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4 Daily y Alaska Em plre J OHN w. TROY ... EDITOR AND MANAGER pt at g exce NTI COMPANY Alaska “the Main " by and Streets " Entered matter Post Off s SUBSCRIPTION PATFS careier in Juneau, Douglas, Thane for $1.25 per month. paid lowing nonths, Delivered by Treadwell and rates: in advance ey will promptly or irregularity ss Offices, and Busine 374, MEME{R OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, i cly entitlegw to the s dispatches credited to 1 this paper and also the| it or g Jocal news published he ALASKA CIRCULATIO y THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION | d BROWN BEAR AND HIS EXTERMINATION. THE Westward | that the bears be will Seward with and the asking out petit killing that hundred people in have signed ainst Five country restrictions moved, and it up. An Associated s the livestock, having 100 head of cattle The is scarcely not killed by Juneau a chewed up by a hunting for a still man brought Emporium very A n brown 1,000 re- more from havoc is said sign Press story bears raising already are killed brown 500 sheep idded that more persons are petitioners might have there a year when one or or horribly mutilated Alaska. Right orcement agent he was in the last brown skin related that he with them night in just small by brown bear them—some place in here at Prohibition en was re- the few into had and while Within cently bear woods i days bear Goldstein's had a and some only recently had because of them compared with the great number bears have killed in one part or another of Alaska It is that the brown bear attractive big game to hunt. But the paid for that sport is brown bear really ought to be the interest safety and in Territorial development. scary experiences to spend a a These are offenses true is a very price being high. The exterminated in the of sort of too of interest COMPARING THE ATTITUDE OF “BIG BUSINESS” AND SOME OF THE CHURCHES. Commenting upon the retirement of John [ Raskob from the Chairmanship of the Finance Committee General Motors after he had ac- cepted the Chairmanship of the Demncratic Na- tional Committee, the Beston News Bureau, financial newspaper, among other things, said: The common sense well as the proprieties of the situation dictated the resignation of Mr. Raskob General Motors committee chairman His selec- tion as campaign manager was an ad- mirable stroke of masterly polities. But the single and simple fact that it was a matter of “politics in hcwever high a sense of that over-abused noun—made the divorce of roles inevitable. * . stewards of business must emulate ar wife in avoidance of suspicion s * * The truth persists that there is no true serving of two masters That the generally accepted andard of the ethics of profane “Big Business.” But some cf the churches, whose kingdom is supposed not to be of the world, have apparently much different standard for the institutions were founded to preach the doctrines and live the examples of the Christ. Bishop Cannon, for ex- ample, has made chairman of a political committee that has assumed the task of carrying Southern States against Smith, Bishop Cannon has not resigned his position in the church. There is no sign that he intends to do 80. Instead, he is endeavoring to drag his church into polities with him Dr. Clarence True Wil- son, Dr. Barton and scores of other preachers, high in their churches, in politics to their ears. They are making poiltical forums out of their pulpits and political organs of their church The contrast is favor of of . Caes- . a that been Gov out in CROOKS ARE NOT NAMED FOR PRESIDENCY. History makes it plain that great American political parties for the Presidency. And history shows that nqQ great American State elects a crook for Governor and keeps him in office term after term, growing more and more popular all the time The fact is that Gov. Smith and Mr. Hoover ‘were nominated because h of them commanded the support of the rank and file of his party, and they commanded that support because each ‘was recognized as the greatest outstanding public man in his party. Mr. Hoover and Gov. Smith were not nominated at Kansas City and Houston. They were nominated in the State conventions and primaries that selected delegates to the National conventions. PUBLIC HEALTH IN FLOODED AREA F MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. Approximately one year has elapsed since the frightful disaster of the flood in the Mississippi Valley. The United States Public Health Service states that some comfort may be obtained in the knowledge that better communities are being builded on the ruins of those destroyed, and as neither of the nominates crooks |shame,” | publican Asked was of THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY AUGUST 18, 1928. of the development ahead the years ) old with program full-time connection county health Since July, 1927, 78 counties have roll of that are enjoying ade- health protection through the labors 0 full-time health This is a step and to of joined the quate of distinet petuate these It the Mississippi public This other those publig over workers. forward, a stimulus per- endeavors work continues as it has to date, the Valley universal health pr. should will soon the it enjoy ection deserves serve a splendid example communities and stimulate them to local health departments and full-time service. to strengthen their segure adequate William Allen White, after Congressman Griest had asked Chairman Work to ‘bottle [White] up tight” and many others had eried “for withdrew his charges against Gov. Smith, upon called Senator Curtis, Re- Vice-Presidential nominee “nit-wit.” just he sailed for Europe if he the same opinion still, Mr. White replied: 41 Go ahead. They'll probably prove that I beat my wife.” Perhaps he thought that a way to emphasize withdrawal from the mix-up with the Democratic who, onee a time a before am his nominee say l)hll Dr. John Gov. Smith refuses to in the church that will that he can get sermon there. If he out of politics first instance? The dispatches Straton Roach threatens, meet if except Governor, him at any ailed the larg place he the repeat to he where as he rent wditorium the denouncing keep church do that in the and wanted didn’t his why $1,000,000 to fiannce Commander Scuth Pole In addition it the life of Byrd and the a lot of other men in jeopardy. not worth any such It Byrd's will put lives of We hazard will cost expedition Commander valuable believe that it do is The Rd\k()h Reslgn.llmn. News' Bureau.) as well the proprieties of the situation dictated the resignation of Mr. Raskob General Motors committee chairman. His selection campaign manager was an ad- mirable of masterly politics. But the single imple fact that it was a matter of “poli in however high a sense of that over- abused noun—made the divorce roles inevit- able. They could not properly remain dual It may be even a matter for passing regret that the severance was not simultaneous with the political appointment, although the interval was brief enough. But it has been just long enough to crystallize and make clear the fundamental distinction. Chairman Raskob could not remain Chairman Raskob when those two titles were not at all synonyms, and threatened a confusion of identity and performanc An old truth gets now a new personal expression—and a prominent one (Boston The common sense as as as stroke a of That truth politics and business and water, and will many questicns now basically economic; mains in keeping is the necess cleavage between They are indeed as oil not fuse. It true that perplexing governments are but their be; solution re- partisan politics out of them. The, need is still for *“more business in govern- ment and less government in business”—which includes also the need for confining government to its proper sphere. The other way lies so- cialism It would be humanly natural enough for any General Motors proprietors to feel resentful at the thought that somehow their property interests or prestige might be exploited, however distant real such danger But stewards of busi- must emulate Caesar’'s wife in avoidance of suspicion There is also the very practical angle that it would be unfair to Chairman Raskob of the one role to burden him with duties of Chairman Raskob in the other role that would hamper his efficiency or overburden him personally in either capacity His own analytical, organizing mind could not escape that appraisal. Hence the all-round wisdom corporation, Pres. Sloan's cording to Mr. Raskob’s own quite “clear of politics.” Mr. vate politics to a new pls achievement. Having fir well return later to his the twain do not and truth persists that there two maste ry of keeping phrase and expressed ideal, Raskob may ele- very meritorious shed that task, he may first chosen field. But cannot overlap. The is no true serving of the in ac- Come On, Philadelphia! (New York World.) One month ago the Yanks led the American League with a percentage of 765, while the Ath- letics were second with a percentage of .565. Yesterday the Yanks still led, but with per- centage of only and the Athletics were still in second plac but with a percentage of 640 In other words, this has become a real race, with that Philadephia team gradually forg- ing to the front. And we hope when October rolls around that the Yanks have finally been licked and that the Athletics win the pennant. We have nothing against the Yanks, you under- We admire them hugely, and have pub- lengthy dissertations to prove that they » the greatest team in the history of baseball. But we are tired of seeing them win. We want somebody else to have a chance. Furthermore, we have a suspicion Athletics may pull this thing offt. Would an all- seeing, all-comprehending Providence allow Ty Cobb to hang up his bat beside Gene Tunney's glove without allowing him to take part in one more World's Series? It would not Such a thing would be unthinkable. Wherefore we sol- emnly go on record now with the prediction that the Athletics win, Of course, we may be wrong, and you m have the supreme satisfaction of calling that to our attention later. But on the other hand we may be right, and we may have the supreme satisfaction of saying “We told you a that the ‘We dried up the saloons theoretically, everybody couldn’t be temperate. record of summer drownings it to legislate the rivers dry since m.-— (Cincinnati Enquirer.) because In view of the might be well not every one Why is it, we wonder, that Nature has shoved most of the calories and vitamines into the sort of food no one likes?— (Philadelphia Inquirer.) Not until bootlegging arrived did we realize how imaginary is an International boundary a rule, a better public health.regime has been inaugurated. Following the flood of waters there has developed another flood—a flood of sanitation development, W] )flch has placed that area many line.—(Buffalo Courier-Express.) In the North Dakota referendum prohibition would seem to have won by just about a near- beer percentage.—(Boston Transcript.) i there in the r; m——‘{} ' l { \ ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR By SAM HILL et s Forty Years Ago— They were laughing at the styles of 80 years ago. Effect of Years on Marriage “Does your husband stil try to please you?” asked the old aunt Na, he'’s quit trying and become it,” replied the wife who'd wed the ideal man. Extra Long, Winters Then, “John,” daid Mrs “why did they burn old Salem?” “Must'a run out of coal, I guess,” he grumbled from behind his paper Too Dumbbell, witches in A Needless Explanation “WILLING TO TALK."—Head. line. Yes, woman the article was about a You Guessed It First Time It air pockets have nothing them, Whose pockets do they semble? in re- Near Vanishing Point Now A girl's 't's now so very short To us it seems quite clear If it's made any shorter it Will simply ¢ ppear. Horror of Knowing No Cusswords! Blinks: “I passed a fellow with a flat tire today who was standing in looking most pa- thetically helpless.” nks: “Couldn’t he tire, or didn't he hav spare?” Blinks: “He could—and did. But he was a parson and was perfect- ly helpless. when it came to t ing to find words to expre feelings over the situation.” change a We Give It Up been staying awake nights lately trying to fi out just how much better off the world is going to be now that a fellow has been able to go over Niagara in a rubber ball We've e 1s And We Don't Mean Mebbe No little girl, just taking up mu- sie, can hate the scales as much as she will after she has grown up to be a cornfed He Had Learned Something “I am Diogenes, looking for an honest man. Who are you?" ask. ed the old man with a lantern, of the young man, wild of eye and gripping a machine gun, “I,” hissed the other, “am a re- cent bridegroom looking for the fiend who said two could live as cheaply as one.” He Lived in the Pre.Can Opener Days What has become of the fashioned man who alway red to his meals as “grub? old- refer. Possible Explanation of Weather Maybe all those discarded Euro- pean reigns have turned into rains and non-stop flighted across the Atlantic. No money ever seems quite well epent as the admission [ 80 you AUTOS FOR HIRE have wml to the ball game when home team wins both ends of a double-header:. Seattle Fruit and Produce Co. Fresh Fruit and Veeetables Wholesale and Retail Out of town orders given special attention Which Is That coarse cloth is being made banana stubs, according to item, but it will have to it it is any coarser than of the language inspired by banana peels, A 1 DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | DENTISTS 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. PHONE 56 Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. i ) Some . o— 3 P J. B. BURFORD & CO L. C. Smith and Corona TYPEWRITERS Public Stenographer some the i No Ride, No Go! The boy who has no bus Can’t date with Helen Serby; You bet you'd never get Her in a bunion derby. Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Buildin, Telephone 17¢ More or Less True All husbands want to be babied and most all wives consider babying a husband the silliest way to waste time. A married end of a perfect that ends without deeper in debt. Some brides are patient some start the training even fore the honeymoon is over. The way people spend it wouldn’t think they did not any money around There is heap of difference between what girl today doe ind what her grandmother consid ered clothes—and there is as much difference between what a modern wife considers a meal and what her mother did Some people are like hot mince pie—vou could love them if they didn’t always disa; with you A woman shows a lot of faith in her husband when she puts him so far away from her when there company for dinner she can’t kick him in the shins. Next to learning to keep warm in them in winter, the hardest job these modern styles brought to a lot of girls was learning how to feel modest while knowing they looked anything but One of the strangest my of the day is that no one ha a little painter's torch on | market that girls can keep their dressing tables and use pla of wash cloths When daughter entertained her beau in the living room while the mily parker somewhere out of sight, he had to say goodnight a heap earlier than he does these days when the courting is done in his car. ELMER REED’S SHOPPE Genuine Curios Winter & Pond Bldg. { GARBAGE HAULED AND LOT CLEANING G. A. GETCHELL, Phose 109 or 149 —n Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. 3EWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. Phone 278. i iihatols | Dr. Hj Vance Ostec path—201 Goldateln Bidg. Hours: 10 to 12; 1 to §; 7 to 8 or by appoinment Licensed Osteouathic Physic'an Phone: Office 1671. Residence, Gastineau Hotsl man’s idea of day is the him being the one any and be- you want . v Janean Public Library and Free Reading Room City Hall, Second Floor Malr Street at 4th Reading Room Open From € 2. m to 10 p. m. Circulation Room Open From 1 to 5:30 p. m.—7:00 p. m. to 8:30 p. m Current Magazines, Nawspapers Reference Books, Etc, FREE TO ALL THE: WHITEHORSE INN The New Palatial Modem Hotel at Whitehorse The Whitehorse Inn has just been built in keeping witk the latest in hotel construc- * tion. All rooms with hot and cold running water of which no other heotal in the Yukon can boast, private connecting and public baths, maid and bellboy service. | Write er wire for reserva- tions. Dr. Geo. L. Barton | CHIROPRACTOR, Hellenthal Bidg. | Office Service Only ~ | 10 a. m. to 12 noon, 2 to 5 p. m. and 7 p. to 9 p. m. Phone CHIRCPRACTIC t the practice of Med! rgery nor Osteopath ree Hours p. m 7 is n ] Iclene W. L. Albrecht| PHYSICAL THERAPIST | i Medical Gymnastics, Massage Blectricity 410 Goldstein Bids. Phone—Office: 423. ies put the on in . “Valentines_Optical Degt. | R. L DOUGLASS Optician and Optometrist I Room 16, Valentine Bldz. ! ) Hourt 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. and . by Appcintment (IO Robert Simpson Opt. D. Uraduate Los Angelew Jc)- lexe of Optomstry and Jpthalmology lasses Fitted Leneses Grouad NOTICE Repairing furniture of all kinds, also upnolstering. Will call and deliver free. Price reason- able. Call 137 Henry Gorham Try me and you will call again —adv. EPES A ey 0Old papers tor sale at the Empire. | o S Wrecking Contractor LEE ROX Houses and buildings razed | P. 0. Box 298 Phone 471 o THE EMPIRE HAS THE uARG- EST, MOST UP-TO-DATE AND BEST EQUIPPED JOB PRINTING ' PLANT IN ALASKA. - NOTICE sealed is hereby glven that bids for the purchase’of the fixtures, stock in trade, and business of the Juneau Music House will be accepted by the undersigned, Referee in Bank- ruptey, up to and including Aug- ust 31, 1928, the right being reserved to reject any and all bids. A copy of the inventory of said business may be obtained from E. E. Smith, Trustee in Bankruptey. Mail or deliver all bids to the undersigned. GROVER C. WINN, Referee in Bankruptey. ~ THE CHAS. W. CARTER MORTUARY “The Last Service Is the Greatest Tribute” Corner 4th and Franklin St. Phone 136 GEO. M. SIMPKINS CO. PRINTING and STATIONERY Opposite Alaska Electric Light Office OPEN EVENINGS Phone 244 o DRIVER AT YOUR DOOR IN FIVE VOICE WITH THE SMILE Our service will please you, too —says Taxi Tad. The voice with a smile be- longs to the man who calls Single O or 94 for he knows what liberal satisfaction of service awaits him! Comfort, convenience and economy in taxi service. Carlson’s Taxi and Ambulance Service Stands at Alaskan Hotel and Juneau Billiards Phone Single 0 and 94 | eess——— i Prompt Service, Day and Night CovicH AUTO SERVICE STAND AT THE OLYMPIC Phone 342, Day or Night Juneau, Alaska TRE JUNEAU LAunDRY Franklin Street, between Front and Second Streets =t | Prompt and Courteous Serv- | ice Day and Night, Special | | Rates for Trips to Menden- hall Glacler and Eagle River 324 TAXI €. VAIL, Proprietor Next Arcade Cafe Phone 324 82— ALASKAN HOTEL MODERN REASONABLE RATES DavE HouseL, ProP. MILLER’S TAXI Phones 183 and 218 Juneau, Alaska CARS WITHOUT DRIVERS FOR HIRE | Facts Worth Knowing John Borbridge mnilighb—a’fl The United States Treasury statement as of June 30, the end of the fiscal year, show- ed a surplus of $398,000,000, only $7,000,- 000 less than the figure forecast a year ago. The gross debt of the United States has been reduced during the year from $18,- 511,000,000 to $17,604,000,000. The $250,- 000,000 3 3/8% Treasury. Bond issue offered early in July was quickly oversubscribed by cash buyers and by Liberty Bond holders, who are exchanging Third 4 1/4% Liberty Loan bofids, which are to be redeemed in September. REEDER’S TAXI PHONE 182 Day and Night Service The B. M. Behrends Bank Established 1891 JIncorporated 1914 Fraternal docieties or Gastineau Channel e Lester D. Henderson, H. L. Red!lngsharer, o Secre Visiting Brothers welcome, Juneau Lione Club Meets every Wew nesday at 12:30 o'clock. Presidemt Secy-Treas. ELKS feeting secon: fourth ~Wed evenings at grclectk, Elka® serschmidt, 1 Ruler, Sides, Co-Ordinate Bod. of Freemasonry Scottish Rits Regular meetings second Friday each month _at 7:30 p, m. = 0dd Vellows Hall. WALTER B. HEISEL. Sccretary. LOYAL OROLA OF MOOSE Juneau Locgs No. 78, Meets every Mondag night, at ® c'clocw, WALTER HELLEN Dictator. C. D. FERGUSON, Secretary. MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE No, A. M - F. & A M. second and Fourth Mon- lay of each monta in Odd I‘-IIUWH Hall, be- ginning at HARRY I er CH Jecrerary. LU TAS, Mas E. NAGHEL, Second and Fourth Ture duys of each month, ® k'L O O W MILDRED MAR- I, Worthy Matreg, ALICE BROWN, Secy KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 176", Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 . m.S Transient brothers ‘urged te attend. Counell Cham- bers, Fifth_Street. SDW. M. McINTYRE, 3 K. H. Y TURNER. Sccreiary. DOUGLAS AERIE 117 F. O. E. Meets Monday = nights 8 o'clock igles’ 1all, Douglas. William Ott, W. P. Guy Smith, Secrotary. Visiting Breiliers welcome. A.IEBICAN "LEGION Meets second and fourth Thursday each month Im Dugout. | WOMEN OF MOOSEHEART LEGION, NO. 439 Meets 1st and 3rd Thursdays each month, 8 P.M. at Moose Hall. | | Esther Ingman, Senlor Re- geni; Agnes Grigg, Recorder. | Brunswick Bowling Alleys for men and women Stand—Miller’s Taxi Phone 218 0} THE. IRROS CO. M a n u facturers Carbonated Beverages. Wholesalers Can- dy, Near Beer, Carbonic Gas. PHONE NO. 1 " ABEC SR Qudn o it S IR MORRIS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY SAND and GRAVEL Carpenter and Concrete Work. No job too large nor too small for us. MORRIS CONSTRUCTION CO. BZILDING CONTRACTORS Phone 62 e ] JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY | Service Transfer Co. 3 ) SAW MILL WO00D and_Cl fOftice Phone 3! Residence Phone 443

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