The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1934, Page 4

4 Wb i i o 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 Pest Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. | Dellvered by carrler in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 Deha™af ‘The following ratea: By mall, postage pald, at the follow : One year, 'in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.2. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregulacity the delivery of their papers. I lephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. “MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. i ted Press 1s exclusively entitled to IIIPT;‘:X' republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the Jocal news published herein. 'KA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ALASIILAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. Associa ASKING THE IMPOSSIBLE. Petitions and resolutions urging the Board of Liquor Control, when it shall become legally con- stituted, to establish municipal liquor stores, have been passed by the City Councils of several com- munities. What action the Board will take is, of | course, not predicted here. In the first place, it; can take none until Congress passes and the Presi- dent approves the repeal bill. And, what is still more important, the Board is the sole judge of what its power is, and what it considers the best public policy. Those who are insistent on municipal liquor stores ought to study carefully the law which the| Legislature passed creating the Board. It fairly defines the powers and duties of the Board. In Section two, the following language is contained: | It shall be the duty of the Board of Liquer Control to prescribe rules and regula- | tions and poss rovern the manufacture, barter, sale | sion of intoxicating liquors in the | Territory i Alaska; to prescribe the quali- | fication: ot those who are to engage in the manufaciure, barter, sale and possession of intoxicating liquors in the Territory of Al- aska and to prescribe license fees and excise taxes. The language seems to indicate that the Legis- lature had in mind sale by agencies other than| those operated by the public, either local or the Territory. Private sale was apparently in the minds | of the lawmakers. Under the first section of the above paragraph, if there were no further language, municipal or Territorial liquor stores might be possible. But under the additional directions of| the concluding words after the semi-colon, a fair construction of the whole sentence seems to indicate | that private and not public sale was the aim and intent of the Legislature, and that the Board's function is to fix license fees, excise taxes and to| prescribe such further and additional regulations as it deems for the best interest of the public. THE CYCLE OF PENSIONS. | Survey of pension legislation in the United States| shows an almost invariable cycle following every| war, with the costs of pensions mounting steadily for a long period of years. First, compension is paid to those actually injured in fighting. Then all those with disabilities aggravated by war service are added to the list. Then the veterans who are in need become eligible for pensions. Finally, all who serve in war are made beneficiaries of Federal funds. Along with this extension of the pension system the amount of pensions increases. There is neither logic nor justice in the expan- sion of the cost of war through the decades after war. It is the process of political pressure, gaining momentum as time goes one. However carefully an Administration establishes a policy of aiding only those veterans who have a valid claim on the American people, because of injuries received in military service, the general pension eventually wins the backing of vote-seeking Congressmen, and the people pay the bill. President Roosevelt has dealt a severe blow to this campaign of attrition by which the cost of pensions had been increasing through the years. | Repeatedly he has given warning that he will veto| any bill for the immediate payment of a bonus to veterans. Yet the President alone will have a hard time holding down the cost of pensions to a rcasonable figure, if he does not have the backing | of Congiess and public opinion. This is not a case of opposing the compensation of men who have a just claim on their country in return for services rendered and injuries received. Payments to veterans injured in war service are in fact larger than a year ago. These veterans are being taken care of and the public is prepared to pay the bill cheerfully. But whenever the short- sighted vote-seekers in Congress begin a new raid on the Treasury for the benefit of veterans as a closs, without regard to their wartime injuries, the Administration and the people must be on their guard. Only by zealous defense of public funds against unwarranted spending can we hope to keep pension legislation from becoming a racket. COSMIC RAYS IN THE STRATOSPHERE. ‘When Dr Arthur C. Compton of the University of Chicago recently told the American Physical Society of the Settle-Fordney stratosphere flight last Summer he disclosed findings that may lay to rest the controversy as to whether cosmic rays are particles or radiation when they enter the earth’s atmosphere. In the intervening months between the time when the stratosphere voyagers came down un- ‘harmed until the meeting, Dr. Compton and his associate, Dr. 8. J. Stephenson, have been checking the automatic instrument sent aloft, and interpreting ‘the data obtained. ~ The two main findings are: (1) Cosmic rays the earth another type of ray : without electrical charge. e of the cosmic rays is whai caused {to him, at least, that the incoming primary cosmic |rays are almost completely particle |Washington without sufficient cause cancelled the |to fly the mail or to postpone air mail service. the long-existent controversy about cosmic rays. The situation between Dr. Compton and Dr. Millikan. until the results of the Settle-Fordney ascension were disclosed, was that both men agreed that a| | mixture of radiation and electrical particles was entering cosmic ray instruments. Dr. Compton be-| lieved, however, that the radiation was formed when | the particles entering the earth’s atmosphere hit air | atoms and was, therefore, a secondary effect. Dr. Millikan maintained that the radiation observed was what entered the stratosphere as the primary effect and that the electrical particles observed were knocked out of atoms as secondaries when the radiation hit them. The answer was found high in the stratosphere. Dr. Compton’s report indicated in nature. It| remains to be seen if Dr. Millikan will agree to that conclusion. Ohio is showing the country how to deal with the Dillinger gang. Two convictions in a week and both carrying the death sentence is not such a bad way to break up that kind of an organization. So far no city has reported grass' growing in its principal streets, as predicted by Mr. Hoover should Mr. Roosevelt be elected. And if it had, the CWA army would have been right on the job to mow it down. Safety First. (New York World-Telegram.) Efforts to make political capital out of the un- fortunate deaths of army air mail fliers are malic- jous. A fantastic propaganda myth is in the mak- ing. It is that an arbitrary administration in commercial air mail contracts and then grimly sent army fliers to their death. This is a distortion of the facts. The Administration ended the commercial con- tracts only after much evidence tending to show that most of the contracts had been entered into illegally and as a result of alleged favoritism and collusion. Under the circumstances this Adminis- tration could not continue the contracts in force without itself being liable for connivance. That the commercial pilots, ground men, en- gineers and others who have given such heroic service in developing American aviation were inno- cent victims of this situation was not the fault of the Government but of those financial interests who saw in aviation and mail contracts a money-making game. During the emergency period the President was then left with the. alternative of using the army After consultation with army chiefs former. Contrary to the first wild reports, the army chiefs at once instituted a “safety first” rule. Every effort has been made to restrain young fliers with the mistaken idea that the mail must go through at any and all cost. The unprecedented storms are doubtless the chief cause of the accidents. The fact that a large com- mercial passenger plane crashed in the Rockies Friday indicates that army fliers are not the only ones in trouble. It is true, however, that the training and ex- perience of army and commercial fliers are so dif- | ferent and that their equipment is so different the hazard of flying is increased when either tries to do the work of the other. Therefore, early last week the Government an- nounced that many of the commercial fliers would be taken over for the mail routes. This cannot be done until funds are provided by a bill which has passed the House and which is expected to pass the Senate this week. There remains the important matter of instru- ments, especially radio and blind-flying instruments. Apparently it is not possible to equip army planes for mail flying adequately on short notice. If this is true the Government may well consider reducing the mail routes to its safe equipment for a few weeks until a permanent policy for the air mail is determined. Meanwhile the public is not likely to swallow whole the propaganda stories inspired by selfish political and commercial sources. he did the Pinchot for Pinchot. (New York Herald Tribune.) The expected has happened in Governor Gifford Pinchot’s announcement of his candidacy for the Republican nomination against Senator David A. Reed. No one who has followed his actions in the State House for the last three years has ever had a doubt where his ambitions lay. A high-powered press bureau has been busy carrying accounts of his hand-to-hand struggle with the capitalistic octopi to the press of the nation. A personal machine has been built up, strong enough in 1930 to win him the nomination for Governor against the Vare machine. He was aided by the luck of a three- cornered fight in the primary. In the election he won, although the Vare forces under cover supported the Democratic candidate. It is difficult to estimate the strength of this personal machine today. In saying “Mr. Pinchot will not be nominated” Senator Reed may or may not be underestimating the efficacy of the Gov- ernor’s skillful appeal to the people, combined with what the Senator calls “his cynical use in secret of methods that he denounces in public.” But unmistakably Governor Pinchot's implacable ambition to go to Washington makes a clear possi- bility of Pennsylvania’s being represented by a Democratic Senator for the first time in years. His bitter attack upon Senator Reed, in announcing his candidacy, gives a clew to the character of the campaign he is prepared to wage. He undertakes, on the other hand, to capitalize the Roosevelt | | SYNOPSIS: Judith Lane, Tom by JEANNE BO Bevin's seoretary. and Norman Dale return from Rio Diablo en- gaged. Bevins {s about to build a dam at Rio Diablo to reclaim a huge quantity of land. They are met_at Galveston by the Bevins yacht, on which is Clia Sanford, Judith's reporter friend, Clia tells Judith that Mathile Bevins will try to make trouble between her and her newly acquired fance, and that Morton Lampere, senior part- ner of Norman’s Houston law firm, is out to queer Bevins’ dam proj- ect, Chapter Eight LAMPERE’'S PLOT | UDITH LANE, elightly astonished at the change Clia Sanford had svoked in her appearance with ruf- ies, peach powder and rouge, stared nto the stateroom mirror and di sested the fact that the girl who sractically owned this yacht (Big Tom's interest was merely paying raintenance bills) hoped to marry Norman Dale. And then her attention was rude y switched from her own personal ‘celings to concern over her chief. “It, happened -his way.” Clia set :led into a deep chair and lighted a :igarette with a deliberation which Judith recognized as a forerunner >f something important. “Letty Canfield decided to take a post graduate course in matrimony and 1 was sent over to the court q0use to check on her first mistake (t was closing time, but I slipped in and promised to latch the door when L left. You know how those files are, don't you? If ever I want to Judith Lane 'MAN “When 1 was “a girl.” ohser\'ed' Clia, with the affectaticn of an an- cient crone, “my hostess escorted me—" “Times and hostesses have changed,” langhed Mrs. Dale, but there was apology in her voice, under the circumstances come along.” The hostess met them on the main deck and propelling Judith gently along by a delicate pressure on her [, came to a stop on the after | deck where the crowd had ga(hered.‘ “Folks,” Mrs. Bevins' voice was genial, friendly, I want you to meet Tom's stenographer, Miss Lane.” Having been catalogued,” ob-| served Clia, langhing, “suppose you come along over here and sit with the only other working girl aboard.” Judith followed Clia, slightly be- wildered, while the erowd laughed good-naturedly. Judith noticed Nor-| man wasn't on deck, nor was Big T'om. She sank into a wicker chair which was pushed out from some- where, and then saw Norman ap- proaching. an exquisitely lovely girl smiling up into his face. | The girl accepted a chair, direct-| s opposite Judith’s and she noticed | | with a start that this was Mathile Jevins, a Mathile who had changed | tremendously since she had last| seen her. | Her eyes, artfully shadowed,| seemed dark instead of pale blue, | beneath the crown of platinum hair. | She wore a dark blue organdy, cut tommit murder I'll hide the victim | in there and go free the rest of my days. | “I was back of one tending to Let | ty’s businass when I heard voices | I peaked around and found that Mor | t'n Lampere and Judge Maritellan | had shinnied in through the crack | ot the door and were doing a confi | dential, “They looked so guilty 1 felt duty bound to find out what they were talking about. This was it. Lam pere was trying to force Maritellan tc get some frierd of his in Rio Mar county to issue an injunction against the sale of any additional dam prop | erty to your boss.” “Oh. .. ."” Judith had forgotten Norman, the yacht, her lovely frock She was the stenograpber ready to act as a medium between Big Tom and a danger which threatened his dam. “But, Clia, I'm sure he bought all| tlLat was necessary; bought the dam | site from the State for delinquent tuxes last winter, and the limitation date has already passed, so they can’t question his ownership of that. | “At the same time be bought all land deserted by the homeseeking owners, for delinquent taxes, in order to protect those very home seekers. After the irrigation is available they may have their land back, providing they will live cn it and cultivate it, by simply paying what Big Tom paid the State.” “Wouldn’t Lampere know all of that?” “Of course ... I have it.” Judith, who had sat down opposite her friend, arose. “It's the new dam . . the upper one. Clia, I trust you im- plicitly or | wouldn’t think out loud. For some reason Lampere is trying to check Big Tom's control of the upper flood basin ... 1 remember sending a wire to the Company Board telling of the new plans. . . . Lampere read it .. . he was probably called to the board meeting. “RUT, Clia,” she stood before her friend, “why should he fight the firm retaining him?” “You're asking me,” commented Clia. *“However, Jude, he didn't intend that Bevins should find out he was behind the injunction. He threatened the judge with some kind of an expose if Big Tom learned of it through him.” “1 don’t uncerstand why he's do- ing this,” mused Judith. “The dam is only a hobby of Mr. Bevins. Of course it will atake money In time, everything Big Tom touches does and for that reason he has complete support of our board o directors . . Le's ready to build it with his own cash, if there is any dissansion . . Clia,” she asked suddenly, “why should Lampere and the judge dis- cuss such a thing in a public file room?” “Afraid if they went to either of- fice, some smart reporter like Clia Sanford would see them and smell a political mouse ... you remember my estimable news-sheet nearly put both of them on the scandal spot after the last election.” “I must get hold of Big Tom. He popularity by intimating his sole ambition is to “work with the President to restore prosperity.” Should Mr. Pinchot be defeated by only a narrow margin he would seek to run as an independent candidate, many of his friends believe. Thus to split the Republican vote would obviously increase the Democratic chances. stould know about Lampere before Le reaches Houston. Wait .. . there's ou exaggerated sailor-suit lines with | silver braid and buttons for trim- ming. It was unquestionably smart. UDITH sought for a simile to ex: «7 press the change in the plump. do girl she had known and the gently rounded, beautifully sophis. ticated one before her. She aad it. | She was as different as the Tilly her |gravel had already been used in' father had once called her, was dif- ferent from the Mathile he called her now when he didn’t forget. Norman scated himself near Jud- ith, a proprietory air about him which caused the Bevins eyes to narrow. “Miss Lane,” she began with a patronizing note in her voice, “you look badly. Has father been work ing you too hard, or have you been dieting for the former fashionable figure?” “Forced dieting,” barked Tom Bevins who had come up behind Judith, “all of us were. We found the . natives down there about starved and this child,” with a fond pat of Judith’s head, “slipped her poor, share to the kids.” “Really, tell us about the trip, Miss Lane,” suggested someone. “Help!" gasped Mathile delicate. Iy, “not that. I've been bored with tales of surveying trips ever since I can remember.” “You wouldn’t have been bored | with this one, or on it either,” her father suggested, comfortably. “We had the kind of a storm, Tilly, which used to send you scurrying under the bed.” Tilly flushed scarlet and the crowd hooted at the idea of the elegant Mateel on all fours seeking shelter. “Peculiar how danger brings out the primitive in us,” remarked some- one. “Danger,” retorted Mathile, her voice brittle, “brings out a lot of strange emotions . . . storms espe- cially. “For lllustration. During one of my earlier trips abroad we spent some time In Italy. | managed to shake my chaperone . oh, yes, mother tried to have me properly | duennaed .. and take a cruise on | the Mediterranean. “It was an [talian boat with an [talian captain, young fellow . . handsome in a plebelan sort of way We ran into a tremendous storm Now of conras under ordinary eir cumstances | would never have spoken to the man but that storm worked on my emotions so thor- oughly it took me a fortnight ashore t- realize I loathed, instead of loved, him.” Judith’s eyes were no longer grey, they were blue-black with anger She looked at Norman, ho was smil- ing easily, a# though amused at the story, then she looked at Clia. The girl's red lips had parted tc show the gleam of white teeth, het figure seemed vibrating with anger but when she spoke her voice was filled with laughter. “My word, Miss Bevins,” she chuckled, “one might almost think you were inferring that Mr. Dale declded to fall in love with Judy because they ran into a smal. hurri cane.” Norman sat up with a start—"0h no.” he protested, “Mathile's alway: someone 1t the door.” “Well, girls,” Mrs. Dale stood in the doorway. “Aren’t you coming up?” reminiscing over affairs.” 4 lCbeon. 1934, by Jeanne Bowman) Tomorrow, Judith s her tuture | Raymond. l | e 20 YEARS AGO From The Empirs | | MARCH 20, 1914, 1 John Reck was re-elected as) president of the Juneau Commer«i preceding evening. Other officers who were re-elected to the same offices were H. J. Fisher, vice-| president, and Ike Sowerby, secre-f} tary. Guy McNaughton was chos-| en as treasurer to succeed E. Val-| entine, who had held that office; for several years. | Mrs. “I! PROFESSIONAL | { cial Club at a meeting held the!l, | | Albert Berry had openedI:‘ J Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 " Rose A. Acdrews Graduate Nurse Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas sage, Colonic Trrigations Office hours 11 am. to 5 p.m. Evenings by Appointment Second and Main Electricity, Infra Red | Phone 259 [| S T —— | Fraternal Societies ] oF i § f Gastineau Channel | MR i Lo 0y B. P. 0. ELKS meets | { every Wednesday at 8p m Vialting brothers welcome, s1| L. W. Turoff, Exalt- « | ed Ruler, M. H, Bides, Secretary. [| RNIGATS oF coLumMBUR | | Seghers Counell No, 1760, Meetings second and lash | | Monday at 7:30 p. m, Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Councll —£1| Chambers, Fft Streed, “The Vogue Shop,” opposite the Orpheum and had on display a|Z choice assortment of hand-worked embroideries, Mrs. Berry, who was; en expert designer, announced! that she would do all of her work; and would also do designing and stamping to order. % | H] ~———%3| Scottish Rite Temple, Capt. J. T. Martin, who for three years had been Juneau's po-| lice chief, announced that he would!| i tender his resignation to the city] | council at the meeting to be held‘* in the evening. While Capt. Mar PR TS E. B. WILSON Chiropodist—Foot Specialist 401 Goldstein Building PHONE 496 JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary MOUNT JUNEAT LODGE NO. 147 ! Second and fourth Mon- day of each month in =t DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. tin has decided not to be an ap-| plicant for re-appointment to his *] position, his resignation before| | the termination of his term was| | | the direct result of a fine impos-| ed for using more force than City Magistrate E. W. Petit thought he| | should have in making an arrest.| | Weather for the previous 24/ hours had been partly cloudy. The | maximum temperature was 49 de-| grees and the minimum was 31. | A crew of 14 men and several teams were engaged in repairing - I R N § N, C. P. Jenne OfZiee nours, § am. to 5 pm. «venings by appointment, Phone 321 BT T —— i} beginning at 7:30 p. m. L. E. HENDRICKSON, Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Sec retary. | Our trucks go any place any 1 | ime. A tank for Diesel Oil | %1 | and a tank for crude oil save | burner trouble. PHONE 149; NIGHT 148 | DENTIST RELIABLE TrANsFER | Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine | |: Building It Z PR o et NOW OPEN — | . . w| Commercial Adjust- Dr. J. W. Bayne | ment & Rating Bureau DENTIST | | | Cooperating with White Service Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. | Bureau Room 1—Shattuck Bldg. on file the road leading to Sheep Creek| | Juneau. loads of T Two hundred | ballasting the Samon Creek road | and Erick Nelson, who had vol-! unteered his services to oversee the | | work, reported that it was pass- able. The work was made possi-! and that to Salmon Creek from .. | I | | ! | We have 5000 local ratings | | a Robert Sizapson Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground ! FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasunavle rates WRIGHT SHOPPE PAUL BLOEDHORN & i of business men who solicited sub- ible by the efforts of a committee it scriptions and the generous re-| | sponse of business men in the city. | On the committee were W. W.| Casey, W. F. Merchant and H. J. - Members of the Bartender's Un- | ion were planning a big smoker DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL Optometrist—Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted Room 17, Valentine Bldg. Office Phone 484; Residence Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 JUNEAU-YOUNG Funeral Parlors Licensed Funeral Directors | 11 and Embalmers | Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 || v ] to be held in the Elks’ Hall on, March 28 for which many inter-, esting features were planned. e Total capacity of all' California | plants equipped for generating electricity is estimated at approx-! imately 12000000000 kilowatt gz Dr. Richard Williams DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building Phone 481 —53 fl SABIN’S | Everything in Furnishings for Men i,‘] 3 hours a day, or more than one-, eighth of the total output of the! United States. 1 D FOOD SALE NOTICE Girl Scouts will hold a food sale Saturday, March 31, in the Sani- Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 6 pm. 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His past record shows how {he used the Republican Party to advance mis own |ambitions. He can scarcely be expected now to place its welfare above his own. That school teocher who gave a boy pupil a $5 bill on condition that he would eat it could have FOR CHARTER Lockheed 6-Passenger Seaplane TELEPHONE 22 J. V. HICKEY ! ALASKA AIR EXPRESS furnished the lad more nourishment with one of Al Smith’s baloney dollars.—(Chicago News.) Sl e RO Talk of disarmament in Europe these days is |about as out of place as warning against carrying matches in hell—(Ohio State Journal.) e e S There are nearly as many Johnsons in this country as Smiths, but there’s only one NRA Johnson.—(Indianapolis News.) ‘When properly folded, it appears that the new bathing suits may be carried in a thimble.—(Indian- apolis News.) 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