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The Alaska daily empire., 1921-06-04
NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL
 AnnnIrNIM

Territory of Alaska, Division Number One, Before H. B. Le
 Fevre. Commissioner and Ex-of-
 ficio Probate Judge, Juneau Pre-
 cinct.
 In the Matter of the Estate of
 PETER B. JURKOVITCH, De-
 ceased.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that J. R. Willis and H. H. Post, admin istrators of the above entitled es- tate, have rendered and filed for settlement their final account of the administration of said estate, and that hearing will be had upon the same before the undersigned at Juneau, Alaska, July 18th, 1921, at ten o'clock in the forenoon at the office of the United States Commits sioner, Juneau, Alaska, at which time and place any person interested in the estate may appear and file objections in writing to said report and contest the same.
 Dated at Juneau, Alaska, May 14th, 1921.
 (Seal) H. B. LIE FEVRE, Commissioner and Ex-officio Pro-
 bate Judge, Juneau Precinct First publication May IA, 1921. Last publication June 4, 1921.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-06-04
MARY rlckFoRb SUNDAY
 AT THE COLISEUM M@THEATRE.

'. When NPendleton Gray met Mavis lIawn. the Kentucky mountain girl, he was Constrained to scoff at her
 He didn't realie that ten years later the sane Maxvis shining under the brilliancy of education would break his heart This is one of the situa
 lions in Heart O. the Hills," adapt
 ed from the story by John Fox, Jr., and in which Mary Picfford makes her latest appearance at the Coli
 Scum Theatre. commencing Sunday.
 As Mavis Hawn, Miss Pickford takes the role of girl whose father has been billed by an unidentified
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-06-04

DRESSMAKlNG SHOP TO REOPEN
 After having spent several months vacation in the States. Mrs. Minnie Haslam will reopen her dressmak- ing shops at Room 12, Mallory Bldg. aDout Monday, June 6. adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-06-04
ATTRACTIONS TONIGHT

coLlsEUM-Wyndham Standing and Sylvia Breamer in My Lady's Gar ter" PALAcE-James J. corbett in &"The Prince of Avenue A."
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-06-04
MIX IN MARVELLOUS AUTO WRECK STUNT.

The biggest, most daring auto roce which is said to have ever been filmed for motion picture a req. race over the course at Santa Monica California-is shown in Tom Mix 5 new Fox photoplay, "The Speed Man iac," with Mix. himself driving the car that is wrecked in the contest The picture is to be shown at the Palace Theatre on Sunday and Mon day
 Thousands of people were lined up along the course to watch this race. They did not know that the steering knuckle on the car that Mix drove had been weakened, and never dreamed that the star was taking neck-breaking chances. When his car turned complete summersault and he was thrown out on the road a cry went up from thousand throats, Hes killed!"
 But nothing serious ever happens to Tom Mix, no matter haw great the risk he takes, because, beside being a man of brawn, he is a man of brain. He reasons out his deathl defying feats, timing and calculating them to hairs breadth Indeed Mix seems to be possessed of a life preserving instinct in the midst of the greatest danger.
 This wonderful scene. the most realistic race ever filmed, is only one of the many sensations in "The Speed Maniac"
 The Pathe special for Sunday night at the Palace is music hath charms for the soul" "tip for the morn. ing after" and fast and slow pictures of the best athletes in science cul' ture. The Spanish Fandango, from the painting of Julien Orlando, will be shown in this review, interpreted by two of the stars of the well known Spanish opera company.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
JAZZ Is TIE EVIL SPIRIT

At last we have discovered what
ails so many Of our young ladies and
gentlomcn-and it required the help
OF Dr. Frank L. Morton Of Chicago,
the eminent specialist, to find out the
trouble-but he did-and then he tells
us that the present string Of evils
come from the jazz music that the
present generation is 50 delighted
with.
Jazz" said Dr. Morton. Expresses
hystcria and incites to idleness, revel-
ry, dissipation, destruction, discord
and chaos. 1t accords with the de-
yastating, volcanic spirit that has
burst forth over the world in the last
six years. Rhythm and musical vi
brations swayed the half savage
yoodooists like powerful intoxicant.
II shows the extreme to which musi-
cal vibrations can control human
nerves when improperly employed.
This is bad music, but the difference
between the incarnation -crazed fanat-
les and the patriot or soldier stirred
10 noble action by music is a differ
ence in the music itself. Jazz is com
pounded after the same formula as
the Noodoo chants Typifying the un-
balanced state Of humanity's mind. it
tends to luhlnge II mora and mora
Human norye tissues respond to this
perverted organization OF sound just
as readily as did those Of tho Voodoo
zealots, and just as readily viii they
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
WHAT Is ART, ANYHOW?

You can place a cheap machine
painted daub in almost any window.
label it with the name of any of the
great artists, and half of st. Joseph
will go into raptures over this great
painting" and the great artist who
did the work. The label on tie pic
lures proves to these art critics it's
genuineness. To illustrate how few
people really know anything about
art it should be stated that a painting
sold to a second hand dealer in Paris
for 81, after passing through several
hands, reached a prominent art gal
lery valued at $1,000 because it bore
the name Of Whistler in the corner,
has just been claimed by a hitherto
unknown artist named Classy, who
says he painted it and forged the
Americans signature. Meanwhile ex-
ports had repeatedly proclaimed the
dish Of fruit portrayed as an undoubt-
ed work of art Of the rank CT Whist
Ter. 1t has since been removed and
marked down 81, with no rush>s OF
buyers.
The question assails the layman
whether the connoisseurs know art
without a label? Whether they were
finding art in the signature or the
work? Incidents like this must in
crease the scoffing of the Philistines
who insist that there is nothing there
is so much humbug about as art with
big A. This dish OF fruit looked
good enough to have been painted by
Whistler and his signature was equal
ly well executed to fool the critics. II
only became a cheap daub when
Classy claimed 1t as his work. VIII
the dilettanti now have the courage
to confess that Classy is as good az
Whistler or will they wait until he Is
dead?
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
THE RENT OF THE 1ABoRER

In st. Joseph it is estimated that
there are three thousand families. the
heads of which are laboring men. and
to whom when the question of bring
ing his wages back to ncrmalcy the
first thought that comes to this labor
er is his house rent-for next to food
1t is the biggest item in his family
budget.
Experts in domestic economy have
been years in almost unanimous
agreement that safe family financing
requires that not more than is per
cent of income be spent foe rent.
This permitted the $1,000 a year
man before the war to live in SIS
a month house or apartment.
Assuming that the $1,000 a year
man, prewar, is today $2,4OO a year
man, he probably is paying $35 to
$40 a month for the same house or
apartment that used to cost him SIS
a month.
NO" ouppoolhB lldl Inc SA,fVV d
year man is forced back 80 a $1,000
prewar level with a $40 a month rent
charge TO meet.
Instead of rent representing IS per
cent of his income it would represent
40 per cent.
He simply couldn't get along. even
if every other commodity required
by his family dropped to the prewar
level.
Even a 25 per cent wage reduction,
which would put the $4,000 year
man on an $500 year basis. if he
still kept on the high rent level
would throw his budget all out of
| balance.
That the rent profiteer will be fin
| ally shaken loose is quite certain but
that certainty of future justice is not
going to help solve the workingmans
problem during the period that he is
being "liquidated" as to his wage
while paying or trying to pay an in
! flated rent bill.
Everybody agree that there must
be a new wage level which will take
into account the declining price of
| commodities.
But, in justice to the workingman.
this wage level must also take into
account the vital fact that he is still
in the tolls of the rent profiteer.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

respond to music of the higher, en-
nobling order. The world needs good
music as never before.
seldom do you hear Home Sweet
Home sung now. Formerly It drop
ped in upon us in concert encores
and quiet, social and family gather
ings., And every rendition OF it re-
acted on the cerebral tissue of those
who sang and to a lesser extent on
those who listened. with Home
Sweet silenced. home itself tends to
disappear. with home swallowed Up
in the cabaret. the great stabillzing
center OF society is lost"
Well! now that we have found out
through DR.. Morton, what is the trou-
Bile with our young folks, let us have
more Home Sweet Home singing and
less jazz. We really believe it would
help some.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

This paper has no brief to speak
for the street railway-is not in its
employ. neither in its pay-but it
would just like to know what st.
Joseph would do without the street
railway in these modern times. Any
one who thinks. fun well knows that
the jitneys CANNOT take its place.
and that motor bus lines are no bet
ter than the jitneys. therefore why
should such pretended makeshifts be
considered at ali? With the street
railway eliminated st. Joseph would
be the laughing stock Of the country.
and would have about as much stand
ing in the commercial world as ANA
zonia or Iatan. Cut out the itch for
office of few men and there will be
no further fight on a street railway
system which is the equal of any in
the country.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
No Reason for II at All

Our republican friends are no. y>-y
suavely assuring the public that an
increase Of from two to four million
I'm state taxes and many thousand
more in school and county taxes, by
reason of the unwarranted action Of
the state board OF equalization. IA .
small matter to zach individual tax
payer when scattered over the entire
state" It's true that's Scattering IT,"
pretty wide and fine, but to tho or
dinary person there appears no valid
reason for penny increase in taxes.
-Sallatin Democrat.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

aiding a most worthy cause be a
fitting tribute TO the American boys
who rest under the crimson fields of
France.
Fitting, indeed, is It that the sale
of these silkcn cmblems should be
held at this time, when America, in
the throes of her own economic strug-
giles, is letting slip from mind the
stirring days of the former struggle
and the supreme sacrifice of her own
and Frances sons. Not that the
blossoms are intended as gloon
spreaders" TO hold us in sadness and
despair, for they have a nobler pur-
pose. but we must, to deserve the
benefits of those sacrifices, remember
at what cost they were given.
Several patriotic organizations
throughout the country have pledged
their aid to the sale Of these tokens.
Plans for the disposition of them on
Memorial day have been arranged by
committees in the various cities. SO
Mr.. ST. Josephitc. when the girl with
the red poppy appears remember the
cause and its purpose, and don't turn
her down.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
DOES NOT INSURE AGAINST WAR

III tue NC" AoIh Tribune appeared
last week the following statement:
"The great lesson that preparedness
is the best insurance against war
seems already-to have been forgotten
by most people"
Preparedness is the best insurance
against wari"
Surely II that were so. Europe was
so thoroughly insured against war In
1914 that war was impossible. From
end 20 end. Europe was prepared" :"
some more. some less. but all pre-
pared" AS 1t turned out. Germany
had a plan and was about to execute
it.; but no nation was unprepared.
If preparedness insured against
war. there would have been no war
in Europe I'm 1914. But unless our
recollections mislead us. there was a
war in that year. and 1t kept on until
it dragged most OF the world into it
and until it bathed civilization In woe
and misery the end of which is not
yet in sight.
If the world has not learned that
preparedness does not insure against
war. but that competition in prepar-
edness makes war. then it is beyond
hope so bss s4-tR.2a7fg =
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

about to be dropped for a month be-
cause their salary appropriation (oh
no! it don't cost anything to enforce
prohibition or keep a gang of drys-
for-what-there-is on easy jobs)
was exhausted. can again breath easy
for Congress on Monday voted an ad-
ditional 5000. 900 to keep them going
until July, even if it developed that
Commissioner Kramer had violated
the law enforcing the prohibitory act.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
WHO Is GETTING IT?

Strange as it may seem to the st.
Joseph man who takes his market
basket and goes to the butcher shop,
and the prices he there pays. the
wholesale cost of many wholesome
and staple items of meat has declined
below the price prevailing on April
27, 1913, figures being available to
any person who cares to take a pack
er's wholesale price sheet and make
examination.
The following items, for instance,
may be of interest to the householder:
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

into the pot of steaming mulligan,
stewed over a fire, beneath some
sheltcring culvcrt. There are occas-
ions when we too feel that it would
be glorious to go a week without shaw
ing, TO wear clothes which do not
have to be brushed every morning
nor folded with careful attention to
the crcascs every night. We long to
BARRIERS would starvc and haberdash-
crs 20 out Of business for lack of Gus
tom.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
CLOSE THE PRODIGY ENTRY
LIST

1t will be just as well to close the
entries in the grand international
child prodigy sweepstakes this minute,
as the top notch has been reached,
and 1t would be useless to continue
the competition since the appearance
of Helen williams OF Wales. entered
as the worlds youngest artist. In her
absolute zero in infant prodigies ap-
pears to have been achieved. She Is
but Is months OF age. but sits up in
her cradle every day and. with pencil
and drawing board. sketches the
things that adorn her nursery.
Two of Miss Williams pictures,
Cat With a Ribbon Bow" and Run
ming Gamecock," are being featured
at the annual exhibit of the Royal
Drawing Society Of London. Most
any day now some enterprising maga-
zine publisher is liable to spring one
of her cover designs.
1t it's not too impertinent to ask,
where does a 9-year-old author or an
11-year-old chess master head In
against a bottle-sucking follower of
Hogarth?
Moved and seconded that the con-
test be declared closed and Miss Will
liams be awarded the hand painted
asbestos penwiper. .s.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
Senator Reed Bumped penrose

Senator Jim Reed sure skinned the
emergency tariff bill, in the senate
Tuesday. He put Boss Penrose in the
hole and when Penrose gets where he
can't come back, he has been hit hard.
Senator Reed may wander from the
Democratic fold on unessentials but
when 1t comes to simon pure Dem oc-
racy he is always there with the
goods.-Ralls County Record.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
Let the Farmer Save His Own

The Fayette Advertiser intimates
that the Howard county farmers are
just wearing out all the lead pencils
trying to figure out why their hogs
bring but cents a pound while they
still have to pay As cents a pound for
bacon at the store. But then each
farmer has the future remedy in his
own hands. Let him put up his own
hogs next year.-Glasgow Missourfan.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
THE POPPY FOR MEMORIAL DAY

Beginning this week and continuing
over Memorial Day. in ST. Joseph as
in all other cities Of the land, a sale Of
several thousand silk poppies made by
widows and war orphans Of France
will be held for the relief OF the needy
and destitute Of that war devastated
land.
The tiny replicas OF the immortal
red blooms OF Flanders will besides
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
Could Have Saved Much Money

The German government finds, on n
more careful examination, that It can
pay that billion marks by June and
even has $50 million ready to hand
over now. 1t shows what lot OF
worry it might have saved itself by a
more painstaking survey OF its re-
sources in the first place.-Kansas \
City Times.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
What Docs He NIcnn2

Representative Mondell says that
unless the nations agree to disarm.
the next war may easily cause a large
part Of the world to revert to bar
barism. Does he mean a large part
OF the world as a whole. or merely a
large part of that part that has not
already reverted to that state CT never
has emerged from it?-Kansas City
Post.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
why Didn't He lake the "Cobb?r

Some one stole bushel of corn last
Thursday night from the barn of Mrs.
Emma Cobb. Even IL corn is only
worth soc a bushel. the .mef going
on the theory no doubt that "a BUSH
ell saved is a bushel made" " a man
has nothing and Is too lazy to work,
he has to steal in order to live.-Hop-
kins Journal.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
A Distinction and a lDifference

Newt. Peters, of Humphreys.
bought a bunch of hides last week
from one OF the farmers in that
neighborhood for which he paid
$66.15. He was comparing the prices
now and year or more ago. and told
the Humphreys citizens that the same
bunch Of hides one year ago. under
the Democratic administration, would
have brought .7S0.-Milan Standard.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

Suppose now that a sensible streak
should hit some of those business
men profiteers. who are so strenu-
ously and inconsistency fighting the
street railway people. Don't you sup
pose that they would feel silly when
such a feeling hit them9
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

And even the afternoon paper
seems to have fallen in with the idea
Of Hospital No. removal-for in its
articles relative TO Gov. Hyde's visit
it points out to him all OF the alleged
defects of ST. Joseph's great institu-
ton,
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

How much of that $4,000 which
the street railway must pay as its
part Of repaving Frederick avenue,
are the jjitneys going to take off OF
its hands for the use Of that trade
arteryf ..4s "a
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

Every living American can endorse
the statement made by President
Harding at New York Monday when
he said that "a nation so righteous
and just that it shall never be called
upon to make war so long as God and
man rule together" May this time
soon arrive.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

The st. Joseph men who are Sc
cretly helping for thirty pieces OF
silver" to secure the removal of State
Hospital No. to some other section
Of the state will soon get their names
into the papers-that is into the pa
pers that do not want the hospital
removed.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

Has it ever dawned on you that
some of those business men who are
fighting the street railway because of
its advanced fare, are some of the
best war profiteers st. Joseph has
and are yet at it?
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
YES, 1T is THE SAME HARVEY

Yes! the George Harvey who now
says that America must !, march
shoulder to shoulder and arm in
arm"-with ! England isS thests same
George Harvey who last summer and
fall was twisting the lions tail. while
the sexuitant mob showIed 4spproysl.
This Is the same Colonel Harvey gwho
jabbed tho, them president ssyvith ,hiz
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

The st. Joseph people who all
through the war time high wage per-
iod spent all OF the high salary that
they made, and bought silk shirts and
motor cars on credit, are now turning
back their cars when the officer calls,
and wishing they had a few dollars
in the bank. No one who did save
feels a particle sorry for them.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

Possibly-it might be suggested
that If some of the officials of State
Hospital No. 2 who are so Industrious
ly lamenting for more room and
more land, are not satisfied, they
might tender their resignations-and
see what the board will do.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
IL should be Softly whispered

Whisper it softly. Senator Bursum
of News Mexico says in his state one
can get a fair. average pair of shoes
for a wagon load of COW hides. Since
retail merchants make only a small
profit or none, where does all this
graft come in?-Tarkio Avalanche.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
Ana You Arc Glad OF II

You have all heard the admonition,
my boy, always make your word
good" But you also know that many
of tho candidates last fall have not
made their word good. and you're
glad of it-Dade County Advocate.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

Cattle and hog prices. as the aver
age farmer knows are also on level
with 1913 prices; in some instances,
even lower. II the housewife is not
able to buy meat cheaply she should
not blame the packer because the re-
sponsibility is not on his shoulders.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
Not Worth Dog Meat Price

Mother Bergdoll boasts that son
Grover is worth u million dollars.
That's a matter of opinion. Our own
is that the young man isn't worth is
cents worth Of dog meat.-Kansas
City Times.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

Keep your eye on State Hospital
No. 2-for some morning 1t will not
be there to keep your eye on it--as
st. Joseph traitors will LOSE 1T for
this city.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
shc was About Hnlf Right

Absent mindedness is not common
in the young. but the story has reach
ed us that young woman who had
dressed herself for ball looked in
the mirror and absent-mindedly went
to bed.-St. Louis Times.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
Hyde should Read Consultation

Governor Hyde says he will have
the legislature at the special session
to reduce the capital building tax one
cent. The governor goes off half
cooked as this tax cannot be reduced.
He should read the constitution Of
the state.-Marion County Gazette.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
Tire Iron Is Most Valuable

Left a Lordship in England, a De-
troit automobile worker says ho never
will use It. And when one stops to
think the matter over, there are times
when a tire iron Is more useful
Nodaway DEMOCRAT Forum.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

pen, accusing the latter of being
pro English" This is the same
colonel who marshalled millions of
voters by berating Great Britain; and
who was therefor rewarded with an
ambassad orship.
How many more times will the
Colonel Harvey be able "to get away
with it?"
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
Murder Last Proves This

The New York World says that the
public is taking life more easily than
it's forefathers did. The murder list
proves that.--Nodaway Democrat
Forum.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

If for one single moment the idea
crosses your mind that State Hospital
No, 2 is not a desirable trade maker
for a city. just figure how much those
500 employees of the institution spend
in st. Joseph, let alone the vast
amount of supplies purchased here
from local dealers.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

When that bus franchise which
does not prevent it's owners from
trading it off; selling it to whom they
please; or using it as club for any
purpose. has been granted. how much
is that company going to pay to keep
up the streets over which it operates?
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

Chicago has an undertakers' trust
and the price OF funerals stays
away up. 1t don't pay to do hardly
anything in Chicago-much less. than
to die.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

st. Joseph has been unusually well
the present week-and why not? for
has not the city been filled with medi-
cal men all OF the week? and top
notchers at that?
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28

Mayor Marshall it seems is again
opening up his political boom for an
other term-as he has the jitneys-
the bus lino-and the bond issue
propaganda at work for him again.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-28
Hope She VIII Come Back

II Mrs. Bergdcll has to go and dig
up that $1,000 fine from the iron pot
where tho family fortune is kept. we
hope the government won't think 1t
ungallant to take some precaution to
see that she comes back with it,
Kansas City Times.