The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 27, 1933, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1933. Dail y Alaskd Empire N1 EDITOR MANAGER JOHU® W TROY . - PRESIDEN ROBERT W. BENDER GENEKAI Fablished every evening except Sunday by the| EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streeta Juneau, Alaska Ente the Poat Office in Juneau as Second Class aatter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Mrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per _month. wtage paid, at the following rates: . advance, $12.00; six months, In advance, onth, in advance, §1.26. | b «rx will confer a favor if they will promptly ity Rusiness Office of any faflure or irregulari ery of their papert for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. iephion VEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. ssociated Press 18 exclusively entitled to the republication of all news dispatches credited to of otherwise credited In this paper and also the ews publisl herein. LASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER STuAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION THE PRESIDENT AND THE NEWS. It is wholly in keeping with President Roosevelt's policy of taking the public of the Nation into his confidence that he should follow the same procedure in his informal press . conferences, thus rever the practice followed by recent Chief Executiv! ‘When, recently, he met the Washington newsmen for the first time after taking office, Mr. Roosevelt spared the time to meet each of them personally, and then answered their direct questions orally. This is a great change from the ruling custom. Other Presidents have insisted on typewritten ques- tions, and then have answered noncommittally those they wanted to answer, ignoring the remainder. Some of them virtually abandoned press conferences entirely, leaving to their secretaries the business of handing out prepared statements. The new practice is also in keeping with the President’s genial and frank personality. It is calculated not only to win the friendship of the newspaper men but to bring honest dealings with both the press and public. At a time like this the utmost candor and simplicity at the White House is needed. Only by taking the people into its con- fidence, telling them the truth can the new Admin- istration expect to continue the restoration of general confidence that has becen one of the most noted achievements of President Roosevelt. DI THE PUBLIC'S It is the duty of the public ok lo its own inte Many men are in pu life and many « not because’ they: rep: §cpt o) sidnd for hich” their ' judgmenis & consciences .use of personal interest, prejudice, . farmer, a laborer, a business man or may be acutely aware of all may seem intimately to affect st. He seldom envisages activity r broad scale. sts are interrelated. How are we af- fected by rccent or threatened legislation? How many ¢ss or questionable laws have recently been pourcd in and emptied from legislative hoppers? What about taxes and expenditures—the weakness and inefficiency manifest with their proper keeping | and regulation? What of the multiple principle thie partisan commission principle? If things go wrong, if the country finds itself confused, harried by mounting debt, by economic trevail, disheartened by business conditions, sub- merged by amateurish or radical proposals for relief, it must be largely the fault of the public. The general public must be held responsible for the character of its chosen representatives in politics. There are signs of an awakening on the part of the public to its interest in the administration of government. Never before have the taxpayers brought such strenuous pressure on their representatives. There is hope that the public is learning to exercise its rightful powers of democracy. NICKEL BEER HELD PROFITABLE. Beer at a price of five cents a glass and eight to 10 cents a bottle insures ample profit for all concerned in brewing the beverage as well as provid- ing for the Federal tax, according to a survey made in co-operation with the United States Brewers Association. The beer-making capacity of the United States at present is put at 25,000,000 barrels annually. The available brewing capacity, indicated by the survey, “compares with approximately 65,000,000 bar- rels actually consumed in 1918 after many of the States had already gone dry.” In 1914, 66,000,000 barrels were consumed and the Federal tax, then $1 pér barrel, amounting to $67,081,000. Now $5 per barrel is the aim of the budgeteers. Thus, if no more than the available capacity is brewed during the first year, the Federal tax will gross $125,000,000. On the subject of likely prices, which is, of course, of vital interest to the consuming public, the survey said: It is estimated that the cost of brewing thirty-one gallons of beer at present costs would be around $4. Adding the Federal tax of $5 would bring this cost to $9. A price to restaurants and hotels of $15 would allow ample profit to the retailer for a 5-cent glass of beer and allow the brewery a good profit. Bottling, capping, labeling and pasteuriz- ing the beer in thirteen and one-half cases of twenty-four bottles each, the cost a case would be about 52 cents. Adding 32 cents a case for Federal taxes as above, Lrinzs the price to 90 cents a case. The brewer should, therefore, be’ able to sell his production at a substantial profit and yet have beer retail at 8 to 10 cents a bottle. Representative brewers consulted estimate the face of intense competition. That com- petition does not exist today. It further might be mentioned that this industry is now protected by a dollar a gallon tax on any imported malt beverage, this being part of last summer’s revenue bill. State, county and municipal taxes are sure to be assessed against beer. They, however, should be kept |within reason. If they are sufficiently heavy to |boost the price higher than the pre-Prohibition | prices, the bootlegger will continue to operate. Low | taxes mean low consumer prices which are essential {to big sales. Experts say the 3.2 per cent article {will be as good as the pre-war beverage. Keep the | taxes down. Keep the retail prices down. That is ithe way to kill the bootleg industry and to promote (real temperance by encouraging the people to drink beer instead of hard liquor. i Everyone a Salesman. (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) Considerable publicity ‘was recently given am announcement made by one of the country's large insurance firms ‘setting forth that various business concerns have profitably made salesmen of their watchmen, office boys, clerks, bookkeepers and others. Such sales effort is recompensed by bonuses and commissions. Sales are declared to have been “stepped up” through operation of the plan of mak- ing “everyone a salesman.” All connected with a business organization should do everything possible to bring business to the firm }(mz, ffords them employment. To a certain extent everyone should be a salesman but that certain extent has its limitations. We know some very fsnrnm«lul business executives that might hesitate quite noticeably before letting the watchman or the office boy “muddy up the waters” with “prospects.” |Those men entertain the thought that salesman-| ship is somewhat of an art. They have paid good | aries for many years to good salesmen. They |have been shrewd enough to ascertain just what | sales effort costs their organization and just what business has accrued as the result of costs in- ‘volved. . | Selling is one of the most essential factors in ibusiness and requires a high order of intelligence. (A business organization is much like a regiment! Eon the march in the “zone” of activity. Pointers jand flankers are sent far in advance, out on the (flanks and to the rear, to contact any opposing Iforce. The colonel would not. put more contact ‘tx‘oops out than were required. Every man has his lplacc and definite work to perform. The same ap- "plies in a well organized business firm. Those 1who are the most expert in salesmanship contact !the trade. ! | Business is like football also. Each man has his| job assigned him, and it would mean disaster in football if all the backfield men reached for the ball, passed by the center, at once. { Making salesmen of everyone in the organiza- 'tion is all right within definite limitations, if“ efforts do not overlap, and amateurs are thoroughly coached in their work. Some of our experienced salesmen grin knowingly when discussing the plan,| and apparently worry very little about the new | opposition. The head of a firm might make a tenth-rate salesman and spoil a good watchman or office boy. A bookkeeper might step into the field and close a sale for a dozen toothbrush a baby buggy, or a key of nails, but there will| always be heads of firms who would prefer an ex-| perienced salesman to contact a prospect for a dozen | motor trucks, a $50,000 life Insurance policy or the| sale of a valuable piece of real estate. In the fore- going statement we are not trying to be sarcaslic,i but are simply attempting to suggest that “mak- ing salesmen of everyone” has decidedly definite limitations. It seems that the wish is father to the thought | with those business firm heads who would have office boys and watchmen afford their sales man- agers- a first class “showing up.” The idea is not altogether new and somehow appears to lack some- thing which we cannot, at the moment, call by name. sa | All As One. (New York Times.) | Rear Admiral Byrd has been at the two points 'on the earth where all lines of longitude converge, |where there is no latitude, where North suddenly be- |comes South, or where South becomes North, and !where there is neither East nor West. He has again |found such an ideal region this side of thé two |Poles. Lines of political, social, economie, religious iinterest that are wont to define differences of view {have converged in a national unity of support for ‘the President in meeting the emergency which con- fronted him on taking office. Under the chair- manship of Admiral Byrd, who undertook this new and patriotic expedition, a coalition committee rep- resentative of different groups and faiths—officers of labor, farm and business organizations, educational and religious leaders and other citizens—has invoked and received the unanimous favorable response of the Governors of the States. They have promptly |sent proclamations to their people, summoning their moral support, which should in turn find its reflec- tion in Congressional action. These will be heard by Percival SYNOPSIS: Margaret Malig- ni, an English girl, has jilted Othe Belleme for Jules Malig- ni, scn of Pedro Maligni, busi- ness agent for the Kaid of Mckazzen. Otho’s Commander, Major Napoleon Riccoli of the Foreign Legion, plots treach- cry to France in the desert near Mekazzen; Margaret, on a visit to Mckazzen with Jules sees her husband grow stead- ily more Moorish and more drunken, as Raisul, son of the Kaid, grows steadily more at- tentive to her. Margaret cen- siders the tragic situation of Jules’ mother, El Isa Beth el Ain, Chapter 15 TRAGIC DAUGHTER What a thrilling tale El Isa Beth el Ain had told Margaret, in her curious English interspersed with French phrases and Spanish and Arab words, about the faithful slave-woman and her brother Has- san el Miskeen, who had taken th child Jules from Mekazzen to Tan- gier, and handed him over to his father, Pedro Maligni. Had they been less faithful or less fortunate in their journey; she, Margaret, would not be sitting there in the castle of Mekazzen at that moment. For Senor Pedro Maligni would not have been able to hand the boy over to his friends Doctor and Mrs. Maykings, heér par- ents to take home to England with ! them. ‘What ghastly lives these native | ‘women led, even those of the rul- ing classes. ine this poor Lady El Isa Beth el Ain. Fancy seeing one’s .adored husband two or three times a year, and one’s adored child once in two or three years—and thaf, aft- er a separation in which he had changed from a child to a youth. How had she refrained from ki ing this Zainub who hLad kil happiness? Doubtless her descent would have something do with it. terrible Abd'allah Karim. Does not the Koran say that women, camels, and cattle are Al- lah’s gifts to men? And there were those twe wom- en sitting side by side, in appar- ent amity and peace, with all.that behind them; sitting like two Eup- opean sisters-in-law at a garden- party on the rectory lawn. But, after all, their mutual atfi- tude was but an exaggeration of that of Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Jones when the former says of the latter: “Here comes that appalling eat. How I do loath the woman,”’and, he to rising, kisses her fondly upon the! cheek . . . Poor El Isa Beth el Ain, tragic daughter of a tragic mother, with her thin lined face a record of .a life-time of suffering and sorrow. How pathetically happy she was in this brief interlude, this rare ex- perience of having both her hus- band and her son. Margaret glanced at Senor Pedro Maligni, fat, sallow and—no, she must be strictly just if she couldn’t be generous—not greasy. He didn’t VALIANT DustT Something of a hero- | That and fear of the| Christopher Wren 1{1«:‘:‘&{11' lrrom the Lady El Isa Beth el Ain, or from her child. | The woman had been an incar- nate jealousy in those days, and it |was a marvel that she had not succeeded in one of her many at- ‘wmpts to kill both her and the child Jules. |' And here was Jules returned, child grown into a man, and bring- ing to see his mother, the English girl, his wife. Her husband, her son, and h-t- self, together under the same roof ~—the roof beneath which she and Pedro had spent their honeymoon, and Jules had been born. Why had Jules brought this Eng- lish girl? | As she had done so many thou- |sand times before, the Lady El Isa Beth el Ain stood still as a statue, | looking, with unseeing eyes, across the desert plain which—three hun- | dred feet below the little stone bal- cony that clung like a swallow's nest to the wall of this great castle built upon the edge of a great rock—stretched shimmering to the far horizon. Why had he brought this pink- |and-white, beautiful English girl, who so reminded her of her own mother, Elizabeth Elaine Torson? Could not Jules have come to |see his mother—the mother who ihad cut her very life in halves to |save him, and who had so yearned /for him all these years—without bringing another woman with him? Why bring her here at all, in any case? But doubtless young, headstrong llove would account for that. But had he told the girl every- thing? Did she know why he was here? { How much had Jules told the girl {of Pedro’s business? And was she 1((: be trusted? Was she such a one jas would deny herself, suffer; give {up everything; run every risk; in- 20 YEARS AGO it 3— From The Empire MARCH 27, 1913 Mr. Ralph E. Robertson and Miss Caroline Benning Green, daughter of Mrs. Henry Duncan Green, of Washington, D. C., were married |the night of March 26, the cere- mony taking place at the Gover- nor’s house where Mrs. Robertson had spent the winter as vne house guest of Governor and Mrs. Walter JE. Clark. The ceremony was per- formed by the Rev. George E. Renison, rector of Holy Trinity Cathedral. ‘Mrs. Herbert L. Faulk- ner was matron of honor and Mr. John F. Mullen was best man. The bride was given away by Governor Clark. There were about 125 guests. The ceremony was performed at the north end of the music room, |which was decorated with smilax, | Easter lilies and greens. An orches- tra in the main hall played the wedding march from Lohengrin during the bridal procession and Mendelsohn’s Spring Song during the ceremony. The bride was gowned in white satin and old lace with veil and orange blossoms, and ithe matron of honor in apricot { charmeuse. Mrs. William Britt and her son Jacob Britt were visiting in Skag- way. The Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Alaska took active steps to aid the suffering people of the tornado stricken middle West- ern states by naming a joint com- mittee to communicate with every town in Alaska to secure contribu- tions. Earle Jameson was a round-trip passenger to Skagway on the Jef- ferson. Representative Arthur G. Shoup added a touch of historical color trigue and plot and lie and kill; [to the discussion that preceded the in the interests of her lord andipassage of the Millard legal holi- for Pedro? And suppose the girl knew noth- |ing at all, and were merely Jules' doll? What would she do, as real- ization dawned upon her that the |date of her return to England—in- deed, her return to England at all —was vague and problematical. A thousand pities that the boy |should complicate matters and add to his difficulties, not only by mar- rying this girl, but by bringing her with him. And did he quite—or Pedro either Raisul? She thought not. She feared not. That young Raisul, if her opin- jlon were worth anything—and it certainly ought to be worth some- thing on that subject—was a young devil, if indeed, he were not the Devil himself, incarnate. She might be an old woman (of forty!) who had practically lived her life in the castle of Mekazzen, but shé knew what she knew, and if her knowl- edge were not wide, it was deep; and one of the things she knew was the character, intelligence, the mode of thought, and future line of conduct, of these peop®™ among look greasy at all, but he most cer-!whom she had lived and in whose tainly looked what he was, distinet- ly cosmopolitan, not to say cross- bred. She must conquer this unreason- ing distrust of Senor Pedro Ma- ligni, and accept his paternal kiss with . . . with . . .2 'Well, endeavor to “suffer them gladly,” or pretend ) 0. At the moment he was obviously more interested in the girl Sara than in herself or his wife who watched him so hungrily, much as Sara watched Jules. What a family circle! Did ever an English girl drop straight into a stranger onme, or, indeed, into a stranger place? . . The Lady El Isa Beth el Ain paced the grim stone cell that was her boudoir like a caged tigress, as she had done almost daily for more . in churches today across the continent. Admiral Byrd has earned the right to speak to America and to make this appeal, for he has not only carried its flag from Pole to Pole but in a |gallant adventure even more hazardous to the spirit has traveled the length and breadth of this country speaking in behalf of economy in government. This public service in the face of fierce opposition gives promise of practical benefits to the people of the United States as a whole beyond anything that he has achieved in fighting the cold, the wind, the snow and ice of Antarctica. But as he said in his national appeal immediately after the President's message to Congress, it is not enough to act in unison merely in a time of emotion. This is not a one-day flight as was his over the North Pole. It is rather ‘like his expedition to the other Pole. It will be necessary that united effort continue through the months ahead tiill the long night is over and we see the sun again. Simile for the Day—As busy as a Government payroller measuring the respective hopping capabili- ties of a flea, a bull frog, a non-skid gnat, a squint- eyed goofus bird and a wheezy-voiced weasel.— (Chicago News.) of the publication consists of debates on economy.— (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.) the public bet on South American politics, always took down a heavy kitty for the house.—(Dallas|increasing and important. News.) Perhaps the public lost its zest for technocracy because it threatened to do away with the machine that cuts jigsaw puzzles—(Buffalo Courier-Express.) The cost of printing the Congressional Record|when her ‘baby for the seventy-second Congress was $983,584. Most|and she had been mistress of Me- It seems that the New York banks, in letting|then, before business years than she could count, more years than she wished to remem- ber, In that gaunt room which, volun- tarily, she had made her prison, she had grown from girlhood to middle age, and, for a quarter of a century, had wrestled with devils and fought with beasts; the devils of murder, treachery and vice, the beasts of cruelty, savagery and hate. With amazing courage she.had fought her half-brother for him- self, fought o save him from hygte | had fought for the life of ner! baby against Zainub, his wife | fought against intrigue unc~ for the success of her hn For years, during ihe period of ! Zainub's insane jealousy, she had| ‘asted no food that a faithtul slave | woman had not cooked there in! that room. 4 Life had been hard after the brief delirium of her marriage with Pedro, and the golden days of her motherhood—those glorious days be- fore the coming of Lady Zainub—: had filled her life, kazzen and the Kaid's good angel, her baby, his plaything and his heir. Pedro had come more often | in Europe and Tangier had become so ever- e Yes, those had been hard dags, before Zainub had aged and mel- lowed, and before she had come | to realize that neither she nor J son Raisul had anything to f hands her Iife had precariously been. 2 This Raisul she had watched from babyhood until he had gone away to France, and she knew him for what he was, the cleverest, wicked- est and cruelest Moor of them all, utterly unscrupulous, utterly with- out conscience, and utterly without fear of God or man or beast or devil. He was his father's son in cour- age and cruelty and strength; his mother’s son in force and sub- tlety; and with a cleverness all his own, polished and sharpened and enhanced by education, travel, and experience. Let Jules beware of Raisul, and ‘when the time came for the Kaid to, be gathered to his fathers, let Pedro beware of Raisul. From babyhood his mother, Zai- nub, had poisoned his mind against Jules and Pedro, and though Rai- sul had far outgrown his mother’s narrow teaching, and was out- wardly and apparently the good friend of his cousin Jules, what is engraved upon the mind of the child remains upon the mind of the man. Raisul would remain the good friend of Jules and of Pedro, just ity to assist them sistent with safe and sound banking. The B. M. Behrends Juneau, Alaska 42 Tans paxng sxi}v'né: O ALASKA English ,master, as she herself had done!day bill, which made October 18 a legal holiday in Alaska, by giving a picture of the incident when the American flag was raised for the first time over Alaska. Articles of incorporation of the Alaska Hotel Company, of Juneau, were filed with the Secretary of the Territory. Joseph McDonald, accompanied by his wife and daughter, was a passenger for Juneau from the south on the steamer Humboldt, for that matter—understanc young|due to arrive on March 28. as long as they were useful to him. (Copyright, 1932, F. A. Stokes Co.) Tomorrow the Lady Zainub further poisons the mind of the kaid. e e Advertisements te1l you how much foods, clothing and house- hold needs will cost you before you Spring Check-Up Have your car checked after the wear and tear of winter driving. REASONABLE PRICES Expert Workmen CONNORS Motor Co., C. 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