The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 23, 1932, Page 4

¥ 3 § Daily Alaska Empire JOHUN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - G PRESIDENT AND EDITOR ERAL MANAGER the $26,886,445, exports to the United States. versing the situation. Once, States was Canada’s best customer. Now, it's the British Isles. Tariff changes, the economic conference, and other trade factors just about double total This is re- the United value Published _every evening except Sunday by _th : Ii\x!:;lficli‘nnv"'l"xl 3 COMPANY at Second and Main | are beginning to show results. — (Prince Streets, Juneau, aska Rupert Empire.) Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class Yes, but in that other day the United States matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25) per_month, ail, postage paid. at the following rates: r, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, month, in advance, $1.25, sers will confer a favor if they will promptly iness Office of any failure or irregularity e delivery of their papers. I.Iephn'u for F,mmrml and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the republication of all news dispatches credited to not otherwise credited in this paper and also the toonl oW published herein. “LASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. “STAND BY THE DONKEY.” When Josephus Daniels suggested that the Demo- crats ought to return to their ancient party emblem, the rooster, and discard the donkey, he started a controversy that has raged throughout the country, and the crowing and braying continues among advo- cates of cock or ass, as the case may be Among other things developed in the fracas is an account of the only known suicide of a donkey, which, a former Juneauite declares, yielded up the ghost in this City, through grief over the defeat of President Cleveland for re-election in 1888. The account is in a letter, written by a former Juneau- ite, which appeared recently in the Kansas City Star. Virgil Moore, the author, was a popular resident of Juneau in 1888 when the incident referred to oc- cured. For many, many years he has lived in Kansas City. A copy of the Star containing it was sent to Thomas H. Ashby, Juneau pioneer, by his brother, Oscar Ashby, also Juneau pioneer, but now a resident of New York. Virgil Moore’s letter was printed in the Star under the heading, “Stand by the Donkey,” ‘Tom Ashby says the main part of the story, that the donkey deliberately committed suicide, is a fact. The letter follows: To the Star: Josephus Daniels urges that the Democratic Party should abandon the donkey as its emblem and adopt the rooster. He says the rooster was the Democratic em- blem until the Cartoonist Thomas Nast made it the donkey. Mr. Daniels further says, “The rooster has ten times more style, beauty and clarion call than the donkey.” Is it to be a case of the “forgotten don Justice cries out against the idea | —the loyalty of the donkey never has been questioned There was just one donkey in all Alaska in 1888, and he was the town pet of Juneau. He bore the name of Cleveland and seemed to be proud of it came and grass withered, the town donkey walked boldly into saloons and dance halls, begging for crackers, and made a living browsing at the back doors of hotels and restaurants. When the news came that Cleveland had been elected President his namesake and party emblem headed a parade and was fed bountifully with all the oat- meal and cracked wheat in town. Two weeks later the steamer Idaho tied up at the Juneau wharf with the news that Cleve- land had been defeated. The old donkey watched a Republican celebration with sad eyes, his ears dropped, and he refused to eat. While a Republican orator extolled a new President, old Cleveland walked down to the bay shore, waded into deep water, gave a defiant bray and deliberately com- mitted suicide. No barnyard rooster would be capable of such loyalty. VIRGIL MOORE. POSITION REVERSED. The domestic exports from Canada, to the United Kingdom, in October, totalled in and | In November, when snow | | was purchasing more than dotble twenty-six or tweny-seven millions monthly from Canada. High [mrms are injuring American and Canadian trade Just as they are injuring world commerce every- where. i If France is financially able to lend millions to other countries and expend vast sums on naval construction it would seem that she ought to be able to pay the United States interest on borrowed money. | | Tne sitka Commercial Club has made a strong| case for the retention of the Pioneers’ Home in the | former capital of the Territory, where it has been its establishment by the First Territorial | Legislature in 1913. | since There is only one day left in which to do Christ- mas shopping but many persons may yet be made happy if the time is fully utilized. Babe Didrikson. (New York World-Telegram.) | The mighty Amateur Athletic Union arose in its wrath Monday and struck from its lists the name of the greatest girl athlete in the country’s history. It was alleged that she had penned an indorsement of an automobile and let her picture be used in an advertisement. The hand that was sullied was not 20-year-old Babe Didrikson’s-but the Amaleurl Athletic Union's. She was not accused of unsportsmanlike conduct. No mention was made of the fact that in order to pursue her athletic career she works as a clerk in an insurance agency. The charge and the rules on which it was based are artificial. | To informed people the name ‘“amateur” no ,longer means anything but compulsion of deception jon the part of those lacking the personal means to live up to the code of an aristocratic exclusive- ness. Amateurism originated with royalty and aris- tocracy. It now singles out for its exclusion a girl who toiled up from poverty to high renown and who still works for her living. In an era when queens and society leaders grant the use of their signatures and photographs to advertise toilet creams without impairing their social status must a moneyless girl be sacrificed to hypocrisy? It is well known, however, that many leading amateurs regularly violate the amateur rules. If they did not do so they could not afford to par- ticipate in the amateur contests. Some have rich patrons. The A. A. U. is also more inexorable than a court of law which at least grants a full answer and often a suspended sentence or a Scotch verdict. The A. A. U. expelled Miss Babe Didrikson with the supercilious observation “ignorance of the A. A. U. rules would not be a valid excuse.” Actually \]\llss Didrikson denies that she authorized the testi- monial. But in principle it makes no difference one |way or another. The preposterous affront to the essential spirit of sport ought to cause a general protest of the A. A. U. membership in the name of honesty and open |competition in the modern spirit. It should not| condemn Miss Didrikson, who is left out in the cold, but the futilet outdated relic of snobbery— amateurism and the organization which maintains the hypocrisy of it. With four months %t accompiish it, swapping the elephant for the donkey in mid-stream ought not to be such a herculean task.—(Cincinnati En- quirer.) There’s going to be a lot more men looking for jobs when those Anti-Saloon officials find their soft berths folding up under them.—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) Xmas F Continues EVERYTHING YOU CHRISTMAS TABLE ood Sale \EED FOR THE 1 20 YEARS AGO | From The Empire : \ ' December 23, 1912 proof of the banana b racter of the climate, Mr. a S. H. Yeomans were exhibii- ing in a cardboard box a 1 | mosquito they had captured (their tent home near Evergree cemetary. | H. T. Tripp was chosen Senior Warden at the annual election of officers of Mount Juneau Lodge of Masons. Five steamship companies wor operating vessels between Seattl and Alaska waters. The companic were the Alaska company with ti Mariposa, Northwestern, Dolphi and Jefferson; the Northland com- | pany with the Northland and Alk the Humboldt company with Humboldt, called the Alaska FI; the Alaska Coast company w the Yukon, and the Canadian Pacific company with the Princess May. th the Postmaster Earl Hunter ann- ounced that beginning January 1 rental fees for postoffice boxe: would be 40, 60 and 75 cents month “according to the size and | the location of the box.” | Many visitors from neighboring | communities and mining prop-; erties were coming to town for| the Christmas holidays. 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Newman | l’ GENERAL MOTORS and MAYTAG PRODUCTS W. P. JOHNSON | Call Your RADIO DOCTOR for RADIO TROUBLES 9A M ted P. M. Juneau Radio Service Sho i monpx —_— Harry Race DRUGGIST ]Cleared the atmosphere! A PATH Tg by Coningsby NOPSIS: After a painful scssion Clive and Santa reach a point of equilibrium in their shifting matrimonial situations. Clive has taunted his wife with her feeling for her first hus- band; but in the morning he realizes that in place of being masterful, he merely has been rude. CHAPTER 36. A CLEVER GIRL “And no more bossing,” Santa |barricaded her lips with the sheet “But dariing, hat,” said Clive. You've been awfully bossy,” she vpulsed him. ‘O, beg pardon—you're not re- to your own shortcom- you've promised “Well, haven't you?” twinkled. “Bossed you? I certainly have not. The shoe’s on the other foot. If I can’t salute your lips, your nose will do.” She forestalled him by pulling the sheet higher. “You can have my lips when you've promised.” “Promised what?” “Not to boss me.” “I mever have—but I promise.” The sheet was lowered. “Young devil!” He caught ‘her to him. He left the apartment grinning. Her eyes {Her ruse had been the revenge of a little capricious girl. The chill November air was brac- ing. He was in a mood to count his blessings. A wife who wor- | shipped him. An employer who at one throw had more than doub- led his salary. Scarcely more than six months ago he'd been that most desolate of creatures, a bachelor. Marriage to him had been a vis- ion on the road to Damascus, revealing life in its fulness. He'd lacked faith in his ability till San- ta had inspired him. Merely to be her husband had boosted his stock He was sitting on top of the world. |Peaks of triumph! In the subway, hurtling down- town, he asked himself what had been the reason for his soremess. It boiled down to this; that Santa had forced him to reach up to a standard which had been a pro- phecy. She'd presumed his suc- |cess. Anyhow, misunderstandings were things of the past. His straight talking even if it wasn't quite merited, had cleared the atmos- phere. Seated in his office, occupied with facts. & doubt cast a shadow. Had it? Not till lunch did he permit him- |self the leisure to examine. General H. J. EBERUART || Old First National Bank Building—Upstairs Foch had achieved victory by a logic wholly feminine: “A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.” Santa| had made the same discovery. In the moment of defeat, she had snatched back all her trenches by making him promise never again to be what he never had been—bossy. With aroused suspicion that amounted almost to alarm, he ran over the progress of their quarrel. Santa had retreated, conceding ev- erything till she had brought him to a halt. She’d employed the same tactics at Stratford. She'd been willing to agree with him till the arguments had grown stale through repetition; then she went her own way, dragging him at her chariot. Tt became certain that she con- templated no reforms. She still intended that he should roost in the home of her choosing, sit on her chairs, watched by all the gods who had witnessed the first mar- riage. A woman who never ac- knowledged defeat, never acknow- ledged that she had erred. Were husbafids always in the wrong, he ‘wondered. And yet she seemed to be un- aware of her obstinacy. Her sub- tlety was instinctive. Last night he’d missed his great chance. He should have framed a program be- fore accepting her submission. If he were to reopen the debate in the face of reconciliation, it would be difficult to keep conversation on a friendly basis. On the other hand, if he didn’t, he might as PARADISE DAWSON __. With the half-formed idea of im- pressing her with his importance, he stuffed a stack of papers into his satchel. “What on earth have you there?” she challenged. “Work, darling.” “What a shame.” “No, Santa. A salary of my size requires earning. Give me a pen- cil and paper. Divide the days of the year into twelve thousand. I'm earning just short of thirty- three dollars a day, including Sun- days and holidays. That's two hundred and thirty a week. A thousand a month. Think of it! I daren't slouch. It's up to me to prove worthy.” “Which means working the old head overtime in the evenings?” “’Fraid so—at least at the start.” “Can’t. I help?” He was touched. “You can't typewrite and take shorthand.” “Girls more dumb than T can.” “True.” He took her face be- tween his ands. “But they're trained dumb-bells. T've seen sam- ples of your spelling. Besides—" “Besides nothing.” Her earnest- ness increased at his refusal. “I'm turning over a new leaf. I've not shown sufficient interest in you. I'm intelligent.” “You're better than intelligent.” He drew her to him. “Have you any idea how few sweet girls there have ever been in the world? Hel- en of Troy, Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Nell Gwyn—and now there's you. You're a work of art. I wouldn’t permit you to blunt your fingers banging a typewriter. No sir, at a pinch, Tl hire.” [[] Fraternal Societies » oF T | Gastineau Channel 1 B. P. 0. ELKS meets _; meets ( every Wednesday at 8 p.m Visiting brothers welcome. —— KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Couneil No. 1780, eetings second and last “Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Council Chambers, Fifth Street. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. R. | PROFESSIONAL BEURRRENTS, Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 DRS. EASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 58 Hours § am. to 9 pm. i Dr. Charles P. Jenne H. J. TURNER, Secretary. 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From the time you leave me in bed in the morn- ing till you return, T fritter.” “For instance?” “Washing my hair. my nails, Getting in shops.” “But you have the housekeep- ing.” “Don’t be futile, Clive. I tidy up our bedroom; the maid does the rest. I plan one meal. Now if I were learning to typewrite all day I'd be doing something for you. Td have a purpose. How long would it take to learn?” “I don't want you to learn.” “Being bossy again.” 8She shook a finger. ‘He tried to change the subject. “Talking about being bossy, do you remember the agreement we made last night, that everything's going to be not me or you, but us? Now that I'm earning an in- come large enough to provide for both of us—" “You've only been earning it a day.” She winked at him. “Now that I am,” he refused to Manicuring into mischief . . Dr. C. L. Fenton ! CHIROPRACTOR | Hours: 10-2; 2- i HELLENTHAL BUILDING | Douglas 7-9 P. M. i . e |{ Moevs, Packs and Stores 5 > Freight and Baggage ' DE. R. E. 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T mean the kind of place where you can have an open fire, your own cellar and your own coal?” “It sounds sweet,” she beamed. “especially the cellar. Have you some particular place in mind?” “Not at the moment.” “And keep chickens, I suppose. and burn our own garbage? But where, Clive, I'm all excited.” “There’s heaps of country around New York.” She feigned disappointment. “Well, when you've decided, let me know. How about my learning to type—?” “Heavens, Santa! Can't you con- centrate?” “That's what I am doing, darl- ing. We were speaking of typing first.” “But to possess a home is more important.” He struggled to hold her attention. “A home would keep you fully occupied. We'd have a garden. There'd be seeds to plant—" well not have spoken; affairs would drift placidly into their old chan- nels. “An wouldd’'t T look cute,” she laughed, “pushing a lawn-mower?” The telephone tinkled before he 1891 1933 42 YEARS’ BANKING SERVICE to the Peopl COMMERCIAL We appreciate yo extend to all our e of Alaska. and SAVINGS ur patronage and best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. The BM Behrends Bank JUNEAU, " OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA ALASKA . | | Dr. Richard Williams | DENTIST = OFFICE AND RESIDENCE S Gastineau Building, Phone 481 | KI RM SE | GIFT SHOP B at Rose A Andrews—Graduate Nurse WINTER & POND'S ELECTRO THERAPY Cabinet Baths—Massage—Colonic Irrigations Office hours, 11 a.m. to 5 p. m. Evenings by Appointment Second and Main. Phone 259-1 ring could retort. “I'll answer it.” She sprang up. As she passed she patted his head. “Old funny.” Left to himself, he stared at the table-cloth. The old situation was beginning. Despite their over- whelming affection, it seemed im- possible for them to see eye to eye. She complained that her life was artificial. He suggested a means of making it natural. She hardly listened. Was it that she didn’t credit him with a grain of common sense? She was calling. He found her at the telephone, one hand muf- fling the mouthpiece. At sound of his approach she turned breath- lessly. ey (Copyright, 1931,41932, Coningsby Dawson.) FINE Watch and Jewelry REPAIRING at very reasonable rates WRIGHT SHOPPE PAUL BLOEDHORN marimonist sttas ot v || ¥ellow Cab z = Warmer, Safer, Cheaper PHONE 22 UPHOLSTERING MADE TO ORDER Also Recoverinng and Re) Dishaw Bldg. PHONE 419 —_— JUNEAU DAIRY ICE CREAM SlIPPlI Anti-Freeze For Your Car NOW JUNEAU MOTORS