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CAUSE FOR CONGRATULATIONS
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In making short work of the Comptroller bill, the
Territorial Senate proved itself superior to its advisers,
and decided on a course of action which will go far to
establish confidence in the merits of that body.
It was fortunate that the measure was launched in
the upper house at a time when it w'as not cluttered up,
as is the lower branch, with a flood of radical measures,
many of which have just enough logical ingredients to
make them debatable rather than killed in their infancy.
The stage is clear for the entrance of new actors with
something tangible in the form of a program directed to
the loosening of the bureaucratic grip.
This could never have been accomplished through the
Comptroller bill, a thing well known to a majority of the
Senate, even if its sponsors were unwilling to admit it.
The doom of the bill was sealed from the h&ur when
Delegate Sutherland appeared upon the floor of the Leg
islature and practically ordered the legislators to pass the
bill merely on its title and the authority of himself, Judge
Wickersham and Senator Steel.
The defeat marks a signal defeat for all those spon
soring the bill, in that it W'arns them that no small group
of men, however learned in the law and politics, can dom
inate the legislative body of the Territory.
Even Mr. Sutherland's most ardent admirers agree
that it was a bad piece of politics for him to appear as
an advocate of the Comptroller bill. In this, they see the
fine Italian hand of the Delegate’s rival for political lead
ership. No better method could have been used to kill
off the sovereign for the benefit of the pretender to the
throne. While Mr. Sutherland invited rebuke for his ill
timed utterances, Judge Wickersham smilingly sat apart
and let him have the first round.
And he lost it.
The House may now' take its cue from the Senate and
proceed to clean slate of all the radical program proposed
by the Attorney General safe in the consciousness that
all thinking men and those wdio w7ish to assist the Legis
lature in passing measures for the benefit and not detri
ment of the Territory, will give them hearty support.
Already the House has displayed its sound judg
ment in killing the Labor Commissioner bill on the
grounds that it could bring no benefit to labor but on the
other hand involved too many chimerical expediencies to
justify even its debate.
It will be noted that those members of the Legisla
ture who scouted the question of the merits of their meas
ures for making extravagant personal statements about
those who differed with them, were found in the “kayo”
column when the thinking men of the Senate had some
thing to say. There is a difference between debate and
the time-honored Alaskan custom of personal character
a assault.
Peaches will actually receive. $3,500 a week for 14
weeks with the proviso that should she fail to snare an
other “Daddy” before she gets to the Pacific coast she
will get an additional ten weeks. It's now up to “Daddy”
to begin cutting in on “Peaches’ ” bankroll with the ali
mony stuff.
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FORTS LOCAL MEN
Sometime early Sunday morning a
break occurred in the Washington
Alaska cable at a point near Prince
Rupert sound and immediately mes
sages began to pile up in the various
offices affected. The cableship Dell
wood left Seattle Monday, located the
break but was forced to give up the
job temporarily by high seas. A sec
one attempt was made today but the
result has not been reported.
Meanwhile Ketchikan opened two
channels of radio communication with
Seattle through Camp Lewis, and Bre
merton radio station has been moving
business slowly thru the navy station
at Cordova'. The two operators, Fraw
i ley and Slumberger, at Cordova, have
been plugging away at high speed
from 14 to 16 hours a day trying to
clear a veritable snowstorm of re
ceived messages, and last night was
nearly exhausted by the struggle ■with .
losing odds. ,
At Seward, Lieutenant Carter W. i
Clarke, Master Sergeant Homer San- I
ford and Technical Sergeant Clark j
have been keeping the lanes fairly j
open by intercepting messages sent by J
Bremerton to Cordova and re-trans- !
mitting them, attempting in this way
to lighten the burden on the exhausted
Cordova Signal Corpsmen. Lieuten
ant Clarke has been in general charge
of its work. It was stated at the Sig
headqquarters today that the belief is
held there that the situation will be
cleared and normal business resumed
by tomorrow night.
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VETERINARIANS ARE
FEW YOUNG MEN SEEKING PRO
FESSIONS ATTRACTED BY
VETERINARIAN’S CALLING
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WASHINGTON, April 8. OP)—Young j
men seeking professions are turning j
less and less to the veterinarian’s call-1
ing, and Dr. John R. Mohler. chief of
the Federal Bureau of Animal Indus
try, which protects the nation’s meat
supply among other things, is deplor
ing the fact. The 13 accredited vet
erinary colleges of the country are
turning out scarcely enough graduates
to supply the Federal service, not to
mention the needs of State and mu
nicipal services and the large field of
private practice.
Eighteen piece brass feand at the
Liberty tonight.
Hofman’s Rooming
House
THE BELMONT
FOR LABORING MEN
Call Adams 126 for Labor
SEWARD, ALASKA
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS ARRIVE SEWARD
Wednesday and Saturday
At 7:30 P. M.
TRAINS DEPART SEWARD
Monday and Thursday
7:30 A. M.
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LIBERTY
THEATER
8 O’CLOCK — ONE SHOW — 8 O’CLOCK
THE BEAUTIFUL
BEBE DANIELS
and
ROD LA ROQUE
In the big Sensational Comedy-Drama
“Wild, Wild Susan”
An. up-to-the-minute tale that will make you roar
with laughter
And it’s a first-class Detective Story
What the wild, wild life of the wild, wild girl led to
There is also a fine two-reel Mack Senett Comedy
“SOPEB HOOPER DIE LIZZIES"
An Interesting Hodge-Podge and a Reel of Jokes
The Seward Band of 17 pieces plays tonight, giving
several selections between the comedy and feature
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