The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 6, 1932, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, FEB. 6, 1932.° PRI RN DU v omer . Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published _every evemng 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. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One vear, in advance, $12.0 $6.00; one month, in advanc Subscribers will c a potify the Business Office « the delivery of their papers. I enhone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. 25. it they will promptly y failure or irregularity 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 hed herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUAWANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION DISCRIMINATING AGAINST AL In its unprecedented action in fixing a maximum sum that the Department of Agriculture can allot to Alaska out of the $12,000,000 Federal appropria- tion for Forest Highways in the next fiscal year, ! and in prohibiting local Forest Service authorities from expending more than that sum regardless of any balance it may have left on hand from previous | appropriations (nearly all of which was recently taken away from the Alaska district by the De- partment of Agriculture), the House of Represen- tatives has been guilty of discriminating against the Territory in the most unheard of manner. Under the provisions of the Federal Aid High- way Act, Congress annually makes available money for Forest road construction on projects in and adjacent to National Forests throughout the coun- try. The basic reason for this is to reimburse the States and Territories in which the Federally ad- ministered forest lands are located for nevenues that would otherwise accrue from taxation and other sources from the forests were they State- owned or held in private ownership. Congress makes the appropriations in a lump sum. That is, it does not specify how much shall be expended in any National Forest district or any individual National Forest. The practice has been for the apportionments to be made by the Depart- | ment of Agriculture which takes several factors into consideration, such as the area of the timber lands in any National Forest in relation to them all, stands of merchantahle timber, and other elements. In this manner for eleven years allptmiénts habe been made and at no time has there been any charge that the distribution was not equitable and upon a sound basis. Congress naturally is not in position to determine what these factors are. Just why the House of Representatives should change this with respect to Alaska alone is not made clear. In fact, in the report of the committee that handled the legislation no statement of any kind was made to show any reason at all for it. Tt merely said the allotment for Alaska would be $350,000 and that not more than that sum could be expended from the appropriation itself and un- expended balances from similar appropriations in the past in the coming fiscal year. In the debate in the House on the measure, the Congressional Record does not show that any explanation was asked, nor any objection made by any member of the House. PRI, zeeps g O TEXAS GROWS UP. When Texas in 1928 gave Herbert Hoover, Re- publican, a majority for President over Al' Smith, Democrat, there were some commentators who greet- ed the great uprising as strong evidence that Texas had become civilized. Others, with a different view- point on the fruits of civilization, argued that was proof that Texas had degenerated. Now comes other evidence to hand that nearly everyone will agree shows Texans are indeed growing up in the ways of well-conducted society. A press despatch appearing recently in Eastern newspapers recorded the fact that a County Judge In the Lone | Star State had sued a San Antonio newspaper for $15,000 damages for calling him a Republican. How differsnt from the customs of the olden days when the only adequate answer to such an insult would have been from the muzzie of a six-shooter! Sy MELLON IS EXCELLENT CHOICE, President Hoover's selection of Secretary Andrew Mellon to succeed Gen. Charles G. Dawes as Am- bassador to the Court of St. James is 4 happy one. As the President pointed out most of the problems to be settled between the United States and Great Britain in the immediate future are financial or economic in nature. The more serious ones, pay- ment of war debts, have been handled for almost 12 years by Mr. Mellon as head of the Treasury Department. His familiarity with this problem and with the Congressional policy affecting it ought to stand him in good stead in his new position. Under Secretary Ogden Mills was the natural cholos of the President to succeed Mr. Mellon. He s a student of and an authority on finances and economics. He has been the principal figure in the Treasury Department's relations to Congress, nd it was freely said in Washington that he and not his chief was Mr. Hoover's main adviser on policies of the Administration. .;ANT!-SALOON LEAGUE GIVES NOTICE. . The Anti-Saloon League has given politicians due ‘notice that it will not tolerate the nomination by | either party of any man as a candidate for Presi- | dent who favars the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment or a referendum by States on that '_, If either party d?es nominate a candidate - who is not pledged to keep National Prohibition as months, in advance, |in |State could deal with Prohibition as a majority of la plank cratic Party to go outside of the leading figures now mentioned for its standard bearer. Its dictum would |effectually bar Gov. Roosvelt, to whom Alaska's delegation of six is already pledged, Ex-Gov. Alfred iE Smith, Gov. Albert C. Ritchie, Newton D. Baker, |Ex-Senator Reed of Missouri, Owen Young and Banker Melvin Traylor if the Democrats should permit themselves to be dictated to by the Dry organization. Party leaders ought not to be frightened by is threat. They should accept the League at its word and do the courageous thing by writing into its platform a plank for a referendum on a change the system by means of which each sovereign its ens deem ‘most desirable for themselves, and by nominating a candidate pledged to support such A policy of that kind would be resented by the Anti-Saloon League but its leaders can be depended on to oppose .thz Democratic nominee anyway ' if President Hoover is renominated, as now _ |seems certain One thing the country can be assured of being done at the disarmament conference—the delegates will spend as much as possible of that $450,000 ap- propriatien that Congress gave them. President Hoover isn't worried so much about what Republican Mann will do this year, K but what is going to be the verdict of the Republican men. Native Arts and Modern Times. (The Verstovian) The mighty dollar or some form of financial re- turn is the foremost motivating force which sets our energies at work. There is of course no question concerning pay for honest effort which provides the necessities of life but are we willing to be known in history as a nation of money seekers and pleasure goers with speed our greatest achievement? Here in Southeast Alaska where fifty 'years ago many of the native women were skilled in the art lof weaving baskets of rare design and beauty and where many men were expert wood carvers of ob- jects having significant meaning, the tendencies of modern life have so much lessened interest that now only a few of the older people understand these arts and they are in danger of becoming lost. The | younger generation has little patience in such slow, painstaking, unprofitable work as weaving a basket or carving a totem pole. And why, indeed, should many days be spent in securing and preparing materials, making dyes, and carefully shaping an object which after so much effort commands but a few dollars from some curious traveler! Yet a thing of beauty is a thing of beauty for all of that and money is not the only consideration. Sheldon Jackson School is stressing the value and importance of the native arts in various ways. A boy from Wales is encouraged in his aptitude for ivory carving. A girl from Hydaburg draws a beau- tiful design involving the whalekiller and this in several colors of yarn is now being copied in a rug. Small articles of wood such as book ends and toys Of} { are being decorated with various native designs. further importance is a class in basket weaving which has recently been organized. An excellent native woman teacher has charge of a group of interested girls and is carefully directing them as they weave their first tiny baskets of the spruce root. 'Thus appreciation is sought and a beginning degree of skill is attained. It is felt that mor: should-be done alongi these lines and as further interest can,bé created additional opportunity will be offered. ! For and Against. : (New York Times,) Cemmemoration by the W. C. T. U. of the twelfth annniversary of National Prohibition took the rather curious, not to say ironical, form of a “victory luncheon.” One misses the ardor and con- fidence of the days before “victory” or the days when “victory” was young. Why are these excellent ladies and thei) orators so hostile to the submission of Prohibition to the people? A Wet can under- stand their objection to the proposed referendum on the ground that it would “encourage lawless- ness.” He would say that under Prohibition law- lessness needs no encouragement. Doesn't it smack of defeatism to be or seem to be afraid of the result of a referendum? A Wyoming County State Senator uttered the granite conviction that befits the un- daunted true believer. He was sure that the verdict of a referendum would be so heavily Dry you would all be surprised.” : Why should the members of an organization whose long, sincere labors have entitled it to general respect try to rob themselves of that splendid sur- prise? Meanwhile, the W. C. T. U. has itself entered upon a surprising course of action. It has begun an “educational campaign” to get 5,000,000 pledges of total abstinence. If Prohibition has tri- umphed, what is the need of total abstinence? 1t has become compulsory. In fact, the W. C. T. U. has involved itself in a fatal contradition; and in advocating Prohibition, it put the cart before the horse. Total abstinence by consent of the will and total abstinence by exterior force, by constitutional amendment and act of Congress, are really opposites. The sensible effort which the W. C. T. U. is now making is an admission of the breaking down of total abstinence imposed from without and having no regard to the sanction of the individual con- science, 3 The W. C. T. U. has undertaken a worthy task provided it solicits pledges only from persons of the age of discretion. Those of tenderer years it can educate in its own creed as to drinking. The un- conscious confession of these devoted friends of Prohibition should be welcomed by everybody except those hopeless reprobates of old, the moderate drink- ers. For the present they may be strong enoush in their blindness to “refuse the pledge”; but who knows what the spreading of the light may do to their darkness? Los Angeles Quakes. (New York World-Telegram.) A production of “Lysistrata,” most sparkling of the comedies of the late Aristophanes, written 400 years B. C., was raided by Los Angeles police. and its cast, including Nance O'Neil, arrested. “We &ant only clean and moral shows in Los Angeles,” said John C. Porter, the Mayor. The play, as we recall it, has to do with a wives’ strike against war, joined in by Athenian, Spartan and Theban women. Which is probably the im- moral part of it. New York's morals survived “Lysistrata” for two years. Los Angeles’ morals, in spite of the .Rev. Aimee McPherson and Rev. Bob Shuler, apparently are not so robust. It's hard to understand Los Angeles. Grecian in setting, surrounded by beauty, host to the first Olympiad on American soil, yet it quakes at a classical comedy! Maybe the Greeks have a word for Los Angeles. i Phe:. Democrats, says Speaker Garner, are going to_raise $200,000,000 in additional revenue without i gfi_{e spokesman, Dr. F, seeks’ 1o force the Demo- levying any additional taxes. There's certainly a good trick there, if they can do it.—(Boston Globe.) OPERATION IS FATAL;BARNEY DREYFUSS DIES Famous Baseball Magnate, President of Pirates, Passes Away (Continued 1rom Page One) arranging a post-season series in| 1903 between his pennant-winning i Pirates and the Boston Red Sox,| champions of the American League. ‘Those games were the fore-run- ner of the world’s series, which be- came the outstanding event of the | baseball world starting with 1905. | During the Federal League war, Mr. Dreyfuss had a more serious problem to contend with, a per- sonal fight against invasion. The Federals made Pittsburgh one of the points of their strongest attack by placing a star team there to bid, for some of the patronage, in the l.’fi'ea!monl of his players that those race and seldom finished below the first divison. Heads Schedule Committee *A valuable service which Mr. Dreyfuss performed for the Nation- al League for many years was in the capacity of chairman of the schedule comimttee, a job none of the other officials envied him. He was appointed to that committee in 1902 when, after the settlement of the American League war, it be- came obvious that each circuit would need such a committee, to in cities avoid conflicting dates that were Trepresented in both leagues. He became an expert av drafting playing schedules. In the conduct of his baseball business, Mr. Dreyfuss was a strict ruler, but a friend as well as em- plover of his players. There were certain fundamental rules that gov- ernad his business. He and his son looked after the administrative or FOREST wWOO0D RIDGEGROWN HEMLOCK Cut Any Length $4.25 per load DRIHEARTS—Free of knots for ranges, kindling, ete. Large load, $5.00 GARNICK’S GROCERY Phone 174 executve end of the baseball busi- ness, while on the field the man- ager was given sole authority. %1t was said of Dreyfuss in the who had given long years of faith- ful service to the club and played square with him would not have fo worry about being in need after their playing days. But any whqg the United States about 1881 and settled in Paducah, Ky. He married Miss Florence Wolf of Louisville. They had a son, Samuel, who be- came associated with his father as treasurer of the Pittsburgh club, and a daughter, Mrs. William E. Bonswagner. \ Barney Rreyfuss' first employ- ment in the United States was as a laborer in a distillery at Pa- ducah, but in six years he became an official of the company. He had not been in this country long when he became interested in baseball and affiliated with a sem-pro club at Paducah. Later he controlled | the club four years until 1888, when he removed to Louisville. Buys In Louisville In the latter city only a year,| Dreyfuss purchased an interest in the Louisville baseball club and in three years became an official of the club. By 1899 he had accum- ulated sufficient money to enable him to purchase the interests ol= his asscciates, which he did for a price said to have been $50,000. That was the last year of the| twelve-club circuit in the National; League and as Louisville was one of the cities to be dropped, Dre fuss merged his club with Pitts- burgh and became a half-owner of that outfit, his partner belngi William W. Kerr, the previous; owner of the Pirates. | The consolidation strengthened | the club, for Dreyfuss brought| from Louisville Fred Clarke, who became manager of the club for a| number of years in addition to be- ing one of the game's best out-| fielders and hitters; the famous | Hans Wagner, one of the greatest all-around players of all time; Tommy Leach, Deacon Phillippe, and others who starred with the club for several seasons. The Louisville players enabled the Pittsburgh club_to climb to| econd place in 1900 and the next | season, when Dreyfuss came into| sole ownership of the club, zhoi Pirates won the first three suc- cessive pennants. From that time on the club became a leading fac- otr in National League pennant| RECREATION BOWLING PARLORS Our alleys are in perfect | PROFESSIONAL | [{™ Fraternal Societies 1 d or 3 . Gastineau Channc! ! S O R R IR Helene W.L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 410 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 ' d I B. P. 0. BLKS Meeting every | | Wednesday nignt I{et 8 pm, Exs ) |man. Visiting prothers welcome, M. S. JORGENSEN, Exalted Rule M. H. SIDES, Secretary. =) Co-Ordinate Bod- > _ ies of Freemason- i ry Scottish Rite . Regular meeting 'second Friday each month at 7:30 p. m., Scot- tish Rite Temple. WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary I DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building Telephone 176 | l LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE, NO. 700 ‘Meets Monday 8 p. m. Ralph Reisch], Dictator. Legion of Moose No. 25 meets first and third Tuesdays G. A. Baldwin, Secretary and Herder, P. O. Box 273. Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Office hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. Evenings by appointment Phone 321 SARGON SARGON PILLS Butler Mauro Drug Co. ‘Phone 134 We Deliver Express Money Orders enjoyment of which the Pirates|“kicked over the traces,” regarding L .. had been unmolested. rules and discipline, star or nostar,[§ condition and we invite MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Meets Challenge “went on the skids.” S 5 D W. S Second and fourth Mon- Dreyfuss met the challenge with| Dreyfuss often was termed lucky your inspection. r. A. . Stewart day of ‘each month in, a team that played up to the usual|by his fellow magnates because of DENTIST Scottish Rite Temple, Pittsburgh and major league stand- [the club's good fortune in turning Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. beginning at 7:30 p. m. ards and consequently proved alminor league players into stars.|e. . § ;fiwfi}? BU?‘;’PI];S: JOHN J. FARGHER, greater attraction than the invad-fSuch players as the Waner bro-| | { lice Phone 469, 3 Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, b ers. Virtually the only embarrass-{thers, ler, Traynor, Wright and “ LUDWIG NELSON | Phone 276 retary. v oy ment felt by the Pirates' owner[others were obtained by Pittsburgh JEWELER I'le — . was the expense of holding hisifor a “mere song” and within a B‘th ?N‘flnt . e| ORDER OF EASIERN STAR stars. Fabulous salaries were of-}year after donning Pirates uni- runswick Agency Robert Simpson | Second and Fourth fered by the Federal League to the | forms became stars in their respec- | . FRONT STREET ¢ Tuesdays of each month, stars of organized baseball and|tive positions. b Opt. D. at 8 oclok, Scottish many of them jumped to the new o — L2 . ! ch;adnnt: s w:‘ngre;es .:dol- Rite Temple. EDITH league. o | ege of b HOWARD, W The ' Pittsburgh club under the|FOREST PLANTING SETS MARK You Can Save Money at I Opthalmology ron; r‘AN’NYmZh’R’gB‘: direction of Dreyfuss was uniform- i A L iy Our Store Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground INSON, Sccretaty. ly successful, financially, and its| A e e ol SEE US FIRST . owner was regarded as one of the | TvEOR O e B R Harris Hardware Co. ||e o| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS wealthiest among baseball mag-|P? i 3 | Lower Front Street Dr. Geo. L. B Seghers Council No. 1760, ;i ord this year with plantings of|! | T. 0. L. Barton i nates. From the playing stand- [ . Meetings second and last 2 . . white, Norway and Jack pine. The CHIROPRACTOR point the club's success was the ¢ i Monday at 7:30 p. m. ing of National League pen- jacreage planted in pine was 31,600} e Hellenthal Building Dramaient fo (% winning >agl greater by 5000 than the depart- ’ DON ALDINE h OFFICE SERVICE ONLY -ansient brothers urg- nnats in 1901-02-03, again in 1909, | ed to attend. Council - ment record the year before. | Hours 9 am. to 7 pm. | then in 1925 and 1927, as well as B ty Parl. 3 ! Chambers, Fifth Street. dn 10800 i S eauty Parlor PHONE 259 a the world’s series against Detroit FHAMNG B st Frast be B JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. in 1909 and against Washington in l Phone 496 RUTH HAYES H. J. TURNER, Secretary. S . o! *DE. R E SOUTHWELL | Born In Germany - B. E. o 4 . vas born at Frei- . [P S Optometrist—Optician | Our trucks go any place any bul:h‘. &l‘:g‘iunsi ‘;f;sb it 186; i 1 Guaranteed Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted | time. A tank for Diesel Oil 5y g, Y, & | SHEET METAL WORK Room 7, Valentine Bldg. and a tank for crude oil save e son of Samuel Dreyfuss, an o | American citizen then resident in HOLLYWOOD STYLE SHOP | PLUMBING Otfice Phone 484; Residence | || burner trouble. Germany. Barney was educated in [ GEO. ALFORS Ph"“em”g".c;"tgewflg‘_‘;;- 9:30 | | | PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 Germany. After working a year in | PHONE 564 e Vi B | RELIABLE TRANSFER a bank at Karlsruhe, he came to [ . ° b3 ELECTRICAL JUNEAU-YOUNG NEW RECORDS REPAIR WORK ||/ NO JOB TOO SMALL | Funeral Parlors Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers | Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 | NEW SHEET MUSIC RADIO SERVICE Capital Electric Co. GARBAGE HAULED 1 Dr. C. L. Fenton ‘Expert Radio Repairing Radio Tubes and Supplies JUNEAU MELODY, HOUSE CHIROPRACTOR Kidney and Bowel Specialist Phone 581, Goldstein Bldg. FOOT CORRECTION Hours: 10-12, 1-5, 7-8 Reasonable Monthly Rates HEMLOCK WOOD Order Now at These Prices Full Cord $8.50 Half Cord ..$4.50 Five Cords or over, $7.00 cord E. O. DAVIS TELEPHONE 584 DRESS PANTS WORK PANTS Priced $2.00 up . SABIN’S | | | makes motion but no pro, progressive you must n must save your earnings a Savings A .Rocking Horse WE PAY 4% INTEREST compounded semi - annually upon savings ac- counts. While you work make your dollars work. One Dollar or more will open gress. If you are to be ot only work but you Account The B. M. Behrends Bank OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA The Florence Shop Phone 427 for Appointment RINGLETTE and NAIVETTE CROQUIGNOLE and SPIRAL i WAVES OFFICE ROOMS FOR RENT Will remodel to suit tenant GOLDSTEIN BUILDING JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY O—" s Moves, Packs and Stores Beauty Specialists . | | | I | o HOTEL ZYNDA ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. FIRE ALARM CALLS 1-3 1-4 1-5 1-6 1-7 1-8 1-9 2-1 Third and Franklin, Front and Franklin, Front, near Ferry Way. Front, near Gross Apts. Front, opp. City Whart, Pront, near Saw Mill. Front at A. J. Office. ‘Willoughby at Totem Famous Candies The Cash Bazaar Open Evenings With place. For our coal goes farther and gives a more even and satisfying heat. low, better have us send you a new supply to prove our statement. Our draying service is always the best and we specialize in Feed. GENERAL CARPENTER WORK Freight and Baggage Prompt Delivery of ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 48 J. B. BURFORD & CO. “Our door step is worn by satisfied customers” § THE JuNEAu LAUNDRY Franklin Street, between Front and Second Streets PHONE 359 If your coal bin is running D. B. FEMMER Phone 114 W.P. Johnson FRIGIDAIRE DELCO LIGHT PRODUCTS MAYTAG WASHING MACHINES GENERAL MOTORS RADIOS Phone 17 Front Street Juneau JUNEAU CABINET and DETAIL MILL- WORK 'CO. Front Street, next to Warner Machine Shop CABINET and MILLWORK D e Y FINE Watch and Jewelry REPAIRING at very reasonable rates WRIGHT SHOPPE PAUL BLOEDHORN GLASS REPLACED IN AUTOS Estimates Furnished