The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 4, 1933, Page 4

4 e ST AR o i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4, 1933. Daily Alaska Empire 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 Strects, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. R }"h/;(h sides are confident of succes: SUBSCRIPTION RATES. { i Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 | side says so in somewhat more confident tones. per _month, | By mall, age paid the following rates: One year, nce, $ six months, In advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.2, Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly | €I notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity | in ihe delivery of their papers. | Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the | aso for republication of all news dispatches credited to it «r not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER| THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION | | { | THE ALASKA JUNEAU. | The Alaska Juneau's local expenditures last year! were $1,809,000 of which the payroll amounted to| 000. The expenditures were at the rate of| e than $150,000 a month with a payroll ()1’ re than $107,000 monthly. | This more than any other thing is what makes| Juneau and Gastineau Channel prosperous and gives | the assuranc: of a brilliant future for the com-| munit This steady stream of gold flowing from our own hills into the channels of trade, industry and commerce of all kinds is better than money coming in response to speculation or real estate and mining booms. It is substantial and makes certain | & necessary continuity to the community. The gold stream reaches all branches of business and con- tributes to local and Territorial taxes. It builds up bank assets and makes available money for enterprises and improvements of all sorts. In addition to this sum flowing into the chan- nels of Southeast Alaska trade the Alaska Juneau pays out a considerable sum in dividends to Alas- kans and has built up a surplus which it uses; freely in prospecting other properties in the Terri- tory. The Alaska Juneau is Alaska’s most sub-| stantial single asset. It deserves all the encourage- | ment that can be extended to it. | m 7 G RECONSIDERATION OF WAR DEBTS. | _ | That President Hoover believes there must be a| reconsideration of the war debts has been apparent| | for sometime. Most -of the metropolitan American newspapers, as well as European papers, seem to| agree that it must be so. Many American states-| men, Democrats and Republicans, have said as much, among them, Alfred E. Smith and Bernard| M. Baruch. | It is generally understood that there is nothing, sacred about the figures agreed to as the amounts| European States owe America. Those figures did not represent the amounts the debtor Nations borrowed from the United States. England's agree- ment was only 82 per cent. of the amount she borrowed. France’s was only 75 per cent. Olhers{ agreed to pay even lower percentages. The com-| missioners accepted as the basis for the payments to be made the ability of the debtors to pay. If ability to pay was a proper basis then it ougm‘ to be so now. There was no world depression wheni the agreements were made. There is now, and what | a country could pay then may be more than it is able to pay now. Of course the United States| borrowed the money she loaned and must pay 100 per cent. for it, and collect that from American taxpayers. However, American people will agree that the‘ statement made by Secretary of State Stimson the| other day that this country will not negotiate with representatives of France until that coumry; pays the nearly $20,000,000 she defaulted December 15, | was sound and right. France was better able to pay than England, and England paid $95,000,000. France ought to pay, then the reconsideration might be with all countries on exactly an even basis. The United States cannot in fairness to herself enter into conference with a country that does not show a disposition to live up to agreements duly signed, sealed and delivered. The New York World-Telegram takes a hopeful | view of the situation, and was at least fair, if not generous, to France, when it said: One France temporarily has defaulted on the debt. That was the excited Cham- ber of Deputies. The other France is de- termined to make a fair settlement with the United States. The other France ds led by Premier Herriot, who went down gal- lantly to defeat for his ideals and who now gives the United States through the United Press Associations a new pledge that France will yet pay. If any American finds it difficult to understand how there can be two Frances at the same time, one irresponsible and the” other responsible, let him contrast the attitudes on this same debt problem of Congressional extremists on the one hand with that of most American business men and newspapers on the other hand. While the two legislative bodies are mak- ing demagogic faces at each others, re- sponsible bodies of public opinion in both countries are moving toward a sane settle- |bill the support received fell short of that registered; | United States impossible. On our side the American public should understand, as the Hoover Administration understands and Congress does not, that the debtors will make no more payments under the old agreement The Irish Free State could not have all the countries beat her in this National election game. She will have an election January 24. Of course The De Valera than it began it Investors expect Americans will pay (heir debts, in spite of the French example, and they believe they will be able to pay. About the time peopl: begmn to think acute stage of the Japanese and Chinese difficul- ties have passed, war breaks out in a new place. It has been going on like that for a long time. Beer Captures the House. (New York Herald Tribune.) Amid the general rejoicing that will undoubtedly acclaim the passage by the House of the Collier beer bill it should be borne in mind that so far this action is litle more than a noble gesture. The gentlemen of to public sentiment, must now the measure, and then it must be submitted for the approval of the President. Needless to say, we shall not have beer by Christmas, notwithstanding the; vote in the House. However, that vote alone is a considerable Christ- mas present. Not only th: majority in favor of the bill, but the fact that every amendment to its| sensible provisions was defeated, is an indication | that the mandate of the elsctorate, as expressed | last month, has commanded respect, even from an| assembly of “lame ducks” previously dry. The real! significance of yesterday's showing can be measured] only in comparison with the last vote on a beer| bill in the same House. This was in May, when the motion came up to discharge the Ways and Means Committee from further consideration of the‘ O’Connor-Hull bill to legalize and tax a brew con- taining 2.75 per cent. of alcohol by weight. The motion was defeated by a vote of 228 to 169. A| little better than a complete reversal, therefore, was | recorded in favor of the Collier bill, which, incident- ally, would legalize a heavier beer—3.2 per cent. of | alcohol by weight. | But it is also interesting to note that in the case} both of the O'Connor-Hull bill and of the Collier the Senate, less responsive as a rule for a repeal resolution shortly preceding it. The House had voted in March, 227 to 187, against dis- charging its Judiciary Committee from further con- sideration, of the Beck-Linthicum resolution for qualified repeal, giving the motion eighteen more | votes than it subsequently recorded in favor of the| O’Connor-Hull modification. And on December 5 it voted 272 to 144 for the Garner resolution for| straight repeal, as compared with 230 to 165 for" the Collier bill. Here is evidence that there exists in Congress, as there undoubtedly does in the coun- try at large, a stronger sentiment for repeal than for modification. This is a wholesome sign, since there can be no settlement of the Prohibition issue | short of repeal, and any tendency among modifi- | cationists to delay repeal must be nipped in the; bud. ! Indeed, there is no excuse for modification at this time except as a means of raising substantial | At least the bond market finished the year high-'o that the| get their whack at| e 20 YEARS AGO 3’ From The Empire | | : January 4, 1913. i Eight dwellings, an apartment |house and two business structures were erected in Juneau in 1912, a to a review of building s for the year. All resi- and store rooms were oc- and more were needed to constant demand of ————— 1 d cup meet newcomers. For the first banquet to be giv- en by the Commercial Club — the event being set for January 14— all the 175 tickets originally print- ed for the affair were sold, and plans were under way to arrange for accommodation of additional diners. Strong objection was being rais- ed to the Federal law imposing an annual license tax of $50 on the |vending of patent medicines. In |small communities in Southeast land other parts of Alaska, where yearly did not equal the tax, stores could not carry such simple articles as salves, linaments, carbolated vaseline and cold remedies. {such sales Attention was directed to the Big Salmon district northeast of ‘Whitehorse, Y. T., where A. John-! son and W. J. Clethero took out| $950 from their placer claim on Little Violet Creek. dIncluded in their gold were nuggets ranging from $10 to $35 in value. | Expressed opposition by many Senators and Representatives dis- suaded President William H. Taft from submitting to Congress a message recommending the remov- al of protection from the Pl‘ibilot: Islands fur seal herds. BERSEI o AL e Pension Bureau Still Pays Seven For War of 1812 WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—Seven persons still receive pensions for service of relatives in the War of; 1812, These seven—five widows, one re=- married widow and a daughter— get a total of $4,000 annually from the Government. The remaining widows of 1812 soldiers are listed by the veterans’ administration’s annual report as Arminia I. Anderson, Cedar Grove, Ga.; Marion A. Clark, Towa City,! Iowa; Lydia Ann Graham, Bushy Run, W. Va.; Mary Isgrigg, Cincin-| nati, Ohio; Carolina King, East] Aurora, N. Y, and Elizabeth Huron Indianapolis. revenue for a sorely-pressed Treasury. We have already commended the Collier bill as the most| likely of all the modificationist measures proposed to accomplish this purpose while avoiding the con- stitutional pitfalls in the path of such legislation. For this reason we are glad it passed the House | without amendmnet and correspondingly disappoint- led that so many Republicans should again oppose an act which both circumstances and the people so clearly demand. There seems to be something pathological in the psychology of “lame ducks.” | The Status of Hawaii. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Gov. Lawrence M. Judd, of the Territory of Hawali, has issued a significant statement, timed to the opening of the lame-duck Congress, in which he makes a commendable defense of the capacity of Hawaii to govern itself and an appropriate warn- ing against hasty legislation designed to weaken Hawali’s control over its own affairs. Since the annexation of Hawali it has been accorded a wide measure of self-government, as| befits a Territory removed from the continental and populated by a distinct racial group. Under that semi-autonomous government Hawaii has prospered economically and has main- tained good conditions of education, health and‘ public order. i Merely because one or two peculiarly unpleasant | crimes called attention to the islands last Spring| there have been earnest efforts in Congress to revisei the status of Hawaii and provide for centralization of power over Hawaiian internal affairs in the| Washington bureaucracy. No more shortsighted step could be imagined than this. The Hawaiian Territorial Government has al- ready corrected most of the unsatisfactory condi- tions formerly existent in the islands, and is on the way to a complete renovation. Interference from Washington officialdom, beyond the salutary measure of control maintained through the Gov- ernor, would be a grave handicap to Hawaii and a black mark against the principles of self-gov- ernment which the American people have embraced. | | Canadian wheat farmers are on strike. That's an idea, provided it lasts long emough to cut down next year’s production.—(Seattle Times.) Hoover's answer to Europe on the debt ques- tion seems to be: “We came across in '17; it's your turn now.”—(Ohio State Journal) Roosevelt is said to have “the will to do.” And the country has the “will” to help him do it— (Seattle Times.) For the type of prominent dry worker who wor- ries easily over setbacks, this was the ideal fall to go blank mentally.—(Detroit News.) ment. The remarkable and hopeful aspect of the situation is that despite hostile pressure of various kinds from their respective legisla- tive bodies, the governments of France, Great Britain and the United States are agreed on the necessity and fairness of re- vising the debt terms to meet conditions growing out of the worst depression in In the interest of arriving at such a . settlement it is important that the general public recognize two facts. ‘The foreign public should - understand, as the British and French governments now apparently understand, that outright cancellation is i » b g ‘What we don't understand is that if Mr. Roose- velt is a dangerous radical, as Mr. Hoover used to think, why did Mr. Hoover call him in for con- sultation?—(Dallas News.) With money as scarce as it is everywhere, some people can't help but wonder how those Japanese and Chinese manage to keep themselves supplied with ammunition for all their fighting.—(Indianap- olis News.) It must be trying to be married to a woman who is likely to start out before breakfast any morning and fly across Africa.—(Cincinnati En- f e ot i | FIRE ALARM CALLS Third and Franklin. Front and Franklin. Front, near Ferry Way. 3 4 6 Front, near Gross Apts 8 7 Front, opp. City Wharf. Front, near Saw Mill. 9 Front at A. J. Office. 1 Willoughby at Totem Grocery. Willoughby, opp. Oash Cole’s Garage. Front and Seward. 1- 1 1 1- 1- 1- 1-4 2- Home Boarding House. Gastineau and Rawn Way. - 3 3 ] g E a Twelfth, B.P.R. garage. Twelfth and Willoughby. Home Grocery. Seater Tract. Lbdb e, } JUNEAU FROCK SHOPPE “Exclusive but not Expensive” Coats, Dresses, Lingeria Hoslery and Hats f A PATH T ccmes cbnoxicus and Clive, his |Dicky was to show no fear of I successor, flings him into the ‘ “What's the idea of this com hall. Dicky’s friend Lou-Lou | int#rview?” She spoke contemp- tclcphones thanks to Clive for | tuously. the beating, and when Santa “That I refuse to give you up.” you'd had to be carried home on {a stretcher.” She stumbled on an Next morning, when Clive had departed for business, Santa lay in bed pondering. He'd been sweet, | but she knew now that the vel-|tation for his vet scabbard concealed a sword of cutting keenness. She would interpre- unusual conduct. “Dicky, you've heen drinking.” “I shouldn’t wonder.” was youth and health; only the remaining third was due to feat- | ures. 1 She might lose her money. So | natural an incident as the birth | of a child could snatch her youth | structions to the driver. The taxi left the Park and shot up town. “Where are- you taking me.?” He didn't answer. “Clive will be furious. Do stop!” ! i happy.” “Don’t get you, Dicky.” Any subterfuge to keep him occupied. “Then get me. What's been your object in seeing so much of me since you divorced me?” “That hardly needs answering,” “Answer.” he insisted. A taxi stationed against the| “Pity. After the divorce I had pavement caught her eye. She|Clive waiting for me; you had dived for it and was on the point|nobody. In your loneliness you of entering, when a hand seized |went to the dogs faster than ever. her wrist and jerked her inside.|You had no good influence in your “Don’t make a fuss,” a voice}life.” “I was only putting you wise,” the boy apologized. She flounced out and left him gaping. How many observers had regarded Dicky as her lover? As she hovered on the steps above the avenue, she shivered in the chill February air. warned her. “So you appointed yourself my She struggled to retreat, but the|good influence? Youre kidding taxi started. yourself, Santa.” “You beast! When Clive hears| “You don’t believe that there about this—-" are any good women,” she re- “He won't. Youll never dare|proached him. “Please Dicky, do tell him.” believe. There are and the day “It's the trick of a gangster,”|will come when youll find one. her breath came sobbingly. All that I was trying to do was “An act of Providence. I was|to save you for her. Further lying in ambush, hoping that I‘,help from me is impossible; but might catch sight of you. Your Il always pray for you.” walking bang in on me was pure-| He burst into a guffaw and ly luck.” He still kept tight hold |collared her hand. of her wrist. “Sit back and relax.| “I've known heaps of women; If you don’t behave naturally, the |you're the completest fraud T've driver will become suspicious.” met. This business of reclaiming She thought quickly. Virtue de- | me began last’ summer at St. manded that she should scream |Jean, when you saw me spending and produce a scandal. Dicky money on a woman whom you would be arrested. Headlines in'hated. You were beside yourself the papers. Police-court proceed-(with jealousy. Your prudishness ings. The prisoner’s defence would |didn't permit you to recognize it be that she had led him on. The as fjealousy. Since then you've elevator boy, who believed that he | chucked yourself at me. Not to was her lover, would be called|inflame Clive you've pretended as a witness. Lou-Lou wouldithat T was a lost soul and that probably testify against her. !you were a sister of charity. The Public sympathy would swing|farce has played itself out. Time to Dicky. Whatever the punish-|to be honest.” ment, her reputation would be| She stared at him appalled. She blackened. All Clive's protests couldn’t disguise that her actions SRR RS \ GENERAL MOTORS }‘ and | MAYTAG PRODUCTS | W. P. JOHNSON \ Call Your RADIO DOCTOR for RADIO TROUBLES 9A M tod P. M. Juneau Radio Service Shop i PHCNE 221 Harry Race DRUGGIST quirer.) “THE SQUIBB STORE” 1891 1933 42 YEARS’ BANKING SERVICE to the People of Alaska. COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS We appreciate your patronage and extend to all our best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. The B. M. Behrends Bank JUNEAU, ALASKA OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA I PROFESSIONAL | | ARADISE] . i .- by Coningsby DAWSON ___ Helene W. L. Albrecht | PHYSIOTHERAPY SYNOPSIS: Dicky's will- |would be justified She'd have| Mdssage, Electricity, Infra Red ingness to be “reformed” by [made a boob of him and adver-|| K&y, Medical Gymnastics. | Santa, his former wife, be- |[tised it. The best way to master 307 Goldstein Building | Phone Office, 216 | ® | 4 | DRS.KASER & FREEBURGER learns that Clive and Lou- “Are you sane? How can you n[oDE?flgT;?dl | Lou had conscpired to rid her |give up anyoné who doesn’t belong u;gon“ “50 i H of Dicky she realizes that back |to you?” i DoAY T D i | of Clive's great love for her, | “Youre a rotten little fakir.” |g. T3, %1 there is a strong will. The taxi swung into the park. She huddled in her corner. 1 CHAPTER 45. | I wish Clive had hurt you more| | SANTA TAKES A RIDE last night—smashed you so tnat{| DT. Chacles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building ‘Telephcne 176 never again dare to take chanc- Dr. J. Ww. Bayne es with him. It had been scenes|put back eighteen months, he I DENTIST like the quarrel of last night that slipped his arm about her. Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. had broken up ‘her first mar-| “O, please not that, Dicky.” Office hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. riage. “Who has a better right?” Evenings by appointment | Lazily she began to dress, flirt- Inwardly raging, she smiled Phone 321 { ing with her reflection. Of her |grotesquely. iy s {physical self she approved heart- “Youre awful silly. People go|e. ° eyes, snowy limbs,|to jail for kidnaping.” ac slightness. If it were not| He pressed closer. Dr. Afifigfis“;(ewan r her gimcrack mind she would| “Be yourself, Santa. Why put Hours . am, to 6 pm. i pass for a saint or the Venus de |on airs? ‘We've both hungered SEWARD BUILDING Milo. Speech betrayed her. Clothes [for this for ages.” Office Phone 469, Res. misrepresented her. | Scared to death, she camouflag- Phone 276 The vision of her beauty restor- |ed her trembling with boldness, |%—— — ® ed her confidence till she fell to| He attempted to kiss her. She T gy analyzing its elements. One third | twisted. | TR . 3+ of her appearance was the money | “I'm Clive's wife.” RObe“ Slmp”"n {she spent on it; the second third | yeanins forward he muttéred in- Graduate Los Angeles Col- lege of Optometry wnd Opthalmoiogy Glasses Pitted, Lenzcs Grouud | Opt. D. : I and health from her. If she re-| Lnen ‘: &m;eappe“‘* You al-f® * lied on her physical exquisiteness|V2YS use & gentiogian. to roiain her held on Clive. she| Having collected his thoughts, Dr. C. L. Fenton would become like her mother, a D€ SPoke. CHIROPRACTOR dyed-headed clothes prop, nangmg} “You've never fooled me for a Hours: 10-2; 2-5 on to a husband whom she had |second. I don't know whether HELLENTHAL BUILDING | educated tc despise her. | you've fooled Clive. Last night's Douglas 7-9 P. M. | “I'll never do that to Clive.” outburst would indicate that youl ® o Then a proud thought struck her.|haven't. The real trouble with!| “Couldn't. He wouldn't let me. you, Santa, is that you think|} DR ®. E. SOUTHWELEL | Clive’s not Daddy.” | youre so damned pure. You're opmwnm' i He certainly wasn't. To heave merely a lovely cheat. YouTe so|| Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted | Dicky off his chest, he'd had the unfair that you end by pulling Room 17, Valentine Bldg. ! nerve to conspire with Lou-Lou. [the wool over your own eyes.” Office Phone 484; Restdence “IIl have to watch my p's and| Her conscience pricked her. Here | | Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 g At was another man within less than to 13; 1:00 to 5:30 Purged by her fright, sancti-|24 hours accusing her of unfair-|e: - e » fied and demure, she sallied forth.|ness. He was less menacing when | ¥ The elevator boy smirked at her.|complaining than when he was| DRUGLESS HEALTH “That gentleman your husband |amarous. tossed out has been here inquir-; “Go on,” she taunted. “Tell me INSTITUTE ing for you.” all about myself.” What gentleman?” she bridled.| “Youre an open book to me, Naturgd Mathods “The plump one who carries a|young lady. You'd be surprised Soap Lake {cane and wears spats. Your hus-|by all ‘the truths T could tell you. Misal B band gave orders that he wasn't|What you suffer from is sup- Baths to be admitted.” pressed passion. Your instincts and Drs. Doelker and “O, that gentleman who used|Lou-Lou’s are identical—only she’s Malin to visit my husband.” She feign-|honest and you're a coward. Until Phone 447, nigh! |ed indifference. you cease to pose, you'll never be av day Front ana Main Rose A Andrews—Graduate Nurse ELECTRO THERAPY Cabinet Baths—Massage—Colonic Irrigations Office hours, 11 am. to 5 p. m. Evenings by Appointment Second and Main. Phone 259-1 ring - | T | Dr. Richard Williams , DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE I Gastineau Building, Phone 481 | were susceptible to his interpreta- tion. “If I'm a fraud, a fakir and all the other unpleasant things you've called me, why are you wasting a morning in my company?” “Because, Santa dear,” his de- meanor changed, “you and I de- spite our disagreements are still one, flesh. There's a binding one- ness about a first marriage — I don’t know what and you can't explain to me. It isn't supersti- tion; we've proved that. We've tried to get ,away—nothing doing. For you to be truly Clives wife, I'd have to be dead.” (Copyright, 1931-1932, Coningsby Dawson.) 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