The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 21, 1932, Page 4

i AR, £ S SIRIE T A PR B ; THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1932. Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER \day by _ the " Published y cond and Main EMPIRE_PRIN Streets, Ju Post Office in Juneau as Second Cl SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid the following rates: One year, in advance, $1: months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in ribers will con v the Business Of delivery ¢ shone for they will promptly fe ff f any failure or irregularity heir 2ditorial Business Offices, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. Th A ciated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to Jocal news published herein. CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER { THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION NEW AIR COMPANY DESERVES WELL. Notwithstanding the financial difficulties of the Alaska-Washington Airways and the circumstance that the Post Office Department will not establish an airmail route in Southeast Alaska at present, this section will continue to have airplane service during the coming season.| Nick Bez and Anscel C. Eckmann have organized the Alaska Southern Airways and purchased the newest of the old Alaska-Washington company's fine planes, which will base in Juneau. Mr. Eckmann, well and favorably known here, will be manager of the company and pilot of the plane that will be operated. That insures efficient manage- ment and the best and safest possible service. Mr. Bez and Mr. Eckmann are both Alaskans. The former is recognized as an expert canneryman and fisherman and a sound business man. He is now entering the mining field under promising circumstances, Mr. Eckmann is admitted to be one of the best pilots in the country. Both are men of high character and both are popular. . The best wishes of the people of this region will go with the new company into its undertaking. It deserves all possible encouragement. NATIONAL REFERENDUM. The declaration of Gov. White of Ohio, classified as a dry Democrat, in favor of submitting the Eighteenth Amendment to a referendum will count strongly with those who propose that both Demo- crats and Republicans in their National Conventions ' eliminate Prohibition as a party issue by declaring for a resubmission of the Eighteenth Amendment to State conventions in which the delegates would be elected as wets or drys. The manner in which both emocrats and Republicans in Congress are work- ing together as wets or drys, as the case may be, suggested this manner of settlement. It showed that Prohibition is losing its status as a partisan issue, though in the North Democrats are probably more generally wet than Republicans. Now Gov. White, a dry, has declared that the drys cannot in justice decline to accept challenge to meet the issue in a referendum. One of the strongest arguments that have been set forth in favor of the bi-partisan agreement for @ National referendum is in this editorial from the | New York Herald Tribune, wet: The elimination of the highly controversial Prohibition issue from the coming national campaign would clearly be a blessing for the whole country. It would enable the parties and the electorate to concentrate upon the vital economic issues—more important than for many years. These could then be con- sidered upon their merits, wholly aside from the troublesome question as to what should be done with the Eighteenth Amendment. On this proposition there is no room for disagreement between the wets and the drys. There is a simple method by which this result can be achieved. Let both the Re- publican and the Democratic parties declare in their platforms, not for repeal or reten- tion, but for submission of the question by Congress to constitutional conventions in the various States. There could then be no dispute this fall. Decision would be post- poned until the issue came before Congress. Neither in that body nor in the national convention would any dry have to violate honest convictions in order to approve re- submitting the question to the people for a new verdict. The real fight would come over the election of dry or wet delegates to the various State conventions. That would be a referendum in which no other con- siderations would have to be taken into account in the voting.© What reasonable objections can there be to this typically fair, conclusive and American way of set- tling a question? As is known, there is a serious move- ment on foot among prominent Republican leaders to have this gort of a referendum plank adopted by the national convention. Unless the President, out of deference per- haps to the professional drys, should in- sist upon a dry declaration or, what would be worse, a repetition of the evasion of 1928, there are excellent prospects for the adoption of the proposed plan. Since 1928 wet sentiment in the party has grown to impressive proportions. Some State conventions are definitely on record for a change. They cannot well retreat from their positions without stultification. Many other States will elect wet delegates. To stifle them would be unwise. The New Jersey leaders, for instance, already have decided to name delegates who will be for the re- nomination of President Hoover and at the same time for a plank satisfacotry to the voters in their State who insist that they have a chance to register their wet opinions. The President has given no indication that he is displeased with this effort. Under all the circumstances it would certainly seem fair, wise and proper for him at least maintain the attitude of neutrality and let “the convention decide.” 3 Should the Republicans adopt the pro- ; it would be natural to expect tion. Then the decks would be cleared for a straightout contest between the parties on economic policies and the ability of the candidates to carry them into effect. The hearts of many middle aged Americans are | saddened because of the death of Chauncey Olcott. The happiness, entertainment and cheer that were contributed by his talents and big heart have done more for the betterment of the world than the| work of many statesmen or men of business and industry. A magician’s trade organ reports that some of the craftsmen are feeling the economic pressure. {Still, it isn’t as if they couldn’t always borrow a hat and produce a good stewing rabbit. A Federal law with a death penalty against kidnapers is now proposed. It might help break up that racket, but some progress might, b2 registered if more kidnapers were apprehended and given stiff sentences under existing State laws. The French have denied the women the right of suffrage. France is among the most conservative lof nations notwithstanding its progressiveness. Sousa. (New York World-Telegram.) When men die they become known. That is to say, little and also big things about them, about their boyhood, their young manhood, undreamed of by most people, are conjured up out of the minds of friends or out of the yellowed clippings in the morgues of newspaper offices. A new biography is born. The “obits” which yesterday told of the sudden |death fo John Philip Sousa, greatest of band leaders, revealed to the younger generation and to much of the older ones a panorama of anecdote land fact which make Sousa stand out as far more human and even greater than ever he appeared in all his glory while leading his band. He was the son of a Spaniard who was a proud member of the United States Marine Band, and Sousa himself, after a try as a baker’s helper, was apprenticed to the band and became its leader and wrote a hundred marches, ten operas, songs, suites, delicate fantasies, along with such stirring pieces as his imperishable “Stars and Stripes For- ever,” which has set the cadence for armies march- ing to a war and netted its author $300,000 in royalties. | Sousa wrote four novels. | He was a champion trapshooter. | He was a horseman. He boxed. He was jovial |and witty. His genius as one of a rio of American musical composers—MacDowell, Victor Herbert, Sousa—is too easily overlooked in the impression of the name of “Sousa” upon bands and marching cadences. The engaging and unknown or forgotten facts set for in his obituaries prove once more how a human being is born when a great man dies. The Eternal Bandmaster. (New York Herald Tribune.) Sousa’s Band played when the Chicago World's Fair opened in 1893; with Geronimo it featured the |Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901; the iboys marched off with Sousa’s music in their ears in 1898 and in 1918; and probably, if fate brings us the tragedy of another war, the marching feet will beat time to Sousa’s strains again. Sousa and {his music are a part of American history. ; There may have been greater composers in the last half century; surely there has been none with a more universal appeal. For it is not only in America that the words “march” and “Sousa” are synonymous; many a European heel has struck the pavement bravely, all unaware that the music was “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” His end was as Sausa would have wished it. As a lad he did not appreciate his father’s ambition to have a musician in the family; John Philip Sousa /at first insisted that he preferred to be a baker. But once a musician, he was all musician. He lived with and for his band for two-thirds of a century; and it was gloriously fitting that he should have led a band in rehearsal a few hours before a heart attack laid him low. He was seventy-seven, and still the March King of America. Vinson’s Naval Program. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) ‘The most seriously considered naval building pro- gram just now is that of Carl Vinson, Chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Rep- resentatives. The Vinson plan calls for expenditure of some $600,000,000 over a ten-year period, which is somewhere between the billion-dollar treaty navy of the jingoists and the bare skeleton program of the more extreme disarmers. As a moderate program which insures adequate naval protection without the outrageous expenditure for a treaty navy, the Vinson scheme meets the views of most persons. But the question of under- taking that construction program now is something very different. There are two very good reasons for delaying this bill beyond the present session of Congress. One is the responsibility of the United States to assume leadership in the Disarmament Conference next month. Clearly we cannot lay out an elabor- ate program for naval building and expect to be taken seriously at Geneva in our plea for lower armaments. The second is the imparative need for economy in Federal expenditures. The President has called for important reduction of expenses in the Navy Department as in other Departments. Thus far economies in the navy have been neglible. To ap- propriate even the amount called for in the Vinson program is to set a spending precedent in Federal appropriation, precisely at a time when tax in- creases are peculiarly unfortunate. Maintenance of the navy in personnel and equip- ment is an important responsibility of Government, in depression as in prosperity. But expansion of the navy is another question, and it can be de- layed until conditions are more advantageous, or until the outcome of the Disarmament Conference is known. According to the latest figures, Prohibition has put ten billion dollars into circulation—in Canada, Cuba and the Bahamas—(Florida Times-Union.) After it is all over you won't be surprised, of course, if Japan asks China for reparations. Shoot- ing up Shanghai has consumed more ammunition than was expected.—(Toledo Blade.) ‘The number of American tourists to France in 1931 showed a marked decline. It was less expensive to secure it in Canada.—(Washington Post.) The 5-5-3 ratio seems to be five notes from the League, five from Uncle Sam and three new places captured by Japan—(Washington Post.) SYNOPSIS: Her honeymoon barely over, Kitty Frew finds that her husband is being deter- minedly pursued by Marge Cros- by. Marge is as thoroughly a product of the city as Kitty is of exercise — in fresh air. time and going to bed at dawn.” She clung to him until she got | control of herself. “I didn't feel | well tonight, Gar. I need sleep and I'm not used to eating breakfast at noon- touching the Mother?” he asked, a little ill-humoredly. , She pushed him gently into his| e " PROFESSIONAL | chair and drew his tray up close to 5 him. “Drink your coffee, Gar, whi 1 talk. I've been thinking—I took a ! walk and sat in the park—Gar, we're just drifting; it's been fun, but it isn't what we wanted to do, what we talked of, at Panther Mountain. Gar, we nearly quar- reled last night. I'm sorry for my|® part—I mean that I hadn't pleased Helene W. L. Albrecht | PHYSIOTHERAPY Ak, Mabstetetty, e St | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 55 Godsteln Butlats . | Phone Office, 216 i L the ccuntry. Moreover, Marge is You ought to begin golf, Kit.|yoy put Gar—arent we both just|] DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER * a member of Gar’s crowd and That'll set you up. Tl sign you on |, jittle tired of playing?” DENTISTS I plays upon their mutval inter- | for some lessons with the pro out | Blomgren Building | ests. Many troubles open up in he club. Marge and I are t.akm'.;I Gar flares in unexpected angry PHONE 56 H Kitty's new life. She has been and Di on for a foursome t0- | ancwer tomorrow. Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. i whirled fro mher quiet home to | and you can take a lesson the city to live with Gar's family, f Deetman has any ume: It's| pajy Empire Want Ads Pay | > 2 though she hopes that they will to be a godd match—the o o . soon have their own apartment. | have got to ‘buy the din-| Bt Ao it S FOR SALE Dr. Charles P. Jenne | tagonism and his sister, Carol, v smiled in agreement of the en barcly speaks to her. Mrs. Frew pjan. She agreed with Gar that A NEW STOMACH t e ',;fifdi:gvu-m ! has hoped that Gar would make | yforge had looked stunning tonight | 54q ag that sounds, it is virtually! | Telephone 176 a socially suitable marriage and t night, with a glance at the| o 40 a5 though & new stomach | e sturws. b Giplbainre DY - e clock on Gar's desk. were really bought and paid for— Saining & MOUE, IRCHGEEE TS It's habit,” she thought. “Small-|¢napis what thousands of former Gar. When Kitty meets Gar's | oy habit,” she added, remember- | b o Fo00 C NS e I UL- Dr. J. W. Bayne crowd she finds that the girls |in; Gar's criticism. She remember- | pps’ GAS, ACID STOMACH and | | DENTIST aren’t interested in her and that without hurt, now, but With |idicestion have made you miser- Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. | she doesn’t like the boys. Gar ildered sense that things had [aple for yedrs, what would you do| | Office hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. eriticizes Kitty for coldness to |iaried to go wrong and that in|ro. g new stomach that mads’eat- Xvenings by appointment RS > way it must have been her|ing and living a pleasure again? L Phone 321 A They’d almost quarreled. e'd dress quietly and take a while Gar slept. It would r her head, help her to think out. e knew the routine of the house. Mrs. Frew breaekfasted in her room, after which she closeted herself in her “office’ 'until lunch- Chapter 6 NOBODY LOVES US Tt had been some one’s birthday; there had been wild speeding from |t one dancing place to another. ‘And leaving the Rainbow Gar- dens, where they had gone last as a proper windup of their fling. Marge had asked Gar to drive her | .o, time. She rarely lunched at car home. “It's doing the queerest|),me Carol slept late, then fol- things, Gar. You'remore familiar | yed her own pursuits, usually out with it than Red.” Marge always |, the house. insisted upon using her own car| There was a little square of park and because it was a French model, | yithin a few blocks of the house. of dashing lines, and amazing gned walk around it a few times speed, her escorts invariably were ,nq then sit down on one of the quite willing to accede to her whim. |,.nches, Tonight, without a moment's hes- | \nhen she finished her walk Kitty itation, Gar had sprung into the|.,,se a bench. When she set her- driver’s seat, thrown the clutch in- f to the task of thinking things to gear with a masterful air and|.,; she grew confused again, a lit- shot off into the deserted road,|). frightened. They had so nearly leaving Kitty behind with Red|q,arreled! Harding. Gar thought she was standoffish “Nobody loves us” Red had|with his friends, a prig, when she grumbled, putting his arm through | was only shy with them. They made Kitty's. iher feel that way; more often than She’'d hated being left alone with Red; she'd been afraid of his driv- ing. Gar’s desertion, without a word of regret, had hurt her to the quick. She had thought that when they were home he would tell her he was sorry but instead he was|ing for the men in lobbies or on charging her with coldness to his|the Club veranda, she’d always felt friends. a little self-conscious, ill-at-ease; She dared not trust herself to answer. If she did she might tell him that she was bored to deeth of |and rouges, perfumes, one an- his friends, that tonight she didn’t{other's clothes and the clothes on think she liked any of them, Marge|the women about them, they never or Diana or Isabel Peters, Buck|acted wholly aware that she was Sewall, Tubby—even tupid, good-|with them. natured Tubby, Red, least of all.| “I'm not envious” Kitty sighed, Red was Gar's best friend, Gar was | dolefully. “I'm not jealous.” No, always quoting his opinions, 100k-|even though Marge often coolly ing to him to suggest new places to|appropriated Gar she was not g0, new amusements; the others,|jealous. She was not so small- showed him this same deference,|townish but that she could laugh yet Kitty had not been able to like | at it. him. They never talked now of that Nice—oh, yes, they had been nice |home they were going to have. enough to her, these friends of his,| They'd let themselves get caught but that was the limit of their at-|into a whirl of gayety that was tention; without Gar they wouldn’t | crowding out the real joy of their know she was around! marriage. She had been more quiet than Sh'd talk it over with Gar; usual tonight—somehow, tonight |he'd had his plav, he.would wan! she had not been able even to pre-|to begin to work that they might tend any gaiety. She’d felt out of |be independent of every one. She the picture, as Gar would put it.|flushed, thinking of Gar's debt to uncomfortbale, in her rust-colored|iRed. But she wouid not reproach dress, like a sparrow among brigh!-|Gar with that; she'd be very tact- plumaged birds. Tonight ful, very loving. felt critical of Gar's friends; could- | She walked home eagerly. n't they sometimes have good times| She was a little startled to find in their homes? that it was past one o'clock. Gar Tonight she'd fell even sharply must have been worried as to her criitcal of Gar. He shouldn’t spend|wherealouts. thought perhapsthat so much money—worse, he shouldshe was lost. She could well get not borrow from Red. He had bor-{lost, for she knew scarely anything rowed quite openly, at the start of | yet of the city. their evening. Kitty had seen Red| Pound had come in with Gar's not she did not know what they were talking about and no one of them, unless it was Tubby in a burst of devotion, bothered to tell her. Left alone with Marge and Diana, in the cloakrooms, or wait- in dress and shops and barbers, add two figures to a little column |breakfast tray. on the page of a memorandum| *“Is the Mother downstairs” Gar ook, dasked him. “You don't have to put on such| “She’s gone out, Mr. Gar. She's an almighty righteous air when you | lunching out.” At that Gar frowned. “That's bad. Why didn't you call me, Kit?"” He surveyed his breakfast with dis- taste. His eyes were still heavy with sleep. “I've got to touch the Mother for some money. It'd look nice if Marge and I lost this after- noon and I had to let her pay for the dinners.” “Gar, don't ask your mother for any money! You'll get your allow- tears. They came in a flood. She|ance next week. We can manage despised herself for her weakness|until then—" even when Gar's arms went re-| There was an excitement in Kit- morsefully around her. ty’s tone that brought Gar'sglance “Oh, come now, Kit—I was only [to her glowing face. telling you'for your own good.” “What's the big ‘turn down a drink, either, Kit," Gar pursued. “They're all laughing at you. They think you're a prig. That small-town stuff doesn't goin my crowd.” Hurt on hurt. She hadn‘t meant to look almighty righteous. She wasn't a prig. But she wouldn't quarrel and it would mean a quar- rel if she spoke now. But she could not keep back her idea of not 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. 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