The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 19, 1932, Page 4

1932. D_aily Alaska Empzre . - EDITOR AND MANAGEB.% JOHN W. TROY - 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, Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and | Thane for $1.25 per month. “threatening” — overcast sky, with dark lowering clouds, but precipitation unlikely. Rainfall at infrequent intervals and not pro- longed is announced as “occasional rain”; intermit- tent rainfall of comparatively short duration as a “shower.” The weather man uses the term “snow” to de- note snowfall of relatively long duration, “occasional * for snowfall at infrequent intervals, and “snow * for very light intermittent snowfall snow” | flurrie | By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: s i 168 thn one e P avance. $12.00; six months, in advanoe, The situation is not hopeiess. The Cincinnati $6.00; one month, in advance, $1 25{ ¥ & i |Enquirer points out that “crooners have their ad- ‘Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly | oo on o R e g 4 notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity | Mir=rs and grocers “get rid of spinach.” There in the delivery of 1 aDs 374, Telephane f¢ usiness Offices, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS | The Associated Press Is exclusively entitied to the | use for republication of all redited to local news published hercin ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. DIMOND DISPOS OF PRIMARY ISSUE. Senator Dimond, in his imnterview printed in The Empire yesterday, completely and effectually dis- posed of the silly attempt to make a political issue out of the Alaska primary. He said: It is a perfectly futile movement and one without foundation. The Democratic Pary has adopted a Territorial platform that sets forts its position fully on the various issues and the direct primary is not one of them. The present Territorial primary sys- tem has its defects as even its defenders |ought to be hope in that for hard working and | thrifty people who can deliver real goods. That proposal to pefmit the manufacture and |sele of light wine and beer as non-intoxicants and |place a Government tax upon them, if accepted, would do a 1ot toward balancing the budget. | The Seattle Times says “Summer is just around Now what we would like would be a is rubbing the corner.” message from Summer saying that it shoulders with Prosperity. America Going Wet. (New York Correspendent n Manchester Guardian.) | Several recent incidents have combined to give | the anti-Prohibitionists more hope than at any other time since National Prohibition was effected shortly after the war. The most important of these recent incidents was the vote in the House of Rep- resentatives regarding a technical point relating to the submission of the new Constitutional amend- ment to the States. Although the “Wets” were defeated they showed a tremendous increase in strength acquired during the past few years, and their leaders predict they will have the necessary two-thirds majority within a short time. Even should Congress adopt the proposal, it must then be ratified by three-quarters of the forty-eight States, and until recently the “Drys” have assumed they could keep at least thirteen of the smaller States in the West and South and thus block the new amendment or the repeal of the existing one. Now, however, this is beginning to be doubted. |Impressive figures have been collected by the “Lit- erary Digest,” a weekly publication which is con- admit. But it is not at issue in the forth- coming election. ducting a “straw vote” among twenty million people There is no reason why the Delegate to |in all parts of the United States. The first 2500,- Congress should be concerned about it, even |000 voting papers have been collected, and show the if the reverse were true. Anything he might feel upon the subject would be personal and not official since it is a matter that lies solely within the jurisdiction of the Alaska Legislature, and that body ought to be free from dictation by the Delegate in that and other matters. I have been informed that one of the candidates seeking the nomination has pledged himself, if nominated and elected, to introduce a bill in Congress for a differ- ent sort of a primary law, if the people think improvement is needed. If I am nom- inated and elected, I shall do no such thing. Why? Because Congress has already delegated to the Alaska Legislature the power to pass laws on this subject, and I am abso- lutely opposed to surrendering back to Congress any of the all too-limited legis- lative jurisdiction that is vested in the local law-making body. I would make every ef- ¥ fort possible to add to the extent of the power of the Alaska Legislature to make laws on local subjects, and oppose with all the force and energy that I possess any movement to take away from it any author- ity it now has. The case could not be presented more candidly, logically or truthfully. The whole fuss over the matter has been ridiculous. It was apparently conceived as a ruse to get votes from unthinking people. Out of respect to the intelligence of Alaska voters little attention has been paid to it. It was taken for granted they would recognize the phoney literature that has been broadcasted about it for what it was worth. Most of them have done so. Very few people would permit themselyes to be influenced by it. However, it is well that Senator Dimond has taken pains to set people right re- garding it. G FIRST DIVISION HAS BEEN HA THE CANDIDATES. In the last nine elections the Democratic nom- inees for Delegate to Congress have come from the First Division. Beginning with the nomination of Charles A. Sulzer in 1916, the Democrats have nom- inated a candidate from the First Division regularly every two years, and a First Division resident was nominated at the one special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Delegate Sulzer in 1919. Mr, Sulzer was nominated in 1816 and 1918 George B. Grigsby was nominated in the special election in 1919 and the regular election in 1920. The late E. J. White was nominated in 1922. Frank A. Boyle was nominated in 1924 tnd 1926. George B. Grigsby was nominated in 1928 and 1930. TERMS USED IN FOREC! The weather man’s vocabulary is free from weasel words. Each word in the daily forecasts is a terse and definite description of a constantly recurring weather condition. Although many of these terms, such as “warmer,” ‘“colder,” “light frost,” and “fog.” can have but one meaning, others apparently convey different ideas to different people. To clear up this confusion, E. B. Calvert, of the Weather Bureau, United States Department of Agriculture, tells just what the forecaster means when he makes his an- nouncements for the press and the radio. “Clear,” Mr. Calvert points out, signifies not only no rain, snow, or sleet ahead, but a sky practically free from clouds, whole “fair)” also’ promising no precipitation, does not exclude some clouds from the sky. The term “generally fair” weather, he says, is employed in connection with forecasts for rela- tively large areas, and while there may be some cloudiness and possibly light precipitation in scat- tered places, clear to partly cloudy skies will pre- vail over most of the area. From “partly cloudy,” indicating no precipitation _put some cloudiness, the forecaster has intermediate terms to “rain” a warning of precipitation for a comparatively long portion of the period to which _partly cloudy, becoming overcast, or a sky at first ‘nearly overcast with thin, high clouds, followed by “low. clouds; (2) “mostly cloudy”— ’x.h occasional breaks of rela- (3 “cloudy”—an’ overcast sky, (4) “unsettied”—much cloudi- 5) amazing majority against Prohibition of three to one. The vote thus far covers forty-two States and of these only Kansas returns a majority for Prohibi- tion, and even here the “Drys” have only two thou- sand excess votes in the thirty-seven thousand. The Sub-committee of the United States Senate Committee on Manufactures has just startled the |country by formally recommending the legalization of beer with 4 per cent. alcoholic content. While there have been repeated rumors in recent weeks that the Hoover Administration were planning to take some action, this is the first official step in this direction. Beer could be legalized by changing the definition of the precentage of alcohol in an intoxicant which is stated in the Enforcement Act supplementary to the Constitutional Amendment. The present restriction permits only beverages of less than one-half of 1 per cent. The Prohibition question is giving great concern to the leaders of the Republican Party. The Demo- crats will almost certainly offer a “Wet” candidate, and ¢ platform and.. political experts believe they might win on this issue. Mr. Hoover theoreticaily is a “Dry,” and mus' stand by his record. In this dilemma the Republican leaders propose a great National referendum, with a preliminary pledge to abide by .ts results. Prohibitionists, however, are bitterly opposed to such a referendum, and the Re- publicans depend greatly on their support. Finland’s Change. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Finland actively is entering upon her policy of {change from Prohibition experience to her new |plan, based on the idea of a government-controlled |source of liquor without private profit, which plan |begins operation on April 5. An intermediate company is to be set up for the importation, manufacture and sale of liquor in which the Government is to hold the controlling interest. The plan is the result following a referendum in which the wets of Finland polled more than 70 per cent, of the.votes. Thirteen years of Prohibition in Finland taught the same lesson everywhere evident where this policy has been tried—the same abuses, disappoint- ments, social disturbance, increase of crime and corruption. This about-face will be watched with interest by both Wets and Drys in this country, where popular sentiment and opinion seems to demand the sub- mission of the problem to National referendum— where Legislators, Executives of Government, busi- ness and industry increasingly are being converted to the belief that not only has Prohibition failed, but has presented an unprecedented and sinister threat to Government and people. Among these con- verts, prominent among the distinguished educators of the day, Dr. Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell University, just has announced himself as favoring the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. Prohibition Protects Liquor Traffic. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Our dry friends in Congress will some day wake up to the irony of taxing innocent beverages like soda drinks, natural table waters, cereal beverages and unfermented grape juice, while the huge, nation- wide traffic in alcoholic beverages continues, UNDER PROHIBITION'S UNCEASING PROTECTION, TO ENJOY IMMUNITY FROM EVERY FORM OF TAXATION. Morgan Cook, of the Philadelphia Inquirer, tells us that a scientist has kept a fish asleep for three years. Say, it can’t be possible that bird is experi- menting on prosperity, too, can it?—(Cincinnati En- quirer). Seattle’'s melting pot is in good working order. In the cast of a play given at one of the field- houses the five principals were, respectively, Rus- sian, Spanish, Japanese, English and Turkish in de- scent. All are Seattle-born; all will be thorough- ly American in talk, thought and action as they grow up in their native city.—(Seattle Times.) In the Digest poll thus far Kansas is the only State that stands for Prohibition, and it has its feet spread pretty wide apart, giving the impres- sion of a straddle—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) Herbert and Babe are tied at salaries and both have-to score & number of hits by November to be sure of renewal contracts.—(Washington Post.) Americanism: Demanding freedom for every race and counfry; not ecaring a whoop about freedom for the individual—(Akron, Ohio, Beacon-Journal.) People certainly ought to stop asking President Hoover where he stand on the Prohibition issue. Don't they know it's a secret?—(Boston Globe.) _by JAN SYNOPSIS: When Kitty Frew sees her husband’s car parked in front of Marge Cros- about hanging stock away,” Kitty laughed. “I was working in Strat- tons all the time Gar thought I GOODBYE, BUDGET BOOK “I don't see why you ever came Kitty waited for Gar to tell{back to Gar?” her what the “‘committee” had}. “Oh, Carol” Kitty protested, done that aftsrnoon. laughing. “I never really left him But he said nothing about it. 21, was only waiting. And ev- He said nothing about, the deal {esyihing or the bills, or why he had been]now." absent from. the office: during theg «#Qh, you think it is, middle of the day. L ¢why, of course.” He was in high humor and{' Kitty began to clear a table for Kitty thought: “It's all right.” |some books. She took up a fram- They talked / about Sally and + photograph which was lying Phil. “Well go to the weddng) there face down. Carol snatched won't we?” Kitty gave a little it out of her hand, but not be- sigh of dismay. “Oh, dear, just|ifore Kitty had seen that #t was when I thought we wouldn't have|Paul Somerset. any extra expense.” “I'll take care of that,” “There you go,” Gar warned.|Drotested, coloring. laughing. “We'll make it Somie| “Carol. I know you know Paul way. Oh, say—" he. changed the |Som: t. 1 saw you with him subject. “What do you think?|one day, in Hoffman’s.” Carol's léft home. Set up house- “r'm all through with him!” keeping in two rooms over a gar-!Carol cried, passionately. But she age on Elymwood Street. She’s|held the photograph against her dotly.” breast, her cyes belying her own “Gar, maybe she'll be happier, | words now.” arol put the picture down with Gar stared at Kitty. He made|, Cn'.T:!c paur ofp:;re}essness‘. G a sound of dismay. “Happier?loig him if he wanted to let Marge What’s the matter with her being|coposhy made a fool of him—" happy at home? She’s just plain{pgyt <he could not keep to the crazy.” : manner. Her lips began to quiv- Kitty had an impulse to telller I said I was through with :‘“fl 0’0:;';"“&:;19 suspected 1‘3):: him but if he so much as crooked she checked it on sober after- :m:""le famim el B is beautifully all right do you?” Carol thought. She knew Gar would was that way with me, Car- feel no sympathy. ol, after all those weeks,” Kitty “What does your mother say?” sald scimply, sympathetically. And “What I say.—ithat she's nutty.f§¢he two girls looked at one an- She’s going in for airy stuff—fother, a little solemnly, wholly selling Russian doo-dads.” Kitty § friendly now. could mot see Carol's move as “Oh, well—" Carol caught up Gar pictured it. The next afternoon she went to Elmwood Street. She took a chance on following a man with Jand 11l be settled.” a long packing box who might Kitty went home rejoicing. She she thought, be delivering a part [had broken down ICarol’s indiffer- of Carol's stock in trade of “doo- {snce. They were friends. dads.” To her delight Carol open- She told Gar when he came jome books, handed them to Kit- . “Put these anywhere. We've made a good start. Another day ed a door to the man. She saw|home that she'd hunted Carc Kitty standing behind him. sut. “Oh, hello! Wait a minute—" But Gar wasn't interested in she signed the book the man gave | Carol or what she was doing. her. ‘How did you know where| When he sat down at their meal 1 was?’ THer greeting was not]ie scowled at the nicely browned altogether gracious but there was|shops a new excitement in her face and #Bee she stood aside: for Kitty to enter the little hallway. “Gar told me." She laughed at his preface in “Oh, he did, did he?” spite of the pang of alarm she Carol led the way up the nar-|felt, row stairs, the big box across her “I don't want you to go market- arms. “I suppose he had a lot|ing the way you do. Mother told to say.” meMrs. Close told her—Carrying Kitty was surveying the room|a basket. The least you can do she had entered. Tt was a pleas-|is to appear to live like a lady—" Kit, if here, sore will you law, to you?” you won't gel I lay down the ant room with little window nooks, A great anger flooded Kitty at each end. It was in a con-}so that she shook. His mother fusion of boxas half unpacked. —how dared she talk to Gar like Carol put her burden down.|{that? “Well, T'm here!” She said it Gar took her silence for agree- with a hard little ndte of triumph. |ment. He modified his tone. “Tt “Isn't it a cute place? T'm going |probably did not ocour to you how into business here, selting peasant|it looked. But now you know dresses and Russian books and{how. I feel about it.” pictures. “I'm getting out cards. He did not notice that she ate I send you one. My friend, Nina |nothing—that her eyes were dark. Barkoff is helping me. You don't “I. don't want you working like know her, of course.” a housemaid either, Kit. They “I think it's splendid, Carol.” ‘have women here in the building “Well, it’s got to go.” Carol}who'll come in” frowned at the box which she was|. Following Gar’s suggestion, Car- trying to open. “I've staked ev-ley, a soft<faced mulatto girl was erything I own on it. I sold ev-|established in the apartment. She ery bit of jewelry T possessed and|came each day at eleven o'clock T've borrowed money, too—but notland remained through dinner. And from my mother.” She threw back |Kitty ordered her day's needs by her head and leveled a sharp, |telephone. They were delivered meaning glance on Kity. at the service door. “I'm sure it will go. Perhaps She threw her budget book Dorcas Tabor—she's on the Times,|away. When her weeks allow- you know—will give you a story?”|ance was exhausted she charged “Thanks. you needn't bother|what she had to get. to say anything about it to Gar's| She spent her mornings curled friends. T don't want them around. on'the divan, 1eading. Afternoons, I wouldn't let Margery Crosbyishe walked or shopped or went inside my door.” to Carol’'s. One day she telephoned Carol was ‘thinking of Somer-|to David and met him again for set, Kitty knew. If only she could jtea. win Carol’s confidence—talk it out| She dressed with elaborate care with her, tell her that Somerset every evening for dinner. She'd wasn't worth her caring so! bought two new dresses, a Stock “Let me help you unpack some|of ¥ ts, stockings, shoes, of these things, Carol.” “They've got to be unpacked,” savings. Carol conceded. | e was very gay, when she “You see, I know something and Gar went out with the “crowd” 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 1IN ALASKA LYING WATCHES Is your watch a liar? We have recently improved our watch repairing facilities by the addition of an experienced watch- maker and are now prepared (o give you quicker and better service. Our aim will be to give you a frighvened, frightened at herself and at this mad recklessness that possessed her, at the burning- an- | ger she carnled deep in her hear. and smothered “with laughter. She || would ‘forget it, she said to her- self. After a time she came not to résent Carley, in the kitohen, or to criticise her. “Being a lady isn't such hard work, even for me,” che thought. With Carol she could forget ker hurt. She knew now bthat Carol to her rooms. Often they ate lunch together, ‘frugally, end of the deal table on which Carol displayed some of her stock. Sometimes Carol talked of Paul Somerset. She'd known him two years. It had been a clandestine acquaintance. “Do you fthink I'd take a chance on inviting him to the house?” she'd said bitterly. “I} & wasn’t going to have him laughed l at.” liked to "have her come)e. at the|® 1" PROFESSIONAL ||| Fraternal Societies } . i or E *— Helene W. L. Albrecht | PRYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical | They never talked of Gar or Mrs. Frew. If Carol began Kitty quickly changed the subject. (Copyright, Jane Abbott.) David and Kitty stumble upon a surprise, tomorrow. And Kitty is afraid of her- self. ———e— ATTENTION TENNIS PLAYERS A list is now being prepared of members of the Juneau Tennis Club and will be posted at thelse. courts in the near future for in-|= formation of those entitled to use of the courts of the Club. The courts are private property Hellenthal Hours 9 am. and are only for use of Club mem- bers. Anyone desiring to join the | Club should get in touch promptly | with Charles E. Harland and make | application ‘for membership. ° Those in charge of the Club's finances hope to retire the present indebtedness through ®the current l year dues of $10.00, and members ’ | afe urged to remit such dues as early as they can conveniently do so. Make checks to Juneau Tennis Club and mail to Charles E. Har- land, P. O Box 1193. By Executive Committee, adv. JUNEAU TENNIS CLUE.| | Gene Ewart With Connors Motor Co. 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ELKS Meeting every » Wednesday night at 8 p. m, Elks Gymnastics, by's house, she persuades her- [was in Bridgewater.” It came to|satisfactory job at the least price Hall. self that Gar is conferring with |her that, ¥f she made confidences|for the best class of work. Not|® i 2 Visiting brothers Marge’s committee about their |fo Carol she might win Carol's in|cheap work but good work. ¢ | Welcome, llfll? theatre work. Though |return. THE NUGGET SHOP adv.|| DRS.KASER & FREEBURGER GEORGE MESSERSCHMIDT, Gar’s sister, Carol has warned Carol stared at her, amazed. B DENTISTS Exalted Ruter. 3 her of Marge’s interest in Gar, [aeross the brightly embroidered + Blomgren Building M. H. SID| ; . H. E! Kitty is sure she can keep |garment she had taken out of the ,;?{;em::: c:;a:o ;::;ewgr ;;?:‘1:'{ PHONE 56 puteneny Gar happy in his home. 3 quick with witty rewn‘ dazz‘m(: Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. | Co-Ordinate Bod. ‘1 wanted tq be independent | oo myhny B« <7 ¢ . ies of Freemason CHAPTER 31. until Gar began to work, you see.” " : ! ry Scottish Rits She was very gay—and she was| . . Regular meeting second Friday each month at Rorms. 8 and 9 Valentine | 7:30 p. m., Scot- Building . tish Rite Temple. Telephone 174 WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE, NO. 700 Meets Monday 8 p. m. Ralph Reischl, Dictator, Legion of Moose No. 24 mee’s first and third Tuesdays G A. Balawin, Secretary and Phode 321 I8 Herder, P. O. Box 213. ——— = MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 141 Becond and fourth Mon- Dr. A. W. Stewart day of each month In DENTIST Scottish Rite Temple, Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. | | beginning at 7:30 p. m. ; e Gk { JOHN J. FARGHER, <P hone 3 . Phons 276 il i :\:t::.r, JAMES W. 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