The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 25, 1932, Page 4

&.‘ ! Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER iblished _every evening except Sunday by the| EA\I;}“H 3_PRI NG COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Jun Alaska. Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class wattar SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and | Thane for $1.25 per month, By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year. in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00: one tmonth, in advance, $1.35. 4 Subsoribers will confer a favor if they will promptly potify the Bu C { ‘any failure or irregularity B nans Business Offices, 374. | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Astociated Press is exclusively entitled to the et A ublication of all news dispatches credited to local news published N "IrLASKA CIRCULATION UARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN HAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION DEATH OF WILLIAM BRITT. In the death of William Britt Alaska has lost one of her finest and most interesting citizens. He was able and cultured, a connoisseur of the arts and Jiterature, a student of economics and the sciences, a graduate of the University of Oslo. His fine education was rounded by a profound knowledge and appreciation of the classics and sharpened by years of keen observation. He was a good conver- sationalist and loved to associate with hfs friends. He was a most delightful companion. His multitude of friends will mourn him for the rest of their days. His place in their lives cannot be filled. Mr. Britt has been a very prominent figure in Alaska for a third of a century. He took an active and unselfish interest in education matters and in public affairs. He served for years on the School Board in Skagway, the City Council in Juneau and in both houses of the Territorial Legislature. As Representative and Senator in the Legislature he contributed more to the legislation that lies at the foundation of the Alaska school system than any other person. Wherever, they lived, in Skagway and Juneau, the home of Mr. and Mrs, Britt was always a social center. They have been gracious hosts to interested people and devoted friends. The profound sympathy of literally thousands of friends is extended in full measurc to Mrs. Britt, the devoted, charming and talented helpmate, Ensign Jacob Britt, U. S. N, their stalwart son, and the latter’s beautiful young wife. PRIMARY ELECTION TOMORROW. Alaska’s primary. election will occur tomorrow. In the various voting precincts of the Territory the voters will there select the Republican and Demo- cratic tickets that will be voted upon at the election next November. Also they will select the National Committeemen for the two parties and the Delegates to the National Convention. The Democratic Party has had conventions in the various Divisions of the Territory and a Terri- torial Convention. These conventions were strictly party affair: They selected the party organization for the Territory and its separate Divisions and adopted platforms. Further than that the conven- tions were purely advisory. The Convention in the First Division was held at Petersburg and attended by delegates from the var- jous sections of Southeast Alaska. From Juneau there were a score or so of the leading Democrats. From Ketchikan A. H. Ziegler, N. R. Walker and Judge W. A. Holzheimer were present. John Ronan, formerly a Democratic nominee for Delegate to Congress and a former Territorial Senator from the Third Division, was there as a Delegate from Hyder. Petersburg and other precincts were represented. Notwithstanding that the call for the conventions, issued by Thomas J. Donohoe, Chairman of the Democratic Territorial Central Committee, provided for the nomination of candidates for the Legislature in the Divisional Conventions and for Territorial officers in the Territorial Convention, the First Di- vision Convention unanimously agreed not to nom- inate Legislative candidates, and instructed its dele- gates to the Territorial Convention to oppose the nomination of candidates for the Territorial offices. The Territorial Convention did not make any nom- inations and made no suggestions where it was ap- parent that there were those who intended to file. In those offices where no one had an- nounced an intention to file, the Convention urged certain persons to become candidates. Several of those urged to do so did file as did others in some instances. At least a complete ticket was made up when the time for filing had expired. If it had not been for the action of the Convention it is probable there would not have been a complete ticket—certainly there would not have been one rep- resenting most of the Territorial Divisions. The Territorial Convention, was personally attended by leading Democrats from all the Territorial Divisions, except the Second, and it was represented by leading citizens of that Division through proxies appointed by them. All but two or three of those elected as Delegates to the Territorial Convention were either present in person or by proxies they had designated. The roll of the convention's mem- bership consisted of nearly three score of ‘the lead- ing citizens of the Territory, extending from Ket- chikan to Nome. Senator Luther C. Hess, one of the leading citizens of Fairbanks, a Senator in four Legislative sessions and two or three times a mem- ber of the House of Representatives, President of the last Senate and a former Speaker of the House, was the Convention Chairman. The convention occu- pied two or three days. The Delegates thoroughly canvassed the situation throughout the Territory. The Territorial Convention, in response to party opinion, endorsed the Presidential candidacy of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt and asked James J. Connors to file for National Committeeman and others to 1u¢xammmmdmmunemmwm Democratic National Convention, whom they in- structed, if elected, to support the Presidential candi- dacy of Gov. Roosevelt. ‘Under the circumstances, a more representative | advisory and organization convention have been held. were above respects. could not Its proceedings and conclusions board and strictly honorable in all DIMOND IS FORTHRIGHT CANDIDATE. Never anywhere has a finer gentleman or one |better qualified for the office he seeks presented his name to the public for a political nomination than Senator A. J. Dimond who has asked for the votes of those Democrats who believe that he is better qualified than any other Democratic candidate to serve Alaska in Congress. Mr. Dimond is a forth- right candidate. He does not dissemble. He has introduced no fake issues in the campaign. He stands four-square to all the winds that blow. He knows neither class nor section nor faction nor sex in the campaign. He stands fairly, frankly and strongly for those things that his ripe judgment, trained mind and wide experience indicate to him are for Alaska's best interests. No more appropriate nomination could be made for any office by any party anywhere than would be that of Mr. Dimond by the Democrats of Alaska for Delegate to Con- gress. BEWARE OF ELEVENTH HO PROPAGANDA. Voters ought to beware of any eleventh hour propaganda that might be spread to influence the election tomorrow. All the candidates have had ample time to present the issues and the facts of the primary campaign that has been in progress for sometime so that there might be answers or explanations if any were needed. Do not let new things sprung just before the voting, too late to be answered, carry you off your feet. BILLION ACRES SURVEYED. Nearly a billion acres of farm lands in the United States have been mapped by soil surveyors of the United States Department of Agriculture. This area is greater than the combined area of European Ger- many, France, and Great Britain. The work is now progressing at the rate of more than 15,000,000 acres each year, and department officials estimate that between 20 and 30 years will be required to com- plete the survey. The cost of this work is between two and three cents an acre. Voters ought not to be influenced tomorrow by literature that has been holding up ghosts to frighten them. No one is trying to destroy control by the people or to disfranchise women. The charges that such is the case are simply man-made ghosts. They have nc substance and are not based on facts. The direct primary clection law is not an lssue in the primary election that will occur tomorrow either in the Democratic or the Republican party. If it were an issue it could not in anywise affect the candidates for Delegate to Congress, National Committeemen, Delegates to the National Convention or for any of the Territorial offices. It is wholly a Territorial matter and completely within the juris- ldiction of the Territorial Legislature. Voters must not become confused. Tomorrow is not the final election for offices. It is a primary election in which party tickets are selected. The voter must ask either for a Democratic or a Re- publican ballot. If a voter desires to vote for Mr. Dimond for Delegate to Congress so that his name might appear on the ballot in the election next November for that office, it will be necessary for him tomorrow to ask for a Democratic ballot. Voters ought not to forget that Mr. Dimond, as well as the other candidates, stands for the most complete self-government that can be obtained for Alaska. He favors giving the Territory control over the fisheries, fur and game animals. If elected all of his great abilities will be devoted toward that end. Be Kind to Animals. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) “Be-Kind-To-Animals Week” soon will be at hand —April 18 to 22. It is one of the annual celebra- tion days that ought to appeal to every normal heart. Great progress has been made in America in the treatment, care and protection of all animals wheh serve man’s pleasure or necessities. Children now are cultured to look with sympathy and kind- liness upon all dumb creatures, to cherish song birds and all the beautiful animate things which come Yo us during the year's clement seasons—to be kind and thoughtful even to those which may be considererd dangerous to the public security, avoiding cruelty and all unnecessary tortures of restraint or execution. As for our furred and feathered friends, pets, servants, we increasingly have grown to appreciate them, their righté and needs, pleasures and comfort. Hence we see in the moiling city, free and un- afraid, rabbits, squirrels and other wildings in our parks, or our lawns. The birds come to us to make brighter our city glooms of smoke and grime, mingling their songs with the clatter of gongs, the ringing of bells, the pulsing of machinery and the steady tread of multitudinous feet. To our horses, cats, dogs and other household pets we have grown closer; we no longer disregard them, leaving them to shift for themselves, but try to fathom their wishes and needs. Our societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals weary not from year to year in their labor in the interests of those who cannot speak for thmeselves. The result has been truly remarkable. During the coming cele- bration lessons of kindness in this direction will be reemphasized, and it might be well to remember also that human kindness to our fellows must re- main the chief factor in the development of that brotherhood of man of which the prophets and sages of the earth long have dreamed. ‘Wheat on the Chicago market is 52 cents a bushel. The tariff on wheat is 42 cents a bushel. The signer of the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill has seven months in which to convince the farmers that but for the protection of that noble measure the price of wheat would be only 10 cents a bushel now.—(Miamia, Fla., News.) The head of the Grange is a candidate for the Senate from Ohio. He ought to understand that the Senate is a place for friends of the farmer, not for the farmer.—(New York Sun). All evils pass if you have patience. It isn't very long since the Anti-Saloon League practically ran W in Washington.—(Detroit Free Press.) The problems of cautious Congressmen and rash small boys are much the same. They are both trying to figure out a way to get off the fence without losing their seats—(Boston Herald.) DIMOND ISSUES FINAL CALLTO ALASKAVOTERS Confident of Winning Democratic Nomination for Delegate Tuesday (Continued from Page One) gress. “The people who live here are intimately acquainted with the fish- ing industry as well as all other industries in Alaska. They have the greatest stake in its future. They are the ones who are the most likely to so regulate the in- dustry as to give the greatest possible output for the welfare of the greatest number of people and still preserve the supply of fish,” he asserted. “I favor the full and undivided control of the fur and game re- scurces of the. Territory to be giv- en to the Alaska Legislature. It is the only reasonable solution, and it is the only sclution which beccmes one who thoroughly be- lieves in the principles of Demo- cracy,” he added. Proud of Platform “It is not practicable in this statement, nor has it been possi- ble during the brief campaign I have been able to make, to set up in detail matters of practical pol- icy for which I stand and which, if elected, I will advocate,” he continued, “some of the more vi- tal problems have been touched upon briefly. “The Democratic party of Alaska held a Territorial convention at Fairbanks during the latter part of January. The delegates to this convention were just as fairly and honestly elected as delegates could be elected to any convention, in the absence of the provision of law providing for the election of dele- gates at a Territory-wide primary. Those delegates who represented the Democratic party of, all parts of Alaska adopted a platiform. This platiform was not put together with the idea of getting votes. It was adopted, plank by plank, with a view of placing before the people of ‘Alaska the vital things which the Democrats of Alaska think should be enacted into law. I stand upon that platform. I am proud of it. T think that it will appeal to the people of Alaska as being right in principle. Summary of Platform “That platform advocates, among other things, the following: “I. It endorses the principles of the American Federation of La- bor with respect to labor and em- ployment in Alaska. “2. It condemns the regulation of the salmon and herring indus- tries in Alaska from Washington, and urges that all jurisdiction of the fisheries of Alaska be trans- ferred to the Alaska Legislatures. “3. It advocates that until the control of the fisheries of Alaska is placed in the hands of the Al- aska Legislature that an amend- ment be made to the Federal law s0 as to permit commercial fish- ing by actual residents of the Yukon and Kuskokwim valleys for king salmon along the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers. “4. It advocates the continued support and operation of agricul- tural experiment stations in Al- aska. “5. It condemns the adminis- tration of the fur and game laws in the Territory of Alaska by the Alaska Game Commission, recom- mends that the commission be abolished and that the entire con- trol of the fur and game of Al- aska should be transferred to the Alaska Territorial Legislature. Appointment of Alaskans “6. It recommends that all Fed- eral offices in Alaska be filled through the appointment of bona fide resjdents of the Territory. “7. It urges the continuation of Fedaerl road building in Alaska and particularly and specifically urges”the construction of the pro- posed Alaska-Yukon-Pacific high- way. “8. It protests against the pro- posed sale of the Washington-Al- aska cable and telegraph system by zation of the laws with respect to the ownership, operation and 1of development of coal and oil lands in Alaska in such manner that the #title thereto may ultimately vest in the locator or claimant. “10. It condemns the action of the present administration in cur- tailing the operation of the Alas- ka railroad and increasing the freight and passenger rates, there- by depriving the regions served by the railroad of their proper meas- ure of development and pros- | perity. “11. It recommends that every possible assistance be given to aerial transportation in Alaska by the adoption of a policy where- by each section of Alaska will re- ceive aid according to its needs. It recommends the establishment an air-mail route from the United States to Alaska, and a revision of the present star routes whereby the larger centers and communities will be served by air- planes’ and the intermediate by other suitable means of trans- portation. Care of Natives “12. It urges the Federal gov- ernment to carry out its respon- ity for the care, education and ‘medical relief of the Indians of Alaska in the same manner and to the same degree in which' that respcnsibiltty has been recognized in dealing with the Indians of the centinental United States., The fulfillment of this obligation by the United States will necessarily entail an expenditure for the bene- fit of the Indian population of Alaska of approximately three times the amount of the present Federal appropriations therefor. “13. The Democrats, in their platform, vigorously oppose and protest against the proposed con- solidation of the Federal officers of the Second and Fourth Judic- fal Divisions of Alaska, believing that such consolidation, if made, will effect no substantial saving in money and will result in ser- ious curtailment of judicial exe- cutive service. “The Democrats in their plat- form further advecate liberal ap- propriations for dependent mothers and children and for old age re- lief; they endorse the principle of old age pensions and recom- mend the enactment of a law for insurance against want in old age. “The foregoing is only a brief summary of what the Democratic party stands for and what'I stand for, as a member of that party, and as a candidate of that party. It clected to office, I will do my uvtmost to put into effect the prin- ciples of the Demdcratic plat- form, Sees Party Viectory “In conclusion let me say that I would mot be a candidate for the office of Delegate unless I were reasonably confident that the next administration at Washing- ton will be Democratic. If the next administration is Republican, I believe that neither I nor any- one else can do anything sub- stantial for the benefit of Alaska. “The history of the last four years fs enough to prove that statement, but a few like myself Dbelieve that Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt or some other equally able .Democrat will sit as Presi- dent at Washington, after March 4th mnext, and then it is highly advisable that you have as your Delegate at Washington somebody who believes in the principles of the Democratic party, who believes in a more liberal attitude of the Federal government with respect to Alaska; who can work in har- mony with Democrats and Repub- licans, in and out of Alaska, for the furtherance of the welfare of the Territory. No Spite Activities “I shall not lie awake nights thinking of some way . to fight those who consider qbumselves my enemies or of some way to harm to any man because I do not like him. We have had in the past too many of these fake contests which simply gratified personal spite, roused antagonism and got nowhere. I hbelieve in the prin- ciple of team work and perhaps that is one of the reasons that the Democrats of Alaska repre- sented in their convention re- quested me to file as a candidate for Delegate. “If mominated and elected I shall endeavor faithfully to repre- sent the people of Alaska.” ——————————— Charles “Chick” Doak, head ball coach at North Carolina State College, has been an athletics in- structor in the state since 1911. Daily Empire Want Ads Pay GETTING ALONG HOLLYWOOD BARGAINS We have just received more diamonds from a Hollywood Broker and they are just as good bargains as the others. Our cus- tomers for those are highly pleased and they should be as we have seen nothing to compare to these values in our thirty years in the diamond business. porary. The Diamond Syndicate has not reduced prices one cent. They are doing just as they did when the Russian Debacle threw so many diamonds on the market. They simply said “Our price is the same” and waited until the distress goods were reabsorbed and then we prices are a better buy than any bon¢ or stock on the market as any firm may go broke but the world| { will not, and lovers will always buy diamonds. ‘We have a fine white perfect 94 about six hundred. It is in an old- fashioned Tiffany mounting such as your mother wore and will need resetting. A fine white perfect 76 hundreds for $150.00 in a real snappy modern mounting is anoth- er opportunity. Also a wonderful forty-two hundreds for seventy dol- lars. We haven't the least doubt we of these a nice little profit on them in a couple of years. If you are interested come in and have a look as there is no obligation to buy. The terms are cash or gilt-edge security as we must either return | PROFESSIONAL _| T REY oSy e ¢ DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER a few|® — This price condition is only tem-| e paid the same. 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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. Dr. J. W. Bayne. DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Office heurs, 9 am. to 5 pm. Evenings by appointment Phone 321 LRI AN L T TR T Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. | SEWARD BUILDING | Office Phone 469, Res. | Phone 276 | . '.—— . ORDEFR, OF EASIERN STAR i Bevond and Fourth R‘-‘ben Slmpson ‘Tuesdays of each month, Opt. D. st 8 o'clok Scottish Graduate Angeles Col- Rite Temple. EDITH lege of Optometry and HOWARD, Worthy Mat« ron; FANNY L. ROB- INSON, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760 Meetings second and las Dr. C. L. Fenton | the stones or the money promptly. CHIROPRHCTOR | Monds: 5 )y at 7:30 p. m Electric Tmflil;:n“ Transient brothers urg- Hellenthal Bu m_ilmgN { ed to attend. Councll FOOT CORRE | Chambers, Fifth Street Hours: 10-12, 1-5, 7-8 | JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K H. J. 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