The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 29, 1932, Page 4

o e ~ Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER evening _except Sunday by _the | 3 COMPANY at Second and Main Entered in the Post Offjce In Juneau as Second Class matter. RATES. SUBSCRIPTION 3 and Douglas for $1.25 Dellvered by carrier in Juneau per_month. ge paid, at the Rivance, $13 following rates: By mall, pc One year, i it they will promptly adlure or irregularity eir paper and Business Offices, 374 :d to the news dispatches credited to in this paper and also the rerein ATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER T OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION MAJORITIES. | | PRESIDENTIAL than any other ed but he carried he Electoral College and he His majori than his Roos got more Vi evelt not for Pre majority ident ever rece ate | of e country proportion r area of larger in was even in votes able feature of the recent Presidential el h the United States, except that of 1916, has the large popular and Electoral majorities of candidates, and in 1916 President 600,000 plurality of the popular very large majority of square with Cleveland in 1892, Presi- 1l elections have been decisive, though a change s than 25,000 votes in the necessary States ave given Bryan a majority in the Electoral - in 1896. Yet, at that time McKinley's plur- ¢as more than a half million. In 1900 the ty had grown to more than 800,- reached the millions for the first -Parker contest in 1904, when | piled up two and a half millions | Taft had a plurality Wilson had 2,260,000 Taft in 1912, Wil- Roosevelt and two tions been the successful Wilson had nearly and carried a Beginning Theodore Rooseve over the Democratic r of 1,270,000 in 1908 over Bryan over Rooszvelt 000 over son carried forty 1ee. by Taft. very President elected since 1920, including Harding, had more than 7,000,000 plurality except Hoover whos2 lead was over 6,000,000. 1t in the United more has not always been that way In 1888, Cleveland received popular stes than Harrison though the latter was elacted. A change of ten thousand votes in Nelv York would have given the election to Cleveland. While Cleveland led Blaine by 62,000 in the popular vote in 1884, a change of 600 votes in New York State would have the election to Blaine. In 1880 Garfield had of than 15000, and a change of given a plurality less about ten thousand would have given Hancock New | in the popular vote and a Tilden had a York tz, a plurality majority in the Electoral College. substantial majority of the oppular vote in 1876, but the Elect Commission decided that Hayes ha m y in the Electoral Colleg The de- cision was pi wrong. Cther close elections included in 1848, Polk in 1844, John Quincy Adams in 1824, Jefferson in 1800 and John Adams in 1796. WOOD WASTE USEFUL TO CONTROL SAND FLY. product from mills that creosote timber been found effective in killing sand- The minute blood-sucking gnats that develop from these larvae make life unbearable along the coast from Texas to Massachusetts and else- where at certain times of the year. 'These salt- water pests are closely related to the midges, known as “punkies,” or, in the language of the Indians,| “no-sce-ums,” that anr acationists in the moun- tains. Creosoted pine sap, the new insecticide devel- | opad by the United States Department of Agricul- is obtained as a by-product from bers with creosote to pre- sap extracted from lumber with a small propor- idered a waste how that added ture entomologists, mills that treat pine vent decay. The pinc by a vacuum process, tion of creosote oil, Tests with this mixture s E s sand-fly -larvae. It has the of having a pleasant odor and being Drainage ditches, which are eontrol salt-marsh mosquitoes, an aid control! sand flies. The ditch water concentr: the larvae in easily accessible places. Creosoted e sap, Lhc Federal believe, holds promise as an insecticide against ma insects that t of their life cycle in soil, compost waste products, and water. is co it de- advantage | fe to handle. | ary for the in nece are of entomologists pass pa ELECTRICITY ON FARMS. About 1,000,000 farms now have electricity, either through power companies or individual plants, says the Department of Agriculture. This is 10 per cent. of all farms in the country and nearly four times those having electricity in 1923. Since that year the number has steadily increased. About 300,000 farms have independent or unit farm-lighting plants. others get curr from power TIME FOR USING SENSE OUGHT TO BE HERE. lines. Republican National Committeeman Reed and Republican State Chairman Carroll have severely criticised. three Republican Congressmen from their State of Washington for not voting for the Garner Eightsenth Amendment repeal resolution. The Spo- kane Spokesman-Review comes to the defense -of the Cengresmen and asks if Mr. Reed and Mr. Carroll have gone over to the Democrats. Hin ix months, In advance, | 26, .| The |of | material |average those of Taylor | at the | The | It asksl an- editorial headline: “Is Mark Reed .3 Re- pul;lxcan"" The Seattle Times comes back at the Spokane paper with this temperate and sensible paragraph Mr. Reed is a Republican, as usual. 8o is Mr. Carroll. At the moment they may not be very happy Republicans—who is?— but they can see no good purpose in sullen or stubborn defiance of the plain course of events The sooner this business of repeal is out of the way the better the opportunity for Republican Party rchabilita- tion | When dry Congressman Blanton of Texas chided !the Anti-Saloon League for not helping dry candi- lates for Congress in the late election the Presi- {dent told him frankly that: the { the League {League has no money. Even the backers of ‘Pro- of Associated Press compilation of final re- |turns from, the November election justified early |indjcations that. nearly 40,000,000 votes would be !cast and that Gov. Roosevelt would have a plurality | of more than 7,000:000 | The United States is still paying $4,000 a year| to seven pensioners from the War of 1812. That, is not encouraging to those who believe that wars are what make a country great | Prohibition Cost Put At 34 Billion. (Portland Oregonian.) Prohibition has 1$34,000,000,000 in the last 12 years, as computed by |the Crusaders, militant repealists, in a survey. The study, which deals statistically with the cost; the “noble experiment,” in money, men andl estimates that $2,800,000,000 has been the;j arly expense and wastage entailed by the Eighteenth Amendment since it became effective anuary 16, 1920. Prohibition as an important factor in the de- pression, the piling up of taxes upon the tax- payer, the mushroom growth of bureaucracy, the mounting cost of Government and the inroads upon National income are weighed in the report. The findings, without going into the breakdown of general law observance, the effect of Prohibition upon American youth, the expansion of organized crime and racketeering financed by bootleg money, and the baneful results upon temperance, deal es- pecially with the economic phases of the experi-| ment and the charges which are passed on to the taxpayer, directly or indirectly. The report was' prepared by Colonel Ira L. Reeves, Director, and William T. Biesel, statistical expert, of the Oru-| saders. It is almost 13 years since the 18th Amendment went into effect, but the survey deals roughly with 12 years up to the end of the last fiscal year, for |which official figures are available. | A table showing the economic cost of “dry America” for those 12 years is set forth in the Reeves-Biesel computations as follows: Appropriated by Congress for Prohibition bureaus, $132,958,530. Appropriated by (eight years' figures only available), States for enforcement $5,585,- 850. Assessed value of property seized, $186,- 867,322, | Cost to taxpayers of merely keeping vio- lators in jail, $128,000,000. Cost of putting or trying to put Federal violators in jail and then trying to keep them there, $111,103,870. Coast Guard appropriations by Congress { enforcement, + $152,503,464. Customs Service expenditures for enforce- | ment, $93,232,230. | Cost of criminal justice to State, muni- | cipal and local governments for Prohibi- | tion cases, $2,022,622980. Loss in rentals to owners of padlocked | property, $303,615,000. | Loss in liquor revenue i ernment, $11,988,000,000. | Loss in liquor revenue to States, | ties, Cities, $6,540,620,000. | Loss to consumer in excessive liquor bill, | bootleg profits and protection, etc, $12,- | | | for | to Federal Gov- Coun- | 000,000,000. | Total, $34,565,109,246. «Based on official reports,” says' the Crusaders’| istudy, “the total cost of the 18th Amendment to| {the American public has been $34565109246 as shawn by the accompanying table. “The tremendous effect exerted by these huge| sums upon the economic fabric of the United States |almost staggers comprehension. The 12-year cost is| more than twice the National debt of $16,500,000,- It is more than two and a half times the total | \amuum owed the United States by foreign Govern- | | ments. | “In 12 years, Prohibition has cost the United | T e AT States nearly ten billion dollars more than the total net war cost of $26,361,096,001 (1917-1921) “ i | “Difficult as it is to believe, the cost of Pro- hibition in 12 years nearly equals the total con-| tinuing cost to the United Statss of the war, whi was $37,873,908,499 as of June, 1930. | “The average annual cost of Prohibition to the taxpayers is ten times the yearly payments sched- uled to be received by the United States on foreign |debts; it is more than one-half the Federal budget for 1932. During each of the last ten years the |cost of Prohibition has excesded the amount of Federal income tax collected.” i The mortality lists which have been the ac- companiment of enforcement with the gun, as com- |piled by the Crusaders, show that in 13 years, 2,089 tizens have been killed and 513 agents and aides \[n.n. met death. | | le President Hoover plans a longyholiday in Flor- ida. Well, California also voted 'for Roosevelt. (Seattle Times.) | by .the Roosevelt example to war debts, 81 lame ducks took'a look' at repeal and announced, “That's not my egg.’—(Detroit News.) ! Sometimes we suspect that a war isn't renllyl over until people forget the word billion.—(Los| | Angeles Times.) Influenced | AR S SR SRR ) i The 1932 hick town is one where no large pros- i;)e(-m'e brewery has arrived at the blue print and |securities promotion stage.—(Detroit News.) ! | One thing is certain—in the next Congress thel blocs will not do so much blocking.—(Cincinnail Enquirer.) One kind of job insurance is sticking strictly to business and earning what the boss pays you (Cincinnati Enquirer.) If Europe would forgive its enemies, America might see something in this plea to forget the debts —(Seattle Times.) | hibition have gone back-on it and it is.flat bfoke.!] SYNOPSIS: Knowing that Clive would dicapprove, Santa telephones her first husband, Dicky, intending to tell him he must not see her again. They cpend the afternoon discussing the reasons for her first mar- riage failure, and hew to avoid them with Clive. But Clive belicves she has put in the day nureing ‘a headache, and when he returns from work tucks her tenderly in bed, surrounded with hct water bottles. CHAPTER 40. INTO DANGER AGAIN A week had passed—in some re- | s their happiest. Recent e\mus given them a fright. If the render of personal preferences ere the only way to avoid cleav- each was prepared to be- the other's beloved door- come mat. He had expected that a woman's injerest in a former husband would cease abruptly the moment she divorced him. How could it? | divorce must figure as the most dramatic episode in her young life. The more she was forbidden to ventilate it,-the more she was bound to think about it. He had contorted her into a false attitude by his refusal to acknowledge that Ishe had been;twice imarried. But tow to reopen: the gore subject? | The day wa$''a Saturday. Her mother had sent the, car to New | York to bring them back to spend | the: week-end. -A flutfer of -snow was falling. On the drive across |the New Jersey meadows the chauf- feur informed them that ice was |holding on some of the ponds above Montclair. “I've not skated for age: ,ta became all eagerness. " San- “Don'’t To ‘Santa her |2 PROFESSIONAL | T R B ST S S T U S Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Bed Ray, Medical Gymnastics, 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 | DES. EASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours § am. to 9 p.m. { Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building Telephone 170 Sl —— Dr. Jf) W. Bayne Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Office hours, 8 am. to 5 pm. Senorita Alicia Martinez Arellano was chosen as the girl with prettiest back in Spain at a Madrid beauty contest. Santa, being the woman, was the 'you ns, d the idea she insisted that they | chould sub-let the apartment and spoken word: seek a home in the country. hough he had always adored the| As though she had origin- before—" the (Associated Press | remember how we used to more extravagant in her abnega- |when you were at Princeton, long He could have supplied the un- “Long before Dicky As appeared on the horizon.” “Long before,” she refashioned cost the United States some| {Order for 2,500 Tons |side the Angus breed. I Photo) + AL gLk apartment Clive marshalled argu- |ments to prove the unwisdom of of marrying.” el her plan. ! ‘It would mean two hours extra the rug. 20 YEARS AGO |a day without you. It would mean‘ having you surrounded by soggy | From The Empire fields. Friends would forget you. —— idoor to impossible.” December 29, 1912 With Alaska's first Leglslature ;,come, darling,” she urged. scheduled to meet in the near fu-| .y income’s more than d°“'i ture, control of gams animals and | birds by the Territory was urged, by prominent residents. The pro-| posal covered all fur-bearing ani- \ mals, including fur’ seals. it Simon Hellenthal was attorney ’ \ |for the Alaska-Trzadwell Mining Company in litigation between it| and Alaska Gastineau Mining Com- | pany over Sheep Creek power rights | Night shifts of the Alaska Ju-| neau Gold Mining Company began blasting rock on the tunnel on the hillside above Lower Front Street. Interest was attracted to mining possibilities on Taku Inlet. The Penn - Alaska Mining Company, | owning ten lode claims, and the Rubicon Gold Mining Company having two lode claims, planned| developments in the Spring. | Five hundred dressed turkeys and‘ 0 one - beef weighing - 1,000 potinds| / .\‘nved on the steamship Humbolt [rom Seattle to add to the Alaska, \ical Company’s stock for Nn\v! | Year's trade, John Reck, President | of the company, announced. T AL vl |bled” he countered. “We can live | within 1t here, if we practice ec- onomy." Unconsciously they were maneu- vering for position—each striving CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—Illinois Cen-|to outdo the other in generosity. tral Railroad system will order|There had been times when San- 12,500 tons of rails, the contract to|ta’s sense of her indebtedness to | be divided between Illinois SLeel’Clive had been well-night crushing. |Company and Inland Steel Com-|Gratitude for his chivalry in hav- pany. ing married her after her first mishap had been the motive for most of her awkwardness. To repay him she had circum- vented him in the matter of the apartment and assessed him mod- erately when she ought to have Of Rails Now Placed Wales Wins A‘w“ard STOKE-ON-TRENT, England — The Prince of Wales, with his short-horn Lenton Golden Ray, A i ¢ ¥ |rendered him accounts. Clive, on won -the championship of the Stoke- |} /" 46 had resented her shoul- ;" aT_mm IAD BORK °h,':“‘ - Lemf’" | dering the responsibilities and had SJSZe a:‘;;ds:;:kida\ ]’L‘ag:;; ;:;i‘relt that he was being compelled to swallow the food of charit the championship gone out-| .4 they loved each other their search for paradise would have been more level treading, and now the competition as to which should give more lavishly had Use Type and Ink—and Why? ., ) |changed to self-effacement. By a JU‘NEI;{%PFI;OCK { | master-stroke Clive won the com- S P) bat. Since his secret visit to Santa, “Exclusive but not Expensive” } |ypnich was to have been their fi- Coats, Dresses, Lingerie nal parting, Dicky had removed "“‘k"’ and Hats himself from the map. His name s was no longer mentioned. For . ® | Clive to introduce it seemed too | {much like forcing Santa’s reti- | J. A. BULGER l cence. Yet he had the uncom- | Plumbing, Heating, Oil fortable sensation that Dicky's | Burner Work ] name was always on the tip of her Successor J. J. Newman § | tongue. [ J— Gradually he came to the con- - — ", |clusion that by their cilence they were attaching too much import- GENERAL MOTORS lance to Dicky. The fault was his. {To engage a maid would be next| ‘But we would live within your |thing of its transforming whiteness |seemed to drift into their hearts. Hand in hand, arms crossad, they skimmed the ice. {her sentence “either of us dreamed | He squeezed her hand beneath “There was never a time when |1 didn’'t dream that we might mar- ry.” Perhaps the magic of the snow accomplished the miracle. Some- Old scars were blotted out. They {became tender gay romantic. As| thh lovers every moment togeth-!| ler became usuriously preclousl }Avmdmg her parents’ residence, lthey drove to Eagle Rock, where they dismissed the chauffeur, and tramped a short distance to a lake where they hired skates. j The place roused memories. It {had been one of the scenes of Lhelr boy and girl courtship —| ‘Lhexr first courtship which had failed. They seemed not so much! to have returned as never to have | progressed. Clive mustered courage. Hand- in-hand, arms crossed, as they skimmed the surface, he asked: “What's happened to Dicky?” Color flooded Santa’s face. “He knew he wasn't wanted.” He should have realized that sooner. At the same time, he but- ted in to help us.” “I got rid of him for your sake.” “For both our sakes” ed. “But we don’t need to be discourteous—you and I who are so sure of each other.” “Let's go home. T've had enough” she - announced. As he knelt to unfasten her skates, he murmered. “I get just as big a kick out of doing this as I used to. There aren’t many husbands who could say that.” Hugging arms, they commenced the descent, through powdered woods in search of sophistication as represented by a taxi. “We've been asses,” he whisper- ed. | She nodded. | “So much to make us happy.” and MAYTAG PRODUCTS | | | W. P. JOHNSON ! | S e - —— Call Your RADIO DOCTOR _for RADIO TROUBLES {| 9A Mtod P. M Juneau Radio Service Shop | PHONE 221 | —_ 1891 to the Peop Merry Christmas Prosperous New Comtan ——— Harry Race DRUGGIST “IUE BQUIBB STORE" JUNEAU, 42 YEARS’ BANKING SERVICE COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS We appreciate your patronage and extend to all our best wishes for a The B. M. 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Here am I, wanting to know all about you and pre- venting you from telling me.” In a small vojce she questioned. “What is it that you want me to tell?” 'Nothmg ” He halted in the dusk. How cold your cheek is! There’s nothing I want you to tell me. Tm not curious. But don’t hide things. ~If you're convinced you must see Dicky—" “You think I ought?” She clung to him. “I'm willing. That's for you to decide.” (Copyright, 1931-1932, Coningsby Dawson.) Clive and Santa decide to let down the bars to Dicky to- morrow—but are they wise? —— ATTENTION REBEKAHS! Perseverance Rebekah Lodge No. 2-A will hold its régular meeting this evening at 8 o'clock. Visiting members invited. EDITH SHEELOR, Noble Grand. ALPHONSINE CARTER, —adv. Secretary. ] More For Your | Money ! AT [ COLEMAN’S | e S G- 4 GARBAGE HAULED | OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA Reasonable Monthly Rates E. 0. 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