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IT IS TO LAUGH
Now Senator Borah rises to deliver a few adamad
versions upon governmental encroachment upon the lib
erties of the people. He says that unless a halt is called
in the stampede for a legislative cure-all for all public
and private ills the result will be:
1—There will be an officer for every ten persons in
the republic.
(Alaska has ’em)
2—Every conceivable activity of mind and bodyj
will be under the direction and surveillance of a bureau, i
(That’s us).
3— Inspectors and spies will leer upon the citizen1
from every street corner and accompany him hourly in
his daily vocation.
(Page the coal mine operators).
4— Taxes will be $100 per capita. Forty per cent of
the national income will be demanded for the public ex
pense.
.(’The Forestry Bureau is holding out on us; it only
turns back 25 per cent of the money from our natural
resources to educate our children to properly sing “God
Save the King.” and a dole from other resources to main
tain a place for those driven insane by trying to figure
out “why is a bureau).
Which all goes to show how far ahead of the remain
der of the nation xAlaska is. And there are those who
would deny that we are a brave people.
A Danish professor claims that the latest departure
of science will be pressing a button and taking food from
the air. New! Why Hamlet claimed to have eaten “the
air promise crammed.” In Kansas all a man has to do is
to scan the horizon, spread the table and receive a shower
of poultry, hay rakes, last year’s overalls and his neigh
bor’s Sunday dinner, along with a sprinkling of mules,
hired help and a pack of lop-eared hounds to lick the dish
es clean.
s The Seattle Times, commenting upon the influences
which actuated President Coolidge in selecting non
residents of the Territory for judgeships, etc., says: “In
his (the President’s) opinion, the principal reason pub
lic offices were subject to relentless dispute was because
there were but few private positions of equal remunera
tion.”
Don't show this to friend wife: By reason of the
great demand for them as wives, the women of Turkestan
enjoy a privileged position unknown in any other country
in the world. Their husbands do all the housework, cook
ing, washing, ironing, marketing and gossiping over the
back fence.
“It is the duty of every honest man if he is convinced
that the judgment he has formed is a right one to deliver
it publicly and in its place, to abide by it and to boldly face
any difficulties which may encounter it."—-George Gren
ville.
It is refreshing to note that while not agreeing with
the Gateway with respect to certain opinions regarding
the pulpwood deal, the Juneau Empire agrees with ‘‘the
principle," as Woodrow Wilson would put it.
For the benefit of the suburban press which acknowl
edges failure to understand paraphrasing in the Gateway,
it may be pointed out that it was from Hamlet's colo
quy with Horatio and Milton's arraignment of prelaty.
The Church of England has deleted the word ‘‘obey"
from the marriage ceremony and substituted therefor
“serve." It won't work in free America unless friend
wife can outwit the prohibition cheka.
The trouble with “Daddy" Browning seems to be that
he took “Peaches" on a cost plus contract.
The tightest wad in the world has been found in Ten
nessee. For a birthday present he took his wife to a
dentist arid had her teeth pulled.
NEW TELEGRAPH LINE
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WILL GROSS CANADA
MONTREAL, Canada., Feb. 8. (JP)
—The Canadian Pacific Railroad
Company announced recently that a
second telegraph line from Montreal,
Quebec, to Banfield, British Colum
bia, will be started soon, Assistant
Trade Commissioner W. J. Donnelly,
Montreal, informs the Department of
Commerce. It will be the second link
in the All-Red Route, connecting the
overseas Dominions with Great Brit
ain. The line will be 3,000 miles long
and it is expected that it will be
completed in about twro months from
the date of commencement. The sum
of $423,520, representing the cost of
the complete project, was appropriat
ed last year by the company.
The undertaking will be divided in
to eight grand divisions, thus making
it possible to complete the line with
insured efficiency and considerable
saving of time. It will pass through
Montreal, Quebec; Sudbury and Fort
William, Ontario; Winnipeg, Manito
ba; Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan; Cal
gary, Alberta; Nelson, Penticton,
Vancouver, Alberni and Banfield on
the latter point it wrill connect with
the second Pacific cable' board un
dersea wire that goes through Fan
ning Island, Suva, Auckland and Sid
ney, Australia.
OIL drillers' denied
EXTENSION OF TIME
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. (/P)—The j |
Department of the Interior has just j
made public a decision which denies j
the petition, of operators holding j
leases on lands belonging to the j
Osage Indians of Oklahoma that they j
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be on longer required to drill one i
well in each oil lease within 12 i
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months after its approval bv the De- i
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partment. Representatives of the j
operators recently . appeared at a J
hearing at the Department to present J
arguments in favor of their petition. 1
WHERE IS EDWARD JONES
A communication has been receiv
ed by Joe Badger, proprietor of the
Van Gilder hotel, enquiring as to the
whereabouts af Edward Jones of
Juneau. Mr. Jones, who is well
known locally, departed for Mile 23
3n January 15 and was thought to
have been headed for the Kenai river
iistrict. Anyone having information
ire asked to convey same to Mr.
Badger as the enquiry, a personal
me, is important.
REV. DUNUP ENJOYING
LIFE IN THE SMS
Reverand R. V. B. Dunlap, former
Methodist Episcopal Minister of Sew
ard, and director of the Jesse Lee
Home, is now located in Bellingham,
Wash., where he is pastor of the
South Bellingham Methodist Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap are enjoying
themselves in their new home. Mr.
Dunlap lecturing in neighboring cities
an Alaska missionary work. They re
cently returned from a visit wTith their .
son in Haiti, after which the summer i
was spent touring the East. !
Without realizing its rarity, Eddie
Davis of Waterloo, N. H., killed an
albino porcupine.
The Candy Cottage, the
home of Velvet Ice Cream, T
the best on the market. .
Coleman's Gas Lamps and Lan- (
terns. J. L. Graef.
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FUR NT IN NEVADA
CARSON CITY, Feb. 8. (£>)—For
he first time since the “16 to 1”
ilver days, Nevada has placed in
irtually complete control, a repub
Lcan state administration. The new
rovernor, Fred Balzar, is the second
epublican to be inaugurated in 37
years. He also has a majority of
the principal administrative positions
in possession of party associates.
Sixteen years ago, Tasker L. Od
die, now U. S. Senator, was elected
governor on the republican ticket but
his party did not head sufficient
state departments to claim the ad
ministration.
The last republican regime in the
Sage Brush state was in 1890.
A swell movie is on tonight
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