The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 10, 1931, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1931. A Iaéia E'm I;{rc Dail JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER * L cept Sunday by _the ered in the P SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and |the South—particularly among the younger men. In Thane for $1.25 per month. at the following rates: 0; six months, , $1.26 vance onfer iness Office y of their p hone for e I and Business Offices, 374 ele MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. Assoclated Press is exclusively blication of news dispatches credited t otherwise ¢ d in this paper and also the news published herein The for re it or not ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. SKA NOT BLEAK. Leo P. Bott, Jr, of Little Rock, Ark, who has visited Alaska several times, is a diligent friend of the Territory. He always is ready and often does take up cudgels and fight for the North when he recognizes injustice anywhere. Recently a “Believe-It-or-Not” Ripley cartoon carried a legend which said: The nearest country to tropical Hawali is bleak Alaska. This got Mr. Bott's goat, so he wrote: Dear Mr. Ripley: I read you and admire you and consider your statements as being authentic. But sometimes you blunder, a few instances of which I know, and I now take issue with you for a statement you made in a recent cartoon to the effect that “The nearest country to tropical Hawaii is bleak Alaska.” I think you have done Alaska a great in- justice by referring to it as you have done with the term “bleak,” which implies being barren. 1 have been to Alaska four tim the past eight or ten years have 4, stud- ied and written about Alaska in addition to any travels in various portions and would state that the adjective you have used Is quite unfair. There are some parts of its coast line that are barren and bleak, just as parts of the coast line in every State in the Union bordering the oceans Just as you have used that term erally to apply to Alaska, I can state that generally speaking, Alaska is rich in vegetation, and the 'forests in Southeast Alaska are as dense as in the tropics. This is due to the abundant rainfall, warmth from the Japanese current, and long hours of sunlight In summer it is pleasantly warm, and in winter portions of Alaska are no colder than in Denver, Colorado, Wash- ington, D. C., Winnipeg, Canada, and other points, but of course, the time of the year and the place has a bearing since Alaska is an enormous country, one-fifth the size of the United States. You would be amazed at the vegetation, the enormous sized vegetables that are grown, the beautiful colored flowers, the agricultural opportunities, the friendliness of the natives and true Alaskans who have gone there from various parts of our country and other countries, and if you would but and for gen- RE BU JAM--All Flavors-- . GARNICK’S PHoNe anmmmmmmnmmmmmmulm||ummunmuuuumuumn|mn||mm||m|m|||mmmmn at Second and Main | Office in J :..:.;J as Second Class | South will be powder dry when it goes into the in advance, a favor if they will promptly any failure or irregularity | entitled to the IO O FISHER BLEND FLOU TILLAMOOK CHEESE (that famous Band) pound L e 1 travel there, you would soon change your thoughts of “bleak Alaska.” | Why not visit that country for facts | that will amaze you? You would return with a far better insight—"“Believe It or Not.” Those people who take it for granted that the next Democratic National Convention may get fooled. They have a lot of fighting State Rights men in | 1928 every Southern university that was polled fav- ored Al Smith overwhelmingly. anxious that neither of the major political parties| adopt anti-Prohibition platform planks are afraid of defeat at the polls. | Some of these da aps, we shall have our Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, , ocean airways derbys, handicaps, sweepstakes, cups, etc, galore. P A Nine-Dz y Wonder. Probably dry leaders in the country who are sor 1 ' To a t (Manchester Guardian.) Gatty and Post by their nine-day circuit of the | world have set up a record that is not likely soon | !to be assailed even at a time when speed records | 'are broken like eggshells, Beside the former world | | flights thelr achievement looks miraculous. It is lonly seven years since an American army team of‘ \four airplanes with full naval support attempted | |the world journey for the first time. It the course }of that adventure one of the planes crashed on the Aleutian Islands, another was lost in the North At- lantic, and the two that hopped slowly home after ! extensive repairs and replacements had taken more !than five months over their enterprise—a fact upon , which they were roundly chaffed on their arrival. I'The world had to wait until the Graf Zeppelin made the trip in 1929 in just three weeks for flight-to compete seriously with other means of loco- motion, for a couple of Americans, using, as| Phineas Fogg did, the most helpful vehicles avail- able, including planes, trains, cars and ships, had managed the circuit in 28 days in the summer of 1926. Since then the world has been successfully circled, by Kingsford Smith in 1929 among others, but not at high speed. The present achievement i an astonishing triumph for both man and mechan- | ism, for except that its propeller had to be knocked into shape at one point the American monoplane had stood up gamely to a test as severe as flight| can exact, while the airmen have maintained an average of speed on a minimum of sleep that only nerves and frames of iron could have compassed.| The northern latitude they chose for their route; reduces the mileage of the world span but is nor- mally beset with difficulties that make it too pre- carious for practical purposes. Athletes and Reporters. | [ (New York Herald Tribune.) [ “The Times's” headline on that ball game be- | tween the Aldermen and the press was “Aldermanic !Nine Bows to Reporters.” That is the difference | between Aldermanic and professional baseball play- ers. No professional baseball player ever bowed [to a reporter. As Ring Lardner has observed, a ball player has to be introduced to a reporter fifty | times a year before he knows his name is Gardner. { The Federal Government made Al Capone by | virtue of its Prohibition laws, and the Federal i(j()vernmonl unmakes Capone by its income tax jlaws, and all is right as right can be.—(New York Times.) | SRS ST A 5 The South in 1932 will follow the Democratic | flag, no matter who totes it. We will run no tion.) | | {more after a “false alarm."—(Atlanta Constitu- | I Our idea of prematureness is a campaign against (loud speakers with the session of Congress five 'months away.—(Boston Transcript.) | !‘ If you hadn't lost your money ,you probably would have invested :golr course.—(Washington Post.) in the market in a miniature | Germany does not want a moratorium as much as a permanent waive.—(Dallas News.) | AL YS R 1.75 26¢ 45¢ e AT L AT caus N l JUST A FEW SUITS LEFT prices we quote LET US FIT YOU be sold immediately at The remendous loss. should e a riot. NOW DOUGLAS NEWS DOUGLAS GRAY HOME After five years'-absence, Doug- las Gray, son of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Gray, returned home on the Prince Henry last evening. When he left here five years ago, Doug- las had just completed his high school course and now he is a graduate of the U. S. naval acad- emy at Annapolis, Maryland. Dur- ing his academic career he gained distinction for himself and honors |for his institution on the wrestling mat. PRFO. DEBOLT RETURNS; HE IS ENROUTE NORTH V. H. DeBolt, superintendent of the Douglas schools for the past year, who has been looking after the business affairs of the Icy Straits Fisheries at Hoonah for the last month, returned to town Sat- urday. He expects to leave on one of the boats today for Seattle | where he will meet his family and return with them later to Seward where he has been elected to sup- erintendent of schools. ON SICK LIST Mrs. Dorothy Henderson has been bed-ridden for the past week with a serious atfack of inflamatory rheumatism. This evening the Ladies’ Auxil- lary of F. O. E, will hold their regular meeting in the Eagles Hall. Preparations are to be made at the meeting for a public card party they are planning to give Monday, August 24. e ,———— LUCAS LEAVES ON BANK BOARD BUSINESS TRIP H. 1. Lucas, representing the Territorial Banking Board, left Sunday morning on the steamer Prince Rupert for Hyder, via Prince Rupert and Stewart. He will ex- amine the bank at Hyder and go from there to Ketchikan and other towns in the southern end of the division on a similar mission. ~ LACKING IN - CLARK TRIAL LOS ANGELES, Cal. Aug. 10— Lacking so far in the sensational political expose expected, the trial of David Clark, former Deputy District Attorney, charged with the murder of Herbert Spencer, news- paperman and editor of Crusad- ing, and Charles Crawford, wealthy realtor, ended the first week last Saturday on greusome details of the murder, brought out in testimony. | The state continued to construct circumstanial evidence today on| the Spencer charge. | | Clark will be tried later on the charge of Kkiling Crawford re- gardless of the outcome of this trial. 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