The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 4, 1933, Page 3

| ¥ Daily Alaska Empire - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER JOHN W. TROY ROBERT W. BENDER Fublished every evel lhl’ except Sunday by EMPIRE PRXNTING C ’ANY at Second and len Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in tne Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter, SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per_month, By reall, postage pald, at the following rates: One year, 'In advance, $12.00; six montha: b advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, §1.25, Subscribers will confer a favor if they will ymmpuy notify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorlal and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘The Assoviated Press is exclusively entitled to aso for republication of all news dispatches credited to it ¢r not otherwise credned in this paper and also local news published h ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. ROOSEVELT TAKES THE HELM. Perhaps no President of the United States since Washington has entered upon the onerous duties of that position at so critical a time in the country's history, measured, of course, by the gravity and multiplicity of the problems with which the nation is confronted, as Franklin D. Roosevelt will have to contend with. He is the thirty-second man to hold that office, grown now to be the most powerful on eath. And to none of “his predecessors in office have so many millions of people, many in misery and want, looked for leadership. The country has wallowed in the slough of des- pondency for more than three years, confused by a multitude of councilors among whom there appear- ed no leader to point the way to firmer ground. Hesitation and vaccilation have marked the efforts of those who should have supplied intelligent and forceful leadership. Foolish predictions of early re-| turn of better times, the “around the corner” pros- perity gag, coupled with the lack of any tangible plan for betterment, destroyed public confidence and created a panic of fear. N , confronted with major crises in every respect of our life. Population growth has slowed down, threatening our home market. Moreover, a larger population would only mean more unemployed with the further installation of auto- matic machinery. We have reached industrial maturity, where no striking new industries appear | on the horizon, We are much overbuilt in productive plant already, but many look forward to the return In 1933 we are, indes of boom years to sink still more capital in unneeded | plant. Automatic machinery is rendering obsolete relatively new fac.wries and is throwing millions ouc of work and into want. The nation’s once proud and relatively prosperous| farmers find- themselves confronted with the pros- pect of peasant servility. tariff policy, has depressed our foreign trade, and has made it difficult to collect the obligations owed us by our foreign debtors. ] The Government is overgrown and overcentral-’ ized, and it is apparent that it is not adequate to deal intelligently with the problems of our modern indfstrial civilization. . . N The laboring classes of the United States today| are in far worse condition than at any previous period in our history. Even the Negro slaves of the old South were more generally better provided for so far as the material things of life are concerned. More than 14,000,000 are unmployed and faced with' the threat of -starvation with no self-interested | slave-holders to_look out for their physical well- being. Public finance is in a bad way. Our public national ‘debt is larger per capita than it was in} 1861 when Lincoln took office. Then there were no pension payments. Today the pension hill. of the country is double the cost of the dole of Great: Britain. War debts join with the tariff in jeopardizing VETS ANNOUNGE|FIREMEN RADIO PROGRAM Fflk SUNDAY.P.M. ‘MONDA y o 'El'ent to. Pres- ent Nauonwu]c Broad-" axZBO ‘Barracks With the greatest radio program! When the soldier vasketball quintet from (Chilkoot arrives in Juneau next Monday ever < put- ont by -any. veterans’ organization, or other similar or- A senseless and outworn! A:[vucsday Night our already disappearing world trade. relations are. not on a plane to afford national comfort, =~ Funope, seethes with discord that may. break into hostilities any day, and the war clouds in the Far East darken rather than change to lighter hue. . . . These are the, major problems that Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Administration shouldered today. There are none, probably, who are so partisan as to not wish him well, and to hope.that he will somehow stir into vital action that traditional American fighting spirit so necessary now to over- International| MEMBERPRESEN Senate. Meets at? Noon q;ld House at 12:30 P:M." Next Monday come these grave difficulties. He is better equipped by experience and by education to deal with them than Lincoln was when he faced the problem of a nation divided by civil war. He has a gift of leader- ship that has carried him through other crisis before now. He has, also, the gift of conciliation, of calling forth the best that is in men, and in obtain- ing co-operation from his fellows. He knows the value of sound advice and where and how to get it Some 22,000,000 of his fellow Americans have ex- pressed their confidence in his ability 'to lead them back to solid ground. They, and other millions who expressed personal preference for others last No- vember, pin their faith on him and his works from today, and we predict that they will not trust in vain. KELLER MAKES GOOD AS EDUCATOR. W. K. Keller, who retired March 1, after two years as Territorial Commissioner of Education, in the past decade Mas demonstrated his ability as an educator and an executive. His record as Superin- tendent of Schools at Fairbanks, where his first work in the Alaskan education field was performed, was of such high character as to result in him being called to this city in a similar capacjty. Locally he more than duplicated his fine achievements in Fair- banks. Taking over the schools when they were sadly disorganized and doing but indifferent work, he brought them to a high state of efficiency and put them on the highest plane educationally. This was a stepping stone to the head of the Territory’s. Department of Education, a position to which he was elected in 1930, assuming office the following Margh. A candidate for re-election, he was defeated by A. E. Karnes, Democrat, whose own record as Superintendent of Schools at Ketchikan was on ,a plane equal to that of Mr. Keller’s here. It cannot be said that Mr. Keller's defeat was (the result of any official shortcomings. As Com- missioner, of Education he rendered excellent service. |He advanced the standards of the. schools without increasing the cost of education. Rather, he brought about substantial reductions and saved a material sum from the amount appropriated for the system by the 1931 Legislature. He was a political casualty. He had the unfortunate appellation “Republican” attached to his'name on the official ballot, and 1932 was a disastrous year for candidates of that party from President down to the humblest office-seeker. He was the only Republican candidate for Terri- torial office to have a majority in more than one ' Division, and he carried three—all except the First Division. Here where the big vote is, the tide ran too strong for Democracy for him. This is not derogatory to his successor. Mr. Karnes was better known in the First Division than elsewhere and that was a big factor in the fine vote he received: in every precinct. The Territory is for- |tunate in having two educators of such outstanding note from which to select its Commissioner of Education, and equally fortunate in that Mr. Keller is remaining as Superintendent of Schools at | Anchorage. A “Republican” contemporary bemoans the alleged |fact that the “real leaders” of the Demdcratic Party ihave been shunted to one side in the preparations for distribution of patronage. Maybe it would like to have Na;ional Chairman Farley delegate to.it. the sole authority to select the successors to the Re- ! publicans now holding office in the Territory who will shortly kiss the payroll goodbye. Today. is the day that the lame ducks limped their last in the Halls of Congress. -And.it is notice- able that few of them were able to make connections with the. Government payroll for the future. Andy Valstead is said to be slated. for -the dump. pile after the Democrats come into power, Separat- ing Andy from the public purse isn't so important as relagating the law that bears his name to the discard. We hope the Democrats make equally short work of thqt PLAY [OREGON STATE 'SOLDIER FIVE | COLLEGE WINS Y NIGHT) CHAMPIONSHIP All = Star - Team to. Ma&DefaaLO.U.toGam.Cm»m_ n Division, P. .C Basket/llaall CORVALLIS, Oregon, March 4.— The Oregon, College; won, the. Pa- cific Coast Conference, Northern| Division Basketball Championship Quintet in Barracks (Continued rrom Page One.) complished in perfect harmony Divisional caucuses were held to- day and it was planned to hold a general caucus tomorrow, of House] members-at any rate, to settle fi- nal details of organization. Both branches are overwhelm- to be no indication of any desire on the part of the Democrats to organize on partisan lines. Chair- manships of regular committees will: probably be assigned. without regard to..party politics; & prece- dent that has been generally kept by former sessions. The Senate:is composed: of six .Democrats . and two Republicans. Both of the lat- ter are hold-over members from 1931—Lomen of the Second, and Bragaw of the Third. The House has 12 Democrats: and ‘ four Re- publicans. Divisional representation in. the Legislature is as follows: First Division: Senators Allen Shattuck and N. R. Walker; Rep-. resentatives Joe, K. Green, F. J. Baronovich, §. W. Kehoe and Thomas B. Judson. Second Division: Senators. Alfred. Lomen. and James Frawley; Rep- resentatives A. G. Blake, Geor Swanberg. Third Division: Senators Robert, S. Bragaw and James R. Campbell; Representatives J. S. Hofman, H. H. McCutcheon, James H. Patter- son and Warren A. Taylor. Fourth Division: Senators Luth- er C. Hess and Thomas J. DeVane; Representatives George A. Lingo, Joe McDonald, Andrew Nerland and Alton G. Nordale. Only Six Republicans But six of the 24 members ar2 Republicans, two Senators and four Representatives. The two Senators are holdover members—Lomen of the Second and Bragaw of the Third. The only other holdover Senator from 1931 is Allen Shat- tuck of this city. ' The five new members of the upper branch, all of whom are Democrats will serve two terms, except Mr. DeVane wr);:J was elected to fill' the unexpi term of the late John H., Dunn, veteran Legislator from Ruby which is also his successor’s home, The four Republican Representa- tives are: Hellerich, Blake and Swanberg of the Second, and Ner- land of the Fourth. Mr. Nerland is now entering on his fourth term in the House, the first of ‘wWwhich was back in 1017. Mr. Hellerich was a member of the 1931 House. Of the 12 Democrats in the House, only three have had previous serv- ice there. Mr. McDonald, 'witn three consecutive terms, is' the dean. Mr. Patterson. served in: the 1917 House and Mr. McCutcheon in 1931. Nordale Is. Youngest: * Mr, Nordale of the Fourth i§ the House “baby.” He 15 31 years old, and has resided in the Territory since 1904. He is a son of the late A. J. Nordale, former House mem- ber and for many years Demoeratic feader in Fairbanks. He is married and has one child, a son of two years. He is manager of the Nor- dale Hotel. To F. J. (Joe) Baronovich, of this Division probably-goes the honor of the.longest. residence. in. Alaska. He was born at Kharta Bay, Prince of Wales Island 53 years ago, his father established himself that point in 1865. He, too, is married and has two children and two grani children, He has lived at Ketchi- kan for two: decades. Alaska College Graduate Mr. Lingo is a graduate'of the ‘Alaska: Agricultural College and School of Mines, and is the first alumnus of that institution to serve in the Législature. He grad- uated in 1927 He lived in. Ketchikan, Qordova Latouche and y before go-|clased. ing to Fairbal He was awarded a degree in mlnlng engineering at the’ college. - He is now associated with the company holding tie MgeKinley- National Park concession ‘and has been there since 1925. ingly Democratic, but there seems|.: ‘our Generations Comprise Family Group, Roosevelts (Continued 1rom Pags One) Home in Fall River, Mass. A Closely Knit Clan But, although they, Won't be liv- ing in the White House, the young- €& members. of the Rogsevelt fam- | ily wilk be ‘down there:a good deal | in the next four .years. For,' in Spite of the fact that they have hosts of friends who are always bout, they are an extraordinarily closely knit clan. Some years ago, for instance, When Anna was a debutante, Mrs. Roosevelt made a rule that when- ever the children were out in the evening they must stop in her m and bid her goodnight be- fore they went to bed. If she was asleep, they ' were to wake her up. The rule’ still stands for the younger boys, and Mrs. Dall and James when he is in town fre- quently observe it voluntarily. o %« v Sometimes it means that Mrs. Roosevelt does not get much: sleep. For young people, sitting-on the foot of their mother’s bed late at: night and: just home from a dance, are apt to talk at length. “But I love to have them do it,” says Mrs. Roosevelt. “I want to know where my children have been and what they've been do-| ing. And besides the things they tell me. are interesting. I learn & lot from; them, and sometimes, of course, they are. very amusing:” | See Much. of Parents ‘Whether. they-are. living at, home or not, the. young Roosevelts man- [ I pleted. PROFESSIONAL i YEARS AGO { From The Empire T, & PHYSIOTHERAPY | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 MARCH 4, 1913. The First Legislature.of Alaska was formally organized in the Elks' Hall. The Senate was the | first to put on official life and af- ter the oaths of office were ad-|&: ministered by Judge T. R. Lyons,) | General William Distin, Secretary| | of the Territory formally opened| | | | | DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS the session. General Distin was Blomgren Building PHONE 56 preceded by John P. Olds, carry- ing a beautiful silk American Fiag and the Misses Beatrice Behrends | Hofirs 9 ant”to"9 P * —sall Helene W. L. Albrecht | i B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 p.'m" Visiting brothers welcome. Geo. Messerschmidt, Exalted Ruler. M. H, OF COLUMBQS Sechers Council No. 1760. 4 Meetings second and last ed to attend. Council and Gertrude Heid, each carrying | s an historic gavel, decorated with red, white and blue ribbons. Thel | Dr, Charles nne Senate roll was called; after:Gen-| j C D.é]}?nsl-:" J'e S eral Distin had introduced his: es Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine cort to the assemblage, and the Building Telephone 176 Rev. John B. Stevens made the S .| invocation. Senator Bruner of the Second Division was elected temporary president, and after pre- e L Y senting him to the Senate, General Dr. 4 Ww. Bayne Distin, with his escort, retired to| | 'DENTIST perform the formal opening of the Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. House, which followed the same| | Office hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. procedure. Representative Inger- Evenings by appointment | soll of Ketchikan was chosen as Phone 321 temporary Speaker. General Dis- |#————F————o& tin then retired with his escorts, |az their services having been com- Dl A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 6 pm, | S3WARD BUILDING i Office Phone 469, Res. Phone 276 The full text of Governor Walter E. Clark’'s message to the First Legislature was given in The Em- pore. Chambers, Fifth Street. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. I | burner trouble. | PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 | |, RELIABLE TRANSRER ‘ NEW RECORDS NEW SHEET MUSIC RADIO SERVICE Expert Radio Repairing Radio Fabes and Supplies JUNEAU MELODY Marshal H. L. Faulkner had re- ':\: age to;'see 8 good deal -of. their Parents. - Young' “Jimmy,” just off & train from Boston, looks up l’rom an early breakfast and: grins: at! his mother's surprised greeting. Hellerich, Tolbert Scott and Nels|'Fhe. younger ‘boys. come home for |tended to have all of the ashes; the holidays and. bring friends with them. Very.: close, t0o, and: constant . is the. contact: between the family of the President and his mother. The Roosevelt estate at Hyde Park, with its much disputed name “Krum Elbow” belongs to the eld- er Mrs, Roosevelt, but it is also the legal residence of her son and| his wife. They and their children, and more recently their grand- children have spent a great deal of time there. I Mr. Roosevelt was born at “Krum Elbow” and his wife made her first visit there when she was only two years. old. Her father, the, late Elliott Roosevelt, was her hus- band's, fifth cousin, 4nd his gods. father. And the nursery where young Franklin and Eleanor Ros- evelt played that day is now turn- ed over- to. their grandchildren when they go to Hyde Park. el They are a congenial family, the velts. They particularly like | outdoor sports. Mr. Roosevelt used to ride and swim and play golf and tennis and, sai} ‘toy: beats. op | the Hudson river with the children before his illness. Mrs. Roosevelt has continued to. do. many of these things with them. There is to- in_ the wmur at Hyde Park and skating. Only Few Accidents “We have had some accidents Roosevelt once said. “My son-in- law broke his nose while tobog- anning the first time he visited Hyde Park. ' And every: now and then my mother-in-law gets ner- vous and comes into New ,York and stays because she is afraid somebody is going to get killed. But nowbody- has, so. far, and. m'vo had Iotsof “fun.”- Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt may be the grandmother of four, but her children last year presented her with a skiing outfit for Christ- mas. . And. she wore: i, too, the first. time there was enough snow. Financial Machinery Is at Standstill; No 'Exchanges Are Open NEW YORK, Mirch 4. — The great financial machinery of the nation 'is at a. standstill today as the. country awaited- action. of the new Administration in Washington to start the wheels of credit turn- ‘N‘W 'Alb stock- exchanges. ——ee — — Read the ads as carefully as you read the news articles. Mrs. | ganization, the American Legion will go on the air from Chicago] Sunday evening' on a nationwide broagdcast, over. the National Broad- casting Company’s. chain, it was’ announced; todey by J: T. Petrich, Department Adjutant, of the Al- Talks will be made by nationally! proniinent figures, the Board of Trade Post Band of Chicago, 1933 champion, will be on the air, and prominent artists will be “heard|: fyom the New York studios. The program will start at 7:30 pm. Ju-| neau time and: last an hour and 15/ minutes. Louis Johnsor, National Com-! mander of the Legionnaires, Mrs.| Blackburn, National President of|return engagement at Juneau. the Auxiliary, probably Gen. John J. Pershing, John Elden, head of|gregation and ‘both games: should the Forfy and Eight, and. other: of equal prommencewm be speak- ers. for a two-game engagement with local teams they will face about the stiffest opposition the city has to offer in the way of hoop: tal- ‘ent. ! On Monhday night they are billed to meet the Juneau Firemen, cham- pions of the Channel League, and on the following. night they will line up against a team oompoaed of players from the "Moose and Gearge Brothers' squads. On. this team ‘will; be. Orme and Lindstrom at forward, Brown at center and Burke and Moyer at guard, ‘Lind- trom, Brown ' and Moyer ' played with the Moose club against: the soldiers: ‘at: the. ‘Barracks in De- cember, at whieh time the /Post players expressed a desire for a by defeating Oregom University 32 to 27 here last might. " ‘The University of Washington won the honors for six years straight previously. ————— SMALL BLAZE An overheated- stove- in the Sec- ond Hand Store between Front and Second Streets on Main Street, caused the ignition of some cartons lying near the stove about 7:30 Fire Departmént ‘was ' called and quickly extinguished the small blaze. No one was in the store at the time. of the fire. Little damage was' caused. will be arranged. - The Skagway High ‘Bchool has expressed its will to. take on some other team on the night it does not maoldmhflnnxmng- hotly contested. and prove treat to the fans. Curtain-raisers on both nights:|play o'clock last evening. The Juneau|: Wickersham Plans to: Return Here Shortly 'ION March 4— Jamos w1ckcnha.m whose term as Delegate from | Alaska has ended, is packing his. effects. He. said hef. Dplans “to* leave ‘for Him Thome i1 | Juneau within the next ten days. ——-——— 'THOMAS K. SMITH OF | KETCHIEAN CHRONICLE, s B ARRIVES 'N JUNEAU continuously since Thomas K. Smith, President of the Journal Printing Company of | Ketchikan, “and manager of (he| Ketchikan Chronicle arrived in Ju- neau on the motorship Norco. this morning. .-Mn Smith expects ' remain in Juneau for about %o —_————— Classified ads pay, i Juneau, PROGRESS Established ini 1891, this bank has mtheupbmhflngof!.bucnyand Terntory Our customers value and’ appreciate our wxllmgness and abil- ity to assist them in every way con- sistent with safe andisound banking. The B. M. Behrends Bank .42 YEARS. BANKING. SERVICE. TO. ALASKA. ceived the $500 appropriation nec- essary for the repairing of the re- ,tention wall on the coast side of the Court House grounds. Prison- ers were to be employed on the work and Marshal Faulkner in- Dr. ‘Richard Williams DENTIST OFPFICE AND RESIDENGE: |, Gastineau Building, Phone. 481 and rubbish sluiced into the (Zl'mn-| nel while the improvement was be- | & U ing made. Robert Simpson Judge John W. Ostrander, of Opt. D. Cordova, arrived in Juneau on the Graduate Alghigs O} lege of Optometry and | Mariposa to attend the ©Rening Opthalmology. Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground session of the Legislature, — O Adyertisements. are your pocket- book editorials. They interpret the merchandise news. [ J Dr. C. E. Fenton. CHIROPRACTOR Hours: 10-2; 2-5 HBLLENTHAL BUILDING ¢ Douglas 7-9 P.iM\V —_— o ¢ . LUDWIG NLLSON ! wekeh Becsiine e { & DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL Optometrist—Optician Eyes Examiried—Glasses Pitted | Room 17, Valentine Bldg, | | Office Phone 484; Residence | Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 ELECTRO THEBAPY Irrigations Office hours, 11 am. to 5 pm. Evenings by ® (Second and Main, Phone 250-1 ring Chicken dinner Sunday, 60c MRS. J. GRUNNINGF ‘ .. ;;—m;:sw-——-__—*-:-_ CALL 14 DRUGGIST L. C. sM TYPEWRITERS Royal Blue ||+ -"""?f‘f»;..‘é&:.u Cabs Home Owned and w Comfastably. Heatod- SERVICE—Our w N CABS 25¢. 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