The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 28, 1932, Page 4

i g L R R ———— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1932. Daily Alaska Empire 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 mattar. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month, »stage pald, at the following rates: advance, $12.00; six months, in advanoe, in advance, $1.25. confer a favor if they will promptly s Office of any failure or irregularity the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the blication of all news dispatches credited to published herein, ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION THE PROFESSIONS AND PROHIBITION. One of the remarkable results of the Literary Digest straw vote on Prohibition was the poll of 43,608 clergymen and the closeness of the vote. The ministers of the gospel voted 23,924 for the continu- ance of Prohibition and 19,684 for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. In sixteen States and the District of Columbia there were actual majori- ties of the clergymen voting in favor of repeal. In two States there were tie votes. The State showing majorities of clergymen in favor of the repeal of the Eighteenth Amend- ment were Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massa- chusetts, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, South Da- kota and Wisconsin. Utah and Wyoming tied. Many other States were very close. For instance, Cali- fornia clergymen voted 782 for Prohibition and 723 for repeal; the majority in Delaware for Prohibition was only 12; in Idaho it was only 17; Minnesota voted 656 for Prohibition and 596 for repeal; Ne- braska 366 for Prohibition and 312 for repeal; North Dakota 181 to 168; Oregon 131 to 108; Pennsylvania 2403 to 2,028; Washington 309" to 249, etc. The largest percentage for repeal was in the District of Columbia where the vote was 58 for Prohibition and 246 for repeal. The poll of bankers in the country showed 51,- 252 for repeal and 26,608 for Prohibition. Only five States showed majorities of the bankers for Pro- hibition: Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, North Caro- lina and Tennessee, and in each of them the margin was close, The lawyers showed better than three to one for repeal: 39,825 for repeal and 12,736 for Pro- hibition. The lawyers of every State in the Union gave majorities for repeal. Physicians were even stronger than the lawyers in favor of repeal: 45459 against 14,770. As was the case with the lawyers, the majority in each of the 48 States and the District of Columbia was for repeal. Literary Digest subscribers voted 337947 for re- peal and 135813 for Prohibition. In only one State were there more subscribers of the magazine for Prohibition than repeal and that was in Kansas where the vote was 2,692 for Prohibition and 2,517 for repeal. THE ALASKA PRIMARY. At this writing (midnight) with approximately two-thirds of the votes cast at Tuesday's primary accounted for, it is certain that Senator Dimond has been nominated by the Democrats to Congress by a large plurality. He may have a majority over the combined votes of the other candidates in the contest. His lead is so substantial that it encourages his friends to believe that he will be elected to the office in the Novemebr election. James J. Connors has been re-elected National Committeeman by a dominating plurality. He, too, may have a majority over the combined votes of his two opponents. Five of the six Roosevelt cratic National Convention over the high man on the will probably be increased have been completed. The full returns will, with scarcely a doubt, make up the 90 votes that Mr. ‘Walmer is now behind Mr. Heath, and give all six votes in the delegation to the Roosevelt forces. The result, with the exception of the south end of the First Division, has been a complete vindica- tion of the Democratic organization and the Fair- banks convention. Dimond and the Roosevelt dele- gates swept the north end of the First Division and the Sscond, Third and Fourth Divisions. The Republican contests proved easy victories for Attorney-General Rustgard and Auditor Cole, who were renominated. Territorial Secretary Karl Theile and Dr. W. H. Chase have been elected Delegates to the Republican Convention and E. A. Rasmuson has won the Republican National Com- mitteeship. The successful Republicans are all sup- porters of President Hoover. delegates to the Demo- have substantial leads opposition ticket which when the count shall SCIENCE AIDS HAWAII AGAIN. Science has come once more to the assistance of Hawaiian industries, and this time with promises of savings of many thousands of dollars annually. After several years of experiment the scientists who are engaged by the island sugar “industry have developed a process for converting waste molasses into an important fértilizer having all of the es- sential elements of the products obtained from sev- eral parts of the world. This new fertilizer is expected to supplement the other types which are imported. One of its out- standing features is that it utilizes a by-product of the sugar industry. for which thare is now but a small market and very few other uses. The modern experimeént station maintained there by the sugar plantation associgtion is one of a number of places of industrial interest which will |this figure had been cut to 59.35. eign Trade Convention at Honolulu on May 4, 5, and 6. 1t is there that scientists labor year after year to keep diseases and insect pests from Hawail’s cane- fields, to produce new canes which will yield greater amounts of juice, and to devise ways and means of obtaining more sugar without increasing land areas. While the baseball season is still very young, every game that is won or lost now will count in the percentage tables in those trying days that will come next September when everybody will be drawing on his strength and strategic ability to the uttermost to win games. That Chinese battle ougnt to make a good pic- ture. It was fought for the benefit of the movie directors but was so real that newspapers reported it as real fighting. The primary election is over, but the clean-up and paint-up campaign has only just started. Let’s make it more interesting than the political cam- paign was. It is really very important. Hollywood and Mr. Coward. (Manchester Guardian.) “I don't want to become rich; I want to be happy,” Mr. Noel Coward is reported to have said in explanation of his departurer from Hollywood this week. And he went on to describe the features of Hollywood life that he so disliked. There was early rising; there were hurried meals; there was the discomfort of “standing around all day under red-hot lights;” there were the miserable “rabbit hutches” in which scenario writers had to do their work, and—final enormity—the duty imposed on them to “punch time-clocks.” It is not an alluring picture, and will serve to correct the illusions of those who have imagined Hollywood to be a para- dise where gold flows freely and stars and supers live amiably together. There are many who at one time or another have shaken the dust of Hollywood off their feet, and many who have stayed out their time and collected their pay and then criticised. Mr. Emil Jannings left because his artistic sus- ceptibilities were outraged, and Mr. P. G. Wode- house’s main complaint was that he received so prodigious a fee for so little work. Mr. Coward's grievance is perhaps a sign of the times. He has tasted Hollywood in the depression, wheras Mr. Wodehouse was there in the good prosperity days, and what the one blames for being too strenuous the other despised for being too lax. It would seem from their two testimonies that Hollywood has moved from one extreme to another, that though it is still prepared to pour wealth in the laps of its servants it now exacts from them toil as excessive as once it was inadequate. For Mr. Coward at least the wealth does not compensate. He will punch time-clocks no longer, and his particular rabbit hutch will have to be filled by another. Illiteracy Abroad. (Miami, Fla., News.) The Spanish Republic, anxious not to be outdone by other countries in educational matters, launches a five-year plan to abolish illiteracy. Ome of the phases of this program is an increase in school facilities. The new regime claims to have added, since the downfall of the monarchy, 7,000 primary and secondary schools. The plan is to continue building schools at the rate of 5,000 a year, until the number of new ones totals more than 27,000. By 1936, if the work progresses on schedule, Spain will have in all more than 63,000 schools. In 1860, more than 75 per cent. of the population of Spain could neither read nor write. By 1910 The literacy of the population as a whole, according to the 1920 census, had risen to 46.3 per cent. Among those five years old and over, it was 51.2 per cent.; for those 10 years and over, 55.6 per cent. Elementary instruction was compulsory prior to the establish- ment of the Republic, but illiteracy remained wide- spread nonetheless. In Turkey, where another great educational revo- lution is being attempted, Mustapha Kemal Pasha claims to have cut illiteracy from 85 to 42 per cent. It remains to be been what success Spain, beginning in much better condition, will enjoy. In our own country in 1930, illiteracy 10 years old and over numbered 4,283,753, or 4.3 per cent, as compared with 6.0 in 1920. Authorities say that with proper methods illiteracy could be wiped out altogether by the time of the next census. Special textbooks are avallable for this purpose, and the adult learns the fundamentals of reading and writing more readily than the child; but the movement lags both because it is difficult to effect contact with illit- erates and to enlist the cooperation of many citizens in the work. Disorderly Newfoundland. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) The increased rioting in Newfoundland is some- what surprising, for the island dominion is usually considered to be a thoroughly British region, and the British usually succeed in settling their do- mesctic troubles without resort to violence. Political- ly apart from Canada and confined in its economy to a few staple industries, Newfoundland has suf- fered severely from the decline of world trade. This appears to be the chief issue of the discontent s0 plainly shown of late. Throngs at St. John's wrecked the Colonial Build- ing, where the Legislature was in session, injured Sir Richard Squires, Prime Minister, and apparently will force a change of the Cabinet. Readjustment of the dole to unemployed in terms of Newfound- land’s economic straits led to the disorders. The incidents remind us again that politics in our generation is largely an economic question; that the major task of government is the immediate well-being of the people, and that men and women will endure almost anything from Legislatures and Governors except failure to provide them with a livelihood. The récurrence of trouble at St. John's very pos- sibly will renew the agitation for a complete change of the status of the island, either its incorpora- tion into Canada or its revision of its fundamental law by the British Parliament. A bankrupt govern- ment is a sad business at any time, but is much more so when large numbers of idle contribute to a popular hysteria. Balancing the Federal budget is going to cause a lot of private ones to lose their equilibrium.— (Ohio State Journal.) These wet and dry polls tell us everything except who elects the Congressmen.—(Los Angeles Times,) And to think that Americans once staged a| revolution to escape a little stamp tax.—(Los Ange- les Times.) £ OO Instead of a seat in the League, Japan prefers & hunting license in Manchuria. (Ohio State Journal.) The Republicans and Democrats in Congress are (By BYRON PRICE) Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington Although it is too early by weeks to attempt a complete catalogue o khe campaign T%ues of 1932, i now can be predicted safely that the voters will hear much abou! three old acquaintances— prosperity, the tariff and Prohibi- tion. 1 early spring signs mean any- thing, the argument will run some- thing like this: The Democrats will accuse ident Hoover of weakness, pro- dering with respect to the depres- sion, and will asseri that events have exploded once and for ail the boast that the Republican party is the party of prosperity. ‘The Republicans will praise the President for having kept the country’s soul and body together at all in a time of world-wide distress, and will thank providence that no Democrat was in the White House in such an hour. Tarriff Issue To Come Up The Democrats will blame the present Republican tariff for dis- locations at home and loss of pres- tige abroad, and will ask that the PresiGeiii he shorn of his one-man power over rate changes. The Republicans will declare their tariff policies have helped greatly in the present crisis, will cdefend the Presidential rate- changing prerogative, and will ar- gue it would be dangerous to both industry and labor to put tariff- making into Democratic hands. The Democrats, either through their platform or their candidate, or both, will ridicule the Hoover prohibition regime, and bid in one way or another for the support cf opponents of the dry laws. The Republicans may conceiv- ably make some concessions to the wets but they will try valilantly to retain the support of those dry elements who now are threatening to bolt. Doubtless, other issues will be heard from, too, although some of the favorites, such as taxation, and foreign relations, seem to have been read out of the campaign by bi-pantisan action in Congress. The sure starters, as of today, are the three named above, and each of these three may be expected to kick up a lot of dust on the way to the finish line. Hoover Faces Attacks The debate over what has been done and what has not been done for economic recovery, of course, will cover a lot of territory. From the moratorium to the reconstruction finance corporation, the Hoover leadership will be as- sailed of halting and tardy. It will be charged the President moved to action only at the last- minute when direct mecessity ap- plied the leash. Farm relief, un-| employment, and many other col-' lateral issues will furnish talking| points in the general dispute. ] ‘The Republicans are making elaborate preparation to combat this attack. They will picture to| the country a President beset by the finevitable, working at high pressure day and night and with- out holiday to avert catastrophe. | cractination and large-scale blun- | OLITICS v meiom toget only. Recently many Democrats have been voting for Republican tariff bills. The Democrats in the pres- ent Congress have put through a Dill declaring a general policy of readjustment, but refraining from thay sort of unrestrained denuncia- tion which frightens business. The issue is most clearly joined on the question of continuing the Presidential authority to raise and lower rates, although it is some- what technical subject, the W will be asked to study and under- stand it Paties Split on Dry Issue Only the most general of ten- dencies are yet apparent with re- ’spec: to prchibition. Both parties are divided but it is worth noting that the modifica- tionists are centering their efforts vigorously toward a referendum or modification plank, in the Dem- ocratic platform, while the drys epply most of their pressure on the Republicans. Furthermore, it seems certain that on the Presidential roll calls at Chicago at least nine out of every ten Democratic delegates will vote ffor the candidate or an- other who favors a change, and at least nine of every ten Republi- cans will support President Hoov- er, whose afttitude has been ac- cepted in the past as satisfac- tory to the organized drys. Finaily, it is well to remember that this is one issue to which things may continue to happen— and probably will—right up to the day of election. HOW ONE MAN LOST 22 POUNDS Mr. Herman Runkis of Detroit writes: “A few lines of thanks from a rheumatism sufferer — my first bottle of Kruschen Salts took all the aches and swellings out of my joints—with my first bottle I wen! on a diet and lost 22 pounds and now I feel like a new man.” To lose fat SAFELY and quickly take one half teaspoonful of Krus- chen Salts in a glass of hot water in the morning before breakfast. For your hea’ .s sake ask for and get Krusche: che cost for a bottle that lasts 4 weeks is but a trifle at any drug store in the world and if after the first bottle you are not joyfully satisfied with results— money back. Butler Mauro Drug Co. and Juneau Drug Co. and all good druggists will be glad to supply you, —adv. MRS. KAUFMAN IN HOSPITAL . Robert Kaufman is a pa- tient in Et. Ann's hospital, hav- ing entered yesterday. NUGGET CAFE J. F. McDONALD Open Day and Night Dainty Meals Peppy Lunches for a tariff for revenue seeking advice everywhere, and do- ing all that mortal man could do. Tariff Frent Changed The tariff dispute will present 2 situation greatly revised, since the old days when the Republi- cans constituted the party of pro- tection and the Democrats stood Kann’s SEWARD STREET 5cTO $5.00 THEO. S. PEDERSON ALASKA HOME DECORATOR Estimates Furnished Free General Painting Contractor Shop Phone 354—Residence Phone 37—2 Rings Shop at Third and Seward fast. quarreling about who gets the credit for economy. be visited by delegates to the National-Pacific For- |What economy?—(Akron, Ohio, Beacon-Journal) ' GETTING ALONG The sure way to get along in this world is to save some money ALL the time. necessary to make large deposits, as small and frequent additions to your account will make your bank balance grow amazingly We pay four per cent on savings accounts compounded twice a year " B. M. 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Single Load, $4.25 Double Load, $8.00 A discount of 50 cents per load is made for CASH LEAVE ORDERS WITH GEORGE BROTHERS 1- ! Wear Attractive, Be- ' PROFESSIONAL | . . | Helene W. L. Albrecht | | PHYSIOTHERAPY r Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. Fraternal Societie. or Gastineau C'Wmil T B. P. 0. FLKS Meeting every Wednesday night Office Phone 484; Residence Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 | to 12; 1:00 to 5:3¢ | I e Very Reasonable JUNEAU-YOUNG 1 Price on “ Funeral Parlors W. L. DovGLAS i} P . SHOES | Mignt Prone 1851 Day Phone 12 | AISO have Shupaks, ]"“"'""""""""”""'""""'""'“"”““"”""""‘""w"""m""m“""”—'1 " WOMEN coming Apparel Dresses and other garments made to give individual charm and distinction. Freshen the appearance oté your old garments by having : them altered at the Smart Dressmaking Shoppe 107 Main St. Phone 219 ) i i “SEE” C. HEGG TELEPHONE 235 KALSOMINING PAINTING HOME DECORATING Estimates furnished free DON'T BE TOO H dste! i . radio announcers are not always as| | 410 Goldsteln Bullding at 8 p. m, Elks 11 Phone Office, 216 Hall. correct as they sound but they o . L are never very far off and you Y:mens brothers ought to average pretty close. If| g ——mu--e----——e welcome. you are checking rther badly let|| DRS.KASER & FREEBURGER | GEORGE MESSERSCHMIDT, us have a look at your timepiece.| | DENTISTS Exalted Ruver. Our watch repair service is in the| | Blomgren Building | M. H. SIDES, Secretary hands of a specialist and we sin- PHONE 56 ! — |cerely believe he can give you by Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. Co-Ordinate Bod. far the best job in Juneau. It ¢ " . les of Freemason costs no more and often less to 7 r;egs;r::h;e:.:;:. have the best so bring your watch|® to | Dr. Charles P. Jenne second Friday THE NUGGET SHOP ' DENTIST each month at By the way, the famous old ship's Rorms 8 and 9 Valentine 7:30 p. m., Scot- chronometer that Mr. Shariek priz- Building tish Rite Temple, ed so many years for its remark- Telephone 176 WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary able time-keeping qualities, is now| e. . - in the window of the Nugget Shop! ¢ o LOYAL ORDER OF and you will make no mistake if MOOSE, NO. 700 you walk a bit out of your way to| | DI‘. J W- Ba)'lle Meets Monday 8 p set your wateh by it. The watch- | DENTIST Ralph Reischl, Dis.ator maker will touch your regulator if Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Legion of Mooge No. 24 lvou desire and be very pleasant]|| Office hours, 8 am. to 5 DM. | | mee's first and third Tuesdays about it. —adv. Fvenings by appointment G A. Baldwin, Secretary. and - Phone 321 Herder, P. O. Box 273. —— . MARSHAL WHITE EXPRESSES | - MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 14 e ik R A L . ® | Second and fourth Mon- Dr. A. W. Stewart day of each month in I wish to thank the voters of DENTIST Scottish Rite Temple, G Juneau, Douglas, First District of Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. | | beginning at 7:30 p. m. % " Alaska, and Alaskans for the large| | SEWARD BUILDING | |JOHEN J. FARGHER, St complimentary vote that was glvgn Office Phone 469, Res. Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Ses- to me in Tuesday’s primaries. While Phone 276 | retary. the place I sought was a party|e. — honor it was gratifying to me k:O # % ORDEB, OF FAS1ERN STAR receive such consideration at the i cond and hands of the voters. At the age of Robert Slmpsnn 'n:?;ays il ;lea]r't: twenty-one and several times there- 0 t D. b ¥ ol Scottis!; after I was elected by the people * Col- 5 of Alaska over twenty years ago to Graduate Ang ‘um ! Rite Temple. EDITH i lege of Optometry | HOWARD, Worthy Mat- positions of trust and honor and this occasion gives me just as much Opthalmology R | ron; FANNY L. ROB- pleasure as it did then. Glagiod Fiifed, Lenses, Gromut | INSON, Secretary. The Nati:msl ;icket of ‘whic}édl‘. % KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS was a part, and sponsoring, - ¢ z ward Rasmuson for National Com-| | Dr, C. L. Fenton I g::;‘:;s cs:!c!:;;:ld‘:ga ‘;’::' mitteeman and the Delegates who CHIROPRACTOR Mondngs at 7:30 oy are on his sicket, which 'is support- Electric Treatments 'I‘raminynt broihersph g ing the President, I know that I Hellenthal Building [ %4 %0"atana Counc!i' speak for all of them when I thank FOOT CORRECTION | B opd i you all. Hours: 10-12, 1-5, 7-8 i Chambers, Fifth Street ® 3 : JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. i o L 2 °| H J. TURNER, Secretary. —ady. 1902, Alaskan Pioneer. Joos 4 : 't — if Our trucks la ! | T ur trucks go any place any | LUDWIG NELSON Saloum’s | Sme. A tank for Diesel O | | JEWELER ! | and a tank for crude oil save 1 Watch Repairing burner trouble. anll;'Tlck Agency Seward St. Next to Kann's PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 i {|| RELIABLE TRANSFER = 74 5 i O Y DR. R. E. 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