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The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27

period of 1917. They alc up nearly billion and three quarters 1916. They are up nearly two billions of dollars ten years ago
 And tho very fact of our enormously increased imports is in turn the cause of our continued rise o exports. The whole world is selling us everything it can sell us, not merely to pay something on ac- count of debts to but to pay as well for the new goods it wants to buy from us.
 Thus exports for January were $731,000,OOO While there a gain in imports of nearly S94.- 000,000 over December, there was gain in our ex- ports of $50,0O0.000 While there was a gain ill imports January last year of some $780, 100000, there was gain in our exports over Jan uary last year some $10S. S.0O0,000 While the ex- of imports eXports-our favorable trade balance-was S410,000,000 in January, 1919 and $301 ,0O0,o00 in December. 1919, 1t down to $257 900 O0G in January, 1920.
 In this way it will be possible for the outside world to go on buying and more from us so tcng as it goes on increasing it's sales to us more than it increases it's purchases from us Our ex- ports in truth, might be doubled, even beyond the prodigous total they aggregate; but if our i'm ports in the time trebed our favorable balance of trade would be virtually wiped out
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
EXCHANGE PROBLEM

Again official foreign trade figures. with the January reports, show how the industrial and com mercial world work out the exchange problem. This country becomes and the selling mar ket of exporting nations Our imports. which aver aged below sl00 900 for January in the closing years of only decade ago, got up past $163,- 900 before the In 1914 they just der $155. .000, ,000 In 1915, when demoraliza- tion was overwhelming all shipping countries. our imports only s122 2,000,0o0. From that point they have follows
 January, 1916. 362.000; January, 1917, $241- 7s3 Oo0 January 191s s233 942 .O00: January, 1s19 s2I3,000,O ,OO0: January, 1920, $474. 100000.
 For the months of this fiscal year our imports are up than billion dollars the corresponding period of last year. They are up nearly billion and a half over the corresponding
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
Luke McLuke Says.

Luxe MCGuke odyS.
 The old fashioned man who used to whip his wife, now has sor who is married to woman who whips him.
 There wouldn't be much dispepsia in this world if a girl could learn to run Cook Stove as easily a. she can learn to run an: an Automo bile
 We devote so much attention to Pleasures and Pretty Girls that Plain Duties and Plain Girls are bound to suffer from neglect
 If a man was married on the Fourth of July, he will always know when the Fourth or July comes around but he'll never remember that it is his wedding anniversary.
 If some men had their way, the second chapter of John, from the sixth to the ninth verses would be revised to make it appear that the Lord turned Wine into Water
 As you play the Game of Life. il 1 is well to remember that the Official Scorer up Above is keeping tab or your Errors.
 The male Nightingale acts just like a Married Man. As soon as he gets Family to feed, he quits sing ing and starts to croaking.
 If some one offered prize for thf Biggest Lie we would enter this as our contribution: Once upon time there was girl that wore pair ol , shoes that were too large for her
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
Older Presidents
(Ohio State JournaD

(UllO State JOurnaI)
 President Woodrow Wilson is the oldest to occpy the White House since the days of James Bu~ channan President Wilson is 63 reached that age his birthday, December 2S James Buchanan was 66 when he entered the White House and TO when lie retired Andrew Jackson lacked II days of be- ing 70 when he retired from the White House Since his day here Presidents have reached the age of 61 while occupying the office of President. Few Presidents in the last century have lived to three successors in office; several have not lived long enough to two, although Franklin Pierce lived to four of his successors leave the White House Great length of life has been the portion most who lived in the White House
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
TWO HOUSES OF POLISH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
 TO ELECT PRESIDENT

WARSAW, March 27-The pres ident of the Polish Republic is to be elected by the National Assembly which is to consist of two houses This was decided recently by the constitutional commission of the Pol ish Diet which has in hand the task of framing the constitution of the new state. Under the present ar engagement. which has been in effec, about year, the Polish assembly consists of but one house-the Diet having about 325 members The two houses as provided under the consti tuition in the making are to be known as the Diet and the Senate.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
A HOLE IN THE ICE

tgie oT the experiences of thought ful listeners to lectures. and arguments of any, khd f like that of~a Skater who Feels the ice upbear him stouy ehoughguntit suddenly he pupg- through an, air hole, into the freezing water
 A sudden shock 41kef this must have overtaken many readers df The speech of Morris Hlquit in de fense of the Socialist members of the New York Assembly
 The argument for free thought, free speech and the rights of with liberal opinions to represent their fellows in the halls of legislation went merry as marriage be until he passionatey declared that the attack upon the Socialist group part of the national hysteria against radcalism," and that it would have been absolutely inconveivabe that in times of normal and rational conditions any such proceedings should have been undertaken"
 It at this point that the skaters fell into the air hole The argument became too thin. It would not support the listener The idea that revolt cd him, consciously or unconscously was-that ev- erything in the governmental system should remain the in abnormal and irrational conditions in those that normal and rational" He couldn't the matter in that light
 Of course, the Assemblymen would not have been challengsa if, the times of the war and afterward had7 becl like those which preceded the cataciysm Any government can afford to be tolerant when the ship of state is keel in tranquil Wa ters. but when those waters dashed to fury and the vessel staggers in tempest picks it's trem- bling way through mine fields waters in- tested with submarines the is different.
 In abnormal and irrational times a state may put a city under military Law. or conscrpt soldiers, or take telegraph lines and railroads, re- stret the liberty of fanatics and traitors express their revolutionary opinions soap boxes barrel heads.
 MT Hquit should have remembered this dis tincton He should have lodged that fatal air hole. He lost his at it's edge His argument would not bear our weight We fell into the freezing waters of doubt and disbelief at his baseless implications.
 1t is old old saying and worthy of all ac- equation. that crcumstanees alter cases" They do. They did in this frightful tragedy in which the try has been passing The times have not been "nofmal. They not normal yet. Men not rational now. They are excited, suspicious. appreheHsve Mir tIillqat is foolish expect us to be perfectly sane and calm at present as he would be to expect his family to be if he had just had fight with burglar in the presence of his wife and children Tf saf
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
LOUISIANA RICE FOR GREECE

LAKE CHARLES, La, March 26.- A local milling company has con tracted to ship 2,500,O0O pounds of clean rice from the Louisiana fields to Piraeus, the Port of Athens, Greece is has been learned here.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27

Let hope that the investigation of Army and Navy officers and proceedings will not continue long the Fitz John Porter, Major Haller and other controversies of the Civil War continued. We would hope that they might not be as wearisome as the Sampson -Schley matter which hung from the Spanish War '.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
HAWAII MAKES GOOD GAIN

Hawaii has population of 249,992 according to announcement of the Census Bureau This is a gain of more than 30 cent in the last ten years when the figures 1g1.9o9. The Honolulu dis trict has population of S0369-makng her of the large American Pacific towns.
 That is very satisfactory showing for the other American Territory. While Alaska cannot hope to show well this year. her day will come, and when it comes, Alaska will make 30 per cent decennia gain look like 30 cents.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
More Than a Million
 Housewives

In the United States have adopted the LAUNDRY way of doing their family washing. They have found these to be the advantages:
 It takes the upsetting work of washday out of the home. It con serves the health and energy of wo- men. It insures purity for clothes. It gives women time for more con- genial and womanly activities. It costs no more than thet laundress It guarantees punctual collection and delivery. It makes homes hap pier.
 ALASKA STEAM LAUNDRY
 Empire News Is Real News
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
Hooray!

I know an old fellow named Tops Who hunting for frogs never stops.
 He says when he's found
 Enough frogs to go round, He is going to extract the hops.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
"Once Upon a Time!"

Wilmington News-JouTnal -.....
 Luke McLuke says that once upoE time, there was a seventeen-year old boy who did not think he knew more than his father and it was back in the same epoch there was 9 father who did not think exactly the same when he was a seventeen-year.old hoy
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27

Taking money from "a husbands pockets in the night season is wifes perogative." says a Jersey City Judge He isn't giving any news at that. But Jersey City husbands might discipline him bit by working ;the recall him. There things which can bc. too much advertised
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
PoIice!

"What does Smith do for a living?' asked Jones' Using agency" replied Brown.
 Well" said Jones, "he seems to be prospering despite his adverse cir cumstanceS"
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27

Gov. Allen of Kansas says there was no effort to get returns for the money spent during the war. What fools and liars politics make of men! Prob ably such returns sthe American people got for their efforts and money were produced in short time.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
Oh!

why is the moon always referred to as 'silvery? " asked the Boob.
 Because it has so many quarters and halves, l suppose replied the Wise Guy
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27

They will never know when Spring has in Cincinnati without the book beer sgns-( Columbus Record
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27

Western newspaper wants to know what the Twentieth Amendment will be. l know. A law to forbid all prohibitions New York Telegraph
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
Yum, Yunl

A lot of the steak you get nowadays is very tough. But what we started to say was you can find Yungkau, the Butcher, in Ashland, Ky.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
You WinI

W. c. H. says we should quit worrying about Home Rule for Ire land and see to it that the States in this Republic get little Home Rule.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
Our Daily Special

A Man Is Always Reaching Tol What Is Just Beyond His Reach.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27

It begins to look as though Senator Poindexter mistaken when he thought he heard Presi- denial bee buzzing in his neighborhood and that he had merely collided with a hornets nest
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27

Jack Dempsey has opportunity to show just how good he is the defense
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27

And although We glad the railroads are back in the hands of their owners are gladder that not the owners-( Dallas News)
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27

The Poles want indemnity of S,00e, 900 900 from Russia That bright young nation starts off well.-( Cleveland Plain Dealer) ke ab
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
BITS OF BY PLAY By Luke McLukc -Ax
 -:- Copyright by Cincinnath
 Enquirer
Ouchl

Ouch! There is too much conversation Going on in this great, nation: Everywhere the takers hated, For the public's. converse sated.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27

Some peoples idea of clever politics is to ride thef crest of a wave of public sentiment and then to slide away at the right to ride back with the reacing rebound. s "
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
.That Was When It Happened!

Dear Luke Did the Barkeep ever hit the Rummy "as he headed for the door "-P A. T.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
APROPOS OF MOTH ING IN PARTICULAR

.sss (St Louis Globe-Democrat)
 Some work for the mere love of work while oth CTS work for money for the love of it.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27

World is full of tak-and 50 per cent of it advice on what the world should do
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27

| When one have fifty candles on his brthda, cake he is usually well enough off to pay for cake large enough hold them
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27

Time flies as swiftly on Easy Street as other thoroughfare
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
The Amateur Gardener.

"Tll grow some stuff this year,
 vow!"
 Wise MT. Sibbugs chants; q think I'll plant some Oysters now. And raise some oyster plants
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
Howda Va Get That Way? Sign in Portsmouth. Ohio

Price of Admission: Ladies Free. Gents-10 cents. Skates-25 cents.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27

Boarding school pupils remember everything m, vividly in after years than what was in the boo
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27

If one starts to read aloud he learns what a great number of words there are that he Isn't how to pronounce s-ss
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27

Real poets are and real humorists more s
Connecticut western news., 1920-01-22
BIG NEW FACTOR
 IN 1920 CAMP AIGN
Women to Add Largest New Electorate Ever Added
 to Any Nation.
Women will be a powerful factor in

Women will be powerful factor in the presidential campaign of 1920.
 Both of the chief political parties have long since recognized this fact and have set out to win the favor of the 15,G00,000 who are eligible to vote by enfranchising the 12,000,000 who are as yet voteless. This is being done by hastening the ratification of the federal suffrage amendment by thirty six states
 Soon after the present or Sixty-sixth Congress assembled in Washington it passed the federal suffrage amendment by an overwhelming majority.
 The vote stood as follows:
 House-3o4 for to s9 against.
 Senate-56 for to 25 against
 Ninety per cent Of the Republicans of the house voted FOR.
 Scventy-nine per cent of the Demo- crats of the house voted AGAINST.
 Eighty-six per cent of the Republic ans of the senate tedFoR.
 Forty-six per cent of the Democrats of the senate voted AGAINST.
 Then the race for ratification began. Twenty-four of the necessary thirty-six states have already ratified.
 The Democratic states which have ratified to date are: Utah, Texas, Mis- souri and Arkansas.
 Republican states which have rati- fled are: Michigan, Kansas, New York, Montana, California, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa, Nebraska, Min nesota, Maine, North Dakota, Pennsyl- vania, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Colorado, Rhode Island and Kentucky
 Democratic states which have still to act on the matter are; Arizona, Okla homa, Nevada, Tennessee, Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia.
 Republican states still to Acr, are :: Connecticut, Washington, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho Indiana, Delaware, New Mexico, Vermont. New Jersey and West Virginia. G
 The importance of the woman vote in national political campaign is shown by the fact ulat tie twcntyaine states in which women have presi dential suffrage control 324 out of the 531 presidential electors.
 In many states where only biennial sessions of the legislature are held the governors have issued calls for special sessions to ratify. Many of the states which have ratified have done so at the request of their chief executives, who were anxious, that their political party should have the credit of enfranchising the women of America.
 South Dakota made history by not only ratifying the amendment, but by electing one woman as Republican presidential elector and another as one of the "big four. to head the states delegates to the convention of the na- tional Republican party in Chicago early in June.
 Women are finding themselves ca gerly welcomed into the political par ties and confess that they feel very much at home.
Connecticut western news., 1920-01-22
CONTINGENT. OF RED CROSS
 NURSES SAILS FOR SIBERIA.


 Thirty Red Cross nurses and ten nurses aids. including nine Czecho- Slovak interpreters and one Russian Red Cross nurse, have sailed for Si- heria to join the Red Cross mission there.
 Ethel G. Finder, formerly in charge of the Bureau of Nurses Aids of the Atlantic Division, heads the delegation
 nearly half of whose members recently returned from duty in France. Ac- companying the delegation is Helen Domerschikoff, for two years a Russian Red Cross worker, who left Russia after the collapse in 1917 to continue her work in England, and who is re- turning in the capacity of nurses aid
 The main task awaiting the nurses is reconstruction work among the civilian population in the Vladivostok region.
Connecticut western news., 1920-01-22
PROMINENT MEN BACK AMENDMENT
Statements Show That National Sentiment for the Suffrage
 Amendment Is Growing.
EARLY RATIFICATION URGED.
Reports Indicate That Special Sessions Are Fastening Effort to Make
 All Women Voters
 in 1920, ..

Washington, D. C..General Leonard
 Wood, United States Senator War
 ren G. Harding of Ohio, and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, all of whom
 are being boomed for the Republican
 nomination for president, have come
 out in favor of immediate ratification
 of the Federal suffrage amendment so
 that all women wilt be voters in 1920. Senator Harding expressed the be-
 lief that Republican legislatures every
 where will come to the aid of the Re
 publican party by effecting speedy
 ratification.
 "Now that we have the Overwhelm- ing expression on behalf of woman's suffrage and the ratification of the
 Federal suffrage amendment is pend ing" he declared, 'it is gratifying to
 know that of twenty-two states which
 have already ratified, nineteen of these
 general assemblies have been under Republican majorities
 "I like to believe that Republican | state assemblies, throughout the 1 Union will lead in bringing about early ratification. It is in accord with the
 spirit and purpose of the new era to | have the womanhood of America par | ticipate in the Federal electiGRs of l 1920, under Federal sanction of uni
 versal suffrage" r | General Wood was equally emphatic.
 'I believe woman suffrage is to have
 a vast and uplifting effect upon our national life" he said. Public moral ity will be increased, housing condi- l tiohs improved, the problems of child l laHor satisfactorily solved, sweat shop evils minimized and the train 1 ing given to children in our schools ] purged of its present defects
 ':In short, the difficulties that ap- l parently beset our national future
 would confront us as immensely more
 insuperable if we could not look for l ward to overcoming them through the
 assistance of voting women. I have
 a firm belief that the granting of suf-
 frage to women gives us the promise ! of an amazingly better world in the l years to come"
 In speaking of quick ratification of the suffrage amendment, Dr. Nicholas 1 Murray Butler was just as definite in ! his view that all women should be voters in 1920. He said:
 T hope that the political arrange
 ments of the several states which have
 not yet voted upon this amendment, 1 as well as the attitude of public opIn- 1 ion within those states. will permit
 ratification of this amendment in time to allow many thousands of waiting
 women to take part in the election or 1 November next" -.- 1 Precedent for the action of this
 group of men was laid down by the ! Republican National Committee when
 in Washington, December 10, it adopt l ed the following resolution:
 "The Republican National Commit [ tee recommends to the Republican 1 legislatures the ratification. of the Federal suffrage amendment It con- graduates the eighteen Republican states included in the twenty-two
 which have already acted, and urges that special sessions in the other
 states be called before February to complete the ratification
Connecticut western news., 1920-01-22
OH MY STOMACH

tI had stomach trouble. so badly that nothing l ate would digest as it should'', said Sadie E. Hamilton, Portland, Me, as she began re- markable stoy of the rielf she has securded from Argo-P Phosphate, the new reconstractive, stomach tonic and system purifier.
 ''Everythoing that I ate wuold lie in my stomach like lump, she ex- plained. "Gas would form and would ufferl distress all the time I got so I could hardly keep anything down. Tryingi to get rielf, had my stomach pumped out, but even this did not help me as continued just as bad.
 'I kept hearing so much about Ar go-Phsophate that thought maybe it might help me and l decided to try it. I have taken two bottles and to my surprise I am already feeling fine. can eat anything and l am not troubled at al
 q am completely rid of my old stomach trouble that had for three years. I have not felt so we'll for years and am certainly glad to en- dorse Argo-Phosphate because I want others to be helped by this wonderful medicine"
 < "The spirit of wanting to help others is what makes suffering men and women give these splendid pub lie endorsements of rgo-Phosphate" said local druggist.
 Dispensed by The Service Phar- macy, Farnum's Drug tore, Geo. E. Frink, Falls Village, Clarence H. Eggleston. Sharon.-adv
Connecticut western news., 1920-01-22

We carry a full line of memoran- dums as we'll as record books, jour- nals and ledgers. The Canaan
Connecticut western news., 1920-01-22
| STATE PRIDE AT STAKE.

Connecticut Women Asset in National
 Campaign for Quick Ratification.
 The women of Connecticut have just called attention to the fact that 1t cost less than $1,50O to call the last special session of the state legislature.
 In 1916 and in 1918 Governor Hol- comb called special session and was upheld everywhere by public opinion.
 Men and women are urging that Con necticut take its place on the honor roll of states ratifying the Federal Suffrage Amendment before Febru-
Connecticut western news., 1920-01-22

When wishing statements and bill heads printed try The Canaan Print
Connecticut western news., 1920-01-22

Job printing of all kinds neatly done at The Canaan Printing Corl-
Connecticut western news., 1920-01-22
What Mrs. Brenninger, of New York,
 Saws About Rat Poison

"Tried preparations that kill rats, but RAT-SNAP is the only one that prevents disagreeable odors after killing. Also like RAT-SNAP be- cause it comes in handy cakes, no mixing with other food. You don't have to dirty your hands, it's the best for household use." Try RAT-SNAP. Three sizes, 25c, soc, $1.00. Sold and guaranteed by Freeman Demp- sey.-adv.
Connecticut western news., 1920-01-22
porcupine's ouiiIs Not aThrown."

The spine of a porcupine, in the usual position, lie nearly flat, with their points directed backward, but when the animal Is excited they are capable of being raised. The quills are loosely inserted in the skin and may, on being violently shaken, become de tached circumstance which prob ably gave rise to the purely fabulous statement that the animal possesses the power of actually ejecting it's
 qsIills like arrows or darts at an
Connecticut western news., 1920-01-22
INVESTMENTS

When you want your land posted order some No Trespassing signs eo
Connecticut western news., 1920-01-22
WILL H. HAYS
Chairman National Republi-
 cah Committee.

a In a recent statement \ before the National Republi-
 B can Committee in Washing N ton said: i z '"The party managers will |, cooperate with the women in determined effort to have the suffrage amendment rati- fled by February 15. The Republican leaders intend to exert their influence to bring
 about the calling of special
 sessions of the legislatures
 for action on the amend ! ment."