The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 25, 1933, Page 4

e s KR Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY ublished every evening _except Streets, Juneau, Alasks. PRESIDENT AND EDITOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER Py Sunday by _the | EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. per_month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, In_advance, $12.00 $6.00; one month, in advance, b1.25 In the delivery of their paperh Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class Oslivered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.28 ; six months, In advance, Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. P MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press ls exclusively entitlod to for republication of all news dispa ' tr not atherwise credited in this i local news published b CIRCULATION GUARANTEE OF ANY OTHER ALASKA THAN THAT INCLUDING ALAS So often Advici the announcement in Pre nt Roosevelt road and trail construction. and In ments for Road Commission’s appropriations reduced. to augment the ranks of the unemployed. while projects upon which public funds can to point out many such. time, too, are Commissioner Charles H. Flory on this matter and can be dependcd on to give Delegate all possible assistance. relief progham” is” a. hdppy open, an augur¥, believe, of the purpose of President Roosevelt to this Territory upon an equal footing with States generally. not be written for-a long time. There was no time for orient himself. I 5 imperative. heading tory,” Tucker, Washington the N x World-Telegram, has t fashion how President Roost its head Made pondent Ui he 'Seven 1. given A 411 s article, in part, said: today is living under a partial lic orship as a result of seven made history. i A new President has apparently satisfied 4 a greal people’s hunger—their need—for ac- ! tion and leadership. i And America’ seems status. A groping populace has gladly accepted the iron decrees which Franklin D. Roose- velt has flung against two hitherto im- pregnable institutions — billion-dollar banks and billion-dollar expenditures for veterans for non-service-connected disabilities. A people longing for action—and kind of action—has responded to the President’s bold strokes, regardless of party affiliation. Union League Republicans have telegraphed him they are behind him with their voice and votes. A still resentful wing of his own rallied around him. ful friends of Herbert Hoover are serving under him though some of his finan- cial moves do violence to their conservative convictions. Foreign diplomats, some ac- customed to another sort of dictatorship, praise him and send laudatory notes of his accomplishments to their Chancellors. His predecessor, sitting alone in a lofty hotel room in New York, echoes his demands with pleas that the nation abide by them. Wilsonian = devotees acknowledge that their great hero showed no such vigor or command of men and measures as the erstwhile subordinate of the War President exhibits. Ironically, his fiercest opposition has come from within his own party. .Some oppose him out of honest fear and dislike of dictatorial action even though it be taken within constitutional provisions for an emer- gency. Some contend that his original de- claration of a national bank holiday was unconstitutional in that the war-time statute he dug up had been repealed. Others raise their voice in caucus and on the floor simply out of Congressional cowardice in the face of a supposed 4,000,000 veterans' vote. But neither group can stand up against the legion of legislative and popular sup- porters his seven days that made history have recruited. It is the most striking demonstration “of what a President can do the nation has seen in years. It has cast many old-fashioned political theories the discard. It has taught that a to like the new SRS VRS ‘redited to s program for emergency relie! cular waterways improve- Instead of relieving current unemploymem‘ in Alaska, the Federal Government did as much| ts private employers, under stress of abnormal times, | There need be no difficulty in finding worth- properly expended. Delegate Dimond is in position In Washington at this the Department, of Agriculture, and B. F. Heintzle- | man, Assistant Regional Forester. Both of them are |than that of England. specially equipped to advise their own Department he inclusion of Alaska in the Administration’s SEVEN DAYS THAT MADE HISTORY. | the Legislator can laugh at the organized crowd after a decade in which selfish lobbies have dominated Congress. It has shown that a President may smile and smile and smile— and be a leader. From these seven days there has emerged a new Roosevelt. It is due largely to the national response to his words and deeds. Even had he been weak and vacillating when he entered the White House only ten days ago, circumstances combined to force him to be strong. He was strong, clearly, but his strength has been redoubled by the courage and faith of a people who wanted those qualities more than any other to be shown by the President. An almost pathetic, childlike eagerness and trust in him, reflected most vividly in the faces raised to his during his recent travels about the Southern countryside, have been satisfied so far. Every mail reaching the White Housz testified to the happy response to his seven- day experiment with Presidential power and a people's banks, The editorials clipped by thousands in the basement of the Execu- tive offices contain not a single disordant note in the symphony of acclaim. Newspapers, the United States Attorney General has ruled, may accept beer “ads” How abou! a little real beer, too, Mr. Cummings? March Vagaries. (New York Times.) Lest the temperamental behavior of Spring dis- may, it is well to remember that the season “in our in recent years have the two Wwords middle of June.” “Except Alaska” crept into Congressional ennct-.m their serenity and luster, as well as rude winds, ments, that it is a welcome change to see “Includ-[snow, sleet and rains that chill. ing Alaska” borne in national legislative programs. from Washington a few days ago carried |States. that Alaska has been included of the country, and we shall have to put up with " 1 of the relief legislation of 1931 and 1932, when Congress made available millions of dollars|iye gip» for construction of public highways to take cnre’g-mph harp, prophesy it.” of the unemployed in the States, not only was rose and pale gold” of a February evening, “heard Alaska not included, but the normal road anob-:the first hum and preparation of awakening Spring, d States Bureau of Public very faint, whether in the earth or roots or starting and trails, and the Alaskl‘insects I know not, but it was audible.” were radically graceless forager, the crow, is not regarded as a be | of the we put 3 the ! | Perhaps the real story of the dramatic flrsti week of President Roosevelt's Administration may for ld in smking‘El 1t met that demand, and of the countrywide reception his action was'y it would be an insult to the country’s taxpayers |my waistcoat.” northern climate,” to quote Burroughs, “may fairly be said to extend from the middle of March to the It gives us days like a benediction North of the sub- tropical belt Spring has her bitter moods in all the She is now at the doorstep in this part her whims until uniform fair weather comes in, usually with June. Our interpreters of nature feel the approach of Spring before the rest of us do. Thoreau, late in February, was reminded of it, “by the quality of The cock-crowing, and even the “tele- Whitman, “in the soft That herald of Spring, but he broadcasts it by his cheerful, robust and defiant caw in mid-March. He knows the turn of the season and revels in its promise. Our American Spring is often compared to its \disadvantage with the English. But William Cob- bett, farming on Long Island in 1818, wrote in his diary on March 21: “The day like a fine May- day in England. I am writing without fire, and in In that year there were many such days in March, and he hailed the climate as better It is not easy to avoid quoting Thoreau when Spring is tapping on the door. He had “an appointment with Spring,” no matter what the weather was. On March 22, 1840: When I bask in the sun on the shores of Walden Pond, by this heat and this rustle, I am absolved from all obligations to the past. The council of nations may reconsider their votes. The grating of a pebble an- nuls them. None Too Soon. (New York World-Telegram.) No more convivial dinner and supper parties at No incoming taxpayers' expense for disguised Prohibition sleuths President has ever faced just the same sort of erisis snooping for evidence against restaurant keepers. that he did when he assumed office on March 4. No more pay for petty informers. The Nation’s financial edifice was crashing about tapping. the new Chief prompt and Shows unwonted wisdom and initiative, we think, No more wire-~ Federal Prohibition Director Amos W. Woodcock in putting into immediate effect the restrictions His- °n enforcement which Congress dated for July 1 next. With the States already in action to repeal the ghteenth Amendment, with Speaker-designate Rainey seeing a possibility of legalized beer by April to go on sqauandering more of their money on a futile kind of enforcement method that has all along outraged the public’s sense of decency and fairness. |We note that even Colonel Woodcock now admits “there ‘were undoubtedly abuses in respect to the purchase and consumption of intoxicating liquor” under the system that degraded Prohibition agents to the level of provocateurs and betrayers. From now on enforcement will concentrate on the sources of liquor and leave the speakeasies to local authorities. Local police are, of course, bound to maintain law and order. That should be possible without either extravagant raiding gestures or in- creased demoralization of the police. In fact, the new Federal policy may well start a decline in the “shakedowns,” protection demands and systematized graft that have been among the worst evils of the Prohibition era. Any confusion in the present enforcement situa- tion only adds to the argument for speed in modify- ing the.Volstead Act and securing complete repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. Taxpayers have burdens enough without the added cost of pretend- ing to enforce a doomed law. Divorce Slump. (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) Records of the Chicago divorce courts show that fewer people get divorces in time of depression than in time of prosperity. During the first nine months of 1932, the divorces granted in Chicago reached a total of 13 per cent below that recorded for the same period of 1931. This seems to be one of those little by-produets of the depression that can give rise to a good deal of speculation. Why should divorces fall off in bad times? Is it because people are less will- ing to cut loose from an -established home where there is, whatever the drawbacks, at least a cer- tainty of food and shelter? Is it because the mere [cost of a divorce is more than a lot of would-be divorcees can afford? Or is it, perhaps, because some of the marital difficulties that seem to loom so large in ordinary times fade into insignificance when real troubles arise? You can buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange now for $»0,000. And have a “Do Not Disturb” sign, two pillows and an extra blanket thrown in—(New York Sun.) Americanism—Raiding the gambling house where a few loafers lose their easy money; still tolerating the gambling system . that wrecked the nation.— (Akron Beacon-Journal,) VALI SYNOPSIS: As Major Na- poleon Riccoli of the Foreign Legion plots treachery to France in the desert near the Citadel ¢f Mekazzen, Margaret Maligny surveys the sceme in the Citadel itself. She has married Jules Maligni, her father’s ward, without leving him. They have gone to Me- kazzen, where Jules' father is aid tc the Kaid, on a visit. The visit lengthens precarious- ly; Jules “goes native” with a vengeance. Margaret feels her- self surrounded by sinister in- fluences, and the least of them ycung Raisul, son of the Kaid. CHAPTER 14. THE BACKGROUND Sighing angrily—the anger at herself—Margaret glanced at the man who sat beside her husband. Raisul. First introduced to her at Oxford as “Mr. Russell.” Introduced to her that day at Jack’s luncheon party in Jack’s rooms at St. Just; that day when Otho was so silly and stand-offish and unlike him- self—as though for the first time in his life he wished her to re- member that he was Sir Otho Mandeville-Belleme and not - her childhood’s darling and hero. “The of Big Aretic. . . When she had greeted him as “dear old ‘Tho,” he had called her Miss Maykings instead of Muggie or some other pet name of the days when he approved her as a congenial playmate and comrade, a good chap. Yes, that was the day on which “Mr. Russell” had first met her. It was also the day before'that on which he had declared his un- dying passion for her. ‘The amazing creature. He had never taken his eyes from her face throughout that lunch; had inquir- ed at which hotel she and her fa- ther were staying, had immediate- ly transferred himself from his own hotel to thei stared at he unwaveringly at tea-time, at din- ner-time, at the boxing match which followed; at breakfast-time next morning, and then, catehing her alone in the lounge, had laid his heart and fortune at her‘feet and demanded her hand in réturn. How she and Dad had laughed, and how Jack and Jules and Mo- ther had laughed, about it. “Mr. Russell,” otherwise the Kaid Raisul Abd'allah Karim, son and heir to: the great Abd'allah Karim, the most power- ful man in Morocco. greater than the Sultan himsell and aplé to defy more tnan two or thtee European powers when he could not play other. 3 “Mr. Russell,” date distinguished alumnus of the Paris Sorbonne, full-blooded Moor who spoke Eng- lish, French and Spanish as per- fectly as he did his native Ara- bic. Strange that the true pure-bred Moor, a princely descendant of a hundred princes, warriors, corsairs, leaders and rulers or armies and of fleets, should be the one who sat there in a chair of European origin and dressed precisely as he would have been at a bachelor din- ner-party in Mayfair—strange that it should be he rather than Jules ‘Maligni of Eton and Oxford. Did he, with his subtle clever~ ness, wear that dinner-jacket, black tie, those black silk socks and patent shoes because he guessed or intuitively knew that she must hate to see her husband with his bare feet stuck into Arab slippers, squatting there in native dress? Strange that the Etonian Oxonian Englishman should dress and squat like a native while the real Moor should dress, look and behave like an English gentleman. Yes, almost certainly it was cal- culated, for Raisul did nothing without a reason and a motive, them one against the For how long would he “behave like an English gentleman” here in Morocco? Had she been fan- cying things or was he going to make himself a nuisance, and ‘if so would be be very difficult to manage? Suddenly Raisul, who had begn industriously picking a flower to pieces, looked up, opened wide his great dark eyes, gazed into hers and, as though reading her own thoughts, smiled with a flash of brillian teeth. © Not a friendly brilliant teeth..Nota friendly smile sardonie, sarcastic, enig- matic. Ignoring him, - Margaret's glanee traveled on and rested for a mo- ment upon the fat, jolly, evil and cruelgface of his father, the Kaid Haroun Abd'allah Karim. Watch- ing him as he sat chuckling and whispering with Zainub, his wife, whose lively sallies evidently pleas- ed him mueh, Margaret found it almost impossible to believe the tales of his appalling cruelty, the tales that her husband's mother, the Kaid's own half-sister, had told her—as interesting anecdotes and family gossip. Amazing to think that that mid- dle-aged gentleman sitting Yhem.l enjoying his Turkish cizarette coffee, was a human mcuster’.mg brute who had always deffohted not merely in sawize ‘war Lyt in its aftermath of slaugiiter and ae- tual torture. ¢ And yet why wonder at this l(. by Percival Christopher Wren -nr:fd‘gén- Kaid Hagoun | ANT DusT as one was taught, heredity and nvironment make the man? What else should this descendant of pi- rates, bandits, brigands and raid- ers be, living as he did in this robbers’ stronghold, dominating a |wild land known as “The Coun- try of the Gun” because it pro- duced nothing else but the gun and its people lived and died by the gun? | ‘Was there as much difference |batween this cruel blood-stained mediaeval baron and his twentieth century son as there was between their respective dress? Was therc as untamed and unchanged a sav- age Moor in Raisul's Savile-Row dinner-kit as there was in Har- oun’s silken garments? Why on earth had she been such a fool as to come into this horri- ble country among these incrediblc people, into this fantastically im- possible, fantastically real Moorist life that they led today as they led it two and three hundred and for all she knew, five hundred and a thousand years ago? Margaret had thought it a sim- ply splendid idea and a unique ,opportunity of seeing—not as thc tourist - sees it—a uniquely inter- jesting country. And there, awaiting her arrival 1had been Raisul, a little too in- |sistent on the fact that they werc |now cousins and he endowed witl cousinly priviloges. Had the naia any influence anc power over his son, or did he love |{him with too besotted a devotior |{to thwart or cross him in anything | whatsoever? | According tc Jules' mother, E {Isa Beth el Ain, ti: child hac {ruled the man from babyhcod anc {for from ever denying him any- thing, the Kaid had turned his murderous wrath upon any man woman, child or beast that hac jever refused, thwarted, hindered ‘or angered the boy. i Had he not stabbed with his ow: |hand the favorite horse from whick \Raisul, as a child, had fallen? Hac ihe not consented to the death o his own nephew, Jules, because of Raisul's mother’s bare suggestior Ithat Jules might grow up to be an enemy and a usurper? No probably the Kaid's influence ove {Raisul was nil while that of Raisu over the Kaid was paramount. From the Kaid, Margaret glanc ed ai his wife, the once lovel | Zaiub, who, according to EI Ise {Beth el Ain, been reputed th loveliest woman in Moroceo, the idesired of ihe Sultan himself—the Ltocratic all-powerful Sultar jwhom the Kaid had first defiec land then defeated. | Evidently a woman of character. forcefulness and determination, a: proved by the one fact alone tha! she had retained her power and influence over her ferocious, auto- cratic and untrammelled husband Evidently too, a woman of fas. cination and charm, in that the Kaid apparently enjoyed her so- ciety today as he had done 2( years ago. What was the secret of her pow- ed that she should retain and according to El Isa Beth el Ain augment and strengthen it, ever as she changed from lively girl tc fat old woman. For a Moorisk woman in her forties is old. Probably she and the Kaid were “two minds with but a single thought” on most subjects, and he admired her ruthlessness and strength as much as he had once admired her beauty. What a pity one could not talk to her, get her point of view, at- titude and outlook on life and current events—if talk she would, to a hatred and despised outsider, Watching her as she sat with uncovered face, Margaret thought of an aged Lucrezia Borgia, a Cleopatra in middle-life, of Cath- erine de Medici and Catherine of Russia. Of such was the Lady Zainub, wife of Abd’allah Karim and mother of Raisul. And that equally, if differently, amazing woman who sat next to her, the Lady El Isa Beth el Ain, Jules’ mother, half-sister of the Kaid. How could she have found life bearable and contrived to live it beneath the same roof, however vast, as the woman who had tried to kill her baby, the little Jules, and who had put the child's life in such danger that she, the child’s mother, had sent it away, with lit- —_— I i l 3 | Territory. Qur cu appreciate our wi ity to assist them i sistent with safe and sound banking. | | I / PROGRESS Established in 1891 this bank has continuously since that time assisted in the upbuilding of this city and The B. M. Behrends Bank 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire ——— March 25, 1913 The people of Juneau took the first steps toward securing a mod- ern fireproof school building. The plan acted upon was one prepared posed that the citizens of Juneau pledge their credit to a bank or banks, or to anyone else that would lend the money that would be re- quired in addition to ‘that which would accrue to the school fund from other sources. This plan was urged because the law forbade the School Board or City Council to create an indebtedness. Igloo’ No. 6, Pioneers of Alaska, was to be installed by Frank A: Aldrich, installing officer-at-large, at the Odd Fellows’ Hall. President Martin of the Pioneers of '87 called + meeting of that soclety for thel same time and same place to assist the organization of the Igloo. Marshal H. L. Faulkner left on the steamer Jefferson to take a pris- oner to Skagway. E. C. Jameson accompanied him as guard. When Mayor Bishop’s gavel fell at the appointed hour at the mass meeting called for the purpose of aominating officers for the new City Council and one for member >f the School Board, a large list )f names had been presented. For he City Council—F. Wolland, H. A. Bishop, J. M. Miller, C. W. Frejs, John Peterson, J. W. Bell, Charies| Zarter, Chris Krough, Fred Steven- son, H. P. Harrison, J. B. Marshall, William Geddes, Gust Studebaker, Robert D. Hurley, Charles Naghel, I. C. Hur'bntt, and Lloyd G. Hill, “ere nominated. For the School 3oard — W. E. Nowell and B. L. Thane. The names of A. D. Back, i. Valentine, John Reck, Charles dooker and Sim Freiman were oresented but each declined to be candidate. e ———————————— et e e { The U. 8. Coast Guard cutter arived in Port Towsend. The Socialists nominated a city dcket at a mass meeting of the organization held and the following| vere nomined for City Council- nen — Charles Heising, Grafton Joleman, Oscar Harri, John F. Sreene, Charles Oja and Joha Volaud. le hope of seeing it again, (Copyright, 1932, F. A. Stokes Co.) The Lady El Isa Beth el Ain asks herself a question, Mon- day. - e NOTICE Car licenses are overdue and must be on car or will be pen- alized. GEORGE GETCHELL. —adv. Chief of Police. Promote Prosperity With Print- 1's Ink! Spring Check-Up e——————————————C e et P Have your car checked after the wear and tear of winter driving. 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