The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 23, 1933, Page 4

4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JAN. 23, 1933, Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneauw, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter., SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By mall, postage pald, at the following rates: year, In advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, e month, in advance, $1.26 Il confer a favor if they will promptly notify the nu«u ()ffwe of any failure or irregularity in the delivery heir papers. Telephone !or 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 ¢r not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. scribers wi ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. HECKMAN ON THE FISHERIES. Former Senator J. R. Heckman of Ketchikan struck a responsive chord when he publicly declared recently that conservation of the Alaska salmon fisheries has borne too heavily on the local fisher- men—Indian and white. Anyone who has seriously studied the system prevailing here in the past, par- ticularly in Southeast Alaska, cannot help but be impressed with the trend toward elimination of seiners from the fishing industry. “The waters in which they have earned their livelil for many years are more and more being clos them and each succeeding year finds it more dillicult for them to earn anything like enough to provide them and their dependents with even the bare necessi- ties of life. That, we are convinced, is the major factor in the intense antagonism that now prevails in many sections against the use of fish traps as a fishing appliance. Packers, more and more, are depending on the traps for their raw supplies to the detri- ment oi the seiner. For the past two seasons the situation has been aggravated, it must be admitted, by the market conditions with which the packers have been con- tending. Confronted with abnormally low prices for the own product, they have been forced to cut their own prices for fish to the point that seine operations are not profitable. In fact, many traps that were paying propositions in prior years, have been operated at a loss, or abandoned by their hold- since 1930, It remaips; true; however, that without .the effect of the depression seiners would be confronted with undersirable conditions. Closures of seining grounds have been too extensive for them to exist even in comparative comfort and unnecessary hardship has resulted. The movement Mr. Heckman seeks to Jaunch is timely and ought to be given more than passive support. His counsel in the matter is wise and moderate. There is room for both seiner and trap in Southeast Alaska. Each is valuable to the industry. Surely it is not impossible for the authori- ties to work out a proper balance between them that will open up opportunities for the fishermen to earn a living and still permit the retention of the traps. Upon one point made by Mr. Heckman there will be universal agreement in the Territory. The people of Alaska, who are the owners of the re- sources upon which the packing industry is founded, Jhave the right to expect to be able to earn a living therefrom. The packers pay a large amount of taxes to the Territory annually, constituting a major share of its revenues, but this does not cancel the right of Alaskans to the chance for work, to fish as they and their forebears have fished in the past, so that they can be independent and self-supporting mem- bers of the community. To deny them that right is to force them to re- main idle, to become charges on the public treasury which means higher taxes for the industry itself. They do not want to live that way. They do want to work and pay their own way as they go. And that desire is typically American. To refuse it to them is to create enemies to Democracy, endanger property and cast a shadow over invested capital, for, as Gov. Clarence D. Martin, recently inaugur- ated Governor of Washington, said in his message to the State Legislature, “Democracy, property and capital are safe only as long as our people have a decent chance for honest employment.” In addition to advocating a decent chance for Alaska labor, Mr. Heckman declared that the sal- mon packers ought to do a great deal more of their buying from Alaska business men. That point has often been urged before. But it has not been productive of many concrete results. The packers, and Mr. Heckman was once prominent in that fraternity, would be well advised to give due weight to his words and adopt such a policy both toward labor and business in the Territory as he has outlined. THE GOVERNOR’S STAFF. Kentucky colonels are traditional. The whole world knows of them and each year sees new ones given rank by the Governor of that great common- wealth, Perhaps Governor Park, lately inaugurated Gov- ernor of Missouri, has imbibed ideas of the quaint old Kentucky custom along with other imbibings of things Kentuckian. Whatever may be the cause, he, too, likes a military staff and has furnished him- self with one that will take second rank to none. 1t is comprised of 54 colonels, each and every one resplendent in full dress army uniform with the addition of a red star on each sleeve. The great seal of the United States is on the belt-buckle. On the double row of gold buttons on the coat and on the cap is the great seal of the State of Missouri. Besides being things of beauty, the Kansas City Star recites details that demonstate they are not without economic importance. It says in the making of the 54 uniforms there were “required one and five-eighths miles of gold braid, 1,096 golden buttons PRESIDENT AND EDITOR | |Show-Me State by commissioning every third voter and 250 yards of cloth. The swords used 270 pounds of metal; and 80 persons found employment in mak- ing up the unforms. Each cost $90.70 as compared to $175 four years ago.” So paltry a cost for such raiment of beauty! Governor Park ought to restore good times to the a Colonel. That Japanese bull is preparing to really invade the China shop next Spring, it seems. The question that bothers the old toper is why all thus fuss about legalizing the sale of beer if the darn stuff isn't ingoxicating. Water can still be had without either cost or legal sanction. Japan may be sincere in her claims that she is Jjust plugging up the holés in Manchuria but it seems more like she was filling the Chinks with lead. “Modified Repeal.” (New Some Dry opponents of the beer bill have said that it will never do to modify the Volstead Act until a resolution for the repeal of the amendment has passed. The resolution reported yesterday to the Senate by the Judiciary Committee substitutes for straight repeal what is prettily called “modified repeal.” The Article proposed in the resolution is a contradiction in terms. According to the first York Times.) section, the Eighteenth Amendment is “hereby re- pealed.” It is not repealed. It is continued in; part. The second section is superfluous. The Webb- Kenyon Act, declared still in force by the Supreme Court, and the Reed amendment are sufficient to deal with the transportation of liquor into States or territory of the United States whose laws forbid it. The third section, giving Congress “concurrent power to regulate or prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors to be drunk on the premises where sold,” prolongs the power of Federal Prohibition. The ad- vocates of the resolution say that this concurrent power—and “concurrent” is merely a euphemism for “independent”—will never be used. Then why do the Drys and some weak-kneed Wets insist that Congress have such power? Why should an empty threat be stuck into the Constitution? But who can tell that it is an empty threat? At any rate, this section is thoroughly un- sound and dishonest. Repeal with a string is not repeal. The advocates of the income tax amend- ment asserted, no doubt honestly, that the power to lay income taxes would never be used except in emergency. Congress wasn't long in finding excuse to use the power. For a long time to come there must be a considerable Dry band in Congress. Out- side there is a determined, active and vociferous collection of diehards. There is likely to be a per- petual effort to restore the old regime. But the fact that the Federal hand is not to be taken off the throats of the States, that they are not to be free to deal, each in its own way, with the liquor traffic, is more than enough to condemn this sec- tion. To say that a provision is going to be unused i{is the lamest of apologies for trying to stick it into the Constitution. Senator Walsh of Montana and others say, in effect, that this section is just a sop to the Drys. {Without it a three-fourths majority of the States for ratification can't be had. But what believer in repeal wants such a doublefaced and equivocating |\ amendment ratified? To add the last stroke of genius to this masterpiece of evasion, ratification by Legislatures is substituted for ratification by State conventions. So the platforms of both parties are calmly kicked out of the window. Mr. Rainey and Speaker Garner are not carried away by the methods of the easy-going compromisers and so- phisticators of the Senate. They stick to the Demo- cratic position. Naked repeal was all but carried in the House. If the floundering Senate resolution is ever passed, that will be the end of it. The hope of absolute repeal lies in the next Congress. * A Dubious Project. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Rapid growth of opposition to the Great Lakes- St. Lawrence waterway treaty is encouraging, as it indicates the project is to be examined in the Senate in view of its real possibilities, and will not be ap- proved hastily on the assumption that new water- ways are always great steps in national progress. The waterway undertaking is open to attack for several reasons. It would virtually destroy the rail- way transportation system of the Northeastern United States. 1If the real cost of the waterway is calculated and worked into the rates, it probably would mean higher transportation costs for Middle- Western grains than are now in effect on railways. The Government today is lending vast sums to the railroads, aware of the necessity for maintaining their financial integrity in the face of declining revenues. Why, then, should it appropriate an even larger sum of money to construct a new competitor for the railroads. Either the one or the other use of public funds is not justified. There may be some sound arguments for ratifi- cation of the waterwaws treaty with Canada, but, if so, they are largely with Canada and a few lake ports. They should be balanced against the very grave objections to ratification. If the waterway is built and operates at rates lower than present rail rates, it is certain that the public will be pay- ing, indirectly, a subsidy to grain and other produc- ers using the new route, at the same time dealing a severe blow to the railroads, in effect canceling the gains of the vast loans already made to the railroads, crippling the Mississippi Valley system of waterways and striking hard at-every important trade center in the Middle West below the lakes. Tt isn't at all surprising that the Italians should be the ones to produce a silent cannon. Mussolini is the only big gun in that country that's permit- ted to make a loud roar.—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) Captain Kidd was only a fourth-rate gentle- man and a third-rate pirate, reports a historian. But he was a first-rate hider of treasure.—(Detroit Free Press.) Of course, if the United States doesn’t cancel the war debts, there is always Europe who can.— (Dallas News.) Notre Dame probably is glad the Electoral Col- lege has no football team it has to meet before going into winter quarters.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.) ‘Would you call the present gathering of Con- gress the short beer session?—(New York Sun.) La Belle France is not that well-known woman who pay:s and pays and pays.—(Indianapolis Star.) The only slicker trick that balancing the na- tional budget is getting it to stay that way.—(Cin- cinnati Enquirer.) SYNOPSIS: Twenty years ago the firm of Quentin, Lode- ly and Cane made good a for- tune it had lest for Farrell Ar- mitage. Bankrupt, the senier partners died. Cane prespered, became Sir James. Now Far- rell has been expecting to pro- pese to Leila, Sir James’ daugh- ter—but he met, Barbara Quen- tin. Farrell declares he will | marry Barbara, although Bar- bara is to marry the crippled Mark Lodely in five days. Leila helps Farrell by sending him over to take Barbara to a dance. While Barbara dresses Farrell buys three pictures from Mark, and Mark accepts an invitation to visit Farrell in London on Thursday—the day set for the wedding. Far- rell gees down to meet Barbara she is wearing an emerald given her by Mark. Farrell does not like it. CHAPTER 12. Barbara did not seem either as- tonished or offended by his pro- test. There was not an a‘om of coquetry about her. She just look- ed enquiringly at him, the emerald taking all the color from her hair fand her eyes. “I beg your pardon,” mended. “One of my vanities is that I'm a judge of pictures: —” he shifted the three landscapes slightly under his arm—“and that emerald isn’t right. It isn't your stone. You should never wear any- thing but pearls and jade and— and perhaps occasionally little old fashioned bits of garnet or black opal. But mainly pearls.” Mrs. Lodely's burst of laughter crashed out from the doorway. “So now you know Babs! Pearls, pearls! Poor old Babs!” Her hoarse geniality filled the air. “Fact fis, Mr. Armitage, you've not been properly introduced to our Babs. She’s Toxeter’s only dress-design- er and interior decorator and gen- eral adviser on Art in the Home and so forth. And the only pearls comin’ her way are her own pearls of wisdom—" “‘Cast before swine’, mented Armitage, gently. Barbara made an answer. She took from a peg the fur coat that she had been wearing when Ar- mitage first saw her and with & quiet—“Tomorrow evening as usu- al, Jud, she left the little house. Armitage lingered to take leave of Mark’s mother. “Your son is coming up to wwn in a few days to stay with ‘me, Mrs. Lodely. I'm hoping you'll come, t00.” She looked astonished. “In a few days?” “On Thursday, to be exact.. sending down a car for him.” “This comin’ Thursday? O©Oh, but—" She was bewildered and as he expected, she covered it with her inevitable laugh. Then she swung away from him and went plunging up the stairs. He slammed the door shut and strode off across the pavement. Barbara had got into the car— the Devalet sedan that had brought him from London to Kings Mal- lard. Under the light of the street lamp he saw her eyes wonder around the shining interior of the car. “This is a nice car, Mr. Armi- tage.” “Why not try her out? might like her?” “You mean—I may drive this beautiful car a little way? Now? She had slid along the seat and was behind the wheel. He got in beside her. In the intimate half- darkness of the car, he noted that she used no perfume but that her supple- I'm You hair had a natural fragrance, ‘oo delicate to describe. “I can't drive well” she said. “I don't you see, very often get the chance of driving at all. But I will be very careful.” She had turned out of the road and was heading cautiously for the open country round the bay. “You're perfectly all right. You drive intelligently. Let her out a bit if it amuses y« “No, T'm not sure of myself. The dance—" . “Wouldn't you rather drive my car than dance with me?’ “Oh, yes,” she admitted. Then, as he chuckled—"I'm afraid that sounded rude, but when youre a —a business-person you get rather Buying Barbara byql-thAu-—.A-m-ql'kumum- Farrell | Jand carry.” ;:ired by the end of the day and |dancing in a crowded room isn't! much fun. You feel too tattered.” She brought the Devalet to a standstill. A second car rattled past them and its lights showed him the faint rose staining her cheeks, and the darker gold where the night-wind stirred amongst the roots of her hair. “Sure you’re not cold?” “Not a scrap. Will you turn her or will you trust me not to scrape anything?” “Have a cigarette first. It's ra- ther pleasant here. Isn't it along this bay that there’s a cove called Bobey's? And didn't Mrs. Lodely organize picnics there and tell us that the Bogey was hiding in a cave and would eat us if we wad- ed too far out? I remember hop- ing that he would just peaceably let me drown, instead.” She had accepted one of his cig- arettes and he pul a box of match- |es into her other hand. He watch- ed, absorbedly, the miracle wrought by the little point of flame. Out of the crisp darkness, sprang her owing curve of cheek and chain, her childish tip of nose, her wo- man’'s red lips. . . . He thrust both hands into his pockets and held | tightly to the keys and coins he found there. | “I want to know two things,” he said with determination. “The first s—why don't you call me Farrell, when it is obvious that only by ac- cident did we miss playing togeth- in Bogey Cove? And the sec- ond is, why not go down to Bogey Cove? I'm going back to Town tomorrow and I want to see the Bogey before I go.” “Yes, if you like. And certain- ly Tl call you Farrell, if you want me to. Only, when we've looked at Bogey Cove, could you drive me to Toxeter?” “To Toxeter?” “To. my—our new house, where; Mark and I are going to live. A good many of our possessions are there already, and amongst them is a cupboard of which Mark has lost the key. T believe I've found a key that would fit it and I want {so much to try it.” “Tonight?” “Yes, Then if we can open the cupboard, you can S$ee more of Mark’s work. 1 believe there are some portraits there. .. Don't you want to go to Toxeter?” Farrell flung out his cigarette. “On the contrary, it's Bogey's Cove that I no longer want to go to.” “Oh, but why? Of course, Tox- eter's quite in the opposite direc- tion—" “Quite!” said Farrell, stepping out in order to go round to the driver’s side. “We'll leave out Bo- gey Cove until—some other time!” Wherefore, he shortly brought the car to rest before the gap where Barbara's gate would be and helped her out. He looked reflec- tively around him. The road that led past her house was not yet completed. The last lamppost was sixty yards away. It was all dark and uncomfortable and new. He disapproved of everything. He loathed the neighbors’ smug little curtains and he loathed the distant cathedral. What he had seen of the rest of Toxeter he spurned likewise. . . . He followed her silver slippers across the grav- el that strewed her front path- way, and into the house. She put up @ hand and switched on the light. There was laid bare to Armitage's inimical gaze a big room, inadequately rugged and curtained. Some battered furni- ture iilled onc end and there was a gas [ire. Shivering a little, Barbara asked for a match. “Tll see to it” said Armitage shortly. “You know you've got a ghastly bad habit of not making men fetch and carry for you. It's got to stop.” She laughed. It was the first time he had heard the sweet, mer- ry sound. The match burned down to his finger tips and he had to light another. “I'm nearly always with Mark, I suppose.” She was sober again. “And he, of course, can't fetch Armitage lit the fire and drew the curtains. At once the room held a semblance of loneliness. One could imagine it full of people, of tobaccosmoke, of voices, even of gramaphone music, and shuffling 1891 Ten years from now the airplane will make the truck as sick as the truck now does the railroad. —(Cincinnati Enquirer.) - 42 YEARS’ BANKING SERVICE to the People ‘of Alaska. COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA 1933 The B. M. Behrends Bank - JUNEAU, ALASKA 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire ————d JANUARY 23, 1913 ‘The Juneau Ladies Musical Club elected officers the previous night at a meeting in the high school building. Mrs. T. . Lyons suc- ceeded Mrs. B. M. Behrends as president; Mrs. Charles Hooker succeeded Mrs. Lyons as vice- president; . Mrs. Charles Garfield succeeded Mrs. A. A. Gabbs as secretary-treasurer and Mrs, Willis E. Nowell was re-elected librarian. Mr. Nowell, director of the organi- zation was unavoidably absent. The charge against H. Bjork,; arrested for selling liquor to In- dians, was dismissed by Judge Grover C. Winn. P. M. Mullen was subpoenaed to appear as a witness in a case % be tried in Chicago Februa.ryl‘ 17. Henry Shattuck of the Alaska Supply Company left on the Mari- posa for Seattle to purchase a mill for the Juneau Saw Mill Company. Norman Erickson, employed in the mines at Eagle River, was srought to Juneau on the Georgia and taken to St. Ann's hospital for treatment of a severe injury. Dr. Dawes and Ben were among the passengers who arrived in Juneau on the Humboldt from Wrangell. Judge J. C. Thomas, commis- sioner at Wrangell, arrived in Juneau and brought word that petty pirates had been looting nearby canneries of fishing gear and supplies. Paul Bloedhorn, Douglas jew- ler, had just received a large consignment of beautiful Al¢ka rings. Twenty years ago Juneau was perturbed about building a new hotel as it is now. W. W. Casey, returning from a trip to Seattle said that there was no big ho- tel money available and Jun- eau must solve the problem of suitable and ample hotel accom- madations itself. Mr. Casey brought with him from Seattle four horses, some wagons, sled and other gear useful in the transfer business. feet. He wandered round it while she dipped into the pockets of her coat and produced a key. “It is the key,” she exclaimed. “Or, at least, it fits the cupboard. Oh, Mark will be pleased! And there are portraits here.” Unwillingly, Armitage sauntered up to inspect the portraits. “Or aren’t you—would you rath- er not bother?” she asked, sud- denly shy. “Mark would hate me to—to tout his work to anyonme.” Armitage had looked at the first portrait for quite a minute before he realized that it was a portrait of a girl before a mirror. She wore, on a platinum chain, an em- erald set in a spider’s web of plat- inum. Nothing more. Her face was perfectly familiar. She was Leila Cane. 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