The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 5, 1929, Page 4

% Daily Alaska Empire HN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER ' __Published every evemng except Sunday by the IMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main treets, Juneau, Alaska. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Deltvered by carrrer In Juneau, Dougl Thane for $1.25 per month. By mall, postage pald, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance }RN' one month, in advanoce, $1.25. | | ji ; 5 1l ?:g ribers will confer a favor if they will promptly ify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity the deilvery of their papers. Telephona for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associatea rress 1s exclusively entitled to the mse for republication of all news dispatches credited to or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the I news published herein. MALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER 5 THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. SEAL ROOKERIES YIELD RICHES. Results of sealing activities this season on the Pribilof Islands demonstrate the ef- ficacy of the Government’s conservation pol- icy. Skins totaled 39,253, which is more than any previous annual take by the Bureau of Fisheries. The kill has no appreciable effect on the herd, which still counts more than 800,000 and is larger now than ever before in its known history. For forty years previous to 1910, the Pribilof sealing privilege was leased to a commercial company. While no census of animals was taken prior to Federal control, undoubtedly their number was large at the beginning of private operations. The herd was subjected to ruthless slaughter. One hundreds thousand skins were taken in one year. At the end of the private lease, ac- cording to Government enumeration, there were fewer than 300,000 seals. If Federal management had been deferred much longer, the herd would have been reduced beyond hope of restoration The skins are sold by the Government at auction in St. Louis. Values vary from year to year with the condition of pelts and the demand. If average prices of the last few seasons obtain again this season, and there is no probability of recession, about $2500,000 will be realized from this year’s take. The industry, preserved and enhanched by the Federal Government, is a rich re- source that promises to be perpetual. But from the returns, Alaska profits nothing. Some of the proceeds from the auction sales should be apportioned to the Territorial treasury —(Seattle Times.) Alaskans are grateful for the suggestion of the Times that some of the proceedings of the sale of seal pelts from the Pribilof Islands should be ap- propriated to the Alaska Territorial treasury. Gov- ernment officials have repeatedly recommended that at least half of the returns ought to be so appro- priated. Some day, perhaps, if a little more activity should be exerted by the Territory, Congress may act on the suggestion. The Times mistakes when it says the present seal herd estimated to contain more than 800,000 animals is arger now than ever before in its known histor; It is much larger than it has been since the Government undertook control of the catch, and for many years before. But it is known that it was much larger when the old Alaska Commercial Company got its first exclusive lease of the Pribilof Islands. However, at the rate the herd is growing, if -the international treaty under which the United States 15 acting is continued in force, it will not be many years uutil the herd will be larger than the prev- fouse high estimate of 2500000 to 3,000,000 seals. In eighteen years it has incerased more than 265 per cent. At that rate .the number will be ap- proximately 3,000,000 eighteen years from now. VIRGINIA STANDS BY PRINCIPL ATE RIGHTS E. The announcement that, notwithstanding that Bascom Slemp is reported to be raising money for the Republican Ticket in the Virginia election, the Virginia Democrats would accept no “outside” con- fributions, not even from Mr. Raskob and the ‘Democratic National Committee, was caught up and broadcast as a slap at the present organization of the Democratic National Party. Gov. Byrd and candidates on the Democratic State Ticket immed- dately denied this statement and declared that it was strictly in accord with Virginia Democratic traditions. They showed that Virginia Democrats ‘had never taken one dollar from a source outside the State in State election campaigns. It was a Virginia tradition that to do so would be, morally at least, to disregard the State Rights doctrine that has been a cornerstone of Virginia political theory since the days of Jefferson, Madison, M: ‘Wythe, Henry, Monroe, etc. It must be admitted that in these days of large campaign funds the Virginia Democrats ’ing a remarkable loyalty to principle. ason, are display- YOUTH’S COMPANION NO MORE. The Youth's Companion, that was an old paper ‘when many of the old men of today were its thusiastic boyhood subscribers, has at last suc- fumbed. It has been absorbed by the Amer ditions and tastes. It never ceased to be a Bos- ‘conservative of the mid-Ninteenth Century. And this suggests: What happened to Harper's ng People? And who reads St. Nicholas these ? ‘The Youth's Companion, Harper's Young People, Nicholas, Golden Days and the Golden Argosy regular visitors to most well regulated fam- s forty to fifty years ago—in those days when re were enough boys and girls between eleven middle teens in nearly every family so that red all these publications to go around. They hed topics of interest and conversation for £ w4 It was unable to adjust itself to the changing | | Poland the youth of the land. Now we rarely hear of any of them—if they are still published at all. The Golden Argoy, of course, became-the Argosy maga- zine years ago. Modern youth, it seems, demands the same period- icals that appeal to the elders. It demands the comic supplement, Life, Judge, Whiz Bang, Jim Jam Jems, etc. That public welcome New York gave Dr. Hugo Eckener (second only to the famous demonstration for Col. Lindbergh when he returned from his flight to Paris) will not detract from the delight of Ger- mans in the American goodwill for the Graf Zep- pelin and her officers and crew. Reports from the Taku continue to be stories of staking claims in a richly mineralized region And, added to that, are stories of plentiful game animals and birds and unsurpassed scenery. The Southeast Alaska Fair is your fair. Boost for it. Exhibit anything you have that is worth while. And, not less important, visit it as often as possible. The New Poland. (New York Times.) Ten years of reconstruction, since the Treaty of Versailles, have done wonders for independent Poland. A fair start was not really made until the frontiers werc delineated early in 1923. But the national spirit, in spite of its bitter memories, has been turned to the task of creating a new Poland.|school. Since January, 1919, there has been an increase of 15 per cent. in the population. It now exceeds 30,000,000. Sixty-five per cent. agricultural, Poland has some unemployent, but it is not in the manu- facturing industries. Industrially Poland is work- ing 65 per cent. more hours than in 1926. The new is organized for the welfare of all, and cooperation is the order of the day. Many miles of roads have been constructed, parks have been laid out, public buildings and schools of attractive archi- tecture have been built The Poles have scorned the propaganda of the Third International. Their progress in the last ten years is most impressive. It is, perhaps, seen to the best adyantage in the development of the Port of Gydnia, a fishing village seven years ago. Today Gdynia is the most modern of Baltic pe~ts. It has warehouses, power stations, cranes, coal and ships’ stores. In commerce it may surpass the ancient Port of Danzig. Already there is promise that Gdynia will have a capacity of 15,000,000 tons of freight a year. But Danzig is prospering. In 1913 its volume of traffic was 1,870,000 tons, as compared with 8,520,000 for 1928. To appreciate what the Poles are doing for them- selves, with the aid of an improving credit, it must be considered that in the war 1,785,000 structures, including bridges, warehouses and stores, public utility buildings, churches, schools and dwellings, were destroyed. Since the armistice more than 2,000 miles of railway have been built. In total mileage Poland stands fifth in Europe now. Roll- ing stock has been trebled. Agricultural products | are showing a remarkable increase compared with pre-war days. The production of coal was 40,611,000 tons in 1928, as compared with 25,326,000 in 1919. Shipping lines have been established. Charles S. Dewey, financial adviser to the Polish Government, reported in the last of May a surplus of $22,440,- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 5, ¥ 929. WORK PROGRESSING ON N. G. NELSON BUILDING P. O. Peterson arrived on the Alameda from Seattle to take the position of superintendent of con- struction on the N. G. Nelson building, which the J. B. Warrack Construction Company of Seattle is constructing here. Six pl Watkins the plastering of the Memorial Hospital at Sedro Woollew, built by the Warrack Construction | Company, arrived on the Admiral Rogers and have started the plas- tering work on the Nelson build- ing. ‘ The plaster used on the building is a light grey Porcelano which dries with a glaze and is both waterproof and washable, Mr. War- rack said. He expects the out- side to be completed by Saturday evening. Partitions are in on the apart- ment floor and the roof, on which is used a 5-ply Barrett Specifica- tion roofing, will be completed to- day, Mr. Warrack said. He will send three plasterers to Sitka to put the plaster on the Sage Me- morial Building which the War- rack Construction Company is building for the Sheldon-Jackson | FISHERIES MEN OFF ON KETCHIKAN TRIP To spend a week or ten days in- the southern end of the Division, Agent Dennis Winn_and Drs. Wil- lis H. Rich and Fred A. Davidson of the U. S. Bureau of Fishuries.l left yesterday for Ketchikan. They are aboard the patrol ship Widgeon, Capt. Greg' Mangan. Dr. Rich will be in the district but a few days, proceding then to Palo Alto, Calif., to make up his ireport on the season's work. Dr. Davidson, who is in charge of the study being made by the bureau of the pink salmon fishery, will be in the southern district for some- time. STEAMER QUEEN IS COMING NORTH i SEATTLE, Sept. 5—Steamer Queen sailed for Southeast Alaska ports at 10 o'clock this morning with 33 passengers, the following one for Juneau, Miss Claire Weller. MUNICIPAL TAXES DUE terers, headed by Arthur who have just completed |5 vestigating fisheries conditions in |& PROFESSIONAL tH et 1 Helene W. L. Albrecht ! PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | 410 Goldstein Building | Phone Office, 216 i { L ————————. DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. | PHONE 56 Hours 9 8. m. to 9 p. m. kS ] Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST | Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine ! | Building Telephone 176 ez : — Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST | Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. SEWARD BUILDINC Office Phone 569, Res. Phone 276 s 5 <3 Dr. H. Vance | Osteopath—201 Coldstein Bldg. Hours: 10 to 12; 1 to 5; Tto 9 or by appointment Licensed Osteopathic Physician Phone: Office 1671, Residence, MacKinnon Apts. & Packard Phone | Packard | AUTOS FOR HIRE SINGLE O or 11 Whether it’s a nice and balmy day, or stormy and terrifying makes no difference—we will be at your door in a §¥fy any time you want a taxi, and give you efficient, i| polite service at the low- est standard rates. De Luxe CARISON’S TAXI and * Ambulance Service CHIROPRACTOR, Hellenthal Building Office Service Only Hours: 10 a. m. to 12 noon, 2 p.m to 5 p. m and 7T p. m. to 9 p. m. Phone 529 CHIROPRACTIC is not the practice of Medicize, | Surgery nor Osteopathy. " Robert Simpson Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Grouna i " DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL | | Optometrist-Optician ’ Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted | | Room 16, Valentine Bldg. | ~10:00 to 6:00. Evenings by | I Appointment. Phone 484 N ice is nerebv given that the : i 000 for the year endd March 31, 1928. Populas edu- |Common Council of the City of cation was neglected in the pre-war period. Today Juneau has fixed the rate of tax| there are 3,500,000 children in the elementary schools | l€Vy for the year 1929 at Eighteen | while there are The phenomenal and 250,000 in secondary schools, 40,000 pupils at six universities. {Mills on each Dollar of assessed | property and taxes are now due advance of' Poland is reflected in the great ex-|and will be delinquent on tz first hibition now open in Posen preparation. Eighteen Cents. (Emporia, Kan, Gazette.) The clarion call of President Hoover the other day for the reduction of army expenses emphasized the fact that America spends 82 cents of every Federal tax dollar for war, or war debts, or war purposes—armies, navies, defenses, pensions, interest on war loans and the long train of calamities that follow war. For the 18 cents of Federal tax that is not spent for war we buy a good deal—indeed, all the other departments of government: With 18 cents left in each of those $4,000,000,- 000 after paying for war we buy our new Post Offices and public buildings, we make our water- ways improvements, conduct farm relief, run the Post Offices, look after floods, hire judges, run our courts, build our great projects like Boulder Dam and conduct an orderly, peaceful, happy, prosperous, useful civilization. If we can do that on 18 cents of every Federal tax dollar, what a country we will have when President Hoover cuts down war expenses so that we might have 36 or 54 cents of that tax dollar “to provide for the general welfare.” Domesticating Deer at Prince Rupert. (Prince Rupert News.) Kaien Island is a big park reserved for park purposes except where needed for industry or horti- culture. No one is permitted to shoot deer and as a result there are becoming tame. Along the new highway they may be seen any morning and the poacher who kills them is liable to be punished. Many Prince Rupert people like to have the deer tame and within easy sight of those who pass. Taxi drivers take people out to see the deer. Very soon, if they are properly protected the animals will come down to the road and feed out of the hands of the passersby just as they do in Bushy Park on the Thames in England and at many other places. It has been suggested that those who often go along the new highway should be given a license to act as special constables to protect the wild life on the island. This would give them power to arrest or lay a charge and would be an im- portant move toward protection. A few people would have their gardens damaged by invasion from the deer, but steps would be taken to prevent that. It has also been suggested that a strip of land around the lake on the new highway should be cleared, so that the deer might be easily seen as they come down there. conserve the deer on the island is a commendable move. In selecting John W. Garrett for appointment as American Ambassador to Italy the President has chosen a man peculiarly well equipped for the post. Mr. Garrett is not merely a trained diplomat and a careful student of American diplomatic history; he is also, and this is the chief consideration, un- | usually gifted with sympathetic understanding of the Mediterranean civilization in which Italy has always played so commanding a part.—(New York World.) Obviously that $150,000,000 post office deficit was not incurred in putting gum on stamps.—(New York Times.) The unpardonable sin is running into debt with the deliberate intention of refusing to pay.—(Prince Rupert News.) Anything that can help w‘ after two years of |Monday in October at 6 p. m., pro-| 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 assessed | taxes shall not become due until first Monday in March of each| 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. On all delinquent taxes a pen-| 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. H. R. SHEPARD, City Clerk. | PENCILS | FOUNTAIN PENS | INK TABLETS CRAYONS PAINTS Our assortment will please you. Juneau Drug Company H. M. HOLLMANN R. R. HERMANN Free Delivery Phone 83 Post Office Substation No. 1 CALL THE Juneau Plumber D. M. GRANT At Newman-Geyer PHONE 154 Oil Burner Service a Specialty Estimates Given—Work Guaranteed SCHOOL SUPPLIES | Day and Night Service Responsible Drivers Stand at Arcade Cafe To or from any place in the city for 50 CENTS Five can -ide as cheaply as one 4 Cars at Your Service 199 Taxi Cab Peerless Cakes Are made of the best ma- terials money can buy. They are baked in Juneau; a home product. Just the proper cake for the HOST- ESS to serve. Peerless Hazel’s Taxi PHONE Stand: Alaska Grill D S Prompt Service, Day and Night CovicH Auro SERVICE STAND AT THE OLMPIC Phone 342 Day or Night Bt ol | Company Stand at Gastineau Hotel (e | I' OF - | Gastineau Channel B. P. 0. ELKS Meeting every Wed- nesday at 8 o'clock. Elks’ Hall. Visiting 3 brothers welcome. Visiting Brothers Welcome, WINN GUDDARD, Exalted Ruler, M. H. SIDES, Secretary. Co-Urdinate Bod- ies of Freemason- ry Scottish Rite Regular meetings second Friday each month at 7:30 p. m. Scot- tish Rite Temple WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary. LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE 74 Juneau Lodge No. 700. (5@ Meets every Monday G, night, at 8 o'clock. Y JAMES CARLSON, Dictator. 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 i WALTER P. SCOTY, Master; CHARLES E. NAGHEL, Secretary. ORDER OF EASTERN STAR Second and Fourth Tuesdys of each ménth, at 8 o'clock, Scottish Rite Temple. MAY- BELLE GEORGE, Wor- thy Matron; FANNY v L. ROBINSON, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS BSeghers Council No. 1760 Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m Transient brothers ury: td to attend. Council Chambers, Fifth Street. EDW. M. McINTYRE, G. K. H. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. DOUGLAS AERIE 117 F. 0. E. Meets Monday & nights 8 o'clock at Eagles’ iall, Doug- las. ARNE SHUDSHIFT, W. P GUY SMITH, Secretary. V'siting Brothers welcome. d o WOMEN OF MOOSEHEART . LEGION, NO. 439 | Meets first and third Thursdays 1 | each month, 8 p. m. at Moose | Hall. KATE JARMAN, Senior | Regent; AGNES GRIGG, Re- | | corder. Brunswick Bowling Alleys FOR MEN AND WOMEN Stand—Miller’s Taxi Phone 218 Mabry’s Cafe Regular Dinners Short Orders Lunches Open 6 a.m. to 2 a.m, POPULAR PRICES HARRY MABRY Proprietor Juneau, Alaska Bakery YURMAN n e a5 Men’s Half Soles, $1.50 Rubber Heels, 50 cents Big Van, the Gun Man 211 Seward Street THE JuNEAU LAUNDRY Franklin Street, between So Front and Second Streets e PHONE 359 ‘at The Empire, Commerclal Job printing at The Expert Furrier Summer prices still prevail in Fur Garments. Remodeling a Specialty. Front Street S —— T O e TRY OUR FACIALS The finest of everything in the line of beauty culture. EXPERT OPERATORS Consultation Free American Beauty Parlor ALSIE WILSON, Prop. Thrifty Women Nine times out of ten the women are the money savers of the family. Men mean well enough. They know the value of having money in the bank but they haven’t the knack of saving. Our tellers are pleased at all times to assist ladies who may wish to open a bank account, make out deposits, checks,: or give any information in reference to our commercial or savings departments. o— o ‘. The B. M. Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in ‘Alaska U | Russian Steam Baths | Open Wednesdays and Satur- | days from noon till midnight. | ! i ) “Business Is Good” | MRS. JOHN [ORRL, Prop. 2 MORRIS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY SAND and GRAVEL AND Carpenter and Concrete Work No job too large nor too small for us MORRIS CONSTRUCTION cO. Building Contractors PHONE 62 e}, ——————— JUNEAU TRANSFER Moves, Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Prompt Delivery of ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 48 ' HOTEL ZYNDA ELEVATOR SERVICE S. ZYNDA, Prop. “TRY A MALTY” PIG'N WHISTLE CANDY Non Better—Box or Bulk | e M — e Commercial job printing at Ihe Empire, = Fraternal Societies | II