The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 2, 1932, Page 4

'I‘HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1932. Daily Alaska Erfipire JOHN W. TROY - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL 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 matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. _ . . llvered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwel ooty Y Chane for $1.25 per month By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $1 six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity 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. A CHANCE TO BOOST LOCAL RELIEF. The lateness of the run of pink salmon in South- east Alaska, which has resulted in greatly minimized | packs of that variety of fish, has had an equally serious effect upon Alaska fishermen and cannery workers. The former have been unable to make any catches and largely have had their labor wasted. The latter, all of whom are piece workers, have! not earned anything like the sum usually paid them during a normal season. Consequently, bclh‘ will suffer during the coming winter | Reports to the Bureau of Fisheries indicate thai| a very large run of pinks is now entering the inside waters through Cross Sound and Icy Strait. If his- tory repeats itself, similar runs will soon be moving in through other channels. But they are coming too late to benefit the fishermen and workers in the northern section where the fishing season short- ly comes to an end. Commissioner O'Malley, who has expressed his concern over the plight of Alaskans connected with the industry due to the current market conditions, has a chance to extend some relief to these people who are so directly affected by the lateness of the run. If conditions justify it—that is, if the volume of the run is large enough to permit the limited number of canneries operating to get capacity packs and provide an adequate escapement to the spawning beds—an extension of the season might well be made for a few days in each of the several districts in order to aid the workers and fishermen. Such a policy could hardly disturb the already de- pressed market ing packed its maximum capacity, the total would be much less than a normal pack. Some of the canners might not endorse the extensions, but in view of the serious condition which confronts local people connected with the industry that fact ought not to be a factor in the Commissioner’s final decision. HOLDING PARENTS RESPONSIBLE. Child delinquency is a problem that is receiving serious study throughout the country. Juvenile courts, that came into being many years ago, were hailed as the solution. Time and experience have demonstrated that this was not true. They have accomplished material good, but some of the résults have not been really beneficial. Under the system a tendency has developed on the part of many parents to shift their responsibility for juvenile mis- conduct onto the courts. This probably was what led the grand jurors of Kings County, New York, recently to assert that laws governing juvenile delinquency need drastic revision. The jurors declared: We recommend a law to enforce compulsory morality in the home, to the effect that parents and guardians may be held respons- ible for the delinquent acts of children under their care, not only in the children’s court but in the magistrate’s court as well, where they may be prosecuted and fined. After all the doctrine of holding parents re- sponsible for juvenile misconduct is not a new one It is a commonsense one, and, if carried out rea- sonably would cause parents to view mischievous misbehavior of their offspring more seriously than is ordinarily true under present conditions. WHEN IT DID RAIN. Those of us who have labored under the im- pression that locally there has been more rain than ought to be visited upon any people have something to learn about real wet weather. A writer in the New York Herald Tribune, discussing the St. Swithin Day legend that as the weather is on that day so will it continue for 40 days. If it rains on July 15, says tradition, it will rain for 40 days next following. Of course science does not bear out this legend July, said the writer referred to, has an average of 12 rainy days each year but they are interspersed through the month without regard for the fif- teenth. Continuing, he wrote: There was a record number of wet days in July, four days. That must have been an interesting month not ~only for meteorologists and agriculturists, but also 1895, when it rained for thirty- " for the calendar-makers who must have been both- ered considerably to find in the remainder of the - year the slack needed to take up the three-day overrun in July. It is a rain record that Alaska ~ cannot hope to equal. FLORIDA VINE SHOWS HIGH RUBBER CONTENT. A hybrid rubber vine which ylelds twice as much rubber as either of its parents has been produced . by the United States Department of Agriculture near 3 Fla It is a cross between two plants, both _ native to Madagascar, one long grown in Florida as ‘an ornamental, and the other naturalized in many ~ places in Mexico and the West Indies. e e 3. Moot Sibes e o \be saddened by the latest news from the gypsies’| Even though every eannery operat-| ornamentals is spreading rapidly in Florida, Arizona, and Southern California. The new hybrid rubber vine showed a rubber content between 4 and 5 per cent in monthly periods of analys reaching nearly 7 per cent in some cases. The vines of the parent species seldom yield more than 3 per cent. Because the seed of the hybrid does not run hybrid itself, the rubber workers propagate plants by cuttings. The vine is a perennial and once planted, a regular production of rubber might be practicable. Propagation methods are being stud- died to increase the supply of hybrid material, but none is available for distribution at present. The department is also experimenting with desert plants which grow in Southern Arizona and Cali- new forr and which show prospects for rubber produc- tion The most promising is a native milkweed that could be grown in large quantit in the desert districts, in the event that a domestic produc- tion of rubber became necessary. The Republican Notification Committee to wait on Mr. Hoover on August 11, must be on pins and needles these days for fear that some inconsiderate friend may let the cat out of the bag by slipping word to the President that he has been renominated Twilight of the Gypsies. (New York Herald Tribune.) If George Borrow were alive today he would campfire—a campfire which is less likely to be smoldering embers in a lonely forest clearing than a radiator pounding in a Brooklyn tenement. For American gypsies have gone twentieth century with a bang. Their newly elected king is a college graduate—a development which the author of those marvelous romantic yarns, “Lavengro” and “Romany Rye,” would simple refuse to believe. This king, armed with his diploma, proposes to shoo his sub- jects onto the bandwagon of progress and modern- ity. Gypsy costume, the earrings and necklaces of golden coins and innumerable gay petticoats will be put away, and gypsies will flare forth in rayon stockings and store clothes, to be distinguished from the rest of 1932 only by the lingering flicker of irresponsible gayety in their wild dark eyes and the untamable _toss of their wild black hair. Change in this ancient tribe is to be more than superficial, for the king announces that gypsies will adopt not only present-day costumes but present-day customs and ways of earning a living. They will surrender | their right to be the wide world’s tinkers, tin- smiths and horse dealers and will lose themselves in our drab army of dishwashers, elevator men, taxi drivers and soda fountain clerks. We hope that the new gypsy king underestimates the power and willingness of his proud and deathless people, which so far has scorned and held at arm’s length the sedentary races of the world, from Bagdad to Omaha, to sit down in one place and behave like everybody else. If gypsies, as gypsies, disappear, something will have gone, some connection with man’s first joy at roaming free through a fence- less Eden will have vanished, and nothing can quite replace it. A Fiscal Year Is Over. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Early estimates for the fiscal year ended June 30 indicate that a deficit was incurred by the Fed- eral Government reaching about $3,000,000,000. Prev- ious estimates had set a figure of $2,000,000,000, but these proved much too optimistic, owing to several large items not anticipated until late last winter. This is much the largest deficit of any peace-time year, and it goes with the largest total budget aside from war-time. It follows a deficit of $900,000,000 in 1931, making a total deficit for the two fiscal years of nearly four billions of dollars—close to the total annual budget at present levels. It is no wonder. that business sentiment has been disturbed, and that a politically minded Congress has had to undertake drastic measures to bring revenues and costs into some sort of equilibrium. The prospects for 1933 are better, of course. Of economy, there has been virtually none. But enormous tax increases will cut down the deficit next year to the point of plausibility, at least. Tax receipts are based on an assumed moderate im- provement of business, and no extraordinary ex- penditures are allowed for. This may mean the near-balance of the 1933 budget will still be a fiction, It is an inescapable conclusion that we have not yet found the sane solution—that deflation has yet to be applied to the operation of the Fed- eral Government on the proper scale. The im- perative need of the nation is not merely a balanced budget, but genuine economy in the administra- tion of the colossal bureaucratic machine at Wash- ington which now weighs down on the sagging shoulders of business and agriculture. true and produces the same type of plant as ll\(‘l TZ SYNOPS; ‘When Sondra Kent finds herself successful in asking John Anderson to give Mark Merriman a posi- tion in the Congo, she is sud- denly most unhappy, for she loves Mark and is dismayed at the prospect of his being so far away. She will not marry him without wealth, however, because her father always had impressed upon her the con- vieticn that a moneyless mar- rige for love is certain to be unsatisfactory. Her sister, Flo- ra, with whom she is living, has remarked that Anderson would make an excellent hus- band for Sondra, but he is married and separated from his wife. Sondra knows that Anderson loves her, although he has never told her so, and has maintained the attitude of a guardian and adviser. She evades telling Anderson of her feeling for Mark, and he seems to realize this. “Are you an- gry with me?” Sondra asks him. CHAPTER 5. AN. UNOPENED BOOK “Angry? Why should I be an- gry with you?” Anderson asked. Sondra made a gesture of hope- lessness. “I only thought—perhaps. .."” She broke off, apd he did not ask her what she meant. There was a little frown between Sondra'’s eyes as: they went back to the baliroom. Intima’s as she was in some ways wiih John Anderson, he yet always mede her feel as if she never really got anywhere near to him. All she knew of him was “There is something tr the little he chose she should‘ know—the rest remained an un-| opened book to read, because it was der to her. She had been| more frank with him tonight than ever before, and yet it had in no way -brought them nearer. togeth- | er, and she found herself half| regretted her impulsiveness as she | walked Dbeside him back to the| ballroom. What did he really think of her? | What did all men really think of women who allowed them to give | them extravagant presents? She looked up to him impatiently. His | face beirayed nothing — neither love, nor disapproval, nor jealou: —perhaps it was because he was so much clder than she that he had learned to control his feelings so perfectly. TIf Flora knew of their friendship she never alluded to it, and yet, surely she must sometimes wonder, knowing that| Action in December. (New York World-Telegram.) Since Congress has folded its tents and departed after a few futile gestures the people of the coun- try must wait until next December to see the na- tion back on the long road of Prohibition reform. In the meantime: The taxpayers, now groaning under weight of taxes, must continue paying out for Prohibition enforcement some $50,500,000 annually and receiv- ing back in fines only $4,000,000. The net cost of Prohibition since 1920 is estimated at $310,000,000. They will be losing in possible revenues from liquor taxes at least $1,000,000,000 a year. The esti- mated loss since 1920 is $11,000,000,000. The new racketeering underworld created by Prohibition will continue to enrich itself, terrorize society, corrupt the police and courts, defy decency and demoralize the enforcement of useful laws. And, worst of all, the attention of America will be diverted from grave economic problems and elec- tions decided upon an issue that never belonged ia politics. December is long enough to wait. Let the voters speak so plainly this fall that the present Con- gress, which comes back in December for a four months' session, will not dare delay action. Politics is in such a jumbled stale that even among our very best people it's beginning to be considered almost respectable to say that one is going to vote for Norman Thomas.—(Chicago Tri- bune.) All that shooting in South America listens as if somebody were trying to muscle in on some- body else’s beer route.—(Macon, Ga., Telegraph.) Speaking of relief, there is also, of course, the kind the President. begins to feel as soon as Con- gress adjourns.—(Boston Herald.) LR R it U Even in the Ohio Republican Convention the gallery occupants assumed they were the voice of the people.—(Toledo Blade.) LRI SRR Millions jobless and other millions longing in vain for a chance to go fishing.—(Akron, Ohio, Bea- lcon-dourml.) the ungeaerous allowance she gave | Sondra weuld not purchase fur| coats or hundred dollar frocks. Life | was such an insincere thing— with waizn people seemed to have | entéred into a great conspirucy' of pretense. They p:etended to like one an- other when they did not, they pretended to believe in one anoth- er when they devoutly distrusted —they vretended to be happy and gay when all the time they were profound!y miserable. { “And I am the same? Sondra | told herself. “So why should I| judge the others?” She looked up at the man be-| BY RUBY / M. Failful Clea? AYRES —he too was always pre- retending not to love her! 1 some seventh sense had ago warned her that he didl 1 yet—might she not be de- ng berself even in this? 1y should he love her? A man 1s vich and influéntial as he was hays loved almost any wo- —was there any reason why ce should have fallen on there was no reason, any an there was a reason for own love for Mark }Merri- cople talked so much about will, and it was such a neg- > quantity when one was fac- 1 the great things of life— raw tossed whichever way nd of 'eircumstances chose; rry it. And yet, wasn't it by own free wll that she had n this step to remove Merri- n from her life?—Sondra looked her heart and denied that it —surely she had been forced | scurity of her position. | ught suddenly of her| 1's carelessly spoken words | t evening. s such a pity John Ander- t get rid of Evelyn—he'd h a splendid husband and her own reply: do2't want him for a hus- band, ‘hank you.” That was not the truth, either —she never seemed to be free to speak the truth. If Anderson had been a single man she would have married him, always supposing he had asked her She looked up at him again crit- How amused people would i 2y could really understand | the relationship between them. If she could tell the world—“Yes, he i A o] Cw:,l oubling ycu, Sondra.” gives me everything I want—and | asks nothing in return—he has never even kissed me.” Nobody would believe her—Flora always declared that men were never disinwerested, and Flora un- derstood men so well. “John 1must be the exception| that proves the rule” Sondra| thought even as she asked herself | if Ander;on might not be playing | a waiting game and would some day in the near future render his| account. Just lately, perhaps influenced by her lcve for Merriman, she had not let John know how terribly hard up she really was, and he| never asked—he always waited un- til she could summon enough cour- age to give him some hint. How hurrified Mark would be if he knew, and rightly horrified judging from his own standpoint. Sondra had so often heard him say that he would never buy a thing he was unable to pay for. DONALDINE BEAUTY Pm& Telephone 45¢ RUTH HAYES 1T CARL JACOBSON | ' WATC’HEW:ELPEAEMG SEWARD STREET ! ’ Oppasite Chas. Goldsteln's | ’ LT T will promote happiness ECONOMY — A Watchword of the Times does not mean miserliness; it does mean prudent spending and prudent saving. years past the purchasing power of the dollar is greater and affords an opportunity to save. Our Savings Department Will Help You Grasp that Opportunity The B. M. Behrends Bank OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA and independence. It Compared with L jern her i Well, she would not have had very much of enything it she had al- lowed a rule of that kind to gov- life—from childhood she had adopted her father’s easy code —get what you want and pay when you can! John tovched her arm now, and when she looked up he said: “We might as well dance, sh: we?” “If you like."— But after a few turns of the room he steered her out: of the throng again into the quiet cor- ner of the winter garden where a short while ago they had sat and talked. “There is something you Sondra,” he said. To her annoyance ready tears sprang into her eyes even while she shoox her head. “Oh, no—" He said; lgrioring her words: “If it is money, you know quite well that I—" She' broke in swiftly. “John, why do you? T mean, why shonld you be so kind to me? T have no earthly claim on you all troubling |—and yet—" Anderson smiled— “Mayn’t I spend my money how, and on whom I please?” “Of course, but I never seem to deserve it, or to give you any- thing in return.” He was silent for a moment, looking away from her with grave eyes. “Perhaps some day your turn will come,” he said. (Copyright, 1932, by Ruby M. 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