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The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21
OUTLOOK ENCOURAGING.

The optimism of MT. Stannard to the copper situation and his statement that the Kennecot prop critics will be working at full capacity in the spring is encouraging. It will good times at Cordova the Copper River towns and Prince William Sound the properties of this company manned with full crews, and if the copper situation should continue improve, Mr. Stannard expects there will be improve in many sections of the North IL will money for prospecting and deve- opment, and increased activity ill many lines. Not only will there be improvement among those en- gagged in copper mining. but there is every indca- ton that there will be vast improvement in the fisheries industry. That more salmon canneres will operate next year than operated this there is doubt It also is apparent that there will be greatly increased activity in the herring fisheries. The large demand for herring the present time and the marked rise in the price guarantees that there will be employed in that line next year than before There are too, indications that the coming year will additions the number of she'll fish canneries in the Territory both in Southeast Alaska and to the Westward.
 That there will be progress in the development of the pulp and paper Alaska is known It might be that the development will reach very active stage
 4 All things considered, there is much in the stua- tion at the present time encourage the people Of this Territoryf
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21
VANCOUVER MEMBER OFFERS SEAT TO
 MEIGHAN.

government in Canada and that the United States was illustrated the other day when Lieut. Col Clark O. Vancouver, Conservative member-eIect of Para- ment from the Burrard District of British Columbia. telegraphed late Premier Arthur Meghan Conserva- tive Party Leader who defeated for reelection, offering to resign and give his seat to the latter. Notwithstanding that Mr Meighans residence is in Manitoba and that he has been a member of Parlia- ment from that Province under the Canadian law he may represent British Columbia constituency if el- ected by it.
 The Canadian system is the same as that of Gre 1t Britain as to residential quafcatons-or lack of residential qualifcations-of Parliament member ,. The effect is that the great party leaders and stat men are not subjected to the necessity devotl
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21
ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF
 PEACE

Long ago when political liberty was the great issue in society it said and the saying became an axiom that eternal vigilance is the price of lib erty" According to Maj Gen. John F. O'Ryan fol many years Commander-in-Chief of the New York National Guard and during the commander ol the 27th Division of the United States Army says the great before the people of the world is that Of permanent peace and he contends that in order bring it about that the people must be constantly yigant. In other words, he would bringing the axomatic motto down to date have us understand that eternal vigilance is the price of peace" Speak ing recently in New York, admonshing the people to their part in the great problem that being worked out, Gen ORyan said:
 We must reckon with the people who thrive These have in the past had their way. The attitude of Ludendorf represents that of many other Ludendorffs in other countries It will be hard battle to defeat them, for they have brains and energy and experience in moulding the people to their will. You must beware of delay. Time is their best weapon. If they delay you until you get tired they will win. They figure that the people of the United States want disarmament and peace, but they say to themselves:
 If we only keep the thing going long enough they will lose interest; then have way.
 These thinking in terms of years For every year they keep this thing unsettled there will be fewer people who have experienced the present alive to op- pose their will. By and by the children will be grown to manhood. They will know nothing of the horror of war and they will be willing to fight. It is the kids that these men want to get hold of Today in this country the greatest minds already pre- pairing in the minutest detail how they will mobilize your for the war.
 We must not expect too much of mi tation of armaments. It is the people be- hind them that we must get after
 The diplomats signed the Treaty of Yer sailles because the walls of their peo-
 
 must unite for peace and bend the opposing forces to their will.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21
Watching the Wrong Man.
(NeW York WorldO

In his eloquent address before the Washington Conference, Premier Briand sought explanation or the French feeling of need for the security of armed force in citations from Ludendorff.
 The emphasis is misplaced Marshal Ludendorff was a great figure. He is extinct volcano. His book, echo of the Germany that has vanished has much value for the historian. It has what ever for the prophet who would peer problem of the Germany of the future.
 For that study M. Briand needs to keep an anxious eye upon men whom he does not mention-the Ger man master-mnds not of yesterday but of today the Rathenaus and Stinneses, the thinkers executives of economic and industrial Germany These are the Field Marshals who count at present.
 Paying reparation money is thankless task, but collecting it is difficult and receiving it is danger Germany herself discovered in the boom that followed 1871. While the French military party is watching the German police it may later discover that economic penetration behind it's back has gained the master-hand over French production.
 To pay separations Germany must be industrially efficient. Efficiency be bottled up in neigh bcr land of France much more popuous and now smaller in will slop other countries in the form of twofold competition in manufactured goods and in managing brains and capital. M Briand is watching the wrong man.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21

time and cost to holding the districts in which they live and as a result, they may remain in Parlia- raent as long as they choose to remain in public
 life It makes public life secure a profession md counts for higher standard of membership in the Legislature than system which requires a member of Congress to reside within the district he represents
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21

! taxes, swim or fly.
 If 1t Fits What with buying the coal, paying a fortune for the Thanksgiving bird and facing the Christmas shopping bills, it's no wonder man dreads to see the winter come.
 Our guess is that the "baby-dolr' type of girl can wrap man around her little finger just as easily as the athletic type can-and maybe easier.
 A New Jersey woman Magistrate announces she will kiss the groom at all the weddings at which she off ciates. We would want'a see her face before we would be willing to risk it.
 Another objection to the shimmy dance is that so many of the girls who dance it haven't much more than that on.
 There are many nicer ways for q beautiful woman to get her name in the papers than by being the chief correspondent in a divorce scandal But then we guess some of 'em are never beautiful until the busy re- porter discovers it.
 uc uMIeIcnCc DtlWtCu d llldll anu woman is that a man just hates to be dressed up, and there's nothing a woman enjoys more.
 We hate a gushing woman, but we like the oil wells we have in vested in to be that way
 Some womens idea of poverty is for their husbands to have to drive their own cars.
 When a mans digestion goes back on him and luck begins to make faces at him he decides the world is going to the dogs and turns reformer, hoping to make everybody else as misera ble as he is himself.
 A woman may not know thing about the tariff, the League of Ma tions, or the Disarmament Confer ence, but if she knows how to cook she can have her pick of the coun- try's brightest men.
 There are some couples who could be happy. though married, if they just had the earth between them. That goes either way.
 Why is it that so many families enlarge the house just before the children are ready to marry and leave it?
 They used to say the old maids wore mittens to keep the chaps away, but that is not why flappers put on the rouge.
 Those birds whose money always burns a hole in their pockets might try lining them with asbestos.
 A lot of the dear little girls who don't know much about geography can tell you all about Lapland
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21
He's Too Pessimistic

Our busy statisician informs us that there are as many rats as peo- pie in the world. We are more opti- mistic than that. While we realize there are fearful lot of crooks, pro fiteers and such we always have be- lieved they were far outnumbered by real folks. GOT wasn't he referring to the human variety?)
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21
That's the Medicine

In love one ever should make haste, So expert wisdom tells; Just grab her round her yielding
 waist
 And squeeze her till she yells
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21
Past, Present and Future

''I was fool" began the en- ragged husband, who had regretted his marriage.
 Am, and always will be-" chimed in his wife, sweetly And the argu- ment ended right there.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21

Lieut. H. D. Stetson. post quar- termaster at Fort Gibbon, was at Nenana recently arranging for the handling of next years supplies for the fort that will come by way of the Government Railway and Nenana.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21

l kin remember when good health was not supposed to depend on hay ing all ones teeth jerked out, ton sils removed and appendix cut out!
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21
That's Why They So Often Separate

1 lhats why They So Often Separate Married people are more truth ful than single ones"
 "Yes, married people never at tempt to hide their own faults nor hesitate to tell each other the plain truth. If single persons were as truthful there never would be any marriages" Fool Questions { Curious" comes back with this one: What kind of a bed does a sleeping car use?"
 Fine For Colonization The coryza germ was much de-
 pressed,
 Then to his joy he noted gentle maiden's naked chest,
 ''Aha, oho," he gloated, How fortunate for me it's bare. I'll raise a family right there!" Newark (Ohio) Advocate. The coryzo germ was much de-
 pressed, es s
 For cold and bleak he found That gentle maiden's naked chest Said he: "I dare not stay around A place so much exposed and drear, I cannot. raise a family here"
 Why He Changed His Mind "1 thought you were determined to take all your trips in your motor car since railroad fare became so high?"
 'T know it. But I have discovered railroad never has tire trouble nor does the engine die on your hands. and that on train you never run out Of gas 12 miles from a filling station. Me to pay the railroad fare in the future"
 You Say 1t, We Haven't the Heart (East Rochester Cor. Alliance
 Review.)
 There are two School Directors to be erected Tuesday.
 The Quickest Way There are lots of ways to do it, But if you've never tried
 To shuffle off this mortal coil And want to suicide,
 Just try a drunken auto ride. But Maybe Airplanes Will Come A statistical sharp informs us that 1000 airplanes can be built for the cost of a single battleship. But what good is it gonna do us to lose
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21
They Must Know How Farmer
 Likes to Talk

(From a News Item) Canadian farmers were required to answer 22O questions in the 1921 census.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21
H'ss~H1SSfess . 5 VErVVUY % ~ ~
 AAaf fial1I
To Kill w ar

The conference at Washington
 Might do lot of good If it could get all folk to eat
 A lot of angel food.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21
NOTICE

The Capital Dye Works has been closed temporarily for repairs.
 CHAS. MELDNER, adv Proprietor.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21

one battleship and gain 1000 air planes? We'd pay the same old taxes, swim or fly.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21
Fool Questions

Curious" comes back with this one: What kind of a bed does g sleeping car user"
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21

Give Pictures for Christmas Gifts c. Cartwright. -adv
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21

Our portraits speak for them selves. Elite Studio. adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-21

Visit the Special Bargain Counter at the Nugget Shop. adv
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-08-30
Winter Crops Would
Save Much Nitrogen

Approximately $200,OO0,0O0 worth
Of nitrogen would he saved in Ken
lucky in one season by planting
cover crops on all land which is in
need of them, providing one-halt as
much of this element is saved from
teaching by the crops as was saved
on New York experiment fields. ac-
cording to estimates made by Il. f.
Stephenson, crops field agent from
the College of Agriculture who is
CO. operating with land owners in
more than so counties of the State in
a cover crop campaign. This amount
of nitrogen is enough to produce
more than 100000 bushels of
corn next year
in addition to the nitrogen which
the cover crops would save, they
would be OF further benefit in that
they would prevent soil erosion, add
organic matter to the soil, make the
plant food more available and pro-
vide winter pasture. Mr. Stephenson
bases his estimates on the fact that
Kentucky has about 100000 acres
of land under cultivation in regular
crops, 100000 acres of which will
be in need of a winter cover crop
to protect them during the season.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-08-30
his accomplishment Mr.. Burbank has

his accomplishment Mr.. Burbank has
prepared illustrations showing seven
stages of development from the wild
grass. 1t was over nine years before
he reached the stage of ''pod" corn,
and then it required almost as many
years to get away from the sheaths
for each kernel.
In this connection it may be point
ed out that conservationists could
well turn their attention to corn.
Wastefulness is a characteristic of
Americans, but few realize that half
of our 3,OOO,OO0,OOO bushels corn
crop that should furnish food for
man is wasted. Sixty per cent of
every bushel of corn contains all the
nourishing qualities of any cereal
product. while the other forty per
cent of offal from milling, makes a
stronger and better animal food than
corn itself.-Tom Chivington, for
Corn Bulletin.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-08-30
NOTICE TO BIDDERS

The Board Of Council of the City
of Mt. Sterling, KY, will on Septem-
Der 6, 1921, at 7 o'clock P. NJ, in the
Council Chamber, receive sealed bids
for the Improvement of the follow
ing streets in said city, viz:
Willow Street, from the South line
of East High street to the North
line of East Main street, and East
Main street from the termination of
the improved asphalt street to the
East line of Willow street, be i'm
proved and constructed on the ten
year payment plan at the exclusive
cost Of the owners of the abutting
real estate on said streets (includ-
ing concrete .curbing and guttering
on both sides thereby from curb to
curb inclusive with vitrified brick,
asphalt, bitulithic, tarvia or con-
crete with concrete foundation or
Kentucky rock asphalt with or with
out concrete foundation, as the
Board of Council may determine.
Said streets to be paved, curbed
and guttered in accordance with the
survey plans and specifications on
file at the office of the Clerk of the
City Of Mt. Sterling, KY.
Each bid shall be sealed, endorsed
"Street paving bid" directed to the
City Clerk, to be opened in the pres
ence Of the City Council.
Each bid must be accompanied by
a certified check for Five Hundred
Dollars ($5OO) on a National bank,
payable to the City Treasurer, which
sum will be returned to all unsuc-
cessful bidders.
w. r. MCKEE, Mayor.
M. C. AYRES, City Clerk.
Advertising Committee for Street
Paving Bids, Mt. Sterling, KY.
s9-9O-92)
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-08-30
Country Quietly
Cleaning up Chores

If the mental attitude OF our pco-
pie we're as encouraging as the ma Z.
terial conditions of our country we
would soon be on the road TO pros
verify. Nothing is really seriously
the matter any longer except the
widespread habit of looking ut
everything pessimistically.
Prices and wages are approaching
final readjustment. The railroad
conditions have improved far beyond
general belief and the roads may
confidently be expected to make a
fine showing for the second half of
the year.
The reduction of the rediscount
rate has eased up the banking fa-
cilities generally, and "frozen cred
its" are slowly thawing out for the
benefit of the business man.
The nuisance taxes are being lift
ed off our shoulders and govern
ment waste is being cut to the core
Huge stocks of low priced mer-
chandse are attracting an army of
buyers to the big cities, and more
quick selling Merchandise has been
bought for the fall and winter trade
than ever before.
Even the stocks of gilt edge Sc
curities are beginning to get low
due to the purchases of professional
operators, who are reinvesting their
profits from trading on present
fluctuations of the stock market.
And as the safest foundation for
material prosperity, our new crops,
both grain and cotton, grown on
low-cost basis, are securing better
prices than expected
We are not facing prosperity over
night, by any means, but the country
is quietly cleaning up its chores and
getting ready for it, This is the
psychological moment for a great
leader of national influence. Where
is he? Stocks and securities gen.
orally take the upward swing some
six months in advance of the actual
prosperity start Those who wait
for the starting gun will not get
their stocks at the low price levels
that make investments now made a
sure source of profit.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-08-30
Many Farmers Inquire
About Farm Explosive

Requests are being received daily
by the College of Agriculture FOR iu
formation concerning pierre acid, the
salvaged war explosive available for
distribution to farmers at cost be-
low that Of commercial explosives,
according to reports from the Col
lege which is cooperating with the
United States Department of Agri-
culture in distributing the material
in Kentucky. The State has been
allotted 16S,000 pounds on the basis
of her 3,222,000 acres of cut-over
land
In order that the material may be
distributed in the State it will be
necessary to obtain orders for at
least one carload, according to an
announcement made at the College.
Cash with order is required to the
extent of 10 cents a pound to cover
cost of the acid and the expense of
freight and handling. Any farmer
may order 100 pounds or multiples
thereof up to 1000 pounds, orders
being received subject to return in
case sufficient requests are not re-
ceived to make mp the carload.
The acid is expected to be of es-
pecial help in furnishing means
for farmers to reclaim and clear
land at a cost less than that neces-
sary by the use OF commercial dy-
Mantle. A six-o cartridge OF the
acid is equivalent to an eight ounce
one of commercial dynamite. Be
cause of the insensitiveness of the
material it requires a No. s cap for
decorating whereas dynamites and
farm powders are usually detonated
with No 6 caps Information con
corning the material may be obtain
ed by writing the College of Agri-
culture, Lexington.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-08-30
Romance Of Corn
Burbank COntradicts Indian Legends
and Proves Origin of Maize

Luther Burbank has thrown the
merciless light of science on the or
igin of Indian corn, or maize, and
presto-the American Indian is pre-
scented to us as a painstaking though
crude botanist, instead of dreamer
Of dreams and a special favorite of
the Great Spirit who gave into his
keeping "Mondamin," (corn), to be
the food of the red man forever
After eighteen years of expert,
mentation the California wizard has
announced that Indian corn was
undeniably developed from the wild
grass teosinte found in the sub
tropical sections of this continent.
How many generations or centuries
of selection and cross breeding it
required to bring corn to the stage
of development it had reached when
the colonists landed on the Eastern
shores of this continent will never
be known. but Mr.. Burbank's dis
covery, only emphasizes the debt we
owe the savage Indian for his gift
of the most important crop we now
have.
Botanists have long considered
that teosinte was the probable an
cestor of our present varieties of
maize. and in 1903 Mr.. Burbank be-
gan his experiments to prove this
theory On his farm there is grow
ing the same teosinte that the In
dams found 1t bears tiny ears with
two rows of kernels on a cob of the
thickness of lead pencil and from
two to four inches long, slightly less
than the average head of wheat
Planted by the Indians in patches
in soil that had been loosened, and
relieved of the struggle against the
plant enemies through cultivation,
teosinte responded to its new en-
vironment by bearing more and
larger seeds. As the seed kernels
increased in number and size the cob
accommodated itself to its added
responsibilities and from two the
rows of kernels increased to four, to
six. to eight and to fourteen.
All through the development the
need of the Indians induced them to
save for seed only the larger kerr
nels and the larger ears, until under
cultivation the wild grass almost
disappeared and in its place there
came the transformed Indian corn.
The foregoing summarizes Bur-
banks theory of the evolution of
teosinte into corn and one he follow
ed in his demonstration. In his ex-
periments he produced more than
10000 specimens and following in
tensive application of the scientific
methods Of selection from season to
season. he achieved the results he
aimed for. The ears of corn which
he produced at the end of eighteen
years were equal in every respect
to those the Indians were cultivat-
ing when the white man first came to
this continent, and which represent
ed centuries of patient toll.
II can only be surmised how long
the Indians had been cultivating the
improved corn before Europeans, APP
peared, but from evidence found in
mounds. in the ancient Pueblo ruins
and cliff dwellings, il was a long,
long time. Evidently there was
considerable period Of the so called
'pod" corn, in which each kernel
was enclosed in sheath. Pod corn
is still grown by the Indians in iso-
lated places in Mexico.
In making the announcement Of
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-08-30
TO FLORIDA

J. S. Caudill will go to Florida
this week with the family of Dock
Hicks, all of Frenchburg, Ky, They
will motor through and Mr.. Caudill
will return in time to enter the law
department of Kentucky University
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-08-30

A love of fair play and common
sense is the typical American trait
therefore, we have faith in the in
stitution known rs the United States.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-08-30

Don't tell everything you know,
or you won't be able to come back
for the encore.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-08-30
HOUSEHOLD AND PERSONAL EFFECTS

AT the above time and place the and furniture Of
the iae hurus Hadden well the surplus furniture rugs
stoves etc. OF Mr. and Mrs H. B. viii be sold list Of
the above will appear later.