The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 22, 1929, Page 4

Daily Aiwka Empire JOEN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER| Published every evemng except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau Alaska. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Mmatter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrrer In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month. By malil, postage paid, at the following rates: One y in ady $12.00; six months, in advance $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephon» for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. 3 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for It or not tocal news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION, ABOUT MODERN SCHOOL GOVERNMENT. A. E. Karnes, Superintendent of Schools at Ket- chikan, in an article in the Ketchikan Chronicle, takes strong ground against the selection of a Commissioner of Education through popular elec- tion. He also condemns the old law in the Territory that made the hold-over Senators the Board of Education. He contends that both systems—that of the popular election adopted at the late legis- lative session and the system it succeeded—put the position of Commissioner of Education and the schools in politics. Mr. Karnes contends that there should be a Board of Education in the Territory to consist of six persons and the Governor, with the tenure of office so arranged that there would be- come one vacancy each year in the Board. This Board, he thinks, ought to have control of the public elementary and high schools and the Alaska Col- 1ge, with the power of selecting the Commissioner of Education and the President of the College. The Ketchikan educator says that it* was due to the “untiring efforts and excellent ability” of Commissioner Henderson, rather than the system, that our schools have reached their present high state of efficiency. That the system under which we have been working courts political interference, Mr. Karnes believes, was proved when Mr. Hender- son was denied a re-election. He proceeds: Most people will agree that the position [Commissioner of Education] requires a very high degree of preparation, in the way of special training and in a wide range of experience; in other. concerns where such training is required, the selection is not made by the people, but by a board who can consider in detail the qualifications the var- ious candidate may have. And consider what would be thé ten- dency of the Commissioner on his annual visits to the schools of the Territory if he had to depend on his position through pop- ular vote. Instead of spending his time in the schoolroom inspecting the schools and the teaching, he would want to spend a large part of his time shaking hands with the voters, getting ready for the next elec- tion. We would have a hand-shaking politic- ian rather than an expert in school affairs, and the schools would suffer accordincgly. Mr. Karnes contends that a continuous Board of Education ought to have its duties defined by law, that it ought to have control of all the schools and colleges supported in whole or part by the Territory, and continues: This Board should study the needs of the schools and colleges of the Territory, and all requests for aid for schools should be presented by this Board directly to the Legislature. Being a continuous Board, it could determine the best policies from time to time for the schools, and could execute through the Commissioner and the President of the college. The Legislature would be a check on the appointments made by the Governor to places on the Board, and there being only one new member appointed each year, at least five members would be ac- quainted with their general objectives at all times. As stated before, this has been the ten- dency in the most recent legislation in the States, and with those States that have tried it out, it has proven very satisfactory. If is the latest thing in State organiza- tion, and there is no reason why the Ter- ritory of Alaska should lag behind in any- thing, not even in education. Mr. Karnes could have also drawn upon the system in vogue in the self-governing school dis- tricts for precedents for his recommendations. The most democratic of our governments in the United States are those that have control of local af- fairs. The universal rule in these is for the people to elect local boards of education. The boards then i select the local teaching staffs and have full control over the schools. That is democratic government. The average voter understands that he has not the facilities or the time for passing upon the Qualifications of people for technical work, but he ought to have the knowledge necessary to select com- petent and honest men for a board of education that would give the time and ability necessary to master the problems that confront them. ANOTHER HONOR FOR COOLIDGE. Former President Coolidge has accepted election - to membership on the Board of Trustees of the Na- tional Geographic Soclety. It is understood that | Mr. Coolidge was selected for this position at the . suggestion of Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, President of the | Society, & life-long personal friend. The friendship Dr. Grosvenor and Mr. Coolidge dates from the time they were both students at Amherst, and it - was renewed when the latter took up his his resi- ' dence at Washington when he became Vice-Presi- It was continued throughout the Presidential of Mr. Coolidge. The Board of Trustees of National Geographic Society is composed of S dent. the ublication of all news dispatches credited to! otherwise credited in this paper and also the| men distinguished in letters, science and public life. Among the latter who are now serving are Chief Justice Taft, Gen. Pershing and Ambassador to Great Britain Dawes. TWEEDLEDEE AND TWEEDLEDUM. A gangster discussing policemen in an address (to his gang told the latter to shoot to kill, and a |10t of people are. naturally, all worked up about it. That is bad medicine and bad advice. However, lit is not one whit worse than the advice that once |eminated fom high Volsteadian authority in Wash- ington to “shoot first and explain afterward.” It is just as bad for a policeman to shoot in the back a man suspected of committing a misdemeanor as it is for a gangster to shoot a policeman. Both are | just about as bad as anything could be. It is believed in Washington that former Secre- tary of Agriculture Willlam M. Jardine will be a member, if not, indeed, the Chairman of the Farm |Board. It is said that the choice of Jardine for the Farm Board and the desire of the President to have at least one member of his Cabinet from the South or the Border was responsible for his elim- ination from the Cabinet and the appointment of former Gov. Hyde of Missouri. American golfers won first, second and third places in the British Open Championship contests. The best Britain could do was to tie for fourth place. Out of the first ten places, American play- ers won eight. Texas Guinan and Prohibition Enforcement. (Chicago Trikune.) Texas Guinan of the Salon Royale was acquitted by a jury in the Federal District Court in New York City. Tex was on trial as a nuisance under the Volstead Act. Neither she nor her professional precincts need much introduction. Her duties were to make a part of New York seem different from Kansas and Alabmaa for such Kansans and Ala- pamians as could get to New York and desired for the time to be far away from everything they re- called of Kansas and Alabama.. If she were ever elected to Congress she would describe herself in the Congresional directory as the queen of the suckers. A New York jury heard the Federal Govgrnment agents and voted her not guilty. They had testi- fied that they had bought champagne and whiskey in the place many times. The chief investigator admitted that he had been a guest at least twelve times and had spent about $400 in getting his evi- dence. He also admitted that he had tried to make friends and dates with Tex and take her to roadhouses. Miss Guinan’s defense was that she was an em- ployee of the place and had nothing to do with its management. She entertained the patrons and made a great deal of money doing it. Her com- missions were heavy and her guaranty large, and she earned it by keeping young saps and the old goats in an expansive spending humor. She both amused and bored the ¥Federal Judge who had been brought in from a New England circuit to hear the case. The jury discarded the testimony of the Federal agents as scurvy and disreputable. The evidence was obtained by methods plainly discreditable. If the place and its entertainers were nuisances the fact was discernible on one visit. The first time the. agents bought drinks fom. employees they had as good a case as was required, but $heir own evi- dence showed that they had returned time and again posing as gratified patrons and enjoying themselves with money drawn from the Federal enforcement funds. It is a ruling of the Federal courts that a place which sells its patrons ginger ale and provides them with glasses and ice is guilty of violation of the Volstead Act. Such places have been closed as nuisances because the people frequenting them have mixed their own liquor in the ginger ale sold by the house. With that draconic precedent as a rule of procedure, Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt’s young men were permitted to make rounders of themselves and to enjoy the case before springing the trap. They were permitted to spend Govern- ment money on girls whom they tried to date and on New York champagne which they drank. The chief investigator admitted that he liked the place, liked Tex, and had a good time. The rottenness of such procedure was enough to disgust a jury which heard the evidence sub- mitted by moral forces and their agents. No re- spect would or could be given an enforcement personnel operating with vile methods of entrap- ment discreditable to the Government which set them at work and tolerated their acts. Enforcement is disgraced by its enforcers. take bad law and make it worse. It is congenial to them to do so. They kill when they are on the water or on land with guns. They debase themselves when they have Prohibition money to spend for liquor and ladies. A Texas Judge transferred to New York to hear liquor cases bullyragged the defense lawyer for telling the jury the truth about Prohibition officers —that they were not worthy of belief under oath— and indulged himself in lecturing the Italian woman defendant because she lived in a section in which Negroes also lived. e When a New York jury had a chance at a ver- dict in the case of a number of night club em- ployees and proprietors who had admitted guilt the Jurymen said not guilty. They have declared Texas Guinan not guilty. What is paramount in the Jury box is the turpitude of the Government and its agents, not the turpitude of the accused. They Since the Volstead law went into, as you might sas'. effect the price of California grapes has jumped frdm $20 a ton to $175 a ton, which simply goes to show you whatever it simply goes to show you. —(Macon, Ga., Telegraph.) i LT T e LR Mrs. Gifford Pinchot became ill from drinking hair tonhic by mistake. She can tell the dry leader now how a man feels after a couple of hours in a speak-easy.—(Sprinfield, Ohio, Sun.) — R Senator Jones, who drafted the Jones bill, says he sees the end of John Barleycorn. The Senator must have a powerful pair of field lasses.— (Flor- ida Times-Union.) % i : b N NG, . “Leviathan liquor stirs dry demand to put laws g sea” says a headline in the New York Times. s get delirious and legislate every coun dry! —(Philadelphia Inquirer.) by RN Let's take up the profession of deep-sea diving and go down to visit the Im Alone—(Cincinnati Enquirer.) —_— As Wisconsin puts it: Come on in; the beer's line.—(Boston Transcript.) No one can question now that Wisconsin votes at it drinks—(Louisville Courier-Journal.) 4 Another puzzle: The drink cures announce that they have more patients than they did 10 years 1go.—(Milwaukee Journal.) ALONG LIFE DETOUR | By SAM HILL ! —— —a Bark Worse Than His Bite Even if he threatens to reform it, the Court of St. James needn’t get scared. General Charlie Dawes left the Senate rules just as he found them. A Major One “You say your son was cured of his wildness by an operation?” ask- cd the great surgeon. “Yes, that’s what I said,” replied the wealthy man. “That's interesting; what was the operation?” demanded the surgeon. “I cut off his allowance and made him go to work,” smiled the wealthy man. Passing Observation By taking in a stranger you may entertain an angel unawares, but there is no virtue in being taken in by a stranger. Treat for King George Impatient now will be The gent who wears the British crown, Until he gets to see Dawes smoke a pipe that's upside down. Have A Kick “Does your husband kick about paying bills?” “Not as much as the merchants do about him not paying them.” Deep Stuff Giving advice without setting an example is as foolish as giving a check with no funds in the bank. Headlines Is Headlines “Fermented Milk As Aid To Health"—One over an item in a medical column. From what we hear we judge it is, however, fermented something else that aids happiness in this grand old desert. Speakin’a That Extra Cent Tax On Gas Just think of how many other things it could have been added to—like spinach, can ®or pounds, cotton hosiery, castor oil and so body mad! Foolish Questions Her Dearest Friend—Did he get down on his knees when he pro- posed? The Girl—Say, did you ever try to kneel in a sport roadster? Fine of Him, But Fine For Him (Item - in an upstate paper) Carl Tice of near West LaFay- otte, was fined for permitting two other men to use his auto license on their machines. Interesting Information Mr. and Mrs. Horace Buggie, of Toledo, has a new son who is a little Buggie. Motor Note It is better to run across an old friend than into a telephone pole. An old friend isn't nearly as hard on the fenders. Idle Curiosity Did, or didn't Texas Guinan get a note from Mabel Willebrandt congratulating her on being able to prove that instead of being a naughty little sinner she really is a very good girl? Sure Observes Jack Warwick in the Toledo Blade: “If youre just as good as anybody, it isn't necessary to say so.” Still, Jack, saying it kinda helps us convince ourselves we are.—Sam Hill, in Cincinnati Enquirer. And then, too, maybe some of our acquaintances haven't heard it yet—J. D. S. in Macon Telegraph. It isn't likely, though, unless we have lost our power of speech.— Ema Spencer, Newark Advocate. More or Less True If you knew his first wife you know without being told when a widower decided not to marry 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 XKlaus Grondsman, all of Juneau, Alaska, has submitted final proof on his original entry serial 04848, and additional entry, serial 06886, for lands situate on the north shore of Gastineau Channel, containing 71.26 acres, HES. No. 174, New Series No. 1568, from which cor. No. 1 and MC. USLM. No. 381 bears S. 12' 30" W. 60.86 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. 8. 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, 1928, on—that wouldn't have made nny‘l again whether it is because he is afraid he can't get another like his first or whether he is afraid he will. It may chagrin some girls not to be able to get their skirts down over their knees, but a lot of 'em give you the impression they are only calling attention to the fact they can't when they are pulling at them. If a man whose stenog is sgmne- thing of a queen, has a photograph of his wife on his desk, it is a waste of breath for him to deny his wife makes him keep it there to remind him he is married. It is as much of a total loss for a skinny girl to spend money for :xpensive little nothings as it ic for a homely one to spend it on rouges and face creams. Mother bawls daughter out for not helping with the housework, but mother doesn’'t love it so all- fired much herself that she would not get out of it too, if she had Jaughter’s chance. AUTOS ‘FOR HIRE Here’s promptness — roiem:y—'urvgu ~—says Taxi Tad. Public preference is shown to Carlson’s taxi service because you can RELY on the driver to take you to your destina- tion in safety. For your pro- tection—be sure when getting a cab that the name Carlson taxi i* on the door. PROFESSIONAL — e T R R DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. PHONE 66 Hours 9 a. m. to 9§ p. m. ‘Telephone 176 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 489, Res. Phone 276. Still the average man who, laughs S S {1 at his wife for being afraid of a 1 mouse is just as afraid of a guest Cr e e Dl'. H. 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