The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 13, 1933, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. | 1933. Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Maln Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered In the Post Office In Juneau as Becond Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By mall, postage pald, at the following One year, In_advance, $12.00; six months, $6.00; one month, In advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promDfl’ notify the Business Office of uny fallure or irregularity in the delivery of their paper: Telephone for Editorial nnd Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Assoclated 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. rates: in advance, ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER HAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION THE “GENTLEMANL Y” BEAR. Various advocates of the Alaska brown bear, in- cluding Steward Edward White, Arthur N. Peck and John M. Holzworth, have referred to that great animal as a “gentlemanly” brute. In their opinion he is a fellow who has for his motto: “Live and Let Live” That has been their personal experience with bears. We do not desire to say they have not seen the bear in his native habitat. They have. But they have seen only the “daylight” side. The brown bear they have encountered has been the one who roams the open beaches in search of food, maybe at play or just out meandering; the bear on the open creeks as he fishes for salmon in the | spawning streams. They have yet to encounter the same animal in the tangled underbrush, the devil club and blueberry thickets, the massed growth around windfallen timber. The ‘“gentleman” they encountered in the open may be a ruffian in cover. Alaskans know that all too well. They have seen too many torn and battered men, some of them mere shells of clay, who have encountered the “noble” beast in whose behalf sentimentalists have | written and spoken, and emerged mained and scarred for life, if they were lucky enough to have escaped death. . . . . Alaskans know better than anyone that not every brown bear is a killer. Many, probably most, of them are the “gentlemen” unfraid that their de- fenders depict, But, some are not, are murdering brutes. No clearer demonstration of that fact is needed than in the unprovoked assault! on Capt. Christ Cayafas who now lies in a local hospital sorely injured. If he recovers, as his physician thinks is possible, he will be maimed for life and take to the grave the scars from wounds inflicted by a bear whose attack was unprovoked. Capt. Cayafas was unarmed. He had no opportunity to molest the brute that attacked him. He was casually walking in the woods when he was over- whelmed. He hadn't even seen the bear that assailed him. Maybe he surprised the bear as much as the bear did him. It is not impossible that the brute had no warning of his coming. What of it? Are men to abandon the forests, to forego pleasure jaunts in the hills, prospecting in them, just because of the bear? Of course not! . N . . We think it is time for those extremists on the bear question to revise their views. If they will study the record of the past few years, they, as most Alaskans do, will recognize that some of the bears they champion are dangerous. They will admit that it is not possible for anyone to say what bear is a “gentleman” and which a murderer. They will agree that any person whose calling takes him into the hills ought to be on the alert and prepared to defend himself. Not only that but that he has an inalienable right to defend himself. Even if one knew what bear is innocuous and what a menace, it would not be possible ‘to identify the harmless one from the harmful. They cannot be marked as football players are. Each of them must be regarded as potentially a fatal risk and the same precautions taken that the prudent man would use to protect himself from a human slayer. . . . . Of course, there will be some who doubt that Capt. Cayafas was unarmed; that he didn’t malic- jously provoke the attack that almost cost him his life. It is human nature for those whose theories are upset to question the evidence that upset them. That is the unfortunate part of game regulation in Alaska. Outsiders have too much to say about what regulations are imposed. They regard Alaska’s game resources as a national possession. And they resent any effort to bring it under local control. This feeling brings them into the error of regarding Alaskans as destructionists. That is far from the truth. We, knowing that bears are destructive of human life, nevertheless do not seek to wipe out the bear population. We realize his worth from the scientific viewpoint as well as from the sporting viewpoint. Scientifically, brown bears deserve to be perpetuated. As a draw- ing card for hunters and camera-hunters from the States he is unmatched. Upon both grounds he is entitled to protection. So are human beings. That is the point that the extremists of conservationists fail to recognize. Maybe the unprovoked and unpreventable attack upon Capt. Cayafas will make them see it. Tt is a high price to pay for it and probably it is more than the results will justify. STILL NEED FOR LOCAL AID. President Roosevelt's appeal to the country for aid for those still in want is timely. What with ‘Federal public works relief funds, NRA codes for re-employment, Federal grants for private charity . and Federal lonm to municipalities for public im- 7 there has been a let down in private local aflofll to meet the demands for charity. bly due to gn impression wide- fi. quntry that Uncle Sam's Some of them | pocketbook will defray all the necessary relief expenditures. That, of course, is not well founded. The Federal Government is doing and will continue to do every- thing it can. But it cannot and should not be expected to do it all. Each community and each county and State owes it to itself to do its part, and its part is to exhaust every resource it has for that purpose, before turning to the National treasury for financial aid in relieving local distress. Administrator Frank Hopkins, head of the Fed- eral Relief Administration, has lately issued warn- ings to a number of States that no Federal relief grants will be forthcoming to them unless they also contribute to the cause of succor. The Presi- dent’s admonition adds to the force of ‘those warnings. As was done last Winter and before that, Juneau and other Alaskan communities, and the Territorial Government will have to continue their own relief financing. However, this Winter, where it is needed, direct financial cooperation will be received from the Federal Government. In the States when a bear, or other brute, starts destroying other animals, the Federal Government assigns paid hunters to kill him off. In Alaska when they take human life, the Government is besought to set aside vast portions of the national domain so that he may have a sanctuary. The Johnson Dash. (Boston News Bureau.) Gen. Johnson flew into and out of Boston in a fragment of a day. It was an interesting juxta- position,—the blunt and dynamic individuality com- ing to the reputedly austere and restrained—yet underneath it the warm-blooded—community. He came, saw, spoke and conquered. The circumstances of that coming were, in ad- dition .to that seeming contrast, about as dramatical- ly staged as possible. The plane flight, with the dictation of a redhot speech aloft in the air to a feminine secretary, the dashing whirl in all possible panoply of escort to the speaking place, the equally whirling address without though of any food first, then the winging back to Washington,—it all com- ported with the speech as made and with the occasion of a blue eagle launching hereabouts. The substance of that speech, as reported else- where, was characteristically Johnsonian as to all our economic and social sins of the recent past and jour imperative duties of the present, in the ap- pointed ways of common or even universal coopera- tion. That emphasis upon the mobilizing of every- body, especially those small earning and little en- dowed “common people” whom Lincoln thought of, |was put from several angles, including not least the sporting, which just now fits so well. | The same frankness remained forcefully in evi- dence when it was driven home by Gen. Johnson that now is at hand the “crux” of the whole endeavor, “very vitals of the great national effort,” with an undisguised chance of either success or |failure hinging upon the voluntary, unintimidated ‘\kmd and degree of common co-operation. It was a long journey in colonial times between iBoston and Washington. Gen. Johnson did it both ways within the day. But it was the same spirit 'he appealed to in Boston—that of 76. | Another Job for Ickes. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) | With his appointment as Czar of the oil dustry, Secretary Harold L. Ickes takes his place |alongside Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agricul- {ture, as dictator in the new regime of controlled competition. Ickes already was a far more powerful official than any Secretary of the Interior before him, due to his authority over the $3,300,000,000 of public works funds. Now he adds to his powers those of price fixing and regulation of production in the vast petroleum industry. Only a few years ago the Secretary of the Interior was a soft job, with jurisdiction over the Indians and geological research. Today it nearly dominates the Cabinet, so broad have the powers of the office become. Even when he was appointed last March, it is likely that Mr. Ickes had no idea what a change was to come over the office. To be sure, Mr. Ickes will delegate most of his power over petroleum to James A. Moffett, formerly of the Standard Oil Company, just as he has dele- gated much of his authority over public works to Colonel Henry Waite. But the final authority rests with the Secretary of the Interior, and there is no probability on the horizon now that ultimate control will again revert to the leaders of the oil industry. For better or worse, unimagined powers of control over industry are being handed over to political administrators. A Wheat, Cotton and Relief. (New York Times.) When Congress passed a resolution making avail- able for relief purposes, through the Red Cross, some 45,000,000 bushels of wheat and 500,000 bales of cotton, there were some misgivings in metro- politan centers. Even if the wheat was turned into flour and the cotton into cloth, as Congress intended, what could the city-dweller do with them? He was accustomed to buy bread, not flour, and it was many a year since he, or his wife, had made clothing at home. Nor could he live on bread alone. The paramount need was for a package of different staple foods that could be cooked on a tenement stove. How this problem was met was told in a sup- plementary report published today by the Gibson Committee. It is impossible to read it without realizing again how little would have been done in this field without cooperation, and how much was actually accomplished by dint of a common effort which can have had few peace-time parallels. With the permission of Congress and the aid of the un- employed themselves, $4,000,000 of raw materials was converted into more than $7,250,000 worth of serv- iceable food and clothing, and distributed to the needy of this city, all without a penny of profit to any one. Bakers and bankers, grocers and truck- men, Red Cross workers and ‘“nutritionists” worked together to make this great community undertaking a success. It will serve as a model for future at- témpts at relief in kind. Nothing could be more absurd Than to flaunt that honest bird— And not from the practice stir, Of the ruthless chisler. —(Buffalo Courier-Express.) Don't jump hastily at the conclusion that the eagle is the first in that color field. The elephant has been blue since last November. (Boston Herald.) A Texan exhibits an animal with the physical attributes of a rabbit, porcupine and rattler. Un- daunted, Texas goes ahead and votes repeal.—(De- troit News.) ‘The grandest headline of the lot is simply this— “Kidnaper Shot.”—(Ohio State Journal.) in- | JUNEAU PILOT TELLS OF TRIP AFTER MATTERN Robert E. Eli;; Writes of His Experiences in . Alaska Flying (Seattle Times) The Jimmie Mattern rescue— a’ natural cold storage plant for reindeer meat—Nome, where the wintry frosts leave the houses around so much that “spring housecleaning” has come to mean “spring rebuilding” — transporting a Chinese scientist in search of reindeer horn for medicine. . . . Those are just few of the un- usual experiences on one flight, as related by Robert M. Ellis, pilot for the Alaska Southern Airways at Juneau, in a letter to his bro- ther, Victor G. Ellis, Hre. The former Seattle flyer writes: My experience with the Mattern Relief Expedition commenced when the expedition got as far as Ter- race, B. C., 200 miles from Ket- chikan. The next morning after landing there they learned Mat- tern had been found. Their prob- lem now was a matter of rescue rather than search. Plane Not Suitable Their plane, being a land plane, was unsuited for crossing Bering Sea and taking a chance on find- ing a suitable landing field at Anadir (pronounced A-naw-dree), Siberia. Consequently, they left one of their members to guard the plane at Terrace; the other three jour- neyed down to Prince Rupert by train, and there two of them bummed a ride on a passing plane to Juneau. At Juneau they enter- ed negotiations to charter our Lockhead seaplane to fly them to Anadyr and bring Mattern home. The first I knew of the whole deal was a telegram: “Go to Prince Rupert. Get Thomas Ab- bey. Bring to Juneau.” We did. At Juneau we were informed we were going to Siberia. But, with only a few hours to prepare for that trip, our airways manager, Cot Hayes, handed me {a radio, “Send plane at once. Emergency.” And a few minutes later we were flying out to Iey Straits to bring in a very sick man. We waited there two hours only to find the man was too ill to move. Find Hole in Fog At 4:30 next morning we shoved off from Juneau to Nome. The trip was uneventful. Once W¢€ found a hole through the fog which walled up most of the pass- es. We landed for gasoline at Kluane Lake, Nenana and Ruby. By 5 oclock that night we were in Nome—the first plane ever to fly from Juneau to Nome in one day. The next day we were to continued to Siberia. But we lack- ed one thing. That was permi sion from Russia to land in Si- beria. After sofne days Russia finally refused permission. They, too, wanted to make the gran- doise gesture of flying Mattern to Nome. ‘When one thinks of Nome, one thinks of gold. The town has shrunk from the roaring town of thirty yefrs ago, but there is still considerable mining activity, prin- cipally dredges. The beach in front of Nome is still being work- ed by hand. Most of them earn about $2 a day and a couple of them were earning as much as $10. Rebuilding Necessary Even now, Nome is most inter- esting, “though obviously a diffi- cult town to maintain on account of the frost, which, each winter, heaves the houses and buildings around. This spring, empty build- ings, deserted for years, lean and twist. Floors get slanted and the walls bulge. While we were waiting there the King Island Eskimos came in for their annual summer trading, bringing carved ivory, for muk- 3 3 | BETTY MAC | | BEAUTY SHOP | 103 Assembly Apartments | PHONE 547 | s — FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GAS OILS GREASES Juneau Motors \ FOOT OF MAIN ST T Resurrection Lutheran Church REV. ERLING K. OLAFSON, Pastor Morning Worship 10:30 AM. luks and skins. They arrived in their big skin boats called om- jaks. These boats are made of walrus hide and driftwood, about as big as a 50-foot Navy sailer. They make a grand sight. But, instead of being propelled by sail as in the past, they had outboard motors kicking ‘at the sterns— most incongrous. While awaiting Mattern’s arriv- al at Nome! we picked up a few hundred dollars with two trips| for local people. One trip we took a Chinese scientist, who had some all the way from China to tain ten reindéer heads; = It seems the Chinese long have used| elk horns, medicine. It was Dr. Chang's| intention to discover if reindeer; horns had curative effects. Reindeer in’ Corral We took him to a reindeer camp on Eschultz Bay, within a very few miles of the Arctic Cir- cle. Therz was a corral there, and the natives were busy mark- jng and counting the deer. The reindeer were very wild. It was all very exciting. The deer were driven through a chute, and an Eskimo would step up, drag one out by the horns and wrestle him down on his back. Then another Eskimo would clip the deer's ears in such a fashion as to brand him for his owner. By 10 o'clock that night we had our plane full of ten deer heads, and were headed back for Nome. On the way we stopped at Ele- phant Point for gas. They have a natural cold storage plant for reindeer carcases. The ground in Interior Alaska is permanently frozen, and only thaws out for a couple of feet in the summer time. During five years the tem- perature inside has never been above 17 degrees Fehrenheit, that is, 15 degrees below freezing. Out- side the air was warm, 65 degrees Night Flying Easy We arrived back at Nome at twenty minutes past midnight. It's a great country for night flying. Although the sun went down at 10:30, it was still light enough for us to find our way across strange almost - uninhabited country, and to make an easy landing on sthe Nome river. The Russians had arrived with Jimmy Mattern while we were away. Mattern is a fine chap, very likable and a good scout. While he was getting his affairs straight- ened out we all entertained the Russians. They could speak no English; we, no Russian. But, on, the whole we managed nicely, especially as most technical air- ‘lahe terms are much the same in any language. They seemed excellent flyersand had a good plane, a large Dornier (German) flying boat, with two motors, and a crew of five. They stayed only a day or two, as they had to get back to their base on the Black Sea. River Too Narrow The Nome river where we land- ed was not big enough to take off with a full load. So we took three passengers and flew them over to Safety Cove; deposited them, and went back for the oth- er two. We were gone only fif- teen minutes, but when we got back the fog had blown in and we couldn't get down in the river. So, back we went to Safety Cove, and the remaining two passengers had to come out along a bumpy road. We left Safety Ceve about 9:30 ‘at night. After a daylight-mid- nikht landing for gas at Ruby, we arrived at Fairbanks at 3 in the morning. The landing at Juneau at 11 o'clock the next night was diffi- cult because of possiBle driftwood, but I sat her down okeh. — e — Daily Empire Want Ads Pay when in the velvet, for} 20 YEARS-AGO e SEPTEMBER 13, 1913 | The Hotel Cain, being built on |Third and Main Streets, was nearly |ready to open for business. Man- \nger Harry F. Cain had selected J. K. Leaming, one of the most capable hotel men on the Pacific I Coast, as assistant manager. The | building which belonged to C. E. . Erickson and J. R. Jaeger was the only concrete and strictly modern building in Juneau. | ‘Mr. and Mrs.'J. W. Woodford had taken the Chester Hatch bungalow on Gastineau Heights where they planned to live for the winter. The latest business concern to be formed in Juneau was the Simpkins-Freiman book and sta- tionery store and book bindery. The new business was to be lo- cated in the new Seward Building that was reaching completion. The handsome new home U. S. Marshal H. L. Faulkner was hav- ing built on Gastineau Heights was almost finished, with the frame work completed and the roof nearly on. Dave Evans went out on the Eagle River trail with Supt. J. C. Hayes of the Alaska Road Com- mission. Those who, aitended the dance given by the Ladies’ Guild of the Episcopal Church, declared the event was most delightful and thoroughly enjoyed by the large number attending. Many expressed the hope that the ladies would give them often in the future. The music, one of the features of the evening, was excellent and the punch delicious. There were many handsomely gowned women there and the scene was exceedingly at- tractive. —_—— NOW OPEN The MIDGET Featuring Pabst Draught Beer Special Luncheon Plate Dutch Lunches Open from 10 a. m. to 1 a. m. TOM and MARIE STURGE Trevor and Cedric Davis left for a deer hunt to last several days. H Are You Prepared? Before the snow begins to fly is the time to put on ! those storm windows and ' figuring on. for prices. SHINGLES—LUMBER—LATH—MILLWORK MOULDING AND CEMENT Columbia Lumber Co. ' TELEPHONE 587 The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau BANKERS Strong—Progress We cordially invite you to avail yourselves of our flcllifiuiot handling your business. 3 Don’t let winter catch you unprepared. Reduce your coal bill substantially and make your home more comfortable by putting on storm sash and making a few repairs at this time. the new roof you've been Call on us ADMIRAL WAY Alaska SINCE 1891 ive—Conservative — PROFESSIONAL Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics, 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 o et 1 | | DRS.KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Bullding PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. | Dr. Charles ]: Jt;nnei DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building Telephone 176 i | Office hours, 9 a.m. Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Evenings by appointment Phone 321 to 5 pm. — — PRSI Dr. A. W. Stewart Iy DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 6 p.m. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. Phone 276 ;‘Dr. Richard Williams DENTIST OF+ICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building, Phone 481 GreJuate | Office Fnone — Robert Simpson Opt. D. Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Onthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL Optometrist—Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted | Room 7, Valentine Bldg. to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 S Rose A. Andrews Graduate Nurse Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas- sage, Colonic Irrigations Office hours 11 am. to 5 pm. | Evenings by Appointment ] 484; Residence Phone 238. Office Mours: 9:30 | | | SRR RS R - Fraternal Societies | OF | Gastineau Channel | Rt = e RNt v ¢ B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at y 8 p. m. Visiting brothers welcome. \ L. W. Turoff, Exalt- —| ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. e e KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Council Chambers, Fifth Strecs. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary & r Our trucks go any place lll]‘i' time. A tank for Diesel Oil | | and a tank for crude oil save | burner trouble. 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