The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 11, 1932, Page 4

_2 B B 4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1932. Daily Alaska Empir;z JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published _every evening 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 carrler In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month. By malil, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.26 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptiy notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the del of_their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. 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 news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUAWANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION ROOSEVELT HURDLES FIRST TEST. In his successful venture in the New Hampshire primary election on March 8, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt passed the first of three tests facing him this month, all of which have important bear- ing on his aspiration to be the Democratic nominee for President this year. The only aspirant opposing Gov. Roosevelt was ex-Gov. Alfred E. Smith. It is true that the latter did not make any active cam- paign for delegates in the State, but he consented to the filing of his name for the p:imary by his friends. Gov. Roosevelt won all eight delegates. The next test to his strength will come on March 15 in North Dakota where his opponent in the Democratic primary will be Gov. William H. Murray of Oklahoma. Eight dater later, he will measure strength in the Georgia primary with Speaker John Nance Garner, favorite son of Texas. In these three States he will have met an op- ponent from the East in the East; with a Westerner in the West, and a Southerner in the South. In the first he has been flatteringly victorious. If he sweeps the other two primaries in like manner, the momentum of his victory undoubtedly will give a great impetus to the efforts of his friends and workers as they seek instructed delegations in the States that will elect delegates in April. The New Hampshire election cannot fail to add to Gov. Roosevelt's prestige. It ought to add mater- ially to his chances in other New England States. And it confirms in some degree the claims of his friends that he go to the National Conven- tion in June with a majority of the delegates pledged to vote for his nomination. will DE-RURALIZING THE FARM. The needs of rural America, whose mode of liv- ing has been revolutionized since 1900 by the tele- phone, automobile, good roads, the radio and wider distribution of mnewspapers and periodicals, now chiefly center around fuel and power. These needs concern both comfort and economic progress. If the farmer and other rural dweller can get both fuel and power in the convenient forms they are available' to the urbanite and at equally rea- sonable rates, their condition will be still farther advanced. Electrification of rural America has been going on apace and distribution of natural and artificial gas in rural sections is an established fact in some areas, but localities still denied both of these modern necessities of life are far vaster than the average city dewller realizes. In his automobile tourings in the ‘hinterland he finds the oil lamp and decen- tralized heating still in use, but imagines these to be rare instances of backwardness, rather than the rule in large areas. Superpower is bringing electricity to the farm to operate agricultural and household machinery, and now a natural gas company entering Nebraska with 175 miles of pipe line proposse to furnish rural homes within a half mile of its lines with gas at the same rate charged in the nearest municipality. Country life ceases to be the simple and un- comfortable life. LAUGHTER. A social scientist has discovered a therepeutic value in laughter. It has, she says, a marked effect on the chemistry of the body and on the mind, brings about much deeper breathing, ex- poses every cell to an increased amount of oxygen, promotes digestion and in many ways leads to good health and mental well-being. But to those who laugh life is not all beer and skittles. The things that cause laughter would annoy us if we did not laugh, says Dr. Cecil Reynolds, tracifg the origin of laughter back to the sounds of wild beasts when they seize their prey. Sl B i Laughter is a social gesture, a corrective to that rigidity of body, mind and character which hampers the elasticity of the spirit and discourages sociabil- ity. Yet philosophers, gathering a handful of laughter to taste find the substance scanty and the after taste bitter. This probably is the reason why philosophers do not laugh. They will not disturb the deep inner serenity of their lives by cacklings and cachinna- ‘ tions. Arthur Schopenhauer, the pessimist, never laughed because he felt that only “fools” could be so blind to the evils and troubles of this life as to laugh. Sages and philosophers may reason themselves jnto contentment, or resignation, but lesser minds must laugh off their sorrows and worries. MOVIES IN THE CLASSROOM. Can movies aid in carying out the work in the schoolroom? Almost 6,000 principals and superin- tendents in the United States, questioned by the general staffs of education that have been working e the nn& making experiments and surveys usefulness of movies in the class- rooms, say that they can be used to material advan- tage in the course of the regular school work. These 6,000 were interrogated in a questionnaire sued n a joint survey by the Motion Picture Division |of the Department of Commerce and the Federal Iomce of Education | Almost unanimously, 98.9 per cent, the teachers |testified to the usefulness of films, describing them as being “helpful or very very helpful, in creating interest in the topics studied.” One large problem, they indicated, with almost equal unanimity, still remains to be solved, that of having the opportunity to make a sufficiently detailed study of the films to get the maximum value out of them. More than 60 per cent of the principals and superintendents reported they were using films in some way for educational purposes, by far the larger proportion of films shown having a direct connec- tion with studies. And the movie is making its presence felt in new kinds of studies, the report showed, for 40 per cent of the showings in a single |vear had to do with social sciences, while 25 per cent of the total were in fields of physical education, manual and industrial arts, home economics, English and commercial education. The youth of today is encountering new problems, and to it is offered wider and more varied facilities for acquiring knowledge that will fit it to solve them. Today the movie is becoming common in schools. The radio has made its entry. Tomorrow television can be expected to play its part. Educa- tion today is not what it was yesterday and while it may have lost something worthwhile in transition, it is on a higher plane than ever before. Unfair to the Court. (New York World-Telegram.) The fight for American adherence to the World Court is in danger of being lost—perhaps through a mistake in judgment by Court advocates themselves. Senaor Walsh (D., Mont.), a sincere apd able defender of the Court, and some of his associates have decided to force the measure out of the Foreign Relations Committee and onto the Senate floor for a final vote. Like Senator Walsh, we have advocated American adherence to the Court from the beginning. But now, for the first time, we question the wisdom of bringing it to an immediate vote. The World Court, it seems, is fated to be the victim of an unusual amount of partisan chicanery.{ Successive Republican Presidents have given it lip service, and little else. They have permitted ‘al- leged election expediency to delay and distort the issue. Finally the Root protocol to double-rivet Am- erican rights was prepared by this Government and accepted by the foreign governments. Victory then seemed near. But President Hoover lost his courage and refused to send the protocol to the Senate. After long delay, much pressure induced the President to move. But no sooner had it been sent to the Foreign Relations Committee than one of the President’s spokesmen helped to tie it up in committee for more than a year. Now, of course, when all international peace ma- chinery is under the cloud of the Far Eastern War, opponents of the Court are ready to have it brought out and voted down. They have polled the Senate and are confident they can defeat it. They have found men like Senators Norris and Couzens who once favored but now oppose it. Though we cannot agree with Senators Norris and Couzens, we can readily understand their atti- tude. It is true that international peace machinery has not functioned during this crisis. And it is true that the World Court decision in the Austro-German Cystoms Union case appeared more political than judicial. But we cannot see that this discredits the World Court completely. Viewed as a human institution, the World Court on its record ranks high, and probably will rank higher as it accomulates experience and prestige— especially if it has the support of the United States. For this country to withhold support from the Court would seem to us unpardonable. We share the apparent disappointment of Sen- ators Norris and Couzens over the League's record in the Far Eastern crisis. But we believe that the record proves that this failure has been due to the mistaken policies of one or two powerful governments and not to the League governments as a whole, nor to the League as an institution. While insisting that the League as a institution has not failed, and that if it had failed of per- fection that would not have discredited the separate World Court, we must admit as realists that-public opinion in a time of crisis does not differentiate. We fear the result of a World Court vote at this time not because we are unwilling to abide by a fair vote, but because we doubt that a fair vote can be had under present international conditions. One-Man Mines. (Miami Daily News.) We think of the lone prospector as having dis- appeared with the “wild and woolly” West, but C. Fleming reveals in “Mining and Metallurgy” that a modern prototype is pursuing the same livelihood in the old haunts where the quest for pay dirt was once a major industry. The one-man mine has been revived by a combination of circumstances. The largest companies having curtailed operations, the disemployed have taken to abandoned shafts as gleaners with worthwhile profit. There is plenty of time now for patience and more painstaking search than that of the big-scale mining of old boom days. ‘These small enterprises are springing up all over the West. Their owners, in most cases, eke out a living. If they understand mining and simple meth- ods of treatment, they often do better than that. The first shipment of ore from a Gold Hill, Utah, mine, for example, brought $80 a ton. The owner cleared more than $13,000 in four months’ work last summer. This exception is a far cry from the solitary miner who sought his nuggets in a sieve, but even the prospector with his equipment on his back still turns up in goodly numbers, Klondike and Forty- Niners' fashion, when news comes of a strike. Gold remains a powerful lure for the venturesome, es- pecially in times when little security need be risked in the quest for quick riches. The first returns in a national straw vote on Prohibition that is being taken by a weekly maga- zine shows that 87 per cent of the voters are against the sacred Eighteenth. Wonder what be- comes of those birds on election day?—(Chicago Tribune.) . If Washington is signing up Judge Cardozo at $20,000 a year, we aren't sure that a right fielder can't scrape along on $70,000.—(Detroit News.) Maybe Japan has been attending too many gangster movies.—(Ohio State Journal.) As dazed as a President when he finds a nom- ination meeting with unanimous approval.—(New York Sun.) an increased interest in school work and a sustained | the | |to Nome. They are engaged in|SWee {Hurrah quartz mines, are examples |those days. It was placer. But |quartz is-beginning to receive at- tefition now. Gaffney On Sunset Creek Tom Gaffney, Sunset mining man received a letter from A. C. Stew- art, icting him to sink a shaft on the Marine claim on Sunset creek, for the purpose of ascertain- ing definitely the depth to bedrock and other data. Mr. Stewart an- nounces that financial arrange- ments have been completed to carry on extensive operations on his com- Sunset holdings this coming n. He expressed the opinion Nome was going to have a crable amount of quartz de- nent the coming summer. To Sink Several Holes e Doyle and Emil Lasson, WINTER MINING WORK IS ACTIVE. IN'NOME AREA Prospectors and Operators Are Busier than in Many Years NOME-—There is greater activity in mining in the Nome district in the present winter than in many pre- vious winters, according to the Nome Nugget. Details of numerous e prospectors .of the Sunset operations were recounted in a re- |Séction, are preparing to start for that section. They intend sinking cent issue of the mewspaper. James Corrigan, who has “been mining and prospecting on Iron Creek, returned to Nome due to un- favorable mining weather. The Loraine Brothers, Kougarok miners, returned to Nome to awalt more favorable weather to carry on mining activities. Ole Martinsen, Gold Run miner, | - was a visitor to Nome. He had with | Pect him some nice looking gold and|Wher quartz nuggets from his claim on | Whe Gold Run Creek o From American Creek v From American Creck Barney|d0 Rolando and his two sons came in- |2 sevéral holes and to''do extensive A v ick Sweeney and Thomas | Swecney, brothers, have sunk a shaf: about 55 feet on the Memory Claim in the Sunset section. They struck water at that depth and I abandoned the shaft for the pres- Patrick Sweeney is still pros- on the head of a gulch the ground is shallow and he found good surface pros- recen’ly. Thomas Sweeney Al on head for the Kougarok to e annual assessment work on numper of claims held by the brothers in that section They expected |for a number of years. He will al- to return as soon the the weather so do some extensive prospecting conditions were more favorable, |on his properties and expects to re- Rasmus Jensen and his son, Ed-[turn to Nome in May. die, are daily pounding into the y frozen gravels trying to reach the| Drinking water founa in an ground which they found during |abandoned cistern, not used since the past summer. They are satis-)1881, was pure. ‘The cistern was fied it is there and will continue|at Wilmington, N. C. their search. - James Haughey, and Sam Dadis have started to sink on their property about six miles east of Nome. The wea- ther conditions have retarded pro- gress in their operations. The ground is situated on a very fav- orable location, and it would not be a surprise if they ran into a good paystreak, I Quartz Claims Prospected Charley Berg is prospecting on quartz claims on Newton Gulch. Tt is understood development will commence early this spring. The property, which is located within three miles of Nome, and as old timers will remember, received quite a boost 12 years ago, and some de- velopment work was carried on at that time, with favorable results, Placer mining at that time was too much in the ascendancy to in- duce investors to stay with a quartz proposition unless phenomenal val-l ues were uncovered. The old Con- nolly mine, the Sliscovich and Big mining activities. James Panos HOLLYWOOD STYLE SHOP in of the indifference to quai "GARBAGE HAULED Reasonable Monthly Rates HEMLOCK WOOD Order Now at These Prices H. S. Graves Full Cord ...88.00 & Half Cord ..........$425 .+ The Clothing Man 50 cents discount for cash ¥ per cord E. 0. DAVIS TELEPHONE 584 NUGGET CAFE J. F. McDONALD At Your Service with the Best Foods at Popular Prices HOURS: 6 a m 'till 1 a. m. 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