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. became fourth. South Carolina and North Carolina " are respectively first and second. The New England v o et R THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1932. Daillv Alaska Empire PRESIDENT AND EDITOR | JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER " every _evening except Sunday by the L RINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Alaska. Tntered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 'B\ mall, D \fl:" I;m’le,: ‘.!::)..‘ fuflww(ng“l;n;udn‘iflnc“.‘ ) e Business Office of any failur Treadwell and six months, -y will _promptly or irregularity ss Offices, 374. | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news d hes credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the focal news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION JUNEAU COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION. Through unity of effort much good can come from the recently organized Juneau Commercial Association. Specific, tangible, ~beneficial results will be created by the group as a whole, and the various committess appointed to carry out designated tasks. However, a more lasting though less obvious good will evolve from the gradual but certain weld- ing together of the progressive business men and professional interests of Juneau. The spiril of team work, coordination of thought and effort will make its favorable and prosperous imprint on the entire community. Before organizing the association the sponsors received hearty endorsement from the officers of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, and are work- ing in perfect harmony and accord with the fine work the Chamber has been doing in Juneau. The buy at home effort of this association is most commendable. The greater portion of each dollar earned in Juneau that is spent in Juneau will proportionately increase the prosperity of the entire community, and is definite insurance against unemployment. Just as local people should be given the preference for employment, so should local firms receive all possible trade from those who are living and working here. The Juneau Commercial Asso- ciation can and will be an agency for the increased prosperity of not only its members but every resident of Juneau. “CRACKING THE WHIP.” The press of the country is very wroth about the cold demand of Assistant Postmaster-General Glover that Postmasters come to the front and “get on the firing line” for President Hoover or resign The papers are generally demanding that he be removed from office forthwith. The criticism is by no means confined to the papers that are hostile to the President. The stanch Republican New York Herald Tribune, probably the stoutest champion of President Hoover among the metro- politan papers, writing under the heading “Cracking the Whip,” said: What is the first duty of a Postmaster? To maintain the efficiency of the postal service? Not at all. According to W. Irving Glover, our Second Assistant Post- master-General, a Postmaster is filling his job just as long as he is campaigning for the Administration that gave him that job, and no longer. Mr. Glover invited all Misouri Postmasters who won't “get out on the firing line’, for President Hoover to re- sign. The Missouri Postmasters, strangely enough, appear neither to have thrown anything nor to have invited Mr. Glover to resign himself if he could not enlarge his conception of the duties of a public servant. There are two kinds of postal employees: Those who are classed under: civil service, and are therefore forbidden by statute to indulge in party politics, and those who are Presidential appointees, outside of civil serv- ice, therefore vulnerable to all the lash- ings of stupid and intolerant partisanship. In a postal class by himself stands Mr. Glover, who seems to be earning a salary (contributed out of our taxes) by his ability to make a noise with the whip. Won't somebody please take the whip away from him? WOMAN LIKES HER SEAT IN SENATE. Scnator Hattie Caraway was appointed by the Governor of Arkansas to succeed her husband, Sen- ator Thaddeus Caraway, when he died. A special election was called to choose one to fill out the term. Six stalwart men announced their candidacies for the place, but all of them withdrew when the widow became a candidate. She said then that she would not be an applicant for the long term in November. However, six months in her late hus- band's old seat has caused her to change her mind, and she has announced that she will run in the Democratic primary for renomination. Among the men who had announced his candidacy was Gov. Harvey Parnell, who appointed her to the office and got her started on the job. It is said that he had counted on Senator Hattie’s support instead of having to meet her as an opponent. But then thers is the old axiom that a woman has a right to change her mind. COTTON MANUFACTURING SUFFER- ING IN NORTH. ; Massachusetts, a few years ago, manufactured half of the cotton goods produced in the United _States. She now ranks fifth among the States. She dropped to fourth place when Georgia recently passed her and to fifth place in April when Alabama ‘States now produce only 18 per cent. of the manu- " factured cotton in the United States. The cotton 50 per cent. is manufactured in the two Carolinas. Massachusetts still ranks third in the number of active spindles in operation. But her spindles aver- aged only 70 hours each of activity during April while those of South Carolina averaged 245 hours each and in North Carolina the average was 188 hours each. The depression is hurting the New England, New York and New Jersey factories more severely than those of the South. Now and then we are reminded that the trial of the Stiffkey rector is still'in vogue in England. “Jimmy” Garfield junior son of the late Presi- dent James A. Garfield, has emerged from retire- ment to write a platform for the Republican Na- tional Convention. Interest centers largely on the Prohibition plank that he might prepare. The death of Melville Dollar of the great ship- ping family followed very closely that of his dis- tinguished father, Capt. Robert Dollar. It will be sincerely regretted. However, he has two brothers still iving and seven children. The Dollar family bids fair to remain a large factor in Pacific Ocean transportation for many years to come. Mayor-elect John F. Dore of Seattle in a speech at Tacoma deéclared that President Hoover was the reatest menace this country has” He also at- tacked Gov. Hartley and declared that both the National and State (Washington) Governments were “supine and useless.” We shall look forward with interest to the example that is about to be set in Seattle. An Unstable Dollar Is Tricky. (Miami, Fla., News.) Suppose we used as our measure of length a yardstick which is 36 inches long in 1914, 18 inches long in 1918, 15 inches long in 1924, 24 inches long in 1929 and 37 inches long in 1932. And suppose that orders for cloth given in 1929 were deliverable in 1932, The dealer who sold cloth at a price based on a 24-inch yard has to deliver cloth 36 inches to the yard at the same price. What happens to him? He goes bankrupt, of course. The man who, in 1914, ordered a suit of clothes of a given number of yards for delivery in 1919, would receive a suit of the size to fit his four- year-old son. Such irregularities of the yard or the pound would destroy all business confidence. It would make business impossible save on a meager hand- to-mouth basis. Modern civilization, under such a system, could not exist. Our measure of length, happily, is stable. It was not always so; but modern business has seen the necessity of making it so. The same is true of the measure of weight. A pound’'s a pound the world around. No one is so nationalistic as to object to international government in the matter of weighs and measures. Anything else would make normal international relations impossible. Our measure of value, which is as essential to the proper conduct of business as the measures of length and weight, was worth 100 cents in 1914, 50 cents in 1918, 40 cents in 1919, 65 cents in 1929, and by the end of 1932 gives promise of being worth about 105 cents. The dollar has actually done, these 18 years, the stretching and the shrinking which was imagined the yardstick as having done in that period. The tricky dollar does all the harm, and more, that a tricky yardstick would have done. It robs Peter and pays Paul. It destroys "savings and divests home and farm owners of their homes and farms. It stalls factories, closes the doors of stores and banks. It makes a civilized economic system impossible. There is more mixed up in the mess than just money. Overinflation of credit and, what we have now, overdeflation of credit, play their part. The result is what we see, a business breakdown, a social catastrophe. A stable measure of value is no more unthink- able now than was a stable measure of length in the days when the diverse lengths of kings’ arms or kings' feet were made to answer as uits of length. To get it will doubtless take an international arrangement, as did the full and final establish- ment of a fixed and honest measure of length and weight. If that means international entanglement, it's too bad; for it must be done. It must be done, that is, if we want western economy and western civilization to stand up as against, say, Russian economy and Russian civilization. Great Britain is working on the problem of an at least approximately honest measure of value. Congress is beginning to consider measures of its own looking in that direction. It is a complicated and more or less dangerous undertaking. Men and governments have become honest enough to stop trying to manipulate the measures of length and weight. Men and governments have never yet been honest enough, once they were given the power, to refrain from cheating with the money measure. That is because our illusive ideas about money have made us easily fooled. We have not known that money expands and contracts like a rubber yardstick. We have supposed that it was the things measured, not the money measured, which expanded and contracted. When we get the evil results of a trick dollar a clearly in mind as the intolerable consequences of a tricky yardstick, then, under public insistence, ways will undoubtedly be found to make the dollar as stable, and therefore as honest, as the other units of measure. A Bit Too Ardent. (New York World-Telegram.) The loyalty which W. Irving Glover, Second As- sistant Postmaster-General, professes for his Presi- dent is beautiful to see. “He knows your troubles a whole lot better than you know yourself,” Mr. Glover said to the as- sembled Postmasters of Missouri at Springfield Sat- urday. And he concluded, rapturously, “Anything he says is God's word to me.” Mr. Glover ought to have stopped before he turned this effulgent eulogy into a mere practical notice to the Postmasters that if they didn't care |to “get out on the firing line” for Mr. Hoover he— Mr. Glover—would be glad to accept their resigna- tions. If this keeps up, the most appropriate and es- sential resignation which we can think of would be that of Mr. Glover himself. As we get it, the moral of the Al Capone story is, you can gyp Uncle Sam’s nephews and nieces if you are slick enough, but don't make the mistake of chiseling the old gent out of his share. —(Macon, Ga., Telegraph.) Garner has brought up that Federal gasoline tax business again. Pretty soon Government will be getting more money out of gasoline than the oll companies take in-—(Cincinnati Enquirer.) Publishing of the primary campaign expenditures proves that the poor guy who has nothing but ¥ his foot in his sock has no chance of running for office these days.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.) by Julia Cleft-Addams 2SI M\S == s (e = L e SO, =50 SYNOPSIS: “Choose between me and your job,” Eddie Town- send tells his wife, Georgie. To keep his employer from dis- charging her,—as he has threat- Eddie’s were hurt and were halfclosed. “Does Jenny's cooking extend to any kind of evening meal?” she asked curtly. “Or do we manage angry. ened, shculd she marry—she |with bread and cheese while she has pretended her cousin, Jen- |has eight courses at Rochester ny, married Eddie. Now that |[Gate?” Eddic is nerve-shocked from “Good lord;” Eddie pulled him- an accident, she feels she must keep up the deception. self erect in the.old chair. T clean forgot. ‘We've been having a mid- day dinner and a supper like they do in the country, but we've col- lect: an emergency store in case you e home unexpectedly. There is a whole shelf of tinned things—" nks, I'd rather not!” shrug- ged Georgle. “Not, at any rate until I've been strengthened by a cocktail!” She pulled open the cup- board door and stopped, peering. “We don't seem to have anything boltles—frightfully awk- one dropped in for a Really, i Jenny is going v housekeeper, she must do re. I need someone re- CHAPTER 29. THE MOST SUBTLE ENEMY She made a g§mace at herself in her mirror and then, casually her attention was caught by the beauty of the room reflected be- hind her. For a moment she was absorbed in it, delighted, com- pletely satisfied. Everything else was swept from her mind. That ash-grey furniture, with its touches of ebony, was perfect of |° its kind. The -peacock silk on the (¢ low bed gleamed, the lace fell creamily, the door of the huge wardrobe slipped suddenly ajar as though it invited her to see the frocks that Jenny had hung, each|far, on its scented hanger, upon the|her away, but she was prepared long, polished rail. With a gasp|to stand by them. Jenny took too of pleasure, George rose, flung the {much on herself anyway. cupboard door wide, and ran the| “Eddie?” Was it possible that clothes up and down the rail|he had not heard her? He was steeping her senses in the color and [so motionless. touch of them. Finally she chose “What's the matter?” she whis- had not meant to go s> her own words had carried She a tea-gown of her favorite apri- |pered. . cot. In the dressing-chest she| Eddie took his head in his found the lingerie that matched it; | hands. and somewhere, she remembered,| ‘Nothing’s the matter,” He she had dull gold, brocaded shoes.|sounded drowsy. “I get sleepy While she bathed and powdered |suddenly, like this. When I ge! and scented herself, while she|—when I hear a crash. Thought brushed her hair until it shone|I heard a crash in the street just and tended her nails, she looked now.” back at her life and smiled. ®Peo-| “How odd!” At a loss, she gig- ple said that she had showed' cour- |gled—and saw the blood mount age and initiative and endurance|to his face. Then, feeling that in her job, but the truth was that she could bite out her blundering these things came naturally to tongue, she ran across to him and her and so she succeeded where k his head in her arms, crad- others failed. No merit about that.|ling it gently. “You have forty But now she was fighting the most winks, old darling, while I open subtle enemy in the world—her love the emergency tins at once!” for Eddie—her own, deep desire, His lips touched her hair as she to follow him oven to the world’s released him but when she looked end. back at the door, he was asleep. She would win. Sne was deter- She ent quietly back to the mine¢ w win. She knew what K n and pulled Jenny's overall was best for Eddie, she thought; Over her apricot gown. and what would keep their love| "1 Jenny had been here now, alive and what would starve it Georgie would have been panticu- slowly to death. g 13( sweet to her, given her a She gave a final touch to her present or something, for she was lips and swung out of the room; bistgrly ashamed of the jealosuy at the other end of the little hall t had flared out in her against the kitchen door stood cpen and ! cousin. Bustling the re- she saw the remains of a meal Mains of the supper cff the table, A homely brown teapot, a loaf and he bezan to hum softly. Wasn't a big currant cake stood on a this exactly like she had dreamed checkered table-cloth. of doing—showing Eddie how eas- Georgie glanced in as she passed iy the modern girl can run a home by and frowned. That expensive and job at the same time? Come servant, engaged by Jenny, ought home at the end of a long day to be in charge. She had no and ftoss a hot meal together might business to go out at this time, be out of the question for most, with her work unfinished and a but she was strong and young and dinner to cook. Georgie’s color|clevér, she could do it. Eddie was rising as she went into the,Should see. sitting-room. | She inspected the emergency “You've been overy one of (he‘s:ores and the cupboard. Gener- seven ages of man,” was Eddie's ously, she admitted that if her greeting. He leaned against the dinner was a success, she would owe window and she noticed that he it to Jenmy, for the body and sub- was gripping the curtain in an Stance of the meal were provided odd way, and that he was pale; already. She decided that she but she was full of her griev- Would try an omelette. ance, | 3 Half an hour later, flushed and “Evidently that woman Jenny anxious, she took off the overall discovered isn't competent!” she —and found Eddie in the door- exclaimed. “The only sign of her | way. in the kitchen is the relics of her| “Woke to find the place dim dinner.” | with smoke,” he grinned. “Thought “Woman? son!” [Eddie abandoned the cur-|you were cook tonight. Can I do tains and slowly seated himself. something? Jenny showed me & “She was competent all right, bu[“flrst-clas% way of making eggs.” she got on my nerves. Too darn “Fortunate! she showed me competent, like those nurses at the once, t00,” la od Georgie. “That hospital—so bright and cheerful/is all we shall get, the whole time. s le.le eggs to be excused. 1 nearly scream- e cmele ed.” €: e some cheese-straws. “Well, T hope that whoever tosk|I've warmed up in the oven. And her place—" there will be some coffee—I really “Jeny and I have been tak-|can make that.” ing it. 'We thought it would s “Did Jenny show you?” you money and she’s a good c« ‘ “I believe she did,” actually, it Jenny is. She teaches me a bit was Georgie who had taught Jen- every day. Had some of my cako?"‘ny, but she was glad to make “Your cake? That—that stuff amends when she recollected her in the kitchen?” Georgie's a«".on-‘mnude of superiority. “Sit down, ishment seemed to amuse mm‘li:d. Our first meal together.” for he laughed until his chair| He drew a jug of drinking wa- creaked in Sympathy. “What is|ter, which she had forgotten, and that old wicker thing doing in|she tried hard to banish the pic- here?” she demanded, grimmacing|ture of Jenny and him facing at it. “That’s the kitchen chair.”|each other over this little check- “Suits me. [I've been slipping|ered table-cloth in just this in- out of the new leather one” [formal way. No doubt he had laid A difficult pause. Georgie's eyes the covers and drawn the water - 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 IN'ALASKA Can't Marry ©Oh, that cook-per-iit was a fire until a remembered | and placed the chairs and Jenny had whipped the dishes out of the |~ oven, and urged him to help him- | == % A R SR DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER self. She forced her mind back to realities. She was Eddie’s wife, she was Georgie Townsend and Jenny—well, if she really would take a salary as their housekeeper I and put her back into the work,f® it would certainly solve a good|e. many problems. “D'you mind if I take my coat off?” Eddie was saying. “It's hol |in here. And I've got into the way “ of it eéver since Mrs. Bigger told me that it flustered her to sce alg (man sibting with his coat on in the evening.” “Who on earth is Mrs. Biggers?" “My landlady. She has a shop.” | Georgie pulled herself ¢ €r. | “on, opposite that ere | | |Jenny s staying?” “She’s back here, nowwssne has the room you got ready |dressing-room.” He met her gaze| . |suddenly. “If T hurt your feelings| f {just now when I spoke about your J {job with old Matching, T'm truly Office hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. | for my | &= 1~ PROFESSIONAL | Helene W. L. Albrecht | PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 410 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Fiours 9 am. to 9 pm. o . Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Ronms 8 and 9 Valentine Buflding ‘Telephone 176 | L] Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Evenings by appointment Phone 321 Dr. A. . Stewart DENT)ST Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. orry, girl. I know by what Jenny has told me, how you slaved to | Goodyear Tires Full Stock of AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES | Juneau Motors DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. | | | | | | Dr. C. L. Fenton CHIROPRACTOR l ! | | | make this place ready for me. But |you wouldn't think me anything ). Phons 270 s of a fellow if T were to take up my quarters here in that pretty little|® A ' room and just live on your money, Robert Simpson | you wouldn(t, honestly.” 0 t. D. | Copyright, Julia Cleft<Addams.) CGraduate Angeles Col- , lege of Optometry and | “Georgie must give up her Orthalmology job, Eddie says, Monday. She Glasses Pitted, Lenses Ground refuses. Who will break the b deadlock?” ° [. Electric Treatments Hellenthal Building FOOT CORRECTION Hours: 10-12, 1-5, 7-8 . Optometrist—Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Flited Room 7, Valentine Bldg. Office Phone 484; Residence Phone 288. Office Hours: 9:30 to 13; 1:00 to 5:30 , | Meets second and fourth W e d nesdays at 8 pm. 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