The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 9, 1933, Page 4

t:m Vnu suge sion forn THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB. 9 come. A psychologist might easily maintain that for business to pick up. JOHN W. TROY - - FPRESIDENT AND EDITOR| ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER| {not ma Published every evening _except ' 3 EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main |sawed out. Here has fitted up a jig-saw and makes his own puzzles. Streets, Juncau, Alaska. Sunday by the Entered in tre Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and per _month. trifle mos Douglas for $1.25| Like m: Oddly enough, e with a jig-saw, but is stamped out of cardboard or composition with a die, making its production very cheap. More costly productions are That is just as lak satisfying to the creative instinct. another “modern” pastime the jig- == D(ulV Al(lsha Emplre ( it is the ideal pastime for those who are waiting the present-day jig-saw puzzle is and there is an individual who ous as solving them, but is a saw puzzle is rooted in antiquity. The ancient By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: o g?em,_‘-:a;.mfl‘flhr,d’\;.‘«n’:;-h.’.5’3“_‘ ths, In advance, {Egyptians, it is recounted, used to while away the “Subscribers will confer a it they will promptly |long summer afternoons with just such puzzles. an:{u’. &1}:'1‘\’.“;:( cfr"m(m";“ ,“y fallure of) irreguITiy Doubtless it is safe to give the jig-saw puzzle an- Telephone for Bditorlal and Business Offices, 374 lother year or so and then predict its prompt MEMBER OF AssoclATEn PRESS, |demise. If it be true that its popularity is the The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the |,.o.15100ical response to depression and idleness ase for republ it or not otherw local news publis ALASKA cmcLuAflcw G THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. i dispatches credited to (P paper and also the | then we may devoutly hope that’ the jig-saw puzzle S0 SN TARG - |\makers go broke in short order. Let them try de- NS pression awhile. TAXES AND INCOME. THE MEANING OF BARTER. Each new day unemployed bartes The Empire has recently published a series| of ar in which a number of the systems were described. In many cases the bartering is aided by a municipal is bined as a means of escape from total indigence. | There are almost as many schemes as there are towns attempting this form of reilef, since the same set of conditions under which they are evol not duplicated in any of them. However, nearly all of them are in essence an adaptation of the ancient system of barter. The plan is most readily applied in smaller towns, where farmers come in to trade their food supplies for the articles they need. In the small town there is the physical set-up for the barter system. In great cities the groups which might bargain are too far apart, and this has deterred the unemployed from the self-help that is possible through trading | their labor for food d fuel, although in some towns like Seattle it T been tried with modifications. Barter, however, cannot be applied extensively in an industrial* society without . reverting to % beople will not know they are paying. permanently low standard of living. It is better) than starvation for those without jobs or resources. But it is not much better, in comparison with the living standard possible through mass production onomy. al significance of the movement to Prpof, that e have made a| and a money ec Perhaps the er is iny ijs ¥ bar bad job of administering’ our industrial - system. Magnificent factories are closed, while outside hun- dreds of men and women are bartering their labor for a bit of food, very much as primitive civiliza- tion traded food and handmade articles. Highly trained technicians in need and vast sums of credit lie idle. Barter is a helpful scheme to save a few persons from want, but, most of all, it is a challenge to America, whose confusion in a grisis is proved by ‘this reversion o’ &' primitive barter economy. OUR CULTURE MOVES ON. Periodically some ancient pastime is taken up and made a fad by large numbers of American people, played for all it is worth and then cast into the limbo of forgotten and useless things. This gen- eration has fallen for Mah Jong, crossword puzzles and backgammon and now comes the jig-saw puzzle to its day of popularity. The earlier ones had their devotees by unnumbered thousands, and now retain a goodly number after the craze flush has waned. But each of them has, at times, been the founda- tion of a big industry so long as millions, not just hundreds, were actively interested. The current enthusiasm for the jig-saw puzzles seems to have developed gradually, supposedly re- flecting the increased leisure that came with busi- ness depression and unemployment. Certainly, the jig-saw puzzle, in its more elaborate forms, requires not merely leisure but a state of mind that envisages ings 4 a in which | brings a new instance In WRICH |y ooyaply lavied and not taxation based upon how have worked out a system of | ance of scrip and the two are com- ‘ on the ground if he w q ‘lhmks he was correct, reason without cogency. Firing ved are Governor Conner of Mississippi recently said: tax system must recognize and establish the rela- tion between the income-producing condition of the people and the amount of money the Government is allowed to spend.” This states a truth that has been neglected too much in recent years. When times were good, at least superficially, and money was circulating freely, taxation rates went sky-high to keep pace with the rocketing expenditures of National, State, County and Municipal administrations. Today the situation is reversed. People generally begin to realize that expenditures for public purposes like those for private uses ought to be based upon equitable taxa- much money National, State County and Municipal governments can spend. Senators who argued for the dismissal of Ser- geant-at-Arms Barry, author of an article saying s might have taken bribes, 't fired the country would some members of Cong Barry proved nothing except that the Senate still has the right to fire as well as to hire its em- ployees. Barry probably was wrong. But his dis- charge by the Senate doesn't constitute proof of that fact. No Painless Taxes. (Seattle Times.) With forty-three Legislatures and Congress in session, e office-holders all over the United States are seeking a new financial “philosopher’s stone.” They want a tax that will produce all the money public servants can- spend,: but which the To date, through all the ages in which man has ibeen experimenting with government, no such im- |post ever has been devised. The nearest approach to it, perhaps, was the tariff during the years when this country was applying itself to the laudable purpose of building up a national industrial estab- lishment For a umph‘ of decades, ‘wifh the simple fastés that then ruled! in’Congress, the amount' reaiized from taxes on imports more than sufficed for the real needs of the Federal Government. Of course, ways and means were found to spend every dollar of it; trust the man in office to attend to that detail; but Congress merely had to consider ways and means of utilizing the handsome national in- come and was little concerned with the matter of raising money. That era passed a long time back. Ever since, the great objective of Congress—as of all other gov- ernmental agencies—has been to obtain enough cash to balance the annual budget. This year, with in- come off and business down, the issue is more acute than previously. Out of the welter of disappointed hopes of bureau- cratic jobholders and out of all the brainstorms of political opportunists no real, 100 per cent. “pain- less taxation” yet has evolved. To the contrary, every suggestion of increased levels of any kind or character has brought new howls of protest from the indignant multitude. In fact, the sole alternative seems to be cost reduction proportionable to income curtailment; and, |strange as it may seem, this prospect is the only one the taxpaying masses appear to regard with entire satisfaction. A hypocrite is a man who prays for delivery from temptation and then slips out to the auto show.—(Louisville Herald-Post.) Modern politics is one party trying to get in office and the other party trying to stay in—(Flor- nothing m*porlant to be done for a long time to‘ida Times- Umon) > o d. Sixty-five thousand persons | LDGAL GHAMBER are being fed in the city, and King| County’s credit is at a low stage.| Fishermen Hit Hard E T E Halibut fishermen here and else- TU WASHINGTGN where in Alaska face a serious sit- uation in current .market offer- ings, declared Senator Shattuck. | e AT NUBN LU N GH C’)\L‘:esmnze prices quoted here today, Head Of McKmley Park Residents of Nome, Ketchi-, kan, Wrangell and Pet- ersburg Are Guests (Continued from Page One) dicial d contention. ions in support of The two opinlons were referred “%0 the Legislative Committee for Robertson | Jurther report. |kan fishing he said, were four and two cents. “The fishermen cannot fish at such low figures, and will have to up their boats,” he declared. (omm!“cc Acknowledges Wire The Chamber was in recélpt of a1 acknowledgment from the House Ways and Means Committee of the Chamber's endorsement of the il currency bill and its to aid the Alas- y It would due consideration when measure was up for hearing, plea for be Company Will Attend Roosevelt Inaugural James L. Galen, President of the McKinley Park Company, long- time resident of Cordova and one time candidate for Republican romination for Delegate to Con- gress, wisited logal friends last night and today while the steam- er Northwestern was in port. He iz enroute to New York and Wash- iugton on a six-weeks business trip in connection with pfll‘k activi- " 8aid it was a debatable subject. He “ledded there might be some qu \elsims, due to the repeal of Ter- “ritorial mining laws, for 1931 X Shattuck Visits Olympia activity, which is § Senator Allen Shattuck, who re-|cent of the normal allow this week from Seattle, said| Secretary G. H Walmsley report ; ion as to requirements for ©of notice of location of mining he and Auditor-Elect Frank A.led Begislature -and watehed it Mr. Shattuck said. “One then that we know noth-]| LANG ranges ham. Tne ‘here of depression,’. he add-!Economy Furniture Co. ly restored |ties. estimates| Mr. Galen expects to be in Wash- work, thelington for the inaugural cere- was advised by Delegate|monies of President Roosevelt, as Finance Com-|he will be there about that time| ee approved $30,000 for this/tn confer with National Park of- about 50 per | ficials. e. | Development of McKinley Na- ticnal Park is progressing stead- 56 requests for information re-lily, he said. The highway con- had spent a day in Olym-|ceived and answered since last|struction is opening ‘up the big 1 3 where they called on Gov.|week. &pue D. Martin and visited the park to more extended travel. This e e .- feason, it is expected the P DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT b §og “action. By Young People's Advancementibig tourist hotel that is planned ‘“It is depressing to visit Seattle|Club at Moose Hall. Music by The|for construction in the near future see the conditions | existing |Happy Hour. Admission 75¢. adv.|by Mr. Galen and his associates, e dp—— e ——— Service will select the site for a and stoves at| Read the ads as carefully as you —adv.|read the news articles. SYNOPSIS: Just back from an all-night party at a Lon- don night club, where he has - blackmailed his hostess out of 120 pounds, Mark Lodely, gift- ed artist, insults his host, Far- rell Armitage, by ignoring a telegram Farrell has waited up to give him. Farrell is. in love with the sender of the telegram, Barbara Quentin, and Barbara is Mark’s fiance. Far- rell has secured Barbara’s premise to postpone the wed- ding for a year, so that Far- rel can launch Mark as an ar- tist, and Barbara can then make a chcice between them without handicap for anyone. CHAPTER 27. A CHORE FOR POOLE Kenneth Poole, looking as ruddy and smooth as though he had risen from eight hours’ dreamless slum- ber, helped himself largely to jam and eggs and said— “I'll yaffle this last one, if you are sure you've finished. I gather Mrs. Lodely breakfasts upstairs?” “She does.” Armitage pushed bock from the table and began luxuriously to fill his pipe. “Seo does her son. At least he did yes- terday.” “I'm not sure I understand Lodely's type enough to understand Lodely,” Poole went on. “He cer- tainly lost his wool just befor¢ he went to his hye-byles. Couldn’t follow his line of temper, quite.” He paused, before adding very cas- ually—“I got the impression you could, though.” “Spoken in the best Poole man- rer. ‘Oh, Mr. Armitage, what @ charming boy that secretary of yours is! Something so sympa- thetic about him.” He dodged the box of matches hurled at him and sobered. “Lodely has cause or, at least excuse to bait me,” Farrell admit- tea. “But I'm beginning to fear he dislikes me for the wrong rea- sons. There’s nothing more ob- structive to progress.” “Mind if I ring for some more toast?” asked Poole helpfully. “Why not order yourself an omelet as wel? You've got ‘to koep your strength up somehow.! “Now, why in the world didn't you suggest that just .after the fish? You've spoilt what might have been an excellent breakfast.” Poole turned his reproachiul gaze from Armitage to the opening door —and the reproach vanished. “Hul- lo! I say, Gaffen, you really are a bit of a thought-reader, aren' you? ‘Toast—hot, thin foast —a whole rackful of fresh toast botne ir. upon a thought-wave.” “We haven't forgotten your breakfasts, sir,” said the beaming Gaffen. Armitage might get re- spect, liking, intelligent response from his domestic staff, but he was amusedly aware that it was Poole—distant cousin, private sec- retary and wunofficial second-in- command—who held their hearts. “We fancied you might be glad to enjoy a good British breakfast again.” “All the same, T put on nearly 10 pounds in New York,” said Poole. “Mrs. Lodely, sir, has come on down,” said Gaffen to Armitage “She is in the drawing room. She would be glad of a moment with you at your convencience.” As the door closed upon the butler, Armitage stood up. “By the way, Poole, T forgot to tell you, but Mrs. Lodely is to be your holiday-task.” Poole looked horrified. “Haven't you got mining inter- ests in Vesuvius or fishing rights round the Pole that 1 ought to sec about instead?” he asked ear- nestly. “I mean, Mrs. Lodely miost interesting and all that, but the only thing we have in common is that she went out with the Belvoir hunt one day last year and I went out with the Belvoir hunt one day last year. And it wasn't even the same day.” “Well, you'll have to go on dis- cussing that lamentable mischance for at least another week,” re- turned Armitage hearteningly. “I will look after Mark, but I'd be grateful if you could take the off my hands. Do the usual shows with her and so on.” “Right you are, Gov.” Armitage left the cheerful morn- Buying Barbara) by.lllhwws-uoun-d-numn-v. om and sought out Mark's othe “1 hope you got some sleep,” he asked. Slept like a log—I always do!™ Wwhen she had laughed, she con- 1. “I hear they'll have done vator job by tomorrow night. vou don't tell me it’s your habit » cut up your house to suit ev- yone who comes to stay with you a few days?” I'd been planning to extend 1e elevator shaft for a long time,” aded Armitage. “As for this k of a few days, surely, you'll us longer than that? Poole as only just got balR after a h month in the States and looking forward to a little He seems a nice, cheerful sort { boy,” nodded Mrs. Lodely. “Bit allow, I should say, what?” Hardly,” murmered Armitage truggling with recollections of his peculiarly sophisticated rcounters with life. “‘At any rate, oull let Poole amuse you while ark is busy, you'll be doing a r all round. McLoughlin, the Watcher cartoonist, is interested Mark already; he rang up las iight and he’ll come around and ¢ him this evening.” Did he really! 'Well, it certain- y does seem as if Mark was tc cve his chance at last and I'm wre T should be the last to stand his way—his own mother! On- Only?” Only, if you don't mind my say- ng so, my dear boy, I don't for life of me see’ what you'r in' it for! After all, it's onc ing to give a strugglin’ artist v couple of useful introduction: md a week’s holiday and quite wzother to build him an elevator ind a studio and put up with him intil's he's ready to leave!” What about getting Philhay tc cok at him?” asked Armitage uietly. Phillnay? Sir Robert Phillhay e bonesetter But I though he'd ¢tired?” Mrs. Lodely looked, for nce, startled and impressed. He has, but it's my experience at a man can always be lured of retirement by a case that’s saffled his colleagues.” Mrs. Lodely, smoking fast, star- d at the ground. A faint fear Lot through Armitage—he hac ot foreseen difficulty with Mark’ wther and he felt he would have liked to think out his line of at- ick. He said lamely— “I gave your son his telegram ast night, but T could not induce im to send any answer.” “Telegram?” Her thoughts were lsewhere. Then—“Oh, yes, From Barbara.” “Yes.” She looked up sharply, spilling fer ash. “Barbara,” she repeated. Armitage was tense, waiting. “If you don’t mind my sayin' 50, my dear boy” — that same, deadly opening!—“you surely aren't thinkin’ in any particular, personal way about Barbara?” “It is true that I hope to per- suade Miss Quentin to marry me instead of your son.” “Youwll never do that,” said Mrs, Lodely. She said it casually—as casual: Iy as she dropped her half-smok- ed cigarette upon the Aubusson carpet and stamped it out with her big, shabby shoe. “You'll nev- er do that if I have to lay down my life to prevent it. You can’t understand, but it’s a matter of getting justice for Mark—his mar- ryin’ Barbara. And if needs be, I shall tell 'em both why.” Into Armitage’s mind flashed the miemory of what Leila had said at South-the-Water. “I may have absolutely no right to all this. It may be really Mark’s.” And Armitage remembered his own re- Jjoinder—“Or Barbara’s?” - Armitage felt anger rising. What cadgers and suckers they were, mothér and son! They took and took and took from Barbara; her young strength was caught in their weakness, her life tied down under their feet and dark with their shadows. “Anyway, put the notion out of your mind,” Mrs. Lodely told him. “You'd get the same advice from Babs, too, if you talked to her about it. If you don’t mind my 1891 ——————_————— 1933 42 YEARS’ BANKING SERVICE i _ to the People of Alaska. COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS The B. M. Behrends Bank JUNEAU, ALASKA OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA 20 YEARS AGO ] ———— FEBRUARY 9, 1913. Mayor and Mrs. Stubbins, of Douglas, were* surprised when abbut e dozen friends called at their home at 8:30 o'clock in the cvening. It was the tenth anni- versary of their wedding. Both the surprised hosts and the guests had a delightful evening and re- freshments were served by Mrs, Stubbins. Judge Overfield on C. Itow and E. Fushimi, both of whom were con- ‘mi of manslaughter, for the kill- ng of Frank Dunn at Dundas enced to serve 20 years at Mec- Neil’s Island. Oscar (Dutch) Grundler, Harry 2exroth and Russel York of Tread- vell, spent a day hunting in Sheep Oreek Basin. Charles Goldstein was in receipt f a letter from E. L. Pillman of Atlin, B. C, which confirmed re- »orts in the Teslin country. Mr. liman said he believed the new itrike was a good one and that juite a number of men would be vorking there during the coming sheason. Mr. and Mrs. Z. R. Cheney slanned to leave on the next trip »f the Princess May for the south. They planned to go first to Cali- ornia and from there to the east cast to witness the inauguration £ President Woodrow Wilson. One of the principal issues to 2 taken up at the meeting of the Jommercial Club was the nam- ng of streets and numbering of wouses, This complaint had been nade frequently by strangers and rassed up with the comment that here were not enough streets to ¢ confusing, but members of the ww organization felt that defin- te steps should be taken to rem- dy the situation. As it is not a ‘ozen men could call off hand he name of the street on which hey lived, it was said. More than 100 different varieties > strawberries were being produc- d in Alaska, according to a re- sort of the Alaska Agricultural xperimental stations. Mr, and Mrs. H. C. DeVighne 5f Douglas, left for the south on he Mariposa, for a prolonged trip. They were much ontertained prior o their departure. Harry Summers, manager of the iry goods department of Gold- stein's department store, resigned and was to be replaced by R. C. Post, well known mercantile man of Seattle. Miss Julia Barly, who had been confined to St. Ann Hospital for seme time was reported improv- ing. A crew of men was busily en- zeged converting the old Sheep *|Creek quartz mill into an exper- imental station for the Alaska- Gastineau Mining Company’s use. Much of the ore milled was very rich and it was supposed that the floor would naturally carry con- siderable value in gold dust that had been- deposited in fine parti- cles through operation of the plant. That none might be lost the floor was being qued in the furnace and the ashes put through a pro- cess that would enable the recov- ery of the gold. puttin’ it plainly, she doesn't like you. She told me so.” “That certainly doesn't sound bopeful for me,” admitted Armit- age equably. “And now T'm all the more puz- zled as to why you'r doin’ so much for Mark. I sh'd have thought you'd do less, if anythin!” She peered at him with sudden sus- piction. “Seems to me wunnatural that you should wish him well.” Armitage laughed aloud—she was 0 obviously crude in her emotion- al life. “I've_asked you to stay on here with your son,” he pointed out. “If you still don’t think he's safe ir my house I cant, I'm afraid, cenvince you otherwise. But Miss Quentin's quite confident that I don’t plan %o poison your son’s food or throw him downstairs, even if I do look upon him as a rival.” “You—she—" Mrs. Lodely was actually gaping at him. “Does tbat mean you told her — you wanted t0 marry her?” “Certainly I told her.” (Copyright, 1932, Julia Cleft- Addams.) Farrell has an unexpected set-to with Mark tomorrow. —————— ATTENTION LEGIONNAIRES! Alford John Bradford Post, Am- erican Legion, meets at the Dugout Thursday night, 8 o'clock. All Le- glonnaires urged to be present. adv. SAVE YOUR HAIR NU-LIFE METHOD " PROFESSIONAL ||| Helene W. L. 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