The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 5, 1933, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, Daily Alaska Empire GENERAL MANAGER ROBERT W. BENDER - - Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE_ PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, 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 pér_month, mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, 'in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any 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 entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. DECISION SHOULD COME PROMPTLY. HEARINGS ARE OVER; The public hearings of the Pioneers’ Home Build- ing Commission over the question of a site for the projected new home for aged indigent Alaskans have been completed. The Chairman, Highway Engineer W. A. Hesse, or the full Commission, has heard all of those who desired to make a showing in support of their applications for the institution. Three communities—Douglas, Skagway and Anchor- age—seek its removal from Sitka and ask it be transferred to themselves. Craig only desires the Home if the Commission feels it advisable to remove it from its present location at Sitka. And, of course, Sitka urged strongly that no thange be made. The Empire, earlier during the series of hearings, went on record for its retention where it has been for the past two decades, or ever since it was first established. We believe that no economies of import- ance sufficient to justify its removal can be achieved by transfer. We think that the paramount factor in the final decision ought to be the desires of the residents of the Home, itself. In any institution of that nature, contentment of those who live in it is properly the main concern of the Territory. Without it, the word “home” becomes a mockery and the largess of the public by which it is sup- ported is made a byword by those the public seeks to care for as they near the shadows at the end of the long, long trail that crosses the last divide. 1t is a matter of record, repeated on many occasions, that a vast majority, probably 99 per cent, of those who now reside in the Sitka Home, and of those residing there during the past decade, are opposed to its removal to any other place in Alaska . That opposition, we hold, ought to be governing. The Commission, composed of the elective Ter- ritorial officers, we are positive, will make its de- cision only after a proper consideration of all the data submitted by the several applicants, and after duly weighing all of the factors involved. The Com- missioners have no personal interest in the matter. The duty of selecting a site was unsough{ by them and was imposed on them by the Legislature with- out their suggestion. They will discharge it loyally and faithfully, not as agents of the Legislature, but as elected servants of all the people of Alaska. We hope that there will be no long delay in arriving at a final decision. Had the Legislature, | before it adjourned last May, selected the site and authorized the work to be started as soon as plans and specifications could be prepared and arrange- ments completed for construction, at least 20 per cent would have been saved up to now. In other words, a contract awarded last Spring would be that much lower than one awarded today. Construction costs, including labor and materials, are still rising. If weeks of delay are yet to come, costs are almost certain to be higher than lower. There is another not unimportant reason why a start should be made as quickly as possible. Our unemployment situation is not greatly improved. Next Winter will find it almost as serious as it was last Winter. If a decision is not made shortly, or until Fall, it may not be possible to do much, if any, work until next Spring. In authorizing im- mediate construction of the new Home, the Legisla- ture officially declared in the legislation covering the project that it was for work relief. It ought to be kept in that class, and every effort made to expedite the beginning of construction. We are confident the Commission will do this, and we are positive that it will be unanimously approved by Alaskans in every section of the Territory MR. KIPLING GIVEN RARE HONOR. Distinguished honor has come to Rudyard Kipling —one of the rarest in the world. Mr. Kipling's works may not be regarded as among the “best sellers,” either on his homeland or on this side of the sea, but in France he is differently regarded by the high priests of literature. The other day he was unanimously elected a foreign member of the Academie des Sciences et Politiques at Pagis, a rare distinction and one as yet conferred only upon the King of the Belgians and the great Car- dinal Mercer. This unique recognition should serve to rekindle interest in the works of a man better known to the older folks today than to the younger generation and who is really bigger than his times. In verse or prose Mr. Kipling has written on “fine vellum,” while too many of his contemporaries and successors in the public fancy have written “on hogskin,” as a brillilant Frenchman once said of our own author, Edgar Allen Poe and the writers to the time when that strange genius was amazing the world with the originality and force of his peculiar power. FAMOUS DUCK RETURNS AGAIN. according to reports to the Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture. This wild duck has set up a record for escaping |the guns of hunters and for returning to the same spot to nest every year. She returned with almost clock-like regularity for three years—arriving March 12, 1928; March 10, 1929; and March 11, 1930. In 1931 she came on April 9, and last year on February 21. This year she returned to the old schedule, March 12, This duck was banded November 29, 1927, by F. J. Keller, on his game refuge at Antfoch, Ne- braska, and has returned each year and nested in the box on his barn roof. She usually raises two | broods of ducklings. This year the eggs were all runts, and would not have hatched, so Mr. Keller substituted a set of normal wild-duck eggs. She s known to have reared more than 100 ducks. Officials of the Biological Survey have advanced the suggestion that should Mallard No. 555414 finally fall before a duck hunter, she be mounted and pre- sented to Mr. Keller. Her original band, while slilll |legible, shows the effect of six years' wear, so Mr. Keller placed a new band on her other foot this Spring. Now she carries two bands and the number of the new one is A604109. While California scientists are still trying to work out a formula for producing an absolute zero, one Robert Moses Grove who works for Cornelius McGillicuddy took the play away from them by handing a whole setting of them to the obstreperous New York Yankees. Mahatma Gandhi seems determined to spend at least half of his remaining days in jail. He showed good judgment about his latest arrest by waiting until the London Economic Conference had ad- Journed so he could make the front page as usual. Recovery by Coercion. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Discouraged by the slowness of many industries in submitting codes of competition, the Government has determined to use its weapon of last resort to compel one lagging industry to accept the new order of controlled competition. Choosing carefully, the National Recovery Administration found the milk industry to be one that showed no sign of ability to agree upon a nation-wide code. Making thaz industry an example to the others, and doubt- |less hoping the psychological effect will be salutary, the Government will require all concerns handling milk to accept a code and will deny recalcitrant firms the right to continue inh business. ‘The Administration is putting the teeth into its recovery program sooner than was expected. The recognized policy of the N. R. A. was to encourage voluntary compliance with the new law and get as many codes into effect among large industries as, possible, and then proceed to deal with those un- willing or unable to frame codes of competition. | Apparently it was concluded at Washington that strong pressure was being exerted within certain major industries, notably steel, to withhold support of the recovery program. The simplest means of inducing cooperation was obviously to slap the licensing provision on some consicuously disorgan- ized industry. The attempt to bring the milk industry into line on a license basis is the first real test of the whole plan. If the N. R. A. can bring orderlyf competition out of the confusion now prevailing among milk dealers, it will have advanced a long | way toward success in organizing the entire xndus-‘ trial fabric of the country. With the appucauon of coercion in this instance, it is apparent that | the Government is committed to a drastic remedy | for business depression. Wisely or unwisely, the Administration has the courage of its convictions. | ‘That is something. “We Do Our Part.” (New York World-Telegram.) The President appeals to the nation. He asks us to bring back prosperity now. It can be done.| | He tells us how it can be done. ; Work for all and more pay for all. The em-| ployer’s part is to reduce hours and raise wages— a 35-to-40-hour week and a $12 to $15 minimum wage. Labor’s part is to work on the job and to‘ settle differences peacefully. The consumer's part is to buy only products made and sold under this National Recovery agreement. \ Never before have the Government and people of the United States embarked upon such a patriotic crusade. The stake is high. We are fighting for economic salvation. For the right of millions of | unemployed to go back to work. For the right of | citizens to keep their homes. For the right of business men to save theii business. For the welfare | and happiness of 125,000,000 Americans. There is no other way. Talk can't save us. Stockt market speculation can't revive business. Utopian | plans will not help today and tomorrow. Whatever is done must be done at once. Re- covery codes for individual industries are coming along. That process, however, will require months. It will go on. But the country cannot wait. The country cannot wait because prices are run- ning away from wages. We must have purchasing power, more purchasing power and still more pur- chasing power. The people want to buy, need to buy But the people cannot buy without steady, ade- quate wages. And until the people have the wages with which to buy the goods will stay on the mer- chants’ shelves, the factories will close down again and the farmer's producé will rot in the barn. The President’s plan for a five-month campaign against the depression is effective August 1. It will be successful if the nation co-operates. Most of industry will co-operate. minority will not. That minority must be brought into line. Cutthroats cannot be allowed to ruin decent competitors by sweating labor and by under- |selling. Monopolies cannot be permitted to profiteer. Enforcement is in the hands of the people. The greatest force in the world is behind this covenant of better times—the power of public opinion. The Government asks business men to do busi- ness with those who have signed the President's agreement. The Government asks consumers to support maufggturers and merchants who are doing Perhaps a Blond Princess Is Given High Office as Head of Italian Women Fascists Princess Bianca Pio di Savio has been put in charge of the women’s section of Italy’s Fascist Party, the highest political post which a woman may attain in that kingdom. FIVE HALIBUTERS SELL AT SEATTLE SEATTLE, Aug. 5—Halibut ar- rivals, catches and sales today were as follows: By ANDRUE BERDING ROME, Aug. 5—A princess, blond and elegant, distantly related to King Victor Emmanuel, has be- come head of the “Fasci Femmin- ili,” or women's section of the fas- cist party, with headquarters in Rome. From the western banks—Sea Princess Bianca Pio di Savoia, 35| Bird with 27,000 pounds, selling for years old, thus has been called to}9 and 6 cents a pound. occupy the highest political post From the local banks— Betty any woman in the kingdom may|Jane with 18,000 pounds, Chancel- fill. | lor with 15,000 pounds, both sell- Grants First Interview {ing for 9 and 6% cents a poun She has direct charge over 11,874 National with 18,000 pounds, sell- women and in ceremonies is the ing for 10 and 6 cents a pound; ranking representative of 200,000 Tillikum with 7,000 pounds, selling fascist women. | for 9% and 6% cents a pound. In granting her first mLervLem >, Princess Bianca kept the appoint-! IN HOSPITAL ment in her sumptuous office m‘ { the historic Braschi palace, head-i New patients in St. Ann’s Hos- quarters of the Rome fascists. Shelpuu] are Alex Ambloff, infected wore a black silk blouse, black!'face; .Joye Livesay, appendicitis; broadcloth skirt, a long double}Jimmie George of Chichagof, major pear]l necklace. Her light hair wasjoperation, and John Glade, medical carefully coiffeured and her gre®h= attention. blue eyes smiled a welcome. S e ee She talked, in a low, cultured WILL ROGERS SUNDAY voice, of women in sport. CAPITOL "bTA’l‘E FAIR." adv “Girls can derive a great ad- - st DEEEY vantage from sport, provided they practice it rationally,” she said “They should be permitted sports that do not involve too much fa- tigue and exXhausting preparation such as required by the Olympic competitions.” In this she was restating the fas- cist doctrine with regard to women in sports. Ttaly did not send wom- en to the Los Angeles Olympics. Poor Remembered Her Princess Bianca spoke with en- thusiasm of social service work which is the chief activity of the women fascists. She herself was | for years head of the Garbatella fascist group. Garbatella is the | poorest district in Rome and thou- sands of families there owe to her an alleviation of their pinched sit- uations. Even after her recent promotion, Princess Bianca, by her own wish, has kept charge of the district. “It has given me and still gives me great satisfaction,” she said. She revealed that last winter the fascist social service gave assist- ance to 40,000 persons. i Another work in which she has been interested is the Red Cross. She has been a member of the na- tional committee for two years. She has also devoted much time to the maternity and infancy or- ganization. The “Messagero,” of Rome, com- menting on her appointment, said: “It is enough to remember the tact, intelligence and alacrity she demonstrated for two years in di- recting the women fascists in one - of the poorest sections of the city, the Garbatella, in order to judge how opportune is her selection.” — el Pfunder’s Tablets Sole Agents Butler Mauro Drug Co. “Express Money Orders Anytime” Want to Make a Good Steak Taste Better? Then order a bottle of Ex- tra Pale to go with it! Our Beer is just bitter enough to sharpen a wilted appetite— yet full-flavored, creamy and mild to make a bottle for its own sake a pleasure. BAILEY’S CAFE WILL ROGERS SUNDAY CAPITOL “STATE FAIR.” adv John Ringling Will File Divorce Suit| SAR.ASOI‘A,;I: Aug. 5.—John Ringling, circus owner, is said by his attorney, James E. Kirk, ready their share to put breadwinners back to work. The public will act. Hear the appeal of the President, through his Recovery Administration: This is the test of patriotism. It is the time to demonstrate the faith of our fathers and our belief in ourselves. We are a people disciplined by democracy to self-control— sufficient to unite our purchasing power, our labor power, our management power to carry out this great national covenant with vigor, with determination, but with the calm composure and fair play which should al- ways mark the American way. 4 speaking to file suit for divorce from Mrs. Emily Haag Buck Ringling. Kirk said Ringling would charge mental| | cruelty. , The bill of complaint, he said, has been drawn, signed and notar- | — g Uniforms—Men’s Shirts ‘Tallored to Order ’ SMART DRESsMAKING ized. SHoPPE Both have been married twice. l to 12 N—1 to 6 pm. 1 B | 1 Phone 219 | MISS MORRIS VISITING "—"'"_fi'—" FRIENDS IN THIS CITY 1933. FARMFRS TEND TOWARD ‘LEFT’ INSCANDINAVIA By ELMER W. PETERSON STOCKHOLM, Aug. 5—Harried by low prices, curtailed exports and increased taxes, the Scandinavian farmer is showing a decided ten- dency to swing to the left in poli- tics. In both Sweden and Denmark into formal alliance with the so- cial democrats, a new stratagem in Scandinavian politics. The result has been a ‘“‘farmer labor” front which, political ob- servers agree, may keep the left wing in control for some time. The Danish farmer was the first to shed his conservative coat. Turn Toward Socialism With the conservatives he had ruled the senate, while the radicals and social-democrats controlled the chamber. In the interests of an agricultur- al relief program, however—a proj- ect involving uepreciation of the Danish crown and state credits— the farmer forgot past enemities and worked with the socialists. | The Swedish farmers' party re- cently followed :uit, agreeing to salvage the social-democrats’ un- employment relief program in ex- change for a tax on oleomargar- ine and definite measures toward raising prices on milk, butter, meat and vegetables. In Norway the farmer likewise has proved himself politically alert gaining control of the last pre- vious government and engineering a campaign to raise the prices of milk and meat. Accord Something New The cooperation of farmer and social-democrat presents a new phase in Swedish political history. The program of the social-demo- crats, including free trade poli- cies, disarmament, and at one time, socialization of land, has had lit- tle support in agricultural districts. In the risdag the farmer members traditionally have voted with the conservatives, The press in general is inclined to doubt that the new alliance will be lasting. But should the tenden- cy to work together continue, it is agreed that the Swedish left wing will be definitely strengthened. LG R S WILL ROGERS SUNDAY CAPITOL “STATE FAIR.” adv iy UG Eighty-two per cent of the school population of Kentucky county dis- tricts attend one, two or three teacher schools. s ot Sewyice Bettor ECAUSE professional | methods are vastly gen- | tler and more cleansing than ! any home method. Because | it gives the housewife more time for practical home management, leisure and so- cial activities, Because the clothes are always more thoroughly and sanitarily washed, fresher, sweeter and better in appearance when done at a modern laundry like this one. 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For many (§ * SHOP h L b A i A female mallard (No. 585414), that for each |pop, em;ysA:vnomsa W:l::(: ::;e areuast ;\out; InmAl;; t},,;:hed" Mx:: hgx:;(sosotfag:mwf %] The Little Store with the ol 5 it & racks as of the last six years has nested in a box on the more convinced of it than ever. — (Indianapolis| civilian engineer. He was retired MG VALUES r00f Of & barn in Nebraska, s back again this year, |News.) recently.