The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 19, 1933, Page 4

{ i | H | | (TR v L 4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 19, 1933. Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - PRESIDENT AND ED;TOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER Published _every except Sunday by _the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Maln Streets, Juneau, Alaska. evening Entered In the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per _month, By mall, postage pald, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; 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 In the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the ass for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or unot otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. FOR ALASKA. BEER BILL PROVIDES The Valdez Miner, in a recent editorial com-| menting on the outlook for legal beer, advises xL;‘: readers not to permit their thirsts to become too| greatly whetted for that beverage inasmuch as they will have to confine their imbibinb to the home| brewed article unless and until the Alaska Bone| Dry Law is repealed. Apparently a large number | of Alaskans are of the same opinion on this ques- | ton. However, this is a misconception. If Congress passes the beer bill, and it should become law either | with or without the President’s approval, Alask&: will have its brew, legally, just as soon as it can| be manufactured or shipped into the Territory. We owc‘1 Delegate Wickersham for making this certain. Origin- ally as introduced by Chairman Collier of the House Ways and Means Committee, its author, the bill did not include Alaska. Learning of this, the Dele- gate appeared at one of the hearings and requested that the measure be amended so that his own con- stituents might have access once more to their old favorites — Pabst, Schiltz, Anheuser-Busch — or of | some lesser known but equally invigorating brand | manufactured right here in the Territory. The Delegate, at the Committee’s request, submitted such an amendment and, although his exact language was not adopted, the idea was incorporated into the measure and was retained when it was passed by visions of the Collier Beer Bill anyhow. The bill de- the House. Therefore, unless the Senate takes it away from us, Alaskans will at least be on a par ~with the rest of the country for the duration of the beer era. But Alaska would probably come within the pro- clares the sort of beer that it permits to be manu- factured and sold is not intoxicating. The Alaska Bone Dry Law prohibits “intoxicating” liquor. The Collier Bill beer would take the same rating as soft drinks and its sale would be permitted any- where in the country. However, the Territory will not bo so fortunate in the matter of Prohibition repeal. Even though every State in the Union should ratify a resolution repealing the Eighteenth Amendment, we would still drink illicit liquor until the repeal of the Alaska Bone Dry Law by Congress. The Delegate, who wrote that act, possibly sensing the great evil there- by inflicted upon the northland, has strongly urged the present Congress to repeal it, so far without success, He obtained a hearing last Spring on the measure he introduced to that end but, when he found the committee’s report would be adverse, did not press for a report preferring to let it go over to the Deecmber session when he hoped to get the hearing re-opened. Apparently there has been no progress made and, if Congress legalizes beer and wine, we shall have to be content to use “moon- shine” for a spike at least for the time being. 1932 EXCELLENT IN ONE RESPECT. Perhaps the most common New Year comment with which 1933 was greeted was to the effect that “we are glad 1932 is over.” And most people did have reason to be joyful that it was ended. Gen- erally, it was a gloomy, joyless 12-month period. But after all it had its bright spots. This is brought out by the yearly report of the National Safety Council covering the year's record of auto- mobile traffic casualties. It revealed that there were 13 per cent. fewer persons killed in automobile accidents in 1932 than in the year previous. The number of total fatalities for the year was 29,000, the lowest toll since 1928 when 27,996 deaths were mreported. Less traffic and more effective safety efforts were assigned as the major factors in the 1932 ‘improvement. Several of the larger cities reported reductions considerably more than the average for the Nation as a whole. Pittsburgh reported 29 per cent. de- crease; Baltimore a drop of 21 per cent.; Cleve- land, 17 per cent.; the State of Indiana, 22 per cent.; and Wisconsin, 17 per cent. ‘While the downward trend is a matter for grati- fication to the country, the death list of 29,000 proves that we haven't yet arrived at the point where we can regard the matter with any save pro- | found dissatisfaction. There is still much to be| done in the way of straightening out muddled traf- fic laws and regulations, establishing proper control systems and curbing reckless drivers. Automobile accidents are still all too common occurrences for comfort to either pedestrians or autoists. F. TRUBEE DAVISON QUITS POLITICS. F. Trubee Davison, 37-year-old Assistant Secre- tary of War in Charge of Aeronautics, and unsuc- cessful Republican candidate for Lieutenant Gov- ernor of New York last November, has retired from the field of politics at least temporarily. He has Jjust been elected President of the American Museum of Natural History, one of the greatest institutions land trying to sell him goods. |United States for 25 successive years, assuming the office when his successor was a lad only 12 years old. Under his administration the institution, which is 64 years old, has risen from the ranks of similar educational establishments to be the largest and finest of any city or State in the world, offering unexcelled op- portunities in the field of science education from astronomy, mineralogy and geology to hiology and anthropology. Samuel Insull, whose kingdom of public utilities crashed around his head, should h&ive no difficulty in living as a citizen of Greece on that $20,000 annual pension derived from his former greatness. Another thing that those :11,000,000 unemployed Americans wont spend nights worrying about whether Babe Ruth consents to have his wages cut to a mere $50,000 a year, or forces the New York Yankees to add a few more thousand to it. Governor - Elect Roosevelt's projected cruise of southern waters before March 4, may be the result of a yearning to have one more pleasure cruise be- fore he embarks on troubled seas on at least a four-year voyage. What the Future Holds. (Seward Gateway.) When President Hoover was asked, as a mining engineer, the possibilities of Soviet Russia in point of mining, he replied: There is more mineral in the State of Montana. And yet Montana has been mined since the early seventies. It was believed for a time that Montana’s min- ing resources centered first in the Alder Gulch, and finally in Butte, the great copper camp. For many years the Alaska Treadwell was con- sidered all that the Territory had to offer in gold. Then came the Klondike and the successive placer finds which swung attention away from lode mining to the more easily extraced placers. But it remained for Frederick Worthen Bradley, assisted by his brother Philip and L. H. Metzgar, engineers and General Superintendent respectively, to bring in the wonder mine, the Alaska Juneau. Kennecott overshadowed anything known in the copper world as a magic mine. Doubting Thomases for 15 years scoffed at Wil- low Creek. It is predicted that from 400 to 500 men will be employed there next summer, and the men who 10 years ago laughed to scorn the patient and poverty stricken prospector are now cultivating him In fact Willow Creek is the greatest resource back of Anchorage and already has made this fact manifest in the spirited growth of that city within the past year. There are the same doubting Thomases scoffing at Nuka Bay. It would be difficult to determine the cause of this state of mind; maybe it is that lack of vision possessed by non-analytical minds. But Nuka Bay is the bright thing on the horizon which guarantees Seward a place in the sun. The prospectors in Nuka Bay deserve encour- agement, and no praise is too high for those who have battled away on small means and at great sacrifice to finally bring its treasures to light. These are the men who build a nation; others simply follow after. ‘The Bradleys built the Alaska Juneau by solving a problem not only enriching the owners but which contributes even greater values to the art of metal- lurgy. They proved that hitherto believed worthless gangue matter could be made to yield millions. It will require science as well as money and labor to finally elevate lode mining to its proper position. No more inviting field offers than the coastline between Cape Resurrection and Two Arm Bay. It has the geological structure, the rich sur- face veins and only requires development to possibly produce arcther Alaska Juneau. Going Up Higher. (New York Times.) Franklin D. Roosevelt now adds his name to the distinguished list of men to whom the Governorship of New York has been a stepping-stone to the Presi- dency of the United States. None of them more worthily earned the recognition and reward. Going to Albany in 1929 against his will, he has not only made a gallant and uncomplaining fight against the physical handicap which he thought should excuse him from the contest of 1928, but has been an un- commonly hard-working and conscientious Governor, apparently losing himself in the affairs and welfare of the people of this State, totus in illis. After this demonstration of his Executive ability, with his high-bred personal appeal all the time in evidence, it was natural that politicians all over the country ibegan to take note of the eligibility of this son of the Empire State for a higher office. To it he will bear the confidence and the pride of the people of this Commonwealth, before whom he has gone in and out for four years, and for whose well-being he has spared neither time nor labor. New York hopefully gives Governor Roosevelt to the Nation. Life Teems for Her. . (New York Times.) One can only wish that American writers who specialize in the flatness and thinness of American life had a touch of the gift that seems to have fallen so generously to Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis. She will be remembered as the discoverer and collab- orator of the late “Trader Horn.” It now appears that Mrs. Lewis has another chronicle of an extraordinary life to give to the world. This time it is of a Russian Jew, born in Odessa, who exhibited the mixture of regrettable and saintly habits which we associate with the name of Karamazov, and who at the age of 63 was wounded in the Battle of Ypres. Mrs. Lewis has agreed to write this man’s life after turning down no less than eighty-three re- quests to write the story of other adventurous careers. Yet for a dozen years or more, in this of 120,000,000 people and perhaps 10,000,000 business men, the novelists could find nothing but stuffed shirts to write about. It doesn’t look as if the technocrats would be able to relieve the Democrats of the job of solving all those problems.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.) Technocracy is very simply explained; just a lot of unemployed Wall Street statisticians finding a new racket.—(Detroit Free Press.) France not only has a large percentage of the world’s gold supply but also enjoys what amounts to a monopoly on the brass—(Ohio State Journal.) Siam deleted a flock of princes from its payroll in an economy campaign. That's one way of re- of its kind in the world. g Mr. Davison succeeded Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn. The latter was President of the Museum trenching from the top down.—(Seattle Times.) ‘We are now off on a new cycle; let’s hope it’s a buy-cycle—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) isj SYNOPSIS: Out of a cur- ious failure, wherein the senior members of Quentin, Lodely & Cane died penniless, and James Cane prospers and was knighits« ed, has grown an equally cur- - ious situation, 20 years later. Barbara Quentin and Mark Lodely, children together, are to be married in five days, al- thcugh Mark is a cripple and coften cruel. It was making geod Farrell Armitage’s for- tune, that bankrupted the firm, and Farrell has fallen in love with Barbara at first sight, and tries to win her from Mark. And his ally in the vea- ture, is the girl wio had ex- pected him to propose to her —Leila Cane, daughter of Sir James Cane. Barbara has bungled in her attempt to re- make the fire in Mark’s room, and he laughs. CHAPTER 9. BAITING BARBARA Barbara re-arranged the fire, kneeling before it to hide the color that swept her face, then sumed her séat. She knew better than to chatter to Mark but his hard stare dis- composed her and she picked up a sheet of drawings from the floor and began to examine them. She was bending over the third hefore she realized that he had possibly left them on the floor on pur- pose. They were in pencil and they were brutal. They followed the fortunes of a man and a girl—a lame man and a girl with a plod- ding, pleasant soul. They showed the lame man cooking a meager dinner while she, tall, square, and frowning, battled with her ledgers. Or he—in a boudoir cap—wept while she glowered, three small coins upon the table between them. Or he sat, his shoulders timidly hunched, winding yarn, his lame leg propped up to hold the skein clear; and she tinkered at some bookshelves against the wall. Barbara, cold by the crackling log, closed her eyes. Often, with Mark, one had to close one's eyes for a moment and fumble back for things—beliefs, vows, endur- ances. They came in the form of pic- tures. Mr. Lodely, coming through the garden to turn Mark’s tear- stained, sulky face to his; Mr Lodely relinquishing him and lay- ing his hand on her curls, “Babs, I want you to promise something. “I've got to go away. Until T come back, take care of Mark. Take good care of himy Babs.” And then, three minutes later, the sound of the shot. And then there was her own mother, fading gently out of lifé before her husband had been ‘a full year in his grave. ‘“Never forget that it's dignified to earm and mean just to take. I planned, you know, to keep a little shop. Perhaps when you're a grown-up, girl, my baby, you'll like to keep a little shop.” “This is naughty of you, Mark,” she protested tranquilly. “And it's brilliant. Youre always most brilliant when you're most un-j? kind.” “It's not unkindness, it’s the cry |it." of the sensitive spirit.” He tlicked a cigarette in the direction of the: grate. It was not extinguished and she was obliged to get up and put it into the fire or it would have burned a hole in the hearth= rug. “Judy has been telling me that I'm too sensitive” he went on, “so I must be; Am T, Barbara?” “Not about stupid, conventional things,” she said cautiously. (So often, in this kind of conversa= tion, one helped to dig a pit for oneself.) “Not 'about stupid, conventional things,” echoed Mark in tones of admiration. “And how stupid the conventions can be only a free, jolly Bohemian soul like our Bar- bara can ever know. Now I come to think of it, we shall be bowing to a very supid convention next Thursday. Let’s cut it out and keep house together under the uying Barbara e by Julia Cleft-Addams ¢ Author of “YOU CAN'T MARRY=~ Te- | 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire “Would you rather put off our getting married, Mark? As things) January 19, 1913. lare, we can quite well wait a bit.! The fishing schooner Rolfe | We can't aff—we can’t spare time|Prought in 14,000 pounds of hali- but and the schooner Thekle for a honeymoon, anyway.” “Postponement of sentence? |rather get it over, my dear.” | She was goaded, in spite of the long, patient years, into a flash of ‘pride, ot youre even remotely serious in what vou say, let's call it off. \We can go on being close friends {and—" brought in 30,000 pounds of fish. President J. C. Ford, of the Pa- cific Steamship Co., stated in an interview that in a few years Ju- neau would be the most important mining city in the world. Td The water of Salmon Creek was iturned into the big flume for the hank you!” Oh, thank you|first time and allowed to flow ‘mebkmd words.” down the pipe to the lower power! ——nothing need be ehanged. But,|plant. all, it was your—your suge gestion, originally, You—asked me to marry you.” He lit another cigarette. { “But, beautiful Barbara—solemn, {hard-working, sensible Barbara—I ialways ask women to marry me when I'm in love with them. But, ]generally, they refuse.” She felt the blood scorch her |face. She was not jealous. It was Inot that. It was that there were |so many rumors in this little town |about Mark and his affairs; there /was a very, nearly substantiated story about Mark and Leila Cane |—and somehow Barbara coud not Ebear that curious coarseness in IMark, that laid these things bare ‘ She regained her control with an effort. “There is still time for me to fall in line with the others,” she |said quietly. “Say what is in your mind instead of—of baiting me in- to_saylng . it. | That's—vulgar.” a hand, but she could not go to She knew, as she used the word, {p.n yet. A moment—give her a that it was the wrong one. To moment—she sensed that he “had accuse him of vulgarity was to flung away the black mood, he strike home, and under the smart{y .4 phe charming now, g;:m,le. of a deserved blow, he could be perceptive, immensely appealing. A | devilish. She stumbled on and|moment and she would be able |made things worse. 4, gy y _|to take his hand. I think we shall have to decide “Barbara, don't shut your face f)‘;"‘gh‘- it “‘: L"”]‘_e" up like that. Don't lock me out of because if you don't want to Wveiyqu. eyeg like that! I won't be a in Texteer I ought to close the[pq.qs o o ny more. I'm damned sor- shop there and accept that Lon- ry—" v don cORGERgNE In a moment, in a moment! He siggied. When a hurt goes one must “Beautiful Barbara, how could beg'jus'z P mofmmieep' the whims of a foolish, coy crea-| «parhara, come over here!” |ture like me be allowed to inter- i § -y She turned stiffly, still not look- fere with Big Business? And, by ing at him. She would have gone the way, how was business today? ., him of course, but at that Isn't that the question that every|yoment the door opened and Mrs loving helpmeet hurls of the weary Lodely came in, followed by the wage-earner before he—I'm SOrTy—|man who had pulled her back on she falls upon the evening bone?” |, the pavement in the Yard Mar- She said nothing. She need|yqt s il 5 not, surely help him to torture her. (Copyright, 1932, Julia Cleft- The mouse need not stay alive to Addams.) amuse the cat. She wondered daz- edly for she was tired and sick at heart, whether Mark would kill her one day.... He had shifted over to one side and was watching the fire. Only Mark could make . a silence so frightful. G Bl She found herself breaking it, as oatlng after all. She told him how busi- ness was and how she hoped it| Does eating even the simplest| would be. Forgetting him, for a|food make your stomach and bow- moment, she stepped into the fu-|els fill up with gas until you think ture, calculating, planning. So|Yyou're going to suffocate? much for their living expenses in{ Then just try this before you eat: Texeter, so much to pay off the|Take a tablespoonful of artificial mortgage on the little house she |digestive juice such as you are sup- had taken there, so much for hol- [posed to have in your stomach nat- idays and healis, “And your leg-|urally (druggists call it “Mentha acy for absolute emefgencies, Mark. [ Pepsin”) and you'll have no more It's Lo know that that will | trouble. No gas. No pain. No 4 here.” “| bloating. No distress of any kind. I spent| Money back, says Butler Mauro % Drug Co., any time that Dare’s ,She bit off her exclamation. |Mentha Pepsin fails to give relief. Quite useless—worse than useless —adv. to exclaim over Mark! She sat helpless, the mouse waiting for the| Read the aas as carefully as you claws to strike again. ... Mark|read the news articles. was drawing something from un- [Ty JUNEAU FROCK The cold snap of the last two weeks broke a trifle and snow be- gan to fall, increasing the prev- fous amount to a substantial ex- tent. Manager Summers of the dry goods department of Goldstein's department store reported that the recent clearance sale had been very successful. Senator-elect L. V. Ray, of Sew- ard, announced himself as a can-; didate for President of the Terri- torial Senate. the case, her breath ragged. Take good care of Mark—good care— like this—he was a cripple, shut off from life, bitter, frustrated. “Barbara—" He had half-risen and flung out Barbara, tomorrow, doessome- thing she will never be able to forget. der the pillow. He tossed it into her lap. “Gift of the bridegroom to the PP bride. Open it, beautiful Bar- SHO E bara. It cost such a lot and it|] “Exclusive but not Expensive” is so extremely out of place.” Coats, Dresses, Lingerie She opened the case. A very Hoslery and Hats fine emeiald lay on pale jade vel- | beereesreecooromosaoosad vet and a platinum chain was coiled round it. The setting was platinum, too, and unusual — a spider’s web, fine but strong, in which the jewel was invisiblly held. ‘With unsteady fingers she closed the case. She did not like emer- alds. He knew she did not like emeralds. Tt was Leila Cane who |2 liked them. Three hundred pounds|&™ for an unwanted emerald when it GENERAL MOTORS and MAYTAG PRODUCTS | W. P. JOHNSON ‘ bulging clerical eyes of Toxeter.|Was going to be a struggle to find But no—I forgot! It would be|enough for rent and food! bad for business!” She felt, for the first time in 1-3 Third and Franklin, Barbara was still determinedly [her life, the desire to strike the }: Pnn:' ::r Franklin, smiling. smile from his face. 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