The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 27, 1933, Page 4

' Neither R b THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, FEB. 27, 1933. R R R Ay e e R A Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER Published every evening _except Sunday 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 advance, $12.00; six months, In advance, $6.00; one month, fn advance, 01.26 Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity In the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Amsociated Press is exclusively entitled to the ass 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. COMMISSIONER-ELECT KARNES. new official family was added last week when Commissioner- s, of the Territorial Department and Mrs. Karnes arrived here from ablish their residence. On March 1, s on his duties as the head of the| Territorial school system for at least a four-year period. Both he and Mrs. Karnes will find Juneau | a friendly community and they will be warmly wel-| comed here. The Commissioner-Elect Another of £ to Juneau’s r A E. Ka ication, is not unknown here,| personally or professionall Hjs residence at Ketv: chikan for several years has brought him into contact with many local people. And his work there as Superintendent of City Schools has been marked for efficiency and exccutive ability to a degree that| has not gone un-noted here. He comes to his new| position fitted by experience and technical training to fill it competently, and to the end that our standards of education will continue to improve and} the opportunities extended by the Territory to its youth for acquiring an education will increase rather | than decrease. | In addition to his practical and technical quali- fications for the job, Mr. Karnes brings to it a splendid personality—one that has won him friends throughout the Territory. This is more than a personal asset. It is an asset to the Department of Education, tending to bring it more closely in touch with the public at large and increasing its usefulness to the Texritory. Mr. Karnes is familiar with problems confront- | ing the Departm which he will head. He has| encountered some of them at Ketchikan, and solved some of them. He is equipped to solve others as| they arise. His record is such that Alaskans gener- ally are assured that their schools under his guid- ance and administration will function successfully and harmoniously in the next quadriennium. THE AMERICAN FAMILY. Professor Ogburn, of the University of Chicago, whose articles have recently appeared in The Em- pire, gives some interesting data with reference to the American family. His figures and deductions show that the average family lives in a $5,000 house, has three or four members, and one family in three has more than one wage earner. He asserts that the average family theoretically contains 3.4 persons. More than half of American families live in rented homes and pay an average of $27.15 a month. One family in every eight lives in a flat or apartment. In one in every seven families the home-maker, usually a woman, has an outside job. Professor Ogburn says the latest figures justify the forecast that one out of every five or six families at present will be broken by divorce, but about 30 or 40 per cent. of the divorced will form new families. On the whole the figures are encouraging. There are some aspects of the picture that are not encour- aging; but the story, in brief, is that the American family enjoys a far superior estate to that ex- perienced by families in other lands. The exist- ing and prospective situation in the matter of divorce is not wholesome, but the situation must improve with social development, and the social order in America steadily and consistently is being improved. Men and women are still motivated by the urges responsible for family existence. The essence of civilization’s basic unit is as abundant and active as in the beginnings of society’s upward struggle. The heme instinet still is the hope of the world and the best assurance that art, education and all the things that make life desirable and worth while will endure. HOUSEWIVES SHOULD DEMAND QUALITY GRADES ON LABELS. A new development in merchandising canned " goods is on the horizon. Housewives have long ‘protested that they can unot tell from the labels _ the grade or quality of the canned foods they buy. price nor brand name is a satisfactory ‘guide to quality, for different retail stores set dif- ferent prices on the same brands, and different { brand names may be given to goods of identical F,muutyA sold at varying prices. f. It has been argued that statements of grade ','!mlght lead to a preference for certain grades to ‘the neglect of others. In practice it does not work out that way, says Paul M. Williams, of the Bureau ‘of Agricultural Economics, United States Depart- “ment of Agriculture. Once in a while the house- ife wants an extra fine grade, say, of canned ¥ whole tomatoes, if she is entertaining. For ordinary table uses she usually selects a § d grade. And for making soup or gravy or ely flavoring other dishes with tomato, she _use the standard or even the substandard grade. idn. the case of tomatoes the substandard can may by _the | |ers’ |and divided situation,” as Hamilton observed, “will (were States. ‘fl\(‘ contain less solid material and more juice than the standard grade. The confusion created by the many meaningless brand names could be avoided by the use of four simple grades, printed on the labels, says Mr. Will- iams. Grade A means fancy; Grade B, choice; Grade C, standard; and any other quality, sub- standard. The bureau points out that if a canner or jobber has any doubt of the grade of his product, he can have samples officially graded for a nominal fee. The addition of the letters “U. 8.” to the grade designation is permitted when the factory where the product is packed meets certain sanitary requirements of the department, and an official grader watched every step of the canning pro- cess and has consequently certified the grade appear- ing on the label. This has been done experimentally with one or two products recently. Not all of the Republican martyrs are to be found in the list of candidates defeated at the polls last November. There are some thousands of others on the list of Hoover appointments which the Senate steadfastly refuses to ratify. The action of the League of Nations in con- demning Japan for its aggression in Manchuria doesn’t seem to have slowed down the war machine of the Nipponese continues to expel the Chinese from .Jehol. which The Electoral College Alumni. (New York Herald Tribune.) The managers of the Roosevelt inaugural have conceived the novel idea of summoning the Electoral College, this year composed almost wholly of Demo- crats) to meet in Washington and do honor to the oceasion. According to The Associated Press, T will be the first time in the Electoral College's history that it has ever been called together even unofficially in one place. No doubt The Associated Press is right; for the odd' thing about that famous insti- tution is the fact that it is not only no college, but, constitutionally speaking, it is not an institu- tion at all and so can hardly be said to possess a history. The Electoral College, that hoary source of so much indifferent humor, is, as far as the Constitution goes, nonexistent. The Presidential el- ectors, of course, are provided for in that document, but there is no reference to them as a “college” or as a single group of any sort. Indeed, the language is specific that they must meet “in their respective States,” and it was an essential part of the found- pan that they should do so. “This detached expose them much less to heats and ferments, which might be communicated from them to the people, than if they were all to be convened at one time, in one place,” and the device was thus a chief fea- ture of that ingenious electoral machinery which, “if it be not perfect, is at least excellent.” 3 At the most, then the electors could be regarded only as belonging to as many separate colleges as there The word, however, did not appear in use until after 1880; and though by 1845 (ac- cording to Mr. William Tyler Page's researches) it had crept into the statute books and thus acquired a flavor of the official, the Electoral College ilself remains hardly more than a phantom creation of popular fancy, signalizing an odd perversion of the idea behind the original scheme. Alas for the excellence, if not perfection, of that monument of eighteenth-century reason. The sys- tem for electing the President—the one feature of constitutional plan which aroused the least oposition at the time, as it was also the one which was most purely a logical construction without basis in experience—was'the one feature which was to fail most completely in practice. The electoral machinery from the very beginning never worked as the authors of the Constitution intended. Today, if the assembly of the Electoral College in one place fails to com- municate any noticeable “heats and ferments” to the people, it will be because the people and the parties communicated so many heats and ferments to the electors that it no longer matters. At Last, a Plan. (Daily Olympian.) Say what you will about Mr. Roosevelt's scheme for power development, reforestation and agricul- ture reclamation in the Tennessee Valley, it is at least a comprehensive and ambitious long-range plan —and, as such, it comes to a bewildered country very much like a breath of cool fresh air. When the Civil War was at its darkest hour, and the Northern armies were being wasted over and over because a competent leader could not be found, there was a popular cry, “Abraham Lincoln, give us a man!” We are in something like that mood today, only we are asking for a plan rather than a man. ‘We want someone to outline a program for us; a big program, one big enough to require all our strength and all our energy, one big enough, even, to be a little bit risky. ‘We have, in fact, just about reached the point where even a very bad plan would look better to us than no plan at all. We have drifted long enough, and it has become pretty clear that our troubles are not going to settle themselves. To have a far- reaching program mapped out is greatly. refreshing— in spite of the fact that this particular program contains things with which many of us will be unable to agree whole-heartedly. In some ways one of the most dismaying aspects of the depression has been the kind of paralysis that has rested on the American spirit. We have been timid about trying to start anything. Our energy has slumbered. Yet that old energy and spirit are not dead. The nation that grew in little more than a century from a few scattered colonies to one of the world’s greatest empires has not declined into senility. The force that dug the Erie Canal, threw railways across the Rockies, lifted the New York skyscrapers and built the mills of Detroit and Gary and Birm- ingham still exists. It only needs to be put to work. And now, at last, we are offered a plan—and a big one. It may not be the best plan possible; it may even be a very bad one. But it is at least something definife and far-reaching. Simply to have it offered is in the highest degree encouraging. Hitler has begun his great work of “liberating” Germany. He has robbed the people of free speech, | free press and the right of assembly.—(Washington | Post.) As we get it, they can’t do anything to you in the West for holding a mortgage unless you try | to collect on it.—(Macon Telegraph.) | That beer bill seems to be getting 3.2 per cent. of the lawmakers' attention.—(Boston Globe.) What a false alarm is technocracy. say a thing about beer.—(Toledo Blade.) It doesn'b“ As gloomy as a man who holds a third mortgage | on a farm—(New York Sun.) 1 SYNOPSIS: Farrell Armit- age has lamnched Mark Lodely as an artist, and has arranged a cure for his crippled body. He has had the promise of Mark’s fiance, Barbara Quen- tin, that he may have a year in which to do these things, so that she may choose be- tween the two men unham- pered by pity. But Barbara and Mark have broken off; Barbara, in gratitude, offers to marry Farrell, who refuses a “consclation prize.” Patsy Raoul, actress, hired by Leila Cane to precipitate a quarrel between Mark and Barbara, is telling Farrell's old guardian, the Vicar of Upper Mallard, about her activities. CHAPTER 42. PATSY DOES A DANCE In the Upper Mallard vicarage the lafmp was lit, but it was plag- ed in a curious position for a lamp. It "was on the floor. It illumined mainly the feet and the long legs of Patsy Raoul as she danced, singing in her queer, hus- ky voice a song of the vineyards and the sun. The vicar, in a chair, at the other end of the room, applauded delightedly. “Splendid! Splendid! You know, I have the pleasant feeling that I couldn't possibly approve of that song if my French were less rus- ty; but fortunately I only under- stand one sentence in five. What a swinging, stamping tune! You're giving one old man a lot of pleas- ure, Miss Raoul.” “Why not?” “I don’t know why not,” admit- ted the vicar, sucking contentedly at his pipe, “but one is supposed to say that kind of thing. Per- sonally, T've always imagined that when a creative artist feels the wish for an audience, it's immater- fal whether it consists of one old man or a hundred young ones.” Patsy Raoul picked up the lamp and brought it over to the table by the fire. “Men make me the more good audience as women,” she remark- ted, curling herself into a chair like a snake. “I like not any wo- men ever. Only Barbara.” She grinned and forgot tosound foreign. “The first time I met her, she fainted dead away. In the Park. I told her afterwards my face had made people scream now and then, but it had never actually knocked anyone senseless before.” “I'm glad you like Barbara. She needs a friend.” “She's only to lift a finger and she can have the best friendsh: in the world. Farrell Armitage— “And I'm glad you like Farrell Armitage.” Miss Raoul looked defiant. “What do you mean? He doesn't like me. I got wrong with him at the start—tried to sting him for a couple of dogs. Only vanity, you know; I could easily have af- forded two tykes, even without my legacy.” “You're enjoying your legacy?” “What do you think? It's ex- tremely pleasant, being rich.” “It is, indeed,” agreed Mr. Frere. “I'm very rich myself.” Miss Raoul stared round the meagre room with her small, black eyes; eventually they returned to her host's composed face, fine as a cameo in the firelight. Her throat ached suddenly. Oh, to be free, like this old man, of the pull and urge of life! To have a calm mind, to know the heights and depths only through the hearts of others, to dip so small a cup at the fountain of hu- man love that always it is full to the brim! She said restlessly. “A poor old friend died and left me his—her whole bag of tricks, I mayn't touch the capital—I must say that seems to me spoiling the ship for a half penny’s worth of tar, but the trustees say theyl make me any advance within rea- son on the income. And so long as it's my reason that’s to be our standard of measurement, well I'm not complaining.” She hooked one leg over the arm of her chair and lit a cigarette. Her green and crimson woolen suit made her look like some me- diaeval jecter. “You must come and see my show in Town,” she added irrele- vantly. “Come and stay with me uying Barbara] © by Julia Cleft-Addams ¢ Asther o “YOU CANT MARKY= Barbara has re-done my I wish you would.” It is very gracious of you to me. But I might offend Far- 1 always accept his hospi- when I need a little change,” He smiled at her. “We shall both yme and see you act.” After a »ause, he added gently—“You have 0 art, you know. You must not ask more of life.” Mustn’t I?” Well, if you do,” said the vicar with one of his abrupt dives into cal common-sense, “youwon't my opinion, get it. Isn't it ather late for Barbara tobe roam- the country-side by herself?” Raoul cocked her head at- y and presently rose to wk between the curtains. She od swearing softly to herself, 15 she always, did when she was intent on anything. ‘There's a car,” she said pres- ntly. “I think it’s Farrell Armit- 1ge’s. 'What d'you bet he has heen roaming the country-side with her?” ng Mi vicar sighed a little. Miss Raoul came back from the window. asked— You don’t think shell ever stop aring for Little-Cad-Mark?” I don't think so. No. ots deep, with her.” Good job Leila paid me only to amp him, then not marry him!” as the vicar looked lost— t that's how I first came in- it—I thought you knew! She d me a hundred to work up affair with Mark—help him to thoroughly bored with Bar- yara, you know—" With Barbara, your friend?” T hadn’t met her then. Leila Uways spoke of Mark's girl and he decorator-girl as two separ- people, Tact, I s'pose. Or alesmanship! She's got an eye or a bargain-basement, has Leila.” Leila, your hostess?” She even wanted to pay me by osults, like a maatrimonial ag- 'ney! But, of course, I made it fees in advance and my word of wonor that I'd earn ‘'em.” Love echoed “Your word of honor,” Mr. Frere. “Yes, What d’you mean? I kept it, in't I? I handled Mark all the de Capo—that's res- rant, where his lot mostly goes was simply cackling about us be- 1 see.” fore he faded off to heaven knows where! Took here, tell you what I'll do—" She dropped back into her chair n a sudden lassitude. “‘I'll return Leila her money. I an see you think it was shoddy 5 me to take it. Oh, but I will! Pd like to please you. And I'd ike Farrell Armitage to get what 18 wants, too. T'd rather help Aim for nothing, now I come to think of it.” She met the vicar's smile.” “You'd feel the same,” she challenged. “Can't we work to- gether somehow, and fix things for him?"” “I'm afraid not.” The gentle {inality was like a knell. “You and I, my dear, must share this fear of seeing one we love left empty handed by life. We shall both need fortitude.” “Fortitude, be—I'll wring Bar- bara’s neck!” The vicar was chuckling over this remedy when the door opened and Farrell Armitage came in. “Allo, allo!” Miss Raouel wel- jcomed him. “You not do' know I am here and you shock dead, no?” “He'd have shocked deader if he had come in time to hear your song,” said Mr. Frere. He looked affectionately up inlo Armitage's face. “Well, Farrell?” “Everything’s all right, sir, hon- estly.” “I'm very glad to know it, my dear boy.” “What have you done with Bar- bara?” shrilled Miss Raoul. “She got her feet wet on the sands, so she's changing.” i ‘“She goes up to London tomor- row,” said the victar tranquilly, “with Leila and Miss Haoul. Or that was the plan. But if you are returning yourself, perhaps you will take her by road; and see that she gets comfortably in her hotel. I am a little anxious —both Miss Raoul and I are a lit- tle anxious about her.” ‘The door opened behind her and Armitage turned eagerly, but it was Leila Cane who entered and CONFIDENCE Nearly half a century, of service to the people of Alaska has given this insti- jgrocery department. tution its high place in the public’s confidence. Being in close touch with Alaska’s commercial life places us in position to render the best of banking service to our customers. The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau, Alaska YEARS AGO From The Empire §20 - —— FEBRUARY 27, 1913. People in Sitka had organized a company and subscribed enough money to buy a gasboat for regu- lar service with Petersburg. The infrequency of steamers to the old capital of Alaska prompted the citizens to take things in their own hands. Representatives Robert D. Gray, of Katalla und Thomas Gaffney, of Nome, had interviews on their views on the needed legislation for consideration while the first term was in session Senators El-' wood Bruner of the Second Di- vision and Senator Millard, of Valdez, expressed themselves in in- terviews also. ' The Alaska-Douglas Gold Mln-) corporation with District Clerk Pettit. Capital stock was $100,000. President, F. W. Bradley; Secre- tary, F. W. Hammersmith. R. G. Kinzie was named as resident) agent. Representative Arthur G. Shoup, after years of endeavor, had a‘ last got the government to turn the historic marine barracks at Sitka over to the Territory for the use of indigents and pioneers. Marshal and Mrs. H. L. Fauk- ner moved into the Shackleford house at the corner of Fourth and Gold Streets. Harry Malone received word that Mrs. Malone and Helen would leave San Diego for Seattle on April 1. Business had so increased in the Goldstein department store that the force had been increased. The newest addition was Leon Frie- man, who took a position in the Plans to install steam turbine | engines for the winter service of the Electric Light and Power Com- pany, and two 600-horsepower gen- erators connected with the shaft of the water wheel to be used when there was plenty of water available, were completed and in order to put the changes into effect, Judge J. F. Malony and Manager Margerie planned to leave for San Francisco. Dr. L. O. Sloane spent the day on Douglas Island. Louis Levy, who was taken to Sitka when a baby, and son of one of Juneau's pioneers, buyer for Joseph Ullman, of New York, the largest fur dealerd in the United States, was in town on his way to the Interior on business for the company. came up to the fire. The vicar greeted her; there was an instant’s pause and then the vicar spoke again. “What,” asked the vicar, stirring faintly in his chair, “what of | Mark, lately? Is he still in your house, Farrell, or not?” Armitage told them what there was to tell of Mark. “Mark—Mark cured? Mark to be well? Oh, God! Mark well?” It was a ragged cry, horribly startling, torn from Leila who had been so smooth, so sure. She dropped stick and gloves in a final devastating clatter as she got to her feet; and then they heard her make her fumbling way out of the house. (Copyright, 1932, Julia Cleft- Addams.) Mark Lodety is up to his old tricks, tomorrow. ———,—— CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our heartfelt appreciation of the kindness and sympathy shown by our friends in our bereavement and for the beau- tiful floral offerings at the services. OSCAR HARRI AND TFAMILY. CALL 14 Royal Blue Cabs adv. Home Owned and Operated Comfortably Heated SERVICE—Our Motto SAVE YOUR HAIR NU-LIFE METHOD Valentine Bldg. Room 6 PEERLESS BREAD Always Good— Always Fresh “Ask Your Grocer” { | ing Company filed articles of in-|°" ( PROFESSIONAL | ?- Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 'j 'l' £ | DRS.KASER & FREEBURGER | Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine | Building ‘Telephone 176 Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Office hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. | Evenings by appointment | b L Gastineau Channel | OF ! Fraternal Societies | B. P. 0. 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