The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 17, 1927, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, NOV. 17, 1927. AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS Eleventh Annual Roll Call 5,000,000 MEMBERS FOR 1928 How three prominent Americans voice their admira- tion of the Lewis E. Pierson, President of the Cha American Red Cross and its achievements:— amber of Com- merce of the United States, says— “Lend every possible support to the ted Cross in its annual membership cam- paign, as for many months the country has been thrilled by the work of that organization in dealing with the Mis- sissippi Flood.” Wm. Green, Labor, President of the American Federation of says— “We know that in the past year the Red Cross has met its greatest test in peace time relief work in the Mis 18, by the speed, sippi Valley. performed. the tasks of rescue and relief.” For months we were thrilled precision and competency with which it Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, says— “With its operations in the Miss sippi Valley Floods—during the period of which it provided relief in fourteen other disasters in eleven States—the Red Cross stepped into a new era of service.” Juneau Chapter, American Red Cross has its Committees calling on all citizens of this City to enable this Chapter to fill its quota towards swelling the membership of this great humanitarian organization to Five Million Members for 1928, “DO IT NOW” gives place to “JOIN NOW” B.M. Behrends Co., Inc. Juneau’s Leading Department Store PUBLIC HEALTH * NURSING NEED IS SET FORTH Reasons for—N_ursing Serv- ice of Red Cross Chap- ter Are Enumerated (BY LESTER D. HENDERSON)| Why a Fublic Health Nyrse in the Juneau Chapter, American Red Cross? This question been asked by some. The fol- lowing answer may not be the best but it is the one which sug- gests itself at this time. Because mankind is Yhysical as well as mental and spiritual; beca physical ailments de exist; b cause the intelligent way to deal with any difficulty or problem is to have some one at hand who i3 trained to solve it; because the results produced indicate that real benefits have been derived; and because present conditions indicate a real need for the con- tinuance of Public Health Nurs- ing work in this field. ‘What a Public Health Nurse can do has been demonstrated ably by Mrs. J. C. Thomas, nee Miss Marie Falldine, and her pre- decessors who have been in the employ of the Juneau Chapter during the past several years. Due to the extent of the field, their work has been confined largely to the " some general community work has been done. Space does not permit a recital of all ‘the good accomplished. It may be sum- marized under the following heads: physical inspection of school children with follow up work in the homes where the de- fects discovered were of suffi- cient importance; assistance to | mothers in the care and feeding of infants; the holding of clinics with doctors in attendance in va- rious communities; assistance and ‘ advice in improving lighting, heat- ing, ventilation, facilities for drinking water, and general sani- tation and cleanliness in and about school buildings and homes, and actual bedsidc anursing. ‘Ot what value is it to society |} ‘to have brought about a condi- tion were those who were about ,,Qu'mm blind now see; those ‘who were lame now walk with ease; those who were deaf now .&r and those who had no abil- to learn because of Dhy-lul ents now learn with ease and| front the world with all their slert. These are some of ‘things sctually accomplished American Red Cross dollar _hands of the Juneau Chap- h employment of ¢ “Abundant. /fll‘ the effort and 7 AL schools, although | i is a large one covering all that re- gion lying between Petersburg and Sitka on the South and Yaku- tat and Skagway on the north. It should employ more than one Public Health Nurse. However, one is better than none, although she must cover a very large field. The Juneau Chapter has led the en accomplished largely a Public Health Nursing has been carried out. Couple this with assistance ren- dered during the ‘past year at Douglas and Kake following the disastrous fires which visited these communities and the record is one of which all members may well be proud. Why join the Red Cross? Ask us another easy one such as why bother to eat something daily or why cannot one get along with- | out sleep. e C. S. MELLEN DIES AT HIS HOME IN EAST (Continued riom Page One.) program building up the westcrn line six years 1irom what ho deseribed as little better than “t reats of rust across the prairi 0 a tlourishing fasi-freight system. Provokes Public Sterm uu the Morgan power behind Mellen launched sweep: for the Now Haven, a serting that monopoly was best jfor New England transportation. fIn the next ton years the New Haven absorbed outside land and water competition to the extent of more than $200,000,000. Tha methods of the management pro- voked a public storm. Courts, legislators and the Interstate Commerce Commission arose i0 challenge Mr. Mellen and his as. sociates in their course. The heavy financial drain mean- while threatened to break the back of the once prosperous New Haven company. Its stock slump- ed, hitting thousands of small ia- {vestors to whom New Haven se- vcurh » generations had beea > goverement bonds. My, died at a critical time program finaliy came ¢ naught, leaving the New Haven piled with debts. In 1918 Me Mellen was repudiatoc vy his @t ectors and he passed into retire- ment at the instance of J. P. Mor gan, the son. Work Vs. College Born at Lowell, Mass., Aug. 16, 1851, Mr. Mellen at 18 chose a $35 & month clerkship with the Nor thern New Hampshire Railroad in preference to college. He”climh. ed rapidly. In 1884 he became general superintendent of the Boston and Lowell Raflroad. years later he joined the rest of Alaska in the work which | general traffic manager. In 1892 the New York and New Englaad railroad called him east -as it general manager at Boston. The New York, New Haven and Hartford, deeming® M. Mellen to0, { I Closing Out Sale of HATS To make room for our big line of Christmas Goods which is coming on every boat—and owing to the fict that our space is limited, HATS MUST GO, regardless of cost—this in- cludes all NEW HATS dun arrived on MONDAY’S BOAT. GAGE HATS Cne ot of GAGE HATS — all colors to cuese from—regulaer $14.50 to $16.00 Priced for qurance $9.50 T T T {0 T T i values. ummlmnmmfmmmmu powerful to be aligned against i with a rival, proceeded to bid him away from the Boston post and made him second vice-pres dent. 1In this, his first connec tion with the New Haven he was instrumental in forcing the New York Central to give a larger di vision on business exchanged. In fluential stockholders of the New York Central gained the ear of J. Plerpont Morgan and caused him to take a dislike to the young mere $12,000 job could not affori ful banker, Mr. Mellen went i» Mr. Morgan personally and told his _side, winning the banker over When the latter in 1897 sought a thern Pacific it was Mr. Mellen he selected. Mr, Mellen's six years in the west made his reputation in the railroad tield secure and in 1903 Mr. Morgan recalled him to head | what was said to be the banke “pet” raflroad. Mr. Mellen's starred decade with the New Hav- en coincided with a period when Wall Street was thinking only in hundreds of millions. Some of this splurge seemed reflected in the three most unpopular deals the New Haven attempted during tiat time. Just before the panic of 1907, Mr. Mellen gained control of the Boston and Maine, a merger which | was to make ine New Haven dom- inant in New England. He later sald its acquisition came at the wrong time, being forced upon him. to prevent the road going elsewhere. Subsequent efforts to protect the purchase from hostili- ty of the Massachusetts legisla- ture cost additional millions be- fore the consolidation was final- ly legalized in 1909. Dear Over Protest For the seconc deal, the pur chase of the New York, West- chester & Boston, Mr. Mellen dis claimed responsibility. He said it was made over his protest, and that property worth only $5,000, 000 eventually cost the New Hav- en close to $35,000,000. Mr. Mellen related at an Inter- state Commerce Commission in- quiry that upon asking Mr. Mor- gan where $11,000,000 had gone which Mr. Morgan's purchasing committee had paid down in New Haven notes, Mr. Morgan asked it he thought he knew more about such things than the committee lawyer. Mr. Mellen “allowed ho didn't” and when his directors official. Feeling that a man in a to incur the ill-will' of a powe:- | man who could build up the Nor-! ’ Wenther Conditions As Recorded by the U. §. Weather Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning 4 v. m. today: Fair tonight and Friday; gentle variable winds. LOCAL DATA lime— 4 p. m. yest'y.. 30.03 a. m. today...30.08 30 ‘Noon today 30.10 30 Burom. Temv, Humidity Wind Velocitv Weather 30 32 6 Clear Clear Clear E SE w 15 3 33 45 . 1 Highest 3 p.m. | Stations— | Il Nome Bethel | Tanana Eagle St. Paul ... Cutch Harbor. | Kodiak ... Cordova |Juneau ... Ketchikan . Prince Ruper - | Edmonton Seattle Portland . San Francisco.. Note.—Observations at made at 4 a. m. and 4 p. m, J moving southeastward and the-lo moved southward. Moderate ral ana Valley where it is warmer. ter publicly denied any implica- tion that his father had taken any responsibility out of Mr. Mel- len’s hands. Once Indicted Mr. Mellen was indicted in con- nection with the third deal for his efforts in blocking the plan of the Grand Trunk to invade New Providence, R. I. He was charg- ed with conspiracy in violation of the Sherman anti-trust act, but Mr. Mellen said he voluntarily assumed the -responsibility of the whose health had failed. To the end, Mr. Mellen said he wds proud to be called “Mor- gan's man,” and agreed that the banker’s word always was law in New Haven affairs. He fur- ther insisted that but for the pressed him still to find out, habanker’s death time would have said he offered to delegate any one of them to try to get the in- formation. “But they all ‘ducked’” he tes- titied. J. P. Morgan, the younger, la- justified the New Haven's ou‘- side investments in the benefit that would have accrued to New England through successful con- solidation. He asserted that Mr. Morgan a few months before ac Dulch Princ Rupert, Edmonlon, Seattle, The pressure I8 again rising in the Interior. sure area to the southward is central in British Columbia and England with a competing line to| indictment to shield Mr. Morgan, | CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS | + Low 3am sam Precy. s 40 34 20 30 32 - 2 10 52 14 54 10 .02 56 * 0 *—Less than 10 mues. .20 .02 ( .04 PL Cldy Cldy Clear Harbor, Rodiak, Juneau, Portland and San Francisco are uneau time. The low pres- in the Aleutian Islands has fallen in the Pribilof w in has I slands, and fair weather is general in other portions of Alaska. Light snow has fallen at Prince Rupert. er than yesterday in mearly all districts of Alagka except the Tan- Temperatures are low- died was about to finance the! New Haven's requirements with a | stock issue to have been under- written at $120 a share. Since his retirement from active | business Mr. Mellen made his | home at Cencord, N. H. and had | a country estate at Stockbridge, Mass. | ——-—--—— | i | SPOTS FOUND ON STARS | | MADISON, Wis., Nov. 17—Thete | ‘are spots on some of the stars | (as" well as on the sun, according | to astronomers at the University of Wisconsin. They found that | many stars shed a'varidble light, idue, they belleve, 'to ' spots on their surfaces. e GOLDBERG ILL Lester Goldberg entered the St. Ann's Hospital this morning for {medical treatment. -, — Virginia IV*wilt sail for Ten- akee, Warm Springs and Port Alexander, Saturday evening at 10 o’clock. ~adv. FELT HATS A big assortment to choose from—includ- ing Black and colors — ‘large and small head sizes. Priced for Clearance $2.95 METALLIC HATS In Gold, Silver and Satin Combinations. 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