The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 6, 1933, Page 4

ARETRE 4 - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1933. Daily Alaska Empire PRESIDENT AND EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - Sunday by ab v event: Fablished every ening B sl EMPIRE_PRINTING COI Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Fntered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. except the ANY at Matn SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 Pala"at the following rates By mall, postage pald, a e following d 1 avance, $12.00; six months, 1o advanoe, 1th, in advance, §1.25. will confer a favor if they will promptly ss Office of any fallure or irregularity n of_their T, t p”:;nd Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The A::(El‘\u?ed 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 hereln. KA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ALASINAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. PROTECTING ALASKA’S RESOURCES. With every State in the Union declaring banking holidays and a national interim proclaimed by Presi-| dent Roosevelt, there was nothing left to do to pro- tect the interests of Alaskan depositors in Territorial banks but to put into effect a similar vacation. In doing so, Gov. Parks was guided solely by what i manifes for the general good of the entire Terri tory. As he - very ‘properly pointed out, there is nothing in the local situation to require such a step. The emergency was created and is maintained wholly by the actions of the authorities in the rest of the country, State and National. Every bank in Alaska is on a sound basis. The local banks are particularly so. Their legal reserves are well above the statutory requirement. Every dime that is deposited in them, whether time or| demand, is more than adequately secured. They have, and deservedly so, the confidence of thz busi- ness community as well as the rank and file of their patrons. They have safeguarded their interests for # too many years to be seriously disturbed by the upsets of the outside world. They are self-contained and self-supported. For that we have to be thank- ful. And any holiday that is proclaimed cannot affect their fundamental security. It can, at best, but aid them in protecting the interests of the Territory as a whole. THE DRYS SCORN KNOWLEDGE. Taking the position that the United States has nothing to learn from Europe or any other foreign nation about the liquor traffic and its control, the Drys of the United States are scornful of any knowledge that might be gained from those sources in the study just launched through experbs‘by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The Dry attitude was recently revealed in a statement issued by F. Scott McBride, General Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, deriding the Rockefeller survey and its aims. “Europe can teach America nothing about the solution of the| liquor problem,” declared Mr. McBride. { That, of course, is the mental slant with which | the professional Drys view every opposing philosophy to theirs. Nobody can teach, or tell, the Prohibi-| tionists anything that does not agree with their own convictions about the problem. To them it is nor longer a problem, just a settled issue. That is clearly | revealed in another part of McBride’s statement| which declared: The most valuable study of the liquor problem ever made anywhere on earth was during the 25 years preceding the Eigh- teenth Amendment, when the American peo- ple tried every possible kind of regulation and control and contrasted the results with Prohibition under the operation of State i and local dry laws. There was an over- whelming verdict of the voters that Pro- hibition is preferable to any hier system ever tried. A majority of the American people, contrary to Mr. McBride’s assertion, never did s.nction Na- tional Prohibition. But they did condemn it as wholly un-American and impossible of operation successfully. And in the only vote that ever was taken when Prohibition was one of paramount issue—in the nationwide election of last November— the voters of the United States rejected that method of liquor control so emphatically as to leave no doubt as to their views on the subject. And that is the reason why early modification of the Volstead Act to permit the manufacture and sale of beer, and possibly wine, is certain, and why the Congress has just passed a resolution submitting the question of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment to the sev-, eral States. With the reversion of control from Federal to State authority, there is no room for dispute about the advisability of studying the entire field, at home and abroad, in planning for sane and sound local control. Many of the States are already mapping out programs, studying them carefully far in ad- vanee of the day when they will be called on to assume the jurisdiction of controlling liquor traffic or preventing it. Such studies as now being made by Mr. Rockefeller's experts, the results of which are to be made available to all who desire them, are not only timely but will be almost invaluable. Only the hide-hound Drys will scorn to learn from the experience of other governments and peoples in dealing with the liquor problem. SIMPLE METHODS HELP TO REDUCE 2 FUEL BILL. Home economies this winter extend to every phase of living. One of the major household ex- penses is operating the heating plant. Often a little attention to the condition of the house itself will . help to keep out cold air and save fuel. Sometimes quite obvious measures are overlooked. - ACTOSS G rafts. This is particularly effective at the foot of % It is better towkeep the living rooms: on .javailable has been loaned for work relief and less| lor it should be reformed. Three reforms are needed. | comortably warm than merely to take the chill} of the whole house. If the house is heated by a furnace, fuel may be saved by shutting the doors of the least used rooms and closing off registers or radiators. The common practice of turning off the heat in bed- rooms at night when the windows are open results in considerable savings. During a very cold snap, however, radiators in unheated rooms should be pro- tected from freezing by covering with a blanket or by wrapping thick layers of newspapers around them, To have warm halls and living rooms in the morn- ing see that bedroom doors close tightly. It may be necessary to make thresholds for them or to lay long narrow sandbags against the bottom. On cold winter evenings, pull shades down below the sills and draw curtains all the way over the windows to keep the rooms warmer. The shades and| curtains act as insulators, though not to the same| extent as the storm windows and storm doors which are used in cold climates. A year ago the Army of Unemployed descended Washington to demand bonuses. Today the Democrats after 12 years of absence from the political fleshpots invaded the same city to celebrate the return of the party to national power, and to look for paying jobs. Proclamation of a banking holiday to the entire country, necessary as it was to the States, is merely of interest to Alaskans as a commentary upon conditions elsewhere, and not because of selfish per- sonal considerations. These days all roads lead to the Capitol where the Territorial Legislature today began its labors for the next 60 days. The Frozen R. F. C. 1 (New York World-Telegram.) The Government’s great emergency “bank,” known as the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, vas forged to beat hard times. It is not doing its Job. | In creating this $3,800,000,000 credit pool, Con- |gress had three purposes. The first was to pump |funds into sick banks, insurance companies, rafl- |roads and other corporations. The second was to |extend - job-relief aid to States and cities through self-liquidating loans. The third was to make emer- gency loans to communities to feed and shelter the | destitute. | Passing over for the moment its business loans, 'administration of which has been drawing so much | icriticism, what about its success as a first-aid |station for the jobless? | The entire unloaned fund, except for the $300,- 1000,000 ear-marked for hunger relief, is available Ifor self-liquidating work aid projects. This amounts now to some $2,000,000,000, and will increase through |repayments. Yet of this sum only fifty-six self- {liquidating loans, totalling $147,680,000, have so far been approved. | Of this only $17,793,000 has been paid out in cash. Thus only about seven per cent. of money | than one per cent. has been paid out. Apparently! ime number of projects that can be liquidated from | |tolls and rates is limited, for pending are only seven- {ty-four “Class 1" loan applications, totalling $238,- 1890,000. For hunger relief about one-half of the $300,- /000,000 available has been loaned in short term handouts. Destitution is intense and widespread. | Even with the present onerous restrictions Senator | La Follette estimates that this inadequate relief| fund will be exhausted by July 1. This big Federal emergency “bank” either should| {be abandoned, along with the Federal Farm Board,| One is to change its personnel, another its admin-| istration, a third its scope. Loans for relief should be administered by a board of experts and the fund/ replenished. The term *“self-liquidating” should be liberalized. Thousands of public projects await this change:— Projects ‘in slum elimination, schools, reforestation, reclamation, parks, hydro-electric development. Immediate construction along these lines would tend to prime the pump of sluggish industry, start buying power, add permanent improvements and wealth to the nation. We have the mechanism for reconstruction. it be put to work. Let Home Radio Increase. (New York Times.) There is at least one exception to the dizzy downward swirl of the curve from the upper left to the lower right of the charts that make up the economic history of the last three years. This excep- tion in radio sales. An exhaustive study has been made by the Columbia Broadcasting System, based chiefly on the confidential sales records of the five leading radio manufacturers in the country. The results show that since the Federal census of April, 1930, which revealed something more than 12,000,000 radio families in the country, there has been an estimated increase of 4,760,000 radio-equipped homes. It is a growth of 40 per cent. Naturally, the percentage of increase has been largest in those States where three years ago radio had least penetrated. In Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Louisiana the increase has been from 100 to nearly 150 per cent. But there are other striking figures. Pennsylvania, for instance, three years ago had nearly 1,100,000 radios, or one for every two families in the State. It has since added very nearly half a million radio families. That this should happen in an industrial State with a huge unemployed population is an illuminating contribu- tion to our konweldge of America in a depression. Possibly there should be more give and take in international relations, as an eminent diplomat says, but it would be sort of nice if Uncle Sam didn't always have to grab the front end of that combination.—(Boston Herald.) Some people think Mr. Kreuger is still living. Until the matter is definitely settled we advise hiding baby’s bank and warning the orphans not to leave their clothes near an open window at night. —(New York Sun.) Note to Congress: The team never resorts to desperate passes until it feels so licked that it doesn’t much care what happens.—(Atlanta Con- stitution.) Lt 2 R B B £ SRR Suppose those lame ducks should be replaced by wild geese?—(Lorain Journal.) We aren't demanding. the peak of prosperity any more. Just a little peek at it would seem a whole lot just now.—(Boston Herald.) 5 The decimal point Congress is putting in beer is going to gag a lot of consumers—(Toledo Blade.) SYNOPSIS: Swiftly, it comes cut that although Sir James Cane has cheated Barbaras Quentin of her inheritance, beth Mrs. Ledely, friend eof Barbara, and Leila Cane, Sir James’ daughter, have known the facts for some time. Mrs. Lodely wanted to marry her gifted but cruel artist son, Mark to Barbara; Leila in des- peration used her kncwledge to attempt to blackmail her fa- ther. Farrell Armitage makes the revelations, and he loves Barbara. Farrell's secretary, Kenneth Poole follows Leila and proposes. CHAPTER 47. ONE EMERALD LESS “I don't think that’s a graceful most daring danseuse on today's]Land Office received the patent way of referring to a proposal of 'siage, had forced the man in the marriage.” “Then Il put it this way—that | I tried to marry Mark for love and known to an exclusive circle as a I tried to marry Farrel for money |de and both of 'em turned me down. I won't marry anyone to save my face.” “Here's the river.” They crossed the wide, shining Jacques Malavie, Ltd., had carried ribbon of the Embankment and her came up to the parapet. She op-| ened her hand and flunk Mark’s modest London flat which was now For her parents’ home. ta second the gleam of a street| \lamp caught it and it rayed up,'to be married, mother.” emerald out into the dark. wickedly green. Then it was gone. Pool's shoulder touched hers. Buying Barbaxra . by Julia Cleft-Addams ¢ Asthor of ~YOU CANT MARRY> else just Raoul's house had laid the cofner- ( | ridea if we said goodbye now don’t| you?” X | “Must we Leila?” | “I think so, Ken. I'll always |wish you ‘good meal-times.’ Good- | Hoar | “All right. | bye.” fa . » » . If you say so. Good- The announcement as it appear- ed in the social columns was sim- ple. A marriage, said the cofumn, 1 arranged between Miss h becn bara Quentin and Mr. Mark Mark Lodely was, of course, brilliant portrait painter who v his portrait of Sir Robert Phil- hay had caught the serious atten- (tion of the ecritics, and by his por- trait of Miss Patsy .Raoul, the| st et to stop and stare, and smile. Miss Quentin was, of course, orator and designer. sful Her suc- treatment of Miss Patsy . | ce istone of her reputation and her !partnership with the renowned to further successes. Leila Cane read the news in the “Mark and Barbara are going .leven this flat; we should have |to sit about in fourth-rate conti- t i 20 YEARS AGO i From The Empire MARCH 6, 1913. Both houses of the first Legis- lature got down to business. The Senate received a partial report of the committee on committees. The committee on rules consisted of Senators Bruner, Roden and Mil- lard. In the House a fight was precipitated by Ingersoll's opposi- tion to the plan for members from each division to choose the mem-' ber for the committee on com- mittees. The plan was adopted, however, and Shoup of the Pirst Division, Kennedy of the Second Division; Kelly of the Third and/| Driscoll of the Fourth Wwere chosen. Registrar Walker of the local for George Harkrader's coal land application embracing 132 acres of coal lands on Admiralty Island. The "coal land had been under de- velopment and was located by Mr, Harkrader in 1891. Gov. ' Walter E. Clark forwarded his resignation {0 President Wood- row Wilson, to take effect at the convenience of the President. Gov. Clark said that his plans were in-} definite but that it was probably that on being relieved of his du- ties he and Mrs. Clark would go to his old home in Connecticut. Deputy Marshal J. F. Mullen left |- “I wish you'd send your ring nental pensions for the rest of our the same way. The ring you wear lives?” on your left hand. it “Better jre return that every penny.” I've never liked | Leila gave up. Her mother had from to father.'Kings Mallard and although she He gave it to me and he'll need was not exactly ill, she was not She leaned heav- well and Leila did not expect her slired to bed on She flung Mark’s emerald into the dark. ily again his shoulder feeling the strength melt from her limbs. “Just a minute and then I must go and pack for Kings Mallard. I wonder how hell take it? Do you think that in our common be- reavement father and I will learn to understand each other better?” “No. Besides, v won't have enough time. We sail on the twenty-third for the Cape. I'm taking over permanent manage- ment of one of Armitage’s con- cerns out there.” * “Thanks, all the same, but any sailing I do will be with father and mother.” “Do you honestly care a lot for Lodely?” he asked. “I mean, isn't he sort of a—an obsession?” “I don’t think so. I'm like Barbara.” “Well, only because she'd signed on with him before you got there, as I understand it. If she can consider Farrell, why can't you consider me?” “You utter goat, there’s no com- parison!” “Don't be impertinent! I'm as good a man as Armitage. Ask him.” “Ah, but I'm not as good as Barbara.” “I've heard a lot about Barbara Quentin and she may be as won- derful as you all say. T don't doubt it. But what you did just now takes a lot of beating—to stand up and chuck a vote of thanks back because you haven't deserved it. If you'd shut up no one would ever have known. “There is someone who would have known; naows already. Mr Frere.” “Who's he?” “He's a clerygyman. He's almost my only friend. I told him about those shares once and asked him what T ought to do?.” “And what was his advice?” “He said if I needed advice on a matter like that I wasn't likely to take it anyway.” “Shrewd old boy! Now, look here, Tl make you a fair offer, ‘Will you marry me if and when Armitage marries Barbara Quen- tin?” “No, because,” her voice failed her and she had to start again, “Because in one way—not in Bar. bara’s way, but in a small-town- conventional-Kings Mallard way, I am bound to Mark.” not “But if that doesn’t mean any-{| Sroff thing?” he offered at last. me, I mean, or to you?” “Ab, but I'm beginning to know that it does mean something to me. Bnl'.hmkitwouldbesgood to recover. refuge in “Well, engaged The mouse had taken the nearest hole and' my dear, they've been long enough, T'm sure. ;Antl they can afford a beautiful | bome together now. Why, they | |could buy South-the-Water if they .wanted it! It's a shame!” “Don’t you realize, mother, that if it hadn’t been for Barbara's in- jsane generosity we shouldn’t have would venture out no more. Leila took her paper along to the finishing a heavy breakfast. In' spite of herself she had an admir- ation for him. When, a few months earlier she had brought him Bar- bara’s decision (that she wished the money divided between the Lodelys, the Canes and herself) he had done no more than chirp brightly—"Indeed! Yes, I expected no less. No doubt it is what poor Quentin would have wished.” Although it was making her into Although it was making her late for the position, Barbara had got her with Malavie, Leila waited un- til her father finished his final cup of coffee, “Barbara and Mark are going to. be married, father.” “Really? Well, it’s been a long engagement,” the old man said quietly. (Copyright, 1932, Julia Cleft- Addams.) Still another suitor enters the lists tomorrow, for Bar- bara’s hand. sitting-room where her father was ® for the south to take A. J. Beck, torium. A special program was given for members of the Elks' Lodge at the Orpheum Theatre following the lodge meeting. The following officers were elect- ed for the Juneau B. P. O. Elks: Exalted- Ruler N. L. 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