The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 26, 1933, Page 4

] R g nva Mhal oo 5 ¢ THE DAILY ALASKA' EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 26, 1933. Daily Alaska Empire PRESIDENT AND EDITOR | GENERAL MANAGER JOHN W. TROY ROBERT W. BENDER Supday by the blished every evening except F.M‘I‘:;Rls ‘PP. TING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. 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, mall, postage paid, at the following rates: o.w’?_w r, 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 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. CHANGE NEEDED IN PRINCIPLE. The other day the Ketchikan Chronicle editorially urged caution in “drastic changes in fisheries regu- lations,” taking occasion to say a word of warning against the abolition of fish traps. It advocated the “idea of friendly co-operation with the cannery operators as expressed by ex-Senator Heckman . . . as a commendable one.” The Empire is long on record as opposing trap abolition and it is convinced that there is room and need for both traps and seiners in the salmon fishing industry under proper administration. And by proper administration is meant control of the fisheries of Alaska by the people of Alaska. They are the ones most directly concerned with the fisheries and the part they can and ought to play in furnishing employment to the residents of the Territory. As long as control and administration is vested in the Federal Government it will be impossible for Alaskans to have much, if anything, to say about the policies put into effect. The change that is most needed is not one of regulations, nor of official personnel. It is the all-important one of principle. The evil of the present system is that Congress is the sole authority for the laws governing the fisheries. What we must have, in order to make the fisheries of the greatest possible service to the ‘Territory, is control by Alaskans through their Ter- ritorial Legislature. Until that change shall have been made, there will always be widespread dis- satisfaction about the regulations and criticisms of those to whom Congress delegates the power to make and administer them. With the advent of the 73rd Congress, Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, as pledged by his own and the program of his party, will undertake seriously to obtain from Congress transfer of control to the Alaska Legislature. An overwhelming majority of Alaskans, as evidenced by their votes last November, want the change. There will be opposition to it, mainly from interests located outside of the Terri- tory. Congress, itself, may be loath to surrender its power in the premises. Under the circumstances and with so much at stake, every civic and com- mercial organization, and all Alaskans ought to unite in support of the movement. THE LARGER “UNDERSTANDING.” When the National Shoe Retailers’ Association recently held its annual convention in Chicago one of the biggest bits of trade news to be disseminated was the startling announcement that women's feet are getting bigger. Time was when size three was one of the most popular numbers on the shelves of the shoe dealer. Today they are virtually ex- tinet. The higher brackets, once for the exclusive wear of the tall woman, are now shared by her more diminutive sisters. The average size for women of this age is five or six. “Yes, there is a bigger size trend noticeable in the last 25 years,” ac- knowledged the President of the Association. Just a minor social trend of the kind so frequently men- tioned these days. Except for the poets and romantic fiction writers, probably no one will have cause for regret that this thing has come to pass. From a practical stand- point it is highly desirable. Bigger feet for women means more leather to be required for shoe manu- facture which in turn means more hides to be tanned from more cows, horses, pigs, alligators, or what not, that have to be herded by more cowboys, horse wranglers, pig-boys and whatever or whoever it is that beds down the little 'gators at night, more work for packers and more for the workmen who make the leather into shoes. Emerson's old law of compensation is right on the job as usual, and Jjust now when technocracy almost has the country by a stranglehold, this bigger shoes for women ‘busi- ness may be just the agency needed to break its grasp. After all why shouldn't women's feet be bigger now than they were 25 years ago? In the past quarter-century, women have emerged from the se- clusion of their homes, assumed places in the work- aday world, and have properly taken over activities once appropriated by men as their own exclusive domain. They have learned the knack of standing on their feet and, if in so doing they acquired bigger feet, the price was not a large one to pay. BANK FAILURES FEWER. The Federal Government's aid to the banking structure through the Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration, while it has not ended failures of banks, has at least stayed it to a marked degree. Suspen- sions in 1932 were 38 per cent. less in number and 58 per cent. less in deposits than in 1931, it has just been disclosed by financial -authorities. Last . year 1444 institutions were reported as,going into ~ liquidation as compared to 2,343 in 1931. In Decem- ber, 1932, 105 bank failures were recorded, affect- same month of 1931, there were 353 bank closings with deposits of $319,000,000. There ought to be a further heavy decrease dur- ing the current year. Most of the shaky institutions have been weeded out during the past three years. Most of those who have survived that period can be expacted to weather the rest of the financial stress. It is true there is a considerable number of banks throughout the country whose condition is not healthy. The Glass bill, now pending before the Senate, is designed to make it possible for the banking interests of the country to take care of this situation and make it unnecessary for further Government aid. It is also designed to minimize greatly, if not altogether prevent, chances for repe- tition in future years of the banking debacle through which the country has passed since the crash came in 1929. Nothing in the experience of National Chairman Farley in the campaigns to nominate and then elect Gov: Roosevelt involved as much higher mathematics as the one that is now facing him in trying to make 117,000 Federal jobs go around to some 22,- 000,000 voters who climbed aboard the Democratic bandwagon last November. A more generous meed of popular approval might be accorded our Congressional statesmen if they reversed the order of things and gave us six per cent. beer and 3.05 per cent. income taxes instead of 305 per cent. beer and six per cent. income taxes. Mr. Hoover and Congress. (New York Times.) All Presidents of the United States are apt to be treated cavalierly by Congress during the last two or three months of their term of office. It is of record that before leaving the White House in 1909 President Theodore Roosevelt sent message after message to Congress, to which it paid no more atfention than to any chance breeze blowing over the Capitol. President Hoover is of course well aware that his appeals will almost certainly fall on deaf Congressional ears. In fact, it might almost seem that his recommendation of a plan or a measure assures its ignoring or rejection. This state of things, however, does not alter the duty or lessen the responsibiity of the President. His constitutional mandate runs till March 4. Until then it is his sworn obligation not only to see that the laws of the United States are enforced, but to make such recommendations to Congress as he believes to be in the public interest, and to withhold his signature from bills that he cannot in good conscience ap- prove. These functions of an outgoing and politically disregarded President have often been of great ser- vice to the country. Mr. Hoover may make them so again. In any case, he is merely acting as becometh a President. He must do his full duty up to the last hour of being in office. There is every in- dication that President Hoover intends to do this; that he will remain a hard-working Chief Executive to the very end; that he will not abate his vigilance or give way to political expediency in passing judg- ment upon proposed laws, and in interposing his veto whenever he thinks that the higher interests of the Nation require it. Perhaps the Presidency never more appears to be a thankless job than when the incumbent is abouf to relinguish.it. Nevertheless, the work must be done, the official duties discharged, whether Con- gress will hear or forbear. Mr. Hoover, by exercis- ing his full authority till the last moment of being in power, may display a fidelity and tenacity that will serve hereafter to heighten his reputation. The “Lame Duck” Spectacle. (Olympia Olymplan.) If an all-wise providence had tried to give the American people a direct object-lesson concerning the necessity of eliminating “lame ducks” from their Government, it could hardly have devised a better one than we have been witnessing in Washintgon recently. In the first place, we have had a hold-over Con- gress floundering desperately in an effort to straight- en out the Prohibition issue—a job which is import- ant and pressing, but which surely is the province of the men who were chosen at the last election. Secondly, we have the dismaying muddle over the war debts. The President and the President-Elect cannot agree, and the most vital part of our foreign relations program must mark time for several months. Basically, these troubles are the fault of the system and not of the men involved. And luckily we have a chance, in the pending “lame duck” amendment, to bring the system up to date. The Real Farm Problem. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) The major error in our approach to the farmer's plight has been the assumption that his problem is distinct from problems of the country as a whole. Every device tried or proposed on behalf of the farmer has been a palliative measure calculated to enrich agriculture at the expense of the rest of the population. No account has been taken of the fact that the farmer’s troubles have arisen from the profound reversal of our national economic position before the world. Farming was profitable for many decades in America because we were a debtor nation and for- eign countries eagerly took our exports of raw com- modities in payment of interest on the money we borrowed from them. With the rise f our manu- facturing industries and the shift of our position from debtor to creditor, the vast markets previously open to our farmers have dried up. Owing us vast sums of money, foreign peoples cannot repay them in goods because of our tariff, and therefore must reduce their taking of our exportable raw materials, including farm products. World depression accen- tuated this process. Domestic allotment plans, parity plans, export debenture plans, might achieve an artificial im- provement of the farmer’s circumstances at the ex- pense of the rest of the country. But they are at bottom merely taxation of the consumer to sub- sidize a group of producers. Real solution of the farm problem probably lies in reversing the policies which are now throtfling our logical expansion as a creditor nation. A substantjal reduction of tariffs might enable| foreign peoples to meet their obligations to us, and | in the long run restore to the farmer the markets| abroad which he has lost and which are essential| to any enduring improvement of his position. ‘Whoever devised the scheme of making the early | return of beer dependent upon the United States) Senate must have been stampeded by the report that this country will be enveloped in ice within 1,576,000,000 years.—(Washington Post.) If Congress doesn't hurry up there will be nothing for President Hoover to veto.—(Washington uying Barbara © by Julia Cleft-Addsms ¢ Asthor o ~YOU CANT MAREY~ 20 YEARS AGO —3d SYNOPSIS: Barbara Quentin is to marry Mark Lodely, an artist, crip- In five days | 1 From The Empire He waited. He saw her swallow convulsively. At lash— “You may say all that you have: Father to say, Mr. Armitage, and then[on Douglas dsland. you’ll leave this house—my house January 26, 1913. van der Pol visited friends pled and cruel, too. Yet to- night Farrell Armitagé tells Anna May Taylor indicted for manslaughter over the killing of John E. Anderson at Wrangell in July, went to trial in the District Court. Z. R. Cheney was attor- ney for the defense. Jurors aec- cepted from the regular panel were J. H. King, W. H. Blaine, Frank Wilson, S. H. Yoemans, L. T. Mer- ry, James Beauchamp, Ben Leam- ing, C. E. Carpenter, John J. Kos- nakoff, Charles Hopp and Harry Ashball. wearing the emerald necklace Mark has just given Barbara. Barbara reaffirms her love for Mark, but at last offers to marry Farrell if he will, use . his great fortune to cure Mark, ' and to launch him as an ar- tist. Farrell refuses marriage on those terms. been saying to me. I hate you only because you have it in your power to give Mark health and happiness and fame. “You actually have it in your power and instead of doing it, you quibble and moralize about the nature of my love for him! I didn’t know—I didn't dream that anything as ungenerous as you could exist.” “Better and better! That's real- ly a very good dig because it has shown me up to myself. I'm al- most sorry that I can counter it.” “How?" “By agreeing to do all those things for Mark.” She took an uncertain step back- wards. He thought she swayed CHAPTER 15. THE NEIGHBORS PEEK He just looked at her, marvel- ing. ‘This is she. . question, he knew the woman towards whose love he had been shaping since -earliest years, And there she sat, found at last, his destiny woven into the pearly silks at her breast—there she sat|a little and he stood ready to catch and insulted him as grossly as|her. She stared at hom, her eyes he had ever been insulted; rated|wide and fixed. him lower than any man, woman| “You mean that?” or beast had ever rated him yet.| “Certainly I mean it! Or course, “You ignorant, conceited, lovely|I can't promise health and suc- little fool,” he added; still in hisfcess for him, as if they were a most civil tones. *‘Barbara’ —|penny’s worth of candy. But IT doesn't the name mean a barbar-{do my utmost. And you, in re- ian, a stranger? You are only a|turn—" barbarian, evidently strange to the| He paused and saw the terror ways of real men and women.!darken in her eyes. What a lot T aim to teach you| “No, no,” he said gently. “You about life!” have lived too long among half- He saw her face flame and|shadows and hidden meanings and whiten. He went on, choosing ‘his{lord knows what. Real life isn't words, placing his blows. He wag|a bit like that.... I want you, not in the least sorry for her—ft|in return for my willingness to was Mark he was hitting through remodel Mark, to promise me that her, by her own choice. It had|you won't marry him, well or ill, to be. for a year at least.” “You see, such a lot of beauty| "In a year, will he be well?” is offered to any man,” he told| “That's for the doctors to say, her—“any wealthy man, I mean,|but probably in a year it will be with reasonable health and an or-|clear what kind of a life can be dinary appearance. It would sick-|made for him.” en you if I were to describe to yol| For a moment she was silent; one-half of the number of beauti-|then she burst out passionately ful women, who have been willing |with: to make their bargains with me.| “How can T understand you? It would sicken you and, because|After all you've said to me, how you're a blind little small town|ean T believe that you'll do these bat, you'd think it was boasting,|things for Mark? Whether they whereas, I should simply be dis-}are successful or not, I shall mar- pensing with mock modesty. .. 80|ry him. What do you get?” we'll take the list as read and—| “You.” refrain from adding your name to| “I've told you—and told you— it.” why should I want to marry you? She cried out. Ever?” “Because I was—stupid, there's| “Because when Mark’s well, mak- no need for you to be brutal” |ing money, enjoying himself, you “On the contrary, there is every Will be spirit-free. You'll be free need. You're very strong, you|to coose your man and you'll know Barbara, and it can only be|[choose me. I'm a sounder choice by strength I'm to release you|than a rich, famous, cheerful Mark from Mark. Take your, mind off{and you know it.” him for a moment, your whole[ ' “Never!” mind. Push him aside for a very| “Well, will you give me that few minutes and stand up to me|year?” as a free woman as I am a free| She did sway now and he caught man. her. She lay against his shoul- “When I strike at your pride and|der for the second time that day, your beauty,” he went on, “strike|and for the second time he laugh- back at my weakness and my pas- [éd down at her. sion—I'm not a cripple you know.| “Give me that year?” or an old woman, or an influen-| “Yes.” tial client. T'm your equal in| She made no effort to escape strength in some ways, I'm to be|his arms as he quietly held her. —Yyour master; In others your ser-| “Very well. And on Thursday, vant. But just now, were ene-|{I start work on'Mark. And now, mies—so stand up to me, you lit-|Ill take you back to Kings Mal- tle slacker, and hit.” lard.” She had struggled to her feet in| He felt her shake her head. her first furious amazement; but| “No, I want to stay here.” it seemed to him-that he had| “As you please.” plucked her out of her chair as; ‘He drew the wooden chair to- he had plucked her back from the |wards him with his foot and low- truck wheels in that far-off time |ered her into it. She sat as though that was not six hours ago. bereft of strength; nevertheless, She faced him across four feet|he thought there was a faint dis- of unstained floor, a piece of old|appointment in the set of her lips carpet and the emerald she had for-|and he laughed once more but gotten. Yes, at last she had for-|this time silently. gotten Mark. ... Armitage using| “As you please,” e repeated. He . Doctor F. L. Goddard was a northbound passenger on the Cu- racao on his way to his home at Sitka Hot Springs. Word received by I. Goldstein stated that 700 tons of herring shipped to Japan from the West Coast of Prince of Wales Island, ' P were used as fuel on the steamer that carried the cargo. The vessel ran short of fuel and after the mosi. of the ship’s woodwork was burned before the ship reached its port. Cook Etchinson, formerly em- ployed by the Kennecott Mines Co., who left Alaska the spring previous . to attend the Curtis School of Aviation at San Diego, was a visitor in Juneau. Mr. Etch- inson made four flights at San Diego, and another from San Fran- sico to Mare TIsland the highest altitude attained being 1,200 feet. He planned to look over the field in Juneau and later return to the school. Young Donald Haley, aged 12, was playing in the snow along the edge of the Pacific Coast Dock about 6 o'clock the evening prev- ious. The quartermaster of the Curacao called out a warning to the lad, who looked up, lost his footing and fell into the icy wa- ters of the channel. He had the presence of mind to grasp a piling after being submerged two or three times and clung to it desperately. The quartermaster slid down the pile to Donald’s rescue, a'rope was lowered and te lad hoisted to the dock top, then the quartermas- ter. Both were badly bruised on| | the railing. Young Haley had fal- len off the roof of the C. W. Young store some time before, and after his plunge into the channel, decided he was through playing | around the docks. | W. H. Chase, who had made a successful hunting trip in the Cook Inlet country the (Fall before, an account of which was published in Seattle papers, was in receipt of many inquiries from hunters in the States requesting information as to equipment, climatic condi- tions, best season, and many oth- er questions as to the hunting in the Territory. Superintendent 'A. W. Beattie, of the Indian School, planned to leave on the Georgia for Hoonah and Sitka to investigate rumors that diphtheria was epidemic at Hoonah." U. 8. Marshal H. L. Faulkner had received a wire stat- ing that a very bad case of diph- theria was taken from there to Sitka and that the nurse accom- panying the patient was also stricken. Dr. F. L. Goddard was to accompany Mr. Beattie to diag- i1 Dr. Charles P, Jenne DENTIST fish had been fed to the furnacee Rose A Andrews—Graduate Nurse Cabinet Baths—Massage—Colonic Yrrigations office hours, 11 am. to 5 p. m ot Evenings by Appointment Second and Main. Phone 259-1 ring BURFORD’S ! PROFESSIONAL Fraternal Societies OF | Gastineau Channel .. Rt TR S A VR B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers welcome. Geo. Messerschmidt, Exalted Ruler., M. H. Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Mussage, Electrility, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Golds’ein Building | Phone Office, 216 | her that he is determined to |and Mark's.” A. M. Butterbaugh, one of the|s « [Stdes, Secreta'y. marry her; that Mark has “Better,” he approved. “There's|best known prospectors operating i 120 L J postponed the wedding day for |a savagery under that. Once you,in the Yankee Cove and Auk Bay,| DRS.KASER & FREEBURGER KNIGNTY OF COLUMBUS selfish reasons, A moment be- |feel definitely that you hate me,|districts, left on the Humboldt to DENTISTS Seghers Council No. 1780 fore they had unearthed a |we've made a start.” visit his relatives in Tennessee for Blomgren Butlding T *eetings second and last portrait of Leila Cane among “You flatter yourself there. I|about two months. PHONE 56 “Monday at 7:30 p, m. Mark’s effects—and Leila is |don't hate you for what wouve Hours 9 ain. to 9 pn “ransient brothers urg- ®led to attend. Councit Chambers, Fifth Street, JOHN F. MULLEN, C. K. Our trucks_go any. place any | time. A tank for Diesct 'O | and a tank for ‘erude oil save burner trouble. PHONE 143, NICHT 148 REciABLE TRANSFER Rooms -8 and 8 Valentine Bullding Telephone 176 D~ J_W. Bayne | DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. "3 Office tours, 9 —— Evenings by NEW RECORDS NEW SHEET MUSIC ¥ RADIO SERVICE | Expert Radio Repairing 5 Radio Tubes and Supplies ‘ JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE Lo thiote ool s Dr. A. W. Siewart DENTIST Hours . am. to 6 p.m. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. Phone 276 Robert SiI;p:;__ | Opt. V. PP s o s it e JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY B Moevs, Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Prompt Delivery of FUEL OIL ¢ ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 438 Dr. C. L. Fenton CHIROPRACTOR Hours: 10-2; 2-5 LELLENTHAL BUILDING | Douglas 7-9 P. M. ; ELECTRO THERAPY PLAY BILLIARDS THE JuNEAU LAUNDRY Franklin Street, betweem P Front and Second Streets PHONE 359 . ! Dr. Richard Williams DENTIST . OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building, Phone 481 [l DONALDINE BEAUTY PARLORS ‘ Telephone 49v RUTH HAYES A PIGGLY oGV Call Your RADIO DOCTOR for RADIO TROUBLES 9AMtos P M Juneau Radio Service Shop PHONE 221 Harry Race DRUGGIST “THE SQUIBB STORE" nose the cases. her anger as a key, to lock Mark |stooped, picked up the emerald out, proceeded to make her an- and held it out to her. When grier still. she drew violently away from it, “You could hurt me, Barbara|he-dropped it into his own pocket Quentin, if you knew how, just as|and, without any kind of farewell, I can hurt you. Well, learn how|he left her., to hurt me, when needful. We| As he slammed the door of the shall often desire to hurt eachjodious little house behind him, he other. Perpetual pity, you know,isuspected that inquisitive curtains is not a bracing state of mind. |fluttered mnext door. He glared You've pitied too much, you've q't them as he got back into the lost tone, you've gone to sleep emo- | Devalet. tionally. When you wept over| “Give ‘em something to talk Mark, you were a mother who had [gbout,” he muttered! he drew a lost a child. Now you're a woman “over his knees, turned up his who is most intensely loved;|coat collar and lit a cigarette. Well2” Smoking, thinking, watching, he There was considerable discus- sion in Juneau as to providing an adequate berth for the Unalga when it reached here from its long trip. Tt was stated that the stationing of the “Unalga would mean a considerable disbursement and that if accommodations were not provided it would bage either at Sitka where there was a gov- ernment dock, or at Ketchikan, let the hours slip by. The lamps in the neighborhouse had long been extinguished, the moon had dropped behind the cathedral,” but through the intervening fanlights. Barbara’s gleam came faintly out to him. Once he thought he heard her footstep but he did not in- vestigate. He kept his watch over her and believed that she knew it. Between five and six o'clock he got out of the car, stamped brisk- ly upon the stubs of his many ci- garettes and drove quietly back to Kings Mallard. (Copyright, 1982, Julia Cleft- Addams.) s The vicar stirs up the mad in his pond, tomorrow. —————— Read the aas as carefully as yoa 1891 = 1933 42 YEARS’ BANKING SERVICE to the People of Alaska. COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS The B. M. Behrends Bank JUNEAU, ALASKA i OLDEST BANK-IN ALASKA Post.) FINE Watch and Jewelry REPAIRING at very reasonable rates WRIGHT SHOPPE PAUL BLOEDHORN MICKEY FLORIDAN TAILOR Cle::n‘gand Pl‘g:ts;ng i GENERAL MOTORS and -MAYTAG PRODUCTS ‘; | W. P. JOHNSON | : | 'UPHOLSTERING | MADE TO ORDER Also Recoverinng and Dishaw Bldg. SAVE YOUR HAIR NU-LIFE METHOD Valentine Bldg. Room 6 PHONE 419 CARL JACOBSON | JEWELER Opposite Goldstein Building | ®. SABIN’S Everything in. Furnishingy