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The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01
WHY NOT JUNEAUg

TACOMA, Saturday, Jan. 25.-Thomas
 Riggs IT,, Governor of Alaska, spent Satur-
 day in Tacoma, his old home town He was
 rendered a banquet and reception at the
 Commercial Club at and this evening
 will be the honor guest at the Union Club
 The Governor leaves Sunday for Sitka Alas
 ka, on the steamer Alameda. - Seattle
 Times
 That was an all right way to treat former Ia conan, particularly when the former Tacoman so honored was other than our own Gov Riggs but why that stuff about his going to Sitka? Did the Times man think Sitka is the capital of Alas ka! Sitka is fine town, and it is worth anyone S "hhe 10 go and see it-a lot more people ought to go there and stay and share the city's prosperity but, by gum, she ant the capital of Alaska
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cat out of man. The second drink puts him in the strong ward Of a hospital. You can buy this juice of Vesuvius anywhere, but a wise man will visit an undertaken and get measured for a long black box with silver handles before he takes drink.
 AW, GWan! "Of course my steps are rather neat" The dancing master said; But, were I not light on my feet, l might light on my head
 Names Is Names Pink Rose lives at Central City, Ky.
 Our Daily Special The Best Vice Preventative Is Printers Ink
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Bone Dry Ljcker

An editor who lives in Albany Ca, tells us that the brand of moon
 shine made and sold in his section of that State is as clear and harm less looking as spring water. But
 says he, the stuff is concentrated hell-fire. It is brewed in coffee pots and lard cans and is made from cay enne pepper. barley tobacco. con centrated lye and carbolic acid. A drink of this stuff will burn the skin off your mouth. eat off the end of your tongue, and is guaranteed to give you convulsions in fifteen min, utes. The first drink makes . wild
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

Boo, Hoo! Dear Luke McLuke: I've never sent To you song Of sentiment, But if you're not A hardened snob, I know this one Will make you sob.
 -(J. w. Pyne.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

What has become of the old-fash- toned tightwad who used to get mad when his wife filled her camphor bottle from his whiskey jug?
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

wishes and the will of majority, and to persuade the minority to acquesce in the will of the ma jority.
 And if time is necessary for the reconstruction of Germany where the means of intercommuEicatoin are reasonably complete, it is greatly more so in Russia, that country of magnificent distances where thought slowly almost a glacier. Days, months and years not unlikely tc have to pass before Russian acquireself consciousness and achieve a national soul.
 Nor is there any of our trying to speed up the machinery of .the conference of peace. There will be many theories of the reconstituton of the world offered there So complex the problems to be resolved that it would as if eternity itself would haroly be too long for their discussion
 is period Of perturbation, of mental unrest of fear
 Bu, "time will tring summer, wher brers shall have leaves as well thorns and be sweet as (now they're) sharp"
 Upon the heat and flame of distemper must sprinkle cool patience
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

There but 0,000 of imported champagne remaining in the United States. That being about eighth of teaspoonfuI per capital, somebody may pass per capita along to somebody else who is making collection big enough to get gup.-(Hous- ton Post.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

It has just about got so in this country that the popular idea of light housekeeping is to rent sleep ing porch near a boarding house.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

years. But the girl who has that kind of a shape is going to wear that kind of clothes.
 If the girl has dimples, do not frisk your mind for new story. Tell her any old joke and she will laugh.
 Once in while a darn fool thinks that he can get rid of his steno- grapher by marrying her, and tries it.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

But isn't Mr. Bryans indorsement of President Wilson's trip to Europe bit suggestive painting the lily and gliding refined goId?-( (Anasonda Stand ard)
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

Those famars of newspaper readers of generation or ago, "pomp and circumstance,' are serving in descriptions of the royal welcome given Mr. Wilson abroad "Beggars description" may reappear at any moment.-( Chicago News)
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01
Ouch

That boy of mine will be in Con gress some day" bragged MT. New pop.
 Poor kid" sympathized MT. Roun- der. "To look at him you'd think he was as bright as other children, wouldn't you?"
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

The dead hand" of German imperialism appears in the spread of Bolshevism to South America Though it may have by way of Russia the propaganda to all intents and purposes crossed the Atlantii in U-boat-(New York World)
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01
The Wise Fool

"Woman is holding her own these days" observed the Sage. "You are not talking about her tongue. are you?' asked the Fool.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

Up to date nobody has heard Gen. Pershing mak- ing speech accepting the nomination for the Pres dency,
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1!

Every day will be Sunday after a while" bragged the Prohibition ist.
 Maybe" growled the Rounder. But it won't put any more money in the collection basket"
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The way prunes have scared in price. there be demand for them and yet nobody admitted liking prunes. It must be of the secret vices. -( Detroit News)
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

If you haven't done it yet there is still time for you to investigate some of those Dollar Day One Dollar Bargain-and get very fine extra val ues for your dollars.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

Somehow I just cant get enthusiastic over those postwar patriots who now consecratng their lives to the search for scandals in our War and Navy Departments.-(New York Telegraph.)
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Turkey for a generation the sick man of Eu- rope; Russia is now it's blind giant.-(New York Word)
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of

Of! What is your favorite hymn, broth err" asked the Preacher "My favorite hymn is Tn This Wheat, Buy and Buy" replied the Grain Specualtor
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01
No Joke

The wife's the boss in every way, The husbands a poor pill; The husband has to say, "I may"
 The wife can say. "I will!"
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act

Who talks too much will get in bad"
 Observed Old Oswald Feest; And you are saying most. my lad,
 When you are saying least"
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Bless Her Heart

We hope that the man who marries her will never have to call Virginia B. Still, of Cincinnati, by her maid en name.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

We thought he was working TOT the California Fruit Growers Asso- citation but we learn that Orange Lemon is employed by the Acme Fishing Tool Company, at Parkers- burg, w. Va.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01
E. c. GUERIN RETURNS

E. c. Guerin of the Land Office Staff returned to Juneau this week and is registered at the Zynda Ho- tel.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

Have you invested in Dollar Day bargain? Dollar Day"
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

Most of us might we'll go into training fol learning how to drink lemonade.-( Baltimore Sun
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01
Is That So!

Is That So! Dear Luke: Would you call the sayings of frugal pugilist his Scrap Pile?-F. B3
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Health Hints

Health Hints If it's sick the flue has made you, And you're feelin' kind O queer; Just get little lemon, Let the lemonade you, dear.
 -Huke McLuke.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

As a general thing a woman has to be about 80 years old before she realizes that no fancy waist is worth SIS.
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And if that is slow in action, And your weakness lasts too long Munch some garlic and an onion And your friends will call you strong.
 -(Houston Post)
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Tips from Texas

Oallas News)
 One of the strangest things in this world is how little time the cleaner and presser seems to have for iron ing his own trousers.
 Our observation is that the kind of man who spends his money before he gets it doesn't take much interest in the Federal Reserve Banking sys- tenn.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01
BITS OF BY- PLAY Dy Luke kcLuke
 -:- Copyright by Cincinnati
 Enquirer
Gosh !!

Gosh! We thought he was working TOT the California Fruit Growers Asso- citation but we learn that Orange Lemon is employed by the Acme Fishing Tool Company, at Parkers- burg, w. Va. Every day will be Sunday after a while," bragged the Prohibition ist.
 Maybe" growled the Rounder. But it won't put any more money in the collection basket"
 Bless Her Heart We hope that the man who marries her will never have to call Virginia B. Still, of Cincinnati, by her maid en name.
 Health Hints If it's sick the flue has made you, And you're feelin' kind O queer; Just get little lemon, Let the lemonade you, dear.
 -Uuke McLuke) And if that is slow in action, And your weakness lasts too long, rli ir ard nninn And your friends will call you
 strong.
 -(Houston Post)
 Is That So! Dear Luke: Would you call the sayings of frugal pugilist his Scrap B)
 Boo, Hoo!
 Dear Luke McLuke:
 I've never sent
 To you a song
 Of sentiment,
 But if you're not
 A hardened snob, I know this one
 Will make you sob.
 -(J. w. Pyne.) Der End of Fin Perfect Tag The tin cans clatter as the cringing
 Hun Sinks to his lair beneath the setting
 sun; He strafes the Vons, and he would
 crush the throat Of Bill who made him history's
 greatest goat
 Of! What is your favorite hymn, broth err" asked the Preacher. My favorite hymn is Tn This Wheat, Buy and Buy" replied the Grain Specualtor
 No Joke The wife's the boss in every way, The husbands a poor pill; The husband has to say, q may" The wife can say, "I will!"
 The Wise Fool Woman is holding her own these days observed the Sage. You are not talking about her tongue. are you?" asked the Fool.
 Fact "Who talks too much will get in bad" Observed Old Oswald Feest; And you are saying most, my lad, When you are saying least"
 Ouch That boy of mine will be in Con gress some day" bragged MT. New pop.
 Poor kid" sympathized MT. Roun- der. 'To look at him you'd think he was as bright as other children. wouldn't you?"
 Bone Dry l.icker An editor who lives in Albany. Ga, tells us that the brand of moon shine made and sold in his section of that State is as clear and harm less looking as spring water. But. says he, the stuff is concentrated hell-fire. It is brewed in coffee pots and lard cans and is made from cay snne pepper. barley tobacco. con lye and carbolic acid. A
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

Our Daily Special e Best Vice Preventative
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-07-04
WOMEN'S WAGES TOO Low
SAYS DIRECTOR AT WASH.
Millions Work too Long Hours for
Health and Efficiency and Under
Bad and Unsafe Conditions.

That thousands of families in the
United States are below the poverty
line because their breadwinners hap
pen to be women" is an interesting
statement made by Miss Mary Van
K1eeck, director of the women in in
dustry, United States department OF
labor, at a conference on reconstruc-
ton recently held in Washington.
Emphasizing the need for a perma-
nent women's bureau in the depart
ment, to be charged with the duty of
making continuous and careful inves-
tigation of women's industrial prob
lens, the speaker pointed out that
millions of women in this country now
receive less than a living wage, mil
lions are working too long hours for
health and efficiency, and many are
working under conditions which are
unwholesome and unsafe" She urg-
ed that the improvements in working
standards which are now to be found
in many of the well-managed plants
be extended throughout industry by
means of governmental policy formu-
lated by ome
Legislative measures for the protec-
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-07-04

ton of wome min industry scheduled
for introduction during the present
session OF congress include: Adolf
ton of child labor and a compulsory
education of all children from 6 to
Is years of age; an S-hour day and a
44-hour week, with a weekly day OF
rest; abolition OF night work for wo-
men and minors; the establishment of
minimum-wage commissions in every
state with representation of employ
ers and employees and both men and
women commissioners; equal pay for
eq ual work and wages based on occu-
patton and sex; right of workers to
organize and to bargain collectively
through their chosen representation,
and other measures tending to ale
viate conditions among working wo-
men and children.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-07-04
TREMENDOUS PRODUCTION
OF TRACTORS THIS YEAR

Washington, d. C.-The depart
ment of agriculture estimates hat
314,936 tractors will be produced in
the United States during the present
year. In 1918, the production was
1872, 697. At the end of 1917 there
we're only 1926 tractors on hand in
the United States.
The widespread use of the tractor
on the farm, brought about by the
shortage of farm labor, due to the
fact that a million farmers and farm
laborers were called into the military
service, Is responsible for this tre-
mendous increast in the use Of the
tractor.
Despite the marked growth of the
industry, department of agriculture
officials believe that 1t is just the be-
ginning, but are unable to predict
what will be its ultimate effect on
farming. But that the trend is to-
ward motorized farming is u~ndeniably
shown by the fact that motor trucks
are being purchased by farmers in
ever-increasing numbers. Impetus to
the use of tractors on the farm will
be given, too, by the fact that thou
sands of young men called from the
farms were trained in the use of mo
tor vehicles during their army ser
vice, preparing them for the opera
tion of motorized machinery.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-07-04
Mirror History.

In the early part of the sixteenth
century mirrors first became articles
of household furniture and decoration.
Previous to that time-from the
twelfth to the end of the fifteenth cen
tury-pocket mirrors or small hand
mirrors, carried at the girdle, were
adjuncts to ladies' toilettes. The
pocket mirrors consisted of small cir
cular plaques of polished metal fixed
In a shallow circular box covered with
q lid.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-07-04
KILL ALL WEEDS REAL
SECRET OF BIG CROPS
Six Most Successful Farmers Of Pa
louise Country Washington Tell
How They DO It-Au Disked In
the Fall and Spring Alike.

AT the big farmers meeting In Spo-
kane last week DR.. w. j. Spiilman,
formerly of the state college OF
Washington, gave this interesting
item with regard to the work OF By
ron Hunter:
After l was permitted to put In my
whole time interviewing farmers and
learning from them the things they
knew, the very first man ! hired after
getting to Washington city was Byron
Hunter, who is now working for the
department of agriculture with head
quarters at Walla Walla.
l satd to him, Byron, you know
worked seven years at Pullman on
that question OF summer fallow and
never got anywhere. ! want you to
go out and ride over the Palouse
country and find every farmer in the
Palouse country who never gets less
than 40 bushels OF wheat to the acre
and find out how they do t." Byron
spent three months riding around in
a buggy hunting for men who never
got less than 40 bushels to the acre.
He found six of these men In five diff
ferent counties. Finding such a a
he Just sat down and talked him dry.
Now the curious thing about this
question wal that no one of these six
men knew why he was getting his 30
or 60 bushels to the acre regularly,
but before he got through with his
study Byron Hunter had interviewed
41M,,unlg 80 thnua q arVnaru and EpnW
exactly why they were getting the
results they did.
He would go TO a man and say, for
example, "Mr. Jones, tell me why you
are getting such big crops" Mr..
Jones would say, "It is very simple
Behind the barn Mr.. Jones showed
Hunter a corrugated roller. Said he
~ am the only farmer In the neigh
borhood who has one. That is the
secret of ny success"
The corrugated roller did not have
a darned thing to do with the whole
business. He was the only one of Tho
six men who was using a corrugated
roller.
Another man who was getting BIZ
crops bHDWtu IiullltI ~ tihih y iibht
lap. He said, II am the only man II
this part of the country who uses
right-lap. That is the secret of m.
success"
But he was the only man OF the 81
who were getting these big crops VIII
was making use of the right-lap, 8
the right-lap did not have anythin
to do with it.
Hunter got the testimony OF hun
dreds of men, In addition to these 81
men who we're getting more than 5
bushels to the acre every year. II
found that these six men were han
ding their summer fallow In the fol
lowing way;
They disked their summer fallow
the fall OF the year In order to mi
the stubble with tho dirt. Inciden
tally, they killed some weeds whic
had sprouted. The next spring befor
they started to pillow they dlske
again. This was done mainly TO max
a dust mulch and keep the soil loos
and mellow until they finished theI
blowing incidentally killing nor
weeds by the process of dlsking,
These six fellows we're dlsking /
the fall and disking In the sprinl
They finished blowing their summe
fallow in June an dat tho same tim
II was mellow and moist as Il was 1
March OF April. They got 40, 80, q
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-07-04

is much easier to prevent than to IN
troll.
Keep watch at digging time for
potatoes with warty growths which
are whitish or light brown when
young, black and decayed when old.
Report promptly all suspicious cases
to your county agent, to your state
agricultural experiment station, or to
the United States department of ag-
riculture.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-07-04

bushels to the acre. That is what we
pumped out of you wheat farmers In
the Palouse country-out OF six OF
you, / should say.
Every one of these six men said:
You must keep down the weeds In
your summer fallow. That was the
Observation-Disclosures.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-07-04
What TO Look For.

Two bright spots reduce the menace
of this disease. Except in it's early
stages, 1t is easily recognized; and
II spreads slowly.
However, It can not be detected I'M
til the potatoes are dug, as 1t does
not seriously OBJECT the growth OF
tho vines.
1t usually appears in the eyes of
the tubers. Spreading from this point
of infection, 1t may gradually e~nvelop
the whole potato render 1t a
spongy, warty mass. 1t is character
lied by the prominent wart-like out
growths on the tubers.
The warts at first are whitish or
light brown. Eventually they turn to
a darker shade. After decay starts
they turn black. Young wars, when
exposed to the light, turn green.
The warty tumors vary from the
size of a pea to a walnut; or they
may even exceed the size of the pota-
to on which they grow. In the latter
case, the warty mass loses all re-
semblance to a potato. In some hills
some OF the potatoes may appear per-
fectly healthy, but the eyes are like
ly to be infected.
1t is through the use Of such appar-
emily sound potatoes for seed that
the disease Is often spread to new
localities.
Under ordinary conditions the pota-
to wart disease spreads slowly. IL
lives in the soil and on the tubers,
30 one or the other must usually be
transported to introduce the disease
into a new field or locality. The
spores may be carried into clean soil
by drainage from infected soil, on the
feet of men or animals, by planting
diseased potatoes. by planting sound
tubers that have grown on infected
soil, by the use of manure from ami
mails TO which diseased potatoes have
been fed, and by garbage into which
Feelings from diseased potatoes have
been thrown.
Preventive Measures.
No method of controlling the pota-
to wa disease has yet been discover
ed, 80 every preventive measure must
be used to keep 1t from spreading.
The warts should be burned. Diseas-
ed tubers must not be fed TO live
stock without first being boiled. In
tested soil should be planted to 9th
or crops. Potatoes should not be
planted again in infested soil for at
least eight years.
Federal and state agricultural au-
thorities arc working to prevent the
spread of potato wart, but they will
need heartiest cooperation from every
grower and dealer of potatoes to
save the industry from this new
menace. Experiments are being con-
Quoted 10 learn, IL possible, ways of
controlling the malady, and informa-
! ton Will be furnished as rapidly as
} discovered. But potato wart disease
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-07-04
Follow SoIomon's Plan in Selecting
Building Material

"Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum
trees out of Lebanon for / know that thy servants
can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my
servants shall be with thy servants"
Solomon knew in his day the great and lasting value of fir,
cedar and pine in the construction of buildings for per-
manence. All old residents of Idaho have also had ample
opportunity to test the element resisting qualities of the
timber which grows in profusion over the mountain slopes
Of this great state.
~FOr l know that thy servants can skill to cut
timber In Lebanon"
We likewise, in Barber and Emmett, are equipped to cut
timbers, and cut them in a manner of excellence never
dreamed of by Solomon. Bid you ever notice the smooth,
velvety surface of aB P board? Solomon was compelled to
cover his rough hewn timbers with goldleaf to hide the
surface imperfections. Our method OF manufacture brings
out all of the beauty of grain so cunningly wrought by ma
ture, leaving an effect far more beautiful than gold.
THERE is NO PLACE LIKE HOME
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-07-04
POTATO INDUSTRY MENACED
BY NEW WART DISEASE

The potato industry is seriously
menaced by a malady new to this
Countrywide potato wart disease. I'm
less IL can be eradicated before 1t
spreads to commercial paintings,
specialists of the United States de-
partment OF agriculture say 1t will
cost potato growers millions annual
ly. 1t is easily recognized and when
discovered it should be promptly re-
ported to federal or state agricultural
officials.
Like many other plant diseases and
insect pests. the potato wart disease
was imported from Europe, 1t is with
out doubt the most serious potato
disease yet discovered in the United
States. Unless promptly suppressed
1t may prove disastrous TO the entire
American potato industry, which in
wolves nearly half a billion dollars
annually.