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

v 4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1934. > > poration operating at 40 per cent of its capacity, . gl ——RfD——— T Da',ly Alaska Emplre l’fls compared with 148 per cent a year ago, and . | PROFESSIONAL Ffaternal Soclenes i _J nine per cent at the lowest point of depression. d th [« - o ] ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER| Coming on the heels of these evidences from Ju 1 Lane 20 YEARE AGO {|=————|| castineau Channel ¥ B vy Gkpe Schy i th) oL of LIS SRgR AR TS SRS S figures by JEANNE BOWMAN From The Empire Helene W. L. Albrecht |l&——————4 Second and Main revealed by the Dun-Bradstreet review and the Fed- t b ¥HYSIOTHERAPY B. P. 0. ELKS meets EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at 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 mall, postagé pald, at the following r One year, In advance, $12.00; six months, In $6.00; one month, In advance, $1.25, Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Bditorial and Business Offices, $74. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATE(- PRESS. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to tb 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 TIAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. EP TOWARD GREATER HOME RULE. THE FIR! In the repeal of Prohibition in Alaska, accom- plished last' Friday when President Roosevelt signed the Dimond measure wiping out the National Pro- hibition Act and the Alaska Bone Dry Law, a great achlevement was signalized. Repeal in itself is a notable accomplishment. More notable, however, the provision contained in the measure that em- powers Alaska, through its Legislature to control the liquor traffic in its own borders, For them both we have to thank primarily Delegate Dimond, and in addition, of course, the Democratic Congress and the Democratic President who upheld the tradi- tions of their party in passing and approving the law. As Gov. Troy remarked when informed the measure had become law through executive approval, “It is a remarkable coincidence that this new measure of home rule is given us on the birthday anniversary of Thomas Jefferson.” It was Jefferson, founder of the Democratic Party, who laid the foundation for a government of the United States truly republican in form. He had a confidence in his fellow man and his ability to govern himself that few of his class entertained in the beginnings of the republic. And the principles he expounded and exemplified came to be adopted stone of the Union of the States. He wrote the into the Ordinance of 1787, which he reported for the committee to Congress; a statute that served as the basis for the colonial policy of the United States from the formation of the first Territory until Alaska was created a Territory, and abandoned for the first time in the passage of our own Organic Act. While, theoretically, under it, the power of Congress was absolute, 3t qwas g ybe exerted, in encouraging the development of thorough self-gov- ernment, and granting it as fast as the settlers should become capable of exercising it. Copied in succeeding acts for the organization of Territories, and controlling the spirit of all such statutes until our own was passed, the Ordinance of 1787 is the foundation of almost everything that makes the modern American system distinctive It is but natural, therefore, that the present. Congress should enact a law giving Alaskans the absolute power to pass and enforce laws to ad- minister the liquor traffic, a right that every other Territory always had but which was denied to us at the beginning. It is as natural for us to want those other measures of home rule, also denied us, that other Territories had, power to administer Jocal resources, particularly fisheries, game and fur, to form counties or other local governmental units, to organize our Legislature according to population which is nothing more or less than the right to have representative government. Many of these things are now asked of the present Administration in measures introduced by Delegate Dimond. One of them, the home rule fisheries bill, is the subject of debate in the lower House at this time: It is being vigorously opposed in Congress and at home there are some so timid, or so fearful of what might happen to vested interests, that they too decline to support it. No real Jeffersonian disciple will do that. Like their great leader they are confident that the common people will live up to all the responsibilities of government entrusted to them. They are con- vinced that the only intelligent administration of local affairs is that applied by local authority. And they look to the present Democratic regime to take that attitude. The passage of the Dimond Pro- hibition repeal bill strengthens that conviction. —_— LOOKING UP! Prom points as far apart as New York and San Francisco come reports of a new national spirit, of mounting tides of business and employment, of faith that the upward movement will continue. Dun- Bra’street, Inc., in its weekly analysis of business conditions, announced from New York, finds proof of a further and definite upswing of business and a rising ‘scale in:industrial operations. From San Francisco, the Twelfth Federal Reserve Bank reports businesy for the first quarter of the current year 20 per cent ahead of 1933. The view of these two impartial authorities lends weight to the assertions early this month of two of the nation’s leading industrialists. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., President of the General Motors Cor- poration, called the tide of recovery “irresistable.” Myron C. Taylor, Chairman of the United States Bteel Corporation, told a stockholders’ meeting about ‘the same time that the country is emerging frqm © its adversity. Of these two great leaders, one is head of a concern that ‘l-lms to have supplied 429 per cent _ of the new cars and trucks now registered, while ‘the other is the head of the world’s most powerful ‘steel corporation. Their declarations, fortunately, therefore not of the windjammer variety made _eminent citizens when the country started . to the bow wows. . Both supply figures. Mr. Sloan cited a large e in numbers of employees, in pnyrol.ls. sales net_profits. Mr. Taylor reported the steel cor- m is) as the corner- | eral Reserve Bank at San Francisco are all the more enlightening and encouraging. An oldtimer is one who can remember when beer was a nickel a glass and good likker could , + be bought for $1 a quart. Gen. Johnson has been described as a man who would find no joy in life if he had an easy he now is. President Roosevelt was in facetious vein when he greeted welcoming Congressmen on his return 'to Washington. He was prepared to stay in Washington all summer, he told them. Wherein he has the advantage since he is not forced to campaign for re-election as are all Representatives and 32 Senators. Not by Force. (New York Times.) In the preface to his new book, President Roose- velt makes light of all the talk about fascism, | dictatorship and revolution. He declares that if there is to be a revolution in this country it must be “peaceful.” This is undoubtedly correct. It is a truth which spokesmen for CWA workers at the City Hall on Thursday forgot or defied. “We have the force,” asserted one of them; and some \foolish ones among the crowd talked about throw- ing the Mayor out of the City Hall and taking charge themselves. Such counsels of violence and ! madness, if they were to be widely followed—which they will not be—might lead to a dictatorship, but | never to the sort of revolution which many nowadays lare rolling like a sweet morsel under their tongues. /When one asks them how they are to bring about their revolution, it at once becomes plain that most lof them have not thought the thing through. A few timidly or tacitly advocate force. They |would “seize” the government of cities first, then of [the States, and finally the nation. But the more ! sensible and realistic of them know that this would |never go in the United States. So they turn to the ithought of ballots, not bullets. The discontented, {the unemployed, the multitudes dissatisfied with |existing political parties, will be educated and or- ?ganiz@d into a new political party which finally will ibe strong enough to outvote the others and take charge of the Government. To this plan there is Ino sound legal or even moral objection. This coun- ftry acts on the theory of rule by the majority. {1f the revolutionists, or even the avowed Com- | munis can rally a majority of voters behind them, they will be entitled to decide how the !country shall be governed. Let them go ahead. |Let them hire halls and have parades and hold | outdoor mass meetings and put up posters, and print circulars and newspapers. To do so is one of the inalienable rights guaranteed to them by the linfamous capitalist system which they are burning {to overthrow. But in the process they must abstain from violence or even sedition. Without observing Jaw and order they will never have a chance |of making a successful revolution. | Nor should they forget to calculate how many |years must pass before they can display that united front” of which they talk so fondly. The differences between existing parties, or within them, are nothing like so sharp and bitter as those which |keep apart the various organizations and agitators that think and talk of revolution. Who could hope to hold together the various “shirts” which are | being proposed or are in use to signify a resolve !to make over or take over the Government? What | conference, or convention, could be got to agree upon a set of principles, or of promises, to which |all the factions would subscribe? The peaceful revo- |lution would be preceded for a long time by fierce Irxghtmg between the factions. They might even have to invoke the protection of capitalist police or militiamen to prevent such serious quarrels as were seen recently between the Socialists and the Communists in Madison Square Garden. On the |whole, there is no reason for peaceable citizens | to call each other up at midnight and ask anxiously: |“When is the revolution going to begin?” | Old Man Interest. | (New York World-Telegram.) Old Man Interest, unlike Old Man River, doesn’t merely keep rolling along. He crushes us quickly and will do it again if not kept in reasonable | check. If speculation is curbed—as the Administration is trying to do through the Stock Exchange bill— there probably will be enough investment money in this rich country to supply all that is needed, land more, to legitimate business. This would tend to bring a lower interest rate and save the couggry from debt that mounts like a snowball rolling downhill. The old saw about the penny invested at,the time of Christ, which would have mounted to an astronomical figure by now if its interest course were not interrupted, is another illustration of the crushing effect ol debt. President Roosevelt saw this clearly when he characterized the alternative, in the case of foreign bonds held by Americans, as one of collecting the principal and cutting down the interest, or trying to collect the interest at 8 per cent and not doing it. > Two British investment experts, J. Maynard life insurance company meetings, foresee low rates of interest in the future. Mr. Keynes, declaring that 7long-term, gilt-edged securities probably will fall to 2} per cent or less, said: With opportunities for safe and profit- able investment abroad greatly curtailed, as much by the unfortunate results of past in- vestment as by diminished opportunities for new investment, Britain and the United States would, if they were to return to full employment of their resources, save sums so vast that they could not possibly be in- vested to yield anything approaching 3% per cent. That Englishman who thinks that everything necessary can be said with a vocabulary of 850 words evidently knows nothing of the drafts on language made by a man making out his income- tax return—(Boston Transcript.) If it is true that man resembles the things he eats, the snail-like slowness of the French in paying their war debt may not be inexplicable. —(Detroit Free Press.) One of the human paradoxes is that so many men prefer an opportunity to work.—(Boston Tran- script.) 3 ' It wfll( soon be #ime to limber up the con- science to pass on seasonal bathing suits.—(Indian- apolis Star.) 5 job. That man ought to be supremely happy whercl SYNOPSIS: Judith Dale is at the Rio Diablo dam to supervise its construction according to the plans - provided by Tom Bevins, and with the money Bevins lcft Judith for the purpose. Juditl s husband Norman, however, lus ! against her. and joined his partner, Morton Lampere, in coutesting the will in the interest of Mrs Bevins and her daughter Mathile. a friend of Normaws. Ji- dith learns that Lampere has treacherously had the court hecr- | ing advanced. Chapter 30 GOOD NEWS HE [ittle town of Big’'Tom. She liked it; liked the raw pink of fresh cut lumber used in the build- ings on the town’s main street, the 10t dog stands with their inevitable aroma of frying onmions, the chili narlors, barber shop, Ike Ephriam’s ‘mporium, the little proprietor with nd dark eyes who wrapped a mor- sel of philosophy into each package. If she lost control of the Beving fortune, it would mean these keen- nyed young construction men would 20 out to look for other work with the unsatisfied feeling of leaving uncompleted work, and for the mass of dam workers there would begin another forlorn hegira to “another job if we can find one.” She should haye been more alert ... should have. She looked towards the sky with wordless prayer. Two stars seemed to separate from the mass in the heavens, move forward, grow larger. The night lights of an air ship. She heard the muted roar | of three motors, saw the dip of the plane, towards the leveled field Slim Sanford used for landing. From the small front porch of her shack, Judith watched the figures of two men approach. She knew that one would be Slim Sanford. The other . .. her heart beat like a trip hammer with hope that he might be Norman, and then the hope died as the two men swung into a lighted area. The other was Justin Cunard. She ran downhill to meet them, her voice caroling before her, “What news?” “Good mews,” they answered in anison. “The will contest has been con iinued to late September.” “But I thought. . I heard that It started today? “No,” Cunard had caught her el- bow and the three had started back up hill, the older man propelling her gently forward. “No, thanks to your friend Clia, it dide’t start to- day. “As soon as she found out that Lampere and Maritellan had slipped the case in earlier than it was sup- posed to be on the court calendan, she called them to her office. “She told them what she had heard in the file room of the county court house and said she would make it public if they tried to push | the case forward without giving you a chance to get up here and Judge Morgan a chance to appear. Fe was out of town on another case and one of his partners would have had to before the State Commission and prove the dam impractical from an engineering viewpoint, to have suc- ceeded in that and he knew he couldn’t do that.” Tuey were silent a moment and Judith longed to ask for news of Norman, but was ashamed to admit she knew nothing. 3 “How do you suppose Lampere will wage his war?” Sanford asked, breaking in on her thoughts. “1 wish I knew,” answered Cu- nard, “it will be something inspired by diabolical cleverness.” Cunard discussed the city end of the dam building, while the two pen did justice to Delphy’s beaten o che biscuits, potted chicken and coffee. He expressed a desire to make a tour of dam property and said he would be there for several days. Sanford said little. He watched Judith anxiously, remarked she looked tired, and pretended to scold Delphy for starving her mistress, then, as they arose from the table and started to leave, he turned to Judith. “l have a package here from Clia. Doggone, must have left it in the ship, but here's a letter your husband asked me to bring down.” “You saw him?” she asked, hop- ing her voice didn't reveal her eagerness. f but Clia did. He dashed into the courtroom this moruing, said he'd just heard of the trial starting and told young Morrison quite fran that he didn't like the way their firm was doing business. Clia sidled up to him and wangled a Tuncheon invitation out of him. You know Clia, He asked about you and I imagine she told him plenty. She would. She told him [ was flying down tonight and he asked her to wait while he wrote a note to send down with me.” “How did he look, did she say?” “No, she didn’t. Well, goodnight, Judy, you need some rest. We'll see you in the morning, adios—" S soon as the two men had left, Judith turned to the letter. Would he be asking for a divorce? ‘Dear Judith, a hasty note, as “lia’s waiting. 1 find it difficult to what want to say, perhaps be- e my mind is not yet clear. A ago 1 would have sworn that »man did not love a man, if she could leave him to work inst his interests, simply because shd b elieved in what she was doing. “However, I find I am doing the 1 find my love for you nged, vet under the cir- ces I cannot ask you to re- e. ® that had we been mar- and our lives welded sympathetic inter- ried longer together with ests, this separation could not have happened. It b 5. 1 shall leave you free to a Il tr “NORMAN." Judith reread the note, trying to sense the meaning between lines; trying to read into each line more than the actual words revealed. Did he mean that in leaving her “free” handle it. “Maritellan said the docket was tull and it would have to be con- | he wished their separation to be- cdme permanent? iShe felt a moment’s pique at his e APRIL 16, 1914, H. J. Fisher was chosen to head the Commercial Club at a meeting held the previous night and James A. McKanna was elected vice-pres- ident. The election was made nec- essary by the resignation of John Reck as president, due to his du- ties as head of the city govern- : ment. The Commercial Club passed res- olutions at the meeting of the preceding night urging the War Department increase the service of the Alaska Cable by the addition of a night service. Marshal H. L. Faulkner was home suffering from an attack of lagrippe. The preliminary survey for the railroad line of the Taku Rallway and Navigation Company was be- gun in the morning. E. P. Pond, representative for the interests back of this enterprise and F. J. Wettrick, well known civil engin- eer, left for Taku River the prev- fous night for the purpose of mak- ing the preliminary survey as far as the British Columbia border | Flumes were being set under | the streets for the purpose of car- rying away the debris and soii that was to be sluiced out in the proces: of excavating for the big concret building to be erected for the | Goldstein Improvement Company. ‘Weather for the preceding 2% hours was cloudy with rain. The maximum temperature was 44 de- grees and the minimum was 34, Precipitation was .35 inches. | Plans for an addition to the ilElks' Club building were to b in the evening. CALL FOR BIDS aled bids will be received up {to 5 P. M, April 20, for hauling between 4,000 and 6,000 yards of | coarse rock from A-J bunkers to }mh St. Garbage Dump; City to furnish loader and spreader. Haul must be completed within 10 days. No driver to work more than 8 hours in 24 hours. Right reserved to reject any and all bids. A. W. 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Office Phone 484; Residence | Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 | to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 JUNEAU-YOUNG | Funeral Parlors ! Licensed Funeral Directors | 1 and Embalmers | Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 | | | | Dr. Richard Williams DENTIST | OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building | Phone 481 | SABIN’S Everything in Furnishings for Men e 7 i I C. L. FENTON CHIROPRACTOR Bouth Front St, next to TuE Juneau Launpry | Franklin Street between | Front and Second Streets | Brownle’s Barber Shop | PHONE 359 1 orfice Hours: 10-12; 3-8 Evenings by Appointment Keynes and Owen Hugh Smith, both speaking before | tinued to fall. I suppose Lampereisflortsmanshln. With feminine in- thought you couldn’t hold out finan- | consistency she wished he would clally that long. Maybe you can’t.| rush to her and demand she return but now that I'm first vice-president | to him. She wondered what Slim of the company 1 have the right to | Sanford would have done under put my personal fortune into it. I similar circumstances. talked it over with Mrs. Cunard and | She reread the last line, “I love she’s with me a hundred per cent,|you, Judith.” There was sincerity so we'll see you through. | there. She would keep faith with “And so this morning, when the that line, and maybe time and des- case was called, Lampere sent Mor- | tiny would do the rest. rison to rep him, Judge Mor She slept better that night than gan’s son appeared for him, and she had slept for some time, per- Maritellan, a little bit yellow about | haps because having heard from ‘he gills, set it over. I fecl sorry for | Norman, she entertained neither Varitellan, he's a fine white fellow | faise hopes nor fears. She remem- d like to know what hold Lampere | bered Big Tom’s plea that she be 2as on him.” patient with Norman, and promised | herself that she would be patient: -'I‘HEY reached the little house a promise she was to laugh at with nd Cunard gave it a quick ap | bitterness. proving glance, Delphy met them at Breakfast, Cunard and Sanford the door, with a guick inquiry as to arrived simultaneously. Judith en- their dinner hour. Satisfied they |joyed the festive air which seemed were as hungry as she had hoped to permeate the little dwelling with they would be she went into the their coming. kitchen and the others sat on the | Later a stable boy brought up porch to talk. three horses and the trio started on “This will probably mean war their tour of inspection. Judith telt down Lere, Miss Judith,” Cunard pardonable pride in the friendly loy- admitted, when they had discusscd | alty of the men whom they met at Lampere and Maritellan. “Morton is | every step of their journey. When clever enough to know that by fall | Cunard expressed a desire to mect the dam will be far enough ahead | Scoggins, after learning who held for Judge Morgan to use it as proof | the salient point of land jutting into that you are following Big Tom's the main flood basin of the dam. directions in using his money.” they rode down to the Scoggins “Why didn’t he get : court order farm aund were invited to stay for | restraining her from going on with | dinner. the dam?” inquired Slim. Back to Big Tom Town and Ju- dith’s shack and Cunard announced “He tried,” Judith explained, that on the next day he would like “tried when he succeeded in getting IDEAL PAINT SHOP If It’s Paint We Have It! PHONE 549 Wendt & Garster | | | ALASKA MEAT CO. FEATURING CAKSTEN’S BABY BEEF—DIAMOND TC HAMS AND BACON—U. S. 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