The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 10, 1929, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1929. Daily Alaska Empire JOHN 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 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,'$1.26, Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly aotify ths Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in fhe delivery of their papers. 4. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, et 5% o MEMBER or ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associatea Press is exclusiyely entitled to the use for republic f all news dispatches credited to It or not otherw dited in this paper and also the focal news publishe erein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. DIVISION IS POSTPONED. The Associated Boards of Trade of Central and Northern British Columbia in session at Prince Rupert decided to postpone for one year final con- sideration of the proposal to divide British Columbia. The meeting at Prince Rupert last week appointed a comittee to gather data and consider the question from economic and other standpoints and to report at the next annual meeting to be held at Prince George in June, 1930, Prince George and Burns dis- sented from the action. Both of them favored im-| mediate separation. The opinion at the present time seems to be that there will be a demand for division when the matter is again considered un- Jess there shall come a marked change in the atti- tude of the British Columbia Government toward the Central and Northern parts of the Province in regard to roads and other development. The Prince Rupert meeting unanimously favored the construction of an automobile road between Prince Rupert and Terrace and Terrace and Hazel- ton and urged the claims of Prince Rupert as the outlet for the Peace River country. The indus- trial development of various sections of the Terri- tory represented was asked for. More roads and trails were asked for in the Northern and Cen- tral parts of the Province. TURNING AGAINST MAYOR WALKER. The Citizens' Union, New York City independent civie organizations which for years has worked for good government in Gotham and which in recent years has generally supported Tammany candidates in appreciation of the “New Tammany"” attitude toward government, has decided that Mayor Walker won't do. It says he has been guilty of no major crime of any sort but that his Administration lacksi “leadership, courage and militant honesty.” It de- clares that he is more interested in politics and | favoritism toward his friends than in the public welfare. The personal honesty and ability of the Mayor are not questioned—and his charm and genial friendliness is approved. The New York World, which has given Gov. Smith his strongest newspaper support, approves the attitude of the Citizens' Union and declares that if there were a militant Al Smith to lead the fight against Mayor Walker as he led it against Mayor Hylan four years ago the Mayor would have a very “uncomfortable summer.” A PERTINENT OPEN LETTER. In a timely open letter to Chairman Wickersham of the Hoover law enforcement committee William L. Chenery calls attention to many other Consti- tutional provisions as well as the Eighteenth Amend- ment that are being disregarded by the American people. In some instances there are State statutes that nullify Constitutional provisions. Many of them are simply overlooked by ¢he States and the Fed- eral Government. Mr. Chenery shows, for instance, that we have through custom nullified the Constitutional pro- visions for the election of the President and Vice- President. The Constitution directs that Presi- dential electors shall be chosen and that the electors shall then meet and -elect a President and Vice- President. This has been made mere fiction through action of the people in nominating candidates for President and Vice-President and voting for them, This method has become so fixed that many of the States have enacted laws buttressing the custom rather than sustaining the system provided by the Constitution. He says the Constitution provides that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Yet it is being infringed by many States, and public sentiment is behind the infring- ing. There is a law which forbids the writing of checks for amounts under one dollar but it is disregarded everywhere and all the time. The Con- stitutional provisions that were designed to estab- lish absolute equality between white and black citi- gens is disregarded and, in many sections of the country, ineffective. Mr. Chenery suggests that many similar in- stances will doubtless come to the mind of Mr. Wickersham. He then urges Mr. Wickersham to Face the facts courageously and if full consideration persuades you that some of the laws so commonly disregarded are in their very nature unenforceable, say so plainly. Ours is a big country with great diver- sity of custom, hakit and opinion of right and wrong. - National laws designed to apply to all of us must be flexible enough to provide room for our various customs and ideas. There is not money or power enough in this or in any other country to compel the people to respect laws they regard as stupid. Remember, however, that you cannot in- ing will never persuade a people to obey laws which they do not approve. The first and most important step in rebuilding respect for the great body of law is to purge the statute books of those enactments which experience shows millions of upright citizens will never willingly obey. The French had scarcely completed the welcome to her long distance fliers who took two flights to make France from Maine until the Spanish began the celebration for the rescue of her fliers who did not make it across the ocean. Welcoming aviators has become a world-wide recreation. Bobby Jones continue to be popular champions, Helen Wills and America’s most persistent and The forest fire evil is apparently out for a new world record. When Is a Law Right? (Wall Street ‘Journal.) A bill has been introduced into Congress pro- posing the payment of $30,000 to the wife and children of Henry Virkula who was killed by a customs patrolman on the highway near his home in Minnesota. The most elementary consideration of justice, or even of decency, demands that this bill should go through and the compensation paid. In addition to doing justice the bill might be a precedent for other similar cases, the net result of which might become highly instructive to the people of the United States. While riding with his wife and children this man was fired upon and killed by the patrolman who mistakenly thought he was transporting liquor. As to whether or not the officer was justified in shoot- ing is for the courts and not for the newspapers to decide. But leaving that matter out of con- sideration the pitiful fact remains that an innocent man on the public highway was killed, a wife was made a widow and two children orphans. A cor- poration or individual responsible for a death or injury is legally liable. The Government should not hesitate to make similar amends. There should be no hair splitting arguments as to whether or not the officer exceeded his instruc-) tions. The Government, which is the people of the United States, cannot evade its moral respon- sibility for this, and for similar tragedies of the future. Through their representatives, the people raised the transportation of liquor to the status of a felony. The legal conception of a felony is a heinous crime, such as murder, burglarly or other | crimes of grave import. An officer might be justi- fied in killing to prevent the commission of a fel- ony, and the moral sentiment of the people as a whole, would justify the act. But moral sentiment would be outraged by a killing to prevent a misdemeanor, which is lesser offense. In such cases we do not need to go the law for an interpretation or explanation of the difference between a felony and a misdemeanor. There is something within us that tells us what is and what is not a heinous crime. In all the gen- erations of our christian civilization transporting liquor has never been looked upon as an atrocious crime even by sober-minded thinking people who did not use it themselves. But now, without realiz- ing its consequences, we have permitted our law- makers to make a felony of that which, in its nature, is not a heinous crime. The tragedy under consideration is not the first one resulting from this mistake. Neither is it liable to be the last one. Forbidding the use of sawed- off shotguns will not prevent other tragedies. Presi- dent Hoover may honestly deplore killings, but the law remains to be enforced. He may call on the peop_]e of the border towns to cooperate in pre- ve_ntmg violation of the prohibition law, but that will not bring back to life the innocent people killed on suspicion of committing what we have by law ralsed to a felony. The root of the whole trouble is in the law itself—a law at which a respectable portion of the people rebel. Thirty thousand dollars a life is n but eventually it may bring the people :; :sll‘:ic:g' themselves if a law is right when a train of trage- dies like this follow its administration? A Healthy Sign. (Seward Gateway.) The invasion of new capital into Westward fur farms with new ideas and additional fur-bearing animals is a healthy sign that they are not bluffed by bear. The present sponsor of the Long Island- Marmot Island project under the name of the Alaska Fur Corporation is authority for the statement that much more money could be had from Wall Street if fur regulations were less stringent. Apparently all our laws both at Washington and Juneau have sewed the Territory tight against foreign invasion. Divarce in the Air. . (Prince Rupert Empire.) British Columbia enjoys the doubtful dis tinction of leading all the rest of Canada, in the number of divorces. There must be something in the mar- melous gir of the Pacific Slope. Even the advisa- btl:it‘y of u;e Northern half of the Province securing a divorce from the other h: b e, r half has lately béen con- Lo G SR President Hoover has taken the sounc view that the creation of a Secretary of Education with seat .in the Cabinet, is wholly unneee&sary'nnd unn wise. He believes, of course, in giving stimulus u; education, but thinks Federal interference would do more harm than good.—(Anchorage Times.) A new destroyer for lishment will be called fitness of things, wh: in Prince Rupert’s s pire.) the Canadian naval estab- “Skeena.” the Recognizing hy not build the gallant craft nipyards?— (Prince Rupert Em- Now that the Le;slnture has thrown the 5 torial School Commissioner into the political t:xln we may look for the next sessf insist the kiddos be given the g s privil teachers—(Seward Gateway.) lege of electing their After all, Herbert Hoover's . plan for ;:;‘gl‘;ed ! :lhe support of the obstinate ;::wm:l;! g Lhe recalcitrant Hiram Johnson, SRS s?tuned itself aright.—(Atascadero News’).l'he e P RO i Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, is willing to have the Embassy go dry any time the United States goes dry.—(Detroit News.) * *— ALONG CIFP’S DETOUR ll By BAM HILL Pollyana on Life dream, You hear some sour ones declare, But better far an empty dream, mare. Passing Observation Jome Later “Your wife seems to believe in self-expression,” all the suppression of them they need after they get married.” Unsugar Coated Pills When you act smart, you prove you are dumb. The more you think of yourself, the less others think of you. If you are “good,” slickers will get the best of you. Observation of a Cornfed 'Tis those who ’‘er ne'er Compelled to try it, Who write the jokes About the diet. Rather Talk Than Listen Blinks: “Does your wife enjoy the radio?” Jinks: “No, but I imagine she would if we had a mike instead of a receiving set in our home.” (From Court Note of Los Angeles paper.) Divorce suits filed: FROST, Harold from Bertha. A Hobson’s Choice Another hard thing to decide is which is the more disagreeable—a person who is all nerves or one that is all nerve. Hint To Wives If you your hubs would hold, Then hearken to these wcxds, my dears— Men cling to women who Are easy on both eyes—and ears. Eventually— It may get Warm enough for The liar who says He takes a cold bath Before breakfast To take one ! ! ! Mean Brute Sue: “What's the matter girlie, you look mad enough to need a shot of that hydrophobia serum?” Belle: “Oh, it’s that oil can I'm engaged to.” Sue: “Wassamatter with him?” Belle: “I've done everything pos- gagement so I can sue him for breach of promise and he's so crazy about me he's determined to marry me, so I suppose I'll have to wait and get alimony.” The Way of a Man “You don't insist on your hus- band going to church do you?” said one wife to anothet. “No,” replied the other, “he al- ways is so cross when he wakes up from a nap he spoils Sunday din< ner by being grouchy all through it when he has been to church.” Belleve It Or Not! There actually are places in the desert countries where they use U i JAPANESE TOY SHOP H. B. MAKINO Front Street P‘O.Mfllfolmmml BOYS’ SUITS 3—6 English Shorts Jarman’s Have Your Mattress Renovated Yet it scarcely seems possible that a man named MacDonald will squander the Empire’s money.—(Cin- cinnati Enquirer.) A Pennsylvania mother of 12 children is run- ning for Congress, and no one can blame the mother of that many children for wanting to take a rest.—(Dayton, Ohio, News, The Drys are claiming that prohibition has saved the country $72,000,000. Finel That's nearly enough dict a nation or any considerable section of a nation, and that complaints and chid- to keep the enforcement agents in ammunition— (Macon, Ga., Telegraph.) OLD MATTRESSES— Re-shaped, re-covered and made like new ,Awla—ska Mattress Co. PHONE 443 We call for and deliver Willoughby Ave, That their life’s but an empty’nn\nwn Than having it a weird night-l 8 A lot of preachers are trying fo get laws passed that don't accomp- lish anything instead of trying to convert sinners Yrom the errors of their way that would help some, allowing your boys full freedom for remarked the guest, who was bored by their be-jsaid the old married one. “Mine havior. @id once, and it got me in a peck “Yes,” sighed the meek father,]of trouble.” “she thinks their wives will do| “How’s that?” Marriage Proved Name Was Right ng cotton. sible to make him break the en-i umbrellas to protect them from the sunshine ! ! ! Obeying Instructions “Those children don't seem to mind you very well,” remarked the cook “Wwell,” said the green maid, “the told me I was to mind them while she was out, 'but she |didn't say anything to them about Call A {minding me.” Be Thankful For That About the way her crowning glory looks While coming back, you men may rave But just remember that her neck You are no longer called upon to by Better To Keep Mum “My wife never listens to me,” complained the newly married man “Don’t let that worry you, son,” “I was talking in my sleep.” More or Less True We often wonder how the working girls kept themselves amused on the street cars before the day of com- pacts and lipsticks. H A'wife simply can’'t be convinced hér husband is living up to his promise to love, honor and cherish her if he doesn't earn enough to hire a kitchep mechanic and to let hér buy the clothes that will en- jable’ her to snub the snob next Packard Phone Packard De Luxe Service AUTOS FOR HIRE ENJOY A COOL AvuTO RIDE! We may summarize these days by saying—some are good—some are bad and summer best of all. And now many pleasant rides can be enjoyed by your family ~v guests—the cost 8 small. Carlson’s Taxi and Ambulance Service Phone Single 0 and 1J — —— ’ PROFESSIONAL | —s I = DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS 301-8¢3 Goldstein Bldg. door. Some couples give you the im- préssion that they would require not only twin beds but twin bed- réoms with sound-proof walls be- tween them. Most of the darning done these days is done with the vocal chords} instead of with a needle and darn- The more a flapper tries to make her complexion look like a gorgeous suhset the more she convinces you that her head is as empty as the prayer meeting room on a rainy night. One thing we still are waiting to see is that kind of a kid stop what he is doing when that kind of a mamma threatens him with that PORTABLE TYPEWRITERS J. B. Burford & Co. | ““Qur Door Step Is Worn by | | Satisfied Customers” | 0 ail 7. CORONA FOUR | | | | ‘V”l"EERLESS BAKERY Juneau, DU BLUEBIRD TAXI L Day and Night SERVICE Phone 485 “Mamma spank” stuff. 5 and 7 Passenger Cars Responsible Drivers Stand at Arcade Cafe Prompt Service, Day and Night} | CovicE Auro SERVICE |/ STAND AT THE OLYMPIC Phone 342, Day’or ! Night | Mab;;f’s Cafe Open 6 a. m. to 2 a. m. POPULAR PRICES PHONE 56 Hours $ a. m. tv 9 p. m, L ST T Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 3 and 9 Valeatine Building Telepnone 176 DRI B i Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIOT Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. SEWARD BUILDILG Office Phone 469, Res. Ptome 276. Dr. H. Vance | Ostecpath—201 Goldstcin Bldg Hours: 10 to 12; 1 to &; i 7 t 8 or by appcinment Licensed On-sn%:nlc Phyaic'an Phove: lee 1671, Residence, Gastineau Hotel B - R S R— | [| Dr. Geo. L. Barton | | CHIROPIEACTOR, Helisnthal Bids. 0f%ice Service Only Hours: 10 s. m. to 12 noom, 2 p. m. to 6 p. m. and 7 p. m. to 9 p. miiPhone 529 CHIROPRACTIC Is uct the practice of Medicine, Surgery nor Osteopathy. R Alaska Robert Simps_—on Opt. D. ‘ Iraduate Los Angeles Col- leage of Optometry and | Regular Dinners Opthalmology . Short Orders Glasses Fitted, Lecses Ground eyl s . Lunches ¥ or. R. E. SOUTHWELL Qptometrist-Opticia= Eyes Txamined-Glasses Fitted A ‘CEER[jESS QUALITY 5 i HARPIEoYpfiL:&BRY l?::‘:n t;fl.. :\;:Ianmt'l::hn‘l.dl';’ l 18- Agpointment - Special Dinners on BSundays Y and Week Days 8.¢a Fountain in eonmection. Come in and listen to the | radio Mary Youmg, Prop. Phone 288 | ‘F’h: Arcadi Cale | ! | YURMAN’S __Label in Your FUR * Garment Means Entire Satisfaction ‘We are making and re- « pairing furs at sum- mer prices. “Direct trom trapper. Free Reading Room 3 City Hall, Second Floor Main Street and Fourtk 8 a m. to 10 p. m. Circulation Room Open from { tp 5:30 p. m.—7:00 to 8:30 p. m. Current Magazines, Newspapers, Reference Books, Etc. FREE TO ALL e e S 2t s GARBAGE ! HAULED AND LOT CLEANING Alfred S. Hightower Phone 584 Phone 484 Helene W.L.Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY l | | | Interest Dividend Depositors in our Savings De- partment will please present their pass books, or mail them to the bank, for entry of the regular semi-annual interest dividend payable July 1,1929. The B. M. Behrends Bank OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA | — —— | Fraternal docietios or Gastineau Channe! T SR SR S S S | B. P. 0. ELKS Meeting every first and third Wednes- days, June, July, August, at 8 o’clock. Elks' Hall. WINN GODDARD Exalted Rules. M. H. SIDES, Sea« retary. Visiting Brothers Welcome. Co-Ordinate Bodles of Freemasonry Scottish Rite Regular meetin; second Friday eac) month_at 7:30_ p. m. Scottish Rite Temple, WALTER B. HEISEL, Becre- tary. LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE Juneau Lodge Nc. 108 Meets every Monda) night, at 8 o'clock. JAMES CARLSON, Dictator. J. K. HART, Secy, 206 Seward Bldg MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE N Second and Fourth Mon- - day of each month in Scottish Rite Temple, be- ginnipg at 7:30 o'clock. WALCTBR P. 8 G Maste ; CHARLE; B X NAGH YL, Secretazy. o Order of EATERN STAR Second and Fourih Tuese days of each month, at R o'clock, Scottish Rite Temple. MAYBRELLE GRORGE, Worthy Idate ron: FANNY L. ROBIN SON, Secretary. KNIGHTS oOp coLuMBUS Sephers Council No. 1760. M etings second snd lass Monday at 7:30 p.. e Trunslent brothers usged te attend. Counell JLam- Sers, Fifth Street. EDW. M. McINTYRE 3. K B H. J. TURNER. Secretary. DOUGLAS AERIE 117 F. O. E. Meets Monday &nights 8 o'clock at Eagles’ Hall, Doug- las. ARNE SHUDSHIFT, W. P. GUY SMITH, Secretary. Visiting Brothers welcome. G2 ~ — 4 WOIMEN OF MOOSEEEART i LEGION, NO. 439 “deete 18t and 3rd Thurcdays ( | eacb month, 8 P.M. at Mooss | Hall. ( Kata Jarman, Eenfor Re- | gent; Agpas Grigg, Recorder. | PR AT O O = | Brunswick Bowling I Alleys FOR MEN AND WOMEN Stand—Miller's Taxi i Phone 218 Russian Steam Baths Open Wednesdays and Satur- days from noon till midnight. | “Business Is Good” MRS. JOHN ."ORRI, Prop. J { S MORRIS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY SAND and GRAVEL AND Carpenter and Cor.crete Work No job too large nor too small for us MORRIS CONSTRUCTION CO. Building Contractors PHONE 62 PSSR JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY Moves, Packs and Stores ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 48 HOTEL ZYNDA ELEVATOR SERVICR 8. ZYNDA, Prop. ~ —_— e BURFORD'S CORNER “TRY A MALTY” PIG'N WHISTLE CANDY Non Better—Box or Bulk Commercial job priuting at The Empire.