The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 16, 1934, Page 4

3 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRI DAY, MARCH 16, 1934. Daily Alaska Em pire 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 tn Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dslivered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By mall, postage pald, at the following rates: One year, In advance, $12.00; six months, In advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. ibscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly the Business Office of any failure or Irregularity delivery of their papers. ne for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to th ne In use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. COTTERILL’S DEFEAT A LOSS. Nothing that transpired in Seattle’s municipal election so forcibly demonstrates the voters’ determ- ination to have done with the “ins” as the defeat of George F. Cotterill for Port Commissioner. He has held that office with high credit to himself and real benefit to Seattle for the past 12 years. He was an unusually high and fine type of public official and gave unstintedly of his time and energy to the end that the city's publicly-owned maritime utility might not only be self-supporting but render every possible service to the commerce and trade routed through -the port. And it was very largely due to his untiring efforts, his diligent study of port terminal systems and allied subjects that made the Port of Seattle one of the most efficient in the world. Mr. Cotterill saw public service pefore he become a member of the Port Commission. He was a member of the Washington State Legislature, Mayor of Seattle, Chief Engineer of the State High- way Commission. In 1904, he was appointed by Gov. McBride to draw up the State’s first irrigation code. In the State Senate for two terms he was Chairman of the Harbors and Waterways Com- mittee As Port Commissioner he has frequently visited other American and European ports, studying latést developments and municipal port administration. He is a recognized authority on port management and for sometime has been on the executive committee of the American Commission of Port Authorities. During his tenure of office, the Port of Seattle grew tremendously in scope and business. Its ts today are placed at about $12,750,000. + It has a surplus of $5,000,000. It is the outstanding public ownership enterprise of Seattle. It seems incredible that the voters should have rejected one who played such a part in these achievements as Mr. Cotterill did. Only a blind urge to oust the “ins” can account for it. MIXING HISTORY AND FICTION. Princess Irinia Yousoupoff, niece of the late Russian czar, who recently was awarded a verdict of $125,000 for alleged misrepresentation in a movie, has announced she will bring suit against every theatre in which the picture was exhibited, not only in England but in America and elsewhere. Although it has not been many years since the Russian court was a reality, great events that have transpired since it passed from the scene had made Rasputin, the “mad monk,” and other figures in that scene | almost as characters in fiction. The suit serves to recall to us that many of the persons in the play are still living beings, as real as they were when the original melodrama was enacted. The whole incident is a vivid reminder that history is not all of the dead past, but a narrative that melts into the living present. The deep-seated changes of social and economic conditions in Russia since the Revolution of 1917 have led people to think of Czarist Russia as a long-ago episode of history. As a political system that Russia is history. But the people who played roles in the tragic drama of a Czarism are not yet historical figures, all of [ them. They are living and working in many places, |and to them what we regard as historical fiction |is only too real | The London court decision shows how costly a | mistake at the movie producer's studio may be | Big pictures involve the expenditure of stupendous |sums. Its audience numbers milions of people and is scattered throughout the world. Where it involves | historical events, if factual accuracy is slighted or ,‘neg]ected any lapses are magnified many times as it is shown to its colossal, world-wide audience. Thus the movies have a sizeable responsibility, due to the influence they wield, in the making of such pictures. MORE BUSI S, LESS FAILURES. Every authority agrees that current progress to- ward recovery is remarkable. Section after section of the country reports increasing employment and better business. No agency is more conservative than Duin and Bradstreet, and its surveys are admitted to be absolutely reliable. Its most recent analysis indicates two highly interesting trends. One is a resilient pickup almost everywhere, especially north of the Mason and Dixon line, in retail business that had been considerably snowed under or frozen in. Equally as significant is the lowest insolvency record in February in a long time, as only 1,049 against 2,378 in 1933, and 2732 in 1921; likewise a 23.1 per cent drop from January as against 18.5 per cent a year before. The inference is strong that business occupies a better position than for several years, despite much talk about NRA handi- caps to the smaller fry. With similar good showing already reported for the first ten days in March, | it looks as if those who predicted record-breaking recovery strides in 1934 have hit the nail on the head. The dollar's devaluation didn't take anything away from the universality of the language it speaks. 1 A French artist advances the claim that France's money is more attractive than ours. Maybe, but the United States Government would be in better position to judge if the French Government would send some of it over on account. Republican “Principles.” H (New York Times.) For some time an urgent appeal has come from Republican newspapers and local chairmen for a reinvigoration of their party. New leaders are called for, but, above all else, sound principles and winning issues must somehow be found. On Monday the Republican members of the Senate of the United States stepped forward nobly to fill the order. Every last man of them voted for an amendment favoring added pensions for veterans of .ne Spanish War, the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, which would at once take $60,000,000 out ¢ the Treasury. Eighteen Democratic Senators also voted for this amendment, while thirty-nine Democrats, supporting the President, were against it. Other amendments of the kind, equally wasteful and in- defensible, were adopted yesterday. It cannot be that many of these Republican | Senators believe this legislation to be either war- ranted or safe. They know that it will open the Treasury to further raids. xet in order to register opposition to President Roosevelt, and, still more simportant, to make a bid for the so-called “soldier vote,” they were willing to forego their personal convictions for the sake of scoring, as they think, a party point. These are the very Senators, be it noted, who will soon be organizing a political cam- paign, in which a loud cry will be raised gaainst the extravagance of the Democratic Administration. But there they are themselves proposing to cut $100,000,000 or more from the effective economy wrought by the President. | Glaring inconsistencies of that kind will not, of course, greatly trouble Republican politicians. But where in this display can be discovered those sound “principles” which are to be framed for the next Republican platform? In all this business the Republicans seem to be reversing the experience of Saul. He went out to search for an ass and found a kingdom. They are searching eagerly for a king- dom, but seem to be able to turn up only a lot of asses. All England, Italy and France have done to the Hitler person has been merely to warn him that he just simply must keep his confounded mustache out of Austria’s soup.—(Lexington, Ky., Herald.) | __q_‘—.._. f Europe is a large t'x)dy of nerves- entirley sur- rounded by the big jitters—(New York Sun.) It is one thing for General Johnson to invite criticism. The question is, however, can he take it? —(Philadelphia Inquirer.) Chancellor Dollfuss seems to be a small body of confidence entirely surrounded by political dismay. —(Buffalo Courier-Express.) BOAT TANKS OF Copper PLUMBING HEATI Galvanized Iron Stainless Steel : Made to Your Order! Get Our Prices LAST! A ; : RICE & AHLERS CO. “We tell in advance what job will oast’ 4 by JEANNE BOW SYNOPSIS: Judith Lane and her fancé, Norman Dale, have Leen helping Tom Bevins prepare to dam the Rio Diablo river in Western Tczas. Judith 8 Bevins’ secretary. and Norman is junior partner of the law firm that han- dles Bevins' affairs in the city of Houston. where Beving' engincers g and building business is ces tered. Bevins, inspired by a terrifio storm, has decided that an awxili- iary dam 13 necessary—and Judith Jas watched Normaw's quiet efii= cioney. getting the Rio Diablo get- ticrs to places of safety. Chapter Five JUDITH'S CHOICE UDITH thought of this a few | J nights later. They had left part of their mer to assist the natives in rebuilding their adobe houses. others were carrying fresh supplies in from the nearest Gulf Port town, the county seat of Rio Mar, Anxious to clear preliminaries and hasten the building of the dams, Big Tom had chartered a trawler and with Judith and Norman was heading for Galveston, from whvre‘ they could motor to their homes in | Houston. The two men were pacing the deck | with after dinner cigars while Jud- | ith watched the moon rise, then,| turning watched it lay shadow pat gles, squares and quadrilaterals. She smiled whimsically, any other | Judith Lane |+ ner qu | w terns on the deck, angles, quadran- | .. 'MAN 1d you have the most amazing 1 look at your dark hair and expect to see black, hazel, blue eyes and then up lashes and those clear i St “Please be serious. %] am, when will you marry me?” “Most anytime, J suppose we 1ld wait—"" lering the importance of a & rapher we'll have to jig Tom at least a month's no- rtice,” faltered Judith. *“But n, that is archaie, women; ive up their professions to Norm; don't marry.” enographers do.” th thought quickly, “If only I were a lawyer like he is, or a doe- an engineer as I wanted tor, to be or “must 3 my said, to you or h an,” she choc marriage work?” UDITH waited for him to answer stion. Must she choose be tween m ng him or going on r work? Clia had said he had paratively little money, his fa having left what property they 1to Dale. \ girl would bave found poetic fancy in the delicate tracery ot ship's rig- ging on slanting boards. It remind: ed ber of her difference in other ways. She wondered how this would affect her future with Norman, Marriage, she reasoned, wasn't as. surance of life-long happiness. Per- haps, like the Rio Diablo, it needed a dam to control its storm currents She might apply her engineering ex perience on hers, make a topograph ical map of the characteristic dit- ferences between her disposition and Norman's. Big Tom would know to a cubic yard how much rock and cement it would take to hold the flood: waters in place. Perhaps she might learn how much patience and for- bearance was necessary to check a quarrel. Judith looked down and shud- dered. There in the web-like lines of shadows lay a perfect triangle cast by three human beings. Black barred and silver rimmed, it defied her en- gineering logic to admit three ver- tical; figures could cast such a shadow. “Cold, Judith?” Before she could answer, one bar dissolved, ard the other two merged. Big Tom had gone below and Nor man had stepped close. “What were you doing?” he asked. Slie looked up with a sudden smile—"thinking.” “Judy,” he protested in mock horror, “don’t tell me you're one of thes¢ women who think.” “On Mondays and Fridays at nine P. M.,” she assured him solemnly. “And this is Friday. Mind telling me your thought #or tonight?” “Y WAS just thinking that for me to marry is like committing big- amy. I've been wedded to my job for so long . .. well, T started engineer- ing at the age of six. Built a dam 1n the kitchen sink . . . it was a suc- cess, too, Norman, flooded the whole kitchen.” “We might find a Reno which dI- vorces girls from careers, or I'll tell you, I fell irn lovg with the perfect stenographer. Suppose I marry her.” Judith laughed. “I wish we knew each other better. I know you have the wacst set of Scoich-American features in the world. I like your chin even if it is stubborn and your e felt a rush of bitterness as Sh she reallzed' that her generous sal- ary, coming in as a professional fee might be acceptable where a stenog: rapher’s salary would be taboo. The trawler swished through the water with a gentle undulating mo- tion, a slow breeze hummed through fore rigging. A choice?” he questioned. “No, Judy, I want you regardless.” “s#ft_was a concession. Remember: inig Clia’s picture of their social po- | sition in the city, it was a tremen- dous concession and it was given 'with such gentle generosity, it swept away Judith's arguments. “ ‘She felt she could afford to match his generosity—"if you'll be patient while 1 learr to adjust myself to heme life, I'll try.” “That’s sporting, Judy he re- sponded gravely. “I don’t mean to belittle your work as a business wo- | man. I've seen enough on this trip to make me realize your importance. “But Judy-girl, 1 watched you among the native children. You no- ticed they were suffering from ‘mal- nutrition before you even looked at the Rio Diablo, and you made Big Tom wait to dictate an important letter until you'd rousted out the cook and had him unpack the milk to feed the babies. I realized then you were more the woman than the stenographer, and given a home you'd be contented.” Judith thought of a aumber of re- plies. She smiled into the masculine shoulder as a vision of Clia Sanford swept before her. * Clia had very definite 1deas about woman's place and any platitude suggesting she be confined to the home sent her barbed tongue into action. Clia contended she knew all about matrimony because she had a thor ough education with a Reno divorce decree as a diploma. Heretofore Judith had approved of Clia’s wisdom but of course, she reasoned now, Clia hadn't been mar- ried to Norman, so—“I'll speak to Big Tom in the morning,” she said. She did speak to Bevins the fol- lowing morning as they had break- fast on the after deck under an im- provised awning. He didn’t seem swnrlsed, and when she commented on this he laughed. £Copyright, 1934, by Jeanne Bowman) Judith makes more plans, to. warm brown eyes and your hair, morrow. NG SHEET METAL FOR CH ALASKA AIR EXPRESS ARTER Lockheed 6-Passenger Seaplane TELEPHONE 22 THE HOTEL OF A Our Services to You Gang Plank of Every P: + J. V. HICKEY LASKAN HOTELS The Gastineau and End at the r-Carrying Boat o - f 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire { 3 ! ) 4 MARCH 16, 1914 | ‘A new, larger and better boat was to be purchased by the Juneau | Steamship Company to take Lho' place of the Georgia on the Ju-| neau-Sitka and Juneau-Skagway! run, it was announced by W. E" Nowell, president of the company.’ R. C. McCormick, millionaire; proprietor of the New Richmand,i one of the largest of Seattle’s ho-| tels, and extensive property owner | of that city, was visiting in Juneau and expected to remain for some time looking the city over. He]| had spent considerable time here during the early days of the town | and was happily renewing old| friendships. i Mrs, Sidney Charles and chfld-’ ren, who had expected to leave| Cordova on the Admiral Evans; were unable to leave as they were| quarantined because of one of the ! children developing chicken pox. | Weather for the preceding 24;’ hours was cloudy with rain. maximum temperature was 39 de-| grees and the minimum was 31.| Precipitation was .08 inches. | Former Mayor Emery Valemin(-.i who was reported to be arranging | a ticket for the coming city elec- tion, declined to make any an-gl_ nouncement. | | Much interest was roused by the| “Hard Time" ball to be given the| following night by the young| bachelors of the city, and all in- dications were that there would be a large crowd, at the Elks hall.| Many were expected to attend| from Perseverance, Sheep Creek and Douglas Island. The hall had been beautifully decorated and the ! | 1. P. | ple seemed very optimistic con-| | cities of Southeast Alaska, on the Juneau orchestra had been en-| gaged. Everyone was expected toi attend garbed in old clothes and to | wear a bit'o green. MORGAN HERE FROM WESTWARD| J. P. Morgan, Alaska represen-| tative of Libby, McNeill and Libby | products, returned on the Victoria | from an extensive trip through the| Interior, as far as Fairbanks. Mr.| Morgan also made trips to both | Seldovia and Kodiak while he was away. “Business conditions throughout the Territory and peo- were good | | cerning the future,” Mr. Morgan, said. ] He will remain in Juneau for about a week before visiitng other way to Seattle. R L The Nugget Shop has now on display the latest styles in costume —adv. _—F ORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GAS (1) ES jewelry for afternoon and evening. : [ PROFESSIONAL 1 ? Helene W. L. Albrecht FHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics, 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 fr—. £ Rose A. 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