flnhn.; It is record | man who | the Prohibition, nly | rnment | u~||wrsl|1p& con- aforesaid super gov- Sen- | has been pestering to the act, is Anti- and the Ku Klux Klan stands for, | inconsistent with his own de- country . and ‘few countries comparable navy of one | represen- her | battleships being militia service It is a| to of corresponds to the main- |tenance of skeleton units of the permanent force as the the Canadian Fort estab- the parts about being o . Sl ALONG LIFE'S | DETOUR By SAM HIL! Nothing Dark About This | When it's the gents Prefer, we're told, them ligh 1 when to m4d | v like ladie it comes the men who're wh Obeervations of What" ioned Oldest Inhabitar become of the old-f who could u string as a woman discarded cor stitute for The Ananias Club third time he snal, a4 his st made Probably the Exception “There’s always a brigh d the bromide hound ed the other nd 1 suppose while you 1| havin | annoying the fact and teg on consolagion saving rorbell.” Passing Observation is about as hard argument and not is to drink a lot get dr to )| What Little There Is Silk r has, zht on I mean Is. of Course, of cotten a Well-Worn One Blinks: Indians don’ on the war path any more.” Jinks: “No, but it enough to keep it overgrown with Still from weeds."” Good Grief! A girl can’t laugh her c off—but she can cry | | | mp fon it off | The Horrid Thing “How did this smash | demanded the indignantly explai woman driver, “I decided the last minute to turn down this | side street and the fool man in the car waiting there might hav |known I wanted to come down right where he was, but he didn't get out of my way." p occu cop, | the Ho, don't we Hum! we know years have it a dog bites man it isn't news but if a man bites a doz that’ new and yet, when a hobo over in Highland Park, 111, actyally did bite a dog' the other day it got about as much space as the ac count of the bumping off of pedestrian would, anl goodnes knows, that isn't news—anymore. for how heard tha For many Zero in Information March may be a spring month | but it has about much spring in it as a hypocrite has religion in hinr, as Advice If your will's weak, Just marry, son, And you'll find you'll Have a strong one. A Modest Violet | “He's an egotist, a know-it-all and general pes “Yes, but there is one thing he can't understand.” “What's th: “Why the country a holiday week each year brate his Dbirthday.” doesn’'t have to cele- | More or Less True A real optimist is a skinny girl | who buys larger size clothes the ¢ she starts in taking cod liver A high-priced car may mecan the e esss The patience of 0ld Job was a mild one when com- pared with the fellow who . owns one —says Taxi Tad. The fact that OWNING COMES HIGHER THAN HIRE is caus- ing many to cut down their motor bills by taking advan- tage of the convenient Carlson service. Cars for hire by the | hour, day, week or trip. Carlson's Taxi and Ambulance Service Stands at Alaskan Hotel and Juneau Billiards Phone Single 0 and 94 Prompt Service—Day and Night CovicH Auto vauj‘ Jnun..r:.l;lk ,.| men are wear have a| off | than but it san they are just deeper in debt. Some men L more out of feeling imp ant t s do out of being t If he is lon ator now can date w er, who also believes {off things. Every girl wants to be rich, but ) girl wan to be rich and fee! proposing to her for her in spite of her awful map + You can judge a husband by the his wife dresse It she e it probably mean brute he the home to buy you, apt to sati some the prc i the flap in putting | tough her have r ith Ve en ally seen indignati You mnever 3 s bursting nen who i rd edzewl like ned cash » much money e put so 1 ea think dav Tother 15ha 11 has always wanted and father 10 can g she 1l to do without satisfied with it if lost one boarder « another by it Havir mother th them adds about as mu of ung couple’s home | 15 putting ne in it would| dad to the a eup of cof 1 ee | inst joy D STATES Tenartment of the interior GENERAL LAND OFFICE U. S. Land Office,| Anchorage, | January 16, hereby given lh’\t French, entryman his witnes Joe | Notice is Wes! ther feKenzi 11 of Halnes, Alaska, has sub- | nitted final proof of his home-| tead entry, serial 06918, for the| X W1, NWY%NEY, section 4, SEY%SW, section 13, T 8 8. R. 53 B C. R. M. and it is \ow in the files of the U. S. Land | Mfice, Anchorage, Alaska, and if{ no protest is filed in the local| ind office within the period of | yublication, or thirty days there- | ifter said final proof will be ac- epted and final certificate Is- ued. J. LINDLEY GREEN, Register. Feb. 29, 1928 Apr. 4, 1928 “irst publication, .t publication, WELCOME CAFE Front Street HOME COOKING Iira, A. Haglund, Prop. —8 HOTEL 7ZYNDA ELLVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. T. H. THORKELDSEN LOCKSMITH Phonograph Repairing Juneau, Alaska Box 1015 i JAPANESE TOY SHOP H. B. MAKINO Front Street P. 0. Box 218 for Mall Orders P r—— AUTOS FOR HIRE o) and Burford’s Corner ‘PHONE 199 OR 314 MILLER’S TAXT Phone 183 Juneau, Alaska CARS WITHOUT DRIVERS FOR HIRE Day and Night Service PHONE 485 BLUE BIRD TAXJ SHORTY GRAHAM Stand at Bill's Barber Shop z W BURFORD’S CORNER won't consent | John Cryderman. | | 1928 : : [ |4 PROFESSIO [ 'Y . Seattle Fruit and ° Produce Co. Fresh Fruit and Veretables Wholesale and Retail Out of town orders given DRS. EASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS special attentlion 1 and 3 Goldstein Bidx PHONE 66 Hours 9 2. m. to § p. m B. BURFORD & CO ! L. C. Smith and Corona i - TYPEWRITERS Pubiic Stenographer Dr. Charles P. DENTIST Jenue | Rooms 8§ and 9 Valencve irg Telanhon BROWN DOLLAR STORE Votions-—— Greeting Cards—Toys— Novelties. 5 Cents to One Stewar SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Phone 27 Dollar = (,ARBACE HAULED AND LOT CLEANING I G. A. GETCHELL, 4 Phone 109 or 149 SR (‘lll - 4 Osteopat ein Midg. FHours: 1.to b 710 8 or by appolnment ensed Osteopathic Physician Phone: Office 1671 Residence, Gast au Hotel — “Dr. Geo. L. Barton CHIROPRACTOR, Hellenthal @!dg. Oftice Hours 10 to 12; 3 t. 6: 7 to §; and by lD[»(l’nllv\en& Phone 269 CHIRQPARACTIC is not the practice of Medicine, Surgery nor Osteopail Jureau Public Library and Free Reading Room City Mall, Second Floor Mals Street at 4th ‘ Reading Room Open From Hdc ne W. L. '\“uu‘lu PHYSICAL THERAP'ST Medical Gymnastics, Massage Dlectricity 410 Goldstein Bldg. Phore ~Off! 423 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. Otreulation Room Open Fram l1 to 6:20 p. m—7:00 p. m. to 8:30 p. m. ! current Magazines, Newspap:rs Reference Books, Etc, FREE TO ALL ) alentine's Optical Dept. 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JurTEA’x nd Fourth Mon- e ch month KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Councll No. 1760, @ second and lastd at p.. m hers urged Council Cham- Fitth _ Street. M, McINTYRE, 3. J. TURNER. Secretary. attend. 17 F. mects Monday ¥ Hal third night in e Wednes. h Juneau Guy L. f our l, h Th\ll each month in * Dugout. WOMEN OF M MOOSEH.EAET LEGION, NO. 439 Meets 1st and 3rd Thursdays each month, 8 P.M. at Moose Hall BEsther Ingman, gent: Senjor Re- Agnes Grigg, Recorder. ICE CREAM DELIVERED ANYWHERE IN THE CITY Brick or Bulk Juneau Billiards Phone 94 Carlson Taxi Stand ALASKAN HOTEL MODERN REASONABLE RAT! Dave HousgL, Prop. Station B. M. B. Broadcasting Every day in the year to all pro- gressive men and women to save a portion of their money for their own future welfare. i Maintaining a bank account tends to prevent you getting into debt and helps you mentally and morally. WE INVITE YOUR ACCOUNT The B. M. Behrends Oldest Bank in Alaska MORRIS CONSTRUCTION €O, ALL KINDS O¥ CABINET MILL WORK ! .. 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