The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 17, 1931, Page 4

| U5 07 R ST AT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, OCT. 17, 1931. ko T TR R O R R AT A——"——— —————— o 1. 'His conclusion that the Drys, if dissatisfied, can form a party of their own and make it the only issue will appeal to miost people as a reason- Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGEB;“’I‘“ solution of the impasse. v ning cept Sunday by the| : 4 A v e TG COMPANT ‘At Second and Main | MODERNIZING THE BIBLE. Streeta, Juneau, Alaska. | O\ T au as Second Claes | From the University of Chicago comes the an- nouncement that the first American Bible ¢ soon SUBSCRIPTION RATES, be off the presses and ready for distribution. It is Delivered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and a modernized work, containing ma nplications o e Tonlows from the King James version, and written in £ntered In the Post Office in J matter. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, §1 “mé months, In advance, ' phraseology that is easily understood by the average 00 ane onth dvance 2 1 4 " $6.00: ionthy e n individual. It must not be thought that the Ameri- ubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly motity the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity | can version has been undertaken lightly. More re- in the delivery of their papers % ghtly Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices. 374. |search has gon2 into it than in any former ver- and its accuracy ought to be above criticism > both .Hebraic and ‘Greek scholars collaborated American translators -and their MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE®S, The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the s uee for republication of all news dispatches eredited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. compilers in of the metrical passages of the St. John on have been:so handled as to loss none of ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION r sonorous poetical value, and the translators the modern version have had the advantage 8,000 original’ manuseripts discovered since the James version was compiled from the only | inal papyri known to exist in 1611. > book is being printed by the University Chicago Press. Even the le of printing is |modernized. The ordinary book formal will be ad- Ihered to instead of the double column styl: generally ollowed since the first printing. The New Testa- ment version is by Dr. Edgar J. Goodspeed and | he Old Testament by Dr. J. M. Pewis Smith, both | {of the University of Chicago. ] \ e | ALASKA Chemistry, says a news story, is to make silent |tongues wag. If chemists want to confer a real {boon upon mankind, they will now produce some- years ago, tomorrow, thing to make wagging tongues silent Alaska emerged from under the rule of the Czars cshook off its role as an outpost of an ahsolute monarchial form of government and became an | integral pa: of the democracy of the Unmed; (New York Times.) tates. Sixty-four years is but a short span in the, Both Governor Rooscvelt and the State life of a people or a nation. Yet in that period be congratulated on-his choice of members this northern land has made material progress, has Temporary Relief Administration. With the advanced a long distance over the trail at the,man. Mr. Jesse Isidor Straus of this city, end of which lies the goal of all its predecssor be asociated Mr. Johin SulMvan, President colonies of the American republic—Statehood. |'State Federation of Labor, apd a virnll knav\"n bank Since it became Amefican 1t-has had’ its périods of B\mglo. long interested in philanthropic cau: {Mr. Philip J. Wickser. These selections, to which of stagnation, it is true, but generally spaking| the Governor gave a great deal of time and anxious there has been no backward movement. Throughout phought, make up an admirably balanced board. It the year has advanced preceptibly toward that goal. It is true that it has not grown as rapidly as many of the western territories did in the last 50 years of the nineteenth century, but that was to have been expected. There were many natural obstacles to prevent it—and one of the greatest of these was the settlement and develop- ment of the West. Its geographic location handi- capped settlement by making it an expensive proposi- | tion of pcpulation supply, sour of capital for devel- |anq unpaid workers. cpment purposes and market for its products by a water barrier of a thousand or more miles. It has been emphasized from the first. grown substantially in industry and in population zens are responding to this appeal to undertake a despite those handicaps. great social and humane work, made necess: it Tt Its position today is probably more enviable than 1S to be hoped but temporarily, by the stress of|him DAY. Three score and fol The Relief Administration. are to of the Chair- are to of the without first having to get the consent of the Senate at Albany. bave need of a vast organization, covering the whole State. ture studied, while other plans are being framed to universi Belgian Scientist Is to Tell America His Theory Regarding Empty Universe Dr. Willem de Sitter, astrcnomer of Leyden, Hclland, will lecture at By EDWARD STANLEY LEYDEN, Holland, world seems to have two Kinds of is unquestionably of a higher personnel than We|jmportant scientists—those it catch- should have been apt to get had the GOVernor|es yp in a blaze of adulation and not been permitted to make his own appointments|ihoce that it misses. One of the latter In administering the $20000000}his quiet Dutch town this fall o to be provided by the State, the central body Will| America, for the f at various Governor Roosevelt points out that the ques-|oylarly Harvard and the Universi |tion of a spscial women's division is already being|or california AR ! He is Dr. Willem de Sitter, cele-| It was a frontier separated from its base oniist the services of a large number of skill*d|prated astronomer, and he probably | will lecture on his theory of the| The voluntary nature of the whole effort has|universe, which is one of the three the matter in Public-spirited citi-| world-theories. { Provided Scientifiz is this an imp s in United S believes that this is an empty world—that space is so much vaster in relation to matter that it simply dcesn’t count. Ob-| from the fact th ates this fall on his thecry of the universe. He nomical moment. But recent observations by Am- ican astronomers have indicated hat the Lemaitre theory will hold good only for this age. This age, as stars go, will be a good many mil- 1 years. Then Dr. de Sitter's theory will time, to lec. become cperative. Thus he has a universities, parti- double object in visiting America. +y | Basides his lectures, he will ineet {the’ men and see the observatories Oct. 17.—The is going from ed These observations revealed that the universe, star | clusters, etc., are growing farther Zxcitement apart, retreating from each other. y which has made | — e scientist, aside, Made of spring steel, a 100l has that of any other political subdivision of the na-{hard times. Nothing but a deep sense of civ X he been invented to clean spark plugs tion. The great depression which has paralyzed |ligation, we may be sure, e neve ‘"d,““'”mM‘ |sor in Leyden un ing them apart, being stically all of the country’s industries for the past|oiraus o make the ‘petsona saoritioe requisite 124 ter of the cheuiiion o the part where the T A ¥ e Past |0 was to respond to the Governor’s urgent invita-|vided scientific exe o two years has touched the Territory as a whole o, president of a great business house, and re-|years, it USRS i SR much less severely than the remainder of theigponsiple for the conduct of its affairs, with many| pr de Sitter's theory is that this|® — . nation. Of real privation and widespread want and [other duties pressing upon his attention, he is|is an empty world. That is to sav.' l LUDWIG NELSON I misery Alaska has had none. While breadlines and ready to drop all these things and place his talents|space is %0 Tmich. vaster in 1':'111[:(;1): | JEWELER | flophouses have become established institutions from and energy at the disposal of the State. It is the|{p matter, such as planets, suns, - Watch Repairing California to Maine and Washington to Florida, |Vvery highest kind of public service. No office could|and so on, that it simply doesn't “ Brunswick Agency | they remain unknown institutions from Dixon En- bring such opportunities or entail trance to Point Barrow. Even unemployment in bilities. The work will be axacting and prolonged, | he does not believe that his theo: the Territory is local and seasonal, serfous, it is|Put 1t successful achlevement is made certainifits pre . Al cibies withy dlfitea adustricesd DY P WALINGHEsS O hen 1k Mr-BUAUS S0TRLR|BEIGHID, , the patriotic plea first place. So long as this but not dangerous nor of such scope as to occasion country can count upon such vounteers for emer- H alarm {gency duty, we need not despair of the Republic. Juneau is equally as fortunately situated as the | rest of the Territory. Its payrolls were never larger | at this period of the year, nor its major industry | never so prospercus. There is more work under “I Do Not Choose to Rurn.” and (New York World-Telegram.) such responsi- | count. 7% after verse, lions of y theory had no Einstei theory that the w was static. It It should be explained that ions. But it will ieves, in come bil-| | is known as “de Sit-| and it was developed in had advanced thel 1d, or the uni-} FRONT STREET was balanced ic motion. way than is customary for the season. The town's| Again Mr. Coolidge has told the country that he This didn® , and finances are in good shape. Real estate is in good |does not choose to run. But—just as four years | after a year ) demand, reflecting a healthy economic state Of lago—some whisper that there is a mysterious hidden | A¢tV oPDosite theory, Down Sleeping Robes affal The community has an unemployment |assent behind his plain words of denial. Latcr“lem:",xr _n“'"g‘;'.‘*'n i | ; ] ok it t ha Why the mystery? Mr. Coolidge is always canny, . % e the Belgian scl- | Gef your proper sleep, in e de- problzm on its hands, but it has taken steps to y y y g v entis, combined the two theorle P NeRhtio. comfort of a Woods Aro: but never subtle. He means what he says. Why handle it sanely and as inexpensively as is possible |shouldn't he? under the circumstances. { . ; o nn Uiroahowl e Terithry -the shime Lpandis|Jaenemer he wesjwise enough n 1038 lo foreass ?1::! ‘Sd“ A tions exist. Alaskans are 1x\ee{111g their problems the national troubles ahead may be open to argu- ‘ ¥ 4 o 3 ®lment; but that he sees the Republican election as they arise in a truly American fashion. On the iy, uples of 1932 is pretty clear. Mr. Coolidge was sixty-fourth anniversary as part of the United gratifying than that they of the Territory's birth | never States, nothing is more, trouble, have demonstrated beyond | Moreover, there is a very good reason why a the kind to go out of his way to meet all doubt that they are able and willing to take |President is rarely denied one renomination. To care of themselves if given the opportunity. condemn Mr. Hoover or any other President by withholding renomination would be for the party to condemn itself and its administration, and thus virtually destroy any chance of victory. Such action is not only considered inexpedient ke by politicians, but almost impossible—the Presi- Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, pioneer opponent of |gent ysually holds, through patronage, enough dele- the Eighteenth Amendment, in a recent spsech at &|gates to control or at least to split the party if political gathering in New York City, warned Re- |challenged. publicans of disaster ahead if their party remains| As the most practical politician of dlir time, Mr. Dry, refuses to recede from its high tariff position, {Coolidge would hardly violate the unwritten law of and does nothing to reduce expenditures on arma- (his party. ment. The whole country, he has found, is dis- cussing political and economic issues as never be- fore, even in 1898, and will demand clear-cut and definite positions on the issues r year. Dr. Butler declared all the omens are against the Republican Party. with the 1930 Congressional BUTLER SUGGESTS PLATFORM PLANKS. Almost of Age. 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Its activities, extended now ¥ oo Y, i s miles daily, challenge respect consideration, | These have almost invariably indi-|over . thousands of m : g P ted t 4 n i ial and admiration. cated the ¢ in nonpresidential years since 1868, | RE L L 1 Tne Night' was the happy and ney hava been away from the present P and intriguing title of a novel a third of a century| party in power ago. They now da pass in the air as well as Asserting that by Prohibition the Government is|the sea with routine regularity. The air mail serv “endowing the bootlegger by law,” he warned his | has grown by leaps and bounds—its story is as mar audience that if the Republicans do not break away |velous almost as that of the Magic Carpet; and its from Dry domination they will find their party |ships actually do more than the Arabian dreame: hopelessly disrupted visioned his flying fabric doing. On the tariff, he held that the G These ships, covering thousands of miles, hurtling policy had served its purpose; that the country is daily from sea to sea, deliver hundreds of pounds i now a creditor rather than a debtor; and that of air mail, putting new energy and blood into the veins of a compelling higher trade and commerce. |\ unless the Hawley-Smoot tariff schedules are dras- tically cut, “the 7,000,000 unemployed will grow to H Twenty years is not a long time, but the devel- |} spment in this connection is remarkable and im- 10,000,000.” Hug: expenditures for armament are. leftovers pressive. A great new peace-time activ is estab- lished, and in America it has proved itself to b from a system outworn and vanished, now that |superior to any foreign effort. Perhaps the air mai! time and distance has been wiped out by modern |3rvice owes something to the intensive improvement methods of communication and transport. The en- |in aircraft stimulated by the exigency of war. At tire world is linked together by bands of industry |3nY rate, it has demonstrakeq 'a progressive achieve- and commerce, and unless the United States, under ment through nl]“the years following the conclusio: Republican leadership demands actual steps be of the world conflict. taken at the Geneva conference next February it It is the Department of Ag Hiisa: -4t inkssd will b2 held to an accounting, he avowed .hat wants to know what would be the effect of . Butler would remove Prohibition as a parti- | egalization of -beer on the farmer. Well, it would san political issue by having both the Republican |probably make him more cheerful, as it does the gnd Democratic: ;mu come out squarely for re-lresl of us.<+(Boston Globe.) | 15 and since O. P. tariff “Real Opportunty Comes Only to the Man With Ready Money.” Mr. Rockefeller began life in a small way and was prepared when opportunity came his way. It is the small things of life that lead to the big. today no matter how small. The B. M. Behrends Bank OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA BE PREPARED —Jou~N D. ROCKEFELLER. Start your savings account re support for his theory origi- | Public Projects in Western States Help Take Up Idle Slack (Continued from Page One) air base at Sunnyvale; $5,000,000 bombing base in Marin county and the $3500,000 army air base in Alameda. In Nevada 6,000 men are at work on Hoover dam and more are em- ployed as construction is speeded up. However this increase is offset by the shrinkage of work on farms and railroads and in mines, and the supply. of labor at the dam- site still ‘exceeds the demand. In Washington, Oregon and Cali- fornia railroad -comstruction ap- proximating $15,000,000 is projected. As fall began the unemployed in Colorado were -estimated at 25,000 with a probable increase to 45,000 ate in November when the sugar beet operations end. Colorado Rushes Road Work An unofficial committee in Colo- rado headed by Jesse F. 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