The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 13, 1930, Page 4

'IHE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY MAY 13, I930 the discard for something that will work, that will the cause of temperance, check the growing for law, curb bootlegging activities that nining the whole social structure? Sir Henry told the committee, have since Ontario changed its policy. He cited and figures to prove wherein Government con- and distribution was a greater pro- real temperance than ten years of Pro- promot Dallv Alaska Emplre Jpromo JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER are Published_every _evening except Sunday by _the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Mnir Streets, Juneau, Alaska. unde Conditions, improve Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class sales matter. 2CARO BRINGS WORD OF INTEREST TAKEN IN THIS VICINITY Bringing with him news of the impression Juneau and the new on the Outside, J. B. Caro, pro- Taku mining country is makingl PROFESSIONAL | Helene W.L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Rev, Medical Gymnastics. | 410 Goldstein Building AUTOS FOR HIRE T R R P | Fraternal Societies ! oF Gastineau Channel || — SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier tn Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month, e following rates «1\ months, in advanoce, had been in that Province. CANADA TO PROSPECT FOR HERRING. $6.00; one month, in advan: i Subscribers will confer a favor it they will promptly | prospecting for summer herring, to be utilized notify the Business Office of any falluré or irregularity A s In the delivery of their papers. argely for bait for halibut fishermen and for mild Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. will e undertaken this sesals By, the’ Dl MEMB?R}OF ASSOC';"'FD PFESS-‘ t5\ dire | B8 Government, so said advices received in ociated Press 1s exclusiy entitied to the X % Mard B o i takion: Of ol nwn. ¢ cliss credited to | P Rupert recently. The Dominion Government, it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the AR ¥ f the ‘G i X local news published herein. urgent solicitation of the Canadian Halibut ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION CITY The financial condition of the City of Juneau as disclosed in a consolidated balance sheet issued last week over the signature of W. A. Habernal, City Auditor, and expert accountant, cannot but be pleas- | ing to the residents of this community. The large excess of assets—$184,665—over liabilities is par-| ticularly gratifying. Anyone at all familiar with the physical assets listed, schoel buildings, docks warehouses, City Hall and real estate, will readily grant that the valuations placed on them by the Auditor are very conservative The actual indebtedne the municipal go ernment at the end of the last Councilmanic year, aside from the bonded debt, is not excessive. The existence of that debt is fully explained by Mayor Judson’s review of the program of permanent civic improvements carried out during the past three years. The unusually large accomplishments last year demonstrate the fact that the money was wisely expended, and that the work done will curlail future costs of street, sidewalk and dock maintenance in a very marked degree. It is the carrying out aggre: y of this improvement program, the replacement of much temporary constriciion such 'S CONDITION EXCELLENT. ss of as wooden sidewalks, dirt streets, inadequate wharves, | with permanent construction that has lowered However, in the end this etc., the city's liquid assets. will unquestionably prove economical as the annual! cost of maintenance and reconstruction, heretofore high, will drop to but a fractional part of what it has been. The value of Mayer Judsom’s program has been recognized by a majority of local have three times set the seal of their approval on it by re-electing him to office. them the City was in good hands, nevertheless, it cannot be but gratifying to them, as well as to the Mayor and City Council, that the balance sheet proved that confidence was not unfounded. WHY ONTARIO REVERSED ITS PROHIBITION POLICY. 8ir Henry L. Drayton, Chairman of the Ontario Liquor Control Board, who recently appeared before | the House Judiciary Committee in a non-partisan capacity, undertook to explain to that body why ! Ontario, long known as the “driest” of Canada’s Provinces, turned from bone dry Prohibition to| Government controcl of liquor and the dispensary system after ten years of dry regime. He made it clear he wasn't before the committee to advocate Prohibition or Government control, but was merely present at the invitation of Chairman Graham to give to the committee a true picture of conditions In Ontario under the Government sales system. Bome of his observations are striking. For ten years Ontario tried out the prohibitory system. Then the people voted it out. Why did they about face? Baid Sir Henry: +When the change came it was not brought about by a change in sentiment. We have as much temperance sentiment in Ontario as perhaps any other similar group of people. But the chdnge came about because of what followed Prohibition. We had a new and not very desirable class of capitalists spring up. We had swamp liquor. We had substitutes of all kinds. Deaths followed. ‘We had a growing use of flasks and a grow- ing disregard for all law. We came to ourselves and found that Prohibition did not prohibit at all. We found that the law was debasing the moral tone of the whole country, and when we voted for a change in the system we surely were not doing so out of any loss of senti- ment for temperance. The people of Canada want temperance now more than ever. I thought Prohibi- tion a good thing. I will be frank with you, I supported the movement for five years, But the worst thing that happened with us was the . intensive campaign on which Prohibition was voted ceased when Prohibi- tion became law for then the goal had been reached. It was then a matter for the Government It was no longer a matter of right and wrong, it was a matter of jails and fines, of pains and penalties The program of moral suasion was succeéeded by a program of legislative force which did not and could not work with us. Change the scene from Ontario to the United States and Sir Henry's terse description of condi- tions would fit any part of the United States. We, too, have had ten years of statutory Prohibi- tion. Everywhere there has been a lowering of moral tone, an increase of crime, of disrespect for all law, a lessening of temperance, a new rich. class “not very desirable,” blindness, paralysis and death in the wake of poisonous liquor. Isn't it about time that as a nation we took ~ stock of ourselves, struck a national balance sheet on Prohibition and temperance, and then with the honest and forthrightness of the voters of Ontario _sweep the whole irrational, unworkable system into o ivigh Gl Tl M involving | residents who | And while the Audi-| tor's statistical report was not needed to convince | Vessel Owners’ Association and other interested par- € set aside $1,500 per month for a period of nths to defray the expenses of a herring prospecting expedition. Both gill nets and seines will be used in the operations. If, and when, herring hools are located, the information will be passed on to centers from which herring fishermen can be ent out. This is a departure from Canada’'s past policy. There, like the custom in Alaska has been and still remains, private operators have sent out their own | prospeeting boats. Self-Determination by Treaty. | (New York Times.) | Senator Johnson of California |questions which he desires answered before he can |consent to vote for ratification of the naval treaty. The most important one—the most insinuating one, as he puts it—is “whether the treaty makes our fu- |ture contingent wholly upon another nation’s ac- |tion.” He means, of course, the future strength c¢f our navy, and .doubtless refers particularly to the |stipulations in the treaty concerning cruisers, and |to the so-called safeguarding clause adopted at the |instance of Great Britain. It is known already |that these particulars are seized upon by some super- |heated patriots to give color to their charge that England is undertaking to tell us precisely what | kind of navy we may have. To this they will |never submit, so long as their words and cries hold jout. Is this country sunk so low that it will accept | dictation from another in so vital a matter? These excited people at Washington and else- where do not seem to realize that the naval treaty | is much our agreement as it is that of Great Britain and Japan. If anything whatever is “dic- tated,” it is by ourselves. We maintain our right to self-determination, but extend it to the point of determining ourselves to make a treaty of naval| | limitation, good for us as well as for the rest of the world In other words, we voluntarily agree |to do what we think is best. In every such inter- enumerates six prietor of the local wholesale house which bears his name, was an ar- rival on the Princess Louise. According to Mr. Caro much in- terest is being taken outside in the Phone Office, 216 DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS local situation. Because business 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. s much below normal in the North- PHONE 56 west, residents in Seattle are look- Hours 9 a. m. to § p. m. ing to s Juneau, many with an|#—— idea possibly of coming here to ‘.:,—_____.—._F reside, he said. Dr. Charles P. Jenne Carlson’s Taxi and Carlson’s Taxi ANYWHERE IN THE CITY FOR 50 CENTS Careful, Efficient Drivers—Call Us At Any Hour— DAY AND NIGHT—Stand at Alaskan Hotel Phones Il and Single O Ambulance Service B. P. O. ELKS Meeting every Wed- nesday at 8 o’clock. Elks’ Hall. Visiting brothers welcome. W R. B. MARTIN, Exalted Ruler. M. H. SID] ES, Secretary. | Regular meetings second Friday tach month =t 7:30 p. m. Seow Mr. Caro went south early in DENTIST December. He spent most of his absence in Seattle, but also visited, G s;‘::;imln:nlanflnn in California while away. Mrs. Caro is now in California, and prob- ably will come north in July for a = visit, said Mr. Caro. O SRR SRR (0. T ‘Telephone 176 | TR T e li Dr. J. W. Bayne 9 Although the Viavi office was| | DENTIST | Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Office hours, 9 am. to 5 p.an. Evenings by appoinment. destoryed in Malony Block fire, new stock has arrived. Customers and inquirers can reach the manager Mrs. Adams, by same phone, 538, |, i | . IR P Spickett Apts. for appointment un- til suitable offices are obtained. adv 3‘—*—~~—45 D i Dr. A. W. Stewart Any Place in the DENTIST Graham’s Taxi Phore 565 : STAND AT ARCADE CAFE Day and Night Service City for 50 Cents tish Rite Templa WALTER B. EEISEL, Becretary. LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE Juneau Lodge No. 700. Meets every Monday night, at 8 o’clock. TOM SHEARER, Dictator W. T. VALE, Secy., P. O. Box 826 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Second and fourth Mon- day of each month in YG. %Y EVANS L. GRUBER, Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. SEWARD BUILDING | Office Phone 569, Res. Phone 276 i Dr. H. Vance i Osteopath—201 Goldstein Bidg. | | Hours: 10 to 12; 1 t0 5; 7 to § or by appointment Licensed Osteopathic Physician Phone: Office 1671 Residence, MacKinnon Apts. | Northern Lite TAXI 50¢C | TO ANY PART OF CITY Dr. Geo. L. Barton CHIROPRACTOR P | | Hellenthal Building | OFFICE SERVICE ONLY | Hours: 10 a. m. to 12 noon | | | | | | 2p. m tobp m Two Buick Sedans at Your Service. Careful and Efficient Drivers. EUM M&fie THEM L” \ NO AND YET THEY ' SAY IT DOESNT PAY R 6 p. m to 8 p. m. By Appointment PHONE 258 TSRS Tl national compact, there is always this kind of re- striction put upon the action of the contracting powers. Each of them surrenders something of its| iright to do whatever it pleases, in order to bring| about a result which, on the whole, will please it better. Not even in international affairs can we | eat our cake and have it, too. We have to give up | something. Exactly that has been done in the |framing of the naval treaty. In it no other nation | {is arbitrarily and haughtily telling us what we must do. We simply tell it and ourselves what we will do. | | Temperance in Switzerland. i (Manchester, Eng., Guardian.) The Swiss people took a great step forward on |Sunday when, on a referendum, they voted for a |large measure of temperance reform. Until now | every Swiss peasant has been able to distil as much | spirit as he liked from his fruit and potatoes, and | flS there has been no excise at all except on potam} sph\t it has been a great source of income as well \as of ill-health to him. “Schnapps” in Switzerland lhms in recent years become almost as serious a men- !ace as gin was in eighteenth-century England. Be- |tween 1914 and 1927 the price of wine increased | ,70 per cent. and of beer 123 per cent., while spirits |decreased in price by 13 per cent. Naturally, there-; \fore, consumption increased, so that today Switzer-| ‘land heads the list of spirit-drinking European‘ countries with an average of over twelve pints a head each year. The fact that Poland covers 16 iper cent. of her expenditure by a duty on spirits while Switzerland only raises 0.78 per cent. sug-| gested the remedy. Higher taxation is now to be introduced which will lower consumption and at the same time provide a fund for old-age pensions| and for concessions designed to encourage the grow- |ing of fruit for dessert and for jam. Commercial |distilleries are to be strictly controlled and regu- }luLed. and, while the home producer is to be allowed |to distil, tax free, the spirits he wants for his own use, the Government will offer him a fair price' for his surplus. Only at the end of fifteen years will he need a special license to distil. It is extra-| ordinary what difficulties the campaign for reform ! has had to face. A first attempt in 1923 failed, and though this time the law has been passed by the necessary majority both of voters and of can- tons, yet five cantons out of twenty-one and 300,000 voters out of three quarters of a million voted against it. This is the more remarkable because the pro-! posals had the all but unanimous recommendation |of the press, the churches, and the political parties. Still the traditional good sense of the Swiss voter has triumphed and killed four birds with one stone. Sunday’s vote means a moral, a social, a fiscal, and an agricultural revolution, | Forty-eight boys interviewed in a penitentiary | said they started their careers by playing truant.| So did some of our foremost and most respected citizens.—(Hamilton, Ont., Observer.) i No doubt the owners and operators of illicit | domestic stills will fully appreciate any business | protection accruing from restrictions against Can- adian iniports.—(Sioux City Tribune.) A fireside game for the rainy evenings is to line| everybody up and at a given signal have them | start searching the Grundy tariff for any of Mr | Hoover's recommendations.—(Detroit News.) Republican leaders figure they will lose forty members of the House-in the November elections —and can well aford to lose 'em, such as they are. —(Atlanta Constitution.) The States used to have reserved rights, bul they have swapped them for reserved seats at the Federal pie-counter.—(Louisville Courier- Journal.) In view of the effects of Jamaica ginger, it would seem to be the height of discretion to “drink to me only with thine eyes, which intoxicate, but do not 4 paralyze."—(Ohio State Journal) The United States Senate has become very weary. But it need expect no sympathy from us—the Senate made itself weary.—(Atchison, Kan., Globe.) —— e 2 k| P g || caPITAL LaUNDRY | PFr = & sommmm | | Phone 355 | Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted | T T T T T LT Tt I L r T T T T ADVERTISE - Robert Simpson Opt. D. | Graduate Bos Angeles Col- | | lege of Optometry and | | ) | | | | If you want superior }v‘ work call i { l | Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Grouna i = Room 16, Valentine Bldg. | 10:00 to 6:00. Evenings by | Appointment. Phone 484 | e — PIONEER TAXI JIM McCLOSKEY Day and Night Service Phone 443 Stand next to I. Goldstei Front Street : FHILL STybiOy l\*‘ OF JAZZ PIANO" q Learn the Modern Way Juncau Public Library Free Reading Room City Hall, Second Floor Main Street and Fourth Play Real Jazz Piano in 3 Months Our representative in Juneau until May 15. Call 1534 for | FREE DEMONSTRATION W. P. Johnson FRIGIDAIRE DELCO LIGHT PRODUCTS MAYTAG WASHING Reading Room Open From 8a m to 10 p. m. Circulation Room Open from 1 to 5:30 p. m.—7:00 to 8:30 P. m. Current Mm:lnu. Newspapers, Reference, Books, Etc. FREE TO ALL Carl’s Taxi PHONE HARRIS Hardware Ymcmrms Company o o ::N Mlmos Now located next Ao CONNORS Front Street Juneau GARAGE South Front Street Prompt Service, Day and Night CovicH AuTo SERVICE STAND AT THE OLYMPIC i Phone 342 Day or Night Keep Your t’dluables SAFE 50c AnyWhere in City i i In Our Fireproof } Try A 81;00 Dlg:.er || Buildi_ng ARCADE CAFE [ S | The Florence Shop | ’ “Naivette” Croquignole Perm- Safe Deposit boxes of various sizes may be rented by the year, or for a shorter period, at 2 nominal fee. an:nt Wave BEAUTY SPECIALISTS | Phone 427 for Appointment | Wl i i GG Built entirely of steel and concrete, our bank building is classified as an A-1 risk by insurance companies. No com- bustible material was used in its con- struction. Our vaults are of the heav- iest and finest steel and concrete con- struction possible. Pt o e JUNEAU CABINET and DETAIL MILL- WORK CO. Front Street, next to Warner Machine Shop CABINET and MILLWORK GENERAL CARPENTER WORK GLASS REFLACED IN AUTOS | TheB. M. Belirends Bank One swallow does not make a summer, but these days it often makes an invalid. — (Dayton, Ohio Journal.) Oldest Bank in Alaska F Estimates Furnished Upon Request Sht —— 199 Taxi S0c TO ANY PART OF CITY Phone 199 The 17772 Abireseeper, When you think of bread - satisfaction you’ll think of our bread. This will hap- pen after you've tasted the first slice. It’s good through and through, loaf after loaf. So’s our pastry. Peerless Bakery “Remember the Name” FOR GOOD Cleaning and Pressing CALL 371 Work called for and delivered time. and a tank for crude oil save burner trouble. FIRE ALARM CALLS 1-3 Thzd and PFranklin. 1-4 Front and Pranklin. 1-5 Front, near Ferry Way. 1-6 Front, opp. Gross Apts 1-7 Front, opp. City Wharf. 1-8 Front, near Saw Mill 1-9 Front at A. J. Office. 2-1 Willoughby at Totem Gro. Barn. 2-4 Front and Seward. 2-5 Front and Main. 2-6 Second and Main. 2-7 Fifth and Seward. 2-9 Fire Hall. 3-2 Gastineau and Rawn Way. 3-4 Second and Gold. 3-5 Fourth and Harms, 3-6 Fifth and Gold. 3-7 Fifth and East. 3-8 Seventh and Gold. 3-9 Fifth and Kennedy. 4-1 Ninth, back of power house. 4-2 Calhoun, opp. Seaview Apta. 4-3 Distin Ave., and Indian Sta. 4-5 Ninth and Calhoun. 4-6 Seventh and Main. 4-7 Twelfth, B. P. R. garage. 4-8 Twelfth and Willoughby. 4-9 Home Grocery. 5-1 Seater Tract. Gastineau Hote) ; ; The Capital Cleaners b e s Our trucks go any place any A tank for Diesel Oil 2-3 Willoughby, opp. Cash Cole's Scottish Rite Temple, beginning at 7:30 p. m. Master; Secretary. CHARLES E. NAGHEL, —— i ORDER OF EASTERN STAR Second and Fourth 4 Tuesdays of each month, at 8 o'clock, Scottish Rite Temple. LILY BURFORD, Worthy Matron; FANNY L. ROBINSON, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Counc.i No. 1762 Meetings second and lasy Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Councll Chambers, Fifth Strees. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. DOUGLAS AgRIE 117 F. O. E. Meets first and third &Monflafl, & o'clock at Eagles Hall Douaglas. ARNE SHUDSHIFT, W. P. GUY SMITH, Secretary. Vis- iting brothers welcome. —— THE CASH BAZAAR Open Evenings . Cable Office GCARBAGE | HAULING LOT CLEANING Office at Wolland’s Tailor Shop Chester Barnesson PHONE 66 DAIRY FERTILIZER By Load or Sack Opposite U. — COLOR PRINTING increases the pulling power of any printing job.Weareequippedtohan || dlecolorprintingquickly l[ and satisfactorily | == GET A CORONA | For Your School Work l! J. B. Burford & Co. | | “Our door swp is worn by PHONE 149, NIGHT 5103 | ] RELIABLE TRANSFER Moves, Packs and Stores Freight and Bagglge Prompt Delivery ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 438 HOTEL ZYNDA ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. BURFORD’S CORNER Carnation Ice Cream TAXI SERVICE Phone 314