The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 25, 1933, Page 4

[ A PRI G HI R L A e Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY ROBERT W. BENDER PRESIDENT AND EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER Sunday by the Published every evening except i B EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES 128 Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Gouglas for $1. per _month, By mail, postage pald, at the fo One year, in advance, $12.00; six m ) $6.00; one month, in advance, §1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor if they notify the Business Office of any failurc In the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374, rates: n advanoce, will_promptly or irregularity R OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The A:‘.(E'xfin?fd Press 1s 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 LASIMAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. JUNEAU LOSES VALUABLE CITIZEN. In the death of Jules B. Caro in Seattle yester- who have spent the greater part of their lives| upbuilding solidly and conservatively for a bigger,| better and finer town and Territory. For 35 years| he had made this his home, rearing his family/ here, investing his money in local properties :nmll‘ taking an active interest in all matters of civic| nature affecting the town's welfare. He had a wide | acquaintance in and out of Alaska and a host of real friends to whom his death comes a shock and a source of grief. He was a good citizen in the best sense of that term. He was an outstanding business man. Just in his dealings with his fellows, fair to all, he earned the respect of all who came into contact with him. His passing leaves a vacancy in the community that will be dificult to fill. KETCHIKAN URGES EMERGENCY LEGISLATION. Visioning in Japanese competition ruin for the Alaska salmon packers and consequent disaster to not only the Territorial Government, which recmves‘ a major portion of its revenues from taxes on the salmon industry, but also to the communities in Alaska that are largely dependent upon the industry for employment of labor, the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce recently adopted a resolution urging Congress, to pass emergency legislation to protect the| canners. Depreciation of Japanese curtency makes it possible for Japanese pink salmon to be delivered on the American market cheaper than the local packers can produce the same product. Delegate-Elect Dimond, while in Seattle, declared it is imperative that Congress act without delay. He will urge Western delegations to Congress to unite in an effort to obtain somc measure that will insure relief. Concluding its resolution, the First Cily Chamber of Commerce declared: Unless local canners of canned salmon can receive some assurance that their 1933 product can be marketed at a price suf- ficient to pay operating costs, many or all of these plants will be forced to remain closed and instead of only 912 people being objects of charity in this community, that number will be doubled . We urge emer- gency legislation . . . asking only that the competitive status prevailing prior to the injection of the depreciated currency ele- ment be restored. Recently, the Democratic leadership in Congress decided to take no action on pending measures for protection of American industries from imports from countries having depreciated currencies. It did not, however, indicate it was actually opposed to such steps. However, it felt that it would not be sound policy to act on this one phase of the international trade problem as it might handicap the Roosevelt Administration in its proposed international trade conferences seeking to overcome the evils brought about by high tariffs of many countries. The Ketchikan plea, however, is timely. Other communities might follow its leadership in the hope that a united front may achieve the relief that the canners so desperately need. LARGE AREAS REVERT TO FORESTS IN UNITED STATES. The area of forest land in the United States has increased about 33,000,000 acres, or more than 6 per cent., since 1920, United States Forest Service estimates indicate. Reversion of cultivated and pas- ture lands to forest is largely responsible for the increase. A recent study of existing information on forest areas places the commercial forest area at 496,000,- 000 dcres. Of this total, however, only abgut three- eighths' bears saw timber; one-fourth bears trees of cordwood size, and the remaining three-eighths varies from fully stocked areas of young growth to land practically bare. Sixty million acres of forest land have been so denuded by lumbering and fire that they are not restocking and will not again become productive without artificial assistance over a long period of years. Abandoned farms, reverted pastures, and cut-over forest lands on which owners have been unwilling or unable to pay taxes are accumulating much faster than the facilities for planting them to good tree stands. Most of this land has com- mercial timber potentialities, if good forest manage- ment and artificial planting can be supplied. The estimate of commercial forest area does not include about 10,000,000 acres withdrawn from tim- ber cutting for recreational and other public uses, nor does it include about 100,000,000 acres of low- grade woodland and scrub of little or no value for . Juneau and Alaska lost one of a group of mon; {given by both President-Elect and the SIX-YEAR PRESIDENTIAL TERM. Consideration of a single, six-year term for the President of the United States, tentatively discussed several years ago, may be revived in Congress dur- ing the Roosevelt Administration. This was indi- cated recently in Washington by Senator Pittman, Democrat, who advocates the adoption of an amendment to the Constitution to that end. He regards this step as a logical sequence to the “lame duck” amendment recently ratified. His views are said to be representative of a considerable body of members of Congress, both Democrats and Régub- licans Commenting | declared on the subject Senator Pittman “I think the question of one-term Presi- dents, with about six years in office should be settled, and settled soon. Quick ratification of the lame duck amendment demonstrated that the people are awake to the need for reform and I should not be surprised to see the next step accomplished within two years.” The movement for such a project will not be started, however, without consultation with Mr. Roosevelt, This probably will not come at any early date as he will be too busily engaged with major problems for a while to take up extraneous matters, even though they be as important as the change of the present Presidential tenure of office. Should it be decided to make the change, Congress could not do it on its own initiative. It involves amending the Constitution and a resolution for it would have to be submitted to the States and ratified The technocrats. with the unanimous. former German Kaiser disgrees And that makes it about Talking Too Much. (Boston News Bureau.) Sailing Saturday for the tropics, the President- |Elect, who at times has shown an admirable gift of reticence, made it clear that he will both wisely as well as punctiliously seek to keep up a co-oper- ative contact with the powers in Congress when debt conversations with Britain have begun. His own experience him in stead here. Of present and general value also just now is the object lesson of a gracious yet firm silence as British Ambassador. Premature and injudicious talk on either side of the ocean prior to the authoritative conversations themselves and to the crystallizing of mutual publir opinion is a two-edged sword of dis- service. The chief offender has been the British Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, who has tried twice over to outvie anything our own Mr. Borah could do in the way of ex-cathedra assumptions. His anti-| swapping comments, in both text and temper, have been such as to earn the earnest reproof of the London Financial News as being wholly “tactless and gratuitous.” Also they have stirred a general opinion of British finance in the city that such repeated and half-cock debt discussions may do much more harm than good. Hence also the grapevine intimations that the British Ambassador is taking back home the gentle hint that silence as yet is “as golden in Downing Street as at Warm Springs” Certainly it is all the more so now at Birmingham or -elsewhere in the provinces as well as on Capitol Hill or anywhere else in America where professors or any other pundits seek to catechize popular opinion. Could there be any choicer way of rasping nerves| mutually in advance or of laying foundations for propaganda or worse charges? Diplomats, like certain ladies on the stage, can easily “protest too much” or too soon. Tariffs and Currencies. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) The movement to increase tariffs to compensate for depreciated foreign currencies has found a strong ally in James A. Farrell, former head of United States Steel. Mr. Farrell asserts that such tariff action on our part will drive foreign countries back to the gold standard and pave the way for a re- sumption of trade on former levels. This is a highly dubious argument. The main depreciated their currencies was the fact that our high tariffs prevented them from exporting enough goods to America to keep their international trade balanced. By closing our doors to foreign mer- chandise, we forced those nations to ship gold and more gold to our shores to keep their currencies at par. When they could do so no longer, and when they had to find some means of augmenting their export trade, they suspended gold payments and took refuge in depreciated currency. This being the case, an increase of our tariffs will“only augment the difficulties of foreign coun- tries in returning to gold. They can recover ade- quate gold reserves only by maintaining an export surplus. If we throttle their exports to us, we make their return to the gold standard’that much more difficult. It is more to the point to demand that Mr. Roosevelt’s promise of tariff reductions be adhered to, for this is much more likely to enable foreign nations to return to the gold standard. Reduction of war debts will help in ‘this direction, but if accompanied by tariff increases, as Mr. Farrell sug- gests, the gains of war debt reduction will largely be lost. New York Alone! (New York Times.) It was bound to come. The people of this State are now invited in the matter of vegetables to “Buy New York.” They must not stand idly by and see the canning industries of the State driven out of business by ‘“out-of-State cheaply canned, inferior quality fruits and vegetables.” That, at least, is the position taken by certain canning interests in the western part of the State, and The Canadaigua Times-Journal has found much support for the proposal that State products be labeled “Grown in New York State” The next step will be, presumably, a “Buy Southern Tier” movement, to be countered by a “Finger Lakes Alliance” and a “Delaware Watershed Union.” The logical culmination of self-contained New York vegetables will come one day when a little boy pushes a can back over the grocer’s counter and says, “Mister, by mother says she doesn’t want these New York peas because she says the plow that turned up the soil where they grew was made in |Indiana, and she says the fertilizer came from |Chile, and they were cooked over a fire of Penn- {sylvania coal by a lady born in Sweden; and mother says the steel from which the can is made was {made in Pennsylvania, and the tin comes from |Bolivia and the label was printed in Wisconsin on wood pulp from Maine, and it was soldered with stuff from Missouri and delivered to you by a truck production of saw timber, although much of it is yaluable for watershed protection. made in Detroit. And mother asks what do you mean trying to pass off foreign stuff on her?” by three fourths of them before becoming effective. | in New York State may stand|, reason foreign counfries left the gold standard and [ ha te ly. head. sea, SYNOPSIS: Barbara Quentin Mark as an artist in returh for Barbara’s promise to postpone her wedding to Mark for a year. and Barbara disappears. When Farrell Armitage finds her af- ter a month she apologizes for 1p Barbara demands to know ex- of marriage and he the fallen scarf up and over her small, silky head. “Come along now,” he said quiet- “I can’t let you catch cold.” She was standing very still, her face upturned to his. were clumsy at their task. whatever he grows to be.” The clumsiness dropped from his hands. winced, ‘and he loosened his hold a little. “There's still something T want to tell you. Tt's strange you should have found me here just now, be- cause I've been thinking all day that T could say it here b in fed ing T upon the rocks. the to She and Mark quarrel, but to the tides k. was so angry |long.” He carried her toward a bobbing lantern, voice failed. “What are you asked her. She colored deeply. His hands yet. As he gripped her she love. He felt her shake her mitage went on. the s learned that Farrell Armi- year for me tage is not trying to debauch me I will marry you, Mark Ledeiy, but it living up e. his agreement to launch He stared down at her Buying Barbara) % by Julia Cleft-Addams ¢ Asthor of ~YOU CAN'T MARRY® That ‘there is no need to wait if you still want if you! stupe- he moonlight was strength- t showed {neau Iron Works. m the creamy edge of the wa- waves—he seemed un- think clearly about them the waves were very nearly for “You have toiled for iim and endured him, and it isn't her suspicion. He tells her You have done so much Mark has been operated upon id her low, unhappy coice and will no lenger Te lame. |0 the dark. actly when Mark went to the | [air you should have nothing for hispital. So, if you still—" e A wave, slapping over a ledge, sent stinging spray over them both. CHAPTER 41. Armitage felt as though it had THE PACT RENEWED gone right through him, through “At three o'clock in the after-|the heat and fever of him, through noon,” Farrell told Barbara. he insane, primitive desire to lift “The time matters to me,” she and carry her away. said, her beautiful voice a 1lit ‘But I shall have to carry you,” roughened. “Because when I met he said aloud, the stinging spray him at eleven that morning we on his face, the stinging cold in quarreled about our different ide s brain. “We've been here too with me and my ideas that We aren’t cut off s *== tide?” punished me by not telling me| “Not yet, but this sand isn't that he had a chance of—of m any more. You're standing miracle!"” in water, as it is.” And, as he made no comment:| He picked her up boldly, and “That doesn't surprise you? You|turned back towards the road. A would have expected him to be|lantern bobbed uncertainly up and as indifferent as that?” {down in that direction and he He answered her conscientiou de towards it. ly. | “I'm too heavy,” she protested. “You know what my theory wa “I've carried you hefore,” he that he was not worthy of you said, half to himself. Presently and that a radical change in his he asked, almost casually — “Put circumstances would make you ad-|your arm ’‘round my neck, wm]men, left in a launch to be gone Devalet, hesitated, bobbed and{was .a caller at The Empire, looked up at |garding stocking islands in Prince mit it. Well, I don't ask you you? You'll feel safer.” i I asked you for a| He stopped at last -and let her y . I'll stick to that. All I|slip to the ground. The lantefn want is to report to you. ‘w s bobbing towards them. “I have launched his work. T've; “Is the lady there, sir? Tide's made it easy for him to buy popu- comin’ in fast.” larity with a certain section o Y the lady is here. She is what’s called society. The sect; 11 right.” was his choice, not mine, I The lantern preceded them to given him the dope—the strong |the certainty of restored health. {finally retreated. Armitage turned “If ever again it seems to youjon the light in the roof of the that I am cheating or side-step-!car and turned, holding out a ping, give me an opportunity to|hand. She took it like a docile defend myself before you decide child not to let me have my year! “Farrell?” She moved, and he caught the| He stopped and faint gleam of silver from her her. hair. He put out a hand and drew | “You t answered me. You haven't said whether you—" Her offering me?” he “Not what I was stupid enough to offer you before,” she murmer- “I mean it when I say that Mark [ed. “I didn't mean to offer you and I quarrelled. We really quar-|a bribe.” relled. We differed absolutely and | “What, then?” And as she was fundamentally - about a thing that |silent. “A consolation prize?” matters. Marriage. And so I am| “I suppose—yes, it would be not going to marry him, ever,|that.” “But T don't need consolation, My year isn't up. At the end of my year I shall claim your Why should I be impatient now and take your pity?” She closed her eyes and he saw the tears slip out from under the lids and lie upon her face. “I'm not defending myself,” Ar- “As long as Mark doesn't want you, you'll think you this mood, and perhaps|love him. Very well; he shall be| nowhere else.” made to love you.” “What is it, Barbara? What| Before she could speak, he con- have you to say?” tinued: “By the way, T've an em- CONFIDENCE Nearly half a century of service to the- people of Alaska has given this insti- tution its high place in the public’s confidence. Being in close touch with Alaska’s commercial life places us in posi?ion to render the best of banking service to our customers., The B. M. Bohrends Bank Juneau, Alaska t i 20 YEARS AGO m s PROFESSIONAL e ST | | Fraternal Societies | | oF PFrom The Empire i , ) FEBRUARY 25, 1913. | A ripple of excitement prevailed along lower Franklin Street over the wrecking of a house that was Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics, 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 | Gastineau Channel | G | | B- P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 p.m. Visiting brothers welcome. 11 Geo. Messerschmidt, v under construction near the Ju- . | Exalted Ruler, M. H. The building belonged to James Duffy and the frame was partly up, when it was demolished during the night. It was said that a Slavonian claimed title to the property through pur-{ | chase from an Indian, and the DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. *| Sides, Secretary. {? KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS || Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and last { Monday at 7:30 p, m. | Transient brothers urg- | | 2 Pacific Coast Company also claim- ed to attend. Oouncil ed the property and was said to have had a patent for it. Duffy had permission to build from the. Pacific Coast Company. Several members of the Alaska| | Legislature and others visited Sheep Creek Sunday and were the guests Dr. . Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine RBuilding Telephone 176 Chambers, Fifth Street. JOEN F. MULLEN, G. K. | H. J. TURNER, Secretary i ke i Our trucks go any place any T time. A tank for Diesel Oil | and a tank for crude oir save | | 1 1 ! £ burner trouble. of James R. Whipple, assistant PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 { general manager of the Alaska- Gastineau Mining Company. The party consisted of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Whipple, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Garfield, Miss Wollenberg, Barry Keown, Senator Roden, of] | Iditarod, Representative Kennedy Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. | Office hours, 9 am. to 5 p.m. Evenings by appointment Phone 321 ‘ | | | | RELIABLE TRANSFER J | NEW RECORDS 1 i | | of Candle; Senator Freeding, of (% —: | NEW SHEET MUSIC Nome; Representative Coins, of 32| RADIO SERV Fairbanks, and Lafe Spray. Dr. A, V. Stewart ICE * | DENTIST Expert Radio Repairing 2 H. P. Crowther, well known U. Hours 9 am. (6 6 p.m. 1 " . Mineral Survesor, placed on|| “SWARD BUILDING i || Radio Tubes and Supplies the market through the R. P. Nel- Office Phone 489, Res i son Store on Seward Street, his Phone 276 : latest and complete map of the & JUNEAU MELODY Juneau and Douglas Island min- ing districts. ol J. W. Woodford, with a crew of a week or so on a prospecting trip. Their destination was a profound secret. Dr. Richard Williams DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building, Phone 481 —E3 JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY L) ! Judge Royal A. Gunnison left - for Skagway on the steamer Geor- gia. T. J. Skuse, farmer from the bar, R. R. Hunter ,of Cordova, was| in town on his way back: from Robert Simpson Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground 31 M oting and Stora ge Moves, Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Washington, D. C. While East Mr. Hunter conferred with the|&: Prompt Delivery of Chief of the Biological Survey re- William Sound with deer. Senator Henry Roden, of Idit- arod, was quoted extensively on his ideas for legislation to be ta- Dr. C. L. Fenton CHIROPRACTOR Hours: 10-2; 2-5 HELLENTHAL BUILDING Pouglas 7-9 P. M. FUEL OIL ALL KINDS OF COAL i PHONE 48 ken up in the approaching session. Two questions which he said were vital were the raising of revenue| | DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL * FUR GARMENTS _ “FHE SQUIBB STORE” to care for the sick and destitute | | omomfe';::;?p“m;“ o PLAY BILLIARDS prospectors, and changes in the| ! Fee Brin vr g Be == | mining laws, | Room 7, Valentine Bldg. il | Office Phone 484; Residence | BURFORD’S Delegate James Wickersham was | Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 | gz & in Seattle and planned to leave|,. BN 010 ol i for Juneau in time to put the |- ~| | THE JuNEAU LAUNDRY Legislature on the right track. Rose A. Andrews—Graduate Nurse| | ~ pro o Street between g _ ELECTRO THERAPY [ Miont st Nesou Stesets: | erald of yours. Shall T give it to| CPinet Baths—Massage—Colonic b Mark?” Irriggtions PHONE 359 | Barbara nodded “Yes.” Office hours, 11 am. to 5 pm. |z d (Copyright, 1932, Julia Cleft- b s 7 Addams.) 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