Everyday Problems
Everyday problems of finance—large or small—
are the portion of everyone. Opportunities for
investment—some good, some bad—are offered
every day; means of financing personal ventures
must be considered and all of them ought to be
submitted to your banker for advice.
We are in business to help our depositors and
clients to solve their problems. It is the reason
our officers are not kept behind closed doors; it
is the reason they have comfortable visitors’
chairs at their elbows. Drop in and see us.
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AMERICAN FILM DIRECTORS
COMMERCIAL, SAYS GERMAN
BERLIN, Feb. 12— Dr. Fritz Lang,
German film manager who recently
returned from a study of the film in
dustry in the United States, deliv
ered a lecture in which he said Am
erican film directors are too commer
cial and much less devoted to art
ihan German directors. Of all the
American directors he said he found
that Griffith alone has ideals.
Dr. Lang also said that in his opin
ion Germany has better actors than
the United States, but the United
States has a much greater variety
of actors, is able to produce an actor
for every part who merely plays him
self, and has actors who keep con
stantly in training and keep their
bodies active and fresh through sport.
The failure of German actors to
keep in good physical trim is a great
handicap, in Dr. Lang’s opinion.
The great power of life in the
United States, the immense vitality
of all classes of persons, and the dis
inclination of even the poorest beg
gar to admit that he. is not wrell
made a great impression on Dr. Lang.
He says an American alw'ays says
he is extraordinarily wrell, while an
inquiry about a German’s health
brings the answer as a rule that he
is wretched,,
Breaking his leg by a fall, Charles
Dubois of Des Moines crawled to his
automobile fand drove several miles
to a hospital.
Snow' Shoes, $9.50 per pair, at
Graef’s. tf
Picture Framing at the Alaska
Shop. tf
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cords. The Alaska Shop. tf
OUR CHOSEN LAND
I’ve traveled the country over,
And saw all there was to be seen—
Valleys, where skies are azure blue,
And grasses always green.
I cared not for their beauty;
To me, it did not appeal—
There seemed to be a lacking,
And I wanted something real.
s.
At last I came to Alaska —
The Land that many curse,
But Alaska, I adore you,
For I’ve seen so many worse.
Some say the Devil’s hand made you,
But we know that it was not;
While others say Alaska
Is a land that God forgot.
Now if God forgot Alaska,
Like I’ve heard some people say;
How did it become so beautiful
( Around Resurrection Bay?
Anil seated there beside it,
So peaceful and alone
Is Seward, The Gateway City,
Like a monarch on his throne.
The mammoth mountains watch o’er
it,
As true and faithful guards;
Like the monarch’s ready army
Within the Temple yards.
They are watching, ever watching
From their dizzy heights above;
O’er the valley in all its splendor—
O’er the land they seem to love.
Seward, opens the Gateway—
All the way to Fairbanks by rail;
Over the route the oldtimers mushed
In with their dogs by trail.
The country has rapidly progressed,
Since the days that used to be,
But Alaska will always be Alaska—
Beautiful, fair and free.
Alaska, we all love you,
For you are our chosen land,
And we will ever be with you
As long as your mountains stand.
—John “Red” Campbell.
The above poem denotes plenty.
Since it is sell' explanatory we may
add that spring is here and the ducks
are preparing to leave the sunny
south. Mr. Campbell, the author of
the above epic has forsaken the ring
for the quill, although this is not Mr.
Campbell’s first appearance on the
printed page with poems of all na
ture. While in the Army during the
War days “Red” contributed many
verses to papers issued by different
companys which he was in.
When the body of an unknown
man was fished from the Mississippi
river near New Orleans a few days
ago his watch was found to be still
running.
New York has the world’s cham
pion police pistol shot team, which
made 1,050 points in the recent com
petition, while Toledo’s score was
second with 1043.
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TOKIO IS PLANNING ON FIFTY
MILES OF NEW SUBWAYS
TTOKIO, Feb. 11—If plans now be
ing considered by the municipal au
thorities are adopted, Tokio will be
gin construction of approximately 50
miles of subways within a few days.
The plans call for six subway lines,
the longest to extend for more than
11 miles and the shortest more than
five miles.
It is proposed that the subways be
municipally owned and operated and
municipal authorities are now consid
ering means of raising a foreign loan
to aid in the cost of construction.
WAITERS’ POCKETS
WILL BE SEWED UP
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12.—Unique
tailoring will feature the new styles
of waiters’ uniforms that will appear
in leading San Francisco restau
rants.
The new garment is cut on the
lines of the tuxedo, but is longer
and closer with three buttons below
a slightly smaller expanse of starch
ed shirtfront. In most places the
new coat will have two pockets. In
some, where the rule of “pay the
cashier” is stVictly enforced, it will
have the pockets sewed up, as at
present.
C. A. Colp bought the abandoned
town of Lindentree, O., and offered
45 houses free of rent to any who
wanted to live in them.
Declaring that women are not
eligible as jurors, the Idaho supreme
co*urt reversed the case of Robert
Kelley, convicted on a liquor charge
by a jury of women.
OLD TIME GRIZZLY AGAIN
APPEARING IN CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO, Fel). 12—The
California grizzly bear, supposed to be
extinct, has appeared after a lapse ot
40 years in the Sequoia National For
est, according to a reliable report.
At one time the California grizzly
ranged the Sierra Nevada and Coast
ranges in such large numbers that he
was made the official emblem of the
state and still graces the state flag.
He is considerably larger than the
Rocky Mountain grizzly, is of a gray
ish tinge and has a distinct hump on
top of his shoulders. As a fighter he
was feared by all other animals of the
early California days, yet he was not
considered danger to man, and usu
ally took to flight upon being ap
proached. He was even less carnivo
rous than the small black bear and
lived largely on roots and acorns.
TRADE ADVERTISING IS
LIKE COURTING A GIRL
BLACKBURN, Eng., Feb. 12.—
Trade is won by constant advertising
just as a girl can only be won by
consistent courting, in the opinion of
James Stanworth, mayor of this town.
“You must offer the right kind of
goods and keep on calling. If you de
sire to win the girl you must start
with a good character. Keep advo
cating your claims. Your shy man
is in danger of being headed off by a
rival and even if he wins temporarily
he may lose in the end if he is not
genuine.
“It is just the same in business. No
advertising campaign can make a per
manent success of a commodity or
service that is not good and that is
not worth the price paid for it.”
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