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

Ry e Daily Alaska Em pire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published _ecvery evening 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. Delivered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month, aid, at the followi g rates: . $12.00; six months, in advauce, 6.00; one month, in advance, '$1.2. 0 beoribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. fal and Busi SSOCIATED PRESS. is exclusively er ed to the all news dispatch credited in this paper and also the ¥ The Associ use for republicati it or not otherw local news publi ALASKA CIRCUL. ALASKAAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. { 1 JOIN THE RED CROSS. There is still time for those who have not donoi 80 to become members of the American Red Or Everybody ought to be a member of the organ tion, The Red Cross is one of the most important| institutions in the world. It is always the 1ll'§t‘ on the ground to render relief wherever there is| disaster of any sort. Fires or floods or wind slnrm:‘.. or earthquakes or famines or epidemics of dlsemso1 or other calamities are constantly occurring at some | place. Whatever or wherever catastrophe might | |ington, the dates, places, etc, have been given| by the Washington Times, Senator Brookhart (who| was not so squemish about stool-pigeoning) and others. The question is, what is going to be done returned. But in specifying the punishment it o to be borne in mind that Mr. Fall is very ill has been so for years. His physicians declare t s death is likely to occur at any time. It o l, to be borne in mind that the Gowrmnw\tI retains the oil lands and is the beneficiay of lions—said to amount to $10,000,000 or $11,000,000 | —expended by Mr. Doheny’s company in develop- ment of the leased property and in building stor- tanks and terminal facilities at Pearl Harbor ‘;md for other purposes. Not only this, but |ago outraged public sentiment had driven M Fall in disgrace from office into retirement., There as no chance that the public would ever a |suffer for any of his acts. He was powerless to harm to anyone. 1 We really believe, under the circumstances, that |if the Government had refused to drag the dying |man into court and thus add further shame yhumiliation it would have been a generous act and, | in the end, justified by public opinion. | (age and { A Washington State jury that tried a case where |one man sued another for the alienation of the af-| | fections of his wife refused to give damages, not| because there had been no alienation but because | lit a ed the plaintiff had suffered no damages. |In other words, it did not believe the wife's affec- | tions were worth anything. While Senator Howell refused to perform as a stool pigeon when the President called upon him for dates, places, etc, where liquor is sold in Wash- about it? If those racketeers would only speed up their hocpitality and give each other more rides Chicago might in time become safe for. public officials. Columbia University’s Worthies. ‘ (New York World.) In the list of nearly fifty paintings to be hung at Columbia for the 175th anniversary, one group of names is particularly notable. The great politi- cal figures like John Jay (class of 1764) and Alex- LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONING By Mary Graham Bonner John had felt very sorry that day to say good-bye to a friend of his ho was going away off to Aus- ia He the Clock for their evening's fun. “Well, well, well,” said the Little Black Clock. “How long before you'll hear from him?” “I don’t know,” said John. didn't seem to know exactly. said he would send me a post card and then I'd have the stamp too. But it will be ages before I hear.” The Little Black Clock said noth- ing for a few moments. “Now we're ready,” he said. The scene had changed and the Little Black Clock had brought the children to a large telephone build- ing. “What in the world are we going to do?” John asked. “It seems different from any- thing I've ever seen, somehow,” said Peggy. Once their father had taken them to see a large telephone exchange, but this one was differ- ent. “He “I've turned the time ahead forty |’ years,” the Little Black Clock said,| " “and I though you'd like to do some telephoning. May'e you'd like to telephone to Australia?” “But wouldn't it be terribly ex- pensive even if we could be con- nected?” John asked. “My father called up London last week but it cost dollars and visit people the Red Cross is always mobilized and|;nqer Hamilton (class of 1777) are to be taken fordollars” Peggy said. ready to meet the emergency, and it always dues‘ jt. It is competently organized with efficient and | experienced men and women who know how to du! the necessary thing. The least one can do to show appreciation of such an organization is to be a member of it. Ifi members of the drive committee have missed anyone he should make the fact known to one of the mem-| bers or an officer of the organization. The head | of the Juneau Chapter of the Red Cross is B. M. Behrends, and it would be an easy matter for one not now a member to let Mr. Behrends or his| bank know it and ask to become a member. WITLESS FOLKS AND OPINIONS. Pity those who'cannot read and haven't wit enough to form an opinion. They are sure to be drawn on the jury—(Anchorage Times.) “And haven't wit enoughgto form an opinion?” No, that does not -fit in with human experience. The fact is the witless and those who read little| stronger opinions than those who are well supplied with wit. They have so many opinions that they cannot easily| think or weigh facts in the balance. Those who have wit are usually slow to form opinions unless it is for cause. One reason why thoughtful people read is to facilitate the unloading of intolerant and| prejudicial opinions. Let us have more readers and fewer witless opin- fons. Let people read and keep their minds open. have more and read much and THE CASE OF MR. FALL. While The Empire believes that the leases that former Secretary Fall made of oil lands, which were approved by Secretary Denby and President Hard- ing, were good bargains for the Government, the evidence of fraud in the transactions is convincing. | Before he signed the leases the Cabinet member was probably guilty either of accepting bribes or blackmailing Mr. Doheny and Mr. Sinclair out of large sums of money for his own use and benefit. It is true that Mr. Doheny and Mr. Fall were friends of two score years standing, and it is true that Doheny was able to lend, or to give, without feeling the loss, $100,000 to Mr. Fall. It may be that he would have given it upon request had there been no leases or other agreéments pending between them. Further, that Mr. Doheny subsequently ac- quired the Fall ranch, to rehabilitate and install water for irrigation of which Mr. Fall procured the $100,000, in settlement of debts due him may | be evidence that the $100,000 was a loan and not a gift. However, there gre other circumstances that would seem to prove that the transaction was shady. The $100,000 that Mr. Doheny let Mr. Fall have was not given in a check as is usual in business deals involving large sums. Instead the money was drawn from a bank in Los Angeles and sent in a grip across the contjnent to Wash- ington in custody of Mr. Dohenys’ son, and the delivery was made without publicity of any sort. Further, when it was discovered that Mr. Fall had come into the possesion of large sums of money and suspicion was aroused it was explained that E. B. McLean, Washington capitalist and publisher, had loaned the money to him. A stub of Mr. Mc- Lean’s checkbook was shown which indicated that the latter had written a check for $100,000 payable to Mr. Fall. Later it was disclosed that not only ‘had the check not been paid by the bank on which it was written but that Mr. McLean did not have that much money in the bank. It is clear that “Mr. Fall or Mr. Doheny or both did not want any- © But 4s not the worst ef it. oil ¥ During the time clair $269,000. Mr. Sinclair and g g . were pending, it has been disclosed, and his associates for granted. So are the eminent educators of recent years, such as Professors Seligman, Giddings, Dewey | and Pupin. But there are less obvious names whlch‘ represent as much of the usefulness and glory of | Columbia and should not be half-forgotten. Columbia does well to recall her pride in John Stevens of the class of 1768, a pioneer builder of steamboats, the inventor of the screw propeller and multitubular boiler, an associate of Fulton's, the founder at Hoboken in 1811 of the first steam | ferry in the world, and one of the American lead- | ers in railway promotion. No better known is the career of James Renwick of the class og 1836, one| of the engineers of the Erie Railroad and Croton Aqueduct, builder of the famous reservoir which once occupied the site of the Public Library, and | archiect of Grace Church and the Roman Cathollci [thedral at 50th Street. The university hangs a | | portrait of Wolcott Gibbs, one of the greatest Am-' erican scientists of his time, and long teacher of ’physxcs and chemistry at City College and Harvard. It recalls Jackson Kemper of the class of 1809, the first missionary bishop in the Episcopal Church, and a heroic worker in the Northwest when Wis- jconsin and Minnesota were still wilderness. It re- calls two scholarly and public-spirited men, G. C. Verplank (class of 1801), the editor of Shake- speare, member of Congress and literary popu- larizer, and C. C. Moore, pioneer of Hebrew lexi- cology and one of the makers of the General Theo- logical Seminary. There are others less known but hardly less useful. | Anniversary celebrations of this kind are an oc- \casion for pointing to the most famous sons a university has produced. They should also be occa- sion for recommending to public attention some who are less famed than they should be. | An Author Shortage in Turkey. (Manchester Guardian.) ‘ Our Constantinople correspondent reports a strange state of affairs in Turkey—it has been dis- covéred that only one new book was published in that country during the' past twelve months. Bear- ing in mind the prodigious figures, revealed to us at the close of every December by the “Publishers’ Circular,” of new books annually issued in this' country; this solitary Turkish volume would seem | almost incredible—until one remembers that ’mrk-' ish authors may be still struggling to master the' new Turkish alphabet. But if*authorship languishes the allied trades must be in no very flourishing condition. What happens to reviewers in a year when there is only one work for them to praise or blame? One fears that the competition to se- cure this solitary volume must have been savage in the extreme. And how did the writers of lit- | erary gossip manage with only one active author on their lists? Or clerks in circulating libraries' who had but one “success of the season” to recom-l mend to their subscribers? It is perhaps consid- eration for these humble but necessary creatures that has induced the Turkish Government to in- stitute a new sort of “press” gang or system of |enforced authorship; literary men, it is reported, are being commissioned to write books or, failing that, to translate “leading foreign works” It is an extraordinary situation and most unlike anything in the recent experience of other countries, which are far more likely to complain, as did the Duke of ‘Wellington on one occasion, that they are “much exposed to authors.” Indeed, if it were not for the difficulties of the language there might be a great Grub Street exodus toward this eager land whose virgin sofl is simply aching for authors. Still, the language difficulty is not insuperable; it could be |learnt in time, and from all points of view Mustapha {Kemal might do worse than inaugurate a gen- |érous immigration scheme to encourage suitable |literary settlers to cultivate the Garden of Allah |at closer quarters. L IR IR 1 ol hidden behind false book backs. “Reading,” said Ben Franklin, something of a prophet in his time, “makes the full man."—(Detroit News,) T SR SRR A Missouri editor says the three most distinet- ly American institutions are golf, bridge and filling stations. But how about the sob sisters, bootleggers and radio crooners¥%—(Macon, Ga., Telegraph.) Jane- Cowl is quoted as s: versity: “I feel that the American theatre is on its last legs.” Possibly because so many better ones are to be seen in public anywhere.—(Des Moines Register.) Beware of front-door book agents who offer dis- counts and demand advance payments, but leave no book.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.) George Bernard Shaw says that Parliament is useless. We can think of other deliberative bodies—. —(Cincinnati Enquirer.) A raid on a California club revealed uquorl ying at Columbia Uni- | “Oh, no, not now,” said the Lit- tle Black Clock. And John and Peggy called up ‘ far, far away places and talked to | many people. 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