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

. a lowering of costs of the Federal Government. TERRE NN SRR o ey THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1932.- PNV Y SN A Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - i’RESlDENT AND EDITOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER g except Sunday by the Published PANY at Second and Main every Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Ilvered by carrier 1n Juneau, Dougl. Dellvered by coirire Tor $1.25 per month Treadwell and v mail, postage paid, at the following rates: ()m?B)y:nnr’? in"ndvance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.26. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly no(lu')’"gw Business Office of any fallure or lrregularity e delive) of their papers. R eonone Yor Editorial and Business Offices, 374, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. he Assdciated Press is exclusively entitled to the u:: "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. EXTENSIONS TO BE GIVEN IF JUSTIFIED. The United States Commissioner of Fisheries, | Henry O'Malley, in an interview given The Empire, announces extensions of the salmon fishing season; will be given in the inner districts of Southeast Alaska if the main run of pinks, now said to be debouching from the ocean deeps to the inner waters enroute to the spawning beds, is of sufficient body to justify that course. If the run is large enough to permit fishing overtime and still furnish an ade- | quate supply of spawning fish a few days con- tinuation of fishing, except in the westerly end of the Icy Strait zone which closed last night, will be granted. The Commissioner can reasonably take no other position. Nor should he be asked and expected to do more than that. Under the present Alaska fish- eries law, the duty is placed squarely upon him to insure first of all a seeding of the spawning beds. If he should fail to do that, he would be subject to official censure as well as private condemnation. He has always been firm in measures to protect the runs. There have been instances where regulations have seemed to be more drastic than conditions demanded. However, the responsibility was his for preserving the spawning supply, and is his, and the | history of both the red and pink salmon fisheries in the past few years demonstrate that he has lived up to it At this particular time, however, there is a greater reason for liberality than has existed at any time since he was given charge of the admin- | istration of Alaska’s fisheries resources. Conditions among Alaska’s fishing population are bad. Those connected with the salmon canning branch are hit as hard if not harder than any others. Fewer canneries are operating than in any season in the current generation. Prices for labor and fish are abnormally low. These handicaps could not have been overcome even had the run of pinks hit in at the outset of the commercial season. With the run coming at the very tag end of the season earn- ings of both cannery workers and fishermen dropped almost to the vanishing point. Few, if any, of either class will earn enough to tide them over the coming winter until another season rolls around. The Commissioner is as well aware of these facts as any one. It is the necessity for relief that will impel him to grant extensions if the run justifies that procedure. If there is an abundance of fish, he will be justified in extending the time for opera- tions by as long as it requires all of the plants to put up a capacity pack, and the announcement that extensions will be made was glad tidings for all Southeast Alaska. BETTER SENTIMENT JUSTIFIED. “California business and financjal leaders are | convinced better times are on the way and that California will lead the nation back to prosperity.” That is the way in which Ernest Walker Sawyer described a wave of optimism he discovered sweep- ing the Poppy State. Possibly the Californians are visualizing a recovery more speedily than is justified by all conditions, but surely a better sentiment is Justified than commonly exists today throughout the country. The security markets for three weeks past have manifested the cheerfulness that might be expected to follow in the wake of the huge liquidation of the Spring, and the realization that most of the calamities frequently ascribed as the causes of most of our troubles had not realized. In other words, not only did Congress fail to enact destructive legislation, but in passing the Glass amendment it definitely assured an abundance of sound money throughout the crop-moving season. The United States has not, moreover, slipped off the gold standard, as many pessimists here and abroad held to be imminent, and the Chicago bank unsettlement did not lead to a renewal of bank runs. And instead of them losing more gold they have had a consistent and substantial inflow during the past five weeks. Admittedly the level of manufacturing operations is low and promises to remain subnormal during the entire summer. There have been sporadic resump- tions of operations in late days, but aside from giving some employment on a purely local scale it has not affected the general industrial set-up. These resumptions, however, suggest consumer supplies are reaching an irreducible minimum and that the extreme point of the low-buying wave has been reached. NATIONAL ECONOMY LEAGUE. That is the name of a new nationwide organi- zation launched recently in New York to bring about It is headed by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Na- tional Chairman, who has called off his projected expedition to the Antarctic planned for the com- ing Autumn in order to accept the position. Mem- bers of the Advisory Council include: former Presi- dent Calvin Coolidge, Alfred E. Smith, former New {of Washington will do themselves a good turn by {and will be of great assistance to the institution. rk Governor, Gen. John J. Pershing, Newton D. Baker, former ' Secretary of War, and Admiral William S. Simms, United States Navy. Two major objectives set by the League seem especially worthwhile. First, it will endeavor to obtain the elimination of the great annual expendi- ture—now more than $450,000,000 each year—for vet- erans of the World War and Spanish-American War who suffered no disability in war service. This is a source of expense to the nation that is constanty growing. It was initiated by Congress without re- quest from the American Legion or any other or- ganization of war veterans, and it has been intimated by them they will not oppose its elimination. The second aim of the League is to obtain reduc- tion of all unnecessary governmental expenditures— and thus compel reduction of taxes which these rising expenditures ultimately exact from all the people. The first of these objectives is entirely discon- nected from any fight on the soldiers’ bonus. Nor does it threaten any of the relief measures extended by the nation to those who'are suffering from dis- abilities arising from war service. The movement is strictly nonpartisan. It has the endorsement of both President Hoover and his Democratic rival for office, Gov. Franklin D. Roose- velt, If what the Governor of Washington said about the Lieutenant Governor, and what the Lieutenant | Governor said about the Governor is true, the people defeating them both next November Ulysses of the Selva. (New York Herald Tribune.) If Colonel Fawcett, wherever he may be now in all vast Brazil, hears by the jungle grapevine that still another expedition has sailed to effect his rescue he not impossibly mutters in the forest tongue engaging his interest at the moment, “Is there no escape?” Even that unequaled wilderness must Sometimes seem small, and even his genius for van-|. ... ishing must often be in danger of defeat as party after party valiantly takes his trail to bring him back alive to a manner of living from which the selva won him long ago. Yet, pestered as he may feel, he has remained unrescued since 1923, and that, in these intrusive days, is an achievement for any explorer, Last winter Stephan Rattin, a Swiss trapper, emerged from' inner Matto Grosso to tell of a white man “held prisoner by an Indian tribe” and with spring the Priestly expedition arrived to take up this clew. In April the Rattin expedition set forth from Porto Velho in canoes, and early in July the Churchward expedition, numbering five British ex- plorers bent on doing a Stanley-and-Livingstone, began assembling equipment in Rio. Previously Com- mander Dyott and several other distinguished pene- trators of the Impenetrable had sought Fawcett, returning empty-handed but with further legends of a captive. This restless intellectual, this iron disciplinarian who once ordered his men to carry their own out- fits into the selva instead of hiring native porters —an unprecedented command—had since years be- fore the war shown an overmastering interest in the peoples, languages and customs of the endless interfluvial forests of the Amazon and of the Peru- vian and Bolivian montana. He is learned in matters about which others write books with half his stock of first-hand knowledge. He has dwelt with the Paresis and Cabixis on the River Itenes, with the Borrorors and Guarayos on the Mamore, and he is known by old friends to like that strange life . “Colonel Fawcett has theories to establish and facts to gather,” prophesy some who were his last hosts in South America. “When the time seems right to him he will appear.” The Revolt Begins. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Their bones frozen by the chill penury of the depression—apologizes to Mr. Grey—the taxpayers of the nations are beginning to organize for revolt. This is, if one is a silver lining seeker, one of the few salutary results of the current hard times, There always have been organizations opposed to increases in taxation, but they generally have been composed either of farsighted gentlemen or the Special Privilege Boys, and, as such, have been ignored by the crowd. Now the man backing the movement is Mr. John Henry Citizen, himself. However, mere complaining about high taxes is not enough. The citizens of the country must en- lighten themselves concerning governmental activi- ties. They must know why it is necessary for government to take for taxes 30 cents of every dollar earned in 1932, when it took but 15 cents in 1929, and only 8 cents in 1913. When they learn how this money is spent they will be in a position to say to the office holders of the country: Eliminate this; cut out that. They will then be able to say, consolidate and eliminate useless offices. Merge county functions. Combine city and county governments. Reduce the number of countes. Set up county-wide educational systems. What they could say to the Federal Government with its flourishing bureaus would fill a book of no mean proportions. Speaking of books, it is interesting to note that the Federal printing bill for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, was $14,- 546,440.75, large proportion of which went for docu- ments that are propaganda of the rankest sort. A movement which will place the taxpayers of the country in a position to speak with Such authority has been started in Georgia. May it spread to the North, to the East and to the West. Lathrop Trustee. (Farthest North Collegian.) The appointment of Captain A. E. Lathrop to fill ‘a vacancy on the Board of Trustees of the College will meet with the approval of the people of the Territory. Governor Parks made a wise selection and brings to the Board one who can The pioneer days of the College have not been completed. As a matter of fact it will have pionear days and pioneer problems for many years to come, The building of this institution ‘s a big job, the Importance of which is not even now fully realized by those who are called upon to give it the most careful consideration, Captain Lathrop is a hard worker, a close ob- server, and a careful thinker. He has had a long and successful course in the school of experience in Alaska. His advice and good judgment will be of great service to the College. Unless he intended to render the College a full measure of service he would not have accepted the appointment, ‘The College is Ruilding and Captain Lathrop is a builder. The College is to be congratulated. . ——— Berlin is having a little martial law, but noth- ing to interfere with the freedom of the foaming mug.—(Indianapolis News.) _— ItIl be a long time before American taxpayers T T T T T T LT SUMMARY: Spending a last cvening with Mark Merriman, before he sails for the Congo, Sondra Kent wonders how she can face the five years of sep- aration. But she wili not mar- ry him until he makes his for- tune, she determines, as she has been brought up with one goal—the marrying of a mil- lionaire. Also, she realizes she would not be happy in poverty, with “cheap clothes, a mean house, and the eternal grief of trying to make ends meet on nothing a year.” But she ob- tained his position for him in the Conge from John Ander- son, who loves her but can- not marry her because his wife will not divorce him. Mark and Sondra talk about any- thing except the fact they care for each other. She wonders how she will be able to get through the last minutes of sceing him off on the boat. CHAPTER 1. SONDRA’S APPEAL It was a beautiful night; a clear |sky with a golden waning moon and o breath of coming spring in the air. Sondra sat there beside Merriman in the narrow automo- bile seat, her hands clenched, her feet pressed hard to the floor. “I can’t bear it... I can't bear it. . " she was saying over and over sgain in her heart. She spoke suddenly, quietly. “Are |you in a hurry? Do we have to g0 nome at once'?" “Of course not. T only thought where shall we go?” “Anywhere—it's such a heavenly night.” She moved her arm a little so N that it touched his, and she closed her eyes, trying not to think. He said suddenly with an effort. “A penny for your thoughts,” and she answered impatiently. “I was envying you, wishing I could come too.” She heard him catch his breath, | sharply, but he answered in a hard‘ voice. “You would loath it. I believe all women do. There are: mosquitoes and enormous spiders and fevers and—and every incon- venience one can conceive.” | “I know. John Anderson told me how his wife hated it, but of | course, that's years ago—things| may have improved.” “It's not a woman’s country.” | They drove on for some way, not speaking again. Sondra half | dozed beside him, the hum of the| face were almost like a soothing | narcotic. When he spoke presently, she | started, as if she had really been| sleeping. “Isn't this beautiful?” She opened her eyes and leaned a little forward, staring at the river far below, gleaming like a golden snake in the moonlight, winding away between wooded banks, far out of sight. Merriman said suddenly. wherever T go T shall never see anything I like better than this. We used to live near here when | I was a boy—and I often came | here and looked over the river and | dreamed of all the wonderful things | “Well, | BY RUBY e Yaittful Clrear ark caught Sondra to him with desperate arms. I love you. | love you,” he told her. ... ... ... ‘shoulder, her cheek pressed to his. engine and the soft air on her|. ||” CARL JACOBSON | AYRES I would do when I grew up. Fun- ny, isn’t it?” “I expect all thinzs will come true.” Do you? ...I wish I did.” She said softly. “Tell me what they were. Those wonderful things” He shook his head. rhey're all gone... ¥ can’t re- r then any more. I can remember that. .. He stop- those wonderful ped and she added for him:*® “That on Friday meorning the boat goes at 11.” i He nodded silently. Sondra was very still for a mo- ment, then she said quietly “Mark, don't you think—because the boat goes at 11 on Friday you might you might be quite honest with me-—just for this once.” She felt his body stiffen, but he said nothing, and she touched the hand that rested on the steer- in; cheel. Quite. .. Quite honest,” shc said with a sob. H say things we should both be sor- gave a rough little laugh. “And or—for the rest of our lives.” Mightn’t we be more sorry. . Iy it y are never said?” she whis- pered It seemed a long time before he! spoke, and then it was in a slow, dull voice, almost expressionless. I may be the greatest failure— out there. .. or I may never come back again. Even if I do—there isn't any certainty—how do I know what sort of a failure—" She said with a little sob, “Does the future matter? . . We've got such a little while left?” He moved his hand away from bers almost roughly. “It’s not fair to any woman... to ask... to expe . It might mean years of 1 waiting, and then, at the end. ... nothing. Let me take you homeI now, Sondra, before I... we. ... Then suddenly he broke down; he turned and caught her to him with desperate arms. “I love you. ... T love you. ... And she echoed his words wildly, | as if she hardly knew what she| was saying: “I love you... I love you.” “I mever meant to tell you” | know.” “I've longed so to tell you. .. every time we met. . . every min- ute of the day and night.—" “I know.” “And now it's too late...” She turned her face against his She said with a broken little| laugh. “We've got. . . all the time . till the boat goes.” “If only that was true.” She lifted her face and their lips met. Telephone 49¢ RUTH HAYES [ '] Opposite Chas. Goldstein’s I will promote happiness invest in another war to save a civilization that won't pay its debts.—(Toledo Blade.) ? % L T T T T T 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] ’ i || McCAUL MOTOR | | COMPANY | ] .l 17 JUNEAU DAIRY | ICE CREAM | | Always Pure and Fresh | A HOME PRODUCT | After a long time, when he re- leasad her, she said breathlessly: “Don’t you think it belongs to us? The little time that is left? It may be all we shall have. ..all our lives.” She felt that she had suddenly lgone mad — gloriously, recklessly mad—as if nothing mattered any more but this man and the ten- derness of his arms around her. Suddenly she was weeping. “Oh, I've never had any happiness—or real love, and now youre going away. .. .” He gently disengaged her clinging arms, keeping both her hands in his. “My darling, you don't know what you're saying—I love you too well. . . T can't... L .. you're teo wonderful to me—I love you too wellL” bering only that she might never see him again, longing for just one taste: of happiness, before it jwas too late. Already she seemed to sez the miles of dividing sea, the long silence, the empty future withoat love, almost without hope. And one grew old so soon—old{ and hopeless. Then suddenly she was silent, {ner words all spent, the bitterness as she waited for him to speak. Then she heard his voice, broken, shaken with unwilling passion. “There’s only one way, Sondra, if you... if we.... if you will marry me. .. before I go.” (Copyright 1932 by Ruby M. Ayres) Yes or no? 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