The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 18, 1928, Page 4

4 Datly Alaska E mpzre - FZDITOR AND MANAGER | r\tnlns day by COMPAY Second and IO!N W. TROY - Published _every EMPIRE PRINTING Strests, Juneau, Ale Tintered In the Post Office in J matter. air ad Becond Clast SUBSCRIPTION RATE Oelivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadviel G Thane for $1.25 per month. By mail, postage paild, at th llowing rates: One year, in_advance, $12.00; wmonths, in advance #.00; one month, in advance, '$ Sulecribers will confer & favor if in the delivery of their papers. g Telephone for Bditorlal and Business Offices, § MEMBER OF ABSOCIATEL rRéss The Assoclated: Press s exclusiv:ly entitled to the use for republication of it or pot otherwise credited in sthls paper tocal pews pudlistied herein LICATION, THAN THAT /OF ANY OTHE \ll rring LEVIES THAT MEAN NOTHING. Ketchikan Republican leaseholds or pulp en- It h of the Federally-g South tern The Club contracts and paper tirely new would not been laid in the Territory outfits from b producing oil pecting for in the Cold Ba logists and others were cofident they in a new field. But work to do before the established. In the ing hundreds Territory. In that and tax producing more than subject the levy. have left Alaska, pulled their drills and moved some other part of the world. did not reveal oil in commerclal quantities. the tax remained the books for four perhaps on the theory that somebody or some cor- poration might come in sometime and find com mercial oil. X The oil production tax was not needed. The| proof of this is found in the fact that the other levies brought in than enough funds conduct the Territorial government for there was a surplus left in the Treasury after all operating expenses were paid. Yet there wasn’'t a single cent collected from the oil tak Such taxés mean nothing as far as finances are -concerned. To impose them before there is an industry is/ foolish from a standpoint of publie polic It is calculated away needed capital whieh ought to eve inducement possible | to come develop our latent, | and in raw resources. proposal tax the held interests departure be the first on an indastry Badk in anted Alaska represent Al 1o in by does not an politically in that a tax levy not were tions pre field would b had de time which did exist 1923 corpor; there two oil oil eo- | much nitely | spend- | the | met both companies results would be they dollars Legislature all day companies meantime were thousands of in year the on oil production, 5,000 barrels per Since then the down their their Their same wells imposed a bein to closed operations, machinery to prospecting But on years, more to to drive be to some given the north instances, v and wasted - HOOVEI'; CANDIDACY CLARIFIES SITUATION. Secretary Hoover, through that State, in the Ohio election, should tend to off- movement inspired by The open entry of his representatives Presidential primary set the ‘“draft Coolidg some of the Republican leaders of the East. None of the President’s Cabinet with the pos- sible exception of Mr. Mellon, has been closer to Mr. Coolidge than his great Secretary of * merce. While there was a possible chance of his| Chief responding “draft,” Mr. Hoover | in no position to appear openly in the hunt delegates, nor to permit the use of his name as is being done in Ohio. He could not afford, as a member of the Cabinet or for reasons of politi- cal expediency, to be put in a position of opposing the President even though he were but a passiv recipient in the matter of renomination. It is significant that Mr. Hoover chose make Ohio the scene of his first campaign tivity. The start ‘comes almost’ on the heels of the LaFollette third term resolution that was re- cently passed by the Senate. at a time when the stern movement to draft the President is being vigorously pushed. And it comes in a field that is close emgugh to the cen- ter of that movement to give those behind it some idea of the strength that Mr. Hoover will be able to swing in State that vy has a favorite son in the field seeking national convention vote. Mr. Hoover may not get a majority of Ohio’s delegation but he will divide it with Senator Willis which is sure to diminish the latter’s prestige at the Kansas City conclave. in Com- | was | for to a to ac- alres its a HUMFREY GOES EAST. In the dorthcoming departure of Humfrey from Alaska ‘to take up his n Chicago, the Territory loses one of its most 'promlslng young business men. He has more than merely made good as the representative of . his firm, Hills Bros, in Alaska. He has taken an active part in the business life of more than k \'igho Alaskan community, investing his money i, i (docal enterprises and being first, Iast and all the time a real Alaskan\ His friends are legion 8 d are scattered all over ‘Z.;)hu Northland. It is with a yery deep regret L % they will see him depart and extend the most ncere wishes for the suceess they confidently pect will be his in his new field. CAPITOL AI’I’ROII;RIATION SEEM residence m ‘approyal by the House of Representatives 200,000 item for the local Territorial ng seems (o insure that funds will few weeks for hflnnim: work etire, Only a short itme azo the a similar item in the first de- riation but it ‘was eliminatcd in the two houses. Its approval | seems to ’”_ n adequate ad | they will nrflmml) ‘mu,llmlmL and perfecting notify the Buginess Office of any fallure or rregularit; v & |ally, |in the hope of hampering the enterprise. It sis made public|Ppossible to | they the broad domains of | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY, FEB n the omnibus public buildings measure. there i of the it about it Unless |eration bill, and carries public bulldings money for init structure should to be awarded should be tions for throughout ting be there inasmuch as approp wdly needed country, the the local for contracts this summer. available [tir and work [ begin The auspicious Juneau start regard by Lions’ Club is toward earning local ecitizens, ing a its right Its leadership the plan for of constructing the was effective as town the Club a to, [ thé school [ timely. extra cost building The new it vote as owes Al mews dispatches credited m{"'““"*‘ and also the | l ALASKA CIRCULATION QUAR NTEED To_ BE LARGER said the Jackson Not whom proven, Indiana Gov. Ed Court being tried The' court, however ,wasn't to the allegations of bribery, but of the erime of bribery. Of bribery it wasn't covered two-year the statute everything is serene in Indiana. was on | bribery e to con- i up dur limitations cealment course, there was and i t ¥ 16 period of had to run, Club home a pebhle Ketchikan by to choke ‘controller The Republic ing on n for offers Al- rule, then by offering askans bread attempts them a bill,” Walker’s Water-Wagon. Waorld.) interest, Mayor reasons therefor, have started a lively discussion. The Rev. Dr. Chr tian F. Reisner began it on Sunday, when he said in the course of a germon Mayor Walker, in his generous way, gave me permission on Friday to tell you “I no longer drink champagne mor atcohol in any form, nor have i since September. My health very much better without it. Then, too, while I enjoyed the exhilarating high spots from alcoholic stimulants, the low spots of the next morning collected a heavy toll. I find more agreeable well as althier to walk on the even pathway with no stimulant.” Out of this comment Mr. (New York of popular and the a topic abstinence Walk- is as th schools of thought h.u developed. There is one school, led by Dr. Reisn which regards Mr. Walker's new ence a moral victory of no small importance. Mr mour Lowman, officially in charge of Prohibition, seems to share this point of view. Opening the bass stops on his organ and sound- ing full-voiced hallelujah, Mr. Lowr “Mr. Walker's reformation is a hment for enforcement the country. over. / cond school of thought, however, more sceptical. It regards Mr. Walker's conversion as 1 1 matter of morals than of digestion, and interprets it, so to speak, a training-period for more healthy and less arid future. Fin- there is a third school, of which Mr. If is the spokesman, which whole affair Walker's own personal private 53, it chiefly concerns Walker's own personal and private diet In the whole controversy no one Has yet pointed out a rather interesting fact in the mat- ter of news values. Prohibition has been with us for eight year But so agcustomed are we to its ways that if the Mayor of New York an- nounces that he is on the water-wagon the fact of hi inence is considered unusual enbugh to merit h 5. If a Mayor takes a day" is him the and Mr. drifk, it's the pledge, all it’'s a in the story (New k Times.) In an article in The tion on “Who Owns Our River: Gifford Pinchot attacks the public utility lobby in Washington for opposition to the Boulder Dam project. He welcomes Mr. Owen Young's conditional acceptance of Government in- tervention where navigation and flood control are involved, but complains that the electric light industry has renounced the position taken by Mr. Young, and is seeking ‘‘to prevent the es- tablishment of a Government standard by which their own rates to consumers of electric power can be measured.” The inference is that Mr. Pinchot would like to sgee such a standard estab- lished| But later on, discussing the “‘four lines of defense,” the power companies have set up against it, he declares that their fourth hne or defense is to ‘“saddle the Government-made cur- rent with every possible or impossible expense,” “‘Here is where the demand of Arizona and Nevada for the right to tax the Government property fits the hand of the power companies like a glove.” Mr. Pinchot evidently didn't try the glove on his own hand first. If he had, he might have discovered that it fitted there even better. It is urge an actual test between public and private owership, both plants running side by side and on the same footing. It is equally possible to contend that public enterpri be cushioned all about with special f: tax exemption. But these are alternative tions, and when Mr. Pinchot takes both in same brief isn't he simply ‘“arguing both against the middle”? One weakness of most experiments in Government ownership is that are so constituted, or their accounts are kept in such a way, that they seldom afford the very test 'for which Mr. Pinchot, by inference, pleads. Into their treasuries flow all manner of subsidies. They tend to warp the results, and either destroy the value of the experiment al- together or sink it in a bog of controversy, like that which rages in Ontario. Advocates of Gov- ernment ownership delight in the achievements of the Post Office Department, which “pays for it- sell.” There are plenty of conclusive reasons for maintaining the postal service as a public enter- prise, but the operating figures would tell a very different story if they were made to include such items of expense as taxes, interest and amortiza- | tion, posi- the sides According to the Dominion Bureau of Statis- tics, $105,771,000 was spent by American motor- ists in Canada during the year 1926. Canada has no finer cities, watering places or scenery than the United States. There must be some other attraction.— (Florida Times-Uflion.) Houston « unquestionably may be upon to provide torrid weather of a torrid ses- sion, but there is no reason to expect that Kansas City is going to be exeessively cool.— (Detroit ¥ree Press.) depended The old familiar cry was for more leg room some unforeseen delay in consid- none many the contruction in to|& highly a in financing high was of hefore abstin- | thing about w ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR Ey SAM HILL A Some Publicity Not Desirable It may be grand to get your name in print, it at that yc no disgrace if you have yourself in jail. Observations of Oldest Inhabitant What's become of the old-fash- | tr ioned woman who didn't think home was complete rubber plant? Yet It's fail, it meams that s Not got W e to The Ananias Club sl relative from @alifornia 'n here a w k now, d 1 hasn't d one d ehout its climate.” “That al Thie Weird Language “Pa,” said Clarence, ouistanding man?" “He's one on the inside wio is | sitting pretty,” lied dad. in # swhat sy an his iin of Interesting Donate Angeles la Information married k. M Los) po FEON 3 Ask Any Middle-Aged Man ! All things considered I should say | gr Thé saddest truth | wh “Nothing can be quite s0 gone | phe When ’tis—as youth.” tre Is There May Be a Subt'e Moral in wh This Jiinks—Backsliding sort of thing. Jinks—Yes, but it at least shows an effort has bheen made to go forward. is a sad to m: pu Low W The Real Shock | Mother: you have hero has feet of clay, || Her found e’ Daughter: “I o your know but of bone.” don’t feet, head his found he has a Passing Observation can tell by the way they on” how some people hear Dburdens. th Tou ne arry their | i Why They Escape Rummage Sale Of these c!d pants, said he, I thiti an awful lot; But t. aot strange for they're The only pair I've got. to He he It Was to Laugh “My husband has 1o indignantly declared the bride two days. “Applesauce married hen, maids.” | wi faults!" of snapped the old “tell that to the old Not Much in Its Favor As we understand companion- ate marriage it makes wedlock easier to pick. Don't Swat 'Em—Make It Hot for 'Em Cold weather decreases the ac- tivity of flies, but increases their Ufe span. Kept at 86 degrees Fahrenheit they live 21 day: at 60 degrees Fahrenheit they live 124 days.—News item. If Rumors Are True— In a mixed company you No longer run the risk Of causing blushes with A story that is risque. What Every Wife Knows Her Neighbor: “Does your hus- band share - his ‘business worries with you?” Her: “Huh! erous than that; all home to me.” He's more’ gen- he Drings them Add Usel, Information The difference between a high- brow and a gold digger is that a highbrow thinks there is nothing worse than an empty head, and a e oo oo I Were always at yunr service —says Taxi Tad. Emergency <all—to the sta- tion—hospital—visitors — late for appointment — car broken || down — promptness is necess sary. We serve you promptly— | at reasonahle rates. in the front seat, but what the Younger Gen- eration seems to want specifieally is more arm |room in the rumble deck.—(Detroit News.) Some of the girls have the appearance of having been robbed by Ju:k the Stripper.— Il find nqth! bjectionable e (Indianapolis Nefiu.) gold And without a the the ake good a alking | thi divoree 0DD FELLOWS |20, —adv. Office Phone 389 | R S S T R Phone 188 IB 1928. digger that there is nothing orse than an empty pocketbook. Yeh, This Is Beastly lion of the ‘evening was The victim of a grafter— roar this lion surely did— But you bet ‘twasn’t with laugh ter. Zero in Excuses for Poverty “Well, we ecan’t all be rich.” “No, there couldn’t be any 10h: we all were.” More or Less True used to trim dresses with bhons, but now they m they with a pair of One of the pathetic ¢ is the middle-age has debating hers bobbed or the fad started and ts nerved up to it, only 1 her friends are letting ow long again, Every time we silk stock gs and galoshes together we are ove convinced than ever that e ridiculous is no fit compan 1 for the sublime, The modern girl's idea of g up is to take something T. Most of our if They ce and woman whether not ever finally to find theirs ho heen nee see doll else troubles are due to > fact that the things we post ne doing never are th we in't to do anyway. ynic an old married ouch who thinks a married man ho'll go out and buy a parrot, a ymograph and radio hasn’ ansitory but permanent insanity Now that it is so easy to see \other they are—or are not— i candor compels us few of them would ists’ models. on we get from the wear is that thelr ners expected to do all their during the winter by ling in nice, warm closed cars. thing spoils a bath for a man | e the thought of having to an the ring off the tub after gets through. We can imagine a lot of weird| but we can't imagine easy adding anything much to total of human happi admit darn The impre mps girls ings, e sum 77777 e ATTENTION All O0dd Fellows are requested attend the funeral of Brother erman Nlemela, which will be 1d at Douglas, Monday, Feb. at 2 P. M A special ferry 1l leave Juneau at 1:30 P. M. HENRY / ENKINS, Noble Grand .- 014 papers for sale at The Empire Service Transfer Co. | Will Haui Saw Mill Wood and Coal Residence Fhone 3501 ——— RELIABLE TRANSFER Phone 149 Res. 148 COURTESY aad GOOD SERVICE Our Motto HOTEL ZYNDA ELLVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. JAPANESE TOY SHOP H. B. MAKINO Front Street P. 0. Box 218 for Mall Orders. AUTOS FOR HIRE PHONE 199 Agents for SUN'OCO Motor Oil MILLER’S TAXI Juneau, FOR HIRE s i I ) ST S AV Wt TR Seattle’ Fruit and Produce Co. Fresh Fruit and Veretables Wholesale and Retail Out of town orders given special attention — (L BT T BRI J. B. BURFORD & €O | ,fl L. C. Smith and Corona TYPEWRITERS Pablic Stenographer ( PROFESSIONAL [ il tiisimsiresiaeel] DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS 1 and 3 Goldsteln Bids. PHONE 56 Hoars 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. Dr. Charles P, Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentne Buildirg Telephone 176 B i W. Stewart Dr. A. W DENTIST Hours 9 a. m. to 6 n. m SEWARD BUILDING Oftice Phone 469, Res. BROWN'S DOLLAR STORE Stationery—Notions—— Greeting Cards—Toys— Novelties, Merchanawse of Merit [ GARBAGE | HAULED AND LOT CLEANING G. A. GETCHELL, Phone 109 or 149 Dr. II Vanee 21 God:tetn Fids. 10 to 12: 1 to b: or by appoinrment Licensed Osteopatnic. Physiclan Phone: Office 1671, Residence, Gastizenu 3! ot Dr. Geo. L. Barton CHIROPRACTOR, Hellenthal Bldg. Oftice Hours 10 to 12; 3 t. 6: 7 to 9; and by appointment. Phune 26 CHIROPRACTIC is not the practice of Medicine. Surgery nor Osteopethy. Juneau Public Library and Free Reading Room City Mall, Sscond Floor Malz Street at 4th Reading Room Open From 8a m to 10 p. m. Cireulation Room Open From 1 to 6:30 p. m.—7:00 p. m. to | 8:30 p. m. Current Magazines, Newspapers Reference Baoks, Ete, FREE TO ALL T Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSICAL. THERAIST Medical Gymnastics, Massage Electrici?y 410 Goldstein_ Bldg. Valentine's Optical Dept. R. L. DOUGLASS Optician and Optometrist Room 16, Valentine Bldg. Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. aad 1) by Appointment L Ask for —ms Robert :im;.so-l-xfi Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles Cc. 3 lege of Optometry and Opthalmolcgy Glasses Fitted Leneses Ground Juneau Bakerv Products from your Grocer Fraternal Societies OF X Gastineau Channel . Juneau Lions Club every Meets nes Lester D. Henders H. L dnes day evenings at | o'clock, GEO, B. Vigiting Brothers welo Co-Ordinate Bedles of Freemasonry Scottish Rits Regular mes second Frida nouth _ at n. Odd Hall NALTER B. HEISEL. Fellows’ LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE Juneau Lodge No. 70% Meots” every” Mpuday night, at cit, MAC SPA STEVENS & A M. and Fourth Mon- each month in all, be- o’clock. Mas- Second of Order of EASTERN STA® Second and Fourth T'ueye days of each month, a8 1. 0. O, % MILDRED MAR- orthy Matren. BROW Secy. NIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | Jeghers Counell No. 1760, MCINTYRE, 3. K. 3 ", TERNER. Secretary, J. AUXILIARY, PIONEERS OF ALASKA, 1GLOO, No. 6 Mecttng every — second Fri eneh month at § o'clock p. m. Wy @ ardo Hal, ident, ry. L o Lo N 8 meets Monday nights Eagles' ‘Hall, Doug las; third Wednes- ¢ night DOUGLAS AERIE JUNEAU BAKERY PHONE 577 THE JunEAu Launpry Franklin Street, between Froat and Second PHONE 350 = i, | f 1 | s o it it iy WOMEN OF MOOSEHEART { | LEGION, NO. 439 | | Meets 1st and 3rd Thursdays | | each month, 8 PM at Moose | | Man, { T Esther Ingmnn, Sflfinr Re- | geni: Agnes Grigg, Recorder. e — TrHE Cnas W. CarTER McerTUARY “The Last Service Is the Greatest Tribute” Corner 4th and Franklin 8t. Phone 136 GEO. M. SIMPKINS CO. PRINTING and STATIONERY Opposite Alaska Electric Light Dffice OPEN EVENINGS ALASKAN HOTEL ' MODERN REASONABLE RATES DAVE HousEL, 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 to $100,000.00 Our capital * structure is now as follows— « Capital .._...... .$100,000.00 Surplus .................$100,000.00 . Total Resources Over $2,6000,000.00 | | k. $6656.45 Has just been paid out for losses by local merchants on :l;:connt of the stranding of e 3.5. NORTHWESTERN Yes, we write Marine Insur- hnce on single shipments or under an open policy which covers all your shipments au- tomatically. THE COST IS VERY LOW T0O ALLEN SHATTUCK INSURANCE MORRIS CONSTRUCTION ALL KINDS oF CABINET MILL WORK Plate and Window co.| I