The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 26, 1934, Page 4

4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1934. _Empire GENERAL MANAGER Daily Alaska ROBERT W. BENDER - - Published _every evening _except Sunday by | EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. the Main SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dailvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for 8125 per _month. 1, postage pald, at the following rates: Onn;y)':‘nn.;! lxra(l\'snc!", 512.0(\&1121: months, in advance, ; th, in advance, 3 ‘6‘1:"]b::~'f|bfl"s"wnx confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Bunln"snhof"ce of any fallure or irregularity very of their pers. I Geime for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED ’n!s!.ed i Jclated Press is exclusively entitl uuT?:r “r\::(:;,\l?rmlnn of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ALASKA AN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION A BILL OF SOME MOMENT. | Last month there was introduced in the Senate a bill | by Senator Dill, Washington, which, if passed, would more than double Alaska’s present population in an incredibly short time, add another year-round industry, give employment to thousands and put to use a valuable natural resource that has been wasting for many years. The bill, Senate No. 2,792, reads as follows: Be It Enacted, etc., That the importation of all pulpwood, wood pulp or other wood susceptible of being used in the manufacture of paper, is hereby prohibited. Sec. 2. The provisions of this act shall be deemed to be a part of the Tariff Act of 1930. [ In a comprehensive statement made at the time| the measure was introduced, Senator Dill truly de-| picted the plight the American paper manufacturers | have found themselves in as a result of the impor- tations of foreign pulpwood and wood pulp. Hel listed t! {imber resources of the nation from which can be manufactured an ample supply of paper for our needs. He urged favorable action on the bill end that a declining industry might be revived, employment given American labor in it} and a stable supply of newsprint made available to the country’s publishers. He gave a faithful picture of the neglected timber resources of Alaska, saying: In Alaska we have another magnificent stand of timber untouched and rotting in the forests. In the forest reserves of Alaska alone—and remember this timber s owned solely by the United States Government— we have 20,000,000 acres of forest lands, and a conservative cruiserghows phat these res serves contain a stand of more than 80,- 000,000,000 feet of standing timber. It takes no account of the enormous forests on the Kuskokwim, the Tanana, the Yukon, and other great valleys that are outside the forest reserves. It has been said, and it is believed to be true, that in Alaska alone there is more standing timber today than in all the Scandinavian Peninsula. Yet we”talk about the exhaustion of our timber resources, wholly overlooking the fact that timber is a productive natural resources. We fail to observe that the State of Maine has been cutting timber for more than 200 years, and many of the forests of the South have been cut over time and again. Here in Alaska, trained foresters estimate, in the past 20 years enough timber has gone to waste to have supplied one-third of the nation’s newsprint requirements had it been used for that purpose, and 10 reduction would have taken place in the supply available for future use. Millions of dollars expended jn Canada could have been kept at home, thousands of American workmen given employment, American shipping benefitted, Alaska populated much more than at present had free entry not been allowed to foreign pulpwood and wood pulp. There has, also, been another waste that few people take into consideration. Some have boasted of timber conservation in Alaska. What we have, and have had, is the very antithesis of conservation. It is and has been shameful waste. Senator Dill was not unaware of this fact. He pointed out that “a highly important fact not sufficiently widely known is that timber is a crop and that it reaches maturity and should be harvested like any other crop. If neglected or allowed to stand indefinitely, it deteriorates for the best commercial uses. For this reason, the United States in the last 20 years of free trade has suffered a double loss—billions of dollars sent abroad and our own forests declining in value from nonuse.” In many sections of Alaska’s National Forest decline from nonuse has reached a serious stage. Generations of trees, permitted to mature, rot and fall to the ground have clogged the forests until first class trees cannot be produced. Even foresters are hesitant to set a figure in the loss to the Nation from that source. It grows worse every year it is allowed to continue. The only remedy is utilization on the basis of scientific forestry. If Senator Dill's bill should pass, and it probably wont, this remedy would be promptly applied for Alaska's pulpwood resources would be in wide demand. IRESH SUBJECT MATTER Many © voung man or woman has rebelled at the shift of dinner table conversation during the depression, and then has had to make the best of it. Having studied zealously in philosophy or literature, or having informed himself amply in the history * painting, the young man who left college a few ago has found that the world is economic- gh lip service is paid to the arts, and, of in some circles continues to flourish, all Senator Fess said that Hoover was on the right track to recovery. The same Senator said | Hoover was sure to be re-elected in 1932. If he off the front pages. Even when he isn't heard from for a couple of days, the silence gets him a headline Al for doubt about that. Will thig bring about a restoration of popular interest in the arts and sciences? Surely the tendency will be in that direction. But the revision of subject matter muy‘ prove slow. Indeed, it is likely that the dismal| science will have so colored the literature of nul'i time that economics must continue as a vital part| of the intellectual equipment of the elite. It is also possible that the State will assume a| steadily larger role in economic life, and our people will become self-conscious parts of a national economic mechanism. In such case we are likely to see a further coloring of the arts by considerations | of demand and supply, of rationalization of produc- tion and integration of industrial control. | With prospects such as these, it is a daring| citizen who would forsake his well-thumbed volumes | in economics for the neglected books of pure litera- | ture and are. While many millions are unemployed, the obsession of economics is not likely to pass. keeps on guessing, some of these days he's going to| be right. Just seems as if it's impossible to keep Insull ! Alaska. (Miami Herald.) Despite the millions of dollars that have gone into and come out of Alaska, that far Northern Territory is discontented. It is owned, body and soul, by Uncle Sam, and if it is to get ahead in the world, the people of that rich country would like to experience home rule with possibilities of greater expansion Alaska, it is pointed out, is an example of what happens when the Federal Government sits on the lid, discourages private enterprise, and is the whole cheese. There has been little selfish exploitation in Alaska, and that seems to be the trouble. While Alaska possesses vast natural resources, the country | has shown slight progress in years. After the gold boom, the visitors did not dig in and stay. They dug out. Population decreased. But the population | would not have decreased if individual initiative | was given full play, if Alaskans had more to say about their own government and development. But Washington is far away and does not care what happens in the Arctic outpost. Suppose the Federal Government owned 99 per cent of the land in Florida, suppose our natural gifts were controlled by Washington, that our laws and regulations and expenditures were passed upon by Congress, how far would this State have pro- gressed? It is not likely that we would have be- come the sun parlor of the nation, not likely that hotels would be crowded with visitors, or that these hotels would have been built. Florida would lag, like other commonwealths and territories under the heel of government. | But that is the situation faced by Alaska, and emphasized by the new Governor, John W. Troy, a pioneer editor and publisher of Juneau, the capital of Alaska. He declares that Alaska should govern herself, that her laws should be made by her Legislature and executed by her officials. There | should be local government. Alaska's Jand area is approximately 590,000 square miles, of which 99 per cent is owned by the Federal Government. Under a conservation system, its for- ests, coal and ofl are held in perpetuity by the | Government, forever precluding their possession by| private ownership, and it is only under the latter | that the United States has made such advancement. The fisheries, fur and game are regulated, controlled and administered by Washington. The Federal Gov- ernment authorizes bond issues, fixes taxation even for the municipalities, passes the laws. It is no wonder Alaskans object to the enslave- ment of Uncle Sam, clamor for freedom to govern themselves, seek the right to develop their rich heritage. With America seeking new sources of revenue, new opportunities for employment, Alaskai stands neglected. A Vilson Memorial. (New York Times.) The Daily Princetonian’s view about the pro- posed monument in memory of President Wilson will be shared by many. All will feel that there should be some local memorial, but the one sug- |gested seems to be neither adquate nor wholly in character. Seeing it, one jealous for his memory would recall the lines of Milton in contemplating another monument: Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, ‘What need'st thou such weak wit- ness of thy name? This is not to criticize the design itself but merely to raise a question about the appropriate- ness of a shaft which will not lift its top above the trees or even suggest the nobility of Mr. Wilson's service to his community, to his country and to humanity. It was in Princeton, as a professor, that he dreamed of the “perfect place of learning,” and any Princeton memorial should have that as its dominant theme. It was a place, as he described it, frequented by sagacious men, debaters of the world’s questions, used to *the rough ways of democracy, where calm science sat ascetic, not knowing if the world passed, caring only that the truth came in answer o her prayer, and where literature walked in quiet chambers or with storied walls about. 3 As The Princetonian says, he would doubtless have preferred to be commemorated by some project “of direct value to human beings.” Could there be a more appropriate commemoration than one which helped to develop the perfect place for learning that was in his vision? There will be monuments elsewhere to his national and world service. At Princeton should be remembered the student, the teacher, the university president. As one looks thoughtfully over the European scene these days it gets harder and harder to tell which are the buffer and which are the bluffer States.—(Boston Herald.) As superfluous as the announcement in a 7 a.m. broadcast, “The selection just played by the Philadelphia Symphony was an electrical transcrip- tion.”—(Detroit News.) You may have observed that in California nobody is thinking of plowing under every third row of grape vines.—(St. Louis Globe-Democrat.) many conversations turn inevitably to the great , Numberless intelligent men and women have to educate themselves all over again to keep th the shift of interest to the vast problem ‘”*-’Miw for production no longer room This Administration probably will go down in history as the one that gave us blue eagles and took our gold ones.—(Los Angeles Times.) Senator Cutting, of New Mexico, says “the West has found in the NRA a great obstacle to recovery.” Well, that was a cutting remark, wasn't Judith Lane by JEANNE RBOWSMAN SYNOPSIS: Judith Dale, who just jias moved into her new home with Normau, her husband, has promised ler old employer, the engineer, Tom Bevins, that should he die she will carry out his plans to the letter for his dam and recla- mation project at Rio Diablo, The task is complicated by th fact Norman's law partner is wun- wandedly fighting Bevins, and Beving' dazghter Mathile is trying to win Norman. Then Tom Beving dies. Chapter 13 STRUGGLE BEGINS less as the servant swung back the loved old friend’s death. } Norman waited only long enough to change clothes then with a hur- ried kiss to the now drooping Col- umbine, rushed for his car. The guests left, all but the Sanfords. Clia, taking Judith to her room, seemed on the verge of gaying something several times only to stop, light a fresh cigarette, and ash it out in the nearest ash-tray “I'll call my offi she said at length and went downstairs. Judith stared into the mirror. Methodically she removed paint and powder with fresh tissue, folded each piece carefully, them into their basket. “Dead,” she thought “he’s dead, Big Tom.” “l should feel something,” said aloud to the white faced girl in the mirror. “I really should but I don’t . .. just sort of numb . . . and queer.” She slipped out of her costume, then went to her wardrobe, and reached for a robe, made carefu! selection. She chose one of peach glow, so Norman when he returned wouldn’t notice how pale she looked; peach glow with soft eider- down about the wide sleeves and hem. vaguely, “Big Tom is dead and I'm dress ing up.” AQUEER noise intruded itself into her calm. She went to the window, opened it. There were lights in the servants' quarters and through the unshaded window pane she could see Delphy seated, apron thrown over her head, rocking vack and forth and moaning. What a re- lief it must be to reiease pent up feelings like that. “Judy,” Clia was at the door, a ing liberties. I felt the need of a cocktail so he shook up one for “Thanks,” Judith accepted the drink, sank ipto a chintz-frocked chair and sipped, thoughtfully. Of course Delphy had known Big Tom for years. She had, too. She must run down to the office and see him, hadn’t been there for a month. But she couldn’t. Big Tom wouldn't be there. | “l called the office,”” ventured Clia, “would you care to hear what | . what happened ?" “Yes .. yes of course,” replied | . and tossed | she | | Judith. *He complained of feeling dizzy tray in her hand. “Slim’s been tak- | She should put warmth in her voice. Clia knew how dear Big Tom had been to her. She'd think her completely heartless. more seems Mathile and Mra. Bevins were giving a dinner party this evening. Bevins came in, said he was too tired to sit in, and would go on up to bed. “They objected because it would leave thirteen at the table. He sat in. Afterwards he started to his It |room again but, he was needed to IGE, with an eye to dramatic ef- fill in at a bridge table. He filled in, fect, made the announcement a | “Ie played until ten o'clock, com- proclamation. Judith, a gay Colum- | plained of feeling queer, dizzy. bine, was in the ac: of twirling in | While he was dummy he excused Slim Sanford’s arms to show NOTI- | pimselt saying he was going for a man and Poppy Neville, (their new, | qr zot as far as the door.” next door neighbors) how & “swale- | oarc of pity burned Judith’s step” should be e | eyes. Clia saw the closed eye-lids. Judith paused and stood breath- | pjer terse, dramatic style of relat- ing the scene had wol drapes, held up a yellow-palmed | “He died instantly,” she con- hand and said— s | cluded. % daid. He dropped daid ten minutes | ago. Miss Matilda, she say Ma’ss| A GREAT, choking sob tore up Norman is to come to hur, soon’s he | Weeaeh Juaith's. throat and kin git there.” | burst. Braced against Sanford’s sup-| The sobs went on until Clia, thor- porting arm, Judith wondered oughly frightened, called to her which pain was the sharper, the brother — “Telephone the Bevins | fierce throb of jealousy at Mathile's |and get Norman back here where command, or the shock of her be |he belongs.” che " Judith stood up, crying ted instantly, “he went to her i got.as far as the door.” the moment she called. | won't have him,” and then she crumplel into a heap of peach-glow and eiderdown. Voices were talking in a grey dawn, men’s voices. Judith heard them. She listened. “But young Lman,” one was saying, “it those fool ‘Bevins women had given Tom halt the care this young wife of yours gave him, he'd be alive now . . . oh, | : ,oh, here she comes, feeling better, Mrs. Dale?” Judith opened her eyes. Dr. Kelly twas bending over her on one side, Norman was close, his arms sup- porting her. Clia and Slim were standing before the window. “Sorry, I didn’t mean . ., silly and feminine to faint,” she apologized, incoherently. After the doctor and the Sanfords | had left, Judith and Norman went to the den, where a crackling hearth | fire dispelled some of the greyness of the early morning. Judith, still in the circle of Nor- man's arm, was surprised when her husband spoke in a quick, surprised tone of voice. “Do you happen to know where Big Tom kept his will?” “Didn’t your office take care of “Originally, but he cancelled his old one after that Diablo trip. Ac- cording to the papers, he died in- testate.” “And that means?” “Mrs. Bevins will inherit every- thing. She surmised she would last night and asked Lampere to act as administrator.” + Judith started. This was exactly what Big Tom had feared. With Lampere in control of the money and the company, he would exploit the land for his own benefit. How- ever, knowing his physical condi- tion as he did, would Big Tom have overlooked anything as important as a will? She doubted it. “Telamfoam, Ma’ss sald Lige. When Norman turned from his desk, his handsome features wore a peculiarly strained look. “What s it?” Judith No'man,” cried | alarmed. “I find T am married to a million- aire stenographer.” (Copyright, 1934, by Jeanne Bowman) Judith hears of her inheritance, tomorrow. TELEPHONE 22 e ALASKA AIR EXPRESS FOR CHARTER Lockheed 6-Passenger Seaplane J. V. HICKEY THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS The Gastineau Our Services to You Begin and End at the Gang Plank of Every Passenger-Carrying Boat it?— (Pathfinder.) PT ST R AE Fraternal Societies | 8 p.m Visiting & | 20 YEARS AGO o ) —w , ) y o asti; | e vemn TR WE ARedhs | o oo oo Channel ) [ e e | PHYSIOTHERAPY 8. F. 0. ELES = | | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | | B- P. O. mee MARCH 26, 1914 | ! s To perfect business arrange- Ray, Medichl ‘Oyhpastion S WA M Q/ !) ments pending and to make ar- | 307 Gddsce:“i Building rangements for active wnstruction’il, a i work on the new baseball grounds A 2 at once, it was expected that the matter of organizing a 1914 base- 1‘ Rose A, A]:drews ball team would be taken up. I Graduate Nurse || Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas The Pacific Coast Company’s; | sage, Colonic Irrigations favorite steamer on this run, the | Office hours 11 am. to 5 p.m. City of Seattle, was to resume the. | Evenings by Appointment run again leaving Seattle March | Second and Main Phone 259 31 { ramento, were in Treadwell, where Mr. Bradley was transacting busi- ness with the Treadwell Company.| | E. B. WILSON Chiropodist—Foot Specialist 401 Goldstein Building PHONE 496 Marshal H.'L. Faulkner and Mr: Faulkner were passengers on the = Humboldt on their way home from | ‘" the south. | | DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER s i | DENTISTS Election officers were chosen at! } the meeting of the City Counecil] held the preceding evening. Those Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 8§ pm. P. R. Bradley and his sonofSac-1fd —— =& L brothers welcome. } L. W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. ENICHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1780, Meetings second and lasy Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- v ed to attend. Councli Chambers, Fift Streed. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. E. H. J. TURNER, Becretary —— MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO, 147 Second and fourth Mon- day of each month in Scottish Rite Temple, beginning at 7:30 p. m. L. E. HENDRICKSON, Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Sec- retary. | Our trucks go any place any time. A tank for Diesel Ol selected were: Judges, James Mc-:;f Kanna, Benjamin Bullard, H. R.| Shepard; clerks, Allen James E. Barragar. | | Weather for the previous 24| | hours was clear with a miximumj temperature of 32 and a minimum of 23. Shattuck, | % o s e Dr, C. P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine | i Mrs. Ralph E. Robertson was to| lentertain at her home on the fol-| lowing afternoon. | DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Oflice nours, 9 am. to 5 pm. =venings by appointment, Phone 321 | Tentative plans were being con-| sidered for the erection of a new concrete building for the First, National Bank on the corner occu-| —f _— % P-Dr. J. W. 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Office Hours: 9:30 to 12; The musical to be given under’ the direction of Miss Edithj| Kempthorne at the Methodist| | Church was eagerly anticipated by the people of Juneau. In addi-| 1:00 to 5:30 :[ PROFESSIONAL ||| | I JUNEAU-YOUNG | Funeral Parlors i Licensed Funeral Directors | | and Embalmers ,‘. Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 |tion to the lecture on the life and & | Work, of Listz and the selections from his work, by Miss Kemp- thorne, Mrs. H. P. Crowther and | Waldemar Engberg were to give |solos and Miss Kempthorne and| |Miss Gladys Tripp were to give one jof Listz’s beautiful eymphonies for | four hands. & EE DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building Phone 481 D ii—————————— Dr. Richard Williams SABIN’S Everything in Furnishings for Men " Dull Headaches Gone I Simple Remedy Does It 3 Headaches caused by constipa- | [ Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 6 pm. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 409, Res. Phone 276 tlon are gone after one dose of Adlerika. This cleans poisons out {of BOTH upper and lower bowels. Ends bad sleep, nervousness. But- s || THE JuneEAu LAunprY } Franklin Street between | Front and Second Streets | l | 1 | "l PHONE 359 L ler Mauro Drug Co.—in Douglas by Guy's Drug Store. —adv. — FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) oIl GREASES Juneau | Motors | JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Little Store with the BIG VALUES C. L. FENTON CHIROPRACTOR Soutn Frent St., next to Brownle's Barber S8hop orfice Hours: 10-13; 3-8 Evenings by Appolntments Groceries—Produce—Fresh and Smoked Meats Front Street, opposite Harris Hardware Co. CASH AND CARRY To Our Depositors . .. The B. M. Behrends Bank is conscious of the 3ndxspen51ble part which its depositors have played in at;gi;teady progress ever since its establishment in 5 Their continuous patronage is an expression of their confidence and good will. It shall be our aim to contirgue to merit this confidence by extending the institution’s helpfulness to Juneau’s business interests in keeping the wheels of progress moving. The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau, Alaska — = HI-LINE SYSTEM JUNEAU FROCK SHOPPE “Exclusive but not Expensive” Coats, Dresses, Hosiery and Hats e e o U HOTEL ZYNDA Large Sample Room ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. i il A SR e St o bt GARBAGE HAULED ‘ | | Reasonable Monthly Rates E. O. DAVIS TELEPHONE 584 Phone 4753 | | 1 el . Smith Electric Co. | Gastineau Buflding | GALA Spring Display at the—— LEADER DEPT. STORE George Bros. Store Open Evenings -