The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 27, 1930, Page 3

fi» 'STARTING Ry PALACE STARTING _:S['NI)AY y SUNDAY _':;,, e b e B LTl e = S ol - TALKING REPORTER NEWS '_ LAUREL AND HARDY COMEDY .;: Big Technicolor Scenes FUE ALLDIALOG, SINGINGEANCING AND DRAVATIC PECTACLE % @ » AERTTNITRE . 254 Y o - =€ g A - O v 4 . 10—25—75—Loges $1.00 % SRRV R Sy, B Stk SRR S——— e 1 TONIGHT . REGINALD DENNY in “CLEAR THE DECKS” ‘fr!)m the Territory to find another home. E 1 “This is the faction to which | Gardner and Scott made overtures /it was not possible for them to [ ‘obtam its permission to guarantee & ‘tu their former supporters they | would remove the schools from pol- imcs, because it looks upon the |school system as an important cog |in the political machine. So Gard- |ner and Scott jettisoned the issue |along with some of their other | proclaimed convictions. ‘ “For years officials in charge of administration of Alaska’s resources and persons and corporations with i heavy investments in Alaska indus incalculable injury to our public|tries have been the objects of at- scHools! “lacl:s by a faction for which Paul “With their co-candidates, Messrs.|and Steel and men working wit Gardner and Scott, during the pri-|them were spokesmen. In the mary campaign, pledged themselves | April primary campaign, Mr. Rust- to ‘remedy this error, saying in agard notably, and Gardner as well sighed platform: las he was able, denounced these 4“We believe a serious error was|men by name and condemned them committed in making the office of |for ‘capital baiting practices' tend- Commissioner of Education elective ing to prevent new capital from since it will inevitably bring the|coming here to develop natural re- school system of the Territory into|sources now wasting away. politics. We will support a meas- | Abandon Practicality ure to make that office again ap-| “Seeking support for the nom- pointive.’ inations last Spring, these candi- Keep Them in Politics dates criticised their opponents for “Nothing could be more explicit.{a platform plank which promised And that promise was acc(‘ptudilegislallon leaving the fisheries of without reservation by the voters|Alaska open only to bona fide Al- of the First Division. An exam-|askans. In turn they pledged them- ination of the platform recently selves to enact legislation to limit made public and signed, not only|the fisheries to Alaskans so far as by' Candidates Gardner and Scott, practical and legal. but also by every members of| “In a meeting at Petersburg, par- thé Republican ticket, Territorial|ticipated in by both Gardner and as' well as Divisional, reveals the Scott, Mr. Rustgard, as spokesman fact-that it is startlingly silent on}{or the candidates brilliantly de- thigz=subject. Beyond advocating|fended the plank of his ticket and ‘a &’vey of the schools of the Ter- riddled that of the opposition which ritoy by some competent author-|he characterized as not only im- Many Issues Abandoned in First Division by | Gardner and Scott (Continuea irom Page One) ity, vhich merely means another|practical and unsound legally, but app@epriation, there is absolutely‘as insincere. ‘If we want the nat- no ntion of Alaska's public schoollural resources developed we have to sys in that rather ridiculousibless and not curse the men who di ent. |are willing to come here with their o‘§;flflrently, as in the case of |money to start the industries and thewgvil of bloc voting, these men | furnished the jobless with jobs.' wi an ambition to become law-| “Referring specifically to the big- m; s, have concluded it is better |gest branch of the fisheries indus- to gmeke the schools a part of their|try — the salmon fishery — in a pr ted political machine than speech at Ketchikan delivered from it to make them nunpnmncal'a platform on which Gardner and an®™nonpartisan, safe and secure'Scou also spoke, he declared: from the influence and pressure| *“‘It is absurd to think of pro- of wily and self-seeking politicians. | hibiting canners from importing Capitulation Is Seen labor until other industries build “This abrupt switch on so im- up sufficiently to furnish employ- portant an issue cannot be con-!ment twelve months a year—until strued except as a complete capitu-|{we have established a labor mar- lation. It was through the ma- ket. We cannot build a prosperous chinations of the Steel-Paul com-!community on one purely seasonal bination that the schools of Alaska industry. Salmon furnishes em- were- thrown into politics. It was|ployment for fishermen only during at their demand and by their rep-'about five or six weeks a year, resentatives that Lester D. Hender- and, unless other industries flour- son, for 12 years Commissioner of 'ish alongside, labor cannot be ex- Education, who created the public pected to sit here during the other school system and put it on the ten or eleven months and wait for high plane it now occupies, was a job. disinissed from office and driven' “He cited the pledge of his own P — Silk: Chiffon Hoslery KAYSER and. GOTHAM GOLD STRIPE 48 Gauge 3 Thread All Silk $1.50 and $1.75 In the rich, dark shades of fall — Sunbash, Nightingalg, Season, Ivory, Pawnee, B. Clair, | Gunmetal and Rose Taupe. French heel and pecot top—one only finds in expensive hose. TRIANGLE, CORNER land finally surrendered. Naturally | ticket—to secure such legislation as will leave the fisheries open only to the bona fide residents of the Territoy, wherever that is practical, and where by such a pol- the settlement of the Terri- / can be materially stimulated.’ |As to the proposal to shut out ev- ery nonresident laborer, Mr. Rust- gard, speaking for his ticket, de- ‘clz\r(‘d it wasn't legally sound, and| { economically unsound since | ‘there isn't 'enough surplus labor in the Territory to supply all the canneries during the fishing sea-| son.’ “Further, every candidate on that ticket castigated the opposition for the fight waged by Paul and thef Indian organization against the {United States Forest Service for its pulp timber sales policy. They | fquoted from Indian organization | papers to prove the Forest Service had been charged with being a |‘creature of the pulp trust’ and warned the voters that a victory for Paul's legislative ticket would be a blow to the proposed estab- lishment of a pulp and paper in- dustry here. Make Weak Compromise | r to obtain the backing' 'y faction they had so logically and reasonably contro- verted in the primary, they have weakly compromised on this issue, getting for themselves nothing and giving away on this, one of the most important issues before the people of Alaska today. “Let me recite their most recent| | platform utterance. In plank num-| | of the ber two of that notorious docu- jment of betrayal of confidence, | |they promise: ‘To aid in, and| encourage, the investment of capi-| tal in the development and fair utilization of the natural resources of the Territory’ And who is to say what meant by the phrase| ‘fair utilization?” Will it be the| Paul faction or the general public? | Such a pledge on its very face| would mean nothing and is moth-| ing but a general gesture of benev- olence designed as a vote-catch. Lack of Meaming >nowed “That it is nothing else, and can be no more, is clearly demonstrated by the next succeeding pledge in |the platform, which reads: “‘To obtain such legislation as will leave the fisheries of Alaska open only to bona fide continuous | residents of Alaska.' “Here withoui any prelense at sugar-coating we find the old fam- iliar war cry against capital al- ready invested in our fisheries. This | is the very same proposition that| Gardner and Scott scoffed at last| Spring as unsound in theory and absolutely impractical. Last April they agreed with Mr. Rustgard that ‘there isn't enough surplus labor in the Territory to supply all the canneries during ‘the fishing season,’ and that ‘it is absurd to think of prohibiting canners from importing labor until other indus-| tries build up sufficiently to furn- ish employment twelve months a year—until we have established a labor market’; now when the hook is baited with 1,000 or more bossed votes from the Indian organization, they turn their backs on the pledge they made in the primary cam- paign and adopt the reactionary policy which as reasoning men they must know is impracticable and indefensible. It is altogether like- ly that neither Mr. Gardner nor Mr. Scott yet realize just what they have agreed to in that plank. Threat to Capital “Its threat to invested capital is not even veiled. It is a deliber- ate declaration of intention to blackjack the millions of dollars of capital already invested. They must know, since it is within the knowledge of even the most sim- ple-minded, that such treatment of capital already here will do more than anything else to scare other capital that might be on the point of being invested in other resources—such as timber for wo pulp and paper manufacture. “It is a matter of record that the Indian leadership and organi- zation is openly antagonistic to- | ward the Forest Service's timber sale policy as it has been estab- lished to induce men with finances to come to Alaska to engage in the manufacture of pulp and pap- er. Yet Gardner and Scott, who were nominated by voters of this| Division pledged to encourage that | project, break that pledge when they openly advocate legislation | to force an impossible Proposition | on the Territory. “If by legislation they can com- | pel canneries and owners of fish- ing vessels and cold storages to employ only residents, regardless‘ of the fact that there is not suf- ficient labor in the Territory to fill the labor demands thereby cre- ated, and no industry to take up the slack if enough laborers did come here to satisfy seasonal em- ployment needs, they could in the same manner require equally pre- posterous things from the pulp and paper industry. No sane capitalist is going to consider making heavy investments where such a policy is given public approval. Lessen Residence Requirements “Now to return to the two plat- forms. In the April primary cam- made the following pledge: ““To require clerical help in Territorial offices to he selected | from people who have been resi- dents of the Territory for not less than five years.’ “In their latest platform, on which they now appeal for votes, they have again changed their minds. Now fhey would require all Territorial clerical help to be Alaskans of ome year's residence. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1930. paign Messrs. Gardner and Scott | |scems that should be the interpre- tation. “Hence, it must be a pledge that Paul has offered the olive branch to the Bureau of Fisheries; that his fight against what he and his co- workers have termed ‘King O'Mal- |ley’s autocratic domination’ of the | Alaska fisheries is at an end; and A. Steel, ex-member of the com-|bcople of Ketchikan. The fight bination whose mantle has dc~1 ainst the system was too long scended upon Mr. Gardner and |and bitter, verging often onto Vi whose shoes he is apparently seek-|ious, and too recent in its endin ing to fill, to come back to Juneau |for the people of the First Division and accept a clerical position. |to be misled into thinking that Would Restore Hatcheries those who made it are sincere in a “Four years ago, under the lead- | proposal to restore the system. ership of Paul, and largely owing | Support To Hoover to the consistent battle he waged Even their plea for support iit|that from now henceforth Mr. O'- against them, the Territorial hatch- | the name of the party and for uwaalley's regulations governing the eries were discontinued, but not g of harmony is insincere and |fisheries of Alaska will be agree- until between $400,000 and $500,000 | hased on the rankest sort of hypo-|able to that faction. Lad been expended on them out of | crisy This' is the pledge signed| “The Forest Service, almost as the Territorial treasury. Now comes | by every member of the ticket, |viciously assailed, and the Alaska the unique proposal, sanctioned by | T rial and Divisional: Game Commission, another target him, too, to restore bne of the| 7o work with and support Prcs-‘(ur venomous diatribes, both from hatcheries—that at Ketchikan. lident Hoover and his administra- |the same faction, will be hailed as “Having gone out of that line ql tion in friendly co-operation, in all | friend and ally. No more will they experimentation which cost it|matters for the welfare of the Ter- |be accused of oppressing the poor, dearly and had nothing to show |yiiory’ unprotected Alaska fisherman and therefor, surely disinterested voters| “Does this mean the Federal bu- | trapper. can see that this is nothing but|rcaus in representing the | Should Apologize to Governor another vote-catcher aimed at the|rioover ad ration? Togically it| “To make the love feast com- VICKERS. - ALLIE ELLESMORE thought she loved & Lester Broon”and confidently, expected to marry him—until a chance meeting with A Saxely Grannock sent the currents of her life, into undreamed channels: She found herself / engaged fo one man—and in love with_ans | other ® @ @ lt.was™not:merely a-choice ., between Brooniand Grannock,-for,thats wou d_have been simple enough.' Powerful, conflicting emotions had_caught the three in. 3y o gigantic mesh and threatened to-erushfthen;, o @ @ @ Roy Vzckersihos,woven:aboufl\ this grippingsituationZanzunusyal:story -of! romanceiand intrigue._lts_finely-drawn characters*and * absorbing¥plotmakeit.a fiz striking and vivid serial. o . Starts Tuesday, September 30 = lPerhsps this change was made so that it would be possible for wm‘ _ The Daily Alaska Empire | plete these fof commanding COLISEUM SUNDAY \ -2 Hhm;'s‘lflau'h Night GEORGE BANCROFY "The Mrighty" A Qaramount Qicture ND MONDAY NIGHT: -7:30 and 9:30 o 2 Para- Extra Features — 1 Vitaphone Act, mount Acts and Fox;News Only Double All-Talkie Feature Bill * “Night Club” and “Pusher in the Face” | harmonious candidates should wait upon Gov. George A.| Parks with a humble apology for the actions of its spokesmen in the 1929 session of the Alaska Legis lature. | “In the Senate of that sion, Senators Will A Steel, whose suc- cessor Mr. Gardner, is ambitious | to be, Charles Benjamin, Richard | N. Sundquist, James H. Anderson |School of Mines; and on one occa- and Arthur Frame, all members of ision futilely sought to use the the dominant faction of the pres-icourts to upset the existing sys- ent Republican lineup, forced tem of Government in Alaska. through a memorial savagely at- Believes Case Proved tacking the Governor, whom it ac-| «ypder all these circumstances cused of unethically using his of-|can there be any doubt that. the ficial position to defeat legislation.|g)q Steel-Paul faction ‘has'swal- He was accused of ‘political activ- {lowed up the candidates who last ity,’ of threatening the use of ln.sisp,-“m were nominated by Repub- veto power to coerce members, and |licans as a protest against every- the influence ©f |thing that the former element still other Federal officials to th':‘stnnds for in Territorial political end that desirable legislation was|life? Of course, not. made impossible. : “Of all the pledges made by “The House of Representatives,|Messrs. Gardner and Scott in ithe seeking to counteract any possible |Primary campaign, mot a one of effect of this astounding and out- |ADY importance remains in the rageous. memorial, which even its|Platform they are offering to the proponents must have known to be | VOters in the general election. Like utterly false, introduced and passed | \@mbs they have made their beds a resolution commending Gov. Parks with the roaring llons of radieal- for his fairness, honesty, impartial- { 15T 8nd discord. I am confident ity and his outstanding ability, 'N® volers of thie First Division will There was just one vote cast Rok foay ‘3“[‘1 "!’“.e:" against this resolution —that of Grover C. Winn, of Juneau, who is one of the candidates now pledg- ing to support the Hoover adminis- tration. of party loyalty in' an effort to gain this end. “These are the same men who fought virtually every appointment made by the Governor at the 1929 ession of the Alaska Legislature; who blocked the Governor's recom= mendations for needful legislation; made a pawn of politics out of the Alaska Agricultural College and MOOSE BASEBALL PLAYERS GUEST AT BANQUET FRIDAY The Moose baseball club, cham- pions of the Juneau City League for 1930 under Manager Arthur McKinnon, was the guest last night at a banquet given by the local Moose lodge. T. J. SHearer officlated as toastmaster. Congratulations were extended to Political in Purport “Of course, the Senate memorial was merely for political purposes The end of Gov. Parks' term wa: approaching. The President was soon to make an appointment for the position. A nonresident of Alas- | Manager McKinnon and his men ka was making an effort to land;(m- their fine record. McKinnop the berth. And these men, who now |predicted the club would repeat have the effrontery to fish for the |next season. support of loyal administration fol- e e \ lowers' resort to an empty pledge Daily Empire Want Ads O matter what ' your oot pofatas ) present buying habits may be — make it a rule to shop at Halvorsen’s First, for a week or for two weeks, just to discover for yourself what hundreds of others have found — it pays! -, fl 25 o s B o« B B 0 Z2z=sa = You don’t really know comparative values or stocks until you have shopped a store consistently. We venture to say that at the end of the week or two weeks period, you will have discovered so many new facts about this store that you will always want to shop at Halvorsen’s First. The risk is all ours, but we hope you take it. “Tomorrow’s Styles “Juneaw’s Own Store”