The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 8, 1933, Page 4

{ i § [ § 1 __THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8, 1933 Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - FRESIDENT AND EDITOR 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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per_month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, 'In advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will .confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any 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 ase for republication of ail news dispatches credited to it. or 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. LESS SPENDING, NOT MORE TAXES, IS THE ANSWER. We agree with Gov. Parks that the way to acmevei economy is to stop spending money. He is ccnvlnced} that by careful trimming of the sails of the Terri- torial governmental craft for the coming two years, Alaska can administer all of the essential functions | of government, including relief of unemployed and | other destitute who are ordinarily charges upon the | Territory, without the levying of any new taxes or boosting the existing rates of taxation. Gov. Parks is in position to know if this can be done. His opportunities for acquiring knowledge of what is essential and what can be done without are | unequalled. He does know, and Alaskans will do, well to be guided in this instance by his advice. i But a perfect stranger comes along and they . bite—hook, line and sinker. It's' a problem no one has so far been able. to figure out. Thousands of dollars are sent out of almost every small town every year in these schemes. This money it lost forever to the community in which it originates. Not a dime of it finds its way back into local trade channels. Expended in legitimate adver- tising, in local trade promotion work, most of it is soon back into local circulation, and it would produce concrete results far In excess of the meager re- turns from the other and dublous methods. Technocrats, self-appointed saviours of the nation who would rule by exact science instead of the rule of thumb adminitsartion of practical politics, seem to have some of the attributes of the old-fashioned politicians. - The New York savants have just split and dethroned their head man, Howard Scott. Seems he was traveling too fast to suit his fellow tech- nocrats. Time was .when it was necessary to admonish one's traveling friends: “Don’t take any wooden nickels.” In these days of barter and scrip, even wonden money has its sphere. Kissing, says a medical investigator, will stimulate the heart’s action. Its funny what strange fields a scientist’s devotion to research will lead him into. Who Wouldn't? (Ketchikan Chronicle.) “Who would not save up for a tour of the Mount McKinley National Park?” says the New York Times editorially after reviewing Governor Parks's report insofar as it deals with the tremend- ous Alaskan reservation, centered by the highest mountain on the continent of North America. In spite of all the publicity it has had, though, the Governor's report shows that in the year 1931 only 771 persons came to the park as fourists. It is logical to expect that as time goes on the number of visitors will increase much beyond that figure, but that still is in the future. We still are faced with the inescapable fact that Mount Me- Kinley Park, as wonderful a Elace as it is, can be visited only by those who have ample time on their hands. And unfortunately those of us with the most time on our hands are those of us who have the least money. So it is in the States. . But Southeast Alaska in 1931 had ten times {that number of visitors that McKinley Park had that year. Even last year, tourists going through |Ketchikan numbered in the thousands. This is not the time to consider new sources of taxation. Nor is it .one for levying higher taxes upon industries already staggering under high taxes in addition to burdens having their roots in long- | continued depressed market conditions. The Gov-i ernor again proves his soundness on economic issues | by advocating fewer expenditures and opposing high- | er levies, or adding other forms of taxation, such: as a general sales tax or special sales levies on‘3 selected commodities. The proper way to economize | is to stop spending, and there are many avenues of | expense, heretofore traveled by the Territory, that' can be closed, at least for the present, without caus- ing any suffering to the general public. | PRICE 'EM UNDER MICROSCOPE. A“good many economists who began their study‘ of the business depression by assuming it was a, phenomenon of the credit system, have come to| believe the uneven functioning of the price system} is also at fault. Many others, technicians and| politicians, have come to a similar conclusion. In| this light, considerable interest attaches to the an-| nouncement of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler that a| commission of 17 economists has been created to study the working of the price system. Seven of the commission are at Columbia Uni- versity, four from other universities and six are economists not connected with any academic insti- tution. The group is strictly one of experts, yet it comprises a wide variety of viewpoints. It is, also, small enough to deal informally with the problem. Its field of inquiry is narrow enough to permit of an exhaustive search for the facts and the proper correctives. It is a safe assumption that such a commission will not produce any positive resuits, for it is dealing with a nebulous problem and has only vague powers to recommend. But in the present demoralized con- dition of our economic system, two distinct lines of approach are necessary. The one looks to early and practical steps to mitigate hardship and revive business. The other deals with basic maladjustments and is primarily theoretical. In this latter and equally important field, the new committee’s study of the new price system should be useful. FALLING FOR FAKE SCHEMES. Under the above caption, the Slaton, Texas, Slatonite, discusses “faking” in the advertising field for which Texans as well as Alaskans seem to fall The experience of the Slaton folks is not different from that of Juneau, and it seems to be common in all sections of the country. ‘The Texas newspaper said: Never within the recollection of the pres- ent generation have as many fake schemes come to light as within the last two years. Almost every day papers in some part of the country are called upon to expose a new scheme. But, as a rule, the expose comes after the faker has gathered in' the money and hied himself to other territory, where All of which indicates that a National Park in Southeast Alaska would have some value. As it is there is no attractive place for a tourist to halt his journey until he reaches Mount McKinley. But if there were an attractive, centralized stopping-off place a few.days travel closer to the States, then surely the task of building up Alaska's already im- portant tourist industry would be less difficult than it now is. v Not only that, but we have ourself to consider. ‘While many Alaskans are here planning to remain only a few.years, the truth is that this is their home and they probably are destined to remain here the rest of their days. So, in preparing for the tourists, at the same time we should be making our own home more attractive. This should in no sense deprecate from the value and importance of Mount McKinley National Park. Its wonders are so great that they cannot be suceessfully-rivaled: ~-As-the‘Governor pointseut that “in addition to Mount McKinley with its tower- ing summit of 20,300 feet, the Park contains Mount Russell, with an elevation of 11,500 feet and Mount Foraker, 17,000 feet. . . . One of the most interest- ing regions in the world, affording magnificent views of Alaska mountain scenery, which has been described by many travelers as the finest in the world. . . " People Eager for Harmony. (Seattle Times.) Democratic Party control of the Legislature and of all State office warrants the hope of common purpose and cooperation which have been sadly lacking at the State capital for the past eight years. Regardless of party affiliations, all the people are eager for such harmony in State government as may arise from determination to give good service. Governor Martin' has sounded a keynote for that kind of harmony. It is not a joyous note —grave, rather than gay—but it is one to which a hopeful and helpful chorus may readily be attuned. And it is in a spirit of hopefulness corresponding with his own that the people of Washington greet |Governor Martin and extend to him, and to those !who enter office with him, their best wishes and their earnest prayers for an Administration that will be of benefit to all. Elisabeth Marbfiry. (New York World-Telegram.) Energy, versatility and brains, combined in gen- erous quantities and happy proportions, madé Elisa- beth Marbury a national and even international |tigure. Agent for famous foreign playwrights of an older generation, literary adviser, prominent suffragist, {war worker, ardent foe of Prohibition, excellent talker and the best of company, she had made hosts of friends on both sides of the Atlantic even before she strode buoyantly into American politics and rose to be Democratic National Committeewoman. To stay-at-home women her career seemed en- viably full of excitement, variety and color. Yet she held that “there is only one real success for a woman—to marry happily and have children. I have never yet seen any eminence a woman can reach that excels a successful marriage and the his game is still unknown. He manages to keep one jump ahead of the denouncers. This section has come in for its share of schemes and fakers, and its citizens have contributed their share of coin to the schem- ers. It has never been plain why local citizens will bite at something a home- town citizen couldn’t sell them in a hundred years. Along comes a perfect stranger selling advertising space on a time-card, calendar, cook book or some other fake scheme. He sells his space readily, in a form of adver- tising that usually isn't worth the paper it is printed on, pockets the money and is on his way. And then, when the advertiser fails to get results—as he does nintey-nine times out of a hundred—he goes around declaring that “advertising doesn’t pay.” The fact of the matter is such schemes are not legitimate advertising, and that is the only kind that ever did or ever will pay. There is something funny about human nature when it comes to these fake schemes. Nobody can umderstand why merchants and ; professional ‘men will “fall’ for ‘them” when they ‘wouldn’t buy & nickel's worth of space if a home-town man was doing the soliciting. bringing into the world a family of children.” That was doubtless sincere. She had too strong a sense of humor to pose. Her career was anything but tragic. Yet perhaps its liveliness, movement and countless friendships were instinctively sought compensation for some simplier thing that fate decreed she should miss. If so, compensation was not skimped. A dry leader says Pronibition would not be in danger if the Drys hadn’t forgotten all about it after the law was passed. On the other hand, quite a few Wets didn't seem to pay much attention to it either.—(Dayton, Ohio, News.) A man who was rescued after jumping off the dock the other day gave as his reason the fact that he had been offered a partnership in a Wall | Street brokerage firm.—(New York Sun.) Suit to compel payment for a riding horse caused a Chicago heiress to file a bankruptey petition. She is not the first to go broke because of nimble- footed ponies.—(Chicago News.) Add Similes—As perfunctory as the three-hand- ed bridge game ‘at midnight, while, tix h* digging up a lunch.—(Newark, Ohio, A‘:gofl » SYNOPSIS: At a hilariods party in a London night club Mark Lodely, gifted and arro- gant young artist, draws lib- { elous cariactures of his hostess and demands that she buy them. He is the guest in London of Farrell Armitage, whose leve for Barbara Quen- tin has led him to promise to launch Mark as an artist in return for a year's grace ex- tended by Barbara. For Bar- bara is engaged to marry Mark, in the year Farrell hopes to win her love for himself. Leila Cane helps Farrell because she also loves Mark. CHAPTER 26. BLACKMAIL Constantina J. Jacobson did not struggle. She produced a check silence. Meanwhile - Mark had wrapped the sketches in a napkin eand tied them with the string from one of the silvery balloons tethemed to the table. By the time the duchess had come round to see what was go- ing on, there was nothing to see. So Mark drew her instead, on the back of the menu. He drew her as he thought she would like to be drawn—a smile over a bare shoulder; excessive «ength of eyelashes, excessive trans- psrency of skirt. But he was get- ting exhausted. He calculated that he could only do another couple of impressions before the exhaus- tion became apparent in his work In the end he did three and— Buying Barbara . hy-l-lhmdmoauhrd'mnmu-v- 1the party, the porter informed him, had left him completely stranded.) Armitage’s car was outside— quite clear-headed mow, rec- zed the chauffeur. The man who descended from and bore down upon him was however, Armitage, but a man as brown of hair and eyes “Damn nearly Armit- marvelled Mark, whose head clearing with most opportune d. The young man smiled and his likeness to Armitage proved to be that of " type only. The set of Armitage’s mouth had always something . herd, about .it; whereas chieerful grin radiated a pup- py-liké “complacence. Oh; T wonder if you're thinking f coming ‘along' yet? Armitage hought perhaps you might be. But not ~he left me behind in New York, know—I only got back today. n I find your coat?” It was quite evident to Mark °lace as being incapable of speech movement, and he took pleas- ¢ in removing this impression. “Thanks, T-wish you would. I vag half-expecting (Armitage to nd someone. When youre a me duck, you see, you take kind- esses like that entirely for grant- d Peop® are so immensely de- ent.” Under the secretary’s geniality, flash of surprise showed. “You look wonderfully fresh af- 1 your beano—you get saved al { after a glass of champagne—a fourth. This was of the enormous' and frenzied negro conductor of the De Capo band. ‘Then he made the mistake of; thing that was pressed upon him; and gradually the flattery and the laughter and the music and the chatter all merged into an irregu- lar drumming rAythm that was not unpleasant but had a tendency to tion. There was, however, a cur- icus lucid interval when a gaunt; grey-haired man stood by his chain and said— “I like that study of the con- ductor. Would you let me borrow it? Name's McLoughlin,” The confusion fell from Mark's mind. The two women who had their arms around his screamed together as he wrenched himself to his feet . “It isn't what T’d pianned you should look at first. These people —just a lot of it—What a pity 'm too drunk to explain.” “It is rather. ... Didn't Farrell “He promised to, sir.” “Well, when you've slept this off, come round and see me. Or, not—" His eyes had found the crutch—“I'll come round to you.” He flicked a mnod towards the tableful and went. The next clear interval showed Mark his own face in a long mir- ror in which the dawn was faintly reflected. He was sitting on a blue sofa in the outer “May I borrow that sketch?” asked McLoughlin. drinking a ' good deal of . everysi|: beat its way right into his head’ and interfere with his conversa-| neck Armitage speak to me about you?”; lounge; ' vise.” lot, I expect, by not dancing.” Mark found himself hatted,} coated, and, finally, driven away in the same car that had brought him up from Kings Mallard. As the car dféw up the door was opened and Armitage stood on the threshold. Mark was able to make a better show than he had in the De Capo lounge and in Armitage's face also there glimmered the faint sur- prise. Mark noted it with rising | spirits. He became extremely charming. “I'm beginning to realize that I must have kept you and Poole out of your beds, Armitage. If I'd had any idea T wouldn't have left the house at all.” “We were up anyway,” Armitage ssured him, leading the way into is own sitting room. There was an informal, comradely atmosphere |in this room, with its litter of pa- pers and beer bottles, its hunks of {bread and cheese. . . . And then from rather liking it, Mark passed in one horrible nerve iJangle to despising and detesting it. He lodked around him avid for ar opening to hit and spoil, it was ‘Armitage who gave him one. “Before you go uu, Lodely, there {is a telegram for you,” he said. He handed it over and turned fo the fire. Before he looked at |it, Mark knew that it was from ‘,Barbm—and that Armitage knew it also. “Am asked to undertake Miss Patsy Raoul's house; please ad- Mark read aloud. He 1891 JUNEAU, 42 YEARS’ BANKING SERVICE to the I’eopl_e of Alaska. COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS .. OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA 1933 The B. M. Behrends Bank l' LASKA - 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire ——— FEBRUARY 8, 1913. A membership smoker was giv- en by the Loyal Order of Moose which was a complete success and called out a phenomenal crowd. Ed Russell was in charge of the social session. J. W. Bell was appointed reg- istration officer at a meeting of the City Council and the books were to be opened at the office of Sowerby & Bell for the registra- tion of voters for the next muni- cipal election to be held the first Tuesday in April. An informal discussion was hel a. the City Hall urging the im- mediate need of a new jail, eity hall, fire hall and school build- ings. All of the ones being used and a fountain pen and wrote in|['m the secretary—Kenneth Poole|Were inadequate it was ummlmous-ll ly decided. General Manager B. L. Thane, of the Alaska-Gastineau Mining hat someone, probably McLough-|Company, when asked about the)e had reported him at Brandish|Iumor that there was likely to be g a law suit over the Salmon Creek vwater supply said: “The Wagner- Folsom interests on lower Salmon Creek have always been on friend- ly terms with our company and no disharmony is expected.” Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Shackleford left on the Mariposa for Tacoma. Mr. Shackleford planned to ex- tend his trip to the East coast. M. J. O'Conpor and E. P. Ken- nedy were out hunting on the mountains. for Lockie MacKinnon, Mrs. J. E. Barragar and children, P. M. Mullen, H. L. Faulkner and Roy V. Nye. The Juneau Volunteer Firemen were planning to give their sixth annual ball at the Elks' Hall. A large crowd was expected as the firemen’s affairs were always among the enjoyable social events of the winter. Senator Conrad Freeding, of Nome, was reported to be looking forward with pleasure to his trip out from Nome over the trail to attend the First Territorial Legis- lature at Juneau. President John Reck of the Ju- neau Commercial Club urged all members to be present at a meet- ing the following mnight. It was the first meeting since the cele- brated banquet. said there was business to be ac- complished and the presence of every member Wwas necessary. The following passengers left Ju- reau for Seattle on the Curacao: W 1. Lewis, F. L. Boynton, T. R. Smith, J. Dalton, H. Cowger, Wil- liam Watson, Frank Young, w. verse and F. Gregary. Mrs. M. J. O'CoCnnor was a Juneau visitor from Douglas. laughed and pushed it into his pocket. “If youll jot down your an- swer,” Armitage suggested, still in- tent on the fire, “ITl get it sent off at once..” “Oh, but I don't think it really requires an answer,” smiled Mark. “It’s prepaid, I understand,” Ar- mitage had turned to face him. “Is it?. . . Waste of money then. Barbara might know by now that I never answer silly questions. Well “Yes, I can manage perfectly, thanks, if Poole will give me an arm. I gather the elevator isn't working yet. Goodnight, and many thanks again.” (Copyright, 1932, Julia Cleft- Addams.) 1 (FBSMETA. 3 o 46 s v | | Smith Electric Co. | " O EVERYTHING ! ! ELECTRICAL 5 2 SAVE YOUR HAIR " . NU-LIFE METHOD e Vi itinasss . () comyemi e eeiatn, | PROFESSIONAL | J ' Fraternal Societies I . - OF | Helene W. L. 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