The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 22, 1933, Page 4

4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22, 1933. Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY ROBERT W. BENDER PRESIDENT 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 pald, at the following rates: One year, In adyance, $12.00; six months, In advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, 91.26. Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephons for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER 'OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Amsociated Fress is exclusively entitled to the ase for republication of all 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. WASHINGTON KNEW DEPRESSION. Washington, elected by a unanimous vote as first President of the United States, entered upon the duties or that office, the first head of the infant Am n Republic at a time which for general conditions had a remarkable similarity to the ecir- cumstances under which Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, elected as the thirty-second ‘President in line, wm; take up his duties in a little less than two v\vvks{ The new nation was far from being on a stable basis. It was more of an experiment in government | than anything else. It had no finances and was padly in debt to France for money lent to conduct | the war, and to its soldiery for fighting that war. Its population, then largely agrarian, was in much the same straits in which farmers of today find themselves. It was confronted by hostile Indians on its frontiers and rebellious-minded citizens at home. It was adjusting itself to a framework of govern- ment that was not wholly agreeable to any of its component States. Nationally and internationally, the future was dark. The indefatigible energy, the solidarity of char- acter, the genius and skill he had demonstrated as Commander in Chief of the armies of the Revolu- tion, and later in taking a part in the preparations that led up to the formation of the Republic, which | had made him the unanimous choice for presiding officer of the Constitutional Convention and first President of the Union, were displayed by him in the eight years he held the highest office in the land. Alhough he had the assistance of many able men Who'!sérvéd 'with v fitm “loyally ands effi- ciently, it was mainly due to his great strength of character that the pressing problems were solved and a successful start made without the shedding of blood or the use of armed force. Through Alex- ander Hamilton, he worked out a system of finances that not only insured speedy restoration of public state of efficlency now prevails. Once an uplift occurs, dependent somewhat upon the complexion of commodity prices and consumer buying this Spring, a rapid transformation of earning power can readily develop. Friends of President Hoover are quoted as saying he will retire to private life after March 4, and will not seek the Republican nomination for the Presi- dency in 1936. There is no doubt about his retire- ment shortly, some 21,000,000 American voters saw to that part of it. And only Mr. Hoover knows do in 1936. In two days, two “sure-to-be” members of Roose- velt’s Cabinet—Senators Glass and Cutting—have publicly renounced that honor. It begins to look as if Gov. Roosevelt will win that wager with the newspaper correspondents that they will be 80 per cent wrong in their guesses. Alaska Railroad. (Louisville Courier-Journal.) The Department of Interior is congratulating it- self. During the last fiscal year the Government- owned Alaskan railw deficit of only $347,283, or more than $175,000 less than for the preceding twelve months. At a time of increasing governmental deficits here is one that actually decreased; here is a loss that is not entirely loss. A tax-oppressed nation, however, will not share the jubilation. A heavily burdened people will not be inclined to throw 1ts hat up in the air at the omy, which must be effected if the country is to get on its feet, will be increased rather than dim-| inished by the more favorable report from the costly ”but very useful Government project. Begun in 1915 and completed in 1923, the 516 niles of railroad from Seward to Fairbanks cost: the nation $56,000,000. It connected the open- water - port with the rich interior. ‘The under- taking was assumed by the Government because the | vast Northern Territory was undeveloped and private | The line has opened up a great new country, but it has been at considerable cost. The first year showed a deficit of $1,573,139, but little was thought of it because 1924 was one of the prosperous years. Gradually this has been reduced until the loss is cut in half. Increasing traffic and greater ef- fiency of management have further curtailed the deficit, but, like the Post Office Department, it is perhaps for years to come a losing proposition. What must be kept in mind by the public is that the Alaska Railroad is not a useless luxury. It is| not a white elephant. It is a necessary instrument for the opening up of & territory rich in coal and gold, in fisheries and forests. It is the pioneer on the last American frontier. Though the public will hardly share in the jubilation of the Department of Interior, it is well not to forget that the Gov- ernment project is a highly useful and potentially remunerative factor in the development of the‘ American continent. The New Deal. (New 'York World-Telegram.) well, close adviser of the President-Elect, is carried | through by the incoming Administration the Nation has a good chance of coming out of this misery. It is the promised new deal. It has lift. It starts and can say with authority what he intends to which it operates, showed a| announcement of the news. The clamor for =2con-| industry would not enter upon the doubtful venture. | If the econoniic program outlined by Dr. Tug-| Buying Barbasa| © by Julia Cleft-Addams Asthor o *YOU CANT MARRY® he had before you took him I shall marry him as soon SYNOPSIS: Mark Lodely, arrogant young artist, arbitrar- ily summons his fiance Bar- bara Quentin to him in Lon- don. She arrives in the midst cof a gay party he is giving; he net only does not ask her in, but makes a malicious car- iacture of her to show his Barbara flees to a ho- Mark’s party, as well as his living, is paid for by Far- She put on hat and furs, went | rell Armitage, in whose house |out and found a telephone box. Mark is staying. Farrell en- |As soon as she was in communi- dures Mark in the hope that |cation with Farrell's house she when he has made him a suc- |asked for Mark, adding—"Pleasa cessful artist, Barbara will lose t me. straight through to him. her pity, and her leve, for very important that I should Mark, and marry Mark’s bene- cak to_him at once.” (nity oken your part of the bargain. 1 break mine—Barbara Quen- tin.” She sealed and addressed the r and took it out to the main “Please have this sent at once special messenger.” BARBARA'S LETTER Barbara woke, is she always did, ! with all senses alert. She looked ‘run;: and knocked her way into o bl'nl,?"me SRSy e nustien it in the early hours of the morn. e ying. The Clanricarde had not been |eager to accommodate her, but| ¢ she had luggage and she had mon- Mazk (5000 e SV ey and a friendly policeman had “This is Barbara speaking. istood at her shoulder while she Mark.” parleyed with the night-porter, | “Barbara! Good neavens, “In fact,” said Barbara to -her- thought you were in Toxeter.” self, “there is nothing of the stray| This she sensed to be false. She cat about me and I'm not gomg‘mxd steadily— 't)c;dmew to order. Not for any- ‘I want to see you immediate- She waited for what seemed a ery long time. Then Mark’s voice d, so abruptly that she startled: - | “What's that?” she exclaimed. “You are TPatsy, aren't you? e 4 ,This tims dt:was Barbara who rang oft.” She had slept only a few hours, ;‘ “Well, why waste time 'phoning but she felt refreshed; cool and ‘me? I'm in bed. I can't refuse clear-sighted. Somehow she had to see you, except by hiding under come to a conclusion and hammer- [the bedclothes.” |as it can be arranged. You have; | |20 FEBRUARY 22, 1913 M. J. OConnor of Douglas,and his dog, Brownie, left on the Geor- gia for a ten day outing at Ten- akee Hot Springs. YEARS AGO From The Empire ‘The members of the Legislature, present in the city, held a caucus in the City Council chambers to make the preliminary arrange- ments for the coming session as there was no provision by law other than the appropriation for the expenses. Present were: Sen- ators H. T. Tripp of the First Division; Conrad Freeding of the! Second Division; L. V. Ray of the Third Division and Henry Roden factor. ‘Mr. Lodely s probably stilll,ng pan Sutherland of the Fourth ! , madam.’ Division; Representatives W. A CHAPTER 38. |t help that. He mustlgypying, of the First Division; ‘Thomas Gaffney, J. C. Kennedy, F. jon; R. D. Gray, of the Third Division, and E. B. Collins and Dan Driscoll, of the Fourth Di- vision. Gov. Walter E. Clark issued cer- tificates of election to all the members of the Legislature pres- ent in the city. { H. Bjork and Della Brown were married by Judge Grover €. Winn. A game of soccer football be- tween the Juneau and Douglas teams was scheduled. Jess Blakely, active head of the Penn-Alaska Mining Co., arrived |here directly from the eastern part of the United States where he de- clared business was good and mon- ey far investment in legitimate! mining properties was plentiful. | He was well satisfied with the and was confident it would turn lmto a good mine. Senator L. V. Ray, of Seward. was accompanied to Juneau by his wife and infant daughter and they had taken apartments at the Os- borne. Senator Ray was charac- terized as another smooth-faced boyish-looking young man, who would no doubt be heard much from both in and out of the Sen- ate. shadows. She swung eastwards, enjoying, in spite of her preoc- cupations, the sights and sounds of what she had always in her childhood called London town. It was a relief to have made up her mind about Farrell Armitage once and for all. The man was a cheat. He had laid down the rules of contest and had gone out- side them. No doubt he had built up his fortune in just such ways. A. Aldrich, of the Second Divis-|%¥ company’s property on Taku Inlet|" ed out a purpose. with the forgotten man, as it should. made an unhurried toilet. She rose and She “You must please get up and|Well, that was no concern of hers. \take a taxi to—to the porch of the Her concern was Mark's safety; credit, but also gave the new government consti- There is no cure-all, much of the basic job of tutional grounds on which to stand. His personal appeal to the soldiery sent them home satisfied to await settiement of their claims. Nonpartisan himself, he kept the two natural political parties at bay from one another until stability was achieved. These are but a few of his major accomplish- ments as President. A year ago today, the bi-cen- tennial of his birth was observed. Throughout the remainder of last year, the nation united in honor- ing his memory. All of us know more of him and his times as a result of that memorial. The country, having ‘gained through that knowledge, can well follow the example of Washington's contemporary countrymen in lending the assistance to Mr. Roose- velt that was accorded his original predecessor in office, forgetting partisanship for the good of the country. That, indeed, would make the two hundred and first anniversary of Washington notable in our annals. BEER BILL RE-APPEARS. The Collier Beer now, however, not much more than recognizablé by its author, has made its reappearance in the Senate after many weeks of buffeting around in committee rooms. It has lost some of its alcoholic content, some fifteen-hun- dredths of one per cent., but to make recompense to those who don't want, beer anyway, it has branched out to include wine of 3.05 per cent. alcoholic content by weight. ¥ Speaker Garner last December promised the country beer by Christmas. He did his part to fulfill that promise. His failure was in not taking into consideration the meticulous minds of Senators. Little more than a month remains for the Senate to pass the bill, a not impossible feat if it doesn’t run afoul of some more filibusters, and to have it Acted on by the House . Under the circumstances, we shall be fortunate if we have beer when the new Democratic Administration is ushered in. GOLD INFLUX 5 EADY. ; - The inflow of gold into this country continues on a heavy scale. Long since have the losses of the Spring of 1931, incurred during the international banking panic, been made up and, at the current rate of gain, it will not be long before American gold holdings reach an all-time peak. E The accretions to the gold supply, of course, . cannot but help intensify in time the ease of money and credit. The banking position is being steadily strengthened despite such surface developments as the new outcropping of small bank failures in the West and the more recent sinister developments in Michigan where & State moratorium was declared 1 &w situation shows but little change y. Such’general indices as electric reorganizing industry on firmer ground has to be left to industry itself; but Dr. Tugwell's program goes about as far as government can go within the next few months to turn the tide. Although some may argue with the details, every informed citizen will appreciate that the plan as a whole is striking at a deep cause of the depression by trying to put purchasing power into the hands of those who “ultimately buy and use goods.” By helping those at the bottom, the few at the top will benefit automatically. That is a far cry from the Coolidge-Hoover plan of letting the crumbs fall from the top—the plan which failed in prosperity and in depression. Here, in brief, is the new plan: 1. Better distributing of wealth through higher income and inheritance taxes on the rich. 2. Direct hunger relief, ana revival of employ- ment and business order through a large public and semi-public works program based upon needed and economic imrovements such as slum clearance. 3. Debtor relief through reduced interest rates; and consumer relief by lowering utility rates. 4. Credit and construction inflation instead of currency inflation. 5. Balancing Fcd: 1 operating budget with the aid of Prohibition repeal and liquor revenue. 6. Farm relief, with the domestic allotment plan as an experiment. 7. Restoring foreign trade by general debt-tariff adjustment and by business with Russia. Any President with the intellfgence and courage to start off with an immediate plan as practicable and hopeful as this one deserves the enthusiastic support of the country and of Congress. Mr. Roose- velt cannot carry the load alone. But, if private business and Congress will follow, the new Presi- dent apparently is ready to lead. Most lightning moves upward, says a scientist. Congressional lame ducks would testify, however, that it moves in all directions when the public hurls the thunderbolts.—(Buffalo Courier-Express.) It's easy to get by as a technocrat. You just use big words to say nothing and then seem dis- gusted by the ignorance of those who don't under- stand—(Los Angeles Times.) Ttalian Fascists are enthuslastic over Hitler's rise to power and position, but the new German Chan- cellor would. appreciate a little more enthusiasm at home.—(Chicago News.) However, you can't’ say tne depression hasn't knew that her outfit became hef when she inspected herself in the mirror and she knew it again, when she entered the breakfast- room. People turned to watch her seat herself and the headwaiter attended to her in person. After breakfast she found the writing room and sat straight down to the letter which had composed itself in her mind without, ap- parently, thought or effort on her part. When it was written she saw no cause to alfter a line of it. It was to Farrell Armitage. “I was at your house last night you watched Mark. You ‘Shows but I think it is you who are shown up. T think it is you who are shown to be more despicable, far, than Mark. “Our bargain was not that you should ‘show him up’ Mark is weak and inexperienced in spite easy to lead him into indulging the worst, instead of the best, that is in him. Last night proves noth- ing. Our bargain was that for a year you would take him and give/ him every chance to become inde- pendent—independent of any kind of help he could possibly want from me. Perhaps you saw thab what you set out to do is not pos« ible and so, instead, you betrayed him into vulgarity so as to make me hate him. “‘National Gallery. and I heard what you said when} said,’ him up pretty plainly'—;and again insisted on being put of his mature manner and it is| I shall be wait- We can have lunch ing for you. ‘together somewhere, “I never lunch.” Barbara hesitated. In what she had come to call the old days she would at this point have humored him or conceded her point. But that had grown impossible to her. “We can decide about lunching later. I shall expect you to meet me.” There was silence. After a mo- yment a voice asked whether she had finished, please, and she real- jzed that Mark had rung off. She gave him five minutes, then got through to the house again \into communication with him. Un- less Mark took off his receiver, {this game might well go on all day. | “Hello.” ‘Mark had not expected her to persist, evidently. “I shall go on ringing up this |house until T hear that you have started, Mark.” “But why don’t you come here, Barbara Beautiful, obstinate Bar- bara.—" _ “But I prefer not to. I won't wait longer than an hour. I shall find a telephone box and ring you up again if you aren’t at the National Gallery by eleven.” . This time it was she who rang off. She believed that he would be there. “I don’t hate him for being as he was last night. I feel more than ever that he needs me to get him back to what sanity and dig® She set out on foot for their meeting-place. It was a lovely November day, warm as spring in the sunshine, keenly cold in the CONFIDENCE Nearly half a century of service to the people of Alaska has given this insti- e stimulated the bullet-proof vest trade. Every person bidding at a foreclosure sale these days needs one —(Macon Telegraph.) 31 California scientists are developing a method of bringing down airplanes by X-ray. Doesn't gravity seem to be doing a pretty good job?—(Philadelphia Bulletin.) At the head of American products that simply on, adjusted, for seasonal 'variation, s bottom level of the depression and m M:‘nflf Q;her trends is that the "bottom. and - governments, -BOW- [prand as sauerkraul resembles spaghetti—(Wash- won't sell, we now have at rank technocracy. (Boston Transcript.) The B. Hitler Fascism is as much like the Mussolini M. 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