The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 1, 1933, Page 4

" 3 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1, 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, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in tne Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. R A M 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 adyance, $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 asy for republication of all news dispatches credited to {tor mot otherwise credited In this paper and aiso the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. FACTS VS. PREJUDICE TRADITION. A President Hoover's Committee on Social Trends, in its report recently published, urged that settle- ment of the leading questions of the times be on the basis of fact rather than prejudice and tradition. In his announcement of the Committee’s report, Mr. Hoover strongly commended it and its work. That approach, declares Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, writing in the New York World-Telegram, is the one that ought to be used on dealing with Prohibi- tion which is approaching a final showdown Congress. Turning then to Dr. Clark Warburton's “The Economic Results of Prohibition,” the latest authoritative work on that subject, he summarized the facts as follows: Taking the three year periods, 1911-14 and 1927-30 as the basis for comparison, Prohibition has reduced our capita consump- tion of alcoholic beverages, in terms of pure alcohol, by nearly one-htird. But it has turned us towards strong spirits and away from beer, with its low alcoholic Content The per capita consumption of beer has been reduced 70 per cent. and that of spirits increased by ten per cent. The great- est increase in consumption has been in wine, about 65 per cent. This means that the legalization of light wines will help more than the legalization of beer to promote lawful consumption of alcoholic beverages. . . Most striking of all is the fact that since 1923 the per capita consumption of alcohol in the United States has been greater than it was during the World War under restricted production and sale and with high taxation. Therefore, if we had shown a little regard for fact back in 1918-19, we might have promoted temperance and avoid- ed the' Prohibition calamity simply by con- tinuing the wartime control and taxation of » liquor. Moreover, this item makes it per- fectly clear that the proposed plans for ending Prohibition need not bring a tidal wave of alcohol in their wake. They all propose restricted production and sale’ com- bined with high taxation, the very policies which cut down liquor consumption during the war. Dr. Warburton shatters completely an- other vigorous and vital contention of Pro- hibitionists. He holds that Prohibition has had no appreciable effect on increased pur- chases of automobiles, radios, electrical ap- liances, household equipment or other con- sumers goods. Neither did it, after the first year or so, have any appreciable effect on increasing savings bank deposits, the amount of life insurance carried, or the amount of deposits in building and loan associa- tions and other forms of saving and in- vestment. Nor do the statistics offer any proof that Prohibition has increased industrial productivity or reduced industrial accidents. On top of this is the demonstrable fact of vast waste of capital and labor in the out- law production and distribution of alcoholic beverages since 1920. . The farmers have lost markets on ac- count of Prohibition, but they have probabiy gained slightly when the total effect is taken into consideration. The working class spends about a billion dollars less on alcohol each year than it would if there were no re- strictions. The business, professional and salaried classes are spending about a billion dollars a year more on alcoholic beverages as a result of Prohibition. The Federal Government could collect $1,250,000,000 from the taxation of alcoholic ligquors and $750,000,000 from revenue on beer alone. As for public hygiene, crime and automo- bile accidents, Prohibition “has not had a measurable effect upon the general health of the Nation; it has reduced crime but slightly, if at all, and has encouraged rackets and gangsters; and there is no statistical proof that it has reduced the number of automobile accidents.” The deductions from the above facts for statecraft are not obscure. Hardly any of the major alleged Prohibition benefits have actually been realized. Vast expense has been assumed in pseudo-enforcement. A sum exceeding the total original amount of the war debts, about $12,500,000,000, has been lost in Federal revenue alone. And, before Prohibition, wartime restrictions on liquor production and sale produced, in spite of greater temptation to drink, more marked temperance than the Eighteenth Amendment. ‘Therefore, if we were ruled by fact, only a dry fanatic who also.glories in the vision of Uncle Sam with his pockets turned inside out would today oppose repeal or modifica- PRESIDENT AND EDITOR | | fponcial government to this State by repealing the ‘which the country now is passing to prove the pri- in | Substitutes individuals for | | satisfied RELIEVING THE JOBLESS. | While Congress discusses funds for relief of un- |employed and observers speculate on President-Elect ;Rcosovon\ own policies on that great problem, a |recent statement by William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor that there are now 11,500,000 persons out of work in the United States |is a point to be kept in mind. “Those out of work are in greater need now [than ever before, for after three years of depression their resources are exhausted. Mental and physical wreckage caused by depression is driving families to seek relief in constantly growing numbers. Relief need is increasing faster than unemployment,” Mr. Green added. This is so obvious that it does not need statistics to prove its truth. The vast majority of these people do not want charity, or a dole. They want jobs, work at which they may earn enough money to keep them and their dependants alive. But if they ocan’t get work, they must have money from some source to kecp them from starvation. Tox Mix, noted film actor, against whom a judg- ment has just been given to a road show for $66,- 000 for a broken contract, is at least modest in his own behalf. He told the trial court he wasn't and didn’t claim to be the greatest cowboy in the world. Probably that story wont be used by his publicity agent. Leaders in the House and Senate are now de- manding speed from the legislative machine for the remainder of the lame duck session of the 72nd Congress. Looks like too much sand has been thrown into its gears during the past 60 days for it to function in anything but low. Repeal This Law. (Seattle Times.) The Washington Legislature now in session at| Olympia has an opportunity to restore responsible primary law. Senator E. B. Palmer of King County has introduced a bill to that effect. It needed such an emergency as that through efficient, economical administration but impossible. Because it parties, it ties the hands of the voters and prevents them from charting def- inite policies by the election or rejection of men identified with a partisan organization having clean- cut purposes. Opportunism always flourishes under this law; demagoguery is fostered by it. Self-respecting men, animated by a sense of duty to the people they aim to serve, find it a diffisult barrier and some- times an insurmountable one. Its oblition must lead to a higher standards in public office. This criticism is not a reflection upon the many good men who have been elected despite the pri- mary; the intention is only to direct attention to the others who have failed to win under it or have been deterred from even offering their candidacy to the people. Large numbers of electors are thoroughly dis- with the present system. Their adverse opinion has been strengthened by the spectacle of delay, procrastination and evasion remarked on the part of public servants who have refused to tackle current problems with resolution and dis- patch, Repeal of the law should, of course, carry w1th' it safeguards against known evils of the conven- tion system; but the fact remains and is self- evident that even these are controllable by the votes of the people. This State again will be as- sured efficlent, economic and responsible govern- ment as soon as the primary has been abolished. mary renders of public affairs all One Continuous Foreign Policy. (New York Times.) Governor Roosevelt personally confirmed yester- day the report that he is in agreement with the so-called “Hoover Doctrine” in the Orient. He ap- proves of the various notes by Secretary Stimson declaring that the United States will not recognize any territory acquired by aggression or force of arms. Mr. Roosevelt puts it in the more general terms of being “willing to make it clear that Am- erican foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties.” Of course the Japanese Government, at which the notes of Secretary Stim- son were explicity directed, denies that in its mili- tary operations in Manchuria it has violated any treaty. With great dialetic skill its spokesmen have contended that the Briand-Kellogg treaty admits the right of self-defense, and that Japan has simply been defending her national existence. As for the | “That velvet screen is beautiful,” said Farrel Armitage pleasantly. | AN Mark Lodely tells Barbara Quentin, his fi- ance, that he has agreed to got to London on their wed- ding day, and Barbara coun- ters with the information there will be no wedding for a year. She has bargained with the; millicnaire Farrell Armitage, . that he must have a year il which to cure Mark’s crippled body and establish him as an . artist—and make Barbara love Farrell. Leila Cane, whom Farrcll would have married had not he fallen in love with Barbara at sight, is allied with Farrell. CHAPTER 20. MEAT FOR GOSSIP “The easel should, heah,” pronounced Jasques Mal- avie, Ltd., “bul that naturally will be a mattah for the:paintah.” He fixed the easel back his head tilted his tired eyes half-closed. He was a long, thin, rather dry-looking man, ing perhaps a professor of arch- aeology, but a domesticated ome, who took his wife and out to dig for arrow-heads every fine Sunday. “You consider sult satisfactory?” “Entirely, thank you! You've done wonders, especially as the job daidn't really give you much scope.” “Ah, no.” He put Armitage's check carefully away in his pock- et book. “I thank you, Mr. Ar- the general re- mitage. If you have no furthah commands, I will leave you." Armitage had no further com- mands. He stayed where he was, | big and intent in the middle of the gleaming room. Under the great morth Iight were all the fixtures which Malavie's had assumed the painter to need; round the recessed cabinets full of | porcelain and bibelots, he had ar-| ranged low divans, heavy with velvet, dower-chests and the rough- hewn Warwick chairs that would meet more social requirement There was, to Armitage’s eyes, ve little in the apartment to remind anyone of its previous character. He was by the cabinets when the butler announced Leila. Ar- mitage turned with a reluctance which he hoped she did not see. | “Your verdict is anxiously m\m’-[ ed,” he said. | new State of Manchukuo, set up and recognized by Japan, the Japanese argument is that all has been done in accordance with the established and well-known American principles of “self-government.” It may be said that this is only a hollow pre- tense. But Japan's real attitude and determined purposes are not a pretense. The position taken by our Government, and nmow accepted for himself by President-Elect Roosevelt, is one that the Japan- ese Government is obviously prepared to contest and undermine if possible. This must be perfectly clear to President-Elect Roosevelt and his advisers. It thus required on his part no little courage to announce that he is ready to go on with an effort and a policy which are certain not only to be troubled but trouble-making. “Jackals of Slander.” (Daily Olympian.) ‘When Judge Peter Schmuck of the New York Supreme Court summarily dismissed the law suit which centered around that curious book, “The Strange Case of Mr. Hoover Under Two Flags,” and remarked that none of the parties involved came into court with clean hands, he simply expressed what a great many American citizens have been feeling for a long time. His comments about the “patent unfairness and untruthfulness” of the book and “the yapping of the jackals of slander” were certainly no more severe than the facts in the case justify. During the past year a good deal of criticism has been leveled against President Hoover. Some of it was perfectly fair; but the kind that was.repre- sented in this and similar books was an insult to the Nation as a whole. It is refreshing to see a Judge lambasting the people responsible for the book, and no fairminded person can feel that his language was too strong. It is hoped medical science in time will have things so arranged that we shan’t have a flu epidemic in the same winter with Huey Long.— (Detroit News.) A Senate that can’t distinguish between amend- ing and repealing is as likely as not to give us a water instead of a beer bill.—(Buffalo Courier-Ex- press.) > Leila nodded to him. She did not offer her hand—she had long | ago pronounced that she loathed l‘ shaking hands; she must either nod or Kkiss, she said, and pre- | ferably Kkiss. . She peered rou und | him, into the cs,bmet, | “Oh, Farrell; theyre enchant- | ing. ‘The cabinet held a collection nl‘\ dolls, minute and perfect. ‘“Cos- tume” was represented here, each uying Barbara] by Juiia Cleft-Addams ¢ Autior of “YOU CANT MARRY~ 1 think, stand | and paeed ! suggest- | tic children | |should I ask? {an riate setting here.” would love her,” she, oring his doll, and he Nice of her to Mark will be quite out them all.” rmitage’s blush deepened. L “Why? I thought they would insuf- Mhe so fragile.” “Do you think of Mark Lodely as a sword, encased to frail flesh; and a beautiful moth ‘broken upon the wheel of want; and a mystic who would give his life’s blood o interrupt.a truth to us?” Well, T shouldn't have put it quite so tersély, but that is, I suppose, the gist of my attitude towards him.” She threw up her hands, wring- {ing them above her head in a {mock despair, that somehow con- nuine concern. I know he can be rather above [himself,” admitted Armitage can- 151y “Self-blessed, no doubt, 1d therefore cruel.” He kept his upon her lest she should guess memory—of a portrait. a result- of his ill-health, h? If he were to be cured, could feel himself the phys- equal of any man of his own - his ical | weight—" He'd hit a bit harder below the belt, that's all.” Armitage realized that this was hat The himself would like to do you hate him?” he \Vhyb asked boldly. “Barbara told the vicar the marriage waapostponed’ She made no answer. She gazed {at the little period dolls, the pret- ‘u sadness gone from her lips. “Oh, I nearly forgot!” she ex- claimed, as they went down the stairs. “I brought Patsy Raoul with me—you know, she’s starring at the Novelty. I'm staying with her.” “Are you?” “Well, our flat is let furnished —one of father's little meannesses ;’-and although 1 gave you every |opportunity to invite me to re- /main here, you didn't take it; so 1 had to creep out into the night in search of other charity. ... Farrell, you haven't asked me whether Mark and Barbara Quen- tin were married this morning or not.” Armitage touched her arm. “The elevator will take us down the rest of the way. ‘Why I know She didn't marry him.” “You made it your business to find out?” “Well, T made it my business; and you're quite right, she didn't. She went to the Vicar and told him the marriage was postponed |for at least a year.... I 'phoned mother this morning; she says the town says Mark has definitely thrown Barbara Quentin over this be just the sort of thing he'd like| “Isn't | 20 YEARS AGO i From The Empire February 1, 1913. ‘Gov. and Mrs. Walter E. Clark entertained the younger set of Ju- ——3 ,|n€au with a delightful dance at the Governor's House in honor of Miss Carol Green of Washington, D. C, (now Mrs. R. E. Robertson). Dancing began at 9 o'clock and continued until 11:30 when a buf- fel supper was served. WAfter the supper dancing was resumed until after 1 o'clock. It was the first social afair to be given at the Governor's House since Gov. and Mrs. Clark’'s New Year's reception. Guests were: Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Bayless, Miss Beat- rice Behrends, Miss Maud Charon, Mr. and Mrs. Z. R. Cheney, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Faulkner, Miss Muriel Folsom, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Garfield, Miss Carol Green, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Pond, Mr. and Mrs, J. W. Rummel, Mrs. Henry Shat- tuck, Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Thane Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Willis, Mr. and Mrs. Grover C. Winn, Mr. and Mrs, F. J. Wettrick, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Whipple, Miss Mina Sowerby, Miss Henrietta Heid, Miss Marie Wol- lenberg, Harry F. Benson, Victor Dupuy, Earl Jameson, Charles Johnson, Sam Kelsey, R. E. Rob- ertson, T. J. Kennedy, J. F. Mul- len, Mark Roscovich, Royal Shep- ard, Dr. L. O. Sloane, Harry Wol- | lenberg and Mr. Wood. It was reported that the quartz properties and water rights on Salmon Creek, known as the Bos- ::on King Mining Company, be- lenging to Lester Goldberg, Charles Goldstein, H. H. Folsom, John Wagner and Nick Wagner, had been sold to a party through George R. Noble. Robert Simpson, a well known jeweler and optician of the Iditar- od and Fairbanks, was in town on his wav to San Francisco. He left Fairbanks on January 6 for Chit- ina, where he found the railroad |blocked. and mushed back to Wil- low Creek, from there to Valdez, covering the entire distance in six days. He reported the Fairbanks \district quiet. Ten women and several men were dropped to the beach when the post office sidewalk caved in. The tide was out and though many were badly bruised there were no casualties. Those on the walk when it fell in were: Mrs. Mary Berg- mann, Miss Hannah Wilde, Mrs. H Dickinson, Mrs. Oak Olsen, Mrs. Sabin, Miss Ora Morgan, Miss Rose Pcnglase, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Tries, Miss Krone, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. King, Col. William Winn, James Barrgar Jr., Fred Hamburg. Charles Naghel, William Merchant, J B. Denny, James Duffy and Ed Hurlbut were among the first to render aid and with lanterns, ladders and shovels assist in the rescue. J. H. Cann and wife arrived on the Northwestern from the West- ward. Mrs. V. A. Peterson who had been visiting her parents in Doug- las, left for Skagway where she :Ju to make her home in the fu- ure. “Right in thinking that it's Lode- ’1;1 who wanted to back out when Lie had everything to gain by such a marriage and she nothing?” “Perhaps,” said Leila with sud- den savagery, “Mark was rather sick of being told just that!” She raised her voice and pivoted to the open doorway. “Patsy,” she yelled. An opposite door opened. “Ah, I may se-merge,” enquired a very thin young woman, dress- ed entirely in scarlet, even to her sigarette-holder. “I so much dee- test a salon. There is not where in a salon to let fall ash. You are Mr. Armitage, of whom I have made the carpet one sem-mense burn? " Or no, you are the painter —the genius? How can one know tiny waxen figure an example of time and is going to London to|the which you are?” its chosen period. The figure in | Leila’s hand was powered, pnn-; iered, shod with exquisite red slippers no larger than holly ries. “They were Malavie's idea—he had the collection on his hand and he thought they would hav er- [ | get away from her.” “Does she—Barbara—know they 1 (talk like that about her?” “No, I don't think Barbara knows,” she finally brought out. “It* doesn’t suit her, you see, to think that Kings Mallard may be | right.” 1891 —_—_— 1933 42 YEARS’ BANKING SERVICE to the Peopl COMMERCIAL e of Alaska. and SAVINGS The B. M. Behrends Bank JUNEAU/ ALASKA OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA (Copyright, 1932, Julia Cleft Addams.) Mark manages tomorrow, to make his entrance most effec- tive. ———— PIANO RECITAL And demonstration of Dunning Improved System of Music Study at Presbyterian Church Friday at 8 P. M. —adv. | Famous Candies I The Cash Bazaar Open Evenings i Call Your RADIO DOCTOR for RADIO TROUBLES SAMItos P M Juneau Radio Service ; Rooms 6-6 Triangle Bldg. Office hours, § am. to 5 p.m. Evenings by ap,ointment e o .! PROFESSIONAL | Fraternal Societies | . OF | ———— i astineau Ch(mnrl { Helene W. L. All L. Albrecht | ol i . PHYSIOTHERAPY e B PO, | Missage, Electritly, Totra Red ' et weran e U brothers welcome. 3 Phone Office, 216 Bt B i 2 ° |Exalted Ruler, M H * ® | Sides, Becretay DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER KNIGNTS OF COLUMBUS DENTISTS | Seghers Counct] No. 1760 Blomaren Fuilding Fastingd iedana aod inat PHONE 56 “onday at 7:30 p. m Hours § am. to 9 pm. | | Transient brothers urg-' e ‘ ® ed to attend. 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