The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 15, 1928, Page 4

S A - head of _ .and Signal Corps stations. In Daily Alaska Em pire [TOWNS GETTING OUT OF BUSINESS. Although there are still many JOHN W. TROY - history of such and Sunday by Published every evenin except e M ccond and Ma EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Btreets, Juneau, Aleska, red in the Post Office in Junea matter. nm | not as Second Class | 1€ ownership always encouraging. In one field, at least, light and power generating plants, seems to he away from municipal own- i-l ship and operation and toward privately owned that of electric trend SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Oelivered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Thane for $1.25 per month. By mail, postage pald, at the following rates: One year, In advance, $12.0 months, in advance $6.00; one month, in advance 25, Sutecribers will confer a favor y usinees Office of any of_their papers. or Editorial and Bu: or irregularity Telephone ness Offices. 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEL rAcds. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this p: tocal news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION THAN THAT OF ANY OTHE™ TUBLICATION DR. BUNNELL'S W “TON TRIP. Junnell’s Washington visit has h much material icultural Dr. apparently benefit directly to the lege and School of Mines of dent, and indirectly to the Territory. that advances Alaska’s first of higher learning, yearly becoming a larger ystem, must of the Territory. In certain Congres leg not not arles been productive of Alaska which he is Presi- and only big factor and its educational advantage to all manner he placed needs and desires of the college before There is but little doubt that th advocated will be forthcoming, which is a one in necessity be of an effective on he at the distant present session, at sometime in the future mission in the the Bunnell's na secure colleges on the institution lization that this aid | He met Primarily Dr tional capital Federal aid to basis as it is was to land grant being given to in the He went with a re the chief of the bureau through which is administered was not favorable to it. this opposition in a dignified manner, his facts clearly and forceful and winning support from members of Congr and the Di- rector of the Budget. At the conclusion of his presentation he was assured that the bill author- ing the desired extension would be given fav- orable consideration, More than this he not expect and he is deserving of congratulations on his success. same such ates. could | A pronounced feature of Dr. Bunnell's visit was the presentation to the College through him as its head of the library of the late Dr. Alfred Brooks by Mrs. Brooks. -Dr. Brooks was Chief Alaskan Geologist for many years prior to death some three years ago. He spent the great- er part of his professional career a geologist in the Territory and probably had a wider knowledge of its geology, its potential mineral resources and the conditions under which they must be developed than any other individual. His love for the Territory was one of the big things of his life. During th last few years of his life, when his health s falling alarm- ingly, he made trip after trip to the North against the advice of his friends and ph In and out of season he labored unceasingly for Alagka. During his long period of service, col- lected a remarkable library dealing with Alaskan subjects. It is recognized as one of the finest in existence. And Mrs. Brooks, knowing of his great love for the Northland, has presented it to the college which Dr. Bunnell so ably represents. There it will furnish inspiration to the men and women of Alaska who round out education in the institution, furnishing them with the inspiration and knowledge to carry on Dr. Brooks' labor for the Territory. Alaskans his he young their are deeply indebted to Mrs. Brooks for her splen- | did gift and through it the memory of Dr. Brooks will ever be kept alive in the hearts of this and future generations of this Far North country. FORMER BUCK PRIVATE HEADS SIGNAL CORPS. From a buck private to Major General at the the nal Corps of the United States Army is the record of George 8. Gibbs, and one in which he may justly take pleasurable pride. He is one of a very few men who have achieved such distinction of this generation. The others in his class are: Preston Brown, a Yale man, who is now Commanding General of the First Army Corps Arvea; Robert H. Allen, present Chief of Infantr, and James H. Fechet, Chief of the Air Corps and successor to Mason M. Patrick. Gen. Gibbs enlisted in the Army in 1808 as @ private in the First Iowa Infantry. Today, less than 30 years from the date of his enlist- ment, he has achieved the highest rank attain- able in the Army in peace time. Fifty-two years of age, he is one of the youngest of Major Gen- erals. His promotion came rapidly for the Army. Before his company sailed from San Francisco, on.June 25, 1898, he was its first sergeant. In the land fighting in the Philippines, he was cited for bravery and by his conduct on the field of battle paved the way to a Second Lieutenant's commission. By the early part of 1901 he had been commissioned First Lieutemant. Holding that rank he was ordered to Alaska for a tour ©f duty with the Signal Corps and spent two years supervising construction of telegraph lines 19 after being noted to Captain, he became Chief Signal cer of the Army of Cuban Occupation, and er {0 the Department of Communication of Cuban Goyvernment. Then followed the routine of peace which he spent with various Signal o;gallu.uonu In 1917, he went to France m rank of Colomel, later becoming : in the National Army. For ‘the World War e was awarded the pro Treadwell and will_promptly to the ser and also the GUAR/L NrErD TO BE LARGER | Col- | Anything | institution | extension of | presenting | idge will |and operated plants and systems Last year, lately made surveys show, 181 {municipally owned plants of this kind were sold to private operated compnaies to be absorbed in mere economical, interconnected systems. They were located in all parts of the country, showing |that the growth of sentiment against the muni- cipality-owned plant is not confined to any pa | ticular seétion. North, South, Kast, West, the Middle West, the Southwest, in fact almost every section of the country were rej les, which transpired in 34 which the greatest resented in these State: The were sold werc North Carolina 18, and and States number ska with Oklahoma 15, with 10 plants What | utility commissions, plants, Georgia 12 Towa Kansas each with rate-making and regulating public functioning under State auth- unlimited ervice ority with almost power other corporations, municipalitics to generally admitted ted plants wetion at reasonable rates, the over details of there little enter a field the privately | questions of and | business of private | inducement for where t lowned and oper can and do give sat- Generally administra the taxpayers' addin I :to by that costs towns bur pocket uming un- not primarily a part isf | ind eities today are bearing | dens sufficiently heavy for books without neces functions of government sary The ()ppmnmn (u \lr Hoover. (New York Hoover is in ‘Who hopes to The rich uncle is the Presidency World.) the del inherit a « Mr. Coolidg> and the The proprieties reduire |« that Mr. Hoover shall pretend that vhile he wouid accept the estate the real des of his |soul is to have the rich unecle live and retain the estate. when anybody says: Let us dn lt‘ President Mr. Hoover has to be the| st to step cross his heart, and avow | that of course Hoover all cager to| | have Mr. run again. To say anything | might make The movement to |its strength from a number of different elements. | ‘l)\l(v is no doubt a dash of sincerity in it; that| is 4 there are some Republicans who mn\ Mr. Coolidge did not mean what )w‘ ] s said and who r pn that if only Mr. Cool- run the Republicans need worry no more about 1928, Mr." Coolidge, they believe, would easily sweep the country against any Demo- | cratic candidate. But these idealists are associated with a much larger collection of Republicans who are using the draft Coolidge” slogan for their own purpose In this collection are to be found those politicians who hope by deadlocking the convention to slip over a candidate of their |own. There are also to be found the political | representatives of those large financial interests which are very much opposed to the nomination (of Mr. Hoover. : The opposition to Mr '*()0\’0'"1?“ formidable one, There j§ a very considerable array of politi- cians who have looked him over and have decided that he is a dangerous man. That is to say, they |have decided that he is one of those uncertain geniuses who cannot be relied upon to see eye to eye with the politicians. They feel in their bones that he might do queer and original things. Mr. Hoover likes power and is not afraid to exercise it. He belongs to the Roosevelt and Wilson school rather than to the Harding and Coolidge sthool. He would be his own President, and that is not the kind of thing the politicians relish. For eight years they have lived in a political paradise, and the prospect of seeing a real per- sonality in the White House alarms them. Mr. Hoover’s best efforts to prove that he is a good loyal Republican have not convinced them that they would have a pleasant time with him. He is too essentially non-political. He is too moody. He is too brilliant. He is too full of surprises. Among the most powerful financial interests there is also deep opposition to Mr. Hoover. He is very strong with the ordinary American busi- ness man, but* among the great international banking interests he is not well liked. They |don’t like his prejudices, which are deep and per- sistent. They think he is vastly overrated as an economist, that he is in fact unsound and ob- stinate on many vital questions. They dislike |the supreme confidence he has in his own judg- ment and they fear his tendency to strike out boldly without taking their advice. All of this opposition is working underground to defeat him. It can’t work in the open be- cause it cant’ afford to antagonize him, since he might after all be nominated, and he is a formidable person. But under cover powerful efforts will be made to defeat him because in the last analysis he is not the kind of man whom the high Republicans, the real political and financial bosses of the party, want. Secre | a man | estate |estate Mr. Coolidge above the rich uncle angry “draft” Mr. Coolidge derives| The Myth and the Exception. (New York Times.) Once upon a time it would have been said that the story of Eugene Dieudonne reads like a romance. A hard-boiled genmeration which does not believe in romance must find some other term. Dieudonne was sentenced to death as a member of a bandit gang in France, and his sentence commuted to life imprisonment on Devil's Igland, escaped, was recaptured, but because of extenuating circumstances has now been par- doned. On Wednesday in Paris he was remar- ried to his former wife, who had divorced him at his own request at the time of his condemna- tion. She had waited sixteen years for him, sup- porting their child in the meanwhile by her | labor. Justice asserting itself in the long run and a4 woman’s constancy that will endure for sixteen years do not fit in with the sophisticated inter- pretation of human behavior and destiny, And it need not be claimed that'the case of Dieudonne is the norm of human fate. On the other band, the skeptic of another generation who will wave |away the Dieudonne story ag & myth is to be commiserated., We are too apt to say the ex- Americans who - EDITOR A‘TD m!(:EB t-l\dmst* nmnhl]lfll ownership of public utilities, operation i3 position | uncle's | The Strange Suicide His flapper wife he asked To try her hand at pie— | Now friends are asking why ; He picked t way to die. Observations of Oldest Well, at that, mother spent about much time putting o) her padding as daughter dees pui ting on her complexion. 8 Inhabitant as The Ananias Club 2 new racey novels 4 briog | | he never are even apenel said the young husband, “but: the cook book [ brought home last| month has nearly the covs off it.” got More Relativity | “Now the Bill's | 100k how sensibly she said the husband during an a ment about the brevity of wife's dresses “Ye apped his wife, ure like her's 1 certain think she dresses sensibly, i with a figure like mine it wou be ridiculous for me to wear 0 kind of clothes she does.” | ey S Foolish Question “What shall I get for dinner?" Headline over an article on woman's page. Oh, grab tih first can and let it go at that. just Juctice Up-to-Date foreman of the jury speak “The evidence we'll not "Tis tiresome stuf | guilty, thex None of us for be late. thus didl debate, 's vote no our dinner n Modern Battlegrounds Blinks—They are a great family | of fighters, Jinks—Most of them been in tue | tinished narket so she can hire unmehmly :lse to clean up at home. It is a remarkable thing :the a tadpole changes into a but it is no more rema than the way a peach hanges into a lemon after she is married | Marriage, for a would be a heap easier if it was get used to disappoint- lot of womean, | | easier to | ment It's about as hard to get a hus band to use a dish towel as it is to get him not to use a guest rowel. No man really knows what cha- grin means unless he has p-e 4 a wonderful speech ana finds his turn comes after ,lll the long-winded brothers have and three-fourths of (he rowd is leaving. , sure way of making suve| of getting a telephone call is to get in the bathtub when there 1s nobody else in the house. When you look at the ay some gir their painted up it is almost hideous have faces impo: in the mirror before leaving hom» With so mucn more of it sho ing a womai: can hardly blamed for worrying more sver about her figur RN S Finger the Fern Waving a sp Beauty Parlol NOTICE In the United States Commlmon-‘ er's (Ex Officio Probate) Court for the District of Alaska, Ju- ncau Commissioner’s Precinct. n Matter of the Administr tion of The Estate of ANDREW MELLE, deceased. r0 ALL CONCERNED: NOTICE 1S HEREBY | hat on January 24, 1928, R. E.| tobertson as administrator of the | state of Andrew Melle, deceased, | luly iled his final account repori, and that a hearing on said final account and report and| any objections thereto or to| the settlement thereof will be| 1eld before the above | GIVEN | army, T suppose Blinks—No, in Courts. the Divorc Motor Note It is more dangerous to pick vy chickens along the road than 'ix to run over them. Passing Observation One celebrity we'd hate to be on ever getting in the hall ot fame is the one who prize in designing hot-dog stands. And Probably ls The flapper thinks she's But godlness knows, ™ Dressed that way she looks more Like she was froze. Just Place to Sleep “My clothes are all worn out,” complained daughter, “Yes,” growled her dad,) “for the time you spend around home all you need is a nightgown.” 1 'S An Unusual Town Alright Southhoro has no people so poar as to be in want. Among the 1,200 townspeople not one family during the past seven years has applied to the town Boston Globe. Kvidently that is the only town in this grand old U. S. A. where those who can’t afford motor caras don’t buy ’‘em. for help.— More or Less True A fashion note says the wo- men's spring clothes will make them look feminine, whichj will be quite an improvement fover some of those they are wemring that make them look crazy. | Every wife’s ambition is for her husband to clean up on the e e o We're always at yonr service || —says Taxi Tad. Emergency call—to the sta- tion—hospital—visitors — late for appointment — car broken down — promptness is neces-| | sary. We serve you promptly— at reasonable rates. Carllon s Taxi and Burford's Corner ceptional is the mythical. It may be romanticism to evalulate life by its rare high peaks of hero-] ism or devotion or good fortume. But the ‘‘de- bunker” who insists that there are no peaks is himself talking bunk. 4 That cocktail that President Coolidge didn’t accept in Hava wasn't wu(o.. was it?— (Boston Globe.) Who will be the lone convention?—(Atlanta € such won first more artistic Pirst publication, J v Last publication, A # E AUTOS FOR HIRE entitled | ourt in the U. 8. Court House,| n Juneau, Alaska, on March 27, 1928, at 10 o'clock A. M., and that all persons are required to| then and the appear and pre- sent any objections they may ve to sald final account or he settlement thereof. DATED at Juneau, Alaska, 24th day of January, 1928, R. E. ROBERTSON, Administrator of the Estate of Andrew Melle, Deceased. 1928. this 25, Semoe Transfer Co. + ‘Will Hani Say Mill Wood and Coal |Olflco Phone 389 Ruldence Fhone 3501 RELIABLE TRANSFER Phone 149 Res. 148 COURTESY aad GOOD SERVICE Our Motto f NG HOTEL ZYNDA ELLVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Frop. -— JAPANESE TOY SHOP H. B. MAKINO Front Street P. 0. Box 218 for Mail Orders r——— e J BERRY’S TAXI PHORE 199 Agents for SUNOCO Motor Oil | SRR R MILLER’S TAXI Phone 183 Jumeau, Alaska CARS WITHOUT DRIVERS FOR HIRE Day and Night Service PHONE 485 BLUE BIRD TAXI SHORTY omn,ut‘ Stand at Bill's Barber Shop § | G ] — and | 5 —————— n Seattle Fruit and—T | PROFESSIONAL Produce Co. —_— Fresh Fruit and Veretables Wholesale and Retail 1IR3 KASER & TREEBURGER DENTISTS Out of town orders given o # e special attention | £ A6L0 ToMbtotn Bids. PHONE 56 Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. [ Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building T —~——————————F Telephone. 178 BROWN’S VARIETY STORE Stationery—Notlons— Greeting Cards—Toys— Novelties. Merchandise of Merit —_— 2 L] J. B. BURFORD & CO | L. C. Smith and Corona TYPEWRITERS Pubiic Stenographer Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hoiirs 9 . m. to 6 n. m.* SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. Phone HAUILED - AND LOT CLEANING G. A. GETCHELL, Phone 109 or 149 7 to 8 or by appoinment Licensed Osteopathic Physiclan Phone: Office 1671, Residence, Gasticeau Fo s Dr. Geo. L. Barton CHIROPPACTOR, Hellenthal Bidg. Office Hours 10 to 12; 3 t. §; 7 to 9; and by appointment. Phune 269 CHIROPRACTIC is not the practice of Medlicine. surgery nor Ostcopathy. 1 Juneau Public Library and Free Reading Room City Mall, Second Floor Maiz Street at 4th Reading Room Open From 8a m to 10 p. m. Circulation Room Open From 1 to 5:30 p. m—7:00 p. m. to 8:30 p. m, | Current Magazines, Newspapers | Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSICAL THEERADM'ST Medical Gymnuast Electric! 410 Goldstein Bldg. ~Oftice: Massage Reference Books, Etc, FREE TO ALL ® | Valentine's Optical Dept. R. L. DOUGLASS Optician and Optometrist | Room 16, Valentine Bldg. | ( é { ———— e | o e e et e s Ask for Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. aad by Appointment Juneau Bakery Products from ‘your Grocer Robert Qim pson Opt. D. Graduate Lou Angeles Ccl- lege of Optometry and Opthalmolcgy Glasses Fitted Leneses Grouud —n Fraternal Societies OF Gastineau Channel Juneau Lions Club Meets every Wed- nesday at 12:3¢0 > o’clock. Lester D. Henderson, Presid 1t H. L. Redlingshafer, ELK3 Meeting Wedner day evenings at § o'clock, Kiks Hall GEO, B. RIC Exalted Ruler Co-Ordinate Bodies of Freemasonry Scottish Rits Regular meetings aecond Friday each month at m. Odd Hall. WALTLR B. HLIQLL 0 D Fellows' LoyAL oRDER OF MOOSE Juneau Lodfle No. 708 Moets every Monday night, at 8 o'clook, L gy MAC SPADDEN, | Dictstor; STEVENS Socretiry sy 15 Mo f‘ S, b 3 \L.HLL, .,\ Order of EASTERN STAM Second and Fourth Tuse rh\\: of cach month, CoLUMBUS Jeghera Council No. 1780, Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m, Transient brothers urged tc attend. Councu Cham- bera, Fifth EDW. H. J. MlxcLlARv PIONEERS OF ALASKA, IGLOO, No. every second ln'\ rach month at § o'clock p. m nd_refreshments. M ATHI DOUGLAS AERIE 117 F. 0. E. meets Monday nights Bagles' Hall, Doug- las; Wednes- day JUNEAU BAKERY PHONE 577 THE JuNEAU LAUNDRY Franklin Street, hetwcen‘ Front and Second Streets PHONE 359 TrE Cnas W. CARTER MORTUARY “The Last Service Is the Greatest Tribute” Corner 4th and Franklin Bt. Phone 136 e ————— GEO. M. SIMPKINS CO. PRINTING and STATIONERY H Opposite Alaska Electric Light Dffice OPEN EVENINGS Phone 244 ALASKAN HOTEL MODERN REASONABLE RATES DavE HouskL, proP. — — Increased Facilities To keep step with our growth and to add to our banking facilities, the surplus fund of the bank has been increased | WOMEN OF MOOSEHEART LEGION, NO. 439 | Meets 1st and 3rd Thursdays | each month, 8 P.M. at Moose Hall. | Esther Ingman, Senior Re- \ gen.: Agnes Grigg, Recorder. $6656.45 Has just been paid out for losses by local merchants on ;t}(l:connt of “the stranding of e 5.S. NORTHWESTERN Yes, we write Marine Insur- ance on single shipments or under an open policy which covers all your shipments au- tomatically. 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