The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 31, 1931, Page 4

4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, FAIRIL B, % R 1931. T ——— P T Daily Alaska Em pire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published _every evening except Sunday by _the EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main | Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter, SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Oellvered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and | Thane for $1.25 per month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.26. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity | in the delivery of thelr 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. M’DONALD D SNOWDEN AND THE| LISH CRISIS. Let us make a prediction: In spite of the claquing of the Socialists in the Labor Party, Premier Mac- Donald and Chancellor of the Exchequer Snowden, who continue as mainsprings in the new Non- Partisan Government, will emerge from the British crisis as the count: saviors—as heroes of the first magnitude. Let us also congratulate the Liberals under the leadership of former Premier Lloyd George and the Conservatives under former Premier Stanley Bald- win for, discarding partisanship and recognizing the great merit of the Laborite statesmen, getting behind MacDonald and Snowden. The experience and leadership abilities of George and Baldwin, addsd to and following the courageous and patriotic course of the Premier and Chancellor of the Exchequer, make a team that the sensible and clear thinking English people will follow to a safe landing. Under them the crisis will disappear and Great Britain will again come out of a seething crisis in a manner in keeping with British traditions. DEFICITS AND SURPLUS BOTH VEX. Gen. Grant once said that “a surplus is easler to handle than a deficit” But the famous soldier was discussing Federal finances and not a surplus of products like wheat and cotton and fish and lumber. There is a lot of difference between a cash surplus and a surplus of commodities. But in these days when we had been promised that poverty would be banished from the land and a condition of permanent prosperity established we have both vexations: a Federal financial deficit and a’Nation- wide commodity surplus. The Administration and a large part of the population are sweating blood over both propositions. NOT FROM MR. RASKOB’S PRIVATE PURSE. A leading Juneau Democrat objects to a state- ment that appeared recently in an article in The Empire from the pen of former Gov. Scott C. Bone, who was a well loved citizen of this City for four years when Chief Executive of the Territory. Gov. Bone, discussing preparations for the com- ing campaign, said: The Democrats have an initial advantage in organization. They have a chairman in John J. Raskob who, if not acceptable to all elements, nevertheless is an aggressive leader and can command funds for the battle. To his genius is ascribed vast gains made in the off year struggle of 1930, when the Republican majority in Congress was practically wiped out. His publicity department, equipped and maintained out of his private purse, was most effective and contrived to keep the majority on the defensive. The objected to part of Gov. Bone's article was the statement that the Demecratic National Com- mittee’s publicity department was ‘“equipped ' and maintained out of his [Mr. Raskob's] private purse.” ‘This is not correct. Subscriptions have been received by the National Committee for the publicity depart- ment from all sections of the country in such amounts that the debt of the Committee has been gradually reduced in spite of the active publicity department’s expenditures. Mr. Raskob has con- tributed liberally of his time and money to the Democratic Committee and he has loaned it money when the need for funds pressed, but the money spent in the late Presidential campaign and*in the continuous campaign that has been conducted since that contest has come from thousands of party members throughout the Nation. Mr. Raskob has caused the presentation to the public of official statements that show that his contributions and loans are only a small percentage of the funds that have been received. Mr. Raskob, as said, has been a liberal con- tributor to his party and he has been able to enljst the interest of hundreds of others who can afford the liberal contributions they have made. It ought to be admitted, however, that Gov. Bone's statement about the organization and the energy, capability and liberality of Mr. Raskob gen- erally is true. GOVERNMENT BY LONG DISTANCE TELEGRAPH. If the Government would send men out to the Coast and catch a lot of the Alaska bred ducks and take them.to the Mississippli Valley and turn them loose in the Dakotas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, etc., something might be done toward re- pairing the damage to waterfowl by the Canadian droughts. That country cannot be helped by the Alaska bird supply if the birds are left here. There is no reason why Alaskans should be denied the privilege of killing a few ducks in order to save | success, . |ishers. We were in greatly reduced circumstances.| |ington, Oregon and California. l This thing of governing a country via trans- \conunenlal telegraph lines is the snake's hips. We hear now and again about how the Federal Gov- |ernment neglects Alaska and ought to do this and Lha! for the Territory. The greatest objection Alaskans have is not Government does too little for Alaska but that it 1u‘nes too much to the Territory. Roosevelt is playing no favorites. Not only will corruption charges in Democratic New York |City be investigated but likewise will be treated carges of Republican corruption in the up-State. Gov | | RO PRI | A Tokyo dispatch says foreign dishes were served at the banquet given Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh at that place. Those Japanese are really very kindly | disbosed folks, “Return Route of Lindberghs Is Not Known,” |says a headline. We will wager that they'll get |home, well and happy regardless of the route. A Newspaper Change. (New York Times.) All interested in the continued life and pros- perity of The Chicago Daily News will be glad to learn that control of it is to be in hands of Colonel; Frank Knox. He had had a wide newspaper ex-| perience in New Hampshire and in this city. His| energy and ability have been long familiar to his professional associates. There can be no doubt that he will be quick to grasp the new and large oppor- tunities that are to come to him in Chicago. In taking charge of The Dally News he will unques- ionably be alive to the necessity of maintaining its prestige along the well-established line of its while perhaps enlarging its activities in certain directions. The late Victor Lawson, so long responsible for the conduct of this Chicago newspaper, gave it an assured place in American journalism and won for it many friends and admirers outside of its own city. When the fine traditions which he had created were passed on to the keeping of Walter Strong, it was generally felt that The Daily News would go on from strength to strength. It was doing so when Mr. Strong’s career was recently cut short by his untimely and lamented death. Now the control is to go to another capable newspaper man, Colonel Knox, who may be counted upon not to depart from the high standards set by his predecessors. It is an occasion for congratula- tions both to him and to The Daily News. Al Is Right. (New York World-Telegram.) “In the light of the experience which we have had with workmen's compensation, does it not sug- gest that similar attempts to relieve the courts of ordinary accident litigation would relieve the cal- endars and bring cases to a more speedy trial and determination?” The above sensible question is raised by former Governor Alfred E. Smith in his latest World-Tele- gram article. Pointing to the fact that today “the most prolific source of litigation in the civil courts is automobile litigation,” the ever practical Al asks why we can’t have awards for physical injuries in automobile accidents fixed by law on the plan we have already adopted in the matter of workmen's compensation. Common sense should have long since supplied the answer and acted upon it. It is utterly unjust that the unfortunate victim of negligence, admittedly entitled to damages, should have to fight for the| money through months or even years of litigation | in the courts and then in the end often find him- self obliged to divide the award with a lawyer who has undertaken the case on a contingent fee| basis. There ought to be simpler, surer, cheaper way to give the accident victim his just due. Through compulsory insurance and extension of present com- pensation statutes we must find that way. When we find it we shall have done a good thing for the accident victim, for the congested courts and for the legal profession which is constantly being pulled down to the level of speculative business by con- tingent fee agreements in accident cases. The man who has lost his arm or leg is the man who should get the award—the whole award It is barbarous to make him fight for it and wait for it and then take a big slice of it away from him for costs. 1 Security in Co-operation, Not Armies. (Manchester Guardian.) them for the sportsmen of British Columbia, Wash-‘ 50 much that the Federal, | DOUGLAS | NEWS FRASERS HAD FINE TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fraser re- turned home Saturday afternoon from a month’s visit to Puget Sound cities. They divided their time be- tween Tacoma, Seattle and Van- couver and saw many former Douglasités and enjoyed lots of sunshine. MISS PEPOON RETURNS Miss Lucille Pepoon, who taught in the Douglas high school for two years, preceding last year, return- ed Saturday to again have charge of the domestic science and girls’ athletics. Miss Pepoon taught in a large school in Laramie, Wyom- ing, last year. During the vaca- tion she completed a summer course and motored through the Yellow- stone Park. DEBOLT GOES TO SEWARD While the Admiral Watson was in port yesterday, Supt. V. H. De- Bolt, with his son Bobble, visited friends. They are passengers en- route to Seward from Seattle. Mr. DeBolt will be 'superintendent of the Seward schools during the com- ing term. GO TO MOOSE COUNTRY Several parties are on their way to the Taku River to invade the moose territory, as follows; Mr. and Mrs. Glen Kirkham, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Campbell, Walter Scott, on the Mayflower, Capt. Rollins; John Laughlin and Emil Geubelle as a second party, and W. A. Fleek and ot i s son Dale as the third party. X BRINGS COAL The Admiral Watson unloaded NEXT fifty tons of coal into the city bunkers last night. AMERICAN LEGION il o DLV FURMAN CAPTAIN OPERATES SMOKER DANCE HALL FOR VACATION MYRTLE BEACH, S. C, Aug. 31. —Swimming and tripping the light fantastic keep Capt. Tom Carson in trim for football. Carson is captain of the Purple Hurricane of Furman University, Greenville, S. C,, and he has been the proprietor of 'a bath house and dancing pavilion here during the summer. Carson, 19, is six feet, two inches |tall and weighs 205 pounds. He plays at tackle and is the type of football player to be found in the September Tth W. P. Johiison FRIGIDAIRE DELCO LIGHT PROOUCTS MAYTAG WASHING | coponent’s backfield the minute the MAGHINES ball is. suspped. GENERAL MOTORS RADIOS During his two years of varsity play, Carson has been all-State Phone 17 | tackle and given honorabel men- tion for all-Southern guard and Front Street Juneaw l tackle. e SRS Ay 5 S PIANO TUNING | Repairing—Refinishing | P. W. Phillips, Baldwin Sales Agent, now at the Juneau Melody o phifsells HLL G SEE US FIRST [ouse. ‘elephone - or ap- . pointment, —ady.| | Harris Hardware Co. = Lower Front Street You Can Save Money at Our Store some folks An important new movement in furtherance of disarmament was started on Sunday at an inter-| national conference in Paris which was convened | on the initiative of Lord Cecil, who presided. Rep-} resentatives were present of France, the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Czecho-Slovakia, Hol- land, Poland, Sweden, and Great Britain. It was a preparatory meeting, the aim of which is to ar-' range a great public conference to be held in' Paris in November. At this conference it is hoped to focus the growing opinion in favor of peace and disarmament which is to be found in all the peoples of Europe, and to bring its influence to bear upon the governments. A resolution passed on Sunday laid down as the leading principles of the move- ment that security is based, not on armies, but on the co-operation and solidarity of civilized people; that an international judicial organization capable of being an obstacle to aggression is desirable; that the signatories of the peace treaties are bound in honor to take “serious measures of disarmament”; and that this obligation should be imposed on all States, under the control of an international com- mission. Great men and women lived before Agamemnon and will live again. The cups will come back. Pros- perity will come back, one day. Meanwhile, thls‘ summer has seen some thrilling contests in amateur sport.—(New York Times.) » The other members may soon be forgotten, but| Chairman Wickersham probably will have a hard | time living it down.—(Indianapolis Star.) Before the campaign is ended the Volstead Act will know what happens to a football during a game. —(Des Moines Register.) Every one likes a good joke, even the one about Florida going Republican next election.—(Florida Times-Union.) The late lamented 1930 was such a hard year that we spent but $200,000,000 on snapshots, ac- cording to the National Association of Photo Fin- —(Los Angeles Times.) It seems as if nowadays when a ball player drops out of sight for five or eight years, it de- velops he was with Cincinnati—(Detroit News.) We read that the average novel brings the author less than $1,000. That shows there is some oth and Enjoy Don’t Get LEFT! Some Folks try to make up their own greetings try shopping at the last minute— come in early and make a happy selection from our big line of CHRISTMAS CARDS The Daily Alaska Em pire 3 TELEPHONE 374 WHY Not Only Cheaper but Better RIS Tare RICE & AHLERS CO. 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Behrends Bank OLDEST BANK'IN ALASKA Our loaf of browned goodness is the pro- duct of baking experi- ence. We not only use care in its making but the finest flour and other food materials. It is baked in sanitary ovens and you should try it. 1™ PROFESSIONAL | . | Heleme W.L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | Telephre 176 Dr. J. W. Bayne | { DENTIST i Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. | Office kours, 8 am. to 5 p.m. Evenings bty appointment. Phone 321 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours § a m. to § v. ;. \ SEYWARD BUILIING H Office Phone 469, Res. 0 o Fraternal Societies | ol —_— Gastineau Channel f -_ B. P. 0. ELKS Meeting every Wednesday night =~ 410 Goldstein Building |lat 8 pm, Elks | Phone Office, 216 Hall. i e e e i | visiting orothers - ® | welcome. EBURGER | Djss. K‘Sg:fi‘frf:,:: M. S. JORGENSEN, Exalted Ruler | Blomgren Building | M. H. SIDES, Secretary | PHONE 56 TSy | rdinate Bod. i m. to 9 pm. 01 Hours 9 am’_—ol p.m. s les of Freemason. e ry Scoftish Rite (4 b ¢ | Regular meetingy Dr. Charles P. Jenne 'second Friday DENTIST ;ach month | Rooms 8 and § Valentine 30 p. m. Scot. | Bullding tish Rite Temply WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary LOYAL ORDER oOr MOOSE, NO. 10 Meets Monday 8 p. m, Ralph Reischl, Dictator Legion of Moose No. 3§ meets first and third Tuesdays. G. A. Baldwin, Secretary and Herder, P. D. Box 273, P il s S MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. is Second and fourth Mon- day of each monuth in \ Seottish Rite Temple, beginning at 7:30 p. m. (J&( H. L. REDLINGSHAF- </ &R, Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS Secretary. il Phone 276 ‘e ° ! . —_— | | Drs. Barton & Doelker CHIROPRACTORS DRUGLESS HEALTH SERVICE “Maintain that Vital Resistance " Hellenthal Bldg. Phone 259 Hours 10 am. to 9 pm. i Robert Simpson | Opt. D. ! Graduate Anggles Col- | lege of Optometry and Opthalmology | Glasses Fitted, "cnses Ground | . . 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