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u prolonged period when they suffer from a scarci PN o, E R ™ ; i Dml y Alaska Emplre e : PROFESSIONAL T Paternal Sotidids '1 ) F OR TH E m I} Gastineau Channel PARLOR FURNACE JOHN w. TROY - - - EDITOR AND’V MANAGER' FARM TO (l’l\ MOV EME\T ABATES. P every evening except Sunday by EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and M Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class r. P —— The movement of farm population from the |rural districts to cities showed @ moderate abat | ment in 1929, the Federal Department of Commerce | reports. It shows that 1,876,000 persons moved from farms to cities last year, as compared with 1,923 SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 000 in 1928. There was =also a decrease in the; Delivered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month, |city to farm population movement, being placed at the following rates: ce, | 1.257.000 last year as compared to 1,347,000 in 1928.| B. P. 0. ELES Meeting every Wed- v nesday at 8 o'clock. Elks’ Hall. Visiting brothers welcome. | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red R#v, Medical Gymnastics, 410 Goldstein Buildine — Carlson’s Taxi WINN GUDDARD, Exalted Rules | ANYWHERE IN THE CITY FOR 50 CENTS M. H. SIDES, Secretary. | 4 4 B e f JUNIOR DENTISTS : $.00; one month, in adv they Will promiptly The net loss to farm population, however was | 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. Careful, Efficient Drivers—Call Us At Any Hour— PR g ~ notify the Business Office failure or irregularity |larger in 1920 than in 1928. In the latter year,! DIAMOND | PHONE 56 DAY AND NIGHT—Stand at Alatkan Hoig Os-o4 | in the delivery of their papers. Al HT Hours 9 a. m. to § p. m. ey S Business Offices, 374, | Cities gained 576,000 at the expense of the rural ry Scottish Rite — |districts, and their gain last year was 619,000 | Regular meetings second Friday each month at MEMBER OF ASSOCIATE Phones II and Single O BRIQUETS | Dr. Charles P, Jenne i redited I this baper and also the| New York University is to conter an Honorary de- ARE o Carlson’s Taxi and Ambulance Service 7550 p e, oo Biee uews publistind herdtn. L .. . |gres ot Docter. of -Military SolEtlis o Gen. Jokin £ o] Rooillh § _M““' R liine —_— tish Rite Temple ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER |J. Pershing. His thesis was delivered on. the Meuse- Bullding 4 WALTER B. EEISEL, Secretary. THAN. THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION ; b e i Sfile L i Argnnne field in France in 1918. Telephone 176 ! LOYAL ORDER OF MOO0SZ b Juneau Lodge No. 700. Meets every Monday night, at 8 o'clock. JAMES CARLSON, Dictator. W. T. VALE, Secy, P. O. Box 83 O | Alaskans having disposed of their afinual muni- cipal elections are now free to turn their attention to the party primaries scheduled for April 29. Graham’s Taxi Phore 565 STAND AT ARCADE CAFE Day and Night Service Any Place in the City for 50 Cents e — Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 a. m, t0o 6 p. m. B i SEWARD BUILDING Seeing the Unseen. | Office Phone 569, Res. DNODGE BROTHERS Phone 276 (New York Times.) e Poet Laureate in his “Testament of Beau- Announce speaking of the “powers unseen” as the “foun- - ain of life,” pictured the Greek astronomer who Tvo New Models Dr. H. Vance ‘na/mg with naked eye into the starry night, “forgot Osteopath—201 Coldstein Bldg. his science and in transport of spirit touched earth | A NEW SIX | Hours: 10 t0 12; 1 to 5; 7T to # Ino longer,” but was as in the presence of Zeus. So or by appointment the thought of millions must have traveled out | Licensed Osteopathic Physician MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO, 147 Second and fourth Mon- day of each month in s G Scottish Rite Temple, beginning at 7:30 p. m. g 9 EVANS L. GRUBER, Master; CHARLES E. NAGHEL, Secretary. 3 dfirt ol S LR i THE COMING OF SPRING {into the far spaces in reading of the sighting of A NEW EIGHT Phone: Office 1671. ORDER OF EASTERN STAR S S 2l a planet never before seen by human eyes even | ; ||, Residence, MacKinnon Apts. N th " Lst a x 1 Tf::;;‘: :{";’a;;“‘o;::. 4 Spring is at hand whether the weather man|With the aid of the tele‘scr;?e. though with the At amazingly low e orthern Lite at 8" elook: oSk 1 4 A pril snow squalls, we will | vVision of mathematics, which looks into infinity, | . 155 3 b e I o O T A O e oy |Dr. Percival Lowell, fiddl beisia MEfmiths vegion in prices Dr. Geo. L. Barton ! mite Templs LILY agree, are not the sort of showers Spring s the skies many years ago. He had literally seen| | ) TAX, c , , oty bring in its wake, but they do not keep it fromigy.iyas then invisible. S | CHIROPRACTOR J Matron; FAN { ‘ KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS things, and into the industrial structure of this|looking into Chapman's Homer, he found it in tho| MCC 4 UL | Hours: 10 a. m. to 12 noon OF CITY Seghers Council No. 1760, northland. |lines: | 2p.m to5p m | i | | : ) Meetings second and lasy RN alar MAlle hag Chen felt I like some watcher of the | | ER | Monday at 7:30 p. m. This week the Juncau Lumber Mills began to | T | MOTOR CO 1 ¥ e skies A . 6 p.m to 8 p. m. i - operate its big plant, a sure harbinger of Spring skies B » ! { | One Zoauxink bidthers (wg J v | By Appointment ) Every steamer that comes north brings the skeleton When 8 new planel swinls dut; his Service With Satisfaction v ed to attend. Council | ! \ & bringing that season of the year when new life When Keats sought a simile through which to Hellenthal Building , TO ANY PART ROBINSON, Secretary. " | begins to creep back into the veins of all animate |suggest the ecstasy that possessed him when first | OFFICE SERVICE ONLY | 5 T RENTIGH T B i ken | PHONE 259 - Chambers, Fifth Street. organizations of cannery crews. For sometime Dast,| pe was doubtless thinking of Herschel, who in| = 70 ANY PART JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. Indian villages have moved almost en masse from his review of the heavens one night in 1781 “light- ;1 ) OF CITY H. J. TURNER, Secretary. their permanent location to some neighboring led on” the planet Uranus. But the experience of Robert Simpson g Rl canneries to be on hand when the time clerk these Arizona watchers who actually saw this| - - = Ot Sle DOUGLAS n;;lel:ul;;;; g‘th!l;' | ! ! . unpacks his bags and settles down for the summer. “Planet X" swim into sight was rather more like pt. D. o ; 1 Road crews are being organized and materials as- |that of Levierrier in France and Adams in Eng- ROLILER Graduate Bos Angeles Col | || TWo Buick Sedans at Your hari . s il | % 4455y land, who predicted by their reckonings the exist- 4 lege of Optometry and Service. Careful and td p S J und - 5 - memmBled. ‘Burvey crews, tmber cruisers, loggers ense of the unseen Neptune, for they were search- > | Opthalmology s i Douglas. ARNE SHUDSHIFT, W. ofhers are beginning to stir. ng for the wanderer which he who had founded RINK | Glasses Fitted, Lenses Grouna Efficient Drivers. P. GUY SMITH, Secretary. Vis- All of these things presage Spring, the coming o observatory knew to be there by the faith which e - iting 'brothers welcome, ‘ of life to an industrial figure of no mean pro- js “the evidence of things not seen.” The name B o portions that has been slumbering through the of Lowell might proprely be added to the long list ()I"-n Every Afternoon | DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL WOMEN OF MOOSEHEART I winter months. Energy, stored up in that period, of those who by faith understood that “worlds have e e b Optometrist-Optician LEGION, NO. 439 | is breaking out anew. No April threat is serious béen framed by the word of God.” It is a new | from 2:30 to 5 p. m. | | Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted ! Meets first and third Thurs- s oion b catb 1t AStivity. and stirring demonstration of the reach of the mind 8 ) | Room 16, Valentine Bldg. | days each month, 8 p. m, at | = R > 1 of man out into the unknown, where it becomes Every Evening® from 10¢00 to 6:00. Evenings by B optothr Niture 18 nogl lagging fer belind Lo o with then Hivtos miina - In ke cxclitide: of the b4 & /|~ Appointment. Phone 484 the industrial world. The frost is leaving the stars. 7:30 to 10:30 p. m. | B— ground and soon the hardy and adventurous flow- The addition of a planet to our solar system ers, violets, crocuses, johnny jump-ups,-and thejis of no intrinsic value. It is at most only an | *Friday, Saturday and Sun- E : - Vi many other Alaska wildflowers will be pushing their |infinitesimal item in the reckoning of the universe, | days open until 11 p. m. Juneau Public Library 1 | | ] | Moose Hall. JOHANNA JEN- | SEN, Senior Regent; AGNES | GRIGG. Recorder. heads through the earth to add color to the re- but it enlarges our own special ,demesne in the s i Free Reading Room || freshed green of s-carpeted meadows and tree- Skies and increases our planetary company in ADMISSION b ; el : mantled hills, Already the pussy willows have thelr journeys about the sun to the number of our | Afternoon—10 and 25c SRR Ha Pecond Hade own Muses. ‘One would like to have Lowell's name Evenings—25 and 50c 1¥ Matn Street and Fourth |associated with this new-found planet as Levier- 4 irier's was at first with Neptune, but many have broken their winter chains, and the buds on other i Prompt Service, Day‘ and Night trees are beginning to swell CovicH AuTo SERVICE Open Evenings Reading Room Open From THE CASH BAZAAR ] 4 e Opposite U. 8. Cable Office i The advent of new industrial life and the re-ientered into the labors—instrument makers, mathe- A8 . S0 0B STAND AT THE OLYMPIC R Ppo y juvenation of Nature's growing things, is reflected |maticians since the time of Euclid, numberless JUNEAU AMUSE- Circulation Room Open from Phone 342 Day or Night Tnere is no reason ! in humankind. To it comes a revival of spirit, a watchers of the skies, photographers and others— 1 to 5:30 p. m.—7:00 to 8:30 50c AnyWhere in Cit to buy bread by the il blossoming of hope, and re-kindling of determiha- that have at last been rewarded by sight of this MENT CO. p. m. Current Magazines, o dhpder e B y kit - or - miss, some- (f tion, which elevates and restores man both spirit- {new faint luminary. If another Olympian name 14, Newspapers, Reference, times-it’s-good - and- al ually and physically. lis to bet gx\;m why 1“0‘ i"'fi‘e”fl*[’l‘fdl’“;"“ “lllat A. B. Hall Books, Ete. o —_— ‘——" sometimes - it - isn’t 1 < sprang to human view full panoplied from the 1 lan. Remember the 5 A {mind of man? N — S TOTAl Try Our $1.00 Dinner I f,ame of our bread 3 1 TARIFF BILL CHRONOLOGY. | Vs oo e g s 3 and 50c Merchants’ Lunch and it will insure can advertise 4 e P e O ¥ ?‘_—-————G 2P M : g H When the Senate completed its revision recently | Future of the Pacific Coast Iron and Steel GARB 4GF it “REIG‘)‘E‘ CAFE you perfect satis- Q ’tOfit.bly"' « A of the tariff bill, that measure had been in the | Industry. If you want superior A faction. 4 ) hands of that body for nine months and 22 days. | It has been the center of arduous debate, the sub- ASK FOR PEERLESS HOT CROSS BUNS Peerless (Engineering and Mining Journal.) ! HA ULING : A The purchase of the plants of the Columbia o ject of much work during the sessions of six|g .cM% PACISe Of e plabie e o e ___LOT CLEANING months and 18 days. This is the longest time any |poration marks the first decisive step of any major | WOLLAND THE TAILOR tariff legislation has occupied in the Senate for 40 |steel company in acquiring manufacturing facilities | Will take orders and re- work call CAPITAL LAUNDRY Phone 355 Mabry’s Cafe 8 —_— years. in the Pacific Coast region. In a marketing sense, ceive payments — & Regular Dinners Baker % § he bill has been before either one of the two|some of the larger companies have had represen- | Chester Barnesson y s ' branches of Congress in two regular and one extra |tatives in the Pacific Cotst. region for many years. R o HARRIS Hardware Short Orders | ———— i1 sessions. The House Ways a Means Committee |Other interests have made intensive studies of the AR Qi § 4 o O R S ey s B 5 SRR BT~ 5 - SRE - The House WigTn. a0t Msis |facilities for the establishment of an iron and steel Benson & Simonarson Company Lunches g began hearings on it on January 7, 1929, conclud- i PHONE 66 FOR GOOD 2 3 ¥ 5 Ea s sl SHe¥ industry in the West, but plans have not material- % o Now located next Open 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. A “ % ing them on February 27. After the Congress recon- lized 4 SRR POPULAR PRICES C]eamng and Pres_smg b vened in extra sesion on April 15, drafting of the| 7Ty, companies, Columbia Steel: and - Pacific — ’ CONNORS CALL 371 - - 4 {nm:urv was n“\m‘:;wl‘ x;ndl lh:; bll‘lvu\\‘:sall:HX'r;i:;‘:i:f:,‘(:|sllb‘.;t(vn~1; both t]gml vonturoi.3 are the pr\ncn!;l, Old papers ws. saie at The Em- RAGE HARRY MABRY Work called .Ior and delivered s ¢ f‘Q‘»‘ in the Housc on May 7, by the Ways and {manufacturers in the region. By a careful study| e ! Proprietor The Capital Cleaners GET A CORONA ] i Committee. 1t took just three weeks for the House |of near-by markets they were enabled to develop | — & For Your School Work | | to dispose of it |products that found a ready sale, so business grew. et It made its appearance in the Senate on May|In the specialty field, a branch of the American | e —— || J.B.Burford& Co. | Our trucks go any place any “Our door sup is worn by | ' time. A tank for Dier2l Oil satisfied customers” % | | and a tank for crude oil save | |z | burner trouble, - { PHONE 149, NIGHT 5103 - % RELIABLE TRANSFER JUNEAU TRANSFER Manganese Steel Company established itself on a firm basis and is now extending its marketing area. Still smaller establishments, such as those engaged | OR |in the manufacture of hard-surfacing alloys, found | July 22, Republican members of the committee began |in the requirements of the petroleum companies a redrafting the measure, and on September 4, the re- |profitable outlet for their products. | drafted document was reported to the Senate. Thef The advent of United States Steel in the Pacific debate began eight days later and continued untii|Coast region, as a manufacturer as well as pur- November 22, when the extra session adojurned, |YeYor of basic jron and steel products, must mean 29 when it was referred to the Finance Committee, before which hearings were started on June 13. On July 18, the committee concluded its hearings. VICTOR Radios and Combination Radio-Phonographs RECORDS SHEET MUSIC An Investment That Does Not Fluctuate In Value----- A SAVINGS ACCOUNT COMPANY 5 retyrn on every dollar added to his account. WORK CO. Front Street, next to Warner Machine Shop 1 Ninth, back of power house. CABINET and 4-2 Calhoun, opp. Seaview Apta. 4-3 Distin Ave., and Indian N o Rt A T GENERAL CARPE || 4-6 Seventh and Main. Work NTER| |13 Tweitin 5. b A wrsgs. || BURFORD'S CORNER HOTEL ZYNDA 4 ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. Fifth and Gold. R - N1 TP It may be to President Hoover's credit that he OUR TREES WELL SUPPLIED. can't lead Congress. We see no particular honor in leading that outfit.—(Atchikan, Kan., Globe.) 6 7 Fifth 4nd East. 8 Seventh and Gold. 9 Fifth and Kennedy. 5 Trees, says the United States Department of Agriculture, need enormous quantities of water. An The fires in the White House and the Capitol apple tree 30 years old gives off approximately & |suggest that more light and less heat is the need ¥ barrel of water a day in the summer, and a good- |of the hour in Washington.—(Milwaukee Journal.) sized birch tree gives off nearly two barrels every 24 hours in unsually hot weather. A single oak tree Even if family albums did come back in style, is known to have given off into the air in the form |Where would you put them with all these ash Srnedgpiimadind e e« |an acceleration in the expansion of this activity. || B On December 2, the regular session of Congress| iy & Feton 1 00 exbansion of this activity. i UNEAU MELODY FIRE ALARM CALLS ] convened and the Senate immediately resumed its | rocilities for the manufacture of pig. i 1 J ; § v £ g iron remains |fj 1-3 Thrd and Franklin, ; consideration of the measure. On March 22, it 0Om- |t be seen, but one hopes that it will. Additional || HOUSE 13 Zhad ond Bokitn, pleted the revision and adjourned until March 24.|mining of iron ore will be helpful. It will make i There are no “depressions” in the in- 1-5 Front, near Ferry ’;'m 3 Observers predict that it will require another | more valuable those deposits now accessible to trans- i vestment values- of savings account ity s gl Apu. month for the Senate and House conferees to reach | Portation. i - Yaluconie s o e ————— a1 177 Pront, opp, City Whart, an agreement on differences in the schedules, as f The account does not fluctuate with The Florence Sho 1-8 Front, near Saw Ml i Champagne crop this year is 80,000,000 bottles; || : 15 &l p d W S those passed by the Senate vary in a large number and how can we expect bonedry to Bucceed When ! business. Over a period of time the “Naivette” Croguignole Perm- 1-8 Front at A. J. Office. \ § of instances from the ones sent to it by the House. |, 0% FC8 Tktley' to bisy evary B8 of thmii E : anent Wave 2-1 Willoughby at Totem Gro. Moves, Packs and Stores o i The general tariff bills of the last 40 Vears|potiess (St Louls Globe-Derocrat) I income return is equal to that of most BEAUTY SPECIALISTS 23 :lilloushby. opp. Cash Cole's Freight and Baggage were before the Senate for the following periods i high grade stocks and bonds. The man { | POOhe 3T for ARDERIIMD P riderd L g Prompt Dellvery of McKinley bill, 1890—June 18-Sept. 20 Let’s hope Mr. Morrow doesn't introduce the |} who regularly invests part of his earn- 2-5 Front and Main. ALL DS OF COAL i Wilson-Gorman bill, 1894—Feb. 2-March 20. Mexican style of voting in the Senate—(Dayton, [} Suary 28 oo0nd and SiC 4§ Dingley bill, 1897—May 4-July 7. Ohio, News.) I ings in a savings account is assured 2-7 Fifth and Seward. PHONE 48 : Payne-Aldrich bill, 1908—July 8-Aug. 5. i o s 01,32, 2-9 Fire i Un’dl:'wuo(;-‘Sm\muns bill, 1913—July 11-Sept. 9 General Pershing has declined to be a Senator, f that he is building an estate of the JUNEAU CABINET 3- ZGnstll:::lu and Rawn Way. B ¢ 3 e Doyl y i he having seen something of the devastating ef-|[} greaest security with a sure investment 3-4 ond i § Fordney-McCunber bill, 1922—April 11-Aug. 10. | JorTE, SR SOMECN O e s E y and DETAIL MILL. $4 Bewna et Gl ¢ & 3 3- 34 3-4 4- The B. M. Behrends Bank e ] T e i 4-8 Twelfth and Willoughby. of vapor more than 100 tons of water in a single |Fays?—(Dayton, Ohio, News.) GLASS REPLACED 59+ A : TAXI SERVICE 5-1 Seater Tract. BTOWIDg SeAsO ot failed fo giVe any data on| ¥OU %€ You can't enforce Prohibition, and if Oldéet Bask i Alaske IN AUTOS - gnomt:] 314 o bt A 5 4 » you do enforce it, it's a massacre.—(Dallas News.) 3 bs i Betle spruce and hemlock trees, the varietfes most common o mAssacre.s-(INElD Hewk Estimates Furnished Upon gn’ Wh Candy f 5 in Southeastern Alaska. However, no matter how Personally we favor the long skirt, if it's short Request 2 Old papers at The lmplu of. v I E great their yield may bé, we doubt if there is ever | enough — (Dallas News.) 8 e 5 $s - Old - papers for sale at