I'M E G LE A M
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 16
Published every Sunday Morning in Juneau
H. H. McAVOY
Editor, Owner and Boss
10 cents the copy $1.00 per year
A FED WORDS FOM JANE
We did not intend to come back
but so many readers asked for us
that we decided to visit with you
this week, at least.
During the long rest afforded us
by enforced idleness we have had
ample time to consider many things
in and about Juneau. We have not
changed our opinion about a lot of
things and are still in doubt about
the efficiency of the public schools,
regardless of all that the Hock der
Kaiser professor, who came up here
last summer from the Washington
University, said about our advanced
educational facilities.
we still insist that children should
KNOW not REMEMBER the multi
plication table before they are given
work in fractions. We think that
children should be taught the parts
of speech gradually from the Third
grade. We think that young men
and women should be through col
lege before they are middle aged.
Every man should have finished his
training by the time he has passed
his twenty-first year. Men and wo
men should be able to take care of
themselves by that time and be cul
tivating the life habit rather than
the school habit.
M e think some of the ordinances
passed by the City Council in the
past have been too absurd to treat
seriously were it not that the actions
of which have wrought hardship on
others. For instance 1, 2, 3.
The children have lost their op
portunity for hustling and a junk
man, whose profession, though not
artistic nor attractive is at least
time honored, is seen no more in
Juneau. The ordinance drove him
out of town, yet he paid rent, lived
on victuals and kept small monies
in circulation.
There was some theft of copper
but there is a law covering both
petty and grand larceny in the Ter
ritory and the Council exceeded its
constitutional rights, when it passed
an ordinance that would put any
one out of business.
We hold that the Council had no
more right to put the junk man out
of business because there was a
theft of copper in another municipal
ity than it would have to close our
banks in Juneau if a cashier default
ed in Timhuctoo.
We respectfully refer the Counicl
to a section of a time honored ordi
nance passed on June 12, 1915, which
particularly says *********
“that no freeman shall be imprisoned
or dispossed or in any way be out
lawed or banished or destroyed or
will we in on or upon him ascend
by legal judgment. The poor junk
man, probably never read nor heard
of that ordinance which is the bul
wark of our civilization and we are
equally sure that the City Council
who passed Ordinance 123 never
heard of it either.
We are all wrought up about the
next occupant of the gubernatorial
chair in Alaska. A certain local pa
per has averred that Charles Sulzer,
if elected to Congress can execute
his duties as in the Territorial Sen
ate, will without doubt, if defeat for
Congress carry out the pre-election
promises made by the Juneau Pirates
and serve as Governor as well as
Senator.
Well, maybe Mr. Sulzer can run the
Executive Mansion and be able to
declare a dividend too. So far as the
Capitol being located in Juneau goes
the tradesman are not sure that any
gubernatorial family up to date has
ever accelerated a demand for groc
eries, condiments, table linen, nap
ery and such.
The Gleam wishes to thank its
patrons for the many words of praise
and encouragement received during
the past week from the citizens of
Juneau. It was pleasing to know
we had given satisfaction the first
wyeek and we hope to merit the same
praise many weeks and months
hence.
We wish to emphasize the fact that
this week’s issue is giving much
space to possible legislative affairs
and The Gleam hopes to put Juneau
on the map as being the most pro
gressive and the most interested
town in the Territory in all affairs
relating to the general good of Al
aska.
Whatever is for the best and fin
est, we would have Juneau, in the
\an, leading, and we trust that citi
zens of the community of Juneau
will take pride in helping in every
way to be first to suggest; first to
advance and first to put through.
It is to be hoped that the City
Council will find enough time be
tween scraps to pass an ordinance
regulating the kind of material of
which buildings shall be built with
in a radius known as the business
district. Such men as Charles Gold
stein and many others are of the
opinion that if only concrete build
ings are erected in the business dis
trict that insurance rates would low
er and that the protection would be
greatly augumented in the downtown
section.
“There is nothing new under the
sun” was the bored remark of a
smug philosopher whose book was
once the best seller, but is now sel
dom read. And he never saw a luci
fer match, a safety pin, a tin can,
a jack knife, or a pant’s button and
although he was the husband of a
thousand wives, he never buttoned
one of them up the back.
The Dream
Theatre
Tonight and Monday
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and the
Humming
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shortest way home under certain pe
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one is past forty and a Taku blow
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