The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 2, 1933, Page 4

Daily Alaska ¥mpire PRESIDENT AND EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - the Published evening _except Sunday by COMPANY at Second and Main ka Entered in the Post Office m Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrler In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25/ per_month, | By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: y ); six months, in advance, $6.00 $1.25 p avor if they will promptly y failiré or irregularity In the Telephone for Editorfal ar _Business Offices, 374. | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repu n of all news dispatches credited to it or not ot credited in this paper and also the local news put hed herein ‘ LATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER | OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION ALASKA CIRC THAN T HOPE FOR SPEEDY RECOVERY. The illness of Delegate Dimond, forced to undergo an operation for appendicitis in Washington last Sunday, is a matter of deep concern to all Alaskans. All of them, without regard for party, of courst are glad to hear that he is improving and the wish is universal in the Territory that his recovery will be speedy. Every Alaskan who has peen in Washington since he assumed office has been impressed with the fine showing he was making in Congress. Gov. Troy, on his return home, and since then, has remarked on more than one occasion that the Delegate has already earned standing that might well be envied by membears of the House of several years service. His fine personality, unusual ability and deep sincerity have combined to win for him and for tory he represents so ably many friends both in the House of Representatives and with Senators with whom he has come into contact. No Alaskan who is aéquainted with Delegate Di- mond will be surprised at that. It was what they expected of him. And he has been right on the job all the time. He has maintained the closest of contacts with the Alaska Legislature, advising them on matters of legislative interest pending in Congress and suggesting how advantage may be taken of it. His illness at this time is unfortunate, coming just as he was getting his own program fairly well launched The only fear is that he will attempt to return to work before he should. He is not inclined to save himself as much as he ought to do. That has been demonstrated here many times during his career as a member of the local Legislature, and last Fall during his campaign when he suffered a painful and well-nigh fatal accident. We hope he will not do it now. The first thing is for him to completely regain his health so that he can return to work in shape to accomplish all of the really important projects he has in mind for the Ter- ritory. FUR-FARMERS ENTITLED TO HOMESTEADS. Correspondence to The Empire from the office of Delegate Dimond in Washington reveals that he has introduced a measure to permit fur-farmers, operating ranches under the leasing system in Al- aska, to enter under homestead laws and obtain patent to not more than 160 acres of land. The measure is identical with one intruduced on the same subject last year by then Delegate Wickersham but which was not acted on by Congress. Only a few days ago, the Alaska Legislature, by memorial urged Congre's to pass such a law. It considered the matter very thoroughly before taking that step, and its view represents that of a majority of Alaskans. Under all precedent, these pioneers in a unique industry are entitled to the consideration sought. The lands they hold under lease are part of the public domain. They have been classified as more suitable for the raising of fur-bearing animals than for any other purpose. The traditional policy of the United States, the one lhat was most largely instru- mental in the country’s great growth in the nine- teenth century, is to get the public lands into private ownership. That i= the only reasonable method of tying a people to the land. Ownership is the only thing that will do it. It is the only way so far| devised to mak2 the people self-supporting. The fur-farmers of Alaska are asking for nothing that was not granted to stock-raisers of the West. There, homesteads of 640 acres were granted. The local fur-farmers ask for only 160 acres. They are not asking for the public lands to be thrown wide open to them for that purpose.. They are willing to| first established themsclves, build their plants and | stock their areas, operating for a period of two years before making entry. They further agree to add an- other three years, bringing the total use and occu- pancy to five years, and in addition to pay the sum of $250 per acre for the land. They are entitled to this to protect their invest- ments in buildings of all kinds for themselves and their stock. Under the leasing system they have none. They have title only to the improvements, which are listed as personal property, and if for any reason they lose their leases, that investment isn't worth much. It is impossible to move the improve- ments off the leaseholds, and, lacking title to the land upon which they stand, they have no market value under such conditions. This ought to be changed without delay. FARM PRODUCTS PRICES VARY WIDELY IN STATES. A wide range of prices of farm products in var- jous parts of the country is reported by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. New England farmers are getting better prices for most of their products .than are farmers in other parts of the country, the Terri- and farmers in the South are getting lowest average prices. On the average for all the States, farmers were getting only 10 cents a dozen for eggs on March 15; they were getting 9 cents a pound for live chickens, 39 cents a bushel for potatoes, 3% cents a pound for hogs, and 18 cents a pound for butter. A ton of hay was bringing $5.85 on the average. Eggs in New England were bringing an average _lof 182 cents a dozen on March 15 as contrasted |with 69 cents a dozen, or approximately two eggs for a penny, in the West South Central States. But- |ter was bringing an average of 22 cents a pound in New England against 158 cents m the East South Central States, and butterfat 23 cents a pound in |New England against 125 cents in the West South Central States. The average farm price of hogs in New England was $4.18 cents a hundred pounds on March 15 as contrasted with an average low of $2.87 in the West South Central States. A milk cow could be bought for an average of $51.59 in New England on March 15 but in the East South Central States a milk “|cow could be had for average of $21.40, A year ago, the average of all priees of agri- cultural products was approximately 20 per cent higher than it is today, as shown by the Bureau's indeéx of 61 in March 1932, as contrasted with 50 in March 1933. The 1909-14 five-year average equals 100. The decline in the past year, has been greater than the reduction in prices paid by farmers for non-agricultural commodities, with the result that whereas on March a year ago the ratio of prices received to prices paid was 54 as an index figure, it is now only 49. Yesterday the Juneau Cold Storage Company made its twelfth semi-annual interest payment on its outstanding bonds. Not once has it defaulted or been overdue in making such payments and its bond retirement schedule is fully maintained. That record is well worth remembering by those who have money to invest these days. After all a sound local |investment is the best that can be made. Henry Van Dyke. (New York Times.) farewell. I am going a long way o waeile T wl o To the island-valley of Avilion Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly, but it lies Deep meadowed, happy, fair, with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with Summer . sed. So has the poet, preacher, teacher, public servant, fisherman, lover of the out-of-doors, master of his earthly “Avalon,” Henry van Dyke, passed to his “Avilion.” Yet he who'wrote as he did, in prose |and verse, can never be shut away in an “island- valley.” His friends, his hearers, his students will long hold him in the neighborliness of their hearts |—and after they have gone his books will still keep him in communication with “the rest of the archi- pelago.” His line in tribute to Tennyson “in lucem tran- situs (“Brother of the greatest poets, true to nature, true to art") might fitly be repeated of him. He wrote, as he said in his last public utterance on |the occasion of the celebration of his eightieth birthday by the Academy of Arts and Letters, be- cause “certain things seemed worth writing about” in verse if it were demanded of him, in prose if it were the fittest medium. None of all his score and more of volumes could be spared. Some will cherish his songs out-of-doors, some his ode to “Music,” others his patriot hymns, other his fish- ing stories, his Christmas tales, his sermons. But one finds in “The White Bees” a summing up of his own influence, in what he wrote of Aristaeus: Friendliness and blessing followed in his footsteps; richer were the harvests, Happier the dwellings, wheresoe'er came; Little children loved him, and he left be- hind him, in the hour of parting, Memories of kindness and a godlike name. A preacher he was, first of all, and a militant, doughty one, who put on the whole armour of God and fought in many fields—a fearless, outspoken “liberalist” in the pulpit and in public affairs; de- voted to this city, where he preached for nearly twenty years, and to his college community, where he recently fought the bus lines, but bound in his interest to the whole earth in his devotion to its common welfare. A “minister” he was in the noblest import of the word, a “minister of God,” a minister of his country, to which he gave distinguished serv- ice in the administration of his sometime neighbor Woodrow Wilson, a minister of humanity in his eloquent spoken word. Nearing port, he said a few weeks ago that it was ‘“well worth the cruise” His last published poem, which appeared in The Times on the 19th of March, was in thought not of his own voyage but of that of the Ship of State, calling out to “our new Pilot,” who, as he said, knows “how to steer,” in confident hope: “Let nothing you dismay.” But now he The New Democracy. (New York World-Telegram.) Does the rising of dictators, of one-man rule, throughout the world merely fit an emergency as in war, or is it a trend toward something new in government which will yet not be dictatorship but more effective democracy? What is the possible meaning in terms of future government of the powers conferred by Congress upon President Roosevelt? There can be no doubt that in the last election one man stood out pre-eminent in the mind of the electorate. He was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sena- tors and Representatives were incidental. Democ- racy e “ressed itself by choosing one man. Democ- racy has done this before, but not under the’same necessities. The vote expressed the new scientific era of concentration. Democracy spoke and choose, and President Roosevelt must answer. If the eye of the nation's democracy were in- stead focused exclusively upon Congress it would neither see as much nor control as much. On the other hand, if Mr. Roosevelt were in fact a dictator he would, like all autocrats, be subject to the great dangers of one-man rule. The question which emerges, therefore, is, Will democracy in this complex age be compelled to sim- plify its system of representation a$ a means of ef- fiency and popular control? Will legislative bodies tend to shrink in number? Will there be fewer spokesmen for the people, fewer stewards to hold accountable? From the way factories are opening it appears that people on the receiving end of the flow of beer money are going to do their share of spend- ing.—(Indianapolis News.) Russian dentists are filling patients’ teeth with steel, while Soviet rulers approve of filling loel systems with lead —(Chicago News.) by Percival’ SYNOPSIS: At sea in the “rtalking about? What has happened whirlpcol of intrigue that fills the ancient Citadel of Mekaz- zen, Margaret Maligni is taken to see her girlhood sweetheart, Otho Belleme, lying bound and wounded. He has been betray- ed by Raisul, the son of the Kaid of Mekazzen, and by Jules Maligni, Margaret’s husb a nd. Raisul has threatened Otho pri- vate in the Foreign Legion, and Margaret as well. Jules is no protection. In desperation Mar- garet remembers Colonel Le Sage of the French Secret Serv- ice, who is trying to unravel the intrigues of Mekazzen. Chapter 41 A NEW MISUNDERSTANDING Rising from the cushioned mat- tress that served him indifferent-! ly as arm-chair, cough and bed, Colonel Le Sage strode to the heavy iron-plated door of his room. That wasn't Major Langeac's knock, but it was the knock all right. Warily opening the door, Le Sage saw a Moorish woman, or rather a cloak which presumably conceal- ed a Moorish woman, for no face was visible. “Yelverbury?” he inquired in a whisper. “It is I, Margaret,” she whispered | in reply, as she slipped into the room, and Le Sage locked the door. “Oh, I am in such trouble, Colo- nel Le Sage. I've come to you for help. You will help me, won't you?" “What is it?” asked Colonel Le Sage. A little coldly, Margaret thought. Could it be that he was another of those people who promise every- thing and perform nothing? Had he cultivated her solely for his own end, and for her possible usefulness to him. “You will help me?” she asked him urgently, seizing his arm. “What is it?” again asked Colon- el Le Sage. Yes. Definitely unenthusiastic. He had been very different from this when it had been a question of his being useful to him. “I did my best to help you, Colo- nel Le Sage. And T'll help you all I can. Tl do anything you ask, if only you'll help me now, just this once.” Margaret fought back her tears —tears of pain, misery and disap- pointment. Was there no one in the world she could trust—except Otho? And yet she had felt such confi- dence in this man. An instinctive liking and trust. What was he saying about Yeiq verbury? Why talk abouv that now? “Oh, Colonel Le Sage, to me and help me. My cldest and dearest friend is . . . One moment, Mrs. Maligni. You must answer my question before we go any further. I must know where I am.” ‘Oh Colonel Le Sage, I trusted “Yeb, Mrs. Maligni. And I trusted you absolutely, although it's not my custom. Now tell me why didn't you give me the password when you came to my door? And when you've told me that, just tell me where you got it." “I don't understand, Colonel Le Sage.” “You don't? At tke end of our talk together, you suddenly shot it at me, and I admit you made me feel something of a fool. What was the exact idea, Mrs. Maligni, in concealing the fact that you knew all the time who I was?” “But I didptt . . I..°. " “And T wonder how the devil your husband got hold of it. And I'd have sworn that that legion- naire lad was honest, too straight, too fine. I suppose he gave me and the password away to Riccoli, and Riceoli told it to the Malignis, and Jules Maligni told you.” “Told me what?” cried the be- wildered Margaret. “Look here, Mrs. Maligni. There’s the small matter of my life at stake and you can believe me. when T say that it is a very small matter in comparison with my suc- cess. That is an enormous matter, |’ and I stick at absolutely nothing when I am working for my coun- try. “How long have you known who I am? Who else beside your hus- band and his father know who I am? And who was it told you a pass<word that I'd have sworn only I and one other man ever knew? It’s important. “Was it your noble husband, or was it Riccoli himself?” “Colonel Le Sage, what are vyou JASMINE CREAMS 50¢ S P O S, | Butler Mauro Drug Co. Money Orders Anytime T do listen | Christopher Wren du GESTE® | since T saw you last? My husbandi told me you were a German Secret | Service officer, Carl von Mm,engen,, Imasquerading as Herr Schlacht, and hoping to get something out of the Kaid. I never dreamed you were anything else until you told me so, the last time I saw you. “As ffor the pass-word you are talking about—nobody has ever told | me any pass-word, neither my hus- | band nor Major Riccoli, and I know nothing whatever about it.” Colonel Le Sage stared hard into le-gareL‘s eyes, which met his un- waveringly, unflinchingly. Suddenly he spoke. | “Tell me this, then,” he snapped. | “Where did you get this word ‘Yel- verbury’? Why did you say it to me?” | “Where did I get it? I was born there. Why did T say it to you? Be- cause you asked me where my home was. Yelverbury's my home. What are you talking about?” It was too much, Margaret burst into tears. Colonel Le Sage put his arm about the trembling, shaking, sob- bing figure. ‘Margaret,” he said kindly, “tell me just one thing, and Il never doubt you again. Not for one mo- ment. Tell me someone else who lives, or lived, at your Yelverbury.” “My father, Dr. Maykings,” sob-| bed Margaret. “My mother, my brother Jack, my husband was at school there.” Yes? Anyone else?” The Reverend Henry Hoalne was the Vicar. His son used to play with us. “Yes. And who was your big man?” “Sir Robert Mandeville Belleme.” “Ah! And his son?” “Oh, Colonel Le Sage, Otho. It is tabout Otho I have come to you. He joined the Foreign Legion. He is here.” “Good God,” whispered Le Sage, and in his relief put the other arm| also about Margaret and hugged her She had been telling the truth. All was well. ‘1 beg your pardon, my dear child. Forgive me,” he said. “Now tell me what the trouble is.” “Well, we've gol to do something, | Bob, to the swine that had you decoyed and beaten. We've simply got to show the hound that he—" An Arab who had saundered to- ward the uroup of legionnaires,| 00d eyeing them in vacant, open- | mouthed wonder. “Oi, bung off, Budoo. I ain’t got mo coppers, an’ you ain't got no; | monkey,” advised Sailor Harris, But the big Arab, instead of] obeying the advice of Sailor Har-| ris, appeared to be galvanized into sudden, life, activity and intelli-| gence, as Otho, removing his face( from his hands, looked up to see who might be the object of Sailor| Harris's admonition. | Striding forward, the Arab sexzed‘ the astonished Otho by the arm. I “Yelverburg!” said he. “Listen,” he continued, speakmg English. “Follow me without ap- pearing to do so. Don't keep t00 close, I mean.’ Otho obeyed. “Now then, Otho Belleme,” said | Colontel Le Sage, as he locked the ! door of his room. “Tell me. Are those three Eng- lish friends of yours staunch and loyal?” “And if T tola tnem fo obey you, and to follow you, in an undertak- ing, would they do so?” “Absolutely, sir.” “Good. Now for how many others can you answer in your section? I mean, as being staunch and loyal, and entirely uncorrupted by —er— Sergeant-Major Vittorelli.” “Three, for certain. Two old sol- diers of France, and a very fine Russian who was Regimental Ser- geant-Major of a guard regiment.” “Good. Now listen. I want you and your three compatriots to come to this room after roll-call tonight. Parade dress, rifles, bayonets.” “Sergeant-Major Vttorelili would “Sergeant-Major Vittorelli will— er—be elsewhere,” replied Le Sage. “Simply bring your three men here, telling them now that they really can do something helpful and | useful in the matter of—er—shall we say Margaret of Yelverbury?” ‘And Colonel Le Sage laughed. “Sir?” ejaculated the startled Otho. “Oh, yes. Mrs. Maligni and I are THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESAY, MAY 2, 1933. t | 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire ! is) MAY 2, 1913 ‘W. A. Hesse, known all over Al- aska as a popular United States mineral land surveyor, had taken up a new idea. He arrived in Ju- neau with one of the finest moving picture outfits in existence and planned to make Alaska studies during the coming season. While in Juneau he planned to take pic- tures of the legislators in action. “Muka Gus,” a well-known fig- ure in Douglas, died in Juneau. “The Days of Ninety-Eight,” were to be re-lived in the Elks' Ballroom; in honor of the First Territorial Legislative Session. The Session just adjourned, had been meeting in the Elks Hall, which was tran formed over night into a prospe ous looking gambling hall." To make gambling just a lot of fun, the Elks were circulating quantities of “FElks' Bull Coin” with which to play roulette, faro, black jack and chuck-a-luek. The “Totem” was placed on the local newsstands and was selling “like hot cakes.” The law partnership that had ex- isted between Judge R. A. Gunni- son and John W. Marshall was dis- solved. Shelley Graves, formerly with Charles Goldstein, has taken up a new line, being temporarily lo- cated with a sample room on Main street. Messrs, Garl and Lucas, who had been living in the Delaney cottage, gave it up. old friends. She is helping me, and[ 1, her. If all goes well tonight, she’ll be out of this place quite soon.” Rising, Colonel Le Sage strode to the door and after suddenly open- ing it, glanced to right and left along the dim-lit stone ‘tunnel- -like passage. “Good,” said he, placing a kindly hand of Otho’s shoulder. “Your chance—and mine—comes tonight. Good luck, Belleme.” (Copyright, 1932, F. A. Stokes Co.) Major Riccoli dreams of his “Castle in Mekazzen,” tomorrow. ——.———— DANCE Annual D. F. D. 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