The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 23, 1933, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB. 23, 1933, Daily Alaska Empire 7 PRESIDENT AND EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER i JOHN W. TROY ROBERT W. BENDER 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, §1.2 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 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. BROAD POWERS FOR NEW PRESIDENT. Several proposals under consideration by Demc-i cratic Congressional leaders are in essence, as re- ported by current press dispatches from the| National capital, a propostion to make Gov. Roose- velt a virtual dictator when he accedes to the| Presidency. These Democrats propose to give to the President almost unlimited powers to reorganize Lhc‘ administrative branches of the Government. And that seems to be the only sure way in which re- organization can be accomplished. They also talk of a plan for domestic allotment for farm relief that would make one of the President’s aids, the Secretary of Agriculture, a czar in the realm of farm production and prices. These and like schemes would vest the incoming President with authority comparable to that of| Woodrow Wilson in war time. If control of money and credit were also handed to him, as hinted in one or two bills introduced but far from passed, | then his authority would be well-nigh complete. Concentration of authority has been the pattern of change in nearly every democratically governed country. There is no reason to suppose, particularly in the face of current Congressional uproar, that the United States is immune to this trend. Indeed, just now the only alternative seems to be legislative chaos and delay. 1t is obvious, of course, that the type of “dictator- ship” needed at Washington is simply one in which the new President, through leadership and control of his clear majority, is actually head of the Gov- ernment and able and determined to institute his established policies. There is a great probability that Gov. Roosevelt will exercise just that sort of leadership. CRUCIFIXION YEAR DEBATE AROUSED. Pope Pius XI's aesignation of 1933 as a Holy Year has revived the old argument among mathe- maticians, astronomers and historians about the actual date of the crucifixion. The Pope in his announcement took cognizance of the question whether 1932 or 1933 should be regarded as the nine- teenth centenary of Christ's death. Leading authori- ties in England, however, contend the crucifixion was neither in 32 or 33 A. D. but in the year 30. There are endless arguments for maintaining that the Nazaresne was put to death in any of the years between 20 and 33 A. D. A strong patristic’ tradition " in the Catholic Church formerly favored the year 29, while Phlegon, a pagan chronicler writing centuries ago, gave 33, a date which received Christian sup- port in some quarters. English and German astronomers, however, dug into their astronomical records and found, they claimed, that there were only three years in the period 27-35 A. D. in which the crucifixion could have taken place. The years were 27 20 and 33 A.D: The crucifixion was carried out Friday, and that Friday was the fourteenth or fi'‘eenth day of the Jewish month of Nizan. Between 27 and 35 A. D. no Nizan 15th fell on Friday. Nizan 14th, on the other hand, came on Friday in each of the three ' years named. The Gospel of St. John lends sup- port to these calculations by stating emphatically that the crucifixion took place on the day of the - Passover, Nizan 14. At this point, the scholars turn from astronomy | to consider other circumstances in trying to decide * which date is right. They have ruled out the year 27 because Christ’s baptism didn't take place until the fifteenth year of Tiberius, which was the year beginning August, 28, A. D. 3 As for 33 A. D, which is the basis of the Pope’s ' declaration making 1933 a Holy Year, the scholars have declared it is impossible to reconcile it with | other dates in the gospels, chiefly those of Christ’s _busts and those given for the length of time it imok to construct the temple. Schotars also believe ' that the patristic tradition that set the crucifixion | date ‘as 20°A. D. was more likely incorrect by one " year than four. They tend to the belief, therefore, . that the best evidence established the date of Christ’s death as April 7, 30 A. D, rather than 33 A. D, despite customary religious observations. EXPORTS SHRINK HEAVILY. b to $12,466,249 from $103,486,034. Japan was our third best customer with purchases totaling $134,538,384. It was fourth in 1931. Although imports fell proportionately more than exports, the balance of trade was still in favor of| the United States. The loss in the former was almost 38 per cent., falling from $2,090,634,725 in 1931 to $1,322,745,439 last year, a drop of $767,889,286. The drop in exports was brought about largely by increased tariffs in which the United States led the procession. It set the fashion three years ago and since that time all other world powers have emulated its example. Until some more sane system than tariff walls is devised, our exports will continue to shrink, for it is impossible to attract trade if we in turh bar our customers from our marts of trade. The only newspaper in Alaska that found it necessary to carry the line, “Republican in Polit at its masthead in order to make its political affiliations discernible to readers has just dumped into the “hell box.” Perhaps the times are now not just propitious for such identification tags. Eddie Tolan. (New York World-Telegram.) What he wanted to be was a doctor. And he is a filing clerk in the Sneriff's office at Detroit. He had come to receive a leather scroll as a token of the esteem in which his city held him, and it de- veloped that he had been walking the streets of many cities for weeks hunting work. He was Eddie Tolan, “world’s fast human,” Negro hero of the last Olympic sprints. His mother, daughter of a slave, had toiled over a washtub to help care for the family while he spent four years in the University of Michigan, aiming at a career as a physician to his race. He became a track star, a national, then a world, athletic hero. The State of Michigan out of gratitude proclaimed an “Eddie Tolan" day. But when Eddie Tolan went out to find work to support himself and the mother who supported him he found only one possible outlet. rie accepted it. It meant the forfeiture of his amateur standing. He turned professional. But as such he did no run- ning; he only lectured on the vaudeville stage. But there was little demand for a runner as a talker. |There is, moreover, less demand for a great sprinter as a professional athlete. By all modern standards of money-making a man has the right to capitalize the genius of his mind or the skill of his body. Eddie Tolan could only give his free. Now he cannot even run as an amateur. His skill is, therefore, dead. This exposes anew the defect in the American amateur system which requires a man to give his gifts for nothing, if at all (unless he resorts to various subterfuges), and then bars him from even the future amateur employment of his skill because in desperation, or in free will, he “turned pro- fessional.” Modern Boyhood. (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) About the most completely useless thing a man can do is to utter lamentations about the short- comings of modern youth. Educators, more than anyone else, ought to know this; and it is surpris- ing to find such a man as Cuthbert Blakiston, Head- master of Lancing College, England, declaring that school boys nowadays are “cowardly, untruthful, easily bored, vain and dishonest.” But the defense of the modern boy is not a matter that need detain us. The interesting uning is trying to figure out why any adult should ever feel called upon to open an attack like Mr. Blak- iston’s. Boyhood is more or less what we grownups make it. Boyhood is lived in a world which will.shape it and mould it, and it is not in the least responsible for what that world is. We adults are responsible for that. If we find boyhood growing deceitful, cowardly and frivolous, we have no one but our- selves to blame. For boyhood wants, more than anything else on earth, someone. to look up to, someone after whom it can model itself. It is pathetically eager to please the grownup world, and it will take almost any path that the grownup world indicates. And if, today, it finds itself in a world where good models are scarce, where honesty and sincerity do not command a high premium—well, whose fault is that? The world is in a sad mess these days, and if it ever gets out of it, it will be because of the boys that are just now growing toward manhood. We have precious little call to be critical. Republicans in Name Only. (New York Herald Tribune.) This nation's two-party system cannot be main- tained in legislative assembles so long as members are permitted to remain affiliated' with one party while working consistently with the other. We have, therefore, much sympathy with the suggestion that four Senators who deserted the Republican ranks last year be barred from the party’s caucus when the Senate is reorganized. The development of a bloc of self-styled “pro- gressives” within Republican ranks in the Senate has been responsible to a large degree for the fail- ure of leadership there in recent years. This failure was strikingly illustrated on Monday when the lead- ers, having a nominal majority, found themselves in the humiliating positicn of being unable to force an executive session to consider nominations for office coming from a Republican President. It is not a question of depriving any Legislator of his right to hold and to fight for independent views within his. party. That is an inalienable right. But when he has actually repudiated the views of a majority of his party to the extent of supporting the enemy's candidate for President he should be considered to have renounced the right to further participation in its councils. * The Senafors we have in mind are Mr. Norris, of Nebraska; Mr, La Follette, of Wisconsin; Mr. Johnsom;, of California, and Mr. Cutting, of New Mexico, whose terms are not expiring. Senators Blaine, of Wisconsin, and Brookhart, of Iowa, having been rejected for renomination by the Republicans of their respective States, will be missing from Wash- ington after March 4. Senator Norris bolted the Republican national ticket in both 1928 and 1932. Senators La Follette, SYNOPSIS: Barbara Quen- tin, - arbitrarily summoned to Londen by her arrogant fience, Mark Lodely, arrives in the midst of a revel to which she ic not asked. He even draws a malicious caricature of her. As she runs from the house she overhears a man she be- lieves te¢ be Farrell Armitage Mark’s host, call Mark a boun- der. She breaks by letter the agrecment she had with Far- rell (who lovés her) that he might try fer a year to estab- lish Mark as an artist so that Barbara could choose between them, without prejudice. Then she demands that Mark meet her at the National Gallery. CHAPTER 39. _ THE CRASH So sure was Barbara of Mark’s coming, that she did not apprec- iably lengthen her pace and it was five minutes past cleven when she |company I keep! turned into Trafalgar Square. As she looked across to the people scattered upon the steps of the building a car passed her with Mark inside. She watched it sweep up to the steps, but Mark did not descend. Her heart misgave her suddenly, suppose he had brought Judy? She came steadily on and pres- ently drew level. He was alone, “Rotten of you to keep me wait- ing!” he exclaimed, the moment his eyes fell upon her. “You haven't been here two minutes,” she returned, and got in. The car was very roomy, Very plainly equipped. “Is this Farrell Armitage’s car?” “One of his cars, child. You have no conception of the resourc- es of a millionaire, evidently. Just as well, perhaps, for your poor, neglected true love. Michfield is waiting for you to tell him where to drive to.” “To the outer circle of Regent's Park, please, and drive slowly round.” ‘The car rolled away, a smooth, obedient movement that seemed to make speech flow more easily. “You wired me to come to you, Mark. Why?” “Because I hungered for the sight you.” “But last night,” sne ccuntered and, to her dismay, there was a sob in her breath, “last night you insulted me before your friends.” “Last night? You weren’t there.” “That’s futile, Mark. You sdw me. You know I was there.” He had let himself slip towards her and now laid his face against her shoulder. “I'd had oceans too much to drink. Don’t loathe me for it, beautiful. You looked so0 ° prim and dull and hard-working stand- ing there, gaping at all the naugh- ty people. And you know I can't stand it when you look like that.” “You hurt me too much, Mark.” “Really too much, Barbara?” Again she turned and looked down at him. The car was along- side the curb. ‘ ‘People will see you, Mark. Sit| up.” . He lifted her hand, drew off t loosely fitting glove and d her palm to his lips. “I have missed you so, beauti- ful.” Mark was at his most kind, most dear. How could she ever, for one instant, have wondered—have even doubted? She relaxed a little. The traffic jam broke and the car started forward again. “Oh, darling Mark, I ought nev- er to have let him take you away from me. Let’s be married at once, Mark. This week.” He flicked aside her hand and, of hauling himself erect, sat back in his corner. “‘Him? ” “Farrell Armitage. It sounded so splendid, his offer to house you and help your work and perhaps improve your health. But this is taking away with one hand what he gives with the other.” “This? Do you mean my par- ty?” “All your parties, all you go to and all you give, if theyre like last night's!” He was silent. interpret on. “You must see it, Mark. She could not his silence. She went Buying Baljhafa’ © by Julla Cleft-Addams | | | must agree that for—for whatever itely trying to vulgarize your ca- reer.” You Mark. i Couldn’t I see you last night, 1e kind of people he had brought to his house and the kind of en- tertainment he provided for them.” car had turned into the k now, and was sweeping slow- z the outer circle. Unique,” commented Mark. “Ab- unique you are, Barbara. arched his face. ou mean I'm—foolish?” I mean—" his lip lifted at one corner—“you are possessed of a ique and quite amazing nerve.” drew herself up. “Whatever T've done or said that is so stupid, you must not speak to me like that.” But her voice shook badly. So you are going to carry me and marry me, are you? Be- se you don’t approve of the And I'm to be allowed a very few really respec- table little folk to play with me now and then, and I get a beer and tobacco allowance, I suppose?” “No, Mark, no! I put it too sweepingly, perhaps. I know I'm naturally bossy—people Tave told me that. But I do want to take you away from Farrell Armitage before he utterly spoils you and I think that whatever you say, you do really want to come.” Mark glanced out of - the win- dow. He waved a hand languidly to an acquaintance. He watched a dog frisk across the road. “Mark,” she begged, “I know what is in your mind.” “This. That when we marry and don't forget that last time I asked you, you refused me, when we marry, it will be T who decide icre and how I shall live after- rds. 1 may or may not be a cripple, by then, but if I were twisted into twice the funny knots I am already, I will be absolute master of my own life. If that doesn’t suit you—get out of it!” “You don’t know what you're ying. You don’t mean it. You would be living one kind of life, I another.” She tried to smile. “It wouldn't be real marriage at all.” “And yet,” pursued Mark, “no other kind of marriage would be possible with you, Barbara. You're bossy, as you say yourself. T won't either boss or be bossed.” ‘Then—?” she said, still smil- ing. “The” whole question is shelved indefinitely,” he suggested. “Or no. Youre one of those people who insist on being given a date. Let's shelve it then, for a year. In the meantime, you can leave me to steep myself in vice under Amitage’s able guidance He laughed amusedly—“and you can go back to Toxeter. Excellent place for good little girls to be good in, Toxeter.” She put her hand to the speak- ing tube. “Stop, please,” she requested. “Geetting out, Barbara?” The car drew into the curb and think so?” murmured 35 don’t |the chauffeur came to the door. “Should you really be so very ifinal, do you think?> Mark went on. “I mean, won't you have a terrible lot to unsay when you want to be engaged to me again? All that tin-chapel talk about Ar- mitage—" She look at him blindly. Mich- field had returned to his wheel and she held the open door in her hand. In a moment she would shut it upon Mark and his cush- ions and his laughter and let him go. “—when one of the most satisfy- ing things about my party was that it drove him out of his own house in gennema.;nly disgust! He didn’t come back to Brandish Place until an hour ago!” Her hand tightened on the door. She said, almost violently: “You're mistaken. I saw him standing in the doorway of your studio about two o'clock, looking on. I heard something he said about you.” “You saw him clearly?” “Not clearly, no. From behind.” “His build is very much like Poole’s, his secretary. It was Mr. Watchdog Poole you saw. And the only reason I'm troubling to You |mention all this—" Mark's voice shrilled suddenly, “the only reason reason, Farrell Armitage is defin-|is, that before you ever dare to CONFIDENCE Nearly half a century of service to the people of Alaska has given this insti- 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire ———d FEBRUARY 23, 1913. John LeBrun fired three sh from a 32-calibre automatic volver at Jennie Du Bois, and then placed the muzzle in his right ear stantly. The woman was hit twice but pot killed. An inquest was held over the dead man by Com- missioner, ‘Grover C, Winn. 'The in the underworld. The Elks Hall was chosen for the meeting place of the First Legislature in Alaska after a dis cussion at the joint caucus in the City Hall chambers. Things were moving along rap- idly in the Sheep Creek division of the Alaska-Gastineau Mining Company's development project. C. K. Forner, who had adver- tised that he would pay $1 apiece for live and uninjured crows, was the victim of a practical joke when an Indian called him, asking if he still wanted crows and assured learned later to him at once. He wanted the crows, five of them. Members of the First Legislature coming from Fairbanks had their platform all prepared and it was a very amitious one, co-vering among other things, changes in the banking, mining, efection and edu- cational laws. { Judge Lyons, in Valdez, passed sentence on three men for illegal- ly certifying to the Afognak elec- tion returns. The fines totaled $900. Miss Jennie Martin, a girl born in Juneau, was chosen queen of the Alaska carnival, at Nome in {January, according to word receiv- ed. She was presented with a gold diamond-studded watch Oak Olson and Sam Guyot were among the traveling men who left on the Jefferson for Ketchikan. Judge J. R. Winn left on the Jefferson on his way to Washing- ton, D. C., where he was going to participate in the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson. President John Reck issued a call for a meeting of the Com- mercial Club to attend to import- ant business, On the first of March the erec- tion of a new building was to be started for Jaeger and Claude Erickson on the vacant Franklin Street property adjoining the Elks’ Club. talk marriage to me again, you'll apologize for believing that a cash- minded clod like Armitage could ever begin to influence me.” “Armitage vulgarizing my career on the sly? Armitage choosing the wrong kind of friends for me? That—clerk!” His free arm swung wildly and he tore the door from her grasp and crashed it shut. Through the window her eyes hung upon his for another moment and then the car slid into gear énd he was gone. But Barbara was beyond re- sponse. Dimly aware of someone at her shoulder, she turned. It was as if theemptiness and the sun- shine turned with her; the world spun, jolted and then slanted in- to space. She slanted with it and the sun went out. (Copyright, 1932, Julia Cleft- Addams.) Farrell searches, tomorrow, for one he loves. ————— RARIN' TO GO! Let Lee Rox and his snow shov- elers clear your roofs. Guarantecd. For action Phone 366. —adv. that it was a put-up-job, but still| jand pulled the' trigger, dying in-|s: woman was & well-known figure | ! him that 100 weuld be delivered | ) PROFESSIONAL | S 15 B Helene W. L. Albrecht 1 PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 | | | | | | DRS. 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B lace in the publlc 8 Call Your | almost. one-third from the 1931 total Which I W |pave since retained their contacts with him, and confidence. Being in close touch with .| was smaller than 1930. Last year American goods|each has been mentioned as a Cabinet possibility Alaska’s commercial life places us in RADIO DOCTOR " valued at $1,612305818 were shipped to foreign|under the new President. They apparently intend A £ banki PEERLESS for | | countries. In 1031, the total was $2424388,588, or |to remain in touch with him and in sympathy with position to render the best of banking o ~about $812,000,000 more tham last year. Canada and [his policies. ; service to our cus ers. RADIO TROUBLES :x’cnea: Britain remained the nation’s best customers| These Senators have now little in common with torRem. BRE AD 9A M to9 P. M. | with purchases of $288,462,805 and $241,424707. the policles of the Republican Party. 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