The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 18, 1931, Page 4

& § ¢ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1931 Ijaily Alaska Emi)ire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published _every _evening except Sunday by _the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main | Streets, Juneau, Alas| | tered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class | matter. | BSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month. | By mail, postage paid the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00: one month, in advance, $1.25. | Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly Jotify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity | in the deliv of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the 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 WASTING WORDS. Democratic leaders are wasting a lot of words in the controversy as to whether the wet and dry ques- tion or eonomic problem shall be the paramount jssue of the 1932 Presidential campaign. If the platform makers have the courage they ought io have they will have planks on both subjects, and then it matters not wheher or not either of them is designated as the main question. That will take care of itself, for, after all, not the leaders but the voters finally decide those things. In some sections of the country the main issue will be Prohibition and in others it will be hard times and the rembedy. Everybody has a right to guess which will be the controlling factor, but the guessers ought to save the quarrel until quarreling time comes. That will be when some of them try to make the platform dry or non-committal. The chances are many to one that the Demo- crats will stand for State rights and urge that each State decide upon how it wants to handle the liquor question within its own borders. GREAT PAPER MOURNS ITS GREAT OWNER. The great New York Herald Tribune, which was owned by the late Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and of which her son is President and Editor, draped its editorial page for the issue next following her death, April 29, in deep mourning, and contained the following leading editorial: Elisabeth Mills Reid The simplicity, the kindliness, the force of the pioneer: were to the end the outstand- ing qualities of Elisabeth Mills Reid. To an extraordinary degree a cosmopolitan — her later life had its roots almost equally in California, in New York, in England, in France—she never lost for a moment the forthright speech, the swift action, the gen- erosity, which are so peculiarly American. There were many influences which might have altered the manner and mind of a personality less resolute. To those who knew and loved her, it was one mark of her greatness that she remained herself, even retaining to the end a hint of the shy- ness that was part of her charm. It is not easy to rank a woman of Mrs. Reid’s ability. Throughout most of her life, the opportunities for action of her sex were greatly limited. It was typical of Mrs. Reld's nature that she cared little about fame and much about accomplishment. From the first major decision of her life, when he married Whitelaw Reid, already a dis- tinguished jounrnalist, she counted forcibly and effectively in the events of her time. Since she was by nature retiring, and since the life of women in public affairs was, as it still is, resricted, there are no public offices to point to in her career, and the record of her influence upon politics is writ- ten in the lives of others, and most notably in the history of this newspaper, which she owned for nearly twenty years. It can, however, be set down that in the largeness of her view, as in the soundness of her judgments and in her courage, she was a great American. The record of her generosity is endless. It would be folly to attempt to portray its manifold channels, its constancy, its kind- ness. Outstanding in it was her pioneer labor for nursing in America. It is difficult how to recall how recent is the rise of this institution to its present importance. From the small beginnings of district nursing and throughout the growth of the Red Cross, Mrs. Reid was a leading spirit. Her warm sympathies supported her clear imagination to heroic effort. The World War found her great abilities trained for action and her devoted service for her country as for the Allies is a shining beacon of those dark days. Especially in the last decades of her life this newspaper was her central concern and interest. Her relationship to it was typical of her unselfish and courageous na- ture. How greatly its success was built upon her indomitable will, her keen judgment, her loyal trust, those who worked with her can best testify. If a newspaper lives first of all by its character, the fairness, the cour- age, the sound judgment of Elisabeth Mills Reid are part of this newspaper’s priceless heritage. May it not forget them! WASHINGTON LEADS IN EGGS. Shipments from California are Washing- ton eggs are distributed to 28 States and Commerce. 2,046 cars and from Oregon 438. 12 foreign countries. Shipments to New York City total 1414 cars, or more than sent to that metropolis by any other West- ern State. This quantity was 10 per cent. of New York's consumption. Of course, it should be added, California con- sumes a lot more eggs and chickens than Wash- ington. She has three times the population. Senator Dill, Washington State Democratic U. 8. Senator, was not an enthusiastic supporter of wet Gov. Smith for President but he is a strong booster for wet Gov. Roosevelt for the job. He is quoted as saying in the National capital the other day that the whole Northwest wants the G. O. P. to renominate President Hoover so they might vote for Gov. Roosevelt. Yet Senator Dill's professed objection to Gov. Smith was his wetness. The New York stock market is an up and down sort of game. Teeter-totter seems to have become a habit in the Exchange. Lusty. Canada Grow: (Cincinnati Enquirer.) long has been bound to the mother country by ties of blood and sympathy. But the Dominion has grown to national proportions. It is feeling the lustihood of inherent and acquired strength. It has been many decades since British authority made attempt to interfere in any matter of Canadian legislation. The time seems now to be approaching when the theoretical British control of such legislation was about to be wiped way. An all-Canadian constitutional conference has just completed a step toward complete autonomy. All nine of the Provinces, with Premier Bennett and his Federal authorities at Ottawa, appear to be in harmony in this respect. It has been agreed that the Statute of Westminster, passed by the British Parliament in 1865, holds as “repugn#nt” to England’s laws all laws passed by. the Provinces or Federal authority of Canada in the face of England's disapproval. Canada also, it is said, has come to the belief that the Dominion’s Supreme Courts constitute the final Courts of Canadian legislation, and that all appeals to the Privy Council, so far as Canada is concerned, are to be terminated. Canada, under the terms of the new proposals, would take over from British authority control of Canada all Canadian shipping, an important and far-reach- ing move. In other words, according to the interpretation of Canada’s most eminent authority on Dominion law, John S. Ewart, King's Counsel, Canada is to become absolutely independent, from the stand- point of legislative enactment, from any control whatsoever of the British Parliament. Thus Canada refuses longer to be a ‘“colony” if the controversialists have their way, and it seems that they are most likely to do so. The war is one between “imperialists” and ‘“separatists” the Jatter remaining true to obligations to the British North American Act of 1867, by which Canada was constituted a dominion and which guarantees the special rights of French and Roman Catholic Can- adian citizens. “In the Neck” for Alaska. (Fairbanks News-Miner.) An Associated Press dispatch received by the News-Miner today says the Government will main- tain the present salary scales and that no employees will be discharged, although in a number of de- partments work has slackened to a point where some employees could be dispensed with. This is a ‘White House announcement. Being a Territory, Alaska does not have a vote for President or Congress, therefore we were shoved out in the cold when it came to helping our un- employed along the Government’s own railroad. A Senatorial committee visited us last summer on of- ficial business, and after a few weeks in Alaska decided too much money was being appropriated for the upkeep and running of the Government rail- road. They recommended a “reduction in every- thing” but freight rates, which they increased about fifty per cent. They sliced a “bunch of dough” off our annual appropriation, cut down the working force, thus ad- ding to the unemployment. In fact Alaska “got it in the neck” because we have no vote in Congress, and the Senators don’t give a tinker's cuss about anyone who is unable to help them get back to Washington. They are looking for votes, not the development of a country like “Alaska. They forget that Seward's purchase of Alaska for $7,200,000 has brought back to Uncle Sam that amount many times in seal skins alone, many more times in gold. The Wrong Way. (Alaska Weekly.) Prohibition Director Col. Amos W. W. Woodeock in an interview in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, expressed his belief in the necessity of an educa- tional campaign before® true Prohibition enforce- ment would be made possible. To quote Col Woodcock, “The only thing that can have any ef- fect on the personal habits of the people—outside of what we can do to cut down the supply of liquor —is an educational campaign designed to teach that it is the duty of citizens to obey the law and that the use of liquor is harmful.” We doubt the efficacy of the Colonel's plan. The very nature of the word “Prohibition” antagonizes educational effort and the receptive mood of those to be educated. When a Government ‘“prohibits” and then must educate the governed to obey the Prohibition there is efther a weakness in the Government of .an inherent weakness in the Prohibition itself. A sane law which can gain and hold the respect of the country at large and then a campaign in the interests of temperance would be far more in keep- ing with the tradition and temper of the American public. Col. Woodcock's statement would lead us to believe that, in the case of the Prohibitiod law, the “strong arm of the law” had become somewhat palsied. " % ‘What with thrones growing increasingly unpopu- lar, it will soon be recited, “For I'm to be Presi- dent of the May, mother; I'm to be President of the May."—(New York Herald Tribune.) In spite of all the wisecracks about Petaluma chickens and eggs the State of Washington leads California in egg shipments. The Evergreen State’s egg business was one of the few industries, if it might be called an industry, to show a galn in 1930 over 1929. The Seattle Business Chronicle contains these statistics of egg production and shipments from the Pacific Coast: Total shipments of eggs from Washing- ton last year amount to 2,156 cars, gain of 70 over 1929 shipments, according to com- pilations made for the Seattle Chamber of A German who committed nine murders has been sentenced to die nine times. The last eight, however, will be postponed.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.) RAISE GOLD SHIP COMES IN JUNE Islander Expect;ed to Be on Beach after Four Hecavy equipment for raising the treasure ship Islander and drag- ging her ashore |reach Juneau early next month, ac- cording to advices received by Rus- sell Clithero and Capt. C. A. Hayes, who are holding the barge Brem- erton over the wreck, from Curtis Brothers, contractors of Seattle and Portland, who recently acquired a controlling interest in the salvage rights to the sunken vessel. This summer when operations are fully under way, there will be 40 workers on the job. At present, Mr. Clithero and Captain Hayes have fonly two assistants. Captain Hayes |lately has made a number of de- scents in the diving apparatus to the submerged ship, but these have heen to study her position rather than to attompt forthwith recovery of her riches. Included in the equipment to be brought North next month is a large barge, This barge will be placed over the wreck. At first a few heavy chains will be lowered and put under the ship’s uptilted stern. ends of the chains will be made fast to the barge. At low tide their slackness ‘they will be tightened by winches. High tide is expected to lift more of the vessel off the bottém of the ocean bed, can be placed under the craft. This process will be repeated until 20 Months’ Work i is expected to 40 Winches on Barge zchievement. having 40 winches, The surfacz will be taken up and M. M. Degree. order of the W. M. so additional chains —adv. PO chains will have been put under the ship from stern to stem. At every low tide, these 20 chains will be tightened. Every high tide is expected to lift the sunken ves- sel off the floor of the sea and she and the barge will be worked to- ward shore. = According to latest calculations, the raising and dragging operations PHONE 359 Authoress, settlement worker and founder of Hull House, Jane dams is pictured above on the oc:| o casion when she was presented| | with the M. Carey Thomas by the alumnae of Bryn College, Pa. The prize is awardec to an American woman at inter vals in recognition of an eminen’ —— Al Oklahomans obtain $1,000,000,000 yearly in new wealth from the|s J. W. LEIVERS, Secretary. TaE JunEAU LAUNDRY Franklin Street, between Front and Second Streets Ad- Monday rize awt State's natural resources, the State " Geological Survey estimates. —————— — ATTENTION MASONS There will be Called Communica- tion of Mt.!|Juneau Lodge No. 147 at the Masonic Temple, evening, May 18th. Work in the Members and visit- ing Brethern urged to attend. By e ] Four Months' Work - | Music--Entertainment furnished for will occupy four months and then DANCES—PARTIES the ship wilk have been taken suf- LODGE GATHERINGS ficiently far up the beach to be ex- | “SMOKEY” MILLS posed at low tides. In such position the vessel's safe e and strong boxes will found and forced to yield their contents. For almost 30 years the treasure craft has lain where she sank in 380 feet of water off the southern end of Douglas Island. Her wealth of Klondike gold, which was taken aboard at Skagway for discharge at | Vancouver, $3,000,000. LOST NECKLACE NEW YORK, May 18—The $90,- 000 necklace lost by Mrs. Converse Strong, fornta, has been found a radio mes- sage liner Roma said. The necklace will be returned to her. indication of thievery involved. The report of the loss was made Fri- day after Mrs. Strong returned to her apartment from seeing a friend off on the Roma. Telephone 402 soon be B. C, is estimated at FOUND ON SHIP Better of Santa Barbara, Cali- from the captain of the There is no BUSY WHY Not Only Cheaper but RICE & AHLERS CO. GOOD PLUMBING “We tell you in advance what job will cost” =e-s=sesssscassd) | & sEaasssESTeTeeETeessiseseesseE Meadowbrook Butter ALASKA MEAT CO. QUALITY AND SERVICE TO YOUR LIKING PHONE 39 Pioneer Pool Hall Telephone 183 EMPLOYMENT OFFICE THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS THE GASTINEAU P Austin Fresh Tamales Deliveries—10:30, 2:30, 4:30 B POOL—BILLIARDS Chas. Miller, Prop. Our Services to- You Begin and End at the Gang Plank of Every Passenger-Carrying Boat Our Saving;; Department * We wish"to call your attention to the fact that this bank main- gram. That's no worse than having a program Bishop Nicholson says the Wets have no pro- that doesn't work.—(Detroit Free Press.) In this country the cry, “Down with the Bour- bon,” would be suggestive of whoopee.—(Toledo Blade.) 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Robert Simpson Opt. D. ! Graduate Los Angeles Col- I| lege of Optometry and ! Opthalmology l Giasses Fitted, "nses Ground | DE. . E. SOUTHWELL | Optometrist-Optician { Eyes Examined—Glasses Fittea | | Room 17, Valentine Bldg. | | i Office phone 484, residense phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 | to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 L Epans 319 o | Secretary. e . | ORDER OF EASTERN STAR Drs. Barton & Doelker Second and Four:y CHIROPRACTORS ; 4 Tuesdays of each month at 8 o'clock, Scottish Rite Temple. JESSI2 KELLER, Worthy Mat. ron; FANNY L. ROB. INSON, Secretary. KWIGHTS OF COLUMBUS 3 Seghers Council No. 1764 eetings second and lan Monday at 7:30 p. m Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Counci Chambers, Fifth Streei JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. DOUGLAS AERIE 117 F. O. E Mects first and third &Mmdays 8 o'clock «t Eagles Hal Douglas. ALEX GAIR, W. P GUY SMITH, Secretary. Visiting brothers welcome. Hazel James Madden Teacher of the Pianoforte and exponent of the Dunning System of Improved Music Study Leschetizky Technic—Alchin Harmony Studio, 206 Main St. Phone 196 JUNEAU-YOUNG I Funeral Parlors Licensed Funeral Directors l and Embalmers Night Phone 336-2 Day Phene 12 | Famous Candies The Cash Bazaar Open Evenings HAAS i ROGCM and BOARD Mrs. John B. Marshall PHONE 2201 I CARBAGE HAULED AND LOT CLEANING - ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. wOO0D HEMLOCK FOR KITCHEN RANGES FOR HEATERS FOR FIREPLACES $4.50 Load Ing 12,14, 16 & u-lneillu;fil CHESTER BARNESON Telephone 039, 1 long, 1 short or 91 Economy Cash Store First and Main —— Quartz ,ana pracer location no- tices at The Emplre. ——— .y Our trucks go any place amy time. 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