The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 12, 1934, Page 4

4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, FEB. 12, 1934. A —————————————————————————————— 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 per month. By mail, postage paid. A( the following rates: Ox\eyyk1r h? Rd\gn(‘l‘ . six months, In advance, $6.00; one month, in adw n(‘ $1.26: Sub!(‘flhvli will confer a favor it they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or {rregularity the de! v of their papers. " Felephot lor Tditorial and Business Offices, 374. MEN SER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, ssociated Press 18 exclusively entitled to th um:r;‘:r ’r‘.,.\ fcation of all news dispatches credited to it or not ot/ rwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER LASHHAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. LINCOLN, THE GREAT HUMANIST. In honor of the memory of his great qualities of | mind, soul and heart, the Nation today in a spirit of reverence pauses to pay tribute to Abraham Lincoln, who, in the words of Lowell typified the “birth of our new soul, the first American.” Each year brings new material to round out our picture of this paticnt, lonely, supremely unselfish and greatly generous statesman who perserved intact the Union of States. He remains the American ideal. He was dictinctly American. He remains near to our thought and reverence as much because of his simplicity and kindness as because of his inspired quality of statesmanship and his dedicated patriot- ism. As much as any other personality holding place of importance in the national annals, he left a deep impression on the institutions and ideals of our country. Lincoln possessed the supreme quality of selfes-| ness, but he possessed, also, those of moral forces) and intellectual strength. Small wonder that he was| able to fashion his visions into accomplishment,| though suffering and anguish paved the way for him | through martyrdom into immortality. This, too, at a time when it seemed that lesser-souled individuals had prepared for him a political crucifixion in the | halls of Congress. He was the champion of true democrncy—Lhat‘ is of humanity. He was concerned with the welfare | of the average man. He was “of the people and for the people” and so remains sainted in the popular heart. Were he alive today is it too much to say that his influence and the mighty forces of his character would be extended in support of the great leader who now occupies the high office llmL was his in the dark days of Civil War? A leader | who, like he was, is confronted with the gravest of | problems affecting the nation’s whole future and who, as he did, is laboring mightily and couragcauslyl for the welfare of the common man. It was Emerson who declared that Lincoln was the whole history of the American people in his times. He defined him as the “representative of thel moving pioneer democracy which opened a new continent to a new type of man.” He stands alone and, as Bourke Cochran once said, “and must forever 1cmain, the phenomenon of all the ages.” A study of this great life, an appraisal of its humanness, humanness which enlarged and en- riched his tlought touching the well-being of this Government and its people, its gentleness, its wisdom, its gift of leadership, can but broaden the conception of what American citizenship should be, may be, and of what America has contributed to the civilization of the world. THE VASTNESS OF THE UNIVERS In every story on astronomy vast distances are g.ven in terms of light years. A light year is the distance a light ray traveling at 186,000 miles a sccond would cover in one year. Multiply 186,000 miles by the number of seconds in a year and one finds that a light year is 5,186,796,000,000 miles. Even “near” stars nowhere near the edges of the universe may be thousands of light years distant. How large then is the universe? In miles the dis- tence would be expressed by a figure that would cover several lines of type the size of this. Like| the five thousand billion miles in a single light ycar, the result is beyond comprehension even in a nation that talks budget figures in billions of dollars . Some idea of the vastness of the universe may be obtained, however, by the recent calculation of Professor William D. MacMillan, of the University of Chicago, that if all the molecules in the universe | were evenly distributed, each would be separated frem its neighbor by seven feet. When it is re- memebered that even the smallest object that is possible to view with the strongest microscope prob- ably contains millions of molecules, the significance of what astronomers mean when they atlk about the “universe” takes on new meaning. Professor MacMillan's calculations were made on the new report of Professor Edwin P. Hubble, of Mt. Wilson Observatory, on the distribution of the galactic nebulas, the so-called “island universe” far-flung beyond the cluster of stars of which the sun is the only one small member. ARMY IS CALLED IN. When the Civil Works Administration found its program threatened by graft and use of Civil ‘Works as a medium of distributing political patron- age it acted swiftly and effectively to bring an end to fthe alleged shameful conditions. It called on the Army for help and was able to obtain the assignment of officers from the Engineer Corps to head Civil Works activities in several districts. None who knows the Army and its Engineer Corps will doubt the effectiveness of this step. The Army iis l#lpamu.n and nonpolitical. It owes no political ‘debt-l and cannot be called upon by any political ‘Ft-l to pay any debts that boss may owe. The Officers are fitted by training and ex- tour balance. |must give way to better ones. |{more moderate. Some of his most ardent admirers | Works program. Their assignment to the job will not only end the conditions of which complaint is made but it will promote efficiency in carr out the program. ENGLISH IN 900 WORDS. As a means of promoting the use of English internationally, the Language Research Institute plans to compile and publish a dictionary contain- ing a minimum number of words between 900 and 1,300. The words, it is claimed by sponsors of the plan, will equip anyone with an English vocabulary adequate for ordinary conversation. The new list of words will be carefully checked against twelve leading lists now used in the teaching of English as a foreign language. It is expected that it will be completed and ready for distribution with- in a few weeks. A Government chemist in Washington, after test- ing a number of brands of whiskey made the discovery that purely made moonshine was the best of them all Other experimenters, not chemists, have reported the same discovery before now. Maybe the income tax collectors are going to make a house to house canvas hoping they can beat the fellows who are after the other payments. Lack of Planning. (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) It is said, and with the light of experience il- luminating the truth of the statement, that a poor plan, boldly executed and vigorously furthered, is better than a good plan hopelessly pigeonholed ‘When we temporarize with plans and wait for miracles, we only prepare the way to disaster. We floundered in the mire of hard times for months and years in great measure through lack of constructive planning. In prosperous times we pre- pared no plans that mapped proper action in the event of economic stress. Our guard was down, the blow came from nowhere and the punch floored us. We would have been counted out but for the gong, and that gong was the small cash reserves and credit of communities, counties and States that afforded temporary relief. Before the next round was called, it was necessary for the Federal Govern- ment to steady us; there was no alternative. Most of the hurried plans drafted were but half-heartedly followed. Then came the NRA and more steadine: Had the NRA been put through in 1930 and with dispatch comparable to the selective draft during war days, we would have been far better off today. | Hindsight is. more accurate than foresight, how- ever, and there is nothing gained by lamenting failures of the past. But we have been forced to plan, and as the result of planning we will regain | Some of the plans now being followed | They are eggs that may hatch gamecocks. But under it all is the realization that we must, at the soonest possible moment, adopt and follow definite * plans, or our convalescence will drag to a relapse. And with the | inevitable ups and downs of business that will come in future, let us, as recovery is affected, have definite and intelligently drafted plans to carry out —plans more in keeping with what would be looked for among educated people. We must know exactly what to do and how to do it when the clouds of hard times again drift between us and the sun- light of normal business Smith and Tammany. (The Lynchburg, Va., News.) | There was a time when Alfred E. Smith was a man who aroused the strongest prejudices. Few persons were neutral. They either were for him or against him; they cheered his name or they booed it. They voted for him or against him with aggressiveness. Later sentiment began to change, feeling became cooled toward him and some of those who had hated him most found good in him. He was not a candidate for office and people so inclined could let judgment take precedence over emotion. But now Al Smith is being hated again—hated viciously. He is hissed and booed at a meeting | of Tammany Hall politicians. For that Al Smith can give thanks, There is nothing that can make him dearer to many persons throughout the Union than for him to be hated by Tammany. It is a badge of honor, as it was to Grover Cleveland, who was loved for the same reason, the enemies he had made—the same enemies. | English Word Sounds. (New York Times.) The correct pronunciation of English words is the despair of foreigners, and presents difficulties even to the native born. Mr. Harold Cox, now a journal- ist but formerly a teacher of mathematics in a Mohammedan college in India, wants the educa- tional leaders of England to devise a scientific alphabet that can be used “for teaching both Eng- lish children and foreign students how to pronounce the language.” He believes that an alphabet could be devised to instruct Britishh people not only how to pronounce words for which there is no rule in their own tongue, but foreign words. In 1915 a movement was started by educators and literary men to enlist the Government in this cause, but in the midst of war nothing could be done. No less a person than Lord Cromer was interested. He wrote the following skit: When the English tongue we speak Why is “break” not rhymed with “freak”? “Beard” sounds “heard.” “Cord” is different from “word.” And since “pay” is rhymed with “say,” ‘Why not “paid” with “said,” I pray? “Cow” is cow, but “low” is low. “Shoe” is never rhymed with “foe.” And, in sort, it seems to me Sound and letters disagree. Mr. Cox points out that there is varying pro- nunciation throughout the British Empire. He realizes that in preparing the “scientific alphabet” new letters would have to be intyoduced for Engush, and to cover foreign languages there would have to be even more letters. not the same as Senator Copeland, who lost his pants and $400 during an overnight stay in Erie, ought to know that there are some pretty skilled poker players in our smaller cities—(Philadelphia Bulletin.) After he has waited hopefully for nigh on to 15 | years, some of these new blends seem to a dis- illusioned survivor of other days like the unkindest cut of all—(Boston Herald.) Some people are interested in how much the dollar is going-to be cut and others about what they are doing to the whiskey.—(Detroit Free Press.) We see by the current quotations from near and | perience to handle projects composing the Civil far that whiskey has become one of the h.lgher’ things of life.—(Detroit News.) { Frank Grahame, explo Mezican jungle on a search for Bill Langton, missing aviator. sends his companion, Juan. back tc the coast and deter~ try to rescus the movie anice Kent. Through his bin- oculars he has scen her led up the steps of a Mavan pyramid with a companion ; I vealizes that she has come to Mexico “on location” and has b hetraved into the hands of the “sublevados.’ a dan- gerous Land in the Yucatan june- gles. - Chapter 27 FRANK EXPLORES HE sun had sunk below the horizon. Cautiously he slid into the open outside the ruin. Ahead, where the column of pursuers had gone, he made out a white object above the tree tops. He drew forth his binoculars and adjusted them. It was the house atop the pyramid reflecting from its altitude the sun. He was closer to the city than he thought,—not more than a mile or two. He beard a rustle tehind him. He whirled, gun in hand. The shadows had lengthened, and semi-obscurity shrouded the ground. The sound was not repeated, but he believed he saw a shadow fade and disappear at the jungle's edge. An iguana, as large as a cat, drifted across the rocks ahead of him. Doubtfully he holstered his pistol, and withdrew into the ruin. Time enough to enter the city after dark: meanwhile he would get some badly needed sleep. The squesking of bats and the soft whispering of their wings awakened Frank. He glanced at th~ {lluminated dial ot his watch: it was a little after midnight. Ee stretched the stiffness from his limbs. He adjusted his clothing as best he could in the darkness, and tightened his belt. He was very hungry. He stepped into the open and fol- lowed in the tracks of thc party that had passed the ruin diring the af- ternoon. As he aproached the city the trees thinned and gave him scanty cover. Ahead, he saw a light, a dull glow, that he guessed from its height to b a fire of some kind atop the big pyramid. This was confirmed as he approached the huge mass. He wondered at the lack of edifices on this side. Doubtfully he gauged the height of the moon, speculating if the two hours light remaining were likely to be more of a help than a hin-| drance. He was grateful for the dim illumination a few minutes later when he stepped into the shadow of the pyramid. He stopped, rigid with astonish- ment. There, ahead of him, almost at his feet was the white disk of the moon! It took a few seconds for an explanation of this eerie phen enon to penetrate his mind. It the moon, reflected in a pool of wa- ter. As his gaze adjusted itself to the correct focus, he made out the dim bulk of the pyramid reflected below the lopsided shield that was the moon. It was a cenote! huge cavernous openings that abound throughout the Yucatan peninsula, where the roof of rock, ages ago, had fallen into a aatural subterranean reservoir. Graham dropped to his hands and knees and crawled to the edge. The brink was sharp and the sides al- most perpendicular. It made a sort of lake sunk scores of feet below the surface of the surrounding ter rain. The cenote was a rough oval, a hundred yards long, breadth-span of about two-thirds that distance. The pyramid abutted against the farther end, looming like a grim sentinel of past ages. One of those E stepped away from the edge and progressed with Infinite caution to the base of the structure. The moon was somewhat behind him, shining apon the massed stone. He saw to his surprise that the pyramid had been constructed so that this side reared itself in a smooth perpendicular line from the lip of the cenote. It would be a terrible fall, thought the American, from the truncated top of the pyramid. An object hurled from that height would have an uninterrupted plunge to the sur- face of the water. He rounded the corner away from the pool, and guiding himself with one hand touching the masonry, ap- proached the center of the sharply sloping side. He was in deep shad. ow. At the center the hewn-stone steps began. He climbed a little way, and rest- ed, listening for sounds of human beings. He progressed slowly but assured himself that no one was| about. At the top he peered over the edge. with a: | | pre The stage was flagged with huge blocks of stone, and in the center stood the temple-house, built squarely. It was much larger than n had seemed from Lue plain below. 'here was no opening at the side facing Grahame, but he observed that a glow came from around a cor- ner,—the exposure facing the sheer drop to the cenote. way facing eastward, small ruined pyramid at the edge of his observations of the pre- 1 the center of the light from wes 1 door, and standing fway toward the edge, was a ;e slab of stone supported as a ist-Ligh, at the corners, It was evl- 2ntly an altar of some sort. Even in the dim light Grahame saw that it was covered with elaborate carv- ings. The surface of the slab seemed to slope toward the brink. ) swift certainty he covered the e between the stair's top and the shadowy corner of the house. A glance assured him that the altar side of the house was un- occupied. He slipped within the doorway. There was a corridor head, howed ky,—the eastern door. a INGLY there was no one about. He penetrated farther into the place. At the middle he tound that another corridor, biind at both ends, bisected the other. At the fintersection a stone brazier burned, about. He turned to the left, and pro- ceeded toward the end. On each side were doorways, evidently the | entr this pyramid-house. He paused. Dark lumps lay be fore two of the doorways. He heard the sound of human beings breath ing evenly. The red light from the central urn threw stabbing flashes about the walls and he caught metallic equipment of the sleeping guards. He retreated softly, and stole down the corridor to the opposite end. There were no guards before the dooorway. He nodded his head and com ssed his lips. He returned intc the left corridor and approached the He reached under his arm. tomatic gleamed dully in the fitful light. itself for a spri he bent over., His throat. A whisper died pressure of his finger muscles; he brought the barrel of the gun down upon the spot over the ear. sound in his throat and reached for the other’s neck. There was a whistling of the guard’'s breath as within the sudden grasp. His back bowed and he pounded at the Amer- ican’s face with his fist. Grahame threw his leg forward and pressed the man’s arm to his side. Again he choppea down the barrel of his pistol, and the figure collapsed to the stone. He paused, holding his breath. | There was no sound but the sput- | tering of the central urn. A glance at his watch told him would be getting light scon and there was little time to lose if he were to find Janice, and get down the pyra- mid into his hiding place. He was feeling faint trom lack ot food, and his imagination was be- of smell. he smelled food, ever since he had topped the pyramid. He found that the doors of these side rooms were casually fastened, —rough wooden pegs pinioning a metal latch. The doors were wood- en. He lifted the peg and pushing open the nearer one he entered. There was a lamp burning dimly in the room he entered. At the farther end he made out a pallet and a figure reclining upon it. He approached the figure; his shadow bounded about the stone walls like a huge misshapen phan- tom. He bent over the couch; al- most he exclaimed aloud. The wide-open eyes of Janice Kent, their blue irises glowing with a dark contempt, stared at him. He watched them widen in astonish- ment. Her lips parted, as if she were about to speak, but his palm swiftly covered her mouth, “Don’t speak,” he cautioned in the barest of whispers, (Copyriaht, 1934, by Herbers Jensen) Tomorrow, Janice compli their escave. g lien He knew that there was a door- | toward the | the city. from which point he had | by four smaller | throwing smoky shadows | ances tc tfie rooms that lined | THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS The Gastineau Our Services to You Begin and End at the Gng Plank of Every Passenger-Carrying Boat | and at the end of it there | a glimpse of star-studded | |niversary of the | Pres | | e 20 YEARS AGO Prom The Empire e e s | FEBRUARY 12, 1914 The first mass meeting of the Juneau High School girls’ occur- red in the high school rooms in the city hall the previous evening The s took their supper to the meeting and there coffee was made | and supper served. M Katherine McLaughlin, president of the Asso- ciated Gi Students was toast- and each of the girls called in turn. An interesting pro-| lowed by ed the eve Miss Gertrude Mal- | lette, Miss Lavina Wilson and Miss L ine Andrews acted as chap- | erones. The banks and closed in observance birthday though the public offices and most of the business houses remained open. The day had not been made a legal holiday in Alas- ka. schools were of Lincom’ ‘Weather for the previous twenty- four hours had been clear, with a maximum temperature of 47 de- grees and a minimum of 3 degrees above zero. The Juneau Democratic Club was to celebrate March 4, the first an- inauguration of ident Woodrow Wilson, by giv- ing a smoker, according to a reso- tion passed at the meeting the previous evening, held in the club headquarters in the Malony build- ing. Senator Leroy V. Ray, President the Alaska Territorial Senate was in Juneau for several hours lon his way home from a trip to Washington, D. C. 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