The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 16, 1930, Page 4

e e oS - ;N THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, OCT. 16, 1930. Dhll\ 41(131.(1 Emplro JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Thane for $: per month. v lowing rates. ths, in advance Treadwell and ¢ will_promptly Subscribers will or irregulari notify the B in the delive Telephone f_their papers r Editorial and Business Offices 74 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. led . se %na also the news published RGULATION G HAT OF ANY HER PUBLICATION AS IT IS SEEN BY TOLSTOY. of Leo Tolstoy, him- and | grandson and great commoner of government The Empire Count Ivan Tolstoy, world renowned author self a student of the science economics, said in an interview with In Russia the Bolsheviks are endeavoring educate the people in order that they assume the responsibilities of govern- In Alaska, where you have a people already educated and capable of governing themselves, the right to do so is largely denied to them, and the Gov- ernment is centered in Washington, a long distance away, the governing done by men who lack knowledge of local conditions, instead of being done at home by those informed of such conditions. To me, it seems evident such a system eventually will produce a citizenship that is not desirable. Assumption of responsi- bilities in government, as well as in other directions, broadens the outlook and creates capacity. Denial of it, conversely lessens capacity and narrows vision. In the end, I believe, it will create a spirit of grasping, of selfish exploitation without true develop- ment, resutling in a looting of the best of the country, leaving the country to hold what remains. And that is not the true American spirit. If the United States is based upon sound prin- ciples, if the American theory of government is right, Count Tolstoy's observation on the condition in Alaska and his attitude self-government are sound in principle and right. Alaska has not got self-government, and self- government is necessary if the Territory is to de- velop an American commonwealth along lines that are just and fair. In making a full Territorial form of govern- ment the main issue in his campaign for Delegate to Congress George B. Grigsby is absolutely right. Until Alaska gets that all other things of a gov-/ ernmental nature are trivial and transient. Alaska has never had self-government and there is not a chance that she will soon acquire it if former Delegate James Wickersham is sent back to Con- gress. He "has never been a really and truly s porter of self-government. The abortive KO\Ern- ment under which Alaska is trying to function, the government that Count Tolstoy had in mind when he criticised the lack of self-government in | the Territory, was Judge Wickersham's idea of self- government. The platform which he and those| on the ticket with him have adopted for the present campaign does not mention the subject at all. The | personal advertisements which Judge Wickersham is running in the newspapers at the Westward point to the abominable governmental scheme under which Alaska has been operating as the evidence that he favors home rule. It really is proof of the fact that he does not believe in self-govern- ment. The only home rule we have in Alaska is in the towns, which were authorized by Congress years before Judge Wickersham was Delegate, and in the school system And . the school districts in the to may ing themselves. toward municipal corporations were likewise created before | the advent of Judge Wickersham in Congress. Alaska should have the same measure of self-| government that the other Territories had before they became States and that Hawaii That is the sort of self-government that Count Tolstoy had in mind when he spoke of Alaska's greatest need It is the kind of self-govern- | ment that Mr. Grigsby favors WIND VELOCITY JUDGED WITHOUT NSTRUMENTS. A ‘“rule of thumb” system devised by the United States Weather Bureau enables anyone to make a fairly accurate estimate of the wind veloc when he is miles from a Weather Bureau station When the wind blows less than one mile per hour, smoke rises vertically. A wind of one to three miles causes smoke to drift does not move a wind vane. A light wind of four to seven miles makes itself felt the rustles the leaves and moves a wind vane, while a gentle breeze of eight to 12 miles an hour keps leav and small twigs in constant motion and extends light flags. A moderate wind of 13 to 18 miles an hour raises dust and loose paper and moves small branches, while a “fresh blow” of 19 to 24 miles causes small leafy trees t0 sway gently and forms crested wave- lets on inland waters. A strong wind of 25 to 31 miles an hour moves large branches of trees, whistles through the tele- graph wires and makes it difficult to hold an um- brella open, while a wind of 32 to 38 miles velocity sets whole trees in motion and retards anyone walk- ing against the wind. A wind of 39 to 54 miles an hour is known by the Weather Bureau as a gale. not exceed 46 miles an hour it breaks twigs off of trees and generally impedes progress, but when » stronger it causes slight structural damage, blowing . on ,|velt studied law at Columbla and Tuttle took his ARANTEED TO BE LARGER and progress | now has.| When a gale does olf chimney pots and slate «hmglm The wind seldom blows 55,to 75 miles an hour mLm:I. but such a velocity is known as a “whole gale. When blowing at a velocity of 55 to 63 miles an hour, a “whole gale” uproots irees and ses considerable structural damage, and a 64 75 mile “whole gale,” very rarely experienced, auses widespread damage. A hurricane, blowing faster than 75 miles an |hour, makes itself known with a fury understandable only by those who have lived through such an! ! experience. Columbia University is doing some bragging |because both Gov. Roosevelt and Charles H. Tuttle, |the Democratic and Columbia nominees for Gov-| |ernor are former Columbia students. Gov. Roose- A. B. degree as well as studied law there. Gov. iRommeIt got his A. B. degree at Harvard. About the time a South American country at- ‘flud,\ to business long enough to gain a reputation [for stability a revolution messes things up. PROFESSIONAL . Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 410 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 Complete Line MAX FACTOR’S TOILETRIES e DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. PHONE 56 Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. £ Free Delivery Phone 134 WIIEN WE SELL IT IT'S RIGHT Express Money Orders | . 1] . Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building Telephone 176 | 1t is impossible for the people of one State to force those of another State to be dry and it is |absurd to think of trying tp make a whole State take hemlock or commit hari kari. | 1 ! American Rulers—Nonsense! (Nation's Business for October.) | James W. Gerard, lawyer and once our Am- |bassador to Germany has picked out a list of some | sixty men whom he calls “the men who rule the United States.” It is for the most part a list 0(‘l America’s business leaders, men whose names loom | |large at economic conferences and on commissions |and committees. It is almost without exception a | ilist of men of great wealth. But to those if there be any who fear that the United States are “ruled” by an oligarchy of \&e;ll'.]\ we suggest this thought: If such a list had been made a generation ngo‘ |there would certainly have been on it a Vander- \bilt or two, an Astor and a Gould. They were the | jnames then that roused the fear of “plutocracy” |as dominant in this country. None of these names! |/is on Mr. Gerard's list When some other Gerard in 1960 makes an-| |other list of “the real rulers of America” how many |of the names in this 1930 list will be left? Few,| we'd venture to say. In that.mythical 1960 list may be the name of that youngster who has just put |your mail on your desk or of some man who is| !now tending a machine in a factory and struggling with a correspondence course. We may not go “from shirt sleeves to shirt |sleeves in three generations” but the right and the |opportunity which this country of ours does grant {to every man make it certain that we have in {each generation a new group of leaders in busi-! ness. And, with all respect to Mr. Gerard, “the men (and the women) who rule the United States” are the 120 million who were counted the other day !in the census. i MINERS HEADQUARTERS A Complete Line of BOOTS SHU PACS CAPS MINERS' LAMPS il DENTIST [l Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. ! | Office hours, 9 a.m. to 5 pm. Evenings by appointment. Phone 321 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. Phone 276 —and— WATERPROOF CLOTHING Mike Avoian FRONT STREET Opposite Winter & Pond Dr Geo. L. Barton CHIROPRACTOR Hellenthal Building OFFVICE SERVICE ONLY Horrs: 10 a. m. to 12 noon 2p.m to5p m 6 p.m to8p m By Appointment WAR DECLARED PHONE 259 ON JACK FROST e We can protect your water system against freezing. AT YOUR SERVICE ROX & MOODY General Contractors Tel. 444 P. 0. Box 298 Robert Simpson Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles Col- legn of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground | - . DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL b Optometrist-Optician | Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted | Room 7, Valentine Bldg. | Office phone 484, residense | phone 238. Office Hours: to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 JEWELER Watch ~Repairing Brunswick Agency FRONT STREET Airships of 1950. |4 (Manchester Guardian.) Colonel ,Richmond has admitted some whether it would ‘Be twenty or forty years before the British Association delegates arrived for their annual meetings by airship from the United States.' But he was quite sure that airships would be the (regular method of passenger transport in the near |future. He pictures them as 1,000 feet long and 200 feet round the middle—twice the size of the| doubt | GARBAGE HAULED AND LOT CLEANING E. O. DAVIS Phone 584 uneau Public Library Free Reading Room City Hall, Second Floor Main Street and Fourth Reading Room Open From o 8 a. m. to 12 p. m. present largest dirigibles—and he expects that the| e [several hundred passengers will find them smoother| | land safer than the liner of today, and, in sorne' }mx): even more comfortable. There are, of course, {limits: a roof garden, for instance, he regards as an Junrca.sonablf- luxury to expect from a “flying innv"il |This rosy view of the future of the airship may be| | lperiocm justified. The immense technical difficulty| | that arises from the weight of the engine in the case of the aeroplane does not trouble the airship- | bullder apd Colonel Richmond made some remark- l | 'able suggestions for dealing with the airship's pe- | ® . Circulation Room Open from | 1 to 5:30 p. m—7:30 to 8:30 THE NEW IDEAL ‘ p. m. Current Magazines, SHOPPE | Newspapers, Reference, 218 Front Street Books, Ete. MARY HAMMER FREE TO ALL Alaskan Novelties — Swedish e, and Finnish Copperware— Knives and Linens =3 Our trucks go any place any time. A tank for Diesel Oil | \culiar problems by providing it with “seales or |feathers.” But one must allow something for the |enthusiasm of the expert enlarging on his special |topic. There is a long way to go yet. The R-100, \recently reached the Canadian coast from Carding- \ton in forty-seven hours; but one must remember that she had waited for some weeks for favorable weather conditions, and even with the greatest skill |In negotiating air currents on her way she suffered, severely in the last stage of her east-to-west pas- sage. Her real time was not forty-seven hours but |forty-seven hours' plus several weeks. We have (triumphed over the air, but, so far, not by any means subdued it. | Charges Ag: { | (New York World) Our sympathy was with Bishop Cannon, Jr., |when he declined to answer questions concerning campaign expenditures in Virginia asked of him |by a committee of the Senate empowered to ln-‘ vestigate lobbies in Washington. The committee | plainly attempted to exceed his authority. Our‘ sympthy was also with Bishop Cannon when he| resented publication by this same Senate commit- |tee of data concerning his stock-market transec- ' [tions. The committee had no warrant whatever to pry into Bishop Cannon's personal affairs. At the same time, we have wondered why Bishop Cannon's personal affairs and his political affairs, his purchase of stocks on margin through a bucket t Bishop Cannon. and a tank for crude oil save burner trouble. PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 .i RELIABLE TRANSFER —— = HARRIS Hardware Company Now located next CONNORS GARAGE W. P. Johnson FRIGIDAIRE DELCO LIGHT PRODUCTS MAYTAG WASHING MACHINES GENERAL MOTORS RADIOS Phone 17 Front Street Juneau Frye-Bruhn Company Featuring Frye’s De- licious Hams and Bacon PHONE 38 \shop and his failiure to file a report on his ex- |penditure of a campaign fund in Virginia, should |apparently have been of so little interest to his church. | Four traveling elders of this church have now |presented formal charges against Bishop Cannon in an indictment filed with Bishop William N.! Ainsworth, chairman of the College of Methodist | |Bishops. The character of these charges is nut‘ |known. Presumably they are concerned with some | of the activities which have kept Bishop Cannon in' the public prints in recent years. If so, the |proposed investigation is plainly a proper one.] |Bishop Cannon’s personal affairs are no concern | lof the Senate. They would seem bound to be of |interest to his church | This country is full of fool laws, but on the |other mitt, there are some that just drip wisdom. \qu has one that prohibits the sale of near beer. |—(Macon, Ga., Telegraph.) | Hot coffee in thermos bottles is now being used |to revive lost Alpine climbers instead of rare old| monastery brandy from the little keg hung around a St. Bernard's neck. What's the use of getting lost?—(Cleveland Plain Dealer.) Senator Watson says you can't legislate against drouth. Beggin' his pardon, but that's just what half the country’s is demanding rlzm now.—(Cin- cinnati Enquirer.) Provide for the Future What becomes of your money each pay day? If you spend it recklessly, you will always be one lap behind the bill collector. Have you thought of the possibilities of hard times, sickness or other needs. 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M. H. SIDES, Secretary. Co-Ordinate Bod- ies of Freemason- ry Scottish Rite Regular meetings second Friday each month at 7:30 p: m. Scot- tish Rite Templ WATER B. HEISEL, Secretary. 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 AU LODGE NO. 147 Second and fourth Mon- day of each month in Scottish Rite Temple, beginning at 7:30 p. m. 4 EVANS L. GRUBER, Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Scc- rclnry ORDER OF EASTERN ST‘\P Second and Fourth Tuesdays of each month, 4 at 8 o'clock, Scottish Rite Temple. LILY BURFORD, Worthy Matron; FANNY L. ROBINSON, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and last, Monday at 7:30 p. m. ¥ Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Council \ Chambers, Fifth Street. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. "DOUGLAS AERIE 117 F. O. E. Mects first and third &Mondays, 8 oclock, at Eagles Hall, Douglas. ALEX GAIR, W. P. GUY SMITH, Secretary. 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