The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 23, 1934, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empircf ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER 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. Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25| per month. . By imail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in_advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. 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 exclusively entitled to th use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited i focal news published herein. n this paper and also the | ALASKA CI TH, AN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. RCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER It has been cri him as occasion arose. e o et difference in method of execution. this phase, he said: WATCH e ST AN IMPARTIAL PICTURE. In presenting President Roosevelt and his ideas and policies to the country, pretty generally divided into two classes—one ardent- ly supporting him and, naturally, exalting him; the other opposing him, and depicting him as a creature manipulated by some radical professors that have been labeled the “brain trust.” Nation's Business, published by the United States Chamber of Com- merce, the mouthpiece of organized business, cannot be said to be partisan, either political or otherwise. tical of the President and supported ! In the current number of that magazine, W. M. Kiplinger, one of the best known correspondents in the National capital, pre- sents his view of Mr. Roosevelt as follows: You can examine a watch all you please *but you don’'t see much until you look at the mainspring. You can analyze the in’s and out's of this Administration, and of its various sets of officials, and their varying philosophies, but you don’t know anything until you know the President. I don't mean the superficial or personal aspects of the man, such as are sketched by the press reports of his doings and his sayings. I mean the inner spirit of the man. Anyone trying to report this Government's policies runs every day into the President's ideas. They guide every Cabinet member and every administrator of the numerous new emergency agencies. Often an official or adviser, or a set of officials or advisers, get to running strong on some idea, and suddenly discover that they are running at a tangent with the Roosevelt idea. They get yanked back to a new direction. I've known impersonally and philoso- phically a few Presidents. I've never known any President who was as omnipresent as this Roosevelt. He isn't a good technician. He doesn’t seem to know precisely and exactly what ought to be done about everything, and why. (Hoover did.) He seems to feel, rather than think, his way along. He's a poor en- gineer, but a good psychologist. In the technique of appealing to people, he is a real artist. He never seems to get mad, and he wins a lot of fights by wangling. Whether he is a great statesman remains to be proved, but there's no doubt he is a great politician. As a politician he is cer- tainly better than Hoover; possibly no better than Coolidge; better than Harding, or Wilson, or Taft, or McKinley; probably even octter than Theodore Roosevelt. Polidcians. in all history, have made greater stutecinen than men trained in any particula: or technical field of endeavor. 1 think, perhaps, there’s a good chance that this man Roosevelt is a great statesmen. His health seems good and ample— physically, mentally, spiritually. Mr. Kiplinger holds that there is no difference between the aims of President Roosevelt and those the press has been| Consider Hoover ideas and Roosevelt ideas, in their similarities and their differ- ences. Hoover had a passion for common people, and he believed that business was the principal instrumentality for producing good for the common people. Roosevelt has the same passion for common people, but he looks at them directly instead of through the maze of business. And, since business isn't actually provid- ing all the jobs which people need, and since it can't be proved econclusively that business would do so in a sufficiently b hurry to satisfy the popular clamor, Roose- velt goes over the head of business, and makes Government do the job. There's no fundamental difference be- tween the Hoover aims and the Roosevelt aims, but their methods are different. And the method of Roosevelt is to consider the cause of business as secondary to the cause of widespread public well-being. Under this new emphasis business becomes a servant, somewhat like a public utility. The point for the practical business man is that, under this new Government, no business has any holy rights for its own sake, but is to be cultivated for the sake of the service it can give to its customers, and its employees, and (incidentally) to its owners, CURRENCY DEPRECIATION AND BONDS. The oft and widely expressed opinion that sus- pension of gold specie payment and the devalua- tion of currency impairs Government credit has been shown to be completely unfounded by a study just completed by Brookmire, Inc., of New York, administrative economists and investment counsel- This study, as published, has taken in the results of such action in six typical major countries of the world—England, Sweden, Japan, Australia, Argentina and the United States. It covers a period from 1930 to 1933, inclusive. In each instance, the internal price trend of gold and of Government bond prices have been charted in parallel for the past four years, and the | comparison is most significant in that without exception, it has been indicated that respective | government credits, as gauged by the market for their bonds, was not adversely affected. | The study further reveals that notwithstanding tremendously adverse economic conditions prices of government bonds in four of the five foreign coun- | tries have shown an upward trend since the gold | standard was abandoned, and in the fifth prices | have recently risen nearly to par. Back to Gold. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) to aid in restoring normal economic activity. for circulating currency. to convert currency into gold will not be 'a hardship or a basis for lack of confidence. The future of the credit system, under control of the Treasury rather than the Federal Reserve, remains something of a mystery. The success of devaluation as a means of restoring price levels | is not yet determined. The benefits of credit infla- tion through spending of the gold profit are thus far | unpredictable. But despite these questions which are yet to be answered by the course of events, | we may conclude that an important step has been | taken to reestablish a stable currency consonant | with the new conditions of national and interna- tional economic life. We may conclude also that The nation is once more on a gold standard, with the added confidence which that fact lends to business enterprise. To be sure, the gold bullion standard is very different from the system which ruled up to March 1933, and the continuing possi- bility of further change in the gold value of the dollar by Presidential proclamation detracts from the certainty of the new monetary regime for the most part the new arrangement may be re- lga.x-(lcd as paving the way for complete stabilization. It provides a solid and understandable basis for financial transactions, and as such can be expected But Probably the most striking innovation of the new gold standard is the fact that the citizen cannot convert his currency into gold. The yellow metal will not be coined and will not circulate. Gold resumes its more important function, however, as the means of settling international trade bal- ances, and also continues to serve as the backing While there doubtless will be some who question the soundness of a gold standard which does not provide for ready redemption of currency in gold, this feature has never been important in reality, and has merely weakened the social usefulness of the international gold standard. Once we read- | just our thinking to a bullion standard, the inability either Commenting on a new type of gold standard has been set up which, % |in its main features, is more efficient and more entertained by former President Hoover, only &|fiexjhle than was the rigid gold standard which theoretically existed until March 1933 and which | actually broke down in wartime and never revived. FOR THE 1 NEW ‘, PON’I‘I AC forsen . CONNORS MOTOR Co0. PHONE 411 = NOW OPEN | | Commercial Adjust- | | | ment & Rating Bureau Cooperating with White Service Bureau Room 1—Shattuck Bldg. ‘We have 5,000 local ratings on file | . “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” L “Juneau’s Own Store” ! LorLA MAE ALEXANDER | SOPRANO | Vocal Culture-Coaching-Diction | | Studio opens March 1, Gold- | | stein Bldg. For appoinments | | see Mrs. J. C. Stapleton. | 1 ant Ads Pay Danly Empire W | ing the direction of the sun, the road | runs roughly east and west. Might SYNOPSIS: The sacrifice of Horatio Greene and Juan, a Mexi- can boy, has made it possible for the explorer. Frank Grahame, and Janice Kent. the movie star. to es- cape from a band of savages in the interior of Yucatan. The savages had planned to wmurder them. But now Frank and Janice find they have fallen from the end of an old Mayan road. and are lying almost exhausted in what appears to be @+ it. Chapter 37 EXPLORATION " FR,\.\'K thought of reconnoitering their position but decided against t. It would leave Janice unprotected | and at night he would discover but ittle of value. Unprotected! He smiled grimly. His joints ached, the wound in his sa pained him. He was compara- ively weaponless. There was not much protection he would be able ‘o offer Janice. His eyelids drooped. He arose and began to walk about the fire. But his limbs were leaden. Weariness forced him to lie upon the ground. His head sank lower. Sleep fell upon him with the speed of a dropping hawk. A thudding upon the ground woke him. He lay a moment adjusting his mind to his surroundings. Overhead, In the turquoise sky of dawn, a vul- ture hovered. It drifted beyond his sight. Through the arched fronds of leaning palm trees he saw the jungle-clad lip of a low cliff. Its face arched back and under. Beneath it was a low mound of debris, topped with shrubbery. In- stantly he knew that it was upon this mound that Janice and he had fallen. This was verified as he noted the break in the vegetation at the cliff’s edge where the old Maya road had abruptly terminated in space. The thudding recommenced—a vi- bration upon the ground that was transmitted to his ear. Swiftly he arose to his feet, and glanced about him. The fire was dull embers in white ashes. Janice was not in sight. He parted his lips to call when he caught sight of her within the palm grove. With the machete she was pounding at an ob ject upon a rock. As he approached she ooked up with a emile. “Breakfast, maybe,” she told him. | “These cocoanuts are like leather. | And not at all like the kind we have ! at home.” | Frank chuckled. “The wonder,” he informed her, you recognized them for cocoanuts Here, let me have the knife. The one you're working on is rather old. I'll get some good ones.” E LAUGHED at her crestfallen | face. Strapping the machete to | his waist he approached one of the | smaller trees. | “I haven't ‘shinned’ since 1 was a kid but .. . watch me.” | He made the ascent. Reaching the | lower leaves, he hacked at a cluster of green nuts. He called to Janice to | watch out. | The nuts thudded to the ground. | He slid down. | Chopping at the green fiber, soon | he had two of the nuts open at the | top. He passed one to Janice. | “Here's how,” he grinned. “Drink all you can, and scoop out the pulp | with your fingers. Fingers were made before spoons, you know.” “But not mine,” she answered with a little mock grimace. It was little enough for breakfast, | but it must serve. They tossed away | the emptied husks and stood look- | ing at each other. She seemed to sense the trouble in his eyes. Im-| pulsively she put forward her hand | and rested it upon his sleeve, “Never mind,” ghe said. “We'll get out somehow. “Of course,” he answered with torced cheerfulness. But the memory of Green’s and Juan's sacrifice for them lay like a pall upon him. In that instant he took oath with him- self that their heroic act would not have been in vain. He would, some- how, get Janice out of this. “Let's take a look around,” he suggested. “We can’t get back the way we came, %0 let's continue on in the direction of the broken road. I think I saw another cliff a few hundred yards across this little val- ley. Perhaps we can climb up to there and continue on the road. Consider- be able to follow it to the sea.” E RECOVERED his coat from the side of the fire and they began to work their way toward the | the current swirled into the maw spot where another cliff, similar to the one they had fallen over, faced them. Halfway to it the ground dippew.. gharply into a swiftly running stream. The stream was not wide, but it was very deep. They followed it northward a few hundged yards until they discovered that the flow came out from a huge cavern under the northern cliff, They stopped, nohplussed. No- where had they discovered a way of gaining the level of the jungle above them. He told Janice to watch out. They retraced their steps until | they came to the spot where they | had camped the night before. The | | | sun he wung up into the sky. Their little valley was becoming as humid as a hot house. Wraithes of vapor, sucked upward from the damp | ground, fogged the rank vegetation. Frank glanced anxiously at the girl by his side. “Feel like resting, Janice?” } She shook her head. “I'm not tired. Just a little hungry. They picked their way southward. Finally they reached the lower end of the stream. As it had at the other end of the little valley here again of cavern under the face of that queerly concave cliff. Frank said thoughtfully. | “And no way to get out of here in this direction.” He glanced back- | Draught Beer ward up the stream. The current flowed around a small promontory two hundred yards distant. The trunk of a palm lay across the stream at that point. Frank pointed to it. “We've just about been around the valley—ex- cept for that lower side there that's hidden by the little hill. Let's cross at that fallen palm and take a look. If we're blocked there .. .” Janice met his glance fearlessly. “If we're blocked there,” she promp- ted, “then what?” Frank shrugged. “Oh, we'll get out,” he replied with a heartiness he did not feel. They made their way to the palm log. Frank straddled the natural bridge and hitched himself across. The log gave somewhat under his weight. He reached the farther bank. He called to Janice to follow. But the girl was standing and star- ing intently at the trunk of the fallen palm. (Copyright, 1934, By Herbert Jensen) Janice and Frank find, tomorrow- they are not alone. THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS The Gastineau Our Services to You Begin and End at the Gang Plank of Every Passenger-Carrying Boat GODDESS | by Herbert Jensen J | 20 YEARS AGO | T —— - | PROFESSI [ e ——— ii From The Empire | FEBRUARY 23, 1914 The Standard Oil Company was {to establish a large depot in Ju-| | {neau almost immediately, accord- .| ) Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY ! | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | | B- P. 0. ELKS meets | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 ing to an announcement. Tenta- | tive plans called for one 80-foot |tank, one 40-foot tank and two 20-foot tanks. 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