The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 6, 1931, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, OCT. 6, 1931. Daily /ililska Empire | JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER| gt Published every eveninz except Sunday by the| EMPIR™_PRINTING COMPANY at Sccond and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. i Pntered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES. i Delivered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month. pai the following rates: | advs 25 confer & f if they will promptly a8 Office of any failuré or irregularity | : one mon Subscribers notify the B In the delive usiness Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE®S, | The Associa s exclusively entitled to the | use for republ cws dispatches credited to | it } i in this paper and also the lccal news publ ! ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER FUBLICATION | | | | | PANGBORN AND HERNDON WIN. the Pacific Ocean between In span Hugh Herndon acc: the Is of the conquest of the air. of the eat accomplishments of aviation in 1931- rogarded as the greatest year in the history of fly- ing—none stands out more boldly than this. The Pacific Ocean has been crossed by airplane beft bul never on a nor p flight until these two flyers, who have had than th share of trouble since they started out some weeks ago to try for a| new globe circling record, made the hop. l The elements were against them in their original| effort. Disappointed in it, they changed their plans | enroute, d=toured to Japan and landed in a Japanese jail, from which they escaped by paying a fine. | ann. more from Japan to the United States without a st proof of their courage and determination L uncertain weathe: conditions. the easiest part remained to be done—landing with- out landi: Here, too, the chances were! against them coming down without serious mishap, | possibly death to both unless whatever gods aviators pray to were riding with them. Luck may have been with them in the landing, but it took, also, the| same sort of skill that it required to make the flight. They gambled with It gratifying to Americans that it was so—that Ameri- can flyers first the Pacific—and no one will envy them whatever rewards of glory or money that comes to them as a result. Thej deserve all they gzt of either. death, and won. is spanned THEY MAY HAVE 1E SIGNIFICANCE. | The Federal Census Bureau continues to digest | the mass of statistics it accumulated last year in its decennial enumeration of the population of the; United States. It has just announced some inter- | esting facts regarding divorce and marriage. In the decade from 1921 to 1930 divorces in this country doubled in number as compared to the previous 10- year period, climbing from 508588 to 1062726. In| the same period marriages increased six-tenths of | one per cent Just what the lesson to be derived from. these figures may be depends somewhat on the viewpoint of the one studying them. To some they will reflect the “jazz age” and its “demoralizing influence.” To others, they merely tend to show that the marriage tie is not the ironclad, nonbreakable contract of the Victorian era on the one hand, and that it is no longer the only goal offerdd to women for attain- ment. hatever the cause, the divorce rate. in- creased 100 per cent. in the past decade while the | marriage rate failed to keep pace with the rate of | growth of population, which is food for thought. THE GOLD § NDARD. The gold standard, more discussed since last wezk than any time since the famous Free Silver campaigns of the e William Jennings Bryan, | brought to the fore because of its suspension by England, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, is the basis of the monetary system of the United States | that was adopted in 1900, ending the hectic fight over | bimetallism In effect, means that the Government guar- antees that goods, products and services may be exchanged for gold or gold equivalent. In this coun- try the unit of value is fixed at a gold dollar, which the law defines as 258 grains of gold 0900 fine, equal to 23.2 grains of pure gold. The Government has dollar for dollar on eligible paper for all cur- rency in circulation. Adoption of the standard followed variou e 1786. That year Con- gress adopted a si! ndard and defined the ui as a silver dollar 375.64 grains of pux')‘ it silver. In 1792 two units were adopted—one of gold containing 2475 grains of pure gold and a silver dollar containing 371.25 grains of pure silver. The ratio of gold to silver was one to were legal tender Various changes ware made from time to time| in the ratios until the gold standard was abandoned | during the Civil War. Congress in 1873 adopted a gold standard making the gold dollar the unit of | fteen and both | value with 258 grains of gold 0900 fine. In 1878, | Congress provided silver dollars should be legal | ender. The act of 1900, establishing the standard also provided that nothing in the ghould affect the legal tender quality of the silv dollar or other Federal money. The law now guar- YA.nt,ees that all currency or checks issued by the | | Government or any bank will be paid in gold ~t‘3mni\d of the person holding the currency o _checks. Silver certificates are redeemable in silver ‘:Oold, because of its weight, is not much in demand everyday business transactions. Gold certificates issued by the Treasury six months, In advance, | poyy 4 | P2y it did to all major powers with the exception of the | Ar League and its allies and the Navy | Depar | “you can't drown' the slump in beer,” declares. |F. Scott McBride, Anti-Saloon Leaguer. . But boy, is still mi | successor. | bring the Prohibition Service a long way from the methods to which older agents have been accustom- ed That they persevered and finally succeeded in flying 'Practices have long |by Dr In €ross-'yins and by many others high in the counsels of ing the Pacific they were taking a desperate chance. |iye” anti-Saloon League. gambling against a partially unknown route and|anything And after they had | tools they might use, has been vigorously denounced | negotiated the course and braved the weather, not!as emanating from corrupt we |ing, }it is cur firm belief that it will be somewhere in | other are | is, when a gold certificate for $10 is paid out by, the Treasury, $10 in gold must be received for’ it, so that back of the outstanding gold certificates amounting to-$1,700,000,000 the Trzasury holds gold, dollar for dollar. National bank notes must be secured by their ent in Government bonds deposited Wwith so that back of the $698505,000 in in circulation the Government holds its Treasury an equal amount of its own bonds d:posited by the banks. If its outgoing payments so exceed the incoming ients that it can no longer pay in gold, it has to abandon the gold standard. This, in sub- what has happened again to England, as nee, is tes, during the World War, and to Nor- way en and D:nmark of 600 cases of liquor on the estate of Sccretary Adams of the United States Navy is not expected to cause open hostilities between the how we'd enjoy ng it. About the only way we know that Senator Fess hairman of the Republican National Com- ee is when someone is mentioned as his probable Under New Rules. } (Seattle Times.) The life of a Federal Prohibition agent is likely | | to be made hard, practical and joyless if Col. Amos the w. W. Woodcock, Chief of the Bureau, persists much | ates, Clyde Pangborn and farther in changing practices long held to be law-| aplished a feat that will live in fully inherent in the work of law enforcement. Jus® Among all & few days ago he announced that agents must no llonger take a drink to “get the evidence,” and now | comes a mandate that women must not hereafter | be used as decoys, whether to detect or to provoke violations of the law. | says: As to this Colonel Woodcock I have decided that women should have no place at all in enforcing Prohibition. I think we can enforce Prohibition without the use of women in any way. The new rules, if enforceable and enforced, will Some of them may be puzzled, too, since the now ruled out of order by their chief been cordially and outspokenly sanctioned Clarence True Wilson in his weekly bulle- Heretofore criticism of | that dry agents might do, or of any The apparent purpose of Colonel Woodcock is to| give enforcement effort more tone of respectability. He would close the gates against the drinking, fight- shooting men and their complaisant feomale | associates, who have incited, provoked and con- nived in crime under cover of service to the cause The new policy will be gratifying to the better class of men in ths service and should bring in| more of their kind. Public esteem for any law| cannot rise much above the character of the per- sons who are charged with its enforcement. Good Cheer. (New York Times.) If you ask us in what part of the world the business revival will first make itself felt— No one as yei has really come forward to ask us that question, but people might do worse— Where business recovery will first set in, then, Latin America; perhaps in Mexico, possibly further south, in Peru or Argentina. To this conclusion we have been led by state- ments from shipping companies and transportation agencies predicting that the next great tide of tour- ist- travel will run south in our own hemisphere Mexico, indeed, has already been the fashion for some time. The results to be expected are obvious. If the tourists can do as well by Latin America in the next Winter or two as they have done in the last few Summers Soviet Russia, it is plain that South America’s troubles will be at an end. As the result of thousands of ten-day birdseye views of Soviet Rus that “country has become the hap- piest, busiest, safest, most contented, most prom- ising nation on earth. There is no reason why the ten-day vacation treatment should not prove just as beneficial for our southern neighbors. Hoover on Beer: Then and Now. (Seattle Star.) During the war the Anti-Saloon League and “temperance” organizations were much per- turbed because the brewing industry was using up millions of bushels of grain every year. Today, with huge grain surpluses and no market to speak of, the same “temperance” organizations fight bitterly against the resumption of brewing and alleged that it would not stimulate business. Of course it would stimulate business. The crea- tion of any new industry stimulates business. The best estimates are that this new business would yield about $700,000000 a year in taxes and lift $300,000,000 now wasted in efforts to enforce the dry law So there’s a way to make a billion a year, with- out any trouble at all. Why not do it? Incidentally, at the time the dry: plaining about the use of grain for Herbert Hoover arose and fought them, asserting that denial of beer would force ths American people into “an orgy of hard-liquor drinking. '™ That was one time Mr. Hoover was right And doesn't it seem possible that, if cutting off beer started an orgy of hard-liquor drinking, a re- | sumption of beer drinking might curb that orgy? It does to us; and to every sane American not |blinded by bigotry and fanaticism. Eastern Stalzs sel a fine moral example to were com- beer, one California last year by selling nearly $5,000,000 worth of grapes without throwing any bricks or issuing any oracularly inverted instructions.—(Wash- ington Post.) We reckon the only harder job these day than breaking all the laws would be dodging all the axes.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.) If this State needs more revenue, w stamp tax on every pessimistic prediction Ohio, Journal.) not a Dayton, That foreign fellow who says we have no imag- on over here ought to drop parties some evening and proudly refers to as gin.- in at what Ga one of ous the hoste Telegraph.) out only for their equivalent in gold—that Blood and money have circulate freely to | ran’s ways to those of a southern NOTED AUTHOR P.-T. A, TO HOLD DIES AT HOME ' RECEPTION FOR IN KENTUCKY Mts. Annie Fellows John- ston of ‘Little Colonel’ | Series, Passes ! Arranged for Affair This Evening ; Under auspices of the Parent- | Teacher Association, a {will be held at 8:30 o'clock this evening in the Juneau High ~chool 1for public school.teachers. The as- | sociation’ urges all persons inter- jested in the local educational sys- {tem to be present to meet mem- bers of the teaching staff. 1+ Before the reception a short bus- | iness meeting of members of the ciation will be held. in, the’As- Room of the high school * building An interesting musical program has been arranged. Its numbers will given at intervals during the The program follows: in A Fiat Chopin Lily . Chopin i Joyce Morris Love Like the Dawn Came Steal- ing Cadman 1I't's Home to Me .Eugene Lockhart | Vocal Solo by Hazel James Madden | Valse { To'a Water ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON |La Fileuse Rah ! Helen Torkelson LCUISVILLE, Xj. Oct. G.-Mrs_‘A Wanderer's Song Rafbach Anni2 Fellows Johnston, aged 68! Vocal Solo by Max Scriber years, noted author, is dead at her| ——— home in Pewes Valley, near here, | Old papers at The Emplre re she had spent her (lezlinAng! s. Mrs. Jehnston was born in Evans- ! T ville, Ind,, May 15,°1863. Her par+| fy ents were the Rev. and Mrs. Albion | i Fallows. After attending the Evans- | ville public schools she studied atf the University of Towa in 1881-1882.( She was married to Willlam L Johnston in 1888 in Evansville. Her | husband died in 1892, leaving three ; children, John, Mary and Rena, by[ a former marriage. Only one of | them, Mary, survived Mrs. John-| ston, | Beginning her literary work| and are willing to back our shortly before her husband’s death, | judgment with our guerantee Mrs. Johnston wrote almost con- | fud tinually until 1929, when she fin-‘pa"«-m—'- ished the “Land of the Little CCDI-‘I onel,” in which she depicted many | incidents of her own life. Her first book was “Big Brothe: a chil-! dren’s story, in 1892. Prior to that| time she had contributed to mag- azines and had written many short ! stories. i s Her frequent visits to friends at, ley gave Mrs. Johnston | the material for her “Little Colon- | el” series. The heroine, whose name save the title, was Hattie Cochran later Mrs. Hattie Cochran Dick of i Louisville, granddaughter of Col-, George - Weissinger - of - Loufsville. 45 m. . The title was evolved from a fan- !} d resemblance of Hattie Coch- ) “BETTY BAXLEY” HOUSE FROCKS New Shipment Tust Received In Prints and Broadcloth gentleman of the old school. The series attracted attention in America and abroad and were printed in several languages, in cluding the Japanese. e RUMMAGE SALE ’ The Martha Society will hold a, rummage sale Tuesay, Oct. 13. Do- | nations will be gladly received; Sordons they may be left at Presbyterian —adv. |, Church. The American Beauty Parlor Where ladies will find perfect satisfaction in their search for beautification, in a pleasant :u;:ol.hem There is no charge for consultation. 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