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

v q 1 ' THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1933. .. - Daily Alaska Empire | GENERAL MANAGER ROBERT W. BENDER - - except Sunday by the at Second and Main evening COMPANY aska. " Published e EMPIRE PR Streets, Juneau Tntered In the Post Office in Juncau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: ne X, advance, $12.00; six months, In advance, $8.00; one month, in advance, $1.26. e Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the ness Office ny failure or irregularity in the delivery of their pa Telephone for Editorial MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republi n of all news dispatches credited to ted in this paper and also the in. d Business Offices, 374, ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. THE TRUE TAS If the Titans of American business and finance were the ruling dieties of the nation in 1929, they partook amply of the ancient Greek conception of gods that had the frailties of human nature. In a seemingly endless proecssion, many of them have been toppled from their austere heights. Some have fallen into the abyss of bankruptcy, others into the canyons of prisons, and still others into the more kindly vale of oblivion. Others, of course, have clung to their precarious footholds on Olympus, a bit dizzy as their comrades fall and demonstrate the painful nature of the descent. Unfortunately, the known errors of man in high places have led to a sort of blanket indictment of all men in position of power, in the minds of some unthinking persons. This is grossly unfair to those economic leaders of unquestionable honesty and competence, and likewise to those whose names have been associated in innocent relations with wrongdoers. A measure of indiscriminate condemnation is inevitable, however, and it will pass after awhile. We are going through a process in America of revising our system of values. We are learning to see wealth in a new light—in terms of enduring assets instead of paper gains. We are, perhaps, learning a new system of ethics, in which social responsibility is paramount over predatory enter- prise. We are learning, slowly, a new theory of production, in which impressive totals mean less than equitable distribution. Engaged in such an undertaking, confused by its enormity “afid disco By it Slowness’ ab times, we are likely to get off on false scents.- We are apt to accuse. men unjustly, whose only guilt lay in sharing a game that was played with unwise rules, whose only sin was to have succeeded in an economic system now under indictment. Despite their dynamic penchant for overdoing everything they undertake;, despite their reckless eagerness for action of some 'sort, the American people have an unfailing sense of humor and com- mon sense. This must be our reliance in a period of readjustment. Though a plenty of false gods have toppled from their thrones, though momentary hardship accentuates our contempt for those who did not keep the faith, this vein of common sense will enable us to keep our eyes fixed not on the persecution of individuals but rather in the great task of reconstruction. STRENGTHENS COMMISSIONER’S HAND. Without regard to the legal soundness of Judge Clegg’s ruling upholding the authority of Commis- sioner Frank T. Bell of the United States Bureau of Fisheries to close individual fish trap sites, the effect of that decision, just handed down in the Harris case, will undoubtedly be to strengthen the hand of the new Commissioner. He has won the first round in the initial fight of his administration. Had the court upheld the contention of the plaintiff company in 1its attack on the closure order, the result would have been to throw the entire existing system of administration and regulation in the salmon fishery into chaotic confusion. The Commissioner would have found his responsibilities greatly augmented, and he would have been faced with similar suits from all sides. With the court upholding his power to enforce regulatory measures taken by the Department of Commerce, his authority remains supreme, at least until some higher tribunal reverses or sets aside the decision of Judge Clegg. GOOD BYE, PROHIBITION ENFORCE- MENT UNIT. Its finis was written during the closing ‘days of the special session in an executive order submitted by President Roosevelt and approved by Congress. Its functions were assigned to general bureaus in the Treasury Department and Department-of Justice and the unit itself will cease to exist as an entity about August 10, next. In explaining the Presidential order to the Senate, Senator Joe Robinson, majority leader, ex- and the apprehension of criminals, and it is believed that the Federal laws may be better enforced if the investigatory personnel is consolidated in a single organization. The President's executive order also abolished the Bureau of Industrial Alcohol, which came into existence through the Federal Prohibition law, and transferred its functions to the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Senator Robinson's explanation of the reasons for the discontinuance of the Prohibition Bureau was simple and sound. They are not new. They have been voiced for years by many who saw in it a waste of public money and a misdirection of gow- ernmental energy. There never was from the first day of National Prohibition down to now any jus- tifiable cause for creating a special agency for enforcing the Federal Prohibition law. It was done because the Anti-Saloon League lobby and its allies forced it down the throat of Congress. It probably would remain in existence until the people of the United States by their votes wipe out Prohibition had it not been that President Roosevelt had the courage and good sense to destroy it with a stroke of his pen. Newspaper dispatches record lessening value for the American dollar on foreign exchanges but that doesn’t seem to lessen the foreigners' ambition to own all of them they can. Maybe what Europe wants now is a new war to take her mind off the old one from which she is still suffering. In these days, the taxpayer cannot make any claim to being the forgotten man. An Apostle of Advertising. (Boston News Bureau.) Cyrus H. K. Curtis left more than a fortune and a string of magazine and newspaper properties as his monuments. Also he bequeathed a proved principle—the soundness and success of his faith in advertising. That was proved both for himself as well as for others to whom he supplied the medium and the process. But it must be advertising at once intelligent, honest, - skillful, artistic, and cerviceable to both sides, and also courageous and liberal though not rash in its spending. To his mind advertising was in many ways a mutual affair, with its service ideal applying quite as much to reader and consumer at one end as to advertiser and publisher at the other. More than that, he demonstrated his faith in that principle by applying it to his own wares,— as an advertiser of advertising. He became a great buyer as well as seller of space. Witness the oc- casional very liberal advertising of his magazines in the daily press whenever they carried some notable feature or when he considered general con- ditions called for special effort by advertisers every- where. This was notably exemplified by the campaigns he attempted .during the depression to stimulate manufacturers to enlist advertising as a bulwark against declining patronage and ot prepare—as he had himself often previously demonstrated—for bet- ter times sure to follow eventually. He combatted by precept and example the folly of relaxing all sales and promotion effort in a time of temporary lll Doing so he regarded as a false or even a fatal | economy. e What advertising has been able to achieve in the nearly four decades since Curtis acquired the weekly which Benjamin Franklin started nearly two centuries ago has been shown in the chronicle of national advtrtisers in that period. In its way it rivalled what McCormick once wrought in the agri- eultural implement field, or what Ford did with the mass production principle. An Eastern philosopher once observed that what he considered the most marvelous thing about oc- cidental newspapers was not so much their pro- ficiency in newstelling as their gift for linking buyer and seller together day by day. Curtis was the great apostle of that magic. European Boys Smarter? (New York World-Telegram.) Statements such as that made regarding Ameri- can schoolboys: by Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, former Harvard President, in Philadelphia recently, are so rare as to be shocking to the usual American opin- ion regarding our young ones. He said: School boys of this country are, as a rule, less advanced than those of Europe. They begin later and progress more slowly. President Lowell blamed the physiclans for ad- vising parents not to send their children to school too young and not to press them too hard when they get there. Ameri¢ans, conscious of the tremendous material advancement achieved here through pioneering and constructive talents and genius, and proud of their fine and elaborate school establishments, assume that our education is more lively and effective. The difference apparently lies in the fact that in Europe education is directed more toward the leis- urely living of life and less toward a great surging of material expansion. Therefore, it seems that while the American schoolboy may get less pure education than his European fellow, he acquires, in or out of the schoolroom, a practical mental liveliness that served the American purposes of industrial conquest to date. We are now ready for an era of deeper educa- tion. We are embarking on new social adventures just as surely as our forefathers set out on un- trodden and uncharted paths in the earlier days. In the great rebuilding task ahead of America the better the trzining »i the minds and iulellects the faster the progress and the quicker the adjust- ment of the population to change. Holding Companies. (Chicago Daily News.) Apologists for the holding-company system may plained what had happened to the Prohibition Bureau as follows: To the extent that the Bureau of Pro- hibition deals with the marufacture and sale of alcohol, it duplicates work now done by the Buraeu of Internal Revenue. The latter bureau, being a revenue-collecting agency, is the proper agency to administer the issuance and cancellation of permits which are closely tied up with the collection of revenue and therefore this function is centralized in Internal Revenue. With a few minor exceptions, the remain- ing functions of the Bureau of Prohibition involved the investigation of infractions of the Prohibition law: No organization reason is perceived for & .special hureau for the investigation of a particular kind of crime. The Bureau of Investigation of the Depart- ment of Justice is charged with the general investigations of crimes against Federal laws, Y assert that there is nothing wrong in such opera- tions. That is true in theory, but the record of similar operations in the past is that the stock manipulators soon become more interested in safe- guarding their control than in protecting investors. This was the case with the Insulls, Some of the intercompany transactions of the Van Sweringen roads are open to severe criticism. Control is more difficult than an analysis of holding-company evils. Certainly, however, the story of the Van Sweringens, as told before the Morgan committee, justifies the restrictions imposed by the Emergency Raillroad Act and the insistence of the new Securities Law that the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth be told about se-|® curities offerings. This new Roosevelt idea of not spending money until the spender gets it, is mew in this country, but b'gosh it is hopelessly honest.—(Lexington, Ky. Herald.) The White Codkatoo by Mignon G. Eberhart) SYNOPSIS: Three murders have shattered the peace of a small hotel in Southern France ; three murders, all unsolved, They are connerted, at least in the minds of Jim Sun- dean and the detective David Lorn., with an attempt to secure the token by means of which Sue Tally must ddentify hersclf to her brother Francis. and thus secure half her father's huge fortune. Then. ez- pected by no one, Francls Tally ar- rives. Chapter 36 NEW COMPLICATIONS | WAS on my feet. 1 was barely conscious of Lorn standing just behind me. Sue was standing too, looking white and incredulous, and pven her lips looked pale and stiff. Her eyes were wide and fastened on the newcomer’s face as if in frantic effort to recall it. “Francis,” she said fn a whisper. He was fairly tall, moderately slender, and blond with grayish eyes. He wasn't altogether hand- some, for his features were a little too fine for a man, and his mouth was not firm. He wore gold-rimmed spectacles, which gave him a pe dantic look, and he was muffied up in coats and gloves and a woolen scarf. His eyes back of the spectacles were very sharp—as sharp as Grethe's, who was watching him with an expression that indicated strongly that here was at last the mouse she’'d been waiting for. He smiled a little uneasily and sald, in a rather uncertain voice: “Sue, I suppose.” She sald nothing, just looked at him, and as no one else spoke he seemed to feel that his greeting was a bit lacking in something, for he put out his hand and smiled more blandly and said: “It’s difficult to know just how to greet you, Sister. We are almost strangers.” “Quite,” said Sue In a frozen small voice, and laid her hand moment- arily in his. Francis Tally was growing more at ease. He looked at me and then discovered Lorn. “Ah,” he said at once. you do, Lorn?” “How do you do,” Lorn said in an unexcited way, quite as if he'd known all along that brother Fran- cis was about to turn up. “Everything going well?" asked Francis Tally easily. Lorn’s eyebrows lifted a fraction of an inch. *“Not exactly well,” he sald. “Still, Miss Tally is quite safe.” “This,” sald Sue, "is Mr. dean.” Franeis Tally looked sharply at me. “Sundean?” sald he. *“He has been very kind,” said Sue stiffly, as If words were extremely difficult. And exactly then Mari- anne, in the dining room, sounded the clattering bell which announced lunch. “How do Sun- “It’s—lunch,” sald Sue In a re- |} lieved way. “You'll table—Francis?™ “Good,” said Francls, also looking relieved. “I had a very early break- fast. What's the trouble here, though —why all, the police about the place?” For a full momeént no one spoke, Then Sue said in a voice that did not belong to her: “I'll tell you after lunch.” He looked puzzled and I think would have questioned further, but Grethe silkily intervened. “You'll want to wash before lunch,” she said, smiling pleasantly into his eyes. “I'll show you to a room. We are—er—temporarily without a porter.” share my ORN coughed. I realized that for the first time in my knowledge he seemed to be what {n’ another man I should have called thoroughly disconcerted. He sald: “Er—Mr. Tally—you'd better—er ~—see the police first.” “See the police?” Tally paused in the act of turning to follow Madame Grethe. “Yes,” sald Lorn. “You see— well, the police are here because— there've been three murders here 'In the last few days. “Three murders?” sald Francis, "You don’t mean here? Right here {tn the hotel?” “Yes. We are all practically jailed ‘har. for the time being.” | It struck me that Francis Tally (was either an extraordinarily brave ‘man or he was extraordinarily cal- Jous. He sald: “H'mm. Well. What's the reason for it all?” Lorn’s hidden dark eyes went to Madame Grethe. He sald cautiously: “1 don't know. But I doubt it they'll let you stay here.” Luckily for you, I wanted to add.|{* Madame Grethe forestalled me. She said graciously: “Oh, nonsense, Monsieur Lorn. “Leave it to me. I will see that it is all settled with the police. Your room, monsfeur?” She turned away with a gesture that brought Francis Tally after her. 1 suppose we all moved to watch them cross the lounge. Grethe led the way up the stairway, her body undulating gracefully under the green silk, and her red hair gleaming. But even cool Ma- dame Gretthe had not wished to use the tiny elevator that hung there. Then 1 turned to Lorn. But he was suddenly withdrawn, his eyes veiled, his expression exactly as ani- mated as that of a chalr. “Did you know he was coming?” 1 asked quickly. He did not look offended at my implication that he was concealing that important bit of knowledge from Sue and from me—a knowl- edge that, if he had had, in fairness he ought to have shared, “No,” he said quietly. know.” “This puts a different complexion on the affair.” “Yes,” agreed Lorn remotely. I wondered what he was thinking, but the unwontedly disconcerted look had entirely left him—bad left, in fact, so campletely that I doubted whether it had ever been there. He added: “In the meantime we may as well go to lunch. After all, one must eat.” “I didn’t |JT WAS a strained and dresdful meal. Not even the food was good, for Paul's hysterical nerves had apparently had their outlet in burning what was burnable and sea- soning too wildly or not at all. The hors d’oeuvres were flat and taste- less, the fish crisp, and the only thing entirely edible was the cheese. Marianne came and went, still sullen and dark and wary. And the four of us in that still cold dining room tried to eat and drink like civilized people when I've no doubt our combined desire was to flee from the place. Mrs. Byng did not arrive at all. The priest's table was still by some oversight set with the silver and glasses of the previous night, and it was rather dreadful to see it there, facing me, and remember how I'd Jast seen that flaming red beard. That thought spoiled even the cheese, and 1 sat there crumbling bread and not wishing, somehow, to leave the room until Sue left. It was true that she ought to be safe now, if she was ever safe, with her brother and his detective; at the same time I was perfectly aware that Francis Tally’s unex. pected arrival might well give a last horrible impetus to the dread- ful wheel that was revolving so futhlessly, guided by unsee . hands, there in the black depths of the old otel. “'Francls Tally himsel? was admir- ably cool. He was also stolc, for he ate his lunch, crisp fish and all, with gusto. The two, Sue and the new- comer, talked very little, and their every word was plainly audible in the silent white room and consisted of commonplaces. He told her what boat he'd sailed on; and when he'd landed—three days previously, it appeared. She #ssured him In that stiff voice that did not belong to her that, yes, it Was cold. And, yes, the wind was apt to blow like this for a week at a time. It was directly after lunch that Sue and her brother retired to the parlor. Lorn, always a bit myster}- Qus, became suddenly more mysteri- ous and, it seemed to me, more ac-. tive and even a little agitated under that mysteriousness. He disap peared before I could get a word with him. Not that I really wanted just then, to hear his customarily unper- turbed half-statements. . For I had even then that feeling of approaching climax; of haste; of urgency. There were things that must. be done. If the views that I was beginning vaguely to entertain proved to be faulty and clumsy and entirely incorrect, why, then, no 'oné but myself should ever know it. It was sullen, brooding Marianne who found me in the dark corridor | near the dead priest’s room, walting my chance to dodge the policeman ‘on guard and enter. I wanted to search for myself. Marianne indicated that I was to follow her, and when we reached the lobby I found the entire estab- lshment gathered there. We were, 1t seemed, going to the police. (Copyright, 1933, Mignon G. Bberhart) | “ Lovschiem’s self - importance In. icreases tomorrow. PEERLESS BREAD Always Good— Always Fresh *“Ask Your Grocer” ———— | SCANDINAVIAN | ROOMS [Phone 513 Steam Heat | | LOWER FRONT STREET | Rates by Day, Week or Month | ———eeee NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Commissioner's Court 'for the Territory of Alaska, Division Number One. Before CHAS. SEY, Commissioner and ex-Officio Pro- bate Judge, Juneau, Precinct. In the Matter of the Estate of CAROLINE GEORGE, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the undersigned was, on the 2nd day of June, 1933, duly ap- pointed executor of the last will and testament of Caroline George, deceased. All persons having claims against the estate of said deceased are required to present the same,| with proper vouchers attached, to| the undersigned at Juneau, Alaska, ® | within -six months from the date of this notice. ‘ . WALLIS S. GEORGE, Executor of the Estate of Caroline George, deceased. | pirst. publication, June 5, 1933, publication, June 26, 1933, 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire = g JUNE 26, 1913. B. L. Thane, general manager of the Alaska-Gastineau Mining Company, offered to place the teams belonging to the company at the disposal of the reception committee to assist' in conveying excursionists to the mines and de- veloping work about Juneau when the Jefferson arrived with the Se- attle Chamber of Commerce ex- cursion on June 28. Miss Helene Moore, daugiter of Dr. and Mrs. 1. H. Moore, of Ruby, arrived from Seattle where she had been attending the . University of Washington and was the guest of Mrs. Katherine Hooker. ther was to arrive on the City of Seattle from the south, and con- tinue to the Interior, with her. S. L. Andrews secured some ne- gatives .for his collection on his recept trip to Taku with the Rev. J. B. Stevens and Paul Thomp- son. The pictures taken included some motion ' pictures of seagull rookeries, baby eagles in their nest, little jaegers in nests in the sand and views of Taku glacier. Gustav Richard Stahl, Northwest Editor of the Seattle Post-Intelli- gencer visited in Juneau while the Alameda was in port. He was maxing the round trip on. that vessci and | looked forward to his visit in Juneau southbound. J. W. Gilbert, City Editor of the P.- 1. had just completed the 'round trip to Alaska and Scott C. Bone, the Editor-in-Chief, was to arrive with the Seattle Chamber of ‘Com- merce trip. The Juneau city team got an awful drubbing at baseball at the hands of the Douglas-Treadwell aggregation with a total score of 13 to 3. Comments were that Douglashad one of the finest ama- teur baseball teams ever to play in Alaska. Grover C. Winn tendered his resignation as United States Com- missioner at Juneau to Judge Rob- ert W. Jennings of the United States District Court effective on July 1. praiis L S Daily Empire Want Ads Pay . i | ORPHEUM: ROOMS | Steam Heated. Rates by day, | week or month. Near Commer- | | cial Dock, foot of Main St. ‘{ Telephone 396 Bessie Lund | . L P————- ) | RUSSIAN BATHS The Green Building | Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, | Saturday from 1 pm. to 1 am. | | GASTINEAU AVENUE . «® G = @ | McCAUL MOTOR COMPANY , Dodge and Plymouth Dealers SRR T Smith Electric Co. Gastinesu Buflding EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL ) | l JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Little Store with the BIG VALUES Her fa-|, . Juneau 3= Helene W. L. 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