The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 11, 1934, Page 4

T T T L T L T T R T TR T T TR TH T E PR T B T et T U T R R TR U UL LU UL DU LU UL LU e T T A T R T H TR T O o W = LRERBQR S | vwnlllbllél betting, the general im- o o SN 7 8RR Daily Alaska Empire KOBERT W BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGEBI evening _except Sunday by _the | Published _every | MPANY at Second and Main | EMPIRE_PRINTING C@ Streets, Juneau, Alaska. | Fntered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class | matter. | | SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ! ®ellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas fcr $1.25 per month, ! By mail, postage pald, at the following rates: | One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, | $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. H Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is wxclusively 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 put ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. | | PROVIDING FOR HONEST WHISKEY. The Board of Health of New York City has| admirably pointed out a way in which the sellers of legal whiskey can be required to inform their buyers exactly the kind, nature and age of the wares‘ they purvey. Under an amendment to the sanitary code of the city, it is made a misdemeanor to sel any whiskey that is not labelled to show (1) whether it is straight, blended or mere imitation; (2) the age and percentage of each whiskey in a blend; (3) the ingredients of an imitation whiskey. Thus, if the whiskey is not straight, on the label of each bottle must be shown what straight whiskey is used and what percentage, and what percentage of alcohol | and water are added. If it is an imitation, the label must show exactly what ingredients are used and the proportions of each. The insufficiency of the country’s stocks of aged whiskey and the high prices that have been current have made blending inevitable, and have stimulated new processes of rapid aging. In the long run these whiskies are going to sell in quantities and at prices justified by the public taste. But, no matter what the merit or shortcomings of particular types of liquor, the buyer is entitled to know just| what he is buying. That is all that the New York code requires. The benefits are too obvious to need enumerating| in detail. In the long run, the distillers, dealers and sellers all will benefit. If Alaska is given the power to control the liquor traffic within its own | borders, agsh.gzbeen stronglyindicated, by Chairmen | McDuffie of the House Committee on Insular Affairs, a similar system would work well here. No matter | what system of purveying is adopted, the public has a right to protection from cheats and dishonest| distillers and purveyors, and such a requirement can in no way injure the scrupulous producers. WOMEN SUCCEED BY TAKING HINTS?| If women do not reason as well as do men, they are better at taking hints with the result that they more nearly approach the achievements of men. | This is one of the conclusions drawn from a series| of reasoning tests given 384 students of the Uni-| versity of Michigan by Dr. Norman H. B. Maier of | that university’s psychology department, reported in the British Journal of Psychology. Using students in the beginning psychology course as subjects, Dr. Maier divided them into two groups, one of which received some general hints on what not to do when solving problems presented. The other group received no suggestions. | The problems varied from abstract puzzles, such | as dividing equally cdd-shaped diagrams, to con- structive work with simple material available. The| group receiving suggestions were from 20 to 40 per| cent more efficient. In a variation of the experi- mont, the 384 students were subjected to two prob- leras of equal difficulty. The hints were given in| connection with one of these problems, and it was Iaga[nsl depending on habitual patterns of thought | and blind persistence in attempting to solve prob- | clear. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 11, 1934 solved by twice as many individuals as the other| problem. Because the suggestions were, in general, advice| lems, and because the tasks were best done when the hints were given, it is concluded from the experiments that the type of reasoner most suc- cessful in problem solving is the one who can suppress or inhibit the habitual lines of thought to| allow free play to new ideas and thought patterns. UNCLE SAM, BANKER. Uncle Sam is now the largest shareholder in the| greatest American bank outside of New York City.! He attained that position by buying through the| Reconstruction Finance Corporation something like, $50,000,000 in preferred stock in the Continental Lilnois Bank and Trust Company, the sale having, been approved recently by the bank’s directors. Uncle Sam's banking investments go a great deal farther than this single purchase. He has| bought many more millions of dollars of preferred stock issues in other banking institutions through- ! out the country. Among all his other interests| he is becoming a banker on a pretty extensive scale. The final ending of this policy is not altogether An imaginative person could be excused for believing that he saw taking shape, somewhere on the horizon ahead, complete nationalization of the| nation’s banks. And a sensitive person, mindful of disasters not yet remote, almost might be forgiven for believing that such a consummation would be a desirable thing. Twelve men are now said to understand the Einstein theory. Verily, the world is becoming morei and more enlightened. | F.D. R, SHOWS GREAT KNACK | AT ALL TIMES Bewilders Smartest of Political Strategists, Certain Times By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Presi- dent Roosevelt’s knack of extricat- ing himself and his Administration from an embarrassing situation just when the odds seem against him, bewilders the smartest of political | strategists at times. ) They still talk about the way he handled the Hull-Moley situation following the World Economic Con- ference at London. And now, some close observers says that his procedure in bringing about peace in the AAA will be set down as one of the neatest bits of strategy seen in Washington for a long time. The Peek-“Young Liberals” row in the AAA had caused the Ad- ministration much concern. The in- side efforts of Secretary Wallace to persuade the two factions to fore the dispute flared into the open, is evidence of this. It was only when it became ap- parent that the differences over policies seemed hopeless of recon- FARMERS LOOK T0 EXPERTS T0 BE GIVEN AID Must Find _E’—;; Crops to Offset Reduction in Acreage By F. B. COLTON WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Presi- for new crops for the American farmer is on, to replace lowered production of wheat, corn, cotton and tobacco under the administra- ticn's acreage reduction program. Thousands of farmers must be givon something new to raise on land formerly devoted to the four new crops which will be profitable and at the same time offer no new menace of over-pro- duction—says Knowles A. Ryerson, new chief of the federal burzau of plant industry. Ryerson plunged waist deep in- to the mew crop hunt when he took office January 1, for the bureau was swamped with lefters from farmers who want to know what they are to grow on large areas of good land on which they | compose their differences, long be-|no longer may grow the old major €rops. Hunting new crops, however, will be no novel experience for the 41- year-old scientist, for he has roam- ed the earth seeking out new and We wonder if NRA is doing anything about|ciliation that the Presidert moved | better plants for Uncle Sam. In his rescuing from ruin the poor padlock manufacturer who expanded his plant on the theory that Pro- hibition could never be repealed? Those who are protesting against that $2 per gallon Federal tax on whiskey should stop and remember that in England the tax on the same product is $18 per gallon. Perhaps those Americans held as spies in France are really scouts for apple producers looking around for some wine to be had in a trade. The Conservation Corps. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch.) Word from Washington that Mr. Roosevelt ln-‘ tends to ask Congress to appropriate funds for con- tinuing the Civilian Conservation Corps gives hopel that the benefits of this many-sided project will go on for at least a year or so longer than originally planned. The forest work program has done a great deal for the health and morale of the 347,623 young men it has provided with employment. The share of their pay checks allotted to dependents has taken more than 1,000,000 persons from local relief rolls and restored purchasing power to previously destitute citizens. The nation’s long neglect of its public domain has ended, for the time being at least, and forest lands have been improved by planting and thinning of trees, | prevention of erosion, construction of drives, fire guards, and so on. The cost of the CCC's first year, estimated at $400,000,000, already has re- turned Jarge and varied dividends. Continuance of this useful enterprise will be welcomed by the people. For Your Thoughtss (New York World-Telegram.) After machines such as the modern printing press or the gyro compass, which seem almost to | think, a young New Yorker, Norman B. Krim, at the Masachusetts Institute of Technology actually has invented a thinking machine. It is reported as able to form habits, to forget, to distinguish be- tween carrots and spinach—and that is just a start. It teems with reflexes, to be conditioned at will. To non-mechanized workers it sounds ominous. On a newspaper, for example, the typesetters, stero- typers and pressmen long have been used to the aid and competition of machines, but writers and editors function by an unchanged process. What now? And what about technological unemployment for lawyers, doctors, brokers, statesmn, even for inventors themselves? No, after all, this new competition is not s0 novel. We are accustomer to machine thinking, to machine uterance. Always the world has been deafened by the volubility of the uninspired. The market still awaits thinking which is non-machine. If knowing just where she stands is anything, France is the most dependable debtor a lender could desire.—(Detroit News.) EQUIPOSE IS LEADING HORSE RACING TRACKS “Ekky” Dominates Turf in '33 — Five States Legalize Sport By ORLO ROBERTSON (A. P. Sports Writer) NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Out of the thunder of hoofbeats, pounding down the stretch on the American turf, galloped Equipoise, the migh- ty little chestnut, to dominate the 1933 thoroughbred racing program. Carrying the Eton blue and brown-capped silks of C. V. Whit- ney, BEquipoise was the only horse to stand above the rank and file in fhe year of racing featured by the failure of any two or three- year-old to earn an undisputed claim to the championship of his lant Fox. Only twice, In which he was aske Club Gold Cup a | Havre De Grace going into retirem Mrs. Dodge Sloane ner of the muddy horse. The Kentuckian's stand training, h ‘sport in five states under pari-| Khayyam in the and American Derl ent of financial conditions War Glory “in all states except New York, and establishment of a modern rid- | record by Johnny Westrope of | ker, Montana. ‘While the younger horses were each ofher with almost|eph E. Widener's shift in weights (and often dian't {ake that), “Ekky" pa- ‘home in front of his field times to earn $55760 and Man O’ War from in the division, but | | boost his earnings for four years to $322970, a mark topped only by Sun Beau, Phar Lap and Gal- Beaten Only Twice pounds to his opposition, was Equi- poise defeated. He bowed to Dark Secret and Gusto in the Jockey lator to a new track record in the ‘The three-year-olds failed to de- velop an outstanding champion. and Travers, was the leading mon- ey winner with $57430, but over a fast track he was just another E. R. Bradley’s Broker's Tip won the coveted Kentucky Derby in a hairline and disputed decision over Mrs. Sflas B. Mason’s: Head Play. last in the Preakness won by Head lay. In turn, Head Play, purchas- ed by Mrs. Mason on the eve of the Derby, fell before the charge _ division, the inauguration of thefof Mrs. James M. Austin's Mr. War Glory, a son of the great barns, was the most consistent of the money eight times while Jos- |ner of the rich Belmont Stakes, | ran in claiming races early in the | Downs and Epsom - season and never faced the bar-|as, while Ohio, m Tnd rier again after taking down the West Virginia also took their “cut” major share of the $50,000 purse. The two-year-old championship was just as muddled. Financially, Mrs. John Hay Whitney's Singing Wood, winner of the $100,000 Bel- mont Futurity, ranked first, but he accounted for only two other vic- tories in nine starts. Charles T. Fisher’'s Mata Mari, a speedy filly from the west, and her stablemate, Far Star; Bradley's Bazaar, win- ner of the Hopeful, and the high- ly regarded First Minstrel from Mrs. Payne Whitney’s Greentree Stable, all rated near the top. Sets Mark for Jockeys Westrope easily was the class of the jockeys. Starting early in the year at Miami, the little 16-year- old apprentice rolled up the re« markable total of 207 winners by Dec. 18. He passed the modern rec- ord set by Johnny Gilbert of Pitts- burgh, Kas., late in the summer. C. V. Whitney again was the leading money winning owner, but it fook only $241,194 to top the list as compared to $403681 the previous year. The young sports- man'’s silks were in front 136 times. ran second in 127 races and placed third in 141 starts. ‘Winooka, hailed as the sprint champion of Australia, invaded the United States but met with only ordinary success after failing to get a match race with Equipoise. New York Tracks Suffer Five states turned to the thor- oughbred as means of replenishing their treasuries. The outstanding sessions were at Rockingham Park Salem, N. H, and Arlingtor a campalgn in ed to give many nd forced Oscu- handicap before ent. 's Inlander, win- Arlington Classic horse failed to owever, running ‘Wood Memorial by. Consistent Samuel Riddle's he was out of Hurry Off, win- |McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. He jof Pacific-Northwest wheat, which to end the controversy. EXPORT SURPLUSES He asked Peek to resign his post as Administrator of AAA and take over a new division in the State Department, created to open new markets abroad for domestic, farm, and industrial products, on the basis of the American demand for imported wines and liquor. It is necessary, perhaps, to under- stand something of Peek's back- ground to apprceiate the Presi- dent’s finesse in this move. Peek’s lifelong idea of farm eco- nomics is the exportation of sur- pluses. He was foremost among those who carried on the three-year fight in Congress for the passage of the was father of the plan for an ex- port corporation to find foreign outlets for some 25,000,000 bushels a few months ago was backing up into the interior and depressing domestic prices. Much already has been exported, with benefits claimed for wheat prices in this country. MAY END CONFLICT One of Peek’s favorite and oft- repeated statements is ‘“American agriculture will certainly stagnate| if deprived of outlets abroad.” 1 As head of this new organiza- tion, it will be his job to explore the possibilities for foreign markets for farm products of the midwest, just the thing which has absorbed much of his time during the past 14 years. There has been a wave of opin- ion that the choice of Peek for this post not only would put one of the best fitted men in the coun- try into the job, but also would bring to an end the embarrassing situation within the President’s of- ficial family. of the bets. Smaller tracks in New York state managed to about break even, but Belmont Park and Sara- toga again suffered heavy losses and “announced a slice in purses and stakes for 1934 unless the| state legislature legalizess some form of betting. | VENETIAN SHOP | | FIRST AND MAIN | | | Ladies’ and Children’s Part ‘Wool and Woolen Stockings present position as chief of the de- partment of agriculture’s division of plant introduction he has spon- sored experiments with many new and improved crop plants. In his riew post he succeeded Dr. W. A. Taylor. veteran of 42 years' servic> in the department. “Much of the marginal land can best reverf to pasturage or forest, but many good farms will remain,” says Ryerson. “New crops for them must be profitable enough to en- able the farmer to pay his taxes, interest on his mortgages and gain a good living yet diversified enough so that no new problem of over- Production will arise. It May Be a Genes Hunt “The fifture hunt for new crops will be more of a hunt for genes— the units of heredity—than for new plant varieties. New crops with greater resistance to disease, cold and drought, with greater yields, and more favorable times of ma- turing are being bred by crossinz plant types containing these desir- able characteristics.” New crops to provide raw mate- rials for industry rather than food also are possibilities. ' “'The problem of new crops is in many respects unique Ryerson ex- plains. Many crops which might replace the staples already exist but the market for them is un- known. The nation’s fufure tariff policies will play a part, for many products now imported could be grown in this country if tariff walls were high enough. Large areas where some of the staples have been grown success- fully are not adaptable to many other crops because of aridity or short seasons. Turning back many marginal lands to grazing may help, Ryer- son believes. MRS. HOLCOMB DIES, STROKE OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 11.—Mrs. Eva Staser Holcomb, aged 61, wife of Justice O. R. Holcomb, of the State Supreme Court, died in a hospital here last night following an illness of two weeks. Mrs. Holcomb was stricken De- cember 31 with a paralytic stroke. Besides the Justice, three sons and three daughters survive. PAINTS—OILS YOUR CHOICE OF ANY BRAND 4 quarts.......$l 7pints........ 5] @® Special Prices on Case Lots! CALIFORNIA GROCERY TELEPHONE 478 PROMPT DELIVERY 20 YEARS AGO PFrom The Empire Pt — JANUARY 11, 1914 The headquarters of the general agent for the Pacific Alaska Navi- gation Company were to be chang- the next forty days, according to an announcement made by“H. F.‘ Watson, general agent for Alaska for the company. The change was! to be made because of the cen- tral Jocation of Juneau and because of the great importance Jun:au had reached as a commercial cen- ter. W. E. Wilcox, national bank ex- aminer at large for the Treasury Department, who was in Juneau, had already become an enthusiastic Alaskan booster although it was his first trip to the Territory. “The trip from Seattle here is finer than a voyage throughj the Medi- terranean Ocean” he declared. The Juneau Investment Com- pany, composed of Messrs Van- Winkle and Gordon, was busily compiling data for a city directory to be published about March 1. It was proposed that copies be placed in all of the larger Pacific Coast ‘hotels. G. T. Jackson, superintendent of the Alaska Gastineau Mining com- pany’s Perseverance Mine, was leaving on the Alameda for a brief vacation in California. He expect- ed to return north in a few weeks. The previous day had been pay day for the employees of the Al- aska Gastineau mining company and the amount paid out totaled approximately $110,000.00. There had been about 900 men employed during the month. Great interest was roused in the Territory, all Pacific Coast states and many other parts of the country in addition to the nation- al capital by the Alaska Railroad {bill which had both strong sup- porters and outspoken opposition. Members of the Opal Club de- cided on a series of dances to b2 held each Saturday. The dances | were strictly invitational and the | date was announced so that there would be no interference with oth- er dances. £y d ————,——— Daily Empwre Tyauy Ads Pay. Deep . . . understanding of hu- man feelings enables us to impart dignity to that service which adds “Final” to life. We overlook no de- tail. Funerals, com- plete in every respect. The Charles W. Carter Mortuary PHONE 136-2 “The Last Service Is the ed from Seward to Juneau within, e PR S DT | PROFESSIONAL Helene W. L. Albrech PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Goldsteln Building ] Phone Office, 216 [ e—— ——e Rose A. Andrews Graduate Nurse Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas- sage, Colonic Irrigations Office hours 11 am. to 5 p.m. Evenings by Appointment Second and Main Phone 250 H —_— g oS E. B. WILSON | Chiropodist—Foot _Specialist 401 Goldstein Building i PHOKE 496 | ’____—.4-—4'- e s . N DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | DENTISTS | Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours § am. to 9 pm. ! Dr. C. P. Jenne | DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building Telephone 176 s el b DTy T L A B S T T Dr. J. W. 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