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

Ca o OB - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1931. JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER 9 Published every evening eXC Sunday by the FMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY 4 Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska 3 in the Post Off in Juneau as Second Class Entered matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and ne for $1.25 per month, ge paid, at the following rates $12.00; six months, in advance 31 a favor i in $6.0( e month, ibscribers will confer they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers 2 _ Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Pl i exclusively entitled to the use for republicatior ] 1 to jt or not otherwise credite the local news published herein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUAF E LARGER | THAN THAT OF ANY O TION | | — WELCOME TO SENATOR NORBECK. Senator Norbeck's Chamber or Commerce speech yesterday was highly gratifying to Alaskans. What | he said and the way he said it were decidedly en-| couraging to the people of this City. The fact Lhrfili he committed himself on no specific poliey for the| Territory is evidence that he came here with an open mind to learn of our needs. The further fact | that he has lived under pioneer conditions where | peopie were vexed by long distance government is a | token that when he understands conditions he will favor real remedies for such 1lls as he may see Senator Norbeck has been wzlcomed by the peuplcl of this City, and he will find an equally cordial welcome wherever he might go in the Territory Juneauites who have met him have recognized a kindred spirit. It will be the same at Fairbanks, Cordova, Kodiak, etc. The Empire is pleased to join in the greetings to the South Dakota Senator and to assure him that we are glad he is here, that we hope he will make his visit as long as possible, and that he might come again and again. PREPARING FOK STATEHOOD. toward the stars will some day attain us a place beside the stars of sister States In the Union, but not before Alaskans themselves get behind the land of their adoption 100 per cent.— (Seward Gateway.) The first step toward Statehood for Alaska ought to be a full Territorial form of government | such as the other Territories had before their ad- mission as States and such as Hawail now has. Alaska ought to have counties and local self-gov- ernment. The other Territories before admission to the Union had practically all the authority of government that they have enjoyed since admission except participatién in Presidential elections, and representation in Congress. Self-government as a really and truly American Territory would make the very best possible preparation for Statehood. Alaska ought to have been a Territory in the same sense that Washington, the Dakotas, Minne- sota and all the other Territories were long ago. Alaska’'s struggle LESSON OF THE FIGURES. Col. Woodcock, high chief of Federal dry laws, offers figures to prove that Prohlbition is working satisfactorily and successfully. His proof: For the record of his first year in office, which ended July 1, Woodcock listed a total of 75365 cases prepared for prosecu- tion in Federal and State courts. Of these, he said, 58,173 cases were terminated in Fed- eral courts and convictions obtained in 50,- 334, with 20,372 jail sentences imposed. In addition, he said, there were fines aggregat- ing $5,407,566. Think of it! A law that in one year in time of peace sends more than 75,000 people into the criminal courts; that sends nearly 30,000 to Jail, that imposes fines aggregating five-and-one-half millions in fines! Think of the uncivilized nerve of one that calls such a law satisfactory and suc- cessful! To any sane and practical economist these figures la themselves prove that the system ought to be changed. No law that causes such havoc is worth enforeing. Particularly is that apparent when we consider the magnitude of the outlawed traffic that Col. Woodcock's organization does not even touch. Chair- man Wickersham’s late commission found that the illicit liquor traffic in the United States amounted to more than three billion dollars a year—one of America’s major businesses. How long will a a tax-ridden, suffering public tolerate this childish nonsense? CANADIAN HALIBUT FISHERMEN WANT RELIEF. Olof Hanson, Prince Rupert’s member of the Dominion Parliament, is urging the passage of a law to give Canadian halibut fishermen a subsidy of two cents a pound on their halibut catch. He says the subsidy is necessary to permit the fisher- men to compete with American fishermen who are proected by a two-cents-a-pound tariff, and he says, the only halibut market is in the United States. The measure is supported by the people and commercial organizations of Prince Rupert’ and elsewhere along the British Columbia coast. A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Down at Prince Rupert parents of youngsters just graduated from the public school declare that local business men ought to provide the graduates with employment so that if may not be necessary for them to leave the town to find work. The Prince Rupert News says the parents of many of these youngsters have done most of their purchasing in southern towns. It says if the people would all | trtumphantly with St ‘,dtrrum- ores and industries there would | probably be enough work in Prince Rupert to give employment to th: local boys and girls who are |now out of school | This is only one more illustration of the influence of home buying in community development. If it nce Rupert it is true everywhere. beck sees a great future for Alaska as a und for tourists. The dispatches on Thursday said the temperature at Aberdeen, South Dakota, was 114 degrees in the shade. Possibly there is Probably those German radicals are fighting the moratorium ‘not because they think Germany doesn't need the money but through fear it will prevent political revolution at an early date, Former M Bill" of Chicago ought to investigate Seattle. They just recalled an English born Mayor in the Puget Sound metropolis and elected another Englishman to succeed him. Now comes another ray of light that shines| brightly. Canadian mining interests are becoming | attached to the Taku D The Divine Sarah. | e | (Manchester Guardian.) i | Manchester may well take a warm interesl in| the celebrations that “are now beginning of the| centenary of Mrs. Siddons. For if the divine Sarah’s| career had been left to the mercy of London man- agements it is doubtful whether she would have lived to be painted by Reynolds as the Tragic Muse, to fire Hazlitt, Scott, Byron, and even Dr. Johnson to rhapsodical encomiums, and to dominate the English-speaking stage as no woman before her. Her future seemed secure enough when Garrick gave | a chance at the age of barely twenty to play Portia | at Drury Lane. It was a great opportunity for tha irrepressible girl who had insisted on declaiming | Shakespeare and Milton in the servants’ hall of | the Warwickshire establishment where she was en- gaged as lady's maid. But her first London season was an unmistakable failaure. It needed the more bracing airs of the provinces to waft Sarah to fame, and she was not long in finding a favorable gale. Her Manchester debut in 1776 was her first experi- eance of a whirlwind acclamation, and for some time after she moved like a young queen from one to an- other city of the North, playing to adoring crowds! in Liverpool, Manchesfer, and York. London had to wait to experience the full force of a per-| sonality that could send members of an audience off in a faint by the anguish of a mad scene, and| s0 impregnate a theatre with tragedy that the players who had to follow in a farcical piece com- plained that they could not recover their spirits. What was the secret of a dominance that has had no equal? The contemporary critics were apt to be more lyrical than helpful. Hazlitt's “Power was | seated on her brow, passion emanated from her breast as from a shrine” reads rather like an ex- tract from the high-flown nonsense with which Sarah herself used to pack the “addresses” she loved to deliver to her audiences. But those who deigned to be more coldly analytical make it clear that in her cadences and intonations, in her sense of rhythm, both of diction and of movement, she cast a spell as potent as the theatre has ever known. In these days, when naturalism is the note, would | the old magic survive? Could she have dealt Joan? Perhaps it is well that | the experiment cannot be made Higher Politics. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Senator Harrison, of Mississippi, one of the fore- most among leaders in the Democratic Party in{ the Nation, gives the country and the world an; illustration of broad statesmanship. He proposes a political armistica during the Congressional discus- sion of the President’s program for a year's sus-| pension of war debts and reparations payments. He gives unstinted praise to the formula and urges for it a wholehearted support from the minority | in both Houses of Congress. He sees in the pro- gram a rational plan for the restoration of world- wide confidence and economic stability. He would like a short session to be held before the formal opening of the Congress. Whether there will be called a short session or not, the main proposal of the Senator from ! Mississippi is indicative of an intriguing breadth of | political view, one which recognizes the worthless- | ness and futility of partisan expediency in time of great crisis. The Senator sees the interests of the United States endangered by the collapse of the economic structure of Germany. He disregards the delinquency of the former empire’s proximate neighbors, their ineptitude and indifference, realiz- ing that in the present instance the United States is presenting a moral as well as a practical over- ture that should go far toward the rehabilitation of Germany and Europe. In this attitude he rises above all small partisan considerations, giving to the world a most gratify- ing example of wholesome statesmanship. i Let’s Have State Pension for All? (Seattle Business Chronicle.) An elderly man who has fallen into hard cir- cumstances in Montana was urged by a relative| living on he Pacific Coast to move to the coast, the argument being that living conditions are easier here. The Montanan's reply put an end to the argument. He said that the Montana Legislature had just passed an old age pension, so he would stay there, knowing that if his circumstances did not improve he could obtain a pension in his de- iclining years. The incident suggests a possibility with respect to old age pensions at State expense which has not been discussed. Why not feed most of our property posssessions into State pension! |funds via the medium of taxes, then give every | person & pension based somewhat upon the record of contributions, when retirement age is reached? Under | this just scheme no one would have to worry, about the future—at least not so long as any prop- erty remained in private ownership. | Representative Dyer says that licensing of beer would add $1,000,000,000 to the income of the United States. Of course, that doesn't take into considera- tion how many millions would be lost to the boot- leg industry.—(Washington Post). It is the Department of Commerce estimate that Canada’s retaliatory tariff rates will hurt us to the extent of only $25000,000, and what is that com- pared with the preservation of a sacred principle?— (New York Times). Al Capone is charged at Chicago, with violation lof the national prohibition law. This is a serious charge to bring against a citizen. The public should not be too hasty in its judgment.—(Seattle Times). Chairman Fess of the G. O, P. also mounted some connection somewhere in these facts.| T0 PUBLISH REGORDS OF ~ ALASKA TER, {Dr. Clarence E. Carter, University Professor, Assigned to Work WASHINGTON, D. C, July 6— (Special Corr: ondence)—The of- ficial records of the Territory of Alatka and of all states when they were Territories, will be assembled | and published under the direction of Dr. Clarence E. Carter, profes- | sor of History at Miami Univer-! ity, Oxford, Ohio. He has been appointed editor of territorial pa-| pers, Department of State, under the provisions of the Ralston act; of 1925. He will assume his du- ties of Aug. 15. Dr. Carter has[ made a special subject of Terri-| torial organizations and his work will mean the collaboration of all| records of Alaska as a Territory. In compliance with a petition from the residents of Homer word has been received from the Acting Commissioner of Lighthouses that O. D. Olsen will be permanently employed as caretaker of the Be-| luga Lake Light. Captain George foundland, in the gary.” Since the Navy has nbandoned‘\ their radio station at Sitka res dents of that little city have r« quested the privilege of establish- and Captain Alexander who flew from Harbor Grace, New- to Budapest, plane “Justice for Hun-i e Old Papers at The Empblre. Endres (upper), Maygar Hungary, ing themselves on the property,| they will be at the Ogontz White | and fishermen want the right to|® - establish their homes on Japonski ’ LUDWIG NELSON | Island, near Sitka. | | £ gciw:emin I Various inquiries have been made! ‘[ Br:nswick l":"m‘y ‘ as to the address of Hon. and Mrs. | i FRONT STREET | Dan Sutherland. Until Seplemb-:r‘. I | — o Mountain Camp, Lisbon, New Hampshire, Residents of Lake Minchimina | want their community included in| a mail contract that will soon be! awarded for carrying the mail be- tween Nenana and Flat and inter-| vening towns. | SEISMOGRAPR, | HOME MADE, IS REAL MYSTERY' BELLAIRE, O. July 18.—A crude ! seismograph, consisting of nol.h\ng' more than a butcher’s steel used for sharpening knives, which hang';' on a nail driven into a heavy post| imbedded into the earth, has been beating college and government tations in detecting earthquakes: and has aroused scientists of this| state who are unable to explain its workings. | Discovered quite by accident h\i the home of Mrs. Charles Bick- meler, the steel has given accur-| ate registration of several recent quakes. Although unable to regis- Man’s FOUND A GOOD | $6.00 Shoe “It neither crimps your roll nor cramps your style” DEVLIN’S steel \ swing by shaking the house have proven fruitless. Even the blast| | DR. of a stick of dynamite near the! | Hellenthal Bldg. home failed to budge the steel ) s Yet, when New Zealand was rock- ed by a tragic quake this year, the “seismograph” registered a series of distinct shocks several hours before the quake was re- ported from college instruments. | @ Those who have investigated the phenomenon explain a possible solution in that the Bickmeier home is situated on the top of a high hill, perhaps a huge rock extending far into the earth. Any vibration of the earth, under these conditions, it is said, would cause a vibration of the rock which in Exclusive the new drugless way DOELKER ter the vicinity of a quake, the = psEs ST AL T e “seismograph” always swings and]f E . jingles against the pillar at the| | ! first tremor. ‘ “REDUC]NG” ? 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