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THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1920
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress—
DAN SUTHERLAND.
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For Attorney General—
JOHN RUSTGARD
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
JOS. H. MURRAY
R. E. ELSNER
A. H. FRAME.
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
A BUSINESS MAN FOR PRESIDENT
Warren G. Harding, next president
of the United States, will be the first
business man by occupation to become
president of the United States.
There have been twenty-seven presi
dents, holding the office of chief exec
utive, throughout a period of 131
years; all soldiers, lawyers, planters
or publicists by profession; not a busi
ness man by occupation in the whole
long line. Warren G. Harding wdll
be the first business man and the first
newspaper man to succeed to the of
fice.
Yet the office of president deals with
the biggest business concern jpn earth
■—the United States of America* The
American government is a great cor
poration in wrhich a hundred-and ten
million people are stockholders. From
that corporation the people must draw
dividends, or to it they must pay as
sessments. It deals vitally with the
welfare of private trade and industry,
upon which depends the material pros
perity of all these millions. Yet until
now, in all our century and a third of
history, not one business man by occu
pation for the higgest business post
on earth!
Under the present national adminis
tration the government has broken
down completely on the business side.
It wras a Democratic senator who de
clared that under the present manage
ment every department had collapsed.
Through lack of competent business
direction the machinery of the govern
ment has been so incompetently
handled that the situation calls loudly
for the services of a salvage corps.
Waste, extravagance, incompetency,
inefficiency, have cost the people bil
lions. They have heaped huge bur
edns of taxation on the backs of the
people. They have undermined the
faith of the people in their govern
ment. They near lost the war
through the failure to furnish our sol
diers at the front vrith proper equip
ment, and through a_debauch of waste
at home that brought inflation, pro
fiteering, demoralization in public and
private affairs, in its w^ake. These
abuses, due to lack of business sense
on the part, primarily, of the president
of the United States, still menace the
very solvency and safety of the nation.
Along ^ith all this break-down in
the management of the nation’s own
business affairs, has been a totally
wrong attitude on the part of the gov
ernment towrard legitimate business
enterprise, accompanied by an effort
to make the government itself the uni
versal employer and provider. The
machinery of government has been
utilized, under the camouflage of wrar
necessity, to politicalize industry.
More interested in politics than in
business, for which the head of the
administraton confesses aristocratic
scorn, the aim has been to build up
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the public payrolls and destroy the
private payrolls of the country. We
have had, as someone has well put it,
too much of politics in business and
too little of business in politics.
Out of this chaos comes loudly the
call for the reconstructing hand of a
real business man; one who has ac
tually wrought in the field of practical
business affairs. The answer to that
call is the republican nominee for pres
ident, Warren G. Harding, who, in a
typical American community, built a
large and thriving business, under ad
verse conditions, from the ground up,
and who, through years of actual con
tact with men and things in the busi
ness world, knows what business
means and how it should properly be
conducted.
There is a world of theories and
words, and a world of things and
deeds. Too many professing to be
statesmen dwell in the former, and
too often, charged with great respon
sibility, they make a mess of practical
affairs. Warren G. Harding is a
product of the school of practical ex
perience; a graduate of “the univer
i sitv of hard knocks.” The great busi
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i ness problems of government, now
j foremost because of the oppressive
; burdens of taxation, the vital necessity
i of reorganizing the government on a
business basis, and the immediate
need of giving to American business
! enterprise and American agriculture
and American labor the encourage
ment essential to ward off widespread
commercial calamity as the aftermath
! of war—these conditions call for a
man in the presidency who in the
world of practical affairs has learned
to deal with business problems in a
business way.
And so, in response to this imme
diate, pressing need, Warren G. Hard
ing will be the nation’s first business
man by occupation in the presidency
of the United States.
TALK AND THINK ALASKA
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Talk Alaska, is the advice of Step
hen S. Wise, one of America’s promi
nent leaders in social welfare move
ments and noted all over the world.
Do it now, is the next step he advo
cated.
In other words, if you know Alaska,
its possibilities, its potential sources
for greatness, whether it be in scen
ery, in fishing, in timber, in mining,
in farming or any other industry,
I don’t keep your knowledge bottled up.
Give it freedom. Turn it loose where
it will communicate itself to others
who lack it.
| Be a booster for your own country,
i And it is not a difficult task for one
j who knows this great Northland to
! boost for it. Turn to almost any sec
! tion of Alaska and there will be found
opportunities which are deserving of
special mention. Alaskans have be
come so familiar with the possibilities
that many of them are taking it for
granted that they are a matter of
common knowledge. Many fail to
realize that what to them is an old
story, to others is an unwritten book.
Alaska has had lots of publicity
and most of it has been of the wrong
kind. First, it has been pictured as
a land of eternal cold by fictionists
who used icicles for penpoints and
with telling effect. This impression
has been made deeper by a few wrould
be heroes who have written the folks
back home about the. terrible hard
ships they had undergone finishing
across the frozen, snow-drifted
steppes and ice-filled streams in the
middle of July, or whatever summer
month they happen to hit the frigid
zone. Then the conservationists got
I in a deadly blow with their sandbags
j and the resources the writers of let
| ters and fiction didn’t freeze up the
latter element locked up so tight that
it has taken two decades to unlock
and the process has just started.
Now that the unlocking seems in a
i fair way to begin, it is also propitious
to start a real education campaign
[about Alaska. And Mr. Wise points
out the way. Talk Alaska. There
is no closed season for that kind of
game and only those who know
Alaska can really talk about and for
ic. Others have done it with disas
terous results which can only be
counteracted by real facts. Alaskans
| have the facts and are in position to
[ use them.—Juneau Empire.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
Some men are born thirtsy. Others
live in Ketchikan.—Juneau Capital.
An exchange says Cordova women
have the prettiest lips in the ter
ritory. We’d be willing to put ours
up against them.—Valdez Miner.
Two cabinet members have come
to Alaska and have received a great
welcome. Everyone in the territory
was glad to see them. The people are
sure that the are working for the
very best. T-here is another cabinet
officer, Postmaster General Burleson,
that we invite and—in fact—dare to
come north.—Douglas News.
SHORT STORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
occur CES
Lawrence Kerr, who spent the win
ter in California, is back in Nome
again.
Travel to and from the interior is
increasing every stage having capac
ity loads.
A. C. Jorgensen of Nome has taken
charge of the government radio sta
tion at Kotlik.
Capt. Edward Parsons, of Portland,
a pioneer Alaskan navigator, died in
a fire at Denver Col.,
The new mercantile establishment
of Lang and Ramstead has opened up
for business at Cape Fanshaw.
C. Howland was adjuged insane
before the U. S. Commissioner at
Petersburg. He will be sent to Morn
ingside.
City Councilman Charles Milot has
returned to Nome after a winter in
the states. He says he has had plenty
of the outside.
The power boat Kolyma recently ar
rived at Nome after a very stormy
passage. She will be used in trading
to Siberian ports.
A Juneau jury last week found H.
Mabru not guilty of running a still.
This is the second trial of the case
as a mistrial was returned in the first
hearing.
The Nome schooner Silver Wave
under command of Capt. Jack Ham
ner, arrived in Nome recently after
a wild and tempestuous voyage, dur
ing which the crew were compelled
to fight strenuously to prevent the
schooner being wrecked near Nuivak
by ice.
Genero Escriva, a Mexican was
found not guilty by a Juneau jury
last week; he was one of the defend
ants charged with buying stolen pro
perty, having purchased an overcoat
from a man who burglarized a Ju
neau store. The evidence showed the
defendant was not aware , the property
was stolen.
H. M. Postle, for a number of
ypars connected with the Alaska
Gastineau Mining Company at Juneau
in the capacity of foreman, died at
Pasadena, California. He left a wife
and two children at Thane. H., M.
(Happyf) was one of the pioneers on
the channel and had a large circle
of friends there.
Capt. L. R. Rockwell, manager of
the Alaska Mines Corporation, of
Nome, is getting a crew ready to oper
ate a dredge on the company’s pro
perty. The company still owns much
valuable ground on Bourbon creek,
but considers it can be worked to a
far greater advantage by a larger
dredge.
Several houses at Nome were brok
en into by winter thieves since their
owners went out to the states, and
if the offenders are caught they will
be given a blue ticket to some other
port, as thieves are not tolerated in
the northland. The home of A. G.
Blake, a civil engineer, was entered as
was also the home of Sol Warren on
Third avenue.
The Pavloff Harbor Packing Co.,
successors to the Alaska Packing Co.,
filed articles of incorporation last
week, for the purpose of engaging
in business in Alaska. The company
is a Washington concern, having a
capital stock of $200,000 having is
sued 2000 shares of stock having a
par value of $1.00 each. John R.
Winn of Juneau is named as Alaska
agent.
Sidney McPetre of Juneau, while on
a hunting trip near Tee Harbor ac
cidently discharged his shotgun, the
charge taking effect in his arm. He
was taken to the hospital at Juneau
but died later from loss of blood. The
young man was out in a boat and in
taking up his gun muzzle first the
hammer caught sending the full load
into his arm. After the shooting he
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walked some distance to Tee harbor
/where first aid was administered.
MePetrie came to Alaska when a
mere boy from Montana. He was in
the army through the war, serving
with the Alaska contingent.
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F. A. Ayer driving his famous team
of huskies, won the fourth annual
! John Borden cup contest over the
Cape Nome course, after a lively con
test with the Webb team. Seppela also
started but his dogs refused to work
and he was compelled to drop out.
This makes the third time Ayer has
won the race, the cup going to him
permanently.
Louis Perez, who pleaded guilty to
robbing the American Cigar store and
the clothing store of H. S. Graves of
Juneau, was sentenced to serve four
years in the federal penitentiary by
Judge Jennings last week. Perez and
confederates broke into the cigar
store and loaded the safe on a hand
sled, dragged it to their quarters
where it was burglarized. They also
took money from the cash register.
Eleven natives of various ages will
leave for the outside on the Victoria
in charge of Miss Emma L. Orr, prin
cipal of the public school, who is go
ingout on a vacation. The Eskimo
juveniles are being sent by the Bu
reau of Education to the Indian In
dustrial training school maintained
at Chemawa, Oregon to receive an
education. Three of the number are
from the Candle district, one from
Council, one from Golovin and the
remainder from Nome. After convoy
ing the children to their destination,
Miss Orr will continue East and visit
her old home at Covington, Kentucky.
—Nome Nugget.
DEFECTIVE MUNITIONS
DUMPED OVERBOARD
HONOLULU, July 22 (by Associat
ed Press).—Forty tons of condemned
hand grenades, primer caps and other
defective ordnance material belonging
to the Hawaiian department of the
army were taken out to sea and
dumped overboard. During the war
regular practice in hand grenade
throwing was held here, but since the
armistice this class of instruction has
fallen off. As the grenades will not
keep indefinitely and are dangerous,
they were dumped into the sea.
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ular people in high class bakery
goods. 20-tf
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