The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 25, 1933, Page 4

B e ] A baa THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE; WEDNESDAY, JAN. 25, 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 Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. <l SRS B TS R St S SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per_month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: O , 'in_advance, $12.00; six months, In advance, $6.00 month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure 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 not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local néws published herein. ALASKA ‘CIRCULATION GUARANTEED .TO BE LARGER THAN,THAT OF ANY OTHER FUBLICATION. MAY CALL FOR NEW ELECTION DATE.| Thirty-six States having ratified the Norris reso- lution to amend the Federal Constitution so as to advance the date for convening new terms of Con- gress to January 3, following the last preceding election, there will be no more “lame duck” essions. The present one will be the last, and its record for non-achievement, for lack of responsiveness to the| public will as exemplified by its dillydallying with the beer bill and its muddle of the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, merely adds to the already overwhelming mass of evidence that there is serious need for the amendment. Ratification of the resolution makes it encumbent on the forthcoming Alaska Legislature to revamp the Territory’s election laws. Under the election code enacted by the 1931 Session of the Alaska Legisla- ture, canvass of the returns are not required to be complete until as late as February 20, succeeding the November election. The reason for that delay is patent. Often, in closely contested elections, the outcome is dependent upon the votes cast in some smaller and more remote precincts having scanty mail service and from which returns are not avail- able for weeks, even months, after the date of elec- tion. gress, the delay in making the official canvass and issuing certificates of election does not injure any- shall meet during the first one. But when Congres week of January, another condition is set up. Under the Territorial statute, the Delegate from Alaska could not,_take his seat yntil as long as two months after Congress convened, and the Territory would be without representation in the national law mak- ing body at a time when the all-important appro- priations bill are in the process of formulation. ‘That, naturally, must be avoided. There are two ways in which the defect can be remedied. The most simple is obviously to require the Canvassing Board to complete its work,K long enough before January 1, to permit the successful candidate to reach Washington in time to take his seat at the outset of the new Congress. But, if that is done, unquetsionably there will be occasions when the Board would have to act before the Territorial | returns are nearly complete, and when later and full returns will reverse the standings of the candi- dates. That would be a grave injustice, not only to some candidates, but to the people of Alaska, and, therefore, ought to-be guarded against. The second, and, we believe, the better method would be to advance the date of election from the first Tuesday in November to the first Tuesday in September. That Sould give ample time for all returns to be recelved by the middle of December and there would be no risk of the certificates of election being issued to the wrong candidates. The Territorial Legislature has the power to make either of these changes, and one or the other ought to be made during the session that convenes here on March 6, next. PIGEONHOLING HOOVER APPOINTMENTS. The Democratic ban on President Hoover's ap- pointments, promulgated at the outset of the current session of Congress is proving effective. Since Con- gress reconverged last December but one of the Presi- dent’s nomiglations have been approved by the Senate. Rpy D. Chapin, nominated to be Secre- tary of Commerce, was naturally confirmed. His term will expire with that of Mr. Hoover on March 4. Others have been referred to the Senate com- ttee pigeonhole where they are, apparently safely ucked away. The President, sticking to his ex- rhsned determination of continuing to appoint men fill vacancies regardless of the Senate edict, nuned Representative Arentz, of Nevada, to the Federal Power Commission, and renominated Way- Jand - W.. Magee to -the Federal Reserve Board. Arentz, a Republican, is a lame duck member of the present House of Representatives. out the unexpired term of the late Ralph B. William- gon, Vice-Chairman of the Power Commission Though this term runs only until next June, Arentz hasn’'t been confirmed and the political observers in the National capital predict he will not be. Magee's present term expired on January 25. He has served on the Reserve Board since May, 1831, {filling the unexpired -term of Edward Cunningham. There are many other minor appointments pending, and which are expected to be in that status when Congress adjourns sine die. The Democrats, out of the Federal patronage picture for 12 years, are not glving away any jobs just now to Republicans, no matter how worthy they may be. ADJUSTMENT PROCESS ACCELERATED. Business indices at the start of the New Year " reflect little vigor in national trade. Adjusted for seasonal variation, the index of electric power pro- __|and summer low points. Under the present system of convening Con-| He would fill| !duc!inn is only slightly above the December low, |which in turn went substantially below the spring | The heavy industries are still sluggish. Steel | production is at the abnormally low figure of 13 |per cent. of capacity and yet expectations are that in face of this feeble rate of output unfilled orders of the Steel Corporation in December probably- de- clined slightly. What is true of steel holds good of all of the equipment and machinery trades. Meantime, the tendency toward fresh retrench- ment on the part of corporations, governments and individuals is rather unmistakable. There is a ruth- less determination to balance budgets. Whether general wage-cutting will flow from this policy should become clear within the next few months. Regardless of the apathy of business and the myriad problems to be solved the country is moving forward ‘economically. Financial liquidation has been largely accomplished, other readjustments are taking place all of the time. People are getting; down' to. brass tacks and that means the broad readfustments must soon be completed. James Whitcomb Riley, modern version: The technocrats will get you if you don’t watch out. The most notable feature about this, the last, lame duck Congress is the volume of quacking it has emitted mostly bad to the last quack. Relief by Work. (New York Times.) A plan to guarantee certain industries against loss if they would resume normal production was advocated before a Senate committee yesterday. The financial argument was rather hazy. There was considerable force, however, in what may be called the moral argument. It is, in effect, that it is better to supply the unemployed with work than to give them grants in aid. This has been one of |the working principles of the Gibson committee in |this city. It has sought to make, and has made, | thousands of jobs for men out of work, though un- fortunately it has been able in this way only partially to meet the existing need. Before the Senate com- |mittee, the President of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Mr. Miller, contended that even if relief by making work proved to be “expensive,” it would at least prevent men and women from falling into the expectation of being supported by charity or by public funds without work. One of the evil effects of the “dole” in Eng- land has been an impairment of the desire to live by working. Since the war, it is admitted that a large number of young men and women have be- come habituated to the idea that it is not necessary to learn a trade or acquire a special skill or seek {too hard for employment, since the insurance fund, supplemented by votes of money by Parliament, will at least give them enough to keep them alive. The recent stiffening up of the so-called “means test” in Great Britain was aimed directely at this class of the unemployed. Mr. Miller, while he held {that this particular danger had not become alarm- ing in the United States as yet, feared that it might if relief did not more often take the form of pro- viding work. He insists that most of the idle in| [this country believe that they have “a right to |work.” This is not exactly the same as the droit a travail which led France in the last century to enter upon the disastrous experiment of Government shops. But there is obviously a principle involved, as well as an element of human nature to be reckoned with. It is not simply a question of earning a livelihood but of finding satisfaction in doing so. “Get work, get work,” wrote Mrs. Browning, and added: “Be sure 'tis bettér than what you work to get.” The Family Doctor (New York Herald Tribune.) Dr. Bernard Sachs, who became President of the New York Academy of Medicine on Thursday even- {ing, took that occasion to file a protest against the passion for specialization in medicine which will have the indorsement of every intelligent layman. Dr. Sachs deplored the general practitioner's de- velopmen! in recent years of something like an in- feriority complex and said: “The general medical diagnostician, the man with broad vision, with calm judgment, with the human touch—the family physi- cian—with the full appreciation of the needs of the individual under ‘the present strain of social and economic stress, is sorely needed.” “Changes in medical practice,” says the Lowell report on medical education, “have not and can not modify the essential unit of medical service and training, which is the patient.” And the un- changing patient is a sick, and therefore unduly sensitive, human being who is not only under in- spection, as a watch or a boiler might be, but who has the doctor under as close and critical examina- tion as the doctor has him. What the head of a family wants of a doctor is a thoroughly trust- worthy friend who will take the members of the family under his unremitting care when they need it, and not an expert inspector who will refer each of their separate ailments to a different high-priced stranger for impersonal treatment. Forty per cent. of the graduates of medical col- leges now become specialists, and half of these have no experience in general medical practice. The reason for this, as the Lowell report points out, is that specialization is easier and more profitable. Such views as Dr. Sachs has expressed have the support of all the leading medical organizations in the country; but it is the laity that has to con- vince the family doctor that these are its sentiments if the propaganda for impersonal medical care is to be silenced and if the best men are to be attracted to general practice. Geese cackling may have saved Rome, but Lame Duck cackling has not saved Prohibition. It has only shown. the temporary powerlessness of a major- ity of the pepple to get what they voted for.— (Brooklyn Eagle.) | Comets caused those big depressions in Arizona jand Texas, an astronomer tells us. But that still 1doesn'r explain the big one denting the rest of the |country.—(Louisville Herald-Post.) New London Coast Guards found a cargo of whiskey under a load of fish, which may explain an aroma that some has ascribed to inferior creo- |sote.—(Des Moines Register.) It begins to look as though the ancient, who insisted that the world is flat, were right about |it after all—(Los Angeles Times.) Down in South Carolina a man found a snake with two heads. It's high time we were getting back to temperance.—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) With $80,000,000 in tax refunds, it proves there is still a little loose change in the Nation's pocket- book.—(Wheeling Registrar.) SYNOPSIS: pects the young millionaire Far- Leila Cane ex- rell Armitage to propose to her; instead he tells her he has determined to marry Bar- bara Quentin, whom he first saw by accident that after- noon. Leila offers aid, and sends Farrell to fetch Barbara to a dance. But Farrell Barbara to the little house she has prepared for herself and Mark Lodely, cruel, a cripple, but a gifted artist. For she is to marry Mark in five days. Farrell and Barbara find, among some of Mark’s paintings, 'a portrait of Leila Cane wearing the handsome emerald Mark just has given Barbara. But Barbara defends Mark, CHAPTER 14. BARBARA EXPLAINS “You'll go Mark's way? I won- der if you can tell me why?” Barbara was startled. “But—" She gestured round the room and the gesture was to Far- rell pathetic. “We are to be mar- ried,” she said simply. “I thought I had told you.” “Oh, yes, you told me! And I know you will tell me next that you are going to marry because you love each other. But what you feel for Mark isn't love.” She lay back in the chair, her heavy lids closed, her hands ex- haustedly upon her knees. “Someone else has told you so, already,” he exclaimed. And as she nodded—"Well, whoever it was didn't make you see sense, so I'm going to. And I'm adding this bit of néws — Mark doesn't love you.” “Ah, but you see” she said, un- stirring, “he does. He does love me.” “I think not. A man who loves a woman"—Armitage took breath for the brutality of it—"“doesn't put off his wedding-day for a jaunt to Town.” A quiver ran through her and the faint color that had crept into her face, drained away again, but she did not open her eyes. “Has he—done that?” “Yes. Next Thursday he’s com- ing to stay with me for a bit, o|her face stung to the pale rose meet some people who may Te of use to him. ... Don't pretend |that although it went against the grain he felt he owed it to yem, or anything like that, because—" “I wasn't going to pretend. He has postponed our marriage before and not even for such a good-.rea- son as a visit to London.” Bewildered, astonished, Armitage could only give a quick laugh, “All the same,” she went on cut- ting into his excitement, “he does love me. I know it beyond any manner of doubt; in his own way, he always will. As for me, what- ever you call that feeling that T have for him, it's the strongest I've ever known. The strongest, the clearest, the most unchang- ing.” “Rot! 1It's nothing but a habit of mind—a fixation, don't they call it—a childish misconception—" “No. I didn’t cultivate pity for Mark, because I was able to prom- ise because of my pity.” “Pity! Pity isn't love!” “With me it is. And is isn't only pity—it's—it's—there’s a sort of honor in being desperately needed. I fulfill a need in Mark.” He wheeled abruptly upon her. “I want you, Barbara Quentin, to forget Mark for a few min- utes, and think about me.” She gave her faint, frank little smile. “I am thinking about you al- ready. I was just going to ask you why you invited Mark to stay with you on a day which you knew was his wedding-day.” He had hoped for this. “Because I don't want you marry him on Thursday. Or all.” Her smile vanished. “I want you to marry me” he said. Her heavy lids flew open. She struggled up in the chair and he put out a hand to draw her to her feet. But she ignored it. “You aren't joking” she said, half to herself, staring at him. “No. Oh, no, I'm not joking. T've waited all my life for you and now that I've found you, I don't feel a bit like joking; though to at Buying Barbara bylnmwumon.uuq/-vouumnm- ‘I warn you that I may, presently break into song. . My dear, if you felt for Lodely what you are capable of feeling for the man you love, I'd bow myself out and wish you well—I'd do more. I'd ransack Europe for a doctor who would make Mark walk. I'd get his cleverness acknowledged., mar- | keted. I'd mever let him or you want—" “Oh, could you do all those heavenly things for Mark?” “Damn Mark,” he shouted. “Yes, of course I could—what's the good of wealth if it doesn't stretch to things like that? But for the mopent I'm. telling you that you are deluding yourself. Your pity is for Matk—all right, T don't deny that. But your love is for me.” She put her hands up to her temples as though they throbbed. “Am I mad, or did you and I meet this evening for the first time, when you helped me with Mark?” He sat down again on the wood- en chair and faced her across the mean little fire. “The point is that T have found you and you are not yet married to anyone else. You may think [ have played a trick upon you by taking Mark away next Thurs- day, but you'll admit it was my only means of gaining a short time; a short chance to make you see that if you would allow yourself, you could love me.” “I don't know what you." “There’s no need to say to say to any- thing. In a way, the definite things were said when we were born—" “You must please let me speak! I meant, of course, that I don't know what to say because I should terribly hate to snub you. But—" “It's quite useless for you to turn me down. Or rather, I've allowed for the probability of your turn- ing me down again and again—" “In that one respect then,” she said very crisply. “I shall not disappoint you.” She dragged herself out of her chair and turned away. He con- sidered that she looked loviier in her anger than in any other mood, color and her eyes dark and bright and cold. He watched her go, without a glance at the por- trait on the fleor, to where she had laid aside her coat. “Youll take me back now, please?” she requested, shaking out the furs. “Oh, yes, T'l take you back,” Armitage sighed sharply. “T'll let you drive if you want to. My gen- erosity of spirit is an aspect of me that T particularly want you to study.” He could not see her face as she 'bent over the furs but he sensed that again her mood was veer- ing. “We will resume our discussion,” he said, carefully flippant. “And we shall yet go to Bogey Cove by moonlight and either be de- voured or permitted to drown.” “Have you told Mark why you insisted on Thursday?” “No. Youll do that.” She still kept her face averted but she put aside the coat. She stood there for a few min- utes by the door, and gazed back at the fire she had ‘left; she gave the curious suggestion that it was telling her something — forbidding ‘her to ieave it again until—or unless—? Then she walked back to it very slowly and as though magnetized. She dropped again into the deck chair and sat lean- ing forward, her hands clasped and drooping, her mind utterly withdrawn from him. He, too, had returned to the fire. He stood with an elbow on the narrow ledge above it and waited. She was now so many fathoms deep in herself that he knew the humiliation of non-existence; and yet he was afraid to make any noise that would shatter the deli- [cate world into which she had gone. All his life he was to remember |these slow minutes—these fascin- ating, inexplicable, maddening mo- |ments—in which he waited mo- | tionless for her to come back. ‘The quality of their silence had nearly mesmerized him also, when suddenly she spoke. Only her voice, he thought, could float out 1891 1933 42 YEARS’ BANKING SERVICE to the People of Alaska. COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS The B. M. Behrends Bank JUNEAU, ALASKA OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA PROFESSIONAL 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Mussage, Electrility, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics, 307 Goldsiein Building Phone Office, 216 ] ) January 25, 1913. Manager Margerie, of the Light and Power Company, had received the metal arms for the street lights and they were to be in- stalled as rapidly as possible. DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER Among the northbound passeng- 4 Dmmg-r_?dl ers leav Juneau on th - lomgren sullding g g 2o PHONE 56 cao were W. C. Blanchard, V. I Hahn, J. Dalton, Martin Conway E. J. Shaw, Phil Abrahams and R. D. Pinneo. Hours 9 a.m. to 9 p.n. { Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and -9 Valentine ‘With the c]ose of the complicat- ed transportation case which has- been occupying the Courts for a number of weeks, in sight, a num- ber of people had booked passage for the south on the Curacao sail- ing for the States on the 26th. Among the party booked were: J. C. Ford, President of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, Mrs. Ford, Miss Agnes Ford, E. C. Ward, C. W. Miller, Capt. A. Olson, R. D. Pinneo, J. H. Kelly, W. B. Telephone 176 { DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Office hours, § a.m. to 5 pm. Evenings by appointment Phone 321 Stratton and Bruce Shorts, .. - . ° Jack Dalton, Alaska “pioneer and 3 o pathfinder,” visited in Juneau Lt. A. W' owewart while the Curacao was in port on, Hours Dme . his way to Whitehorse. He was SEWARD BOTD0G interested in some promising cop- Oftice Phone 489, Res. per properties in the White River Phone 276 5 | country, and expected to return to ., ____ . ___ Gilg. Juneau in a couple of weeks. Emery Valentine, of the Com- Robert Slmpsu‘n i Club tideland committee, t IJ ng data to be forwarded to Dele- Q@raduate Angeles Tol- mercial had completed his task of gather- jate Wickersham for the argument ‘or government reclamation of Ju- 1eau tide flats. The report was 0 be a comprehensive statement etting forth thy most cogent rea- | sons for such action. Dr. C. L. Fenton CHIROPRACTOR Hours: 10-2; 2-5 LELLENTHAL BUILDING Douglas 7-9 P. M. Gertrude Hurlbub who had been il at St. Ann's Hospital had recovered and returned to her home. 2 Word from Washington, D. C, said that a patent was about to se issued to George Harkraker of Juneau for a hundred and thirty- tw oacres of coal land located on| | Admiralty Island. George Hark- raker had located the property in 1891, and had spent thousands of dollas in develpoment work. Several years ago a number of Juneau people became interested in coal deposits near the Hark- raker properties and many of them had made locations. Among them were Harry Malone, Harry Ray- mond, Charles Garfield, Charles Goldstein, J. C. McBride, Joe Diggs, DR. BR. E. SOUTHWEL:: Room 17, Valentine Bldg. Otfice Phone 484; Restdence Phone 338. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 ELECTRO THERAPY Cabinet Baths—Massage—Colonic Xrrigations Evenings by Appointment . D-. J. W. Bayne—b | . . Bldes. Secreta y. * [ed to attend. Counctl —e |Chambers, Fifth Street. N Rose A Andrews—Graduate Nurse Office hours, 11 am. to 5 p. m. Second and Main. Phone 259-1 ring W. W. Casey, E. J. Margerie and Dr. E. H. Brooks. After spending |. over $15000 in development work i illi their applications were protested | Dr. Richard Williams and their entries cancelled by the DENTIST government. It was said the Hark- OFFICE AND RESIDENCE raker claim was overlooked in the| | Gastineau Building, Phone 481 slaughter made by the field-men. | .. transferred to be cashier for the Pacafic Coast Steamship Company Call Your here to take the place of Victor Peterson who had been transferred RADIO DOCTOR to Skagway. for Mrs. Charles Goldstein and daughter Marie planned to leave on the Princess May for a visit in California. RADIO TROUBLES SAMGLIP M Juneau Radio Service Shop PHONE 221 The revenue cutter Unalga, on its maiden voyage around the world was in Adin, Arabia on Christmas Day according to a card received by John Olds from Chris Brie- land, who was aboard the cutter. The cutter was to end its long trip at Juneau, the permament base where it was to replace the Rush. Harry Race DRUGGIST “THE SQUIBB STORE" Charles Goldstein arrived home ) | | e on the Curacao from a business trip to Seattle. | Smith Electric Co. Mrs. Harriet Pullen, proprietor of the Pullen House in Skagway, was aboard the Humboldt on her way to Puget Sound to visit her son, Lieut. Daniel Pullen, like that, so low, with the firelight, the night hour. “Is it possible,” she said, make a bargain with you?” | He still waited. | 3 “If I promised to marry you|® e without loving you, without even|e. Thg Tl liking or admiring you very much, [‘e’n would you make Mark well?” i iy “No,” ‘he sald politely. “No, I'm afraid that wouldn't be at all pos- sible.” He was so angry with her that he dared not move. (Copyright, 1932, Julia Cleft- Addams.) 50 clear—one the stillness, MICKEY FLORI_DAN “to Ah'lanHMcl SAVE YOUR HAIR NU-LIFE METHOD Valentine Bldg. 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