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ment of his own forests on his v TAATLA AT AQL A FAAD THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, FEB. 3, 1934. Daily Alaska Empire TR vas elected President he proposed fore . BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER Was ¢ ; < it i —|as a method of alleviating unemployment. | Published every evening except Sunday by the Not only is the President scientifically managing EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Maf|pig o forest, composed of native oak, hemlock and 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: Oney)'~ ar, i mivance, $12.00; six months, in advance, £6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. will confer a favor if they will promptly siness Office of any failure or irregularity v of their papers. 3 or Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. i The Associated Press ia exclusively entitled to t! use for repuhlication of all news dispatches credited to it or not . herwise credited in this paper and also the local news ed herein. ALASKA CIRC ULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION CHILD LABOR IN ALASKA. Alaskans are opposed to clild labor as it has been practiced in many industries in the country. That form of labor has never been known in the Territory which not only protects its children from such a burden, but provides every one possible with schools, text-books, teachers and transportation, mot only giving them the opportunity of acquiring an education through the high school grades but making it compulsory to attend school to the age of 16 years. The abolition of child labor in industry through the operalion of NRA codes, an achievement of which President Roosevelt is proud and justly 80, has been widely approved here. Now the question arises, through the proposed Salmon Canners Code, shall Alaskans children under the age of 16 be prohibited from employment. It is worthy of serious consideration. We believe, however, that a close and careful consideration of all the factors involved will prove that there is no reason why such a provision should be included in the code. Child labor in the States was largely prevalent in sweatshops, in textile mlils and other industries where the employers took advantage of pressing economic needs to work children long hours and for small wages in direct competition with adult labor which was to have been had in abundance. The working conditions were improper and irreparable injury was done to the phySical health of the children. They, denied the gpportunity of attending school, suffered mental debasement as well. Those conditions do not obtain in the salmon canning industry of Alaska. Children, if employed at all, are used at light labor during the peak of the canning season when no other local labor is available for the jobs. The work entails no menace to health. The period of employment is during midsummer, running about 45 days coincident with schobl vacations, and consequently no loss of time in school is involved. There are further reasons that modification here should be seriously considered by the NRA author- ities. The canning season is too short for labor to earn sufficient to support it the entire year. Thus, whole families obtaining employment for the season might receive enough in the total wages paid it to provide it with all the necessities of life where one or two members could not possibly do it. Many children houn Indian and white, in Southeast Alaska, have frequently earned enough money in light work in canneries duriug vacation time to provide them with clothinz for the winter. If their earning power is wiped out, many will suffer hardships on that account. The usual employment in the canneries is not child labor as that term is commonly used and understood in the United States. Alaskans would not countenance any such system. We believe, there- fove, that the National Recovery Administration might well modify the standard child labor pro- vision as it applies to the salmon canning industry of the Territory. THE NEW DOLLAR. In proclaiming the gold content of the new dollar, President Roosevelt has acted with his ac- custimed promptness. As soon as possible after the law authorizing it became effective, he fixed it at 59.06 per cent of the old gold dollar, or .094 per cent less than the maximum rate of 60 per cent fixed in the revaluation act. This, it is announced, makes the price of gold $35 per fine troy ounce, raising it 55 cents above the RFC price that had prevailed for several days. The gold content fixed by the President may not, in all probability will not, remain constant for an extended period of time. The law permits him to reduce it to 50 per cent of the old gold dollar, and to raise or lower it s conditions demand. It is this fle:-ibility that the President insisted upon and which led to the strongest opposition offered to the plan in Congress. That he will use it if he deems it necessary, cannot be doubted. Having for the present set up a new dollar, and with a $2000,000,000 fund in the Treasury to protect American currency on foreign exchanges, the Presi- dent is now in position to proceed to chart an international currency and commodity-price course which is one of the real objects of his new monetary policy. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, A PRACTICAL FORESTER. Many people have wondered why President Roose- velt turned to forest conservation as one of the first of his reconstruction projects and brought into exist- ence the Civilian Conservation Corps of 325,000 boys and veterans whose accomplishments have been one, of the outstanding successes of the Administration. The reason, as explained by officers of the United States Forest Service, is that the President is both a scientific and practical forester himself, as well as a member of the professional Soclety of Am- ‘erican Foresters. Twenty years of personal manage- in Hyde oy o Park, New York, explains why so many of his plans for rehabilitation relate to forests, soil and water. It will be remembered that many months before he y work white pine, but he has been carrying on experimental planting of many other tree species for the past twenty years. Douglas fir from the Pacifis Coast, pines from Corsica, Norway, Japan and Scotland,| larch from Europe and Korea, spruce from Canada, are found in various parts of the President’s estate Forests are beautiful and have an esthetic value, but forestry is a practical science involving the most profitable use of the land. So Mr. Roosevelt drained a tamarck swamp and planted it to northern| white cedar, as this is a more valuble speeies. Christmas trees are grown for the market and rail-| road cross ti are cut. and sold for revenue. All agricultural land on the estate is in farm crops, but the poorer soils are growing forest trees, and| “sub-marginal lands,"—the low-grade lands once/ cultivated unprofitabl are being planted to forest.| Evidently the President needed no “brain trus: to recommend the conservation of natural resources| as one of the important projects for the and economic rehabilitation of the nation, A physician rises to remark that buttermilk | produces alcohol in the body. Sh, Doc!, the next thing we know they’ll be branding it “blend” and selling it to us for likker. | definitions garden Among late Wall Street turn into lemons is one explaining that| is a where watermelons often | ORI A - LR | Independence vs. Dependence. | (Cincinnati Enquirer.) | Those who think about the underlying philosophy } of unemployed relief can make little out of it except | that, through government, those who are regularly | employed are supporting those who are not. { That is the reason why the report of Secretary | IcKes to President Roosevelt is more significant than | most of the remedial suggestions. Mr. Ickes sees | in the drift of population from urban centers toy the land the attempt of unemployed workers to be | self-supporting. That is why he stresses the im- | |portance of subsistence homesteading. This is one | of few governmental expedients which undertake to | make the unemployed independent rather than de- pendent. Government figures show that every year up to| 1930 the net movement of Americans was from farms to cities. In 1930 the tide turned, and each year since, the population has been going back to the | land. Probably more than two million people | have left the cities in the last two years, seeking | independence on the land. Under Secretary Ickes an experiment is pro- ceeding in West Virginia which should provide | useful data showing how families without capital can reestablish themselves on the land and be at ' least partially self-supporting. At Dayton, Ohio, several experimental units have been started in the | last six months. Perhaps through these tests, | municipalities can learn to rid themselves of the viciol circle of direct relief, tending toward pauperization. * The homesteading scheme is directed toward home production for home use, storing foods and fashioning household necessities, furniture and cloth- ing. Because the plan of household industry tries to eliminate drudgery through use of electricity and | modern appliances, it actually engenders new em- | ployment in industry itself. There is not a city | or town of consequence in the United States which | does mot need to consider the eventual salvation | of its surplus workers. Subsistence homesteading | |may become an important formula in dealing with the unemployed. Business Without Profit. (New York Times.) Treasury figures published last week show in| some detail the vast shrinkage of American income in 1932—a year which will in all probability be found to have been the worst of the depression. That | the number of persons reporting a “million-dollar income” declined to 20, compared with 75 in the | preceding year and 513 in 1929, is only one indica- tion of what happened. Large losses occurred in all of the higher brackets of personal income taxes and were still more impressive in the case of cor- | porations. ‘The Treasury’s figures of corporation income are | classified under eight major groups. Public utilities | made, on the whole, the best showing in 1932. But | not in any one of the eight classifications did the aggregate net income of those corporations operat- ing at a profit equal the aggregate deficit of those operating at a4 loss. In this sense, an excess of income over deficit was shown only in two sub- divisions within the manufacturing group—including industries manufacturing tobacco products and chemicals and their allied products. Very heavy losses occurred in the case of industries producing textiles, metals and forest products. For the manu- facturing group as a whole, 14,000 of the more suc- cessful companies showed an aggregate net income of $657,000,000; but 68000 less fortunate concerns reported an aggregate deficit of $2,103,000,000. For all corporations, manufactuing and non-manufact- uring, the aggregate net income of those able to operate in the black was $1,852,000,000; the aggre- gate deficit of those in the red was $6,420,000,000— or more than three times as large. These figures explain the reduced dividends and the increased unemployment which characterized 1932, as well as the smaller yield to the Govern- |ment of taxes paid on that year's earnings. There lis reason to believe that when comparable data are available for 1933 they will show an improvement; for in many industries production showed a gain last year. But the fact remains that a great number of corporations have experienced reverses from which they can recover only gradually and only if they find encouragement in the policies pursued by the Government. Their recovery would benefit owners, creditors and employees. Through the payment of larger taxes it would greatly aid the Treasury, which is itself operating in 1934 with a larger deficit than |was shown by all of the private corporations which reported a loss in 1932. If he is going to dedicate it to someone who is |dead, why not let it be the G. O. P. elephant?— (Atlanta Constitution.) The psychologist who says that an occasional |bad cold is necessary to good health is welcome to a monopoly on that sort of benefaction.—(Detroit Free Press.) As an exhibit of international good faith and credit, Finland should be among the countries rep- resented by a village at the 193¢ World's Fair— (Chicago News.) Prohibition may have been a rich man's law, but repeal leaves much to be desired man.—(Buffalo Courier-Express.) A b President Reosevelt is now writing another book. | *NOPSIS : Frank Grahame, cx- vound into the wilds of Yucatan to look for traces of his missing_aviator friend. Bilk Lang- ton, narrowly escapes death at the hawds of a man mamed Ortega. Frank suspects he is the man who tried to abduct the ovie star, Kent, wm Hollywood shortly o Janice had refused Frank’s proposal of marriage. Janice and a company trom Hollywood are in Yucatan. unknown to Frank, to make a wnicture. Greene, Janioe's publicity man. has been shot on the way to Merida Chapter 21 AT MERIDA ruboed at a lump over his temple. Thoughtfully he ad- justed his coat upon his shoulders and studied a ragged rent in its side thro which some papers in the pocket had been blown by the bullet. “H-m-m-m,” he grunted. “So this| is Mexico. What happened? A safe and e Fourth?” explained as much as they . While they talked the train began to move, haltingly at first then with gathering speed. Lights began to slip t the car windows; then the trucks of the cars sereeched around a turn. They ‘were passing through a lane lined with shadowy building: “Merida, garth. They jerked into a dimly lighted station. The men began to arrange the boxes so as to be ready for their departure. The train stopped. The other passengers crowded through the door. Outside they could see dozens of wrmed soldiers patrolling the platforms. There was a commotion at the doorway. A huge man shouldered himself through the and approached down the I guess,” offered Ho- le. His face was blue-jowled and darlk, | smoke from his black cigaret drib-| bled through thick nostrils. He wore the bleached linen suit of the haci- endado, with the tunic buttoning up to the neck. His arm was carried in | a black silken sling. He loomed above the seated Amer- | icans. For an instant Janice did not | recognize him, then she caught her | breath. It was Ortega, the man whom Frank Grahame had suspect- ed as being involved in her abduc- tion in Hollywood a month ago. While she had told them all in My- berg's office that she did not believe that Ortega was implicated; never- theless to herself she admitted that she was unsure. Janice looking at | him now, was conscious of a sense | of uneasiness as his glance met | hers—a tiny ringing of some sub: conscious bell of unrest as those flat- toned eyes were turned down to her. He bowed deeply. “Miss Kent,” he began. “How are | you Mr. Greene, and Mr. Hogarth. | It is 1 pleasure to see you all again [ am delighted.” His somber stare made his statement sound contra- dictory. “I have a message for you | from Mr. McGrath, your advance man.” § Greene stirred irritably. “Where is he?” The big man’s glance flickered over Mr. Greene and paused at the torn and stained shirt front. He al- lowed the question to remain un- answered and addressed himself to Janice, “So Mr. Myberg decided to go on with the picture? It is good. I shall be delighted to help you. It has been a great regret of mine that I was forced to leave Hollywood so sud- denly. I was planning to return when I met Mr. McGrath. I decided, then, to await your arrival.” ANICE wished the man did not make her feel so uneasy, Was this the suave, well-mannered Ortega that had sent her daily flowers in| Hollywood? He seemed the same but with a subtle difference. Once, two years before she had met an industrial executive and haq been taken through one of his fac- tories. She had admired him for his power, decisiveness, and shrewd, command of his organization; later she met him at a masquerade cos- tumed as an eighteenth century | beau ard he had been clumsy and ridiculous. She thought of him now, looking at Ortega. In a sort of reverse way this had happened to him. The pol- ished latin aristocrat in Hollywood had become somewhat gross—he was more effective this way Janice admitted—but there was a shade of incongruity in it—like a fop turned rowdy. “So you waited,” said Mr. Greene, “Yeah. That's fine. But where in hell’'s McGrath? He should have met us at Progreso. He didn't show up. Instead we come here and get shot at. What is it? A revolution? What's the moatter with you guys by Herbert Jensen - “Please!” interrupted Janice. “You were about te say. ...” There was a shadow of annoyance in the smile Ortega gave Greene. “1 was about to say that Mr. Mc- Grath asked me to meet you. I would have been at the dock when your steamer arrived but we have had a little trouble here.” His glance roved about the dam- d car. “l am sorry you were attacked on the way in from the coast, but the revolucionistas were marching on Merida and the troops on your train were federal soldiers.” The revolu- tionary party have captured Merida. The federals have retreated and are encamped, we think, a few kilo- | meters from the city. They await re- | inforcements from Campeche.” What effect will that have on 1 asked Janice. “Mr. Myberg planned for us to take the location shots at Chichen Itza, instead of at the nlace you spoke of.” “lmpossible.” Ortega shrugged his shoulders, “That is why 1 am here. A week ago McGrath was going to ien Itza to make arrangements for a camp there where you could sta; hile you took your pictures. ever, he was unable to et per- ission from the authorities. They had word that the revolution was about to begin and the ruins at Chichen would probably be within the zone of war.” “Then what did he do?” asked Mr. Greene discensolately. He met me,” replied Ortega with the slightest of bows. “All the ruins in Yucatan are not at Chichen Itza, nor yet at Uxmal. Back along the tr of the Caribbean coast are others, bigger ones, and in better condition, too, for your work. Me- Grath has gone ahead. I will guide you there.” "’1‘2(\.\'!( you, no,” snapped Mr. fireene. Something in the tropic air had made the little man as ag gre: e as a fighting cock. “Not any at all, thank you. Yours very truly accompanied by Miss Kent and these three sons, will take the next train back to the coast, and thence to these or those—take your choice —United States Ortega shook his head and smiled. He appealed to Janice with a gesture of his unburt arm. “I am afraid he does not under nd. There will be no steamers ay from Progreso. None will come away. The revolucionistas con- trol Progreso. When steamers come their supplies will be seized, so none vill come. It is always so.” Well, I don’t like this ruin bus ness of yours,” persisted Mr. Greene, “What's more, I don't like you, Ortega. 1 think you're up to some monkey business. You're bad copy, if you want the truth—" call a person bad copy was, for him, highly insulting—almost a curse. in a quieter tone, “we’ll stay right here in Merida until you settle who's who and what of it. You can tell McGrath to come back and make an occasional fourth at bridge until we can get to the only legitimate ruins I know of in this country.” “He means,” chuckled Hogarth who had been listening interestedly, “that he's plagiarized a lot of copy out of the Encyclopedia on Chichen his style.,” “Who saye so, you . . . Svengali?" Hogarth flushed; Greene knew the director’s weakness. Ortega looked at Greene specula- tively. “Merida,” he said, “will be under fire continually. It will be safer where I will take you.” “Oh,” said Mr. Greene after a re- flective pause. “Again,” continued Ortega, “Mr. McGrath told me to say that he was in complete charge of arrangements, stay and be killed, by all means I was not to discourage him.” Greene bristled. Hogarth euuck- led. Wallace, the older of the camera men said, “Go ahead and stay, Greene.” But Mr. Greecne looked pensive. His glance shifted from the face of Ortega to that of Janice, and back to Ortega’s again. “I don’t like this layout,” he said. “It seems to me that the best thing we can do would be to get out of this country as soon as we can. You never can tell about these revolu- tions.” He turned to Ortega “You say we can’t get out the way we came? I8 there any other way....” The big man dropped his cigaret and ground it under his heel. “The territory of Quintana Roo lies to the eastward. It is there I intend to take you.” down here? Deu't you know this is| lousy publicity? Now it I was rup. ' ning this country—" (Copyright, 1934, by Herbert Jensen) , Menday, Frank and Juan fight the jungle. “Well, anyway,” continued Greene | | Itza. Any other ruins would cramp | and that if Mr. Greene wanted to | bowling team with a crowd of Ju- neau rooters were planning to take the Douglas FElks' bowlers in a match to be played in the eveni on the Treadwell alleys. Juneau Elks had won the match played two weeks before in Juneau. Frank H, Waskey, Alaska's first appointed U. 8. Comm: in the newly-created T H 1 | delegate to Congress, was recently | | Wade-Hampton & Fraternal Societies | oF i “1 7 prorEssionar (] 20 YEARS AGO ! S - = ; SIS Fhe DU { | Helene W.L. Albrecht | | idiam s 49 PHYSIOTHERAPY | SR P e Massage, Electricity, Irfra Red | FEBRUARY 3, 1014 | NI Gymnastios. | Members of the Juneau EIks i | 307 Goldstein Bullding Phone Office, 216 { Office hours 11 am. to 5 p.m. Rose A. Andrews Graduate Nurse Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas- sage, Colonic Irrigations Evenings hv Appointment Second and Mam rhone 259 i AR | precinct in the Kuskokwim by Judge J. Randolph Tucker, Jr., of Nome. The Alaska Dramatic Society has organized the previous evening at the home of -the Rev. George E. local talent, series of pla the first, roposed to put on a during the season, of the month. Douglas basketball fans were keenly interested in the outcome of the series being played between the chance of winning the series. Elks’ hall on the following evening The club’s weekly dances were looked forward to by many of the south. Mr. Olson had gone south |a short time previously to meet his wife who had been visiting for Renison. The society, composed of @ M high school team of that place and | DENTIST éhe high jschool players of Juneau. | poomg § and 9 Valentine They felt that in spite of the fact | Building | that Juneau had a three to onc Telephone 116 lead the Douglas team had a good g et e E. B. WILSON Chiropodist—Foot _Specialist 401 Goldstein Building PHONE 496 DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | | already under rehearsal | DENHS’I.‘?;“ | s to be produced the latter part | Bl Dy ‘ i PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. Dr. C. P. Jenne | = | | ~ The Juneau Athletic Club an- Dr. J. W. Bayne | nounced it would give another DENTIST | of the delightful dances in the Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. 14 Of:ice aours, 9 am. to 5 pm. | evenings by appointment, | Phone 321 | younger set in Juneau, particular- p lv, but were popular with every- — one. The Juneau orchestra, under o B the direction of Prof. Sumpf had Robert Simpson | | been secured for the occasion. Out. D ) 1 Oak Olson and Mrs, Olson, re- 3’{:;‘;“& omn":t‘:y"m?" i lege turned on the Mariposa from the ©pthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground ! \ i L M. Hunt, of the U. S. Signal Corps, attached to the Juneau Ra- dio office, is a passenger aboard the Northwestern after a two is accompanied north by | “Mr. Greene!” exclaimed Janice | with some sharpness. For Greene to | | | months’ furlough in the states. 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