The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 3, 1929, Page 4

SR ITEPR e IS . . e o e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1929.° Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published eve evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINT%G COMPANY at Second and Main dtreets, Juneau, Alaska. -— Entered In the Fost Oftice In Juneau as Second Clase @atter. — SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Dellvered by carrrer In Juneau, Douglas, Thane for $1.25 per month. the following rates: Treadwell and mall, postage pald, m-syyelr. mpud ance, $12. six months, in advance $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. " Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly motify ths Bunlnu?s Efllce of any failure or irregularity dellvery of thelr papers. A %Teyheox‘:‘! {m Editorial and Business Offices, 374. £MBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Aa:‘nclnwa rress 1s exclusively entitied 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. CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ‘MB%AN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. -WE ARE ALL WRONG—RAINS ARE GLORIOUS. People of the Pacific Coast, particularly those of the North Pacific, probably do more grumbling about the rain than anything else. Our wet weather undoubtedly more than any other thing has been a promoter of pessimism—such pessimism as we have, which, thank fortune, is not a great deal. But we are all wrong about it. Rain should pro- duce optimism. After reading the rhapsodic com- ment of Eastern papers on the glorious wonders of the rain that has fallen in abundance in the East during the present year, we are convinced that the live favored people of the world are those who y along the Alaska and British Columbia Pacific Coast. If anyone has any doubt about it, read this edi- torial from the New York Times which appeared under the heading, “The Rains”: We know not what others may think, but to us the chief glory of this Summer has been the rain, early, middle and later. Many ol the younger generation, perhaps, hardly know what rain is. Yet here it is, and they can lie awake night after night knowing that the parched earth is quench- ing her thirst. Now it comes drop by drop, now it rains cats and dogs. It blinds, drizzles, drenches, drowns. It gurgles, mur- murs, patters, ripples, sobs. It drips, whips, skips. It babbles, bubbles, burbles, especially in runnels. It cools the fevered brow of the commuter. Each raindrop makes some floweret grow. Beautiful thought! Would that the bootblack could share it, instead of sullenly and swearingly shutting up his booth, unresigned to the bounties of nature. It never rains but it pours, and, so far as our limited experience reaches, it seldom pours but it rains. “Although it rain, throw not away thy watering-pot,” says George Herbert. If it rain, don't expect to get a taxicab. A little rain lays a great wind. A good steady rain cleans the streets of New York. Our esteemed ancestors, agri- cultural in their habits, seem to have stayed at home when it rained, making proverbs too often cynical and coughing at their smoky chimneys. “More rain, more rest”: this saw has ceased to work as generously and as generally as of old. If wet days were holidays, what a season would the lazy have had this year! The eye is dazzled by the procession of emerald lawns. The grate- ful vegetables lift up their mouths and drink and sit on their roots as in a bath- tub. We know personally a New Hampshire gardener who, confused by the contiguity of the respective bins, put Portland cement in- stead of fertilizer on the peas. Never was there such a crop. The heavens wept con- structively over that pea plot. Hear the splashing and the dashing. Watch the dance of the raindrops on the “casement”—*“casement” is the word. For the rain it raineth every day. What do we care if it rains like Old Boots? We laid up $15 last month just for a rainy day. If he survive the ferocious Virginia campaign against him, Mr. Raskob is going to give us his check for $80,000 in 1949, The more rain the merrier, say we. It's got to stop some time. After sharp show- ers right sweet is the sun. As the devil said to Noah, “it's bound to clear up.” THEY OUGHT TO MAKE ANOTHER CUT Since 1929 the municipal light plant of Port Angeles has paid off $50,000 worth of Indebtedness, reduced rates from 10 cents per kilowatt to 7 cents, built a new substation, bettered the lines and has over $100,000 cash in the bank. Any ecritics?—(Port Angeles News.) If the City of Port Angeles would cut the light rates so the people of that thriving City would have no more to pay for light than we have in Juneau the surplus might be reduced and the rate payers better off. Port Angeles sits under the eves of the Olympic Mountains, surrounded by as fine water power as America posseses, yet her light rates are higher than those of this distant town where everything is supposed to cost more than in the States. And Port Angeles's light system is municipallly owned while ours is owned by a “grasp- ing corporation.” A newsaper man, William D. Welsh, managing editor of the Port Angeles News, is head of the | American Legion in the State of ‘Washington. THEATRES INDICATE GOOD TIMES. The New York Times accepts the fact that picture theatres in New York are breaking records for receipts this summer as complete evidence that business conditions are good and people prosperous. During the first week in August a single theatre New York showed to 210,000 people and its re- pls were $173,000. The same show was carried for a second week, and the receipts dropped ,000. These are new records, the Times says, f declares that no such records were ever nade before. The 550 theatres in New York have an average daily attendance of more than 1,000,000, The Times says it can only mean that the masses are in the money. \ The theatrical referees have now given Jack Dempsey a long count and he may have to retire from the stage. Well, Jack has not amounted to much as an actor, but we suspect that most people will have to know a lot more about the rules than they know now or the long count will just add to his great popularity. Long counts have made many friends for the mauler. There is not very much encouragement to the | lovers of mint julips in tHis decision of the Gov- | ernment to encourage the manufacture of Bourbon. It takes five years to make Bourbon that is at all satisfactory in mint julips—and it serves a better when it is twice that age or more. That is a long time, and now there are only 10,000,000 gallons of Bourbon in the country. 420 Hours 21 Minutes 30 Seconds. (New York World.) One is hard put to it to know which to admire most—Forest O'Brine and Dale Jackson, who stayed more than two and a half weeks aloft in an air- plane, or Major William B. Robertson, President of the Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Manufacturing Company, who ordered them to come down. What the flyers did deserves unstinted praise, as does also the gay and nonchalant manner in which they did it. It was a particularly nice touch, many of | us will think, that they took pains to shave every | day. But what Major Robertson did deserves un- stinted praise too. It must have been a temptation to let these men fly on and set a record that the world would consider almost miraculous. He did not do that. After seventeen days, he said, all the | objects of the flight had been accomplished: the | motor, the plane and the men had all been tested, | and it was better to make an end before weak- | ening of some unit might cause disaster. As evi- dence that money had nothing to do with his de- cision, he agreed to compute the bonus on the basis of 500 hours. All this is part of something we have had occasion to speak about before—the grow- ing spirit of sobriety in aviation, the realization that | many of the big problems of the business will be solved not by doing spectacular feats but by win-{ ning public confidence. It was an altogether grati- fying thing to see a record-making performance ! deliberately renounced in favor of safety. | Henry George. (Manchester Guardian.) The followers of Henry George remain as num- erous and enthusiastic as ever. On Monday they | gathered in their hundreds at Edinburgh, coming from twenty-three nations and several continents| to testify to their undiminished faith in the taxa- tion of land values and in Free Trade. Henry George has been dead more than thirty years, and exactly fifty years have passed since the publication | lot | I'he was chasing. Another Merger — g -, \ Motoreycle Patrolman Robert Phillips, of Yonkers, N. Y.' holding the Sam Brown belt | which stopped a bullet fired at him by one of five bandits Phillips con- tinued the chase and after wounding one of the thugs, helped capture the other four. (nternationsl Newsreel) Sof ey i MEETING TONIGHT Moose Legion Number 25 Meeting TONIGHT is of im- portance and all members arc re- was no novelty in declaring that the land naturn]lyi belonged to the people, and that part at least of | common exchequer. Nor was Henry George alone in arguing that all other taxes should be gradually abolished in favor of a single land tax. contained in his doctrine was singularly evident, and the process by which men grow rich at the public expense through their good fortune in owning conveniently situated land has become increasingly apparent as industrial development has spread. His doctrine was accepted by many Liberals, and became part of Socialist thought, and much of his argument has become incorporated in the textbooks of ortho- doxy. He was a man who found a truth, and if he and his followers have tended too much to put forward his remedy as a universal Ppanacea, the remedy possessed real value and was not a quack nostrum. Praise for Loughran. (New York Times.) Colonel William F. Carey, who has taken charge of the affairs of Madison Square Garden, makes out a good case in expalining why he has substituted lTommy Loughran of Philadelphia for Max Shemel- ing of Berlin in the forthcoming heavyweight box- ing match with Sharkey of Boston, Although the Garden Corporation seemed willing to risk disfavor with the New York Boxing Commission in promot- ing the engagement for the German boxer, who is | under the commission’s suspension, Schmeling and ' his manager gave Colonel Carey what his specta- | tors would call the “run-around.” Patience ending, and Loughran being available, the new deal was made, and boxing enthusiasts should be happy over it for several reasons. 3 One reason is that Loughran is one of the most skillful boxers the ring has ever seen, that he has a stout fighting heart and that he can give Sharkey and many other heavier men more things to solve than they are likely to unravel. Another is that the Philadelphia athlete, in the opinion of many, “de- serves the opportunity” to meet the leading con- | tender for Mr. Tunney's vacant eminence. But the best reasons for public approval are that Loughran is a young man of fine personality and disposition, that in private life he is a worthy citizen and that he always does his best. He lacks, or has seemed to lack, that knock- out punch which the more avid fans demand, but lovers of sheer boxing know they are watching a master in action when he comes to the ring. What better proof of the democracy of golf could be asked for than the fact that, of the eight play- ers who reached the quarter-final round of the alty of ten per cent shall be added, together with interest at the rate of eight per cent per annum from date of such delinquency until paid. " PROFESSIONAL ) Helene W.L. 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Phone 484 of “Progress and Poverty” in England. Whilquuested to be present. Lunch. subtler economists and more elegant stylists have | G. A. BALDWIN, been forgotten, Henry George's influence, powerful | —adyv. Herder. immediately, seems rather to spread than to decline. — | Nor is that difficult to explain. For though Henry MUNICIPAL. TAXES DUE George was a man of one idea, it was a good - idea, and it was founded on a truth he had ob<| AR AL S ! served for himself and which everyone else could| Notice is erebv given that the, observe when it was pointed out. Of course there|COmmon Council of the City of Juneau has fixed the rate of tax| levy for the year 1929 at Eighteen | the rent which it afforded should be paid into the |Mills on each Dollar of assessed iproperty and taxes are now due |and will be delinquent on the first| But his |Monday in October at 6 p. m,, pro-| thesis was put forward at a time when the truth |Viding, however, that if one-half of the assessed taxes shall be paid on or before the first Monday in| October at the hour of § p. m., the! remaining oue-half of the asscssed ! taxes shall not become due until | first Monday year, at the hour of 6 p. m. and| |further providing, that should the | remaining one-half of the assessed | taxes be not paid on the first Monday in March of each year at the hour of 6 p. m., said taxes |shall become delinquent. in March of each! On .all delinquent taxes a pen- H. R. SHEPARD, City Clerk. SCHOOL SUPPLIES PENCILS FOUNTAIN PENS INK TABLETS CRAYONS PAINTS Our assortment will please you. Juneau Drug Company H. M. HOLLMANN R. R. HERMANN Free Delivery Phone 33 Post Office Substation No, 1 United States Public Links Championship Tourna- ment, four were clerks, two were salesmen, one was a mailman and one a schoolboy, while they represented seven cities.—(Christian Science Moni- tor.) After studying the lives of successful men, one concludes that the best motto is “So live that some day they will ask You to endorse a good smoke instead of a Promissory note."—(Seattle Timies.) —— We hear that the five-foot shelf of books now | has a rival, the latest commodity to be sold by linear measures being the five-foot shelf of cos- metics. It requires that amount of preparations, experts inform us, to take a face safely through the perils and dangers of a week.—(F. P. A. in New York World.) — Things don't move so fast as we have been led to believe. We have yet to hear an aviator boast of how much the company allowed him on his old plane—(New York World,) CALL THE Juneau Plumber D. 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SIDES, Secretary. Co-Ordinate Bod- ies of Freemaseon- | ry Scottish Rite Regular meetings 'second Friday each month at 7:30 p. m. Scot- tish Rite Temple WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary. IOYAL ORDER N4 Ok OF MOOSE Juneau Lodge No. 700. [5G Meets every Monday "\,‘g night, at 8 o'clock. JAMES CARLSON, Dictatcr. W. T. VALE, Secy, P. O. Box 824 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Second and Fourth Mon-~ day of each month in ; Scottish Rite Temple, beginning at 7:20 p. m ~ WALTER P. ECOTY, Master; CHARLES E. NAGHEL, Secretary. ORDER OF EASTERN STAR Second and Fourth Tuesdys of each menth, at 8 o'clock, Scottish Rite Temple. MAY- | BELLE GEORGE, Wor- thy Matron; FANNY ¥ L. ROBINSON, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760 Meetings second and iast Monday at 7:30 p. m Transient brothers urg: 1 td to attend. Council Chambers, Fifth Street. EDW. M. MCINTYRE, G. K. H. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. DOUGLAS AERIE 117 F. O. E. Meets Monday &nighw 8 oclock at Eagles’ Hall, Doug- las. ARNE SHUDSHIFT, W. 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Commercial jJob printing at The MMWM M irroring the Growth of Juneau The steady growth of Juneau the Past ten years is strikingly pictured in the growth of our Savings De- partment during that period, as shown by the following comparison of savings deposits: August 6, 1920 .. $ 844,780.61 August 6, 1924 1,035,568.58 August 6, 1929 . 1,338,966.33 The B. M. Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska 3& | Russian Steam Baths | Open Wednesdays and Batur- | | days from noon till midnight, | “Business Is Good” J MRS. JOHN JORRI, Prop. I i —8 e e MORRIS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY SAND and Carpenter and Concrete ork No job too large nor too small for us MORRIS CONSTRUCTION CO. Building Contractors PHONE 62 AR DU JUNEAU TRANSFER' Moves, Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Prompt Delivery of ALL KINDS OF COAL