The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 29, 1933, Page 4

i et e S st Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER = - GENERAL MANAGER the Published every evening except Sunday by ) PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main B Juneau, Alaska £ Entered in the Post Office in Juneau 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: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, ne month, in advance, $1.26. ibers. will confer a favor if they will promptly the Business Office of any failure or irregularity papers. nd Business Offices, 374. Telephone fc MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. is exclusively entitled to the d in this paper and also d the d herein, V] local ne e ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NOT A POLITICAL MATTER. Anent the selection of a site for the proposed new Pioneers' Home Building, thc Anchorage Times recently said: The Anchorage committee will urge hard the case of Anchorage in the effort to get the Home located in or near Anchorage, and will follow up the effort, they made in canvassing candidates for the Legislature before the recent election, stating they be- lieve this a political matter which future candidates also should take into account, as the people of this region doubtless will reflect their views in any future elections. That attitude is utterly indefensible. It is un- fair to the Pioneers’ Home Building Commission of which W. A. Hesse, Territorial Highway Engineer is Chairman, and which includes Frank A. Boyle, who is Secretary, Anthony E. Karnes, Commissioner of Education, Judge James S. Truitt, Attorney General, and Walstein G. Smith, Treasurer, as members. These men are charged by with investi- gating the proposed sites, determining what location is best for the Territory and for those to whom the Home is a refuge in old age. Their judgment ought to be, and The Empire is absolutely certain it will be, based wholly upon material factors of cost of construction, maintenance and operation, convenience of location, desirability to those who will reside in it and upon no other matters. It is wholly unfair and unjust, and quite with- out precedent for Anchorage, or any committee representing the people of Anchorage, to L‘hre‘at.en these officials’ with polftital” retribution if they 4d not pick Anchorage as the site. Yet that is just what the Times has plainly declared will be done. Its language cannot be construed other than “If you do not built the new institution in Anchorage, the next time you come up for election, we will vote for candidates opposing you.” That is the threat, quite open, brazenly bold. No matter if Anchorage is not the most suitable place. No odds if costs of construction, maintenance and operation are shown to be impossibly high by the Commission’s investigation. No difference evén though all of Alaska, except Anchorage, should agree that some other site is preferable. Just the bald notice that if Anchorage doesn't get the new plant, when next election time rolls around for the members of the Commission the voters- of that fair little city and vicinity will turn thumbs down on men whose only sin will be that they honestly performed a duty imposed on them by the elected representatives of all the people. Of course, the Commission "is not going to be influenced in any way by the Anchorage ultimatum. As honorable men, the Commissioners will go ahead with their studies and when all the data is assembled make their final selection. If the data favgrs Anchorage, it will be picked. If it doesn't, Anchorage won't be. The silly threat will have no weight either way. 1Its only effect will be to weaken the strength of the Anchorage cause among Alaskans generally whose spirit of fair play will cause them to resent this sort of pressure. all news dispatehies credited to | P FULL SPEED AHEA True to its* record, the Administration is moving | with dispatch and energy to the prosecution of |the recovery program. Long before the recovery bill had been enacted into law its Administrator [had set up offices, formed the nucleus of his organ- Elzauon and had conferred with the leaders of var- ious industries. The result is that codes for the key industries will be formulated in rapid order and manufactur- |ers will then know exactly where they stand with | respect to working hours and labor costs. Higher prices and wage increases appear a certainty. The Administration is moving with equal vigor toward the expenditure of the huge sums allotted |it for public works. It is planned to let contracts }wholcsa]e in the next few weeks, with emphasis laid | upon measures which will most auickly alleviate un- |employment. Another tremendous push to business will be supplied to overcome any seasonal slacken- |ing of trade activity. | At the same time the Government has made it sclear that, in order not to interfere with rising domestic prosperity, the dollar will be allowed to seek its own level. Already foreign countries are adjusting themselves to this fact .and are paying more attention to working out policies which will serve to lift prices the world over. The United States is for once not being outtraded abroad. Now that the season for picnics and mosquitoes is in full swing we can worry about something else than how to balance the budget. ‘Washington merely warned the nations for fail- ing to pay their war debts. It does more than that to those who fail to pony up their income taxes. The critics who have been making so many wisecracks about the three point two beer ought to sample the three point two wine. Shucks! The Drys can't even rank with free silver. The score now stands 16 to 0. Autocides. (New York Herald Tribune.) A few centuries from now historians may write down among inexplicable popular delusions of this twentieth century the quaint idea that any one can drive a motor car. A locomotive unquestionably is far less dangerous than an automobile, if for no other reason than because it usually is on its track. It indubitably is easier to drive. .Yet locomotive engineers must undergo years of training and prac- tice and must pass a set of physical and mental| examinations scarcely less rigorous than those for| aviators or explorers. In most States of the Union | and most countries abroad any one not obviously insane or dismembered is provided by his or her doting government with a license to take out a ton or two of moving machinery and begin to murder his fellow-kind. Agitation against the mounting toll of automobile fatalities—what the National Safety Council pic- turesquely calls “autocides’—is slackening just now because the statistical number of these deaths is falling. This is a false sceurity. The number of auto vehicles in service has decreased, probably, by between 10 and 20 per cent. This enormously reduces congestion on the roads. The result should be an equally enormous decrease in fatal accidents. Bad driving, whilke perhaps not decreased by these effects of the business depression, becomes far less likely to be fatal when streets and highways are not overcrowded. It may be a reasonable guess that the 10 or 20 per cent decrease in the number of cars should cause a decrease of 50 or 60 per cent in the number of deaths from accidents. In fact, the decrease of deaths is about 10 per cent. Actually, therefore, autocides are increasing, not decreasing. The same condition exists, other recent figures show, in England and in Germany. One probable cause of this is disclosed by recent figures of the Travelers Insurance Company show- ing that an increased percentage of the cars involved in accidents have bad brakes or dther mechanical defects, doubtless another effect of the depression. This, however, cannot be all of it, nor does it point to a sufficient cure. Autocides will really decrease only when would-be drivers are tested as are loco- motive engineers, those with imperfect sight or hearing, bad muscular co-ordination, uhcertain judg- ment and similar defects being barred. If this seems too expensive a procedure for practical politics, there is the expedient, oftentimes suggested by safe- ty psychologists, of requiring every driver who has his first minor accident thereupon to undergo at his own expense a sufficient set of mental and physical tests prescribed by public authority and administered by approved physicians or other ex- perts. Drys picked Indiana as a pivotal State When the to turn the tide, they seem to have picked one that slopped the tide all over them.—(Lexington, Ky., Herald.) GIRL SCOUTS | girls signed up for the camp had been anticipated. Extra Expenses as|be sent to Seattle immediately to Dr. G. W. Swift, brain specialist. Starr Calvert, who had chartered What Kind of has met under conditions which which existz2d when the ex] still on the gold standard, and the American price level was subjoct to all the influences operating up- on gold from the other gold stan- dard countries, from the great group of countries of which Lon- from the depreciated silver coun- tries. American price relationships were beyond American control. In addition there was a state of ‘poli- tical paralysis in ‘Washington which prevented the government ‘frgm taking positive measures ofs4 any kind: it was possible neither<to work out a controlled deflation to- controlled inflation. Undef these circumstances the one hope of relief lay in trying to persuade the other nations to re- turn to the gold standard as promptly as possible with a view at least to stabilizing gold prices and stopping further deflation. The American policy in the’ closing months of the Hoover administra- tion, therefore, turned chiefly on pressing Great Britain to stabilize the pound on gold. But for various reasons the British government would not commit itself. It was moved in part, no doubt, by a quite proper conviction that there should be a settlement of war debts be- fore stabilization. But there is no turned quickly to the gold standard impression may be quite mistaken, but nore the less it exists in this country, were extremely reluctant to surren- der the freedom of action which goes with the management of their own currency. In any event, when the conference was organized the position was one in which the United States and France were seeking to bring Britain back to a currency stabilized on gold. + e e In the interim, the United States, after going through a crisis which was outwardly different from but inwardly very similar to the Brit- The World Economic Conference are radically different from th@se t prepared the program last winter. At that time the United States wa don is the financial capital, and ¢ ward a new equilibrium nor -a evidence which is publicly known | that Great Britain would have re-| even if the debts were settled. The ' that the British people . Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN Co-Operation? If we compare somewhat more ly the present position of the o governments, we must note, I shink, a very important difference. The Roosevelt administration is sct to undertake very powerful meas- ures. It is prepared, if necessary, to revalue the dollar in case gold itself does not become revalued. It preparsd to expand credit in ge volume, It is prepared to promote great public works to force me of this credi tinto use. It is prepared to refinance much pri- yate indebtedness. Tt is prepared by various controls to stop price- cutting and wage-cutting, In short, the Roosevelt administration has the authority, and unquestionably will employ it, to attempt to bring American prices, debts, fixed charges, and ‘wages into a work- able equilibrium. The position of the MacDonald- Conservative government presents a striking contrast. So far as one can see, it has no comparable gro- gram of action, and to all ‘appear- ances it has not the will or the unity of purpose to adopt a com- parable program. This, I suspect, is the root of the difficulty working out immediately effective cooperation between the two gov- ernments. The Roosevelt adminis- tration is prepared to use the pow- er and the credit of the United States in positive action. The MacDonald government appears to be inhibited by the natural con- servatism of its component ele- ments. p: . e It is the absence of any really convincing domestic program of reconstruction in Great Britain, and also, of course, in France, which must make Americans hesi- tate at this time to bind the dol- lar closely or rigidly to the pound, the franc and to gold. A tentative and temporary and very flexible stabilization within ample limits, may be desirable; but the essen- tial fact is that until Britain and France give some real proof that they mean to take positive meas- ures to raise prices, relieve debtors and enhance purchasing power, we cannot afford to be bound by their hesitation and their inaction. They are entitled to pursue any domes- tic policy they wish, but if their 20 YEARS AGO' Prom' The Empire T g JUNE' 29, 1913 The reception) tendered by Ju- neau to the excursion party of the Alaska Bureau of the New Seattle cess in every particular. | The ball given in the evening was a very torium of the Elks’' hall was taxed to its limit. Members of /the party expressed their appreciation and their deep interest in the Terri- tory. They left on the Jefferson for Skagway and’Haines and were inl BREAK CAMP The unplanned for expense of |the plane, agreed to let the de: . H s hiring a cook for the girls, to-|perately ill boy, practically uncon- gether with others that have arisen | scious for several days, share the Will put the girls in debt, accord- plane with him. 3 First Annual Affair Declar-| ed to Be Highly Successful With the closing days of the first annual Girl Scout encamp- ment drawing near, each girl has decided the experiment is a huge success and has already begun to Jook forward to another year when the camp will be repeated. The girls have gained in weight, in independence and in self re- liance as the result of their camp with its associated responsibilities. New friendships have been formed and old ones made more lasting. Altogether the results of the camp have been entirely beneficial, ac- cording to those in charge and oth- ers who have visited the girls in the camp at Eagle River. Splendid Leadership Much of the success of the camp is due to the leaders, with Miss Jeanette Stewart at the head. Their untiring efforts have made the kindness of Tom McMul- ' + camp possible, together with the unfailing . of good food. It was found advis- able to retain the services of Mr. who cooked for the Boy ing to the advisors of the organ- ization. However, the girls, feeling |sure that they have many friends in town who will willingly contrib- ute to their treasury, are not anti- cipating any difficulty in meeting their obligations. Any amount, however small, may be sent to Miss Jeanette Stewart, captain, or Miss Patricia Harland, treasurer of the girl scout troop, it is announced. BOY WITH TUMOR ON BRAIN SENT SOUTH ON PLANE LAST NIGHT The importance ‘of the airplane as a life saving factor in Alaska, was once more demonstrated last night, when* Alexander Vermeire, 19-year-old boy who was brought to Juneau on the Northwestern from Haines yesterday suffering with tumor of the brain, was taken aboard the seaplane Baranof, which left last night for Seattle, where the boy will undergo an operation which is the only chance of saving his life. Dr. W. W. Council, who exam- iner the unconscious boy upon his arrival here yesterday morning, diagnosed his trouble as. brain tumor and recdmmended that' he GIRLS’ LEGION CLUB TO MEET AT DUGOUT ON SATURDAY AT 1 An interesting meeting was held. at the American Legion Dugout by| the Girls' Legion Club Wednesday. The girls are working industriously on their grand magch drill to be| given by them on July Fourth in the baseball park if weather is| favorable and in the Fair Building in case of rain. It will be given Jjust before the start of the chil- dren’s races. New members are being taken in by the club at each meeting, the latest additions to the membership| being Betty Lou Phillips, Beatrice Primavera, Betty Riley, Betty Reed, Lillian Olsen, Adelle Light, Mildred Kendler, and Bonnie Cline. | Material for the girls' uniforms arrived and they will look attrac- tive in the bluc and gold outfits. All members are requested to meet at the Dugout on Saturday at 1 o'clock to practice the drill. —e———— Promote Prosperrty wih Paint- ish experience, went off the gold domestic policies do not move in standard and undertook the mams (the direction in which we are set agement of its own currency. Al- /'to move, they must not expect the most instantly the previous posi-|United States to stand and wait tion was reversed: the British be- | with them. gan to preach our former doctrine International co-operation is an of stability and we adopted the admirable ideal, but it should be former British doctrine of deing a cooperation in powerful, concur- rather suspicious of the gold stan- | rent and concerted measures, and dard and reluctant to surrender not merely a co-operation which the freedom under which we had produces a negative and impotent obtained such enormous relief: stability. Copyright, 1933, ]ngv' York Tribune Inc. L | PEERLESS aon e, ot o iete vl BREAD Always Good— sicker than you are in trying u Always Fresh stop a cough. “Ask Your Grocer” One dose of good old Bronchuilne ——— Stops Cough Instantly And Won't Upset Stomach! Emulsion relieves any cough — two doses may end it—half a bottle stops it for good or money back. Nothing in Bronchuline to upset |- your stomach nor start a drug habit. But it does kill your cougb P or costs nothing. Harry Race and|* all other good druggists guaranteej ® d : f o 0 it. —adv| | Ladies’ 1/, Soles $1.00 | NOI TIICE! e Ladies' heels straightened ...35c | The J Water Works will | All rubber heels . b 35¢ | 5. JRDOAN {eiN orks WIl'| Men’s rubber % soles .$1.00 up | move its office July 1 to the " g | Men’s leather % soles.$1.25 up | Naticnal Bank from where it willli] ‘o, y o transact all business. | Big Van’s New, Prices | adv. JOHN RECK, Manager. 1® . PACIFIC COAST G/ ) SAID SANDY M VEIGH (iéaoé/ef FOR PRICES ARE DOWN ON THE BesT \ « COALY IN TOWN-. PACIFIC COAST COAL Co. JUNEAU ALASKA | UNITED FooD co. CASH GROCERS Phone 16 -er’s_Ink| We Deliver Meats—Phone 16 going then to Whitehorse and to Dawson. " Collector of - Customs and ' Mrs. J. R. Willis' returned home on thé Alameda after:a long visit to Ore=}. gon and Washington cities for af’ month., Mr. Willis represented the Juneau Masons at the grand lodge for Washington and Alaska that convened * éarly in the month at Aberdeen. L In a review of Junezu's mining industry, B. L. Thane 'stated that the Juneau gold belt which was receiving marked attention in the mining world comprised' a belt ap- proximately 100 miles in length, beginning at Windham 'Bay on the south, parallelling: the; coast line to the north of “Juneau, a distance of about 60 miles to Berners Bay. A welcoming social was held. in happy occasion and the'large audi-|: the Congregational Church in students and new arrivals. It was attended by a large crowd and a delightful time was had. ‘W. D. Gross, one of Juneau's theatre magnates, returned on the Mariposa from an extended trip in the States. ‘W. G. Smith, the newly-appoint- ed Territorial Treasurer, arrived in Juneau on the Admiral Sampson early in the morning. Mr. Smith had formerly been the cashier of the First Bank of Katalla and said that people in that vicinity were very hopeful over the future out- look of that section. The management of the Heidel- berg had introduced an innovation that was meeting with popular favor. It had secured the services of Ed Bilodeau, a professional en- tertainer formerly with the Break- ers at Seattle, who entertained the customers at that place after- noons and evenings. versity's brilliant sprint champion, is considering two invitations to make exhibition tours ‘in Europe this summer. od RUSSIAN BATHS | The Green Building ’ Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday from 1 pm. to 1 am, | GASTINEAU AVENUE ® ORPHEUM ROOMS | | Steam Heated. Rates by day, | week or month. Near Commer- | cial Dock, foot of Main St. | Telephone 396 Bessie Lund | . | = e | Smith Electric Co. i Gastinesu_Bullding | ELECTRICAL JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Little Store with the BIG VALUES ——_ o JUNEAU-YOUNG \ Funeral Parlors T PROFESSI ONAL ] Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSI , Massdge, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical | | Gympnastics. 307 Goldstein Building- Phone Office, 218 DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS * | Blomgren' Buflding , PHONE 56 ' ' Hours 9 am. o0 pm. Fraternal Societies - “— OF | Gastineau Channel | B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 p.m. Visiting t“ brothers welcome. * L. W. Turoff, Exalt- :| ed Ruler, M. H. Sides, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Counctl No, 1760, |:| Meetings second and last | | Monday at. 7:30 p. m. | f¥randlent: brothers urg- ed to attend. Council Chambers, Fifth Streos. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. i | I Chamber of Commerce was a suc- |F—————————————} , Dr.'(;harlas sl_; Jenne [ i J IURKER. 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