The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 26, 1933, Page 4

Daily Alasl;; »mpire PRESIDENT AND EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER | JOHN W. TROY ROBERT W. BENDER Published _every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office mn Juneau as Second Clask matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per_month. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, six months, in" advance, $6.00; one month, in advanc Subscribers will confer a finur it they will promptly hy failure or irregularity Business Offices, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. Press is exclusively entitled to the of all news dispatches credited to redited in this paper and also the erein it or not otherw local news publis ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION UNITED AMERICAS. The unification of all peoples on the Western Hemisphere has long been a favorite theme for dis- cussion by men and women of vision in this country and in our neighboring Southern lands. It seems inevitable that a union of all the Americas will come some day when a leadership sufficiently enlight- ened shall haye had full expression. That leader- ship ought to be furnished by the United States, the most powerful of the group, but it may come from some one of the lesser nations. It is heart- ening to hear the President of the United States saying: I look upon the Pan-American Union as the outward expression of the spiritual unity of the Americas. It is to this unity, which must be courageous and vital in its element, that humanity must look for one of the great stabilizing influences in world affairs. That is one great reason for a cohesive group of powers in the Western World. They constitute a world within a world. When they have been won to accord and understanding and amity, the Republics of the Western Hemisphere will represent a moral and material sovereignty that has not been known before on the circling globe. We could do without the rest of the world and live well and happily, but the rest of the world could not do| without the unified sovereignty he continent. The bonds of this union are ; more closely drawn. It remains to banish conflict from among our neighbors to the South, to increase and main- tain the trade that is ours. It remsi to banish distrust and suspicion among all ‘the peoples of the| West—to enlarge the offices and agencies of educa- on, to stimulate trade and social relationships. It is time to take stock of our joint wealth of the natural resources—to envisage the unmatched potentialities of the resources and peoples of these Western lands, which hold so much of promise for the millions of people of today, and for the teeming millions which in the future are to make fully develop and enjoy them. i and GIVE,HIM A JOB. The Army's peacetime orgahization is too ex- pensive, is shot full of duplication, and could be run for less money than is now required. That is not the dictum of a hare-brained pacifist who visions war every time a new rifle is purchased for the country’s military establishment, but the con- clusion of a trained soldier—Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood, Commander of the Eighth Corps Area. He is one of the highest ranking officers of the Army, and one of the most respected. In a recent address, Gen. Hagood declared: It needs close trimming to make it fit the pocketbook of the man without a job. It takes $300,000,000 to run the army under its present organization. We can get a better organization for less. . . So far as the army is concerned, we have too many bureaus already, and we could spare six or eight of them with ad- vantage to the national defense and to the Jjoy of the taxpayer. There is no duplication between the army and navy. But there is duplication within the army, and it is to be hoped that the President, with his extraordinary power will be able to accomplish a consolidation and simplification within the army itself that could not have been accomplished with the complicated machinery set up by Congress. I have twice as many staff officers, clerks and orderlies as I need, but I cannot get rid of them under the existing set-up. That's soldier talk. It is, also, common sense. Instead of giving Gen.Hagood a medal for his outspoken views, it would be more to the point for the President to put him into a position from which he could wipe some of the duplication and outworn customs that he cites as being the cause of wasted money. Give him a chance to make his assertions good. AIR TRANSPORT RATINGS ISSUED. | Air-line pilots holding ratings which qualify them for scheduled interstate passenger service now num- ber 423, according to the Air Commerce Bulletin of the Department of Commerce. Since Janary 1, 1933, the air lines have been required to have pilots ‘holding scheduled air transport ratings at the con- ‘trols of their passenger craft. - Examinations for the rating include a test flight, ‘during which the air-line pilot operates the craft ”fle in a hooded cockpit and with a Department ‘of Commerce inspector in the craft as check pilot. \The applicant. for the rating is required to perform m-.uuvm as climbing spirals, 120° turns and panks, flying entirely by instrumcnis, and then tune in on the radio rang: blm.m find one m!mmm“ and fly to the trans- station u woving these radio signals. air navigation, including tests in meteorology with |respect to weather analysis and forecasting. To be eligible for examination, he must have had 1,200 hours of certified solo flying time, including 500 |hours of cross-country flying and 75 or more hours “or night flying. | Most of the examinations for ratings were con- ducted between September 1 and December 31, 1932, The rating requirements were announced in May of last year with the provision that they would be- | come mandatory January 1, 1933, and were adopted |as a further contribution to safety and reliability of scheduled air transportation in the United | States. The total number of ratings issued does not cor- respond with the total number of air-line pilots, |since airmen flying with mail only, those flying as co-pilots, and pilots on American-operated air lines operating outside the United States are not required to have the ratings. However, many of these airmen are applying for them. Furthermore, on three air lines operating over airways where Department fo Commerce radio range beacons are been waived temporarily and the examinations of the 20 airmen involved have been postponed pend- ing completion of these radio facilities. The total number of air-line pilots is approximately 725. Anyway we have seen a bottle of the new beer. The most noticeable thing about it was the absence of that river-bed effect in the bottom of the bottle. One of the features absent from M. Herriot's present visit to the United States is the fact that so far Senator Borah hasn't statements on war debts, disarmament and similar international complications. Must be tough on Bill to be just in and not of Washington these days. Diminishing Returns. (New York Times.) It is not only the United States Treasury that is disappointed in the flow of revenue, far below even the revised estimates which it made at the end of the last year. The British Exchequer has dis- covered that there is such a thing as progressive exhaustion of the taxpayers. As the accounts were made up for the end of the British fiscal year, the indicated deficit was only about $60,000,000— reckoning the sinking fund payment. Without the latter there would have been a slight surplus. But on any basis of estimate this British deficit is a mere trifle compared with the mountainous and mounting figures of our own What troubles students of public finance in England is that the revenue did not come up to expectations. Altogether, the Chancellor of the Ex- cheuer received some $100,000,000 less in taxes than he budgeted for a year ago. The yield of the |income tax is about $17,000,000 smaller than it was two years ago, although the rate had since been raised by six pence in the pound and exemptions and allowances had been cut down. Despite a 10 {per cent increase in the surtax, it produced some- thing like $25,000,000 less than in 1930. The infer- ence is, not that the British Exchequer is in a bad way, for it is not. On the whole, its transactions, including the successful conversion of a very large part of the public debt, have been highly success- (ful. But it is clear that if the bad times continue, and governmental expenses are not heavily reduced, new taxes will have to be devised, because the old ones are declining in fruitfulnss. There is nothing surprising about this. It simply illustrates the fact that there is what may be called a law of diminishing returns n public taxa- tion. This particular case is not one of evasion, such as was not unknown in prosperous times when taxes were made unreasonably high. Now we have come to a period when taxpayers have not the wherewithal to meet the collector. The only re- course of the Government is not to endeavor to squeeze more out of the dried-up sponge, but to cut down its own demands so that a little trickle of surplus may again be left over for the citizens who pay taxes. Alaska Salmon. (Anchorage Times.) The Alaska salmon season is about to open. Along the thousands of miles of coastal Alaska the salmon soon will be seeking their summer haunts, and fishermen will be busy bringing in the catch and canneries engaged in putting up the annual pack. While the number of canneries to operate this year is far less than in normal times, Alaska is mighty glad to know that many more are going to operate than was expected some time ago. Even .|under the limited market thousands will be given employment, and hundreds of thousands of dollars will be distributed. Work will be provided for thousands who otherwise would be workless. Right here on Cook Inlet a number of the canneries will be operating this season, and every dollar spent by the canneries will go far in helping tide someone over, and not a little business will accrue to local industries which would be entirely lacking if the work did not go on. Salmon fishing and packing is by far the major industry of Alaska, giving normally work to some 25,000 people for a limited time, and producing $35,- 000,000 to $50,000,000 worth of salmon annually, all of which yields not only revenue to those in the industry but also to the Territory—helping directly or indirectly to bring thrift and prosperity to the country. The qanners who are now carrying on and taking a chance of marketing their product deserve every consideration and encouragement. It is to be hoped that legislation now being considered at Juneau and such regulations and laws as may be enacted there or elsewhere will be such as will not impose burdens upon the industry, but such as will foster it and help it to tide over what is now the most trying period of its career. The proposed 30- hour law should not apply to Alaska salmon in- dustries, which are purely seasonable, and from recent telegraphic advices it is gathered that all fishing employees will be exempt from the pro- visions. This is but reasonable, and there are other lines along which just and equitable consideration should be extended the Alaska fisherman and can- ner—in order that the greatest of all Alaskan en- terprises shall not be wrecked. When the brewers tore down their playhouse the first time that was their misfortune. If they do it again that will be their fault.—(Macon Tele- graph.) On the showing to date, Franklin has made T. R's big stick look like a fungo bat.—(Detroit News.) When a good joke dies it goes on the air—|caught, that was that—and the ,m meampm.mmmmmmmm) ) - examination on the use of radio and other aids to under construction the pilot rating requirement has issued any formal | | by Percival SYNOPSIS: Margaret Malig- ni, beset by foreign terrors in the Citadel of Mekazzen, dis- covers that the “German” 1rom whom she received her only help is really Col. Le Sage, of the French Secret Service, He declarcs that Major Napoleon Riceoli of the Foreign Legion, whe has just offered Maragaret a hypothetical erown, plots treachery to France with the powerful id of Mekazzen. Unknown tc Margaret, Otho Belleme, her first sw is a soldier in Riccol mand. CImpL< 37 MORE TREACHERY “And Fate will have her little Jjoke, won't she?” Le Sage ad “I haven't seen many jokes late- 1y,” murmured Margaret. “Natura it’s a er joke to me than to you, but I'm sure you will see a humorous side to it. “Out of a welter of treachery, the treachery of the Kaid and Rai- sul to Riccoli, and of him to them; the treachery of the Malignis to the Kaid, and the treachery of Riccoli to France, comes the down- fall of the lot of them, and th2 | removal of the obstacle to France's civilizing march. “From their efforts at war, comes peace—final peace, in this desert that shall blossom like a rose. “The treachery of the Malignis? ) “Filthy treachery,” exclaimed Mar garet. Why, what do"—asked Margaret. “Yes, my dear, black, base treach- ery. Shall I tell you?” “Tell me everything, please. The more I know, the more I can per- haps help, and the freer I shall be, to do so.” “Well, the organization of which I am the head, in this part of the world, discovered that the Kaid was dallying with Germany. Or put it the other way about, if you like. Anyhow, there were overtures, and an understanding. “It was arranged that one of Germany’s best men should come | and see the Kaid, come to a defi-| nite agreement—make a treaty| with him, in fact. “The Kaid was to get money, men and munitions, on the under- | standing that he wused the men and munitions, and at any part of the money, to make wa any old war that should ‘trouble the waters’ and especially wa that would make him Sultan of Morocco, worry and embarrass the French, and generally, as I said— ‘trouble the waters.’ “Then of course, Germany was going to fish in troubled waters—, fish for vast concessions, among ' other things, as soon as the Kaid was Sultan of Morocco, or indeed, | as soon as he was strong, a.nd‘ France and Spain were weak, in| Morocco. “And so Germany was sending this good man, one of their best, a real stormy petrel, with the high- est courage, the greatest ability, and the widest experience. Secret Service, of course, with no overt backing, countenance ' or support from home. If he succeeded, so much the better for Germany and himself. If he failed and end of ‘Herr Schlacht, known to VALIANT Dust Christopher Wren -lfiucsmr [ brother officers as Carl engen. as soon as we knew all it became my business to put | spoke in his wheel—and I con- ed the bright idea of doing not| that, but being the new wheel mysel, if you understand me. One fine day it would be a case of |‘Herr Schlacht is dead, long live {Herr Schlacht!’ {* “I got in touch—very gentle, L just like velvet—with the Se- Pedro Maligni—who was act-| for the Kaid in Tangier—and short, the Senor Pedro Maligni ld the Kaid and the German and the whole German con- ion, to me. He also agreed with hat the Kaid had had his day 1 that it was time for so a man as Senor Pedro Maligni to put his money on another horse rat from the sinking ship. “For I was able to prove to him that France was going to sink the ship.” von M | “Well, this a Did my husband know anything | mass meeting was held in the coun- cil chamber. John Noland, defeated | socialist candidate, of the session and A. B. Callahan, newspaper terview with his father. Jules Ma-|gozen or so persons present adopt- was introduced to me byjed prepared resolutions. charging | Pedro Maligni as his partner and|every legislator of the First Divis- | gent. He was witness to our agree- |jon except Senator J. M. Tanner ment and he helped me in myland Representative Svindseth, with vonlviolating platform promises. of this?” interrupted Margaret. “You want the truth, my dear?” “Of course, the absolute truth.” “He was present at my final in- ligni plans for Mittengen.” “He knows, then,” intercepting poor said Margaret, 'and in the French secret service' He knows you are not Herr B Schiacht?” was able to produce for me a ! i{ 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire ——— Capt. Waldo States was proudly strutting the ferry float having just completed the nine hundred mile journey from Seattle to Juneau on the Amy, new ferry boat for Gas- tineau Channel. ‘The Amy tripped playfully through a storm in Dix- on's Entrance without being in the least disturbed, and made the run from Seattle including layovers. days, The Seattle newspapers were giv- ing great praise to Gowey Shep- ar, son of H. R. Shepard for thcl class of baseball he was putting up* {on the Queen Anne High School | in less than team, according to The Empire. Mrs. Edward deGroff and dangh- | ter Miss Vanderbilt arrived from; | Sitka and planned to leave soon for an extended trip South. To condemn legislative memi for violating campaign pledges, Superintendent R. A. Kinzie of | “that you are a French officer, the Treadwell left on the Spokane man, secretary. ffor San Francisco. Douglas Odd Fellows celebrated “He knows I am a French agent, [the 48th anniversary of their or-| and“he knows that Herr Schlacht|der in the Odd Fellows Hall with is dead and buried. It was he who |a party for members and their fam- ilies. mounted German photograph—from e i o the mount of which I was able to i = remove the photograph and sub- NOTICE stitutle my own above the mame| On and after this date, April 1 ad tographe 5 of the German pho- “What happened to the real Herr Schlacht, I mean?” asked Mar- garet, “I killed him.” Margaret involuntarily drew| away. “Oh, I didn’t murder him in cold | blcod, my dear. Curiously enough, I killed him in self-defense. As my little caravan approached his camp‘ one evening, beside a water-hole in the Oued el Draa, he simply| turned his men out and opened fire on us. I don't know whether | he took us for Touareg from the| Tanezruft, or whether he had his | suspicions of the Senor Pedro Ma- | ligni. I know 1 had my suspicions of+Maligni as soon as von Mitten- gen opened fire on us at sight, and wondered whether he were double double-crossing, and had warned von Mittengen to look out for me. ( “Anyhow, it was, as I say, a case} of ‘self defense—for we'd got to get to the water—though T don'l‘ say 1 wasn't glad of the excuse| to go for him. So ‘Herr Schlacht’| died that day—and rose again that, night, in the person of myself. 1 “And when I reached Mekazzen, | the Malignis were there all ready\ to wouch for me-—pass-word, pha-] tograph, and all.” | “Filthy treachery,” exclaimed| Margaret in deep disgust and in-| dignation. “Yes, pretty bad. It might be ar- gued, of course,” continued Colonel Le Sage, “that I'm as bad as they are; the receiver as bad as the thief. “Oh, no,” expostulated Margaret. “You are working for France, work- ing for good—not for your own personal profit, not making money by betraying the person who em- ploys you and trusts you.” Colonel Le Sage raised his huge || hand and patted Margaret's shoul- der. “Thank you, my dear. And now R let's consider the ‘Emperor Riccoli’ for just a moment.” (Copyright, 1932, F. A. Stokes Co.) 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