The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 5, 1934, Page 4

~ 3 4 ~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, FEB. 5 1934 y Alaska Emptre |unless the debts of the political subdivisions of t ERAL “"\:AGFR“WO countries are taken into account as well there' can be no fair comparison between the 'zuh“cx indebtedness of the United States and Great Bri anl PRI, = — | Available statistics along this line show the total /A every evetli by _the |gross debt of the States and municipalities in 19 PRINTING CO! Main | mounted to approximately $19,285,000,000. Thi o v e would make the total indebtedness of the United| it Wi, Ui #41n the Post Office in Juneau as Second CIASS| /"4 its political subdivisions about $50,000.- | star. wifh Nor. Srem, égess e ;uou.onn or a per capita of approximately $400. | Yucaton, 1o make & eloturs i Fh SRS RIETION AATER. tor $1.25| AS against this, the total debt of local bodies in Doy amt OF o Ry b Re ey . A |Great B as ed at 1500,000,000 pounds| ~ fusnesied Bl an afiemated abducs y_mail, postage ¥ the following Tetes: coe, ,mmmg or about $7,775,000,000 at current exchange| Soux he swill guife Slem: SIINE R T st {rdtes. This would make the total debt of Oreat| Granams. rejecied sultor ‘of Jan: bscribers will confer a favor if they will PrOmMPUY | pryepin in cxcess of $47,000,000,000, To complete the, irs iust has scaved death at y the Business Office of any failure e Settyery o paper .. |compar however, the population of Eng Felephonefor orial and Business Offlces, 374 1o /.74, Wales and Northern Ireland is ap MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. | mately 46,000,000, compared to 122,000,000 in The Assoclated Press is *‘:1"7,:‘:,‘,’,,,‘.T,L“l‘iil.‘(ld"v | United sta ile the national income and na- A ot orine "cradited im this paper and also the [tional wealth of this country are far greater than| focal news published hereln. Britain, which mak GER ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LAR LASIIMAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION ‘na' of Grea b jorh o national income and national wealth into cons ‘."ra on, the debt burden of this country is m lighter than the debts of the other great powers | | committee declares that election | tices in Louisiana cannot be defended. But that dm sn't keep Huey Long from trying to. TEE Gold and Dynamite. REVALUATION AIDS ALASKA. { L — | (Anchorage Times.) The revaluation of the dollar by President Ro0Se- | 0y prices of gold have caused a veritable velt and the fixing of a price of $35 an ounce ON|oygauphy jn anl parts of the world to organize gold is of incalculable value to Alaska because ”‘flud sell gold properties. The unscrupulous as well will promote even greater interest in gold mining .5 the legitimate operator sees in the present the and. prospecting than has been exhibited since the opportunity to sell “gold mines.” dsys of the great bonanza placer camps. It hasi But there is dynamite mixed with removed uncertainty as to the gold price which,|tunities it is now admitted, will not go lower than present |tions. The unwary and uninitiated will have a lot quotations at least for a long time and very nkely:Of such properties to offer. X will yet mount to even higher levels before currencies‘ne:‘h" real mining man, one who knows the busi- R aniliogd ihy 5 o ngreemint. o Maskavspurmus The unwary will not know and in many | While capital has been looking towar 'in:tanws will not have the understanding to seek for several months, or since the beginning of RFC| the sdvice and™Md ot 10w &> do. ¥now. purchases of gold at enhanced prices, it has hesitated | Tnere are legitimate promoters and there are somewhat about entering the field because it WaSijlegitimate. The bona fide man will offer nothing | not certain that the policy would not be reversed|for sale but what will stand the test or at li‘asL before it could actually obtain and develop prop-‘haw a reasonable chance of proving good. erties in time to reap the benefits of the higher People interested in really seeing the mining prices. It is evident now that no fear need be en-|industry develop and thrive will be keen to suppress tertained on that score. For that reason we can| |or eliminate the insincere promoter. the oppor- prac- The dynamite is in the wildcat proposi- | will know how to ‘select the good from lhl“ expect to see almost unparalleled interest in the| Juneau gold belt and its known low grade lode deposits this year and for sometime to ~ome. There are a number of prospects and some prop- erties that have been partially developed and one‘ or two that have actually been in production, classed heretofore as marginal, which ought to be capable of being financed now and developed into profitable mines. When the snow flies from the hills we shonld witness a revival of prospecting and develop: t unknown here for the past 20 years. SOUTH REVIVES UNDER ROOSEVELT PROGRAM. Whatever the reaction elsewhere, and it is gen- erally favorable, and irrespective of whether the change is natural and permanent or artificial and | transient, the facts are unmistakable that 10 months | of the New Deal have wrought a revivifying trans- formation on 20,000,000 persons making up the popu- lation of the South, especially on the 10,000,000 directly dependent on the raw cotton industry. A survey conducted by the correspondents of the Wall Street Journal, reaching into the Eastern cotton belt, the Mississippi Valley region and the western belt, brought unanimous reports that the 2,000,000 cotton farmers of the South raised their cotton cheaper in 1933, got a better price for it, borrowed less money to make the crop, and for the first time in a decade had cash to call their own. In Texas the available cash averaged about $150. Unanimous also is the response that the bettered position has extended to the manufacturing branch of the industry, and is reflected by a big improve- ment in retail and wholesale business, in positions of the banks, and in State and local government finances. Local tax authorities report more farmers in the South have paid their taxes more promptly this year than in several last past. Score another achievement for President Roosevelt's recovery pro- gram! COMPARI PUBLIC DEBTS. President Roosevelt’s estimate of the Nation's public debt at the end of the current fiscal year, $29,847,000,000, which has been so widely discussed and thoughfully analyzed for the past three weeks, does not appear so large in the light of public debts of the other large nations which are revealed in official statistics made public by the Department of Commerce. The position of the United States will be considerably more favorable than that of either Great Britain and France and of other countries like Italy and Japan and Germany. At the end of September, last, Great Britain's public debt amounted to 8,111,000,000 pounds sterling, or $39,472,000,000. PFrance in August of last year owed 502,000,000,000 francs, or $26,455,000,000. Italy, August 31, owed 99,468,000,000 lire, or $7,957,000,000, exclusive of war debts; Japan, November 30, last, 7,809,100,000 yen, or $3,893,000,000; Germany, 13,211,- 000,000 reichmarks. On a per capita basis, the comparison is even more favorable to the United States. Based on a population of 122,000,000 people, the per capita debt burden of the United States is $245, less than one third that of Great Britain last August, which the Department of Commerce estimates at $858, cal- culated at partiy for the pound sterling, and is slightly more than one-half of the per capita debt burden of France, estimated by the Department at $480. Thus, even the predicted public debt of $32,000,000,000 at the close of the fiscal year 1935 gives Uncle Sam the edge over Great Britain and France in per capita debt burden, since that would mean $254 for every man, woman and child in the country. The per capita dfbt burden of Italy is $156, but Commerce Department officials said their caleu- ]lfioxu did not include Italy’'s huge war debt. Ger- hich virtually eliminated its public indebted- the post war Inflationary period, still has capita debt of $48. . Many students of nnuwe however, insist that | Alaska has today one of her biggest opportunities |in the gold situation, but she will suffer if wild- cats are offered and a number of buyers deceived. Stories are coming from Western States of a |number of deals being attempted with worked out and hopeless new propositions. Any old {has been offered by certain ones. In some cases |fabulous prices are asked for ground which only |recently was abandoned or hold no attractions what- lever. It is true the higher prices of gold make {lower grade ground now profitable which at one {time was unattractive, but even at that no one is justified in trying to get honest money for something of no merit whatéver. The buyer with di minating mind will beware the fake promoter. Alaska and every other mining country has many a fine property which really deserves attention. The new freedom and power of {gold should not be abused and will not be by men {who are honest and sincere. | Mining, scientifically conducted, is the safest of industries under modern methods, and yields returns second to none when handled by honest men who know their business. But for the dishonest promoter, the fakir and the unscrupulous schemer there should be no room in the present day economy of things. All such ilk are comparable to the certain classes of wolves who operate in Wall Street and in other circles seeking to shear the lambs. Short shift should be made of every one in that | | | mate man. Under such protection and the new lorder of things Alaska and . every other richly endowed gold-blest region will thrive and blossom. Churches and New Deal. (New York World-Telegram.) What of the churches and the New Deal era? The churches have just completed a six-year survey of church life under the American flag. The Rev. Henry W. A. Hanson, writer of the introduc- tion to the long report, said: The American people are tired. They have been sobered by the disillusionments and heartaches of the last four years. We have compromised and qualified until what remains of Christianity is but an anaemic member occupying a place at the table of world religious. It is neither vital nor vitalizing. It lacks the fire, courage and abandon which characterized the apostolic Church. . . . During the past decade Chris- tianity to many has seemed to present but a glorified social service program. Mr. Hanson seems to repudiate the whole con- cept of a “social service program,” since he de- precates “physical standards of value” in extolling the “spiritual.” Possibly the thing which America now stands most urgently in need of, and under NRA seems to be heading toward, is an ideal—a crusading ideal to {which the whole nation can commit itself in the same way that the nation for centuries was dedi- cated to the conquest of frontiers, geographical and industrial, now exhausted in their familiar forms. But this ideal cannot ride the skies. It must walk the earth where broken bodies and broken producing systems drag themselves along. . One camp claims a dogie is a calf, but Will tenor. Will General Johnson please rule on this? |—(Detroit News.) i Two swallows of legalized liquor don't make a summer, but they make ‘the swallower lose inter- est in the temperature—(Macon Telegraph.) That new micrometer which measures distance down to 1-800,000 of an inch might be |measure Huey's chance of electing another United States Senator in Arkansas.—(Macon Telegraph.) Anybody who thinks the $10-goldpiece he didn't turn in can be cashed for about $16 is entitled to another guess.—(Philadelphia Bulletin.) What's as poignant, after a long and painful estrangement, as the reunion of a couple of buddies ‘llke Tom and Jerry?—(Detroit News.) prospect | nllmole, full of water, or having no showing whatever | |class and every encouragement given to the legiti- | |Rogers says it's a coyote that sings like a cowboy || used to | ey eato. A friend Bill L has disauvea fungle to look for his naton. aviator who Chapter 22 IN THE JUNGLE WILL tak g.” con the balance | decidedly in favor of the United States. Taking the W, when yo nued Ortega, have fint. n push o e a lau h there, and 1 will The Communist Internationale is told that the United Fruit boats | world revolution is coming and that Communists re yon may sail to | will be victorious f that's their only meal ticke e plenty of money?” |however, the boys had better tighten up tt said Greene shortly ‘b! ts, fol 11 be a long time before they cash 1 would sug- [in on it | " he sald. “If oW not ill this trip be safe?” asked the | | People moved ¢ | “Oh, quite,” replled Ortega ca ally. He smiled slightly. | “Well" said’ Mr. Greene, | get goin : They tiled out of the car. Sever soldlers helped them with the boxes. Ortega made arrangeme Mr to bave them taken to an hotel Greene admitted to Janice, rather grudgingly. that could get things done. Janice did not re She was too tired from the long day and the ex noted, however, that Ortega kept | close to her, rather too close she | thought, but perhaps it was only his | zeal to see that she was made com | tortable. HE stood waiting for her coach. It was poorly illuminated before | the station. People moved restless | about her—native women with shawle about their heads, children | who whimpered, soldiers with stolid | sullen faces, whose metallic equip ment clinked and rattled as they moved. It was then that she observed the man who leaned against a post In the station entrance. Almost a pure Indian type she thought, taking in the dark skin, the beaked nose, and wide cheek-bones. A shock of coarse black hair fell over his forehead. He seemed to be staring toward her yet not at her. She turned toward Ortega, who was at her elbow. He was looking directly at the Indian. Ortega nodded his head. His lips were parted in a half smile, which vanished as he became conscious of Janice's inter- est. “A poor fellow,” he sald suavely. “A sort of servant of mine, from my hacienda.” Janice wondered. Then, as the | woach drew up beside her, she dis- missed the matter from her mind. She assured herself that the slight feeling of uneasiness that persisted was due to her fatigue, or her un- tfamiliarity with these strange sur- roundings. Still, the Indian who had stared at Ortega at the station had not | looked like a servant. There had been/ something imperious in his gaze,—something that is seen in the | burros and horses “and prg bed your pic- to the coast. at my haci- take you south to ry drafts | can arrange to- | to have them cashed for appralsed the dia- ice’s fingers and at her to wear jewels . You had better hide | Ortega certainly | citement to take much interest in | what was going on about her. She | | exclamation and hurried forward. | hundred tent,—cruel. Cr’ AHAME made a last slash wiLh ¥ te and dropped it » tangle of jungle creepers He drew tobacco and his breast pocket, and his cigaret watched sure beside him. Sweat 1 on Juan’s bronze face, the ppled under his shirt as 1is heavy knife. to the trall, ng most, (.raha’ne "It w say I am wil s blistered har better to die sw than to expire s with the cas we can keep b rection of the s south-west hey bad been vearly two weeks | Journeying to reach this point, keep | ing always off the main trail, | At times thelr way was easy. | when the jungle opened into broad | grassy savannahs. At other points | they were forced to plunge into leech-glutted bogs where every step \ was a supreme effort. They skirted the small hill that | Juan bad noticed. Soon they stood apon a narrow path that twisted | southward, a truly Indian trail that | looped and swung around trees and swamps,~——never ran straight. Juan preceded Grahame as they | strode along. Thelr packs were humped high upon their shoulders. Each carried a rifle, taken from Or- | téga’s landed cases. Occasionally Juan pointed to the right or left of the trail, calling Grahame's atten- tion to freshly severed vines. “They have passed this way to- ward the coast. | can mot tell | whether they have returned.” They walked for several hours. The trail dipped toward a swamp, and Grahame noticed that at the point it crossed the bog, tree trunks and branches had been thrown to give a firm footing. Juan uttered an “l can tell you more now,” sald the boy. “They are behind us. They have not returned. See— The mud is trampled. The footprints go all in"one direction. A very large party too,—perhaps balt a hundred, per- haps more.” They stood at the edge of the swamp that stretched about two yards ahead of them. Thoughtfully they examined the footprints. “It's the side trail again for us, son,” sald Grahame. “At least until the footing is dry. It would be telling ‘em too much if we crossed here. We don’t know how far they are be- hind us. If they see our prints here they'd send a party ahead to Catch o (Coyright, 1931, by Nertert Iensen) obrank r makes a tragic discovery, look of one used to command—pow- | His charae | e 20 YEARS AGO i T PROFESSIONAL | Helene W. L. Albrecht | PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Elcctricity, Irfra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | 307 Goldstein Building From The Empirs ! FEBRUARY S W , 1914 he custom M . tioned at Cor- | | Phone Office, 216 | dor ay ang Ketchikan, = . | beer rred to Juneau "_____.—_——.— 1 expected to arrive soon from ® o He would take the po-| | Rose A. Andrews { Graduate Nurse | Electrie Cabinet Baths—Mas- sage, Colonic Irrigations | Office hours 11 am. to 5 pm. | Evenings bv Appolntment superintendent nery, ch: Second and Mam Phone 258 | E. B. WILSON Chiropodist—Foot Specialist 401 - Goldstein Building PHONE 496 1 | —— 52 - — ] DRS. KASER & mcnanzn ) DENTISTS Blomgren Building | PHONE 56 | Hours 9 am. to § pm. | B o SRRSO I RIS T T Dr. C. P. Jenne | DENTIST | Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine | Building | Telephone 136 | 11 - ——a llian C. Irw n Juneau time looking here. Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Of:lce aours, 9 am. to 5 pa. «venings by appointment, Phone 321 s were recevied th 1 W. H. Case and Mrs. Cas: ad been visiting in the _ S were to leave on the nex! of the Spokane for Ju- Robert Simpson Sgalasyy | kDL VALENTINE TEA | Greduate Angeles Col- \a Society will give a lege of Optometry and | ©pthalmology well appointed Valentine Tea in he Church Parlors on Wednesday noon, Feb. 14, from 2 to 5:30 | Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground | You are invited —adv. I.OST WEIGHT COUGH DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL Optometrist—Optician T Room 7, Valentine Bldg. | Office Pmoae 484; Phone 228. Office Hcurs: 9:30 | to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 night ished one Be- bot- Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted | Residence | 2 | I | ce's Golden Discovery I had cough and ng T alo, N. Y. o N ¥. | | DENTIST Ve Do Our Pa | OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building, Phone 481 W E e U D e R % | Dr. Richard Williams Fraternal Societies | oF [ | #|| Gastineau Channel B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 p.m Visiting > brothers welcome. L. W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. e g KNICHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and lasy Monday at 7:30 p. m. i Transient brothers urg- ed to attcnd. Council Chambers, Fifth Strevl. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Becretary — | Our ruks go any place any | | time. A tank for Diesel Olf | | and a tank for crude oil save ' burner trouble. PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 RELIABLE TRANSYER e MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE Second and fourth Mon- day of each month in Scottish Rite Temple,&y i\ ) X beginning -at 7:30 p. m. 4 R L. E. HENDRICKSON, Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS. Scc- retary. = 0. 147 Genuine Swedish Massage MRS. J. M. 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N ~ Conservative management, adequate re- sources and an experience which covers four of the five decades of Juneau’s history make this institution a dependable depository and business friend. The B. M. Behrends Bank JUNEAU, ALASKA Y N N =N ) ] - =~ ] - - = = = = ) - - - 2 5 o ” 1/ t| Reasonable Monthly Rates t| | E.O.DAVIS | | TELEPHONE 584 ' l Day Phone 371 ] e P = | GENERAL MOTORS t ! o !, | MAYTAG PRODUCTS | l W. P. JOHNSON I | — ) l 1 McCAUL MOTOR | COMPANY ! .. e . } . Smith Electric Co. | | Gastineau Building | EVERYTHING | I ELECTRICAL | e | s | BETTY MAC | BEAUTY SHOP | i 162 Assembly Apartments PHONE 547 I TYPEWRITERS RENTED $5.00 per month J. B. Burford & Co. “Our doorstep worn by satisfied customers” a i Harry Race DRUGGIST The Squibb Store & G Y - S — - ah