The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 23, 1931, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER| Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING GOMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska Entered in the Post Office i Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and | Thane for st 25 per month, at the following rates: By mall, postage 20 six months, in advance, 25. One year, in advan $6.00; one month, in nee, $1 SBubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly sotify the Business Offfce of any failure or irregularity | i the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated 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 THE GERMAN REPARATIONS. The proposal of President Hoover to declare a war reparations and war debt paying holiday has been accepted as timely generosity. It has, tem- porarily, at least, given affairs throughout the world a brighter aspect. However, it suggests a wonder as to what will be the outlook when payments are resumed a year hence. The New York Herald Tribune, formerly stanch protagonest of protection, stated the causes that led up to the Chequers conference, where Chancellor Bruening so eloquently pled for relief, as follows: The reparations problem that was sup- posed to have been settled onecs for all by the Young Plan only two brief years ago, once more is acute. The rise in the value of gold, the busi- ness crisis that set in following the crash of the New York Stock Exchange in 1929, and the economic folly of most nations of the world in raising their tariff barriers, have played ducks and drakes with the calcula- tions on which that plan was based. This statement of the situation is authentic and fair. And it suggests that permanent relief in the world of industry and commerce has not yet been provided for. That can only come with tar- iff reductions so that there may be trade and in- dustrial activity, President Hoover has done all that he can do now, for which credit is due. But before the year's holiday shall have expired, Con- gress will meet. It could and ought to reduce the monstrous Hawley-Smoot tariff, and thus set an example for other countries to follow. A SEASONED AND FINELY TEMPERED “RADICAL.” There are ample instances in history to furnish evidence that often the most effective statesman is a radical who has been sobered by the realities of life and tempered by experience. It sometimes seems that it is easier to gain stability through hard knocks than it is to gain liberality in that way. It is natural for the tempestuous youth to become more conservative with the accumulation of wisdom. But the conservative youth often becomes reaction- ary as he becomes older. Mark Sullivan, famous political writer and au- thor of books on American political history, a Re- publican, contributes a notable article on former Secretary Newton D. Baker to the Republican New York Herald Tribune in which he declares that he believes Mr. Baker, a former radical, possesses the most powerful, most accurate and finest mind in America. Mr. Sullivan notes that Mr. Baker entered Pres- jdent Wilson’s Cabinet, fresh from the Mayorality of Cleveland, with a reputation for radicalism. He was looked upon as “unsafe,” a ‘“reformer.” Mr. Sullivan thinks, on account of this pre- Jjudgment, Mr. Baker did'not get a square deal from the public during the war. But the complete vindi- cation of Baker's appointee and close personal and political associate, Assistant Secretary of War Crow- ell, who had been made a target for anti-Baker sentiment and who was actually indicted, Vice- President Dawes's famous “Hell-and-Maria” speech and his several subsequent utterances, Gen. Persh- ing's many undiluted tributes, and other things caused the people to realize soon after the World War was over that the United States had had a world wonder for War Minister during that great conflict. But Mr. Baker came into full flower after he retired to private life and soon had the largest law practice in the great State of Ohio. He is a member of the boards of directors of railroads, banks and other institutions and a trustee for colleges and other institutions of civilization. Just the other day Princeton followed several other colleges in be- stowing upon him a degree—LL. D. Summing up this man of large political, official and civil experience at the age of sixty, Mark Sulll- van said: Today, any careful and disinterested attempt to evaluate American public men and leaders of thought—in short important American personalities in the best sense—would place Mr. Baker very high. The writer of this article thinks Mr. Baker has, in an import- ant sense, the most distinguished mind in America—in the sense of power and accuracy combined with fineness, flexibility and grace. The new and juster estimate of Mr. Baker's quality is shared by the public and by the most elevated sources of judgment. CRIME AGAINST JAMESTOWN. Expert writers on the sports pages of metro- politan newspapers coincide with The Empire's com- ment the day after the race when it said it was a crime against a splendid horss to put the great Jamestown, the two-year-old champion last year, in the Belmont Stakes against the stanchest long- distance horse since Exterminator, holder of the two- mile record. It was a pity to let a horse, after go- ing through all that Jamestown went through, that _came back as gamely as he did in the Withers Stakes, probably the greatest mile race in the coun- |try, to run to certain defeat a half mile vbe)ond his distance against peerless Twenty Grand, |already famed for stamina. “Johnny the Immune,” former leader of Chicago Gangland, who boasts that he, when he tired of ducal robes, brought ‘“Scarface Al” from Brooklyn and sat him on the throne, now prolaims himself leader again “Johnny the Immune” says “Scar- | face Al" abdicated and pled guilty to the indict- | ments because he ordered him to “take the rap.” And this is the self-governing land of the free and | home of the brave. } Just as the esteemed Stewart Edward White is |in the midst of his task of picking out an Alaska island for a National Park comes the suggestion of the Secretary of the Interior that the Island |of Guam, slated for demilitarization, be designed as a National Park. Now, please, Mr. White, take Guam! We'll help to transport the brown bears. Trying Alexander Pantages is a California in- dustry that the depression has not yet curbed. Our Island in the Pacific. (New York Herald Tribune.) The Secretary of the Interior, according to the Washington dispatches, has fixed his eye upon the Island of Guam. That tiny section of sovereignty,) buried in the Pacific wates, is already slated for| “demilitarization” in the interests of economy and the Washington treaty; and it is reported that Dr. Wilbur has seized the opportunity to suggest its donversion into a National Park. It would be the final indignity. Three thousand miles from Hono- lulu, 1,300 miles from the Philippines and no less than 800 miles even from the Japanese garrison on the Bonin Islands, it would be about the loneliest park in the world. Whatever anthropological secrets | it might preserve, the traveler happening upon it| would still be like a man encountering a botanical garden in the middle of the Sahara; and it was certainly not because of its desirability as a Na- tional Park that the island was added to the territory of the United States,amid the excitements, now thirty-three years ago, of the Spanish-American War. The name of Lieutenant William Braunersreuther, U. S. N, has not echoed down the corridors of fame, but he it was who on June 21, 1898, almost single-handed captured the Island of Guam, the Spanish Governor, the Governor's Secretary and the fifty-eight officers and men of the Spanish Marines who composed its forgotiten garrison. The American expedition to the Philippines had been instructed to stop at Guam on its way. According; to the legend, when the ocnvoying cruiser fired a few shots into the abandoned fortifications which {they found there, the Governor sent off a launch to acknowledge the courtesy of the “salute” and to explain that it had not been returned because the island was devoid of powder. However that may be, it is certain that when the Spanish officers came aboard the American cruiser they learned for the first time that a state of war existed between the United States and Spain and discovered that| they were prisoners. Next morning Lieutenant Braunersreuther was sent off with some troops to secure the surrender from the Governor. There was a “formal introduc- tion.” The Lieutenant “casually” pointed out to the official that there was an overwhelming force in the harbor; the Governor “thanked me [as the Lieutenant said in his report] and retired to a building near by with his advisers. Twenty-nine minutes later he reapeared and handed me a sealed envelope.” The capture of Guam had been effected. It seems that the original idea was that the| Spaniards had a coal supply there, but there was no coal there. There was nothing there except the diminutive garrison, four Spanish flags, fifty-two | Mauser rifles and sixty-two Remingtons—and three | swords belonging to the officers. | It was the one great event in Guam's history. During the World War a garrison of fighting United States Marines, anxious for nothing better than a chance at a German, did their bit by sur- | veying the limitless horizons of the Pacific trom‘ Guam, waiting for the enemy who never arrived. The Wrong Way. (Cincinnati Enquirer) German churches, it is said, are being depopu- lated. The Government has prepared to fight atheist drives with penalties. It claims that the churches have lost 2,500,000 members in radical and| free-thought campaigns, and President Hindenburg is empowered to punish all such traducers and is sald to be ready to act. It is the old formula; but you cannot kill ideas by law, rather they become more resistant, more widely disseminated. Any form of the auto de fey is incompetent to stay the rush of new ideas. The drastic campaign instituted by the German Gov- ernment against all anti-religious bodies, judging by the light of experience, will only add to the flames| of wide anti-religious effort, giving body and sub- stance to a thing which may grow more and more sinister as its advocates are given the role of mar- tyrs. Free thought is essential in the scheme, of democracy. In its ugly phases—when it contradicts the popular conventional view—it is best handled as America and England handle it. So handled, all the evil in it soon dies and is forgotten. Hubby May Need the Money. (New York Herald Tribune) Mrs. Helen Wills Moody won't contest at Wim- bledon this year because, they say, the United States Lawn Tennis Association won't pay her expenses. And she says that she won't go professional, either. She will, it seems to us, fight it out on the base line of amateurism if it takes all summer. Qr anyway until the end of August. We are a professional wonderer, and so we won- der what Mrs. Moody will say next Septmeber when and if she signs for professionalism, and the cinema. “My first duty,” she may say, “is to my husband.” A Man who took part in two burglaries and was caught in both of them was ruled out as an expert witness in a local court. By the same token some of the kibitzers who stand on the sidelines and tell |you how to bid your hand at bridge, should be shot at sunrise—(Bellinghgm Herald). Still, maybe if you took a census of the French people, they would vote to give us back a dozen American Mayors and one utility outfielder for Miss Texas Guinan.—(New York Herald Tribune). What with Germany’s new vest-pocket cruiser, what we will need in the next war instead of Ad- mirals and all that sort of thing is a good pick- pocket squad.—(New York Post). Calling an extra sesslon of Congress to relieve | chief, GEN. “BILLY" HOW TO FLY One-Time EE of Govern- ment Aviators Shows How It Is Done By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23— While those hundreds of army aviators were staging their man- euvers over the capital on Mem- orial day, their one time boss was putting on a private show of his own which went by virtually un- noticed. General “Billy” Mitchell came up from his estate at Middleburg, Va., where he is living the life of a country gentleman, and did a little flying of his own. For the first time in five years he took the controls of a plane and flew it to Philadephia and back. In the passenger seat was an old friend ready to take over the ship if necessary. But he was not needed. Whether it was a coincidence or not, it is interesting that the for- mer flying chief of the army re- turned to the air for the first time just five years after he resigned. His court martial sentence for speaking out of turn about Uncle Sam’s air force was for that period, too. So it looks as if the general vol- untarily served his sentence, though out of the army entirely. ZETAINS OLD SKILL Those who witnessed his fight say he has lost none of the skill of the old days. Despite the fact that planes nowadays have more gadgets than when he flew, he was lit- tle bothered. He was the pilot all the way and made each takeoff and landing. ‘When he was the army’s flying Mitchell had a habit of vio- ilating those rules governing army pilots which were issued under his direction. The one, for instance, against zooming a plane unward at the takeoff he broke repeatedly. He also was fond of carrying his gun along on short flights and drop- ping down in a field to hunt. Once when he was overdue, offi- cials became alarmed and tried to locate him. After a while he flew in, stepped from his plane with his gun in one hand and leading two of his prize hunting dogs. SPURRED AIR PROGRAM Incidentally, the army’s gigantic air maneuvers just completed c¢an be traced to Mitchell. It was the row over aviation, crystallizing in his court martial, which caused President Coolidge to appoint the commission which rec- ommended the five year aviation building program, of which the planes in these maneuvers com- prise about one-third of the total, And, to, the rise of Dwight Mor-. row in public life finds its inception there. For it was Morrow Whom President Coolidge appointed to head this aviation commission—his first public service. From that post the New Jersey senator went as ambassador to Mexico, delegate to the London naval conference and to the United States senate. Slump in Silver Booms Real Estate in Canton OANTON, China, June 23—The low value of silver has caused a boom in real estate here. Land prices have risen 80 per cent since the first of the year. The heaviest investors are Chi- nese living in the United States. With one gold dollar worth five in silver, they have been sending con- siderable sums in American cur- rency for investment in Canton lots. In the business district a general reconstruction is under way. Old wooden buildings are coming down and modern office and shop struc- tures are going up. i B DS B. P. O. ELKS Regular meeting, Wednesday, at 8:30. Initiation. (adv.) M. H. SIDES, Sccretary, ————— Quarta and placer location no- ices at The Empire. STILL KNOWS | Great Buddha of Nara should and a half years old, but he’s rap- idly assuming the proportions of some of the seventh wonders which a famous author 6f the same Christian name was wont to write about. Jules (above), son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tewlow, of Chi: cago, lacks only a few ounces of | wexg&nmz 100 pounds He npped 'the scales at eight ounces at birth and gained 19 ounces per weeb ifor weeks. Like to meet him in a dark alley? NARA, Japan, sune 23—Earnings of the Buddha images in Japan have fallen off 40 per cent since! the world business made itself felt. The earnings come from small entrance fees which are charged visitors. Spring is usually the best paying time and January the worst, Local Buddhaist authorities timate that the earnings of depression es- the av- erage $5,000 a month. i 183 TAXI STAND AT PIONEER POOL ROCM Day and Night Service i Arnold’s Bootery REMOVAL SALE Now On Jules Tewlow may be only three | e e Juneau Public Library Free Reading Room City Hall, Second Floor Main Street and Fourth Reading Room Open From 8a m to 10 p. m. Circulation Room Open from 1 to 5:30 p. m.—7:00 to 8:30 OLD DUGOUTS JARRED Buildings, Lots, Cabins and Platforms, Sold or Ex- o CONCRETE FOUNDATION WORK OUR PAI!TICULAR HOBBY. ROX & MOODY General Contractors TEL. 374, we ‘acquire good habits That is a fact. The habit of thrift the depression would be about as effective as mobil- izing the National Guard to suppress an epidemic of mumps.—(Ohlo State Journal.) As we undesstand one very frank publicist, pure politics is poor politics.—(Philadelphia Inquirer). Herbert Spencer on Habit “We are creatures of habit. fail as we acquire good habits or bad ones; and Most people don’t believe that. Only those who find it out succeed in life.” We succeed or we as easily as bad ones. is most important for success. Our Savings Department will render you admirable assistance in saving for the future. The B. M. Behrends Bank OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA — -~ NEXT AMERICAN LEGION SMOKER A. B. iall JULY 3RD V. P. Johinson FRIGIDAIRE DELCO LIGHT PRODUCTS MAYTAG WASHING MACHINES GENERAL MOTORS RADIOS || ‘ Phone 17 ; ] Front Street Junezu ‘ L + Ao o. . [ [ You Can Save Money at || Our Store ('l SEE US FIRST | Harris Hardware Co. | Lower Front Street i [ . o s e e i Juneau Auio | | | Drs.Barton & Doelker PROFESSIONAL | | [ | Helene W.L. Albreche | FHYSIOTHERAPY | Massage, Electrizity, Infra Red | Ray, Medizal Gymnastics. i 410 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 te . oo L e G DRS. KEASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. | PHONE 58 | F-urs 8 2. m. to 9 p. m. | Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building Telephrme 176 I | | | .- . | | Dr. J. W. Bayne | DENTIST y | Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. | Office rours, 9 am. to 5 pm. | Evenings by appointment. Phone 321 Fraternal Societies oF Gastineau Channel \ ) B. P. O. ELKS Meeting every 2nd Wednesday in month during sum- mer at 8 o'clock, Elks’ Hall. Visiting brothers welcome. M. S. JORGENSEN, Exalted Ruler. M. H. SIDES, Secretary. Co-Ordinate Bod- les of Freemason- rr Scottish Rite Regular meetinge second Friday each month ar 7:30 p. m Scot- tish Rite Temple WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE, NO. 700 Meets Monday 8 p. m. Ralph Reischl, Dictator Legion of Moose No. 25 meets first and third Tuesdays G. A. Baldwin, Secretary and Herder, P. D. Box 273. Dr. A. W. Stewart | | DENTIST Hours § & m. to § p. . | | SEWARD BUILLING Officc Phone 469, Res. | Phone 276 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. I; Second and fourth Mon- day of each mouth in A\ Seottish Rite Temple, C § - heginning at 7:30 p. m. 1,\‘? H.,L REDLINGSHAPF- %% ER, Master; JAMES W. LEIVERA Secretary. Paint Shop Phone 477 Verl J. Groves Car Painting, Washing, P olishing, Simonizing, Chassis Painting, Touch- Up Work, Top Dressing. Old cars made to look like new ! Come in and get our low ) prices l i { 3 { SEE YURMAN for New Fur Garment | Styles lYURM AN, the Furrier ! SHOE REPATIRING A big variety of Land Ofter, Mink, Marten and other skins ALL RUBBER HEELS, 50c SEE BIG VAN for your selection. Opposite Coliseum Repairing and Remodeling Triangle Building DON’T BE TOO LIBERAL With the coal if it comes from our place. For our coal goes farther and gives a more even and satisfying heat. low, better have us send you a new supply to prove our statement. Our draying service is always the best and we specialize in Feed. D. B. FEMMER Phone 114 HAAS Famous Candies The Cash Bazaar Open Evenings Sanitary methods are modern methods in the baking business. Our bread and pies are made of pure ingred- ients and baked by ex- perts. Your family will be pleased if you buy our baking products. Peerless Bakery “Remember the Name” [l Opt. D. i If your coal bin is running CHIROPRACTORS | DRUGLESS HEALTH SERVICE “Maintain that Vital Resistance ”! Hellenthal Bldg. Phone 250 Hours 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. - Robert Simpson Graduate Los Angeles Col- | lege of Optometry and | Opthalmology | Glasses Fitted, "_:nses Ground | DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL Optometrist-Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fittea [ i H Room 7, Valentine Bldg. | | Office phone 484, reddenui | | phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 | to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 | . ORDER OF EASTERN STAR 8Second and Fourth ‘Tuesdays of each month at 8 o'clock, Scottisk Rite Temple. JESSI§ 4 KELLER, Worthy Mat- ron; FANNY L. ROB- INSON, Secretary. v AR B S b IR SR KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Saghers Council No. 1762 Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m Transient brotbers urg- ed to attend. Councll Chambers, Fifth Strees JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. PR e B R DOUGLAS AERIE 117 F. O. E. Mevts first and third & Mondays, 8 o'clock tt Eagles Hall Jouglas. ALEX GAIR, W. F. 3UY SMITH, Secretary. Visiting Hazel James Madden Teacher of the Pianoforte and cxponent of the Dunning Systm of Improved Music Study Leschetizky Technic—Alchin | Harmony 15«-«1!4» 206 Main St. | | | I H | Phone 196 JUNEAU-YOUNG ‘ Funeral Parlors Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers Night Phone 336-2 Day Phone 12 !!| DrC. L. Fenton CHIROPRACTOR Kidney and Bowel Specialist | No. 201 Goldstein Bldg., omcej formerly occupied by Dr. Vance | Hours: 10-12, 2-5, 7-8 A L R trucks go tank Our time. et it i PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 | | RELIABLE TRANSFER NEW RECORDS NEW SHEET MUSIC RADIO SERVICE Expert Radio Repairing Radio Tubes and Supplies JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE ROCM and BOARD Mrs. John B. Marshall PHONE 2201 GARBAGE HAULED AND LOT CLEANING E. O. DAVIS Phone 584 HOTEL ZYNDA ELEVATOR SERVICE B. ZYNDA, Prop. JUNEAU CABINET and DETAIL MILL- WORK CO. Front Street, next to Warner Machine Shop CABINET and MILLWORK GENERAL CARPENTER ‘WORK GLASS REPLACED IN AUTOS Estimates lFurnished Upon Bequelt mww .. —- | The Florence Shop | Phone 427 for Appotnhmnt | RINGLETTE and NAIVETTE | | CROQUIGNOLE and SPIRAL | | WAVES | i Beauty Specialists | s Quartz ana pracer location not tices at The Empire. JUNEAU TRANSFER | COMPANY Moves, Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Prompt Delivery of ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 48 L. C. SMITH and CORONA TYPEWRITERS Guaranteed by J. B. BURFORD & CO. “Our door step is worn by PLAY BILLIARDS —at— BURFORD’S [ PRI GENERAL PAINT CONTRACTING this summer should place their orders now totnmmpu—) tion while the weather lasta. | B. W. BURKE TELZPHONE 4151 Alaska’s Resident Decorator