The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 17, 1933, Page 4

i NERAL MANAGER | ROBERT W. BENDER - - G Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIREPRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, June Al ered in the Post Office m Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, | Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month 1, postage paid, at the following rates: year, n_advance, $12.00 ; one month, in advanc Subscribers notify the Bu j,flx months, in advance, $1.26. or it they will -promptly . uy failure or irregularity of_thei or Edit exclusively entitled to the news dispatches credited to ed in this paper and also the n ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER HAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION SPEAKING FOR MANKIND. velt's statement yester- the subordination ed to the rulers Although President Roos day regarding disarmament and of petty national aims was add of all nations, it was aimed at the peoples of the nations of the world as well Jpon these two factors as much as upon anything else depends the success of the forthcoming World Economic Conference at London where it has been hoped that a start upon real wold economic recovery might be achieved. And while he applied his de- clarations to no nation and to no ruler, none can doubt that in the main they fit Hitler in Germany and Japan for its aggression in Manchuria. No more courageous step has yet been taken by Mr. Roosevelt than when he broke all diplomatic precedent and thus openly addressed himself in this manner to the heads of the world's greatest powers. Not even when he stepped out and closed this nation’s banks overnight, braved the wrath of the veterans'| organizations, and risked the anger of Federal| bureaucracy by drastic reductions in their expendi- tures, was greater courage required The President did not confine himself to general- ities. He was bold enough to set forth a definite program which he declared should be inaugurated at once. Reductions of armaments on a specific plan; the setting up of a consultative pact to pro- mote peace; and the defining of a definite time and place for a later conference to put these things into effect; an immediate agreement that no nation shall increase its existing armaments; a pledge by all nations to provide terms of arms limitations that shall be faithfully kept; and finally a pledge that no nation shall send an armed force across any frontier. In language clear and unmistakable, and with the vision of statesmanship Mr. Roosevelt has put his finger on the sore spots that are causing present ills and predicate even greater troubles for the future. What man or nation will dispute the deep-seated truth of his assertion that it has become increasingly evident that as- surance of world economic peace and stabil- ity is threatened by selfish and shortsighted policies, actions and threats, and it is high time that the United States and every other nation understand the simple fact that in- vasion of any other nation or destruction of national sovereignty can be prevented only by a complete elimination of the weapons that make such a course possible today? Notably he has bid tMe world set up a mnew order for conducting international relations. 'He has put the dreams of millions of men and women into words that all can understand. They can be realized if the rulers he addressed will it. And his pointed warning to the nation or nations that inter- poses obstructions that the civilized world 1i know where responsibility for failure lies,” ought to serve to prevent such obstruction No more powerful plea for international co- operation has ever been voiced by the responsible head of any nation. Mr. Roosevelt voiced his plea for it not merely in the name of the American people but for all mankind. GOOD POLIC —PUBLIC OR PRIVATE. “Buy at Home, Patronize Home Industry,” is the slogan of every worthwhile community, every self- supporting and self-respecting one. As a doctrine it is preached nationally and locally. Juneau's busi- ness houses have expended considerable sums of money advertising “Buy American, Buy Alaskan, Buy Juneau.” Long ago they, and others who have given the subject serious consideration, realized that every dollar sent out of the city was lost to circu- lation in the community. Not one cent of it ever returns. It serves for a single local transaction, no more. The reverse is true of the dollar expended at home. Every dollar expended here for labor, materials or merchandise changes hands many times, and each time it completes a transaction some mem- ber of the community is benefitted by it. The pub- lisher pays his laborers, they pay taxes, the butch- er, the grocer, the landlord, the doctor, the insurance man, and they in turn pay taxes, their employees who pay more bills, and other local creditors, The money passes from hand to hand, and eventually some of it comes back to the source from which it started to go the same rounds again. * That is the secret of community self-reliance and independence. If no one bought at home, if all the dollars were sent away from home, there would be no schools, no fire department, no public library, no police protection, none of the agencies and instrumentalities for the public good that must be present in any congregation of human beings. None can dispute the soundness of buy at home| as a business policy for private expenditures. It is| equally as good and sound for the expenditure| of public funds. Money possessed by the community is derived from taxes upon local business activities, real and personal property. It is entrusted to public officers by the taxpayers for expenditure for public benefit. If it is expended at home it finds its way back into the normal channels of trade and business transactions. Sent away, it disappears as completely as the dollar of the private citizen does under the same circumstances. That is the basis of the resolution passed last Thursday by the Chamber of Commerce when it asked the City Council, other things being equal, to give home industry preference in its expenditure of public funds. The Chamber's action was not a criticism of the municipal administration. It was |merely an expression of the sentiment of the busi- ness community thoroughly in accord with the Chamber’s long-standing position on the same sub- ject as applied to private business enterprises. Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross has a harder. task be- |fore her as Director of the Mint than a mere man |would have in the same position. It'’s up to her to prove that the wives are correct in their assump- |tion that they can make more money than their lesser halves Among the new inventions that seem to be [worse than useless is the new universal language |by a British savant that is said to be causing a lot- of talk. Just now a lot of talk .is the one thing we can get along without | A New York newspaper unhesitatingly asserts that Franklin Roosevelt is not Grover Cleveland. Trust some New York publication “to find out some- thing that everybody else in the country already knows. A Slump in Human Values. (Manchester, Eng, Guardian.) Twelve hundred unemployed people in a Salva- tion Army shelter in New York were recently in- vited to vote on whether any man in the world was worth a salary of £16,000 a year, which seems a fatuous form of inquiry to put to men and women who were divorced from any kind of salary at all. However, those generous unemployed decided that two men were indeed worth their salt to the tune of £16,000 a year—any President of the United States and Babe Ruth, the baseball champion. One does not know whether the two heroes in question are now filled with pride at their eminence as the result of a competition in which Einstein, Marconi, Mussolini and De Valera were bracketed equal with one vote each. If they are, they may be recom- mended to consider a reported pronouncement, by the President of the American Museum of Natural History, which is calculated to put them firmly back in what may even be something less than their proper place. A man of 5 ft. 8 in. in height and weighing eleven stone, says this natural historian, has a cash value of £9 9s. 3%d. at the present price of the chemicals he contains. Five years ago the same chemicals would have been quoted at £16, but the slump has set in since then, and the |various salts and carbons comprised in the mortal instrument are now almost a drug on the market; the unemployed is not worth his salt on the labor exchange, and for laboratory purposes the price-list of his ingredients has been nearly halved. It is a sobering thought that imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, is not worth as much as he used to be, not even to hole-stoppers and brick manu- facturers kindly calculation which the unnatural historian of the Museum of Natural History has supplied. Therol used to be magazine articles of the statistical type which delighted to ‘tell us, with diagrams and illus- trations, how many salt-cellars would be needed to make a man, how many iron tacks, how many match heads of phosphorus, and so on. Those, if incredible, were at least interesting and not exactly derogatory assumptions. This price-list system, with mankind marked down as a job lot, is vastly dis- respectful and uncalled for. A Use for Poison Ivy. (New York Herald Tribune.) While the world has been puzzled for some cen- turies as to the precise intentions of Providence in creating poison ivy, it has remained for a Pitts- burgh society matron, whose name is not listed in the dispatches, to devise a practical uyse for the noxious growth. All appeals to the esthetic and civic consciousness having failed to protect the hill- side rocks of the Ohio River .Boulevard from sign painters, poison ivy is about to be tried as a last resource. The good lady mentioned has for years conducted a campaign against advertisements which have defaced the scenic beauties of the countryside, even going so far as to paint out the offensive inscriptions herself. But, as it were, to hoist her with her own petard, the sign painters have gone so far as to use her own backgrounds as frames for further blurbs, and now she has planted poison ivy up and down the landscape as a last resort. In this case the phrase, “'Ware the ivy!” will replace the anctent admonition, “Cave canem!” If the experiment succeeds and a universal planting of roadside poison ivy might serve, in addition to protecting exposed rock surfaces, to sup- press all billboard advertisements that mar the land- But this is also rather a coarse and un- | scape, the true use of the vine would at last have been discovered and its existence more than justi- fied. What Money Means. (Des Moines Register.) One thing this unceremonious dropping off the gold standard does for us is to re-emphasize the essentially fictitious character of money. That, to a people addicted to rampages of hoarding, should be a wholesome lesson. Money is not wealth; that is a truism out of the copy books. It is merely a symbol of value, created to facilitate exchanges of the things that do constitute wealth. It is clearly but a fictitious semblance of value that we give to a bill or a gold piece, which we can neither eat nor drink, when we trade it for a cow fully capable of sus- taining life. Much of our trouble has arisen from silly ef- forts to treat this money fiction as a fact. When Congress adjourns for the summer the members ought to play a better golf game than ever before. They've had a lot of experience with the | driver.—(Louisville Herald-Post.) Well, well, well, seems like a long time ago we were talking about beer and repeal. Remember, pefore inflation came along?—(Detroit Free Press. Of courss all we know is just what we've been told, but our understaning is this 32 Nepenthe tastes all right if you've got something to take after it—(Macon Telegraph.) — e A Detroit used car dealer offers a case of beer with each sale. Come, come, boys, another little second-hand sedan won't do us any harm.—(Detroit News.) P M. Herriot announces that he will make no prom- ises at Washington. Yeah, we've had too many promises out of France dreldy.—(DAl!u News.» SYNOPSIS: James Sundean, an engincer, has felt apprchen- sive since arriving at his ho- tel in Southern France. His room i¢ gloomy, and the howl- ing mnorth wind rattles every chutter on the house. He dis- trusts Lovschiem, the proprie- tor, and when, at dinner, he catches the man locking through the dining room win- dow at Miss Tally, an Ameri- can girl, he has a feeling of foreboding. The other guests are a red-haired priest and Mrs. Felicia Byng, of Omaha. Then Sundean wakes from a doze to hear a voice ery im terror: “Let me in!” Chaptr 4 GIRL IN TERROR Her fingers were scratching and fumbling at the door beside me. Then her face turned from look- ing over her shoulder and showed me whiteness and wide dark eyes The White Codkatoo by Mignon G. Eberhart’ s thar !my reason or volition, for I had |no wish to become entangled in | abductions. She reached the door |to the stairway as 'soon as I did land had both her hands on mine lon the latch. She was frightened, | I nodded. “You wouldn't believe how diffi- cult it's been for me to get them. Of course, here in France it's easy enough, if rather expensive, but in Russia it was practically imipossible. At least, where I was.” } “You've just come from there?” IT had thought her face looked softer, less rigid and white with terror, as if talking of everyday matiters were restoring her poise. At that moment, however, there | for her face was white, and she'was a sudden loud clap, and her |looked through the glass in a ter-|eyes leaped to mine, and she went 1. He must have gone as s you opened the door and in. He wouldn't stay about : to be' caught. Besides, t thrust this upom you." | I said, “Nonsense,” and lifted her. and moved her mnot too) y.'to one side; she was fairly g under her slimmess and de- [1 rmined. But as I wrenched the ,dqu open and the wind howled on us she seized my arm and ried, her lips mear my ear so I could hear her through the tumult of wind and creaking windows and clattering shutters: | “won't you understand? It will | ger | 1 way, but she begged me t0|white again. She looked helplessly about. ieve me. Do believe me, | (Copyright, 1933, M. G. Eberhart) Sundean learns more, tomor- row, about his strange visitor. 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire e e —rnd. § MAY 17, 1913 John F. Henson, Douglas; Law- rence S. Kerr, Nome, and Royal A. Gunnison, Juneau, were among those appointed notary publics by and blowing hair, and she beat be very difficult for me if you do|Gov. Walter E. Clark. on the door with her fists and sobbed again: “Oh, do let me in.” T got the door open, and she whirled in, and I closed it against the wind. She followed the light into my room like a child running from the dark, and when I followed her she was kneeling before the fire, stretching out her beautiful hands toward it, and her silver hesled slippers made spots cf light against the carpet. Her eyes met mine, and she said with a gasp. “Shut the door.” this.” | T looked down the steps. T could sce only as far as the first curve, a but dimly. Of course no one w there, and the courtyard was only alive with shadows. If she like that about it—after all, decision must remain with her. She was standing so close > m> that I could feel her body tremble with cold. 0 back into my room and try get warm,” As she hersitated, felt | |1 added: “Ch, T'l do 'as you say, | Sue whitled In. T shut the door into the corridor. There's one nice thing about not, having much' money:, you aren't suspicious. There was still a little brandy untouched and I gave it to her and pulled up a chair for her to lean | against and waited. Presently her breath stopped coming in gasps and her lips steadied themselves. Sh2 turned and looked at me and smiled a little tremulously. “I'm so sorry,” she said. see, I've just been abducted.” Her dark eyes held mine for a moment, and then she turned back to the fire as if she had said all there was to say. I pulled myself together. “Shall T call the police?” You “The police. Oh, no. No. T don't | think they could do anything about it. Anyway, T've wescaped. Qu ) her voice wavered upward and she caught herself and said with- out trembling—“quite wninjured.” I don't remember that I had need to convince myself that she was telling me the truth: simply wasn't any doubt mind. I said: “Isn't there thing I can do? Shall I maid? The hotel manager? one? Can't I do something moved toward the bell and must have thought I was mov there my in toward the door for she turned around in fear again and with a quick catch in her brea “Please don't leave. Just:for a moment or two. I shall be all right again in just a moment. I— you see, I'm out of breath. TI've been running. He was following me."” Something carried me to the door and into the corridor; it was not of course.” It satisfied her, after one searching look through the | half darkness to find my eyes, and she went back to the light and the fire while I closed the door to the stairway. “Please don't look like that,” she said. “As if I had cheated justice. I don't know how to explain "all | this to you. It must sound ~very lurid, thus far. But you must see that T can't involve you. And after all,” she added unexpectedly, “one’s abduction is one's own affair.” “It's very fortunate that it turned out in a way that permits you to i§ay that.” She looked at me quickly. “Don’t think I'm flippant. I'm— Im badly scared. Perhaps in a moment I can thank you properly. Just now I should like to get good and warm at your nice fire. Isn't it courious That just being cold can do things to your courage?” She stopped abruptly, as if that were at the moment too dangerous a topic, and said quickly: “I am Sue Tally. I'm staying here, of course. I'm intruding unforgivab- A T wanted to tell her she was not intruding. T wanted to tell her I was feasting my starved eyes just watching her. I wanted to tell her she was a little fool not to let me the police. I said my name was Jim Sun- dean and would she have a cigar- ette. She refused and watched me light one. Her small nose sniffed a little and she said in a pleased way: “Why, that's an American ciga- | rette!” The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau -2 Alaska BANKERS SINCE 1891 ' Strong—Progressive—Conservative We cordially invite you to avail yourselves of oup facilities for 1 handling your bijéinesé. i go after the man myself or call | Beginning at 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon, 'Gov. Walter E. Clark and the party of gentlemen friends with whom he has enjoyed bowi- ing the past winter, met to bowl until 6:30. The party then re- paired to the banquet hall of the Alaska Grill, where a wine dinner was served. Supt. B. B. Nieding of the Ken- sington Mines, rcported work pro- gressing rapidly at Comet City. ! Work had commenced on the great Kensington tunnel. A large and appreciative audi- ence enjoyed the classy program at the Gross theatre. “Redemption,” the feature, is said to be one of the truly most dramatic produc- tions ever shown in Juneau. The protection given black bear by game laws, was removed en- tirely. Jack McCormick accepted a po- sition with the Treadwell mine, succeeding James Stevenson, re- signed. The regular baseball team put one over on the ‘scrubs, captained by Leslie Foreman. The regu- lars, with 'W. Museth, as captain, beat Foreman's team 14 to 2. Judge J. F. Malony and Mrs. Malony left on the Spokane for Ketchikan. ———— NOTICE I will not be responsible for any debts contracted in my name un- less authorized by me. —adv. BERT RUOTSALA. Old papers at The Empire. | for Busy | PEOPLE Being in a hurry | doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a deli- cious lunch. Come here and be con- vinced. Bailey’s Cafe Foy SOMETHING NEW! —Try Our— TOMATO ROLLS Sanding, Finishing | | 403 Goldstein Blg. = Phone 582 | & & | | Hardwood Flooring—Laying, i | o e ¢ @ LUDWIG NELSON | weich Bovaring Brunswick Agesey ( I._ PFRONT STREST ' BETTY MAC BEAUTY SHOP, .| Assembly: Ra—— PROFESSIONAL U | Helene W. L. 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