The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 19, 1931, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1931 Daily Aiaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER e e oS COMBANT Rt Second” and’ Main Alaska. in June T Streets, Juneau, s Second Class Fntered in the Post Offic 2 <UBSCRIPTION RATES, | Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Thane for $1.25 per month. By mail, pos paid, at the following rates: ‘vear, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, month, in dvance, $1.25 a favor if they will promptly Treadwell and one cribers will con ; 1otify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity 3 in the delivery of their papers % 4 Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated s ntitled to the clusively ws dispatches credited to 1 this paper and also the Press is THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION CHAMPIONSHIP The defeat of Mate in the Kentucky Derby by Twenty Grand adds to the uncertainty of the final decision for the 1931 champion horse, though it unquestionable shows that Twenty Grand’s speed in the race was impressive. He cut two ssconds off the Kentucky Derby time record. But Mate defeated Twenty Grand in the Peakness. Gallant Fox won both races last year. However, a lot of races are yet to be run and to their outcome must we look for the championship of the year. None of the big Belmont track races have yet been run. Belmont Stakes are larger than either the Preakness or the Kentucky Derby. Gallant Fox won $66,040 when he came in first in the Belmont last year. Lawrence Realization which yielded $30,- 000 to Gallant Fox last year, the Withers Stakes, won by Whichone in 1930, the Metropolitan Handi- cap, the Suburban Handicap, Coaching Club, Am- erican Oaks Stakes, Jockey Club Cup (won by Gallant Fox last year) and many other notable Belmont ; races are yet to be run. The Saratoga season will not begin until August There are some big races there, including the Mid- summer Derby, in which Gallant Fox sustained his only defeat last year when he ran second to Jim Dandy; the Saratoga Cup and a score of others. Many big races have yet to be run at the Aqueduct, Jamaica, Pimlico (including the Dixie and Pimlico handicaps and other races), Laurel, Havre de Grace, Churchill Downs, Lexington, Haw- H § thorne, Latonia, Washington Park, Lincoln Fields and other tracks. In fact, there have been only three of the very large races of the year run to date: Coffroth Handicap, the richest of them all, won by Mike Holt; the Preakness, won by Mate and the Ken- tucky Derby, won by Twenty Grand. While the Kentucky Derby is talked and written of more than any other American race, a large majority of the outstanding champion horses never participated in it. Salvator, Sysonby, Colin, Sir i Martin, Novelty, Roamer, Campfire, Sun Briar, 3 Eternal, Man o War, Pillory, Sarazen, Crusader, Anita Peabody, High Strung, Blue Larksspur and other champion racers never figured in a Ken- tucky Derby. LITERATURE IN ADVERTISING. One of the evidences of the importance moderns attach to advertising is the character of literature that one reads in the advertisements now and again. A notable instance of fine writing in an advertise- ment, recently to come under notice, is that of the Canadian National in calling public attention to its Alaska tours. Under the pregnant head (worthy of special note itself) “The Sun Waits Up While You See Alaska,” is the following: ' June in the neighboring Northland brings a scenic pageant known around the world. Snow-covered mountains that rise majestical- ly from the water’s edge . . . islands in an emerald sea . . . giant glaciers that crackle and thunder . . . wild flowers growing, in a riot of color, to double size. And over all, the waiting summer sun that sinks so slow- ly . . . to rise again with no thought of night! DRYS FOR WET GOV. ROOSEVELT. Gov. Dern of Utah, who describes himself as a “nominal dry,” is strongly supporting Gov. Roose- velt for President. He says there is no opposition to him among Western Democrats, and he declared that if the nominations and elections were to be this year he would be nominated and elected not- withstanding his pronounced -wetness. Gov. Dern is in line with most of the formerly self-proclaimed drys, many of whom refused to sup- port Gov. Smith in 1928. The outspoken support of Gov. Roosevelt among those who complained that Gov. Smith was wet leads to the suspicion that some of them bolted Gov. Smith for other reasons than wetness. However, Gov. Dern is not among these. He was a stanch backer of the redoubt- able Al. But his dryness is only nominal. REWARD FOR HARD WORK. Walter A. Strong, head of the Chicago News organization, died the other day at the age of 47 years and left a sortune of $2,500,000. He ac- cumulated this as a working newspaper man. He began as a clerk in the business office of the Chi- cago Record at sixteen. When the Record quit publication he went to the News where he served successively as auditor’s clerk, auditor and business manager. When Victor F. Lawson, owner of the News, died in 1925, Strong got an option on the paper for $15,000000. He organized the business and editorial staffs of the News into a company, got each of the employees to dig up all the money he could raise with which to buy stock and got * Chicago banks to carry the rest of the load. " Walter Strong was put at the head of the com- ‘pany. In six years it paid off the banks and ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER | 1 |ments he Hard work | se1f out did They probably won't. by a Caught reporter touring “Flying Dragon” in which he once |burned the roads. | | miles an hour” Not | motor tourist would |in that Kentucky Derby Saturday Alaska Salesmen. (Seward Gateway.) Territory of Alaska for many years. measurabely possible. To a certain extent the binds the people of the States and interest. into the city the vigor of Alaska. Long ago was the erroneous idea hotels. In due time he gets of the professions; therefore, put “on the road.” man."” Since chandise! Women Publishers. (Wrangell Sentinel.) been in Wrangell this week. Alaska was remarkable. his 70,000 miles of travel countered but three women publication. lisher. one is simply carrying on to the best come out.” (Cincinnati Enquirer.) The Judges allot ten minutes for a than that. length of time. Whatever one may think of the and restrictions that will not shock decent mind. and aspects of tragedy. and to sanctify the homes of men the gravest and most serious reasons. tion of marriage grow alarming. (Dayton, Ohio, Journal.) he made some music. is cheaper.—(Dallas News.) A Kansas editor wants Mr. Hoover to smile What about?—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) more. | Strong's stock made him two-and-a-half times better What this country needs is a Be-Kind-to-Em- than a millionaire. In addition to these achieve- ployees Week.—(New York Herald Tribune.) in a sedan, Barney Oldfield was taunted about He admitted that slowed hime down and he now prefers conservative driving at a speed that one might keep up all the |time day after day—'say about sixty or sixty-five o slow at that, the ordinnryi When Mrs. Whitney gave Twenty Grand his high ounding name, she may have thought she had given the colt the best of it, but she underestimated him. | He beat twenty grand at least two-and-a-half times The big business firms in the States, like Ma- homet, will go to the mountain if the altitudinous realty declines to come to him. Salesmen from all over the United States have been penetrating the Besides creating closer fellowship, they help im- in making stupid provincialism Alaskan with the golden shackles of commerce, of mutual He brings the polish of the city; a salesman led the so-called life of Riley; he spent his time paying attention to charming young ladies or picking his teeth in front of swell his stomach educated to accept anything without a protest, and is able to sleep on a hay-wire mattress without having a nightmare. Not that Alaska restaurants and hotels hand out this line, but only to illustrate the point. The rewards of commerce are greater than those the very best and brightest minds that commerce can command, are The salesman is a disciple of Pope who wrote, “The proper study of mankind is 1867 Alaska has purchased United States more than $900,000,000 worth of mer- An itinerant scissors and tool sharpener, who calls himself the “West Virginia Globe Trotter” and who claims to have traveled 70,000 miles going from place to place during the past twelve years, has When confronted with a woman in the Sentinel office after asking for scissors to sharpen, he seemed genuinely astonished and when leaving said that He declared that in all of in the States running newspapers, then came to Alaska and found two women less than 150 miles apart doing the actual work of He referred to Mrs. E. Stroller's Weekly, Juneau, and the Sentinel pub- ~ Those who know the circumstances know there is nothing remarkable about either woman. the work which during the past few months was taken from the hands of her husband. newspaper business the first consideration, no matter how weary grows the way, is that “the paper must The Divorce Machine. The divorce machine is working in Reno, Nevada. Three hundred cases were set for the first day. pect to handle the majority of them in less time The six-weeks residence law is in force. Many applicants have lived in Reno only the required marriage, to the majority of men and women this superlative ease provided for breaking the shackles of wedlock will smack somewhat of indecent haste. Divorce may at times be necessary—is necessary— but it should be guarded and influenced by rules Divorce is bad enough in any case. The wreck of lives and romance suggests always the elements Especially is this so when there are children to be considered—the lone and lorn waifs of mismatings, or a love grown cold. Who can think of the little girls and boys reft, in any circumstance, from the home and fireside and not feel a pang of pity, of sorrow for them? It is not so much the parents that count—it is the Potentialities of the children’s lives in the future. Perhaps the easy divorce business States will prove to be remunerative, and satis- factory, to those who consider only the lure of gold, the whims of personality, the convenience of a system which enables them to cast aside, with indifferent ease, bonds intended to be permanent well may exist; but the assaults upon the institu- The Finnish Parliament has increased ta: legal alcoholic content of beer from 1.6 to 2.25. ently Finland is learning to distinguish betwe: condition and a theory.—(Buffalo Cour\er-Expre».‘! They're surely making strong efforts to get Klan Leader Stephenson out of Indiana prison, and they'd better hurry, or when he gets out there won't be any Klan to lead.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.) To most people the dandelion is plainly a nuis- ance. To others it is food and to others, drink Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but at least The Seventy-first Congress didn't even sound good.—(Los Angeles Times.) The Spaniards may be right in wanting a re- public, but they are wrong if they think a republic worked his way through two college courses, engineering and law, while a young man. | is the explanation of this | But Walter Strong died at 47. He had worn him- He is survived by four young sons. |us hope they will not work as hard as their Jad record Let standard the old upon A ime time had im- salesman the Territory and dispelled that that from the| he en- J. White of Each of her ability In the case, but ex- institution of the normally in certain for less than Such reasons Appar- al Mellon’s St;n to The old stone mansion on the ville, Va., has a new owner. UFPERVILLE, Va., May 19— Lured by the sport of kings, Paul Mellon, son of the secretary of the treasury, is to join the northern colony cof turf followers on the edge of the blue grass country here. The purchase of the 400-acre race horse farm, “Blue Ridge Stud,” by Andrew Mellon for hisson, was announced with the opening of the Virginia horse season. The farm, also known as “Rokeby,” was bought from Admiral Cary T. Gray- son and the heirs of the late Sam- uel L. Ross, joint owners. It is lo- cated in Fauquier county. The secretary’s son now is a stu- dent in Cambridge, and it is under- stood he will bring back to America a string of thoroughbreds bought in Europe when he takes possession of the property. It was in the “Blue Ridge Stud” stables that such well known horses as King ‘James, Vulcain and Say- ette were bred. The $65,000 Strolling Player, and P AND Not Only Cheaper but Better EEsEssssssEes= m————— RICE & AHLERS CO. | GOOD PLUMBING “We tell you in advance what job will cost” Of Blue Grass Turf Colony The 400 acre farm was bought by Secre- tary Andrew Mellon for his son Paul (inset). Join Ranks “Blue Ridge Stud” farm at Upper- MERRIMAKERS REORGANIZING: LEADER COMES Carl Fridlund Arrives on Alaska—First Dance Tomorrow Night The Merrimakers, dance orches- tra, is reorganizing under a new leader and the five-piece combina- tion will give their first dance to- morrow night in A. B. Hall. Carl Fridlund, accordion player, arrived this morning on the steam- er Alaska from Ketchikan where he has been leader of the “Home Towners” orchestra, one of the best in Alaska. Today he took active leadership of the Merrimakers and promises the best dance music to be heard in Juneau. Mr. Fridlund has made a name for himself as an accordion player | haying broadcasted from many of the principal stations at various times in the Middle West. BT e H‘Wy Argo, imported from Eng- land and Ireland, also are at the farm. With the Virginia horse country gradually moving eastward, “Blue Ridge Stud,’ 'and “Carter Hall,"” in %rfike county, recently bought by t Bond Lambert of St. Louis now stand as sentinels on the bor- ders of the blue grass region. “Blue Ridge Stud” was founded by the late H. T. Oxnard and has become one of the best known breeding establishments in the country. While not the largest in Virginia, it ranks among the best horse farms. ‘A. Skelhorne, life insurance bro- | ker, arrived on a business trip. ——— Meadowbrook Butter PHONE 39 ALASKA MEAT CO. QUALITY AND SERVICE TO YOUR LIKING Deliveries—10:30, 2:30, 4:30 e ) Austin Fresh Tamales Telephone 183 EMPLOYMENT OFFICE Thoughts “The difference bet Wanamaker. 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Councll Chambers, Fifth Street JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary., AR LNl . § T i Bl DOUGLAS AERIE 117 F. O. E. Mevts first and third &mmflmm 8 o'clock, tt Eagles Hall Douglas. ALEX GAIR, W. P. GUY SMITH, Secretary. Visiting brothers welcome. v Our trucks go any place aay time. A tank for Diesel OM and a tank for crude oil save burner trouble. ) PHONE 149, NIGET 148 | RELIABLE TRANSFER 8 4 NEW RECORDS NEW SHEET MUSIC RADIO SERVICE Expert Radio Repairing Radio Tubes and Supplies JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE C——— JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY Moves, ‘Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Prompt ‘Delivery of ALL KINDS OF COAL Garments made or pressed by us retain their shape PHONE 528 | TOM SHEARER ¥ f PLAY BILLIARDS BURFORD’S GENERAL PAINT CONTRACTING Those planning exterior work this summer should place their orders now to insure comple- tion while the weather lasts. B. W. BURKE TELEPHONE 4151 Alaska’s Resident Decorator . . .u