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The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-27
NOTICE.

The Three Links Social Club has postponed the party planned for Wednesday, March 28th. to Tues- day April 3rd. adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-27
STREETS CLEANED

Taking advantage Of tho present mild weather for a spring cleanup of the city. the streets of Juneau are being washed today by the City Street Department.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-27

The Registration Books are open each day during business hours and each evening between and 3 o'clock. They close Saturday after noon at 6 o'clock. Only those reg istered before that time can vote at the municipal election April 3.
 DO8 TUkMERS' AUTO SERVICE.
 Phone Q67. New 2 passenger Studebaker car. Comfort and safety Stand next to Boston Store. -adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-27

REGISTER this week and VOTE next week. Every citizen of the community owes that duty to Ju- neau.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-27

NOTICE m ODD FELLOWS. There will be no lodge meeting Thursday evening, March 29th.
 MERLE P. MORGAN. -adv. Secretary.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-27

For guoo printing phone 374. Empire Printing Company.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-05
Big BUSINESS MEN
READ THE COURIER

An interesting communication came
to this office last week from Bronson
Batcheler, president of the Institute
Of American Business. 1t gives some
rather pertinent facts about the pres
ent financial situation of the rail-
roads of the country. The commune
cation follows:
New York, Aug 10, 1928.
To the Editor of the Courier:
In a recent editorial the Courier
calls attention to the very decided
increase in the total wages paid rail-
road employees that took place be-
tween 1917 and 1922. The Courier
cites the fact that while the railroads
earned 5000, 000, 900 less in 1922 than
they did in 1917, the railroad en-
ployes in 1922 received $4,000 900
more in wages than they did in 1911.
Manifestly this increase in wages
was not picked off the bushes.
Wages necessarily come out of earn
ings and if the total compensation
paid railroad employees is boosted ap-
proximately n billion dollars a year
the increase must necessarily have z
very direct influence upon the freight
rates charged against the shipping
and consuming public.
However, the increase in railroad
wages is only a part Of the story
The transportation lines of the coun
try are now paying out more in take.
than they are in dividends This il
a comparatively recent development
In 1913 the total dividends paid t.
railroad stockholders were about tw'
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-05
MANY COMING TO
AUTO CAMP affair

With Montana roads in fine condi-
ton, the price of gas lower than in
several years, and the crop outlook
good, coupled with the determination
of many families TO get away from
accustomed surroundings a few days.
for the first time in several years,
The Montana fair has made prepara-
lions to take care of a throng of fam
lilies in the tourist camp on the
grounds during the fair, September
1928, inclusive.
The charge to the grounGs ver
admission to the tourist camp, which
is piped with water. equipped with
stoves, electric lighted tents, and
other conveniences. Near the camp is
a children's playground fitted up
with benches, swings and hammocks,
and on the grounds there is also a
day nursery with a trained nurse in
charge, where babies a be left while
the mothers enjoy the fair.
Reports received by Secretary 3. T.
Moore from all around the state indi-
cate more families r coming to the
fair than ever before
Eve really can't afford it, but the
whole family is coming this year.
wrote one farmer to MI. Moore. "Oul
boy was at the state fair last year
with one Of the club teams, and is the
only member of the family who has
seen it. He has talked so much abo1t
the fair and the SIGHTS and the peo.
pie, that the Mrs. saws the creditor
can take the place, if they want to
but we're going to the fair. Sh'
hasn't seer a crowd or a town bigge1
than - for three years
and is just hungry to see some new
people, and hear q band play, ant
see the city clothes and hats. So weir,
coming"
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-05

and a half times the total railroad
taxes. Last year-1922-the taxes
paid were II per cent greater than the
aggregate dividends.
The cash dividends paid in 1913 to.
tailed approximately 1922, 100000 and
the taxes $127, OOO, 900. Dividends in
1922 totaled S271, 900, 900 and taxes
$301,00O,000 In the ten-year period,
therefore, from 1913 to 1922, taxes in
creased about 135 per cent while div
idends decreased 16 per cent.
The increase in taxation has un-
doubtedly been due in part to an in
crease in property investments of the
railroads. But while the total invest
ment and value of railroad property
devoted to public. service increased
about 33 per cent, the tax levy in
creased 1875 per cent.
The increase in railroad taxes has
occurred during a period in which
railroad earnings have tended con-
stantly to decline. As a result of this
decline in earnings railroad bonds
have been sagging railroad stocks
have been marked lower and lower
and railroad credit has become more
and more impaired. All of this is
rather serious in view Of the fact that
the railroads will during the next ter
years need approximately one billion
dollars annually for extensions anC
improvements to facilities. This
money, if efficient service is to b'
maintained, must be secured either
from the investing public in the form
of loans or from the shipping ant
consuming public in the form of in
creased rates. The fact that r~ailroa'
taxes have shown such a striking in
crease is evidence that the public mis-
apprehends the present status of rail
road properties The tra~nsportatiol
lines of the countary have long sins
ceased to be purely private venture
at liberty to charge all the traffi
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-05
ING physically for il.

ing physically for it.
Some critics say Dempsey is wide
open" for the first man who comes
along with t real right-hand sock.
Firpo has it. His right-hand wallop
is really his only fighting asset. 1t
has been enough, coupled with his
great bulk, the fact that he has
youths endurance and likes to fight.
Tom Gibbons smacked Dempsey
with his right. Even old Bill Bren-
nan kept laying a right up against
Dempsey's jaw before taking the K.
o. All remember little George Car
penter's right smash in the second
round at Boyle's Thirty Acres. 1t had
Dempsey dizzy for a second.
Now this person FirpO is liable to
stick around a while with Dempsey.
He is big and he thinks he a win.
And he will keep walloping away
with that right. Who knows what will
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-05

will bear. Rates are regulated and
taken as a whole railroad earnings
are limited by federal statute which
fixes a minimum return with out in
any way guaranteeing a minimum
earning. The railroads, therefore,
not only render public service, but
they are essentially public servants.
No municipality or state would at
tempt to levy a tax upon it's own high
ways. 1t is equally uneconomic to
levy taxes against the railroads I'M
less the railroad system as a whole
is recognized as a portion of the
national and local tax-gathering ma
chinery.
The public would be well within its
rights if it decided to utilize the rail
roads as the agency through which a
portion of the sum necessary to oper-
ate local, state and national govern
ment were secured. But the public is
not within its rights when it u~tilizes
the railroads as tax-gatherers and
then inveighs against them because
rates tend to increase. Moreover, the
public, in view of its own permanent
interests, cannot afford to utilize the
railroads as a source from which tax
revenues are obtained while at the
same time the capital invested in
railway transportation properties is
slowly being starved.
The nations transportation facili-
ties must either be financed by pub
lie funds or by moneys obtained from
the investing public. The surest way
to make government ownership of our
transportation facilities inevitable is
to constantly increase the tax levies
against the railroads while enforcing
a rate schedule that does not furnish
a reasonable return to the investor il
railroad securities.
Yours very truly,
4 BRONSON BACHELOR.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-05

happen?
Dempsey, of course, will go after
the big challenger just like he did
Willard at Toledo, from the first
gong in the first round. Willard sat
down at least ten times in that open
ing stanza, but was there in the Sec
ond round with a long right upper
cut which rocked Dempsey and shook
him to his heels. Dempsey was arm
weary and winded from the punching.
He couldn't have taken another such
smack just then.
Well, supposing now that Firpo's
endurance and fighting heart are a
wee mite more than Wizards was on
that day. and the physical Dempsey
softened considerable by five years of
all that wealth carries with it,
We will all know more about it
when we look at the newspapers the
morning of September Is.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-05
THE go CENT RATE.

Mr.. Meredith says that he will
bring suit for 30 cents damages
against Senator Brookhart. Since
'few people give any credence to
Brookhart's statements" in Mr.. Mer-
edith's opinion the amount Of dam
ages claimed seems to him ample.
The important thing is, Mr.. Meredith
says, to get the senator under oath
and find out wha: he really does
think.
The plan is enticing. The sum de-
manded seems proper. Senator
Brookhart, a splendid example of the
3O-cent statesman, is entitled to be
put in his proper class-Chicago
News.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-05
BEEF CRITTERS"

More bad news for the American
farmer, who is our greatest beef
grower. He has come into competi-
ton once more with new lands and
cheaper production. We have been
furnishing the celebrated roast beef
of Old England since the days Of
our first southwestern "cattle kings"
A scout for the department of agri-
culture reports Britain is turning to
the Argentine, New Zealand and
Australia for tomorrow's beef. The
time is near when the American
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-05
PAGE THREE

feeder must look elsewhere COR any
surplus beef be has. That, however,
is a matter or taking care of itself
Our home markets are absorbing the
normal beef supply fairly well. So
long as America has 100000
mouths to feed, the man who raises
"beef critters" need not worry=Phil-
adelphia Public Ledger.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-05
Dempsey Knows and Now Shows
Weight Of Championship Crown
Five Years of Title TOting and
Rich Living are Factors
FavOring EirpO
. GIANT-KILLER TODAY

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. "
Sept. 4-When the hour arrives that
Jack Dempsey is no longer heavy
weight champion of the world, down
in his heart OF hearts he will know
why. He likely will offer no alibi,
but instead will concede all honor to
the new champion-although later, in
curing sports reporters will quote
him and tell of many reasons for his
defeat. Perhaps none of them will be
correct.
Five years of championship and
Dempsey is a different ringman to.
day. The weight Of a championship
crown is much heavier than even Jack
himself will admit. But, to a certain
veteran sport writer who has been
constantly assigned to Dempsey's
camp, from the days at Toledo before
the Giant Killer won the crow from
Willard, up to and including the pres
ent training siege here for Firpo, it
is noticeable that Jacks shoulders are
stopped a bit under the load of his
honor.
In plain words, the Dempsey con-
fidence today lacks that sureness
which made him invincible in the days
when he had everything to win and
nothing to lose. Human pride now
makes the mere thought Of giving up
the kings seat an occasion for doubt
ing thoughts.
AT Shelby, Mont, when he was pre-
pairing for Tom Gibbons, Dempsey
never missed an opportunity to ask
close friends in the newspaper game
what was. going on in the Gibbons
camp?' Dempsey knows, as every
follower of the boxing game knows,
that the difference in ability between
a champion and a persistent challeng-
er is never very great. Let a good
challenger catch q champion on ar
off day" and a title is liable tC
change hands.
Maybe the scrap at Shelby was al
off" day for Dempsey. Then agar
maybe it was that little lack of con.
fidence in Dempsey-plus something
else (Which we are going to tell vol
about and which resulted in the up
set to form-and a moral victory for
Tom Gibbons, who was still there a
the end of the fifteen round figh
with the great Dempsey.
Those who freely opined tina.
Dempsey could have won over Glib
bons with ease should have seer
Dempsey at Salt Lake City a few day.
after the Shelby fight as did thu
authority for this article. He was
the owner of as pretty a pair of blacl
eyes Gibbons gift as anyone woulc
are to see. And Dempsey was gla'
that it was all over
But all this is beside the point
Dempsey beat Gibbons, maybe no
impressively, but beat him; and h
will Of course enter the ring a stroni
favOrite over Louis Firpo at New
York on September IA.
The difference between the Demp
sey Of today and the Dempsey of fiv
years ago is money. Today, Demp
sey is a wealthy man. For the las
five years he has been living on tn
fat Of the land, enjoying luxuries an
comforts which were entirely outsid
of his ideas of possibilities five year
ago. Then, too, there is the 'etoll @
idleness' which few are stron
enough to resist It is doubtful
Dempsey has been a severe enoug
taskmaster for himself to evade pay
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-05

John Gary and children left Satur-
cay by auto far Ringing, to spend
Sunday with Mrs. Gary } sister, AMI
her husband, and they expect to go en-
to Sedan to spend Monday.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-05

BRONSON ~BATCHELoR.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-07-05
LONGER AND NARROWER
ROADS, NEVADA'S NEED

According to the Highway News,
Nevada seems to be pioneering in
matters relating to federal aid road
construction. Some time ago the
bureau gave its APPROVAL to the con-
struction of single track gravel
surface roads in isolated sections
of the state, where such roads
serve practically nothing except
through traffic and the construc-
ton of such roads has been under
way for the past two years. We
are even going so far as to build
12-foot asphalt, macadam and nine
foot single track concrete highways.
In the case of the concrete road, of
course, it is located on a primary
route and is being paralleled with
an equal width of gravel surface.
In initiating this narrow road policy
he state of Nevada has had many
arguments with the bureau but with
the assistance of the western Of
icials of the bureau, who are fami-
liar with the conditions, the bureau
was induced to adopt a policy of
Length not width" and is now
approving in Nevada at least, mar
row surfaced highways which will
secure the greatest mileage at the
minimum cost and at the same time
adequately serve present and prob
able future traffic.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-07-05
A NEWSPAPERS DUTY

The highest duty of a newspaper
is to battle with wrong, is the way
a high browed editor of an ex-
change puts it. This of course
brings him in contact with wrong
doors and they are apt to show
their spite in various ways. 1t is
quite common for the thin skinned
or wounded to rush into the office
and shout stop my paper" Or If
he is a bruiser he may hurl vile
names, and he may even get some
one to write "roasts" for him!
This class is pointedly shown up
in the following fashion: A certain
man hit his toe against a pebble,
and fell headlong to the ground. He
was vexed and under the influence
of anger and self-suffiency, he kicked
Mother Earth right saucily. With
imperturbable gravity he looked to
see the earth itself dissolve and
come to naught. But the earth re-
NAMED and only his poor foot was
injured in the encounter. This is
the way of man,
An article in the newspaper
touches him in weak spot and
forwith he seeks revenge. With
great complacency ne looks to see
the crash when he finds that he only
hit his toe against a world that
does not perpetually feel the shock,
and Injuries no one but himself.
Mark Twain tells of such a one in
the father Of Huckelberry Finn who
got angered at barrel and kicked
it with his barefoot.
No sensible newspaperman expects
to please everyone. Such a one
lays no claim to infallibility, and at
times may fall error. But an out
spoken, independent newspaperman
aiming to support the right and at
tack the wrong, is a power for good
in any community, and well-balanced
minds will overlook the little faults
in view of the greater benefits con-
ferred. One who is afraid to speak
out on public questions will never
amount to much. Thoughtful peo-
pie will always honor independence,
and are never failing in finally
branding the wrong-doer. This Is
the law Of compensation and retri-
bution.-Western Nevada Miner.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-07-05
ELKO MEN LOOKING
FOR SOMEONE
LOVE

A few weeks ago the Record
Courier published an article in
which a marriagable young lady Of
this community complained of the
slowness of the young men and
their apparent undesire to take unto
themselves a wife.
Outsiders have become interested
in the case Of this young lady, as
the following letter received this
week will show:
Elko, Nevada, June 20, 1928.
Dear Editor: Here we are in
answer to the ad of marriagable
girls. In Elko the boys can't find
any so if the girls will meet us half
way or send some pictures, we may
write each others letters and get
acquainted. So write me and tell
me how many there are that want
1928 model husband. I'll find
you plenty good looking fellows
who are only too anxious to get
one, so if there is an answer to
this we will be on the job as soon
as possible and answer any letter
written. Just ten now, but there
will be more; all have good jobs,
so here we go. Answer real soon.
We're game SO let her come-a
1928 wife.
Yours truly,
c. P. SMITHY,
P. Sim out for a wife and
will take choice Smithy.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-07-05
4 STRONG INDICTMENT
FARMING METHODS

IF the ranchers and stockmen of
Elko county lived elsewhere than
in Elko county they would have q
hard time making a 60 of it if they
used the same methods they are
using here" was the rather startling
statement made by Eugene Grub,
Southern Pacific agricultural ex-
pert, who has just completed a
tour of the Lamoille, Metropolis,
Pleasant and Lee valleys in the
company of County Agent Chester
Bremen. Mr.. Grub has been visit
ing the various ranches and in
vestigating conditions in the various
sections during the day and in the
evening has been delivering lee
lures which have been exceptionally
well attended.-Elko Free Press.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-07-05
KEEP HIM OUT

George Wingfeld is correct in his
observation that $500, 900 is a 1ot
of money" to present to Jack Demp-
sey for a fight in Nevada. 1t is
too much money to present to this
Stacker who has learned the lesson
Of profteering as well as the method
Of avoiding patriotic duty from the
late war.
Dempsey would have been a box
car bum had he not the bulk to
assist him in the puglistic world
and to hand him 100000 of Ne
vada money for a few days stay
and a few minutes exhibition here
would be the greatest folly of which
this state could be guilty.
There are plenty of other good
boxers who would perform just
as satisfactory as Dempsey would
and many of them would not visit
upon Nevada reputation that
Dempsey would have.-Carson APP
peal.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-07-05
MAKING A TOWN

What does it take to build a
town? 1t takes more boosters than
knockers; more men with public
spirit than those who do not know
what the term public spirit" means.
1t takes men who are willing to
take off their coats and work for
the common good. 1t takes men
who are willing to loosen their purse
strings a little, and not clutch every
red cent until the Indian gives
vent to a choked sob of pain. It
takes men who have faith and con-
fidence in their fellow men, and
who do not ascribe Interior motives
to everything they undertake. It
takes women who are willing to do
their full share, and children who
are imbued with the spirit of home
pride. It takes those who are big
enough and broad enough to over
look fractional strife and who are
willing to shoulder their part of the
burden of the task for the building
Of the mutual cause.
All these things it takes, and
when you find a town where that
spirit predominates, and the snarlers
and the fellows who weakly gasp
at can't be done," are relegated to
seat in the rear, you will find q
thriving, prosperous m m v
which is progressing; one where
new buildings will arise from the
ashes and replace those destroyed
by fire. Added to the above it
takes merchants who will purchase
of brother merchants at every OBJ
portunity. - Gardnerville Record
Courier.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-07-05
OUTLOOK FOR SILVER NOT
DISCOURACINC

IL there Is anyone in the country
who knows the true inwardness OF
the silver situation that man is
Henry M. Rives. He is secretary OF
the Nevada Mine Owners associa-
ton, and representing that body, has
spent most Of his time for several
months in the national capital. He
is master of mass of detail re-
garding the mining industry in the
United States and particularly on
the Pacific coast. This information
and Rives' testimony as a witness
before the various congressional
committees has been huge help to
Senators Oddie and Pittman in the
fight they are making for the silver
industry.
In Reno recently Rives made an
illuminating address on what has
been done and will be done at the
national capital. His review strongly
supports the arguments made in
these columns as to the effect the
efforts of our senators in securing
the full benefits Of the Pittman act
as long as possible in face Of SEEM
ing hostility to the act by officials
responsible for its enforcement.
Rives makes it perfectly clear that
the defeat of the smelling, COM
bines' scheme to "hog the market"
during the expiring days Of the
Pittman act was defeated only by
the watchfulness of our two sena-
tors. They prevented acceptance by
the treasury of tenders of the huge
surplus of silver made by the smell
tiers, and this enabled mine opera
tors to dispose of their product up
to the last moment the Pittman act
was in effect at 81 per ounce. This
move did much toward enabling
producers to keep their properties
in operation and fortify their treas
uries SO the mines may keep on
producing during the period of de-
preston that will naturally follow
knocking the main prop from under
the price Of silver.
Our contention that curtailment
in production of silver, owing to
the inability Of smaller mines to
produce It at much less than 81
per ounce, will tend to boost the
price is concurred in by Rives. He
goes further than this paper has in
optimistic predictions as to the fu-
ture price of silver. We have been
satisfied to contend that opposing
forces would not be able to drive
the price of the metal below the
point of profitable production, which
Is admittedly less than 81 per ounce.
Rives asserts a positive conviction
that the price Of silver will rise in
stead of fall in the near future,
and gives convincing reasons for
that belief. Among these reasons
is the probability Of the big copper
properties ceasing to save silver as a
by-product and the fact that the de-
mand for silver is stronger than
it has been for years.
The message contained in the
Rives address In indeed . cheering