The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 22, 1933, Page 4

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The Aswocnted Iress I8 exclusively entitied to the ase for republication of all news dispatches credited to It r not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. | A CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER A A AN "THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. — |sensible worldwide program be adopted without delay. |when it passed Senator Shattuck's bill to reorganize the most serious since 1914, Sir John asserted: The great difference between 1914 and now is that in no circumstances will this government authorize this country to be a party to the Sino-Japanese struggle. The horrors of the World War, though some 14 years in the past, have not faded from the memories of the peoples engaged in it. Not only England, but no other country can equably regard entry into another Armageddon. Nothing that President Roosevelt has done has a more united support of the people of the United States than his cutting away the webs of century- old tradition to deal directly with the representatives of other world nations in initiating a discussion of disarmament and insisting that some sane and The Territorial Senate did a splendid day's work the school system. It is aimed at preventing partisan politics from invading the educational system of the Territory and the experience of a great many States, upon which the proposed new system is based, has demonstrated it will be suc- cessful. Fortune does not just smile at those who wait. It usually gives them the horse laugh. trange as it may seem, when we finally repeal the Prohibition Amendment we shall get rid of by Percival : Major Napoieon Riccoli of the Foreign, Legion, his head full of plans to emulate his namesake, ous agreement with the power- ful Kaid of Mekazzen. Years beforc the Secret Service had fourd Riccoli out and forced him out of the French regulars. Now the man who came to the major from the Kaid, though apparently an Arab, is in pos- n of a passwerd that iden- him as a colonel of the Sceret Service to Otho Belleme, English gentleman enlisted in the Legion. Bombelli, orderly to Riccoli, is apparently known to the Arab as “Langeac”—and Bombelli deserts immediately af- ter the Arab leaves. Riccoli dis- cusses plans with his crony Vit- torelli. CHAPTER 11 “HOW SHOULD I FAIL?” “We shall really burn our boats behind us by doing that,” mused Sergeant-Major Vittorelli, still per- haps a little doubtfully, as he stood | something we never really had. Our Flexible Reserve System. before Major Riccoli, the same day, in the hut used by the latter when he visited the post. “We shall. Are you afraid, Vit- VALIANT DusT makes a ftraitor- | , duthor ol Christopher Wreri =iy Gesres “And the other detachments, | mon Commandant? When will they arrive?” “When I send. for them. When |I have completely won the con- fidence of the Kaid, so that he be- |lieves that they are marching to join his banner under my com- mand.” “Why not assemble the whole column. before marching from here, |mon Commandant?” asked Vittor- elli, eager, hopeful, but not yet wholly convinced. “Ah, why not, indeed, mon en- fant? Because the Kaid will not hear of it. If I cross the border with one man more than the gar- rison of his post, it is war. We shall be surrounded, cut off, am- bushed and annihilated in one of the defiles. My first proposal was |to march in, bag and baggage, | norse, foot, and guns—and that was the Kaid's answer through the {mouth of his own son who visited me at Post Three. “That young man, Prince Raisul (a clever lad, by the way, who speaks English, French and Span- ish as well as I do), made it clear that we !emd the more the merrier—but we must come in small detachments land on differen | 4 | should all be welcome—! | rumors were abroad that plenty of‘ {candidates would appear Lefore the final eve of election. materials As fast as building could be assembled contracting companies were beginning building operations. Fine weather prevailed inducing building activities. The Woody brothers, called wiz- ards of the moving picture world, PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 — . I | PROFESSIONAL Fraternal Societies | | 20 YEARS AGO fl—ee|| et | T nn l From The Empire | Helene W.L. All]l.;ECht fl—\_a“ek ———s | | PHYSIOTHERA! B. P. 0. ELKS meets MARCH 22, 1913, | Massage, Electricity, lnr:ac:ud every Wednesday at The grand benefit entertainment | | Ray. Medical GymPCEUEs: 118 p. m. Visiting and ball for the All-Alaska Sweep-| | 807 Goldstein “218 & i | brothers weicome. ’ é}) stakes, purse was arousing great| ! Phone Office, - Geo. Messerschmidt, interest in social circles. - Every | —. | Bxalted Ruler. M. ®. member of the Legislature was on 2‘! 1 Sides, Secretary. With the mansgement and. e .| | DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER || —KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS terest of many important business DENTLATS Seghers Council No, 1760. imen had been enlisted in the Blomgren Building || Meetings second and last | cause. | PHONE 58 { | Monday at 7:30 p. m, Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. | | Transient brothers urg- Frank Manley, pioneer in the 3% ed to attend. Council |Minook, Fairbanks, Hot Springs| 7 Chambers, Fifth Street. and Iditarod districts, and prob- . JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. ably the wealthiest mining oper- | Dr. Charles P. Jenne H. J. TURNER, Secretary ator in the Alaska Interior at DENTIST s - that time, was a Juneau visitor. R ms 8 and 9 Valentine | i | Our trucks go any place any Ruilding !} | time. A tank for Dicsel oil | No candidates had filed for the Telephone 176 || | and a tank for crude ot save | |approaching city election though|gs 2! | burner trouble. | | - B A Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. | Office hours, 9 am. to 5 p.m. Evenings by appointment | =———| Royal Blue P Dr. A. W. Stewart l (Boston News Bureau.) torelli? You—a Corsican?” days. were in Juneau and were planning | | DENTIST | Cabs | A strong argument for the Federal Reserve| “I am afraid of nothing, mon| “Trea o3 swine, these Ar-{¢, show Homer's Odyssey and Hours 9 am. to 6 pm. . & v ‘ Syste inni i Commandant,” replied Vittorelli, |abs,” he added. “They trust no- . i t _EWARD BUILDING ! T RG . I i ) S |System from the beginning has been its flexibility | CC 1 Dante’s paradise, on the screen a o) ! Home Owned and Operated DELEGATE ,DIM‘OI\I;[ LAUNCHE in marshalling the country’s credit, without regard |With more truth than modesty. bod the Orpheum Theatre. | Office Phone 469, Res. i PROGRAM. |for State lines or any other domestic frontier. That|“But it ;’ould break my heart if! “So having marched into the | rhone 276 5 Comfortably Heated T Ji i od tr i you failed.” place, we mark time until the | o A el R s aaa 25 T the |15 DOW being proved true for the second time in Sk i 2 Lo Preparations were being made by | i = po El T TRiB fivss, baten Of DA ‘","od‘:wd “‘V m‘.' almost twenty years of Federal Reserve history. Faill 12 Tam a Man of Des- other detachments arrise,’ mused|ine Catholic Olub of Douglas, tolm — & SERVICE—Our Motto House, Delegate Dimond is beginning to carr} ‘| The first instance came in 1920, just after the|tiny, and how shouli 1 f¥I? Once Vittorell, “H'm! What about|poa the biggest dance of its his- 1 the program he laid before the voters of Alaska last Fall. He advocated then the repeal of the Alaska Bone Dry Law. In introducing the bill to provide for that step, he has gone farther than he promised. He has included in it a provision that when the Eighteenth Amendment shall be repealed by the American people, the Legislature of the Terri-| tory shall have the power to control and regulabe[ the sale of intoxicating liquor in Alaska. It need sharp afterwar recession of that year. Then under Section 11 of the Reserve Act, permitting a Reserve Bank, or requiring it ona vote of at least five members of the Reserve Board, to rediscount the discounted paper of another Reserve Bank, very large shiftings of paper were made from Eastern Reserve Banks to the West and South. The shifting of the discount burden from weak- er to stronger districts (really inter-district borrow- " _ 'ing) greatly lessened the credit strain of 1920 occasion no surprise to anyone that he ""’e_ksv‘“"clh through a redistribution of reserve strength, the power for the local lawmaking b Ll WHolY | wopyer districts leaning on the stronger. Boston, consistent with his own theory i u of his!haveland and Philadelphia Reserve Banks were in party that all such authority be vested in local me 3,000 hands and not in the Federal Conures miles distant. | The Delegate’s bill to permit Indians of South-. east Alaska the right to sue the Federal Govern-| ment for alleged loss of certain property rights was promised by him in speeches here and elsewhere. He isn't 4 ng Congress for anything that it hasn't already done for other Indian tribes elsewhere. One of the provisions of the Alaska Fisheries Law 1 condemned by local fishermen is that which permits Federal agents to seize fishing boats and other gear and confiscate them before (heir‘ owners, or operators, have. been convicted of any| violation of the law under which the seizures are made Not even the National Prohibition Act, the, last word in seizures and forfeitures, goes so far| toward depriving a citizen of his property without | trial by jury. It is wholly unAmerican and ought| repealed. And one of the first of the measures | duced by the Delegate seeks to do that. Two years ago, the Alaska Legislature petitioned Congress to repeal the special placer mining law | of August 1, 1912, the so-called Wickersham Act. The then Delegate Wickersham introduced a measure to accomplish the desired object but later either| withdrew it or let it die. His successor, who assisted | in preparing the original petition, now seeks to carry | out that direction. THE SUN GODDESS. In recent days Japan has celebrated the 2,593rd anniversary of Jimmu Tenno, the first Emperor. The present Emperor, Hirohito, is a direct descend- ant of the man who ruled Japan 660 years before, the Christian era. The process of figuring? Add 1933 A. D. to 660 B. C. and you have it. The line comes down fo Hirohito unbroken. He is the 124th Mikado. There is something arresting in this thought of a dynasty which has ruled in an unbroken line through the rise and fall of so many of the world’s greatest kingdoms and empires. The children of the Sun Goddess saw the dawn of Greece, Pericles, Athens, Socrates, Plato, Sparta, Marathon, Ther- mopylae—Japan antedated them all with an art, with letters and a culture of her own—with a history generous and heroic. The Island Empire saw Greece and Rome rise and pass. It saw the romance and chivalry of the Middl: Ages, struggling through the morasses of ignorance, superstition and glory—the Crusades, the continued advancement of the new faith which was to dominate the better part of the advanced civili- zation, to oppose that of its own long line of em- -perors and peoples who have always accorded unquestioned and unqualified worship to the rulers of the House of Jimmu, who was the child of the Sun Goddess! As a matter of fact, Japanzse pride and national consciousness of pe rity are in some part.re- sponsible for her evident determination to achieve ultimate overlordship over most of Asia. She has no fear that this goal will not in time be reached. She advances in the belief that one can stay her imperial way—the way of Jimiiu child of the Sun Goddess. Here, perhaps, is the 1oving finger” which at the present time is dire the forces of Japan in Jehol—against China, nst the op- position of the world. DECLARING FOR PEACE. Great Britain, Itdly and France declare for peace. Mussolini puts forward a plan that will embrace all of Europe and even the United States. Prime Minister ‘Ramsay™ MacDonald ‘declares: “We shall make the world a safe and pleasant place for this and future generations,” but he concedes that the difficulties in the way are grave and immediate. There is hope in his conclusion that it can be done particular large contributors of this added strength. Just the same thing, in slightly different terms, happening in 1933, Eastern Reserve Banks, through liberal purchases of acceptance and Gov- ernment securities, are enabling Eastern metropoli- tan banks to provide quickly the cash strength needed by their correspondents in disturbed areas of the West and ths South. The changes in the volume of rediscount for member banks in this district, as the -current figures have shown, have varied little from month to month, and these have been all from banks out- side of Boston, the Boston banks not having found it necessary to avail themselves of this privilege. The borrowing pressure has come entirely from outside; and the present situation thus affords a second historic example of the flexibility, in a time of need, of the Federal Reserve System. is Where Are They Going to Go? (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) Editor Howard B. Rose of Western Construction News and Highway Builder writes: I feel a little weepy at the sight of young boys plodding the highways — their gaunt, dejected faces haunt me. What do these youngters think about when they are “lifting 'em up and laying ’em down” over a hard desert highways, going just any- where? Are they thinking how valueless their lives are? Are they awards that there are too many people on earth? Too many peo- ple . . . too much food . . . too much cloth- ing . . . too much of everything, so they starve and go almost naked and plod along over the hard roads that lead God knows ‘where. Maybe they are thinking that in case of war we would all be patting them on the back and dressing them up in nice uniforms and sending them away to protect the lives and property of us all. They would be valuable in case of war. But yesterday I saw them, shuffling along, unhurriedly try- ing to get somewhere. And I am asking, where will they get to? Henry T. Rainey as Speaker. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) The Speaker of the House of Representatives can properly be considered, along with the Presi- dent and leading Cabinet members, as one of the half dozen most important figures of an adminis- tration. The selection of Henry T. Rainey, of Illi- nois, is therefore a very important decision. The keynote of the caucus action in chopsing Rainey is party strategy, and the dominant feature of Rainey’s leadership is likely to be strict party disci- pline and regularity. 3 Mr. Rainey is 73 lears old, and has served 28 years in the House. He is a veteran in party service, and he believes in party technic as the best way to get things done in government. This appears to be peculiarly necessary for a Speaker of the House. His task is not one of statesmanship, of determining policies, so much as one of discipline. His major responsibility is to accept the admin- istration program and get it through the House, compromising with the opposition of either party when necessary to get concrete results. This was the genius of Nicholas Longworth, who could always be depended on to see & bill through. Like Long- worth, Rainey is concerned with tangible legislation. The views of the newly chosen Speaker, however, are far from negative. In most matters, he has fol- lowed the liberal trend shared by the President- Elfet. Years ago, he was considered a “radical.” But at 73, he put away childish things and is content to play the role of patriarch, enforcing discipline in the turbulent ranks of a Democratic Houss. From the standpoint of securing the ablest student of political and economic problems, the election of Mr. Rainey is a disappointment. But| Mr. Roosevelt has his own “brain trust” to deal| with technical questions and formulate policies. | From the standpoint of a workable party machine| despite his admission that “We have no time to waste.” MY Recently Sir John Simon aroused a storm of ghesrs in the British Parliament when he declared categorically that England wasn't going to become in the House, the election of Mr. Rainey is un-| doubtedly the signal for efficient legislative ma-! chinery in the next Congress. Perhaps Japan may quit the League of Nations inside the citadel, everything will be easy. Getting inside has been the difficulty—for the last thous- and years. Nafure has made the place impregnable, and man has proved on Nature’s handiwork . . . And we are going ot march in un- opposed. Not merely unopposed either—but actually invited.” “A spider's web, mon Comman- dant?” “Well? Are we flies? wasps, hornets?” “And the men, mon Comman- dant?” ventured Vittorelli, who though ignorant, rash, egoistical and impetuous, as well as being the fastastically devoted and ad- miring disciple of Riccoli, was sane and possessed of a shrewd peasant motherwit and common sénse. “Can we be certain that all the N.C.O.’s, corporals and legionnaires will be amenable, obedient?” “It will be a bad day for anyone who is not, Vittorelli,” smiles Ric- coli. “It would be a bad day for us, mon Commandant — the day on which some of them, even a min- ority of them, decided to remain —er—true to their—er . . .” “Decided not to throw in their lot with mine and seize their glorious chance, the chance of ris- ing from slavery to power, position, Or are we wealth? Only fools, clods, cowards, weaklings . . .” “There are such people, mon Commandant.” “Yes—as Captain Voulet discov- ered when he tried to found his Empire in Sahara in 1897. But he was mad, of course. Hopelessly mad. A megalomaniac. And then he had a partner, too. Captain Chanoine, who failed him. That was where Voulet went wrong— one of his mistakes, anyhow. “And we can learn something from the mistakes of Voulet. And then again he was dealing with stupid unambitious officers, and was compelled to show his hand too soon. Bad luck and mad man- agement ruined his scheme; and part of his bad luck that he had no inaccessible impregnable base from which to operate. He simply went out into the blue—out into the desert—and you cannot found an Empire on sand, and direct it from under a palm tree. “Here we shall have for our base and the heart of our empire —a citadel, a city, and a country that has never been conquered. “Yes, Captain Voulet was both unlucky and a fool. I am a man of destiny and not a fool. Fate has led me here to the very spot, and created the very circumstances necessary for the fulfilment of that destiny.” “Without doubt, mon Comman- dant. But the men? It seems to me that success will depend upon one of two things; on the one hand whether the legionnaires are kept in ignorance long enough; or, on the other hand, whether they can be won over to—er—abandon their old allegiance and follow you.” “Of course, mon enfant. I know all about that: I intend, first of all, to get them inside the Citadel. They'll’simply obey orders and car- 1y on, in the ordinary course of duty, till the moment comes for seizing the place. The garrison of this post will march as escort with me across the Mekazzen country to Mekazzen, and into the Citadel. All they will know or thing at all—is that their Com- mandant is on a diplomatic mis- sion to parley with the Kaid. “When the time, and my plans, Citadel, they will simply obey or- ders. “When T am master of Mekaz. zen, and have garrisoned it with the rest of my command, will be | the time to find out who is for me, ' and to make it clear that he who ' is not for me is against me. Also’ because a great; many people are now cutting down on club expenses—(New York Times.) the exact fate of him who is; against me.” care—if they know or care any- | are ripe for the seizing of the! |treachery? We shall have to sleep |with our eyes open.” | “You are right, my friend. Un- til the Kaid sleeps with his eyes shut, once and for all. But dont you see the prettiness of my plan? If the Kaid intends treachery, and {would capture the whole column— for its rifles, ammunition and kit, |guns, horses, stores and cash—and \such of the men as would join /him to escape torture and death |—he's got to wait until I send for |the other detachments. I shall /have in Mekazzen a force quite big enough to do our business, and settle his hash. Though what |T hope and intend to do is to |seize the Citadel before I send {for the other detachments. “Then I can present an accom- ‘phshed fact to the Sergeant-Ma- Jors and Sergeants, and to the IN. C. O's of the native troops as |well as to les legionnaires, when I have to show my hand.” Silence fell between the |men. { “Our rascals here can think they are seizing the castle for France, lof course,” observed Vittorelli at i two length. { “They can think what they like, as I said before,” replied Riccoli sharply. “Think what they like and do what they're told. Though that is where you will be most useful, mon enfant. Sounding them; talking them over; showing them what they have to gain on the one hand and what to lose on the other—their' lives; separating the sheep from the goats; form- ing a group of those upon whose personal loyalty I can absolutely depend.” “H'm!"”. .. I can pretty well do that now, mon Commandant. Our good Corsicans, whom you so wise- ly selected, will be trustworthy; and I can answer for the Ital- ians. I've no doubt the Germans will be all right, and more willing /to fight against France than for her. I can get the Russians over, I expect; and, I think, the Span- iards and the Belgians. ... Where we shall have trouble will be with the two French grognards, two sil- ly old fools with about a hundred years’ service between them, and four Englishmen—stubborn muilish creatures, who can entertain only one idea at a time. Yes, we shall have trouble with them.” “On the contrary, my dear Ser- geant-Major,” replied Major Napo- leon Riccoll, as he rose to his feet. “It is they who will have trouble jwith us.” ' Bugles { The stirring notes of the rousing call have such an effecty upon the post, as does the fall of a great rock into the quiet tarn. To the legionnaires it is the sig- nal for departure, and man, par- ticularly the type of man who chooses the profession of soldier- ing, loves departure. “Here we are, thank God,” says tory in the Natatorium Hall in that city. he upon arrival. “Let's go somewhere else,” hel soon adds. 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