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The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
THANKSGIVING DAY.

Tomarroy-Thanksgvin Day--is the occasion of an observance peculiarly American, orlglnatea ever 300 years ago by. the Pilgrim settlers of Ply mouth Grateful to the Giver of all Good for the bcunteous first harvest that theirs in a newly adopted by nature being religious it was but natural for them return thanks to God for their blessings It raw land they inhabited htue niche carved of a wilderness inhabited by hostile savages was all they had, and that they maintained at times by force of arms. had become theirs by choice, their home where they were free to wor- ship Creator they desired without interference They were free persecution and in their thank tuness for that well for the material blessings bounfu crops they expression of their grat- tude The observance of Thanksgiving Day has been kept alive America since that time until it is the distinctly American celebration, along with the Fourth of July, that we have.
 From the first Thanksgiving Day to the present is short span in the temple of recorded time. First by step and later by leaps and bounds the quest the wilderness went forward and soil was appropriated by the settler and more bountfu became the harvests, greater became the country, passing from state of dependent colonies free and finally a united free country whose blessings have failed to increase with each passing year In the interim not every year has been smooth sailing; periods have been expert enced when material blessings have seemed small; foreign wars civil conflict have occasion laid heavily the nation and its people, but thrcngh it all the lodestar civil and religious liberty has remained unextinguished and steadily our material welfare has prospered. And for the lessons of the past with their teachings well fer present blessings, it is that the nation again pause in the midst of it's activities for day to voice its gratitude the Master of the Universe
 Alaskans today the pioneers of and standing its threshold stood the Pilgrim Fathers of 1921 Our material prosperity in this year of 1922 is not less than theirs In the years homeland will grow did the land in which they tcck rco And have perpetuated their ideals their love for liberty and kept alive in hearts the spirit that makes gratitude natural and it's ex pression sincerely possible, will those who take cur places keep alive the and traditions
 aIn this year of 1922 Alaska has been busy it's industries have made material steps toward recov- cry from wartime and post depression it's people have been free from famine pestience and dis asters. Fer these blessings tomorrow as did the pioneer Pilgrims Of old, Alaskans will express their gratitude Almighty God.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
SAYS RED PEPPER HEAT STOPS PAIN
 |N FEW MINUTES

Rheumatism, lumbago, neuritis, backache, stiff neck, sore muscles, strains, sprains, aching joints. When you are suffering so you can hardly get around, just try Red Pepper Rub.
 Nothing has such concentrated, penetrating heat as red peppers, and when heat penetrates right down into pain and congestion relief comes at once.
 Just as soon as you apply Red Pepper Rub you feel the tingling heat. In three minutes the sore spot is warmed through and through and the torture is gone.
 Row'les Red Pepper Rub, made from red peppers, cost little at any drug store. Get a jar at once. Be sure to get the genuine, with the name Rowles on every package.
 (advertisement.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
The Good Men Do.
Cincinnati Enuuirer.) ]


 "The good do lives after them" So sang the peer of poets, It is living truth enshrned in human experience. realization of this truth is emphasized by developments incident to the distribution of part of the estate of the late Andrew Carnegie.
 Out in egended Sleepy Hollow rest the remains of the great Ironmaster. Carved tombstone at the head of his grave one reads the words:
 Here lies man who knew how enlist in his service better men than himself'
 It is the epitaph ordered by the Ironmaster him. sef. It Is eloquent of many things-of human ap- precation and human gratitude, of sympathy and understan anding of fellowship untainted by unworthy distictions of caste social estate &a
 And this man was malefactor of great wealth So said the proetarian the less successful the en. vious the mob of groundlings who ever cry out against those who occupy the Seats of the Mighty
 The document submitted the Court disclosed a pension fund of $4,5OO,OO established by the Car he2le WILL The beneficiaries of this fund number tGO,OOO men and women, most of them more than oo ana many or them more than 80 years old. They receive pensions running from $10 month to $5 OOC a year Among them plain people and men and women of title. widows and orphans superannuated men and women, all blessed by the provision made TOT them by the man who now rests under the suns and snows which to Sleepy Hollow
 Most of these folks enlisted personally b, the lrcnmaser; they assisted him become the great est developer of his kind in the world He did not forget any of them His letters with respect to thei, apportionments are full of friendship, feeling under standing, appreciation and the desire that they may never knoW want He knew them by name, thousands of them All of these, long forgotten by the public CT never known to it, not forgotten by him who defined them to be better than himself
 It is this human touch which makes the dead captain ot industry loom large and human in pers- pective. We remember his other benefactions which SO greatly have contributed and will continue to con- tribute, to the betterment of humanity in general but it is this human interest and kinship with those he knew and loved and provided for against the mutations of the unborn years which makes us realize how much better off the world would be if more men regarded their stewardship of great wealth as did he who rests in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
MORTALITY FROM CANCER.

The Department of Commerce announces that the returns compiled by the Bureau of Census show that over seventy-six thousand deaths due to cancer in the death registration the United States in 1921 and assuming that the rest of the United States as many deaths from this cause in proportion to the population the total number of deaths from cancer in the entire United States for 1921 was s3. ooo while for 1920 the number is estimated at S9,- 900 or 4OO0 less than for 1921.
 The trend the death rate is upward, the rate for 1921 being higher than that for any earlier year in 23 of the 34 states for which are shown by the Department. The death rate in the registration in 1921 S6 per 100, GOO population, aganst S3.4 for 1920. In comparing the death rate from cancer in state with that in another the Bureau 'adjusted rates in order to make allowance for differences in the age and the sex distribution of the population because generally speaking, only persons in middle life and old have cancer that state with many old persons may be expected to have more deaths from cancer than a state with comparatively few old persons.
 The highest "adusted' for 1921 is 996 per 100000 population for the state of Massa- cbusets, and the lowest is 476 the state of South Carolina
 Fer few states adjusted rates have been cal culaed separately for the white and colored popua- tion. In this group of states the highest adjusted cancer rate for the white population is 959 per 900 population for New York and the highest rate for the coored population is 9O6 also for New York The lowest adjusted cancer rate for the white popu- lation is 515 for Tennessee and the lowest for the coored population is 36.4 for Florida
 Summarized briefly, the adjusted rates show that the Northern states have comparatively high and the Southern states comparatively low cancer mortality while there is little difference between the adjusted cancer rates ot the white and colored of the same states. In other words the white and colored races seem equally susceptible to cancer but both races seem less susceptible in the South than the North
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
AN ARISTOCRACY OF BRAINS?

Are colleges justified, the ground of over crowded conditions. in refusing to enroll Tom, Dick and Harry unless intelligence show them really capable of proiting by college work? Shoud have limitation of education instead of education for everybody who wants it? Is Americas ideal to be ''arstccracy of brains rather than democracy os culture?"
 These vital questions being debated pro and by college heads. professors, students and the general public. Statistics show high-choo roment increased times as fast as our popua- tion. Colleges find themselves literally swamped with students Classrooms. libraries and laboratories oyercrcwded, instructors overworked, financial re- sources strained the breaking point Either the colleges limit the students admitted greatly expand their facilities
 The college executives who have been most widely quoted declares Dr. Wm C. Bagley of Co., llmbia University. writing in Visual Education for November, clearly favor the former policy. Herein they depart radically only from the time honored precedents of American education, but the hith- erto dominant ideals of American life.
 Reaction. restriction and repression would indeed be slogans for manufacturer in the face of q keen insistcnt and growing demand his product II IS hard to imagine clergyman who would be down-helrted because his church was crowded The Inanufacturer would quickly borrow money enlarge his plant, and the clergyman would persuade his congregation to build bigger and better church."
 What it is doubtless true says Dr. Bagley. that too many students attend college. for study and the growth that from study but for good times for athletic social prestige. making friends with these who may help them later, the remedy for this evil "lies in reform the internal life of the college itself and not in the un-American policy of exclusion and restriction
 This desire of multiudes of young men and women to go college he concludes seems to us Dne of the most wholesome and hopeful things in a Sy s~-. ~r s 4
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
The Alaska Railroad.
Steward Gateway !

The traveller over the Alaska Railway is impressed first. by the magnitude of the undertaking; and sec ond by the smoothness of the roadbed and the per- niahcnce Of the work Despite all reports by critics who have not travelled the route the railway between Seward and Anchorage thas less grades and shows greater engineering ingenuity than trans-eon mental roads in the States The Chesapeake & Ohio falway has grades reaching three per cent while other roads through the Alleghenes are equally steep.
 Despite these grades heavy traffic as in any part of the world is hauled over them The grade between Seward and Anchorage is not over two per cent, at any place. and crosses much lower summit than many roads in the States. Considering climatic conditions and topography, building the road is an engineering triumph that must be seen to be ap preciated. As factor in developing Alaska it has achieved the greatest
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
Political Issues of the Future

Shall mauve or smoke gray be the popular color for spring?
 All shoes must be marked in small sizes or shoe stores will be seized Question of hat styles must be se.led or country is lost.
 Measures needed to compel hus bands to improve their cooking.
 Size eff a husbands pin money must be settled.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
AN EVENING PRAYER (Furnished by DR. W. A. ALLEN.)

Father. may by our sympathy. our prayers our Kindness our gifts make way for the inflow of Thy love into needy and loveless lives And so may we have that love which alone is the fulfilling of Thy law Hasten the time when all shall love Thee ard another in Thee, when all the barriers that divide shall be broken down. and every heart shall be filled with joy and every tongue with melody
 These gracious gifts we ask, in Jesus Name Amen
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29

world that needs both health and hope To bring more light to more men should not be unworthy ideal for the colleges. Certainly it is not economi- cally speaking an impossible ideal in nation the inventive and industrial genius of which has brought an automobile 10 every third family"
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
HaIf.of-one-Per-cent Stuff

Bhnks- They say tea stimulates greater brain activity"
 links" Maybe it does, but I guess it doesn't stimulate as much tongue activity as the old pre-proh ibition tea did"
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
Walter Takes It-and Them Back

(From the Englewood (N. J.) Inter
 borough News.)
 NOTICE
 l wish to state that l, Walter Beck er and my wife, Margaret Becker are reunited. All the trouble occur ring between us was my own fault My wife is a good, virtuous woman l also owe apologies to my mother inlaw, Mrs. Bears.
 (Signed) WALTER BECKER,
 Ft. Lee, N. J
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
PATENTS

Total fees. S75; first payment $15 1T you have k good idea send fol Tree Conception Blank, which will protect it temporarily and explain how to get a patent.
 HARRY BOWEN. "es'stered Patent. Atty. Mech. En- : s'neer. Pantases Bi3t.. sss.,as.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29

Nothing succeeds like success. Two army officers broke the world record and got two columns Two others broke their necks and got few lines-( Pitts burgh Dspatch)
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
Fool Questions

F R. M. asks: Does color scheme always work out?"
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
Maybe 1t Had Alcohol in the Radiator

Patroman John L. StatZberger ar rested Shanklin on charges of oper- aIting an automobile under the nflu- ence of liquor and wreckless driv- ing
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
Silence Always Causes Her Grief

''Pa, what's secret sorrow?' " asked Clarence
 ''lt's a secret woman can't tell, replied his dad
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR
 By SAM HILL
Observations of Oldest lnhabitant

kin remember when a man put his hand to his hip it meant he was going after deadly weapon. It still appears to mean the same thing.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29

Majcr John Jacob Astor, young CT son of the late William Wal dorf Astor, who renounced his American citizenship to become a British peer, in a political address at Dover, England, declared he was transferring his huge Ameri- can fortune to England. Major Astor was severely wounded ill the World War and lost part of his foot while serving with the Royal British Lifeguards, smartest regiment in the British service.
 Daily Sentence Sermon Laziness and success never travel the same road.
 News of the Names Club
 Will Freezer lives in St. Paul, and we guess he will if he can't raise the price of coal.
 Old bundles of newspapers a the Empire, 25 cents.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29

of course" And we really believe he was right South Charleston Sen 'i"e'. EySns #
 If 1t Fits
 It is strange how deaf a man can be when he is being told things flor his own good
 It will soon be time to take the old New Years resolutions out of the moth balls and give them their annual airing 8 ss4R
 Probably no one learns to regret another mans death any more than the poor fish who has married his widow.
 Of course, the poor prudes may have been given an awful scare, but we notice the knick erbocker craze didn't become popular enough to worry the manufacturers of short skirts
 Of course it takes money too, but just the same it takes more sense than dollars to make happy mar ried life.
 A pedestrian has to be pretty ac- tive to dodge motor cars, but at that he has cinch compared to the poor candidate who has to dodge the political issues.
 In Holland and Belgium it is con sidered unlucky to kill a stork We imagine the birth control advocates would get an even warmer reception there than 'Pussyfoot" Johnson did in England
 The people who think a thing is wrong just because they do not want to do it are no worse, however, than the birds who think thing is right because they want to do it.
 As we get it, the uplift of women is being accomplished by bringing the skirts down to the ground
 Truth may be disa agreeable, as the old saw says, but it can't be anything like as disagreeable as some of the untruth that is broadcasted.
 If the girls who have bobbad their hair desire to see how they look. just let them get their lamps on one of these giant chrysanthemums now on exhibition.
 Big words were invented to elabie fools to advertise how little .1ey know; wise men use the little words to express their big ideas.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
"Cjncinnati, Sah!"

Well, we find Cincinnati people stay by their colors. Out of New York the other day we asked the porter where he lived Well, sah, I lives in de best city in his country, sah" And he quit there, supposing we should know; but not knowing whether he meant New York or South Charleston, we inquired. His answer was, Why, sah, Cincinnati, of course" And we really believe he was right South Charleston Sen tinel. x .s-..-,s.., <
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
News of the Names Club

B. T. sends word that Viola Potts and Roy CoffeeF were married in Atchison recently. Hope they have no grounds for complaint
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
Daily Sentence Sermon

Fast friends are the best thing a man can have-and yet they are the worst.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
News of the Names Club

Old bundles of newspapers the Empire. 25 cents.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-11-29
Daily Sentence Sermon

Laziness and success never travt the same road.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-17
A Nice Question

WILL the La Toilette ultra-progressives
do more harm than good? 1t is a
riee question; possibly by painting any
LIBERAL proposition red La Follette's fol-
DIVERS will make it easier for the timid
conservative to vote against any propo-
rtiOn supported by the La Toilette group.
But, on the other hand, by getting back
ot merely liberal measures and furnish
ing an unterrifed group that will stand
ts these measures though the heavens
iaa, tie La Toilette group may perhaps
VN lear INTO the hearts Of the timid con-
N''aiIFes and so get their support. These
ne serious questions. Progress IS after
~ Up to the majority, and the majority
your timid conservative, who would
ne to be more conservative if he dared
oe' How to get him is the progressive
"asesman's problem. Shall he be fooled
VI eoaxed or scared to death? Lenroot
ana his type would fool and coax the
Hnld conservative. La Toilette and MS
Houp would scare him into fits.
Either method should have the bless
lag Of the true patriot-when it wins
After all, in politics it is success that
counts.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-17
Blessings of Publicity

TNHE Bursum bill, which would take
away certain ancient rights Of the
Pueblo Indians Of the desert, was passed
by the Senate and sent TO the House. Then
a group of artists in New Mexico diseov-
cred the iniquities of the Bursum bill and
made outcry against it. Lined up behind
the bill were Senators from New Mexico,
Secretary of the Interior Fall, from New
Mexico; the political satraps Of the state,
and. according to Senator Bursum, the
Harding Administration. The powers that
be were for il.
And the artists who opposed the bill
were but feeble folk, yet they built their
homes in the rock" Their outcry won.
Senator Borah heard the outcry, examined
the claims Of the protesting artists and re-
called the bill. II is doomed.
About the same time the news came
from the Orient that Shantung was re-
stored to the Chinese. There was another
outrage which was cured by publicity. The
Chinese had no power in Paris during the
neace conference. President Wilson stood
New-York tribune., 1922-12-17
Cartoon Sketches by Albert LeUering
Harding Always Harding

rEOW true to form Harding runs!
n He is not given to impassioned
bursts Of praise or denuneiation.
He could no more write n rip-snorting mes
ace after the Rooseyetian model than he
could spin on his toes lie could no more
write one of those repressed Wilsonian
essays on the philosophy Of life than he
could sing a Debussy aria He has been in
Office nearly three years, and no one seri-
ously considers him an incorriGible reac-
tonary. yet By no stretch Of the imagina-
ton could he be called liberal. He never
truckes to the evident public opinion Of
the moment. yet it is obvious that the thing
called Wall Street does not control him.
They have little taste for him in Wall
Street and less than none in the precincts
Of radicalism.
He is Harding and no more. His mes
sage last week calling for two amend
mcnts to the Constitution in the face Of
apparent conservative distaste at any
amendments was typical of him. His
gentle crack at the enemies Of the Vol
stead act, his demand for a railroad law
Of the type that might have been hailed
as drastic in 1918, his handling of the
farm credit proposition, in effect indors-
ing the old Populist Sub Treasury scheme /;
the whole gentle tenor Of his recommen-
dations revealed a kindly, quiet, dispas-
aonate gentleman, who is tremendously
worried and too polite to show it.
A rather unusual man for cdmultuous
tines he is. this unruffied gentleman who
sits amidst the shock of battle between the
wings Of the two parties and who muses.
sweetly while the fire burns. What sala-
nander he is! Maybe a one-termer, but
the kind of man who would walk into a
fiery furnace with Shadrach, Meshack and
Abednego and offer them a light off his
cwn match.
This program indicates one sure thing:
We shall not have that year of peace
which some of the brethren on our right
felt that they were entitled to few
weeks ago. The Presidents message will
make a noise ike a boiler factory when
Il gets into the Congressional mill.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-17
"Day by Day"

A CONSTITUTIONAL amendment seems
"A TO be before Congress providing for.
the direct election Of the President and
for the assembling Of Congress early In
January after each election, instead OF
rearlv a year later. This amendment Is
in line with all the recent amendments TO
the Constitution in that it places more
mower in the hands Of the average mall
makes his opinion and his vote count FOR
more than it counts to-day makes i
ossier for his views to be registered in
government
Under the present status. when year
.Ianses between ehe election OF Con-
oress and its meeting the conservative
win tell ycu that passions have time 70
cool which is true. Also, with the old
defeated Congress in session three
months the President has an opportunity
70 force legislation upon the country by
buving the 'lame ducks" with Offices II
is a question whether or not the danger
Of a passionate republic having its way
in legislation IS worse than the danger
Of the Iame-duck niIket in the halls u
New-York tribune., 1922-12-17
William Allen Whites "As See It.

The longer we live the more there is to
live for. a fine old world it is
And wouldn't il be a shame If this was
the end Of it? How the lads and lassies
who have gone before must enjoy sitting
on the clouds above looking down at the
spectacle we are putting on here below
Ana they have the sweet comfort Of
knowing that they don't have to leave the
show in the middle Of the act. They have
box seats for the whole performance and
the fireworks in the evening-and what
fireworks they will be 10 be commensurate
with the performance!
New-York tribune., 1922-12-17
Nearing the Last Victory

4 Asst week serum was developed and
demonstrated which will check gan
creme The same day the first successful
use of "insulin" for diabetes was made in
America and a sixteen-year-old boy who
ordinarily would have been considered in
durable was relieved. How fast We are
moving from victory to victory over ma
terial things toward that last great vic
tory!
Along comes a man, now that we are
getting the best Of disease, who has in
vented machine by which we can see as
well as hear across the world by radio.