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

~ Dculy Alaska Em pzre m W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND H.AJIAGER bul\dny by the eve evenin, X 5, Second and Main shed IIPIRE PRINTING COMPAN Btreets, Juneau, Alesl Tintered in the Post Office in Junc matter. except NY at au as Second Class SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Oelivered by ca In Juneau, Uouqln. "Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month, By mall, post t following raten: One year, in advance, $1 ntha, in advance | #6.00; one month, In advar 1 Sulecribers will confer a favor If they will promptly notify the Businees Office of any failure or lrregularity | In the delivery of their paper Telephone for Bditorial “m Business Offices, 374. nell to the credited to It or not otherwise cre weal news published he ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHE™ BLICATION -—— — IMPROVING ALASKA HARBO} and Har improvement ay the House s recommended The dispatches ivers bors Committee | of the harbors at Port Alexander Seward for the accomodation of small craft That proper task for the National fisheries of Alaska are of the world to facilitate region are there to be for the fishing craft enough Coast Guard Alaska coast to make sel | | the { Ketchikan and | protection and Government. The| the mportant | that are necessary of fishing in this very important indeed. Not only ought the Alaska coast | there ought to he on the the relief disaster and is a necessary work a among most i Improvement the prosecution harbors along but cutters good stationed accessible for matter where one of a fishing might find it. Another proposed receive prompt and Congress the deepening tinean Channel It would saving in the operation of the lines of activity in this section Gastineau Channel were be available the year round at tide, and it would count for greater improvement Gastineau Channel followed by the construction of a c¢ Young's Bay and Hawk Inlet for the that the more important work ve no that adequate attention of the bar in G cause an immense fisheries and other of Alaska if that it would any stage of the safety. The ought be nal ame reason sht to from improvement ou, made so of to is necessary. CHURCHES MAKE GL OOMY \I’l‘ Dr. J. Campbell ‘White, General Secretary of the Men's Church League, writing in the Chris- tian Herald, says that 5 churches of the Presbyterian, Baptist, Congregational and Metho- dist denominations reported not making a single convert in 1926. Another very large list reported a single convert each’ and yet another large list reported only two converts. He said that 65,000 of the 200,000 Protestant churches in the coun- try “without resnlts in new disciples of Christ during the year.” In view of this startling disclosure, the Church League undertook to make a survey, and the Christian Herald article contains a long list of observations from many churchmen, including preachers and bishops. While all of those quoted admitted that the situation is deplorable, there was a more or less divergence as to |hg cause of it. Practicall 11 of them, however, agreed that the lack of interest on the part of the mem- bership was the direct cause of it. Most of them said the churches are too prone to get away from spiritual matters and to concern themselves with moral theories and political issues. It was generally admitted, however, that doubts caused by the acceptance of science and the comnsequent decline in accepting the biblical story of Christ was having a deterrent effect. The most comprehensive response to the ques- tionnaire of the Men’s Church League was prob- ably that of Bishop Thomas F. Gailor of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Memphis, Tenn., who said: First, we are living in one of those periods of spiritual unrest, which have been more or less frequent in the his- tory of the church, and we must work patiently and wait for the Holy Spirit to bring about the inevitable reaction. Second, there is no doubt that the dom- inion of material interests, fostered and encouraged by the results of physical science, has infatuated many people and made them indifferent to their spir- itual obligations. Third, unfortunately some Christian preachers spend their time telling people what not to believe, and other preachers seem to have quit preaching the gospel and have gone into politics, until many people are disgusted with the presentation of Chris- tianty whjch the reports in the news- papers convey. An evidence of the departure of many churches from spiritual to wordly things is the news accounts of political meetings that are being held in churches and of political sermons preached throughout the country. In sections of the coun- try many caurches have in effect affiliated with the Anti-Saloon League and other political or- ganizations, and their ministers and boards are actively engaged in trying to control party pri- maries and dictate the selection of candidates for office. OO}VSERVATIV S CONTINUE TO LOS The Conservatives lost another seat in the British Commons the other day when the Labor- ites defeated Miss Margaret Kidd in Linlithgow, Scotland, who was running in a by-election for the seat made vacant by the death of her father. The plurality for the Laborite was more than 5,000, m the Conmservative. Mem:n have been going against the Con- mfi‘“ more than a year. Usually the N’ p-en the wiunep, but there has SURVEY OF JATION. were Men's 1‘.- w York between | The Liberal nominee was about 3,000 be- ( been a consistent This unvarying tr cussion of the adv for Premier it Churchill, servative talked loss of Consrevative strength nd has caused not a little dis- ability of substituting another Baldwin, who tired of and wants to retire. Sir Win former Liberal, but Con- Chancellor of the Exchequer, about for the ion | leader 1 | politics, is said, ston now is most In the 19th New York Republican primary, Dr running for national delegate on a wet defeated Dr. Thomas M. Balliet, former Dean of the Department of Education in New York running as a dry, by of 2,08 16 to 1. Congressional Dis Nicholas Murray Butler platf University, a vote } to 369—a majority of A poll of the jar As Presidential Coolidg and members of the to their choice showed 3 for Dawes, 3; Republican weiation nomination 11; Hughes, Morrow, 1. as for the Hoover, Longworth, 1 the defeat of “Big Smith i it seems to people. 3l centered in Il affect a decided the 1all and Frank and even there rity of the loom over A1l toh the the men than is discussion of purpose.of winning pursuit of truth, mueh measures 1 elections for in Tribute to William H. Crane. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) curtain has dropped upon liant career of another of America’s stars of the theatre. Cineinnatians with the theatre paused in their respec 8 vesterday when word came from Hollywood, Cal., that William H. Crane, prince of American com- edians, was dead. He was one of the most revered of the remaining veterans of the stage who had won the firm friendship of a multitude of fol- lowers in the days of the playhouse when patron nd tor rubbed should friends and ex- changed greetings through first-name salutations William H. Crane passed a life-time of use- fulness in the theatre and was associated with its finest ditior As comed n his was the task to bri laughter to the lips and cheer to the soul actor nplished that purpose more effectually than did, none through so long a period of years. A typical American, born in 1845, it is significant that except for occasional sojourns into the rea the classic drama, notably with Stuart Robson in that memorable partnership which lasted from 1877 to 1889, \llllll“! was associated with any but |an out-and-out American character. Of the many [noble portraitures that he contributed to the age, the extremes of histrioniec interpretation were represented by his impersonation of the stalwart Senator FMannibal Rivers in “The Sen- ator,” one of the absorbing plays of the nineties, {and quaint Yankee creation—David Harum. The latter was a type to be expected from a New Englander, It was one of the most con- vincing ch cter studies that the American theatre has known, comparable only to that other lovable stage character, Joshua Whitcomb, as per- formed by Denman Thompson in ‘“The Old Home- stead.” . It i§'men like William H. Crane, whose private and professional life invariably is above reproach, who bring prestige to the theatre; men who are inspired by lofty ideals, who shun word, thought or action that might bring * reproach upon their calling, and who are constantly alert to advance the cause of dramatic art. William H. Crane's name goes down in history of the American theatre as one of its earnest pioneers, an industrious worker in the cause of clean, wholesome comedy-drama — the sort of entertainment that makes the playhouse a desirable gathering place for young and old. Too Old at Forty. The final the bril- celebrated ac he No ter, M H. in Leice William the (Manchester Guardian.) It has been observed by many students of human nature with a turn for moral reflections that men are merely grown-up children, and cer- tainly they seem to be so in the cycles which govern their pastimes. With the child the cycles are brief ones—within the year tops are mys- teriously followed by hoops and hoops are sud- denly abandoned for kites or hopscotch. The grown man takes a little longer to fall back into the arms of his previous passion; twenty years or more are needed to bring on another general at- tack of roller skating, and rather more than that seems to have been required in the case of ping- pong. But we are now back once more at ping- pong (or table tennis, as its grave enthusiasts prefer to call it), and we are assured that at this very moment the ‘“boom” in that game is far big- ger than it ever was in the earliest years of this century. There are leagues and championships and players who train earnestly to take part in them—table tennis is apparently a serious part of modern civilization. Proficiency has increased at such a rate that ‘“today,” according to one ex- pert assurance, “a table tennis player is past his prime at ‘forty—after that the speed of the game begins to tell.” It is terrible to think of the strain which modern athletics impose upon our modern athletes. Once it was a remarkable feat when Leander (and, somewhat later, Lord Byron) swam the Hellespont; now our swimmers are con- tent with nothing less than the English Channel, which they swim with regularity every fine week- end in August and September. Once the man of forty might have bolstered up his declining years with a little quiet pat-ball on a grass or shale court; now the race is definitely to the swift and his fatal shortcomings are fearfully exposed on the dining-room table. Youth will be served— and if it were not at table tennis it would prob- ably be at tiddley-winks or some other equally violent strain on heart, lungs, and muscles, The man of forty must take a back seat and wait with patience for the game cycle to bring round an- other gust of popularity for sports, like cricket and golf, which are better suited to the physical resources of his ageing frame. Before this political campaign grows any older it might be well to secure some official defini- tion of the exact difference between “dry” and “thirsty.”—(New Orleans Times-Picayune. Senator Borah has quetsioned the whole class of Republican Presidential candidates and hasn’t announced that he will keep any of the boys after school.—(Toledo Blade.) e L SR Diseased nerves may excuse you in case of murder; but try that plea after forging a check and see what happens to you.—(San Francisco Chronicle.) Washington announces a new plan to clean up rum-running conditions along the Detroit Riv- er—*"in the spring.” This announcement is be- coming ome of our hardiest u upl-.—(n-mu Free Press.) E L e ALONG LIFE’ DETOUR By SAM HILL Tip Your duty do, Jut listen, son, Don’t ever let You f be done. Observations of Oldest Inhabitant The modern young folks in the old days it wasn sible when getting home threc hours late to alibi by saying the horse ran out of « and they had to walk five miles to a filling station to get enough to. get home on. The Ananias Club “My husband works too hard a it is,” said the wife, “and while 3 tough not to have more money { wouldn't think of urging him to ry to do any more just to get the extra money I'd like to have to spend.” The Good Die Young Blin “If rumors are true young people of today are from being saints.” Jinks: “Yes, and if bromide is also true the rising generation will be Methuselahs.” A Grand One “Ever had any big surprises in your life “Well, th that old present a race of once when I needed important signature I found my fountain pen really had enoug! ink in it to enable me to get the fellow's John Hancock on the or der.” What's the Fare to Clarksville? Wasting mothe love on' a Pekinese is w than wast ing $10 silk hose on two-cent broomsticks. m Hill in Cincinnati Enquirer. Why, Sam! Up here we have both the cornffed and sylph-like specimens, clad in gorgeous colors that would make even Lot look back. We mean calves—not dogs broomsticks, or maybe. Come to Clinton County!—W. H. M. Con ley, in Clarksville News. Fiends Not All Dead Some pesky critter has invented a musical instrument that com- bines the X with the violin and the next horrible thing he'll probably think of will be a way of combining spinach and TOtS You Garden! Spades Soon will Be Trumps. Acid Test For Her “Will you marry me?” asked the leap-year girl. “Will you aiways love me, slave for me and excuse my faults the way mother always has?” he de manded. Oh, Passing Observation No garden ever turns out beautiful as it is pjetured about this time of year. Business Before Sentiment “You don’t seem to be grieving vourself to death over the passing of the horse,” said we to a for- mer well-known horse trader “Nope,” he grinned, “I'm find« ing it easier and mpore profitable selling the suckers used cars than I ever did selling them Dhalky horses.” as long Comes Canned, Like Our Eats If Nature's given you no beauty, lass, There's no call to get sore; Just ask your dad—well, say twenty—and Buy some at the drugstore. for e oo an It's a Furmy Life We never do stop wanting But at our fate just cuss, To always find things we most never good for us. want Are More or Less True A fur coat is in a class by it | self—it's the ouly thing that a wper will wear that keeps her m. | You | she shows, | admire the ilk things a | A woman ¢ | may look more |out than the woman carrying {home a bridge prize, but it is | casy to guess which of the twp | has the more contented and loyal [ husband awaiting her there. | Two can't live cheaply as | one, and the girl w is pl ing | | can’t admire the anatomy but you can at least nerve and expensive inny girl shows, ying home a baby tired and worn to marry a booh who'll never be to twice ich a they did together before be |came one will hold on to her job it she is wise | A pretty face is atest temptation » reckon after he | ried awhile a man thinks more of | his wife’s disposition than he does |of her looks when he is kissing her. A lot of parents don't care if perpetual motion is ever solved or the circle ever squared, but will be content if a way of getting children to follow the teachings of their parents is discovered. rhe way he puts them off you | would thing a man considered the little odd jobs around the house his wife asked him to do were as painful as having a tooth pulled or boil lanced. We have a lot of friends we wouldn't have if we had to live with them as much as we do with | members of our own families. Another funny thing about mar ricd life is that the wife who nev to have to go back for something she has forgotien when they start out will bawl her lesser out if in the rush of business he has forgotten to mail unimportant letter. a able earn as o al th to k but has been mar e T Leon Permanent Wave, §12.50. Fern Beauty Parlor, —adv. FIRE ALARM CALLS Third 2nd Franklin, Front and Franklin. Front, near Ferry Wzay. Front, ovp. Film Exchanga. Front, opp. City Whart. Front, near Saw Mill Willougkby at Totem Gro. ‘Willoughby, opp. Cole Barn. Front and Seward. Front and Main. Second end Main, Fifth and Seward. Fire Hall. Gastineau and Rawn Way. Second and Gola. Fourth and Harris. Fifth and €old. Fifth and East. Seventh and Gold. Fiftn and Kennedy. Ninth, back of power house Calhoun, opp. Juneau Apts. Distin Ave., and Indian St. Ninth and Calhoun, Seventh and Main. Twelfth, at Northern L'dry. Twelfth and Willoughby. Home Grocery. WELCOME CAFE Front Street HOME COOKING Lrs, A Haglund, Prop. B HOTEL ZYNDA ELALVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. I i S e AUTOS FOR HIRE If your feet could talk— they wouldn’t hesitate to tell you to give them relief —says Taxi Tad. You wouldn't relish being walked on all day—neither do they. Give them comfort at small cost by hiring a (s taxi—just call Single 0 or 94. Carlson’s 'I‘an and Ambulance Service Stand} at Alaskan Hotel and Juneau Billiards Phone Single 0 and 94 i Pn-x;t BC}I;;I‘“—D“ and Covicr Au'rx SERVI Juneau, aska A AT e 3 “« a very | BERRY’S TAXI Cadillac and Marmon Cars Stands” at Gastineau Hotel and Burford’s Corner PHONE 199 OR 314 e Rl ) B MILLER'S TAXI Phone 183 ’ll'l“l. Alaska CARS WITHOUT DRIVERS FOR HIRE Day and Night Service PHONE 485 BLUE BIRD TAXT them, Seattle Fresh Fruit Wholesals Produce Co. E Out of town orders given special attention — J. B. BURFORD & CO L. C. Smith and Corona TYPEWRITERS Public Stenographer Fruit and DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS 1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg. PHONE 656 Hoars 9 a. m. to § p. m. and Veretables e and Retail Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Vailentine Building No BROWN'S DOLLAR STORE Stationery—Notions— Greeting Cards—Toys— Cents to One Dollar Telephone 176 A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hounrs 9 2 m. to 6 n. m. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. Phone 27 velties. (GARBAGE HAULED AND LOT CLEANING GETCHELL, G. A. Phone ]5 H Vance Osteopath—201 Godteln Bldg. 10 to 12; 1 to b; 710 8 or by appoinment Licensed Osteopathic Physiclan Phone: Office 1671 Residence, Gastizeau Hotal 109 or 149 Juneau Public Library and Free Reading Room | City Mall, Maiz 8 a. m. 1 to 6:30 p. Street at 4th Reading Room Open From Circulation Room Open From 8:30 p. m. | Current Magazines, Newspapars { Reference Books, Ete, FREE TO ALL Dr. Geo. L. Barton CHIROPRACTOR, Hellen* | Bldg. Office Hours 10 to 12; 3 t 9; and by appointment. Ph. CHIROPRACTIC is not the practica of Medicine. mry nor Olleopllhy ~u i [+ Second Floor to 10 p. m. PHYSICAL THERAPIST Medical Gymnastics, Massage Dlectricity 410 Goldsteln BIdg. Phone—Office: 423. m.—7:00 p. m. to | [ —— T. H. 'IHORKELDSEN LOCKSMITH . Phonograph Repairing Juneau, Alaska Valentine's Optical Dept. R. L. DOUGLASS Optician and Optometrist Room 16, Valentine Bldg. Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. aad by Appointment Helene W. L. Albrecht! JHARRY L Robert gimpson Opt. D Graduate Loa An eles Ccl- Box 1015 - H B. !F. 0. Box 21 JAPANESE TOY SHOP Front Street lege of Optomeiry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted Leneses Grouad s [P e gt SCHOOL OF PIANO PLAYING MAEKINO 8 for Mall Orders i THE EMFIRE BST, MOST UP-TO-DATE AND BEST EQUIPPED JOB PRINTING PLANT IN ALASKA. ALL GRADES ACCEPTED Mrs. Ruth Messerschmidt Phore 4501 HAS THE LARG- SRR £ c Tae Coas W. CARTER MORTUARY “The Last Service Is the Greatest Tribute” Corner 4th and Frankiin St. Phone 136 GEO. M. SIMPKINS CO. Phone 244 PRINTING and STATIONERY Npposite Alaska Electric Light Office OPEN EVENINGS ALASKAN HOTEL MODERN REASONABLE RATES Dave HousiL, PROP. RRIEENTNENENEENSAREIEEIARERNNNNANANNEAREZNRENEITRINAN, Use Our Banking Facilities When you deal with us, you do business with a bank that has wide experience and extensive connections— Always ready for Prompt, Efficient Service Accounts subject to check are cordially welcomed. . - PROFESSIONAL T Fraternal Societies OoF Gastineau Channel “D. Henderson, Redlingsh ]unmm ] ions Club Meets every nesday at 1 loc President Treas, Wed 130 Lester H. L. < B..P. 0. ELKS Meeting evenir I W dnes- 8 day Co-Ordinate Bodles of Freemasonry Scottish Rits Regular meetinga sccond Friday r-«‘h month_at 7:30 p, m. 0dd Fellows' Hall. VALTER B. HEISEL. Secretary, LOYAL ORD. « OF MOOSE Juneau Loc ge No. 789 Meets every Mondeg night, at 8 o'clocw, C. H. MACSPADDEN, Dictatos; R. H. STEVENS, Se(.re\nri MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. G F. & A. M. nd and Fourth Mon- v of each month Odd Fellows' Hall, ginning at 7130 o'clock. LUCAS, Mas- E. NAGHEL, & ter. CHAS Secrewary. Second and Fourth Tuie: ys of each umnlh, &t o'clock, 1. 0. O. B MILDRED MAR- Worthy Matron ALICE BROWN, %mc’y KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | Seghers’ Councll No. 1760, Meetings second and last Movday at 7:30 p.. m Transient brothers urged tc attend. Council Cham- Fifth _ Street. V. M. M DOUGLAS AERIE 117 F. O. mests Monday nights Eagles' Hall, Dougs las; third Wednes. day _night eaca I. 0. 0. F. Hall in Junean Cashen, Jr., W, P.; Secretary. month Thos, Smith, Guy AMERICAN LEGION Meets second and fourth Thursday each month in Dugout. WOMEN OF MOOSEHELBTT LEGION, NO. 439 Meets 1st and $rd Thursdays each month, 8 P.M. at Moose Hall. Esther Ingman, Senior Re- geni; Agnes Grigg, Recorder. ICE CREAM DELIVERED ANYWHERE IN THE CITY Brick or Bulk Juneau Billiards Phone 94 Carlson Taxi Stand MORRIS CONSTRUCTION co| 3 ALL KINDS 0¥ CABINET MILL WORK Plate and Window GLASS MORRIS CONSTRUCTION CO.