The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 4, 1930, Page 4

conditions to keep minds open and pursu JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER |the truth without prejudige or malice. The fact ot is that too many of us have too many strong Published every e except Sunday by th |and BMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY At Second and Main beliefs and convictions and not enough knowledge. Streets eau, Alas | We started this comment intending that it be ntered in the Post Office in Juncau as Sccond Class (a brief paragraph. In spite of the fact that it vtiedd __ |is already too long, we must not quit without & SUBSCRIPTION: RATES callt ention to the circumstance that Cabell, | I e 4 s 2 nd o 1 e by e A e ok o Treadwell and |\, cken, Lewis and Company (we could not keep stage paic O e hiice, [ BINC Lewis in the role of a silent partner any| THE " \ger) are very often humorists, snd indulge in! a sort of criticism that causes us to see our own foibles and either correct them or laugh at them We can quite understand and wholly agree with |H %, nd Business Offices it I 3 € O A Rty htied to tne Lewis when he says he is fond of Kennicott and |d S for C all news dispatehes credited 1o Bapbitt and Arrowsmith and Dodsworth and the i]" e B e e Rorel! ; man who met Coolidge. We like them, too. We[® g = EED TO BE LARGER |like to meet them in the street and on the boats|youg - P R PUBLICATION and trains and hear them talk. They are all doing |, fine work. Th might do betetr work by using|w armth tried that, and have recognized some very familiar | Mencken Americanna. There is more Babbitry in|¢he a lot of us than we might think. If it should come to initialing any Chamber of |' Commerce detail it would not make a lot of dif-| |ference whether it be done by President Harry G.|yiy I | Watson or Secretary Harold G. Walmsley. It might |They mus document sometime were indorsed: “App'd, H. G.|star W.” and “Disapp'd, H. G. W.” B T | ARG | the HALF OF ALASKA’S GOLD COMES | Whoopee yielded up five victims in New York's ‘“’f:- T, FROM JUNEAU. |New Year's Eve. That is a very large toll and e 5 & a regretable one. On the other hand think of the | '* Adaska's gold output for imated by the fun had by those who survived. That is, the fun “‘._ aska branch of the to $7,748,000. About h amount ( be ct g A o I almost 46 per cent.) came from the Alaska Jur Biological Board Activities. it @ d S T comi e 4 tegiteg . v &l (Pacific Fisherman.) And this suggests that when Mr. Fa er saic was the backbone _ The Pacific Coast Committee of the Biological|to b 3 Y aq. Board of Canada held a meeting at Vancouver, |fir ©” October 24 and 25, just before the salmon canners' |thc that the la of this City it boast rather than an mission. It is some backbone. Ala is famed the world round as a gold-mining country, and nearly mengations regarding Pacific Coast work to be taken | yc one-half of the gold mined in the Territory is milled up at the annual meeting of the Board at Ottawa | within the limits of this municipality in January. ¢ : 14y While it is a boast of Ketchikan (and a justly John Dybhavn, Chairman of the Committee, who prideful boast) that more salmon is canned in WAas down from Prince Rupert, states that the work g that City than any other in the world, justly “¢ing done by the experimental station at that point|mcre flames as the s proving of great value. The station is activel pridefully can Juneau l)rm.i' we belleve with ‘equal ronowing™ up its work on discoloration of halibut, But ‘thete Were o fow Whaisese il authenticity, that more gold is milled in Juneau gn which an important preliminary report was i than any other City in the country—or any other de some time ago. Suitable means of overcoming around country. That Juneau can so boast is due to this difficulty still present many practical prob- the Alaska Juneau mine which produces almost lems; and the idea is being considered of sending half of the entire gold output of this gold mining ©ut @ new boat under controlled, sterile conditions, Territory to (.i«'muns.tr:\tv the possibility of preventing dis- Leader asked & 5 coloration [t ;s PR Bids were recently opened for the construction : i GOOD MEN HEAD CHAMBER. of another building for the Prince Rupert station, 2Sked the Little Black Clock. _ as the present quarters have been found too small.|: In electing Harry G. Watson President and It is expected that the new building will be erected Money spent here Harold G. Walmsley Secretary the Juneau Cham- at once, to house the cold storage and refrigeration ber of Commerce chose two men specis ing and cold s e facilities. Director D. B. Finn for the work they have to do. Both enter- - B o of fhe hichest intesbe. intelilzenics 83 O. C. Young, s Mechanical Engineer of Sas ualit jESe: en. of 1he, high 3ok e katchewan University, have planned elaborate ex- | and energy and with undiluted loyalty to Juncau periments to solve serious problems of deterioration and Alaska It is very successful admin: and worthy civic organization —— e An CABELL, MENCKEN, LEWIS AND COM-| “The Yankee Consul.” 3 PANY AS PHILOSOPHERS, ETC. = (New York Times.) James Branch Cabell never fails to set people! Men and women who were or scnool and col- to. thinking In his latest book, “The Way of lege age at the beginning of this century will be ” ! the chief mourners for Raymond Hitchcock, the )cben,” he dec of - Raj flodvrn “,;.‘ o actor, who died in California yesterday. He had that there is that the most successful have tried to convince the people omething awry with civilization, and he suggests that the coming generation of write might very well replace the wreckage of this g eration with something in which people might invest But it is in “King Dodo” and as Abijah Booze, the | - |Yankee Consul, that he will be best remembered. Some critics profess amusement in this situation, [Tl of rollicking songs and tender ballads and ” the kind of fun which makes adolescents roll in Some seem to think it is a confession that the modern writers have made a mistake in destroying|parents. It was in such productions, with Mr.| some things in which civilization had reposed faith Hitchcock as the drollest star those times ever | Woodmen of the World without giving anything to take its place. We have knew, that he used to sing: | often heard that criticism of Henry L. Mencken, It was not like that in the olden days. . . . | self-admitted iconoclast. They say he makes things Things were not like that at all. E | | that were formerly sacrosanct seem ridiculous, but,| Then we fook our girls for a buggyride, = they continue, “he gives us nothing to take the SUBIROD P8 Were 110L 80y 3 2 They didn't have any oil stoves on wheels place of that which he has destroyed.” Those of us n the Anva: of old who have passed the zenith remember when they This “palpable hit,” as Je Humphreys says, at were saying similar things of Bob Ingersoll and the queer one-cylinder contraptions which the Cad- | John Fiske. Lincoln was even criticised in that|illac d the White Company were putting out e contention that one must not eriticise ulx-‘"mhifl.m;" “'"'hr htl; forelock over his eyes, was the | less he gives something better to replace that|Somedy hero of the period. To the end of their | which he d ares to be bur is not sound. member him kindly and with a smile. would be as well to say that one ought not to point cut defects in a bridge that make it dangerous German Private Property. { unless he is prepared to replace the bridge. That| ik | is not the system that we follow in material things. (Manchester Guardian.) | And it ought not to be regarded as wrong to try| Mr. Snowden, answering questions, in the House‘ to prove that there is bunk in Spiritualism, for|0f Commons, has refused to hand over to the Ger- | example, without being in position to offer some- im““, Government or to the private owners the sums | thing to take its place {realized in this country by the liquidation of ex- If a lot of philosophy and theology and dogma|eeem Drorerty: The British right to retain any ; {surplus, he said, was recognized by the Experts of one sort and another is junked in the popular|Committee to be a setoff against the reduction of | ‘ hone 62 mind as a result of the observations of debunke! Germany’s reparations obligations under the Young that does not mean that the debunkers owe it to|Plan, and had been taken into ac count in all the anyone to furnish something to replace what they reparation agreements from the Peace Treaty to|- denounce as rubbish. Perhaps they think the world |tDe Dpresent time. He claimed that the British does not need anything to take its place. They | COVernment had been more generous than other Bilaht think . creditor countries, and had not only made com- it e e s e passionate allowances amounting to £5,000,000 to ally needs & ividuals, but had offered to waive claims to in, to replace that which has lost its appeal, the properties not yet liquidated worth £5,000,000 more. work of supplying it belongs to anyone who can(It was for the German Government, which had do it. If a man points out defects in a bridge and |benefited by the arrangement, to satisfy the un- causes people to refuse to use the bridge it may |°OmPensated owners of the property properly fall to the lot of another and en(m’l_\" different sort of a man to build a new bridge—if luence was useless. Ithe late Gov. Hart] type | Men of Louis Hart ] ik are generally critized while living, and apj # 5 . appreciated a bridge is needed only after death has recalled their good work. We like this last attitude of Cabell as we|Louis Hart was a blamed sight better Go\'em(;l: like so much that he has done. While Cabell|and cjtizen than a lot of people gave him credit and Mencken have junked a lot of philosophy in|for. The State will miss his ability to work for their day, and while Mencken has called |Jlnln>,uphyA‘WH-‘“"IKUH\ interests—(Port Angeles News.) “bunk,” they are pretty sound philosophers mem-“ S e T e — selves. A New York eclergyman openly questions the [validity of the assertion that the meer " r Mencke " any 2 inherit the A greater Flu\lblc with Mencken and wmp"“{;nanh Yet it seems to be the general bellef that than their philosophy is that they sometimes teaf|ine sek tay s he meek do stay on the farm, while the bolder down something that is doing good work. They|and cleverer brothers move .to town and go into are sometimes just as intolerant in their iconoclasm business.—(New York Times.) as those whom they criticise are in their dogmu»‘ s tism. They become crusaders in the game of smash-| Man adapts himself quickly to new conditions, ing, and sometimes smash without discrimination. [8nd We have no doubt when the air highways are But even there the tolerant person ought ""‘§ca§:?‘1glfi§u§3f§b“7%fi, 'lll“”;f; ""”\1 be billboards on to criticise too severely. The tolerant one's task o ™ s is to put an O. K. brand over the I and C. of Add similes: As long-lived as a tariff cmpromise. the Menckens, if he thinks the inspection and con-|_(Cincinnati Enquirer.) Y ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JAN. 4, 1930. S AR S 3 . e [demnation were not at all well done, and to urge| Daily Alaska Empire (o5 i e an user - stion U : le——— & PROFESSIONAL &2 188 R R R T Helene W. L. 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