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The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18
The Banker and the Business Cycle.
(The New York Post. )

(The New York Post.)
 Yesterdays batch of news included the story that the committee of business appointed by President Harding study the problem of mitgatt ling the periodic industrial depressions that sweep lover the country, and thereby essenng the evil of unemployment, had completed its report. This is a matter that should escape the attention of the nations leading bankers, assembled in this city and giving their attention especially to problems of postwar readjustment. There is class of men who vitally concerned in these recurrent swings of business from boom to depression than the men who manage banks, and other group is So well situated for doing something effective Guce the evil consequences of these fluctuations Events since the armistice have served to en- tighten the bankers fully with regard to the eyclica nature of business changes. few of the ultra conservative may scof the idea the bus- ness cycle fad but the evidence of its steady operation in this country for at least century is overwhelming There is nothing mysterious about this phenomenon it is but of the manifestations of rhythm that found in all human activities The business cycle uncontrolled iTa positive evil T. be abolished but the extrFme swings of its curve be reduced, And bankers can contribute mat erially lowering of the peaks the level ling up of the valleys :of this curve. They easily perceive danger signs the horizon that hidden from the average individual in private business When discounts increase deposits decline, interest rates go higher the Federal Reserve ratio drops, Glearings expand prices of commodities and secur ties speculation becomes intense, and nercia failures reach low point it is evident that business has reached the boom It is also ob- viOus that this boom cannot last indefinitely and that it is only question of time before a reaction will lset in. This is time for the banker put his own house in order and also to advise his clients in the bankers peculiarly effective awy--to follow
 the same course Again, when the boom has collapsed and depression prevails, the banker can employ his knowledge of the business cycle to aid in speeding recovery.
 Indeed, wider public knowledge of these busi- ness tendencies will of itself to mitigate the
 
 for example, while business still bear in mind, las result of recent experiences that the higher the peak of imitation the lower must be the subse- quent value of defation, there is little probability of la return to conditions resembling those of 19920. There is reason, however, to that the memories of the past three will forever vivid. Already, the painful steps in read justmen are being completed, the desire another boom is beginning to assert itself in quarters As bus- again takes the upward swing, the time is at hand for bankers and other business leaders to sider ways and means for making it's future curve somewhat smoother. If the boom psychology gains headway it may be too late.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18
Fur Trade Still Large.
Seattle Times. ]

Some of the romance of the fur trade may have departed but the volume this business still con tinues formidaby large.
 Take for instance, the big sale in St. Louis when furs with estimated value of $3 900 900 put the auction block. Included in this lot were r 900 Alaskan seal skins sold by the govern ment
 Demand keeps up with supply in fact surpasses it. Buyers complain, it is stated at "a scarcity of pelts this which will make the market steady and strong
 Where do these furs come from? Canada Alaska, South America, Asia-al these furnish belts sur prsingy large amount originates the United States for despite the settling of the country. there are extensive areas where bearing animals still exist
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18
CENTER OF NEGRO POPULATION.

The center Negro populd ton determined by the Bursau of the Census dn the basis of the Fourteenth Census enumerationl taken January l, 1920, is located in latitude 34' 46 52, and longi- 85' 30' 4S", being in the el treme norhw western of Georgia, in Dade CouIay about 1a miles north northeast Rising Pawn ltown, and that for tEe first time in the history of le country this cen ter has moved northeast, being approximately 9.4 miles farther and 1914 mil,9 farther north in 1920 than it in 1910.s Its former movemen ts have all been in southwesterly direction. In 1790 l. was located 25 miles woc--ss llthwest of Peters burg Dinwiddie County, Nrgnia-I and hundred years later, in 1890, it had moI ed southwest 463 miles to point l57 miles sout nwest of Lafayette, Walker County, Georgia, the same county in which l; was located m 1880. Between A1S90 and 1900 it crossed the state line into Alaba, its location in 1900 and again in 1910 being nl DeKalk County Alabama Its northeastward move 1nent after 1910 h83 brought it back to the state of tieorgia
 The ncrtheaserly movement Il the center of Negro population between 1910 ;rtd 1920 is due to fhe great increase in Nhe Negro popu- lation of Massachusetts. Connecticut New York. New Jersey Pennsylvania West virgini aI Ohio, Indiana and Michigan The total increase in he Negro popu lation of the United States was 63fI36S and 1t will he noted that the increase in the bern states men Etoned was 66 per cent of the totas increase. This
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18
AN EVENING PRAYER (Furnished by DIR. W. A. ALLEN.)

Grant, O Lord, Thou hast my lot in a fair land, that I may show forth contentment by re- joicing in the privileges with which Thou hast strewn my path and by using to the full my oppor- tunities for service.
 In hours of hardship. preserve from self-pity end endow me with the warriors mind. that even in the heat of battle may be inspired with the sense of service. and win the of the victor through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18

mort inward movement of the Negro pop"H'p'on was
 mainly to the expansion of certain ihouS'rles u" Al, uY,a var the high wages paid bel ng the great ottracton It is probably true that her'. mas been |" considerable return movement since the War due 10 tho deoresion in certain industries, and that large nnmber of Negroes have moved south to heir former home
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18
] Rose Mt1fo>r mz1

Rose Miller, dancer, returning from an engagement in Colon, and Immigration Station, in New York Harbor, under new immi- grafton law, though she has been a resident of Lewiston, Maine, since she was three years old. She had only $10 with her and wired her parents for more.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18
If Ii Fits

IT It FttS-
 The thrilr of kiss used to make a girls checks blush a rosy red, but now all it does is leave little red on the lips of the bird who has braved the ipsticks.
 It is all right to take the obey out of the mhrriage service, but in it's place theH. should insert a promise that the bride will refrain from shooting the poor groom the first time she gets sore at him.
 It doesn't do much good to tell a fellow where to. get off if you are not big enough to put him off.
 A lot of men think they can bol- ster up weak argument by using strong language.
 Fools are fools, and if one of them does not try to beat a train over the crossing you are pretty sure to find him Hiring with another man s wife
 Whenever we see a widower carry ing on something awful at his wife s funeral he always gives us the i'm pression he is getting rid of all his grief at one fell swoop and will pro pose to a red-headed widow on the way home from the cemetery
 About the most foolish thing since the day they locked the stable after the horse had been stolen is fash ions decree for the long, flowing locks after all the girls have bobbed theirs.
 The fact girls are showing their ears is causing quite little com ment. but nothing like the interest showing their knees did
 There are a good many angels to married life, but blessed is that couple who never ran up against the eternal triangle.
 It takes an awful lot of a woman s time to tell her husband all the things she has to say to him, but not much of it is consumed in telling him what a great man she thinks he is
 No matter how no account her husband may be. a woman is con vinced the vamps are all after him.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18
But. Man. the Price

"It would be easy enough to flood the country with coal remarked Jones.
 How so?" asked Smith.
 Pass an amendment fOrbiddlng the people to buy coal and the boot leggers would soon have everybody supplied"
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18
Good For somethina Always

About the best you can say about some, people is that they are good liars Sam Hill, in Cincinnati En- quirer. But at that there is such sharp competition among liars that it takes a good one to get much of a rating ,-"Dusty' Miller, in Whining ton News-Journal
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18
Amt No Such Place in U. S. A.

Dear Sam Am very ardent worker 6n the cause of the w. c. T U. My activities have broken down my health and local M. D. advises moving to Very Dry" climate in U S. A. Ilcan't find any Have writ ten to Commissioner Haynes and he refers mel to you. How?
 Vir4inia Dare, Bluffton, Ind.
 (virginii, you've got too much Gin in your name to make good tenn perancc worker.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18
Things a Young Girl Doesn't Know

That dad isn't made of money
 That mother knows a heap more than she does
 That strange young men who asked young girls to go joy riding are never saints That those who dance must pay the fiddler.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18
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Observations of Oldest lnhabitant
 Every cross roads blacksmith shop now has become a filing station and takes in more money in one hour than the poor old village smithy used to in a week.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18

Mexicans have abandoned bulfghting and taken up baseball. read The umpire will take the place of the unfortunate bull-( Nashville Tennesseean
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18

Nations reducing their fighting forces accord ing 10 reports made at Geneva. Maybe the war is really over.- Omaha Bee)
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18

England had her Annie Laurie, whose voice was low and soft She also has her coal, which is soft but not low-( Boston TranscrptD
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18
News Of the Names Club

U. Paradise said. A. Guest are re. ported rom Dallas, Texas.
 hiida Take. of Edwardsville. III. has just taken a husband.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18
Why Clarence Eats Off the Mant

''Pa, do you suppose Clarence hesitated.
 Suppose what?' inquired his dad. N"Oh, l was just wondering,' ex- claimed Clarence, "if baseball play CT could lose his batting eye without batting an eye"
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18
Outside For Him

He's, one of those flat tires
 Who make you rant and swear; He is so full of it
 He surely needs the air.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18
Gems From Guide Book to Success

The mighty California redwood tree was in the beginning tiny Isapling. So must all greatness grow from small beginnings. J. E. F.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18

Old bundles of news papers at the Empire, 25 csnta
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18
Fool Questions

F. M B. asks: Why do they call some of these banks trust compan- ies? They never will trust me"
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18

Must Have Lived Up to Their Names Divorce Court Note in Dallas News.)
 NEW SUITS FILED Mary Fites vs. Israel F'ites; divorce.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18
Daily Sentence Sermon

me 'oird who is easy always has q hard time.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18

Furniture nlovea and stored. Heavy hauling done. Phone AS. Ju. neau Transfer. adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-18

William E. Foster, head of the Trades Union Educational League, faces trial on a charge of syndl- calism. He was arrested in Chi cago with seventeen others of the Communist Party, as the result Of documents seized in Michigan, which Federal officials declare resulted in breaking up the great est radical conspiracy ever hatch. ed in America.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-16
I!ltE I>S|!S|2|k k!ST' NARY GRAHA.M BONNER
THE FOOTPRINTS

Minnie, or Min, as she was always called, was only three years old. Of course she knew there were younger people than she was, but still, some how, every one regarded her as very young. It used to hurt her feelings quite often when people would speak of her as the baby"
 'I'm not a baby" she would say. She had cried once when some one had called her a baby, but her brother told her that people would think they were right if sine did anything like cry. For someone knew how very fond ba- bies were of crying.
 Her brother never called her a baby. He called her Min and Sister. And yet he was much older. He was seven whole years older, in fact.
 No her brother never called her a baby, and yet he always looked after her so that she felt wonderfully safe when with him. She remembered, very dimly, the time when she had been on sled with a little girl and when the little girl had been steering carelessly straight for a tree. Her brother had seen what was happening and In a 'jiffy," as her mother said, She had put himself in front of them And had stopped the sled.
 Every one had said 1t was very he roic. Everyone except the brother. He hadn't said anything, but he had put his arm around her that evening before she went to bed and with some thing very much like a sob in his voice he said: "Oh, Min, you're my sister" Of course that was the truth-so much the truth that 1t hardly seemed worth mentioning except that he had said it in such a strange way. She remembered, too, that he had torn his clothes-torn them to shreds when he had saved her. For though 1t had all happened so quickly, she knew that much though she never quite knew what is was that he had done She was thinking of this this morning as she watched the snowflakes joining all the other snowf1akes on the ground.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-16
Fried the Door,"

Brother had gone to school, and when he got home he had promised to take her coasting and for a ride on the sled.
 Before 1t was time for school to be out-some, some time before, Min's mother suggested that she might go out in the yard and play in the snow until 1t was time for her brother to come home.
 So Min went out and played in the snow. But she began to get very lonely, and after a little she thought she would fnd/her way to Brothers school-she knew the way he always started off-and she would be ready for him the very second he came out.
 But on and on she walked, and no school did she find, and no Brother did she find.
 On and on she walked, and finally, having walked miles, 1t seemed, she found a building. Perhaps 1t was the school house. She went up and tried the door-but alas no one opened the door, and when she knocked she could hear the echo answering.
 She felt so tired now-her little legs ached so, and she was so frightened that she did not know what she would do' She didn't want to cry.
 And so she waited, waited for the strength to go on, while her eyes burned with the tears that wanted to come, to prove that she was a baby, while she held them back with the courage that showed she was not a baby. She thought she could stand 1t no longer, when in the far distance came her brothers whistle.
 "Oh, Brother, Brother" she called. "My brother" And in a few mo- ments Brother came running to her.
 Min, my own Min, Min" he said. And behind him were her mother and father and several of their friends.
 Her father and her mother were telling the friends how they had looked for Min when they had discovered that she was lost. They had tele- phoned eyeryone-they had gone everywhere 1t seemed.
 But when her brother came home from school he said:
 "I see her footprints and will follow them.
 And he had found her-trying to get into a little old closed schoolhouse. Her brother had found her when some how the wits of the grownups had failed.
 And that was as it should be, Min thought. For after all there was no one in the world quite such a hero as Brother. If there was any one who knew more Min, at any, rate, had never met him!
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-16

gods grind slowly because they get paid for overtime.-Hartford Times. Inaugurate "mind your own busi- ness" week for yourself, and keep quiet about it.-Wall Street Journal.
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 We are not sure yet that jazz is dead. But if it is we know where it has gone.-Duluth Herald.
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 Soon we shall forget this trivial discussion of empires and turn again to the more vital matter of umpires. -Greenville News.
 As we understand it, the bur den that is crushing German finance is paper-weight.- Mitchell RepubIi- can.
 People who live in glass houses have no, business trifing with highly explosive. home brews.-New York Herald.
 <" The man chiefly responsible for the present rate of foreign exchange Twas the inventor or the printing press.-Ottawa Citizen.
 
 When man goes in to grocery store to buy some yeast and raisins, it doesn't necessarily follow that he's going right home to bake some raisin bread.
 Attempting to kick aside a wall drapery which had tripped him, and he feared, might trip others, Vice President Coolidge broke his toe against the wall concealed by the tapestry. He suffers the fate com mon to volunteer defenders of the public; unless he bears an official commission there is nothing more dangerous for a man than to set out to make things safe for others New York Herald.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-16
ADAMS
FISHING THROUGH THE ICE.

A man-all muff1ed to the eyes Out on the rivers ice he hies; Deposits pail and grabs an axe, Then, cutting holes he whacks and :" whacks, ... When ten of these in the ice he's
 made
 You see that some deep plot he's
 laid. /--.- Just watch him with a curious gaze As lines untangle from a maze, Beside each hole he plants a stick, Pufing still, for the ice is thick; The line unwinds from off the reel, The prick of the hook the minnows
 feel;
 The baited hook in the hole is cast, You watch and watch-he's alone al
 last
 And on the ice, Oh, glorious sight! Ten "tips" are ready for fish to bite He gazes on his work with pride, Looks first on this, then the other
 side. He sees that nary a flag is up, Then drinks hot coffee from a cup; A sandwich next he munches down And on his brow there lies a frown; He'd conned his book the previous
 night
 And knows full we'll that the sign is
 right. Time goes on, but alas and alack! Flags stay down while the ice doth
 crack; But he has patience, this fishing And lights his pipe for cheering smoke. | From left to right his gaze doth rove, From channel deep to shallow cove; As the hundredth time he shifts his eyes, Int the air a red flag flies. He surges forward o'er the ice And into his throat his heart doth rise; He plays the fish with anxious care Only to find there's nothing there. He baits his hook with a sorry grin And dumps another minnow in: Then doth repeat right up to date He gets no fish, but loses bait. Until the shades of night come down He chases flags with smile and frown And when at last he'll homeward
 lurch, @SlM He may have caught one little perch, ''Never again." he'll say to yoN But you will find it's never true; The very next time the "sign is
 right" He'll be there hoping the big ones
 bite.
 F. w. in Brattleboro Reformer.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-16
EIGHTEEN TO ONE"

Under this title as we'll as others, two of our esteemed daily papers are editorially "joshing" one another over the vote taken at the Connecti- cut College for Women. Of the student body IS preferred the "Courant" to all other state papers, while lone student preferred the "American". The latter appears as much puffed up over it's lone vote as does the former with eighteen.
 Even an eighteen to one proposi- tion seems insignificant when the daily number of subscribers to these two papers is considered, but if the words of a learned newspaper writer are worth anything, it means more than papers at first glance. This writer informed us that if one wish ed to ascertain how much attention particular article attracted, we should multiply the number of com mendations heard by 100 and we would not be far from the. correct number. There you have an $500 to 100 proposition, which is begin ming to mean something. 9a,1 !
 If state census were taken as to preferences between these two papers the odds might or might not7be so great. Both are excellent papers, though we believe one, covers a wider and more diversified fiefd than the other. ..-... ...- vi
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-16
RUDE RURAL RHYMES
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A Rude Rural Valentine


 The rose is red the violet blue this Valentine is meant for you. The February days are classy our good resolves are not yet brassy. The rose is red the lily white some couples fall in love at sight; to bring some others into line requires saint like Valentine and not another month I wot spiffy saint like him has got. The second month with him alone can we'll for lack of length atone. This is the month when. lovers kiss and liela little too wis; for each will swear, then swear some, more, that neither ever loved before. The rose is red the chestnut green they spring some chestnuts too I ween. But though their VOWS be trite and old no whiter lies are ever. told for she tells him and he tells her not what they are but wish they were Sc let them wander hand in hand and heart to heart in fairyland. T too will rise and thumb my Tyre, too will share their youthful fire. Yea though my bald dome shinny is and though you creak with rheumatiZ the rose is red the violet blue still has sweets for me and you.
 .. .~.s.... . BOB ADAMS
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-16
CANAAN VALLEY

Died Feb 10 Mrs. Ulyssia Heady ST, at the home of her daughter, Mrs Chas. Roster of College Hill. Mrs Heady has been an invalid for sev- eral years, having lost her mind, and a constant care. She was the widow of the late James Heady, who died some years ago at MT. Rosters. Her funeral was held at the house Sunday afternoon. Rev. Robt. Fletcher off ciated. Burial in Norfolk.
 Lewis Markham and MT. Brazee and son attended Leon Stumpf in Thomaston- Saturday.
 Mrs. B. L. Frink and Mrs. Walter Tupper are confined to their houses with severe colds.