The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1933, Page 4

_ Towa. The former is contesting. 3 - B N NN L ) BT ATy L i Bl i Lo R L e THE DAILY ALASKA ‘EMPIRE, TUESDAY, FEB. 28 1933. Daily Alaska Empire PRESIDENT AND EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - Published every evening except Sunday by EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and . Juneau, Alaska. red in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class the Main SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per _month, By matl, postage paid, at the following rates: ar, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, month, in advance, J1.26 or 3 sscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly the Bu g8 Office of any fallure or irregularity 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 or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LANGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. DEPARTING LAME DUCKS. This week will mark the conclusion of the Sev- faces & “contest, ‘while the third Pennsylvania con- test is~from the Twelfth District where John J. Casey, Democrat, is contesting the seat -of Repre- sentative Murray C. Turpin, Republican, whom the returns show was elected by 1,727 votes. There is a three-cornered fight on for the Pirst Tennessee district place. Both Albert C. Tipton, Democrat, and Representative O. B. Lovette, Re- publican, are contesting the election of B. Carroll Reese, Republican. Tipton received 7,950, Lovette 27,888 and Reese 30,366 votes on the face of the returns. With the House already. overwhelmingly dom- inated by the Democrats, political expediency, which sometimes has been declared to have been an important consideration in the final determination of occasional contested seats, will hardly play a part in deciding these fights. In Soviet Russia, one learns, women are equal with men at the bar. Which merely exemplifies the fact that Russian’ women are not different from their American sisters when it comes to holding: their own. A newspaper headline recently chronicled the news that “Senators Favor Six Per Cent.” There's no cause for excitement, however, as it referred to interest and not to beer. Anyway this week will mark the end of the parade of the lame ducks to the window of Uncle Sam'’s cashier. Reorganization by Decree. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) It would be an unprecedented step in American Government to clothe the President with dictatorial powers to reorganize administrative departments enty-second Congress and witness the last of the without a final check by Congress. In this light, “lame duck” sessions. Like most of its predecessors|one cannot deny the propriety of Mr. Bertrand coming under that classification, it has not accom-; plished a great deal toward settling the legislative| problems that confronted it when it convened last| December. Nor was much to have been expected | of it with such a large number of political casualties | in its ranks. However, its enactment of the Blaine| resolution for the Repeal of the Eighteenth Amend- ment makes amends for many of its sins of omission.| There are 133 members of the present Congress, which ends next Saturday, who wont be in the Seventy-third Congress. Eleven of them are Sena- tors and 122 members of the House of Representa- tives. Many of them have served as the nation's lawmakers for long terms. Some of them will never, return to the halls of Congress in an official| capacity. In the Senate there are men like Smoot, Bingham, the irrepressible Moses, Brookhart, Blaine, | the author of the Prohibition Resolution, who re-| turn to the ranks of private citizens. In the House, veterans of many years service who were retired by | the voters include such men as the fiery LaGuardia| of New York, Langford, Virginia’s lone Republican member, Simmons of Nebraska, whose passnig will| cause no heartbreaks in Alaska, Arthur M. Free,| Henry E. Barbour and Charles F. Curry of Canrornm.} Addison T. Smith and French of Idaho, both| friends of the Territory, -Don 8. Colton, Federal Alaska’s nearest neigh- Highway advocate of Utah. bor—Washington—loses three veterans and a new- comer. Lin H. Hadley, Albert Johnson and John} W.Summers are the oldtimers and.Ralph Horr, serv- ing his first term, was eliminatéd “in" the' primary election by John F. Miller, Seattle, who lost to Horr two years ago and was beaten by a Democrat in November. In large part, these members will be succecded by men new to Congress and who have yet to win their spurs. To them and to the members who won re-election, will fall the task of solving: the problems of balancing the budget, reorganizing the govern- mental structure, modifying -the Volstead Act and other matters which the ‘“lame ducks” were unable to solve in this, the last “lame duck”’ session of Congress that the nation will ever know. THREE BUSY COMMITTEES. In the coming sessions of the Seventy-third Con- gress, there are three committees of the House which will have their work cut out for them. These are the Committees on Elections. Awaiting them are 11 contests over seats, nine filed by Democrats and two by Republicans. In practically every in- stance fraud is alleged by the contestants, and the investigations to determine the validity of the charges will necessarily consume much time. One of the most peculiar ever to be heard by the House is that filed by Loyal G. Reese, a Mis- sissippi Republican, against Representative Russell Elizey. The latter polled 25725 votes while Reese got but 386. As a basis for his contest he charged his name was omitted from the official ballot while that of another “alleged” Republican was put on it. The House faces another problem in the election of Henry Ellebogen, Democrat, who defeated Harry S. Esteep, Republican, in the Thirty-third Penn- sylvania district. The Constitution provides that a Representative must have been a citizen seven years and Ellebogen will not have been that until next summer. Esteep, however, has not yet filed any notice of contest. Among the most prominent involved, is Repre- sentative Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Republican, New York. The record shows he was defeated by 1,220 votes by J. J. Lanzetta, Democrat. LaGuardia, leader of many a revolt against his own party leadership, is contesting. From Connecticut, Martin Gormley, Democrat, is contesting’the election of Representative - Edward Goss, Republican, whom, the returns show, was elected by 78 votes. One woman, Anne E. Felix, figures in a contest from Pennsylvania, in which she is challenging the right of Michael J. Muldowney, Republican, to the seat. The returns gave Muldowney almost 6,000 majority. Clause Chandler, Democrat, is contesting the seat of George Burnham from the Twentieth California district, where the latter won by 453 votes. James McAndrews, Democrat, is contesting the seat of the Ninth'Illinois district, with Representa- tive Fred A. Britten, veteran Republican, who won by 3,297 votes. In the Tenth Ilinois, Charles H. Webber, Demo- crat, is challenging James Simpson, Jr., Republican, who polled a majority of 1,222 votes. Only 177 votes separated Lloyd Ellis, ' Demo- ' erat, from Lioyd Thurston, Republican, in the Fifth |the Snell's criticism of the Democratic’ plan to make Mr. Roosevelt a Mussolini for administrative revision purposes. But simply to say we have never given a President _such powers before is not to prove that it is an unwise step. The problem of reorganization is primarily one of political courage. It should not be difficult to determine what functions can be abandoned, what consolidated, and what left alone. That is a matter of technical knowledge of government ad- ministration. But when the matter of reorganiza- tion is left to the Legislature, the invariable result is frustration of the plan. Any bureau or division slated for consolidation or abandonment can muster support in Congress. Every governmental function has friends somewhere, | and these can line up a few Congressmen. These Congressmen in turn are compelled by political experiency to promise support of other Congressmen’s | favorite bureaus if they would save their own progress. By this process of barter, wholly legitimate but none the less destructive, the high hopes of re- organization are thwarted. The only way, apparently, to circumvent this flaw in reorganization schemes is to invest the Executive with sufficient powers to make necessary changes. The President is chosen by the whole country. He can afford to risk antagonizing sec- tional groups and special interests, if by so doing he can perform a real service to the country as a whole. Given complete authority, he can reorganize Federal administrative machine in the interest of effiency and economy, and get away with it. Elected %y jan| overwhelming majority, supported by a strong party in the new Congress, Mr. Roose- velt is in an ideal situation to overhaul thoroughly the Federal machine. It seems worth while to give him a chance to do it. Earth’s Demos. (New York Times.) According to Professor Willcox of Cornell, who may be said to be our chief demographer, the popu- lation of the globe has nearly quadrupled in less than three centuries. He estimates the earth’s Population (as of 1929) at 1,820,000,000. Thus nearly two billion persons are carried by this planet in its daily rotation and in its yearly revolution—for when one falls back into the dust another springs to take his place. Indeed, the human ranks are more than filled year by year. Since the turn of the century there has been a slackening of the rate of increase. Yet there are millions more than there were in 1900. And all that tread The globe are but a handful of tne tribes That slumber in its bosom. Each living person has a billion ancestors so slumbering, to go but a little way back of the Battle of Hastings, ‘Within the last few days further word has come about the Dawn Man (toward whom these millions converge), who is declared to be more “homo” than the Neanderthaler, with his few neighbors lonely occupants of a world in man’s infancy when the number of human beings could probably have been reckoned “in no larger units than thousands.” With an earth of well toward two billions, one-half of whom are in Asia, but with European stocks growing (since 1650) about twice as fast as non-European stocks, we find ourselves in no anxiety about the ability of the mother earth to provide for her mighty brood, but with an unprecedented concern as to how she is to get her bounty to her vast demos. In our own continent the contrasts are even greater. The results announced last week of a study by Professor Greene of Columbia have uncovered new and obscure data on the extent and diffusion of the inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies by con- trast with our present population. There were ap- proximately three centuries ago (1625) in all America 1,980 English colonists, and in the area which is now the home of New York City’s 6,000,000 there were 200 persons—not counting Indians. Thirty-five years later (1660) Brooklyn had but 134 souls. By 1790, when the first census was made, New York City had a population which eould easily be accommo- dated in one of our larger stadiums—33,331 men, women and children. The outstanding significant and hopeful sequel of these statistics is that of today’s 642,000,000 per- sons of unmixed European stock, 164,000,000 live autside of Europe (nearly two-thirds as many as there were in Europe in 1650), and that of these 164,000,000 nearly three-fifths are In the United States. Japan claims that Jehol is an integral part of Manchukuo. Well, granting that argument, when was Manchukuo ever an integral part of Japan?— (Philadelphia Inquirer.) There’s still hope for Huey Long. Cato, who originated the filibuster in the Roman Senate back in the days of Julius Caesar, learned Greek at 80. —(Los Angeles Times.) Of course the country is going to the bow-wows. James M. Beck, Republican, of Pennsylvania, who e e A PR ! fih‘g)b:a)u short of tohnpg $10,000,000,000! Why, the deposits in mutual savings banks in the| SYNOPSIS Leila Cane learns that Mark Lodély, whom she has loved secretly for years, is cured of his lameness. Bar- bara Quentin has broken her engagement te Mark; Farrell Armitage, who has devoted much time and money to cur- ing Mark and launching him as an artist, hopes in the end to win Barbara’s love. Mark, still in the hospital, is his old arrogant self. CHAPTER 43. MARK AS PATIENT The heuse in which Mark Lode- immovably into a plaster cast was as little like a Its facade was: cheerful and inside; it ly lay strapped hospital as one could expect. was reasonably quiet. Mark’s room was on the ground /it floor so that when the weather uying Barbazra © by Julla Cleft-Addams ¢ Asther of YU CANY MAREY® |for her, “As you see, my mother brings! a breath of dear old Kings Mallard |into all this luxurious monotony,” |murmered Mark and not for the first time Armitage uncomfortably contemplated the fact that his thoughts had been read. ‘The monotony we can none of us |lighten, I'm afraid, Lodely. You Imust just count the days. Look lon them as an investment.” | “That's what I'm always tellin’ |nim,” burst out Mrs. Lodely. “I |don't believe he realizes yet what ou've done for him, Farrell. 1 't really, After all, it.takes a of thinkin’ about, when you've cen a cripple all your life to im- igine yourself walkin' easily. Like [explainin’ sight to a blind man; can’t be done.” Mark had shut his eyés when and his mood permitted he could|this torrent began afi® did not be wheeled on to a covered porchiopen them as he addressed Ar- at the back. Mrs. Lodely vlslted;m:tage him daily. Armitage dropped in as seemed necessary, neth Poole come when he was sent for. “The sight of me gives him a bad night,” Poole had explained solemnly to Armitage. “Fact. One of his nurses told me so. It's far better I should keep away and give the dear fellow every chance of recovery.” “Nevertheless you must be there this afternoon .at half-past four. I've asked Leila Cane too. Sec she’s punctual will you?” “Right you are Guv.” Armitage entered the building on this foggy day at four o'clock pre- cisely and stood for a moment ‘in the outer hall taking off his over- coat. The house-doctor, passing on the other side of the glass swing- ing doors, pulled them open and called a cheery greeting. At his request Armitage followed him in- to his office. “The patient, Mr. Armitage, has reduced two nurses to tears, given me more lip than I've stood from anyone in my life and thrown a water-jug at his mother. But I understand that’s more or less his usual frame of mind.” Armitage grinned. “He has always had a vicious temper. I'm not an admirer of his character, you know, only of his talent.” “The nurses always report him more cheerful after he has made someone thoroughly wretched,” the doctor added “It's the people whose heart he can't break that depress him so.” Armitage thought it wiser nof to reveal that one of these harder- hearted callers was expected puric- tually at four. He listened atten- tively while the doctor becathe lyrical in Sir Robert Philhay's praise, agreed for the twentieth time that the cure was well-nigh miraculous, and made his way to Mark’s room and Mark's inevitable impertinences. As he entered Mark’s room he heard Mark's voice, thin and dry with temper. “How can you possibly write any letters for me when you misspell every other word? And how do you know I have any to write un- less you've been reading my cor- respondence?” “That's a downright wicked thing to say, Mark! You know I'd never do huch a thing. I have my faults but spyin' and ferritin' is not amongst them. Hullo, here’s Far- rell!l Do you—" Mrs. Lodely look- ed doubtfully from the visitor to the patient—"“do you feel like see- in’ Farrell?” Mark’s head turned on its one flat pillow. “My dear Judy, if it weren't for Armitage’s bounty I shouldn't be here at all.” He smiled, the smile that slightly showed his teeth and narrowed his eyes. “The ques- tion of whether I want to see you or not, Armitage, doesn't really arise. Does it?” “Mark! had a bad night that's all it is, He doesn't mean half what he says.” Armitage sat down by the wheel- ed couch. His aversion was for the moment more from the mother than from the son. How unpleas- and Ken- press my gratitude better | “I think T should be able to ex- ) 0 ¢ |could get some iJea of your motive, i\:o; personal liking; I am sure I [may still take it that your motive is not personal liking. And not : he desire to be a patron-saint. No. 1t is the old puzzle. T suppose it {will never be solved.” | ‘I'm ready to solve it now, as it happens.” Mrs. Lodely gaped from one man {to the other in a vague alarm. “Mark's eyes flew open. Yes, there iwas fear in them. Poor devil. 3 “Some other time” he suggest- |ed, waving a hand. “Unless you |feel that you absolutely cannot |wait for that gratitude of mine any longer.” “Now, Mark, youre just rilin’ |Farrell for no reason whatever. You—" “It's all right, Mrs. Lodely. I {take a lot of riding. And your son is perfectly right in requiring some kind of statement from me. He has asked for it often enough and |it's only fair that at last he should |nave it “I don't like statements.” Mark's {voice rose fretfully. “Really, Ar- jmitage I don't feel up to this po- lice-court atmosphere. Let us say (that you deserve my most abject jdevotion for everything you have done for me, for whatever reason, and let us leave it at that.” He scowled, a sick child hugging its grievances. Armitage looked at thim with forbearance. “I'm sorry, but I'm going to |make myself clear whether you like it or not. If you genuinely don't wish to listen you'd better put your fingers in your ears.” But Armitage did not turn to Mrs, Lodely, now fidgetnig nervously. He went on talking to Mark. “My first confession is no news to your mother and, I suspect, no news to you. I fell in love with Barbara jat sight and on the first available occasion T asked her to marry me.” Mark's color came back. Armi- tage’s old suspicion became cer- tainty. Mark had guessed his love for Barbara long ago. “You tried to take my girl be- hind my back? How typical! Would you have done that, I won- der, if T had not had a crutch to drag about with me?” “You can wonder that, if you like,” said Armitage equably. “The point is, of course, that if I'd !thought she genuinely cared for you and you could have given her some kind of happiness, I should have got out without a word. But I didn’t think life with you would be anything but hell for her.” Mark’s smile grew. Mrs. Lodely, apparently from embarrassment, laughed loud and long. “Barbara seemed to admit that |1t would be hell,” went on Armit- age when she was quiet again, “but she insisted that her feeling for you was, if not love, something as great as love and as eternal.” “Well, T must say you young folks talk things out pretty freely!” You know Farrell, he's {Mrs. Lodely got up knocked a vase of flowers over and sat down again, “I suppose it does no harm in a way but I don't know I'm sure, it quite takes me back.” “Go on, Armitage.” “My challenge to Barbara was that if she could see you well, ing she was in appearance, go|Successful, popular, financially se- slovenly and down at heell She wore an ill-made grey suit, a brown blouse under it and a tie that matched neither. Her hat cure, she would perhaps no long- er feel bound to you in the par- ticular way in which she did feel PROGRESS Established in 1891 this bank has continuously since that time assisted in the upbuilding of this city and Territory. Our customers value and appreciate our willingness and abil- ity to assist them in every way con- sistent with safe and sound banking. The B. M. Behrends Bank Junean, Alaska 42 YEARS BANKING SERVICE TO ALASKA It .§20 |looked as though it were too small l’ YEARS AGO From The Empire ———— ) FEBRUARY 28, 1913. Considerable interest was being taken in the coming Arctic Bro- therhood convention to be held in Douglas on March 12. Dr. A. J. Goddard, of Sitka, was expected on the next trip of the Georgia. He and C. C. Georgeson represented Camp Sitka in the movement. The Rev. N. J. Svindseth represented Wrangell and Senator J. M. Tan- ner represented the mother camp at Skagway. P. J. Early, the well known min- ing man, came down from Yankee Cove on the Georgia. Superintendent Geo. T. Jackson, of Perseverance, was in town. Judge and Mrs. Thomas R. Ly- ons were expected to arrive from Valdez on the Mariposa. Lewis Lund received from the local land office a patent for his homestead near Lemon Creek em- bracing e tract containnig 270 acres. N Game Warden Schneider saw a bunch of ptarmigan coming down the trail and got all 23 of them, 2 under the legal limit for one day’s shooting. John Drury returned on the Jef- ferson from a recent trip to Eng- land where he had attended the annual fur sale of the Taylor, Dru- ry and Pedlar Company. It was |said that this company annually disposed of about $50,000 worth of furs in London. Mr. Drury was going to the store at Teslin, where a large volume of business was ex- pected during the season owing to the new discovery on Silver Creek.|** The Juneau High ' School Band was preparing for an entertain- {ment to be given within the next two weeks. The proceeds were to go toward paying for instruments for the band. While directing the crew of men who were engaged in reinforcing the foundations of the Alaska Laundry Building, J. R. Scott, the contractor, accidentally fell to the beach below, a distance of 10 feet, sustaining a fracture of three ribs and serious bruises. He was taken to his home and his injuries at- tended to by Dr. L. O, Sloane. The Daily Empire acknowledged the receipt of a fine bunch of ru- tabagas grown on the ranch of C. J. Skuse, at Mendelhall. The vegetables were said to be excel- lent in quality and flavor. Mr. Skuse was said to be an agricul- tural booster and a believer in the farming possibilities of Alaska. “Your challenge, did you say?” “My challenge yes. I said that I would make you all those things if she in return, would promise not to marry you for a year.” “But Babs never—but dear old Babs would never—" “Shut up Judy can't you?” “The problem of your gratitude need therefore never arise, Lode- ly. You owe me nothing because what I've done has been done for my own purpose. If T fail, you will still owe me nothing. If T win—" ¥ “Shut up, Judy!” (Copyright, 1932 Julia Cleft- Addams.) The hatchet falls tomorrow, on peor Judy. ——————— FINAL TAX NOTICE Second and final payment of taxes become delinquent Tuesday. March 7, 1933. After this date, 10% penalty and 8% interest at- taches to all unpaid taxes. H. R. SHEPARD, City Clerk. First publication, Feb. 17, 1933. Last publication, Feb. 28, 1933. CALL 14 Royal Blue Cabs Home Owned and Operated Comfortably Heated SERVICE—OQur Motto SAVE YOUR HAIR NU-LIFE METHOD Valentine Bldg. Room 6 PEERLESS " BREAD Always Good— * Always Fresh “Ask Your Grocer” | i {| Dr. Charles P. Jenne | PROFESSIONAL I Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 3 l I DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. 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