The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 29, 1932, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR MONDAY, FEB. 29, 1932, = B " - . 0 i L - i 85— A . . tives. The Democratic organization in the House . 3 W . - ‘ | Dally Alaska Emplre expedited its passage there recently. OI 'ITICS df d?l Om | PROFESSIONAL I | Fraterwl Societies | Under the terms of the resolution, a new C 5 - . - § 8 os C— ’ gress shall meet within two months after the clec- ; e A . . Gastinean Channe! | JOEN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER | ;. o¢ it members instead of the 13 months now | - ; Helene W. L. Albrecht | |a—— a5 i | racilired. Terins ot Ahetniier e DGRt Wil begin | By BYRON PRICE | Whenever an open primary fight JOTHERAPY H e Published _ ev evening except Sunday by _the (] AT s i jpLses 8 }| Because it is all being done so|is necessary to capture a state del- PHYSIOT fby Tafek bl | B. P. O. ELKS EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Malin on January 4 and of President and Vice-President | gujetly you'd scarcely guess that a!gation it means the candidate Massage, Electricity, Infra Re: Meeting every Streets, Juneau, Alaska. |on January 24. At present Congressmen tak: office | campa is in progress to choo: 1st line up with one local faction | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | )yednesday night e vt Office 1n Juncau aa Second Class |10 December of the year succeeding their election. |a R an nominee for the Pre: another. Many embarrassing f 48 G°ld5§:“n B“z““;"‘g |lat 8 pm., Elks' oty The President and Vice-President are inaugurated fidency. | complications have emerged from Th t | Fhiong. Offioe, l Hall, {on ‘March 4, following their election. The current, of Democratic activi- | such alliances, a e Visiting brothers su:sslc':il“l:‘l"‘l::‘r: ::L‘E;- SN The “lame duck” session of Congress has been |tV has bc{(?m‘?, a roaring raplds, it's| Besides, in North Dakota, the in- ° ey 7 welcome. Delivered by carrler In Juneau, Dougias, an anachronism cver since the development of|Surface littered with rivalres and|surgents might have made things O,Uerhaul DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | |\ o JORGENSEN, Exalted Rule By 11, postage paid, at the following rates: | L SR & . Z dessensions. The Republican wa- uncomfortable for Mr. Hoover, | DENTISTS | One Nf:\rn l.np“m Ry $12.00; six months, in advance, modern transportation with its high speed com- ters Tun still, but deep | and. " Ttk i Py Soh AR | Blomgren Building 1 M. H. SIDES, Secretary. AR advance, $LI%¢ they will promptly i ystem, and the popular election of| 7,n; ago the friends of Presi-|is not binding on the delegates. | PHONE 56 ! Co-Ordinate Bod- Thess Office of any failure or irregularity |Senators. When the country was young it was im-|gent Hoover realized there migh:| With so many birds in the hand Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. | S > ies of Freemasou- m;";:‘p{',l«"n.r'.'f";.‘.fr;'Bunneu Offices, 374. po: xblie for all members of Congress chosen in|be a formidable effort to deprive argue the Hoover men, it is wisest . —e r U& ry Scottish Rite i e g November to be present in Washington for trans-|him of that second nomination to leave the bramble bushes alone, O i Regular meeting ATED PRESS. B % R o5 2 Y o s i gorna RO S S ulustyely entitled to the |action of business by December so the Constitution |Which tradition says is the right e Come in and see us about our || e i ‘f?*\‘“\ JU second Frid ase for Fepublication of all news @ispatches credited o provided that business be carried on by the old|of every occupant of the White spEciaL winter mMonte || | Dr. Charles P. Jenne Agsd each month it or not otherwise credited in this paper an A i Pl e e .. | House. R 'NTIST 73) 7:30 p. m., Scot- o published herejn. Congress, notwithstanding the fact that some of its % 70 F ESH HALIBUT il DE: 3 :30 p. m., Sco e Pt s ¢ s |members may have been defeated for re-election. b’g‘lmes were bad. POl yjperc ) SESRIL The e || Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine tish Rite Temple Ll = changed hands in the November election but the|at one end of the party the insur- IC Nn BUXED Ll i i i o ‘\ party in power did not Telinquish its grasp on|gents were insurging With more ¥ CONNORS MOTOR 1. g MOOSE, NO. 700 R legislative authority for more than a year. .This|than ordinary zest. At the other CO I 1 W B Meets Monday 8 p. m may have been unavoidable at the time the system [end a ‘draft Coolidge” campaign « ANC, Dr. J. W. Bayne Ralph Reischl, Dictator. was adopted, but it was not representative govern-|Was spreading out noiselessly i DENTESE Legion of Moose No. 25 DISCRIMINATING AGAINST ALASKA. A recent press release of the Interior Department, distributed to newspapers throughout the country with publicity for the educational activities of the Office of Indian Affairs as its object, reveals what| appears to be rank discrimination practiced by that | bureau against Alaska. This, too, in the face of the claim made by Dr. W. Carson Ryan, Jr, Di-| rector of Education for the Indian Service, that Alaska will not co-operate with his burzau in educa- tional activities in the Territory. In the publicity statement referred to, Dr. Ryan points with some pride to the number of Indian pupils who are attending public schools in the States. Continuing, he is quoted as follows: In the public schools the Federal Govern- ment has usually paid a tuition rate for In- dian children who were “wards” and also for a good many others whose wardship has | become rather tenuous, to say the least. This tuition rate ordinarily amounts to about half the cost of schooling, and has been paid on the theory that the existence of untaxed Indian land causes a reduction in the tax resources available for school pur- poses—a principle that has been generally accepted by Congress and has worked ex- ceedingly well in some places. Under this | arrangement, which exists in more than two | thousand school districts, the Federal Gov- | ernment has not attempted to any extent to fix standards or dictate the kind or quality of education, the result being, of course, that the Indian children take pot- luck with other Americans, suffering under typical rural school conditions a little more than their white neghbo: perhaps, and profiting correspondingly when an enlight- ened local community makes a really good educational provision. Dr. Ryan might have been describing a typical rural school in Alaska, except for the matter of payment of tuition by the Federal Government. It does not pay one cent to these schools for that purpose although the pupils of Indian blood at- tending such schools constitute considerably more than one-half of the total enrolment. There are 1,089 pupils of Indian blood, ranging from quarter breeds to full bloods in the rural Territorial schocls. The per capita cost of education in them is $116.36, based on expenditures of 1930- 31 as shown by the records of the Territorial De- partment of Education. Thus it cost Alaskan tax- payers in ‘that year the sum of $126,715.04 to edu- cate children admittedly wards of the Federal Gov- ernment. In the public schools in incorporated towns there were 376 pupils in that class. The per capita cost to the municipalities and the Territory was $111.17. The education of the Government's wards in these schools required $41,799.92 of the public funds last year. The total cost of this service to the Territory last year was $168,514.96, all of which came out of funds appropriated by the Legislature out of the Territorial Treasury. If the system described by Dr. Ryan as being in vogue in the States were in force in the Territory, 50 per cent, or $84,257.48 would have been refunded to the Territory by the Federal Government. If the Office of Indian Affairs is paying tuition for those entrusted to its care in the States, there is absolutely no valid reason why the same policy should not apply to Alaska. This is a matter that should be investigated by the proper authority here and an effort made to put the Territory on the same basis as other parts of the country. At this time, when funds for next year's school operations are of some concern, additional revenue from any source would be more than welcome. HISTORIC TREES. Examination and certification for shipment to other parts of the country of descendants of famous New England trees, with assurance that the speci- men are free from destructive insect pests, is an interesting part of the duties of plant quarantine inspectors of the United States Department of Agriculture, who are engaged in the enforcement of the regulations concerning the gipsy moth. Many of the young trees which have been dis- tributed under this protection were descended from the historic elm at Cambridge, Mass, beneath which General Washington took command of the Continental Army on July 3, 1775. Before the Wash- ington elm died a branch was grafted and it has grown into a beautiful tree, on the public grounds at Wellesley. LAME DUCKS NOT YET GONE. It required ten years for Congress to pass the so-called Norris “lame duck” resolution providing for the amendment of the Federal constitution to change .the dates for inaugurating the President and Vice- President ahd for convening of new Congresses. Sev- {the country’s situation. ment, ‘The need for it has long since vanished. Con- gress has recognized the fact by passing the Norris measure, although it required a whole decade for it to act. But the “lame duck” session is not thereby ended. It will continue until three-fourths of the States ratify the resolution. Seven years are al- lowed in which to do this. It is to be hoped that it will not require the full maximum period to accomplish this needed reform. Follies of Taxation. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) In this crisis, the struggle of the country to be delivered from the manifold burdens of economic depression, it is essential to be very careful in the raising of taxes, to avoid new taxation placing addi- tional burdens on business and industry, already bending under almost insupportable weights of tax imposition, This is especially true of motor vehicle taxes There are many reasons why the proposal for either a special excise tax or a Federal levy upon motor fuels is objectionable. Additional taxes in this respect at this time reasonably will adversely affect traffic safety by delaying replacement of dangerous old cars and the repair of all others. The proposed additional tax would add $100,000,- | 000,000 to the cost of new cars and trucks and $25,000,000 to the upkeep cost of old ones. One of the foremost State motor vehicle com- m S erts that the loss of life and property on the public highway reasonably may vastly exceed the National Treasury’s gain if this increase of taxation accomplished. Likewise, a Federal levy of one cent a gollon on motor fuel would have, in the opinion of the authority quoted, precisely the same effect in re- spect to traffic safety. The automotive industry fairly well represents If people are able to buy cars—now a necessity—prosperity is rather obvious.| Anything that operates to minimize such buying is not a good thing for the country. And all the while the Government has available a legitimate source of instantly available revenue which, in its blindness, it fanatically rejects—a source of revenue which would add millions to the Treasury, set the wheels of industry to turning in a multitude of ways, give employment to host of workers, now walking the streets and highways and relieve the burdens of the farmer. Mrs. Fiske. (New York Herald Tribune.) In the death of Minnie Maddern Fiske the Am- erican stage has lost one of its great figures, one of those rare fixed stars that shine brilliantly, steadily in the changeable theatrical heaven while genera- tions of audiences come and go. Pale, pretty little girls with pale, pretty emotional talents rose, gleam- ed briefly and disappeared, but Mrs. Fiske was al- ways there, more than a star—a planet, fiery and full of inexhaustible strength, courage, intelligence and wit. All of herself and of her life Mrs. Fiske gave to the stage. She began at the age of three, as the Duke of York in “Richard IIL” 1In the sixty-odd years that followed she appeared in some hundreds of roles in most of the forty-eight States; she wrote plays herself or collaborated with her husband, Harrison Grey Fiske. The long list of plays and performances is a monument to her energy and versatility, but she had greater qualities, which can- not be added up, which live only in the eyes and cars of those who saw her, of those who remember the emotional and tragic imagination which she brought to “Tess of the D'Urbervilles,” the dazzling comedy which made her unforgettable in “Becky Sharp” or as Cynthia Karslake in “The New York Idea,” the power and intelligence which made her, in “A Doll's House,” “Hedda Gabler” or “Rosmer- sholm” one of the pioneers of Ibsen in America. Those who saw her only in recent years, nar- rowed in her choice of a suitable vehicle and searing frail farces with the ardor of her comic spirit, are likely to forget that if she had humor she had even more of that rarer commodity, wit; that her gifts were equal to anything; that she had a profound dramatic imagination capable of bridging almost any gap between the person she was herself and an apparently unsuitable role; that she possessed, in addition to superb technical ease and skill, in addition to the magnifcent panoply of tricks which could make us laugh whenever she wanted us to, a keen, penetrating, an absolutely first-class theatri- cal mind—a mind which, off stage, often attacked the softer material of real life with biting irony, but never quite concealed the beating of a warm and gencrous heart. Tapping Our Liberties. (New York World-Telegram.) The clergy and religious press are asked by the Civil Liberties Union to back bills by Senator Blaine among some of the stalwarts. The friends of the President took steps. They took them quiet- ly. But they were so effective thot months ago his nomination be- came a foregone conclusion, Scares—But None Serious Of course the Coolidge renuncia- i tion last fall was the bitterest med- : jcine of all for those who hoped Hoover would be beaten. The Sage of Northampton sounded a call to : “stand by the President” in such clarion notes that it echoed through the whole Republican corridor: One or two scares have reached the alert ears of the Administr: tion watchers since then, but none has been taken seriously. A half dozen independents, in- cluding Senator William E. Bora! and Hiram Johnson, have let seep out that they might be in- duced to run. The many confe ences of this group appear to have come to nothing at all so far as the gathering together of anti-Hoo- ver delegates is concerned. Col. Horace Mann, the Hoover southern manager, in 1928, has been busy for weeks trying to build u» p-Hoover organization, chiefly in the south. Mann's own state of Tennessee is one of several whose central committees recently have gone on record for Hoover. A “Draft Dawes” program was proposed by certain Senators. The President’s confidants were certain General Dawes himself would put the quietus on that, as he did, completely. ® Hoever's Friends Active But the friends of the President have taken nothing for granted They still are taking steps, quietly Ray Benjamin, a San Francisco lawyer and personal friend of Mr. Hoover, who came to Washington a year ago and began talking with Re- publican politicians from far and wide, stil is at" work. Another Cal- ifornian, Mark Requa, ceasingly, and reporting the result. Recently Frank Hitchcock, a for- mer chairman cf the national com- mittee, now a newspaper publisher in Arizona, has been staying in ‘Washington, conferring with lead- ers and the White House. ‘Walter Newton, one of the Pres- ident’s secretaries, carries in his vest pocket a careful summary of what's doing in every state. S0 does Walter Brown, the postmaster general, who is slated to become party chairman after the conven- tions. These are only a few of the many. Aveid Early Primaries With the indicated support al- ready far past the simple conven- tion majority needed to nominate, it is easy to see why the Presi- dent’s name has been withheld from the early primaries, like those in North Dakota and Illinois. has been| feeling the Republican pulse un-| Catches Bou_gl'\—t_ at 5 and 3 Cents Are Hastened to Seattle Market Nine thousand pounds of halibut, in 18 boxes, were sent to Se- this forenoon on the steam- ip Admiral Evans. The shipment was directed to the Sebastian-Stu- t Company by its Juneau agent, E. Engstrom. fish were from catches of the Oceanic, Capt. Ole Westby; the Vivian, Capt. Charles Larsen, and the N nd, Cupt. “Thomas Sand- which were bought at the Fish hange auctoin Saturday by Mr. pngstrom for 5 cents a pound first and 3 cents a pound second Besides the fresh halibut, 7,400 pounds of salted black cod in bar- was sent on the Admiral ns to Seattle by the Juneau Cold Storage Company. MRS. FOHN-HANSEN HAS DOUGLAS CLASS Mrs. Lydia Fohn-Hansen, assis- tant director of Home Economics of the Extension Service of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, has returned to Juneau from Ketchikan where she spent a few weeks giving instruc- tions in home economics. She will spend this week giving instructions to home economic classes in Doug- las Next Friday, she will here for the Westward . A DIAMOND BARGAIN Here is a snap for any young Swain who wants to buy his Only Girl an Engagement Ring. A visit- ing Lady who is in temporary fi- nancial distress wants to sell us a beautiful little stone weighing near- ly half a karat, set in a modern Platinum Mounting for a Hundred Dollars. She says she paid One Hundred and Eighty for it last year in Los Angeles, and in our opinion the price was reasonable. We don’t want to buy it because we have as much invested in Diamonds as our business will justify at present. Because she is a fine deserving woman and in real need, we have |offered to run this special adver- tisement. For those who are inter- lested we assure them this is an _exceptional bargain that only these special times make possible. The price of course is spot cash and the business will be confidential. THE NUGGET SHOP adv. sail from | | ,Old papers for saie at The Empire. CALIFO MONARCH QUALITY FOOD PRODUCTS RNIA GROCERY FOR INSURANCE © See H. R. SHEPARD & SON Telephone 409 B. M. Behrends Bank Bldg. GETTING ALONG The sure way to get to save some money ALL the time. It isn’t and Representative Boileau, of Wisconsin, forbidding wiretapping by Federal agents in gathering crime evidence. The church should be quick to respond. A fan- atical minority of its ministers has created the whole false impression that the church is more eager to enforce the dry law with illegal methods than salyage the fundamentals of popular liberty. The Supreme Court, in its unfortunate five-to- four decision, his declared evidence obtained by wiretapping admissible. Responding to popular in- dignation, the administration has promised it will not permit such invasions of the home. This, how- ever, is not enough. Official Paul Prys and Peep- ing Toms will harass the homes so long as there is a loop-hope in the law. Hence the law must be changed. the resolution was passed by the Senate action in the House of Representa- Europe is like any guy who dogsn't want to pay his debts—(Toledo Blade.) necessary to make large deposits, as small and frequent addition make your bank balance grow amazingly fast. We pay four per cent on savings accounts compounded B. M. Behrends Bank OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA along in this world is s to your account will twice a year 1" SEE YURMAN | ; | | New Fur Garments in New Styles Cleaning, Repairing, Remodeling | ) ; Yurman, the Furrier | Triangle Building | . L] LUDWIG NELSON JEWELER ‘Watch Repairing Brunswick Agency i FRONT STREET You Can Save Money at Our Store SEE US FIRST Harris Hardware Co. Lower Front Street A healthy head WILL grow hair, o | FALLING HAIR STOPPED | | [ | NU-LIFE METHOD | Arctic Bldg., Upstairs, Room 1 | . L] T Guaranteed 7 | SHEET METAL WORK PLUMBING | GEO. ALFORS | PHONE 564 ] ELECTRICAL REPAIR WORK NO JOB TOO SMALL Capital Electric Co. 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Barton CHIROPRACTOR Hellenthal Building OFFICE SERVICE ONLY | Hours 9 am. to 7 pm. PHONE 259 i DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL meets first and third Tuesdays G. A. Baldwin, Secretary and Herder, P. O. Box 273. . 5 e MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 141 Second and fourth Mon- day of each month in Scottish Rite Temple, beginning at 7:30 p. m. JOHN J. FARGHER, Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Sec- retary. ORDEPF, %fi\, Ay S OF EAS1ERN STAR Second and Fourth Tuesdays of each month, at 8 o'clok, Scottish Rite Tempie. EDITH HOWARD, Worthy Mat« ron; FANNY L. ROB- INSON, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760, Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Council Chambers, Fifth Street. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. PAINTING DECORATING KALSOMINING ESTIMATES FURNISHED FREE First Class Work Guaranteed J. W. MEYERS TELEPHONE 2552 DON'T BE TOO LIBERAL heat. and we specialize in Feed. D. B. FEMMER Phone 114 JUNEAU CABINET and DETAIL MILL- WORK CO. 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