The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1934, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE IUESDAY FEB. 13, 19 34. Daily Alaska E mplre GENERAL MANAGER Published _every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. ROBERT W. BENDER - - Tontered in the Post Office in Juneau as Sccond Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Delivered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. postage paid, at the following rates: $12.00 By mall, One year, In advance, ; one month, in ¢ six months, in advance, 1.2 it they will promptly allure or irregularity very of t for ¥ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, ated Press is exclusively entitled to th ispatches credited to ir papers. orial and Business Offices, 374. it ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. CWA’S LIFE LENGTHENED. Passage by Congress of the $950,000,000 additional s for Federal emergency relief and civil works s the continuation of CWA for at least two and one-half months, or from February 15 to May 1 This is a distinct victory for President Roosevelt The issue in the Senate was not whether the sum asked for by Mr. Roosevelt ought to be appropriated and the CWA kept going until May 1, but whether & much larger sum should be appropriated and CWA transformed from a temporary agency to one more nearly permanent. From any parts of the| country, appeals have been made by lssponsxble‘ leaders, Gov. Lehman of New York among them,| that the latter policy be adopted. The President | declined to be swayed from his original position and the test of the Senate proved that he still maintains his power in that body as well in the House. When the creation of the Civil Works Admin- istration was announced last November by the Presi- dent he gave as its objective “to put 4,000,000 people from the list of the still unemployed back to work as for the Winter months” An allotment of $400,- |Primary has not lived up to the promises made for | 000,000 was made from the fund already appro- lit. While it has done away with some of the . 3 f s ‘arry the Abuses of the convention system, it has led to new priated. It was estimated that it would carry t! abuses, perhaps more serious. It prevents many | CWA through the most severe part of the WInter,|pye™ oo™ r o “Cooking office, because it forces and that Public Works projects would by that time tne’ candidate to campaign actively and curry favor | be restoring many to jobs. However, President with party rank and file. It is costly for the Roosevelt made it plain at that time that there public, involving additional elections with their was 'good reason to believe that there would still numberless offi to be paid. | be work for the CWA after February 15, but he It has not prevented machine politics, but rather made it clear that any extension would depend has fallen into the hands of political machines, | solely upon Congressional appropriations at the .cur- 8nd it is notorious that the machine vote is the | dominating vote—often nearly the only vote—in a | rent session. More recently, he announced his inten- tion to seek an additional $350,000,000 for CWA and $500,000,000 for other forms of Federal relief ac- tivities. In the end this tentative estimate was raised to $850,000,000 without specific reference to whether the increase was for CWA or the other sections of the program The President’s own view, as reported by Wash- ington correspondents, is that by the end of April seasonal conditions will open outdoor employment for many. Thbe Public Works program will be in full swing. Private industry ought to be pro-| gressing at a rate under NRA codes that will take up ‘more of the slack. Burdens on the Federal treasury ought to be lightened in every possible way. And the discontinuance by summer, at any rate, of CWA s indicated as desirable for these reasons. | PROF. Recently dn a discussion of debt-deflation and its relation to depressions, Prof. Irving Fisher, inter- rationally renowned economist and professor of political economy at Yale University since 1898, expressed his conviction that President Roosevelt's “avowed reflation” is the cause of the nation's start on recovery and added that the downswing of depression could have been quickly reversed four yoars earlier, and, more than that, could have been| wholly prevented. In this connecticn Prof Fisher wrote: Those who imagine that Roosevelt's avow- ed reflation is not the cause of our recovery but that we had ‘“reached the bottom any- way” are very much mistaken. At any rate, they have given no evidence, so far as I have seen, that we had reached the bottom. And if they are right my analysis must be woefully wrong. According to all the evidence, under that analysis, debt and { deflation, which had wrought havoc up to March 4, 1933, were then stronger than ever and, if let alone, would have wrecked greater wreckage than ever, after March 4. Had no “artificial respiration” been applied, we would soon have seen general bank- of the mortgage guarantee com- savings banks, life insurance com- railways, municipalities and States. ment would probably have become unable to pay its bills without resort to the printing press, which would have been a very belated and unfortunate use of artificial respiration. If even then our rulers should still have insisted on ‘leaving recovery to nature” and should still have refused to inflate jn any way, should vainly have tried to balance the budget and discharge more governmental employees, to raise taxes, to float, or try to float, more loans, they soon would have ceased to be our rulers. For we would have insolvency of our National Government it- self, and probably some form of political revolution without waiting for the next legal election. The Mid-West farmers had begun already to defy the law. If all this is true, it would as silly and immoral to “let nature take its course” as for a physician to neglect a case of pneumonia. It would also be a libel on economic science, which has its therapeutics as truly as medical science. . If reflation can now so easily and quick- ly reverse the deadly down-swing of defla- tion after nearly four years, when it was gathering increased momentum, it would have been still easier to have stopped it FISHER ON RECOVERY. panies, By that time the Federal Gov recovery was apparently well started by the =~ Federal Reserve open-market purchases, up It fact, Reser to September, and circums paign of fe would prevented in done had Governor Strong of the Federal 1932. recovery was stopped by var including the political “c tances have been still easier the depression opinion, to have altogether. Ir my this would have beer Bank of New York lived, or had after s death. In that case crash., We would have had the which revived prices and business from May The effort was not kept fous am- 1 N i his policies been embraced by other banks and the Federal Reserve Board and pursuea consistently there would have been nothing worse than the first its of |tion. |Joseph Eastman, Administrator {mitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission and | |the President, |Government policies, regarding these and competing debt disease but not the dollar disease—the bad cold but not the pneumonia, Prof Fisher is convinced, however, that the gold standard would have had to be abandoned or modified (by devaluation) in order to have avoided depression. He arrives at this conclusion by the {following process of reasoning: With the gold |standard as of 1929, the price levels of the time| {could not have been maintained indefinitely in the |face of: the scramble for gold, due to the con- |tinued extension of the gold standard to include |nation after nation, the increasing volume of trade, land the prospective insufficiency of the world| gold supply. Prohibition i Senator |back. But how, { | { Senator, Sheppard says, will come can something come back | that never w One thing about ex-assistant Secretary of Com- e McCracken, what that man surrenders, he o do surrender.” | me: i The Direct Primary. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Growing dissatisfaction with the results of direct primary for nomination of party candidates appears likely to come to a head in Ohio this year \Like many another device of democracy, it has not jlu]mlcd the hopes that were pinned on it by the idealistic reformers of the 1890’s when a multitude of | innovations were set in motion. Having failed of purpose in large measure, the direct primary should be abandoned. | When the direct primary system was undertaken, |its sponsors asserted that the convention system was ‘undemocratic,” that it gave the voters only: two choices for any office, compelling him to select one the party choices, that it promoted machine politics and the buying of offices. In contrast, they said, the primary would enable the voting public | to cheose its officers from a larger field, would do away with the domination of party machines, and | would prevent the capture of high office by wealthy men solely through their wealth. After several decades, it is clear that the direct primary. Not only has the primary not prevented | machine domination, but it has allowed party ma- chines to evade responsibility for their work. The party organizations will not take responsibility for nominees made by popular vote as it will for nominees chosen by the party in convention. This is the decisive argument for abolition of the primary. Under a system in which political parties have the clear undivided responsibility for their choices, a higher level of ability among nomi- nees might be expected, and a new willingness among | able men to stand for office. No longer forced to adopt the tactics of petty politicians in order to | win a nomination, these less blatant but more useful | men might be induced to accept a party’s nomina- | The time is ripe for reconsideration of this problem. Railroads on Trial. (New York World-Telegram.) The Roosevelt Administration is sincerely lry- ing to help the railroads help themselves. And, even after the report of Federal Co-ordinator | of the Emergency Railroad Act, it is evident that effort is going on | for a while yet. If, finally, it doesn't work, thei alternative is Government ownership and operation. | This phase of the first Eastman report, just sub- | got big notices in But as an expression of Mr. wasn’'t new. Although he is still trying to “give the railroads a break,” to help them help themselves, he hasn’t moved one whit from his position in favor of Government ownership and operation. He ap- proaches this in a practical way. He holds that the railroads are only masquerading as a private in- dustry and that Government regulation goes into their most detailed operations. Such a hybrid ar- rangement, he says, must eventually be replaced with public ownership and public operation. This, the co-ordinator believes, is the inevitable result. In this alone railroad managers will find little solace. But they may be comforted by tne fact that Mr. Eastman finds that this is not the time for the Government to take over the roads, that Gov- ernment finances do not now permit it and that the newspapers. | Eastman's opinion it carriers, are not yet definitely fixed. His further recommendation that eventually “grade scale” consolidations might be enforced upon \the carriers probably will be no more popular with the managers. And so, | in coat, breeches, the | | you then that—" Meanwhile meanwhile, what? the Co-ordinator would rely chi iefly upon the emergency act he is now administering. Changes may be made in that; he suggests now NOPSIS: Frank 3 r in the wilds of Yucatan ching tor Lill Langton. misss ing aviator. fus: Las found the girl he loves Janice Kent the movie star. imyrisoned at the top of a Mayan vyramid. She with a party from Hollywood has come into the e a Merican victure, into the hands of Chapter 28 THE ESCAPE AN'T tell people are about.” Frank went n. “Come. We have just enough lime to get Into the jungle before laylight.” “I'm tied.” Her whisper was faint | with fatigue Grahame realized that | since dawn she bad -probably been awake. Grahame examined her bond They were tied Intricately, bul loosely enough not to constrict the flesh. She bad free movement of her but the ropes were cunningly ed to prevent any major ae arran tvity. Grahame drew his clasp-knife, and made-short work of the thongs. Ja sat erect and placed her feet upon the floor. She was dressec as he had seen her that morning, and puttees. he said, “we’ll go now.” she answered. “We can't “Come,” ‘Wait," First, they must h: eave Mr. Greene. He's here some- | th where, He was wounded a week ago | and today they hit him—" “l know. But I'm afraid we can’t take him this trip. Perhaps you don't | realize, but we're in a dangerous position. We have a thousand-to-one chance of getting—" “You don’t understand,” she z’utl weakly. “I will not leave here with- | sut him.” | Grahame had a curious sense of anger. Some of the old hurt she had | dealt him revived. It seemed that in svery situation this girl was to| thwart him., “Does Greene mean so much to “Naturally.” Her tonc was flnal‘ with its simplicity. Grakame’s nod was almost a bow of submission. He slipped into the corridor. He glanced at the still fig: ures of the guards: they would be unconscious for sometime yet, he | decided. Greene was asleep when he found him. Grahame worried, for an in stant, that th> man’s slight snor betrayed a concussion re from the blow he had received. But as the keen blade cut into the ropes, Greene started up with a fury that while it reassured the other, nearly | sent him off balance. “Easy, man!” he cautioned. “Sh-h-h-h RAHAME turned his head and found Janice just behind him “1 think,” she said, "'l heard noises of some kind. They scemed far ag.” “Frombelow,” answered Grahame. “Noise floats vpward. It's nboul time the city below is awaken We have no time to lose.” » They stole into the corridor, made how many of these |, | ers, was apparently intact and would ing | GODDESS e by Herbert Jensen Grahame remembered that the man | v began the descent, with the itting into streaks of me led the way, with teps with the nervous anxiety man unaccustomed to height. Ls T skirted the rocky ledge about it. Janice gazed at its sullen ountry just below. We ble back and hide in the | ruin.” He gestured with his r]< IEY continued onward. After a while Grahame bore to the ng in a rough circle to ave food and rest. e 20 YEARE AGO ! pany, | Juneau ¢ [£558 pex announced P T PROFESSIONAL = From The Empire Y the transfer of Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massaze, Electricity, Infra Red lo about him with the ut- FEBRUARY 13, 1914 Ray, Medical Gymnastics, most curic and, it seemed to | B. F. W. Alaska agent for' 307 Goldstein Bullding Grahame, with a little dismay. |the Pacific Alaska Navigation com- Phone Office, 216 bad been carried to this height |Alaska headquarters of the com-|7= = > unconscious. pany from Seward to Juneau. Rob- pan; ke volumes 1o praise for Mr. |ort" afoCarthy, of Pacoma, who'| Rose A. Andrews poise that his expression |was to pe tant to Mr. Watson | Graduate Nurse ved so little consternation. and would ve charge of the! | FElectrie Cabinet Baths—Mas- | sage, Colonic Irrigations S soon as led. Quarters the company. The Seventh the Junea F Department capital of The new offices were i Tk 4 2 1d Greene bring- |poon socured in the Valentine build-| | Second and Mawm Phone 250 | rear. Greene moved slowly, |y witn 3 R. Shepard and Son,|E3 = 4 his fingers gripping av the rough |y, ‘woulq be ticket agents for g BT Annual Grand Ball, nad depths with frank wonderment, |9 ; i SHETOiE (b8 i Greane, jatier bia. gotsk - Pimed indo B ST n[d(h(‘ £ e 8 i bri affairs ever under- e Py et glar averted his eyes and stum- e | bic them with quickenec pace. taken by the ormm:q’xu}n_ On 1thf1 - 5 ™ 1 cached Grahame's hiding evening the EI ha pu‘ breathless from thelr haste, |Was a crush of happy people from ““qugzlf;r‘x‘;‘g“mfi!fl 8k0 paused: both sides of the Chanmel and all ML | 2 nk,” observed Grahame, iis-ni a m«’n'v(‘lu»us ti:ne_ | PE;IONE PP | until we are well into | The Juneau basketball team re- Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. |turned from a triumphant journey |to the ancient Alaska ere they met and defeated ti C. P. Jenne ka Athletic club basketball team. DENTIST hey reported being royally enter- Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine tained by the Sitka team. Bullding Telephone 176 The weather for the previous 24 g et e @ Office hours 11 am. to 5 p.m. | | Evenings bv Appointment RO S T, E. B. WILSON Chiropodist—Foot Specialist 401 Goldstein Building | RERB OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building, Phone 481 | | Jevery Wednesday at | 8 p. m. Visiting [ | ineau Channel | Fraternal Societies or — —i B. P. 0. ELKS mee's brothers welcome, L. W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. KNICHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760, Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- g ed to attend. Councll Chambers, Pifth Streed, JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary ;our iruks go any place any , | time. A tank for Diesel ou | and a tank for crade ofd save * burner trouble. PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 i J RELIABLE TRANSYER J] i 3 ll: MOUNT JUNEAY LODGE Second and fourth Mon- day of each month in Scottish Rite Temple, beginning at 7:30 p. m.’ L. E. HENDRICKSON, senuine Swedish ] hours had been cloudy with snow 1 Massace The maximum temperature had B— Y TSR Mrs, "'h‘"“ s | 33 degrees above zero and Dr. J. W. Bayne SRty | the minimum DENTIST ! Pho'p. wNEI.\U RCTRL 3 oY, Rooins §:6 Triangle Bldg. i . e lmv appointment |- W. G. Beattie, superintendent | Ofiice aours, 9 am. to 5 pm. ‘ ' For that Mil on Dollar | chools for Southeast Alas- i cvenings by appointment, | ka, was to leave for Metlakatla ' Phone 321 . jon a trip of inspection. o » . d by th ¢ » — l K 9 v Encourage y the recent thaw, § = /i baseball fans were beginning to sit Robert S:mpson ‘onnerup s up and take notice. Already Ju- t D MORE 5 neau had a winning team in em- s f ss |bryo, provided things got off right Greduate Angeles g"" or LE at the start. According to one old lege of Op "T"’ i J fan, “What Treadwell did for Opshainpliay Grosan | (¥ S WA Douglas last season, the Alaska- 1.0"”‘“5 i &l i any should do for o NE - § on, then we would - it b ST , JL NhAU-‘ OUNG ] have a chance to win. Tread PR R, E. SOUTHWELL || Yuneral Parlors ] and the Alaska-Gastineau both Optometrist—Optician 1| | Livensed Funeral Directors have a lot of college chaps that | myes Examined—Glasses Fitted | | | and Embaimers | ‘L':mw the game and like to play Room 7, Valentine Bldg. | | | Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 : Office Pnone 484; Residenoce | .——. \—— 3 . RSB T .. | Prone 226. Office Hcurs: 9:30 | rx 5 e e e to 13; 1:00 to 5:30 ; | PIONEER CAFE | = - — SABIN’S | ] 3 K. Paul Nick Novak | — s 1 “THE HOME OF [ | ! B b i GOOD EATS" | Dr. Rlchard Wllllams | Everything in Furnishings CVAY S wEARINGEN : | DENTIST i for Men | | = s a —8 rear of the ruin. There was an other entrance on that side, quite overgrown. They climbed over the rabbish || 173 that had falien between the portals, 16 and found themselves within a large 1-8 L’mmlmr A portion of the roof had 1-7 inward, making a center 1-8 pwe of stone blocks. 1-9 The sky through the roof's gap, || 37! was orange with dawn. Other parts 2-2 | of the room secemed weather-tight. The curious V-arched bracing, with- 2-4 | out keystones, which was unique | 2-5 with an extinct race of Maya build- 2-6 stand for further centuries. Grahame divested himself of his “When the Governor of North Carolina made his classic remark tc | his political neighbor,” Frank ob served, “he surely had Yucatan i mind. With luck we'll get a little | water about four o'clock this after noon, when it rains. The wider you can stretch your mouth the more vou'll get.” Mr. Greene looked a trace discon: certed. “1 don’t like yo he said, and the turn past the burning recepta cle, and out before the great stone | altar, It was then that Grahame | made the discovery that about the base was heaped mauny kinds of | food, chiefly cereals and meats, some raw, some cooked. It was the odor of these foods that bad accentuated bis sense of hun ger. He grasped rreat handfulls and stuffed them into the wide slit his khaki coat. He felt immens cheered. “A break for us,” he whispered. Janice smiled wanly. Greene was | | resting his head against a stone, he slept. But Janice and Grahame had toc much to discuss for sleep, He | avoided most carefully any mention of their last interview in Hollywood, He gave as his sole reason for com- ing to this country his conviction that his friend, the lost flyer Lang- ton, had fallen somewhere within this jungle. (Copyr: r1dert Jenmsen) | Tomorrow, a terrible fate befalls the party. that its labor restrictions are unreasonable and should be amended. He will report later and more fully on this. In our opinion, whether such changes should be made will depend not only upon business recovery {but also upon whether Mr. Eastman’s hint that the “salvage of employees” should be a charge against savings can be worked out. So it's still a matter of the railroads helping themselves with Government help. There's one thing, at least, that even the sever- est critic will have to chalk up in favor of repeal. | 's keeping bay rum almost exclusively on the outside of the face again.—(Boston Herald.) Modern heating systems are so painfully effi- cient, they keep a home in January at temperatures that drive one out of town in July—(Detroit News.) Truth is stranger than fiction, especially on the Garlier. In fact, under President Hoover, labels—(Ohio State Journal.) L. 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Greene roiled his last bit of | 4-2 meat in a fragment of tortilla and | | remarked that he could do with a || 43 | glass of beer, a large one preterably Al but lacking that, a balf a gallon of | ::2 spring water would do. ey The other man looked at him sar 49 ! donically. 1 Beventh and Main, PFire Hall Home Boarding House. Gastineau and Rawn house. Calhoun, opp. Seaview Apta. Distin and Indian. Ninth and Calhoun. Tenth and O. Groceries—Produce—Fresh Twelfth, BPR. garage. Twelfth and Willoughby Front Street, opposite Harris Home Grocery. - RS T E S Office Phone 469, Res. | Phone 276 = <l ., JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP * The Little Store with the BIG VALUES " C.L. 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