The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 7, 1932, Page 4

in t " bs Dkaily;llaslrrcia Em piré JOEN W. TRO™ - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER by the Published e evening except Sunday EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Wptered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class Lantter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier In Juneau, Dougias, Thane for $1.25 per month. the following rates: Treadwell and By malil, postage paid, at One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. i ‘Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the T ess Office of any failure or irregularity del ir papers 374, o) Business Offices, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to local news hed herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION GO TO THE BASEBALL GAMES. If the weather permits the baseball season to open in Juneau tomorrow there ought to be a large | attendance at the park. The people of Juneau are indebted to the City Baseball League already for years of clean sport and healthful recreation. The | fifty or sixty young men, without othcr considera- tion that the love of sport, who entertain the people of this community each spring and summer with | good exhibitions of the great North American game are public benefactors. People should show their appreciation of it by attending the games and cheering the good play FEDERAL TOLL ROADS UNTHINKABLE In the bill now pending in both branches of | Congress providing for transfer of the activities and power of the Alaska Road Commisson to the De- partment of Interior, there is a clause which em- powers the Secretary of Interior to fix and collect tolls on any of the roads under his jurisdiction. I this absurd bill should become law despite the practically unanimous protest of all sections of Alaska, that section of the measure should by all means be stricken. Traditionally the Federal Government has op- posed toll roads and its road building authorities have fought to prevent toll bridges. The right of the public to fres roads, highways built from public funds, has been at all times staunchly defended by the Federal Government. In 1916, when Congress | enacted legislation for the first Federal aid roa system, under which eventually the States assumed paramonnt interest in thelr' own road systems, re- placing the old hodgepodge system of township and | county control, it provided “that all roads constructed under the provisions of this act shall be free from tolls of all kind.” The act of 1916 was amended by Congress in 1921 by the law which is now known as the Federal Highway Act. With some few unimportant amend- ments, that is the law under which today the States and Hawaii receive Federal aid in building public roads. In the 1921 act, the following language is found in section nine: That all highways constructed or recon- structed under the provisions of this act shall be fre. from tolls of all kinds. The determination of Congress to at least keep the Federal Government out of the toll-road busi- ness was again evidenced in 1927. In that year, to make it possible for States with limited financial resources to construct expensive bridges without be- ing forced to financing through private corporations to which were granted toll privileges, Congress amend- ed the Act of 1921 to the extent that the States or political subdivisions thereof might receive Fed- eral-aid funds for such projects but with the re- striction that as soon as the State has been reim- bursed for its own expenditure on them they should become free public highways. But that law only applies to bridges and their immediate approaches and not to roads. A toll on highways or bridges or ferries has long been recognized in the United States as being a matter purely of State jurisdiction and not of con- cern to the Federal Government. It is conceivable to think that the Territory of Alaska, in lieu of gasoline taxes, might levy tolls on its highways. But there is nothing in law or practice that would justify the Federal Government in imposing such tolls on Alaska roads which would be nothing more than a direct tax on Alaskans to be paid into the Federal treasury. Action of that sort would violate every principle of American government. Surely Congress will not deliberately enact a law applying to this Territory a practice which is antagonistic to the basic road law of the Nation, the law through which it co-operates with all the States in road construetion activities. METROPOLITA The final report on metropolitan districts which has just been published by the Bureau of the Cen- sus contains maps and statistics in detail for each of 96 districts, It shows that these districts com- prise in the aggregate 45 per cent. of the total population of Continental United States; that 60 per cent. of the population of the districts reside in the central city or cities while 40 per cent. are residents of the suburbs or of the adjacent or neighboring smaller cities included within the dis- trict; and that the population of the suburbs and neighboring cities is increasing much faster than that of the central cities, the percentage of in- crease being 39.2 per cent. for the suburbs as against 194 per cent. in the central cities. The ten largest metropolitan districts in order of size are as follows: New York—Northeastern New DISTRICTS. | | conspicuous publicity. ~ | femal In nearly every metropolitan district, the |percentages of foreign-born whites and of negroes greater in the central city (or cities) than out- With. only four exceptions, the percentage of children under 15 years of age in the population is higher outside than in the central city. Thus, the (figures show that there are relatively more males, |more children, and more native whites in the sub- urbs and neighboring smaller cities than in the central cities. are | It would not be fair to take snap judgment even |on Gaston B. Means, but his arrest on a charge }of taking $100,000 from Mrs. Edward B. McLean, | Washington multimillionaire, on the representation {that he was in touch with the kidnapers of the |Lindbergh baby and could return the child, will add to the scepticism regarding the authenticity lof his book, “The Strange Death of President |Harding.” Bravo, James Hamilton Lewis! Tt is not often that a favorite son forgets the hope that lightning might strike and really tries sanely to solve a Presi- al contest in favor of a real contestant. Sen- Lewis's suggestion of Roosevelt and Garner is 50 bad. der ator not Al Capone must serve his 11 years sentence in the Federal penitentiary on conviction for evading his income tax. The dispatches say he is indignant |and belligerant, but there is no indication that his |mood will win anything for him. [ Political Preaching. (Boston News Bureau.) | 1t was long ago wisely enjoined to render unto | Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God things that are God's. That demarcation is usually cited in defense of spiritual or churchly interests. But also it may at times apply some- what against them. It has been a matter of qulet resentment among many that so much advice or criticism about quite worldly affairs should be lavished in pulpit or press from clerical sources, usually ministerial. Tt has mostly been neither profound not authorita- tive when it sweepingly discussed matters economic or political and usually has been all the more vehement and arrogant when thus merely emotion- ally based. Now it is a Catholic priest in Michigan who has achieved by the character of his repeated radio| orations, largely on secular matters, an even more A climax effort of his was an appearance in Washington as a bonus advocate and the sort of plea he then made. All that did not strike a wholly responsive chord here in Boston. The Pilot, diocesan Catholic organ, reprints a Transcript editorial taxing this priest with “play- ing with fire” in his treatment of economics and his talk on revolutions. And the Pilot observes that this editorial “expresses very ciearly the thought uppermost in the minds of millions of thinking people in America today.” Now Cardinal O’'Connell, head of the hierarchy, speaking as a citizen and not as a prelate, has roundly scored this sort of radio “preaching” on things political, social and economic as “dema- gogic stuff to the poor” and the making of “sen- sational accusations against banks and bankers.” He truly comments that “nothing is achieved by arousing popular excitement,” and “that we do not like to hear almost hysterical addresses from ec- clesigstics.” Likewise “the priest has his place and had better stay there” Further the comment that “the church does not take sides, rich or poor, Republican or Democrat.” This is timely rebuke. Suppose all ministers, an urge to preach politics! the rabbis and priests felt College Men in Politics. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) A good deal of discussion has followed the sug- gestion of Governor Cross, of Connecticut, that college graduates think seriously of politics as a career. College editors, when queried on the mat- ter, inclined to the view that politics is too dirty, or that it is too far from college men's interests, or that it is too unremunerative. At any rate, they are not enthusiastic about politics as a career for college men. It would seem that the college editors have missed the point, and rather conspicuously. Cer- tainly politics has an ethics, different, to be sure, but just as high as that of business and the pro- fessions. And politics is just about as remunerative as teaching or writing or selling—fields that attract college graduates without fail. Perhaps we come nearer to the truth when we recognize that college graduates are peculiarly un- fitted for politics when they first emerge from the cloister. Politics is of the essence of compromise; principles must be learned from practice, not from books. Theories are astonishingly useless for the politician. It is not by chance that most of the great figures of practical politics have come to power after a long apprenticeship of struggle against pov- erty and inimical groups. They learned through You SYNOPSIS: A late evening call from her eccentric em- ployer, Grafton Matching, takes Georgie Revell away from a dinner party with her cousin, Jenny, Garth Aveney, and Ry- der Vale, but her interest in her work keeps her from mind- ing the interruption. She is so fascinated by her job that she cannot decide to marry Eddie - Townsend, whom she loves, be- cause Matching will fire any weman working for him whe marries. Georgie does not know that she is under suspicion of being the source of continued leakage of infcrmation about the business. Matching and his manager, Croze, repeatedly have been trying to run down the guilty party. When Croze cuggests Geergie as a possible cucpeet, his employer retorts that he is attending to investi- gating her, Arriving at Match- ings’s house, Georgie rings the bell in a special code, and the door is opened. the driver, while she took the steps of the main staircase two at a time She did not slow down until she gained a bedroom at the back of the upper hall and was throwing her cloak on the bed. On the back of the door hung an overall of dark linen and this Georgie whisked over her the gleaming apricote of her dress. The ovenll was made long enough tut a gleam of velvet still showed ound her ankles—that was, how- ever, unavoidable. She changed her brocade shoes for dark “Will you marry me In a day or two? Or shall | forget you?” and at the dressing table wiped all wake-up off her face and passed a comb through her hair. Then she swung out of the room and entered the one next to it. This as urichly carpeted and curtained as the bedroom, was one of her many working-rooms. There was a desk with telephones, type- writer, a dictaphone transcribing machine. On the desk, just under the survey, green-shaded lamp, a cylinder of black and shiny wax awaited her. She slipped it on the transcriber, pulled a paid of ea phones over her head, poised hands upon the kevboard of hen typewriter and presently was typ-< ing @t great speed while the cylin- der, slowly turning on its rolier; transmitted the faint voice of Grafton Matching into her ears Entirely concentrated, she typed, paused, listened, typed again. From the maddening indistinctness of the record, she knew that the bitter experience the art of self-control and control of masses of people. They have learned the things that really count in the lives of everyday men and women. They are realists, and out of their realism comes their empirical approach to human problems which is their capacity to rule College men, by virtue of their college training, are either idealists or psuedo-cynics. Precious few of them are realists. That perhaps is the chief reason why they can’t succeed in politics, at least until a decade of work and struggle has rubbed off the self-conscious unreality of higher education. Once that is done, the remaining core of under- standing that comes from continued study is an asset to the college man, whether he enters politics or law, business or pedagogy. Prohibition Director Woodcock says he has com- pleted his New York speak-easy census and will now dry up the metropolis. Not all optimism has been destroyed by these hard times.—(Buffalo Courier- Express.) Alfalfa Bill Murray said he expected to get a lot of fun out of his campaign. Well, there’s no accounting for tastes, and if a man likes getting a sock to the wind every so often, that's just what he likés.—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) A new meat-slicing device will cut 100 slices of ham to the inch, thus making it possible for a person to eat all the ham sandwiches he wants and still abstain from meat—(Miami, Fla., News.) Calvin Coolidge writes that the great fact of Jersey, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Boston, Detroit, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco—Oak- land, California. Census figures show that the population of the suburbs differs considerably in its composition from that of the central cities. With a few exceptions, females outnumbered niales I ‘the central cities, while in the suburbs, the males outnumbered the life is its uncertainty. For example, when an author turns out stuff like that he is never certain whether the publisher will accept it.—(Miami, Fla., News.) The American expedition searching for the low- est type of humanity in Africa could have saved a lot of carfare’and trouble if they had known aocument she was typing was a highly confidential one. The Old Man almost grunted into the dic- taphone when the matter was sec- ret. He knew that in the end, she would be able to make it out. Even 1f she could hear only a her quick-wittedness and her liant, half-telephathic intuition CHAPTER 5. YES OR NO? footman greeted Georgie deferentially and went to pay i leather f GETTING ALONG Can't Marry by Julia Cleft-Addams e e would manage jrarely failed her, ithe rest. : The task, though immensely ex- acting, was not lengthy. In less than half-an-hour, she took off the earphones and re-read what she had typed. Fixed into the sur- of her desk was a bell which rang, three short whirrs. Then ot up and walked over to the bearth. The door opened and a young prown giant of a man came in. | “Eddie,” she cried. | “Hullo, girl.” He stood there, smiling at her, very light on his feet for all his nuge bulk. His deep-set, slightly locd-shot eyes held that hunger for her that she adored because rofoundly disturbed her. His helmet made his head maller but his leather coat, swung 1, added width to his already ve shoulders. The room vi- faintly as he tore down upon her. “N—oEd, not in office hours; r boy!” She put the desk be- n them but her eyes hung (upon him, glorying in his height 1at, tall as she was, overstopped her by some inches. “I wondered you'd be here tonight. I sup- pose you're flying with that?” She touched the finished manuscript. “Daresay. My orders were just a packet.” Old Man’s in a dead- ly mood tonight—dries me up when vaps at me like that! think how you stick him.” “I don’t let him get on my mind.” She smiled her brilliant | confident emile and Eddie Town-| send smiled back at her. | undersiood each cther well. Each felt in the other a reckless cour- age, an almost animal joy in ef-) and success. | | | | | “You don't let anything get on| your mind, Georgie.” | “Well, do you?” “Only you—and you're on it a darn sight too much. Spoiling ny nerve, you are, and it's go to, top. 1 mean it, girl ... Look, here, I reckoned on getting a word | ¥ith you tonight. There's some- thing T want to say.” She glanced at the house-tele-; phone. “I'll have to go the instant he ings for me.” ‘11 risk that. ... Georgie the Old man’s transferring me to the Mexican depot for at least a year. And I'm to go at the end of the “You see what that meams, girl? We shan't see each other for the year at least. It's not an eter- nity. T'm not pretending that. All the same, it's too long for me to go on wondering whether at the end of it you'll be any more will- ing than you are now to chuck your job and marry me. To come out straight with it—will you marry me in a day or two so as to have me in a day or two so as to have a bit of fun together before I leave? Or shall T forget you?” The golden tone of her skin paled a little, her wide mouth was trembling. | i NS/Es=S=xs Can't | =55 “Sure you can forget me?” “No, of course I 2 fellow who's tn g to forget a |freec to come. . . She didn't resent his stand-and- deliver attitude — she would have not sure. But| . girl will do a lot ngs to help|® him. And if you were to want to J\vhistle me back, , mightn't be PROFESSIONAL ||| Fraternal Societie: | . or : | Gastineau Channel } & B. P. 0. BLKS Meeting every Wednesday night PRYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 410 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. Helene W. L. Albrecht | —_—_— DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER i at 8 p. m, Elks' Hall. Visiting brothens welcome. GEORGE MESSERSCHMIDT, Exalted Ruter. M. H. SIDES, Secretary Co-Ordinate Bost ies of Freemason done the same in his place; buti® . although she had so :n'xchfli“n comde. . o? i ge::?;:lu;::::. i e was shrewder T R, e ad studied olg | Dr- Charles P, Jenne second Friday Matehing's methods for three years. [ DENTIST each month at ' . 1 Rorms 8 and 9 Valentine | 7:30 p. m, Scot- Meet. a bluff with a bluff.. Building tish Rite Temple. She played for time g Wiy doss hs send you to Med- Telephone 176 WjgwaTTER B HEISEL, Secretary ico. “ R Ve : LOYAL ORDER OF Eddie shrugged. i o MOOSE, NO. 700 | “He did mention Dr.J. W. Ba)'In Meets Monday 8 L :abou: a relation of his” b DENTIST Ralph Reischl, Di-.«tor “nephew, I think it was, who'd Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Legion of Moose No. 22 seen out there and is g0ing OUt|| office hours, 9 am. t0 5 PM. | | mee's first and third Tuesdays again. Wants to make a pilot and Fvenings by appointment y | < R Chap's G A. Baldwin, Secretary and [CosemE L Wit v Phone 321 Herder, P. O. Box 273. {in town now and I'm to meet him| o o OBt o lin a day or two. .. But that’s MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 4 neither here nor there. What I1|#———————————————9|Second and fourth Mon- {want, girl, s your ves or mo. I Dr. A. W. Stewart day of each month in |can stand up to it if no, but I DENTIST Scottish Rite Temple, P won't wait for it any longer.” Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. | | beginning at 7:30 p. m. (Copyright, Julia Cleft-Addams) SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. JOHN J. FARGHER, Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Soc retary. a family of the fur-bearers, at least | ¢ twelve in number, had been found | on Rock Creek, in Wells County. —— Bluffing can’t last forever, Stone ¥ i and Georgie gives Eddie her |g § st i answer Monday. = o | . Robert Simpson {Beavers Returning ! Ont Dp to Indiana, Report | Graguate Los Angeles col- | lege of Optometry and ] INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 7— Or thalmology i Beaver are returning to Indiana. Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground | Two game wardens reported to the ° They | gtate Conservation Department that | ~——— - Dr. C. L. Fenton | CHIROPRACTOR Electric Treatments Hellenthal Building { FOOT CORRECTION | Hours: 10-12, 1-5, 7-8 | . SAVE HALF |. wWOO0D CLEAN HEMLOCK 14 in., 16 in., 24 in. Single Load, $4.25 Double Load, $8.00 || A discount of 50 cents per load is made for CASH Saloum’s Next to Kann's Seward St. e i | g ORDEB, OF EAS1FRN STAR ‘Tuesdays of each month, at 8 o'clok, Scottish Rite Tempie. EDITH HOWARD, Worthy Mat« ron; FANNY L. ROB- ENIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Conneil No. 1760 Meetings second and last Mondsy at 7:30 p. m Transient brothers urg- Chambers, Fifth Street JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, BSecretary. Becond and Fourth E ‘ INSON, Secretary. ed to attend. Council Our trucks go any place any 1 time. A tank for Diesel Oil | and a tank for crude oil save | burner trouble. | PHONE 19, NIGHT 48 | | RELIABLE TRANSFER | . - DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL Optometrist—Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fiited | Room 7, Valentine Bldg. Office Phone 484; Residence Phone 238. Office Hours: 8:30 to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 LEAVE ORDERS WITH || g Grorce Brotaers ||1 JUNEAU-YOUNG | Telephones 92 or 95 CHESTER BARNESSON Telephone 039, 1 long, 1 short FIRE ALARM CALLS Third and Franklin. Front and Franklin. Front, near Ferry Way. Front, near Gross Apts. Front, opp. City Wharf, Front, near Saw Mill. Front at A. J. Office. ‘Willoughby at Totem Grocery. ‘Willoughby, opp. Cash Cole’s Garage. Front and Seward. 1-3 1-4 1-5 1-6 1-7 1-8 1-9 | | | x Seventh and Gold. Fifth and Kennedy. Ninth, back of power house, Cal&oun, opp. Beaview Apt Distin and Indian. Ninth and Calhoun. this country would finally produce the double- crossing kidnapers—(Macon, Ga., Telegraph.) 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 Menr’s Furnishings, Miners’ Hats, Caps, Socks, Gloves, etc. SPECIAL LOW PRICES on F the TAILOR AT Funeral Parlors Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 NEW RECORDS NEW SHEET MUSIC RADIO SERVICE . Expert Radio Repairing o || Radio Tubes and Supplies JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE WOMEN Wear Attractive, Be- coming Apparel Dresses and other garments made to give individual charm and distinction. Freshen the appearance of your old garments by having them altered at the Smart Dressmaking Fire Hall Home Boarding House. | Shoppe %utmnu and Rawn 107 Main St. Phone 219 L ——— “SEE” C. HEGG TELEPHONE 235 KALSOMINING PAINTING HOME DECORATING Estimates furnished free JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY Moves, Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Prompt Delivery of ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 48 PLAY BILLIARD - THE JUNEAU LAUNDRY Franklin Street, between Front and Second Streets PHONE 359 W.P. Johnson FRIGIDAIRE DELCO LIGHT PRODUCTS MAYTAG WASHING MACHINES GENERAL MOTORS RADIOS Phone 17 Front Street Juneau | FINE Watch and Jewelry REPAIRING at very reasonable rates .WRIGHT SHOPPE R R TR NI RO T X O sy " P . . . o .