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The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER.

The Board of Education did well when it reelected Lester D. Henderson Commissioner of Education. The Territory is fortunate that it has man of his capa- bilities executive ability fer this important posi- tion. Mr Henderson has been at the head of the Territorial public school system since the position Of Commissioner of Education created six years ago. He has contributed immensely to building the Alaska public school system up to the high standard which prevails throughout the Territory. Probably State Territory in the country ever developed q school syetem of such merit in short a time
 It is gratifying 10 realize that for at least two years MT. Henderson will remain the head Of institution of which all the people have good to be proud and toward the creation of which he has played large part.
 In these days when business and the industries ofer such attractive rewards to capable it is often that with the ability and energy possessed by MT. Henderson deliberately chooses education profession. The work that he has done in this Territory since coming here nine years ago to become Superintendent of Juneaus public schools has demonstrated that Alaska at least, profted when made the choice.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
INDUSTRIAL INSURANCE.

The Legislature should look well into the cost of government industrial insurance before it attempts to introduce it is Alaska The industrial pop ulaton of Alaska is small and widely scattered The overhead cost of maintaining such a gov ernmental agency and making il fair to all those who would be affected by it would be large All employ ing concerns would have to be classified for the hazard in industries is greater than in others and there would have to be a check of the payrolls of all companies individuals employing labor of any kind. Ii would be necessary that every concern should be enumerated and that the author- ties should know how many persons are employed all the time in each of them, otherwise it would be Impossible for the law to be fairly and equably applied. In addition to this there would be the medical, auditing and executive branches of the agency to be maintained
 The result would probably be that the cost of maintenance of the Industrial Insurance Commission would be out of all proportion to the amount that would reach those having claims arising under It.
 The Territory might take chance if it were not that the compensation act in force is giving satisfaction to those who come under it's provisions lhe cost to the employers is going directly to the injured employees and it is rare indeed that case iNolvng personal injuries ever reaches the courts
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
Disease Conquering Itself.
lCincinnati Enquirer ]

Medical science, with it's powerful weapon of chemistry, continues to win battles in the never ending campaign against disease Two great victories already scored in this the year marking the cen tennia of the great Pasteur, the modest Frenchman who beyond all question is the worlds greatest benefactor of all time.
 But few weeks ago from the Rockefeller Insti- ute the cheering word went out of the isolation Of the germ which perncious nfuenza,e the plague which killed 25.00O,OOO human beings while the great raging. With automatic certainty the may, nay, soon will be promulgated. Now comes the triumphant announcement of another con quering feat.
 Scientists in the laboratories of the Mt. Sinai Hos pita in New York have in turn isolated the germ that produces the fatal sleeping sickness that takes it's annual toll of hundreds of thousands of human lives It while searching for the of this dread disease that Ehrich found the specific for the blackes of humanity.
 While the germ has not actually been seen with the microscopic eye of the investigators, in the of the influenza germ, yet they have been able to cultivate it in neutral medium and repro duce it in monkey subject This is but the usual preliminary. Within short time there will be issued to the waiting medical world directions for the specific that will make this deadly lehargy as harmless typhoid fever. The transcending prn- cple of making disease fight itself Pasteur's immortal discovery, is merely in its beginning.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
OUCH! LAME BACK, RUB LUMBAC0 OR .bACKACKE WAY

Kidneys cause backache? No! Lis ten. Your backache is caused by lumbago, sciatica, or a strain, and the quickest relief is soothing, pene- trating St. Jacobs Oil. Rub it right on your painful back, and instantly the soreness, stiffness and lameness disappears. Don't stay crippled! Get a small trial bottle of St. Jacobs Oil from your druggist and Timber up. A moment after it is applied you'll wonder what became of the backache or lumbago pain.
 is absolutely harmless and doesn't burn the skin.
 Rub old, honest St. Jacobs Oil whenever you have sciatica, neu- ralgia, rheumatism or sprains, as 1t is Absolutely harmless and doesn't burn the skin.
 (Adyertisement)
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
Claim Aleut Ghosts Hold Wild Revels.
(Valdez Miner.

Some natives of Alaska profess to believe that the angry spirits of the Aeuts massaered at the behest the carly Russian discoverers and traders Shelkom Baranof and Chirikoff, lurking in the volcanoes of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
 Beneath the thin crust of the earth covering the lower Alaska Peninsula and the Aeutian archipelago those spirits the native assert, holding nightly revels and emerging periodically to hurl fire and smoke and thunder at the heads of the invaders.
 The fancful recital of the natives is that on Chrikof Island, long famed haunted, a half hun dred natives lured into log compound, set upon by savage enemies under the direction of the Russians, murdered and despoiled of their otter skins. Their spirits appearing again in protest The eruption of three volcanoes in January is they say revisitation of these spirits and will continue until they avenged.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
THE PASSING OF THE COMMONER

Inc announcement that Bryan's Commoner will suspend publication with the April number is mot unimpcrtant The Commoner was estahlshod h
 william Bryan shortly after his second defeat for the Presideney-about 22 years ago He was sbortl, Joined by his brother, Charles w. Bryan in its pupncatioh' TOT many years it was conducted as a weekly, and 1t was profitable it's owners Tator 1t was changed to a monthly The paper was nover much from literary or artistic sandpoins but it was always interesting because was always inst ,ilo Bryan--and Bryan IS Bryan, interesting whether one agrees with him or not, and usually one docs moi For many years Brother William has been too busy witt politics. ecuring and abusing Darwin and his
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
BLACK WANTS TELEGRAPH
 LINE TO MAYO AND KENO

Capt. George Black, Yukon mem- Der of the Dominion Parliament, is endeavoring to get the Government to establish telegraph line to Mayo and Keno Hill, connecting with the Dominion line between Whitehorse and Dawson.
 Failing in this an effort will be made to secure a proper connection with wireless stations.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
Yukon Retains Member.
(Dawson News. ]

The long expected redistribution bill at last has been introduced in Parliament, and is of interest to ever portion of the Dominion. Being a Government measure, 1t is quite certain the bill will pass ap- proximately introduced.
 Yukon is allotted one member in the Commons This is good to Yukon and sets at rest the predictions of pessmiss who declared that the Ter rtory soon would lose it's political identity be denied representative in the Dominion legislative body or be merged with other constituency The Government has taken the wider and wiser view thus eXempifyng the faith of the King Government in this outlying portion of the Dominion. The continuation of the member also argurs consideration for Yukon in other respects The Federal Government must have faith in the gold and silver camps of this re- zion, and in the men who devoting their lives to the development of the Territory's resources otherwise it would have taken advantage of the opportunity to change the status of the Ter ritory.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
STORY WRITING CONTEST.

To further the cause of clean fiction and in an attempt to discover new talent, Columbia the Knights oi Columbus official national magazine announces III us April issue short story contest with prizes aggregating $500-the largest fiction prize monov ever offered by Catholic publication
 The first prize is $20O, and there are three otner przes of $l6o, $100 and $50. In ad- dtlon Columbia the right to publishing non pre-"nning stories at it's regular rates for fiction 4No story In the contest must be longer than 10 GOO or shorter than 1000 words All manuscrints pust pe typewrtten in English and accompanied by stamp. ed return envelopes. The contest closes on Monday July End, and the first prize will be announced and 'e story published in the August issue of Columbia
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
Ohio WOman's Bill.
Philadelphia Record.)

woman member of the Ohio Legislature, Mrs Nettie M. Clapp, has introduced bill designed to discourage the morbdly curious who rush to sen satona court trials It proposes give the presiding Judge authority to bar from the courtroom those whom he may deem to have business there Such case IS no cure at all. In most courts the Judge already has authority almost wide as that which is here proposed. Besides the thing is wrong in principle In which respect it is in keeping with other prohbitiye legislation which has recently become so fashionable Morbid curiosity cannot be corrected in that way. Some other method must be found some educational system--that will show the idlers how ridiculous they are and teach them gradually to repress their nordinate appetites.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
He Was Going to e5 Boss at Office,
 Anyway

The exasperated stenographer had finally told the boss just what she thought of him.
 Her torrent of angry words made him gasp for a minute, but quickly recovering himself he said sternly. Young lady. you are fired. l allow no one but my wife to talk to me like that"
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
CRABS WILL ALSO BE CANNED.

Tie local shrimp cannery which has been closed down for the past few days will resume operations again next week. Mr Gingrass, the owner and manager of the cannery announces that he will also put up crab meat. and will begin canning this product as soon as he can ar- range to secure the crabs.-Wran- gell Sentinel)
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23

NOW and again one hears someone say that Gov ernor Riggs and the others on the Territorial Shin ping boaro al the time wasted s25,000 by conducting ah investigation instead of plunging headlong into territorial operation of d line of steamships Eve,t nave shown that they saved from quarter of a million to $SO0,Oo0 by conducting the investigation me Ierrtory would have lost the appropration and accomplished nothing had it not been for the nves- ugation that eondnced
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23

monkeys to give much attention ot the Commoner. Ii is said that all the profits have gone to Brother Charlie for many years Now the latter has become so busy being Governor of Nebraska that he, too, has no time for journalism. So the paper will die. The Commoner will be missed and it's passing re- gfetted by those who have liked il and those who have not agreed with it-and the latter have been the large majority.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23

good for the outside must be good for the inside.
 The young people of today do not want check on their spending, but they do demand a cheque for spend ing.
 No daughter likes to see her father going around in shabby clothes and that is why the old gentleman has to sit in the kitchen when she is en- tertaining company in the parlor.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
Comet Leads the Band

(Utica item in Newark tOhio) Advo-
 cate, lamped by G. c. Larson,
 of Martinsburg)
 Vincent Cornet. of Altona, Penn, is visiting his father here. Cornet was leader of the Utica band few years ago, and is now leader of an 89-pieee band in Altona.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
JOE MEHERIN, SNOW BURNER.

Joe Meherin, merchant and broker of Juneau, who has been making an extensive business trip to he Inter for, will arrive in Seward Saturday evening on his way to the capital city Joe is the original Snow burner" recently making a trip of 3S miles in about hours on snow shoes, a marvellous performance Seward Gateway
 M. D. Berry has engaged Geo. Mobley as night driver for his seven passenger sedan. Hereafter car can be had at any hour of the day or night. adv.
 Headquarters 1nr Ladysmith coal. Juneau Transfer Go. Phone AS. adv
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23

We are never really certain of spring until the baseball scores begin coming over the wires. Now we know that spring is here, and that it will be followed by the good, old summertime.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
News of the Names Club

We always thought he lived at Medicine Hat, but we have just learned that Jack Frost lives at Galesburg, III.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23

One reason why everybody expects that the next Congress will be little better than perfect is because senator-elect Doc Copeland has let it be known that it will have a the benefits of his superior wisdom Springfield, Mass, Union
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23

Three whales, each hundred feet in length have been reported off Cape May, hut the sea serpent is not expected to appear until the vacation season New York Herad)
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23

Uncle sam Gompers is well again He is more than match for any flu germ that iew.-(Chi- cago News)
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23

President Harding declared when on his way to Washington that he more keen to get there than ever before. Wonder if the fact that there was no Congress there had anything to do with it?
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23

She Was Planning on Joining Him,
 Evidently
 Don't take your husbands death so hard, Mrs. Murphy. for just re member you'll join him after death said the parson, comfortingly. "Shure. yer riverence yez didn't know Pat or yez wouldn't ixpect me to take any comfort in any such thoughts" walled the bereayed widow
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
ALONG LEES DETOUR
 By SAM HILL

Observations of Oldest lnhabitant
 "A woman used to be afraid of a gun, but never as afraid of it as a man now is of a woman and gun.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
Read This and Weep, You Thirsty
 Birds

CFrom the financial page of s years
 ago.
 WTIISKEY'-The market was firm and the demand fair, 525 brls. dis tillers' finished goods reported sold upon basis of $1.35 per gallon.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
Daily Sentence Sermon

Talk always is equipped with a self-starter, but what most of it needs is to have the brakes refined.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23

One argument for peace is that modern battle ship costs s16,500, ,O00.-( Philadelphia Record)
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23

There seems to be rage for everything Egyptian except the thing for which the Sphinx is famous tSpringfeld Union)
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23

Gradually the news must reach Berlin that the Allies came out first in the late unpleasantness tBoston Transcript)
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23

Our guess is that if President Harding suited the Democratic critics the Republicans would have noth ing to do with him.-( Toledo Blade)
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23

The last heard of the Sultan, nothing had been heard of him,-(Detrot News)
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
Not Damaqes, Anyway

He had tried to beat the train over the crossing with the usual dis astrous results.
 A friend was in the office of the hospital to inquire after him.
 "Oh, think he will recover" said the nurse.
 But l don't think he will, J snapped the claim agent for the rail road, who was waiting to interview him.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
Fool Questions

F. c. H. asks: Couldn't you call modern saloon a dry good store?' You know the answer
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
If It Fits

The reason good many girls haven't married is because Barkis wasn't willin'."
 There may be a more disagreeable fellow in the world than the bird who always is right, but we never have met him.
 II doesn't surprise us to learn that the ladies now are using their hand kerchiefs as trimmings for their dresses. Any married man who ever has tried to use one of his wife s little lace squares to help out his own supply during a seize Of cold has been convinced that as handkerchiefs they are fine trimming.
 "A girl often has to- help fellow out with his courting. and alter ward her father has to help him out with his finances.
 ia'0z. .... MartinsbnrgA1,G.V Vgslta1S
 We'll bet that after man has gotten through the Court proceedings he begins to wonder what they mean hv ''Free Love-" anyway.
 Lights are brighter since we dis carded the old-fashioned coal oil lamps for the electric bulbs, but we doubt if people are since they have discarded the old-fashioned ideas or right and wrong for the philosophy of the bright lights.
 Mother uses rouge and powder to make her complexion look like her youthful daughters. and daughter uSas ,am to mako hars look like mothers, and there you are.
 In these dry times it has gotten so a man thinks anything that is
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
Gems From Guide Book to Success

There are no unimportant factors in Life's mart. Even the assured success of a strong railroad com pany is dependent upon the capabil ity of the 'fPick and Shovel Men" lay ing the roadbed. J. E. F.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23

Advertisement
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
Quite True

Marriage in New York fell off il 1922, says a news item. And the married fell out, too. the divorce rec ords show.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-03-16
RULES ON SENIORITY RIGHTS
Mic.i~an Supreme Court Hands Down
Decision of Great importance
to Railroad Men.

The Supreme court of Michigan
ruled that seniority rights in the va
rious crafts may not be exercised, un-
qualifiedly, to deprive men in the low
er rated branches of service of en-
ployment during periods of depression.
An agreement was entered into by
the Wabash Railway company, with
the executives Of the Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen,
and the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, stipulating: That yard en-
gineers have prior rights to service
in the yard and cannot be entirely
displaced In times of depression by
engineers their seniors, who are not
yard engineers.
That during periods of business de-
preston, yard engineers who may be
displaced cannot claim the right to
service as firemen on the count OF
seniority, and displace firemen.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-03-16
Trade Unions Upheld
By Senator Copeland

Washington-In a speech before
the women's trade union league of
this city, United States Senator Cope
land of New York indicated that So
called Senatorial courtesy" will not
deter him from plain speech in the
senate.
In his first speech in the nations
capital the new lawmaker declared
unqualifiedly for trade unionism and
said the lockout policy of railroads is
responsible for the coal shortage.
The former health commissioner of
New York city spoke both as medi-
cal man and as lawmaker. He said
he favored trade unionism because
this method makes it possible for
workers to improve their conditions,
thereby lessening disease.
GAS a SENATOR" he aid, 81 am not
interested in international banking. |
am interested in human welfare"
There were no "ifs" or "buts" in
Senator Copeland's stand on trade
unionism. He declared without re-
serve that it was the workers only
protection and that the workers never
progressed until they awakened to
the value of collective action.
eff the railroads had reached an
agreement with their employees, and
thus ended their lockout, there would
be no coal shortage this winter.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-03-16
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Electricity from water power Is
playing big part in the farm develop
ment Of Finland.
Tokyo uses wooden paving blocks on
concrete foundation. Asphalt is
poured between the blocks.
William J. McSweeney, one of the
founders Of the Knights of Labor, the
forerunner Of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, died at Chicago, at the
age of seventy-two.
The Remy electric plant, Anderson
Ind, is gradually increasing its force
of employees, having added total of
127. The number of employees now
is approximately 2,30O.
A wage increase approximating ST.
100000 annually in the salaries Of
office workers at one local plant was
announced at Chicago by the Western
Electric company, the increases taking
effect January 1.
The textile strike in New England
was the longest drawn-out in the his
tory of the textile industry in America.
Beginning in February, the last rum
bles of it's discord have just died away.
Both sides lost millions.
Employees of the Gary-Valparaiso
Traction company Indiana accepted
a reduction of eight cents an hour as
made by a board of arbitration. The
railroad officials notified the men some
time ago of proposed cut Of ten
cpnfS an hour
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-03-16

Increasing activities in the agricul-
tural industries have reduced the to-
tai number of unemployed by almost
One-third in Italy.
Approximately 200 rubber workers
signifed their intention Of joining the
new rubber workers union, according
to Samuel Newman, head Of the ma
chinists' union, who organized the men.
The new organization Is the first at
tempt to unionize the rubber workers
since 1920. Previous unions were brOk-
en- during strike in 1913.
Validity of orders Of the Kansas
Court Of Industrial Relations regulat-
ing wages in industries engaged in
producing necessities Of life, raised in
a case, brought by the Charles Wolff
Packing company, will be determined
by the Federal Supreme court, which
advanced the case for hearing on
April % next.
Terming their action as an sun
authorized strike" President John T.
Wood of the National Brotherhood Of
men. who quit their jobs in potteries
in East Liverpool, Ohio, and Chester
and Newell w. Va, because Of a dis
pute, to return to work. '"The strike is
a violation Of our agreement with the
United States Potters' association" ="
said Mr. Wood.
The New York Central Railroad
company resumed operation of its
Campbell street repair shops at Tole-
do, Ohio, employing between 500 and
600 more men at an increase In wages
Of approximately 25 per cent. The
A. S. Hecker company Of Cleveland
took over the operation of the plant
under the contract plan about year
ago and operated it during the shop
mems strike last summer. One Of the
settlement conditions Of the strike was
that contract work be abolished.
John B. Lennon, for twenty-eight
years treasurer Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, and who was also
secretary of the International TailOrs
union for many years, died at Bloom
ington, Ill.,, from heart disease. He
was born near Galesburg Wis, in
1S4S.
With a gain of 3s3, 1858 members dur
ing the first nine months of 1922 the
General German Trade Union league
had S135,62 working men and women
on it's rolls on Oct. !, and had almost
entirely recouped the losses sustained
in the latter part OF 1920 and the begin
ming of 1921.
The Dublin dockworkers decided tC
accept wage reduction of one shill
ing day A strike has thus beer
avoided.