The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 27, 1931, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, OCT. 27, 1931. Daily Alaska Empire JOEN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published every overing except Sunday by the EMPIRY_PRINTING Btreets, Juneau, Alasha. Entered In the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thars for $1.25 per n;nlv;th.l e mall, postage paid, at the followin $ OneB,yenr. in"advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in adyance, $1.25. Subscribers wiil confer a favor it they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papera ™ Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices. 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE®S. The Asseciated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches eredited 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 NAVY DAY. Commemorating the deeds of the past as well as the service it now renders the nation and the part it undoubtedly will play in the future, the country today honors -he United States Navy by the observance of Nea'y Day. The occasion is all the more tin ly in vicv of the discussions on world reductions in armamenis and a tendency on the part of the Adminisiration to let the Navy decline s NY at Second and Main R S | 1t the New York Conference is able to reach an | :foreign production to enable them to meet compe- | tition. Some of the domestic producers believe this |is the only solution to the difficulties. The Tariff |Commission will shortly open hearings on the subject at the direction of Congress and submit |its findings to the coming session of that body. |agreement that is satisfactory to everyone, American |interests probably will drop their agitation for the |impositicn of duty on foreign copper. If, however, |the foreign producers refuse to meet them hnlf{ way, the movement for a tariff will be strongly | pressed. | IS FITTING TRIBUTE. | The naming of one of the most prominent peaks |back of Mendenhall Glacier in honor of the late |E. J. (Stroller) White of this city was a most | fitting tribute, and one that will be duly appre- {clated not only by Mr. White's surviving relatives |but by Alaskans gencrally. The “Stroller” was one {of the most widely known and universally admh'ed‘ newspaper editors in the North. A pioneer of the Territory, he was a true son of Alaska, and devoted his time and talents to its well being | for many years. No action of the National Geo- graphic Board in Alaska will be more cordially ap- proved than the naming of the Mendenhall peak “Mount Stroller White.” Self-Government Sacrificed. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) The many troubles of hard times indicate morz and more clearly the tendency of the Nation's com- monwealth to intrust their burdzns and problems into the hands of the Federal Government. Slowly the States are becoming denuded of their proper powers. This means the ultimate surrendering of privileges and advantages beyond price. It means the ultimate death of self-government, a principle which we so long justly have cherished and up- held, to the great profit and happiness of the American people. Now we appear to be welcoming an autocracy, seeking to nullify the great achieve- ments of the past! We have asked the General Government to as- A ans of |Sume our natural responsibilities. We ask it to well below the pvam,“ trea ratlfo ;;s a Ir)ne = s |1ook after the raising of our children, to see to effecting economy. The cbjcct of Navy Day our education and to fix railroad rates. We would better acquaint the pecple witn the Navy's work in peace as well as in war, the problems it has to meet as the nation’s fust line of defense, and some of its necessities if it is going to continue to be an efficient and coffective arm of the Government's service. The Navy, as with tne Army, is not designed as an aggressive force, «i:d its machinery is not use- less even though there be no wor. Its functions and activities in peacetimes are esscntial to the growth and security of America's foreign trade. It has played a great part iu ‘he development of aids to navigation, in the science of aviation and other modern developnents (nat has been of incalculable benefit to the country and ins‘rumental in saving jives and property on a large scale. ® The Navy should be maintained on its present effective plane. 1t should not be alloved to become weaker than national safety requires. That would be false economy. The Administration should not Jose sight of the pledges made by it, through its naticnal convention in 1928 and in the speech of acceptance by Mr. Hoover who on that occasion said: “We must and shail mam‘ain our naval defense and our merchant marine in the swrength and efficiency which will yield to us, at ! times, the primary assurance of liberty, that is, national safcty.” The President aplified tiis in his Armistice Day addrzss of 1929 in which he declared: “I am for adequate preparedness as & guaranty that no foreign soldier shall ever step upon the soil of our country. Proper defense requires military strength relative to that of other nations. We will reduce our naval strength in proportion to any other.” Now it is proposed to cut down naval construc- tion, tie up part of the fleets and restrict the peace- time operations of the remainder of them. No other nation has taken such steps, although every other important maritime power is in worse posi- tion, economically and industrially, than is the ses it overlooking the economics and procedure of our kitchen practices, teaching us how to can fruits and vegetables. We apparently have desired it to oversee our trade affairs, wholesale and re- tail. We have consented that it shall guard and regulate our personal habits. We permit it to censor our books. It kindly assists us in our efforts to make wine, encouraging the development of grape growing. It tells us how we should and should not spend our money as candidates in political campaigns. Commissions and bureaus take the places of our lawyers and doctors, with ministerial assistance. These bureaus, like the deep-sea octo- poda, reach out tentacles through all the land and, like the gigantic cuttle fish, their appetite is ravenous, never satisfled. We ask for bread lines, pipe lines and power lines—for all things under heaven that we should have and hold for ourselves —ask that the General Government shall verify the incompetence of sovereign States to function as such, to nullify their self-reliance. Now signs are appearing which indicate that the States are awakening to their danger. Let it be hoped that these signs will multiply and even- tually compel a return to the principles and prac- tices of democratic constitutional government. It’s the Spirit That Counts. (Democrat-American, Sallislaw, Okla.) After all is said and done, thers’s only one thing that is responsible for the growth or decline of any community. That is the spirit of the people. If the people are discouraged, blue, disheartened, pessimistic, growling, snarling, kicking, complaining, whining and weeping, the community is on the to- boggan and sliding backward. If the people can smile through their tears, show their spunk, keep pegging away, keep cheerful, live within their means, appreciate one another, con- sider the future, have hope for better times, de- termine to “see it through” at any cost, that town is on the upgrade, and will get somewhere. Two men looked at a worn-out farm. One man United States. If ‘we let the Navy fall below the treaty quota it is a confession that the nation did not need the quota allowance for its security, or that the Administration places the need for economy ahead of the necessity of maintaining the admit- ted requirements for national safety. This is some- thing that might well be seriously considered by the people upon Navy Day. SWEDISH POET HONORED IN DEATH. Eric Axel Karlfeldt, lyric poet of Sweden, has been honored after death by the posthumous award of the Nobel Prize in literature for 1931. Sinclair Lewis won the award last year. Dr. Karlfeldt is the first member of the Swed- ish Academy, which selects the Nobel Prize winners, to receive the literary award. He was permanent gecretary of the academy and Chairman of the Nobel Prize Committee. As long as he lived, he refused to allow the committee to~consider him for the honor, although his name was frequently suggested. Last year he introduced Sinclair Lewis to the King of Swrden at ‘he presentation ceremony in connection with which the American novelist made & widely quoted speech, declaring the way of art in America was hard Dr. Karlfzldt died Ap-il 7, last. Hc long had been considered one of Sweden's outstanding poets. His works were chiel 'y concerned with the folk ways and daily life of the Dalcariah peasants, his an- cestors. MAY SEEK TARIFF ON COPPER. The copper industy of tho United States has at last succeeded in getting its foreign competitors around the conferencs iable. For two years Ameri- can producers have endcavored to bring this about without success. They have watched copper prices go below costs of p:roduction here, making production at a profit impossible for them, and permitting only a few mines operating at low costs to operate profitably. These are largely loreign properties— Spanish, Belgian, South American. While the Amecrican mines have been operating on a greatly reduced ccale, or closed cown entirely the foreigners have zone alead at capacity, flooding the market and buildinz up a tremendous surplus of raw copper that menaces the future of the American industry. Suggestions that @ quota ar- rangement be made, 2s in (he sugar producing industry, have left them cold. They would not even talk about it. In despcration the American pro- duc:rs have started a movement for 2 tariff or turned away, said it was hopeless. The other man said he'd try it. He bought it for a song, and everybody called him a fool. He smiled, and began studying soil culture. He read everything he could find on soil building. He came to be known as an expert on soils. He put his theories into practice, building back into his farm the fertility that had been taken from it. The result, now he has a farm that is the envy of one community. What wrought the change? It was the spirit of the man. It was his determination that turned the trick. Emerson said: “What a new face courage puts on everything. A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat and begins to conquer.” It's the spirit that counts. Depression and Sports. (Daily Olympian.) There is not much use in trying to pretend that the business depression isn't rather severe. Just ‘he same, it is worth pointing out that the sports fans of the nation seem to be about as numerous and as flush as they ever were. Big league baseball has enjoyed a prosperous summer, and more than 200,000 people have tried ‘o buy seats for the world series. A number of huge college stadia are said to be sold out already {or football games that will not be played for sev- aral weeks. Golf tournaments have drawn big 'rowds. Race tracks have prospered in various parts of the country. Boxing, of course, has not done so well. But hat may be the facult of the performers; for Jack Dempsey, on an exhibition tour, has been backing em in in amazing style. All in all, it appears hat a good athletic event will get the crowds about as well in hard times as in an era of pros- perity. A New Yorker waxes eloquent and says his city ‘can match the Exhibit A of all other towns in the ountry.” What twin has the metropolis to pair vith Senator Brookhart?—(Rochester Democrat and Shronicle.) Argentina is going to ship us 100,000 turkeys for he Thanksgiving trade. Wall, somebody is optim- stic enough to realize that the people of <This ountry do not intend to eat crow.—(Philadelphia 3ulletin.) It must be admitted that the English idea of w election campaign only 20 days long has its dvantages.—(Washington Post.) The politiclan who insists on sitting on the ence these days finds himself perched precariously n the top strand of a barbed wire affair.—(Phila- | 3 ‘elphia Inquirer.) Vessels Lost in Fog Soon to ‘Feel Way’ Along Ocean Floor with Aid of New Map L 15T t2 SUBMARINE VALLEY An ocean bottom map showing the hills and valleys of Georges bank off the New England coast is being made by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Through use of the map and a fathometer ships lost in fog can “feel their way” along the ocean floor, as shown in sketch above. The Georges bank area is shown by dotted space on map. By F. B. Colton proach the American coast after BOSTON, Oct. 27—Ships on & ltyo or three days of thick weather busy crossroads c: the sea, off'(hat have made it impossible to New England, soon will be able 0| getermine her exact position. For “feel their way” along the ocean | satety's sake the captain must ver- bottom when fog hides sun and! stars and static disables the radio' compass. H Hills and valleys of Georges Bank, huge submerged gravel pile | new being mapped in detail by the | United States coast and geodetic | survey, are expected to guide fu-| ture navigators almost as accurate- | ly as the touch of familiar objects | guides & man feeling his way| through a dark house. | Shoals, treacherous currents, fre-' quent fogs and storms, static that often hinders radio communication and heavy ship traffic make Georges Bank dangerous for ship-! ping. Transatlantic steamers, hugglng; the great circle course, coastwise ! vessels between New York, Boston | and Nova Scotia and fishing boats seeking “forty-fathom fish” crowd its waters. When the contour map of the ' bank is completed, coast and geo- detic survey officers explain, ship captains can chart their courses “along the bottom” by keeping one eye on the map and the other on the depth readings of the fathome- ter, an instrument already in use. Four times a second the fathome- ter indicates on a dial the exact depth of water under a ship's keel. The depth is measured by the time it takes for a sound to travel from the ship to the bottom and back. The depth readings reveal to the navigator the exact contours of the ocean bottom under his shlp.! Checking these contours with the, coast and geodetic survey’s contour | map of the bottom, he can tell at once the position of his veszel. For example, a liner may ap- Christmas Cards 21 newly designed cards to- gether with 21 beautifully embossed seals—all with tis- sue-lined envelopes — each card different. $1.00 per box 1 i Juneau Drug ! Company Free Delivery Phone 33 Post Office Substation No. 1 ify his position soon or veer south- ward. Depths registered by the ship's fathcmeter indicate she has passed the edge of the continental shelf. Suddenly the depths increase to 100, 200, 300 fathoms, then de- crease just as suddenly. At once the captain knows he has passed over a submarine valley, eight miles long, two miles wide and 1,800 feet deep, already chart- ed by the coast and geodetic survey. His exact position thus indicated. | the captain can steer direct for Nantucket 1lightship, 160 miles away, avoiding the delay of a de- tour southward. “With the data we obtain on Georges Bank it will be possible to construct charts of the greatest utility to shipping,” says Lieut.- Com. F. S. Borden of the survey. “Not only will they show the ex- act outlines of all shoal areas, but they will reveal the configuration of the bottom in such detail that navigating officers may closely ad- here to the tracks they desire to follow. “Futhermore, it will be possible with safety to shape courses some- what closer to the great circle and thereby not only shorten distances by virtue of sticking more closely to the tracks, but also, in the case of westbound vessels, by actually shortening the track itself.” ——,———— THE MARTHA SOCIETY will give a dinner on Wednesday, October 28, at the Presbyterian Church Parlor. Dinner will be served from 5:30 to 7 pm. at 75¢ per plate. —adv. ] OFFICE ROOMS FOR RENT Will remodel to suit tenant GOLDSTEIN BUILDING LUDWIG NELSON JEWELER Watch Repairing Brunswick Agency FRONT STREET ° . o. . 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The Serenaders will supply the music at the masquer- ade. THOUSANDS OF CORNS REMOVED ‘We now have & that really will quickly and I‘aovt' Al oot pain 11 Jou"are one of the wadort your stubborn old ouses—oome In NOW and let num“ ;ll‘o"l};D-O-OO“:r“‘ i ou live too far aw le- OORN LADOIA‘N)IJ.E& 4 GGI‘-M field Blvd., Chicago, who will see that JOU receive a jar promptly, Butler Mauro Drug Co. Juneau Drug Co. CHILDREN’S Sateen Bloomers In Flesh and Black Made full, meaning true comfort 8 to 14 years SPECIAL, 50c¢ Not Only Cheaper but Better RICE & AHLERS CO. GOOD PLUMBING | “We tell you in advance | what job will cost” DON'T BE TOO 17 it comes from our coal goes farther and even and satisfying D. B. FEMMER Phone 114 I HAAS 1 | Famous Candies | - The Cash Bazaar : Open Evenings 1 ~ PROFESSIONAL | .o I & Fraternal Societies 1} | OF ) [ Helene W, L. 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Office Hours: 9:30 | to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 | JUNEAU-YOUNG Funeral Parlors Night Phone 336-2 Day Phome 12 — s Dr. C. L. Fenton | CHIROPRACTOR Kidney and Bowel Specialist Phone 581, Goldstein Bldg. || FOOT CORRECTION | | . Hours: 10-12, 2-5, 7-8 “We Never Close” SERVICE MOTOR CO. { “Jim” and “Marvan” THIRD and MAIN STS. § oo o e FOR RANGES HEATERS AND . FIREPLACES HEMLOCK WOOD Telephone 92 or 95 and leave your order with GEORGE BROTHERS Full Half Cord, $4.25 Chester Barneson R e ] - JUNEAU CABINET and DETAIL MILL- WORK CO. Front Street, mext to Warmer Machine Shep CABINET and MILLWORK GENERAL CARPENTER WORK GLASS REPLACED * IN AUTOS Estimates l'urnished Upon Request ——— B. P. 0. ELKS Meeting every Wednesday night at 8 pm, Elks Hall. Visiting brothers welcome., M. S. JORGENSEN, Exalted Rule M. H. SIDES, Secretary. e .second Friday each monih =y 7:30 p. m. Sood tish Rite Temple WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary \ LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE, NO. 700 Meets Monday 8 p. m. Ralph Reischl, Dictator Legion of Moose No. 3 meets first and third Tuesdays G. A. Baldwin, Secretary and MOUNT ""'NEAU LODGE NO. I¢ 3econd ana fourth Mon- 3eottish Rite Temple, seginning at 7:30 p. m. 1 L. REDLINGSHAP- <5 3ecretaly. ORDER OF EASTERN STAR Second and Fourth d at 8 o'clock, Scosiskt Rite Temple. JESSI¥Y KELLER, Worthy Mat« Herder, P. D. Box 273. iay of each mouth in iR, Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS Tuesdays of each mouth, ron; FANNY L. ROb~ INSON, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1708 Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m Transient brotbers urg ed to attend. OCounel Chambers, Fifth Street JOHN P. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. DOUGLAS AERIE 117 F. O. K. I Mevts first and third Mondays, 8 o'clook wt Eagles Hall Douglas. W. E. FEERO, W. P, 3UY SMITH, Secretary. Visiting irothers welcome. 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