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

e R e A R Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - PRESIDENT AND EDITOR ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER evening day by _the COMPANY Published _every EMPIRE_PRINTING Strects, Juneau, Ala: except Su Second Entered in the Post Office 1n Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Deilvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per_month. By mail, postage pa e following rates: One year, in adva six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, nce, $1.2 Subsc r a favor if they will promptly notify s Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. * Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 874. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated P: is exclusively entitled to the use for republicat dispatches credited to this paper and also the it or not ot local news ablished herein ION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION ALASKA CIR THAN WHAT THEY SEEK TO DO. Meetings fraught with ' tremendous conseqeunces are opening in Washington where leaders. from England, France and Italy, as well as from many other nations of lesser world rank are gathering in response to invitations from President’ Roosevelt. Just what they have in mind seems to be the creation of international confidence, of international unity of action, and to inspire all of the people of the world with a spirit of co-operaton. One of the clearest statements of the causes that have moved President Roosevelt to take the leadership in bringing the nations of the world to a council table was made the other day by Walter Lippmann, in his column, “Today and Tomorrow.” He wrote: Th2 great intent of the meeting must be plain to anyone who has followed the course of recent events. Ever since the summer of 1931, when the depression developad into an international financial crisis, the whole world has been subjected not merely to the normal liquida- tion of inflated values, but to a vicious and uncontrolled deflation which has been ruin- ing values that by any reasonable standard represent prudent and necessary investment. This uncontrolled deflation has no natural end except universal bankruptey; it has been more completely out of hand and much more nearly universal than any frenzied inflation which the world has witnessed in. modern times. The consequences have been un- employment of fantastic dimensions, destitu- tion on a scale beyond anything known in this era, and the gradual destruction of faith and credit, of social order and communal feeling. It has-long been evident to clear- headed men in all parts of the wofld that no nation could by its own action alone arrest the deflation or insulate itself against its effects. It has been equally evident that no international action could ibly be taken effectively unless preceded and then accompanied by radical measures of domestic reorganization and readjustment. The quar- rel as to whether salvation must be national or international has been an empty argu- ment. For the truth has been that the two approaches to the problem are in- extricably connected. The President has made a fine start on the domestic situation. He has submitted plans for partially curing the unemployment problem that are generally aproved, and restored confidence of - the people in the nation’s ability to right itself. They have placed in Mr. Roosevelt's hands a concen- tration of power that has already worked well. It cannot, however, succesd in restoring the standard that has ‘become typically American until interna- tionaly deflationary forces are checked and similar restorative remedies applied universally and simultan- eously. To apply the philosophy_internationally that has been applied domestically, it is essential to create an international confidence comparable to that now existing at home. Governments cannot do anything of lasting value unless they are supported by their respective peoples. It is the task of the Washing- ton conversations to remove the complex barriers that for the past three years have made world-wide co-operation and world-wide confidence impossible. THE MACON ASCENDS. The new Queen of the Air, the great air-liner Macon, sister of the ill-fated Akron that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean early this month costing the lives of more than 70 officers and men of the United States Army and Navy, has had its first voyage in the element that is to be its home. The making of the maiden trip evidences that the determination of the Government to perfect a lighter-than-air rigid airship has not been turned aside by the loss of the Akron. The “expérimenta- tion will ‘continue. American experts will continue their studies of this branch of aerial navigation. After all, every new development in technical sciences has been marked by the sacrifice in human life and money that has gone into its successful culmination. The railroad and steamship were perfected at' a ghastly cost. The automobile and airplane duplicated this. The pioneers in all these fields were regarded as fools, madmen, whose puny efforts to achieve the impossible, gallant as they may have been, were condemned by their saner, more conservatively minded fellows. This is now true of the development of the lighter-than-air airship. Those who went to death on the Akron were creators of and believers in this type of craft and in the program that had built their own ship| and the Macon, just completed. - The maiden trip of the latter ship was the finest testimonial yst o'fered to those who ‘paid the supreme sacrifice on the Akron, It means that the country still has confidence in their soundness and Main | in which they pioneéred and advanced to a more definite stage. i As in other and earlier fields of invention and |science, whatever happens to the Macon, men will |continue to strive for the goal of perfection in :\'ESSMS of her type. And some day, structural {balance and strength will be made just right, ;pmblems of landing, of handling in high winds, will |vield to insistent man and the prophetic vision of |such men as Admiral Moffett—of great airliners |linking nation to nation and conquering the un- known spots of the globe—will have been realized. Secretary of Treasury Woodin is reported to have had a pair of asbestos pants presented to him by a Western friend. With his nether limbs clothed in them, even the Treasury seat ought not to be too hot a spot for him. Negotiations are reported under way here for the construction of a brewery. Apparently that's our only hope to obtain an adequate supply of that famous and equally scarce 3.2 brew. . Maine was one of the first States to pass a beer bill. Apparently the lawmakers of the Pine Tree 'State have at last decided to vote as they drink. The Lure of the Open Spaces. (The Daily Olympian.) It is a strange thing, the way an artfully-chosen photograph can set the mind roving. Mr. Ordinary Citizen sets out for his job on a spring morning. The early sunshine and the crisp breezz, chilly but carrying a promise of warmer weather a little later on, have already done things to him; made him question, perhaps, the wisdom of a life that keeps him pent up in a town all the time, led him to draw out again that old dream of some day living on a place in the open country. | Then, opening his newspaper, he spots a photo- graph of one of thoss “open country” scenes that |editors like to present once in a while; a picture, (say, of a valley in Western Montana, with tumbling | mountains in the distance and a fringe of trees by a little stream in the foreground. And as he looks at it he suddenly discovers that a town is a poor sort of place for a man to live. The fine new buildings, the busy streets, the lines of factories and railways yards and so on, things which ordinarily seem to him to be matters for a proper local pride—now they have become artificial devices by which he is cut off from contact with his own earth, they are obstacles in his way and he pays for their presence by an unfulfilled longing for the sort of thing of which the photograph speaks. And this, in turn, is apt to set him speculating |about that sparkling new dream which technologists | have been revolving lately. Some of these men have |remarked that the era of the great city is about |over; that in the future all men will live on the doorsill of the open country, with factory units broken up and decentralized, with electric power pulling industrial and rural areas closer and closer | together, so that no worker will any longer be held a prisoner by any town. Now all of that, to be sure, is a long way in the future, and Mr. Ordinary Citizen probably has mo- {ments in which he wouln't care much for it any- way. But a spring morning, a revival of the old, perennial discontent, an ordinary photograph of a western valley—they can act powerfully to set a man’s mind adrift from its moorings. They invite his inner self to play the truant. Mrs. Custer. (New York Herald-Tribune.) With the death of Mrs. Custer—that gallant lady whose husband perished half a century ago in the immortal action on the Little Big Horn — a last breath of the authentic romance of America seems to dissolve into the harsher airs of the modern age. ‘The brilliant young cavalry general, the “baby” brigadier of the Civil War and the hero who has looked forth through fifty-seven years now from the innumerable pictorial representations of “Custer's Last Stand,” belongs to a legend so remote as to be almost beyond recovery. Its mists have completely enshrouded General Custer him- self, leaving in his place only the enthusiasms and excitements which clustered around that name in a day which in turn seems as far away as one's own lost youth. Yet only now has there passed away the lady who married the handsome young officer in the midst of the Civil War, who {ollowed him over the battlefields of Virginia and the plains of the “Indian country,” who campaigned with him, in a real sense, through the struggle for national union and the last homeric period of the conquest of the West. So it cannot have been 80 long ago. But now that this last fragile link is severed, it is gone indeed. Mrs. Custer's own life, through the long years that were to be left her after the massacre of the Little Big Horn, gave its own evidence of the stuff out of which the pioneers and fighters were made. Her books on the life of the regular cavalry- man in the old days of Indian warfare and remote frontier posts were well known, and she perself became a distinct and charming personality in the New York scene. She was always bright, cour_ageous and interested; she treasured her past, but did not live in it, and was a living tribute to the qualities of the simpler age from which she sprang. R e Chalk Up Two. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) The movement toward repeal cannot be guaged accurately from the results in Michigan and Wis- consin, the first two States to vote on the ques- tion. But it is gratifying that the voters in those States have approached so mnear to unanimity in their desire to take the Eighteenth Amendment ot of the Constitution. In Wisconsin the vote was four to one for repeal, and in Michigan three to one. The State conventions will be nearly 100 per cent for repeal. There are 46 States left to vote on the question. Some of them are doubtful and some are probably dry in centiment. The spectacular outcome in the first States to vote, however, indicates that the tide has turned to repeal in greatér proportion than was evident from miscellaneous indexes. Unfortunately dry organizatons in some cases are seeking to prevent or to delay a popular vote. This tactic will not serve any useful purpose, even from their own point of view. It can only postpone & final settlement of the whole question, and drag out the present paradoxical situation of a con- stitutional provision which the nation has really | repudiated. After beer is made legal and is found not to be the dire calamity which the Drys have pro- phesied, it is to be hoped that dry organizations will recognize the desirability of prompt State action throughout the country, There is nothing to prevent | such propaganda groupsfrom W dor their |point of view. But they have no' rlght' ethically to- use obstructionist methods in delaying the people’s privilege of casting the declding vots by Percival SYNOPSIS: Margaret, an English girl married to Jules Maligni, half Moorish agent of the rapacious Kaid of Mekaz- zen, finds herself helpless un- der the annoyances of the son of the Kaid, Raisul. Mean- ‘while Major Riccoli of the For- eign Legion, arrives at Mekaz- zen to complete his traitorous decign against France with the Kaid’s help. In his command is Otho Belleme, Margaret's first sweetheart—but she does not know it. Otho and his friends in the Legion are told of dangerous doings to come. Chapter 35 SUSPICIOUS ORDERS “Well, what do you think of that, Bob?” asked Joe, as they made their way to a shady corner of the court-yard that they had made their own. “Don’t much like it,” replied Qtho Belleme, but I suppose we've got to obey orders. Hint of treachery about it, isn't there?” “War is war, my child,’ 'observed Tant de Soif. “There has been a state of war between this country and France for years. It is notor- jous that this Kaid has raided French tetrritory, beseiged if not captured French posts, captured French convoys, cut off and anni- hilated relief columns.” “H'm. All's fair in love and war,{' €h?” “And suppose it doesn’t come ! off?” observed Joe Mummery. “Ac- cording to Vittorelli, the Major has wangled us-in here to seize the Citadel for France. But what price us, if they do the seizing—and seize us for the Kaid?” “Us for the 'ooks,” observed Sail- or Harris tersely. v “Ar, that'’s right,” agreed Wil liam Bossum. “If the Kite lets us come ’ere, 'e knows enough to lnok after himself, don't he? What's VALIANT Dus Christopher Wren sdfi’é'é{n- {men may go but I go on forever” | —vecame a torrent in full spate. any _ slight anxiety as to Major | Riceoli’s attitude and conduct. ‘While that sub >ct occupied his imind, no room was left for | thoughts of love or love-making. “Ah, that was a man indeed,” he |mused. “But mad, you know, mad. | A megalomaniac. Through his own |ambitious schemes he fell like Vau- |roi again—if he did fall—and is |not at this very moment a great ruler in his own right, a king, an smperor, in the great and unex- | plored interior of this mighty and | marvelous continent.” | “And who was Monsieur Vauroi?" asked Margaret, anxious to Xeep the mind of this amorously enter- | prising officer to the one subject |that she judged to be more power- ful in interest than even love. “Vauroi? You know not of the brave Captain Vauroi, and his bid for power and wealth and fame? No, being English, I suppose you would not have heard of him. The military authorities, who he 'de- fied, defeated and outwitted, did not exactly advertise his name to the world. S “Ah! That was a man—such an- other as Aureille de Tounens of whom you have just spoken; such another as Voulet and Chanoine, Eut not so mad. “Vauroi! A simple captain of ar- tillery, and now perhaps an em- |perer. But as to the truth of that, {no man knows. No European, that is to say, although the military au- thorities and theé Frech govern- ment pretend to know. No Euro- pean knows for certain, but it is 'my opinion—and believe me, Made- moisclle, my opinion is worth hav- pi—that millions upon millions of Afficans know; Arabds, Negroes, 'ounareg, and possibly races of whom we have heard nothing. “Otherwise, tell me this. Why is the odds against us in the castléll there to this day throughout the lot m alone? we marched through, Armies of 'em.” “I suppose the Major’li wait un- til he gets reinforcements,” com- mented Pere Poussin. “I doubt it, my child,” replied Tant de Soif. “He'll seize the cas- tle, and then send for reinforce- ments in case there's trouble in the city—as there will be.” “Why not get the reinforcements first and make a sure job of it? objected the old soldier. “Because the Kaid wouldn't let them come, my good camel. He's not going to lét a' French army march in here, is he?” “No,” agreed Otho. And the mystery to me is he let us come.” “Mystery's right,” agreed Joe Mummery. “It's a rum go.” “Well, duty's duty,” said Tant de Soif decisively, “and orders are or- ders. If we can seize this robber’s nest for France, theyll give the section le fougeron.” “What's that?” asked Willlam Bossum. “The collective decoration given to a unit for valor,” was the reply. “And every man of us will wear 2 shoulder-cord plaited in two col- ors. And you take it with you, too if you go to another company. Yes, we shall capture the castle, cover ourselves with glory and get the cord of honor.” ‘Get a cord of some sort, I've no doubt,” growled Sailor Harris. . . Not ;o mention that comin’ “He’s not “hat That evening a ceremonial ban- quet, half Moorish, half European, was given in honor of the disiin- guished visitor—the French officer understood to be the representa- tive of his great country, and the head of the military mission sent by France to the Kaid. ¥ At this feast of welcome, which Margaret forced herself to at- tend, the effect of the sour looks that she received from her mother- in-law, El Isa Beth el Ain, from Zainub and the girl Sara should have been entirely counteracted by the definitely sweet ones of the guest of honor. Apart from the fact that his was the type that she did not ad- mire, Margaret found him interest- ing when he would cease from ful- some florid compliment, and taik on the matters, or rather matter that apparently obsessed him—the subject of himself and his caveer. As all roads lead to Rome, so all topics, however aparently un- promising and alien to the theme, led to the career of Major Ric- coli, past, present and future. ‘When at length, the banquet fin- ished, the other ladies retired, Mar- garet rose, and remarking that she ‘was going for her evening stroll on the battlements, left the lamplit garden, soon to discover that she ha;cl been followed by Major Ric- coli. “May I walk with you, Mademoi- selle?” he asked as he overtook her. “Such an oasis in the desert of my life. It is hard to be a sol- dier and to love beauty. To know the love of beauty and the beauty of love,” Margaret, untruthfully stating that the pleasure would be entizely hers, led the-gallant and ardent officer to her favorite and private spot upon the battlements, and to the subject of France, Bordeaux and the remarkable son of that city, Monsieur Aureille de Tounens who became King of Arauco. bling brook—that had reminded Margaret of “Men may come and Southern Sahara, a persistent and widely prevalent rumor of a White Shieikh? Yes, a Great White Sheikh whose orders all men obey, and whom they fear and reverence as the Senussi fear and reverence their great religious and political leader, the Sheikh el Senussi him- self. YWhat did Vauroi do? I'M tell #l, Mademoiselle. inding himself stuck in the letert, buried alive, forgotten, neg- levted, lost in a wretched hole :alled Mescheria, he detremined to ;arye out a career for himself, Why 'Y:&uld he, a man of courage,, abil- ¥, brains and ambition, be doom- >3"to rot in Meseheria, while in Paris, guttersnipe politicians made shémselves figures of international mportance, masters of Europe— ind made generals of their worth- ess military proteges, panders and voadies? “Why should he? A man mental- 1y as great as they, and indeed far reater. Why should he consent to 3row grey in obscurity, poverty and misery while these dogs carved out careers for themselves? “He would not consent to it. “Since no brilliant career to fame and power lay open to him, he would carve out one for himseli. “Skillfully and cunningly he op- 2ned negotiations with a great Arab sheikh, paramount ruler of the Beni-Amama and allied tribes— and when his plans were made and the time was ripe, he departed from Mescheria with the whole of his battery complete and . entire, guns, limbers, ammunition column, men, horses, mules and camels. He was, of course, received with open arms by the Arabs who led him deep into the desert where per- haps no white man had ever been before. “Deep and ever deeper into the desert, until they came to the capi- tal of Beni-Amama, a native city which—as the French military au- thorities afterwards discovered to their cost—he turned into a great fortress, a real citadel. (Copyright, 1932, F. A. Stokes Co.) Another crown is offered to Margaret, Monday. Old papers for sale at Empire, f BETTY MAC | | BEAUTY SHOP | | 103 Assembly Apartments | PHONE 541 [ Commercial | After uttering that name, Margaret, | | had no need of further speech, nor | pasetall The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau, Alaska BANKERS SINCE 1891 Resources Over $2,250,000.00 { 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire e e b | APRIL 22, 1913 The C. W. Young Company team and the Alaska Gastineau team had finally sched- uled a baseball game for the fol- lowing Sunday after numerous front page communications in The EEmpire. It had stirred up a lot of interest and chances are it proved to be a big game. We'll see. on {the 27th. 1 Mrs. Sidney Smith and Miss Reed left for a visit in Seattle and Portland. United States Marshal in attendance at the term of court about to convene there. - Passengers debarking at Juneau from the Northwestern which ar- rived from a tempestuous voyage from the westward, included H. Moses, O. Larson, J. J. Meherin, H. J. Johns, F. H. Tascher, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Mitchell General Manager B. L. Thane and Mrs. Thane returned to Jun- eau on the Spokane from an ex- tended trip throughout the East. J. H. Chamberlin left on the Humbolt for Seattle. George R. Nobel was a rfuurn- ing passenger on the Spokane, It was understood that he had ordered machinery for mining op- erations while below. The stork, visiting St. Ann’s Hospital, brought a beautiful eight pound baby girl to Mr. and Mrs. Gebrge Simpkins. e e Advertisements are your pocket- book editorials. They interpret the merchandise news. NOTICE, SALE OF PROPERTY The City of Juneau will offer for sale to the highest bidder, at a public sale to be held in the Coun- cil Chambers, City Hall, May 1, 1933, beginning at 10 o'clock a.m., the following described real estate situate in the City of Juneau: { Lot 1, Block 1; Lot 1, Block 31; Lot 5, Block 38; Lot 4, Block 101; Lot 1, Block 105; Lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, Block 110; Lots 1 and 4, Block 119; Lots 3 and 4, Block 120; Lot {4, Block 121; Lot 2, Block B; Lot 16, Block 228; Lot 3, Section 3, Lot 12, Section 2, Lot 6, Section 3, Seatter Addition. The right is reserved to reject any or all bids. H. R. SHEPARD, J City Clerk. First publication, April 22, 1933. Last publication, April 25, 1933. USSR SOMETHING NEW! —Try Our— TOMATO ROLLS = LR T ONE SHOVELFUL OF OUR COAL will give as much heat as two ol and Savings H L Faulkner left for Ketchikan to be’ | J Helene W.L. 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