The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 22, 1930, Page 4

i ~a record is made of the ' clared, and if there is a record vote, it j)aily Aiaéfia Em pfre JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published _every evening except RMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Mnir Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Bntered In the Tost Office In Juneau as Second C ase matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Oellvered by carrier n Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell an Thane for $1.25 per month, By niafl, postage paid, at the following rate One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.26. Bubscribers will confer a favor i they will promptl notify the Business Office of any failureé or irregularit in the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEL PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to th use for republication of all news dispatches credited to| it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION | INFORMATION ABOUT ALASKA. In a 136-page book just issued under the title] “Information on Alaska,” the Department of In- terior is disseminating a great deal of worthwhile information about the Territory. It shows careful preparation, and the facts it set forth are authen- ticated by Government officers with a good general knowledge of Alaska A brief prologue has been written by Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur, as follows: Alaska is our last great frontier. Stretch- ing, as it does, over hundreds of miles and including a vast expanse of territory, some 378,000,000 acres, it is an empire in itself. It lies half way on the air route from New York to Tokio. Its three great mountain ranges give it mineral wealth and water i power. Its plains are comparable in virgin value and size to the Corn Belt of our Central States. Great coal veins are exposed on its hillsides, some to a’ total thickness of 200 feet or more, and there are great hidden stores of gold, copper, and tin. Its forests are perhaps its greatest resource, with spruce, hemlock, birch, and cottonwood in billions of feet. The rainfall varies from 15 to 200 inches, so that there are almost unlimited possibilities in the development of water power. With 26,000 miles of sea- coast, the annual harvest of fish alone is now worth $50,000,000. Its glaciers offer unparalleled mountain scenery. } There is the widest variation in its cli- mate from the areas with heavy fog and thick vegetation to dry plateaus like those of North Dakota. The temperature varies from 50 below on the tops of the moun- tains to 80 above in some of the valleys. The animal life is unique. Fox, seal, and reindeer offer the greatest opportunities. Most Alaskans are like all pioneers, full of visions and dreams of the future. As a i people we know but little of it. We have yet to appreciate its many values. Mount McKinley in all its grandeur is unequaled elsewhere in America, and the combinations of stream and forest and of wooded hills and quiet seas charm every visitor. i Alaska stretches far out into the center of the North Pacific. It brings us near to Russia, China, and Japan. It contributes much to making the United States one of the great nations of the Pacific area. The book is worthy of a place in every Alaskan library. It contains in concise form data on his- tory, geography, climate, population, government, commerce, resources, industries and other subjects. It also has a partial Alaska bibliography, giving the titles of a large number of books on the Territory which will be of value to persons desiring more detailed information than is carried in the publica- tion itself. | TELEPHONE GAINS FASTER THAN POPULATION. | Rightly is the United States known_as the land | of the telephone. No other country has as manyI per capita, and there are no signs on the horizon that the saturation point has been reached. The reverse of this seems to be indicated. During the decade between 1920 and 1930, with an estimated gain of 11 per cent. in population, the Bell System increased 70 per cent. the number of phones con- | nected, and the number of telephone calls jumped 110 per cent. In order to meet this growing de- mand, the company in the last five years expended more than $2,100,000,000 in construction activities. | Its construction budget for 1930 is $700,000,000, in- dicating in the next five it will expend an even greater sum than in the five preceding years. In the United States the telephone is classed as a business necessity while there is a tendency in other lands to look upon it as an accessory or Juxury SEATTLE G. 0. P. VOTES WET. At a recent convention held in Seattle, the King County Republicans adopted a resolution in- structing their delegation to the State Convention at Bellingham on May 24 to foster a plank in the State platform for modification of the Prohibi- tion laws. The Wets in the Seattle convention were in overwhelming majority. « No one will seriously | contend that the King County Republicans did not voice the sentiment of a majority of the voters in the county in the stand they took. Like other large cities in the country, Seattle is definitely ent system of Prohibition. The Seattle Times, after a survey of the S!flte,i expressed the opinion that the King County move- ment will prove futile in the State gathering. The Drys, politically, are still in the saddle in suffi- cient force to smother any wet resolution that may be introduced. Not all of the delegates known to be wet in sympathy will vote for modification if individual vote, it de- predicts aligned against the |t Sunday by the THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1930. e, it is expected the Dry vote will be reduced a bare majori This sort of wishywashy politics has become all throughout the country since Pro- too common ition came to the fore and the Anti-Saloon | apue started using its whip. Politicians, nfr?i(‘]l the lash of the fanatics, have tugged at the|, ces of the Dry chariot not from conviction but in fear of reprisals if they refused. Instances of this kind' of procedure have been witnessed from [county conventions to the national -Congress with|t VANDALS CUT TIRES local nave ¥ ON 3 AUTOMOBILES An outbreak of destruction of au- omobile tires in Juneau has been | eported to City officials by several| | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red car owners whose machines | R#V, Medical Gymnastics. been the victims of attacks. || 41u_Goldstein Bullding Phone Office, 218 PHYSIOTHERAPY Last evening someone knifed five | | " PROFESSIONAL T Helene W. L. Albrecht AUTOS FOR HIRE l | | ires on an automobile of Roy " Carlson’s Taxi Fraternal Societies ’ or Gastin:au Channel B. P. ). ELKS ] Meeting every Wed- (3% nesday at 8 o'clock. Elks’' Hall. Visiti)g = o brothers welcome. |d sting frequency. 1as become an accepted fact It is refreshing to see ublicans will have no more of this practice. Voting dry and drinking wet that King County Re- Grays were driven into three tires on one| of James Carlson’s autos while it| | was parked downtown. S — Rutherford, parked near the Ju- s ) neau Public Schools, while nails | Das.mm&rnmmni DENTISTS 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. |and come out as openly as Seattle and Grays Har- |bor have done. | | with five clubs tangled in | team—Chicago—being one and one-half games be-\p |six and seven men to live in one cell where only | terrible, the treatment of prisoners, |secondary lat the price only of a prudent silence on affairs Irealize that Harbor has taken similar action. Thelir frankness n the matter is one of the encouraging signs of ithe times. If events prove they are able to suc- essfully defy the Anti-Saloon element, shortly may be willing to likewise dare Dry threats 1 AAA‘:' of the games on the National a dog fight has developed the fifth place With 20 per cent League scheduled played, a snarl, hind Brooklyn in first place ‘Washington, rated [J as sure second division timber in the American League is out ahead of the champion Athletics on the first lap. One-third of all prisoners in the Federal penal institutions have been convicted of violating the Prohibition laws, the Attorney General reports. And this number is larger than the total number in Federal prisons in 1920. Two-thirds of all Federal prisoners serving terms of less than one year in State and county jails for violations of Federal laws, have been con- victed of breaking the Prohibition laws, he con- tinues. , One-half of all persons serving time for viola-|p. tion of Federal laws have been convicted of break- to care for these new “criminals.” The law has sent them to crowded and inadequate buildings, forced c two should be housed. Living conditions have been in many in- stances, no better, The disaster at Columbus should awaken the LARGE AMOUNT OF strong, the Juneau Cold Storage. on the Celtic, Capt. Henry Moy. “ " Drisons. New England received 3,500 on the Crowded Prisons. Alaskan, Capt. Jones, which also| (Daily Olympian.) brought in 5 tierces of mild cure from Chatham. Melchior, Arm- strong, Dessau, pounds from Doyle. i ing the Prohibition laws. G e el Congress has created four major criminal classi-, | JWHO’S WHO 7 I fications since 1920, and violation of the Volstead| | Act is foremost in the group. ‘ A D WHERE I But Congress has made no adequate provision | & tH this week for the south. Mrs. for Wrangell. About ten days or two weeks ago- { i SALMON IN TODAY‘ Thirteen thousand five hundreg 1 ounds of king salmon arrived in! uneau today for Melchior, Arm-| Dessau, New England nnd; | The latter received 5,000 pounds purchased 5,000 the Erma, Capt. Ed, - e CHIMNEY FIRE TODAY A chimney fire at the home of | John Pastle called out the Juneau || Osteopath—201 Coldstain Bldg. | Fire Department to Box 4-2 at 2: | Hours: 10 to 12; 1 to 5; Tto § m. today. No damage was done. | of the left Rishop J. R. Crimont, atholic churches of Alaska, H. B. Crewson, accompanied by Crewson, left on the Alaska Nation. Some time ago the true state of affairs| g at Columbus was pointed out. But no action fol-|| lowed. Now more than 320 men are dead because | 1 there is a general feeling of indifference toward prisoners and prison reforms. ‘ The National House of Representatives passed & certain bill some months ago for the purpose of| caring for prison problems. That bill has been‘f,_._—_—cg | —— T | Try Our $1.0) Dinner | | and 50c Merchants’ Lunch ! 1A M to2P M ARCADE CAFE | held up in the Senate long enough; some action should be taken to prevent further outbreaks in prisons, State or Federal. | There should be a general uprising of public feeling in this matter. long enough, the time has come for action. 320 men died a terrible death; let their be not in vain. These E sacrifice | Prisons have been neglected | ; | ks The Florence Shop “Naivette” Croguignole Perm- ansnt Wave BEAUTY SPECIALISTS Phone 427 for Appointment | | | | i | Education in Italy. (Manchester Guardian.) No one could accuse Signor Mussolini of under- rating the importance of education. He realizes so thoroughly that the future of his experlmem lies in the schools and universities that he has recently been taking steps to safeguard the youth of Italy from all possible contamination by non- Pascist ideas. At its last meeting the Fascist Grand | Council decided that in future all rectors of uni- versities, deans of faculties, and head masters of schools must be Fascists, preferably of five years' standing. An Italian professor has fore- | shadowed the extension of this decree to force all teachers to take an oath of loyalty to the presem! regime. No one could pretend that such a Test Act is made necessary by any danger to the State.) The lightest whisper of dissatisfaction has long | enough been a sufficient cause for dismissing a teacher from his employment. No teacher of phil- osophy or history, literature or politics, is free in| Italy today, for he cannot help discussing man’s social relations. He must, either honestly or in pretense, praise the dominant power or change his profession or, if he can, leave the country. This must always be so under a dictatorship. Bat there is no reason why the scientist—the biologist or the mathematician—should not carry on his abstract study with honor and in perfect liberty, of State. Even that will become impossible in GAR"BZ'(;'E’” JUNEAU CABINET and DETAIL MILL- WORK CO. Front Street, next to Warner Machine Shop CABINET and MILLWORK GENERAL CARPENTER{: WORK GLASS REPLACED IN AUTOS Estimates Furnished Upon Request HAULED AND LOT CLEANING E. O. DAVIS Phone 584 ’ PHONE 56 | Hours § a. m. to § p. m. | someone hammered nails into three —_——— tires of Charles Tuckett's new Ford | % others ( roadster. Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building A ‘Telephone 176 dl ST DA il 7 S Dr. J. W. Bayne | DENTIST | Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. | Office hours, 9 am. to 5 p.m. | | | Evenings by appoinment. Phone 321 Dr. A. W. Stewart | DENTIST i Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. | SEWARD BUILDING \ Office Phone 469, Res. | Phone 276 | [ Dr. H. Vance || or by appointment | Licensed Osteopathic Physician Phone: Office 1671. | Residence, MacKinnon Apts. H “Dr. Geo. L. Barton i CHIROPRACTOR Hellenthal Building OFFICE SERVICE ONLY | Hours: 10 . m. to 12 noon | 2p. m tobp m | ! 6 p. m to 8 p. m. | | By Appointment { PHONE 2353 Robert Simpson Opt. D. Graduate kos Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology Optometrist-Optician | Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted | Room 16, Valentine Bldg. | 10:00 to 6:00. Evenings by | Appointment. Phone 484 | —&a Juneau Public Library Free Reading Room City Hall, Second Floor Main Street and Fourth —— & DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL | | 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 Magazines, Newspapers, Reference, Books, Etc. FREE TO ALL e — [ 1* 'HARRIS Hardware Company Now located next CONNORS GARAGE Italy if the threatenéd oath of allegiance is im- posed. Signor Mussolini can no doubt command the dutiful plaudits of all Italian teachers, but even he cannot prevent their secret contempt or the pity of the free world beyond the Alps for those who would practice in Italy soday the hon- orable profession of teaching. | | Staggering Bridge Arithmetic. | (New York Times.) | The chances against dealing out four single- suited bridge hands have been estimated by Brit- ish mathematicians as 2,235,000,000 quadrillions to| one. That seems like a lot of chances against any | happening. Yet twice since last October Britons sitting at contract tables have picked up four single- suited hands. The dispatch which tells of this| grave matter adds that the facts were “authenti- cated.” It is true that one of the British players who underwent the harrowing experience of having a thirteen-heart hand overcalled by a thirteen-spade hand was the Mayor of Glastonbury. No American Mayor has been placed in such a position. But the similar American event was fixed by the cir- cumstance of a husband throwing a bronze jar at| the héad of his wife and partner who did not| thirteen spades could outbid thirteen hearts If these things keep up, many are going to be- lieve that “the devil” really is “in the cards” Only infernal powers, it would seem, would take the trouble to upset the weight of 2,235,000,000 quad- rillions against one. Satan's reasons are obvious. Those who have cnce seen the thing happen wi be looking for it forever afterward. This will cost them a good deal of money. Any intelligent beings who may happen to be, living amid the intense cold of the ninth planet are lucky. Theyy have never seen, heard or thought of the Eighteenth Amendment. “- (Detroit Fres Press.) A system that can survive Jamaica ginger must the Drys will muster a 79 per cent. majority. If, _ however, there is no record made of the individual feel humiliated when paralyzed by mere radiator i | Glasses Fitted, Lenses Grouna } 32 4 — Q ! ANYWHERE IN THE CITY FOR 50 CENTS Careful, Efficient Drivers—Call Us At Any Hour— DAY AND NIGHT—Stand at Alaskan Hotel . PhonesII and Single O Carlson’s Taxi and Ambulance Service Graham’s Taxi Phore 565 STAND AT ARCADE CAFE Day and Night Service Any Place in the City for 50 Cents e . e— Northern Lite TAX]I 50c¢ TO ANY PART OF CITY Two Buick Sedans at Your Service. Careful and 199 Taxi S50c TO ANY PART OF CITY Phone 122 ) Efficient Drivers. Phone i 1-3 1-4 1-5 Front, 1-6 Front, 1-7 Front, 1-8 Front, 1-9 2-1 2-3 Barn. Hazel’s Taxi Telephone 456 Twenty-four Hour Service 4 5 6 T 9 Fire Hall. 2 4 5 Anywhere in the City for 50c Five may ride as cheaply as one Stand at Alaska Grill 2-4 2| 2- 2 2- 3-; 3 3-! 3-1 3 3- 3- 4- 4 Home Grocery. 4- 4- 4-1 4- 4-! 4 5-1 Seater Tract. PIONEER FIRE ALARM CALLS Thad and Franklin. Front and Franklin, near Ferry Way. opp. Gross Apts opp. City Wharf. near Saw Mill Front at A. J. Office. Willoughby at Totem Gro. Willoughby, opp. Cash Cole’s Front and Seward. Front and Main, Second and Main. Fifth and Seward. Gastineau and Rawn Way. Second and Goid. Fourth and Harms. 6 Fifth and Gold. 7 Fifth and East. 8 Seventh and Gold. 9 Fifth and Kennedy. 1 Ninth, back of power house. 2 Calhoun, opp. Seaview Apta. 3 Distin Ave., and Indian Sts. 5 Ninth and Calhoun, 6 Seventh and Main. 7 Twelfth, B. P. R. garage. : Twelfth and Willoughby, 1 ? TAXI JIM McCLOSKEY Day and Night Service Phone 443 Stand next to I. Goldstein Front Street Carl’s Taxi PHONE R. B. MARTIN, }xalted Ruler. M. H. SIDES, Secretar7. Jhe BANK BOOK and the DIPLOMA practical experience. bank book, you teach him or her To know the value of money REGULAR SAVING $1.00 or more will open an accouni alcohol.—(Akron, Ohio, ‘Beacon-Journal.) The bank book is the first text-book in the new'school of The diploma is an honorable dhchn.rge from the old school— but the lessons in the new school are much more difficult. You are the teacher—and by giving your son or daughter a To be self-reliant—To be business-like and systematic— And the most important lesson to insure success in life— The B. M. Behrends Bank Oldest Ba;:zlgm én A_laska SR 403 Sout'll Front Street Prompt Service, Day lnd Night CovicH AUTO SERVICE STAND AT THE OLYMPIC Phone 342 Day or Night z 50c AnyWhere in City i i W.P.J ohnson FRIGIDAIRE DELCO LIGHT PRODUCTS MAYTAG WASHING MACHINES DAY-FAN RADIOS Phone 1 Front Street Juneau You get results from printing done by us When you think of bread - satisfaction you’ll think of our bread. 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LILY K BURFORD, Worthy d Matron; FANNY L. ! i ROBINSON, Secretary. " i’ ARG LA L AT Ry | 1Y KNIGHTS Orf COLUMBUS Seghers Counc_. No. 1760 Meetings second andiast Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Councll Chambers, Fifth Street. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. DOUGLAS AfRIE 117 F. O. K. Meets first and third & Mondays, & o'cluch at Eagles Hall Doaglas. ARNE SHUDSHIFT, W. P. GUY ITH, Secretary. Vis- iting brothers welcome. J THE CASH BAZAAR Open Evenings Opposite U. S. Cable Office GARBAGE HAULING LOT CLEANING Office at Wolland’s Tailor Shop | Chester Barnesson PHONE 66 DAIRY FERTILIZER By Load or Sack ] I 2 COLOR PRINTING increases the pul'ind power of any printind job.Weare equippedtohan dle colorprinting guickly and satisfactorily 4 GET A EORONA | | For Your School Work ! | J.B. 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