The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 16, 1933, Page 4

e . " | | PRESIDENT A\D EDITOR | G ERAL MAVI\GER‘ JOHN W. TROY - - ROBERT W. BENDER - - Published _every evening _except Sunday by _the EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Ju ska Entered in the Post Office 1n Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dellvered by carrier In Juneau month. . at the following rates: $12.00; xrx months, In advance, $1 Ve or if_they will promptly | any failure or irregularity In the delivery of_their papers, Telephone for Bditorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Assoc Press is exclusively entitled to the use for rep ation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the focal news published herein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. ROOSEVELT’S PROGRAM MATERIALIZING. With the inflation-farm bill passed by Congress and signed by the President, the first big step in the restoration of the industrial activity of the country may be said to have been accomplished by the Administration. The President and Director Douglas of the Bureau of Budget have virtually balanced the budget. And Mr. Roosevelt now has power to manipulate finance and production of raw materials to lift the level of practically all com- modity prices. From the tenor of tion spokesmen in Congress and out, not be attempted in haste, The program has already transformed national psychology. It has caused a shift of cash into raw materials and goods, and in other words has started the ball rolling. Now it seems logical to wait a while to determine the trend of natural influences. Heretofore speculation has largely been responsible of Administra- inflation will explanation for bolstering up commodity markets against what in most instances was an unfavorable statistical situation. With the farm bill now law, it becomes the task of the agricultural chiefs of the Admin- istration to step in with a program calculated to limit production and care for the mortgage situa- tion in some manner or other and bring about the improvement in agricultural areas that the farmers are demanding to a point that nears revolt. The Administration’s big relief public works measure still has to be introduced in Congress and acted upon. This and the railroad legislation will about complete Mr. Roosevelt's domestic emergency program. These should be out of the way by early next month if Congress proves as responsive in the next two weeks as it has in the past ten. That done, the country will have a short breathing spell while it waits for definite results from the World Economic Conference at London. Just now the Disarmament Conference is dead- locked at Geneva, which casts a sort of dark shadow over the London meetings. Germany, under Hitler rule, seems to be the stumbling block. If that nation should throw off all restraint and announce its decision to re-arm despite the peace treaty, the ambitious international program of President Roose- velt may get a serious setback. If, on the other hand, Germany falls into line, an immediate tariff truce affecting all of the larger nations is appar- ently an assured fact, and the London Conference ought to get away to a flying start. DRY ATTACK UNDER WAY. With the decision recently of a Colorado State District Court holding that the modification of the Volstead Act to permit the manufacture and sale of beer and light wines and the State beer act were unconstitutional, the attack of the Dry organi- zations against modification really got under way. But that decision is a long way from being final. It will take months to get the last word said on the matter by the United States Supreme Court. Before that can be had, it will be first necessary to take an appeal to the State Supreme Court of Colorado. That step is already under way by the plaintiffs in the original suit. Speculation on what the higher tribunals will rule is, of course, idle. They may or may not uphold the lower tribunal in its view that both the Federal and Colorado State laws “seek to thwart and evade the dry amendments in the United States and Colo- rado Constitutions.” Technically that may be the correct view. But practically those laws represent honest efforts by Congress and the Colorado State to .the people of the United 4 Legislature to give P States and the State, itself, something they have demanded in no uncertain terms. Maybe that cannot be done legally until the Eighteenth Amend- ment is repealed. Only the Supreme Court can establish whether that is true. And by the time the Supreme Court gets around to saying it, possibly the people of the United States will have exercised their sovereign power in the premises by wiping out of the Federal Constitution the Eighteenth Amendment. k. MONROE DOCTRINE TODAY. The real meaning of the Monroe Doctrine and the spirit in which it was conceived and is now regarded was voiced recently by President Roosevelt in a speech before the Governing Board of the Pan-American Union as follows: The essential qualities of a true Pan- Americanism must be the same as those which constitute a good neighbor, namely, x mutual understanding, and, through such iy understanding, a sympathetic appreciation of the other’s point of view. It is only in this manner that we can hope to build up a system of which confidence, friendship and good-will are the cornerstones. In this spirit the people of every republic on our continent are coming to a deep ¢ understanding of the fact that the Monroe . Doctrine, of which so much has been and Douglas for $1.25 written and spoken for more than a cen- tury, was and is dirercted at the mainte- nance of independence by the peoples of the continent It was aimed and is aimed against the acquisition in any manner of the control of additional territory in this hemisphere by any non-American power. If the people of Central and South American countries have sometimes doubted our diginterested- ness and have been suspicious of our motives, it has been as much our fault as theirs. Often we have not been as free from self-seeking as we |should have been under the Monrce Doctriné In |recent years, however, that has not been the case. |The spirit of real neighborliness, of true friendship |has been back of all our efforts to bring about |more intimate relations with our Southern neigh- {bors. And under President Roosevelt this policy will no doubt be accentuated With the limit taken off medicinal whiskey that can be prescribed by physicians to relieve the ills |of suffering Americans, an epidemic of writer's _|cramp among the medicos may shortly. be re- ported The invasion of Washington by the Second | Bonus Expeditionary Force seems to have fizzled out before it got fairly under way. | Enlightenment. (New York Times.) | ~This has been a month of “enlightenment” in the German universities. The Germant Sudents’ Association, master of the treasuries of Hitlerian education, knits all these sons of thought in a e. So some 100,000 of them have been “purifying” German literature and “purg- ing” public and private libraries and bookshops. In their wisdom they have decided that “all Jewish works be compelled to appear in Hebrew.” No con- cession even to Greek or Latin. Evidently Luther was a bad German and his translation of the Bible ought to be thrown into the fire. Since these active prosecutors and are bound to lay “the un-German spirit,” to put the match to Goethe's works. His object was “to get to know man.” He was a cosmopolitan, who would have been scornfully aloof from the madness so artfully worked up among the German tribes. Kant was a pacifist. It was his theory that “a powerful and enlightened people should form a common heroic pur condemners they ought republic” which might become “a centre of federal union for other States.” Like Lessing, like the early Schiller and the early Fichte, he was, an interna- tionalist. But logic is no more to be expected from the boy proscribers than intelligence. Heine must be on the index. No non-Aryan poet can hope for mercy. Karl Marx and Lassalle, whose works have burned themselves pretty well into the consciousness of mankind, will be honored by a posthumous bon- fire. The writings of a lot of contemporary authors, for various reasons anathema to the wise young judges, are doomed to the flames. This is the new Age of Enlightenment. Chan- cellor Hitler's autobigraphy, “My Struggle,” is the German Bible. Only Nazi authors may be safely read. bR Rl B N In what were once homes of free thought and among the very classes that ought to be familiar with the fruitless attempts to dam its course, this reversion to darker ages has full sway. The genuine German, the perfect Nazi, seems coeval with the Black Death, which, as we all know, was caused by the Jew poisoners of wells. Pursuers and executioners of books are worthy inheritors of witch-finders and witeh-burners. But with all this regression there may be progress. Paranoia is progressive. Why shouldn't Hitler yet become the hero-god Wotan-Arminius, dethroning divinities that come from non-Aryan sources. Her universities were long a chief glory of Ger- many. They are now another of her shames. ourage. (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) “Courage isn't a brilliant dash, A daring deed in a moment’s flash. It's something in the soul of man, Working always to serve some plan.” Right or wrong, it takes courage to close all the banks in the Unitéd States. It takes courage to tell war veterans they will have their pensions cut. It takes courage to tell men they must give up their gold. It takes curage to cut the payroll of the entire Government. It takes courage to level tariff walls that the trade of the world may flow again. Mussolini with all his dreams of Empire and autocratic power never enacted greater drama nor fought more vigorously to rehabilitate a nation than has President Roosevelt. Our President is faced with problems as serious as those faced by any “war President.” The people of America must stand behind him. Harping criti- cism and obstruction, in these trying times, are unfair to our Chief Executive, who is displaying the highest order of courage in the most trying position a man could occupy today. Youth and Crime. (New York Times.) Persons under the age of 25 furnish 40 per cent of the law violators, according to a survey by the Department of Justice at Washington. The figures once more emphasize the connection between youth and crime with which penologists and the public have been increasingly concerned. Yet the pre- ponderance of young criminals is by no means so heavy as it is sometimes represented to be. It is fair to argue that children under 15 and persons over 65 offer poor recruiting ground for crime. Between the ages of 15 and 65 we would have a population of about 80,000,000. Between the ages of 15 and 25 the number is 22,500,000. That is very close to 30 per cent of potential crime population. If this class provides 40 per cent of the crim- inals, it would be about one-third above normal. This is a good deal, but it does not quite bear out the general impression that *“youth™ supplies nearly all of our criminals. This inflation business where you have twice as much to pay twice as much seems to us in full accord with Einstein's theory of relativity.— (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.) One look at the patient wet is enough to con- vince anyone that he prefers to see beer in steins rather than in headlines.—(Boston Herald.) It merely depends. on how many persons you meet how many different explanations you get of our recent climbing off the gold standard— (Dayton, Ohio, News.) Chain grocery stores say that milk sales have declined with the return of beer. We don't see how anybody can tell the difference.—(New York Sun.) The 30-hour week ought to be a great boon to golfing, there will be so little interference by work. —Ohio State Journal.) SYNOPSIS: Warned by a premonitien of ill, James Sun- dean still stays on in a little hotel in the French tcwn of | Armene. He is quartered in a | forbidding room, across the court from the body of the ho- | tel. He hears the unsavory Lov- | schiem, proprietor of the ho- ! tel, demand that an unseen | stranger “get something” te- | morrow.” And while at dinner | with the three other guests, the | cmphatic Mrs. Felica Byng, the red-haired priest, and the beau- tiful American girl, Sundean fecs . .. Chapter 3 THE SWORD CLOCK T was sitting facing the windows, which, in turn, faced the court. They were curtained up to about | the height fo a man’s shoulders. .| The outside shutters had mnot been closed, and I was looking idly at the black, shining window, which ) reflected, above, the crystal-be-) decked chandelier, and thmkm‘,‘ that .the wind was increasing in violence, for T could hear it rattle the shutters, when I suddenly per-' ceived that T was looking straight | into the face of Lovschiem. I could' see only the upper half of his face ! but it was unmistakable. | The rather disturbing thing was| that he was staring with curious! intensity at the woman with the silver heels. I put down the glass I held, and the motion caught His eyes, which flickered to ‘me and! | vanished in the same half second. It had been Lovschiem, in flesh, | however: I was sure of that..But if a man wishes to look in the win- dows of his own hotel I suppose he may do so, unpleasant though his gaze may be. 1 loitered a little over some p«ars rather hoping the girl with the sil- ver heels would leave first, so T might get a glimpse of her face. But she did mot move, even after the porter had cleared the table and disappeared. I rose at length, reflecting that,' after all, it was better to let the vision of beauty remain without running the risk of disillusion-! ment, and that the room was grow- ing colder and colder. The lounge was deserted, and the parlor was dark. I told the por- ter to light a fire in my room and serve me coffee and a brandy there! The night had increased in vio- lence while I sat at dinner, and when at length I opened the door ! that led into the window-lined cor- ridor of the north wing, the cold rush of air swooped upon me liké! some frightened creature let loose.’ I was glad to see the porter when he followed me a ‘few moments later. | “Do you think it will burn?” I asked, watching him lay kindling. He glanced dubiously toward the: chimney, said something about the north wind, and swrugged and pulled down his mouth in that| splendid French gesture which ut- | terly disclaims responsibility for| what may occur. 4 “There aren’t many guests at the hotel?” T said. “No, monsieur. Not son. We have now Madame Byng, Pere Robart, and yourself. That is all.” He blew vig- orously at the small beginning flame. His alert dark face grew | scarlet before a flame shot up, and he took a breath and sat back on his heels with his dark eyes now catching lights from the fire and his white apron draped over his knees. “Miss Tally, she is the beautiful lady in the dining room tonight The one in the red slippers. Mad- ame Byng, she is the—" he hesi- tated doubtfully and finally said neatly—“she is the other one.” A shutter banged, and the por- ter skipped to his feet and across the room, pulling open the long window and letting in a blast of wind that set the flames dancing madly and smoke billowing into the room while he endeavored to fasten the shutter more securely. I judged he did mot succeed, for he gave another shrug and left it, fastened the window again and drew the thick red curtains across it. at this sea- Miss Tally, My gaze wandered idly about the room, over the thick worm red carpet, the old chairs with their satin upholstery and what looked The White Codkatoo by Mignon G. Eberhart’ man on It must have been just about then that I fell into a doze, for the la thing T remember w | loo ; at the figyre in bronze, so perle and complete, with the | ho: mane and tail waiving, and’ r's hat and cloak swept | the { back land jall until T waked suddenly to the ‘opened it to let the smoke out, and > hand-carved frames, the fan- stal-bedecked chandelier, the, somber wardrobe, the gil framed mirror above the fireplace, gay French clock on the man- ot much clock, but elaborate- surmounted by the figure of a horseback in bronze. ly and even his gauntleted hand the long sword it held quite perfect in detail. I remember think, how ugly it 'was as a clock ded- on and how large—the sword alone must have been five or six and the rest of the inches long, A figure In bronze, perfect and complete. figure in proportion—and that was fact that the wind was driving the smoke down the chimney and into the room, that the shutter was banging furiously, and that I was cramped and chilled. I rose, yawned, realized I'd been asleep, saw by my watch that it | was past twelve, and decided to | go to bed. T went to the door, stepped. into the corridor, glancing down into the court. It was a night to bring out the witches. Indeed, you'd have been willing to swear they were already out and were whirling and surging madly up and down and through and around the court in a furied witches’ Sabbath. The light under the arch was tossing, black shadows were flying grotesquely; the thick shrubs and vines in the corners had come to life and were flinging themselves violently about, the corridor win- dows were rattling; the lobby across the court was dark, and not a thread of light was shining through any of the shuttered windows— there were only that small tossing light under the entrance arch and those wild flying shadows. 1 wished suddenly that I had chosen a less desolate and wind- swept place. Instinet is always stronger when you are about half The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau BANKERS SINCE 1891 Strong—Progressive—Conservative We cordially invite you to avail yourselves of our facilities for handling your business. : Alaska 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire | L T A MAY 16, 1913 The school board has secured pledges from the citizens of Ju- neau for $26,000 with which to se- cure property on which to build a school. o Manear were united in marriage by the Rev. J. B. Stevens at th> resi- dence of the groom’s parents in the Bean apartments Main street. Both parties of sac- red contract were well known resi- dents of Ketchikan. on the J. McBride and Miss Bez:el ( Henry Moses arrived in Juneau on the Georgia from Killisnoo. with a new stood out like other The Case b coat of white paint, a marble monument among buildings in Juneau. The U. 8. S. MacArthur of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, Capt C. G. Quillian in command, Wwas in port enroute to the Westward. The stringent quarantine regu- lations in force on Douglas Island epidemic and no mew veral let fever cases had been reported for days. Mrs. Renison, wife of the Rev. G. Renison, and Mrs. J. W. Rum- mel, wife of the assistant agent of the .Alaska Steamship Company, made the roundtrip to 'Sitka on the Georgia. Great work was being done in the Salmon Creek division of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Com- pany's development project. two hundred men were employed in that division. The basin, where the upper dgm was being con- structed, was the center of activ- ity. ‘A great change had been made lin the economy of handling sup- plies that entered into the con- struction of the dam. An 8-ton Porter engine had replaced horses in hauling the tram cars over the railroad from the top of the hoist to the dam site. asleep: I disliked the old hotel, disliked the witch-ridden ‘court- yard. It was quite suddenly sinister. That seems a fanciful and imagin- ative word and, God knows, I'm not a fanciful or imaginative man, but it was the only word that was apt. The -place was sinister. It threat- ened. And then all at once, the wind was wailing louder. Tt was wail- ing in my ear—no, not wailing, it was sobbing. It was sobbing and saying, inconceivably: “Let me in. Oh, please. Let me in.” (Copyright, 1933, Mignon G. 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