The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 17, 1933, Page 4

'e | | x mucilage and other stationery items; allotment of 3 - 1933. JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER Sunday by the Fublished every evening except HMnI EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Oelivered by carrier. In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per_month. By mell, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, In advance, $12.00; six months, In advance, $6.00; one month, In advance, 01.26. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity | in the delivery of thelr papers Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press ip exclusively entitled to the ass for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or mot otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. MAKING STRENGTH COUNT. President Roosevelt evidently believes in the maxim of “strike while the iron is hot.” With the} announcement just made that plans for an early recess of the special session of Congress had been} abandoned and that the new Administration will press its program for the new deal without delay evidence of that is plain, The ideas embodied in the Roosevelt program are admittedly essentially sound. The President, it has been shown by the reaction to his banking| holiday, emergency bank “program, and economy program, has the confidence of the public and the support of his party in Congress. He is able now to command the situation insofar action is concerned. He is wise to take advantage of these factors at the very outset of his term, thus running no risk of encountering obstacles in Con- gress later on. The crucial test, encountered at the very outset of the special session, b been passed. The new Administration’s authority is unquestioned, and its| ab! to marshal the overwhelming Democratic | majority unchallenged. Again the President exh\bns; the qualities of a truly great leader by boldly, abandoning a previously charted course, that called for an interim between emergency legislation and | his complete program, and pressing on for immediate ! consideration by Congress of the latter. Again he| proves he is no drifter. And once again he strength- ens his hold on the confidence of the people of the! entire | country. ELIMINJG'I()N OF GOVERNMENT | COMPETITION. ( The Shannoh Committee of the House of Repre- sentatives, after some two years of intensive study,| has rendered a report urging Congress to restore| millions of dollars worth of business to private hands | by eliminating Government competition in some two score fields- It found that the Government had invaded " private business to an alarming exr,env.ll and that business was suffering from that competi-! tion without any compensating benefits to the| public at large. Jt recommended, among other things, that the Government stop manufacturing supplies and buy them from private concerns under contracts safe- guarding union labor; cessation of Farm Board crop stabilization activities; increases in parcel post rates to make that service pay for itself; possible aboli- tion of Federal barge lines; disabled veterans to be sent to private and municipal hospitals instead of _building more Federal hospitals. Government com- petition has reached such magnitude that it threat- ens to stifle private initiative, the committee very properly warned the Congress. Additional recommendations by the committee included: Restriction of Federal-aided farmerst co- operatives to sale of products of members; discon- tinuance of Army transport service and ship service of Panama Railroad; award to private companies of munitions manufacturing and battleship con- tracts; a department of supplies and munitions under civil control to make purchases for exelUtive departments; centralization of Government architec- tural supervision in one office, with future policy for private engineers and architects; abolition of Army and Navy exchanges and commissaries ex- cept in isolated areas; contracting with private firms for flood control, dredging, etc.; discontinuance of tours by Marine Band; abolition of Army and Navy uniform and saddle manufacturing plants; uniform Government system of accounting; elimination of Government Printing Office manufacture of paste, *“a fair portion” of War and Navy department hel- fum requirements to private concerns; co-operation with lumber industry so that the latter shall not siffer by sale of lumber from Indian lands, Na- tional Parks and reservations; inclusion of “creative and administrative” costs of production in sale of Government maps and lithographic work; abolition of Government competition in sale of serum, virus and other biological and pharmaceutical prepara- tions; henceforth no department be allowed to erect and equip new plants or re-equip old ones for manufacturing without specific permission from Congrass; discontinuance of paint and varnish man- ufacture at navy yards; ablition of prison commis- saries and establishment of prison industries which will keep convicts busy at tasks not competing with private industry; abolition of Post Office practice of printing return address on stamped envelopes; |rather than to any specific proposals. | possesses in time of war. ov 4 long period. Beginning on a small Dluly AlaSka Empu‘e fsml(’.‘ it has reached its tentacles into almost every {line of trade and manhufacturing. Abuses have been allowed to spring up and flourish. In the days of easy money, when “two-car garages” was a popular political promise, much of the effect went unnoted. Now that all business is suffering from depressed trade, it is plainly seen to be a powerful deterrent. And if there is ever to be a halt called and reform achieved, now is the time to do both. HEALTH CONSERVATION. A study recently made by the United States Chamber of Commerce covering 570,000 persons in different parts of the country showed that two per cent. of these individuals on a given day were suf- fering from sickness sufficiently serious to disable them from doing their daily work. This would indi- cate that every person, on the average, loses about one week's work each year because of illness. Two per cent. of the total income of the United States in 1929 was about $1,800,000,000 and this would cer- tainly be an under estimate in the money cost of the time lost as a result of illness. In addition to this there is, of course, the loss due to fatal illness. The Committes on Costs of Medical Care recently reported that the American people as a whole spent in 1929 $3,656,000,000 for all forms of medical services, or about $30 per person for the year. These figures lend an importance to the efforts of the National Chamber to reduce economic waste due to illness and premature death, a movement |started several years ago and increasing in scope every year. It is a work of distinct merit that should be supported by every *community. Those who have left footprints in the’ sands of| time didn’t do it sitting down. One thing about having a Congress that will attend to its knitting, it crowds the Japanese- Chinese embroglio into the inside pages. A Call to Arms. (New York Herald Tribune.) The country will look to the spirit of President Roosevelt's inaugural address for hope and guidance We think there must be general agreement that the new as legislative | Executive of the nation speaks with courage and confidence, like a true leader, who realizes the diffi- culties before him and faces them unafraid. A detailed and definite program was impossible under the circumstances of its delivery. With the credit structure of the nation tumbling about its ears at the precise moment of changing administrations, no formulation of legislative relief was conceivable. The. most that could be expected was a statement of general principles and a pledge of vigorous action. That pledge Mr. Roosevelt gives with every mark of sincerity and high resolve. Congress is to be as- sembled speedily. The program already made familiar in Mr. Roosevelt’s speechs is to be attacked. If Congress acts promptly, the normal constitutional methods will be pursued. But Mr. Roosevelt makes it clear that if there is hesitation or delay and the emergency persists he will ask extraordinary powers comparable to those which the commander in chief The speech pays a loyal tribute to the Constitution, and we can see in his sugestion only, a reassuring pledge to use to the full the wise flexibility of that great instrument in case of necessity. { Properly, too, the speech stresses the need of a| new outlook by the nation with respect to wealth.i The madness of the 1929 must not be permitted to return. The banking system must be subjected bo‘ a new regulation. We discuss elsewhere in these| columns the practical lessons of the present crisis. Doubtless the President in his message to Congress will be definite and precise in respect to this problem as contrasted with the necessarily general state- ments of yesterday’'s speech. The time has pla.lnly; come for drastic change and we trust the President and Congress will act boldly and effectively. Only such action can restore that national confidence the failure of which has caused the present collapse of credit. President Roosevelt has started well. A loyal and united nation will be glad to follow his leadership in the difficult days that lie ahead. Taxes and Diminishing Returns. (New York World-Telegram.) A year ago, when Congress was studying how to swell the Federal income, Postmaster General Brown assured the House Ways and Means Committee that a three-cent first-class postal rate would yield an increased revenue of $100,000,000 a year. July 6 last the three-cent stamp became the rule throughout the nation. What was results? This week Representative James M. Mead, of Buffalo, Chairman of the House Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, declared that the Post Office Department will lose $100,000,000 business this year because of the three-cent rate. From figures now available, he calculates that 5,000,000,000 fewer letters will be mailed in 1933 than in 1932. Here is a highly concrete instance of how the law of diminishing returns smashes some of the optimistic but not sufficiently thought out plans of revenue-raisers. Hardly had the three-cent postal rate gone into effect before big public utility corporations hereabout began sending out their monthly bills by messenger, business firms curtailed their first-class mail lists and private citizens made writing fewer letters a new “depression sport” Everybody knows how it has worked out—to Uncle Sam'’s loss instead of gain. This same law of diminishing returns often proves just as relentless in the case of other so-called nuisance taxes which the public instinctively avoids or mitigates by changing its habits and reducing its buying. The estimated yield from such a tax looks pretty enough on paper. But the yield shrinks amazingly in practice. The tax defeats itself, Legislators at Albany, we think, should study tax on gasoline in the light of what the three-cent stamp has not done for postal revenues. Moreover, the argument of diminishing returns is re-enforced, particularly against a sales tax, by the paramount need at present of stimulating buy- ing and of avoiding new burdens that will directly discourage business and spread dismay instead of no more salvaging by Coast Guard except in emer- gencies; abolition of private- veterinary practice by Farm Board agents; discontinuance of Government warehousing, except for Government-owned goods; restriction of Army and Navy launderies to service reguirements; no restaurants in Government build- ings at Government expense. ’ If ‘the Government wants ‘fo extend credit to -~ distributors of farm 'products, the majority con- tended, it must be on equal terms to middle men The growth of Government competition has been hope and recovery. The tax-levying Legislator of today we have said, should try to be an economist. He ought also to be something of a psychologist — which Postmaster General Brown was not. The sap is flowing in the maple orchards as well as in a great many legislative assemblies— (Ohio State Journal.) It three-fourths of the States ratify the repeal amendment, the camel may be restored to its normal place in the circus—(Indiauapolis Star.) | officer—another the proposed State retail sales tax and the increased |, by Percival SYNOPSIS: Bombelli, a curi- althcugh enlisted in the Foreign Legion, tries to induce Otho Bel- Icme to desert and, failing that, hints of great benefits if he will fail in with the plans of Major Riccoli. Riccoli, his Napoleonic ambitions bared by Le Sage of the French Secret Service has been forced out of the French army, and has risen to the rank of major after enlisting in the Foreign Legion. At his backing post near Mekazzen Riccoli dreams of ruling a Sahara em- pire. Then a dirty Arab ap- proaches Otho on sentry duty, and says to him one word only. “Yelverbury.” . CHAPTER 8 “YES, MY COMMANDANT"” Mechanically the astounded Othaf resumed the position of attention, and then stood himself properly at ease. " “Yelverbury,” with just that. pe- culiar pronunciation and intona- tion. Of course! The interview with the officer. . . . The Parade-ground at Mellerat. . . . The first day that he was able to go on duty again after his fight with M'Bongu. The messenger who had bidden him come with him forthwith, to where Monsieur le Colonel and a strange Colonel—demand- ed his immediate attendance. He remembered every incident, every word of the interview that had followed. Saluting and standing smartly at attention in that little room. . . speculating regarding the officer and iorn-jawed, who sat at the table and stared at him with hard appraising eyes. . . . “Le Legionnaire Otho Beleme?” “Oui, mon Commandant.” “Your real name?” “Oui, mon Commandant.” “You are English?” “Oui, mon Commandant.” “The name is French.” ? “Norman. A thousand years in England.” The officer smiled. “Educated?” “Oui, mon Commandant.” “Where?” “At home, at Yelverbury Gram- mer School, and at Oxford.” “Profession?” “Pugilist.” The officer smiled. He had watched the defeat of M'Bongu the Invincible. “Father's profession?” “Gentleman.” The . officer raised his eyebrows. “Sir Belleme, then?” “Sir Ofho Robert Belleme.” Mandeville- The officer reflected, as, he scrutinized Otho's strong and handsome, if somewhat disfigured face. Yes, this was his man ... a tool of his hand . . . Obviously— in view of that awful fight—as brave as a lion, strong as an ox, determined and tenacious as_one of his own British bull-dogs . . . Well born, too, well educated; probably quite clever; and, by re- port, amenable to discipline and of excellent character. Character? Then what shouli such a man be doing in the For- eign Legion? A woman, no doubt. hearts in the glow of glamorous dreams. Yes, this man would do. “How would you like to leave the ranks and come with me?” asked the strange Colonel sudden- ly. i “Pardon, mon replied Otho in some bewilders ment. “Do you speak Arabic as well as you do French and English” “As badly as I do French, but not as well as I do English, mon Commandant,” smiled Otho. “How would like to be seconded and come with me, study Arabic, become an Arab, in fact; until I can use you as one. How, in short, would you like to join the Secret Service, if you satisfied me during tests? A hard and dangerous life —for a brave man; with a brave man’s reward, if he succeeds.” “I should love it, mon Comman- dant. Better than anything on earth. . . . But I cannot leave my company.” “Why not?” . “My friends. They joined the Legion because I did. I couldn't ..” “What type of men are these, your friends? English? Educated men? Gentlemen? “Two of them are pugilists like myself, mon Commandant. three were sailors.” Good at disguise . . .good linguists - . .good actors?” Otho shook his head. “No, mon Commandant.” “And you would not leave them?” Again Otho shook his head “No, mon Commandant.” “Well, mon enfant, you are a fool. A silly fool, an Englishman, in fact.” “Oui, mon Commandant.” “I'm very fond of the English» said the officer, and rising to his feet, extended a huge hand, the! grip of which caused poignant but | agreeable pain to Otho's damaged | “Now listen, and pay close atfelis ' ition. Give me some word—we'll have an English word, I think— that will instantly recall me to you, should T utter it in your hearing. I VALIANT DusT out wanderer who has money * | clear instructions? Or perhaps merely one of those mad romantics who live for ad-| venture, warming their brave: Commandant?” |track that led from the gate of your apprenticeship, and passed my | All} “Any of them naturally clever? | Eidy ‘Christopher Wren -au'fi‘:'}'é-rz- A kind of password, in effect, that will be private and peculiar to you and me.” mon Commandant, especially after your kindness.” “perhaps not, mon enfant, but I trust that, although you may not forget me, you won't know me the next time we meet . . . A little hu- miliating for me, you know, if I accosted you in the guise of a starving leper, and instead of giv- ing me a sou, you saluted me and stood to attention ... I sincerely hope a password will be necessary before you recognize me.” s Otho smiled. | “I beg your pardon, mon Com- fmandant.. I did not understand ‘What about ‘Yelverbury” where my home is?” “Excellent. Tt is hardly likely that any Arab, Moor, Bedouin, Tou-areg or other Berber will in- | troduce himself to you with that particular word,” smiled the of- ficer as, with a friendly hand upon Otho's shoulder, he bade him think well upon what he had heard, while remembering that a still tongue runs in a wise head. And now, long after the curious little incident had faded from his mind, a typical hill Arab, bearded, brown and dirty, with turban, san- 'dals, and staff complete, had !quietly and distinctly and unmis- takably, uttered the word ‘“Yelver- jbury” as he passed. | That officer! The strange Col- ione}, disguised as a Moor of the Southern Atlas, and so completely ‘disgulsed that, but for the pass- word, Otho would never have 'dreamed that the Arab was other than he seemed. ‘Wheeling about, as though changing his mind and deciding to ireturn to the little extra-mural |market, the Arab approached the Isentry, confident that - the word which he had uttered guaranteed him against prohibitive challenge. “Yelverbury!” he said again. “I must see Major Riccoli before he (leaves this post. Don’t recognize me. Know nothing.” Yes, this was certainly the Secret |Service Colonel, and Otho's sup- |erior officer. But what was going to happen to the sentry who al- lowed an Arab to hang about the gate of the post Would the Colonel exculpate him when he was put under arrest for S0 grave a dereliction of duty, an action so flatly contravening his Any Arab, at- tempting to behave like this, would be regarded as a spy, and a com- {placent sentry as his bribed accom- plice. However, orders were orders and —luckily—any Colonel was cer- tdlnly senior to Major Roccali, and was it not French military law that, in any circumstances, any member of the French naval or military forces must obey the order of the senior officer on the spot, no matter to what branch of the (Service he might belong? As those thoughts flashed through Otho's mind the Arab pro- duced from beneath his cloak a folded piece of coarse paper, thumbed and filthy, on which was scrawled: “Monsieur le Major Riccoli.” “Get this to Major Riccoli some- how,” he said. “If the sergeant of the Guard refuses, speak to your Officer yourself. If mothing hap- Commandana le market there, selling almonds.” And the speaker, retiring a few paces, squatted beside the road or the post. Otho perpended. Clearly he must let Major Ric- coli know, as soon as possible, that a tribesman demanded speech with him. Would Sergeant-Major Vit- torelli take the message and the serap of paper, or curse him for a fool and punish him for allowing an Arab to approach so close that he might have stabbed the sentry, snatched his rifle and fled; or have dashed into the fort and died ["BERGMANN DINING | | ROOM Board by Week or Month Meals for Transients Cut Rates Chicken dinner Sunday, 6Q¢ MRS. J. GRUNNING ity to assist them 1 «“Oh, I should never forget you, ! ' 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire i i ¢ MARCH 17, 1913 Juneau was struck by a cold wave with the temperature only 15 degrees above zero and a cold, disagreeable wind making things still more uncomfortable. A deal was closed whereby the Jersey group of quartz mines be- longing to M. J. O'Connor and Jim Mitchell of Douglas and Wil- liam Meyer and S. Zenger of Ju- neau, became the property of the Treadwell Company. Operation was to commence on the property immediately. 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