The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 9, 1929, Page 10

10 Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY 7 EDiTO}l AND MANAGER Published EMPIRE PRIN’ Streets, Juneau except Sunday by _the every evening h at Second and Main NG COMPANY Alask Entered in the Post ( ¢ in Juneau as Second Class matter. e SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid, at the followl.\g rates: e year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advauce, e month, in advance, $1.26. favor if they will promptly f any failure or irregularity yers. nd Business Offices, 374. Telephone for Editorial 7 MBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. ot d P is exclusively entitled to the 1l news dispatches credited to a'in this paper and also the in it or not othe local news pu ULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER T OF ANY THER PUBLICATION THE PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY. Under the inappropriate heading, “The Alaska Highway,” the Prince Rupert News says: Alaska newspapers are telling _Pnnce Rupert how they should conduct their own | affairs, especially in connection with the | highway which th wish to see built. We suggest that highway building is our own We have certain needs which are prior to theirs. For in- stance, Prince Rupert has been needing a highway for years and finds itself against a stone wall of indifference when it comes to asking for it. Until that reasonable de- mand is satisfied Prince Rupert will make regular protests, no matter who the apolo- gists for the American road proposal may business and not theirs. be. If any Alaska newspaper has attempted to tell Prince Rupert how she ought to conduct her own affairs it is censurable, but if any has done so, it 2 sc: the attention of The Empire. The only criticism of any one in Prince Rupert to ap- pear in The Empire was the suggestion to the| Prince Rupert News that its intimation that the proposed International Highway is solely an Am- erica proposition for the benefit of Americans is misleading. The highway, if one should be built, would be mostly in British Columbia. A consid- | erable portion of it would be in Yukon Territory. It would be a lor érial highway through Far Western Canada, making ilable for use Canadian resources scenic, mineral, game fields, agricul- tural, etc. The expenditure of Canadian money, or per- mission to expend any money of any sort, for road building in Canada, is solely and indisputably | a matter for the decision of Canada and her Prov- | inces. But when there is a misleading intimation that Alaskans, or other Americans, are attempting to induce Canada to expend public funds for the sole benefit of Alaskans, or other Americans, it is quite another matter. Under such circumstances, Alaska newspapers have a right to protest. It is a duty to do so. A GOOD SELECTION FOR BRITISH COMMISSION. The announcement that Premier MacDonald will head the British delegation in the London naval conference will occasion satisfaction in this coun- try. Premier MacDonald is looked upon as one of the leading peace advocates in the world, and, it is believed here, that no European understands America and Americans better. | The British Commissioners, however, differing | from the American, are all members of the Cab-| inet. Perhaps we do not understand the sxtuauon: very well in America, but at first thought it would add to our confidence in the permanence of the| work of the conference if at least one member | had been picked from each the Conservative and Liberal Parties. Balfour or Baldwin, for instance, and Grey or George. | Nevertheless, it is well that MacDonald is a mem- ber. The strong endorsement recently given his ef- forts toward peace in general and his part in ar-| . . ranging the London conference in particular by Baldwin and George is evidence that all England “is behind the great Labor Prime Minister of Great Britain. OFFICER AND GENTLEMAN AND GOOD FRIEND OF ALASKA GONE. The death of Lieut.-Com. Albert T. Patterson, Chief Engineer of the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Haida, is a shock to the many Alaska friends of that fine officer and gentleman and good friend of Alaska. Lieut.-Com. Patterson was “Chief” on the Unalga when she was first assigned to Juneau under command of Capt. Boedecker. He had been on her under Capt. Brockway, serving two periods of duty on the vessel. " “Pat” was never wholly happy unless he was -serving in Alaska, and after he was succeeded on the Unalga by Lieut.-Com. Kerr and sent to Norfolk, Virginia, he almost immediately began trying to get back to a cutter that was in service here. He was assigned to the Haida a short time ago. Letters received from him by Alaska friends within the last two weeks informed them that he would prob- ably be at Seattle all winter, and asked that they get in touch with him if in that City. He began service in Alaska about thirty years ago and had been on the Rush, Bear and other vessels. He was on the Rush when that craft was stationed at Juneau & quarter century or more ago. “Pat” was a native of Massachusetts and entered the Coast Guard service from that State. Being of good Republican stock he was vouched for by the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. In 1924, he was stationed at Norfolk, Va, and got leave of absence to visit delegates from Alaska at the Madi- son Square Convention. He was given seats and often sat with the Alaska delegates and, Repub- \palgn pledges and might very easily have become a |or the opponents of the bill. lican though he was, he cheered for Gov. Smith and Senator Underwood who were getting the Alaska votes. He served in the navy in European | s throughout the World War. There are a lot of people to whom the world without “Pat” will not seem quite the same. He was a good companion and a true friend 1 | At last the Vare case has been decided. After three years since protest was made in the Senate it has been decided that he cannot have the seat to which he was elected. He spent too much money in the primary—between $700,000 and $800,000. That was about $1,000,000 less than Senator Pepper spent land only slightly more than Gifford Pinchot put) linto the campaign as his opponents. | | Those Chinamen seemingly just have to fight. If they cannot fight Russians they fight each | other. | The activity of those Philadelphia bank senger robbers indicates that they must drifted in from some other City—Pittsburgh, sibly mes- have pos- | The Toll of the Sea. (Prince Rupert Empire.) In less than a week, two fishermen, each known | in Prince Rupert, have been claimed by the angry waters of the North Pacific. Each was swept from the deck of the vessel on which he was em- ployed. There is a hazard about deep sea fishing that only those who engage in it can properly understand. People in Prince Rupert growl about weather—sometimes too windy and wet. But there lis at all times safety. Compare this security with |the chances of those aboard some small craft, ex- (posed to the fury of the ocean, where it's not a |question of keeping dry, but a matter of life and | death. And all too often, the latter wins. | R ‘ Weather and Wireless. i | (Manchester Guardian.) | Human memories, unless they have been trained | Ito a professional interest in the recorded statistics! lof the subject, make very deceptive weather charts. {It is the immediate impression that counts. just |as the man who is in the middle of a shower in- Istinctively asumes that it must be raining every-| {where. According to one of the London papers ui ;French meteorologist has just been to the trouble | |of clearing a suspected character that was widely | |held some time ago to be loitering with intent to| |encourage rainfall. After examining thg available | |records of a century for Paris and Marseilles he an- | {nounces that the weather for the past twenty years| has been perfectly normal, so that there is not the slightst ground for assuming that the growth of wireless communications, either for commercial purposes or entertainment, has had any effect at all on the rainfall. “The wireless.” therefore, stands cleared by statistics—but only at a moment when | it long since left the court of public opinion owing to the immediate absence of any evidence against it. It needs a distinct effort of memory to recall the very different attitude that was prevalent dur- ing the wet summers of 1926 and 1927. Those had their months of great dampness and désolation, | and the wireless was freely charged with having disturbed the ether to the disadvantage of the holi- day-maker. It was a strange tale to suit a sad summer—and it is amusing to think how entirely those earnest suspicious disappeared during the glor- ious sunshine of 1929. It was not a case of what the Home Office calls a “free pardon” for wrong- ful conviction—it was simply forgotten that any charge had ever been made, and it is the French expert's belated appeal to statistics that reminds us of the sullen doubts (and skies) of yesteryear. However, if the weather of 1930 is again sullen, doubtless the suspicions will revive in some minds in spite of all the lesson: to be learnt from either facts or a fautless summer. Mr. Hoover’s Leadership. | I | | (New York World.) | The leadership which Mr. Hoover is offering to! business is in rather striking contrast with his fail- | ure to lead his party in Congress. In the indus- trial situation his initiative has been prompt, con- vincing and effective. He knew clearly what he | wanted to do, how he wanted to do it, and where to lay his hands upon the men who could do it.| But in dealing with Congress on the tariff he has| been slow, unconvincing and ineffective. He did | not seem to know what he wanted or how to pro- ceed. He seemed to have no convictions, no pro- gram, no resourcefulness. He allowed his party w‘ write a bill in the House which, had it become law, would have constituted a brazen betrayal of cam- disastrous turning-point in the history of his Ad-, ministration. When the bill went to the Senate he let matters drift, apparently unable to make up his mind whether to cast his lot with the supporters What explanation is there for the fact that in one instance he was a sure-footed leader of men |and in the other a bewildered spectator? . The real explanation of Mr. Hoover's failure with Congres lay. we venture to believe, in the fact that! he is not really interested in the tariff. Mr. Hoo- | ver is not a sound Republican protectionist either by training or conviction. No man could have had his contact with the problems of international ! trade and actually believe in the Republican tariff dogma. Mr. Coolidge, being parochially minded, |really believed in the dogma. Mr. Hoover emhraced n._ because he was the Republican candidate, and with the exception of his remarks on prohibition ! {there was nothing in Mr. Hoover's campaign| {speeches which sounded more like a man saying what he had to say than his remarks on the won- ders of the tariff. The biographer of Mr. Hoover, when he comes to explain the tariff speeches, will, we believe, set them down as an example of cfl]-‘ culated conformity to political necessity. Mr. Hoover has no real appetite for the tariff and 1t is our guess that he approached it with re. luctance. As for the special session, his reluctance was notorious. He was forced to stand for it at the very end of the campaign only because Mr. Borah, who was then regarded as indispensable, in- sisted. Mr. Hoover was unwillingly convinced, "and |he has acted ever since in the half-hearted ,mnn- ner of a man who is going through the motions without believing that any good can come of it all PP B Rl RO, Great year for volcanoes—with Mont Pelee, Vesu- vius, Kilauea and Senator Brookhart going all at once.—(Boston Transcript.) No matter how many people go broke in Wall Street, there always will be others going like lambs to the slaughter.—(Des Moines Register.) |1 should say we do!” | tures of wild creatures were painted THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, DEC. 9, 1929. WATERING THE ELEPHANTS | By Mary Graham Bonner The elephants were reaching out and gathering drinks of water from the tiny clouds. And now some little boys were hola:ag out buckets | * as the planes passed through sev- eral larger clouds. “They're going to be let in free this afternoon for helping with the elephants,” the Little Black Clock said. “Is there going to be a circus performance in the air?” John asked. “Certainly. Want to see it?” “Lo we? Oh, Little Black Clock! John ex- claimed. “I thought you might. I have it all arranged. But we want to see the rest of the parade first.” So John and Peggy sat in their | plane, which stayed perfectly still up in the air, and they watched the first air eircus parade pass by. The circus parade was splendid. The planes which carried the per- formers, the animals and the banhd were painted bright red, and pic- upon the wings. Some of the planes were so large and so open |’ that they could see the beautiful | circus ladies as they bowed and waved their hands. As the parade flew along the| people who were watching from other planes clapped and shouted with delight. 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