The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 12, 1931, Page 4

D(;fi;flaska Emplre JOHN W. TROY - EDITOB AND MANAGEB‘ Sunday by _the except Sefond and Main | NG COMPANY 7 Alaska Juneau as second Class st Office in SUBSCRIPTION RATES. | Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and | Thane for $1.25 per month, By mall, pc e paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, 46.00; one month, In adva $1.26 ubsc will confer vor if they will promptly | rotify Business Office any failure or irregularity | in the very of their papers. i | Tele for Edit d Business Offices, 374. | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the| use for republication stches 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 PUBL IENTIST DIES. 1 When Albert Abraham Michelson died at Pasa- dena at eight years beyond the allotted three score distinguished | GREATEST and ten probably the world’s most scientist terminated an eventful career. Certainly | the dean of American sclentists hreathed his last., No scientific scholar of his time was co widely | honored. He had been awarded the Nobel Prize, the Rumford Medal, the Grand Prix of Paris &x- | position, Mattencei Medal of Rome, the Copley Medal of London, the Elliot Cresson and the Draper medals. He had been President of ihe National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Acad- | emy of Arts and Sciences, member of the British Association of Advanced Sciences, President of the American Physical Scciety, President of the Am- erican Philosophical Society, fellow of the - Royal Astronomical Society, fellow of the Royal Soclety of Science, member of the Royal Accademia de | Lincei of Rome, Knight of the Svenska Vetenskaps | Academien, member of the Societe Hollandaise des Sciences, member of the Academie des Sciences Insitut de France, member of the Royal (nstitution of Sciences, member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, member of the Societe Francaise d‘.\" Physique, member of Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, member of the International Commis- sion of Weights and Measures, and of the French Academy. After graduation by the U. 8. Naval Academy he studied at and got degrees, earned and honorary, from Berlin, Heidelberg, College de France and Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, Western Reserve University, | Stevens Institute of Technology, Cambridge Uni- | versity in England, Yale, Leipzig, McGill. He was a professor in many universities, the University of Chicago for more than thirty years. He was a lec- turer at a score of American and European colleges | and universities. When asked some years ago what he considered his most significant achievement, Professor Michel- son said: “I think most people would say that it was the experiment which started the Einstein theory of relativity. But I should think of it as only one of a dozen of my experiments in the interference of light waves.” Dr. Einstein explained when he left for Cali- fornia that one of his principal objects in making the trip was to make a long cherished visit to Dr. Michelson. He frankly acknowledged his indebted- ness to the great American scientist. Dr. Michelson was born in Germany, but his boyhood was spent in San Francisco where he had his early schooling and from where he was ap- pointed to the Naval Academy from which he graduated in 1873. It is an interesting sidelight on viewpoint to note that when Michelson was graduated from Annapolis and became an Ensign the Superintendent of the Naval Academy told him: “If youd give less attention to those scientific things and more to your naval gunnery, there might come a time when you would know enough to be of some use to your country.” Whether this had anything to do with Michel- son’s departure from the Navy is not known, but his decision to enter another field resulted in his receiving the highest of scientific honors. THE REV. MR. ALLE! ALLE | It is with sincere regret that The Empire chon- | icles the news that the Rev. Harry R. Allen pastor of Resurrection Lutheran Church, is about to leave Juneau. The Rev. Mr. Allen and Mrs. Allen have been residents of this community for five years and have endeared themselves to Juneauites and all . others with whom they have contacted. “By their | fruits ye shall know them,” and measured by this| standard the Rev. Mr. Allen has been a marked | success as a minister. He came here almost directly | from college, and he organized Resurrection Church and built it up to an imposing membership. The good will of all residents of this City will follow this vigorous and talented young clergyman and his family to their new home n Seattle. ND MRS. FORD PROFITS. . The statement of the Ford Motor Company for ‘Em showed a net profit of $44,460,823. This is " o decrease from the 1929 profits of $37337,038. In year the gains were $81797,861. The assets of the company were $781,994.571 January 1, of which $382,808,719 was listed as The “cash” item 3 an increase over previous year from ' The par value of the capital . ‘Motor, Company is $17,264,500, so t! * was $257 a share. The total profits of the Ford Motor Company since 1920 have been $543,209115.° These figures ‘include the losses for 1927 and 1928 which were $115,009,225. THe indicated earnings for 1930 are the lowest “cash the k of the Ford | profit for 1930 gince 1921, with the exception of 1927 and 1928.l'he longest, too.—(Dallas News.) jabout Grecian life and history and mythology. {objection which should have some bearing on this/| | bitious. of France would have preferred a young earthquake been working patiently for years to erect a struc- “mediate reaction of France was to strike out blindly, |child, the “United States of Europe;” but, fearlng[ "x-ospecung the proper program for | early 1932, | flicting views will surge for | momentum Kans., Globe.) Wice-President Curtis finds it hard to decide whether to run with Hoover or to stay in the | Senate.—(Louisville Courier-Journal.) A man died from excitement at a prize fight when the company was shlmng from the ald Model T to the present Model A car, with consequent heavy expenditures for retooling and changes in plant. All of which goes to show that Uncle Henry's Company, in spite of some hard luck for a couple of years and the depression, has been profitably employed. But how about that idle cash? It doesu't\ seem to be doing anyone any good. il Chief Justice Hughes and Chairman of the Law Enforcement Commission Wickersham are urging methods for coping with crime increase in the coun-| try. Congress could help a lot by remodelling Pro- hibition legislation. About the time things became somewhat quieter‘. in Central America broke out in Kentucky. M ver is having more than one President's chare of pilikea—as the Hawalians would say it. war Gen. Smedley Butler was once a spy in Mexico. He has had a lot of unpleasant jobs since then also. A Turkish Homer! (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Classicists will not take kindly to the effort of a distinguished Turkish Minister who is trying to prove that Homer was a Turk. He calls the master | poet and sage “Omour.” Cavalierly, this Turkish authority, makes of the poet a local bard taken over by the Greeks while they were for ten years busy about Troy. They gave him a Hellenized name. It is admitted by the Turkish scholar that Homer wrote Greek. But that proves nothing. ‘Turkish authority—so he says—has clearly shown that the roots of the Greek language are them- selves Turkish! There have been those who have doubted, and| disputed, that Homer ever lived, but readers or] Chapman and Pope cling to the belief that he was a robust vagabond—a sort of Hellenic Villon, or, at any rate, a tramp chap who knew a good deal What cannot be gainsaid is that Homer, or Omour, or Omar, could write. He wrote death- lessly, and he would not have looked well in Turk- ish pants. Indeed, considering the tales of tradi- tion, he was lucky to be able to wear any kind of pants at all. “Seven cities claimed a Homer dead, Through which a living Homer begged his bread.” So runs the olden rhyme. There is, too, a little matter:- The Turkish race did not make much of} a splurge until two thousand years after the poet's time. Mustapha's regime should not become too am- Briand for Time. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Undoubtedly the mustachioed Foreign Minister to the Austro-German Customs Union. Some such natural catastrophe, cataclysmic though it be, would not have upset his plans so badly. M., Briand had ture of federalism in Europe, founded in French hegemony and perpetuating the present frontiers. Now he is thrown on the defensive by the project the Teutonic nations have bared. The im-‘ with invective and threat, against a scheme to them malignant and subversive. This procedure won little sympathy from a world hardened to patriotic ful- minations and adjusted now to realities. So French technic has changed. Briand presses hard for acceptance of his brain- the worst, he has an alternative plan to thwart the ambitions of his Teutonic neighbors. An econ- omic federation of Balkan States, affiliated with| France, would offset the dangers of an Austro-Ger- man Zollverein, he reasons, and then proceeds to lay the groundwork for it. Thus it goes, with Germany and France sparring for time until one or the other can get in a smash- ing drive to the point of the chin. The Continent appears quiet, in comparison with a fortnight ago, but in fact the channels of diplomacy are busier than ever. The difference is that in this particular stage of the conflict, press releases are few, while| secret pourparlers are many. Later the theatre of war will return to the press and the public forum, and it will be a better show. The Tariff and Prosperity. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) “In recent months the advocates of a lower tariff have had the advantage. A number of distinguished economists and industrial and financial leaders have expressed the emphatic view that our insurmountable tariff barrier is a prime factor in the business de- pression. Their view is supported by the bald facts of foreign trade. Apparently these men have made their point. More recently another | side of the controversy has come to be stressed. Perhaps the tariff sched- ules are higher than they should be, these new voices admit, but to make any extensive changes now would be calamitous, for it would mean the handicapping of many industries by encouraging foreign competition—and this at a time when in- dustry is just gaining its stride once more. Here are two distinet points of view. They can be reconciled, perhaps, over a period of years. But coming months, they are far apart. With the exception of specific revisions which may be made through the Presi- dent tariff change is not to be considered before since the Congress does not meet until this yvear. But inevitably these con- ard when the legislators e to be made. the end of gather, and a decision will hs In view of the long agit n and time to gather that are necessary to any large tariff change, the question probably will remain academic | until 1933, By then, it secems very likely, the lesson of the Smoot-Hawley mistake will be so clear that a sane tariff should not be difficult to enact. Meantime busingss can console itself wi the assurance that import duties, however bad, 'at least not subject to meddling. are There are families who cannot attract attention except by having fusses and fights. The same may be said of the Central American States.—(Atchis in New York. Can it be that the game is coming | back?—(Springfield, Ohio, Sun.) o AL SO McAdoo says the big issue is unemployment. Some of us Democrats have been unemployed for BERT M’IJIJNAI.D_ Ketchikan recently, for the murder | | S. Marshal Albert White. HAS PLANS.FOR PRISON ESCAPE Letter Intercepted, Written by Alaska Murderer, Giving Clew Bert McDonald, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment at of George P. Marshall, fish buyer, plans to escaps from McNeil Island Penitentiary. A letter McDonald | wrote in Ketchikan to-a girl in| Sedro-Woolley, was intercepted by | U. S. Deputy Marshal William H.| Caswell, at Ketchikan. The letter was copied, then sent to the per-| on to whom addressed. The au- thorities the Federal Prison were also notified, according to U. The letter is as follows : “Hew's my cute lif dimple darling today? Looking down 'stead cf up at the daisies I hope. “Thot I would write and let you know that your old unk’ is on the road to the ‘Big House’ to await his appeal. Am leaving about Monday or Tuesday. This letter will prcbably be on the same boat. I would have waited to write you until I got on the toat—and I mean to write you from the boat—But this letter is going to contain something I don't want some- body else to see. It must go out | underground. i “This is important sweetheart so please don't miss nor forget a word of it. When I get down to McNeils I'll not write to Bud direct—not often at least— But I'll write you as often as I am permitted to. If ever you get a letter with a P.S. in it signed with GZY at the end— | why that letter will contain something for Bud-—forward it to him please telling him to use the iron on it. Heat will bring out the invisible ink. So dear always watch for the sign GZY at the end of the P. S. { Please write Bud and Mom | as soon as you receive this and | tell them to address me at Mc- Neils Island—Federal Prison. I don't know how long I'll be there—possibly six months be- fore I can the appeal. If you have written me here your | loosmne A letters me. “Closing es” will be forwarded to with love and kiss- e —— B. P. 0. E. RAILROAD DANCE E'ks’ Hall, Saturday, May ¥6th.} Admission $1.00. adv.! L ST ATTENTION AUTO OWNERS RE TERRITORIAL AUTO TAX YEAR 1931 All persons operating an nuwmo- | bile not licensed for the current |9 year will be considered delinquent after May 11. Licenses are issued by the Territorial Treasurer from his office in the Capitol Building. 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