The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 1, 1932, Page 4

) 4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1932. Daily Alaska Em pire JOHN W. TROY PRESIDENT AND EDITOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER Published every evenin, except Sunday by _the EM!Z‘XRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Dellvered 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 month, in advance, $1.265. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the tocal news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. BORAH TO MAKE ONE-MAN CAMPAIGN. A one-man campaign, non-partisan in character, without mention of candidates or parties is said by Eastern newspaper correspondents to be planned by Senator Borah this year. The Idaho Senator, who has just suggested a world conference on war debts and reparations, does not face a campaign for re- election this year and doesn’t have to mend any of his fences at home. His campaign as outlined in Eastern newspapers will be based entirely upon issues, and at this time he doesn't intend to sup- port either President Hoover or Gov. Roosevelt. He will deliver numerous speeches in which he will express his personal opinions without regard to their effect upon the fortunes of either ticket. Although he is an ardent Dry, and was sought by the Drys to head a third party ticket to make Prohibition the major issue, Borah's program rele- gates that problem to secondary place. He is ex- pected to make economic questions his first con- cern. He is deeply interested in currency inflation, arguing that the Glass measure recently enacted by Congress to expand the currency by $1,000,000,000 is a step in the right direction, and prediots that the Congress at its December term will go even farther in that direction. He is also against debt cancellation, and his position on both these matters is nearer that taken by the Democrats than by his own party. Whatever the Idaho Senator does will be watched with interest over the entire country. He was the ablest of the Hoover supporters in 1928. If the President’s acceptance spéech satisfies him on both Prohibition and economic issues, it is not unlikely he will be found on the stump for the Republican ticket during September and October. He has been an insurgent before now until the campaign was under way but has never failed to be in the party tent by election day. WHOLESALE SHIFT OF OCCUPATIONS. The rapidity of the rate at which workers of all classes in the United States have been changing jobs is revealed in the Census Bureau's decennial report on occupations. That document, of which an abstract has just been issued by the Government, gives figures from which the economists, professional and amateur, may reason in varied ways. Its out- standing significance is that new processes, - the march of invention and new human wants have created new callings. Old ones meanwhile are dropping into the industrial discard. ‘The population of the country was once devoted almost entirely to agriculture. That industry, it is shown by this report, is still losing workers, or was in 1930. Back in 1820, as indicated by analyses of the National Industrial Conference Board, more than 70 per cent of the population was engaged in agri- culture. In 1870, fifty years later, the percentage had dropped to 47.6. The last census on which these studies are based, shows only 21.4 per cent tilling the soil, representing a loss of four per cent from 1820. In round figures the total of the nation's popu- lation is put at 122,000,000. Of those more than 10 years of age, 503 per cent are rated as gainfully employed. They total 48829920. Of the whole population without reference to age, 389 per cent are classed as workers. The census authorities did not take unemployment into consideration in their figures. They made their count according to trades or professions, without reference to current activity. The shift in occupations in the ten years between 1920 and 1930 is depicted in the following interest- ing table: v 1930 1920 Agriculture “ 214 25.6 Forestry and fishing 5 K Minerals (mining) ety B 26 Manufacturing and mechanical. 289 308 ‘Transportation 79 14 Trade 12.5 10.2 Public service 18 18 Professional 6.7 5.2 Domestic and personal . 10.1 8.1 Clerical 82 15 The greatest gain in the professions was made by teachers. There were 725,055 of them listed in 1920. In 1930 the enumeration shows 1044616, a 50 per cent increase. This is far in excess of the percent- age of increase in population, and it does not, moreover, include teachers of athletics and similar instructors. HUGE CHINESE MARKET DEPENDS ON LOW PRICES. The tremendous possibilities of the Chinese mar- are predicated upon essential goods of wide use d low prices, as indicated by the sale of cotton, and cigarettes there, says the Bureau of Economics of the United States De- tment of Agriculture. ‘The Chinese are developing a decided and grow- g preference for low-priced cigarettes made with flue-cured tobacco, but it is only when w are ldd at extremely low prices that e | any large number of Chinese buy them. Although individual purchases of an article may be small, the very large population in China makes the total volume of sales high. Although cigarettes are an outstanding example of American products sold in China, that nation is also a market for other essential American products. Chief among these are cotton for the spinning mills, wheat and flour from the Pacific Northwest, and fresh and canned fruit from the Pacific Coast. “ American canned goods are highly prized because of their excellent quality and are given as gifts at the celebration of the Chinese New Year, Because her internal communications are un- developed, most of China's trade with America is confined to the coast ports and regions. A contemporary asserts that last season the duck flight was over before the local hunting season began and for that reason few birds were bagged On the contrary, the open season on migratory wild fowl was finished before the flight south reached Southeast Alaska, and the only birds killed were those that bred and reared locally Retired Champion Gene Tunney announces he will take the stump for the Democratic national ticket this Fall. Possibly the Republicans will counter with current Champion Jack Sharkey. Another Hope Gone. (Seattle Times.) Just a little while before the national conven- tions were held, you will remember, official spokes- men for the Anti-Saloon League announced the choice of Governor Roosevelt as their preference from among all those mentioned as possible re- cipients of the Democratic Presidential nomination. This, they said, was due less to their faith in the Governor’s dryness and more to their information and belief that Mrs. Roosevelt was an ardent dry. And so, it seems, she is. Mrs. Roosevelt herself has now affirmed it, saying, “I am and always have been a personal dry.” But being a woman of fine instincts and sound common sense, as well as a good wife and a staunch partisan, she is at pains to add, “I do not believe that the Eighteenth Amendment has worked successfully and I favor its repeal.” That would seem to dispose of any hope the Anti-Saloonists may have cherished in the direction of the Roosevelt family. They got their wish in the nomination of Governor Roosevelt, but suffered | their first shock of disappointment when he ap- proved the party platform 100 per cent and de- clared specifically for Prohibition repeal. And now Mrs. Roosevelt comes along to prove that one may be an ardent dry, and yet amenable to considera- tions of patriotism and practicality. The Eighteenth Amendment has not worked successfully. It can’'t be made to work success- fully with a people who, by vast majority, deplore the ‘evil it has brought upon their country and resent its existence. The Presidential candidates of both major parties know that, and the people will be deeply interested in any differences that may appear in their expressed views as to what had best be done and how. A Golfer’s Gold Mine. (Manchester Weekly Guardian.) It has been observed often enough in recent years that Americans work at golf, whereas the less intent English merely play it. If that be true, it is also true that the work of the American does not go entirely unrewarded: the laborer is worthy of his hire—and, what is more, he gets it. *“Bobby” Jones was said to make £15,000 a year out of writing syndicated golf articles for the American press; the reported profits for his film appearances were set at anything from £100,000 to half a million sterling. But Gene Sarazen, his successor as British and American Open champion, is not doing so badly on a straight salary basis; it is now announced that he has accepted a two years’ contract with an American “sports promoter” for a guaranteed salary of £25000 a year. Even film stars might look at the figure with respect, professional golfers in this country with amazement. It seems a princely re- ward for athletic prowess; however hard hit Am- erican industry may be, there is no sign of a break in the market for supreme exponents of popular sports. Every man has his price, and though some former millionaires in the realm of finance may now be reckoned at two a penny, the cash value of a double-barrelled golf champion keeps up wonderfully well. The Americans have done more than turn golf into an industry: they have transformed its championships into gilt-edged securities. The Price of Politics. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) The increase of the postal rate on domestic letters to three cents, now effective, represents a slight change in the habits and expenditures of 120,000,000 persons. A cent more for each letter mailed is not going to bankrupt the country. In- deed, few of us will notice the change, save in the readjustment of our habitual requests for two-cent stamps. But considered as an increase of $160,000,000 in the annual postage bills of the country, the change furnishes some food for thought. It was not to make first-class mail self-supporting that the change was made. It was to help balance the Federal budget. The increase was part of a revenue bill, not part of a Post Office supply bill. Another $160,000,000 out of the people’s pockets —this is the meaning of the change from red to purple stamps. It is part of the price we must pay for the political extravagance and reckless log- rolling of recent years in the halls of Congress. The change of the postal rate helps take the Government out of red, and it really means another device to keep the Government in royal purple. It is an ironic sidelight on the event that the color of royalty makes its appearance for the pur- pose of keeping an extravagant Government plen- tifully supplied with the funds that will support it in the luxury of royalty. Every time a citizen places a three-cent stamp of royal purple on an envelope, he ought to re- member that he is paying, not for postal service alone, but for the enormously costly royal estab- lishment of our Republic. And yet, all the adjournment of Congress signi- fies is that the parties’ publicity departments must find other quarters.—(Detroit News.) The Prohibition strategists are agreed on every- thing except which political head to bend that umbrella handle over.—(Dallas News.) Still, there must be something wrong with a platform plank that needs an official interpreter.— (Los Angeles Times.) The Drys might complain of this campaign that it' is not the heat, it is the humidity.—(Philadel- phia Bulletin.) SYNOPSIS: Since she can- not marry Mark Merriman, who is penniless and has no pros- pects, Sondra Kent decides to | ask John Anderson to give him a position in the Congo, one source of Anderson’s wealth. She knows that both men love her, although Anderson is mar- ried and separated from his wife, and has never told Son- dra of his feeling. He has re- mained her adviser, almost her guardian, as problems arise through her lack of money. Sondra is all the more deter- mined not to marry Mark, although she loves him, because her father hasc told her to mar- ry for money and made her feel that she was unfitied to do anything else. At present cho lives with her sister Flora, who married Benjamin Lomax because he was wealthy. An- derson tells Sondra, one even- ing, that he has loathed the Congo. Nevertheless, Sondra asks him if he will give Mark a post there. CHAPTER 4. TINNED FOOD AND LONELI- NESS. “Merriman is a friend of yours?" Anderson asked Sondra. “Yes. .. and I'm sorry for him —he's never had any luck.” “Not the only one, I'm afraid.” “But the only one I am in a position to help—through you,” Sondra said. She spoke casually in a voice that would have deceived many people. After a moment Anderson saill casually: “I like young Merriman. I be- lieve he is a capable fellow. You might ask him to come and se: me.” She caught her breath with a sharp little sound. “Thank you.” She had got her wish—so easily! Soon—quite soon perhaps, theie would be miles of sea betwee her and the man she loved. Sh put fe. And, woman-like, she felt that her heart would break. After a moment’s pause, she spoke again. “You haven't told me what's its like—out there.” “Do you want the picturesque truth? Or merely’ the truth” “Merely the truth.” “Well, then—it’s horrible—nearly all the time. You would find it even more intolerable than Evelyn did. Heat, flies, loneliness, tinned food, fever and an ever increas- ing longing for home—" Sondra shivered, and he said half whimsically. “You wanted the truth.” “Yes. After a moment he went on. “Evelyn and I had the pictures- que think called love, or so we believed?—but even love isn’t im- mune from mosquitoes and dis- comforts. it grows tired and ugly." “You don't believe in love?” “Men with a great deal of ex- perience seldom do.” “There must have been some women or one woman who really him definitely out of her TZ Faidl/e BY RUBYX “Are you trying to disgulse the truth, Sondra?” John askeds M. AYRES meant a great deal to you once?” | ‘1f so, I've forgotten.” He always parried her in this manner; never by conscious look or rd had he as yet betrayed what she already knew—that he loved her, and sometimes her van- ity wanted to hear him say it. said with a faint laugh: “Ic a pity. I should have| ht you were the kind of man n would have adored.” ank you.” said quickly. ng at me.”, A I was only a little amused. | From what you said some men— perhaps more conceited than I am have concluded that you me rather ‘adorable’ your- “You are found self. “I'm v that.” He bowed. grateful.” 1 fond of you--you know “And I am very you are sneering again‘ who should be grateful my money,” he asked quiet- 1y, Or for my devotion?” She said, hoping to rouse him: “So f I have only had your money “Perhaps it is all you want,” he said There was a short silence, Sondra said vehemently: “I think money is the most hate- ful thing in the world.” “Don’t you mean the lack of it?" then he asked. “It's the same thing,” she main-; tained. “I believe all the sins of | the world are committed -either because you haven't any, or be- cause you have too much.” He looked at her steadily. |though she stammered a little as ’ JUNEAU DAIRY | “How do you know?” “My father used to say that love and marriage ought to be kept quite apart—if you want love to = last.” “And is that what you are pro- " posing to do?” Anderson asked. “What do you mean?” “Only that Merriman can stay in America if you want him to stay,” Anderson said quietly. The hot blood mounted to her forehead. “What do you mean? Why should T want him to stay?.... he ‘isn't anything to me—only just a friend. Why do you say a thing like that?” “Are you trying to disguise the truth, Sondra?” She met his eyes unfalteringly, she anwsered. “Why should I have anything to disguise?” Anderson passed a hand rather wearily across his eyes. ( “The music has stopped,” he said. “Shall we go back?” But Sondra did not move; she was twisting her hands together| nervously. “I should have fevers and tinned food and loneliness,” Sondra said after a moment, trying to laugh. He rose. “Well—tell young Mer- riman to come and see me some time.” Sondra rose also. “John. . . you're not angry with me?” (Copyright, 1932, by Ruby M. Ayres) “There is something troub- ling you,” Anderson challenges Sondra tomorrow. 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