The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 16, 1932, Page 4

4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1932. Daily Alaska Empi;e JOEN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published every evening except Sunday by th EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Thane for $1.25 per month, By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, In advance, $12.00; slx months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.2 Subscribers will confer a favor e they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity In the delivery of thelr papers. Talephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEDL PRESS. The Associated Press 1s exclusively entitied 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. Treadwell and ALASKA CIRCULATION GUAWANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. PUBLIC ATTITUDE IS IMPROVING. While there is nothing to indicate to anyone who travels about the country that the return of good times is near, there is a noticeable improvement in the attitude of the masses. People are adjusting themselves to the situation. There is less panic. People are discovering that one can live even in hard times, and there is a growing conviction that depression cannot last forever. It is also noticeable that people are not as fretful as formerly about the Administration. There is a prevailing feeling that the Government—the President and Congress—are doing real work in lay- ing foundations for betterment, and that results will appear in course of time. Time has made them better waiters than heretofore, and they are waiting with more patience. ROOSEVELT STILL FAR IN THE LEAD. In spite of the strenuous efforts that have been put forth in some quarters to “stop Roosevelt,” public opinion in the States seems to be very strongly in favor of the nomination of the Governor of New York by the Democrats. One would gather from conversations with all sorts and conditions of men and women, and those of all political affiliations, that the sentiment in favor of making Gov. Roose- velt the next President is overwhelmingly in the | ascendant. | Not only that, but most people believe the Demo- crats will nominate Gov. Roosevelt. The feeling that the New York Governor is so far in the lead that it would require vast organization and the expen- diture of large sums of money and tremendous effort to push any other candidate to a position as ad- vanced as that he is now occupying. People, do not feel that the Democratic Party will fail to see the advantage of devoting their efforts toward advancing one that already has such a long start rather than taking chances on losing the race by trying to head him off with someone who is now miles in the rear. It is generally conceded that Gov. Roosevelt is the surést bet the Democrats have notwithstanding the disposition of many to accept the Will Rogers suggestion that they have so many good candidates that they might make a mistake and still do right. ROADS FOR AUTOS ONLY. The American Road Builders' Association has compiled some figures of its own on highway acci- dents and their causes. Among the facts the asso- clation has unecarthed are that half the victims are pedestrians and that a large percentage of the pedestrian victims meet death while walking at night upon unlighted highways having no parallel sidewalks. Modern highway engineering knows only wheels. It considers not the rights and requirements of the wayfarer on foot. The result is that the foothpath which once skirted virtually all earth roads has been displaced by widened highways upon which rushing vehicular traffic leaves no room for the foot trav- eler. Absence of footpaths or sidewalks upon State maintained right-of-ways cannot be attributed in all cases to the neglect of highway departments and the selfishness of motorists. Only seven States have laws permitting the use of State funds for the construction of such pedestrian facilities. Delaware and Florida limit such construction, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana and Utah confine it to bridges and New Jersey has provided for State grading only. Perhaps neither the Legislatures nor the highway departments would be justified in using revenue from automobile taxes for building sidewalks, but the presence of pedestrians on highways is such a men- ace and nuisance at night that it is doubtful if the average motorist would protest against such use. ABOUT HATS AND OTHER THINGS. Some two or more decades ago there was a popular ballad that had to do with the “Bird on Nellie's Hat.” It must have been a gay little bonnet for it was a “naughty little bird” if memory serves us right. The demand for the bird became so great that conservationists were moved to action and so laws were passed to protect it from the hat manu- facturers. e | Nellie will soon be blues as the purchase of a new chapeau.” “Sailors” say the fashion experts, are to be the spring mode. “Little Annie Rconie's” sailor was almost as uni- versally popular as the Eugenie model. Easter is almost with us. And that' means that seeking a new chapeau and all of the folderols that go with it. When she goes buying, there’s power to it, power enough to put new blood in the arteries of industry and com- merce. May she exert it to her utmost this year. Possibly it may do as much for the country as the credit expansion law which President Hoover regards as the most important aid the Government can lend to the nation. In spite of the assumption that the Democratic is the wet party the Republicans mustered more votes against the noble experiment than the Demo- crats did in a House where the latter are in a majority. Congressman Linthicum, wet leader, commenting jupon the 187 votes cast in the National House of Representatives for reopening the Prohibition issue said “all we need is another election.” Heretofore the wets have been wnable to muster 100 votes. The Literary Digest poll would indicate that Mr. Linthicum is amply conservative. Prohibition on Two Fronts. (New York Times.) Wets and Drys have renewed their legislative battle over Prohibition on two fronts. In Wash- ington opponents of the law have managed to ob- tain enough signatures to the Beck-Linthicum peti- tion to assure them of a record vote in the House of Representatives on resubmission of the Eighteenth Amendment. In Rhode Island they have succeeded in repealing the State enforcement law and in enacting a new statute which attempts to legalize beer containing 3.75 per cent. of alcohol by volume. For the first purpose, the Wets needed the support of 145 members of the House. They got this number. When the question comes to a test they will probably poll a somewhat larger vote. For there are a number of Dry membrs who, unwilling to petition for a roll-call, will be ready to resubmit the issue to the States and permit them to decide it for themselves. There is not the slightest chance, however, that in the present House the Wets can poll the 290 votes required to approve a resolution for repeal. What they have succeeded in doing is to demonstrate that the forces favoring this action are stronger now than they have been at any time since the amendment was enacted. On no occasion in the past have as many members voted for repeal. Nor is the strength of the Wet bloc fully measured by the 145 signatures attached to their petition. The apportionment of seats in Congress under- represents the urban districts which furnish most of the opposition to Prohibition. The 145 propon- ents of repeal constitute only one-third of the mem- bership of the House, but represent 45,000,000 people. What will happen to the new law in Rhode Island is a question which only the courts can answer. No doubt a test case will soon be made. Meantime, regardless of the fate of the new statute, it is unquestionably within the power of the State to repeal its own enforcement law. In taking this |action Rhode Island becomes the seventh State to reject the invitation of Congress to help enforce the Eighteenth Amendment. The others are New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada and Wisconsin. The remaining forty-one still retain their laws, but do little to enforce them. All told, these forty-one spent only $705,775 directly for enforce- ment of Prohibition in 1929, the latest year for which data are available. This was less than one-eighth of what they spent to enforce their fish and game laws, and less than 1 per cent. per capita. Non-Partisan Congress. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Admitting an emergency, leaders of both parties have succeeded in a measure of cooperation at Washington that has not been equalled in recent years, certainly not since the emergency of war- time. All the important constructive bills passed by the Congress at this session have been the result of a moratorium on partisan strategy. To some extent the leadership has come from a Republican President. But Democrats like Senators Carter Glass and Robert Bulkley have been equally active and equally nonpartisan. The great body of Senators and Representatives, while acting with their party groups, have refrained from the obstruction- ist tactics that are the salt of party life in normal times. There is a danger just now that this wholesome holiday from partisan confliet may come to an end. If it does, it will be largely because eager Republicans in Congress tried to insure to their party the full credit for the emergency legislation of recent weeks. This would be a ruinous mistake for both parties. Every effort should be made to avoid such a catastrophe. When the time comes to choose between the parties next autumn the American people will have plenty of evidence to weigh, in platforms and can- didates and the past records of the parties, with- out inquiring which group deserves the glory for emergency legislation passed under a party truce in the midst of a grave national crisis. Life Is Cheap. (New York World-Telegram.) Not mentioning the increasing tolls of shootings and suicide, the National Safety Council reports 99,000 accidental deaths in the United States in 1930. As deadly as a war tank is the peacetime auto- mobile, which accounts for 33,000 of these deaths annually. Industry, increasing each year is com- plexity, is another Moloch, requiring 19,000 lives annually. Besides these deaths, most of them preventable, the Council records 10,000,000 annual accidents. Strangely, the home is not the safest spot, for 4, 000,000 injuries occurred “with alarming frequency— in the kitchen, in the bathroom, in the bedroom, in the attic, in the garage—everywhere.” The fault lies chiefly with ourselves. We have jazzed up the tempo of American life to a danger- ous speed. Back in the old days the Presidential candidates went after the saloon vote, or the anti-saloon vote, or the labor vote, or the this and that vote, but this year the candidate who walks off with the Last year, when the hat makers were in the Wendel heir vote will ride in the next inaugural midst of one of their worst slumps, Nellie’s fancy |parade.—(Macon, Ga., Telegraph.) blossomed forth for another ancient frivolity of feminine haberdashery, a saucy, alluring creation with which an Empress had turned the heads of a St. Bernard dogs in the Alps are once more carrying brandy in their casks, instead of coffee. ‘This beverage is not to be confused with the moon Napolconic court, and had fastened upon it her that comes over the mountain.—(Des Moines Reg- own name—Eugenie. In satisfying her yearning for (jster) this, several hat mills in New England were given new life and hundred.l of expert workmen got steady That dry agent who has become a movie censor Jjobs. It took a sclentist to evaluate the effect of |among his friends Nellie's hat on industrial conditions. Dr. Nystrom, professor of marketing in Columbia University, told doubtless saves the naughty part of a film to divide —(Akron, Ohio, Beacon-Journal.) ‘When Japan has things better systematized and coordinated it is expected munitions makers will the Retail Millinery Association that “there is prob- stamp the official apology right on the shell—(Des ably no anodyne so effective for th depression | Moines Register.) oy He’s “Gamest Kid;” Has Been in Respirator for Five Months Every mail brings letters, cards and packages of books, games and trinkets to Clarence Hastings, 14, who has been in a respirator at Syra- cuse, N. Y., for all but two hours a day for five months. Called the “gamest kid,” he is shown above in the respirator with some of his mail. SYRACUSE, N. Y, March 16— Clarence Hastings, 14, who for five AIL EIN months has spent about 22 out of | each 24 hours in a Drinker res-| FLUwN INTO pirator at City Hospital, with only Plane Leaves Nome for his head showing, has been dubbed “the gamest kid in America.” Point Barrow—-Search for Baychimo A letter with only that phrase for address, written by a youngster in! Perth Amboy, N. J, reached the befreckled fair-haired Kings Fenryl lad at the hospital the other day with some 5,000 other cards, letters and packages from every part of the country. The mail filled two mail sacks, and still is rolls in, day after day. Owes Life to Respirator N Clarence was stricken with infan- |, .~ . gular air mail flight from | tile paralysis and owes his life,|nime to Point Barrow | say hospital attaches, to the res-ly.i..qqy pirator. It has helped his inter- ,Js’are scheduled at Deering, 55)5;:‘1t;““ffiz:m:hfifo;erl‘:exfin"g'{ Candle, Kotzebue, Kivalina, Point breathe. The hope is that thesc’g):l!};'wggm b B R muscles some day will. be nursed| piots Graham and Laiblin are| back to normal. use. B | iaking the fiight for an organized | In one day’s mail he gets® a ..,y variety of things. A youngster .in| .. "Eana Christofferson, who | the Bronx sent his pet rabbit’s 00t ', .ompanied Graham here from the | “for luck” A minister sent & giates on the long fight, is aboard | prayer. From a stout woman in'{. piane and a search will be Detroit came jokes about corpul=|made for the Hudson's Bay trad-| 8noe, ling’ ship Baychimo, s Clarence Hicks of Philadephia, hng‘zc :«Taluabic fur cm-g“opiiiidmf" Pa., sent a bundle of travel pic-}. pyiots Graham and Laiblin, of tures, postcards and handkerchiefs.'yhe Nome Company, are also op- L“]‘le girls in New York City sent erating an air mail route from valsniines, B INéme to Unalakicet, connectin Books, Pictures Among Gifts |wigh the air mail from the Yukong World War veterans send stories _., of the war, persons bearing the; name of “Clarence” or “Hastings”| write to tell him of the coincid-| ence. Out -of -door books, Bibles, seenic pictures, catalogues, all find their way through the mail to hin Some letters have contained dollas bills. ! “Boy, you got more pluck than 10 ordinary fellas,” wrote Dave Goldstein of Toronto, Ont. Jack O'Melia of Conora, L. I, who de- seribed himself as a “magical com- edian,” enclosed some “magical- tricks.” Clarence wasn't able to read these thousands of messages of cheer and good wishes, but they were read to him, and many of them brought grins to his face. “We'll have to answer them all,” he said gaily. e e E, Alaska, started | (,lor'fied Buddy -— ¢ | AT THE HOTELS | Gastineau R. McCombe, Chichagof. Alaskan Anton Stanier, E. E. Michaels, Juneau. Zynda ‘W. Robinson, Seattle; W. T. Nix- on, John McAteer, Bellingham; W., Burr Johnson, City. ) Though he has smmd in man; PSS o3 ey | film romances, Charles (Bndd ) Rogers only recently made his cf NOTICE but in a major stage production. He is shown taking time out “Hotcha,” latest musical uomdy staged by Florenz Ziegfeld, | strum a little tune for Revv: Reyes, one of the principals in the I‘ho" which has just opened at 3 ‘Washington, D. C. After several days spent in the hospital have now returned to my office where I shall be glad to re- ceive my patients. adv. DR. GEO. L. BARTON. GETTING ALONG The sure way to get along in this world is to save some money ALL the time. It isn’t necessary to make large deposits, as small and frequent additions to your account will make your bank balance grow amazingly fast. We pay four per cent on savings accounts compounded twice a year B. M. Behrends Bank OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA March 16.—The |, [ GARBAGE THE DIFFERENGE We were asked the other day, “Why all this noise about Contract Bridge. What is the difference with Auction and why mess up things with a lot of new rules?” This is a large order for a brief answer but we will say that one of the largest differences between Auction and Contract is that, in Auction one tries to buy the trump as cheaply as possible and the re- verse is nearly true in Contract. 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