The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1933, Page 4

RGN senar ey e SR A i | Ve e ey e ¥ N VAR ween A AS e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1933. Gt A A 0 B S A S A A0S DS ASA S 0 s oot st 6 VIV s v v v py Daily Alaska Empire JOHX W. TROY - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER Fublshed every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streeta, Juneau, Alaska. Enfered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class natier e PR SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 Dot at the followl tes: qsil, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, 'tn advance $12.00; six months. 1o advance, 6.00; o nth, In advance, §1.25. b ibatrbera will confer ' favor it they will promptly notify the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the delivery of thelr papers " Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. /BER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The ,\l“..f:’n?r Press 18 exclusively entitled to the aso for republication of all news dispatches credited to | it or not other credited in this paper and also tha‘ local news published herein. “IRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER | A A AN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION | { humanitarian |cotton producers, as statisticians claim, but she {certainly ranks first in the produetion of cannon | fodder. nd anxie! looking confidently for bright tomor- row, with March paving the way so happily to be followed by all who have experienced that change in mind and heart which fits them to be comrade with beauty in the world. ST. ANN'S NEW BUILDING. St. Ann’s Hospital is one of the indispensable |institutions of this city. It is a splendid asset |one that has been with us since the beginning of the community and has kept pace with its |growth in population and permanency. The new upit that is to be constructed® marks not only another milestone in the history of the institution |but as well in the life of Juneau. It will be modern |in every respect and give to the city facilities | equal to those of any city on the coast. The Sisters of St. Ann are to be felicitated upon the great service they have always rendered and upon their enterprise and civic spirit in the erection of the fine addition for which plans have just been announc: here, China may be only third ameng the world’s Congress may give beer. back to the people of country. But not if the paid Prohibitionists can prevent it. The latter are now preparing to seek a court injunction to prevent the sale of beer. Eventually they may hear that the people have mething to say about' matters of this kind. the THE PRESIDENT AND THE BANKS. | e | The country's reaction to President Roosevelt's drastic movement to deal with the banking sn.unuo:\.; taken before he had been in office 48 hours, has| been splendid. Everywhere the general public real-! ized that his action was designed to protect the| depositors, primarily, rather than the banks them- selves. When he assumed the mantle worn by‘ Herbert Hoover for four years, not a single State in the Union but what had restricted banking operations and in several banking had been com- lengths. pletely suspended for periods Within a week after he had si i1l banks, most of them were in position normal business and had done s0. And ihe blems of nearly all of those still doing a 1 business are in the process of solution. Commenting on the President's policy in this in: ace, the Wall Street Journal, on: of the fore- most financial publications in the country, had the following to say: President Roosevelt, after ample consul- tation with his Cabinet advisers, has acted quick and skillfully to bring about early resumption of their normal functions by banks. He sces clearly the necessity the country off the “cash” basis it porarily adopted and (o restore at t possible moment the circulation leposit money. extension of the bank holiday until o} of business on Thursday gives the yinks all the time they should require ,m it ‘thetr maAchinery of Clearing House . ments and scrip payments to depositors ual operation, while his call to Con- o meet in exira session at noon on isday will expedite the routine ' of House and Senate organization and speed any required action facilitating the resump- tion of inter-city bank settlements. President Roosevelt’s promut embargo on gold exports is a sound precautionary meas- ure. By combining with it a prohibition upon domestic payments in gold by bank- ing institutions he gives his gold embargo the incidental quality of a powerful moral condemnation of our own hoarders of gold and Federal Reserve notes. That, too will help to restore bank deposit money, the great vehicle of nine-tenths of the country’s business activity, to its rightful and neces- sary use. The Wall Street Journal insists that all that is needed is to look at the facts and apply the logic that the facts contain. The first fact is that this country has already far more “cash” currency than it needs. The need is to make “check currency” again “current.” The second fact is that notwithstanding the existence of weakness amounting to partial in- solvency on the part of some banks, there is an ample supply of “check currency” in existence in the shape of deposits in perfectly solvent banks— which constitute the larger majority of our insti- tutions—to do all the country’s business if it be mobilized for the purpose. The third fact is that: even in the case of partially insolvent banks there remains a consid- erable portion of potential “check currency” which can be made to function. The fourth fact is that there is a simple method for mobilizing all the “check currency” available the to ha th of and it is the method which The Wall Street Journal | has from the beginning of this .crisis urged upon the bankers of the country. It is the method to which the facts themselves point with simple and incontrovertible logic y MARCH. Spring spells brightness and 1} and the month of March leads the vernal trinity. Though snowflakes may yet fly, we 2 sensitive to a mysfic change. Someone has written: Would that men might learn once for all that there is no change of spheres for man except by change of heart! Change your mind, change your heart, and the world is changed. It is changed by the uplifting influences in the soul, just as the world is changed physically by the necromancy wid minsirelsy of murmurous March, green- inz April and blossomy May. for the world; The electric thrill of life is surging through ,all the ways of Spring and soon will be painted and fashioned a wondrous glory in the aisles of the forest, in the fields, on the mountains and in the heavens. diamonds in the good earth of gardens; in the As Dr. Conway long ago so beautifully revealed, with us inviting wholesome love this month of March We may |saw puzzle for the grown-ups crowded around.— The Budget Director. (Boston News Bureau.) It may well be that the real key man of the forthcoming Administration was named in the se- lection of the youthful Representative Douglas of Arizona as Director of the Budget. To him may fall the biggest chance to “make or break” that Administration. There is no special glitter of glamor about that Job. It has none of the large possibilities of survey and decision which seem to invest the major Cabinet portfolios, particularly in these uneasy times. It just means holding straight in one given furrow. Yet, as the President-Elect has observed, that| budget directorship happens in effect to rank now with a Cabinet seat. It is the peculiar imperative need of these times that makes it thus stand out even beyond most of those seats. Carrying on and extending under the circum-| stances the work well begun by Dawes and Lord and | Roop will mean a sweep of performance going in fact beyond and across all the departments, meet- ing no doubt a most reluctant compliance. For the one indicated task ahead of the new director is to cut the Government's financial cloth very | closely. The spending functionaries of the Govern-| ment must be given far less, and perhaps some | |of them be themselves curtailed or even elim- inated. Semi-dictatorial power results is to be conferred on the new Executive it is proposed. But the eye and hand which mu: /measure and manage all that performance directly | must be those of the budgeteer. And here is where the 38-year-old Westerner of Eastern antecedents 'may serve greatly, as there is much confident hope /that he will. His Amherst-Tech background, his 'personal career record, all attest such promise. An overseas veteran, he has been anti-bonus; and right there waits the largest single avenue of| achievement. He has enunciated in Congress his firm belief that Government must not degenerate into an “instrument of gratuities for special groups” |—perhaps now the greatest threat to Federal Treasury and credit. Yesterday in the Senate Com- immee stock trading hearing it was Federal budget and credit which finally came most into discussion. Those will be the special items also in the new director’s ken. to achieve these dmstici | Electric World Communication. (New York Times.) A survey by Captain Hooper, in Naval Institute |Proceedings, shows that while Great Britain con- |trols 187,584 nautical miles of cable service and the |United States 83,012 miles, the latter “has a lead- |ing place in world rapid communication because of |'radio.” When the World War ended, Great Brit- 1ain was planning a monopoly of radio. A beginning had been made in constructing a chain of stations. |Except of the competition of the United States, Great Britain would have dominated both cable and radio communicaton, There were Amercan-owned rado patents, and the United States was able to form a powerful company and outstrip Great Brit- ain in spite of her early start. Last year the Ameri- can company operated twenty-seven -circuits con- inecting New York City with Europe, Asia Minor, Africa, South America, the West Indies, Panama and Canada. In addition, there are relay extensions in Africa and Asia. The United States is now taking the leading part in this method of communication. In radio-telephone communication the United |States is also in the van. But here Great Britain |sees an opportunity to forge to the front. A merger organized includes international systems of cable and wireless, the British Marconi and its subsidiaries, and the Government'’s beam wireless stations. In the United States a holding and management com- pany has been working on a similar combination. It has entered the foreign field of wireless tele- phone systems, fixed radio-telephone and telegraph systems, and mobile radio systems. The tendency everywhere is' toward consolidation. “Radio,” says Captain Hooper, “has done much to improve rapid cemmunication, because it brought real competition into the field. Rates have been reduced an average of 25 per cent. and general service has been greatly |improved.” Captain Hooper recognizes as a broadcasting triumph, incomparable at the time, the communica- tion between Admiral Byrd's expedition in An- {tarctica and The Times in New York City. In |broadcasting he sees a factor for world peace: “Radio broadcasting cannot but promote understand- ing.” He estimates that thirty thousand seagoing vessels are equipped with radio-telegraph sets with a range of from one hundred to three thousand miles. P BB R BT L What this country needs is release for its aspirants for public office from the requirement that they stand up and submit to measurement by the wet-dry yardstick.—(Buffalo Courier-Express.) Mr. Farley says he is the mallman now. If he can bring home the mail with the same facility he has shown with the bacon he will be a very popular gentleman.—(Boston Globe.) MR LISt R A ‘germinating and sweet music| Tha future may be full of opportnity for youth, but just now the youngsters can't get near the jig- by Pergival SYNOPSIS: Otho Beleme, English gentleman, member of the Foreign Legion, has been ac- costed on sentry duty by an Arab he recognized as a Colonel of the Secret Service.. He orders Otho (o take a message to Major Riccoli, commander of this For- eign Legion post near Kekazzen. Riccoli entertains grandiose am- bitions fer himself, as Sultan of a Sahara empire. His ambitions got him cashiered from the French Army years before when discovered by Col. Le Sage of the Secret Service. Otho scents something mysterious behind the advances of Bombelli, who first cffers to desert with Otho, and then invites him to share the favor of Riccoli and his satel- lites on terms Otho cannot stom- ach. CHAPTER 9 RICCOLI'S MESSAGE Suddenly, at a clank of hoofs, a jingle of steel, and a creak of leather, Otho sprank to attention, presented arms and returned to the position of attention, and then | held out the paper to Major Ric- coli as that officer, followed by his orderly, Bombelli, rode out of th gate, and glancing at the sentr) returned his salute by raising two fingers to his cap. “What’s this?” he asked, reining up. “A letter for you, mon Com mandant. That Arab just brought it. I told him to wait there until I was relieved.” “Good!” Having frowned his way through the document, Major Riccoli, his handsome face otherwise devoid of expression, again read it, and again thoughtfully regarded the messenger. “Hi, you,” he called, and beck- oned to the Arab, wheeled about and rode back into the little fort. mounting and giving his reins e orderly: that T am not See and that no cne comes near here,” disturbed he said. Then, bidding the Arab follow him, he entered the little stone room that was at once his office and his quarters, and shut the door. Having closea une door, Major Riccoli seated himself at the rough wooden table, placed his revolver upon it and, with a wave of his hand, gave his visitor permission to be seated. The Moor, respectfully touching|. his head and his chest, bowed and, £quatting cress-legged on the floor of the hut, drew his feet beneath his cloak. The French officer, head on hand, for some moments silently regarded the dusky, hearded and somewhat ‘ dirty face of the man who, from beneath overhanging dusky eyebrows, watched him in- tently with unwinking gaze. Yes, a typical Moore. A fat- faced, bushy-bearded hill-man who might bhe own cousin to Abd-el- Krim, Raisula, or any ther Moor- ish chieftain—robber, brigand, reb- el, patriot, or whatever one liked to call him. Why didn't the fellow speak? One loses prestige and takes the lower ground if, in dealing with these people, one pays the first visit or makes the first remark. In silence, Major Riccoli en-~ deavored to out-scare the Moor.J‘ To his great annoyance he found himself | compelled, at length, to blink, and almost to withdraw his gaze from that of the visitor, as a fencer disengages his sword, “Well?” he said sharply and re=- ceived in reply another bow and salutaton, respectful if not humble. “Why have you come here?” he asked in his all but perfect Moor= ist» Arabic. “To bring that letter, Sidi.” “Do you know what's in it" “I do, Sidi.” “You know that i is an answer to my message to the Kaid?" “I do, Sidi.” “Why didn't you go when you had given the letter to the sentry?” “I have to take an answ “Master, the Kaid, is the most trusting of men, but only in the VALIANT DusST - |the Kaid, my master, face to face, Author o | Christopher Wren -piav ceorer | | (all, as to your being what you pre- | end to be.” ! | Riccoli moved toward the Arab, whispered a few sentences and hen leaned back with a satisfied smirk as the visitor gave prompt replies. “So far so good,” observed the French officer. “My messenger evidently reached your ma.sler.‘ Now as to your being the ear of the Kaid. If your master, the Kaid, and I, can come face to face and talk, I can lay bare my hand‘; to him and speak with single| tongue. I can promise him such |things as he has not dreamed oI' —such power, such wealth, suchi| greatness, such munitions of war and, and. . . .” ‘Words appeared to fail the speak- lcr as he contemplated the picture| that he drew. i | “Promise,” he continued, “prom- ise and perform—and give him |proof and guarantee of my good | faith.” “Ah! Proof and guarantee of | good faith, Sidi. What proof? Ana | what guarantee?” g “Of that I will talk with thej Kaid, your master, as I said in my! letler, and as I bade my messen- tell him.” | “Doubtless, Sidi. You must meet and talk with him. But I also thave to face him and talk with l‘nim on my return. What can I ay of proofs and guarantces that promises can, and will, be per- formed.” “Say that I will bring him what most he needs—men and muni- itions. Every man worth a hundred {as a fighting-man; worth a thous- land as a trainer of fighting-men, |Proof and guarantee? Did I notl joffer in my letter to put myself |completely in his power—to walk linto the lion's den? What further {proof of good faith could your {master have or want TIs it not |the large attendance. | 20 YEARS AGO | From The Empire t D e The Alaska-Ireland Home-Rule smoker, given by the Treadwell Fire Department at the Treadwell club was voted a grand success by Many mem- bers of the first Territorial Legis- lature attended after first visit- ing the mines during the day. The personnel of both the Juneau and Douglas fire departments were guests of the Treadwell organiza- tion. ————a The new Seattle Chamber of Commerce announced its plans for| a business men’s excursion to Alas-| ka during the summer. The members of the '87 pioneers met and paved the way for the in- stitution of an Igloo of the Pio- neers of Alaska which was to be consummated on March 25 at a meeting. Interest in the All-Alaska Sweep- stakes, the principal annual dog race in Alaska, had spread throughout the country and it was decided that the First and Third Divisions should also take interest in the affair. The affa was under the direction of the] Nome Kennel Club and a number of teams from the Second and Fourth Divisions had been entered. It was determined that a grand benefit entertainment and ball for the sweepstakes be given in Juneau. The organization in charge | of the affair included many mem- bers of the Territorial Legislature and prominent citizens of Juneau. Gov. Walter E. Clark stated that | he had no objection to women’s suffrage and that if he found no flaws in the Shoup bill on the sub- ject, he would sign the bill. All members of the Scottish Rite |rather I, who need proof and guar- antee of the Kaid’s good fs The Moor smile with a fl. white teeth. “You will not enter the den unarmed, Sidi,” he said. “And has the lion neither teeth nor claws?” was the reply. “Let us speak plainly. I will visit the Kaid of Mekazzen accompanied by a handful of men, a mere escort, a bodyguard. How many men could the Kaid have at the citadel of iMekazmn? How many in the city? |How many encamped on the plains about it? Is the Kaid afraid? Who would be in danger from treachery, the Kaid or I1?” “And’ when you have spoken with the Kaid, my master, with single lmind and simple spezch, pure, jclear and limpid as the waters of the rivers of Paradise, and you and the Kaid, my master, understand each the mind of the other, see eye to eye, and clasp hands of friendship—what then, Sidi?” “Then I will bring more men, and yet more, until the whole of my command—men and munitions — foot, horse and guns are at the Kaid’s disposal under my command. Then indeed may he hope for vic- tory over the Sultan. Hope, do I say Nay, be as certain of victory ias the Faithful are certain of Par- adise.” Agzain the Moor smiled. “And you can answer for your men, Sidi? They will fight be- neath that banner?” “Are they not soldiers? Have hey any duty—or desire—but to obey?” asked Riccoli, spreading eloquent hands, with a shrug of mobile shoulders. “Where I lead they will follow.” “And your Government, Will they not also ‘follow'?” “Ah!" replied Riccoli, “It is con- cerning what will happen then, that T must talk with the Kaid, your master, Not another word will T say now, not one.” The Moor rose to his feet. “I will carry your words to the Kaid, 8idi,” he said, touching his heart and head as he bowed. “Meanwhile, speak not of me and my visit to any other messenger, for no man knoweth the mind of the Kaid. His will is, that his right hand shall not know what his left hand doeth; and his spies Spy upon all his spies.” (Copyright, 1932, F. A. Stokes Co.) And tomorrcw Bombelli gives £ lion’s Sidi? Faiarful has he any faith—and not :l:m_m ey much in them. He once trusted the word of the Sultan publicly pledged on the K'ran.” ¥ I “So he sent you to find outl and and whether the messenger message were genuine dentally to find out a that you could, and ge spy out the land?” The Moor smiled. “The Kaid, my master, on whom be peace, sent me to find out whether the messenger and the message Wwere genuine” he replied. ‘And also to be his ear into which your Excellency might whisper any further words that may now be said—provided your E ellency is convinced that I am what T appear to be, the secret messenger and ambassador of my master, the Kaid. And to discuss these pro- posals that give my master, Kaid, the greatest grmxf;cationfix well as to assure your Excellenéy of my master's absolute good Taith.” 3 the inei- | PROGRESS Established in 1891 this bank has continuqusly 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. | TheB. M. Behrends and their wives and sweethoarts| were requested to attend the mys- | tical banquet of the Rose Croix,, to be celebrated at the Odd Fel- | lows Hall. Representative Arthur G. Shoup introduced a bill in the legislature authorizing the incorporation of cities of the second class in Alaska. | The bill gave the inhabitants of any town having fifty or more in- habitants the right to incorporate as a city of this class. Mrs. Robert Semple was a visi!orl in Juneau from Sheep Creek. Mrs. Cordell Hull This is a late picture of Mrs. Cordell Hull, wife of the Tennes- see senator who was named secre- tary of state in the Roosevelt cab- inet. (Assoclated Press Photo) THE DREADED CHANGE IN MIDDLE LIFE Springfield, Ore- gonp—- %thn going thru the dreaded time of life I became rundown, sick and ir- ritable — everythi would botlher ‘:inzi. o sle; rly ai el migctrm, but three or four bottles of el Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription re: stored me to perfect health, which I have enjoyed since,” said Mrs. Ellen Frost of 215 C St. “For a tired and worn-out woman I know there is noth: ing so strengthening as Dr. Pierce’s Prescription.” Sold by druggists. Bank some | —m—— PROFESSIONAL | Helene W.L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 I N — e P Yy DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. +Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST R'Hms 8 and 9 Valentine Ruilding ! Telephone 176 Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Office hours, 9 am. to 5 p.m. | Evenings by appointment | Phone 321 — —— " Dr. A. W. 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