The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 18, 1933, Page 4

i o e L Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - PRESIDE ROBERT W. BENDER - - GE \T AND EDITOR L MANAGER l‘vml\uhul EMPIF Streets, lay b nd and Juneau, red in the Post Offi SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau per month postage paid n advar 2. month, in will cc siness Off f delivery of tk pa Telephone for Editorial and MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the itches credited to and and Douglas for $1.25 use for republicat f all news it or not othe local news publi rwise credited in this paper also the ANTEED TO BE LARGER THER PUBLICATION "PARTY PLEDGES BEING FULFILLED. For many years there has been such a marked difference between platform pledges made to the people by political parties and actuial performance | that a common simile has come into existence: “As false as a political platform.” Platform planks commonly werz regarded as “bait for suckers” rath-| er than a cere promise of service to come, President Roosevelt seems to be detérmined to| break precedents in this matter, along with his other | equally distinguished smashing of precedents. From the time he flew from Albany to Chicago to receive and accept in person the Democratic nomination, | he has departed in many ways from previous political practices. And on almost every occasion he has deservedly won the plaudits of the country. Since assuming the Presidency, he has supported‘ the party platform and his own campaign pledges| 100 per cent. This course is so unusual that it has created widespread comment, some wondering, and most of it favorable. The first plank of the party platform adopted at Chicago last June declared against “economic | isolation.” The State Department has for weeks| been busy every day in conversations with foreign| envoys looking toward the restoration of trade agree- | ments. More detailed conferences are already in the making on the same subject. The platform called for an “immediate and drastic curtailment of Government expenses” by reorganization and elimination and pledged itself to try to effect a saving of a billion dollars this| year. jarly this month Budget Director Douqlas‘ had made sufficient progress on a plan to predict a saving of about $900,000,000. The party promised direct relief to States where unemployment had crippled local provision. Congress has already passed the Wagner bill authorizing | $500,0000,000, if needed, for this purpose. ‘The farm bill, frankly admitted by the President to be an experiment that may not be successful, has passed the House and is slowly working through the Senate, a fulfilment of Mr. Roosevelt’s promise at Topeka last Fall. | try |vear. ‘=r‘m»s to turn zhn w mk into a real profit-making undertaking. The plan was launched by Philad:l- phia which coined a new word—‘renovizing"—to fit it tarted early in January, in six weeks, pledges - |had been obtained from the citizens for more than the Main | $21,000,000 to be spent during the early Spring months in improvements and repairs to homes and s | business properties in the city. “Renovizing” was first started there two years ago, but its greatest achievements were listed this year. Business men and home owners through ex- —actual betterment to properties they owned, and as an important measure of relief of unemployment. This year, 7,000 canvassers, armed with pledge blanks, advice on how to meet objections and book- ets of suggestions for improvements took the field. No repair job was too small and no improvement project too large for them to list. To guard against a rush of salesmen and contractors, the pledge signers’ names were listed confidentially and a com- |mittee directing the campaign, if requested, gave |them a list of firms from which ‘to solicit bids. Fifty cities in the United States and Canada |have asked the Philadelphia Committee for details |of the campaign, Requests were received from such distant points as Paris, Texas, and Victoria, British Columbia. And interest is spreading even more widely. The Department of Commerce estimates that the | cost of alterations today is some 40 per cent below | prices following the World War. The same authority calculates that 75 per cent of money spent in a community on work of this nature will be expended {in the town, turning over again and again as a contribution to prosperity’s return. Juneau, itself, in ridding the community of the meu-r‘» accumulation of debris and rubbish, might |list an imposing array of projects, for repairs and improvements, that would give many men consider- able work and release money in material sums to local industry and business. It might do worse than this “renovizing.” The Wrong Approach. (Seattle Star.) There should be no more foolish consideration of national legislation limiting working hours to thirty hours per week. Such legislation would not solve unemployment. It would not increase buying power. Humane regu- lation of working hours is a fine, progressive achieve- ment, but attempts to effect economic recovery by |enforcing an arbitrary limitation of working hours |are sure to fail. The only possible way the Government might help the national payroll would be by establishing minimum hourly wages. A man has a right to work as much as he can and as much as he desires. A business has a right to be managed in the most efficient way. One man may want to work nine months in a Another man may want to work hard for fifteen years and then retire. Another man may want to work hard all his life and consume more all his life. Each should have the right to plan according to his own will. wages. Suppose our economic system was remedied to such an extent that an enforced thirty-hour weck would give everyone a reasonably good living. If such progress had been made, would not nearly everyone jump at the chance to work longer and have a higher standard of living, a better automo- bile, a finer home? Clear thought reduces the thirty-hour plan to absurdity. ‘ In the interests of humanity, the Government can ban child labor, sweat shops, and unreasonably long hours. In the interests of protecting the national pay- Protection of security buyers—another platform roll, the Government might act to set a standard plank—has already taken legislative form. Relief of farm mortgages, of small home owners, are also pending before Congress. Utilities and stock exchange regulation are in the making. Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment awaits ac- tion by the States, and legal beer is flowing in all States in which it is not prohibited by State laws. Railroad and banking reorganization lie just ahead. Thus in little more than five weeks, the Presi- dent has taken action on almost every subject of importance covered by the party's platform. He has brought party pledges back in public esteem by making the party’s word 100 per cent good. MAKING THE CLEANUP CAMPAIGN PAY. of wages per hour of work. But the thirty-hour week would be merely useless and futile meddling. Anyway, there’s a lot of oldtimers who see no reason or sense in the Legislature making them sit down to drink beer. up the sign neighborhood still we have Here it is almost time to put bearing the goat to inform the that bock beer day is at hand—and no beer. Japan, having informed the world, including the League of Nations, she is still a friend of peace, proceeds to drop a few more hundred bombs on Chinese territory. Juneau, now in the midst of its annual pnmbup‘ and cleanup campaxgn might follow the example of No grass will grow in the streets the heavy bcer trucks travel over.—(Macon Telegraph.) C()mplete Bath | Room Outfit 5-foot “Standard” Tub (complete with fittings) 17x19 “Standard” Full Apron Basin (complete with fittings) China Tank “Standard” Toilet $49.50 DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME 4th Degree Tests Every suit that enters this store must pass four tests. It must have good style. 2. It must be well made. 3. It must wear long. 4. It must sell fast at a small profit to 1. | RICE& AHLERS Plumbing Heating Sheet Metal * “We tell you in advance what job will cost” H.S. GRAVES The Clothing Man Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes, GO. THE SANITARY GROCERY “The Store That Pleases”PHONES 83 OR 85 perience learned to know its value from two angles There is no economic relief in splitting up’ |ler, a treacherous brute who would by Percival SYNOPSIS: Although .he knows the vicious Raisul has insulted his wife, Margaret, ni will not defend her. Mar- garet tries in every way pos- sible to get away from the Moorish Citadel of Mekazzen, and return to her native Eng- land, without success. At last che remembers Herr Schlacht, the suppesed German agent, dealing with Raisul's father, the Kaid of Mekazzen. She writes him a note. Chapter 31 AN ANSWER COMES One day, squint -eyed Moor unobtrusively handed a letter to Margaret as she crossed the court-yard on her way from El Isa Beth el Ain's apartments to her own. It was written in a somewhat spidery foreign handwriting and ‘was apparently from Herr Schlacht, who, after an absence of some days had returned to the Castle, “Will you walk in the tiled garden at moonrise tonight? Neither Raisul nor your hus- band will be in the castle. ‘When nobody is about go to the doorway that leads up to the corridor in which we talked. I shall be waiting and watch- ing. Trust me and come—do nob be afraid. Your good friend.” shone in Margaret’s heart. Evident- 1y her own note, with its unsigned appeal, “Please help me?"—which had been entrusted to this same dirty little Moor, had reached his master, ©Of course she would trust him VALIANT DUST again and again, Jules Malig- | | sumably a door. Margaret wonder- | a dirtyragged and| Ibe persuaded to give or lend her |a revolver quickly. Once again a feeble ray of hope | Christopher Wren -.fiu cm:- Of course she was afraid. Fright- |ened mearly to death. But what | was it that Otho used to say? “Courage is not being without | fear, young Muggie. It is conquer- | the fear you have got. Where | | there is no fear there is no cour- |age—and no need for it.” | So she must conquer “the fear| 1at she had got.” Here we are” said Herr| | Schlacht, who could apparently see in the dark, halting at length and | knocking a double knock, followed | a single knock and then anoth- er double knock, on what was pre- ed whether he was knocking with a pistol-butt, and whether he could or automatic—if he| ved to be what he professed to a friend. The door was opened by the lit- Arab—as Margaret saw by the | light of the lamp, merely a br bowl of oil and wicks—clad as us- ual in ragged and dirty robes, and a head- that was more sweat- rag than turban. To him, Herr Schlacht spoke in Arabic, and the man departed, aft- er lighting a cheap and ugly tin lantern, the four sides of which were panes of glass of different colors. A useful lamp for signaling, thought the acutely observant Mar- garet, whose mind was working| Please to sit down on the cush- jons, Fraulein—or I should say Frau Maligni. But you look so yeung and beautiful and . . . er, will you have a drink? Tea—and perhaps some cakes?” “No, thank you. You sent me a B R SRR RS } and go; and would not be afraid. Intuitively she felt that this man Schlacht was trustworthy, but what | ebout the squint-eyed Moor? How was she to know that he had not first taken this note straight to Raisul himself, in hope and expec- tion of reward? ‘Who was it had told her to be- ware of squint-eyed people? Why of course, it was Otho, one day in| Big Aftic, when they had been making grimaces at each other, and he had told her not to squint or the wind might change and she'd be “struck like that.” Laughingly he had then remarked that, if that happened, he wouldn't ftrust her any more. B Oh, Otho, Otho! . . . Should she risk it and go? Yes, the note was genuine. How should Raisul know where she and Herr Schlacht had met and talked? Unless, of course, Herr Schlacht was as bad as the rest of them, and for his own ends, was assisting Raisul. ' But no. Somehow she felt sure that Schlacht was trustworthy. He might have his own game to play —undoubtedly he had, of course— but he was not a traitor, a swind-~ do a thing like that. She would trust him and go. erb that she had heard the Senor | Pedro Maligni laughingly quite once or twice to Jules when a squint-eyed serving man had wait- ed on them? “Hope that fellow isn't going to| poison us,” he jested. “‘No hay tuerto bueno’.” That means that no good can come from one who squints. Well, that was rubbish; and certainly there were plenty of people from whom no good could ever come and who did not squint. Raisul for one. Yes. She would risk it. Better al bad end, than no end at all, to this' hideous uncertainty and suspense, ! Herr Schlacht alias Carl von Mit- | tengen was waiting in the black | darkness of the corridor or tunne] . that led from the doorway. As’ Margaret entered from the moon- | lit garden a hand seized hers and a voice whispered: “Have no fear, Frau Maligni, A‘I' right, yes? It is very goot Jjolly f.ne splendid. T will lead.” Easy enough to tell her not w be afraid. But afraid she certainly was. What girl wouldn't be afraiq in such circumstances—the dark- ness, the sinister silence, this stranger who, although always dressed in turban and Moorish slippers, spoke German and brok- en English. Of course she would trust him, thought Margaret. i |to hand - But what was the Spanish prov- “Yes. And you sent me onev—oI} three words. ‘Please help me.’ I wish to help you, and I wish you to help me.” “I want to get away from here to escape, in fact,” said Ma.rg\aret “I have lost hope and faith in my husband’s mother, the Lady El Isal Beth el Ain. Could I possibly get | away rrom he-re alone? I mean without . “No!” excla.lmed Herr Schlacht. “A woman—alone. No man, how- ever brave and hardy, could get away from here alone—unless he knew the only safe way—and knew the country . . . the people . . .the language . . ." “I came here . . .” began Mar- garet. “You were passed on—from hand as it were—under the ‘Protection of the Lance,’ the an- cient Arab system. Wherever you were somebody was watching you whether you knew it or not.” (Copyright, 1932, F. A. Stokes Co.) Margaret, tomorrow, makes a desperate bargain with Herr Schlacht. — e CARD PARTY The Pioneers Auxiliary Friday, April 21st. Good prizes. Admission 50 cents. —adv. e JUNEAU FROCK SHOPPE "lnlcxa but not Expensive” Hoslery and Hate | died here of old age. | struction s z 20 YEARS AGO i From The Empire ——— President Woodrow Wilson sent the name of Robert W. Jennings to the Senate for appointment as United States District Judge in the First Division, Alaska. (in Windham Bay calling on old friends while the Fox was there. Miss Myrtle Parr, principal of the Juneau schools, announced that ! there would be an exhibit of draw- ing, sewing and woodwork in the window of B, M. Behrends store. Jack McLean arrived from the Teslin Country and said that the strike there was yet to be proven. William Geddes, of Juneau, was , A son was born tto Mr. and Mzs. Alex Gair, Douglas. I Mrs. Martin Olsen of Douglas was improving following a serious operation performed by Dr. Simp- {son and Dr. J. P. Mahone. Mrs. Walter Harris of Portland | had arrived in town to visit her sister, Mrs. Fred Garner. Assistant District Attorney R. V. Nye returned to Juneau from San Francisco where he had appeared before the Circuit Court of Appeals in an Indian liquor traffic case. ., ® 0 00090090000 © NORTHWEST NEWS BRIEFS o . OF 25 YEARS AGO . ® 0 000 go oo g0 000 SUNNYSIDE.—Arrangements are being made to open a government experimental station here with H. B. Berg, soil expert at W. S. C, in charge. PORT TOWNSEND.—Dr. Simon B. Conover, U. S. Senator from lorida during reconstruction days SPOKANE.— Eastern capnwhsbl have subscribed to $3,000,000 worth of bonds of the Okanogan Electric Railway, A. M. Dewey said. Con- work from Nighthawk and will begin this summer. Brewster | Smith Electric Co. | | Gastineau Bullding | EVERYTHING | ELECTRICAL | BETTY MAC BEAUTY SHOP | 103 Assembly Apartments PHONE 547 | PROFESSIONAL & Helene W. L. Albrecht | PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics, 307 Goldstein Buiiding Phone Office, 216 r— n DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | DENTISTS Blomgren Bullding PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. = Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST BHms 8 and 9 Valentine Building ! Telephone 176 [ —32 | E) i : S e Dr. J. W. B i JDMSTayne Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg, Office hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. Evenings by appointment Phone 321 5 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am. (0 6 pm. <~ZEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. rhone 276 —f [&--—— e 7 1 [ Dr. Richard Williams DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building, PlLone 481 T £) Robert Simpson Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and | Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground 1 DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL ! Optometrist—Optician I Eyes Examined—Glasses Pitted Room 7, Valentine Bldg. Office Phone 484; Residence Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 l ., Rose A. Andrews—Graduate Nurse ELECTRO THERAPY Cabinet Baths—Massage—Colonic Irrigations Office hours, 11 am. to 5 p.m. Evenings by Appointment Second and Main. Phone 259-1 ring B T P I S HORLUCK’S | PALM BEACH Brick and DANISH Ice Cream ALL FLAVORS Juneau Ice Cream Parlor | {f Reasonable Montily Rates ] GARBAGE HAULED | E. 0. DAVIS | TELEPHONE 584 | ONE SHOVELFUL OF OUR COAL will give as much heat as two of the dirty, slaty kind. That's why you save money by getting your coal from us. If you want coal that will not klink up your stove, will burn down to the fine ash, that will give the most heat pos- sible you should give us your order. WE SPECIALIZE IN FEED D. B. FEMMER PHONE 114 The B. M. Behrends Bank Alaska : Juneau, BANKERS SINCE 1891 Commercial and Savings Resources Over $2,250,000.00 t Hazel James Ferguson TEACHER OF PIANO DUNNING SYSTEM 430 Goldstein Building Telephone 196 Heiw L DR. E. MALIN Licensed Chiropractor and Sanipractic Physician State of Washington Phae 472 JUNEAU ROOMS | Over Piggly Wiggly Store Harry Race DRUGGIST “THE SQUIBB STORE” Any Place in City PHONES 22 and 42 Wt TR IR 7 A JUNEAU-YOUNG | Funeral Parlors ! { | Licensed Funeral Directors N and Embalmers | Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 14 ! o M“_fl LUDWIG NELSON | JEWELER I Watch Regatring Brunswick Agemey i PRONT PEERLESS BREAD Always Good— Fraternal Societies OF Gastineau Channel | B. P. 0. ELKS meet every Wednesday ot | 8 p.m Visiting brothers welcome. L. W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Counch Chambers, Fifth Street. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary burner trnhb. ’ PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 Royal Blue Cabs 25¢ Anywhere in City ST | JUNVAU TRANSFER | COMPANY M. oving and Storage Moves, Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Prompt Delivery of FUEL OIL ALL KINDS OF COAI, PHONE 48 — ) Modiste Bergmann Hotel | PHONE 205 i ° »~ B— THE JuNeau Launpry Franklin Street between Front and Second Streets PHONE 359 | [+ LOOK YOUR BEST | Personal Service Beauty Treatments Donaldine Beauty Parlors Phone 49 RUTH HAYES I T AL S5 ST V5 [ | Meals for Transients Cut Rates I Chicken dinner Sunday, 60c MRS. J. GRUNNING 1 Board by Week or Month | . HOTEL ZYNDA Large Sample Rooms ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. | GARBAGE HAULED | Reasonable Monthly Rates E. 0. DAVIS TELEPHONE 584 i , GENERAL MOTORS l and MAYTAG PRODUCTS W. P. JOHNSON CARL JACOBSON JEWELER WATCH REPAIRING | Opposite !