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The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
"SnOw Lady" Protests.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.)


Kiplng's Our Lady of the Shows is perhaps
pretty cold country, and slightly modified addition
to the North Pole.
British Columbia is concerning itself with remov-
ing the false impression imposed by Kipng's poesy.
However cold portions of Canada may be in winter,
the temperature during the remainder the year is
not appreciaby different from other temperate
weather Indeed British Columbia has a very mild
winter, but little different from the Puget Sound
variety, long noted for it's mdness with green grass
and flowers often enduring through the colder
British Columbia, indeed, is co-heir with the Pa
cia Coast south of it, in the beneficial effects the
Japanese current, and in this respect has much the
best of Eastern Canada, which shares with all the
Atlantic Coast in the hazard of winter storms.
"The Alberta government, remarks the Van
couver Sun, maintains experiment farm Fort
Vermillion about 700 miles north of the United
States which all varieties of vegetables and many
small fruits show abundant yield. Wheat, barley,
potatoes and other ordinary garden vegetables have
been cultivated at Dunvegan in latitude Sc degrees,
fore than 100 years
British Columbia has been libeled in the matter
of winter climate much like Alaska. Poets and
imaginative writers have succeeded in creating a
false impression in the public mind. Alaska has
agricultural possibilities equal. in many respects to
Iowa, any other good agricultural state. 1t is
|only recently that Sefansson Arctic explorer, found
cause to explain that the whole expanse of British
North America, far the shore of the Arctic
Ocean, is great green grassy prairie for many
months of the year.
The Frozen North" fable is libel that will take
la great many printed lines to dissipate.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
DIVORCE RATIO INCREASES.

The divorce total of the United States showed an
increase in 1920 for the year period pre-
cedng of 20 per cent that of the 1910 cen
Census Bureau. OF the total male population of 3d.
900,431 above the ffeen-year classification, the
sus figures showed 21,S49,266 married 1,758,308
widowed and 2353S5 divorced, although the latter
figure included divorced and married. The
divorce total siX-tentns of per cent. of the
total population as compared to fve-tenths of one
per cent. ten years The number of divorced
women exceeded men by approximately 10000 rep
resenting closely the difference between the number
of men and remarked after divorce. BY
states, Massachusetts led the field in the proportion
District of Columbia exceeded this with 1878
per cent Wyoming led in the proportion of mar
RED women with 70.5 per cent. The largest proper
ton of married men, 62S per cent, was shown for
Mississippi and Arkansas, and the smallest for
vada with 459 per cent
The figures also showed the proportion
OF married men to the total male population of the
country fifteen years of and over increased from
55S per cent to 59.2 per in the year period
preceding 1920. But after holding out hope of a
change in sentiment among the manageable males
desirable the anfeeing had to throw cold
water it by announcing that believed that the
increase more indicative of a change in age
composition of the population-an increase in the
percentage of males between fifteen and twenty five
years of through INCREASED immigra tion-than
growing propensity to matrimony
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
Mining in Mt. Mckinley Park.
Anchorage Times. }


AS usual thing before Representative, Sena
tor Cabinet member of the Government pro-
mulgates law ruling, they consult those most
affected and guided accordingly. Not the
with Alaska. Within the past month the Senate
passed bill restricting prospecting and mining in
National Parks and the heels of this the
announcement that another bill is before the Senate,
which delegates of discretion to the Secretary
of the Interior to whether, when and how long
prospecting and mining may be conducted
1t would at least in keeping with the usual
courtesies had Washington felt out the sentiment of
Alaska, and especially region most affected by this
ruling In the absence of any such action it appears
that those legisating for Alaska consider that
Alaskans have any voice in the form of legislation
promulgated
This periodical tinkering with Alaskan affairs by
who unfamiliar with Territorial conditions
makes it and apparent that Alaska
have different sort of administraton--an admins
tration directed from men the gound who may
come into close personal contact with the subject
matter in hand AS long the long-range bureau
cratic system prevails it will be useless to expect
anything different from what is happening.
To deny the right of the prospector and miner
in Mt. Mckinley Park would be equal to denying the
right of the citizens of Kansas other states
the right to farm and thus create wilderness for
the edifcation of few eshetic gentlemen ladies
one month in each year.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
LEGION ROTATING FUND.

Compiling the vital facts about the five million
er-seryice men in the United States is a job the Am
erican Legion is now undertaking in it's national
Service and compensation" drive recently approved
by the Legion's in Indianapolis. The drive
is taking the form of census, with each state de-
partment determining its dates for carrying out
the work.
To lay a foundation for the proposed rotating
fund.- to be raised by the Legion for the benefit OF
ex-soldiers in circumstances is prime purpose
of the census. Each will be asked to specify
whether he favors the establishment of such fund
compensation allotment, if he did not need it, with
the passage of bonus legislation. The money thus
raised would be loaned to needy service men at a
low rate of interest and with security.
further aim of the is to record
disability If a veteran wounded gassed,
sick, suffered any injury in the service,
if he has ailment that be traced to service,
he will register the facts the QUESTIONABLE and
assistance will be provided by the Legion in filing
compensation claims. Every will be urged to
carry government insurance.
The takers will also acquaint each man
interviewed with the five provisions of the pending
adjusted compensation bill and will ask him
his choice In this way accurate forecast of the
Legion will be asked to become members the aim
CT the organization being to eventually have every
ex-solder enrolled.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
How Do You Get to Be Shoe
Clerk?


We vouch for this story which
gives pretty fair idea of just how
nervy some CT the modern flappers
are:
A clerk was waiting on a young
lady in one of the Cincinnati shoe
stores last week when in blows one
of the cute little painted, powdered
and shorttsk irted flappers.
81 wanna change my stockings so
| can get new pair of shoes. le'
don't care, do ya?" she asked.
"Why, no; / guess not" replied the
clerk, blushing, not quite under
standing what it Was all about.
Down sits Miss Flapper on the
next seat. umfastens her g-ar-ah, sup
porters. pulls off her stockings and
taking a new pair from parcel pro-
ceeded to put them on as calmly as
If she had been in her own room at
home. Then she waited for the clerk
ro finish with his other customer so
he could wait on her.
We greatly fear the wives OF we
married men are gonna oppose our
trying to connect with a job as shoe
clerk-ibllt, oh, boy, it must be some
life,!i
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15

girls wonderful hair never has seep
it fixed for the night
Women go into ecstacies over the
way the movie heroes treat the
screen ladies, but if their husbands
were to treat them with so much con
sideration nothing on earth could
make them believe the old fools were
not either drunk on had been in mis-
chief OF some kind
The reason people never look like
the pictures in the underwear adj
vertisements when they get into
Those union suits is because the
artist that drew the picture did not
draw their figures for them
People who question your motives
you will notice, seldom give your
motives a chance to answer the ques
ton.
Il. lis all right to have fine theories
about bringing w children, but a
child reacts better to a switch than
it does a theory
Mighty little authority can make
mighty big fools OF some men.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15

framed in the mass OF snow-covered wreck
age Just as the Army answered after the
Johnston Flood the Galveston disaster, the
San Francisco Fire, the floods OF Dayton anu
Pueblo, and in the recent Wset Virginia NINE
disorders its came to the rescue
when Washington needed help the most. 1t
has been reported to that the first ac2ty-
lene torch and the gas TO work 1t, the hFst
Jacks, picks and shovels, were all rushed to
the scene of suffering in Quartermaster Corps
trucks by Quartermaster men. 1t is abund-
proof that Army has its mission IN
peace as well in war. and the Nation can
count it in the future as 1t has IN the
past l thank God that the regulars were
close at hand when they were so urgently
needed in the Nations Capital.
General Bandholtz has supplemented this with
etter to Major General H. l.. Rogers the Quarte
master General concerning the work of the Quartz
master Corps the big Supply Department Of the Arm
in which he says:
Every officer of your Corps on duty with
this command responded Immediately and
effectively and the services of all of them,
as well as their personnel. is deserving of
the highest praise. They worked untirngy
during the thirty-six hours of relief work
and their prompt assistance the direct
cause for the saving of many lives. 1t
must be to you cause of much qualification
that all of the members of your Corps upheld
in such fine manner the traditions of the
United States Army
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
PRAISE FOR THE ARMY.

"The people of the United States ought to be
proud of their Army" said President Cuno H
Rudolph, of the Board of Commissioners, the Dis
trict OF Columbia, today He added that many are
now living who would undoubtedly have died in the
Knickerbocker Theatre disaster Washington, on
January 2Sth last, in which 95 persons killed
and $50 injured by the falling of the snowcovered
roof, had ii not been for the prompt and efficient
assistance given by the regular troops under Brgader
General H. II. Bandholtz. United States Army who
commands the District OF Washington.
In official communication embodying this Mr.
Rudolph thanks the Army for it's work in succoring
the injured and bringing out the dead He asks that
this expression of the gratitude the
behalf of the citizens be made of official record
In referring to the work of the Army. Mr. Rudolph
said:
Every citizen in the District of Columbia
owes debt of gratitude to the Army for
the prompt workmanlike and unselfsh
! ner in which il responded to the call for help
during the Knickerbocker Theatre disaster
debt which people never repay
The Army furnished hundreds of willing A.,
hands and provided the tools with which
they worked 10 rescue with all possible
Z speed the OF dead and dying victims
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
Il Il Fits


We all do lot of fool things be
cause we think it is smart
When it comes to counting their
blessings you will find most people
are roor in arithmetic.
BY THE time the honeymoon is over
the bride, if given her choice be.
tween getting a ten-dollar bill and a
kiss. will grab the ten-dollar bill
every time.
The rain descends on the just and
UNJUST alike. but there are times
when we are pessimist.c. enough to
believe the unjust are the only ones
who can afford the umbrella to pro
tect them from the shower.
Modesty is something you herr a
lot about but seldom see. You are
wrong. this has TO reference TO the
women's clothes
Probably no one in all the world
can act quite 50 naughty as the
queenly flapper behind the counter
i'm five and ten-cent store.
There is nothing a gossip 'hltes
worse than facts. Facts can simply
ruin the very best bit of spicy
| scandal.
The education a man gets in col
lege may give him the big head. but
he never gets an enlarged Uranium
from the education he gets in the
school OF experience.
With the stock in the cellar dwin-
ding to the vanishing point the men
no longer feel the furnace needs such
constant attention
Usually the man who raves over a
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15

(Ketchikan Chronicle

This term of court others in the past show
the necessity for a permanent judge of the United
States District Court Ketchikan. While the court
is here at much expense from the headquarters of
the Judicial Division, the ends OF justice there are
bound to suffer, and likewise when the court is sit
ting at Juneau the ends of justice suffer in Ketchi-
kan, the first port and most important port in the
Territory.
OF course it would be preferable to have another
judicial division in the extreme Southeastern part OF
Alaska, but if that is obtainable at this time the
Department of Justice should be brought to realize
if possible. the Importance of having another Judge
10 make his permanent headquarters here
This desirable result will be brought about
unless the fight for it is continued.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
GERMANS PREPARING TO
SHED BITTER TEARS
WHEN SiLESiA GOES

BERLIN, Fob 15.-Thc German
Peoples Party has introduced reso-
luton calling upon the Reichstag to
decree that the day when Upper
Silosia is handed over to Poland be
hencefcr,h a national holiday of sor-
row.
All public buildings shall fly flags
ait half4mast and the schools and
churches must hold special memorial
services for the lost industrial pro
vince.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
We Think He'd Choke on EN-

Gould he?" asked the Fool.
Gould he what" asked the Sucker
''If a man was starving to death
could he save his life by eating his
own words?" said the Fool as he
headed for the door.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
News of the Names Club

David Spitz, student OF Hughes
High School, should be careful where
he does it or the Board of Health
viii get him.
What are we gonna do with Luke
warm, a student at the Cincinnati
University?
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
Takes From Ten Minutes to Half
Hour to Saw 1t

"Pa, what lis the longest word in
The language?" asked Clarence.
at lis the word a public speaker
uses when he says Just one word
more and | will close" replied Pa.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
Ever Notice This?

my wife will often lose her head,
But it is queer" sigher Nat,
"How she can locate 1T each time
She thinks she needs a new sprin
hat"
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
What Every Married Man Know!

Marriage license in Kansas City
Times;
Glenn O. Barker, Topeka, Kas.
Elva Ready, Topeka, Kas.
Well, she always may have been
Ready before her marriage, but Glenn
VIII find it is different with girls
after they are married.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
Fool Questions

F. l.. R. asks "Why do beans
have strings?' Trying to string us
again, Ell?
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
Good Dope, But Poor Verse

When things go wrong,
Keep cheerful, Bo-
A little song
VIII elalse your woe.
Now don't briStle-
If You can't sing,
Then just whistle
Like everyIthingl
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
But They Haven't Made the. Drinks
Soft

Hard liquor Us not hard to get
under prohibition" observed Jones.
NO" replied Smith. "the bootleg
gers have made lit pretty soft for the
hard drinkers"
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
Wen Ask Doc to Send Him Pre-
scription

Dear Sam:
Can't you get some relief for |. n.
Paine, who WAS recently elected pub
Iicity manager of the North Carolina
Farm Bureau? A. n. o.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
She Must Have a Petty Nature

They had been discussing the pet
names their wives called them.
What does your wife call you,
Henry" some one asked the meek
looking little man who stood a little
way off from the group.
Henrietta usually calls me down. -
sighed Henry.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15

Liberty bonds have been acting in such q crafty
ing manner of late that people who didn't know any
better than to hold to them are feeling like
hancal geniuses-(Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15

We know great many good people who think
hat gentleman and Christian is necessarily the
same thing a Republican and Methodist -(Ohio
State Journal)
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
Zero In OCCUPATIONS

Making impressive gestures while
talking over the telephone.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant

Speaking of the Agricultural Bloc
do you remember, when every farm.
house had a horse block at the 'front.'
gate?
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
ALUNwn&E
., -N0fH,
VEVUUR
~ 1 -
SAaT iAAA-
More About Arms

Ii nations lose all OF their arms
The maidens will. not be alarmed
A nation cannot hug, you know,
So it's just men they want we'll
armed.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15

That you cannot change human nature nv enac-
ton of tyranncal laws is lesson that stares at
the reader of history from every page-Qondon
Teegraph.)
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15

, 1t is pretty well settled that when ! Rarley-
corn turned his toes il 10 put the bootleg in
the best position TO let the whiskey run out-(wash-
ington Post.)
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
Caily Sentence Sermon

Your brain needs exercise as well
as your body.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
To Make Sure of Being Held Up AM
Robbed

Flash your roll in public place
and then wander off into some lonely
street.
Experience OF fools has proven
there lis no more certain way OF coax
ing the bandits to relieve You OF your
cash.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
Now What Is "CaIled ln," Anyv

NOW what IS a 'CaTIed IN, anyway
Ground Head Correspondence Hills
boro Gazette)
Rob Post was "a called in the Nc
Daniel home Monday night.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15
Gosh! How Home Folks Must Enjoy
Visits From Such Liberal GUY!

VISITS FTOW oUCH LIUeTdI GUY
Evansville Uowa) Comm ercial.)
George Hamilton of Dubuque spent
5 CENTS.
Sunday With home folks.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-15

Old papers Ioc sale AZ The Emn'T'
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-03-01
WORLD WANTS MEN WHO DO
Chances Offered Are Usually as Good
as the Courage of Those Vino
Will Dare.

Makers of history and benefactors
Of humanity are restlessly active IN
I'll they reach the zenith of poSsibiI
ity. Then they strive TO improve the
sphere Of their attainment until they
surpass anything yet offered TO the
world It's no wonder the world
wants the product and delights TO
honor men of such industry.
In the last analysis, attainment is
matter of industry. They tell US THE
gods give gold for sweat" Certain it
is that as we toll. new ideas and pos
sibilities suggest themselves. Every
new ideal worked out into practical
application suggests still greater pos
sibilitieS
This part of the world isn't con-
cerned so much about pedigree as it Is
about the efficiency degree. 1t wants
men who think and do. When folks
make their brains operate through
their hands. it's only matter of time
until it will take more than one pair
Of hands To DO what the brains die
tate.
Your chances for moving up are as
good as your courage. Men at the top
find higher levels. and then, too, they,
too. die like other mOrtals. and still
others get satisfied and fOSSiliZe so
there's always room to rise.
It's when you dare toll without
prospect, and keep at it in the face
of encouragement, that real fitness
| reveals itself. Now is the time to
realize that hope that has lured you
to effort Dig in, move on, and soon
| you will be called TO move up.-Grit.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-03-01
Why Chimneys Lean.

Between the wagon builder, alter
nately wetting and drying a board to
bend it to the desired shape. and the
house chimney, grotesquely leaning
toward the east. brick masOns say
there is similarity. The leaning chin
ney is subject on which even the
doctors disagree. but the theory re-
ferred to seems the most plausible
Chimneys lean toward the east A
little observation anywhere will prove
this. Even the best-built affair of
brick and mortar. acquiring age. often
begins to lean. Various theories are
advanced, but the explanation of al
ternate wetting and drying seems the
best. Chimney walls collect more or
less moisture during the night on all
sides. Now, If the broad side of the
chimney Is toward the east. and IL the
sun strikes that part Of the chimney
first, as 1t will. that side dries ont
much quicker than the north or south
side. or the western side In time of
rainfall. the east side ordinarily is
dried the quickest. This general con-
dition has the effect of pulling the
chimney toward the east.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-03-01
Coroner Was Once "crowner."

Coroner is the title of a county off
Ger in America and England, and In
Scotland the term has been found In
use as far back as the Fourteenth
century.
Originally the word was "crowner'
and was derived from "crOwn," as the
officer so titled represented the crown
or king away from court. Just as in
feudal times a mans life belonged 10
the crown. in case of death the crown
ers or kings representatives in the
various districts were the authorized
investigators into the cause of the
fatality. Although the crowner was a
petty official. the power Of the king
or crown was at his hack and the of
flee assumed much Importance.
Under the old English law the
crowner had the right To act as sheriff
in some instances. What is now
termed a Cornner's inquest into d
death formerly was called the crown,
er's quest.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-03-01
rubber HEELS" ON INSECTS
Grasshoppers, for Instance, Are Pro-
vided by Nature With Excellent
Shock Absorbers.

Many insects have rubber heels"
and especially the grasshOpper. which
was in existence during the carbon
ferrous period when coal was formed.
All softer parts of an insect are in
closed in a more or less hardened
chitinOus covering, which is commonly
called the outer skeleton. Within this
skeleton all muscles and meaty parts
are formed and, when the grasshOp-
per lands after jumping. it would re-
"eive a slight jar. if no means of alb
SOrbing Ii were provided. OF course
the joints take care of part of the
shock and the few bristle-like hairs
found on the extremity also do this
But even these are insufficient TO alb
SOrb the entire jar. Therefore, Ma
ture went to work and evolved an air
cushion. This air cushion is situated
at the extreme tip of the tarSuS and
just beyond the two claws of each
foot. The claws help to keep the in
sect in precariOus position where.
without them, 1t would inevitably slip.
BY their means It can find lOdgment
on smooth grasses.
The air cushion of the grasshopper
il round ball filled with air and also
provided with a few hairs. These
in a large measure absorb the shock
when the insect lands on some rock
or boulder. OF course, when 1t lands
on some herb or grass, the shock is
absorbed by the swaying plant.