The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 15, 1933, Page 4

933. Daily Alaska .l—t'r_npire PRESIDENT AND EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER | JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - Sunday by the | evening _except Second and Main COMPANY at ska Published _every EMPIRE_PRINTI} Streets, Juncau, A Entered in the Post Office 1n Juneau as Second Class maltter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.26| per _month. By mall, postage pald, at the following rates: One year, in ady 12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, i 26 Subgcr will confer if they will promptly | notify the Business Office fallure or irregularity In the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively «ntitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper end also the local news published herein LATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ANY OTHER PUBLICATION ALASKA CIR THAN THAT OF DIMOND SCORES AGAIN. In obtaining an amendment from the floor of the House recently to the Home Mortgage bill, under which the benefits of that measure are extended to Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, Delegate Dimond again proved his ability and the fact that it is recognized even this early by the House of Repre- sentatives. Time for debate was limited. Recogni- tion from the Chair was more than ordinarily diffi- cult to obtain. Only a few amendments were con- sidered and fewer still were adopted. In getting his own amendment before the House, Delegate Dimond spoke about three minutes. His remarks, taken from the Congressional Record of April 28, follow: Mr. Chairman, I endeavored to secure time yesterday to address the House on a similar amendment. The pending amend- ment is constructed so as not to be subject to a point of order, and covers alone the Territories of Alaska and Hawa 1 do not know why these Territories were not men- tioned in the original bill, except perhaps there was a thought by some of the mem- bers of the committee that they were al- ready covered. After I unsuccessfully tried to secure unanimous consent to the matter yesterday, the very kind and courteous gen- tleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Luce) came to me and asked me whether that is not the case, and suggested that I call up the Presi- dent of the Farm Loan Bank Board. I did that and talked to Mr. Stevenson, and as a result of the conversation with him I am satisfied that, no matter whether as a matter of law this bill covers the Territories, the Bbard is going to construe it as not to have it cover the Territories. There are two ways of administering these things by these boards and administrative officers. One is to do things and the other is to find some method by which they cannot be done done. But I am not criticising these officials. In my conversation with Mr. Stevenson 1 asked him about the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii and whether they are coverad. He said he did not know, and he strongly suggested that I do not present this amend- ment in the House but present it to the Committee of the Senate. I wish I could. 1 wish I were a member of botl: the House and Senate, so that I could go over there and present things when I have not an Unfor- opportunity to present them here. tunately I am not. This is not an amendment which will emasculate the bill. It will not vitiate the bill. It is not an amendment which will change the broad general purpose of the bill. It is an amendment simply to extend to the citizens of the United States in the Territories of Alaska and Hawail the same rights and privileges and benefits that are extended to the citizens in the United States proper. I know of no reason why the people of Alaska and Hawaii should be discrimin- * ated against, and I am satisfied there is no member of the Committee or the House who intended to discriminate against them; but, under the announced policy of the Board, the announced view of the Board upon the jaw as I received it from Mr. Stevenson yes- terday, Alaska and Hawaii are going to be declared outside of this act if this bill passes without this amendment. We are simply asking for even-handed justice. We do not want anything special. I speak for Alaska and the gentleman from Hawaii, of course, will speak for that Territory. We are doing the best we can in Alaska, and we are subject to the evils of the depression just as you are in the United States. ] After a brief subsequent discussion, during which the Delegate accepted an amendment to his amend- ment by which Puerto Rico was added, the Dimond amendment was adopted. Z It is not certain that Alaskan home owners in need of relief will be able to get it even after the Delegate got the law changed for them. '.I‘hat. however, is not his fault. He telegraphed President Shattuck of the Alaska Senate what had been dgne and suggested that the Legislature pass legislation to legalize the creation of home loan associations in Alaska so that the Federal act would be workable here. The Legislature adjourned without any such measure having been introduced. In the jam that occurred at the last minute, the matter was en- tirely overlooked. NOT DRIFTING BUT PROGRESSING. While none can say just how the bold and aggressive program of President Roosevelt will work out, all must agree that the United States has| ‘ceased drifting. Continuing reports from the indus- " trial front all over the country are convincing that the nation is progressing. Business is better. Rail- _roads and factories are busier and stores are greet- _ ing more customers than for some two or more , too, before the major portion of t,hel Roosevelt program has been enacted into law and put into operation Great power is to be granted the President. When he uses it, it will be advisedly and because the times demand it. For coincident with the vest- |ing of such powers, comes responsibilities equally as great as the authority. And those qualities of lead- ership and vision exhibited by Mr. Roosevelt in the brief space of time he has been in office, his cour- age, his confidence, his alert and cheerful decision, his mastery over events as they have arisen, hava absolutely changed the nation’s psychology. The country is in more than an emergency. A crisis exists. Drastic treatmént is demanded. Mr. Roosevelt has demonstrated to the satisfaction of |the country that he is capable of applying it. Those who would alarm the people with clamor about “wrecking the constitution,” of abandoning the ten- ets and faith of the founding mistake the temper of the people. Fearful of change themselves and having insufficient vision the situation fathers, to sse it exists, they would stop what progress is being made. They had rather drift than try new and ‘um'lmm‘d routes. But the people of the country | have passed that point. Too long the nation drifted. |Now that it is in motion, they will sweep aside those who would tie the hands of the one man who made this almost miraculous change possible in a lttle more than two months Trotzky is reported to be planning to return to Russia from which he was exiled for alleged anti-Communist Party activities. That man seems to be a glutton for punishment A Missionary Resig (New York Herald Tribune.) Heretics are no longer burnt at the stake; they send letters of resignation to the parent church, and the parent church accepts those resignations. But if the heretic happens to be a distinguished author, notable for fearlessness and honesty of speech, there is an acrid suggestion of something in the air that reminds many people of the smoke that rose from the stake. But in the more theo- logical aspects of the disagreement between Mrs. Pearl Buck, who resigned, and the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, which accepted her resignation, formal justice seems to us to be on the latter's side. Mrs. Buck expressed sincere doubts of the divinity of Christ; her church is founded on belief in that divinity. A parting of the ways between the two was natural and right. But Mrs. Buck, in speeches and magazine articles, expressed much more than a doubt about her church’s creed. She asked, in all sincerity and with the knowledge of long experience, whether it was either wise or just to try to win the Chinese to Christianity by sending missionaries whose narrow insistence upon doctrine repelled their would-be con- verts. She raised the question whether foreign missions, as now conducted, did not defeat their own ends. She urged a moratorium on talk and theology, and suggested that “we try to express our religion in terms of life.” She said many things that could be wounding only to those who wear, in place of Christian charity and vision, the blinders of dogma. And her church accepts Mrs. Buck’s resignation on a matter of doctrine (at it is fully entitled to do), but does not accept, or even listen to, to how its work may be performed so as not to offend the principles of its Founder. Thereby help- ing her, not inconsiderably, to prove her point. Out of the Red. (New York Times.) Revised figures of the Treasury, published yes- terday, show that the Federal Goyernment closed its books for March with a balance on the right side of the ledger. Receipts were $283,186,000 and ex- penditures $282,368,000—leaving a small surplus of $818,000. This is the first time the Treasury has had a surplus in its monthly accounts since Sep- tember, 1931—a year and a half ago. Deficits have been the order of the day. In the thirty-nine months since the end of 1929, receipts have ex- ceeded expenditures only on seven occasions. The favorable showing made last month was due in part to the fact that quarterly instalments on the income tax were paid in March. April and May will lack the benefit of such payments, and tem- porarily the Government's balance will again go into the red. But a comparison, of figures for March of this year with those for the same month of 1932 shows that progress is being made in correcting underlying conditions. Receipts this year were $7,- 000,000 in excess of those a year ago, due to larger returns in miscellaneous infernal revenue. Expendi- tures declined by mno less than $103,000,000, due partly to withdrawal by the Government from cer- tain activities in which it was engaged a year ago and partly to economies initiated by the Hoover Administration. The still larger economies made by the new Ad- ministration during its first month in office have not yet appeared in the Treasury's figures. For the reduction of Federal salaries did not become ef- fective until April 1, and the new regulations which are expected to save $400,000,00 in the,outlay for veterans' relief come into effect only at the end of June. The effect of these larger savings, and of additional economies which an energetic Director of the Budget is now planning, will be: increasingly evident in Treasury figures for the next few months. Not a Dictatorship. (Birmingham, Ala., Age-Herald.) A dictatorship rests upon the idea of force, and cannot be separated from it. Once separated from force, it ceases to be an actual dictatorship. The concentration of authority in the President, on the other hand, is a grant of power by a duly authorized agency of the people—Congress—and in a perfectly regular way. It is done in time of war, and ac- cepted as a matter of course. It is no less proper, and should be no less acceptable, in a grave emer- gency of another sort, such as the present crisis, to give the President authority comparable to war- time powers. Rather than a dictatorship, it would better be called a leadership empowered to lead—and that is no mere play on words. The difference between the two is the same as the difference between selzing power and having it thrust .upon you, be- tween exercising authority by force and exercising it under a grant. Japanese military strategists object to the pres- ence of Chinese troops which may threaten their rear, They also object to any that may threaten their front.—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) Scott McBride says the people will down the beer law. Wonder if he didn't get his statement a little twisted and meant that the people will down the beer?—(Jacksonville Times-Union.) An advertisement in a Chicago paper says: “Big Stein, 10c; Bottles, 15c;” but has anybody seen a sign reading “This size 5c¢,” lately?—(Springfield, Ohio, News.) SYNOPSIS: A vague premo- niticn warns James Sundean not to stay in Lovschiew’s ho- tel in Armene—but he is too hungry to leave! A white cock- ateo watches him sign the reg- ister; the proprictor, slightly greasy and a little unpleas- ant, turns out to be a natwral- ized American of uncertain lin- cage. Sundean is thown a hig gloomy room, in a distant wing of the hotel. He is left with only the north wind, that curse of Southern France, for com- pany. P Chapter MYSTERIOUS PROMISE Perhaps half an hour later I started to retrace my steps through those confusing corridors to find the dining room. As I stepped:ou: side my room and closed the her suggestions as door behind me I paused a mo- ment. Directly oposite men and across the shadowy court I could see the lights of the lobby; from its glass paned door and its window bold rectangles of light spread them- selves whitely upon the paving of the court. The wind was steadily rising, murmuring and sighing and creaking windows and shutters, and it waved the dense vines' .and shrubs in the corners of the court s0 that they made black-blue sha- dows which fled anxiously across the white blocks of light. The courtyard itself was faintly lighter than the shadows, owing to the light from the lobby and din- ing-room windows, as well as to a rather dim and wavering light which was hung above the arched entrance and which, as the wind swayed it, waked more fleeting blue | | Curious, | laid my shadows into life. Immediately at my left as T | er glassed door, and, idly curious, I moved toward it, glanced through the glass, laid my hand on the latch and stepped through the door onto a sort of landing which led to a narrow, winding flight of iron steps which descended to the courtyard below. I don't know why the steps | aroused my interest; perhaps I only | wanted a breath of fresh air after the chill mustiness of my room. At any rate, I descended a few steps dow-ridden court. Just below me someone was talk- ing. In the lull of the wind I could hear the voices quite dis- tinctly, although I could se2 neith- er of the speakers. Lavschiem, | probably, rating a servant, for the lobby was empty, and it sounded like Lovschiem's voice telling some one in crisp English that”he'd be | dammed if he'd let jt happen again. The other voice replied that it wouldn't happen again. “Are you sure?” said the voice I took to be Lovschiem's. “I'm sure., It's certain. I know exactly where it is.” “Good, then, T leave it to you.” Lovschiem paused, and, this man of hybrid nationality, uttered the one Spanish word I knew which was “Manana.” “Manana,” said the other, and Lovschiem, a dark shadowy bulk, stepped out from the shadows and The White Codkatoo by Mignon G. Eberhart’ stood facing the lobby was anoth- | and paused again to view the sha- | ory directly below the stair- and walked across the flicker-) k and blue and white of! the court and into the lobby, where he stood at the desk, stroking his | white cockatoo. The other speak- jer had vanished. Since then I have recalled with erest that it was a faint | di of Lovschiem which sent {me up the steps again, and through |the long winding corridors along which the porter had led me. If I had descended the remaining steps and llowed Lovschiem directly’ across the court and into the lob- by, ngs might have had a very different ending. The lounge was still empty and the bar had not even a light, but in the dining room adjoining the lounge I caught a glimpse of the bright-eyed little porter apparent- ly doubling as a waiter, for he was hurrying across the room with a steaming tureen of soup in one hand and a napkin properly fold- ed across his arm. He ked harassed, but after dicposing of the soup, trotted to meet and seat me with an air of alacrity. He brought me the wine list, showed me a written menu which offered no choice, and hur- ried away. There were only dining. Directly across from me sat a woman with a kind of war-horse look about her mose, and terrifying wide, black eyebrows; she was essed in black, sidxy-looking stuff with quantities of beads and brace- lets and brooches, and she looked,i in spite of being rather angular in line, a little stuffed as to cloth- ing, as if she had a great many three people hand on the latch. | layers of other clothing underneath | the'black silk. She was reading the Daily Mail with a lorgnette and considerable disapproval. I surmised she was English, but I was wrong, for she turned out to be Mrs. Felicia Byng, from Omaha, Nebraska, and T might say here that I never did know exactly why she was touring :the country or why she had taken it into her head to stop in Ar- |mene. In many respects she re-| | mained to the last a woman of | | mystery. | Across the room sat a priest, youngish, with a dark brown sweat- er pulled over his black, tightly | buttoned soutane. His claim to dis- tinction appeared to lie in a rather ghastly red beard. His hair was cut like a brush and was of no particular color; thus the sight of his fiery beard was in the na- ture of a shock. He was partaking | of soup through the beard with an unpleasant determination, and Ii shifted my gaze hwrriedly back to the wine list in my hand. But after a moment, simply be- cause there were so few people in the room, my eyes drifted to the only other occupied table, where a woman was seated whose back was turned toward me. Drifted idly, but paused with in- terest, for it was, I saw at once, a very beautiful back. She was wear- ing a black velvet coat affair which fitted tightly and smoothly, I could see, of course, her slim white neck and her hair, which was brown Juneau Strong—Progressive—Conservative We cordially invite. you to avail yourselves of our facilities for The B. M. Behrends Bank BANKERS SINCE 1891 handling your business. 4 Alaska | | = YEARS AGO From The Emplre S e i MAY 15, 1913 So that the city of Juneau might utilize the rock found in abundance in building lasting pavements to replace the miserable plank road- ways in the town, B. L. Thane pro- | § sented Juneau with a rock crushervl ! Friends of Gov. and Mrs. Wal- ter E. Clark united last night in giving a dancing party in their honor at the Elks’ hall. There was a large attendance, especially from the younger set. It was an in- formal affair end resulted in a very enjoyable evening for all who attended. Another party for Gov. and Mrs. Clark was planned by their friends in Douglas and Tread- well for the following Saturday. Ward T. Bower of the Alaska Fisheries service arrived in Juneau! £ on business in connection with his department. Ed Hurlbutt returned on the Spokane from California. \ Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Riedi, of Douglas, a daughter. B Frank Bach, the Democratic lead- er of Douglas, was a visitor in Juneau. Superintendent R. A. Kinzie, of Treadwell, arrived on the Spokane from a brief visit in the South. District Court Clerk E. W. Pet- tit met with an unusual and pain- ful accident resulting in the frac- ture of two toes on his right foot. After removing his shoes he at- tempted to cross a-room in his home and stumbled over a suit- case. Dr. Simpson was called and said that it would be several weeks before Mr. Pettit could wear a shoe on his right foot. i with gold lights in it and was soft and pleasant-looking. Below the folds of velvet and | the black lace of the gown she was wearing I could see one an- kle and foot. Indeed, I could hard- ly help seeing it, for she wore bright scarlet slippers with silver straps and silver heels. Her ankle was slender, t00, with delicate fine lines, and the moment my eyes reached her foot with its nice in- step, I knew she was an Ameri- can, It was a beautiful foot and the slipper was well made. The erstwhile porter.served my soup, and the dinner progressed .quietly, with the exception of Mrs, Byng’s loud and clattering French. | But with the cheese there was an incident which, I think, no one saw but myself. N (Copyright 1933, Mignon G. 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