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The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-20
sINcLAlR.McLEAN.

George W. Sinclair, of the Union Iron Works and Miss Grace Mclean of Vancouver. B. C., were married in the latter city on November g, ac- cordlng to announcements received in Juneau. They will arrive soon from their wedding trip.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-20

Mir. and Mrs. E. c. Russell. and Mrs. B. Stoei of Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Russell's mother. will arrive tomor- row night from Seattle. Mrs Stoel will visit here for several weeks.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-20

Come and see the beautiful and use- ful Christmas gifts In "Pyralin Ivory" on display at Winnie Prescription Pharmacy - "The Store Around the Corner"-11s 2d St.. phone 9 (11-2o-tf
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-20

And the qualified electors of each addition or territory above described arc hereby Invited to vote for or against the annexation of the partlc- ular territory of which they are cleo tors. at the time and place above men. tioned
 The council hereby appoints and designates the following as clerks and judges of election for the electors of the incorporate limits: Allen Shat tuck and A. A. Gabbs, clerks, and Claude Erickson, Lloyd Hill and Capt. .. T. Martin. as judges.
 The council hereby appoints and designates the following as clerks and judges of election for the electors of the Gold Belt-seatue Addition: J. Lat inner Gray. Clerk, and Jack Welsh, J. Latimer Gray and George Quinge, as judges.
 The council hereby appoints and designates the following as clerks and judges of election for the electors of the Nelson Addition. Ernest Fash elk. as clerk. and Fl. Hurlbut, Ernest Tashek and W. c. Burlington, as judg. es.
 The council hereby appoints and deslgnates the following as clerks and judge of election for the electors of the Tide Flat Addition: Jack Mc- Donald. clerk, and M. M. Taylor, Jack Mcdonald and J. Fahey, as judges.
 The qualifications of an elector of said election shall be as follows: Flo or she shall be male or female per son of the age of twenty-one years or more and shall be the owner of sub- stantial property interests in land, buildings, or Improvements on land or tide land within said corporation or the territory proposed to be an- nexed to or incorporated within such corporation.
 Dated at Juneau this 18th day oi November. 1915.
 COMMON COUNCIL OF THE
 TOWN or JUNEAU
 By p. ". Petit, Town Clerk
 First publication, Nov 20, 1915.
 Last publication Dec. -, 1915.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-20
DANCE TONIGHT.
Turner Hall Gentlemen, si.oo - Ladlss Free

Get your Thanksgiving record now, VIC have them for Victor. Columbia, and Edison photographs. Juneau Music House 1t
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-06

almost amount to graft. Executive
budget-making, concentrating power and
responsibility, is bound to deter extrava-
gance and wipe out the indefensible favors
to localities which the present system fos-
ters. No Governor. knowing what an i'm
portant part in his own political career the
establishment of record for economy
must play, is going to have a needlessly big
total of expenditures if he can help it-and
he could help it if he made up the budget.
Mr. Stimson's proposal in theory and in
merits stands right alongside of the short
ballot plan. The Governor is for practical
purposes, and is held by the people to be, the
administration. 1t is only fair to him to
give him powers which will permit him to
be, so well as his ability and advisers can
bring it about, that which his Office and the
people demand.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-06
An Admirable Letter"
litor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: There must be many readers Of that
popular magazine" referred TO in the ad-
mrable letter of Mr., Talcott who feel as he
does-justly resentful.
Surely the critical point now reached by
the affairs Of this country requires calm,
impartial stand TO be taken by the press
rather than the useless, infammatory one on
which Mr.. Roosevelt so evidently prides him
self
There is much in the article under discus
sion that makes one long for a more rigid
censorship of the press. Surely there is
more harm in one such fervid denunciation
of the present policy of the United States
than in the general suppression of much of
public opinion.
Any American who fails to realize at the
present moment that loyalty in thought and
action to Mr.. Wilson is his highest duty is
unworthy of the whoieheartedness with which
our President is throwing himself into the
solution of our difficulties.
LOYAL TO WILSON
Aug. 4, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-06
To Help French Soldiers.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | wonder if you would kindly pub
lish this letter to ask the splenddly gener-
Gus American public if they would help US
in work that we began in very small
way, entirely personal, and which we find
now would develop if only we had the means.
1t is to help those brave and valiant French
soldiers at the front who come from the
invaded provinces of the north and east Of
France and who since the end of August,
1914, have had no news of their mothers,
wives and children, and who daily go
through the agony of seeing their more
fortunate comrades receive letters and par
cells from their dear ones.
We try TO help them morally as we'll as
materially by writing them and sending them
parcels containing shirts, drawers, socks,
handkerchIefs, towels, soap. tobacco pipes,
pouches, chocolate and various canned
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-06
COLONEL RoosEvELTS ADVICE
A Number of Things Differentiate
It from Bernhardi's.
ro tho Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Echoes in one ear, at least, as the un-
pleasant repetition of the hateful doctrines
of Bernhard, Treitschke and the other
prophets of miltarism." This is part of the
heading of letter by Norman Talcott in
to-day's Tribune. That which echoes" is
Colonel Roosevelt's advice to Americans"
In the first place, the appeal Of Bernhard
was to a people vastly different from those
addressed by Colonel Roosevelt; aside from
other differences that are perfectly obvious,
the contrast in this respect between a democ-
racy like this country and what is practi-
caly an absolute monarchy like Germany,
speaks for itself; it is impossible that the
effect upon the people here could be the same
as in Germany In the second place, there
is a difference just as obvious and just as
great between the motive of the so-called
"militarism" of Colonel Roosevelt and the in
herited, instructive, traditional miltarism of
the prophets of mght-is-right of Germany:
the former, however, positively stated, Isl
purely defensive in its object and spirit the
Pruscan type is frankly, rankly, blatantlyi
offensive
Ir Germany militarism is a disease; here
it would be an anti-toxn-and even while
using it here we should hate the cure only
less than the ill., We must believe in mill
tary preparedness or in unpreparedness;
what compromise would Mr.. Talcott suggest?
In the face of the most tremendous and
momentous and tragic moment that the civil
liZec world has ever known, what equivalent
has Mr.. Talcott to propose (more efficacious
than throwing paper balls at cyclone" as
a writer to The Tribune said some time ago.
for Colonel Roosevelt's plan, that Mr.. Tai
colt so "exhaustively" condemns?
We all know what Colonel Roosevelt
stands for and proposes in this connection
we always know what he stands for-but as
to Mr.. Talcott's plan (other than keeping
quiet, and forwarding the German
revolutionary movement, which is bound to-
come" whatever that may mean | am still
in the dark, even after reading his column
in The Tribune. We Enquire to know" Mr..
Talcott suggests that if he "were in Ger
mary to-day" he would be doing his
best "to bring upon that bloodthirsty old
humbug the fate he and his so richly de-
serve In this laudable ambition
one might believe that Mr.. Talcott and
Colonel Roosevelt would be quite in accord
bat ! should be inclined to suppose that
quite some" military preparedness would be
required for such an undertaking at this
particular time, and the chances for success
would be about that of the famous "celluloid
dog chasing an "asbestos cat" through the
lower regions. However, if were betting
man ! should put my STAKES on the Colonel
Mr.. Talcott presents point of view; it'll
is interesting to a certain extent, but don't
see the point" ". II. WATTS.
Haledon, N. j., Aug 4, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-06
A Happy Ending.
Germany,

The workers, the manufacturers and
the community at large ought to be sim
cerely thankful that the garment trade
difficulties have been settled without a
disastrous strike. Much hardship has been
averted at a time when hardship to work
ers comes without counting. Business
stability has been preserved at a time
when increase of business, rather than its
limitation, is to be sought. The principle
of cooperation between employer and
employe, rather than that of sinister class
conflict, has once more been upheld
through an arbitration which in its results
gives promise of distinct hetterments for
both classes.
For this the Mayors Council of Con-
citation is largely responsible, though
nothing so desirable could have come
about without a sincere and earnest de-
sire on the part of the Employers Asso-
citation and the union representatives 20
see facts, even when they favored the
other side of the controversy. That spirit
ought to be of material aid in interpreting
and enforcing the agreement which sue
ceeds the protocol. 1t is not to be expected
that there will not be differences of inter-
probation of the agreements terms during
its two years of life, such as those which
caused the employers, after accepting 1t,
to postpone signing the agreement until
definite assurances had been given by the
Mayors Council of Cancellation that no in
terpretations save those of the council and
those resulting from procedure set down
in the agreement need be considered. Both
the employers and the workers, in accept
ing the protocol, fancied they were getting
more than they actually got when the pro-
tocol was put into practical operation.
The important phase of this question
now is that, after that mutual disappoint-
ment, after the engendering of bitterness
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-06
From a Grateful Sufferer.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Please allow me through the columns
of your paper to express my heartfelt thanks
to Mr.. Norman Talcott for his most able and
eloquent letter of the 23d ultimo. 1t is the
most sensible piece of logical reasoning that
has come to my attention for a long time in
this war-crazed world By the strength of
his augmentation he has struck a chord the
deeper in my heart, as | stand before you
sir, a direct victim of feudal Kaisersm
greedy Greyism, bloody Czarism and nation
alistic capitalism, a wretched companion to
many millions more of unfortunate martyrs
enchanted to prehistoric philosophy and
biology.
1t is only yesterday that ! received short
note from my old parents, composed to the
roars of the fire-spitting cannon and amid
the cries of agonizing mankind, and bearing
the cruel message that our old homestead is
no more, having been shot to atoms over
their fearstrcken heads Fifty years of hard
honest labor blown to the four winds, sacri-
feed upon the blood-soaked altar of Mars
and Moloch, the eternal twn-demons of hu-
manity. What for, and why?
May those responsible for this curse upon
mankind soon be delivered from their selfish,
national blindness, victims and tools as tn ey
are themselves Of their times and may God
forgive them. If lie can, for their unpardon.
able acts? DR.. j. II. II.
New York, Aug. 4, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-06
German Love of Truth.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: have read the letter of Walter
Schmidt with the greatest interest. 1t is so
spendidly typical of the average Germans
sacred regard for the truth. 1t is redolent
with the same magnificent condescension
which characterized the recent note from
Berlin, which nauseated in its attempts to be
caloric.
Doubtless the kindly Mr.. Schmidt would as
sure US that if we have any trouble or dis
pute with the imperial government the impe-
rial government would extend to us condi-
tons making possible an honorable peace
1t must be remembered that the German
definition of honor differs from that of civil
ization, just as the modern idea of sudden
death" differs from julius Caesars.
The unceasng attempts OF Germany to
disseminate propaganda through just such
channels as the kindly Mr.. Schmidt cannot
affect a nation which is almost beginning to
realize what the potential dangers of Ger
many's honorable projects are.
ELMENDORF LESTER CARR.
New York, Aug. 3, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-06
Strained Home Rule.

The quality of home rule which would
be given to cities by the plan of the Con-
stitutional Conventions committee Is not,
like mercy. unstrained. Legislatures would
still plav an important part in city gov
eminent. both by the fact that they
would have the veto power over charters
adopted by the cities and approved by the
voters and that they would be able to
enact general laws governing municipal
activities of all communities. Government
of New York City by Albany, therefore,
would by no means be ended by the pro
posed plan put forth by Mr.. Lows COM
mittee.
Nevertheless, this plan offers promise
of practical advance in the handling of
city affairs over conditions now existing.
The metropolis, under it, would have no
hordes of schooteachers, court clerks
and other department employees lobbying
at Albany for salary raises or civil service
preferences. These matters of appoint
ment, advancement and compensation
would rest entirely with the municipal
authorities, on whom would rest also the
responsibility for the size of the budget,
including their pay City officials could not
be handicapped by special laws obtained
from an Uniformed Legislature to serve
political or individual ends.
In other words, this plan has its merits
and its demerits, just as it is bound to
have its advocates and its adversares by
the hundreds. "Home rule" is so indefinite,
so selastic, term that anything definite
put forth in its name cannot help arous-
ing controversy among the fifty-seven
varieties Of home rulers. The Low pro-
posal is not likely to arouse any wild en-
thusiasm. but at least, if adopted by the
convention, it will be likely to be half a
step onward.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-06
The Courthouse Scheme.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: What realty men and brokers pushed
the new Courthouse scheme? There have
been several articles published supposed
ly Judging by the captions of the articles,
among them, Realty Men Fight Court Site
Plan" "Take Action to Stop Proceedings to
Acquire More Land for Building" assert
City Has Title") by brokers and realty men
aforesaid, and the guilty ones among them,
whoever they may be, seem to have repented
of their efforts one and two years ago to
launch and infict upon this almost depleted
treasury" city this "roundhouse" for the
rounding Up of those who have not
only claimed the assistance of the maj
esty of the law, pro and con, but also the
rounding out of luxurious, splendid and cost
ly accommodations for those who dispense
law and equity (and sometimes injustice)
and likewise accommodations for the legal
fraternity, who are supposed to help or assist
the solons in their decisions.
The project and the erection of the ia
nous old Tweed Courthouse, very fresh in
the recollection of the writer, for he was a
voter and taxpayer in those days land be-
fore), was dubbed an extravaganza although
an honest building was needed at that time) !;
but all that famous extravaganza, including
the graft to Tweed and his associates, was as
nothing compared to the extravaganza and
waste of the public money (of which the city
at the present time has too little) proposed
by, engineered by, and, up to the present
time, pushed through by, the fathers, not of
Israel, but those of the city of Manhattan
and its constituent boroughs
Do they suppose that the long suffering
taxpayers will assent to and put up with
this last extravaganza by the party in power ?
Who were the brokers in this imposition
upon the city?
EDWIN BARRY WILCOX, NJ. f.
New York, Aug. 3, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-06
An Executive Budget.

The plan for state budget prepared by
the Governor which Mr.. Stmson's commit
tee has Just presented to the Constitutional
Convention is a bit of work of genuine i'm
portance. IT is the more noteworthy be-
cause it is praiseworthy, which many of
the plans and changes hitherto discussed
by this convention have not been.
This plan transfers chief responsibility
for administration of the states finances
from the Legislature, where IT does not be-
long, to the Executive, where it does.
Under the proposed system the Governor,
having studied and revised department
estimates of needed funds would prepare
budget and submit it TO the Legislature.
That body might reject or reduce items, but
might not increase them. With this pro-
posed budget would 90 to the Legislature
financial statement from the Governor
showing the condition of the states funds
and giving an estimate of its revenues for
the ensuing fiscal year. Having passed the
budget, the Legislature might initiate and
pass other appropriation bills, each per-
tanning to only one subject, and all, Of
course, subject to the Governors veto.
Thus the Governor, who would make the
budget and who would have the last word
to say about other appropriations, would
have adequate power over public expendi-
lures, whereas now, though having to bear
responsibility for an overloaded appropria-
ton bill, he can stop such overlooking only
by extra-legal dickering or violent vetoing
of items which might at times produce al
most as much harm as good.
Legislative budget-making begets eX-
trayagance. inefiicency pork bills" which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-06

things trying to vary the parcels as much as
possible.
Now there is the prospect of another WIN
ter campaign and woolen things Will De
rare and expensive. Any help in these, as
well as in financial way, would be most
gratefully received. Think Of the mothers
and wives for these long months without any
news of their sons and husbands, who they
know are in the fighting line.
We know by the letters we receive from
our soldiers what a great moral support 1t
is to them to know that some one thinks OF
them and is willing to help them through
this trying time. Anything sent to Mrs.
Henry Brokman, care Messrs Morgan, Harjes
& Co., 81 Boulevard Haussmann, Paris,
France, would be promptly acknowledged.
Paris, July %, 1915. S. L. BROKMAN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-06
The German Note.

In the matter of the latest German note,
that discussing the Frye case, The Tribune
can only repeat what it said of the Leela-
nav case. The difference between the
Germans and our own government affects
only property under treaty rights. To set
tie this difference the Germans now pro-
pose two courses, both wholly reasonable
and honorable. 1t is matter of no con-
sequence whether we and the Germans
settle our dispute by reference to experts
Of our respective natiOnalities or go to The
Hague One of the two courses our gov
eminent should adopt, and doubtless will.
We shall settle all disputes growing out
of treaty and property rights with Great
Britain by arbitration. We should SINH
larly dispose of questions of the same
character with Germany. Germany's sug-
gestion to this effect is proper, is friendly
act and can provoke no criticism, rather
it should invite general approval.
The only question that no nation can
leave to arbitration is one which affects
its honor or the lives of its citizens. No
such question is raised either in the Frye
or the Leelanaw cases and they may there
fore be left to diplomacy and arbitration.
Such differences of opinion as are involved
are inevitable in war. They do not grow
out of wanton disregard of American
rights and cannot affect our relations with
Germany.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-06

sacrificed all of her moral assets by invad-
ing Belgium has been lost.
There is a God in Israel after all. This,
and this beyond all else, is the CONVICTION
that must rise in mems minds on this ami
versary. All the things that men have De-
lieved, trusted. reverenced in the years
and the centuries that have gone before,
are not empty superstitions, vain hopes
They are not deadwood that Prussian eff
cheney can sweep into the fire. Right is
right, even though the Kaiser send 3,OOO,-
900 men armed with 42-centimetre guns
and sustained in the air by hosts of Yep
pelins to disprove it.
Carlyle is fond of repeating the story
of the long years in which the Duke OF
Weimar steadily refused to accept Napo-
leonism, although the thing rose and filled
Europe and there seemed no limit to its
power. at cannot last" he insisted, 1T is
not just" And it did not last.
After a year of war, after 4,OOO,OOO
Germans have been killed, wounded and
captured, after the advance to Paris has
faded to the retreat to the Aisne, after
ten months when the western battle line
Of the Germans has not moved forward an
inch from the place to which it was flung
back one month after the first shots under
the walls of Liege, one thing is certain.
From the Belgian venture there was no
profit, there was no military gain, there
was nothing to offset in material profit the
moral loss to Germany.
But even the German aspect is less in
teresting than the main fact. We were all
of us most vitality concerned in seeing and
knowing that the appeal to barbarism
ended in defeat. Appeal to massacre and
terror, the translation to the sanctuaries
Of old civilization of the code of the red
Indian, this must fail, or all was wrong in
the world. All that we love, believe, hope
for in spiritual things was placed in jeop-
ardy year ago. when the first waves of
the flood Tapped against the walls of Liege
and Fort Fleron took up the challenge for
mankind. After year we see the safety
of most of these things assured. 1t is pos
sible now to believe that it is not only dis
honorable, but Improbable to lie, to cheat,
to break faith, to abolish pledges. 1t is
possible to believe now that even though
numbers are with you and by murder and
flames you seek to terrify the few who
face you, the victory may yet escape you.
Since time began there never was a
more wholesome lesson than that written
in the six weeks that lay between the open
ing shots of Liege and the closing guns of
the Marine. And in all the years to come
will not many millions of men and women
believe that the answer to the challenge
of the Kaiser, the insolent challenge Of the
man who commanded the hosts of people
in arms, was the answer which since the
beginning has come not alone, not chiefly
from man, the answer without which faith
would go out of life?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-06
Mr.. Talcott's Gall"

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: At last we have heard in to-day's
Tribune from that great man % Norman
Tacott, who hsles from Greenwich, Conn.
Cannot persons like him get wise to the fact
that this country will be prepared and armed
to protect our citizens and to resist invasion
of any foreign power? And he has the auda-
cious gall to criticise our great American
{ God bless HIM Theodore Roosevelt,
EDWARD B. MONTAGUE.
New York, Aug. 4, 1915.