The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 21, 1929, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MAY 21, DT Ty 1929. Datly Alaska Empire JOEN W. TROY - - - EDITOB AND MANAGER Published every evenng except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Btreets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrter in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, In advance $6.00; one month, in advance, '$1.25, Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly | notify tha Business Office of any failure or irregularity | in the dellvery of their papers. Telephon~ for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the \ocal news published herein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER | HAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. GEN. RICHARI Many people have servec Alaska long and well in the more than sixty years that she huas been American territory, but it ought to cause jealous pangs to none to say that the “noblest Roman of | them all” was Gen. Wilds Preston Richardson who | lies dead at the National Capital. There are prob- ably more people in Alaska who would say that Gen. Richardson leads all persons in the value of his services to the Territory than would say that) of any other person, living or dead. Without making any invidious comparisons we must register our vote with the plurality—if, indeed, not majority— by concurring in this judgment, and we are not unmindful of the invaluable, the indispensable, serv- jces rendered by scores of others. Gen. Richardson was the father of the Government road system in Alaska in the full meaning of the term. He con- ceived it. He educated Congress and the country to the need for it. He got the money for its inauguration and the funds to carry it forward until it became the most useful ‘of all Alaska in- stitutions. And he was the true friend of the good people of Alaska, individually and collectively. Gen. Richardson was endowed by nature with a large and virile body, a big brain, and a warm heart. He graduated high in his class at West Point. He earned and held the confidence and friendship of the faculty and student body of the great National military academy. He might have chosen any branch of the army in which to serve. He picked the infantry because he went to West Point to learn to be & soldier and he contended that the infantry was the real fighting force of the army. However, seven years of routine work with his troops in the field during peace time taught him that the army was a humdrum place for one to spend his time unless there was war, and there was none in sight. Even serious Indian fighting had been brought to an end by Gen. Miles and others of scarcely less ability. He served two years more as the aide de camp of a Brigadier- General at Vancouver Barracks. He was called back to his alma mater and for five years was instructor of tactics at West Point. Then came the command for the Army to maintain order and render such aid as the exegencies on the Yukon during the great Klondike stampede might make necessary. He asked to be detailed to the work and his wish was granted. The record of his activities during the following three years shows that he did nearly all of the work that was done, and that he did what he was sent to Alaska to do. Very serious disaster might have occurred during the first year that he was on the Yukon had he not been there. None of the elements for a reign of terror were lack- ing. But the young officer was able, clear-seeing, alert, courageous and vigorous. Therefore, nothing very important happened. He was there to see that mischief must not be done. In 1900 the War Department established the De- partment of Alaska, and Capt. Richardson's request that he be made Department Adjutant was granted. However, things had begun to settle down, and the chief work of the Adjutant was to select the sites for Fort Egbert, Fort Gibbon and Fort Davis. His work in Alaska caused him to miss the one chance to be a warrior and fulfill his youthful ambition that came up before the World War. He was on the Yukon when war broke with Spain. He learned that the war was over when he was at St. Michael on his way to get into it. The demand for initiative, for quick action and strenuous work in his Alaska service, association with Alaskans and the freedom of it all were very attractive to Gen. Richardson, and when the build- son knew personally, and was |and favorably by more worth-while people in the United States than could be said of any other person in the United States. All the time, this great Alaskan was a constant worker in behalf of :Ncrthern development. He was a loyal, persistent |and brilliantly capable friend of his people—and |his people were the people of Alaska. No friend No service that he Washington failed to matter how irk- lever called upon him in vain. |could render an Alaskan in ireceive his painstaking care |some it might be. On account of having to arrange his work in {Alaska so that it would be carried on during the |war, Gen. Richardson was late in reaching Wash- lington in the fall of 1817. He was immediately |assigned to what was ‘known as the “Depot Bri- gade” at Fort Lee at Norfolk, Va. Gen. Davison, |also of the Alaska Road Commission, had a similar \assu,nment at Fort Lewis, near Tacoma. In many uupects it was the most important and hard-work- ing task at the cantonment. He received the raw recruits, organized them into companies, battalions, regiments and brigades. Then he turned the bri- gades over to Brigadier-Generals and their staffs to train. After organizing brigade after brigade, Gen. Richardson saw that his work was interminable, and at his own request he was given a brigade to train and to lead to France. He got there when the war was nearly over and saw little active service. That, in addition to knowledge of his fine fitness for the work, was why Gen. Pershing selected him to command the American forces in the joint American and British occupation of the White Sea country in Northern Russia after the armistice. It was urged by many that the Allies ought to aid Gen. Kerensky and his “White Army” against Trotsky and his “Red Army.” The invasion of Russia and the capture of Petrograd and Moscow were among the potential tasks that were assigned to this army when it was sent away. However, it never came to that. The commendation of the War Department and General Staff and the thanks of+ Congress are testimonials that Gen. Richardson performed well his Russian mission. Words are utterly inadequate to express the sense of personal loss felt by thousands of Alaskans and others who knew well and loved this great, generous soul. To them his death is a tragedy. It leaves an emptiness,”a longing, that always will exist. “Good friend! true hero! hail and farewell.” no Beautifiers and Light. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) The American street lighting system is stu- pendous, complexly ramifying and impressively cost- ly, but it is one only of the contributions of the electric art. The annual cost for the electicity that lights the street lamps of the Nation was in 1927 some- thing more than $68,000,000, which was practically the same amount that was expended last year, it is stated by competent statisticians, for dentifrices, perfumes and face powders by the people of this country. These latter figures are from a statement, dated Noemberv 20, 1928, from the Bureau of the Census of the Department of Commerce. For den- trifrices and perfumes the Nation's bill last year was more than the total bill for the electrical en- ergy required for the motive power of all the street and interurban railways. Shampoos and depilatories cost about as much as the elecrical power for all the electrified steam railroads. So with light, abundant and brilliant and neces- sary, de demand and have the things which assist us to comeliness and beauty. We want to keep our teeth clean, and do so in the interests of cleanli- ness and health. We want to make ourselves attractive, and we draw from the fountains of fragrance, from the reservoirs of delicate powder. We make electricity do much in the way of this assistance. We would not be contented people without these luxuries, which are neither effeminate nor humiliating. They are things to which we have grown used. They help us to happiness and com- fort. We are of a great people, the greatest among peoples. We can afford to spend money for these things in a measure impossible to other peoples. While we ride on the currents of the lightnings and make them to scrve in infinite ways in our industry and business, we, at the same time, clasp and hold the things which contribute to the Na- tion’s pulchritude. A Prince Goes to Work. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Prince George of England, the youngest of his family, recently began work on his new job at the Foreign Office, a somewhat unusual thing for a King's son to do. When the Prince reported for duty he was put to work as any other employee in the Government service, and he showed by his queries and the facil- ity with which he assumed his duties that he had a real grasp of the work. Prince George shares with five other diplomatic Secretaries a big room on the north side of the building. In America it is not unusual for the sons of wealthy and powerful men in the business world to take their places in the business of their fathers and work from the ground up—in railroad and other industries; but cases like this among the royalty are scarce indeed. Royal scions usually devote themselves to some phase of more or less picturesque activity in connection with their gov- ing of the army posts along the Yukon was off his hands, he still wanted to remain in the North. He was designated to select the site for Fort William H. Seward and to build it. It was built for and served as headquarters for the army in Alaska. In the meantime Gen. Richardson had developed a great desire to be of important service to the people of Alaska. His experience led him to the conclusion that the thing that would do most for the development of the Territory would be road and trail building. He believed the Federal Gov- ernment ought to do the work and regarded the Army as the proper agency to do it. When Fort William H. Seward was completed and turned over to Col. Woodbury as the headquarters commander, he went back to Washington and took up his favorite theme with Congress. The result was the Alaska Road Commission with Gen. Richardson as its Piesident for a dozen years. i But Gen. Richardson did not confine his interest . simply to road building. His work required him to . spend many months each winter at Washington |at Washington. His great intelligence and superb personality made oughly Americanized.—(Louisville Courier-Journal.) friends for him in all branches of the Government _service and among people in all the walks of life. Ira E. Bennett, editor of the Washington Post, once ernments and people which is accepted by the world for what it is worth—with tolerance, in- difference or contempt, as the case may be. But the world will always applaud any man who takes his life and labors seriously enough to want to be a part in the actual workings of business or gov- ernment. Prince George will lose no caste by rea- son of his acceptance of real responsibility. That critic who says there is no beauty in slow motion never saw a perfect bunt rolling down the first base line—(Akron, Ohio, Beacon- Journal.) Another fact which may have its significance is that the tailors are making the hip pockets just as big under the Jones law as formerly, if not a little bigger.—(Ohio State Journal.) You never can tell what a jury trial will do. Texas Guinan went into Court with a naughty, naughty reputation and came out with just less than a halo!—(Cincinnati Enquirer.) Sixty cases 01 uquor for the Siamese Legation The Siam diplomats must be thor- The effect of the Jones law is already noticeable. Some cities are now so dry one cannot get & drink on every corner as ‘heretofore.—(Florida Times- w the writer of this editorial that Gen. Richard-|Union.) known personally | @—— ALONG LIFE'S | DETOUR x’ By SAM HILL : e i Y | See Recent Front Page Story. - A lot of ammunition could be saved if they would invent a lit- could wear to warn her that her liege lord was getting home sooner than she expected. In the Sweet Bye-And-Bye Blinks: “Think you'll ever have the nerve to go up in an airplane?” Jinks: “Not until an airplane can '|flout the law of gravity as safely as a bootlegger can the dry law.” You Name 'Em That night club greeting—“Hello sucker!” couldn’t be more appro- priate—but there are plenty of other places we all patronize when it would be just as appropriate. Ain't Progress Grand! “Seamless Bare Leg Hose"—] an ad. ‘Which means, no doubt, Though hose girls wear It is too thin To see it's there. from Boost Their Business “I see where a Briton has in- vented a car that will go 400 miles an hour.” “Well, if Henry Ford starts mak- ing them, the undertakers will make the bootleggers look poorer than the well-known church mouse.” Health Note To get iron in your system eat spinach. To get lead in it live in Chicago. An Old-Timer “Golden Wedding Celebrated by Dinner"—Headline in the St. Louis tle device a travelling man’s wu'e, i one’s means. At least that’s where most everybody seems to be liv- ing.” Safe Bet Twelve of Byrd's crew are home for a rest, so they say, but our guess is they came home to get <hawed out. Same Here I don’t care where they seat Me at the table, said Keatz, Just so they do make sure I can reach for the eats. More or Less True The ideal husband is one who gives his wife everything but cause for divorce. Another time a man is glad cus- tom and the law hold him to one wife is when he gets home before the members of his wife's club have taken their departure and hears how it sounds when 15 women are talking av once. There would be more prudes these days if prudes were not as much in demand as red flannel underwear. The number of faults a wife finds in her husband doesn’t depend on her eyesight but upon her dispo- sition. Means MORE HEAT per Ton. | Means a ! Globe Democrat. Must have been one of the old-: fashioned ones. No modern ‘“‘can-opener” dinner could survive long enough to do that. Better Get Stronger Glasses, Fellows! We learn from an esteemed Ohio contemporary that gowns entirely devoid of backs are to be as com- mon as skirts that quit at the knees. Or as one fashion headline writer would but it— “Backless Gowns Coming To the Front.” Mother lzinows Dest To wed a wealthy man Her daughter mother doth exhort, “For,” she explains, 'tis hard To get along with one who's short.” Flat Tire Jim—Oh, Grace isn't so bad. Jack—By which, I suppose, you mean she's not so “good,” eh? Attitude of Every Real Human Being— If it is good for us we simply de- test it. Makes It Seem Like a Cold, Cold World Though live above reproach, Of course, a young girl ought, She finds that altitude, Alack, is not so hot! Plenty of Other Stuff There Why should Chicagoans worry about all that extra water in Lake Michigan—they don’t have to drink it! Ever Watch ’Em? That other women present don't, He worries not—for he don’t care But when his own wife fails to get Her skirt pulled down, how hub will swear!!! One for the Debating Society— Which is the more unhappy—the victim of a flood of waters or the victim of a flood of bills? Popular Place “Where is the most popular place to live in this town?” asked the new-comer. “Well,” replied the local agent, I should ' say, just off “hand, beyond UNITED STATES Department of the Interior GENERAL LAND OFFICE U. 8. Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska. April 1, 1929, Notice is hereby given that George Danner, entryman, togeth- er with his witnesses John Bur- wash, and Klaus Grondsman, all of Juneau, Alaska, has submitted final proof on his original entry serlal 04848, and additional entry, serial 06886, for lands situate on the north shore of Gastinegu Channel, containing 7126 acres, HES. No. 174, New Series No. 1568, from which cor. No. 1 and MC. U.SLM. No. 381 bears S. 12’ 30" W. 6086 chains; HES. No. 204, New Series 1852, from which cor. No. 6 USLM. No. 381 bears S. 60 50" 04” E. 60.17 chains; longitude 134° 3¢’ W. latitude 580° 21’ 13~ N. and it is now in the files of the U. S. Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska, and if no protest is filed in the local land office at An- chorage, Alaska, within the period of publication or thirty days there- after, said final proof will be ac- cepted and final certificate issued. J. LINDLEY GREEN, Register. First publication, May 6, 1929. Last publication, July 5, 1929, SAVING in YOUR COAL BILL Buy the BEST and SAVE MONEY. Pacific Coast Coal Ce. Phone 412 or Phone - e Ty o T S RS Juneau Transfer Co. .. 48 lmfi_‘?"_"}’f‘.@[_‘g__ {|[ Helene W.L.Albrecht | Cole Transfer .. 3442 = = mlg‘:‘?fi:m m, Olaf Bodding ... 444)1% @ | | Massage, city, Infra North Transfer 134} ! | CAPITAL LAUNDRY R:lyo ‘G‘:;’;:"‘“;';‘m | Service Transfer 389 Secowd and Franklin Phone Office, “,“’m I Jack’s Transfer . 524 1. % gnxl.?fid% & : g el b o Y New, select line of visiting cards Home Office, Seattle, Washington J. W. WOODFORD Resident Agent 2 Rings on Salmon Evenings by Appointment Peerless Quality Our Bread Speaks For Itself! 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