The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 9, 1929, Page 4

| ‘ | | | ‘ increase the . more money than the Territory . areas close by, - editor of Daily Alaska Empzré JOHN W. TROY o EDITOR AND MANAGE! Published every ev RE_PRINT pt Sunday by _the at Second and Main ning exc COMPANY ka Post Office Jun Entered in the au as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Dellvered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month. By mail, at the following rate One year, in ; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, i Subscribers will ¢ vor if they will promptly notify the Business O y failure or irregularity in the delivery of their Telephone for Editorial ¥ and Business Oftices, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to #t or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the woeal news published herein, ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. TAXES OUGHT TO BE REDUCED. The Territorial treasury at the end of Janus contained nearly one million dollars, and Tre urer Walstein G. Smith predicts that at the end of the fiscal r, March 31, the record will be broken. He s there will probably be $1 0,- 000 in the ~Hung box at that time. This will be ‘more than $125,000 greater than balance w. at the end of the fiscal year two years ago. This result is in spite of the circum- stance that one cf the two years of the biennium ves gave us one of the smallest salmon packs in recent Alaska history. The recital of these facts Is evidence that taxes ought to have been reduced two years ago. In spite of the circumstance that the appropria- tions at that time were larger than necessary, the Territory has collected enough money from | the taxpayers to meet all current expenses and Treasury surplus. Not only is “unnece ry taxation unjust taxa- tion” but it is bad business. Every dollar that is taxed out of the people is a dollar taken out ef business that would be contributing velopment if it were not shut up in the pub- He . treasury. No agency can make such ef- fective use of money as the agency that created it. When money is taken away from the agency that created it a slowing up process follows. The Legislature that meets in Juneau month ought to reduce taxes because the to next taxes. present revenue laws produce needs to meet its necessities, and it ought to do so because of the effect it would have upon those whom we would like to have invest money in the Territory. Noth- ing would contribute more to the development of Alaska than to have it known that the Terri- torial Government ig honest and thrifty and that it is being careful of the rights of those who have money invested here. Nothing would make that known so generally and plainly actual reduction of the taxes. S0 as an CHRISTMAS TREE FARMING. Raising Christmas trees has turned out to be more profitable than dairying in the experience of a landowner at Pocono Lake, Pa., to reports to the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Since beginning to raise the trees on a large scale this man has reduced his 35-head dairy to 7, and he stated his intention this year to go into the winter with only 4 head. A landowner near Reading, Pa., has suc- cessfully raised Christmas trees on 1,000 acres of rough, stony ground where hardwood reprouces rather rapidly. Here it is necessary after setting out the young trees to go through the area once or twice during the first three seasons of the trees’ growth in the field and cut the young| oak, maple, beech, and birch reproduction that | is inclined to take possession of the ground be- fore the voung evergreens become established. The owners of an 80-acre farm of high-priced land near Lionville, Pa., has had his land in no other crop that Christmas trees for the last 20 years. L. H. Buzzell, of Elkins, W.jVa., after visiting these three plantations this summer determined to make Christmas-tree growing the sole activity on his farm, according to a report to the Forest Service. 1In the last two years Mr. Buzzell had already planted 60,000 Norway spruce and Nor- way pine. The Fcrest Service, however, says Christmas- tree growing is a business that should not be gone into without thorough investigation of mar- ket possibilities and consideration of proximity to markets, competition from natural producing and other factors. THE BEST GIFT. Sheldon, famous clergyman, author of “In His Steps,” and for many years the Christian Herald, and even yet & contributing editor of that publication, never Dr. Charles M. * writes but that he says something worth-while. He is always temperate and reasonable—very unlike the present editor of the paper the mame of which was a household word when Dr. ‘i:eldon sat at the wheel. ~ In a recent issue Dr, Sheldon wrote: Like most of the subscribers to the Herald, I had a good many Christmas presents. Here is a short list: fountain pen and pencil, account book, clothes brush, box writing paper, dressing gown, three (3) neckties (from brother-in-law, who did it to get evem with me for last wvear), address book; (have four al- ready), and more than three hundred Christmas eards, many of them beauti- ful works of art. But the best gift 1 had was friend. ;flfla, ll’m in the presents, and the Treasury | de-| It ought to reduce | according | of the Christian Herald, | the cards, specially in many of which contained personal words, written with a pen. Friendship is one of the rare things in this world that cannot be | bought with money nor lost with pov- | erty. | It is that eternal fact in human relations that preserves our faith in human nature. It kepes us optimistic in the midst of what sometimes seems like a very bad world. Friendship Is True friends of the unselfish side cf life, are not trying to get something out us, but to share something with us. One of the finest things that Jesus ever said was, “No longer do I call you servants, but friend And he said it, not as a superior Being, con- descending or patronizing, but as a Com- panion with men who needed that fel- than anything else lowship more than a i ; i No one fs And no one is rich who has none. is poor who has friends. The always excellent and unusually Ketchkan Chronicle says Assistant Attorney-Gen- eral (Wild Bill) Denovan was born in Michigan. Mr. Donovan is a native of Buffalo, N. Y., holds two Columbia degrees and worked his way up in the National Guard and in the World War luntil he was Colonel of the old 69th regiment, mostly made up of New York City r dents. The “0ld 69th” is often referred to as the “Iris | Regiment.” Father Duffy was its Chaplain dur- ;in_x: the war. What woman’s name do men like | best? In politics, Ruth. Halt of the women elected to the next Congress are ‘named Ruth.—(St. Louwis Globe- Democrat.) | The voters must have thought they were casting ballots for Babe. ! A Loan We Ought to Make. | | (Seattle Post-Inteltigencer.) There is one loan to our Central and South | American neighbors that Congress ought to be quick to authorize and our public opinion no less quick to indors 4 We ought to lend the services of as many of jour engineers as our Southern neighbors require |and we can spare to help them in car the road-building programs upcn which many lof their governments are entering. These engineers should be taken from our | Army and Navy and our Department of Agri- | culture because they have had abundant exper-! ience in road construction in the Philippines, ;l’(vrln Rico, Alaska, Haiti and in Continental United States. Gocd roads are the greatest need thrughout ‘(‘mm-m and South America today. They reinforce | public tranquility, they raise the standard of liv- |ing and promote prosperity. Under a law of Congress enacted several years ago we have sent a naval mission to Brazil to help train the Brazilian navy, and another (one to Peru to do the same for the navy of that | most friendly nation. Nicaragua has btained from petent Marine Corps mission to officer {the new National Guard. And to Cuba recently sent a military mission to training a Cuban air froce. President Coclidge has again called upon Con- gress to authorize a conmstructive loan of a sim- and train we have assist it. This Congress can easily do this at the short session hy an amendment to the law under which we now lend the services of Army, Navy and Marine Corps missicns for purposes of training. This amendment would authorize the sending of engineering missions to those Republics re- questing assistance in the building of good roads. President Coolidge has shown Congress a way in which it can give prompt and practical sup- port to the program of closer relations with Cen- tral and South America which President-elect Hoover is championing with success on his Southern journey. Bills That Will Be Smaller. (New York World.) Everybody will be interested to some extent in the Government’s announcement that on July 1 it will begin to put its new paper money into circulation. The new notes will be only two- thirds the size of those now in use. The fact that this reduction happens to correspond very closely to the shrinkage in the purchasing power of the dollar since 1914 will probably afford a {lot of material for jokes, but there are a number | of excellent reascns for the change. The new size is not wholly an experiment. It has been tried out in the Philippines and found highly satisfactory, being more easily handled {and counted and less bulky in the pocket or bill- fold. Of even greater impoftance is the saving of $2,000,000 a year in the cost of engraving. In making the change the Government has adopted radical alterations in the designs and chesen a new kind of paper on which the en- graving is to be done, so as to make counter- feiting more difficult and more easily detected. The new money will be issued through the ex- change of worn-out bills for new ones by the banks. With two sizes circulating at the same time there may be some inconvenience at first, but any difficulties of this sort will be short- lived. A Matter of Red Tape. (Olympia Olympian.) If the new Government at Washington can remove a little of the stupid red tape that en- tangles the matter of immigration and naturali- A Kansas City weman is going to visit Eng- land, accompanied by her three-year-old son. She was born abroad, and although her husband is an American, she is classified as a foreigner— and consequently had to get varius kinds of officlal papers to enable her to re-enter the coun- try. when her trip to England expires. | But that isn’t the funny part of it at all. Her |infant son, bern in this country, is an American citizen, even if she isn't. So when the two board the liner for England, he must go aboard by one gangplank and she must use another one, Come what may, the majesty (and idiocy) of the {law will be upheld. Anyway, we can thank the Pennsylvania witch doctors for a mnew word. One under- stands that getting “hexed” is a good way to keep from going old.—(Seattle Times.) In this matter of disregard for the prohibi- tion law, it really isn't very safe for any com- munity to point the finger of scorn at any other community.—(Detroit Free Press.) The Democratic Party hopes to be strong enough to do some more nominating in 1932.— i(Dec Moines Register.) ing out| us a most com-| s in ilar sort to the Southern Republics that request| zation, it will be doing the country a real service. | The Lesser Evil attention to the red of the traffi lights Cupid can bring a woman a hea o D bigger baby baby than the stork can. Some women give you the im- pression they get more pleasure out of nursing a grouch thah they “Heh!” said the friendly cop tojever did out of nurging a t the gent sitting on his front stap:, A wife can get jmr as m.,\ ¢h in the early morning hours, “Whyfabout having to wait on her ! don’t you go in the house? Youw'lljband as he can about having catch cold out here! weil on her. “Know it” sighed the man, “but| Some men get married because I'll catch something worse if I gofthey fall in love, and some get in” married because some girl wanted —_— a meal ticket. You Know Her Kind The can opener enables a wife Bill: “What kind of 2 gt jgfto get a meal in about one-tenth Betty? the time it used to take, bui we Jim: “Well, it it is something)never have heard of one using the she ought o know she Knows |time ved to get her husband’ it, and if it something she ought {gocks darned and the buitons sew- to know, she doesn’t. ed on his clothes. FRAE A The reason a wife thinks gamb ‘What Every Suburbanite Knows|ling is a sin is because every ! An open winter may save shovel-{her husband bets on a sure thing ing snow, but no matter what the|[they have to stand the grocer summer turns out to be the grags|and she has to give up gett has to be cut regularl new hat she’s been wanti Thumbs Down For Finger, Eh?, From Court notes in Dallas News: | state A. L. Finger, raffle; $10 fine and costs. vs Little Lessons in Arithmetic Yes, one and one make tem , When preachers tie the knot— The woman is the one; | The hush the naught. i | Meaning Which ) you have heen on the water - a year. eh? Any better the old friend of Jones. sighed, “I think P'd er off, but my wife with me. 2" asked | “well,” nhe [be a heap be | doesn’t agree Ho, Hum Every dog has his won't be long before the mark begins to fade and the the “:" and the “.” will be finding a way to hog the limelighx. l day and it | Safe Bet We talk ahout the old-fashioned, winter, but we reckon we're really no more keen about having it come | back than we are the old-fashioned | styles in women's clothes. | l\ And That's That A new toy can made a child hap- py. but it can’t make it as happy as it can a woman to pass up an- other woman who looks fatter than she does.—Cincinnati Enquirer. “But think how the other wom- lan feels!” observes the Boston| Globe Huh! Don't [ her, she's just as doesn't look as fat woman. any pity confident as the on she | other | waste Any Man | I ne'er like being home alone at night, For 1 admit though of my cour- age I oft’ boast, The noises I don't notice when the family's there, When I'm alone, sound like the wailings of a ghost. Home, Sweet Home Blinks: “Does your wife smoke?” Jinks: “No, she gets more pleas- ure out of lecturing me on the evils of the use of the weed than she would out of using it herself.” All Pocketbooks After Holidays Are “Any ruins in this place?” asked the holiday visitor. “Yes, plenty,” replied the native. “Huh! Where are they?” asked the guest. “In the hip pocket of every fam- ily man,” he retorted. Plane-Mudd (Marriage License in Los Angeles “Times.) PLANE—Helen A.—20. MUDD—Virgil A.—22. Correct “Pa,” said Clarence, hick town?” “It is one, son,” replied his dad, “where the women still meet to sew on patehwork quilts instead of to scrap over a cheap bridge prize. “what is a More Or Less True You can’'t make them believe it, but a lot of girls who economize so much on material for skirts would be even more attractive if they would show the same thrifti- ness in the use of paint and pow-| der. The “red” .n the lips doesn't mean stop, and this may explain why so many youths pay so little [ GARBACE HAULED | AND LOT CLEANING | G. A. GETCHELL, | | Phome 109 or 149 | e et e} e Mabry’s Cafe Regular Dinners Short Orders Lunches 6a.m to2a m PULAR PRICES It would be an awful shock t many a man to discover his wif had another lover, but wha: would surprise him most would that a man ‘could get a thrill out of sing her. If a man didn’t h his back he would fe pretty desperate c imst but there’s many a girl thinks it's smart to go th the winter without one —eee TAX NOTICE on hers. Second payment of now due and payable. Sam become delinquent March 1s 1929, at which time 109 penalty and 8% interest will attach H. R. SHEPARD, City Cle: ances, today ough y frro mre——— \(\an wn When you buy PEERLES BREAD It is better Bread — High in Public Favor Every Bite a Delight Remember the Name insist upon it from your grocer PEERLESS BAKERY s N AUTOS FOR HIRE We're always at your service ¥ —says Taxi Tad. Emergency call—to the dock— hospital—visitors—late for ap- pointment—car broken down-— promptness is necessary. We gserve you promptly—at reason- able rates. Carlson’s Taxi and Ambulance Service Phone Single O and 11 -— | | Berry’s Taxi PHONE 199 Stand at Gastineau i The Packard Taxi PHONE 444 Stand at Arctio s e Prompt Service, Day and Night CovicHE AuTo SERVICE STAND AT THE OLYMPIC Phone 342, Day or Night Juneau, Alaska HA%M.;:BRY R e e danadad T | R.J. ALCORN, M.D. thsxcm and Surgeon Rooms 514-17-19-21-23 Gold- | | | PRS- KASER & FREEBURC stein Building. 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MORRIS CONSTRUCTION €O BUILDIRG CONTRACTORS Phone 62 S S RE S AR I S S JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY Moves, Pucks and Stores Prompt’ Delivery of ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 48 HOTEL ZYNDA ELEVATOR SERVICE S. ZYNDA, Prop, 4