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The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-03

and the profits that might be acquired by selling stock to them and rigs game for that purpose, CT the man who in proposition only elements that will cause those with money to fall and goes out fer the profits there might be in the fall, is very different character of citizen
 James J. Hill and Cecil Rhodes promoters, and they built empires through their promotions. Barney Bernato and Ponzi promoters, and they wrecked fortunes caused grief among thousands. Hill and Rhodes died by the world. Bernato died suicide and Ponzi is in feon's cell
 There is no section of the country that has not had and which still has not; its smaller Hills and Rhodes, and they have been and are making the world bigger and prosperous making room in it for thousands prosper who had not prospered before There is section of the country that has not had and which still has not little imitators of Bernato and Ponzi, and they have been and are dis sipatng funds that others have earned and accom- pshng nothing except gratify their own appetite e' for money and pleasure and spotlight and to make matters more difficult for legitimate development.
 Alaska needs of the legitimate promoters Her forests and mineral lodes, her coal and oil fields, ker sea tourist possibilities her opportuni- industries and transportation enterprises offer them unparalleled opportunity
 She will do well, however, to beware of the promoters who simply trying to promote an easy living and influential position for themselves.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-03

The scientist who said that practically m effort necessary to the production of sound happily ex- 9lalned the verbosity of of our most cheerful itatesmen.-( (Detroit Free PressD
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-03
Luke McLuke Says

Even blind man gets his eyes opened after he has been married for 8 while.
 There is a hot time in store for the hypocrite who Prays on Sunday and Preys the rest of the week.
 A woman is superior to man when it comes to figuring out lot of caamities which never happen.
 About the worst insult you can or fer a woman is to tell her that her new hat looks Sensible.
 Then, again, there is the kind oi il Philanthropst who drops nickel into blind mans tin cup and takes two or three pencils out O. the blind mans hat.
 Talk isn't so cheap. Two cents worth of talk has been known to get man into $2,000 worth ol trouble.
 Ever notice how polite and afIabie a mean aurly man can be when he has a favor to ask?
 At that, it doesn't take a woman more than weeks of planning scheming and preparing, to get up an Informal Party.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-03
Witch Burning Time.
Cincinnati Enquirer.)

Modern woud-be funderstudes of the blessed saints are forging forward in their crusade to redeem this wicked world, far at least as America is concerned
 A member of the Tennessee General Assembly i5 of these anoned servants of supervirtue. Ii his proposals carried into effect shall bid good by to Sunday baseball and all other games; more shall read a Sunday newspaper, ride the steam trolley yet in the festive auto mobile; theatres and movie houses will be closed there will be no barter or trade any kind what soever Here is choice bit from this evangel now sweeping the country under the auspices of the Anti-Saloon League spirits
 Too long have the people of the earth clung to the feshpots, and their doom is certain that of Tyre and Sodom. Europe is the Sodom and America the Gomorrah and only the immediate return to the Puritanca religious precepts of the witch burning days the earth from destruction
 It clearly is to be that this apostolic prophet of doom would rejoice in lighting the faggots o the funeral pyres whereon the unregenerae should die is heard every hand But it represents the logical outcome of this to democracy if permitted to have it's intolerant way This man and all his Kind represent something that was thought to have been tanished forever from the world. He invokes dissen- sions, hareds, intolerance, all the black broods of evils which cursed the earth through eighteen bloody centuries And he speaks this creed openly ih America
 Rev Dr. Niles Carpenter, of Harvard University, not the lk the Tennessee divinity legislator. He recently declared that Sunday blue laws were form all the essential elements of Boshevsm. He as serted that it Christian for any minority to decide what the best for majority, that such policies of BolsheVisn, leading to such move ments the blue law movement and the earlier restrictive laws in this country and England.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-03
Who'll Add 'em Up?

(Fords International Weekly)
 The United States is to have a navy larger than either Britain Japan. But Britains navy. says another report, will still be the larger. And Japar has plans which may challenge both, says another.
 The simple truth is that the United States is spend ing a whale of fortune the navy that Britain is spending another whale of fortune the navy; that Japan is ready to spend third whale of for tune the navy.
 The United States is contemplating than S750,000,000 for the army Britains army estimates are billion that the nation is staggered Japan is sheer mtarst.
 France has political fight in the course of which her minister for has resigned, the issue whether France maintain a very large or a superatyely large Greece has the largest army in it's history Throughout the Balkans the number ot men in the army practically equals the number of men in each state
 Now, where is the man who s; down and total ID just how the world is spending on arma- ments? How does the total being spent after the War 10 end wars compare with the expenditure be- fore the war came?
 II would be an interesting study. And how would this vast sum compare for example, with the world plans for agricultural development? In the United States We know that much is asked for the equip hent of the National Guard alone as for the whole Department of Agriculture.
 II the figures for the worlds army and navy ex- oehdiiures today could be focused in one place. Nh'l* endom Wrull te stunned.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-03

lncIe Joe Cannon's fondest remembrance prob uIy IS or the time when you could buy good cigar or q nickel Dayton News)
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-03
PROMOTERS AND PROMOTIONS

lhe Washington State solons are wrestling with a
 bIue Sky law for the regulations of promoters and promotions Those who urge the passage of tbo I,,, contend that the State has suffered from dishonest promoters whose chief purpose is 10 sell stock rathe than to establish legitimate propositions
 There IS no more useful citizen anywhere than a legitimate promoter There is none more harmful thah the other kind Of a promoter The man who can see the services that may be rendered and the prohts that may be made in the development of :t mine or an industry. the building of a railroad the reclamation of tract of arid land or d wilderness lLe inauguration of line of steamships the establish nent of store to bring needed articles within pur- chasing distance of the people. the erection of a hote-the creation of any useful thing, in fact-and secures the capital for the purpose renders public service The. man who sees only men with money
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-03
Boy, Page Mir. Volstead!

Prohibition has gwen birth to some perplexing problems. And strangc5t of all the problems is this one. Every farmer knows that after fer mentation begins in silo, the i fumes of alcohol in the bottom Of q silo are powerful enough to give a man pleasant jag. So a thrifty Indiana farmer put his silo to use and has been admitting folks from a nearby town to his slo at a charge l of 25 cents per head per 10 min utes inhalation. The customer en- | ters the silo, remains 10 minutes and comes out with a happy JagS. 1 But how about the legal aspect Of ] the case? It the farmer violating the Volstead act? If so, in what way :? He sells no alcohol The customer imbibes no alcohol; all that is sold and consumed are fumes. And there is no law against the sale and con sumption Of alcoholic fumes. We may yet see the Silo Jag Company, Inc, Capital $500,000 900, with a system of Fume Stations that will make the Standard Oil Company look cheap. Every small town could support at least two Fume Stations and each of the larger cities would keep at least 100 of the Fume Stations busy. Why pay 90 cents for one small aggravating drink of hootch when you can get two comfortable complete jaGs for the same money? The Silo Jag does not injure the stomach and kidneys and does away with the danger of wood alcohol. and there is only 10000 per cent profit in the scheme. 30 cents worth of corn stalks properly fermented will supply 10000 guaranteed jags at g. cents per jag There's millions in it men; there's millions in it.
 And it is absolutely legal.
 Names Is Names
 May Lake Erie. clerks in a bake shop in Meridian. Miss
 Our Daily Special
 Politeness Begins yAt Home.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-03
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTER

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTER- IOR. Notice of Applications for Coal Land Leases. Dee. 22, 1920. Notice is hereby given that under the Act of Congress approved October 70, 1914 (3S Stat, TAD, entitled An lands in the Territory of Alaska, and the regulations hereunder oi May IS, 1916 (45 l.. D., 113l, and amendment thereto and pursuant to public leasing offer in said regula- tions contained, applications for leases have been filed with the Com missioner of the General Land Office as follows:
 Block 1. Matanuska coal field.
 320 acres, proposed investment
 $35,000; development work to
 begin immediately after lease is
 granted
 Block 1, Matanuska coal Held,
 1900 acres, proposed investment
 $120, ,000 development work to
 begin sixty days after lease IS
 granted
 On February 20. 1920, the said applications will be taken up and the proposals considered and subject 10 any better terms that may be or fered by another qualified applicant filed with the Commissioner of the General Land Ohice during pu5lica- tion hereof and prior to, said date. (Signed) JOHN BARTON PAYNE,
 Secretary'of the Interior
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-03
PULP INDUSTRY AN ACCOMPLISHED FACT

The wood pulp industry in Alaska has ceased to he a mere hope. It is here-an accomplished fact Alaska is making wood pulp and shipping it. Here after it will appear with the fish, copper, gold and other leading products of the North. The people of the North are under obligations to the Kennedy brothers MT Lass and their associates for pioneering this industry to successful conclusion. It is a great thing to Know that the development of the wood pulp and paper business of Alaska is already under way and that the first mill is in operation.
 And this is but the beginning of this industry. There will be many such plants that at Spee' River in the future and in addition may expect great paper mills at early date to make finished paper from the wood pulp.
 The development of the pulp business in South eastern Alaska should bring people here in the end to make permanent homes than have the mining and fishing industries. Pulp and paper mills will bring, of course, a great logging and numbering in Gusry and they will add to the fleet of small craf, plying the waters of Southeastern Alaska They will additional business, and a wider market for the products of the soil and the They will mean busy population for twelve months in the year for the winter well the
 eethe good work go
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-03
BITS OF BY-PLAY By Luke McLuke Copyright by Cincinnati
 Enquirer
Gus Joe Miller Contest

,.3 sE.F.at.s
 A Milwaukee reader claims the oldest story is the one about hare guy who went into a saloon in the bad old days. The hard guy went up to the bar, grabbed bottle oi whiskey and smashed it ol the floor.
 I'm a bear" whoopcd the hard guy, I'm bear."
 The barkeep walked around In front of the bar and hit the hard guy a wallop and knocked him down.
 "So, you're bear, are you" de manded the barkeep. as he stood over the prostrate hard guy.
 "Oh," replied the hard guy, weak ly, I'm just a tame bcar.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-03

mere IS no avenue of escape left open for 'allF men, Time was when a man could hide be- md a "omans skirts Columbia Record
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-03

U s sham" to ask if, but if Hoover lands a i"'e m he Cabinet will that body have 'meetless' tucsdaFs?- Columbus Dispatchp
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-03

some people are kept yirtuous by an inheren eis' or decency and some by a healthy dread O ails.-l Baltimore Sunl
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-03

Alter the exciting wave of robbery will come tn alm income taX-(Toledo BIadey
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-03

With the balance of trade for last year approxi- matey three billions dollars in favor of the United States the of exports over imports growing as the year drew to close the record for the corresponding period the year before there is nc indication that this country is going broke or i'll fl any lengthy period of depression.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-03

No matter how great Alaskas wood pulp and paper industry may become, how numerous the mills nothing deprive the Alaska Pulp and Paper Company the honor of being the first here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-02
DREAMS SHATTERED AS
 MOVIE BUBBLE BURSTS

Kansas City, Mo, January 1.-Dreams of becoming cinema stars are being shattered today in the minds of scores of girls throughout the middle west as result of the bursting of an al legged promotion bubble here known as the International Pictures corporation
 The schemes according to federal of ficers, was simple. an advertisement placed in an eastern theatrical maga zine asked Apr chorus girls and leads The answers came quickly, and then on beautifully engraved stationery, the applicants were told tale of a trip to California, chartered yacht tha, was to sail the South seas drop anchor at Egypt and cruise European waters The only requisite was a deposit of $5C to keep away curiosity seekers" The money came with answers such as the following:
 I am five feet four and very pretty Enclosed is s50."
 Then along came the agents of the postoffice department and spoiled the plan. Hubert Settles and his wife are under arrest and postoffice inspectors say they have scores of letters from girls ambitious to be screen heroines and alo the engraved replies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-02
AMBASSADOR R|CC|
 GENUINE MARQUIS
Italian Envoy at Washington Apparently Don't Feel His
 Titled Consequence
By Assnciated Press

Genoa, December 1S.-Ro1ando Ricci, recently appointed ambassador at Washington, has the right of the title of a marquis, but he has never used it. He is regarded as a wealthy man, his fortune being estimated at 10000, 900 lire which has been accumulated from a modest beginning.
 He is one of the best known lawyers in Italy, making specially of conner cial law, the formation, transformation and amalgamation of companies and is considered an expert in maritime and mercantile law. He always refused to participate in politics until Riolitti nominated him a senator in 1912. 1912.
 The senate then entrusted him with the draft Of Eills on mercantile marine and on the state ownership of water power. He represented Italy at the international conference of chambers of commerce in Paris, was appointed a vice president of the international federation of the chambers ard lately was ti.e Italian delegate at the inter- allied economic conference .e in Brus. sells. He has now abandoned his pro- fession to dedicate himself entirely to politics.
 Although lie is 60 years of age, he appears much younger He is a brilliant conversationalist. Both his sons were at the front during the war the elder being decorated with medal for valor and is now a captain, while the young er is an agriculturist and possesses a large estate near Perugia. Signor Riccfs only daughter married Dr. Gal. liani, who fought duel for her with pr. Catterina and was severely wounded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-02
HUNT FOR SLAYER
 ID BE CONTINUED
Daytona Youth Killed By Parties Unknown, Verdict
 of Coroner'S Jury
By Associated Press

Daytona, Fla, January 1.-The coro- ner's inquest here today into the death of Grady flames. l9, who vas killed here last week. resulted in a verdict that h.s death was caused by parties unknown, But Sheriff Morris is continuing his in vestigation with a view to arresting the persons responsible.
 Young flames was killed in a struggle with four unidentified men who abducted his father, Arthur Flames. and whom the son was trying to rescue. W. c. Jones, a Daytona Beach pharmacist, was charged with the killing in a dying statement by Flames, according to test.- mony of his sister, Lena Flames, at the inquest
 q told you Jones said he would have me killed tonight" were the last words of her brother, Miss flames testified.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-02
BUILDING BOOM ID
 VISIT TUSCALOOSA
Prospective List of Develop ment Includes Eight Story
 Bank-High Total

Tuscaloosa, January 1.-(SpeciaL) )-New Years Day was the quietest in many years and with the exception of the banks and postoffice being closed, there were no evidences that it was holiday
 The New Year was given a noisy well come last night with the blowing of whistles and the shooting of fireworks in all parts of the city. One church held watch night services. None of the busi- ness houses was closed today The police reported no arrests and the sheriff's of flee also had an idle day.
 Business prospects for Tuscaloosa for the New Year were never brighter AL ready two and a half million dollars in contracts for buildings have been let. Among these are the state home for the feeble minded, the First Methodist church, the First Presbyterian church. the three latter already under construc- ton, and two bank buildings, one eight stories and one four stories. These an- nouncement were given out by the sec retary of the chamber of commerce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-02
AUTOS KILL 1,47O
pig increase In Automobile Fatalities
 shown In New York

New York, January i@sutomo,i,ss Killed l.47o persons in New York state iaSe year. ana of these fatalities, TAG were m New York city, the National High ways Protective association announced nere ere today, comparing these figures with i,uaf @ automobile fatalities in the state in ,slo' since when practically no concrete law to curb reckless driving has beer enacted in the state.''
 Nelghboring states enacting such regu- iations have reduced automobile fatali- ties IT per cent, the society noted. This was particularly true Tn Connecticut, winch at the Massachusetts border line on the main road from Springfield has erected an inspectors house and a large sign Of warnings and rules for autoists, the association added.
 Formerly. the report stated, the pleas- ure car caused most of the deaths. but the commercial truck, which has done so much damage to improved highways, Will soon pass the passenger vehicle as death-dealing menace unless drastic laws are enacted.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-02
LL-KNOWNMAN
 DIES AT MOBILE
Z. M. P. Inge Drops Dead at Home New Years Day.
 Prominent In Politics

Mobile, January 1.-(speciaL)--z. M. F. Inge, Go, a resident of Mobile since 1876, educated at the Southern university. Greenwood. and the University of vir- gina, and a member of the lower house of the Alabama legislature, dropped dead here early today in the hallway of his home as he went to his front door. Heart trouble caused death.
 He was well known over~the state and widely connected. having many delauves in Montgomery and Hale county. His father was William Bullock Inge of North Carolina, afterwards a prominent planter of Hale county. He was promi- nent in state democratic circles at one time and often served as delegate from this county to state conventions. MT, Inge also was prominent in mystic so- ciety circles of Mobile.
 Mrs Inge and two sons, Herndon and George, and enc daughter, Mrs. Charles A Johnstone, survive him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-02
TELLS WHY SECRET
 FACTS NOT PARED
Says Britain's Quest for Four Billion Loan Kept BaIfour
 Quiet
By associated Press

Washington, January 1.-WiIliam
 Denman of San Francisco, first chair
 man of the shipping board, declared
 today in an open letter to members of
 Congress that the reason Arthur J.
 Balfour. former British secretary of state for foreign affairs, failed to dis close to American government officials
 the existence of the secret treaties be-
 tween Great Britain and Japan re-
 quired mo further explanation than
 his quest for the $4,000, 900, ,000," which the United States loaned Great Britain early in the war
 MT. Denman said Mr. Balfour ar
 ranged for these moneys" in May.
 I9l1, when he was in this country as
 head of the British war mission.
 His protestations of deep friendship
 Tor the interest of the United States
 wrote MT. Denman, filled our press
 and warmed his auditors in the halls or congress and at the tables where our hospitality was extended to him while he was making. them the ink was scarcely dry on the last of the three notes constituting the so-called secret Shantung treaties, which from a
 naval standpoint destroyed the island or Guam, probably our most valuable naval base in the Pacific
 Japan, our rival in the Pacific was by agreement with Great Britain con- firmed in the possession of the Ma
 rIenne group of islands, which placed an msurmountable barrier between us ana the North Asiatic coast and the Japanese islands. Great Britain's price Tor this was the British control of the islands of the south Pacific group. winch in the event of hostilities to which such diplomacy inevitably tends isolated Guam from the Philippines. It is obvious that MT. Balfour owed to us the disclosure of the existence of these agreements. Why he did not requires no other explanation than bis quest of the $4,O0O 900, 900.
 It will help liberal England to m. oerstand the growing mistrust of america toward her to know that there was active deception, in addi- ton to suppression of the facts at tha tune the loan was negotiated" MT. Denman then charges that at a conference between the Balfour mis. sion and himself and Secretary Ian sIng and Assistant Secretary Polk of the state department. MT. Ra1fonr stated that "all the agreements he. tween the allies affecting tha infsr. | eses of the United States and general
 world shipping conditions,p would h. Iuiiy disclosed to the American con 1 lerees' but that he had never ere. oeemed his promise"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-02
TIN CAN TOURISTS ELECT
Fredonia Man Named Royal Chief Can
 Opener
By Associated Press

Tampa, Fla. January 1.-With cleo tlon or G. M. Tremaine, of Fredonia, ~. I, as Royal Chief Tin Can Opener selection of Gainesville. Fla... for the ls1l convention and choosing other off cers. the annual convention of the Loyal order or Tin Can Tourists of the World came to an end here tonight. The ses- sions lasting four days. have been held Tn the tourist automobile camp at De- sota Park and the attendance has aver aged 2,000. Other officers elected are: Exalted Chief Tin Can Opener. James M Morrison, Chicago: Vice Royal Chief Tin Can Opener. Grandpa Flaw kins. Noblesville, Ind: Royal Secretary. W. H. Hulsman, Butler, Ind, Royal Treasurer. Mre. J. L. Truesdell, Min neapolis, Minn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-02
TRAIN KILLS FOUR
Two Others Critically Injured When
 Automobile Is Struck
Bv Associated press

Charlotte, N. C., January 1.-Mr. and Mrs P. A. Deal, F. M. Deal, Jr, 36. and Miss Lena Belle Deal, IS. son and daughter of E. M. Deal of Newton, were killed outright, and Beona Deal. H. year-old sister of the two latter. was critically injured when their automo bile was struck by train early today on the outskirts of the city.
 The party was en route to their home after having attended the funeral Fri day of Mrs. J. H. Deal, wife of a local contractor and builder and son of Mr and Mrs. P. A. Deal, who were killed in the accident