The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-07
JUNEAU IS ENJOYING A STEADY
 INCREASE IN BUSINESS
More Evidemce of Ne1v ]umeam Spirit that
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Everybody feels confident in the future of Juneau. We haven't found a single pessimist in the crowd. Gloom has packed his grips and got out of this section for sure.
 Even the weather man is loosen ing up with the sunshine.
 Now that times are better. let us loosen up our purse strings and give the town a coat of paint.
 Let's Get Busy.
 A prosperous individual, if he is the progressive sort, will wear nea; clothes and clean collars; pros porous city should appear like the individual.
 Let us tear down some of the un- slightly shacks around the waterfront and other parts of the city that are doing no more than taking up space that could be used for better pur poses The City Council is setting { good example. It is beginning on the streets We need a little fresh paint. Look around at the dull col ored houses Painting is not an ex pense in the long run; it is economy and does so much to improve the appearance of the whole city. If every one does his share, we shall all enjoy the results
 A Juneau Need
 Juneau would be benefited by some modern apartment houses More people have inquired fer apart ments
 "Lockv" McKinnon, the manqge, of the Zynda Hotel, says We have more customers than rooms. The Zynda is full to the roof, and still they keep coming. The country is looking good Of course, we have shortage of labor but that is a pretty good sign. No one need be out of work now days. There is plenty work for every one who wants to come up here, but I strongly advocate better steamship ser vice. There are too few boats on the run"
 What the "StroIer" Thinks.
 The Stroller crept into this coi umn or rather he mailed the follow ing letter:
 To Miss Juneau: (From E. J. White). While others fatter you and splatter you, your uncle, if you will caressingly repose your head upon his shoulder. will gently impart to you a few things you should know In tho first Ila c, -oo mucl. taffy is injurious to the system when not al ternated with castor oil. Now listen. You are all right in many respects and all ont of gear in others. While rays from the sun of prosperity arc beaming refulgently upon you. while your streets and sidewalks are heinz made new in many places and while you are promenading arm in arm with municipal progress, there is q gh est in the offing That ghost luik ks in the many untenanted, unsanitary and unsightly old structures that
  parts of your otherwise attractive landscape These are relics of by gone days. Many of them have been unoccupied for years and will never again Dc utilized. Why do you per init them to exist-warts on your oth- erwise beautiful countenancc, festers on your placid features and eyesores on physiognomy? You are to be congratulated on your progress along certoin lines but until these grcwscme old shacks are wiped from your sur face, you will rank as shack town. Profit by what Brick" Pomroy once said of Lacrosse, Wisconsin. There are too many Queen Anne frcnts and Mary Ann behinds in this town" Do you get me? Then please remove your head as that shoulder is be- coming weary.